Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Conflicted ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

A/N: This is the last chapter not including the epilogue (I dun like the ending and doubt you will either)..Oh, and Jounouchi likers won't like this chappy..

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//I've Become so numb//

//I can't feel you there//

//Become so tired//

//So much more aware//

//I'm becoming this//

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Chapter 8

The taller boy stood frozen, as someone who moments ago, had looked like he was on the verge of death, ran full speed away from him. Then it hit him; Yugi was heading back towards his house! The smaller boy's pleas to help Yami, played in his head, as he sprinted down the sidwalk. Determined to catch the battered boy, he didn't see the green light or the car until it was barreling over him.

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As Yugi neared the game shop his heart pounded in his chest and he felt slightly ill, but the shock that was silencing his rationality, was having a similar toll on his body.

As he climbed the stairs, the blood pounding in his ears was almost impossible to ignore in the eerilly silent house. Had he been able to, he likely would have registered his shaking hand as it opened his bedroom door.

Yugi stood in the entrence, eyes wide, he took in the scene. He couldn't surpress it any more. As the images of only a few hours earlier forced themselves into his vulnerable mind, he could no longer breath and he had the immence urge to vomit.

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Yami lay on the floor of the room, hugging himself and waiting for the inevetible. The only comfort from the chilling atmosphere was the pool of blood forming itself around his exposed body. The sting on his arms, legs and stomach was starting to fade, as darkness enveloped him.

His ascent into the blackness was suddenly interupted by an unpleasent retching sound. Yami gathered his energy and peered across the dimly lit room. *Yugi?* There was no way.. he must have been imagining it.. But, no, he could sence him through their tatered bond.

Pale and gagging, the smaller boy looked horrible. Acting on instinct Yami moved to comfort the boy.

Yugi inwardly flinched as a cold hand was placed on his arm. It was few seconds before he could pause to look up at it's owner. When he did, everything that embodied what had been done to him, stared into his eyes. A blood soaked body, cuts and bruises along it's limbs, this was what Yugi had become.

The dark one wasn't surprised when his hikari stared at him in horror, in the few seconds before he pulled away from him. He stood and stared at the shatered light. He had done this, there was no taking it back, nothing could ever be the same..

Yugi gasped, as something flicered in the dull eyes of the boy he once trusted. As blood red tears made their way down his cheeks, the small boy couldn't help but feel the sorrow eminating through their link.

Yami felt one of the drops hit his hand. *So the rumors were true* he thought musingly, as he looked at the crimsin liquid. He looked past his hand, his accepting smile fading slightly. "I'm sorry," he mouthed before falling to his knees, forced to succumb to his dizzyness.

Yugi watched in shock as Yami's hunched and bleeding body became transparent. His whimpered the dark one's name, unsure of what was happening. Suddenly struck him; this was the end.

"Y-YAMI!!" The young boy cried out and attempted to grasp at the air that had just been occupied. Whispering the name over and over, Yugi huddled in that spot crying, until he was found.