Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Changing Makes a Difference ❯ Bad Day ( Chapter 11 )

Okay I decided that the week seems to go a lot slower when I'm waiting for Monday to come. So forget what I said about updating on Mondays, I'll update whenever I feel it's the right time. Besides, sad to say, but the fic is already almost over anyways.

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Yami woke up early the next morning and got dressed before Yugi woke up. When he checked his mirror to make sure he looked alright he noticed Yugi was looking at him through tired eyes.

"Yugi?" He turned around and gave an apologetic smile. "I'm sorry, koi. Did I wake you?"

"No." Yugi looked down at the covers of the bed and drew circles in the sheets. "You think less of me now. Don't you?"

Yami's eyes widened in surprise and he walked over to the bed, sitting beside Yugi. He pulled the sophomore into his lap and rocked him back and forth, holding him tightly against him. "Of course I don't think less of you, Yugi. Why would you think something like that?"

Yugi looked up at him with unshed tears sparkling in his eyes. "Because of what I did, Yami. How could you ever want to be with someone who does that sort of thing to themselves?"

"Because I love you, Yugi. If I didn't I wouldn't have said it; I do love you, very much. I was worried about you and for the first time in a long time I felt scared because I thought I was going to lose you. Do you really want to know what I think of you, Yugi?"

Yugi nodded. Yami picked him up and carried him to his desk, setting the teen in the chair gently. He pulled up a piece of paper and drew an oval in the center. In the center of the oval he drew a wavy line and then a circle on either side of the line. On one side of the line he colored it in with black except for the circle and then colored just the circle on the other side black.

"Do you know what this is, Yugi?"

The younger nodded. "It's a yin-yang…but what does it have to do with how you think of me?"

"First off, what does the yin-yang represent?"

"Light and darkness." He answered easily. "But I still don't understand."

Yami placed his index finger on the dark half. "This is me, Yugi; the darkness. This is how I felt before I met you and how I still feel whenever I'm not around you. You make me feel like I'm alive Yugi because you," he moved his finger into the white space, "are the light; my light. You make everything bright in my life, Yugi, and I love you for it; I love who you are. Do you understand now?"

Yugi concentrated for a minute before smiling up at Yami. "And you're my darkness, Yami. You make things more exciting for me because you make it mysterious and in the shadows until you're ready for it to come out into the light."

Yami nodded and wrapped his arms around his love.

"Yami?"

"Hm?"

"Why didn't you ever tell me that you were a good artist?"

"What do you mean?"

Yugi pulled away and opened one of the drawers fully that was half open. He rummaged around in it for a minute before pulling out a folded piece of paper. He unfolded it and showed it to Yami. "I woke up yesterday before you came back from wherever you went and saw the drawer open. Since I helped my grandpa in the game shop so many times I'm used to keeping things organized so I went to close it, but it wouldn't. So I opened it to rearrange a few things a saw this."

"I didn't think it was that good."

"But it is, Yami. I think it's wonderful; one of the most beautiful paintings I've ever seen."

"You really think it's that good?"

Yugi nodded excitedly. "Can I put it up, Yami? Something like this deserves to be shown around."

"I suppose you could."

The words barely left his mouth before the little one was searching around his drawers and pulling out a thumbtack. He bounced over to the bed and tacked the painting high enough so they wouldn't ruin it while they were sleeping.

"You shouldn't use so much energy, my hikari. Wouldn't want to fall asleep in your first class, would you?"

"Hikari?" Yugi asked in confusion, ignoring the rest of the question.

"Yes, hikari. It suits you very nicely because you're the beam of light in my shadows."

Yugi smiled and hugged Yami tightly around the middle.

"You should be getting dressed so we can get you something to eat."

Yugi looked skeptical but went over to his bag that still had a clean change of clothes in it and got dressed. He didn't really want to eat but if it meant not getting whatever kind of medicine the doctor had for him, he would at least try.

"Okay, Yami, I'm ready." He called after a few minutes.

Yami held out his hand and they made their way down to the cafeteria together.

On the way down to the cafeteria the couple was stopped by Yami's counselor.

"Mr. Hitokage, just the junior I was looking for." She handed him a piece of paper. "Here's your new schedule that you asked Headmaster Kochiki to have changed. Your teachers already know of your change. Let me know if you need anything else."

Yami nodded and took the paper. "Thank you, Miss Hika. I appreciate it."

"It was my pleasure. Have a nice day." She then turned and walked back down the hall she came from.

Yugi looked up at Yami curiously. "Why did you get a change in your schedule, Yami? Weren't Joey and the others in most of your classes? Are you in a fight with him?"

"Yes, hikari," Yugi blushed at the nickname, "I just have something more important to look after rather than being in the same classes as our friends."

"What do you have to look after?"

"You'll find out if the need arises. Let's get to breakfast. I'd rather not give you your medication because it gives me the creeps just thinking about it."

Yugi nodded, letting the subject drop, and they continued down to the cafeteria.

They ate a small breakfast and luckily Yugi didn't start to get sick. They then made their way to their first class.

The day seemed to go by pretty slow for everybody that day. They didn't have much homework, which they were very grateful for.

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Yugi stepped out of the shower and dried himself off. He convinced Yami that he would be fine going alone and he'd come back as soon as he was finished and dressed. On his way out of the bathroom Ryou stopped him.

"Hey, Yugi. I've been looking for you."

"You have?"

"You need to get your hearing checked, Yugi. Ryou said he was looking for you." Bakura replied sarcastically, earning a playful punch on his shoulder from Ryou.

"Yes, I wanted to give you something. I think you'll like it. Follow us."

"But I promised Yami…"

"Don't worry. We'll bring you back to Yami's room and explain why you took so long getting back so he won't get mad or anything. Coming?"

"Yeah, okay then."

Ryou and Bakura led Yugi down a few more halls until they reached the couple's room. They went in and Ryou told Yugi to sit on the bed while he got out what he wanted to give him.

A few minutes later Ryou emerged from the closet. "Here it is. It wasn't easy and it made Bakura pretty upset because I paid more attention to it rather than him the past week." Ryou unfolded the object in his hand and Yugi gasped.

"T-that's my blanket!"

"That's right, Yugi. I fixed it up for you." Ryou smiled at the excited expression on Yugi's face.

The sophomore jumped off the bed and hugged the blanket once it was handed to him tightly. "I thought it got thrown away."

"It would've if the janitor found it. But after Yami and I left with you to the nurse's, Ryou picked it up and decided to fix it for you. It took his whole bloody Christmas vacation to do it too." Bakura grumbled out.

Ryou rolled his eyes at Bakura. "You're just made because I didn't spend enough time with you." Bakura huffed; Ryou turned back to Yugi. "I'm afraid I wasn't able to get all the blood stains out of it, but they're faded out good enough that you can barely notice them unless you're actually looking for them."

"Thank you, Ryou. This means so much to me. My mother made this blanket for me; it's my favorite. I was so upset when I had to use it to keep from making a trail behind me from my arm."

"You're welcome, Yugi. I was happy to help you. It was the only thing I could think of since it would seem kind of silly having three people helping one person to the nurse's office."

Yugi put the blanket down on the bed and hugged Ryou tightly. "Thank you, Ryou. It really does mean so much to me."

"If we don't want Yami having a fit by the time we get back I suggest we start heading over right now." Bakura told the two.

Ryou nodded and Yugi took his blanket before following the two out the door and down the halls once more.

Yugi opened the door and immediately was wrapped into two warm arms.

"I was starting to get worried. You're not one to take long showers after all. What took so long?" Yami whispered into his ear, causing Yugi to giggle.

"That was our fault, Yami. We're sorry. We wanted to give Yugi his blanket back, I fixed it for him."

Yami pulled away and looked at the blanket cuddled in Yugi's arms.

"It's my favorite blanket, Yami. It was the one I used after Tea and her friends beat me up remember? It had blood stains all over it and Ryou cleaned it up for me so it looks all better now."

Yami nodded. "Well, it's getting late and you're still recovering."

"Recovering?" Bakura questioned.

Yugi tensed and Yami growled lightly in his throat. "Never mind, Bakura. We'd rather not talk about it. Good night."

Bakura was about to argue but Ryou knew better and faked a tired yawn. Bakura quickly turned his attention from Yami to Ryou in concern. "Are you tired, koi?"

Ryou nodded. "It's been a long day. Let's go to bed, Bakura, please?"

"Okay, koi. Let's go. Bye, Yugi, Yami." Bakura closed the door behind him.

"Wow, Ryou's pretty good. He nearly had me fooled that he was that tired." Yugi smiled up at Yami.

"Yes, he just knows how to handle Bakura before he gets into a fight. It's not a pretty sight when he does. Let's sleep, Yugi."

"Okay."

The two climbed into bed and fell asleep in each other's arms.

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Yami and Yugi were rudely awoken the next day when Joey came barging in, Seto not far behind trying to calm his boyfriend.

"Get up, Yami! Headmaster Kochiki has been looking for you. He wants to see you before classes start. Hurry up! Yugi, he wants to see you too."

"Joey, shut up." Yami snarled from under his pillow. Yugi just mumbled out little nothings and rolled over so his head was under the blankets but still up against Yami's warm chest.

"Yami!"

"Joey, let me handle this."

"Why? I have to yell at him for skipping out on all his classes yesterday too!"

Yami threw his pillow and Joey and glared at him. "I didn't skip any classes, Joey. I went to all of them."

"Then why didn't I see you?"

Yami sighed and readjusted himself so he was sitting up on his elbows.

Realizing he wasn't going to get anymore sleep, Yugi peeked his head out from under the covers. Smiling at Seto and Joey tiredly he then slid up beside Yami and crawled under him so one of Yami's arms was like it was wrapped around him.

"If you must know, blondie, I had a schedule change so I could look after Yugi. He…hadn't been feeling well last week and I promised his grandpa I would look after him until he was all better."

Joey calmed down and looked at Yami in disbelief. "Are you serious?"

"Why wouldn't I be? Now get out of here so Yugi and I can get dressed and go see the principal for Kami knows what reasons."

After getting dressed Yugi and Yami made their way down to the headmaster's office and waited until they were called in.

"Mr. Mouto, Mr. Hitokage, please take a seat."

The two sat down and waited until Kochiki continued.

"I have some bad news for you, Mr. Mouto, I'm afraid. I wanted Mr. Hitokage to be with you since I know you trust him."

Yugi nodded his understanding and held out his hand for Yami, who took it in his own and caressed it with his thumb.

"I don't know how to tell you this really. Mr. Mouto…Yugi…"

Yugi and Yami both tensed. The faculty never used first names to the students unless it was something really bad.

"Yugi, I'm afraid you're grandfather passed away last night."

Yugi froze and Yami held his hand tighter.

"We got the call from one of his friends who was staying with him, helping him around the store; Arthur was his name I believe."

Yugi nodded mutely and Yami started to get worried about him.

`Why couldn't he wait until after he ate something? Now he won't eat anything and I'll have to…No! I won't think that!' Yami thought fearfully.

"I'm very sorry, Yugi. If there's anything I can do for I would like to help you. Do you need anything right now?"

Yugi looked at Yami with a far away look in his eyes that sent shivers up Yami's spine. He then turned back to the headmaster and whispered, "The shop?"

Confusion spread over Kochiki's expression and he turned to Yami to see if he knew anything about Yugi's small question.

"He wants to know what'll happen to the shop, headmaster. Will somebody be able to look after it or will it close for good?"

"Oh, Arthur said he would look after it as long as he could until he had to go back to his research. Afterwards, the shop will be closed until Yugi turns eighteen when he can decide either to keep it running or sell it somebody else."

Yami nodded and turned back to Yugi. The sophomore looked pale and his eyes barely shown any signs of life.

"I think I should take him back to our room."

"Of course. I'll excuse you both from all your classes for the day."

"Thank you, sir."

Yami helped Yugi out of his chair but the teen barely made it a few feet before he fainted, Yami catching him before he hit his head.

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Yugi came around about lunchtime. Everybody was in his and Yami's room. When Yami noticed his koi awake he knelt beside the bed with a small smile.

"Hey, Yugi. Everybody was worried about you when the heard what happened. How do you feel?"

"Besides the fact that I feel completely empty now? I don't want anybody here, Yami. Make them go away." Yugi whispered in a croaky voice.

"Me too?" Yami asked softly, not hurt if Yugi did want him gone too.

Yugi shook his head. "I wouldn't last if you were gone too, Yami. Don't leave me alone? Please?"

"Okay, Yugi. I'll be back in a minute." Yami had everybody leave before he returned back to Yugi. "They're all gone now, Yugi. Can I do anything else for you?"

"I have a headache."

Yami nodded and went to rummage around in his desk. He brought out a bottle of aspirin and then went into his closet. He came back out with a water bottle and handed both to Yugi.

Yugi took them gratefully before laying his head back on the pillow. "Is it true, Yami? Please tell me it's not true." He cried.

"I'm so sorry, Yugi. It is as much as I don't want to admit it."

"Yami, can you hold me? I think I'm going to cry."

"Of course Yugi. Cry all you need."

Yami held Yugi closely as the young teen cried into his chest mercilessly. He didn't make any move to try to calm him down either, knowing that he would just end up holding it in longer than he really needed.

"Everything will be okay, Yugi. You'll see." Yami told him once Yugi had finally stopped crying for the meantime.

"What am I going to do now, Yami? I'll have to go to an orphanage now and leave everything I have here behind until I turn eighteen. What if I never see you or the others again?"

"I won't let that happen, Yugi. I promise you I won't. I'll make sure we're together for as long as you want us to be. We'll see each other as much as you like and the others too."

Yugi smiled at him sadly.

"Why don't you try eating something Yugi? You didn't have breakfast and lunch is over now. I can go to the kitchens and bring you back something small if you want."

Yugi shook his head, closing into his own world again.

"Yugi, don't do this. You need to eat or you'll go to the hospital again. You don't want that do you?"

Silence.

"Yugi? Yugi, answer me."

Looking into Yugi's eyes, Yami gasped. They were the same lifeless and dull eyes that Yugi had when Yugi and him were just told about his grandfather.

Tensed up completely he made his way over to the bag and opened his travel bag he had yet to unpack. Swallowing around the lump in his throat he opened the paper bag and pulled out Yugi's medication, the syringe, and a plastic container. With shaky hands he opened the container and pulled out one of the needles and inserted it in the syringe. He then filled the syringe with the amount Yugi's doctor told him to fill it up with and put the bottle back into the bag carefully. Before he put the needle into Yugi's arm though he froze. He couldn't do it. Dropping the syringe he ran out the door.

"Mr. Sagasu, can Joey come with me for a minute? He'll be coming back."

"Hitokage, why do you need Wheeler? You're supposed to be with Motou, aren't you?"

"Yes, sir. I need Joey's help though. I'd rather not say."

Joey turned around and his jaw nearly dropped to the floor. Yami looked deathly pale and nearly close to tears; something nobody ever saw on the proud junior's face.

"Alright then; Wheeler, I expect you to return as soon as you're finished helping Hitokage."

Joey nodded and he followed Yami back to his room.

"He won't eat, Joey. He got sick last week and was sent to the hospital because he wasn't eating. We found out that he was anorexic and partially bulimic. The doctor told us that he had to eat or we had to give him something that will put nutrition into his body, but I can't do it Joey. I can't hurt him."

"It's okay, buddy. I'll help you."

Once Joey saw the syringe and needle on the floor by the bed he felt terrible for Yami. Not many people knew about Yami's fear of it, but those who did knew it was a pretty big fear.

"I'll have to commend you, Yami. At least you got it all ready without help." Joey told him as he picked up the syringe from the floor. "Where do you put it?"

Yami held up Yugi's arm and placed his finger over the soft skin where forearm and upper arm meet.

Joey nodded and Yami turned around and clenched his eyes closed.

"It's okay now, Yami. I'm done."

Yami turned back around. "Thanks, Joey. I would never have been able to do it without freaking out and hurting him."

"That's okay. I gotta get back to class. You going to be okay now?"

Yami nodded and watched Joey as he left and closed the door behind him.

"Yugi, please get better. I don't want to lose you."

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If you think things are bad for a favorite couple now then you have another thing coming. Just as a teaser I'm going to tell all of you wonderful readers right now that's if you hate me now, it's nothing compared to how you're going to feel about me after the next chapter.