That day started as any other had. Kaiba came in bruised and broken, it had been over a week and his injuries weren't getting any better, one could attribute this to Hideyuki's abuse. She had obviously been purposefully damaging his already broken bones. Not even his neck brace could come off just yet. He was so badly injured, tortured, by this girl, that he was still stuck in that wheelchair, dependent on her to push him around due to his broken arm. It was troubling, knowing what was really happening, but it wasn't a burden. I was glad to know.
The fact that I knew meant that I could do something to help. I could possibly end all that she was doing, and now that Yugi and the rest knew what was going down, now that they knew everything about what that overgrown child was doing, we had even more of a chance to stop her.
Of course, they hadn't been our first resort, we first tried to tell the principal, then some of the other teachers, none of them would believe it. They'd tell us that such a sweet girl couldn't do such a thing, that she had a reputation to uphold as the principal's daughter, she could have never done anything like that, and for a moment, I had begun to believe them, at least until Kaiba had come in with a black eye, it was obvious that the girl's father had told her of these accusations, let her know I had a hand to play in this.
She never looked at me the same, now that she knew I knew, we had more to fear from her. I had to start watching my own back, as well as Mokuba's, and Kaiba's. It was tough, but it wasn't something I was so willing to quit for. I may have feared her, and what she was capable of, but I couldn't quit, not while there were still the lives of two others on the line.
That's when I enlisted the help of my friends, they were quick to believe it. Obviously they couldn't quite stomach the idea that Kaiba would be capable of doing all of this to himself. They were on the same page I was, one of disbelief and concern. When I came out to tell them what Kaiba had told me, they hadn't tried to blow it off as some form of attention grabbing on Kaiba's behalf, but they believed me straight off the bat.
They were confused as to why he had gone to me, why I was the first and only person that he had told. I chalked it up to mere chance, I had been the one the teacher asked to go with him, I hadn't been paying attention at the right moment. He just so happened to ask and the teacher just so happened to call on me. He would have gone to anyone, that I was sure of.
Yet they didn't quite buy it. I had been called on twice to go with him, they didn't believe it to be chance, destiny they called it. That I was just meant to be the one he told, that surely he wouldn't have humbled himself to just anyone. they believed that he only would have told me, that he only could have told me.
I told them that what they said was complete bullshit. That in that situation, Kaiba would have come out to anyone, he was desperate, that was the only reason he had lowered himself enough to tell me. It had taken him a great amount of bravery to spit it out, and it had just so happened to be directed at me.
They were looney if they believed Kaiba had wanted to tell me.
After I had told them about Kaiba's situation, I told them about our plan. About what had failed, what had yet to. we needed evidence of her actions, and for that we needed them. Not just for witnesses, anyone could get a bunch of teenagers together and lie about witnessing something, but not just anyone could get a bunch of teenagers together video evidence of a crime.
We borrowed cameras from the AV club, offered them a chance to get pictures with Yugi. His fame came in handy at times like these, when we needed favours done.
Kaiba had told us where that girl took him during lunch. Behind the school, near the dumpsters, where none of our classmates dared to tread. The smell back there was too awful to stand whilst eating, it was a key location if one was looking to be alone.
She had to wheel him through the parking lot, and quite a bit of grass to get there, but for some reason she decided on taking him there every day, she decided on going through all that trouble just so she could do all those cruel things to him, someone who had never done a thing to her, other than reject her.
We set up around them, each of us in our own hiding spots several feet apart. I hated the idea of just sitting by and watching, but Kaiba assured me that she would do no more harm than what she deemed necessary, that she would not kill him. We both knew that this was our best shot, neither of us had a better idea as to how to deal with her. There was little evidence to show what she had been doing, so the authorities would never believe us, just like the teachers.
We sat by and watched as she slapped him around, shouting profanities, angry for the fact that he had told me what was going on, she was still fuming.
She claimed that I would tell others, that I would make her look bad in the eyes of the student body, that students would believe me before they believed her. I was well liked, she was not.
I winced every time her hand came down on him. Every fiber of my being ached with anxiety. Did we have enough proof? Could I step in now? Could I stop this here? Did we have to witness more? Was this enough? All these questions and more, each leaving me more and more angry with this girl, this girl who hardly qualified as a human being, and sure as hell wasn't a decent one.
How could one person dare to do such a thing to anyone?
I stopped recording, took my eyes off of the scene for a few moments before looking back on them. I was quick to shed my hiding place. It seemed that even out in the open she didn't see me.
My hand came down on her before I even realised I was next to her. I had stricken her without thinking about it.
Shock must have gotten the better of her, for she screamed. She screamed before attempting to attack me. I easily subdued her. She wasn't as strong as she liked to believe, going after those confined to a wheelchair, after those who couldn't defend themselves didn't require all that much work.
Honda was soon at my side, he held the girl for me, told me to get Kaiba away from her. She shouted and wailed and drew attention to that back area, students were already arriving.
Kaiba and I were soon gone, as far away as we could get from her, from that scene.
I wasn't there for the rest, but from what I had heard, the police arrived only minutes later, having been called the moment other students heard Hieyuki Ane's shrill screaming. They only needed half of the video footage we had gotten, but were thankful for all of it. She was put behind bars on several charges. Attempted murder, assault, etc.
Mokuba cried for hours when he found out.
