Okay, first of all, sorry this took longer then I thought to get up, but my laptop malfunctioned, so I had to retype the entire thing. Second of all, when you get to the ending, I know it's lame, but my computer was about to crash and burn. I didn't want to end it there, but I had to, so I had to stop and save where I was. And third, you might recognize some of this from the final episode of Full House. Not all, but Some. Okay, that's it. Enjoy!

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Atem paced around the waiting room so much that he began to wear a hole in it. While Seto Kaiba was reading the only reading material available at the time, Highlights Magazine, Mokuba watched Atem pace around in circles and frankly, he was beginning to get a bit dizzy. Solomon was filling out the paperwork for the hospital while Joey, Tristan, Tea, Duke, Ryou, and Marik went to the cafeteria to get something to eat. Ishizu tried to keep herself busy by praying for Yugi to come out of this in one piece. All in all, the only one who was really all worked up about this was Atem. Mokuba was still watching him pace, but did not say anything about stopping him. Kaiba exhaled loudly in an annoyed manner due to Atem's pacing, causing the ancient Pharaoh to stop suddenly and Mokuba to fall to the ground in dizziness.

"For the love of all that is kind and good, will you sit your ass down in a chair and stay still for five minutes!"

"How do you expect me to react when Yugi is on the verge of death in the emergency room!" Kaiba put his magazine down and met Atem at eye-length.

"Look, it was only a head wound. The worst that could happen is he gets a little bruise or something." Atem shook his head.

"You didn't see all the blood that I saw, Kaiba! He could be dying and we wouldn't know it!" The two rivals were in each others faces at this point.

"Alright, that is enough out of both of you!" Both looked over at the old man filling out the paperwork. He seemed a bit older then usual. Perhaps it was the stress of the situation that was doing this to him.

"That is my grandson in there. He has fought through many events in his life to get to where he would be today if he weren't in there." Solomon sat back down in one of the chairs and lowered his head with his hands. Mokuba sat in the seat next to him.

"What do you mean, Mr. Moto?"

"Yugi has been through many hardships that none of you know about. I believe that he will make it through this. I have to believe that. And it won't do him any good with you two bickering like that out here!" Both Atem and Kaiba lowered their heads in shame, suddenly feeling like little kids again.

All of a sudden, the double doors opened. Everyone tensed up, hoping that it was the doctor, but hopes were soon crushed when they saw that it was just the gang coming back from lunch.

"Dang, I've never eaten so much before in m'life!" Joey exclaimed. Duke slapped him harshly on the back.

"I bet you have." Thinking for a second, Joey chuckled innocently.

"Well okay, I have, but I've never eaten anything so clean before. I love hospitals!" For the first time in twenty-four hours, Atem smiled.

"So I take it lunch was good, then?"

"What lunch?" Tea and Tristan exclaimed together. Tristan glared at Joey.

"By the time we were able to get to the snack bar, everything was gone thanks to the bottomless pit here!" All Joey did was shrug and smile.

"So, what did we miss?" Mokuba giggled a bit.

"Nothing much; just Mr. Moto lecturing these two like they were little five-year-olds!" Tea joined in Mokuba's laughter, as did Duke and Ryou. Kaiba blushed and sat back down. Atem however, was still curious on what Solomon meant by the fact that Yugi had fought though many events that even he did not know about.

"Solomon, what else did you mean when you said that Yugi has fought though many events?" Solomon hesitated before answering.

"Perhaps I shouldn't say anything else … I swore to him that I would not say anything to you kids about his childhood." Joey whined.

"Aww, we wanna hear!" After some more persuasion by the others, Solomon finally caved.

"Alright, I'll tell you; but you must never repeat it." The others all agreed. "Well, have any of you wondered why Yugi lives with me in the first place?" The others all looked at each other. Come to think of it, everyone had been wondering why Yugi lived with his grandfather and not his parents. Solomon sighed before he went on. "Well, when Yugi's mother was pregnant with him, his father abandoned her, telling her that he wanted nothing to do with her or the baby. After that, his mother began to drink and smoke when she was pregnant, which was why he was two months premature. His mother always tried to work very hard, but she somehow was always fired from every job she ever had. She left him with me most of the time. I tell you, when she would come to pick him up, Yugi would beg me to let him stay with me. Don't get me wrong, he loved his mother very much … she just did not love him." At this point, everyone was awestruck.

"She neglected him, abused him, even tried to kill him from time to time. Some times she would starve him for a few days before he found his way to me. One day, she did manage to murder someone right in front of his eyes … and tried to do the same to him. Luckily I got there in time and took him away. To this day she is in prison on death row … and Yugi still tries to start a relationship with her. The first time he went to see her in prison alone, she tried to choke him to death." Atem gasped. "Her sentence was life, but we all know that the max is twenty-five years. At least by then Yugi will be old enough to be on his own." When Solomon finished his story, he saw that everyone had the look of horror in their eyes. Who would have thought that sweet Little Yugi had had such a terrible life and even seen death … and yet still turned out so sweet and innocent.

"Wow … at least our step-dad didn't try to kill us …" Mokuba said to Kaiba, who shrugged in agreement. Joey nodded.

"Here, here. My dad may be a drunk, but he's not a murderer. He never tried to kill me … poor Yug'." Tea was crying by the end of the story.

"Why does Yugi still try to be nice to that … that woman?" Solomon was about to answer when Atem beat him to the punch.

"Because Yugi has a sweet and gentle nature. He doesn't like having enemies and he thinks that no one deserves to be mistreated, no matter how badly they treat him." He was being started at from all eyes. It could be felt that he was speaking from the heart. Like he could tell what Yugi was feeling, even if Yugi could not put into words, Atem could.

Just then, the door opened again. This time, it was a doctor. He was tall, thin, and had fiery red hair. (I'm using Dr. Manteuffel from 'I Need Your Help' just because I can.) "Yugi Moto?" Both Atem and Solomon followed the Doctor since only family members were allowed beyond the waiting room. Solomon said that Atem was his oldest grandson and Yugi's older brother. Atem did not like that, but Solomon assured him that it was for the best for the time being.

"Well now … as you can see from the x-rays, Yugi's skull damage was pretty severe. He lost a lot of blood. He had a lot of internal bleeding in his brain and his body's rush to heal itself caused a lot of clots in his brain. Now, we were able to remove the clots, but the damage done by the collision itself was already done." Atem was squeezing Solomon's hand, almost cutting off his circulation.

"But he's fine, right?" Manteuffel nodded slowly.

"Yes … and no. He's fine, but there was some damage done to his brain. His senses might be a bit altered and he might not be able to function as well as he used to." The squeezing kept increasing by the minute.

"Atem, calm down …" Solomon whispered.

"Will he be okay?"

"With time and recovery, everything should go back to normal." Atem nearly jumped out of his seat.

"'Should'? I don't like 'Should'!"

"Please calm down, Sir. Yugi will be fine." Atem put his hand up. He wanted to see Yugi NOW.

"I have heard enough. Tell me where Yugi rests so that I may observe him myself." He had slipped into his old formal speech, which he did every time he was either pissed, or worried about Yugi. Manteuffel sighed and gave Atem directions to the Recovery ward.

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Atem was not amused. Not only was that doctor a complete idiot, but his precious Yugi had been moved to the other side of the hospital where he had to walk through the Psychiatric ward, the Maternity ward, and the ICU to get to the Recovery ward. Ah, here it was: Room 202. Atem sighed as he grabbed the doorknob and gently turned it. Inside, Little Yugi lay asleep in the large hospital bed. His head was wrapped in gauze and he had wire hooked up to him everywhere. The boy looked like an angel just laying there in the bed, all comfortable with not pain or fear. Absentmindedly, Atem closed the door with a loud slam, waking the boy from his sleep. Said boy groaned and tossed a bit in the bed before he spotted Atem through his half-lidded eyes.

"Are you alright?" The resurrected pharaoh asked.

"I think so … my head hurts …" Atem moved closer to sit on the bed.

"I'm so sorry … you were hit on the head," His hand moved to take Yugi's hand," and if you---" But Yugi took his hand away from Atem, gaining a confused look from the ancient drama queen.

"… Who are you?" Atem's eyes widened at the question.

"Y-you don't remember me?" Yugi shook his head. "Do you even remember your own name?" After thinking for a few seconds, he shook his head once again.

"Do you know my name?" Atem was speechless to say the least. He could only think of one thing to do.

"DOCTOR!"

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A few days later at the Game Shop, the gang was helping put up decorations for Yugi's 'Welcome Home' party. Tea and Ishizu were in the kitchen cooking, Tristan and Duke were blowing up balloons with a helium tank, and doing that stupid thing where they inhale helium and their voices change (I hate that!), and Joey was hanging up a banner that said 'Welcome Home Yugi', obviously specially made.

"Man, why are we throwin' this party for Yug' when he's scared to even look at us?" Joey asked. Tea tasted her soup and rolled her eyes.

"Because we're trying to make him as comfortable as humanly possible, duh!" Tristan sighed.

"Yeah, but how can we? It nearly broke my heart when he looked at us we all that fear in his eyes …"

"I know, but I think Atem took it the worst. He still hasn't eaten or slept since the incident." Marik added.

"Well why don't you all keep your mouths shut and put up those decorations quickly, Atem said they'll be here at three and it's already two-thirty." Kaiba said from the couch with the 'Highlights Magazine'. Apparently, he still had not found the toaster in the tree. Joey stepped off the latter and stood in front of him.

"Hey, why don't ya get off your ass and help us, ya sissy-boy!" Kaiba smirked.

"Can't; back problems."

"You're only seventeen!"

"Why do you think I have a job where I sit on my ass all day long?" Joey groaned and went back to putting up the banner. Solomon came in with a store bought vanilla cake with white icing, Yugi's favorite. It said 'Welcome Home Yugi' on it.

"Do you think this is too much? I don't want to scare him off …" The old man said with concern clear in his voice. Joey put his arm around him.

"No way, Gramps. We want Yugi to know that this is where he belongs." He was about to poke at the cake when Solomon caught him.

"Don't even think about it, you begger!" He set the cake down by the rest of the snacks. The phone rang and Tea picked it up. It did not take long for her to put it down either.

"Wow, I've never seen you put a phone down so fast; you'd think it had Ebola or something." Tristan said. Tea rolled her eyes again.

"Very funny. That was Atem. He said they're in the driveway, so get ready!" A few seconds later, the front door opened.

"It's alright, Yugi … don't be scared." Very slowly, did Yugi follow Atem into the house. When the lights were on, that was when everyone yelled

"SURPRISE!" Yugi made no emotion or movement whatsoever. He probably thought this was how these people said 'hello'.

"Yugi, say hello … do you know who they are?" Yugi looked at everyone in the room. The only person he did recognize was Atem, and that was only because he had seen him first.

"Aren't you the nice people I met at the hospital? Are we all family?" That needed to be corrected immediately.

"No, Yugi. This is Joey, Tristan, and Tea. They got to school with you. Over there is Duke. He goes to school with you too, but only two quarters out of the year. Seto Kaiba here is also in your class. And he owns a company with his younger brother Mokuba. This is Ryou. He was new at your school and you broke the ice with him. And This is Ishizu and Marik. They're from Egypt. They came here to make sure that you were alright." Atem explained, pointing at everyone and reintroducing. "And this is Solomon, your grandfather."

"My grandfather?" Solomon chuckled.

"Yes, but you call me 'Grandpa'."

"Okay … Grandpa …" Solomon hugged Yugi, who tensed at the contact, but still wrapped his arms around this old man who said he was related to him. Still, no matter what he did, Yugi just could not shake off the feeling of being lost. Why did he feel lost? He was home … was he not? The party was nice. Through the whole time, Yugi tried to keep track of who everyone was, but his mind still slipped a few times. Every once in a while his vision would blur and he would slur his words. Around ten was when he asked the most devastating question of all.

"So, you're my grandpa, right?" Solomon nodded.

"Yes."

"Then that must mean that I have parents somewhere. Where are they?" Silence was all that was heard.

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End of Chapter.