Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Broken Dragon ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I don’t own Yu-Gi-Oh   A/N: Anyone like?  Author looks around. Maybe I should have continued it on Broken Darkness…c’mon people, you said you wanna know!  Author laughs. This story is full of surprises. ‘I laugh at you pitiful people. You have no clue what is coming!  Muahaha!”   Broken Dragon   Chapter 2   Jou        We started practicing for Graduation, which is next week.  I hate it.  Three of the students who would be in my row aren’t able to attend due to ‘infractions’.  I should be one of them if not for the fact this year I’ve basically behaved myself, at least when it comes to things concerning the school and my ability to graduate.  But back to these three students.  You see, we go in alphabetical order when we’re sitting down and I’m stuck next to none other than Kaiba.  Kaiba Seto and Jounouchi Katsuya, I mean, come on!  If these three idiots hadn’t decided to…never mind, I won’t rant about that.  That was their problem they caused and now faced the consequences of and not mine.      At least lunch was right now and I didn’t have to see the jerk.  If he came anywhere near my table I’d punch him one.      “Jou, are you all right?” Yugi asked me.      “I’m just angry I have to sit next to Kaiba that’s all,” I replied.      “Don’t be mad about that,” Yugi said.      “Why not?” I asked, puzzled by the question.  Didn’t Yugi realize how much I hated the guy?  (Or at least on the surface that’s how I felt and what emotions I showed towards the guy.)
     “Seto really isn’t that bad of a guy,” Yugi said and then let out a tired sigh. “By Ra.”      I glared at him. “You can’t be serious, is he really like a friend to you now?”      “Yes,” Yugi said without hesitation. “He helped me with Atemu.”      “Oh,” I muttered. “But still, I don’t want to be anywhere near that guy.  All he does to me is provoke me into arguments, you’ve said it yourself and I still fall for it.”      “Jou, he has changed,” Yugi still defended. “He’s not that bad.”      “I wish I could believe you Yugi,” I said.      “Why’s that?”      “No reason.”      “Oh,” he replied, and his face seemed to register something and he looked up at me again.  Did he think that meant I liked Kaiba?  I mean, I did, but did those few words give it away?  “Okay Jou, I’ll let it drop, just promise me one thing.”      “What is it?”
     “Promise me you won’t let him get to you.”      “If I say I’ll try would that make you happy?”      “Yes.”      “Fine then, I’ll try.  I won’t make any promises though buddy,” I said through gritted teeth, noticing that Kaiba was now in the lunch line. “Hey, what’s up with you and Yami?”
     “Horrific at times,” Yugi said, grateful now he was allowed to complain. “I have to use the connection when he allows it to be open to make sure I’m walking in the house with the right look plastered on my face.  He’s almost two months into the pregnancy and I’m the one suffering the most!  I don’t know what that keeper of time Kana was planning but I didn’t expect this!”      “Have you two decided on a ceremony yet?”      “Oh yeah, we have.  We want to get married one month after graduation, so things have settled down by then, when Yami’s just into his second trimester and such.  Anzu says she wants to pick out tuxes for the both of us.”  I smiled; Anzu would do something like that.  I found it amazing how well she had been taking it.  It was no secret that she had a crush on Atemu but now she seemed to be taking it rather well.  She thought it was the cutest thing.  My theory was, every woman wanted a gay best friend, and she had two!  Well, once I really came out…she’d have three.  I think she’d start to feel lonely though, plenty of friends but everyone’s gay.  I’d find that funny.      “That sounds good.  I’m invited, right?”      “Jou, I want you to be my best man!” Yugi said excitedly. “I would love it if you were!”      “Wouldn’t miss it for the world.  Hey Yugi, tell me, has Yami started to have odd cravings yet?”      “No, not yet, why, will he?”      “Anzu told me that will happen.  I don’t know how she knows these things unless she’s reading up for your sake.”      “She’s been doing that a lot,” Yugi said with a smile. “Not that I mind though!”      “So, is one of you wearing a dress?” I asked and Yugi’s face turned bright red. “What?  I’m only asking an honest question.”      “I said Anzu wanted to pick out tuxes for us.  I’m not wearing a dress!” Yugi said. “If anyone, it would be Yami, he’s the pregnant one.”      “So you really wear the pants in the family?”  Yugi’s blush deepened.       “You know, you can tease but you won’t be that way when you find someone.”      “What makes you think I like guys?”      “What is making me thing you don’t?”
     “Yugi…”      “What is it Jou?”  I flicked jello at his face and it landed with a plop on his cheek. “You have jello all over your face.”  He stood up, ever so calmly and dumped rice on my hair.  All over my hair!   …        I walked into the bathroom, wanting to wash the rice Yugi had plopped into my hair out before class started.  I was about to approach the sink when I heard the toilet flush and a certain CEO emerged from a stall.      “Kaiba,” I groaned and he looked over in my direction.  He seemed to be fighting the urge to say something, possibly about the rice in my hair.  I had to ignore him.  I walked up to the sink and started to look in the mirror and pick rice pieces out of my hair, chucking them in the sink or trash, wherever my hand decided to throw them.      “Missed a spot.” I felt Kaiba’s hand reach out and pluck a piece of rice from my hair.  He was less than a few inches away from me.  He walked out of the bathroom, not another word came from his mouth.  I couldn’t believe it!  I could’ve sworn there was more than abnormal heat emanating from him when he was that close.  Why does my crush have to be such a jerk?   Kaiba        I saw Yugi in the classroom staring at me quite intently.  I had just returned from the bathroom and he was looking at me in my seat with immense curiosity.  Despite the longing to ignore his curiosity I stood up and walked over to him.      “What is it?”      “You held back today,” Yugi whispered. “I’m proud of you!”      “I don’t need you to tell me you’re proud of me!” I whispered softly and brought a seat closer to him, sitting down and leaning forward. “I don’t need you to be proud of me.  I just didn’t want to get him in trouble.”      “Didn’t want him to get kicked out of the graduation ceremonies?” Yugi asked. “That’s sweet.”      “If you tell him that I will kill you,” I whispered, and Yugi only smiled wider.      “I bet you did something there that was completely unintentional too, didn’t you?” he asked, a knowing smile on his face.      “What do you mean?” I asked, “All I did was take a piece of rice out of his hair and say ‘you missed a spot’.”      “How close did you get to him?” he asked, and he began to laugh. “I bet you were close enough to hear him breathing!”      I didn’t answer him; I stood up, put my chair away and went back to my own desk.  I didn’t get THAT close to him.   Yami        “Atemu, I’m back from school!” Yugi’s sweet voice greeted me as I heard the door to the store opened.  I heard him shut it rather loudly and his soft footsteps as he ran into the living room, where I currently was.      “Aibou!” I exclaimed and stood up, grabbing onto him and sitting back down again, pulling him onto my lap. “I’m so glad you’re home!”      “It’s good to be home,” he said with a smile.  I think he was glad I was in a good mood…last night, well, it wasn’t that good of a night.  I think I remember trying to hit him and he slept on the couch, leaving me cold and alone in our bed…which wasn’t fun for me.  I resolved to reign in my emotions as best I could from then on.      “I’m afraid you left for school before I was able to apologize for last night,” I whispered into his ear.      “No, it wasn’t that big a deal Yami,” he said, snuggling against me. “You’re pregnant and it’s just something I have to deal with.”      “But it does mean something to me!  I didn’t mean to do that and then I was lonely all night!”      Yugi smiled up at me and I found my heart melting.  I think I started to cry when I was talking because Yugi’s smile faded to one of worry. “I didn’t mean to, it was really lonely without you being all alone in the bed…”      “Yami, stop sobbing, it’s all right, I’m fine.  It was just one night, geeze.  What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, remember?” His voice was so gentle, so understanding.  How could he be? “Besides, other more important things are taking place.”      “What?” I was snapped out of my crying fit in an instant.      “Seto was nice to Jou today,” he said with a laugh.      I blinked twice and looked down at my little light. “He was?  How so?”      “He didn’t tell me exactly how but I had dumped rice in Jou’s hair earlier after he hit me with some jello and apparently Seto was in the bathroom the same time Jou came in,” Yugi said excitedly.      “You figured that all out?” I asked.      “I’ve always been able to deduce things…that and peek in the bathroom when I think I know something is going to happen,” he replied with a giggle.  I kissed his hair and joined him in the laughter.  It was sweet, he was entirely loveable.      “You’re spying on Jou then?” I asked.      “Both of them,” he replied with a mischievous grin.      “You won’t go to Kana and ask for help with this, will you?” I asked and glanced meaningfully at my stomach. “I’d hate to have Kaiba or Jou end up pregnant much less any other price the two would have to pay.”      “You look wonderful pregnant my love,” Yugi whispered, brushing my lips in a quick kiss. “I’m jealous, but you know that.”      “I know.”  He grinned up at me mischievous once again.      “Maybe I should ask Kana if she’d let me get pregnant as well,” he whispered.      “Don’t you dare,” I said and then smiled. “It’s entirely possible she’s planned that out for us as well.  So, now we must move onto a more serious problem.”      “What’s that love?” Yugi asked, with a gleam in his eye.      “Who’s going to be on the bottom tonight?”  He kissed me softly and trailed a hand down to my heart, spreading it over my chest.      “I don’t know, maybe we should play a game to see who wins.”   Jounouchi   DREAM        I was running, a long dark hallway.  I think I was at the school…I didn’t know though, I just ran.  I could hear someone screaming...YAMI!      “I’m coming!” I exclaimed as I ran forward.  I heard someone running beside me.  I couldn’t see who it was, it was too dark!  Wait…there was a light ahead!  I ran harder; I had to get to that light, Yami was in danger!  Where was Yugi?  I burst out into the light and saw Yami on a cold tile floor, Yugi with Yami’s head in his lap.  I saw Yami was panting heavily, his swollen stomach looking as though it was about to burst.      “I don’t…don’t know how she was planning on making this happen!” Yugi said through tears. “I don’t know how she was going to have him give birth!”  I knelt by Yugi’s side, watching Yami as he cried out again in pain.      “Yugi, what’s happening?”  That voice, it sounded so familiar!  I looked around and saw Kaiba!  What was he doing here?      “The contractions…I don’t know…it’s going to kill him…oh god…” Yugi looked so helpless, only able to hold his love as he once again screamed for some kind of release from the pain.      “Yugi, it’ll be all right, you wouldn’t believe Kana to leave you like this,” Seto said.  What the hell was he talking about?  Sure, I knew about what had happened between them in that other world, but what was Kana going to do?      “Is this another price we have to pay?  Am I going to loose Atemu?” Yugi asked. “Am I?”      “NO!  I won’t let you loose him.  We have to get him to a doctor!” I exclaimed and moved so I was more by Yami’s side. “I think I can carry him.”      “Help…”  Yami’s voice was barely a whisper. “It hurts AHHHH!”  Another piercing scream filled the air.      “Do you want to help him?”  A sharp voice filled the air.  “Did you guys hear that?”      “What Jou?” Kaiba asked, “What did you hear?”      “You can help him but there’s a price.  For every wish there’s a price.”      “That wasn’t part of the deal!  Yugi told me that you’d let them have their children!”      “I would…but there is a price for that.”      “YOU BITCH!” I exclaimed, and the scene faded before my eyes.      “Men aren’t normally supposed to have children,” a voice whispered and I found myself facing a woman wearing a flowing gown. “There’s a price but I cannot ask it of those two.”      “Why not?  What is this price?”      “The price all must pay or suffer the worst fate.”      “Why do you need me to pay it?”
     “Because your destiny is to be with someone…and the price I ask keeps you from him.”
     “HIM?”  Was it Kaiba?  Is that why he was in that scene a moment ago?      “I cannot say although I think you know.” Her voice had changed to barely a whisper. “Will you pay the price I ask?”      “Yes,” I said, “Yami can’t die!  I won’t let him!”
     “You agree to it not even knowing the cost.”  I heard a hint of admiration in her voice. “Sort of like Atemu…that Pharaoh wanted to be with his love bad enough to pay any price.”      “What is my price?”  Her laughter filled the air and she smiled at me, a staff appearing in her hand.      “I require you to give me your emotion.”      “Which one?”  I was a little afraid now as she pointed the staff at me.      “Your arrogance…your anger.”      “WHY?”
     “Those things keep you from him.”      “And how will I survive if I can never get angry again?”
     “Lean on him.”      “I don’t even know if he loves me or not!”      “He does.  Now…will you pay?”      I couldn’t believe this.  All she asked of me was an emotion.  She would take my anger…forever?  “It will be forever if you agree.”  I know anger was bad…but it saved my life at various points in my life!      “Is that so?  I believe your friends did.  Your anger and your arrogance kept you in trouble.”  She smiled at me and for a moment I hated her.  If I couldn’t get angry…I couldn’t fight.  “There are always other reasons to fight rather than just anger.  And arrogance isn’t a trait suited to you, no matter how you think about it.  It isn’t suited to Kaiba either…but all in good time.”      “I’ll pay.”      “What was that?”      “I said I’ll pay you damn witch!  If Yami needs my help and all it’ll mean is I can’t get angry ever again then by all means take it from me!  It’s a habit of mine to get pissed at little things anyway, I’m better off without it.”      “You’d be surprised at what a lack of anger will do.  You will be unable to fight back out of anger…you will be frustrated and hurt more easily.  You won’t seem yourself for a long time…you will have to learn to adjust, learn to adjust and survive.”      “I’m a survivor…so what are you waiting for?”      “Nothing.”   A bright light filled my vision and I felt myself ripped in two.  “Your wish has been granted.”   TBC   A/N: I got more than that for you all…plot twists galore.  Let’s have predictions…shall we?  How do you think Kaiba will react when Jou can’t get angry at him anymore?  How do you think Jou will adjust?