I felt anxious since I woke up.
It was raining again. I looked longingly out the windows that the curtains had been forgotten to be pulled shut on. Last night's work lay all over the floor and across the end of my bed, my glasses beside me, bent, I must've fallen asleep with them on again. I looked to the closed door and then I looked to my phone that was ringing. I looked back out the window to the soft hazy-
Wait. My phone is ringing..!I snatched the phone up from my bed stand with haste.
"Hello, Seto Kaiba speaking." I answered immediately.
"Hello?" An eerie voice greeted in return on the phone. I knit my brows slightly puzzled.
"Who is this?" I questioned.
"When will…he come…?" The eerie voice questioned. I scowled with distaste at the wall.
"When will he…." The voice began again. Then I stopped dead. The voice was coming from in my room. With my eyes wide, hands shaky, I carefully walked to the closet. I slid the closet door open and in the bottom a pair of large eyes were staring up at me. My hair was standing on it's end with this ghostly face peering up at me. It took me a minute to realize who it was.
"Yugi?" I asked stepping back so he could crawl out of the small space from under the bottom shelf in my closet. He stared up at me from the space on the floor. Paler than before, thinner than before and resembling a corpse more than ever.
"When will he come?" Yugi asked once more.
"When will who come?" I questioned, confused.
Yugi whispered a short word but I couldn't hear it. His eyes became more lifeless the moment the whisper ended. I stared at him. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do. Mokuba never did anything weird like this.
"Kaiba…" Yugi started and I continued to stare at him.
"I think…if I go back with Jou…I can't see him…again…" Yugi whispered fearfully to me.
"You have to go back with Jounochi." I said bluntly and the spiky haired freak began to cry.
Something strange seemed to be going on and I was uncomfortable with it. It was a really dramatic lifestyle to live like this, unknowing of the next moment, who will scare the living hell out of you? Who will surprise you? Who will accept you? Momentarily I was considering returning back to my robotic workaholic state, but I wasn't even sure if I knew how to do that anymore.
Yugi cried out in a strange language I've never heard and bowed his head into his hands, sobbing.
"Fine stay here but if anything goes missing or if you mess anything up- I'll murder you without any hesitation." I said coldly and left him there. I could hear him thanking me again and again. Pitiful.
I dialed Jounochi's number.
"Hello?" Came the soft voice of I believe belonged the silver-haired person I talked to on day one.
"Hello, is Jounochi available at this time?" I asked wandering the hall to the bathroom.
"He's in the middle of a shoot at the moment, is this Kaiba? He asked me to arrange a meeting with you for this afternoon but I was going to wait until later, I didn't realize you got up so early." He said with a soft light hearted kind voice. I really liked his character and personality thus far. I looked at my watch and was surprised it was 6.30am, I probably would've slept longer if it weren't for Yugi.
"He's doing a shoot this early?" I questioned. It seemed so early for a photo shoot.
"Well…it's a different kind from what you received in the portfolio we provided for you yesterday evening." He said unsurely.
"What kind is it?" I asked.
"Well, I do believe we can trust you since you are under our contract…he's taking pictures of the members of our crew who were murdered last night. A bit of hunting is taking place at the moment, we're going to seek revenge. Jounochi likes to have the pictures to torture the assaulters with. It's a little awkward I do say but it's highly effective in some instances." He said, informing me of all of this with the sound of a soft smile on his lips.
"I see." I replied, unsurprised. It certainly did explain a lot. "What are you called?" I questioned. I wasn't sure if I learned his name before or not.
"My name is Ryou." He replied.
"Ryou, about Yugi, I'm allowing him to stay longer." I said dryly.
"Yes of course. Now about your appointment with Jou this afternoon, what time is good for you?" Ryou questioned me.
"How about three?" I suggested.
"Hm…yes?……" Ryou's voice drifted away from the phone and back again. "Jounochi just asked if later in the night would be alright?" Ryou informed me. I thought I heard his voice in the background.
"It's fine" I replied feeling extremely excited inside myself. The noise from my excitement just came out as a strange strangled noise from deep in my throat.
"Alright, he'll see you then." Ryou said in a final tone and then I could hear the click of the call ending.
I didn't think I could last until tonight.
I was about to burst from eagerness.
I really had no explanation why I was becoming so out of character.
It was enough to make me feel uncomfortable.