Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Confidential Pain ❯ The Wrong One ( Chapter 1 )

ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!
You may remember this story originally posted on Mediaminer by yugis_chik_4eva. That is me, phreakyevil. I decided to switch to a new account because I like the name phreakyevil better.

Disclaimer - Haven't you read enough fanfics to know I don't own Yugioh?

Author's Notes- Well, time to start yet another fanfic.As far as I know, this one will stay strictly Yugioh. I'm actually getting in the spirit of writing fancis again, go me! Dark Duel of Demons is coming along, already 8 or so chapters. ^.^ Bunny Ears at last is getting spiffied up and added to. Shippo's Betrayal alas will be continued (possibly at least.) and Days of Turmoiled Lives is finally getting launched. But the pause button has been hit and It's time to start a new fanfic. ^.^ I hope you like it, and if you don't, please check out my other fanfics. ^.^ This fanfic was started in math class, and only because I had to fill space in my writer's notebook. But I'm glad I started it. ^.^ In with it then!!!

Confidential Pain


Chapter One- The Wrong One

Yugi suddenly had the unfamiliar sensation of flying as he was thrown backwards against the cold concrete wall. Paralyzing bolts of pain shot through him moments later.

"Ungrateful bastard!"

The hulky man's booming voice resonated through Yugi's head, bouncing off of his skull in an neverending echo as he gathered himself up and cowered against the wall. The man reached towards the nearby table and grabbed a fragile-looking glass filled with stale water. a mosquito hovered above it, and buzzed away as he lifted it. Smirking, he tapped his fingers against the side for a few moments before hurling it at a spot only a mere few inches above Yugi's head. The glass shattered into a million shards, drenching his hair and cutting his skin, the occasional fragment getting caught in his eye.

A young woman ran into the room, stumbling over her feet, tears streaming down her face and splashing onto the linoleum floor. She lunged for the man's bulky arm as reached for a large plate behind him and tugged on it, throwing all of her weight back.

"Stop it!! What are you doing? Yugi-!"

Her words were abruptly cut short as the large man ripped away his arm from her weak grasp.

"What am I doing? Whatever I damn please, bitch!!"

His hand swung towards her, and all time seemed to slow down. The woman's eyes widened fearfully as the large meaty hand came closer to her face until it finally collided. The woman staggered backwards slightly from the impact of the blow. She rubbed her hand gently across the area he had hit, where small droplets of blood had begun to form.

"Mom!" Yugi choked out between the stifled sobs as he lay sprawled on the floor, using his arms as leverage to get himself back up to a sitting position.

"Yugi? Hey! You ok? Yugi!"

Yugi heard his mother's voice calling to him faintly, somewhere in the far distance. He felt a pair of warm hands on his shoulders, shaking him frantically in an effort that was working quite well to get him to awaken. He could practically feel his brain fluids sloshing around in his skull.

"Mom?" he asked groggily.

"Yugi! You awake? 'S me, Anzu!"

Yugi cracked open an eyelid to find a large congregation of people bent over him, their worried expressions looming over him. He twitched as a few drops of sweat plopped down dangerously close to his mouth.

"Oy...go 'way...aren't you supposed to give me air or something?"

As soon as the crowd murmured 'sorrys' and scuttled away, he immediately regretted it. The sunshine invaded his pupil and he tightly shut his eyes again.

Watching the purple spots dance around on the back of his eyelid, he asked, "What happened?"

"Well, you were playing basketball with the guys. You must have been daydreaming or something, cause someone passed you the ball, and it hit you right between the eyes and then you just toppled over like when you flick one of those plastic army soldiers," someone volunteered.

Yugi vaguely remembered some of this happening, but his memories of the past were still fresh in his mind. He had tried to avoid that section of his memory ever since it happened, and had been doing a good job until now.

Why he was remembering it now of all times, he didn't know. Of course, it had only been two years.

"So Yugi, you up to finish the game? Someone called out.

"Nah, I think I'll sit out for a while" he replied, slowly and carefully standing up to have a seat at an inviting looking bench. The crowd slowly departed as he sat down.

After a few minutes, when he was sure everyone was absorbed in their game and paying absolutely no attention to him, he dug through his jacket pocket, feeling for the package he had hidden there. Finally finding the small zip lock bag, he took out one of the two pills and discreetly slipped it into his mouth.

The pill gradually dissolved in the warmth of his mouth, and Yugi leaned his head back, gazing at the sky. He followed the movement of the cloud animals, smiling slightly as a large horse passed over an oversized cat. He became faintly aware of the tingly feeling in his spine that he always got when he suspected someone was staring at him, but paid no heed until part of his vision was blocked by a looming shadow.

"Mind if I join you?"

Yugi nodded, still gazing at the clouds, and scooted over a bit, feeling the bench sink slightly with the added weight.

"I never thought I'd see the day when little Yugi was doing drugs. You could get in a lot of trouble for that, you know."

Yugi, a shock of surprised adrenaline coursing through his veins, snapped his head back up quickly to look at the voice's source.

"What are you talking about?! "

"S'alright man. I'm not going to tell. Why ruin someone happiness?" The boy smiled slightly and Yugi relaxed.

"So how did you know?"

"It's quite obvious, Yugi. I've seen you for a few days now, doing speed*, I mean. Don't you think people notice when you're all depressed one minute, then happy go lucky the next? And you do so great on your tests continuously, even with your lifestyle at home."

"What do you know about my home?" Yugi asked quietly.

"Oh, not much. I just remember the article in the paper: `Small Boy and His Mother Abused By Father'." The boy chuckled. "I hear they left out the details though."

"What details?" Yugi asked, thouroughly confused now.

The boy now fixed his gaze intently upon Yugi's eyes, asking in a low voice, "You mean you don't remember?" He suddenly shot his arm forward, powerful muscles clenching his hand around Yugi's throat.

Yugi choked, gasping frantically for air, feeling his windpipe constrict under the pressure. Suddenly, the boy's grasp dissipated and Yugi was lying on the floor again.

"Stop it Dad!" Yugi shouted as he scrambled to his feet, the man punching him hard in his arm.

"Just playing, tyke!" His father laughed raucously and drove his foot into Yugi's shin. "You gotta be a man!"

"But it hurts!"

"Be a man and the pain won't hurt," the boy said, watching as Yugi came out of the traumatizing flashback. He was trembling violently.

What had happened? Why did he suddenly remember all these things he didn't want to?

"I...I don't know why you're making me remember all these things...Who the hell are you?"

The boy said nothing, only grinning widely, reminding Yugi vaguely of the Cheshire cat, and laughing.


"I don't think that matters now, does it?"

"Whatever…" Yugi let his head roll back once more to watch the clouds pass by, one by one.

After a bit, the boy spoke again, breaking the silence. "I think you took the wrong pill, man."

"Yeah, me too. Not feeling the energy."

The boy stared at him intently. "Well aren't you going to take the other one, then?"

"Nah, not just yet. I suppose Motrin will do for now, even though I'm not feeling the usual effects."

His companion watched as Yugi's eyes started drifting closed, struggling to stay open now and then, finally succumbing to sleep, and shook his head.

~*~At the basketball court~*~

"Yugi took quite a hit, didn't he?" Jounouchi commented.

"Yeah. You know what he was gibbering about? He was talking pretty funny," Anzu replied.

"Delusional," added Honda. The group stared at him. "Sorry…"

"Well what's up with him? It seems as if he's talking to himself. I thought only old people did that," Serenity piped in. The group peered at their friend, craning their necks to try to get a better look, and watched as his head turned to face beside him and he began speaking rather lividly.

They all exchanged glances.

"Hmm…I think he's still recovering from that hit. Maybe he was talking to a bee or something?" Mai
suggested.

No one believed this, and continued to watch the delirious boy until finally coming to decide that gossiping was much more fun.

"So, Joey, I hear Uragiru asked you out!" Anzu exclaimed.

After a few more minutes of chatting, the bell rang shrilly, signaling the end of their free period. Various groans and mutters were heard among the students as they trudged back indoors, where they would have to endure four more hours of half-broken fluorescent lights and stuffy rooms crammed with students, smelly from soccer games and basketball.

~*~Last period of the day~*~

Yugi made his way down the hall, narrowly avoiding having squashed toes and large indentations on his arm about the size of a combination lock. He finally stumbled through the door of his classroom, courtesy of a large arm shoving him out of the way. Yugi headed towards his desk, where he slouched down and awaited that day's chemistry lesson.

As the last few students trickled in, the teacher rapped sharply on his desk with a ruler, broken in various places from afternoons where he'd tapped it too hard.

"Attention everyone, time for class to begin. Sakura, get off that boy's desk, for god's sake!"

The class quieted down, mostly, and awaited instructions.

The teacher grinned what could have almost been an evil smile if he hadn't been so chubby and non-intimidating.

"As some of you are aware, there is a test today. It counts three times in the grade book, so work hard!"

The class groaned as he picked up a stack of papers whose thickness rivaled that of a large phone book, and struggled to pass them out without dropping the whole lot. No one bothered to help.

"Shit…" Yugi hissed under his breath, knowing that he hadn't studied or paid attention in class for the last week and that he was most certainly going to fail. Badly. A tap on the shoulder interrupted his worries.

"What?" he asked irritably. A small pouch was discreetly passed to him.

"Waste not," the voice said. Yugi recognized it as the boy from earlier.

Tucking the bag into his jacket pocket, Yugi raised his hand, saying "Sensei, may I go to the restroom?"

The man sighed, saying, "Yugi, this is a test, wait until after, ok?"

"But I gotta go," he whined, ignoring the outburst of giggles and choked snorts.

The teacher sighed again. "Alright, I'll make an exception, but just this once!"

Yugi had dashed out of the room as soon as he had finished the sentence, more giggles echoing out of the open door into the hallway.

Once he traveled the short distance to the restroom, he locked himself in one of the stalls and pulled out the Ziploc bag from before, along with the recently acquired pouch. He opened it eagerly, greeted with just what he hoped it was-a sedative. Yugi shook out his own amphetamine pill and placed it in his cupped hand along with the sedative. Tilting his head back, he poured them into his mouth and dry-swallowed them.

Yugi braced his feet on the floor and leaned against the thin cardboard-like wall of the stall, awaiting the rush. It didn't take long to arrive. With an ear-to-ear smile on his face, Yugi unlatched the stall door, got a quick drink of water from the fountain, and briskly walked back to the classroom.

When he got back, the thick pile of paper waited him on his desk. Still grinning widely, he sat down, drew a pencil out of his book bag, and began working on the test. Time passed surprisingly quickly, and none of the question puzzled him, not even the essay question he was sure had not been mentioned. Within what seemed like only a few minutes, Yugi had finished the test, and noticed that he was also the first one done. The teacher walked over to his desk and collected his paper, saying quietly to him, "You may go now, if you wish; there's nothing else on my lesson plan for today."

Yugi smiled and swung his book bag onto his shoulder, walking swiftly out the door and nearly skipping down the many stairs.

~*~ A few minutes later, outside the school ~*~

Yugi strolled down the street, smiling and humming a cheery tune.

"It's a beautiful day, isn't it?" he said to an old lady who was passing by, touching her shoulder, and received a look that seemed to scream, "GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!"

Not dispirited a bit, Yugi wandered around Tokyo, narrowly avoiding cars, bikes, and the tourist trolley. After a bit, he found himself on the top floor of an unfamiliar building, peering out of the large glass windows.

"Cool, you can see EVERYTHING from here! Hey look! It's my house!" he shouted loudly, getting several odd glances from the tourists.

Before he knew it, he had climbed the short flight of stairs and was on the edge of the roof of the building, letting the cold wind ruffle his hair and clothes.

"Hey Yugi! Come over here!"

Yugi, seeing the boy from before, grinned and walked towards him.

"WATCH OUT!!" He heard someone yell faintly, but paid no attention; it was their problem, not his.

It wasn't until that scream was accompanied by several more did Yugi look down.

"Somebody, call the police!" a woman screamed shrilly.

Yugi noticed joyfully that the people were rushing up to meet him, but no, that couldn't be it; he was feeling this exciting sensation that he couldn't quite explain.

"I'M FLYING!!!!!!!" he screamed happily.

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Well, that's the first chapter. Man, intense....I've never written anything like this before. I'm perty proud of it. And the amount of words is pretty high for me too. Kudo's to one of my best friends who helped me out on here. ^.^ Please review! New chapter will be coming soon. And don't forget to check out my other fanfics!!

*Speed
<u>Amphetamines</u> is often reffered to as Speed. This is a drug that can be inhaled, swallowed, snorted, or smoked. The effects of Speed are lack of fatigue and hunger, and stimulates the feeling of euphoria (happiness). This is often taken with a sedative to help make the drug last longer. The sedative counters some of the bad effects of the drug. Well, all the effects are bad since it's a drug, but you catch my drift. I hope. This drug often helps make the person very happy. I believe I may have said something about Yugi seeing fireworks. Speed often causes hallucinations such as these. Speed may be taken before a test. This makes the user experience heightened alertness and energy. Yugi breezed through his test because the speed effects made him sort of remember all the stuff he learned even though he wasn't paying attention. If you over does in this, you are prone to pass out for a while. After experiencing the "flash" of speed, you experience the "crash", where the drug wears off and you are back to being in whatever state you were before. Well, I guess that's it then.