Dangerous Innocence

K: Hi! Hi! Another story! *Sighs* again… this is kind of angsty I guess, so enjoy!

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Dreams and Memories

A young boy no older than five years old was strapped by metal restraints on a cold metal table was unconscious at the moment, his breaths though coming out raggedly.

About twenty men were stationed around the room with heavily armed weapons. They looked at each other nervously knowing what may happen. This boy was found crying near his dead parents in an alley and that is how he ended up in the room.

A man in a lab coat was working with two test tubes trying to even out the liquids. He finally finished, and slowly and nervously made his way to the petit boy.

The said boy's eyelids slowly opened and when he saw the man coming towards him he clamped his mouth shut. He didn't like what they were doing to him it has been weeks since they found him and they would always make him drink it.

The man plugged the boy's nose waiting for him to lose breath and breathe from his mouth.

The boy couldn't take it anymore his lungs were screaming for air. Tears were running down his cheeks. He didn't want it he didn't want the pain again.

He opened his mouth breathing in oxygen heavily then whimpered when the man poured the liquid down his throat.

The boy tried to scream but he couldn't the liquid had burned his throat like lava. It hurt, it hurt too much. He began struggling against the restraints and the guards around the room stood ready incase something may happen, and id did.

The boy's metal restraints easily snapped at his rapidly growing strength. He rolled off the table and hit the ground, his eyes held a dead blank look. The men stayed away from the boy as he just lay there.

One of the men slowly walked over to the prone body while the others urged him to stay away. He poked the boy with his gun then jumped back then he began poking some more. The men seemed to have calmed down but as they moved closer they yelped as the boy quickly grabbed the gun that had been poking him and crushed it in his small bare hands.

The man in the lab coat ran out of the room as the guards all back away from the boy, readying their guns.

The child seemed to be glaring then as quick as lightning he grabbed the nearest man and began squeezing his neck with his little hand. The man had tears from the intense pain. Then the man in the lab coat came back and quickly shot the boy with an electronic gun.

The boy dropped the man and fell to the ground unconscious.

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Yugi shot out of bed eyes wide, body glistening with sweat and breathing rather harshly. He looked down at his hands and clenched them then buried his face into his hands. He'd been having these dreams for a few weeks now he forced himself to forget but they kept coming back.

Yugi felt a tug inside him signaling that Yami had come out. Yugi still had his face in his sweaty palms as he felt his bed sink from Yami's weight.

"Aibou?" Yugi heard his yami say and felt Yami's fingers brush his bangs behind his ears. Yugi timidly looked at Yami his eyes were shining with tears.

Yami hated seeing his hikari like this his heart would always swell with pain when Yugi looked like this. He knew Yugi had been having nightmares for quite some time now. He would never show it, it was always masked with happiness in front of others. Yugi would never want to talk about it and Yami didn't want to pry into his thoughts. If it were anybody else he would but never Yugi.

Yami stroked Yugi's cheek trying to calm the boy down. Yugi was hiccupping slightly then gave a small gasp when Yami pulled him into his embrace. Yami didn't know when or how but for a while he had feelings for his little hikari, feelings that were hard for him to admit. But he slowly accepted that he loved Yugi with all his being and would try to bring happiness into the teen's life.

Yami just held Yugi swaying slightly and rubbing his back in soothing circles. Yami could feel his aibou's breathe evening out and his body relaxed more. As Yugi went back to a more peaceful slumber Yami gently laid him back on the bed. He sighed as he began to fade back into the puzzle but he looked down when he felt a tug on his sleeve.

Yugi looked at him with fearful but hopeful eyes. "Please stay Yami."

Yami smiled, a smile he only showed Yugi. He lifted the covers up as Yugi scooted away to give Yami more room. Yami lay on his side staring at Yugi who snuggled closer to Yami's warmth. Yami sighed again, wrapping his arms around Yugi's slender body and laid his head on Yugi's silky, soft hair, slowly falling asleep.

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BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Crunch!

Yugi shot out of his bed and quickly turned to the alarm clock he had hit. It had his fist print in it and was sparking a little. Yugi looked at his hands to see no blood then looked down at Yami who was still sleeping and he sighed in relief.

Yugi crawled out of bed and gathered the clock then quietly creped out of his room. He came back with another alarm clock and he plugged it in. He sighed, he didn't want to go to school he was afraid ever since he began remembering things that were buried deep within his mind, he was afraid he might accidentally hurt someone just like his clock.

Yugi walked over to Yami and began to shake his lithe form. "Yami wake up. I have to go to school." Yugi shook him a little harder but not too hard he was afraid he might hurt his yami.

Yami groaned turning over, his eyelids sliding open revealing glowing crimson eyes. He slowly got up and blinked drowsily at his aibou. He began to mutter then blushed when Yugi started to dress in front of him. He couldn't help but stare at Yugi's back, muscles flexing as he put on his shirt.

Yami turned away blushing even more, waiting for his hikari to finish. "Yami?" Yami blinked and saw Yugi was ready to leave. He nodded with a small smile on his face as he faded back in the puzzle.

Yugi felt warm and happy when he saw Yami's smile and then left the shop for school.

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"Oi! Yugi!" Jounouchi yelled running to his friend.

"Ohayo Jounouchi-kun!" Yugi waved and stopped walking. He waited for his friend to catch up. When he did they began walking again.

"Man, Yugi you seem to be walking faster than usual," Jounouchi huffed, trying to catch up to his friend.

Yugi blinked. "I am?"

"Yeah, I can barely keep up and I have longer legs than you."

Yugi tried to slow his walk at the speed as Jounouchi but it felt quite slow to him. So, they walked to school talking about duel monster strategies.

"So, if I use Change of Heart I can sacrifice it to put in a stronger monster of mine?" Jounouchi repeated what Yugi told him.

"Un," he nodded, "unless you already summoned a monster then you can't that turn, remember that."

"Heh, I gotta learn more strategies," Jounouchi said as they walked into class. "Was there any homework?" Jounouchi asked Yugi a little worried.

Yugi smiled then shook his head and Jounouchi sighed in relief. Then the bell rang and everyone who was in the room went to their seats as other students piled into the classroom.

Class was quite boring they were just taking notes while the teacher explained some of the things she wrote on the board.

"…As you all know some acids can be…" Crack! The teacher stopped and everyone turned to look at Yugi. Some were wide-eyed when they saw Yugi's pen crushed into the desk.

"Mutou-san?"

Yugi stared at his pen then looked at the teacher. "Gomen nasi, sensei."

"Um, why don't you clean that up," she said unsure of what else to say.

Yugi got up and walked out of the class but without hearing whispers about him. Yugi quickly went into an empty bathroom and into a stall locking it firmly. He leaned against the wall and slid down it.

'I can hardly control it now. Why is it coming back? I need to control all this or I'll go crazy… like last time.' Yugi's eyes began tearing. 'I've killed too many people because of this. Why did they have to use me? Was I the only one who could survive the intense pain?'

Yugi wrapped his arms around his knees, laying his head on his knees.

"Aibou?"

Yugi looked up to see Yami's concerned face. He didn't even notice Yami leaving the puzzle.

"Are you okay?" he asked stroking Yugi's soft hair.

Yugi looked down. "I-I don't' know."

"It has something to do with those dreams isn't it," Yami lifted Yugi's head up so he could see those beautiful violet eyes that usually shined but now they seemed dull.

Suddenly, Yugi wrapped his arms around Yami in a loose hug, but it seemed quite tight to Yami. "I'm scared Yami."

"If you tell me what's wrong I could help you," Yami said softly, rubbing Yugi's back soothingly.

Yugi looked up with tears running down his cheeks, "What if you hated me if I told you?"

Yami felt sorrow tingle through his body then he embraced Yugi, nuzzling his neck a little. "I could never hate you aibou. Never," Yami said softly.

Yugi smiled into Yami's neck, and closed his eyes.

/Arigatou/

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K: So… how was it?

Yugi: What's happening to me? Am I becoming an ugly monster?!

K: O.o; No…

Yugi: Okay

Yami: If you hurt him I'll kill you.

K: O__O it's me you're talking to you dimwit.

Yami: *blinks* Oh, well I was thinking of the other authors that usually torture him and kill him and well, yeah…

K: -___- some of those authors are good.

Yami: *pouts* but they hurt my Yugi. *Grabs Yugi* MINE! *Runs off with Yugi*

Yugi: Wheeeeee!

K: *blinks*