And I'm updating it! Yes, you're not seeing it wrong, I actually am updating it. I had some emotional trouble mixed with family trouble and a good dose of disappointments, but everything's good now and I had an awesome present this year, and I must thank my boyfriend to support me in pretty much everything I do. So, please thank him, because if it wasn't for him I would have given up on this long ago.
Chapter 8: End of the tear Drop
Several weeks went by since the warehouse.
"Jounouchi, I need to talk to you. It's about your father."
Atem had a really serious face.
"What is it?" – Jounouchi was obviously worried
"I have a good and a bad new. Which one first?"
"The good one." – Jounouchi was suspicious
"Your father still loves you dearly." – Atem said quickly
Jou was confused. – "And the bad one?"
"He is possessed by some kind of dark spirit."
Atem was waiting, and then…
"THE WHAT?!"
"It's like what happened with Seto. A mind crush resolves it!" – and he didn't know what else to say.
"You're saying my father is being possessed by a vicious spirit from shadow realm and that you need to crush his mind? What?!" – Jounouchi collapses theatrically
"Maybe I shouldn't have…" -Atem tried to wake Jounouchi up, but nothing worked
"What did just happen?" – Seto had just walked in and was perplex
"He passed out when I told him the truth…" - Atem was concerned
"How could you just come in here and tell him that? Are you mad? You should have been careful!"
"I know… I'm sorry…" - he looked comically stressed out by what was happening
"Go call a doctor." – Seto lifted Jounouchi in his arms and took him to their own room and laid him on the bed
-x-
Jounouchi started waking up. It was dark outside.
"Jounouchi! I'm so sorry! I shouldn't have said that the way I did…"
Atem looked impatient, frustrated and worried
"Clam down; I should be the one apologizing. I collapsed when you were trying to explain me what was happening. But it was so sudden…" - Jounouchi had a confused and then shocked face – "Oh my god! The lawyer!"
"I talked to him already. He was dismissed, besides the court audition was cancelled." – Seto said
"But… the money! Wait! It was you! 'S' is Seto! It was you all along!" – Jounouchi's eyes sparkled
"Of course it was me, Katsuya." – Seto smiled a bit and sits next to him on the bed and hugged him
"I was still talking…" - Atem deadpanned
"Oh sorry, please, continue. It was my fault."
"As I came to acknowledge your father is being controlled by a class C monster."
"How bad is it?" – Jounouchi frowned his brows
"According to my regulations, monsters are divided in 6 classes. Class E has monsters with ranks lower or equal to 2 stars; class D is for monsters with a ranks in between 3 and 4 stars; class C have monsters with 5 and 6 stars; class B has monsters with 7 to 9 stars; class A has monsters with 10 to 11 stars and class S are monsters with 12 stars. Which means the monster we have in hands is a monster, not weak but obviously not strong enough to survive or ignore my commands."
"Then it means my dad can be saved? For real?"
"Yes. But there may be consequences."
"What sort of consequences?" – Jounouchi waited for the worst
"Amnesia. Total, partial, permanent or temporary. But I'm most certain he will not remember hitting you at all, because it wasn't him, but there are 50% chances that he will. That way you can always work it out with him somehow… And your sister, and maybe your mother."
Jounouchi started imagining what would happen if he could convince his mother in helping him, in going back to his father.
"My mom will never forgive my father… We will never be the same. Not like before…"
"Why do you think like that? Of course she will. We'll make her believe… Why did she left? What are you not telling us?" – Atem looked worried
"He in fact just started hitting me in junior high, but he fought a lot with my mom. I remember hearing the screams and that kind of fights always started out of the blue, my dad always attacked first."
"So he was under a dark spirit influence even then… It just shows he was strong enough to protect his children, when your mother left he started getting weaker."
"Maybe that is it…"
"Let's pay him a visit, it won't hurt, right Katsuya?" – said Seto giving him a hand to hold
"Yes, let's go." – he grabbed the other's hand
-x-
When the three got to the place where Jounouchi's father was being held, the blonde was confused
"What is it? You're frowning. What's on your mind?"
"What is this place?"
"This is a psychiatric hospital. We could convince them he didn't want to hurt you, he was just going nuts due drinking so much alcohol."
"Thank you… if he was in prison he'd be good as dead by now." – he sort of felt relieved but he didn't like that place
"Sir, can I help you with something?" – said the receptionist drawing their attention to her
They said that they wanted to see Jounouchi's father, which wasn't granted
"Do you know who you're talking to?" – Kaiba said displeased
"No." – said the woman, and she soon proceeded to make fun of the CEO – "Are you the prince of Egypt?" – and she laughed of their faces
Jounouchi swallowed dryly – "Poor woman" – he thought
"No, you ignorant creature, I'm Kaiba Seto the owner of KaibaCorp, and now that you're a bit more "informed" I want to go see Jounouchi Katsuya's father, if it isn't much trouble, and if it is you can always get fired and start to rest tomorrow."
The woman's face was colorless and she lifted it to look at Seto, she looked like she has seen the dead and was traumatized by it.
"Oh, mister Kaiba, you see, I didn't look properly at you, I'm really sorry… Hu, Jounouchi-san father is in the 28th room, that's on the second floor." – she was terrified
Kaiba simply turned his back on the woman and went to the elevator; Jounouchi looked apologetically at the woman and followed his lover.
"And by the way," - Atem spoke to the woman who was shaken even by his voice – "it's not the prince of Egypt, it's the Pharaoh, and that's me, bitch."
If Yugi was there he would have blushed by that comment, Atem also turned his back on the woman and pridefuly walked to the elevator.
"Here we go." – Jounouchi felt nervous, divided in between happiness, sadness and anxiety.
"Stay calm, Jou-kun. He'll be fine. Trust me."
They got in front room Jounouchi's dad was and made their way in. He was sitting on a chair, arms and legs bounded to it.
"Katsuya, so you came to see daddy." – he smirked maliciously – "And you brought friends along. Oh lovely." – he poisoned every word with malice
"You are not my father!"
"Oh. What are you saying? Has your mother make up one of her stories again? Of course you are my son, can't you tell by looking in the mirror? Or may I say that you are as brute and filthy as me?"
"Stop it, you evil spirit!" – Atem warned
Jounouchi was near his breaking point but he swallowed his urge to cry and held tightly onto Seto's hand.
The older man that looked a lot like Jounouchi laughed darkly, the bound broke and he was free and standing
"Aren't you going to cry, my son? I know you want to. Or should I remind you how dirty you are? How others used you and threw you away?" – he kept on smiling sinisterly
"Demon, your life in this realm ends now." – Atem voice was strong as steel, an eye appeared on his forehead
The man stopped laughing and smiling and he instantaneously got scared
"No! Don't take this body from me! No!"
"You vicious monster, go back to where you came from!"
"No!"
Thank you for your patience and I'll update it soon this time.
Bye~