Just have a few problems with FF at the moment, BUGS! (sighs) anyway enjoy.

Warning: Yaoi, M for the safe side of things.

Do not own Yugioh

Chap 14: The injured in need

Mai had been getting in an early morning shopping before she went to work, what she wasn't expecting was Ryou stumbling out in front of her wet and covered in blood, she rushed forward as he fell to the ground "Ryou!?" she said as she knelt by his side. "Ryou?!" She looked him over most of the blood was coming from his head.

She bit her lip and looked around. "Move on nothing to see here!" She snapped at small crowd, she got a few comments but some of them walked away.

"Shit Ryou!" She gave him a very quick look over receiving a groan from him in protest. She pulled him up. "Come on a little help, cars not to far." And wrapped his arm around her shoulder and held him by the waist. "You can rest in the car." She promised. She stopped, as three black four-wheel drives sped passed her, not liking it one bit she said. "Lets get you out of here." They came to a stop blocking up most of the road. She turned and helped him to her car that wasn't to far, she didn't want to move him until she looked him over more properly, but she couldn't leave him there and risk him being seen, and he still couldn't move.

She laid him down on the back seat and covered him up with a blanket, closing the door she saw men in suites walking in her direction and going into the alleyway that Ryou stumbled out of. "This isn't going to end well." She mumbled as she got in herself.

XXX

"As you see…" A smooth voice stopped as a ringing phone cut into the quiet of an office, everyone stopped and looked at it. "Excuse me." He walked over to his desk and picked up the phone. "Yes!?" He hissed eyes narrowed as he turned his back on the two men that where sitting a few feet away.

"Sir, we found 305." He sighed placing a hand over the mouthpiece and turned to his clients.

"This is very important." He smiled. "Please help yourselves to our refreshments I won't be to long." They nodded getting up and leaving the large office, he watched them and waited until the doors closed. "And what about 482?" He snapped.

"Well he is here in the city that's for sure."

"That's not what I wanted to hear." He growled.

"But Sir 305 is dead 482 killed him." The voice sound shocked.

"I don't care about that… what I do care about is." He picked up his letter opener looking it over, the sunlight catching on the sliver blade. "That you get 482 and bring him to me alive."

"But how do we find him?" The sigh he gave was 'why am I surrounded by idiots' and rubbed his eyes as if tired.

"Do a city wide search, there are bound to be witnesses and if he's injured then look at the hospitals someone has to know 'something' on him or helping him out, find them and when you do you know what to do with them, but bring 482 back to me alive."

"Yes Sir."

"And one more thing." He walked to the window looking down at the streets blow.

"Yes Sir."

"Fuck this up…" He stopped and smirked. "Lets just say that it's in your best interest not to." He hung up, but it rang again and he picked it up.

"Sir just letting you know, that 482 is in Domino city." Came a harsh voice.

"Why are you telling me something I already know, Gozaburo?" He sat down in his big black chair and turned it to the large windows of his office.

"But I'm also in town myself seeing to the search of finding him, when we find him he won't be escaping ever again."

"Oh I know that Gozaburo, 482 will be under my care." His eyes narrowed.

"But Sir he's…" Gozaburo was cut off.

"You let a multi million dollar experiment slip through your fingers and you expect me to hand him right back over."

"Sir, he ran on me…" Again Gozaburo was cut off.

"Listen to me you swine the only reason you have been working for me as long as you have IS because of 482, now I don't want to hear from you again until I see you at my door with my project." He hung up before Gozaburo could say anything else.

He got up out of the chair and a smirk spread across his face, 482 was in the same city as him and he would soon have the little project in his hands, or more importantly his weapon, 'the day seems promising if they can pull their act together,' he thought as he went to join up with his clients for a coffee.

XXX

Mai frowned as she drove down the streets heading to her clinic and noticed an increasing number of black four-wheel drives; she soon pulled up to a stop in no time at the clinic. She jumped out and stopped at seeing the car park full. "Great." She bit her lip and ran inside through the back door, down the hall and to the front office.

"Hello everyone." She called out getting everyone's attention. "I'll have to ask everyone to leave now." Staff and clients started to mumble between themselves. "Someone dropped off a cat that has a deadly virus that's contagious and deadly to all pets." The ones sitting and waiting with dogs grabbed them and pulled them close, cat owners picked up the carry boxes and hugged them. "Just so I don't have Health Services investigating me, I'll have to ask everyone to leave now." Everyone in the room basically ran out of the clinic, the four staff members just looked at her as if she had gone crazy.

"Guys you get the day off." She waved at them and pushed towards the door.

"But Mai."

"It's alright just come back tomorrow." She closed and locked the door then ran out the back to her car.

Mai grabbed Ryou out of the back blanket and all, and walked around to the back door, she pulled him to one of the empty rooms. Mai ran about locking doors that led to the outside world and made sure that no one was there. She grabbed a jacket and gloves, and started to grab stuff out of the cabinets, Ryou lay on a table not to far from her. She turned the overhead light on and pulled it down on Ryou's forehead, she filled a needle and pressed it into his arm, Ryou frowned but that was it, she pulled it out. "Something to help." She said.

"What on earth did you do to get yourself like this?" She started on his head, cleaning it up and the back as well, then looked over the rest of his body finding bruises and cuts, his wrist got her attention, she picked it up feeling the bone grind, she winched.

"That had to hurt. You're going to need a cast on that." A good three hours later she had put the cast on his left wrist, she had x-rays done but not the photos, it was hard doing all this on her own.

Nothing else seemed to be wrong with him, but for the concussion that he was sure to have. Mai moved him again into her office on a small portable bed covered him up with blankets, a drip hanging from the wall, to help with pain and swelling inside his head it had taken the whole day just to get Ryou to this point of just sleeping and random checks on him, as she saw to the pets as well to make sure they where going to be okay until tomorrow.

The front bell rang, Mai was on her feet and dashed to the front office and ducked down behind the desk and watched them, she could faintly hear them. "The business is closed." The taller of the two said.

"It's open all week from seven am to six pm, they should be open." The short one said, and right then Mai cursed advertising.

"What do we do?" The taller asked.

"The Florist said she saw the owner of this place with the kid we are looking for." The shorter one pointed to the tinted glass door. "The big boss will have everybody's head if we miss one place and he finds out."

Mai stood up and walked to the door, it was best to get rid of them then get Ryou out of here. She swiftly undid the top few buttons on her shirt before opening the door "Hi." She smiled. "Can I help you?"

"I thought you were closed?" The taller said caught by surprise.

"Oh yeah that, the boss is getting married and is on her honeymoon." She lent on the door holding it open by her back. "You don't look like pet people." She pointed out.

"We're not, we are just going from door to door looking for a missing boy, someone pointed out that the owner was seen with him."

"Really, that's sad I hate when people go missing." She laughed lightly as she walked inside and to the desk and lent on it giving the other guy a better look at her backend, a little distraction.

"Well he's the son of a very important, powerful family." The taller one pulled out a photo and handed it to Mai, who took it and looked it over as if she was interested. "He's been missing for a few weeks now and we heard he had been seen in the area, today."

"Cute kid." She smiled batting her eyes at him, but the picture was of Ryou a not so happy Ryou as she had seen him, but it was him. The top of the photo had been cut off so not to show his ears she presumed, 'a missing son, my ass,' she thought.

"Someone gave a description of you taking the kid to a car earlier today." The taller one said sternly, but his eyes where on her cleavage, 'typical.' She fought the urge to roll her eyes.

Change of subject, if one thing Mai learnt was that men liked to hear things about themselves, body, cars, sports and jobs. "But what is a couple of smart, important men like yourselves doing on such a job as finding a kid." She pulled on the dark green tie and the man smirked at her, as she gave him a smile that wasn't so innocent.

"It's a job." Was his reply.

"A shitty one if you ask me." She laughed lightly as she straightened up a hand over her month. "Sorry."

"It's okay." The other said. "It IS a shitty job." She turned and smiled brightly at him.

"So what were you doing with this kid?" She almost frowned; they were getting a free look and not falling for it as easily as she thought they would.

"First off I would remember a face like that and he's a little young for my liking." She grinned. "I like a guy a little older."

"Please just answer."

"Well I work a lot and don't get out much, no I haven't seen him or know anyone that looks like that." Mai moved her hair flipping it over her shoulder. "The boss works me like a dog."

"Well in that case we wouldn't want you to get into trouble over us keeping you." The shorter one said.

"Bye." They turned and walked to the door, Mai looked at the photo in her hand, she was going to keep it, but then they would come back looking for it when they found out that they didn't have it anymore, and the chance that they might see Ryou, and she now needed to get him out of here.

"Hey, you forgot this." She walked around and walked up to them and placed it into his jacket pocket then brushed off his shoulder with a hand. "I hope you find him."

"Oh we will." He watched her hand as she moved it over his chest and down the centre.

"And my card, call us if you see him, we'll be in town for the next week or until we find him." The other said handing it to her, she gave off a light giggle.

"Oh I will." She winked at him, and they left right after, Mai locked the doors and watched them as they talked with each other, something was off, 'they didn't buy it.' She bit her lip as they slowly walked to their car and got in. she rolled her eyes. "Idiots." She hissed gave one last look and saw them just sitting in the car watching the place.

She had to get Ryou out and soon as she had to leave sooner or later herself and they would suspect something if she didn't. She walked through the doors that lead to the back doing up the buttons that she had undone; she glanced at her watch it was late.

Mai waited for a while and then set out locking up as she made sure everything was good and the sick animals would be find, taking a look to make sure that the car was gone and the men and all the street lights were on, she sighed as they were gone.

Mai soon walked outside and looked around again no one was about, she got into her car and drove it around to the back door as close as she could.

She ran back inside and grabbed a stretcher from one of the rooms on her way and wheeled it into her office, she lowered it level with the bed, she grabbed the sheet that was under Ryou and pulled him across onto the stretcher in one smooth move. "Hang on Ryou, just getting you out of here to somewhere safe." She grabbed onto the drip-bags and placed them on top of Ryou's chest and pushed him out of the room.

She got him outside to her car where she placed him onto the back seat, using the same method as before, she got in on the right side and crawled through grabbed onto the sheet and pulled Ryou in on the left side. she fell out the side she had crawled into. She got up rubbing her ass, then ran around looking about as she did and took the stretcher back inside pushing it just in the door and locked it then walked back out to the car, taking off soon after.

She looked up in the revision mirror and frowned as car headlights turned on behind her, as it seemed a four-wheel drive was following her, the same one that was parked out the front and she had seen around town. She turned a corner and it was still on her, another corner and there it was again, she glanced at Ryou for a second then back on the road. "We need a plan here." She bit her lip, they were after Ryou, that much she knew. But she was dammed if she was going to hand him over. She grabbed her cell pushing a few buttons it was ringing.

"Hi hun." She smiled at the voice and watching the car behind her as well as what was in front of her. "Can you meet me, drive and meet me I mean, at the carwash on South street." She cut him off. "Just do it I need help, bring your sister too and make it quick." She hung up. "All right boy's follow the leader." She grinned. "Hang in there Ryou, won't be long." She floored it, the small red car took off, and sliding around the corner sideways, and speed off, the four-wheel drive was right behind her.

She grinned as she came up to a police station she pulled it to a stop getting looks from the cops, she looked back and saw the car coming right for her, she lent out her window at the two cops sitting in their car. "Excuse me, but I'm being followed by my stalker." Tears welled up in her eyes, and noticed the car that had been following her stopped. "He follows me to and from work, I'm just trying to get home without him knowing where I live." The two officers gave the car an angry look then turned to her.

"Don't worry Miss, we'll take care of him." They started up their car. "You go on we'll have a little talk." He gave a smile.

"Thank you so much I hate to be a bother." She wiped her eyes and sniffled.

"No problem." They took off and she went the other way.

She laughed. "Sure showed them." She told Ryou but got no answer from him. She soon pulled up at the carwash that was closed for the night and Jou and Serenity where waiting, she got out and opened the back door. "Thanks guys, the people that know about Ryou before or had him are after him and have been following me." She instructed Jou on what to do as they removed Ryou from the car using the blankets as a stretcher and carried him over to Jou's car.

"What, happened?" Jou asked.

"I don't know, but they know he's here in town following me so I need your car and need you to drive mine and leave it some where." She threw him the car keys. "Safe." Once Ryou was in the back seat of Jou's car.

"Anything Mai." Jou winked at her.

"Is Ryou going to be okay?" Serenity asked looking over Jou's shoulder.

"Yeah he should be if I can keep him out of their hands."

"So what do I do?" Jou scratched the back of his head looking a little confused.

"Just drive my car around for bit, and park it somewhere safe, get them off my back so I can get Ryou safe." She got into the car, Jou handed her his keys, and she started it up. "Thanks again for this." She looked up and saw the car coming towards them. "That's them." She gasped and hoped she hadn't been seen.

"Go Mai we'll take care of them." The two ran to Mai's car and got in speeding off, Mai waited long enough as Jou and Serenity sped by them the black four-wheel drive turned and pursued them, she took off in the opposite direction.

She headed to the only place that everyone had a hard time getting into, Marik's house. She pulled up to the large gates and had only waited a few seconds as they knew her well and let her through.

Bakura and Marik looked up from their spot on the couch as Mai ran in with a maid behind her. "I need your help." Marik and Bakura got up, but Mai was out the door and at her car with both back doors open.

"Mai what's going on?" Bakura asked.

"I'll tell you when we are inside." Marik ducked in the car then back out again. "Bakura you take that side and I'll get this one." Bakura gave a confused look but did as told.

"Who's this?" Bakura moved the blankets and gasped. "What is Ryou doing here?"

"I tell you once he's inside." Mai grabbed the sheet. "Lifted him in the blankets, careful with his head, I'll crawl through." Bakura nodded and backed out taking Ryou with him as Mai crawled over the back seat and out Bakura's side. "Marik take the bag." Marik shook his head and grabbed the sheets from Mai's hands and moved her out of the way. The three moved into the house. Marik gave orders for everyone to leave the house. "He'll need to be in a room were we won't have to move him again."

"Upstairs." Marik said everyone stopped as thunder rumbled and the rain started. Once the three were on the next level, Marik guided them to a spare room Mai opened the door, Marik and Bakura placed Ryou down onto the bed and Mai fixed up everything and looked Ryou over one last time. Bakura, Marik and Mai left the room.

"An explanation Mai?" Marik demanded.

"Ryou was hurt, I helped and fixed him up, but they know he's here I had two guys come and ask me about him said someone saw me helping him." Mai sighed as she lent on the wall.

"Where you followed?" Marik asked as he rushed downstairs and to the front windows, Mai and Bakura right behind him.

"No, I go Jou and his sister to get them off my back, but they're all over town." Marik nodded his head as he walked by them and down a small hallway into a office, he picked up his phone and stared to talk.

"What are you doing?" Mai asked as Bakura just sat down in a chair without a word. Marik just talked away for about a minute then hung up.

"I'll be back before morning, I'll find out what's going on." Marik walked by Mai.

"What's going on is that those people are after Ryou."

"And to stop them we need to know who's behind it, I have my sources just sit tight for now." Marik walked out of the room, Mai sighed and rubbed her temples.

In the early morning hours the sun was just coming up as Mai walked into the room, Bakura had shown her a room before retreating to his own for the night, Marik had kept his word and was back about two am. "Ryou?" She said as she walked over and rubbed his arm to see if he reacted to her touch, but what she didn't expect was to be scratched on the arm and thrown backwards onto the floor.

Ryou hissed out, "Don't touch me!" His voice was slurred with the drugs in his system but didn't move, he didn't recognize the touches or smells and nothing seemed to work for him giving him nothing but confusion, he knew that he was drugged. Mai got up and went back to the bed.

"Ryou it's okay." This time a few things lifted up off the nightstand and was thrown at her cutting in front of her and the bed, making her stop.

"Get out!" Ryou hissed

"Watch out!" She was grabbed onto and pulled out of the way, but had to duck the alarm clock.

"Get out!" Ryou growled again.

"We're leaving Ryou." Marik pulled Mai out of the door as the nightstand smashed against the door as Marik closed it. "What are you doing?" Marik asked.

"Checking on him see if he's alright he does have a head injury." Mai said getting up, Marik opened the door and poked his head in and a chair flew at him, he ducked back out and closed the door.

"Don't go back in there again until Malik's…" Marik stopped and Mai gave him a look, he looked at her. "Did you call him and tell him we have Ryou?"

"No I forgot with everything that has happened Ryou's been my first priority." Mai bit her lip, in truth Mai was more dedicated to injured people and pets, they always came first for her, no matter what.

"He's going to kill us." Just as Marik said that his doorbell rang, he walked by her. "And that's death at my door now." Marik walked downstairs and opened the front door to a soaking wet Malik. "Jeez Malik you look like shit!" Marik pulled him in out of the rain.

"Ryou's gone." Malik mumbled as Marik grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around him the look on Malik's face was heartbreaking. "Ryou's gone, I looked all night and everywhere for him…I think they found him." Marik gave Mai a look as Malik slumped down on a nearby chair; Malik lent forward and placed his face in his hands as his body gave a shake of a suppressed sob.

"Ryou's here." Mai said Malik's head shot up and he gave her a confused look that he didn't hear right.

"Ryou's here he's upstairs." Marik said Malik frowned.

"He was here the whole time and you didn't call me."

"He was hurt." Mai said. "I helped." Malik cut her off.

"You could have left a message." Malik got up and ran up the stairs, the others followed him.

"In this one." Marik pointed to the door on Malik's left.

"I'm sorry Malik I was only helping." Mai added and Malik gave her a look, and was about to say something, Marik cut in.

"Look you get cleaned up, clothes are in the top draw for both of you, and get some sleep we'll talk later." Marik said as he opened the door, and gently pushed Malik in and closed the door.

"Is he going to be alright in there on his own?" She asked worriedly.

"Ryou falls all over himself for Malik's attention." Marik walked back to his room. "He'll be fine, just leave them alone for now, Malik just needs sleep." Mai gave the door one last look before going to her own door.

"And Mai." Marik stopped her she turned and looked at him.

"Everything will be worked out in the morning."

"I hope your right." With that they both walked into their own rooms and the doors closed.

TBC

Had troubles writing this chap, anyway, not to many chaps left two or three, so R&R.