Because I feel like I'm at gun point…

By one of the all time greatest angst writers ever…

(Hugh grin on her face just because)

On with the fic!

This chapter is mostly through Kaiba's point of view, so be aware of that. And there is barely any Yami in this chapter, but he will be back in the next with more scenes, I just felt that Kaiba needed a moment in the spotlight.

Total inspiration came from my lovely Colonel because she updated so I might as well. XD

Bottled Up Gods

Chapter Five: A Questioning Soul

"Where have you been?!

"What are doing back so early…?!"

"Don't fuck around! Where the hell were you, ya little shit!?"

"I… was with someone…"

"Let me guess, you were being the little whore you are and were showing off the disgusting body to someone."

"No! I am not a whore!"

SLAP!

"Don't yell back at me shit face! Get in your closet NOW!"

"Please don't! I'm sorry!"

"Sorry is not going to cut it!"

"NO!"

SLAM!

"LET ME OUT!"

The last I saw of Yami was when he left on Sunday, insisting that he was feeling better, but I could tell that he was still ill. I had to let him leave though, he gave me this look that meant he had his reasons and I shouldn't interfere.

That was three days ago.

It's Wednesday now and Yami still isn't here, either that, or I'm not looking hard enough but how can that be? Yami stands out like a straight guy in a gay bar. I walked down the halls in the early morning hours of school, only seeing a few people already here. I then noticed someone familiar; it's that Yusei kid Yami hangs out with.

He was talking to two girls, one with glasses and one with long hair and they waved to him as he left. I walked up to the girls who were talking about some anime or something. They turned to me and looked shocked.

"Seto Kaiba? Is there something you want?" The girl in the glasses asked.

"Yeah, do you know where that Yusei kid went?" I asked and the long haired girl replied.

"He was going to the library." She pointed in the direction. "Why do you ask?"

"He's got something of mine." I replied. They only nodded and went back to talking to one another. I walked off and went into the library and they were right, Yusei was there. He was standing in the science section looking at some book or whatever. I took this as the opportunity to talk to him.

"Yusei Fudo?" I asked softly and he jolted, dropping the book he had and turned around to look at me in surprise.

"Kaiba?!" He said in a loud whisper. "What are you doing here?!"

"What any high school student does, go to school. But that's not what I'm here to talk about."

"You want to talk about Yami correct?"

I blinked in surprise; damn this kid was fast outside of a speedway! "Yeah, that's what I want…" I was cut off when he dragged me out of the library and out toward the roof. Once up there, he let me go and turned to me.

"I wanted to talk about him as well. Where the hell is he?!" The blue-eyed boy yelled at me with so much anger, as if it was my fault Yami wasn't here.

I glared at those dark-blue eyes of this kid. "That's what I want to know. He left my place on Sunday and I haven't seen that spiky head of his since then. And I was kinda worried because he looked downright dead when he left, but he insisted that he HAD to leave. So I thought, since you are his best friend, that you would know."

Yusei frowned and kinda spaced out on me before his eyes widened. "Shit! Yami you fool! He should have known!"

I raised an eyebrow at the sudden action. "Hmm?"

Yusei blinked and turned to me, getting into my face, which, frankly, I wasn't liking and most people who ever did it would be on the floor in a second but what Yusei said stopped me from doing so..

"Yami sent me a call on Friday. He said that you took him to your house after you collapsed right?" I nodded and he continued. "Did he have any marks on him, like cuts and bruises?" Again, I nodded. "Where did you see them on him?"

I thought back to the horrific site of wounds I saw on Yami when I tried to remove his shirts and jacket to prevent him from suffocating. "On his chest and stomach, as well as his arms but that's all I saw. I had to clean some blood off of him as well; I guess his vest opened some wounds, why does he have those anyway?" Hey, I never said to that I wasn't going to ask his friends about the wounds, he just didn't want me asking him.

Loophole!

Yusei's whole face turned frightened, which was a rare thing to see on someone who was normally looking like he was ready to kick someone in the balls. "Oh God… something happened… something bad happened at home again…"

I frowned at the mention of the environment that Yami lived in that would make even a desperate hobo run away from. "What's going on? I know something is up, and it's been going on for years now hasn't it? You better fess up Fudo or I'll force you."

Yusei frowned again. "Look, I…"

I stopped him. "Bit by bit. Start to finish, you don't have to tell me all at once if that will make you uncomfortable, just give me a little info everyday." He looked at me and nodded.

"Start from the beginning. Start from when you and Yami met so I can understand how close you two are."

We sat down on the roof, both of us not caring that we have classes going on downstairs. I'm Seto Kaiba; I can give them a reason not to get their underwear in knots just because Yusei and I were not in class.

Yusei started with a simple sentence.

"We met when we literally ran into each other. I had just moved to Domino and I hated the new house, I was only three at the time, and I ran away from it and I didn't see Yami running down the same sidewalk and we crashed. We got angry at one another but we just laughed it off. Yami told me he got in trouble from Hiro."

"His father correct?" I spoke as I looked at him.

Yusei nodded. "Yeah, I guess he told you huh? Well, he got in trouble for knocking something over, his mom knew it was an accident but Hiro was still pissed and Yami got upset and ran away. We played with each other as much as we could and then we met Jack Atlas, another new person in the neighborhood. This was when we were five."

With a sigh, the blue haired boy looked at me. "Yami was a really sweet kid, he had an attitude at times and would get angry, but he was still a really great person. We use to build model kits together, saying that one day we would build a bike."

He chuckled at this part. "Then duel monsters came out and Yami made a goal to do something no one had ever thought, and this was before you took over Kaiba Corp."

I raised an eyebrow. "What did he want to do?"

"He wanted to build a motorbike that could be used to project holograms of duel monsters and people could play the card game while riding. This was when Yami was ten. He had all these weird and fantastic ideas on what to do to make the game better. He always wanted things to be better. You know, before you came in and became his rival, Yami was just playing the game for kicks but I know now that the reason he duels it to make himself stronger, like you do. But… he also duels for another reason."

I gave his a questioning stare, but I'm guessing this is one of those things that Yami has to tell me to understand.

I stood up and turned to the boy. "That is enough. I will be back tomorrow for you to tell me anymore. And I promise, not breathe a word of this to Yami if I see." I turned and walked away, my thoughts heavy with worry.

I walked down the stairs and headed for the door that lead to the halls, but when I did so I saw someone I didn't expect.

Yami was standing there with a face that would haunt me for years to come.

He looked…

He looked…

Dead.

What the hell happened to him?!

TBC

Sorry this chapter was so short; I have to get to work on the final chapter of another story so I can get it up for the two year anniversary of when I first posted it.

Those two girls at the start of the chapter are me and my wonderful Colonel BTW.

Next chapter, Yami comes back and he looks worse then he did last chapter. And there might be something more going on with Kaiba and Yami then thought before.

Please review.