spiritfire: ...( Suffering from homework sickness) I don't owe Gundam SEED
XXXI. Gifted
"First of all, my real name is Yugi. Second, I don't live in this continent and third, I just used that name to avoid suspicion but more on covering up my tortured past." said the violet-eyed teen as he saw the shocking faces of Squall, Rinoa, Kaiba and Mokuba. Yami smirked seeing their expressions on their faces.
"Um if you don't live in this continent, where do you live?" Rinoa asked.
"Solarian Continent," Yugi replied. "Although, I have to find the other 'guy', I think I've done too much damage already."
"I don't believe it! It's all nonsense!" Kaiba said in disbelief.
"Say what you want, say what you will but I'm telling the truth," Yugi said. "Let's go, Yami."
As they were about to leave, Kaiba decided to ask more about what Yugi just said. The three of them (Squall, Rinoa, Mokuba) said goodbye although they want to hear more but maybe some other time.
"Yugi, I'm not sure that I would believe that you would live beyond the entire Lunarian Continent!" Kaiba stated as they walked along. "I mean its impossible!"
"Really? Then what about the 'brainwaves' you research? You nearly found out that I'm not of this continent." Yugi said with a small smirk came acroos his lips.
"How the hell did you-----?" Kaiba blurted.
"Yami told me." Yugi replied, keeping it plain and simple. Yami felt very amused right now seeing Kaiba's face in shock and disbelief.
"You're really enjoying this, do you?" the prince asked, feeling very smug.
"Whatever are you talking about?" Yugi replied innocently with his amused tone on his voice but Yami knew that Yugi was feeling smug right now despite the fact that he didn't show it.
- - -
"So where are you guys actually going?" Kaiba asked in a bored tone.
"The continent of Kingheartia," Yugi replied and the blue-eyed teen stared in suspicion.
"What for?" Kaiba asked.
"...Didn't I told you already that I don't live in this continent?And my only hope of getting home is there!" Yugi replied in frustration.
"Well you're not going there that easily that's for sure." Kaiba said.
"Why's that?" Yami asked.
"To get through the Kingheartia continent, we have to passed three cities which are far away from each other. One is the city of Monfraire which we can pass by that easily. Two is the city of Ameira which is a rest stop for all the new visitors and last is the city of Hetroplis which requires a gate pass from the 'head' itself. " Kaiba explained. "Based on our destination, we're passing through Monfraire soon."
"I see..." Yugi said as he absorbed the information then suddenly he sensed someone's aura. It looked familiar. "Not him at a time like this!"
They continued to walk on and now they're passing the first city. While going to their destination, the aura that Yugi sensed was getting stronger. He didn't know where it was but they must pressed on. They arrived at the second city: Ameira. Because of their long walk, they have to stop for a while and take a rest. Kaiba decided to check their new inventory they're selling while Yugi and Yami were checking their item stock. Turns out, they haven't use much items ever since they came to the continent of Altech and also they haven't used the item Elixir, the mayor gave back in the Lunarian Continent.
After resting, they depart for the third city: Hetropolis but on their way there, monsters began to appear out of nowhere.
"Great just great more nuisance!" Kaiba growled as he readied his gunblade and so did Yugi with his staff. With their attack they were able to destroy some of them but unfortunately, more monsters came out.
"Man, they're much stronger than the Lunarian Continent monsters!" Yami complained as he blasted some of them with Fire Storm.
"Something's not right here!" Yugi said as he blasted the monsters with his Thunder Spell. While they were fighting, a cackled laugh was heard all over. Suddenly, the monsters stopped and went to Hetropolis!
"What gives?" Yami asked.
"That's what I like to know." Kaiba replied when a spiky- yellow haired man appeared.
"Marik! What the damn fuck are you doing here?" Yugi asked with poison on his voice.
"Such foul language you had," Marik said , wagging his finger. "Let's see, you're Yami and Kaiba.". The two of them stared in disbelief. How did that stranger knew about them. As Marik scans the three of them, he noticed that the mage that was with them was not here.
"What happened to your purple mage of yours?' Marik asked with a sneer but Yugi had it.
"Get out before I tear you from limb to limb!" Yugi said, threatening him while Yami and Kaiba stared as his anger rose.
"Is that a threat?" Marik smirked nastily. "You do know those monsters are heading to Hetropolis so I suggest you go there and eradicare them. That is if you can , HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Yugi was about to pound him but he vanished without a trace. He took out his anger by incinerating the ground. Yami and Kaiba flinched a bit as they saw this.
"Damn it, he'll destroy Hetropolis!" Kaiba growled as he began to run. The two teens followed and while running, Yami decided to ask some questions.
"Yugi, who's Marik?" Yami asked. The spiky-haired boy slowed down a little and there was a grim line on his face.
"That man is after me for some reason... He wants me to stay by his side and of couse, I refuse. In order for him to get to me, he'll destroy everything in my path and even those who are close to me." Yugi replied with bitter poison.
"Do you know why is he after you?" Kaiba asked. Yugi simply shook his head and hoped that it won't be too late.
- - -
Meanwhile, in Hetropolis people were running and panicking. A short brown haired guy came and shot down one of the monsters. He wonders what's going on here so he contact someone by radio communication.
"I need backup here!" said the guy as he began to run.
""Roger!" the soldier replied.
"What the hell is going on here?" he wondered.
Back at the field, Yugi, Yami and Kaiba arrived at the near entrance of Hetropolis. They heard screams everywhere and slaughter. Hearing this, all three of them went inside immediately.
"We better split up, that way we can cover more ground." Kaiba said and everyone agreed so they begun to eliminate all the monsters in the city. Hours have passed and night has fallen. Yugi's eyes turned sliver and used the magic Eran Eide to destroy the rest of the monsters. Seeing the shadows, Yami knew that it's over. After the fight, all three of them meet together.
"That was close!" Yami said, feeling tired all over and so did they.
"Let's get out of here, I don't want anyone to know about what we did especially the fact that me and Yami used magic to defend ourselves." Yugi said.
"Wait!" someone yelled out and all three of them turned around. There were a young man with sort brown air with purple eyes and wearing a white uniform and a lady with long pink hair wearing a hairclip. She was wearing a long sleeveless trench coat with a traditional combination of violet and pink sleeveless kimono near to her knees..
"Who are you?" Yugi asked in his ery cold tone.
"My name is Kira Yamato and this lady is Lacus Clyne." he said introducing themselves. Kaiba scratched his head at first trying to familiar the persons who just met ten it hit him like a brick.
"Don't tell me your the head of Hetropolis!" Kaiba gasped and Kira laughed a little.
"Actually, yes although my girlfriend handles most of the leadership. Kira chuckled and Yugi felt something familiar about him.
"Kira Yamato, where did I heard that name before?" Yugi asked himself while Yami and Kaiba intorduceed themselves. "Wait is he related to who I think he is?".
"Yugi, what are dazing for? Come on!" Yami said calling his name and Yugi snapped out his gaze. He has to ask him about the person he thought was.
"You said you're Kira Yamato. Do you know Athrun Zala?" Yugiu asked with seriousness on his face and suddenly, Kira stared in shock.
"What? How did you????" Kira blurted while the others stared at him.
"I thought so...YOU do know him! Yugi said then sighed. "Well, night already has fallen so I think I have time to tell you about him and explain what's going on." Yugi stated and they left the roads of the city and en route to the Leader's house.
- - -
"It was over about twelve years ago after I was taken in by my guardian back in my home and since I haven't learned how to read and write and stuff. He assigned Athrun to teach me that and that includes histories of Solar and Lunar plus the politics of the cities of Solar." Yugi explained as everyone listened to his story.
Flashback: Yugi was four years old when his guardian let Athrun in. He has short blue hair with light green eyes wearing his formal outing outfit. With his arms were pencils, books, notebooks and snacks. The little boy was curious to learn so he showed the man to his classroom.
"You're Yugi, right?" Athrun asked and the boy nodded. He laid down his things on the table and began the lesson. He picked a pencil and placed it on Yugi's right finger.
"This is a pencil." he said, pointing at the object he was holding.
"T-T-This is a p-p-pen-cil." said Yugi, trying to repeat the sentence his teacher said. Athrun clapped his hands for his great effort.
"Hmm, not bad okay let's continue then..." Athrun said and the two of them had fun for the first time.
"It's been twelve years since then and after he taught me everything he left something for me." Yugi said then he removed something from his neck. "He gave me this chocker as a symbol of our friendship and wished that his friend, Kira was here. I don't really know what he was talking about until you said your name.". After he finished his story, Kira was contemplating his thoughts and Lacus felt bad for him.
"How is he?" Kira asked.
"Last time I saw him was in his ruled city of Cosmarial, northeast of the Solarian Continent. He was doing pretty fine actually although he hides his sadness. I guess he really miss you." Yugi replied when he looked at the time.
"Miss Lacus, can we have a gate pass? We need it to go to the continent of Kingheartia." Kaiba said.
"Please, call me Lacus and you can have the gate pass if you do us a favor." Lacus said and Yugi knew that everytime they want to go somewhere, there was always a catch. Kaiba felt that he should beat himself up and Yami sighed.
"What is it?" Yugi asked.
"It's simple just help us repair the damage in Hetropolis." Lacus said and all three of them sighed and hung their heads. At least it didn't involve getting dirty right?.
They have no idea how wrong they were.
"You can stay for the night. Our treat and Yugi thanks for telling Athrun's whereabouts." Kira said and Yugi replied by waving his hand. One of the guards led them to their guest room and so they slept through the night with their minds at ease.
- - -
The next morning, Yugi got up early and cleaned the room. Since the others haven't woke up yet, he decided to look around for a while. Boy, they must be rich and so far, every people he meets is filled with much learnin in a sense. Yawning, he moves on until he accidentally bumped to Kira.
"Sorry about that but what were you doing?" Kira asked.
"Nothing...the others haven't gotten up yet so I decided to look around a little until they woke up at least." Yugi replied.
"I see well I think we should eat something then. I know a good place to eat!" Kira said and the spiky-haired boy followed him outside the estate. People from the city greet Kira as the usual good morning and some of them just said hi. From Yugi's point of view, he was happy-go-lucky, he thinks. They were at some restaurant and a waiter came gave tem menus and so they scanned it.
So what it'll be?" the waiter asked.
"I'll have the usual." Kira said and the waiter scribbled it down. "A glass of juice and eggs."
"How about you young man?" he asked.
"Ummm, I'll have cold chocolate drink and maybe a ham and cheese sandwic for me." Yugi said and the waiter wrote it down as well.
"Very well, please wait for your order. It'll take ten minutes or so." the waiter said and left.
"So ready to do Lacus' favor?" Kira asked.
"Ugh as if she torturing us with favor fever." Yugi whined. Kira giggled at this.
"Hmmm...how did you fend off the monsters anyway?" Kira asked.
"Would it matter if I tell you?" Yugi asked coldly when their order finally came.
"Hmmmm...I don't know maybe..." Kira replied as he ate his breakfast. The spiky-haired boy didn't care and just ate his meal. While eating, Lacus, Yami and Kaiba came with a nasty frown on their faces.
"I thought I would find you here!" Lacus said and Kira sweatdropped while Yugi didn't care one bit.
"Oh well, at least your eating your breakfast so may I join you guys at least." Yami sighed and asked and they agreed so they ordered their meal and of course they eat heartily. Silence was the key so no one even want to talk anythin except etting their job done. After they ate, Kira paid the bill and left the restaurant.
"You know what to do, okay?" Lacus said sweetly and so she and Kira left them alone. "I already told tem that you'll be helping them!"
All three of tem felt sick as the couple left them and so they began to divide their directions. Yugi has to take north, Yami has to take east and Kaiba has to take south. Most of their routines was cleaning the mess up which unfortunately, all three of them have to get dirty.
"Damn it, at least it didn't involve repairing the rooftop or something..." Kaiba complained when someone called out to repair the roof and needs help.
"Me and my big mouth!" he grumbled.
spiritfire: Damn, I'm suffering from piles of homework sickness and still hae 2 months of schoolyear left ...so stressful and still the weather became cold for almost 3 weeks ...read and review..