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Chapter 7: Taken

Yugi gulped as he looked in the mirror. The bruises were covering his neck almost completely. They were also black as night. If his grandfather found them he'd probably have a heart attack from fright. Yugi covered a majority of them with his neck belt, the rest he told them were already there.

Putting on his usual leather clothes he dried his hair with a towel and went down for dinner. After taking 4 showers he finally felt like he had washed away the filth of his master. He always hated smelling like the scum after he did anything to him. He didn't know if he had smelled like him but he felt degusting after his surprise visit from him. He hadn't gone down to talk to his grandfather yet and he could only assume Johnson had told the old man that he had co-operated.

He came into the kitchen to find Solomon cooking with Ryou Malik Atem and Bakura sitting at the table. Surprised to see all of them he stopped in his tracks. "Uh. Hi." He said rather confused.

Solomon turned and smiled softly. "Hello my boy. Please sit. Dinner is almost done."

"Sure grandpa." Yugi said still confused. He sat across from Malik with Ryou next to him. Bakura was across from Ryou and Atem was on one end of the table. Yugi assumed the remaining seat across from Atem was for Solomon. "What's going on?"

"Yugi we all need to talk. I invited your friends over for an intervention." Solomon said as he turned off the stove.

"Intervention for what?" Yugi asked figuring he knew the answer.

"Yugi what happened today? A week ago you were co-operating perfectly. Why did that suddenly change? You were never afraid to talk about it in front of me before." Solomon said filling the plates and handing them out.

"I'm sorry?" Yugi said.

"I just want you to be able to talk to someone." Solomon said.

"And since you don't want to talk to any of us." Ryou started

"We think you should go to a psychiatrist." Malik finished.

Yugi stared at them completely silent with shock. How could they even consider sending him to some stranger to talk about this? If he couldn't talk to them about this what made them think he would talk to someone he didn't even know?

"Yugi we know its not ideal but you need the help." Atem said.

The small teen shook his head. "No. No I'm not going. I'm not going to talk to some random person about the most traumatizing shit that's happened to me aside from my parents dying! Its not happening!"

"Yugi we don't like it any more than you do. But you clearly can't talk to any of us about it you need to talk to someone." Solomon said.

"No I don't. I've gone four months without talking to anyone. Its not happening end of story." Yugi got up and left the kitchen. He immediately went to his room and shut the door. He knew the door wouldn't keep anyone out. There was no lock on it. The bed looked so welcoming but at the same time he had to get ready to leave tonight.

If he didn't do as the man said his grandfather would get hurt. Maybe even Ryou or Malik. No he couldn't chance it. He had to go and he would if it meant keeping the ones he cared about safe.

His thoughts were interrupted when his phone started ringing. He looked at it to see unknown where the caller id would normally be. Hesitantly answering he put te phone to his ear. "Hello?"

"Hello my pet." Yugi heard his master's voice. He felt his blood run cold.

"Master. What can I do for you?" Yugi asked.

"I am calling to remind you of our deal. Remember, not one sign of you leaving. And leave your cellphone. I do not want it to be tracked. You will be searched when you get here. My colleague is looking forward to his new inventory." Yugi could hear him smirking.

"I-Inventory Master?" Yugi questioned.

"Oh yes. You see you were requested by many of our clients."

Yugi gulped. Clients? What exactly was he talking about? "Master may I ask what you are speaking of?"

"You will find out soon enough. You will not need anything but yourself. No clothes or anything."

"Yes master." Yugi said obediently. "What time would you like me there master?"

"You have until 10:30 pm. Exactly. Even one minute late and you will be punished."

"Of course master."

"See. You can listen you just need a bit of motivation."

Yeah. That motivation being threats against my family and friends. Yugi mentally sighed. He had to block out all feeling. Or he would end up hurting them.

"Yes master." He said.

"I must go prepare your traveling case. I want you here by 10:30pm no later."

"Yes master."

"Remember anyone knows where you are going and you will be punished and so will your grandfather."

"Of course master. I will be on time."

"Good." He hung up.

Yugi sighed and threw his phone on the bed. He looked at the clock to see it was 8:34. He had about 2 hours before his life was going to be in another man's hands. A man who thrived on hurting him. A man enjoyed nothing better than telling him he was in control of the choice to let Yugi live or die. He supposed he should go down and spend time with the ones he cared about.

What Yugi didn't know however was that Ryou and Malik were outside his door and they heard everything. They nodded to each other before walking in. "Yugi. Can we talk?" Ryou asked.

"Are you going to tell me I need to go see a psychiatrist?" Yugi countered.

"No. Its about something else." Malik said.

"Then sure. But uh I plan on going to bed about 10:00pm so it can't be a super long talk." Yugi answered sitting down.

"Yugi where are you going tonight?" Ryou asked bluntly.

Yugi tensed. "I-I'm not going anywhere." He sat on his bed. "Why would I?"

"We heard you on the phone. Where are you going that you have to be there for 10:30pm. And why were you talking to him?"

"T-to who?"

"Yugi don't play dumb. We know you were talking to the man who did to you. You called him master. You aren't going back to him are you?" Malik asked.

"No. Of course not. Why would I go back to the one who did this?" Yugi asked pointing to his neck. Ryou and Malik narrowed their eyes. Yugi gulped as his friends nodded to each other. Next thing Yugi knew Malik was holding him down with his arms pinned up while Ryou was taking off his neck belt. "No! Stop!" Ryou managed to get the neck belt off before he gasped and dropped it. Malik looked and gasped as he let go of Yugi.

"Yugi your neck." Ryou said.

Yugi quickly grabbed the neck belt and put it back on. "I know ok."

"Why didn't you tell us?" Malik asked though he knew the answer. Or so he thought.

"To protect you guys. You don't need to know about any of this. Its better you don't." Yugi said turning away.

"Better we don't? Yugi how can you say that?" Ryou asked in shock.

"Because you can't help me!" Yugi yelled making the other two jump.

"Yugi." They said softly.

"You don't get it. Its so much bigger than you realize. There's nothing you can do to help." Yugi said. "Just leave it alone."

"Yugi we jus-" Ryou started but was cut off when four men ran into Yugi's room grabbed them all.

Yugi started fighting them. He punched one in the face and kicked another in the chest knocking them both down. He screamed run to Ryou and Malik. They tried to run out but the door was blocked by more men.

"Yugi who are they?" Malik asked backing away from the men.

"I don't know." Yugi said. Being distracted for that short amount of time was all one man needed to knock Yugi down. Yugi groaned after his stomach was punch hard.

"Yugi!" Ryou and Malik screamed before their arms were pinned and mouths covered.

Yugi tried to get up. "L-let them go."

"Oh we can't do that. Your master knows they know. We have been watching your house for some time now and were ordered to bring them as well. They will catch a hefty price along with you." The apparent leader said. Ryou and Malik looked at Yugi questioningly. "Oh don't bother looking to him for answers. He's as clueless as you are. He had no idea this would happen," he stepped on Yugi who grunt in pain. "And he'll be punished immensely."

"Sir we must leave before the old man wakes up. Those two kids are nowhere to be found." A man entered.

The leader lifted his foot off Yugi. He lifted Yugi by his hair making Yugi scream out. The leader threw Yugi to one of his men. The man held Yugi like the others held Ryou and Marik. The leader leaned down to Yugi and slipped a hand onto the teen's neck making him tense. Was this man like his master? "Maybe I will buy you myself. It would be quite fun to have you as my personal toy. Though you and your friends must go through your breaking first. I hear you still have quite the feisty attitude. He will have to get rid of that before I even think of putting down my money for you."

Yugi struggled to get away. He didn't like what this man was saying. Buy him? Like a slave? Or maybe his body? So many questions ran through his mind. What were his master's plans? What did the man mean by breaking? And what was going to happen to he and his friends?

"Put them to sleep so we can go. And we must keep an eye on those other teens. One of them knows what or client looks like and we can't have that. Can we?" he smirked at Yugi who gulped.

The hands were moved from their mouths but before any of them could scream for help cloths were placed over where the hands were. Yugi Ryou and Malik had seen enough movies to know what it was. They tried to hold their breath but in the end their instincts gave in and they had to breathe. They tried to fight the sleep as they were getting dragged out. By the time they got downstairs the three teens were out cold.

"Get them in the van. This was our last stop before we go back." The leader said.

"Yes sir." His men said before going. In just ten minutes all three teens were put in a van and driven away.

When Yugi awoke he found himself in a cell. Looking around he saw Ryou and Malik still knocked out in the cell with him. He ran to them thankful he wasn't bound in any way. He shook Ryou, "Ryou. Ryou wake up." Ryou moaned and tried to push Yugi away. "Ryou you need to get up now."

"Yugi what is i-" Ryou sat up to Yell at Yugi for waking him and stopped when he noticed where they were. "It wasn't a bad dream was it?"

Yugi shook his head. "No. It wasn't" Yugi said. He moved to Malik and started shaking him. "Malik you have to get up."

"Why?" Malik sat up and looked around. "Yugi where are we?"

"I don't know. I'm sure we'll find out soon. I'm just glad they didn't split us up." Yugi said standing. His legs were a bit wobbly but they held him. He walked to the bars. "Its some kind of cell." He sighed and went to sit with them. "Are you guys ok?"

"I guess so. Yugi what do they mean by buying you?" Ryou asked.

"I wish I knew." Yugi looked down. "I'm sorry guys. I didn't mean to get you in on this. I just wanted to leave so you guys and grandpa would be left alone."

"What?" Malik was quite shocked.

"The man I was talking to was the man I know as master. He posed as a police officer and came to my house. He said if I don't go to him without any signs of where I went he would hurt grandpa. I didn't put it past him to go through with it so I agreed." Yugi said.

"But my dear pet disobeyed me." They heard a voice from behind them. Yugi tensed. He knew that voice which meant he was going to be punished. "Didn't you my pet?"

Yugi turned to face the man. "Hello master." He said obediently.

"Hello. Now are you ready for your punishment?" the man smirked.

Yugi gulped. He could feel his friends' eyes on him. he hated that they were about to see how week he really was. "Yes master." He hung his head.

"Then lets go." He opened the cell. Yugi hesitantly walked towards him.

"Yugi. What are you doing? Don't go with him!" Malik said.

"Sorry boys but little Yugi here doesn't have a choice in the matter. Do you?" he asked grabbing the hair on the back of Yugi's head and pulling it hard.

"Ah! No master." He winced.

"Very good. Lets go. I have a new lesson for you." He shoved Yugi roughly out of the room.

"No! Yugi!" Malik yelled.

Yugi was taken to a thick metal door. He gulped as his master opened it. "Go." He pushed Yugi in making the boy stumble and fall to his hands and knees in the cold room. He looked around and noticed he was in a freezer like the ones you find at a butcher's market.

"W-What am I doing here?" Yugi asked standing and hugging himself against the cold.

"This is your punishment." He smirked slamming the door shut and locked Yugi in. "Stay in here and think about what you did." He then shut the light off in the freezer.

Yugi gulped. Shivering he sat down right where he was not daring to walk. "He can't keep me in here too long. He knows that. Right?" he sighed and huddled up trying to keep warm. "Oh Ra."

Yugi didn't know how long he was in the freezer. He couldn't see and he was too focused on staying warm to even think about ways to keep track of minutes. Even curled up he couldn't get warm. He just wanted to go back to his friends. He wanted to be warm.

The light suddenly came on and Yugi heard the door open. "Have you learned your lesson?" Yugi looked up to see his master.

Yugi nodded. "Y-y-yeas m-m-m-master." He stuttered from the cold.

"Stand." He ordered. Yugi tried to get to his feet bet fell back down. "I said stand." Yugi pulled himself to his feet still hugging himself from the cold. "Good lets go. I suppose you can warm up."

"M-m-master m-may I a-a-ask h-how l-l-long have I b-been i-in h-h-here?" Yugi asked following him out.

"Half an hour." He said simply. Yugi nodded. "Aren't you worried about your little friends?" Yugi nodded again. "We didn't touch them just yet. It is you I was angry with. Now you three start training tomorrow. The auction is in a month. If you aren't ready by then you all with be punished understood?"

"Y-y-yes m-master." Yugi said. He needed to get at least them out before the end of the month. If he didn't and they got sold he'll never forgive himself.

"Good." He took him to where they were being held and locked him in. Malik and Ryou immediately ran to him pulling him close. The man laughed and walked away.

"Yugi! Oh Ra you're freezing! What the hell did he do?" Malik asked trying to warm him.

"P-p-put me i-n a f-f-freezer." Yugi stuttered.

They stared at him in shock.

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