A/N: Chapter 14! Hi again everyone. Sorry it's been a while since I've posted, been very busy with deadlines and Christmas. Thank you all so much for understanding as to why I couldn't post my latest chapter earlier, you're all amazing. Have a cookie for being amazing! I hope you all had a good Christmas. If you guys didn't know, the second trailer for the new Yugioh movie is out, go watch it! It's awesome! Anyway, let's get back to the topic at hand. Please enjoy the latest chapter and as always, a review is much appreciated.
Chapter 14: Hurt
As soon as Yugi was finished with dinner, he returned to his laptop. Bakura had replied to him, linking Yugi with the anonymous writer's webpage. Yugi swiftly, once his laptop had finished booting up, typed in the link. Yugi taps 'enter', and the page eventually loads. It was a pretty standard blog, comprising of the writer's main comment along with other blogger's writing their thoughts.
Yugi decides to send a pm directly to the writer. "Hmmm… how should I start?" Yugi wonders. He begins typing, "Dear writer, you may not believe this but, I'm Yugi Mutou. I'm writing to ask you more about the dark corporation, since you were able to find their website." Yugi clicks enter to send the message.
Not long after, Yugi receives a reply. The message read, "If you really are the king of games, you will meet me in person at this location I have linked to this message. Be there tomorrow for 7:30 in the morning."
Yugi clicks the link, which shows him a photograph. "I know this place…"
Thursday morning. Yugi leaves the game shop to meet the anonymous writer. He was surprised that the photograph was close to where he lived. Specifically, it was his local park. He arrives about five minutes early and waits for the writer to arrive. Yugi has no idea as to who he is expecting, since the writer didn't give him any details as to what he looked like.
"Yugi!" Someone called to him from behind. He turns around. He finds that Mokuba was heading towards him.
"Mokuba? What are you doing here?" Yugi asks him.
"Huh? I thought that was obvious. I asked you to meet me here at this time," he explains.
"You did?"
Mokuba lets out a heavy sigh. "Do I have to spell it out for you?" He points to his own chest. "I'm the writer of that blog."
"What? Wait. You are?"
"Yes Yugi, who else could it be?"
"Well I'm just surprised that it was you Mokuba. It doesn't seem to be your usual calibre."
"So you noticed. Yes it is odd for me to do this, but I was hoping that you would find that blog eventually. And you did." Yugi begins to think. "You're probably wondering why I wanted you to find that website," Mokuba suggests.
"Yes, why Mokuba? And how did you know about this corporation?"
Mokuba clears his throat. "To put it simply, I need your help. My brother is deciding not to get involved."
"So Kaiba did know about this…" Yugi comments.
"Of course he did. My brother's the best when it comes to knowing everything to do with duel monsters. Anyway, it wasn't easy tracking this website. A lot of codes needed breaking and viruses tackling. But it was no problem for me, because Kaiba Corporation has the best and latest technology when it comes to dealing with stuff like this."
"If that's the case, then you probably know the password to access the full website," Yugi assumes.
Mokuba scratches his cheek awkwardly. "No…I don't know that yet." Yugi sweat drops. Mokuba becomes annoyed. "Don't give me that look! I'm currently working on it. It takes time with these things."
"Okay, okay. How long?"
"I don't know yet. You're just going to have to be patient. In the meantime, I need you to tell me anything you know about this dark corporation."
Yugi nods and begins explaining how he witnessed Haga's duel with the masked duellist.
"Hmmm…" Mokuba ponders. "I'll begin looking into it. For now, take my number." He hands Yugi a small piece of paper. "You better let me know if you find out anything new."
"Sure, I'll try and help in any way I can. After all, this is duel monsters we are talking about."
Mokuba nods. "Okay. It's now my que to leave," he leaves Yugi and heads towards a Kaiba Corporation limo.
Yugi shoves the paper into his pocket for time being and makes his way to school. As Yugi was walking, he begins thinking about Anzu. I feel stupid for trying to force myself on her. I just… couldn't help myself. She's just so cute. I really want to kiss her, but it's been hard to for some reason. "Ooof!" Yugi stumbled back a little as he wasn't watching where he was going. "Sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going…" he looks up to see who he bumped into. He gulps uneasily as he looks up at three well-built men, who all had scary looking expressions.
One of them spits onto the ground. "You got a problem kid?" One of them asks him spitefully.
Yugi frantically shakes his head. "No," he replies quickly. He slightly ducks his head and walks past them. One of the other men grab his shoulder.
"Who said you could walk away?" He snarls.
"Hey, hey guys. I think I know this guy from somewhere," the third one states.
"Shut the hell up! You're full of crap weasel."
"No listen. He was on TV for something. Wasn't it for that card game? You know, duel monsters."
"Is that right…? Hey kid! Are you this king of games or something crappy like that?"
"I guess…" Yugi really didn't feel like staying or talking for that matter, he just wanted to get away from these guys.
"Hehe, is that so? Do you want to know something kid? It's a fun little game us three like to do with nerdy kids like you."
"Look… I don't want any trouble," Yugi explains.
"Oh don't worry, we won't get into trouble. But you will."
At school. Anzu was sitting at her desk waiting for Yugi to arrive. "Good morning Anzu," Bakura greets her as he walks up to her desk.
She turns to look at him. "Morning Bakura."
"Is Yugi not with you?"
"No. He said he needed to be up early for something. But, he is oddly late for school. I hope he's okay."
"I'm sure he is."
"I'm going to call him just in case." She takes out her phone and calls Yugi. She tries for him twice, but no answer. "That's odd…"
"Okay class settle down, first period is starting," the teacher announces.
As first period commenced, Anzu began to worry. It wasn't like Yugi to not answer his phone, or be this late to class. She glances over at Jonouchi, who shrugs his shoulders indicating that he doesn't know where Yugi is either.
20 minutes later, the nurse bangs on the classroom door, startling the teacher. "Y-yes?"
The nurse slides open the door. "I'm sorry for disturbing your class, but I was hoping to ask for the following students."
"Who do you require?"
"I need Anzu Mizaki, Ryo Bakura, Katsuya Jonouchi, Hiroto Honda and Ryuji Otogi."
"All right then, will the following students please go with the nurse."
The five of them follow the nurse quickly and she rushes down the corridor. "If you don't mind me asking, why do you need us?" Ryuji asks.
"It's your classmate Yugi Mutou. He's been injured. I was told that you were all the closest to him," she explains.
"What happened?" Katsuya asks.
"He won't tell me, that's why I need you." The nurse opens the door to her office.
"Yugi!" His friends yell worryingly. As they see him lying down on one of the beds, covered in cuts and bruises. They all hurry to him and Anzu kneels down at the side of the bed, and holds his hand.
"What on earth happened to you!?" Honda yells.
"I would appreciate it if you would lower your tone," the nurse demands.
"Sorry," Honda whispers, "what on earth happened to you?"
Yugi avoids his friend's gaze. "It's nothing…"
"Nothing my ass," Jonouchi retaliates. "Did you get into a fight? That's not like you."
"Guys it's nothing for you to worry about. I just bumped into some guys who weren't exactly friendly."
"Of course we need to worry about this Yugi," Bakura explains.
"I say you tell us who these guys are, so we can beat the crap out of them," Jonouchi tells Yugi.
"You will do no such thing," the nurse disagrees. Jonouchi sinks his head hopelessly. "For now Yugi, I think you should head home. You're in no condition to learn."
"I'm staying," he says firmly.
"Come on Yugi, she's right you know," Ryuji confirms.
"I don't care. I'm staying, I don't want to go home right now," Yugi acts stubbornly.
"Yugi…" Jonouchi trails off.
The nurse sighs. "Okay, fine. But you're staying in that bed, are we clear?"
"Yes ma'am," Yugi replies.
"The rest of you can head back to class now."
"Oh, nurse? Can I please stay with Yugi? You know, in case he wonders off," Anzu asks her.
The nurse raises her eyebrow, but agrees. "Okay you can stay, but not for the whole day. I don't want you missing out on valuable content."
Anzu nods. "Thank you."
"See you later guys," Jonouchi says before him and the other three leave the office.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go and see another student in private. Please look after him whilst I'm gone," the nurse asks of Anzu.
"I will," she replies. The nurse then leaves the office, shutting the door behind her. Anzu lets out a sigh and looks up at Yugi, since she was still holding his hand. "Are you okay?" She asks in a gently voice.
He smiles. "Yeah I'm okay. Just a little achy." He then turns his gaze away from her, sulking slightly.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm ashamed…" he admits.
"Why?"
"Because I'm weak, I couldn't stand up on my own. I'm so stupid and pathetic."
"No you're not!" Anzu snaps at him, causing Yugi to flinch a little. Anzu moves herself off the floor and sits on the bed. "You're not weak Yugi, you're strong. I know you are, I've seen how much you've grown."
"No, I'm not. I'm not strong enough to protect you. I mean, look at me. I'm not worthy enough to be with you Anzu."
Anzu places her palm on Yugi's cheek. He turns to look at her and gasps a little, seeing how angry her eyes were. "Yugi. I like you for who you are. In that situation, I think very few guys would come out without being hurt. I don't want you to fight for me Yugi. That's not why I fell for you. I don't want you to engage in fights, because that's not you. You're kind and considerate, and you've gained strength that you don't know yourself from Atem. So don't change Yugi. Stay exactly who you are. And don't treat me like we are in different leagues! We've know each other for a long time."
Yugi eyes widen, but soften shortly after. "Okay…" Yugi says bashfully.
"Promise?"
"Yeah I promise, Anzu."
"Good," she smiles at him and removes her palm from his face. This causes Yugi to frown a little. "What's with that look?" Anzu asks him playfully.
"Your hand was warm," he explains weakly.
Anzu giggles. "You're silly you know."
"Am I?" He teases.
"You can ask me if you want me to touch you, you know," she explains but then quickly blushes as to what she just said. Wait that sounds so wrong! She quickly speaks, "I mean, you know just your cheek, I-I didn't mean anything by it or anything. Y-you know what, forgot what I said." Yugi begins laughing at her. She pouts at him. "And just what's so funny?"
He composes himself. "You, acting all nervous around me."
She crosses her arms. "I'm not nervous around you."
"Yes you are."
"I'm not."
"It's obvious you are."
"How so?"
"You just did now, when you asked me that I could ask you to touch me," he gives her a cheeky grin.
"Okay fine," she admits. "But… aren't you nervous around me?"
"Of course I am, nearly all the time when I'm with you."
"Oh… I see."
"Actually… I wanted to apologise again for the other day."
"What for?"
He scratches the back of his head nervously. "You know… when we were in your room…"
Anzu thinks. "I don't think you did anything wrong."
"When I pushed you down I mean…"
"Oh. No, don't worry about it. You don't need to apologise for that. I didn't mind that you did that."
"Really…?"
Anzu blushes again. "Y-yeah. Really."
Yugi began thinking. I wonder if I could kiss her now. We are alone and all. But the nurse could return, which would be extremely awkward. Yugi props himself up into a sitting position, since he had been lying down. He winces as he does so, considering he had a lot of bruises. "Careful Yugi. It might be better if you were to stay lying down," she suggests.
"I'm fine," he assures her. He edges closer to her and looks at her with a small smile. Next, he begins to run his fingers through her hair. It's so soft and well kept.
Anzu liked Yugi's forwardness and she closes her eyes, enjoying the feel of him stroking her hair. Yugi wasn't sure if she was inviting him to kiss her or not. He decides to place his other hand gently onto her waist. Anzu smiles and opens her eyes to look at him. "A-Anzu… can I…?" She just nods her head knowing what he was wanting to ask. Yugi swallows hard. He darts his eyes back and forth from her eyes to her lips. Anzu helps him by placing her palm back onto his cheek, whilst using her other hand to caress his thigh.
Yugi slowly leans towards her, his lips focusing on her lips. Anzu slowly closes her eyes, as she begins to feel Yugi's warm breath. Yugi pauses momentarily, his lips about an inch away from hers. He too closes his eyes and gently kisses her lips. He only holds the kiss for about four seconds, and then parts from her. But, leaving his lips close to hers. Anzu re-opens her eyes and quickly closes them again, as she initiates the second kiss. This time, the kiss lasted longer, but it was chaste. The two of them felt a bit awkward, since they were inexperienced. Nevertheless, Yugi enjoyed the sensation of Anzu's soft lips.
Eventually, the two of them pull away, both of them having a slight blush on their face. "That w-was my first kiss…" Anzu admits to him shyly.
"It was my first kiss too," he tells her. "It didn't suck did it?"
"No, far from it. It was nice," she gives him a reassuring smile.
"I've wanted to kiss you for a while now."
"Same with you. I suppose the previous interruptions didn't exactly help." Anzu removes her hands from him and sits next to him, so that their hips were in line. She then gently rubs his back. "Where does the pain hurt most?"
"Mostly on my stomach and chest, but it's fine really."
"Hmmm…" Anzu squints her eyes curiously. "Let me see."
"What? See what?"
"Your stomach," she points to his abdomen. "I want to see how bad it is."
"Huh?!" Yugi reacts dramatically at her request and inches away from her. "W-wait Anzu. It's fine really."
"What's the problem? I'd like to see how bad it is."
"A-Anzu… you realise t-that I'd have to remove my shirt, right?"
"Yes I know that."
She's not bothered by that? But, even I don't know how bad it is…
"O-okay if you're fine with it…" Yugi nervously removes his blue jacket, before trying to undo his shirt buttons. His hands were shaking so much that he could barely remove his top button.
Anzu notes his uneasiness and giggles a little. "Do you need some help?" She tries to ask him with a poker face. Yugi lets his arms drop and nods. As she shifted closer to him, Yugi turned his head away from Anzu's direction. She slowly begins to undo his buttons. As more and more of his skin was revealed to her, she felt Yugi stiffen. She stops what she's doing. "Do you want me to stop? I'm sorry if I've made you feel uncomfortable."
Yugi turns his head back to look at her. "N-no it's fine. It's just a bit embarrassing…. I mean, you seem completely fine with removing my shirt."
Anzu finally clicked onto what he was on about. "Oh, sorry! I wasn't thinking of…. I just wanted to see if the damage was bad… I wasn't thinking of a way for you to get your shirt off or anything. Great, now I feel stupid…"
"No, I'm the one who's stupid. I shouldn't have been thinking of other things…" he trails off.
Anzu keeps quiet for a moment before speaking again. "Is it okay for me to continue?" Yugi just nods in response. Anzu continues to unbutton his shirt, but struggles in the process as she now felt nervous.
"Do you need help?" He teases her.
"I'm fine," she replies playfully and gives him an eyeful. Once she'd unbuttoned the last button, she gently grabs both ends, of the shirt, and pulls them apart to get a look at his torso. She stares at him in awe and in concern. She sees that Yugi is slightly built, but his pleasant physique was distorted by the amount of bruises and scratches. "Oh Yugi…" she says in a worrying tone.
"Sorry about that, now why don't you… am I interrupting?" The nurse suddenly returns.
Anzu jumps back off the bed. "N-no, I was just checking his injuries…" she quickly explains.
"Is that so…? Well, whilst you're at it, could you apply this cream? It will help with the swelling," she passes the bottle of cream to Anzu. "I'm sure he would prefer if you were to do it," the nurse gives her a cheeky wink and leaves the office again. Anzu awkwardly sweat drops.
She passes the bottle to Yugi, causing him to be confused. "Here, you need it."
"I know that, but aren't you going to apply it?"
Anzu waves her hands up in protest. "No, no. I think you're capable of doing that yourself."
"You don't want to right?"
"It's not that! I-I just… I mean… I'm a little nervous about rubbing your body. I mean…! Touching your body…! Never mind just ignore me."
Yugi smirks at her. "I see. Sorry."
Anzu lets out a sigh. "I'll come and get you at the end of the day, okay?" She leans over to him and gives him a peck on the cheek.
"Get in there Yugi!" Honda wolf whistles from outside the hallway.
"H-Honda?!" Yugi jumps out of his skin.
"You'd better start running Honda…" Anzu cracks her knuckles irritably.
"I'll see you later Yugi! You can tell us all about it later!" Honda rushes down the hallway midsentence, as Anzu had started chasing him.
