Hi (ducks flying objects) I know that I haven't updated or posted in a while, WELL here I am with another chap for you. I had a mental block with this story and I think that it could be as long as my Falling from Grace, as I'm going to take my time with this, so bare with me. I know that I have slowed down on the updating on everything (points to head) MENTAL BLOCK! Plus my editor has gotten slack on me too (pokes with stick) LAZY! Anyway I'll get to it. I'm not going to use a lot of Japanese in this but for a few words here and there, look for the translation for the meaning of the words that I use in each chap.
Warnings: Shounen-ai for now, M and abuse in some of the chaps, don't like then leave now before you go on reading.
Okay I don't own Yugioh.
Translation: Neko: Cat.
CHAP 3: A Name.
Malik sighed as he served a customer, three days had passed and both teens had rang the school and told them that they were both sick as it was now a Saturday, and would be taking a few days off school. The Turtle game shop sold games and cards called Duel Monsters, and Malik sold motorbike parts not only for himself, but Yugi got a little profit to help out his grandpa, who was in the hospital at this point in time.
It wasn't that long ago that Malik had walked in off the street and asked for a job here. Yugi's grandpa hired him on the spot, and Malik would work at the shop before school and after. But when Malik approached him on selling bike parts he was reluctant at first, but gave Malik a trial run and found that it brought in a lot more customers and the local motorbike racing teams. Malik raced with them as well, but the old man had gotten sick and ended up in hospital and whatever little money Yugi could get he needed, as did Malik.
As a man looked over the part for his motorbike, Malik looked up at the ceiling and wandered when the neko boy would wake up. For the last few days the boy had woken up for a little bit. Malik would give him something to drink with his medication in it and a little food, but then the boy would go right back to sleep again. "I'll take it." The man said, bringing Malik out of his thoughts. Malik nodded and took the part and boxed it up, the man paid him and left the store. The day went on and soon they closed the shop up for the night, they walked back into the house. Yugi and Malik walked up the stairs to the spare room, but found the bed empty. "What?.. Where did he go?" Malik walked over to the bed and picked up the blanket as if he didn't see right, then looked around the room.
"Maybe he went back into the closet in my room?" Yugi stated as the boy had been found in there a few times, so he ran off but came back a few minutes later. "He's not in my room or under my bed." Malik nodded and walked over to the closet and opened the door and found the pale teen asleep in a bundle of blankets on the floor of the closet.
"Well... I think he likes clothes or he thinks it's a safe place to be in." Malik shrugged smirking as he looked at Yugi.
"I'm going to start dinner, you should stay the night." Yugi said.
"Only if you don't mind?" Malik said, as he had been here for the few days not wanting to take the boy out in public or leave him here with Yugi.
"Actually. I'd really like the company." Yugi smiled.
"Alright, I'll help with dinner." Malik closed the closet door and they left the bedroom.
They had finished up their meal and they were washing the dishes when they heard a noise upstairs. Malik dropped what he was doing and ran out of the room, as Yugi grabbed the plate of food for the boy. He frowned at the thought that they didn't even know his name. Malik had explained what Mai had said about him. Yugi walked into the room. Malik opened the closet door to find it empty. "Not again!" Malik said as he looked around, a loud sound came from downstairs. Yugi and Malik ran downstairs into the living room, to see the boy looking at a few books and the t.v flickered and hissed with no picture on it, and a pile of books on the floor at his feet. His bare top half in bandages along with his right hand and blue jeans covered in old blood and a little torn and bare foot.
"Shouldn't he still be asleep?" Yugi asked.
"I'm not sure maybe he feels better it has been a few days like Mai said." Malik answered him, not taking his eyes off the boy.
The boy dropped the book he was holding and walked to the t.v and knelt down in front of it with both his hands on the screen, he looked up at Malik and Yugi his ears pricked forward then he looked back at the t.v. "I think he wants to watch it." Yugi said as he curiously walked up to the boy. "Here." Yugi picked up the remote off the floor and turned it on, still keeping his distance.
The boy moved back but only a foot, his face right in as the pictures moved. "What should I put on?" Yugi asked Malik as he placed the plate on the coffee table and flicked through the channels. Malik walked over and sat down next to Yugi not that he could see the screen due to the boy's head right in the way. The boy's ears flicked forwards again as the news came on, he new that it was like the screen with the still pictures on the white wall in Gozaburo's office, (an: a projector and white screen :p ) but this one talked and moved. Gozaburo always watched this one sometimes right after his missions then screamed at everyone for hours after, then he would be in pain for the next few days, as Gozaburo said 'that he didn't do it right? And where the hell were you Boots?' But Yugi turned the channel over and the boy jumped at the screen looking behind it and over the top to see where it had gone, he looked at Yugi and Malik.
"I think he wants the news Yugi." Malik said.
"Right." Yugi turned it back again, the boy sat back down and watched as the news lady talked. Malik lent forward and picked up the plate and walked over to the boy and knelt down.
"Are you hungry?" Malik asked, the boy looked at the food then back to the screen. "You should eat." Malik pushed the plate in front of the boy who looked at it then Malik. "Eat it." Malik moved away and re-took his place next to Yugi watching the boy.
The boy picked it up and sniffed it, then started to eat it with his fingers. Malik had crushed the antibiotic into the food. Yugi giggled as Malik smirked.
"Err… we have knives and forks." Malik said as he raised an eyebrow but found it funny himself, and Malik let him go, the boy watched the whole news cast but nothing of any importance, they watched it for an hour. The boy yawned as it ended and Yugi turned off the t.v and dropped the remote next to him. The boy sat there scratching his left ear with his hand and a light purring was heard. "So do you have a name?" Malik asked, the boy turned his head and looked at them.
"The tattoo in your ear? What is it for?" Malik asked as he got down onto the floor and sat in front of the boy, who touched his right ear. He let it go and his ears flattened back and he gave Malik a look. "Don't get upset, we just don't know what to call you and you haven't spoken a word yet." The boy got up and left the room, Malik ran after him followed by Yugi. The boy walked into the closet and laid down in the blankets, Malik sighed. "I don't think he understands us." Malik said as he walked to the door the boy had run into, which was Yugi's room. Yugi and Malik slept in the same room. Malik was on the floor on a blow up mattress and Yugi was on his bed.
"I think he wants to sleep in here tonight?" Yugi said, Malik nodded his head as he grabbed his clothes and walked to the bathroom.
"We'll have to get him cleaned up tomorrow." With that, Malik left the closet door open a bit and walked down the hall into the bathroom and soon the water was running.
Yugi sighed as he sat on the bed looking at the closet. "Well at least nothings going to get me from in there now that the neko-boy is sleeping there." Yugi sighed as he picked up a comic book the front cover said. 'Monsters from outer space' and there was a monster on the front cover, with horns, teeth, claws, and green slimy skin. Yugi shuddered and threw the book away. "I have to stop reading them." He laid down on his bed and soon fell asleep.
Malik came out not to long after and moved Yugi into his bed, and covered him up. Malik climbed into his bed and looked at the closet, he bit his lip, as eyes glowed in the crack of the door staring at him. Malik had a long lost childhood fear of closet monsters that would stare at you while you slept and move around your room, watching your every move and hearing your every breath, debating weather or not to take you back to their world. He shivered as his hair stood up on end and goosebumps on his arms. But a yawn met his ears and the glowing eyes closed. Malik let out a sigh but not taking his eyes off the door, but found his eyes closing on their own.
The next morning 482's ears twitched and he stretched and opened his soft brown eyes to see a teen looking down at him. "Good morning." The teen said. "Would you like breakfast?" 482 yawned again showing off his little fangs and slowly looked around, where was he? The day before was so hazy this wasn't the lab, or the yellow tub that he stayed in for a few days, had he been found? That would explain the pain that was in his side. Gozaburo would be so mad right now, that he would be yelling at him, what was that word again. 'I'd putdown that god damn thing down if it didn't cost so much!' No Gozaburo wasn't here. He couldn't smell the older man or the clean smell in the hallway near his cell or other animals, had he really gotten away? Was he free at last? How long had he been here? "Well if you want to stay here that's fine to." Yugi said as he moved away. 482 climbed out and stood up looking around the room stuff all over the place.
"Do you have a name? Mine is Yugi." He smiled as 482 picked up a piece of paper and a yellow and black crayon and started to draw, after a few minutes he held it out to Yugi, who took it and looked at it and gasped. "Biohazard?" He almost yelled. "Is that what you are a biohazard?" 482 looked at him.
"bi.. oha…zard." 482 whispered.
Malik lifted his head still half asleep. "Oh my, I'm going to die, by a chemical hazardous thing." Yugi was on the other side of the room.
"What are you doing Yugi?" Malik asked as he looked at the boy drawing another picture and tossed it into the air and it floated over to Yugi, who plucked it out of the air and looked at it. This one was what Yugi thought looked like a monster in a white lab coat not the greatest of drawings but he could make it out. Yugi ran a hand over his face and looked at the other boy, as he passed the papers to Malik who looked them over. The boy had moved on to a game board that was nearby and looking it over picking up a piece of the game and putting it into his mouth and biting the token. "Don't do that!" Yugi ran over to him and pulled out the piece from his mouth. 482 growled. "Let. It. Go!" Yugi growled back. 482 wasn't going to give it back, he liked how it tasted in his mouth and made his teeth feel better.
Malik chuckled a little as he got up. "Here!" Yugi got up and ran out of the room and downstairs and into the shop and looked around, he spotted a green alien on a shelf, it was a hard plastic the old lady down the street always brought one for her puppy to chew on. Yugi ran back upstairs and handed it to the boy. "You can have this instead." 482 took the toy and put that into his mouth as well. "Your supposed to give me the other one back." Yugi huffed frustrated. Malik was just clearly amused by the whole thing, the boy was surely going to liven things up around here.
482 sighed almost exasperatedly as he took the token out of his mouth and gave it back to Yugi, with teeth holes in it. "Come on I'll get our breakfast started, try not to eat anything else." He said flatly looking at the wet and chewed token as he got up and walked out of the room, Malik smirked.
"Come on… food." Malik patted the boy on the head on his way out, the boy purred and wanted more so he followed him.
Yugi started to pull out the food he needed and got to work. "You know a name would be good if you told me what it is." Yugi looked up, as Malik moved behind him and making himself a coffee.
"Bi… ohaza… rd." the boy said, Yugi stopped and leant forward.
"No, I'm Yugi you are?"
"Bio… haz… ard."
"No I'm Yugi and you're supposed to say what people call you… so that would be?" Yugi waited, as the boy seemed to be thinking, but that's all that was stuck in his mind and he could say. Malik smirked as he sat down taking a sip from his cup.
"Boihaza… rd." Yugi sighed as Malik chuckled.
"Yugi, I'm Yugi." He pointed to himself then at the boy, "You are?"
"Biohazard?" The teen smirked he had gotten the full word out. "Biohazard." How long had it been since he talked? No he had never talked before, the injections that he was given stopped him from talking. So this meant that the drug was wearing off? His voice held an English accent to it but it was soft and easy on the ears.
"No." Yugi sighed again and moved around and now he stood in front of him. "Yugi, say it, Yu..gi."
"Y… u…g…i Biohazard?" Yugi growled and shook his head.
"Put the words together Yugi." He pointed to himself again.
"Yu… gi" the boy frowned.
"That's it… I'm Yugi and your are?…" Yugi pointed to the boy, Malik looked up thinking that the boy just may give a name.
"Yugi." 482 said with a smile as he pointed to himself he was so proud of himself, as Yugi fell down twitching. "Yugi?" the boy looked down at him.
"Yeah, Yeah at least it's not biohazard." Malik said, as Yugi got up and walked around the other side of the counter and got back to making the breakfast. It wasn't to long when they sat down at the table. "These are pancakes." Malik said.
"Yugi." The boy pulled a few pancakes onto his plate then started to shove them into his mouth with both hands.
"No." Malik said as he pulled them out and put them on his plate.
"No!" The boy said. "No Yugi." He frowned at the plate and his ears twitched.
"Like this." Malik put the knife and fork into the boy's hands and helped him to eat. As the boy soon got the hang of it, Malik went back to his own food. Yugi wondered when the boy would give them his name, but they would have all day to work on that, as today was their day off from the game shop.
"Yugi." The boy called out, Yugi looked up and saw the teen was no longer in the room and was in the living room at the t.v again. "Yugi." The boy said looking at the blank screen.
Malik walked into the room, to see Yugi pick up the remote and turn on the t.v "What is it with you and watching t.v?" He mumbled and put on some cartoons. 482's ears flattened back against his head and frowned.
"Yugi." He said sternly. "No!"
Yugi frowned and said. "What? I don't know what you want to watch."
"No Yugi, biohazard." 482 growled at the t.v grabbing it at the sides looking right into it.
"Here, you tell me when to stop." Yugi said as he started to flip through the channels, but he called out in surprise as the t.v had a mind of it's own and flipped through much faster then Yugi was pushing the button on the remote. It stopped as the news came on and the boy sat back down right near the screen. Yugi and Malik sat down on the couch and watched the news. Yugi frowned as the t.v channel changed once again to another newscast. Yugi thought the remote was broken and needed new batteries, he got up and walked over and knelt down looking at the other. "What are you?…" He didn't get to finish as the doorbell rang 482's ears pricked forward in curiosity and he looked at Yugi.
"No?" 482 said tilting his head to the side.
"I'll be right back." Yugi sighed as he jumped up and ran for the door, he pulled it open to see the deliveryman standing there. "Turtle Game Shop… Mr Motou?" Yugi stepped out a bit.
"That's here, and me." Yugi said as the man handed him a clipboard and watched as he signed for the delivery.
"I'll bring them around the front." He said.
"No I'll open the shop take them there." Yugi closed the door and ran back in. "Malik delivery." Malik jumped up and ran after him. 482 frowned and followed them, he found Malik walking to a door but it was closing the boy called out, and Malik opened it again and stuck his head out and looked at him.
"Come on." Malik opened the door, the boy ran forward and into the shop.
"Just sit here and stay out of trouble." Malik moved and sat him down on the chair behind the counter. The boy watched Yugi and Malik move the boxes into the room. After they were all in, Yugi sat down on the floor and Malik made sure that the sign was on closed.
Malik glanced over at the boy and saw that he was topless, a bandage around his torso and blood on his skin and pants and dirt on most of his skin and hair. "We should get him cleaned up." Malik said, Yugi looked up at him and nodded in agreement.
Malik walked to the door with Yugi and the boy in toe and headed for the upstairs rooms, he walked into the guest room and pulled out all the blankets from the closet, and off the bed that were stained with blood and dumped them in the basket. He picked it up and walked into Yugi's room and set to work on cleaning what was needed in there.
The three walked down to the back room that was right next to the back door that lead out into a small garden, and loaded up the blankets into the washing machine, then went back upstairs.
Malik grabbed a few things from his bag, and walked out of the bedroom and down the hallway a little, and then into the bathroom, he put the stuff on the basin and started to run a bath. 482 watched his ears flat against his head as he watched the water fill the tub. "Now, you get in and I'll..." But when he turned around the other was gone. "Great." Malik said as he turned off the water and walked out of the bathroom.
"Where did he go?" Malik asked Yugi.
"I didn't see." Yugi said as he walked into his room and Malik into the guest room.
"Where did you go?" Yugi called out as he walked into his bedroom and found the closet door closed he pulled it open and saw the boy in the corner. "Malik I found him!" Malik came into the room and saw the other in the closet.
"Come on you need a bath, you have dried blood all over you and your starting to smell." Malik said as he knelt down.
"No." 482 growled he hated water and wasn't going anywhere near it.
"Alright." Malik sighed.
"But it's only water." Yugi said, but the boy growled at him.
"I don't think he likes water, given that he is half neko, and I know for a fact that they don't like water either." Malik looked at the boy. He just needed to think on how to get the boy to have a bath. The neko boy couldn't talk but for the few little words and understood nothing at all, so it seemed, where had he been living in a hole? Malik sighed again, what was he going to do? He couldn't leave the boy how he was, it wouldn't be healthy for the boy to have all that blood on him for so long.
"I know." Malik looked at Yugi.
"What?" Yugi asked.
"Okay, get me a bowl of warm water, a cloth, towel and bandages." Yugi ran out of the room but soon came back with the items and sat them down next to Malik, as he coaxed out the boy into the middle of the room. Yugi sat down on the bed just off to the side of Malik and the other.
"No name?" Malik asked more to himself as he put the cloth into the water. 482 watched Malik's hands, as it reached out and touched his face, but found that he didn't mind the wet cloth at least it was warm and wasn't a hose of gushing cold water and hard brushes to scratch his skin.
"No, all we can go on is the tattoo in his ear, 482." Yugi said but the boy growled and his ears fell back as he heard the numbers being spoken.
"I don't think he likes you saying that." Malik wiped the cloth over the boy's face gently, as 482 purred lightly, and lent into the touch, never had anyone touched him so gently before. He moved closer to Malik and grabbed his hand and made him rub his cheek more. Malik laughed, and started to move his other hand up and scratched his ear, the boy fell forward onto Malik's lap purring. "You like that?" The boy made a faint whining sound as Malik pulled his hand away and moved to clean his chest.
"Malik, what are we going to do about a him?" Yugi asked too seriously for the mood the other two were in.
"What do you mean?" Malik stopped and looked over at him. 482 sat up and shook his head of all the fuzzy lightheaded feelings and fogged mind the scratching caused him to be in.
"Well grandpa should be coming home soon and." He didn't get to finish as Malik cut in.
"He can stay with me." Malik said as he went on with cleaning the boy.
"But Malik, you barely make enough money to support yourself let alone another to take care of."
"It'll be fine Yugi." Malik growled at him. "I work here and at a bar, I make enough." 482 frowned and gave Yugi a look, that he would upset Malik and didn't like his tone of voice at all.
"Fine but he needs a name, we can't call him by his numbers or hey you." Yugi said a little out of sorts, seeing the look 482 gave him and pulled a face right back, 482 turned away closing his eyes and purring as Malik rubbed his shoulder.
"Well, I'm not sure I'm not that good with names." Malik looked thoughtful, as did Yugi. 482 sat up after Malik let him go, he grabbed the small green alien that Yugi gave him and started to chew on it. Malik's eyes widened at seeing the logo on the foot. He leaned over and glanced at it. "Ryoshin Toy Company?" Malik narrowed his eyes in thought.
"Yeah, there one of the toy people that deliver to us." Yugi said, "I don't see how that will help with a name for him." Yugi said.
"Shh…I'm thinking." Malik said deep in thought. "If I drop the shin… and have Ryo, but it's to hard on the ears." Malik mumbled to himself.
"Put a U on the end of it and it'll be?" Yugi said as Malik broke out into a grin.
"Ryou." He tested it out for himself. "I like it." He turned to the boy, "Ryou will be your name, do you like it?" He asked, the boy titled his head to the side in thought. "Your name. Ryou, no numbers, your very own name." Malik said the boy smiled, no one ever gave him something all to himself before, even if it was just a few letters put together, and lunged forward and hugged Malik. "He likes it!" Malik called out laughing as they both fell to the floor together. And Yugi rolled his eyes but smirked.
TBC
Was anyone disappointed that it was Ryou and not Bakura? I had such a hard time with making up my mind, about who it was going to be, and who was going to be with who. I wasn't even planning on giving 482 a name yet, well not for a few more chaps, (pulls hair) but it seemed to fit in this chap, anyway your thoughts are needed my lovelies.
R&R