Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Broken Dragon ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: I don’t own Yu-Gi-Oh or XXX Holic   A/N: If I can’t get the thing with Jou to work…I’m changing it.  I promise I will try to find a way, if anyone cares but if I can’t it goes by bye! Actually, I am making it work.  And I meant for people to hate Kana…laughs.  It will work out in the end. There’s a twist with XXX Holic I’m throwing into here…laughs, it’ll all work out.   Broken Dragon   Chapter 3   3rd Person        “I haven’t seen you in some time Yûko-san,” Kana said sweetly as a woman with long black hair in a kimono approached. “What brings you here?”      “I hope you would know this keeper of time but taking away emotions is strictly forbidden,” she said.      “So you’ve come to give me slack about my price?  It was a fair one; you know that,” Kana said, “Surely Space-Dimension witch Yûko would know this.”      “I’m not asking there be no price for what you are asking…you always play to close to the line, but taking away an emotion is crossing it.”  The reply had come so easily and Kana found herself smiling at the witch. “What do you propose I do then?  I can’t give it back, some price must be paid!”      “That would only cover half for the thing he wants to save anyways, I still have to take away another half for something like this.  It’s not permanent you know either.”      “Then have his love take the other half,” Yûko replied. “Two halves make a whole price…”      “But what should I ask from the other then?  Should I take away his ability to say he loves something?”
     “Your games go too far.  Take away his sight for a time…that should be enough of a price, am I correct?”      “His sight…but for how long?”
     “One year,” came the whispered vague reply and Yûko disappeared into the shadows. “That should be enough to satisfy you and your games.”  I smiled; I’d do it, just not yet.  I wanted to see how it would affect Jou.      “What games? The price is accepted in my opinion…I will return his anger to him tonight.   It’s destiny.  It’s…”      “Hitsuzen.”   Jou        I wasn’t looking forward to school, I almost wanted to skip…but I couldn’t have any more absences if I wanted to graduate.  I mean, that dream couldn’t have been real, what would I do if I didn’t have anger?      “Hey Jou, glad you could come to school!” Yugi said and wrapped his arms around me.      “You look oddly happy,” I said with a smile.      His blush told the whole story. “Yeah, I got some…”  I began to laugh.      “Well, at least you got some.”
     “Does this mean you’re jealous of me getting some?”      “Why would I be jealous of you Yugi?”      “Jou, I know you’re jealous, I can see it in your eyes.”      I grinned. “Okay, maybe I am…just a little.  But you’re the one who has to put up with a pregnant Yami, not me.”      “Guess what he did last night,” Yugi said.      “Aside from sex?”      “After we did it, he hit me!  He bruised my arm…said I was too rough...when I wasn’t even the one on top!”      I found it hard not to laugh at him. “He probably will get more moody you know.”      “That’s the problem,” he muttered and then looked back towards the street. “Hey, here Kaiba comes!”  He pointed towards a slick black limousine and my stomach rolled.  I couldn’t fight back against Kaiba now…not without my anger!  I watched moneybags step out of the limo and stride towards us.  Cocky bastard.      “Well, what do we have here?  Good morning Yugi…good morning Puppy,” he said smugly and I glared at him.      “You know what Kaiba?  There’s nothing wrong with being a puppy, so young and vibrant and full of energy if you catch my drift.  I could wear you out long before I’d ever get tired.”  I froze…the words…they just flew out of my mouth before I had realized what I was saying!      Kaiba froze too.  I didn’t know what to say after that, so I just turned around and ran.  Damn, why couldn’t I just get pissed off at him?  Why the hell did that sick comment pop up into my head instead of anger?  Well sure…that price…but that comment came out of NOWHERE!   Kaiba        I stared as Jou ran inside the school and then looked down at Yugi, who was frowning.      “You provoked him again,” he said.  I didn’t say anything, so he kept talking. “Of course, this time he bit back with wit so I guess I can forgive you.”  He walked off, leaving me still reeling in the words Jou had just said to me.  He didn’t get angry at me…he offered a challenge…no, an invitation.  He basically offered me an invitation and I was going to take him up on it.   Jou        I stayed so quiet in school I could hear crickets chirping…in my mind.  Kaiba didn’t talk to me at all, and for that I was glad.  My comment was enough to make my head spin, much less to think of it as an invitation.  I was going to have problems sleeping tonight, of that much I was certain.  I swear that Kana is a bitch.   …        “Hey mutt!” I groaned.  The one person I had avoided pretty well, and who had avoided me pretty well all day was approaching me.  And I couldn’t get mad at him…I couldn’t go off on him…no, I couldn’t!      “What do you want moneybags?” I asked as I turned around to see him walking up to me.  He was something nice to look at after all.      “About that comment you made earlier,” he began and watched me as my face slipped and I let out a sigh. “I have a question.”      “I beat you at your word game Kaiba, shut up and go away,” I said, my voice unusually calm.      “Ah, no, you played with my words and were able to leave me speechless.  You took it to mean a compliment…not as I had meant it.  But that is beside the point…it did intrigue me, and was clever.”      “I don’t know if I should thank you for that or punch your lights out,” I said.      He smirked. “You’re surprisingly calm.”
     “You want me to get mad?  I can’t, not anymore.”  He seemed to ponder the words for a long time.  I don’t care how he took them now, I really didn’t.      “You get ahead of yourself,” he said. “And I still have my question.”      “You got questions?  Well, I may or may not have an answer, it depends.  Shoot.”      “Was that an invitation?”  I took a step back at the question, surprised to find him merely inches from my face and I swear I could have heard his heart beat.      “That was a statement of fact.”  I didn’t care what came out of my mouth now, if I got the better of him without my anger, good riddance.  I wasn’t mad at him…I wasn’t angry at him…I was more…amused.      “Would you care to test that out…puppy?” he asked.  Wait a minute…he wasn’t… I mean…he wasn’t teasing…was he asking me out…or what?      “I’d hate to wear you out,” I whispered with a purr.  Okay…so now I hated what I was saying…but it’s better than staring at him unable to respond.      “You know, you sure are a mutt,” he whispered back, taking another step closer to me.      I tried to back up but his hands shot out and grabbed my shoulders. “S…Stay away from me Kaiba.”      “You know…you haven’t gotten mad at me today…you’ve seemed indifferent and you respond with a calmness that isn’t like you, what’s the matter?  Have you given up hope of truly getting the better of me?”
     “Do you realize I’ve been getting the better of you all day?” I asked.      “I don’t think today counts,” he whispered. “You don’t realize all I can do to you.”       “Today does count whether you like it or not,” I said smugly. “You really better find something better to say or else I’m going to keep it up.”      He grabbed onto me and held me firmly. “Let me go!”  I pulled away from him but he grabbed onto me again, harder this time, gripping my arm.  It hurt damnit!  I couldn’t bring myself to hurt him…I couldn’t bring myself to sock it to him like he deserved. “Kaiba you’re hurting me!”      “Aren’t you going to fight back or have you learned to obey your master?”      “Kaiba let me go!” I exclaimed.  I couldn’t get mad…I couldn’t get angry at him and hit him like he deserved.      “I don’t care if I’m hurting you mutt,” he whispered.       Tears welled up into my eyes and I blinked once, letting them run down my face.  I looked up at him, staring into his deep blue eyes and they widened.  I felt his grip loosen on my arm and he took a step back.  “I hate you.”  The voice sounded like me…but I don’t remember saying it.  He looked like someone who had been shot.  I continued. “I hate you so much Seto Kaiba.  Whatever made me think I liked you?”  I didn’t wait for his answer, I ran.   Kaiba        I could list every mistake in my head.  One, the taunting, two, the teasing, three, hurting him…and my grand finale…he said he hated me.  He’s said it before…but then it was in anger.  He always used to say it in anger.  Now…he said it…calm, coldly, tears running down his cheeks.  I had done that…I had caused those tears.  As I watched him run I wanted to cry out to him, apologize…but he wouldn’t even listen.  Those three words hurt me more than any fight we had had in the past.  I regretted it…all of it.  I hated the fact I had hurt him…hated the fact I hadn’t thought about my actions.  I sank to the ground and stared down at it, feeling my own tears welling up inside of me.  I hated myself…really hated myself.      “Mr. Kaiba, are you all right?”  A familiar voice caused me to raise my head and I wiped my eyes and rose in one fluid motion, locking my knees together to make sure I didn’t fall.      “I’m just fine,” I said, trying to be indifferent.  Who was I kidding?  Who the hell was I kidding?   …        Sleep came uneasily to me, I jerked out of bed numerous times before I decided to just take a sleeping pill.  I opened up the medicine cabinet and regarded the labels, picking out a bottle, taking off the lid and dumping a pill in my hand.  I got a cup full of water and took it, making my way back to the bed.  Why did I hurt you?  What in my right mind made me think grabbing you was going to do anything?      I collapsed onto my bed…it was big enough for two…but only I used it.  I didn’t want that…not anymore.  I wanted someone sleeping beside me…I wanted Jou.  Blackness surrounded me and I felt sleep come to claim me.   …   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...the pharaoh!      “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, the pharaoh was in danger!  Where was Yugi?  I burst out into the light and saw the pharaoh on a cold tile floor, Yugi with the pharaoh’s head in his lap.  I saw he 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 his love as he cried out again in pain.      “Yugi, what’s happening?”  That voice, it sounded so familiar!  I looked to my side and saw Jou!  What was going on?      “It hurts…” the pharaoh moaned in pain and cried out again.      “No, I won’t let you die!” I exclaimed.      “Do you want to help him?”  A sharp voice filled the air. “Did you guys hear that?”  I let out a cry as the scene faded from me.      “You can help him but there is a price.”      “Who are you?”
     “For everything there is a price, do you wish to help him?”      “Yugi told me you’d let them have their children, what’s wrong with you?” I asked, my voice laden with anger.      “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 Jou?  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, “The Pharaoh 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.      “Something you hold precious,” she said, her voice barely a whisper.      “And what is that?  I won’t give you my brother or my company or…” I was about to say Jou…but I didn’t have him…I never had him.      “Your sight.”      “How am I supposed to live without my sight?”
     “How are you supposed to live so alone with that much regret?”      “How would this help me with…the one you think I’m destined for?”      “You must learn to depend on others.”   Her laughter filled the air and gave me a chill that ran up my spine.      “Depend on whom?”
     “Others…I won’t have to say who.”      “Is it a permanent change?”      “Depends.”      “Depends on what?”      “On things you will do in the coming months.  I won’t tell you what.”      “What sort of game are you playing?”      “What sort of game did you play against little Yugi when the pharaoh came back?  If you must you can see this payment as punishment for that and payment to help Yami.”      “Will this price…my sight really help save the pharaoh?”      “If you pay it…yes.  But the choice is utterly yours.  Would you be willing to give up something you hold dear, your sight…in order so that you will perhaps find something you couldn’t see?  Being without your eyes dear Seto Kaiba will give you perspective on things…things you never realized.”  As much as I didn’t like it…I wasn’t about to let the pharaoh die.  He and Yugi wanted those kids and if I didn’t help, I would only be as bad as I used to be…and that wasn’t what I wanted anymore.      “I’ll do it.”      “You will loose your sight sometime tomorrow.  Don’t worry, everything works out.  It’s Hitsuzen.”      “What?  What in the world do you mean?”  She laughed again and her staff glowed bright.  “Don’t worry Kaiba…destiny waits for no one…”   …        I sat up straight in bed and put my head in my hands.  I could still see!  Had she just been a part of some nightmare?  No…she said sometime during the day today…  I looked out my window and saw the sun was rising above the horizon…I never realized how beautiful it was.  I crawled out of my bed and threw on my bathrobe.  I went to the window and put a hand on the glass.  The colors of yellows and oranges and reds met my eyes…perhaps the last sunrise I’d see.  Why did I not notice until now?  I leaned my head against the glass, still cool from last night’s chill.  What did I have now, when would I loose my sight?       I sighed and shook my head.  I couldn’t think on that now.  I had to get ready for school…ready to face the consequences of my actions.   Jou        Kaiba was acting weird today…as if everything he saw now amused him in some way.  He looked nervous, frightened even.  He stared at me during class, with eyes that showed regret and sorrow.  I never think I would pity someone I hated…but it seemed like he was going to die or something!      Lunch was worse; he kept on staring at me until he blinked once and looked about ready to panic!  I watched as he stood up, deposited his lunch tray and walked out of the lunchroom quicker than I’d ever seen him walk before.  I cursed myself for having the curiosity to follow him.  I set my tray on a lunch cart and told Yugi I’d meet up with him and the others later before class.  I followed Seto out, wondering where he went.      I ended up walking down the hallway to our classroom when I heard a sobbing noise coming out of the bathroom.  I peeked open the door and peered inside.  I couldn’t see anybody off the bat so I opened the door and went all the way in.      “Hello, is anyone here?” I asked and the sobbing stopped.      “Jou?”  I froze.  “Jou, is that you?  Where are you?”  I recognized the voice.  I took a few steps until I was able to see into the corner near the back of the stalls.  “I can’t see you!”      “KAIBA?”   TBC   A/N: Ah yeah, I know I’m one cruel woman.  TEE HEE!  I planned this all out, don’t worry at all!  I am so cruel…and I love how you hate Kana.  You’re supposed to, at least for this series of stories.  Okay now, one more guess I guess…What’s up with Kaiba, do you see why this story is called Broken Dragon yet?  Yep…you all hate me right now…just don’t flame! Review and tell me what you think?  I’m warning you there’ll be a little bit of angst in this, just forewarning now. Anyways, until the next chapter, eh?