Chapter 7: "I'm Naked without you"
"Friendship jerks, this is so lame," Seto mumble as his fingers flew across the keyboard, Mokuba had roped him into finding two losers. However he had to admit it was cool listening to Mokuba brag.
Joey set in a corner with Yugi both boys were wrapped up in thoughts about their lovers," You think money-bags will find out anything," Joey asked.
"Well you know he hates to lose," Yugi answered. "Joey-kun what do you think. I think I understand why Yami left, but I don't get what happened to Otogi-sama." He was so happy and you loved him."
Joey turned away he didn't want Yugi to see the tears in his eyes. "Joey-kun . . . . I'm so sorry I should have kept my mouth close."
"No it's ok, we gotta have faith," Joey sniffed and leaned in for a much needed brotherly hug from his friend. "Come on lets go give money-bags a kick in the ass. We ain't got all day."
Just as Kaiba hit the jackpot, Ryou came screaming inside the game room from the kitchen. He'd watched the world news on the servant's small monitor always interested in his homeland. 'Yugi . . . Joey look . . . . Yami's on the tube!"
Mokuba rolled down a large screen and the boys watched as a group of small figures filled the screen. The man set in a wooden chair with his hands behind his back; he was tied to the chair. Blood dripped from the rope burns and his ankles also tied to the legs of the chair appeared to be broken. Both feet were twisted at odd angles around the legs. A black hood covers his head but a hole in the top allowed his hair to stick out. It was three different colors, gold, red, and black.
The man's head lay at a strange angle which suggested it wasn't attached to his body. A man stood behind the chair and he had a hatchet in his hand that was dripping with bright red blood. Underneath the picture a date almost two weeks old was printed on the bottom. Blood covered the floor and a message in a foreign code was written in small letters on a mirror behind the executioner. This was an act of terrorist and an affront to the Japanese government. Before anyone could say a word the news bulletin flashed over and over.
On the fourth flash the news moved to local headlines and centered on a bank robber and jewelry thief. This guy was bad and in an attempt to escape he was captured but he shot an officer and the thief was killed on the spot. The undertakers removed the body from the street and as they lifted him up onto the stretcher a dice fell from underneath the covered body and pointed at Joey, his dark hair mixed with shades of green called to Joey, and he screamed. "No . . . . it can't be." This thief had been on the run for two years, dodging officials in nine countries.
"Bullshit!" Seto bellow out loud. "My information is 100% actuate."
All heads turned to the CEO. Shock stopped everyone from reacting except Yugi who stood firm in his personal commitment to Yami that he was alive. Yugi walked up to Seto, "It's true that can't be Yami or Otogi. It's a lie all of it."
"But Yugi you're in shock and you really don't know anything about him." Ryou whispered afraid to angry Seto.
"I know everything that's important." Yugi shot back at the group.
"What about Otogi-sama, he drifted in dirt poor and we didn't know where he came from." Ryou continued to be the bad guy and voice his thoughts out loud.
"Shut up, Otogi maybe a lot of things but he's not a thief, and I'd know if he was dead," Joey employed Yugi's eyes for reassurance.
"Yugi help us to understand," Mokuba spoke gently.
"Play back the tape and stop the frame at the slump figure over the chair." Yugi walked up to the huge screen and waited as Mokuba complied with his wishes. "Look at his hair."
"Well it's like yours.
"No, look closely Joey can't you see it!"
Joey shook his head, "aah . . ."
"His bangs are black and the gold is in the back. I don't care how you part my hair it'll never fall like that and Yami's the same way. Yami has a birth mark on his left foot; there is nothing on either of this man's foot. Joey you know I'm telling the truth."
"Look at the dice on Otogi's ear, that's not Otogi his dice always fall on # six, why is it on # three. You know his dice is loaded. That's not Otogi under that sheet. ITS NOT!
Besides I'd know. Yugi walked away from the screen and stood in front of Seto. "Kaiba I want you to take me to Egypt."
"Yugi . . . ." Ryou gasp.
"You've got shit loads of money and a jet. All I got is Yami and a one night stand to remember. I want more." Yugi blushed but he didn't back down.
Joey coughed and Mokuba moved to stand beside his brother. "You can't tell Nii-same what to do."
"Why not, he's got what I need."
Kaiba should their and smirked.
"Fine I'll find Yami and Otogi on my own power." Yugi turned to go. "Damn it!"
"Yugi where are you going?"
"To Egypt, its Yami home."
"Enough are you guys going to stand here all day and gossip." Seto barked, "When the truth is right in your face. If you are coming get your ass in gear, the plane leaves in thirty minutes."
"Kaiba –sama," Yugi allowed his tears to fall, "thank you…"
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