"So, Yami told you to kidnap him?" Bakura asked, surprised why anyone would do such a callous crime against an innocent boy, who had done absolutely nothing wrong. Especially Yami. He was put in a shock of disbelief as to why Yami would go to extreme measures; and what for?

"Yes, honestly he really did. Why do you ask that?" Crimson asked, his tone of voice becoming more and more bewildered.

"Because... he used to be Yugi's friend. He resided in the puzzle; however when he got his own body, he took everything from Yugi. His friends, his innocence... He even made Yugi feel awful about himself, he's completely crushed!" Ryou whined, not wanting to look up at the face of a criminal, even though he decided to change his ways. "Also, he got beat up - badly - by bullies which made him pass out. Once he even thought that I was Yami! He even thought Joey and Tristan were there to completely destroy him." He added. "We had to tell him who we were and it took a lot of persuasion."

Jole and Crimson stared at Ryou in disbelief as they were taking in all the information, processing it through their minds bit by bit, wondering who would be so cruel and disgusting to do that. Jole was the first to finish comprehending all the information, so he spoke out saying, "Whoa, that's awful. He must be so overwhelmed right now. No wonder he's always frightened."

"That's correct. He really is annihilated, mentally."

"Well." Crimson said jumping straight onto his feet. "I will do anything to help him."

"I will too." His partner said.

"Okay. Thanks."

A while later Yugi started stirr back into reality when panic got the best of him. He wasn't sure where he was or what had happened, he didn't even have to time or strength to register where he was. Instead he just held his in between his legs and started to hyperventilate, whilst saying, "W-What?!"

"It's okay, kid. You're safe." A gentle voice spoke, trying to sooth him from his terrified state.

Completely overwhelmed, Yugi had fallen back asleep, ignoring the angelic-like voice which came from someone who he didn't bother try to recognise.

A couple of hours later he managed to wake up again. This time he saw figures sitting all around him, staring directly in his path as his vision managed to return from its hazy state.

"I-Is he okay? He's been asleep for a long time!" Came a peculiar and familiar voice.

"I'm sure he's fine, Jole."

"W-Whats g-going on?" Yugi asked, wearily; feeling dizzy and confused from all of the people sitting around his lifeless form as he slowly started to raise his head upwards. "Y-Yami? J-Joey? Tristan?!" He continued, unable to breathe regularly now. The pupils of his eyes shrinking in fear of his enemies, the thought of them and what they did to him sent shivers down his spine, forcing uncontrollable tears to slip down from his large, amethyst eyes, all the way down his delicate face.

"No, Yugi. It's me and Jole. You knew me as red-eyes, but please; call me Crimson."

"J-Jole... Where-"

"Right here, Yugi." Jole reassured.

"We're here too Yugi, it's me Bakura with Ryou, remember?"

"Y-Yeah, I-I remember.

"Okay, Yugi, do you feel better?" An unknown, yet slightly familiar voice asked.

"S-Seto?"

"Nope, guess again."

"Well I am here."

"O-Oh, J-Joey?"

"Um... No."

Yugi took a deep breath before giving his final answer, "T-Tea?" he asked, sounding even more confused than before.

"Yeah." She said, "It's me."

Yugi let out a gasp as he tried to move backwards, only to be stopped by the back of the sofa he was laid on. "W-What are you doing here?!" He questioned, fearfully. He was frightened of what horrible thing Tea might do to him.

"...I came to see you."

"D-D-Don't hurt me!"

"Don't worry, I promise I won't hurt you. Although you should get some more sleep, you seem really tired.

"I guess you're right."

Yugi closed his eyes gently and slowly before falling asleep in a relaxing manner, drifting away from reality and falling into the never-ending pit of harmony and peace. Falling away from all of his problems...

"Aw, he's so cute when he's sleeping!" Tea squeaked.

"I know, right?" Jole chuckled.

"We should let him rest for a while, he's really tired." Crimson mentioned.

"Don't you think it's a shame Tristan and Joey haven't come around though?"

"I know, Ryou. It's awful."

"Don't you guys think it's kind of weird that the kidnappers just returned Yugi? I mean why would Yami hire them, but why return him?" Seto quizzed.

"We are right here, you know. Also, we kidnapped him because that punk, Yami said that he was a bully and was also a murderer. He also said another bunch of ruthless rumours about him and convinced us to brutally beat him and kidnap him. He also said that we would get a lot of money if we held him ransom. However Crimson was all in with the idea, and I wasn't. He had no idea what he looked like and who he truly was, whereas I did. I was reluctant and he was persuasive."

"Oh, so you just realised how defenseless he was?"

"Yeah."

"Guys, let's go." Bakura said. "He needs to sleep."

"Alright." They all said as they departed and left Yugi to sleep, peacefully.

Throughout the night, Yugi constantly started to twist and turn which was then followed by whimpering and thrashing. The noise was pretty loud, considering that Bakura and Ryou (who are heavy sleepers) managed to hear. The quickly raced down to see what that noise was just in case Yugi was in serious trouble, but when they got down there, they saw Yugi having an awful nightmare.

Everyone else had woken up due to the noise and they decided to move in closer towards Yugi in an attempt to wake him up, however he attacked them subconsciously, during his sleep; Ryou gave up, because it was no use. So Seto ran over and shook him wildly, flailing him, trying to awaken the frightened form.

Yugi's eyes shot open like a bullet wound impacting on someone's skin. He lay panting from exhaustion and terror as his horrible nightmare haunted his mind, poisoning it with its cruel imagery.

"Yugi! What happened?" Tea squealed in panic and dread.

"I-I'm f-fine." He muttered, silently as he started to recover.

"What's wrong?" Seto asked, monotonically.

Yugi didn't answer, instead he started to cry as the images mentally beat him up.

Ryou and Bakura noticed and walked over to give him a gentle hug and calm him down. The rest followed Bakura and Ryou's lead and everyone joined in, stopping the tears from forming and falling in Yugi's eyes.

"I-I..." Yugi whispered in anxiety. "I had a nightmare, w-where... everyone turned their backs on me... A-And I-I got beat up all the time, again, a-a-and... a-and..." Yugi sobbed, unable to continue.

"It's alright, Yugi, we won't. We promise."

Silence had fallen upon the teens as Yugi's eyes drifted away, falling once more and so did his soul to be cast away from reality...