Fan Fiction / Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Devil's In The Details ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: holyllama 
Things for our heroes have settled down again, excepting Ryo's minor malady of course. But just how sick is he?
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction / Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Mystery / Supernatural | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.10.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.4K | Visits: 129 | Status: Work In Progress
Things for our heroes have settled down again, excepting Ryo's minor malady of course. But just how sick is he?
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction / Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Mystery / Supernatural | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.10.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.4K | Visits: 129 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the Yu-Gi-Oh! characters, they’re all Kazuki Takahashi’s. I’m just a poor student with delusions of grandeur.
Warnings: Some use of "four letter words", later some scenes of violence and dark occultism. Turn back now if either of these makes you uncomfortable.
Warnings: Some use of "four letter words", later some scenes of violence and dark occultism. Turn back now if either of these makes you uncomfortable.
Chapter 4
It hadn’t been a simple bug. If it had been, it would’ve gone away days ago. Ryo swore up, down, and sideways that it was just a simple bug, that he was still well enough to come to school even though Yugi was sure that Ryo was worse than he’d let on considering the way that the white-haired boy tended to shiver and shake in class sometimes.
Yami was starting to get suspicious or full out paranoid when it came to Yuki; Yugi still wasn’t sure which. For his part, the “lighter” half of that equation didn’t quite know what to think. In the days that had passed since Ryo first came in looking like something the cat dragged in, Yugi had seen Yuki as a solicitous friend who inquired after Ryo’s health, not to mention making sure he drank plenty of fluids and even going so far as to risk catching whatever Ryo had to hang out with him or walk him back to his place on her way home. By the same token, he’d looked over more than once at Yuki after feeling a cold shiver up his spine to see her sending that same piercing glare at Ryo when she was sure that her “friend” wasn’t looking.
//I wonder, is it possible that she did something to make Ryo ill?//
/Yami, I really don’t think that she’s that kind of person./
//You’re much too trusting, Yugi. How much do we actually know about her?//
Even if the conversation was in his head, Yugi couldn’t help sighing and rolling his eyes slightly. /We don’t know that much, other than that she used to go to Ryo’s old school and gamed with him before the spirit of the Ring sealed her into one of those Monster World figurines. But Yami, I really don’t think she could do that./
//Perhaps it’s possible that there’s some form of sorcery involved, perhaps a curse she placed upon Ryo.//
/…Now you’re just being paranoid./
//Yugi, all I ask is that you watch her closely. She has something to do with this, I’m sure of it. Wouldn’t Ryo have been well by now if it were just a simple illness?//
/Well… All right, I’ll keep an eye on her. I still don’t think she’s responsible for this, though./
“-gi? Hey, Yugi!” The smaller teen had to almost physically bite back a squawk of surprise when he finally saw and heard Jonouchi, forgoing to halt the physical response that resulted in him not-so-gracefully jumping out of his chair and falling flat on his rear.
“Itai…”
“Wow, Yugi, when you zone out you really zone out,” Yuki added. He could see that she was quite literally biting the inside of her cheek to keep the twitching half-smile on her face from probably erupting into laughter.
Yugi laughed nervously as he righted his chair and sat back down. “So what did I miss while I was zoned out?”
“We were just wondering where Ryo was. It’s been a while since anyone’s seen him.”
“Weren’t you the last one to see him, Yuki?” Anzu asked, looking quizzically over to the newest semi-member of their little group.
Yuki shrugged slightly. “He and I split up on the way back here from the cafeteria. I think he said he needed to use the little boys’ room. I’m starting to wonder if he fell in, though.”
Yugi’s eyes widened slightly, the implications of Ryo’s absence and the fact that, for whatever reason, Ryo still had the Ring in his possession hitting him swiftly. “Ano, Honda? Jonouchi? Maybe we ought to go look for him?”
They seemed to catch the hint, exchanging a brief look between themselves before they flashed patently false smiles over at Anzu and Yuki. “Good idea, Yugi. Anzu, maybe you and Kobayashi should hang out here just in case he comes back?”
“Yeah, good idea,” she quickly replied after Yugi looked over at her with what he hoped was enough to convey his suspicions without words.
As Yugi, Jonouchi, and Honda power-walked as nonchalantly as possible out of the room, it was all Yugi could do to hope that he was dead wrong.
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When Jonouchi came bursting through the door just seconds before the end of the lunch period, Anzu knew something was wrong. Sure, Jonouchi was one of those people who could almost exude pure caffeinated energy, but outside of a duel or dealing with Kaiba it was almost never this…frazzled? Upset? Worried, maybe. She didn’t know how to describe it, and at the moment she wasn’t sure she wanted to think of the exact word.
“Sensei,” he panted after casting a glance back towards the others, “Bakura collapsed. Ninomiya-sensei told me to come and tell you she called an ambulance for him.”
There was a flurry of startled gasps, a few loudly whispered comments between the boys almost bragging that they told their friend that there was something wrong with him. Something caused Anzu, after her own initial gasp of disbelief, to impulsively glance at Yuki from the corner of her eye, maybe just a desire to see how she was holding up. The shorter girl’s hand was covering her mouth, a gesture than Anzu had started to associate with Yuki’s periodic lapses into thought, and her eyes cast down. Worried hazel eyes glanced towards the front of the class a second later, hand still over her mouth. Unreadable starlight-silver eyes were there when Yuki moved the hand covering her mouth to trace some sort of odd design on her desk with her finger.
Maybe it was all the time spent with two beings that had the capability to summon Shadow Magic with a gesture. It could have just been a heightened sense of intuition from God only knew how many strange situations since Yugi had solved that puzzle. But when Anzu felt the cold shiver of something down her spine, it was official. There was something more wrong with Yuki Kobayashi than just a fugue state, and whatever it was…it was starting to really freak Anzu out.
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Itai: Commonly used as “It hurts”/ “Ouch”. I think the direct translation is “painful”.
/…/ Yugi to Yami no Yugi
//…// Yami no Yugi to Yugi
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Dragonlady222: Thanks for your great review! The idea just kind of started scritching at the back of my mind after I’d finished reading the initial Yu-Gi-Oh! volumes 6 and 7 and wouldn’t sit down and hush up until I’d started pounding it out on the keyboard.
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Author’s Notes
*Whew* Another chapter done, even if it is a bit shorter than Chapter 3. Scratch that, a lot shorter than last chapter. But I think it’s a good place to end the chapter, don’t y’all? Okay, so I’m evil. I’ll try and have Chapter 5 up quick as I can. It all depends on how much life, work, and the little llama-muse flitting around my head let me get down at a time.
As always, reviews and constructive criticism are welcomed but not necessary.
Arigato gozaimasu, minna!
Holyllama
Yami was starting to get suspicious or full out paranoid when it came to Yuki; Yugi still wasn’t sure which. For his part, the “lighter” half of that equation didn’t quite know what to think. In the days that had passed since Ryo first came in looking like something the cat dragged in, Yugi had seen Yuki as a solicitous friend who inquired after Ryo’s health, not to mention making sure he drank plenty of fluids and even going so far as to risk catching whatever Ryo had to hang out with him or walk him back to his place on her way home. By the same token, he’d looked over more than once at Yuki after feeling a cold shiver up his spine to see her sending that same piercing glare at Ryo when she was sure that her “friend” wasn’t looking.
//I wonder, is it possible that she did something to make Ryo ill?//
/Yami, I really don’t think that she’s that kind of person./
//You’re much too trusting, Yugi. How much do we actually know about her?//
Even if the conversation was in his head, Yugi couldn’t help sighing and rolling his eyes slightly. /We don’t know that much, other than that she used to go to Ryo’s old school and gamed with him before the spirit of the Ring sealed her into one of those Monster World figurines. But Yami, I really don’t think she could do that./
//Perhaps it’s possible that there’s some form of sorcery involved, perhaps a curse she placed upon Ryo.//
/…Now you’re just being paranoid./
//Yugi, all I ask is that you watch her closely. She has something to do with this, I’m sure of it. Wouldn’t Ryo have been well by now if it were just a simple illness?//
/Well… All right, I’ll keep an eye on her. I still don’t think she’s responsible for this, though./
“-gi? Hey, Yugi!” The smaller teen had to almost physically bite back a squawk of surprise when he finally saw and heard Jonouchi, forgoing to halt the physical response that resulted in him not-so-gracefully jumping out of his chair and falling flat on his rear.
“Itai…”
“Wow, Yugi, when you zone out you really zone out,” Yuki added. He could see that she was quite literally biting the inside of her cheek to keep the twitching half-smile on her face from probably erupting into laughter.
Yugi laughed nervously as he righted his chair and sat back down. “So what did I miss while I was zoned out?”
“We were just wondering where Ryo was. It’s been a while since anyone’s seen him.”
“Weren’t you the last one to see him, Yuki?” Anzu asked, looking quizzically over to the newest semi-member of their little group.
Yuki shrugged slightly. “He and I split up on the way back here from the cafeteria. I think he said he needed to use the little boys’ room. I’m starting to wonder if he fell in, though.”
Yugi’s eyes widened slightly, the implications of Ryo’s absence and the fact that, for whatever reason, Ryo still had the Ring in his possession hitting him swiftly. “Ano, Honda? Jonouchi? Maybe we ought to go look for him?”
They seemed to catch the hint, exchanging a brief look between themselves before they flashed patently false smiles over at Anzu and Yuki. “Good idea, Yugi. Anzu, maybe you and Kobayashi should hang out here just in case he comes back?”
“Yeah, good idea,” she quickly replied after Yugi looked over at her with what he hoped was enough to convey his suspicions without words.
As Yugi, Jonouchi, and Honda power-walked as nonchalantly as possible out of the room, it was all Yugi could do to hope that he was dead wrong.
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When Jonouchi came bursting through the door just seconds before the end of the lunch period, Anzu knew something was wrong. Sure, Jonouchi was one of those people who could almost exude pure caffeinated energy, but outside of a duel or dealing with Kaiba it was almost never this…frazzled? Upset? Worried, maybe. She didn’t know how to describe it, and at the moment she wasn’t sure she wanted to think of the exact word.
“Sensei,” he panted after casting a glance back towards the others, “Bakura collapsed. Ninomiya-sensei told me to come and tell you she called an ambulance for him.”
There was a flurry of startled gasps, a few loudly whispered comments between the boys almost bragging that they told their friend that there was something wrong with him. Something caused Anzu, after her own initial gasp of disbelief, to impulsively glance at Yuki from the corner of her eye, maybe just a desire to see how she was holding up. The shorter girl’s hand was covering her mouth, a gesture than Anzu had started to associate with Yuki’s periodic lapses into thought, and her eyes cast down. Worried hazel eyes glanced towards the front of the class a second later, hand still over her mouth. Unreadable starlight-silver eyes were there when Yuki moved the hand covering her mouth to trace some sort of odd design on her desk with her finger.
Maybe it was all the time spent with two beings that had the capability to summon Shadow Magic with a gesture. It could have just been a heightened sense of intuition from God only knew how many strange situations since Yugi had solved that puzzle. But when Anzu felt the cold shiver of something down her spine, it was official. There was something more wrong with Yuki Kobayashi than just a fugue state, and whatever it was…it was starting to really freak Anzu out.
************************************************************* ************************
Itai: Commonly used as “It hurts”/ “Ouch”. I think the direct translation is “painful”.
/…/ Yugi to Yami no Yugi
//…// Yami no Yugi to Yugi
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Dragonlady222: Thanks for your great review! The idea just kind of started scritching at the back of my mind after I’d finished reading the initial Yu-Gi-Oh! volumes 6 and 7 and wouldn’t sit down and hush up until I’d started pounding it out on the keyboard.
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Author’s Notes
*Whew* Another chapter done, even if it is a bit shorter than Chapter 3. Scratch that, a lot shorter than last chapter. But I think it’s a good place to end the chapter, don’t y’all? Okay, so I’m evil. I’ll try and have Chapter 5 up quick as I can. It all depends on how much life, work, and the little llama-muse flitting around my head let me get down at a time.
As always, reviews and constructive criticism are welcomed but not necessary.
Arigato gozaimasu, minna!
Holyllama