Broken Open Chapter 4

Q_Q OMG! I am so sorry my precious reviewers for making you all cry. But really, to understand how Yusei was feeling I kinda had to delve into his head a bit _ I am so sorry!

Thank you all though for reading this and I swear, I will do my best to make this a very good read I just hope you all can put up with the sadness until then!

Thank you all! Love you all so much!

Now….I have a question!

O.O Should I make the villain an OC cause I can't really think of any character I could off Yusei's abuse on…..Or does anyone have a character they hate so much that they want to see them get an ass whooping by Jack for hurting his lovely Yusei?

Please leave your answer in a review, thank you very much everyone! Love you all!

Until then though, ON WITH THE STORY!

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Jack sighed and left the room slowly. He had hoped that the room would make the younger boy happier at least for a split second. As he left the room he had a flash of those eyes….they were so haunted. Just the thought of haunted cobalt made him shudder but what worried him more was that dark glint in the back of his eye. He had hoped to see life, if only a little, return to those eyes but for some reason, all he saw was death. Jack wasn't a stupid man, he knew Yusei wouldn't be better instantly but he had hoped to see some improvement. Improvement that would have been made, should have been made, by the fact that Yusei had people to care about him and tend to him while he was hurt.

Leaning against a wall just outside Yusei's room, he sighs again. "I want to help him but how do I do that without hurting the situation more….I can't stand seeing that strong spirit….the spirit of my one and only rival broken in such a way….I am the one that brought him up, I am the one that made him that strong. If anyone was to crush him….it should have been me….not that I can ever harm what is mine…."

So lost in his thoughts, he didn't even hear the door next to him open until he saw Yusei step out with a towel wrapped around his arm. Straightening instantly, he stared at the once white towel that had a deep red stain in the center. Yusei blinked up at him with a shocked expression. "Jack…." That one name shattered Jack's shock as the blackette constantly on his mind tried to duck back into the room. Jack reached out and accidently grabbed him by the obviously wounded arm.

Seeing the younger boy wince and bite his lip hard, Jack transferred his grip to the other arm and kept him from hiding out in his arm. Seeing more blood seep into the towel, Jack growled and drug Yusei to the couch. The younger boy tried to complain but the glare Jack shot him shut him up in instantly. Jack turned his eyes straight ahead and sighed under his breath, jumbled thoughts running through his mind. "If he needed a way out…a way to relieve the pain…why didn't he come to me…why didn't he let me help him. I was standing right here and I couldn't even help him…but I'll help him now….and I'll show him that he can rely on me just like when we were kids…."

Reaching the couch, the blond pushed Yusei back onto it and pointed at him. "Don't move from this spot." The tone of his voice brooked no argument and although he hated to see the slightly frightened look on the younger's face, he did what had to be done to protect him. Moving away to get the first aid kit from under the kitchen sink, he kneeled before Yusei and held his hand out. Taking a deep breath, he asked, almost as though talking to a child. "Let me see, Yusei?"

Yusei hesitated for a second, fear flashing in the cobalt eye before resigned pain settled in the deep orb. It was as though the blackette was expecting something terrible to happen…not that the blond would ever let that happen. Yusei's eye flicked back and forth as he tried to decide what he wanted to do. Finally seeming to resign himself, he slowly places his arm in Jack's out stretched hand. Jack watches carefully and sadly as he sees the boy close his eyes tight, awaiting whatever Jack may do.

Jack could feel anger well up inside him but he bottles it up. Although internally he wanted to turn whoever it was that made Yusei like this into a splatter stain on the pavement, he was NOT going to scare the child, yes child, any more than had already been done. Slow to grasp the arm in his hand, he unravels the towel gently and looks at the seeping wound. Unable to discern what the cut actually said, he gently wipes up as much blood as possible. The blond was obviously more concerned about stopping the flow of blood as he saw once golden skin turning paler by the second.

Slapping gauze pads over the bleeding he held them on as the blood started to coagulate, sticking the pads to it. "This should slow the bleeding…" Reaching back into the kit, Jack pulled out some brightly colored bandages in blue and started to wrap the injured arm gauze pads and all. Though his eyes stay trained on the task at hand, his mind drifted to thoughts of why Yusei would do such a thing and how could he possibly help the damaged boy. When he finished wrapping the wound, he saw the blood covering Yusei's hand and legs from where it has dripped down.

"You're going to have to take a bath…but you can't put that hand in the water. Can you promise to keep your arm over the edge of the bath so it doesn't get wet?" Yusei nodded grimly and stared at his arm. Jack backed away so Yusei could move to the room under his own power but when the teen started to head towards his own room, Jack stopped him. "No, you're taking your bath in the main bathroom, more spacious and the tub edge is dipped in one place so you can put your arm on it." Really though, the only reason Jack wanted him to use the main one was because he knew for a fact it had no sharp instruments.

"I'll go and clean your bathroom….Call me if you need me." Yusei nodded over his shoulder and headed for the proper bathroom. As soon as he was out of sight, Jack gave a tired sigh and headed off towards the other bathroom to clean up. Opening the door to the sight of blood spilled on the floor made his heart clench in pain. Everything was overflowing and he didn't know how to stop it. Yusei chose to let it flow through his blood and Jack couldn't accept that, he wouldn't sit idly back while his friend cut himself to pieces.

Looking at the broken mirror and the shard covered in blood and bits of flesh made him sick for all he could do was clean up the mess left by a broken and destroyed human….barely more than a boy. Jack knew though, Jack had known Yusei for what he had been before this…the strong boy with over bearing confidence, a smart head on his shoulders and filled with pride in himself. That was the man Jack knew…the man he wanted to see Yusei even become just a shadow of again. Finishing with the cleanup, he threw out everything that had to do with it, vowing to get a new mirror but only after this was finished. He never wanted to see Yusei in that condition again; it was too horrible…too sad. Inside though…inside Jack blamed himself for all of it. Even if it was over and done with, even though he couldn't go back and change it, all he could feel was that he should have paid better attention to the boy he claimed as a friend.

Clenching his fists and grinding his teeth, he would continue to vow silently that nothing like this would ever happen again, not to Yusei, not to anyone he cared about. Jack didn't think he could handle someone he loved being hurt like that again. Walking out of that place as fast as possible, he returned just in time to see Yusei come out of the bathroom, all cleaned up and sporting a fresh pair of boxers but nothing else.

Jack knew his face must have seemed horrifying as his purple eyes took in every mark on Yusei's once glorious body. The marks, even as they started to heal and change were easily visible when he was revealed so fully…just like the first time he saw them in the pictures. Tearing them away and forcing himself to meet the cobalt eye he saw the empty, hollow pain etched there. It was hard to see…so hard but he had to. Opening his mouth as though to speak, Jack could only sigh again and shake his head before sitting on the couch and closing his eyes. It took a few moments but finally, the couch gave a creak as Yusei joined him. Silence was both good and bad but at least they were there together. Jack didn't know what he had expected, tears maybe, screams, anger and probably some other emotions but the lack of those spoke more than anything else.

"Yusei…." Jack's voice was soft, almost as though he was scared to break the silence that hung between them. "Jack…." The soft return of his name made Jack wince because it was too unnatural. "We'll fix this…." He wished he had opened his eyes because he wasn't expecting the broken sound that left his friend. "I…can't be fixed…." Jack opened his eyes wide and stared at Yusei who only now seemed to be accepting just how bad the situation was. He looked ready to say more but Jack broke in, grabbing Yusei roughly and holding the blackette to his chest. "There is nothing in this world that can't be fixed. Your cracked, damaged and hurt…but you are far from broken Yusei, far from broken…"

Yusei choked and clawed against his chest, weather to escape or climb closer he himself wasn't sure. All he knew was he didn't want to cry and he wanted to believe in those words. So badly did he want to believe in them yet he couldn't. Jack just held him close, not knowing the internal struggle going on within the other. The choking sound of Yusei's dry sobs made jack tighten his grip around him and rock back and forth in hopes of soothing the younger. Truthfully, he didn't know what to do about anything anymore, but all he could do was keep trying. Maybe one day, he would know what to say to make everything right. Not know though, now all he could do was stay strong for the one person that meant the world to him.

"If I can save him, then I will be happy. If I can crush the person that did this, I will be ecstatic but for right now, I will worry about Yusei. Yusei is the only thing important, he has always been the only friend I needed."

With this vow in mind, Jack held the blue eyed boy till he exhausted himself by holding back his tears. Once he was sure Yusei was asleep, Jack carried him to his bed and laid him down to rest. Brushing the hair away from Yusei's face and drawing the covers over him Jack left the room and leaned against the door before sliding down it with a heavy sigh. "I won't lose you Yusei…I can't…" This whispered promise was the last thing he spoke as he drifted off in front of the door.

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Standing on the street below the building, a shadowy figure with a feral grin stared up towards the pent house. "I'm coming for you….you can't escape from my love…Yusei!" The figure slipped into the night while Jack and Yusei dreamed of healing and a future without fear.

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Wah! I am so sorry it took me this long to get it out here! _ But yay! I finally got it up.

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