Chapter 3 – Dusk and Dawn
Yuugi woke to his alarm the next morning. After a quick shower, he put on his uniform, grabbed his bag, and ran out the door. He met up with Anzu, Honda, and Jounouchi on the school grounds.
"Hey!" The blonde called when Yuugi approached them.
"What's up, Yuugi?" Anzu greeted him.
"Nothing much. What about you guys?"
Jounouchi crossed his arms and growled, "I got into another fight with my drunk father."
Honda had a huge smile on his face as he sighed, "I asked Miho to be my girlfriend."
"How'd that go for you, Honda?" Yuugi asked curiously.
Jounouchi started snickering, "I bet you she turned him down flat!"
Honda punched him in the face. "No, she didn't!"
Anzu smiled, "Did she say yes?"
The male brunette nodded. Yuugi said, "Well, I'm happy for you, Honda! What about you, Anzu?"
The female mumbled, "I got fired."
The blonde beside her stared at her in disbelief. "What did you do?"
Anzu winked at him. "I punched a customer's lights out for touching my ass."
Honda smiled and shook his head. "What are we going to do with you?"
Yuugi tilted his head. "Is he okay?"
Anzu laughed, "Oh, he'll live. But I doubt he'll be walking anytime soon. He should be in the hospital for at least a month or two."
Jounouchi pumped his fist into the air. "Way to go, Anzu!"
"Thanks, Jounouchi. It felt great to hit him for a stunt like that!"
The tri-color haired teen glanced at a nearby clock. "Well, we better get going before we're late again."
"Right!" Anzu said before taking off towards the school building. As Yuugi and the others followed suit, Yami was walking behind the mass of students dripping in blood…
Just before the bell rang, the Yuugi-tachi ran into the classroom and towards their seats.
"Alright, students! Take your seats, please!" A cheery blonde woman called as the outside conversations ceased. As she began taking roll, Yuugi looked around, but he couldn't find his twin anywhere in the room.
"Sayru Maka?"
"Here."
"Sceri Lokori?"
"Here."
"Sennen Yami?" Silence rang throughout the room.
"Sennen Yami?"
"He's absent today, Ms. Aenai." The rich brunette Kaiba Seto called out from the back of the room.
"Well, that's strange. He's usually here." She checked off the attendance sheet. She wrapped up role before beginning class.
"If all of you remember from last class, we have to take our midterm today. Please put away your things and get ready for your test."
Yuugi glanced behind him towards Honda. The brunette returned the confused gaze he wore. He looked to the front towards Anzu. The female shook her head. Yuugi turned to the blonde to his left. Jounouchi stared at the worried teen with sympathy. Yuugi returned his focus to his desk as one of the students handed him a test packet. He stared at the door, thinking,*Where could Yami be?*
It's now the 4th class of the day and Yami hasn't shown up yet. Yuugi was worried sick. During the class, the missing teen had walked into Ms. Chono's classroom covered in blood.
The blonde teacher stared at the boy in shock. "What happened to you, Sennen?"
Yami hesitated before mumbling, "Two…two men, g-guns, blood, I…I can't…" His eyes fluttered before he collapses onto the floor as his life continued bleeding out of his side.
"Oh God!" Ms. Chono screamed. She picks up the phone and calls the front office.
She points to Malik, Ryou, and Yuugi, saying, "You three. Take him down to the nurse." They ran over to the semi-conscious teen. She hung up the phone when no one at the front office answered.
The blonde woman pointed to Anzu, Miho, and Kaiba. "You three will go down to the front office and tell them what's going on here. He needs medical help ASAP."
Kaiba nodded before walking out of the classroom. The blue-haired girl with a yellow ribbon in her hair, Nosaka Miho, and the brunette ran out after him as the other students began panicking. Malik and Ryou helped Yami to his feet.
The blonde teen whispered to him in an attempt to make sure he was alive. "Yami? Are you awake?"
Yami moaned in response. The albino beside him mumbled, "Don't worry. You'll be okay. You'll live. I promise you that."
Yami lies in the hospital room as his twin sat by his side. Yuugi watched as he slept. Yami hasn't woken in four hours and he sat there in the discomforting silence. Yuugi had ditched school for the rest of the day just to be by him as he recovered from the horrible injuries he bore.
*Yami…* he thought sadly. *How could this have happened to you?* Tears came to his eyes. He notices a surgical knife lying on a nearby table. Feeling the urge to hurt himself in some way, he took it and cut his arm just below his shoulder. Once he dropped it, he realizes he may have attracted unwanted attention. He quickly cleaned the blood off of it and replaces it on the table before one of the nurses walks into the room. He was sitting on the floor clutching his arm. The brunette asked, "What happened?"
Yuugi gave her a false smile. "It's nothing. An old wound reopened for some reason and I fell. Don't worry about it too much."
The nurse looked at him sympathetically. "Well, at least let me wrap it up for you before I send you on your way. Visiting hours are over now."
Honda paces the living room of the Kame Game shop. Jounouchi, Anzu, Ryou, and Malik sat on the couch waiting to hear word of Yami or Yuugi. Ryuuji and Mai walked in concerned about them.
"Any luck?" The blonde woman asked. Everyone shook their heads.
"Damn…" the black-haired male beside her sighed. "How did it happen like this?"
Jounouchi stood to his feet. "When I get my hands on whoever did this to Yami, I'm going to fucking kill him!"
The tan-skinned teenager shook his head. "Anger won't solve anything, Jounouchi. Just stay calm and we'll-"
"We won't solve anything if we just sit here doing nothing!" Jounouchi ran out the door in his rage. Everyone remaining in the building heard a collision outside the shop followed by an angry shout from the enraged blonde.
"Damn it! Watch where your…oh…shit." The rest of the Yuugi-tachi ran out to see what had occurred. Kaiba was standing there glaring daggers at Jounouchi.
"Kaiba, what are you doing here?" Anzu demanded as the brunette stood there in contempt.
"I was just passing by, but this idiot decided to run into me just for the hell of it."
"Did not!" the blonde cried indignantly.
Honda pleaded to the arguing males, "Guys! Can you please stop fighting?"
They seemed not hear a word he said. Eventually, Mai got fed up with their little spat.
"Ladies! Will both of you just shut the hell up and listen to us for once?" Everyone stared at the furious woman. Jounouchi and Kaiba stared at her in disbelief.
"Mai…" Mai cut the blonde off with a harsh, "I don't want to hear it from you or rich boy over here! I'm just sick of the constant arguments that the two of you have day in and day out! Why can't the two of you act civil for once?" Jounouchi visibly flinched.
Kaiba opened his mouth to say something before closing it. He knew better than to pick a fight with an angry woman. He learned that lesson the hard way.
Someone suddenly ran into the brunette from behind. "What the-"
"I'm sorry! Excuse me!"
They gasped when they looked at him. A short teenager with tri-color hair and what looked like violet eyes. They only caught a glimpse at him before he took off running. They heard some random man screaming at him.
"Get back here, pipsqueak! We're not done with you yet!" The Yuugi-tachi watched as two men chased after who they assumed to be Yuugi.
"Yuugi!" Jounouchi called before taking off. Honda and Anzu followed close behind as Ryuuji shouted, "Guys! Wait! Where are you going?"
A timid voice spoke up behind them. "Have you guys seen Yami?"
Ryuuji, Mai, Kaiba, Ryou, and Malik turned to the boy behind them. They widened their eyes in shock. It was Yuugi!
"Yuugi? But if you're here, then who just ran off in that direction?" Yuugi stared at them.
"That must have been Yami! He wasn't in the hospital! It was like he disappeared!" Everyone exchanged worried looks as they wondered where Yami had run off to.
The teen ran through the streets of Domino City shouting at his pursuers, "Leave me alone! I haven't done anything to you! I swear, I don't know anything!" He turned into an alley.
The men who chased him came up on the alley saying, "Heh heh…you know you can't hide in there, kid! Ready or not…here we come!" The two men ran to the alley only to get shot. One of them dropped to the ground with a bullet through his heart.
Hearing the gun being reloaded, the other turned his head to him and took a step back. "Kid, you have no idea what you're doing. We just wanted you to-"
He was interrupted with a bullet to his leg. Another lodged itself into his arm. A third bullet pierced his shoulder. He dropped to his knees as he began to bleed to death. He glanced up at the teen that approached him, panting, "What …are you doing, kid?"
Pointing the gun at his forehead, his attacker simply said, "Proving my point."
Hearing the gunshots in the alley and watching the crowds of people running for their lives, Jounouchi, Honda, and Anzu ran towards the source of the panic. When they arrived, they stared at the boy in the back of the dark passage.
When they saw his crimson eyes, they approached him slowly. "Yami? Is that you?" Jounouchi called.
The teen stared at the blonde for only a moment before pointing the gun at him. Yami shouted, "How do you know my name? Who are you?" The three of them gasped and stepped back.
Anzu said, "Yami, we're your friends! Don't you remember us?"
Yuugi ran into the alley and practically tackled him. Yami dropped the gun in shock. The tri-color haired teen stared at everyone for a moment before Ryou, Kaiba, Ryuuji, and Mai appeared at their side. He picked up the gun and pointed towards them.
"Get away from me!" They froze and watched the confused male as Anzu, Jounouchi, and Honda began pleading Yami to not shoot anyone. Yuugi disarmed Yami and held him tight.
"Yami, I'm glad you're okay. I thought someone had taken you."
The crimson-eyed boy blinked a couple of times before mumbling, "…Yuugi?"
The violet-eyed male nodded. Yami sat on the ground. He held his head in his hands as Ryou approached them cautiously. "Are you okay, Yami?" He shook his head. "I feel horrible. I don't know who anyone is anymore." He stared at the group.
"I don't remember anything."
~A/N: Yami's lost his memory? What could've happened to him? I'm having trouble updating my stories because I lost the key to the computers at my apartment complex. Once it's paid for, I will be able to update the chapters regularly. Until then, you'll have to wait a while. I hope you can enjoy my stories. Please review!