Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Coming Together ❯ Unexpected Way of Escape ( Chapter 5 )

Yugi awoke with a large headache and the sounds of someone or thing beating against a wall with chains rattling somewhere to his left. He opened his large violet eyes and looked around.

He was lying on his back on a stone table looking up at the ceiling with cuffs to keep him from sitting up on his hands and feet. There was a door on his right and nothing else he could see in his darkness. He groaned as his headache pulsed through his head and whatever that was off to his left wasn't helping any.

"Yugi?" A familiar voice called to him and the chain rattling and scuffling stopped.

"Hmm?" He asked back, opening his eyes once more and looking off to his left. He saw a human formed shadow and slight glinting of blood reflected from the small dull light above the door.

"Celtic? Is that you?" He asked as he recognized the crossed-sword shirt Celtic had been looking at earlier that day; or was it yesterday. Yugi wasn't sure what time of day it was or even how long he'd been out.

"Yes, Master Yugi. It's me. Are you feeling okay?" He asked with concern edging around his voice.

"I'm fine I guess. I feel a little sick and I have a headache too. What happened?"

"We were in the Shadow Realm a while ago, not sure how long, but it was a long time. You were starting to look a little pale in the face that was much too pale to be healthy so this guy with blue eyes and white hair came and took you here. Not long after two other guys that looked almost exactly like him came out. One with a scar down his right cheek and the other had two scars running down his left eye."

"Celtic, I'm scared. Why is this happening? And what's the Shadow Realm?" Yugi asked as he pushed tears away from his eyes to keep them from falling.

"The Shadow Realm is a dark and terrible place. It's where Duel Monsters like me and Dark Magician stay when they aren't in battle and aren't in a physical form like I am. To those who aren't used to it and aren't strong enough to handle the strain of being within it can die from it." Celtic explained.

Both looked up as the door suddenly opened and closed. Two of the three boys that Celtic told him about were standing there, the one without any scars and the one with two scars running over his eye; both were smirking.

"It's about time you woke up." The one without any scars stated with an annoyed expression plastered on his face.

"Couldn't have been better timing either. Three was just about to tell our master about our guests and what we did for him. Didn't expect to get greeny over there." He smirked as he glared at Celtic on the far wall.

The other just nodded before looking up. "I think we should prepare our gift for our master. Three and him should be down here any minute."

The other nodded as well and the two made their way to Yugi who, in turn, was struggling and ignoring the painful headache coursing through him as he tried to get away from the two.

The one with the scars smiled down at him. "Oh don't worry little one. We're the least of your worries. Your main worry is our master. He's going to have so much fun with you." He smiled once more as his hands reached for Yugi's shirt and used his claws that had grown from his fingernails to cut it open as the other started with Yugi's shoes.

The two suddenly stopped as the door burst open and the third look boy with a scar running down his cheek stumbled in. He tried running over to them as he heaved for breath but he tripped over his feet and fell face first on the stone hard floor.

"Three, you idiot! What are you doing? And where's our master?" The one without scars yelled at the one called Three."

"S-sorry, One. Master's on his way n-now." The third stuttered as he tried lifting himself off the floor only to fall back down again as he was trampled over by someone who just entered.

Yugi averted his eyes to the one on the ground to the one standing on him and gasped. Standing there was Seto with a panicked look on his face.

"What are you three doing? One, you better explain what's going on. Why are you doing this to Yugi? He's my friend for Kami's sake!"

"But Master Seto, this is the gift Three told you about. Or at least the one he was suppose to tell you about." One explained as he glared at Three who was still lying on the ground.

"That's why I ran down here as soon as I got dressed!" Seto yelled out. He turned to Yugi sadly before looking up at the Celtic Guardian. He could easily tell the monster didn't like him already just because of his dragons. He walked over to Yugi and started to unlatch his friend from the table and helped him sit up, taking him in a hug as soon as he did.

"Seto? Who are they? Why did you do this?" Yugi asked as he hugged Seto back, tears flowing from his eyes. He knew he was safe if those three listened to Seto and Seto was his friend.

"These are my three Blue Eyes White Dragons. They came to life just like your Celtic and Dark Magician did." Seto explained.

"How did you know about…?" Yugi started.

"My dragons told me when they brought him in. Plus it was pretty obvious when he kept calling for his `Master Yugi' to wake up." Seto chuckled.

"Seto…?"

Noticing his friend's hesitation to ask, Seto took him into his arms once more and hugged him tightly. "Yes Yugi?"

"Your dragons said they were doing all this for you. Why would you want them to do this for me?" Yugi asked as he wiped his tears against the CEO's shirt.

"I didn't want this, Yugi. It has something to do with my past life."

Yugi's eyes widened and he pulled away. "You remember it?" He asked quickly.

"I remembered when I saw my dragons. Why, don't you remember it?" Seto questioned perplexed that Yugi didn't remember it by now.

"I…" Yugi stopped. `I don't know if I should tell him about those weird things I see sometimes without telling Yami first. He does have the right to know after all.' Yugi thought.

"Yugi?" Seto asked when he realized his multi-colored friend wasn't going to finish his answer.

"Never mind, Seto. I can't tell you yet. I want to tell Yami first. It just wouldn't seem right if I didn't."

Seto's eyes softened as he looked into Yugi's own soft amethyst eyes. "I understand Yugi. You don't have to worry. When you're ready to tell me I'll be right here."

"Then I don't think I'll be coming to see you for a while." Yugi stated quickly as he looked around. "It's way too scary down here for me."

Seto laughed. "I meant I'd be where you can find me."

"I know what you meant…um Seto?" Yugi asked as he looked into the CEO's blue eyes.

"Yes Yugi?"

"Can I go home now?"

"Huh? Oh! Of course you can Yugi." Seto smiled slightly. He turned back to the three dragons behind him, Three finally having gotten up. "I don't want you three to ever do this to Yugi or anybody else who you remember from your past. It that understood?" He ordered. "They're my friends and I won't have them treated as anything less than that."

"Yes Master Seto." Two and Three said at the same time.

Blue eyes turned to the third dragon who stayed quiet. "One." He said sternly.

The dragon's own blue eyes turned to Yugi's frightened violet ones and smirked to himself as he found the boy to be rather tense under his stare. He stared for a while at the boy hungrily before turning his gaze back to his master. "Yes Master Seto. This will never happen again."

Yugi gulped and turned back to Seto when he started talking again.

"Now I'm going to take Yugi home and explain this and you three are coming with me because I know for a fact that Yami won't believe me since he still remembers the past and what I did in my past life just as well as you three do." He turned to Yugi and picked him up in his arms and carried him out the door, stopping right in front of it.

"And release Celtic as well. He is Yugi's monster after all."

The three dragons quickly moved towards the monster on the far wall, the third with a scar running down his cheek stumbling and ended up falling on his face once more.

While they unlocked Celtic's bindings Yugi looked at Seto. "Are you just going to call them numbers or do they have names?"

Seto looked at him and gave him a rare smile. "No Yugi. I only call them by their numbers if I'm really mad at them. They do have names, which I call them sometimes. The leader of them is the one without any scars on his face; he's Shidosha or One. The second isn't all up for fighting and has a pretty good attitude half the time but other times you can't be near him he gets so angry. He's the one with the two scars running down his left eye; he's Kibun or Two. The third is the clumsy one with the scar running down his cheek. He can barely walk anywhere without landing on his face most of the time; he's Bukiyo or Three."

Yugi nodded and closed his eyes while they waited for Celtic and the three dragons to join them at the door before walking up the stairs.

**

Yami paced around the room thinking about Yugi and all the possible reasons of what could happened.

"Maybe he went to the Shadow Realm." Dark Magician finally suggested to Yami.

The once Pharaoh looked up at his monster and friend. "Who would want him to go there?"

Just then the doorbell rang and Yami watched Ryou as he walked out of the room to get the door before pacing around once more.

"Yami, I think you want to come here!" Ryou called from the front door.

The King of Games walked out of the room and gasped before his crimson eyes hardened and he visibly tensed at who was there.

"What are you doing here and what are you doing with Yugi?" Yami growled through clenched teeth.

"There's been a misunderstanding I'm afraid." Seto explained. "Yugi fell asleep on the way here though. Maybe we could get him comfortable before I do explain though."

"Fine." Yami walked over and held out his arms. "I'll bring him up to the bedroom and you can go in the living room."

Seto nodded and placed the sleeping teen into the waiting arms of his other half. Yami disappeared to the second floor as he walked into the living room with his three dragons and Celtic following behind him.

Once Yami returned he scowled and his eyes kept darting to the stairs to see if Yugi were coming down them as Seto explained everything that happened.

When Seto was done he introduced the three dragons to him and told them how they showed up the other day. That explanation was interrupted though when Yami suddenly jumped up and ran up the stairs, claiming he heard something.

Yami opened the door quietly, in case Yugi was actually still asleep and hadn't called out, and looked in the room. He smiled slightly when he saw Yugi look over at him and beckoned him over quickly to sit on the bed.

The ex-Pharaoh sat down beside the innocent one and wrapped his arms around him when Yugi moved to sit in his lap.

"Little One, did you call?" Yami asked as one hand held tightly around Yugi's slim waist while the other ran its fingers through the boy's soft hair.

Yugi nodded and rested his head against Yami's chest to listen to the heartbeat there. "I did." Yugi finally answered vocally after a minute of more silence between the two. "I woke up and no one was here. I recognized the room as Ryou and Marik's guest room though and hoped you'd be here too since Malik and Bakura are here still." Crimson eyes widened but before he had a chance to ask Yugi why he wanted him rather than his two best friends he started talking again. "Did Celtic and Dark Magician start fighting again when we got here?"

"No, I don't think so. Seto started explaining what happened after we put you up here; although they aren't talking to each other either. They sat as far away from each other as possible; at least Celtic did from Dark Magician, but mine was just trying to get closer to him still."

"We should be getting home. My grandpa may have called and, considering the time," he added looking at the clock reading 9.57 in bright red numbers, "he's going to wonder why I haven't back yet. I wouldn't want to worry him and I still don't really know how exactly I'm going to explain you and the other two."

Yami nodded and stood, holding Yugi in his arms so he wouldn't fall to the floor. "No we wouldn't want to do something like that. If your still tired you can go to sleep if you want."

Yugi yawned and snuggled up closer as Yami stepped out to the cool night air after he had beckoned the two monsters to come.

"Are you cold?" Yami asked and held Yugi to him tightly.

"A little, but I'll make it." Yugi shivered and tried to get deeper into the warmth of Yami's arms.

After a few minutes Yami could feel goose bumps forming on the boy's skin and set him down on his feet. He took his jacked off and helped Yugi into it, chuckling a little bit at how the sleeves were a little long and hid the smaller boy's hands completely. He picked him back up and held him to him once more as they continued back to the game shop.

**

At arriving back home Yami covered Yugi in his blankets after putting him to bed; Yugi having fallen asleep on the way after Yami had given him his jacket.

"I'll be right back. I'll go check the messages for you." Yami whispered before turning to go back downstairs.

He returned ten minutes later to find Yugi was sitting up and looking at him confused.

"What took so long? There isn't usually that many messages." He asked.

Yami blushed but ignored it as he sat down beside the bed and played with Yugi's hair after he laid his head on his pillow once more. "I couldn't figure out how to work it. But there was a message. That's all I could figure out because the screen said `1 message(s)'. I didn't want to mess with it though."

"Thanks, I show you how to work it and a few other things tomorrow. I'll check the message tomorrow and just tell him I went to bed early."

After a few more minutes of silence both boys fell into a comfortable sleep, lulled by the other's soft, evened out breathing of relaxation.

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sorry that seemed to take longer than I usually take to get a chapter out. Stuff's been happening but it's over (for now). Anyways, you know what to do when you're done. Review, review, review. You know I luv `em. And ideas too (hint*hint) I luv it when people send me ideas.