Chapter 21: Affects Of The Poison
Yami opened his eyes the next morning. He felt replenished and wide awake. He had recovered overnight. He still had to recover but at least he wasn't exhausted, dizzy, weak, or lightheaded anymore.
He looked down and instantly smiled when he saw Yugi snuggled up close to his chest. He looked so peaceful. Yami ran his had through Yugi's hair glad that his hikari was laying next to him.
There was suddenly a knock and the door and Yami looked up to see Dr. Frost standing there as well as Serenity, Anzu, Joey, and Seto. Seto had sent Mokuba home when morning had come knowing that it would be safer for his little brother in the morning and Seto had taken Mokuba back home.
"How are you feeling?" Dr. Frost asked softly as she noticed the sleeping Yugi laying cuddled up to Yami.
"I'm fine," Yami replied softly as he wrapped his arms loosely around Yugi again.
"I swear, you're going to hurt yourself if you keep moving to his bed." Dr. Frost said with amusement as she wrote a few things down on the clipboard in hand. "Anyways, I wanted to tell you guys about Mr. Muto's condition."
Serenity, Anzu, Seto, and Joey all piled into the room and sat on the bed Yami was suppose to be in. Everyone stared at Dr. Frost waiting for an explenation.
"Well, he lost a lot of blood last night but Yami helped with that," she started glancing at Yami. "He had major internal damage and bleeding but we managed to close that up. His wounds were deep but we took care of that. The bad thing about all of this, is the poison. I didn't want to mention it last time but now I am. And the poison is a huge problem."
Yami sucked in a breath and carefully pulled Yugi closer. The others, however, looked utterly lost. They had no idea that Yugi had been poisoned two years ago.
"What will it do?" Yami asked after a few moments of uneasy silence. Dr. Frost looked over at him with sympathy knowing that his would be harder for Yami more than the others.
"Well, we managed to get the poison to a level to where he won't die. That's good news if you want to call it that." Dr. Frost explained. "But, he will be in constant pain the whole time, even when he's sleeping. No amount of pain medicine can stop the pain, not even dull it. He will have horrible nightmares and will possibly throw up."
Yami frowned and looked down at Yugi's face. "When will the poison take affect?"
"In a few hours." Dr. Frost answered. "There is a large bowl next to the bed where he can throw up into." Yami nodded.
"When will the poison leave his system?"
"We aren't sure. It could take months. He will be allowed to leave when his wounds are healed enough for him to be able to walk around. But he could still have the poison in his system so he will have to be supervised." Dr. Frost replied and Yami nodded.
"If you'll excuse me, I need to go check on a few other patients. I'll return after a few hours to check up on his condition." And with that Dr. Frost left the room leaving the group in an uneasy silence.
"Yami, what were you talking about? What poison?" Anzu was the first to ask, asking everyone's question. "Was he poisoned when you two were kidnapped?"
Yami didn't look at them and he kept his back facing them. "No. He wasn't poisoned when we were kidnapped."
"Then when?" Seto asked slightly impatient. He had been waiting for an explanation of what happened to Yugi and he was starting to get tired of waiting.
"It's Yugi's job to tell you. I promised him." Yami said quietly. He put his forehead on Yugi's hair and felt tears form in his eyes.
"Guys, let's leave him alone for a while." Serenity said standing up and walking over to the door. "He needs some time to accept all of this." The others stood up and followed Serenity out of the room, Kaiba closing the door after all of them.
Yami lay there with tears in his eyes threatening to stream down his face.
"Oh my poor hikari," he whispered softly as he turned his head and softly lay the side of his face on top of Yugi's hair. "I won't leave your side, even if they force me to. I will fight to stay by your side from now on."
About an hour had passed and the affects of the poison started to quickly take action. Yugi's face was covered in a thick sheet of sweat and it was clear that he was having a nightmare.
"Yugi, wake up. It's just a nightmare," Yami said trying to wake Yugi up. Yami shook Yugi a little and tried to wake him up a few more times until Yugi's eyes snapped open and tears instantly formed in his eyes. He curled up into a ball and Yami felt helpless.
"Hurts..." Yugi whimpered weakly as tears of pain streamed down his face. He felt like he was on fire with pain. Everything hurt so bad it was more than unbearable.
"I know hikari, I know, just hang on." Yami whispered getting Yugi to uncurl from his ball. Yugi quickly wrapped his arms around Yami and buried his face into Yami's shirt. "Shh, it'll all be over soon."
Yugi suddenly pulled away from Yami looking sick.
"Yami...I'm going to throw up..." Yugi muttered and Yami quickly grabbed the large metal bow land handed it to Yugi. Yugi took the bowl and threw up. Yami rubbed Yugi's back trying to comfort his little hikari. That was the only thing he could do.
Yugi stopped throwing up five minutes later. Yami sat the bowl on the large table by the bed and helped Yugi lay back down. Yugi gripped his stomach with pain and let out a weak whimper. His stomach muscles hurt from throwing up for five minutes and the bullet wounds didn't make anything better. They made the pain worse.
"My poor hikari..." Yami whispered feeling his heard break into a million pieces. He could do nothing to ease Yugi's pain.
Yugi weakly hugged Yami and buried his face in Yami's chest again. Yami wrapped his arms around Yugi and pulled him closer and slowly rubbed his back comfortingly.
"I'll help you through this hikari, don't worry." Yami said softly as he continued to rub Yugi's back. Yugi only nodded unable to reply because he hurt to much. He just wanted all the pain to end.
Yugi finally managed to fall into a light sleep after half an hour of laying there in pain. He couldn't escape the pain even if he was asleep but at least he was getting some sleep. He felt exhausted and the stress about his parents didn't help. He felt save in Yami's arms and that was all that mattered at the moment.