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Chapter 3

Warning: This chapter is pretty heavy. Mentions of abuse, rape and blood nothing to graphic but its enough that I feel the need to warn readers.

The limo had barely come to a stop in front before Atemu had the door open and was out and running up the walkway. He was at the front door pounding on it before Kaiba had even gotten out of the car.

"He's not home Atemu." Kaiba drawled, making it very well known that he thought this was a waste of time.

"Yes he is." Atemu said before he reached into his pocket and pulled out his keys, quickly finding the key Yami had given him in case of emergencies. Atemu pushed the key into the lock and opened the door running inside yelling, "YAMI! WHERE ARE YOU?"

Kaiba followed Atemu into the house and saw Atemu turn into the kitchen. Kaiba made his way to follow him when he heard Atemu shout, "SHIT. KAIBA GET YOUR ASS IN HERE AND HELP ME."

Kaiba picked up the pace slightly and finally entered the kitchen only to freeze. There lying unconscious on the floor bleeding from, all over the place was Yami. He had a pretty nasty head wound which Kaiba guessed was made from a broken beer bottle judging by the brown glass shards sticking out of the wound. Looking closer Kaiba could also see that the glass bottle was dragged down from where it had struck Yami's forehead across his eye. Yami's shirt was in tatters…looked like someone had taken a knife to it and his chest was covered in blood. Yami's pants were down and he was bleeding down there as well. And clenched in Yami's hand was his cell phone with Atemu's missed calls shown on screen.

Kaiba felt sick to his stomach. Who could do such a thing?

Atemu knelt down and beside Yami and pulled off his jacket and began to remove the glass from Yami's head wound. Once he'd gotten the majority of it out he began to apply pressure by holding his jacket against the wound. He also tried to apply pressure to the worst wound on Yami's chest. Atemu glanced over his shoulder briefly and saw Kaiba just standing there, "What the hell are you waiting for. Call 911." Atemu yelled, snapping Kaiba out of his daze before he turned his attention back to Yami.

Kaiba jumped slightly when Atemu shouted at him before he pulled out his cell phone and dialed 911 like Atemu had told him to. Gave the lady the address and said they found someone unconscious and bleeding. He then hung up and said, "Paramedics are on the way."

Atemu nodded and said, "Kaiba give me your jacket." Kaiba slipped it off without complaint and Atemu wrapped Yami up in it. "Please Yami, please be okay." Atemu whispered, so quietly that Kaiba could barely make out the words. He could also tell that Atemu was fighting to keep from crying. Seeing Atemu like this…and Yami like this made Kaiba feel like the worlds biggest jerk.

Minutes went by and soon the sound of sirens could be heard. "Kaiba go show the paramedics where we are. We need to get Yami to the hospital and quickly." Atemu said.

Kaiba nodded and ran out to meet the Paramedics. Once the paramedics were inside Atemu moved out of the way and let them take over treating Yami. They loaded Yami up on a stretcher and into the back of the ambulance. Atemu turned to Kaiba and said, "I want to go to the hospital and make sure Yami's alright. You'll get what I promised you once I know he's going to be okay."

The two crawled back into the limo, Atemu was covered in blood. Kaiba told the limo driver to drive to Domino General Hospital before he sat down in the seat across from Atemu.

"What exactly happened to him Yami?" Kaiba asked he was curious but he said it like he didn't really care if Atemu told him or not since it didn't matter to him.

Atemu sighed, "Yami's in a physically abusive relationship. His husband beats and rapes Yami regularly." Atemu said; he spat the word husband out like it was poison.

"Wait, husband? Yami's married?" Kaiba asked, that was news to him.

"Yeah, Yami's married though it's not something he advertises. He's not married by choice either. He was forced into it. His bastard of a husband made Yami's legal guardian wager Yami's hand in marriage over a poker game…that was the first poker game he'd lost in nearly 10 years. Yami was told either he was going to marry him and put up with this shit or his grandpa'd be killed. So Yami puts up with it." Atemu said.

Atemu paused for a moment before he continued. "Yami told me about it a week after it started happening. His husband took him away for a week long honeymoon and raped Yami repeatedly. Yami was in hysterics when he got back. It broke my heart to see him like that. I love, sorry loved, Yami and I hate seeing him in pain. I hate that every time he goes back to that house I have to worry if I'm going to see him again…or if I'm going to find him dead. Two months ago Yami ended up in a coma for three days because of what that sicko did to him." Atemu said.

"Wait a second, if you still love Yami why did you and him break up?" Kaiba asked immediately catching Atemu's slip up. Also to him that just didn't make sense. He like everyone else had seen how happy those two had been together, it had made him burn with jealousy but he couldn't deny how happy they'd been together…no one could.

"Because of that damn poker game. Me and Yami broke up because he had to marry that bastard." Atemu snapped before Atemu glared at Kaiba, "You can stop with the interrogation. I know you don't give a shit about what happened to Yami so stop acting like you do. You want me to sleep with you, I've already promised you I would so you don't have to pretend to give a damn that my best friend was brutally assaulted in a twisted attempt to get into my pants. You don't need to worry I'm still going to marry you and Yami's stuck with this sicko so you don't need to worry about me straying." Atemu spat.

Kaiba glared at Atemu, "I'm not heartless. It makes me sick to my stomach to see what had happened to Yami." Kaiba snapped right back, though he chose to ignore the second half of Atemu's statement since he couldn't deny that in the back of his mind he couldn't help but wonder if Atemu would go running back to Yami.

Atemu glared at Kaiba before he turned his attention back out the window. He was pissed at Kaiba because he'd held him up. In the back of his mind he couldn't help but think he might have been able to have helped Yami more if he'd gotten to him quicker. Atemu knew that unconsciousness and blood loss, not to mention head trauma were not good things. He really feared for his friend's life.

Soon they arrived at the hospital and Atemu got out of the car and went in. Kaiba followed him a few seconds later. He watched as Atemu spoke to a doctor who told Atemu to wait in the waiting room while they finished checking Yami and treating the worst of his injuries.

Atemu sank down in a hard plastic chair and closed his eyes. He hated being in this position again. He'd been here too many times before.

Kaiba silently sat down next to Atemu. He knew that right now Atemu just needed to think so he'd back off. He and Atemu could talk again once Atemu knew that Yami was alright…if Yami was alright.

Atemu suddenly stood up pulling his cell phone out of his pocket, glaring at it for a few seconds before he answered it. "What?"

"Atemu where the hell are you? You and Seto were supposed to be at this party and you just up and left without so much as alerting your host. I raised you better than…" Aknamkanon lectured.

"Dad, an emergency came up. I'm at the hospital right now." Atemu paused for a moment placing his hand on the bridge of his nose, "Dad, can we just talk about this later. Its been a really long night."

"Atemu what happened? Why are you at the hospital? You aren't hurt are you?" Aknamkanon asked quickly.

"Dad I'm fine. It's Yami. He's in the hospital and I have no idea if he's going to be alright or not. Right now I'm waiting to find out what the doctors say. Then I have to pay a debt to Kaiba and I'll be home and you can yell at me all you want about what an embarrassment I was tonight." Atemu said, he glanced up and saw the doctor he'd spoken to earlier heading his way, "Dad, I've got to go the doctor just came out." Atemu said before he hung up.

"How is he?" Atemu asked.

The doctor sighed, "Yami will live. But much more than that time will tell. He lost a lot of blood and he had a pretty bad head injury. One of the glass shards pierced his skull and poked his brain. We were able to remove it and stop the bleeding but the damage was done. We won't know the extent of the damage until he wakes up which we don't expect will happen until morning. We stitched up his many lacerations. We saw evidence of anal tearing…which is consistent with rape. And unfortunately your friend's right eye could not be saved, it was too badly damaged. Is there anyone that should be contacted?" The doctor said.

Atemu bit his lip before he nodded, "Yeah, I'll call his grandfather and let him know that Yami's in the hospital." He then glanced back over at Kaiba, if Yami wasn't going to wake up until morning then there was nothing more he could do. He needed to pay his debt, go home and get some rest so he could be back here in the morning to be here when Yami woke up. He turned his attention back to the doctor and said, "Call me if anything changes."

The doctor nodded before he walked away.

Atemu sighed once more before he walked back over to Kaiba. "Let's get this over with. I'd like to get home sometime tonight." Atemu said before he turned and began to trudge out of the hospital. Atemu climbed into the limo and so did Kaiba. While Kaiba sat there in silence for a moment Atemu told the driver where to go and they headed off.

Kaiba glanced out the limo when it came to a stop and the engine was turned off. He was surprised to find that they were parked in front of a high end hotel. "Atemu wha?"

"You wanted me to have sex with you in payment for allowing me to go and help my friend. I'm just holding up my end of the bargain. Now let's just get this over with." Atemu said before he climbed out of the car.

Kaiba grabbed Atemu's arm, stopping him from crawling out of the car. "Atemu, what in the world are you trying to prove?"

Atemu glared at Kaiba before he spat, "Absolutely nothing. I gave my word you could demand anything of me. And you immediately brought up sex. You carried out your end of the bargain now its time for me to pay up."

"Atemu I am NOT going to fucking rape you. You wanted to help your friend, who I can see desperately needed it. I'm not going to force you to have sex because of that. I told you years ago I would not do this because you felt that you had to. I would wait until you wanted to do this and I stand by that." Kaiba snapped right back.

Atemu glared at Kaiba for a moment before he laughed a humorless laugh. "You're hilarious Kaiba. Do you know how ridiculous you sound right now I'm not going to force you to have sex…I'm going to wait until its what you want to do. Absolutely hysterical. Why not you get off your pretense of a moral high ground and take what it is I know you want. You're going to take it from me at some point why not do it now when you have probably the closest you'll get to my consent for a long time to come."

"What the hell does that mean?" Kaiba hissed, not at all appreciating Atemu's insinuation.

"You know damn well what I mean Kaiba. You expect me to do whatever the hell you want. And since we're engaged you feel as though you're entitled to do anything and everything with me. And if, by some fluke you manage to reign in your hormones until we are married…you'll expect sex, which I can tell you right now is not something I'm going to trust you enough to do after having been dating you for less than two months. I was with Yami more than six months and he and I didn't do that. So like I said…lets just get it over with you'll force me in the future so why not just force me now." Atemu said hotly.

Kaiba gaped at him before he snapped his mouth shut and tugged Atemu back into the car slamming the door shut. He then instructed the limo driver to go back to the Sennen Estate. After the two rode in silence for several minutes Kaiba spoke up. "Atemu Sennen I am insulted that you think I would actually do something like that."

"Well, why the hell wouldn't you. You're forcing me to marry you. You have already forcedly kissed me. You say you want sex…which just like kissing I said I wasn't doing with you." Atemu said.

"So, you want me to go to my father and get him to call this whole wedding off? Is that it?" Kaiba said.

Atemu sighed, "That isn't going to happen and you and I both know it. Our parents decision is final."

"Then what exactly is it you expect me to do Atemu? I'm not a fucking mind reader. Last night in the gardens you sounded like this was something you wanted as well…something you didn't mind pursuing and today you've blocked me at every turn. It's like you did a complete 180. So tell me Atemu, what exactly is it you expect of me?" Seto snapped.

"That's just it Kaiba. I don't know. I admitted I found you attractive but not once did I EVER say I felt something for you. I am attracted to you and sometimes I can see qualities in you that I genuinely like…sometimes I see a person that I might fall for. And others I see a spoiled heartless asshole that I cannot stand." Atemu paused for a moment before he slumped back against the seat letting his shoulders droop and the steam flow out of him. "I don't know what I want from you Kaiba. Respect. You to consider my feelings and what I think. You to stop demanding things of me. You to show me that I can trust you. Those are some things I want from you. But other than that I really don't know."

Kaiba sighed, "Fine. If that is what you want from me then I'll try to do what you want. But you need to try as well. You need to try and give me a genuine chance. Because to tell you the truth that's all I want from you, for you to give me a fair chance at this."

"You try and do what I've asked and you have your chance. You act like you did earlier tonight and you will go nowhere with me. I won't stand for that. And it makes me sick to my stomach that my father expects me to just go along with it…to act like you and I are this happy, picture perfect couple who have been together forever and cannot wait to get married when we're not. We're a couple of teenagers who don't know each other that way." Atemu said.

Kaiba nodded, "We have a deal. I'll try and do what you want and you'll give me a fair chance at this."

Atemu sighed and nodded. He then glanced out the window and saw that they were pulling up the drive of his home. Once the limo had come to a stop Atemu turned to Kaiba, "Thanks for the ride and good night." Atemu said before he climbed out. He knew he didn't kiss Kaiba good-night and he also knew that if Kaiba listened to him at all then he didn't expect him to.

In Atemu's mind if they did things like kissing or curling up together because they both genuinely wanted to then it would actually mean something and if they did it just because they were told to then those signs of what are interpreted as affection are nothing but meaningless things put on for show. And that would make the real thing feel just as hollow and pointless. Call him a hopeless romantic but Atemu wanted something real.

Atemu walked into his home and wasn't the least bit surprised to see that his father was waiting for him. With a sigh Atemu turned and headed to join his father in the sitting room.

Aknamkanon glanced up when he had seen his son walk in and for a moment was shocked; his son was covered in blood. "Atemu what in gods name happened to you?" Aknamkanon asked.

"Nothing happened to me. I told you Yami was the one who's hurt. This is his blood." Atemu said.

Aknamkanon could tell but the look on Atemu's face that Atemu wasn't going to tell him what exactly had happened to Yami…then again he never did. He'd heard 'Yami's in the hospital' more times than he cared to remember. At least three or four times a month. He'd also seen his son treating cuts and bruises Yami had here at the house before as well. So, since he knew that wasn't a topic open to discussion he switched to another. "Why the hell did you walk out of Mr. Crawford's party like you did? You insulted your host, something you know better than Atemu."

Atemu glared at his father, "I told you. Yami called me because he was in trouble and he needed me to come over. I had to go and help him and I'm sorry if I found Yami's wellbeing more important then kissing Mr. Crawford's ass."

"You were not kissing Mr. Crawford's ass. You were being polite. One day you'll learn to get your priorities straight…"

Atemu jumped to his feet, "My priorities are STRAIGHT. In my book someone who's in danger takes priority over pretending to give a damn that his company has been open for 30 years." Atemu spat before he turned and stormed out of the room.

"Get back here Atemu! You and I are not done talking about this." Aknamkanon shouted.

"Yes we are Father because if you are going to lecture me about the choice I made then you can save your breath because I know I made the right choice." Atemu snapped. "Good night father." He spat before he marched upstairs and into his room where he slammed the door.

Atemu sank down to the floor and took a few deep breaths in an attempt to calm down and then he remembered he hadn't called Yami's grandfather to tell him about Yami being in the hospital.

He pulled out his cell phone and dialed. On the third ring someone picked up.

"Hello?"

"Mr. Motou, it's me Atemu. I'm calling to tell you that Yami's back in the hospital again. It's pretty bad."

"Oh god, what did he do to Yami this time?"

"I don't know. I took him to the hospital so the doctors have taken care of him. He should be awake in the morning and we'll know then if he's going to be okay or not. Unfortunately until then all we can do is wait." Atemu said.

"Very well. Thank you for letting me know Atemu."

"You're welcome. Good night Mr. Motou."

"Good night."

Atemu hung up and set his phone on his end table before he pulled off his blood covered shirt and through it aside. His mind racing there had to be some way he could help Yami. Paying the sicko off didn't work…and threatening to go to the police just got him laughed at. So, what else could he possibly do to help Yami? Atemu didn't know but he did know that he had to come up with something soon, otherwise he'd be attending his friends funeral.

A/N: And this concludes chapter three. Please review. I don't get enough reviews I'll stop writing this story.