Chapter 5- I Will Protect You
"Mr. Moto, will come here for a moment?' Ben asked.
Heba walked over and said, "Yes, Dr. Browning?"
"Mr. Moto, this is Dr. Leonardo Silver that I told you about." Ben said.
"Yes. You mentioned that he was the one that was making the medical decisions for my brother." Heba said. He didn't say it an insulting way. "It's nice to meet you, Dr. Silver. Thank you for finding and getting my brother the help he needed." Heba said sincerely.
"You do not need to thank me. Yugi is my friend, and I'm just glad that I was able to find him when I did. Forgive me, but Yugi never mentioned you before so-" Leo started.
"You would like to see proof that I am Yugi's brother. Other than my appearance, here is my birth certificate and a few other documents." Heba said, handing the papers to Leo.
Leo looked at them and couldn't dispute that. "I'm sorry for the suspicion, but Yugi has never mentioned you before." Leo said.
Heba smiled. "I understand perfectly. Yugi and I have not seen each other in ten years. I have been living with a relative in Egypt. I just recently was able to come here. I was hoping to surprise my brother by coming here, but I was the one who got the surprise." Heba said.
"I am sorry. I wish we could have stopped this." Leo said.
"You couldn't have known. It's not like you can read his mind or talk to him in his mind." Heba said. His eyes had fallen on Yami.
Yami shivered at Heba's intense gaze. 'It's almost like he knows I could have found this out, but didn't.' Yami thought.
Heba turned his attention back to Ben and said, "How is my brother?"
"He seems to be very stable. His head injury has me a little concerned. As long as he wakes up in the next few hours, he should be fine." Ben said.
"And if he doesn't wake up in the next few hours?" Heba asked.
"Then there will be cause for concern. For now, let's just hope for the best." Ben said.
"Can I see him?" Heba asked.
"I see no reason why you can't. He's in room 1025." Ben said before walking away.
Heba turned and started to go down the hall.
"Do you mind if we go see him?" Yuesei asked.
Heba stopped and turned to face them. "Why? So that you can hurt hum again?" Heba asked coldly.
"What are you talking about?' Bakura growled.
"I'm not stupid. Maybe if some of you would actually pay attention to what my brother's feeling instead of wanting to be with a girl you don't really want to date, "Heba said, glaring pointedly at Yami, "we wouldn't have this problem."
Yami flinched.
"How did you know that?" Tea asked, shocked.
"Believe me. You don't want to know the answer to that." Heba said. He looked at Atemu and then Leo. "Since they saved my brother, they're welcome to come. The rest of you are to stay out." Heba said before leaving the room to go see Yugi.
"We can't just let him do this." Tristan said.
"Yeah. He doesn't have that right." Malik added.
Leo sighed. "Yes, he does. Since he's a blood relative, he's the one that makes the calls right now, not me. Only Grandpa could contradict that." Leo said.
"And he's in Egypt right now." Tea said.
Atemu turned and started to walk down the hall after Heba.
Yami watched his brother sadly. 'Atemu's still angry at me. Not that I blame him. I deserve it after what I've caused.' Yami thought.
Heba stood by Yugi's bedside.
Yugi had an oxygen mask over his face since he was having a little trouble breathing. There were IVs and monitors were hooked up to Yugi.
Heba reached out and took Yugi's hand in his. "I'm here, Yugi, and I'm not leaving. I'm sorry that I wasn't here when you needed me, but I'm here now, and I refuse to leave you. I will protect you. No one is going to hurt you now. I won't let them." Heba said.
"You care a lot for him, don't you?" Atemu asked.
Heba glanced at the doorway to see Atemu. "Yami's your brother, right?" Heba asked.
"Yes, he is." Atemu replied.
"Then you know how I feel. You love your brother just like I love mine." Heba said.
"I love my brother, yes, but we are not exactly on speaking terms at the moment." Atemu said.
"Why are you not speaking?" Heba asked.
"What Yami did to Yugi is wrong on more levels than I care to admit. He pretty much destroyed his friendship with Yugi all because he didn't want anyone to know that he is gay." Atemu said.
"That's a pretty stupid reason for hurting Yugi, but Yugi is a very forgiving person, no matter how much what Yami did has angered me, and saying that Yami destroyed his friendship with Yugi is pushing it. He's damaged it. There's no doubt about that, but I don't believe that he destroyed their friendship." Heba said, looking at Yugi.
"You said that you've been living in Egypt for ten years, right?" Atemu asked.
Heba tore his gaze away from his brother to look at Atemu. "Yes." Heba said.
"I haven't been back to Egypt in some time. Did you like it there?" Atemu asked.
"Yes, but I missed Japan. Mostly my brother and my grandpa." Heba said.
"Do you know much about Egypt?" Atemu asked.
Heba smiled. "I lived there. I should know a great deal about it." Heba said.
"I mean ancient Egypt." Atemu said.
"A little. Why?" Heba asked.
"You remind me of someone that I saw in an ancient Egyptian carving once." Atemu lied. He wanted to see if maybe this was his husband's reincarnation, but couldn't be sure.
"I have never been truly concerned with the past. I look more toward the future and what it may bring." Heba explained.
"Many find the past interesting." Atemu said.
"I'll admit that some of ancient Egypt's past is interesting. You remind me of an exhibit I saw on the Nameless Pharaoh." Heba said.
"Yes. I get that a lot from people who see that exhibit." Atemu said.
There a clearing of someone's throat, and Heba and Atemu looked to see Leo.
"Am in interrupting anything?" Leo asked.
"No. Come in, Dr. Silver." Heba replied.
"Please, just call me Leo." Leo replied.
Heba looked at Yugi. "I never thought that we would find ourselves in this position again." Heba said softly.
Atemu and Leo looked sharply at Heba.
"What do you mean again?" Leo asked.
"The reason Yugi was living with our grandfather and I was living with relatives in Egypt was because our father was convicted of child abuse. He started abusing us when we were four, and Grandpa found out about half a year later. It took another six months for the police to get enough evidence to arrest him." Heba said.
"If Yugi's father was convicted of child abuse, he shouldn't have been put back in his father's custody in the first place." Leo said.
"Grandpa called and told me. He said that my father had been through a lot of therapy, and that the court's thought he would be different. I guess they were wrong." Heba said.
"Did he not try to get custody of you?' Atemu asked.
"He tried, but the Egyptian government is rather strict when it comes to a person getting custody of a child from one of their citizens. There was a lot of red tape that had to be crossed and I really don't think that my father had the patience time, or money to go through all the red tape he would have had to go through." Heba said.
"I guess you were lucky then." Leo said.
"Yeah, and my brother's in the hospital because of my luck." Heba said bitterly.
"Anyway, I think that we had better be going home." Leo said.
Atemu nodded.
Leo left.
"Atemu would you like a few moments alone with Yugi?" Heba asked.
"You don't mind?" Atemu asked.
"You seabed his life. I owe you that much." Heba said before stepping out of the room.
Atemu walked over to Yugi's bedside and took his hand in his. "I wish you would have told me what he had been doing, Yugi. I would have helped you somehow. You know I would have." Atemu said. He sighed and said, "I'll help you, though. I'll do whatever I can to help you out of this mess." Atemu sighed again. "You're not alone. As much as Yami hurt you, he cares too much about you to let anything else happen to you." Atemu said. He squeezed Yugi's hand gently before letting go. "I'll be back tomorrow, little brother." Atemu said.
"Little brother?"
Atemu turned to see Heba.
"Sorry. I just stepped back in. Why did you call him that?" Heba asked.
"I love Yugi like a little brother. I call him that a lot. Yugi never minded it. He said that I was the like the older brother he never had. I'm very protective of him, and if I see his father, I'm liable to commit murder." Atemu said.
"And I'll be the one lying to the police telling them at you were with me during the time of the murder." Heba said.
Atemu smiled. He had the sense of sarcastic humor that his husband had had. "Good bye, Heba. I'll come see him tomorrow." Atemu said.
"Good bye, Atemu." Heba said.
Atemu stopped at the doorway and said, "As much as they hurt him, Yami and all the others love Yugi very much. Please at least think about letting them see him tomorrow."
"If he hasn't woken up, I'll think about it. If he has, it'll be Yugi's decision." Heba said.
"I understand." Atemu said and left, closing the door behind him.
Heba sat down and took Yugi's hand in his. "I will protect you, Yugi. I won't fail you like I did back then. You have my word." Heba said.
Atemu and Leo joined the others.
"How is he?" Yami asked.
"As Ben said, stable. There's not much more that we can tell you. We won't know anymore until Yugi wakes up." Leo said.
"So, what do we do now?" Joey asked.
"We all go home. There's nothing that we can do here." Leo said.
"What about Heba?" Yuesei asked.
"What about him?" Joey asked angrily.
"Why are you angry at him?' Atemu asked.
"After the way he treated us, why do you ask?" Tristan demanded.
"He just found out that his twin brother was put in the hospital because his father beat the crap out of him. He's upset. Besides, I think that he has every right to be upset." Atemu said.
"He does. After all, Yugi was treated unfairly." Kyla added.
Yami sighed. "I don't think that anyone has more right to be angry than Heba except for Yugi." Yami said.
"I asked about Heba because I wondered if he had a place to stay. If not, he should stay with us." Yuesei said.
"Why should you let him in the house?" Seto demanded.
"Seto, Heba is Yugi's twin brother, which makes him Grandpa's grandson, and because the house that we live in actually belongs to the Motos, Heba has more right to stay there than we do." Leo said.
Atemu looked around. "Uh, where are Marik and Bakura?" Atemu asked.
"I don't know. They left right after you went back to see Yugi." Ryou said.
"They said that there was something they needed to do." Malik added.
"I wonder what those two maniacs are up to this time." Leo stated.
A sharp scream pierced the night air.
Bakura held up a bloodied knife and pointed it at Simon Moto's face. "You liked inflicting pain on your son. In fact you, left him for dead." Bakura said.
Marik grabbed him and jerked him to his feet. "I think that we need to show you what the real meaning of pain is." Marik said.
"Please, let me go." Simon pleaded.
Bakura grabbed his face and forced Simon to look Bakura in the face. "Did you stop when Yugi asked you to? No." Bakura said.
Marik forced Simon to look at him. "Did you stop when he was in tears, pleading for you to just leave him be? No." Marik said.
Bakura forced Simon to, once again, look at him. "Did you stop when he was bleeding? No." Bakura said.
Marik forced Simon to look at him again. "Did you stop when he lost consciousness? No." Marik said.
"You stopped when you thought he was dead. You ran out of fear that you would go to jail for murder." Bakura said.
"And we're going to make you suffer like no one ever before." Marik said.
Scream pierced the night air from a man who would never be seen again once the shadows seemed to engulf him.
"He deserved the Shadow Realm. No one deserves what Yugi had done to him." Bakura said.
"Let's go. At least we know that Yugi is safe now." Marik said.
The two Darks walked through the silent night without another word, satisfied with the work they had done in their act of revenge.
Yami knocked on his brother's door tentatively.
"Come in." Atemu said.
Yami opened the door and walked in to find Atemu lying on his bed with an old book in his hand.
Atemu put the book under his pillow and said, "What do you want, Yami?"
Yami walked in and sat on the edge of the bed. "Do you hate me, Atemu?" Yami asked.
Atemu sighed and moved to sit beside him. "No. No matter how idiotic your actions are, I'm always going to love you, Yami, and I'm sorry I hit you." Atemu said, grimacing at the bruise he saw on Yami's cheek.
"I deserved it. You told me that I shouldn't have doesn't that in the first place, and I know that you were right. I wanted myself to believe that I could find happiness with someone else, but I can't. I've been ignoring Yugi. He might have told me what was going on, and I might have been able to help him." Yami said.
"Yami, Yugi being in the hospital is no your fault, but not listening to him is. Yami, how could you not have the time?" Atemu asked.
"I kept promising Tea that we would, and I wanted people to believe that we were dating. I was an idiot." Yami said.
"Yeah, you were. Did you even think that Yugi might get hurt?" Atemu asked.
"No. I didn't think that this would do all this to Yugi, but I guess I was wrong. I made a mess of everything, and I might have just destroyed my friendship with Yugi." Yami asked.
"You didn't destroy it, but you did damage it. You have a lot to make up for." Atemu said.
"Yeah, but I doubt Heba will let me near him any time soon." Yami said.
"Heba said that he might let you see him tomorrow if Yugi hadn't woken up. If he has, it's up to Yugi." Atemu said.
Yami nodded. He couldn't stop the silent tears from falling.
Atemu hated seeing his brother hurt and wrapped his arms around his brother, pulling Yami to him and letting him cry into his chest much like Yugi had done earlier. 'So much pain. Why can't anything ever work out?' Atemu thought.
Heba had rented a hotel room and was laying in the bed.
A sudden jerk had Heba's eyes flashing open. He found himself facing Osiris, Horus, and Ra. Heba kneeled down with his head to the floor and waited.
"Rise, Protector." Osiris said.
Heba stood up and said, "What do you wish, my lords?"
"Tell us what has transpired since your arrival." Osiris said.
"My father had custody of my brother and started to beat him again." Heba said.
"He dared bring harm to the Treasure!" Ra shouted.
"I do not believe that my father was alone. Though he was cruel and heartless and cared nothing for either of us, he never took it that far before, no matter how angry he was." Heba said.
"MENTHOS!" Horus shouted.
"I believe that Menthos did have a hand in this." Heba said.
"He or one of his followers implanted the idea into his mind. This was a set up." Osiris said.
"I will keep a close eye on my brother." Heba said.
"See that you do. His power cannot fall into the wrong hands." Horus said.
"Be careful. You hold his fate at the moment." Ra said.
Heba found himself back in the hotel room. He sat up and looked out the window. "Tomorrow, I will find out for sure if I am right." Heba said. He sighed and said, "I will protect you, Yugi. No matter what."
"Well, it would appear that the two Darks called Marik and Bakura are very devious and cruel in their own right." Menthos said.
"Could they be of use to us?" Maytrine asked.
"No. They are the lovers of their Lights, Malik and Ryou. Those Lights are close friends of the Treasure. The Darks would not do something that the Lights would not condone." Menthos said.
An image of Yugi in his hospital room appeared in the viewing portal.
"We will need to kill the Protector." Maytrine said.
"Yes. First, we will capture the Treasure and use him as bait to lead the Protector into a trap." Menthos said.
"Yes. The Protector would do anything for the Treasure." Maytrine said.
"We will need the Protector distracted so that we can get to the Treasure." Menthos said.
"Shall I do that?" Maytrine asked.
"No. I think a distraction will come of it's own accord." Menthos replied, smirking evilly.
"What kind of distraction?" Maytrine asked.
"Old friends who do not know they are there or that they need each other." Menthos said.
I hope that what happened to Yugi's father was satifiying enough to you. He deserved it.
The next chapter will have Heba having conflict with Yami and the others, and Menthos will be causing more trouble.
R&R.