Hey guys...again! :D This chapter (I think) is super-special-awesome! I dedicate this chapter to my bestest writing buddy MaterMind! 3 lol I also dedicate it to camitake, who was my very first reviewer, my IRL friend who gives me ideas, and finally to my sister who always reads my stuff no matter how bad it is! :P Enjoy the show lovelies!
Jounouchi ran to Kaiba's house with Yugi draped in his arms like a rag doll. He got to his house and knocked on the gates and there was an angry answer from a child-like voice on the intercom. "Who is this?"
"Mokuba, it's me, Jou! Let me in, Yug's hurt bad!" Jou pleaded with Mokuba.
"Yugi's hurt? Quick, get inside!" Mokuba opened the gates and Jou ran inside with Yugi. Mokuba opened the door and directed Jou to the living room, where he laid Yugi down on the couch. "Jou, what happened? Why's he hurt so bad?"
"No time, where's Kaiba?" Jou asked frantically.
"He's in his room, working."
Jou nodded his head and ran through the many halls of the mansion to find Kaiba's room. When he reached his room, he burst through the door, startling Kaiba and making his head snap up from his computer. "LISTEN UP MONEYBAGS! As much as I hate to admit it, I need your help! Yug's in trouble and he needs to be taken to the hospital! You were the closest thing I could find to a mode of transportation! So COME ON!"
Kaiba was shocked into silence and slowly nodded his head, got up from his chair, and brushed past Jou into the living room where Mokuba was trying to stop Yugi's bleeding. Kaiba quickly looked over the situation then whipped out his cell phone to call a limo. It wasn't long before Yugi, Mokuba, Kaiba, and Jounouchi were all in Kaiba's personal limo on their way to Domino Hospital.
When they arrived, it was like most hospital visits that you would expect, but it took a LOT longer. The doctors rushed Yugi off to a room immediately, and a nurse tried to pull Jounouchi away too, but he wouldn't go and created a huge scene. Finally, Mokuba convinced Jou to go with the nurse, and he agreed but only if Mokuba came along with him. And that left Kaiba to do all the paperwork.
It wasn't something he wasn't used to doing, being the CEO of his company, he had to fill out paperwork every day. I should get a secretary to do that for me, Kaiba thought absentmindedly shuffling through the papers. A few hours later, a nurse came to get Kaiba and led him to the room where Jou and Mokuba were waiting.
"So? Have they said anything yet?" Kaiba asked the two of them.
"Not really. The nurse said that Joey was just fine-" Mokuba started.
"-Like I said I was the whole time! But nobody would listen to me! Nope!" Jou finished for Mokuba fuming and crossing him arms.
"Calm down Jou. Nii-sama*, have you heard anything about Yugi's condition?" Mokuba asked.
"Not really, that's why I asked you." He sat down on the bench and calmly waited for the door to open to let them enter. A few minutes passed in silence but then Jounouchi spoke.
"Hey, I wonder if Yami or Atem know anything yet…"
"Jounouchi!" Mokuba did a facepalm.
"Are you kidding me Wheeler?" Kaiba shouted. "Those two are like brothers to Yugi! How could you just now think to tell them that this happened?"
"I'm sorry, I panicked okay?"
"You have got to be kidding me! What about his grandpa, huh? Has anyone told him? Yugi is in the hospital, his family should have been the first ones to know about it!" Kaiba and Jou glared at each other.
"Nii-sama, let's just call them now. Better late than never, right?" Mokuba desperately tried to get the two away from each other. They couldn't fight here, not in a hospital.
Kaiba took a breath to steady himself. "Fine, I'll call them."
Kaiba first tried Yami's cell, but he had to leave a voicemail. He tried Grandpa's house phone and then the store's number, but still no luck. He finally called Atem, but he knew it was a long shot. Atem barely knew how to work a microwave, let alone a phone. The goddess of luck must have been smiling upon him because on the fourth ring, Kaiba heard Atem's uncertain "Hello?"
"Atem! Finally, I've been trying to get to you but no one was picking up the phone!"
"…Who is this?"
"It's me, Kaiba. Look, I know you're new the whole cell phone thing, but you have to listen carefully. Yugi is in the hospital and it would be smart if you brought Grandpa and Yami here with you. I'm sorry we didn't call you earlier. Bye." And Kaiba hung up.
Atem heard the click of the phone on his end and brought the phone away from his ear. What? Yugi…is in the hospital? Why? Kaiba didn't give many details, but he knew him well enough that Kaiba wasn't one to beat around the bush. Then Atem sat up from the chair he was sitting in, grabbed a jacket, and ran out the door in search for Yami.
Yami should be at soccer practice, which is at the school's field. Grandpa won't know but that can't be helped. He's out of town, and what he doesn't know won't hurt him. Atem raced down the sidewalks bumping into many the pedestrian along the way. When he finally got to the field, he leaned against the fence to catch his breath. He looked up and saw Yami laughing with a bunch of his teammates.
"YAMI!" Atem called.
Yami turned around and saw that Atem was beckoning him over to the fence. He half jogged, half walked to the fence with the soccer ball still under his arm and hair all over the place. "Hey 'Tem, what's up?"
"We need to get to the hospital, now." Atem grabbed Yami's wrist and started to pull him away from the field. "Woah, woah. Hold on. Why do we have to go to the hospital?"
"Because, Yugi's there! He's in the hospital!" Yami dropped the ball. "What? How?"
"I don't know but we have to go now! Kaiba's the one who told me, and he didn't provide too many details!" They started running again, this time towards the tall white building that held their precious Hikari's life in it's cold hands.