Ok, perhaps I should tell you about my close call I had last week. My mom is a librarian and she went to a convention for four days for libraries. She came back with a booklet called "A library guide to anime." I looked at it and saw that it had some terms such as doujinshi, and shounenai- words I use on the phone with friends on a daily basis. I asked her for it and she did, after she read it. I accidentally said "shounen-ai" instead of "shonen jump" at one point mere minutes after looking at the booklet. I covered it up, saying shounenai was a manga. Luckily, she didn't say anything about it after she read it. She just told me that she trusts my judgement. So that was my weekend last week. Seriously, I was frozen mentally while I was waiting for her to read it.

Here's the next chapter... Reminder that I don't own Yugioh

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Yami began to sprint into the alleyway. He suddenly heard muffled yells. Or at least that's what they sounded like. The alley turned a corner behind the pizza parlor. The sounds continued. Maybe he was being paranoid. It was probably just talking.

"Yugi!" he screamed. No answer.

Yami picked up speed and turned the corner. His eyes widened as he saw a man in a black mask cover Yugi's mouth, a large bag in his hand. His other arm was around Yugi's squirming body. His back was to Yami and he was yelling.

"Shut up! I gotta gun! Get it? You talk, you die. Be quiet squirt!"

Tears filled Yami's eyes and everything went into slow motion. The man brought his arm up and brought his hand down on Yugi's face in a hard slap accross the face.

"No!" Yami screamed.

The man turned and looked at Yami. The skimask allowed Yami to only see his eyes. But it was enough to see the evil in the man.

"Hey you!" the man yelled. "Say you won't talk and I won't shoot ya!" He tilted his head, motioning towards the gun sticking out of his back pocket.

"Let him go!" Yami yelled.

"What's gonna stop him from talking?"

Yami took a couple steps forward. "What's gonna stop me from beating the living shit out of you?"

The man removed his hand from Yugi's mouth and put his hand to his pocket.

"I'm warning you. I had no problem robbing the bank and I'll have no problem shooting you!"

In an instant, the gun was out of the man's pocket and was in Yami's hands. Out of shock, the man let his captor go. Yugi fell to the ground but quickly got to his feet and ran around the dumpster. He crouched down and watched Yami.

Yami held the gun up into the guy's face. He put his hands up and began shaking.

"Hey man, calm down. I wasn't gonna do nothing to that kid!"

Yami nodded. "You sure as hell weren't. I'm in town now. And that's my koi!"

Yami glanced around, only moving his eyes to see where Yugi had gone to. He caught sight of the boy peeking out from behind the dumpster. He was visibly shaking and his eyes shone with fear. Yami's eyes softened. He looked back at the robber.

"I'm not gonna kill you," he said softly, tossing the gun aside.

The man put his arms down and smiled inside. He opened his mouth to speak but stopped when he saw the stranger in front of him smirk.

"I'm just gonna beat the crap out of you so you can feel the pain that you inflicted on others and my angel!"

The robber's eyes widened and he soon found himself with a broken jaw. Another punch came, this time to the stomach. Then a kick. He fell to the ground, clutching his stomach. Yami kept the kicks and punches coming. Yugi watched with wide eyes.

Everything went back to slow motion. Yami continued to beat the man senceless and Yugi watched, hypnotized by Yami's efforts the save him. Yugi was the only one who noticed the red and blue lights flash into the alley from the street. Two police officers ran to the scene and tore a furious Yami off of the robber. More officers ran to them and cuffed the masked man. Yugi stayed put.

"What the heck were you doing" one officer asked Yami.

"He robbed the bank, he told me. He had a hostage and I just had to save him!" Yami insisted.

The officers looked at each other and nodded. One officer who was walking behind the robber stopped beside Yami and frowned. Yami frowned back.

"What?" he asked.

"You look familiar," the officer said.

Yami shrugged. "I look like Yugi Muuto, I know."

The robber was passed off to another officer as the one walked around Yami, examining him almost.

"Robert, hand me the wanted booklet," he ordered another officer.

Yami raised an eyebrow as the man leafed through a small notebook. It had pictures and or descriptions of people.

"Ha! I knew it! Yami Atemu, wanted in California and Arizona for not paying child support for Rebecca and Maria!"

Those names were familiar to Yami. His eyes widened. Two girls he'd been with over the past year. He was a father? What? He hadn't known! How was he supposed to. He desperately looked around, trying to make sence of it all.

"Robert, let's take him downtown," the officer said, a satisfied smile crossing his face. "Trying to run away from responsibility, eh? Not going to work Mr. Atemu."

"Wait, I didn't even know they gave birth!" he yelled as he was cuffed. "I didn't mean it!"

Yami was led away, yelling protests and appologies. The officers read him his rights and he hung his head. He looked back to catch Yugi's eye one last time.

Once the commotion had left him, Yugi stepped out of his hiding place, tears flowing down his cheeks.

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