Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Children of Destiny ❯ Redemption ( Chapter 3 )

That night a figure that glided across the floor as silent as a ghost headed towards a room in the Motou household. Yugi was still awake lying on his bed whilst his parents tried to comfort him. The figure approached his room as his parents became aware and on full alert. Yugi's heart skipped a beat as he listened tentatively hearing nothing but the sound of his own breathing and heartbeat. The door slowly opened as Yugi prepared for the worse as the little figure approached him with some shiny. Something gold. Tenshi appeared with the key to the box that the Millennium Puzzle was kept in. Yugi smiled happily at the little kitten as he rushed down the stairs being as quiet as possible. He grabbed a ladder and unlocked the box to the Millennium Puzzle. Knowing that he wouldn't be able to keep it once his grandfather found out.

"Ahem!!!" this shocked Yugi as low and behold Solomon stood glaring holding his hand out for the key. Yugi sadly gave it back to him. He said nothing but headed back to bed with Tenshi in his arms. Solomon tied the key securely round his neck again. Yugi went into his room with little Tenshi and slipped off the Millennium Puzzle from around his neck that was hidden under his pyjamas. With a sigh he stroked Tenshi for most of the night when he thought up of an idea. He smiled as he formulated his plan writing a note. Silently that night a figure slipped out of the house. Just at that moment Solomon later woke up again to check on his grandson. He opened the door and crept closer. He stared down at the little sleeping angel, his porcelain face that was lit up by the streetlights outside. He smiled sadly before returning to bed.

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Yami had stayed in his room all day and the others were really worried. He wouldn't talk to them or even eat. Clearly the banishment from the shop had affected him badly. The four other boys sighed as they watched their friend sadly dwelling in sorrow and regret when the bell rang.

"Who could that be?" Joey mused before he opened the door. There was no one there when the little figure jumped out from the side surprising him.

"Tenshi?" Ryou said. Little Tenshi stood with Yugi's Millennium Puzzle around her neck and a note was also attached. Before they knew it Tenshi had scurried in ignoring them whilst looking around. She noticed a room with the door slightly ajar. She peered in and saw her owner curled in a foetal position on his bed, with that she jumped onto him surprising Yami. Yami blinked at the little kitten.

"Tenshi…" he said whilst stroking the little kitten. Then his gaze glided down to the Millennium Puzzle along with a note. He removed the Puzzle and the note reading it.

Dear Yami,

I've just got back from Seto's mansion and I feel just fine now. Grandpa tried to take the Millennium Puzzle but Tenshi managed to help me get it back before he realised it's missing. I really want to see you again but I know grandpa will be keeping a close eye on that. I wanted to say that… I really did enjoy myself in our time together. I just hope that one day that grandpa will forgive you and let you come back. I got Tenshi to bring my Millennium Puzzle to you `cos I know that I can't keep it here. Grandpa will find it, lock it up and throw away the key. Safe keep it for me, you can give it back to me when you come back. I really miss you Yami…

Yugi

Yami read through it not believing what it said. Tenshi had padded about on his bed before she curled into a little ball and went to sleep. The journey carrying the Millennium Puzzle was a tiring one but it was the only way she was able to find Yami seeing as the power of Yugi's Puzzle would guide her to Yami. (A/N: She's a smart little cat isn't she?) Yami leaned back smiling for the first time all day. He stroked the sleeping kitten proudly. Tenshi opened cracked open one large eye sleepily.

"Meuh…" she said whilst she nuzzled his hand with her nose before going back to sleep. Yami gathered her up gently the little warmth of little furry body signalled to him as a sign. A sign of hope.

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Yugi sighed a little as he entered the classroom. Joey, Tristan, Ryou and Tea were there. Yugi winced to himself mentally as he saw the glare of his former friend. Of course the others didn't really know about their talk yet… He tried to find a seat as far away from Tea. His friends appeared hurt and guilty when they found he appeared to be avoiding them. The lessons were long and uneventful but Yugi could tell that some of the other classmates avoided him whilst gossiping behind his back.

"I didn't think he would be the type to go down that road" he heard a boy say.

"Well he did get picked on a lot. That's enough to push a guy over the edge"

"I wonder if the police are going to come…" Yugi closed his eyes painfully. Some of them after all were at the arcade at the time of Tea's outbreak about him. Yugi willed himself to concentrate on the teacher and the day dragged on. The bell rang for lunch. Yugi noticed Joey, Tristan and Ryou were sitting on a table and clearly had a seat allocated for him. They smiled encouragingly but when Yugi saw Tea he sat himself down to an empty table. He saw at the corner of his eye that his friends were disappointed. Tea sat herself neatly down.

"Hey what's up!!!" Tea said cheerfully.

"Nothin'" Joey answered gloomily. The next lesson was just as painfully long for Yugi when the pain started to shoot in his head again. He found it hard to stop his head from shaking as the pain became excruciating.

"You need to go to the bathroom Mr Motou?" the teacher drawled lazily as he saw Yugi stand up.

"Yes…" Yugi rasped in his pain. "Too many sodas…"

"You may go" Yugi rushed to the boys bathroom biting his lip so hard it drew blood as he attempted to counteract the pain in his head, blood dripped making a little puddle on the floor from his face. He shook as he took a bottle containing chocolate brown pills. Shivering uncontrollably he spilt many on the floor before finally being able to pop one in his mouth. The pain subsided immediately as he slid down against the cold wall sweating profusely. He closed his eyes letting the anaesthetic properties of the pills taking affect on the pain before he opened his eyes again letting himself focus as he gazed to eyes watching him with horror.

"Yugi…" Joey whispered as he went to his aid. Ryou and Tristan were there also. "I'll get the nurse…" Tristan said as he left only to be grabbed on the arm and dragged back down.

"Tristan, don't…"

"Damn it Yug look at yourself!!!" Joey practically yelled. Yugi went to wash the blood away scrubbing his face clean and leaving not a single trace upon the clean white basin. He stared at his reflection where the creamy face had become a deathly pale. Stumbling a bit, he was stopped by his friends.

"Yugi please tell us what's going on?" Ryou pleaded. Yugi shifted his gaze to each boy all three of them determined to get to the bottom of his illness. Yugi shut himself into a cubicle.

"Tell them…" he heard his mother urge him. Yugi shook his head.

"They're not ready…" Yugi whispered though audible taking his friends aback.

"Yes they are son… You don't have much time" Mr Motou cried.

"I'll make time… I can handle Gabriel and the Kaiyan a little longer"

"Wha? Who you talkin' to Yug?" Joey said as Yugi came out he stared at Yugi's glass eyed expression. "Yugi snap out of it" he shook him by the shoulders. Yugi glanced into the worried amber eyes. His heart wrenched and the creases of his agony showed upon his face as he pushed past them.

"YUGI!!!!" Yugi ignored their cries, he ran fast despite being shorter than the average teenager. (Yugi: Hey!!! Are you calling me a midget!?!? Sam: Well if you put it into context… yeah…, Yugi: T_T) He didn't watch where he was going and inadvertently charged into someone.

"Sorry…" Yugi panicked but looked up into guilty crimson eyes. "… Yami…" Yami smirked awkwardly unsure of what to do next. He was wearing a black sweater and pants with a grey vest. (A/N: The outfit that he wore when he battled Duke in Dungeon Dice Monsters… *drools over the image*)

"Aibou…" he said "I-"

"Yugi!!" Yugi turned to find Solomon approaching him. Yami backed away as the old man glared at him. "Come on grandson…" he said as he led Yugi away. Yami went to say something but Solomon glared back at him and the words he so wanted to say to his hikari was forced to be silenced. Students poured out of the school yet Yami could feel nothing of the world around him. Nothing but the emptiness. Joey and the others had finally reached him.

"Did ya talk to him?" Joey asked urgently. Yami shook his head sadly. He turned to go back to Ryou's house when the others went to relay their recent discovery to him. "Yam… listen…" he turned Yami around to face who stared defeated at him.

"There's something that Yugi's been hiding from us…" Ryou continued. "And we have to get the bottom of it cos me and Bakura are getting these really weird vibes, some sort of energy source and it's not friendly. We know Yugi's involved in this but he won't tell us"

"I heard him say something about Gabriel… Kikan?" Tristan added. Yami immediately became attentive.

"The Kaiyan?" Yami corrected.

"Yeah that's it…"

"This is bad" Yami mused to himself before heading towards the Game Shop.

"What's going on?" Tristan cried.

"As far as I know the Kaiyan is a race of demons that roam in a distant astral plane to our world. Their sole purpose was to invade and destroy other worlds like a plague of locusts" Bakura said as he came out of the Millennium Ring. "Some that had magical resistance were either killed or initiated to become another member of their elite."

"And I bet Gabriel is the centre of all this depravity" Yami added. Just at that moment he heard a giggles around the block at a café. He stared curiously and found Tea with a couple of her other school friends.

"So anyway, at the arcade I said I wanted to talk to him about how everyone really felt about him"

"Did he start crying?" one of the girls asked. She was one of those spoilt and snobbish popular girls much like that to many of those so-called princesses that Yami had encountered in his life as a pharaoh. He shuddered as the memories of them came to mind, batting their eyes in their luxurious garments and mooning over him, their only purpose; his body and his riches. He didn't really like the fact that Tea hung out with people like her but he had always kept that opinion to himself. He listened further to their conversation.

"Oh yeah… I saw waterworks start to fall. I told him `Yugi, your nothing but a worthless piece of trash and a burden to Yami and everyone. Their just you're friends because they felt sorry for you'" Yami's eyes widened in horror and he knew the others were the same too. "But then the arrogant little midget tried to get the best of me. Luckily I managed to humiliate him. Looked like he was going into a seizure and took out some prescription pills out. I snatched it and just about everybody was convinced that he was taking drugs" The girls gasped.

"You go sister!!!" another girl spoke up as they all giggled about it. Yami couldn't take it anymore and he was followed closely by his friends. All of them absolutely furious, even Ryou who was easily the most calm of them all shook his head in disgust.

"TEA!!!" Yami practically yelled startling Tea and her friends. They all looked him over and whispered giggling in between of his looks. Tea then put on the mask immediately and smiled.

"Hi honey… what's up?" (Sam: Ack… *starts to gag* I can't believe I put that!!!!) Without a word he slapped her. A red mark developed on Tea's face as she stared in shock.

"That's for what you did to my hikari…"

"How could ya Tea!?!?" Joey screamed at her whilst the others glared at her with contempt. Tea's friend came to her aid.

"Yugi's a little pathetic shrimp!!! And I for one think Tea did a great job to the little geek!!!" Yami glared at her, the sennen eye glowed brightly upon his forehead.

"Yugi's more stronger than you'll ever be" he hissed at her dangerously making her cringe away. He turned back to Tea.

"What has he ever done to deserve this?" Ryou interrogated darkly. Tea was silent for a moment before she spoke.

"He would have kept you to himself, expecting you to be at his beck and call" Yami blinked then burst into a mocking laughter.

"AT `HIS' BECK AND CALL!?!?" he exploded. "The only person that I know that has that kind of attitude is you, but the thing is, I was just too stupid to not see the scheming bitch that goes around preaching about friendship then goes off fucking up other peoples lives!!!!" Yami was absolutely disgusted and turned to leave followed by the others.

"Yami…" Tea started. Yami snapped around seething with hate to the girl.

"This… relationship is officially over. Just be lucky that I haven't sent you to the Shadow Realm. Then again, you're not even worthy to go there." Yami carried on walking leaving her standing alone at the café. He sighed before heading towards the Turtle Game Shop to gaze longingly hoping to one day hold his aibou in his arms again. A downpour of summer rain had started to pour on the streets as he walked letting himself soak under the heavy showers and when they turned the corner they saw a horrific sight. Glass shards scattered the desolate street where the jagged frame of the Turtle Game Shop window depicted the destruction inside the shop itself. There amidst the shards lay a body.

"GRANDPA!!!!" they all yelled as they rushed to Solomon's body. Joey immediately raced to the phone whilst Tristan took his coat off to cover the old man and keep him warm. Yami cradled the old man in his arms. Bruised and cut from the many shards on his face. He opened his eyes slowly to face Yami… Shivering slightly he grasped Yami's strong hand with his blood soaked one.

"Yami…" he barely whispered.

"Grandpa what happened?" Yami whispered back, tears forming in his eyes as he gazed into tortured eyes.

"They… took Yugi…"

"Who took Yugi?"

"Gabriel… Kaiyan…" was all Solomon could say, fear in his old eyes.

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