Darkness Within
chapter 7: digital pets
I watched as drops of water slid down the window. For some reason we had had a lot of rain recently and today was no different.
"Now class please turn to page 131."
I did as the teacher asked but never leaving my thoughts. I suppose that I should have been paying attention and taking notes like I was suppose to be doing but with recent events I just didn't feel the need. I couldn't focus and I couldn't care less about school at this point.
Yugi has gotten worse and I don't really know what to do at this point. He seemed to have gotten a bit better Saturday. Still it seems that that was just an illusion, that he was trying to cover it up and apparently still is.
Yesterday he had jumped or didn't notice every time I even tried to talk to him. I looked down at the blue pyramid that lied above my chest, wishing it could give me the answers I seek. Yet nothing happened and after all the pyramid was a mystery all on its own. Like I said school is the last thing on my mind.
"Jonouchi!"
I jumped at a sound of a ruler hitting Jonouchi's desk. What now? I looked over to see Jonouchi quickly shove something in his desk.
"Pay attention!" The teacher yelled as she went to continue her lesson.
Once again I slid into thought.
What seemed like just a few minutes the bell rang. Finally class is over.
"Idiot, why didn't you just turn it off?" Anzu asked.
"Cause' I want it to hurry and grow," Jonouchi replied.
" It cant be helped, these things take time." Anzu held up her orange one.
"Yeah, I'm already devoting half my day to him."
Seriously we're on this episode already? What about Shadi and that prophet guy and... Oh just forget it everything's all messed up anyway. I shouldn't even be here...
"Hey Amaya, I got this for you."
I looked over to see Yugi holding up a purple device.
"When did you get this?" I asked taking the the pet from him. He just shrugged and took his own pet out of his pocket.
I smiled at him. "Thanks."
He just nodded and gave a small smile back.
I turned it on and found a little round thing, not many features. It was a girl, She had small feathery wings, and two big eyes.
"Cute," Anzu said peering over to see my pet, at the same time showing me hers. It was a little peach with a bow on its head. Mines way better.
"What a waste of time! To waste-" Honda began.
"Ya ya I bet you just couldn't get one. Its sold out everywhere." Jonouchi stated.
Honda opened his mouth ready to retort but stopped as he saw Miho walk through the door with a pet of her own. She looked tired.
"Morning." She yawned.
So while Honda decided to take care of Miho's pet for her so she could win the Australia contest, I started taking care if my pet.
"Whats her name," Jonouchi asked me.
"Um, I don't know, maybe... Kagome?"
"I like it," Yugi finally spoke. "My pets name is Yu-2."
"My Joe is going to win that contest," Jonouchi said smugly.
"No way! Miho's pet is going to win! I wont rest till I've created the ultimate pet!" Honda almost yelled at Jonouchi.
"Obsessed much?." I muttered rolling my eyes.
The next day Honda wasn't here.
"You guys want to try a data exchange? It should make them grow faster.?"
Yugi nodded. "Ya Yu-2 is kinda timid and even seems a bit depressed."
He's not the only one..."Sure, just as long Kagome isn't effected too much. Your pets not very cute and looks like it has a bit of an attitude." Not that I don't. I told him. Besides that, Joe looked like a strawberry, with droopy eyes and a question mark on its head.
"Alright then... link up!" Jonouchi shouted, him and Yugi putting there digital pet devices together. I watched as Joe kicked Yu-2.
"Told ya," I muttered.
"Hey!"
"Its not my fault!" Jonouchi almost growled.
Next Yugi and I linked up. I watched with anticipation as the little pet walked over to Yu-2. Yu-2 looked really happy and so did Kagome. A few seconds later I felt a pink blush come to my cheeks as I say Yu-2 had kissed Kagome.
"Awww, how cute." Jonouchi teased us. Which made me blush even more and Yugi started to blush.
We un-linked our pets and I punched jonouchi's shoulder.
"Ow! What was that for?"
I just glared at him when I noticed out of the corner of my eye Anzu was glaring at me. Only for a second though, she had turned away as soon as she saw me.
"Well, whatever, Australia is mine! Joe's going to win," Jonouchi shouted.
"Alright then lets see him beat Devilmaster!"
"Kujirada,"Yugi gasped.
Man not this ugly bastard.
"Fine!"
"No Jonou-" I began but it was to late, the devices were linked and Joe was eaten.
"Who's next!?No one can beat Devilmaster! The championship is mine," Kujirada yelled as he snatched Anzu's pet away. We all watched as the little peach disappeared.
"how cruel." Yugi whispered.
"My Sumomo..." Anzu said sadly just as I saw Kujirada try to take Yu-2.
"Oh, hell no." I sneered stepping in front of Yugi. Not noticing that my necklace started to glow.
"So you want Devilmaster to eat yours first? Fine with me!" Kujirada went to take mine away when Honda burst through the door!
"Stop right there! I have raised the ultimate pet!
Wait shouldn't this have taken like three days? And shouldn't we have ran into Kujirada at that shop, you know when hes throwing money around and going after that gold pet?Or was that after all of this? This is too confusing... just forget it.
I watched as Honda and Kujirada linked the devices together. Miho screamed and I just rolled my eyes. About a minute later Super Ichigo had beaten Devilmaster, he had swept him right off the screen.
"Yay!" Miho cheered.
"Super Ichigo does not allow trash to exist, when he finds trash he completely destroys it!" Exclaimed Honda. "He is truly the beautification member of the digital world!"
Amazing how all of this happens and no one notices. Or do they and they just don't care? Guess we'll never know...
"Dammit!" Kujirada was outraged and stormed off without another word.
"Ha that's what you get!" Jonouchi mocked.
"That truly is just like Honda." Anzu remarked.
"Hey, Haiyama?" Yugi asked." Whats wrong?"
I turned to see who Yugi was talking too. A kid with glasses, staring down at his desk. Oh no.
"No...nothing." Replied Haiyama not looking away from the desk.
After school...
"Come on Yug." I began to run.
"where are we going," he asked.
"I thought I saw Kujirada."
Yugi seemed to get it and ran after me.
At the warehouse...
"Yugi! Amaya! What are you guys doing here?!" Honda demanded.
"I was worried about Haiyama... we had followed Kujirada here," he answered. "But this is how it is... Haiyama this is wrong!"
I looked to see Miho hanging on the wall unconscious. Over in the corner Kujirada laying on the floor bloody cuts, bruises and scrapes covered his back.
Yugi was right. This was not only wrong, but sick.
I ran over to see if I could get Miho down while Honda and Yugi took care of Haiyama or rather Yugi getting whipped in the face and Honda falling from exhaustion.
Unfortunately Miho was up way to high, and the bonds looked way too tight, guess I should have thought before I acted.
I ran back just in time to grab the whip, just as it was about to hit Honda again. "Stop." I demanded.
"Hmm maybe you could be my new pet? You can have anything you want." He asked me. He looked deranged.
I was still holding the whip but the sudden proposal (not that I was even thinking about it) caught me off guard and he pulled the whip out of my grasp. Before I could even react, the whip had wrapped itself around my ankle, my feet came out from under me and I fell, hitting my head against the concrete floor.
I tried to get up. Everything was blurry and I was so dizzy, I couldn't get to my feet. I heard laughter and someone yelling both echoing throughout the room.
I was ready to give up to the darkness that edged my vision when someone grabbed my hand and held me close.
A minute or two later I could make out two giant monsters battling (one being Yu-2), and crimson eyes staring at me with worry. I blushed as I realized his arm was wrapped around me, again his face only inches from mine.
"I'm okay." I stammered and I pulled away but as soon as I did I became dizzy again and almost fell. Yami caught me and held me close once more.
Haiyama's monster had fallen a moment later. He kept whipping it, telling it to get up.
"Haiyama, the match is over."
"Not yet!" Haiyama whipped the monster again only to have the monster turn on him.
"Pets are free to choose who they point their fangs at. You forgot that, so you lose." Yami turned to me. "Can you walk?"
"Ya." I managed to stand without help. Good thing too, there is no way I was going to let him carry me or something. "what are we going to do about those two though?" I asked, pointing to Miho and Honda.
We walked up to Miho and got her down and placed her by Honda.
"They'll be fine."
"But we cant just leave them?! And what about Kujirada, he needs medical help. Not to mention Haiyama..."
"Fine." He sighed. "Maybe I should just of let you black out..." he muttered under his breath but I heard every word.
I opened my mouth to say something but couldn't. I mean what if he changed his mind? No, I wasn't going to say anything this time. Instead I merely narrowed my eyes at him, he shrugged.
So about an hour later we had gotten Honda up at least and he brought Miho home. As for Kujirada, we called an ambulance, we would definitely be gone before they got here. And Haiyama...
we began to walk home. By now it was dark, the breeze chilled me to the bone and I shook. The nights seemed to be getting colder and all I had was a measly sweatshirt. Yami seemed to notice and without saying a word, put his jacket around me shoulders.
I blushed, hoping he couldn't see. It may have been dark out but the streetlights were still there to provide enough light.
"Thanks," I told him. Thats getting old... should I say something else? What the heck. "The stars are pretty."
For a while he didn't say anything. I'm such an idiot. Why do I bother?. "The moon's nice too."
I looked to where he was pointing. At first I expected to see a plain ol' moon but what I saw was a Big orange moon. It shined so brightly, I cant believe I didn't notice it!
"Must be the Harvest moon... wait is it September already?! I asked. He shrugged. "Guess you wouldn't know..."
"We're here." He stated.
I looked up to see the big 'game shop' letters. "oh right." Hey maybe I should ask about Yugi before...
Too late. Before I could say anything I found confused amethyst eyes staring at me. "How the heck did we get back home?" Great how was I going to explain this one?
"Uuuhh long story, lets go inside."
I hate to lie to him but there is nothing I can do. So instead I told him that when he had been hit and was sent flying into those blocks Honda and I took care of it. Everyone's safe.
"Oh, alright." He had replied but I could tell he was doubtful. There was nothing more I could say so I managed a good night and went to bed. What a long freaking couple days..were my last thoughts before drifting off into sleep.
Wow such a long chapter even though I cut it short and part of the reason I did was because I didn't want it to be almost exactly the same. Anyway thanks for reading.