Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Darkness ❯ Pain Wells ( Chapter 1 )

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Chapter one: Pain Wells

 

Have you ever felt like, for a moment, time stopped? I guess I'm not being very specific…. Like the air in your lungs stopped moving, the blood stopped flowing, like your entire world had come crashing down, and yet, no one noticed? Well I did. On February 21st, in my doctors office, where he informed me of my condition.

 

It's not what you're all thinking, no broken bones, and no mental illnesses. Nope. It was something I thought I'd never have to deal with again. Something I had put behind me, long forgotten. Something I had never ever thought could happen to me.

 

You wanna know, don't you? Well, if you're that interested I might as well tell the entire story…

 

Every story needs an introduction I suppose. My name is Jounouchi Katsuya, I'm 17, my best friend happens to be three feet smaller than me, my worst enemy is the hunkiest hunk on the planet, I'm still in high school and, apparently, going blind.

 

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“Now, I need you to fill out these forms and to check in at the hospital in two weeks.” A voice said from somewhere behind me. I knew who it was; I had seen his face once a year since I was small. It was an old and wrinkled face, on a small and ancient body. But no matter how much Dr. Nelson's body bent over and his hair turned gray, the twinkle in his eyes never left him. At the age of 69, he was still working and loving every minute of it. It was that twinkle that made him take the lollipop from him when they first met. And in a month I'd never see that twinkle again.

 

“Jou, if you would please take into consideration…your health…. I know your family doesn't have the money to have the required tests done, but…Jou? Jou are you listening to me?” I blinked and turned around to see Dr. Nelson wrinkle his brow and reach out and touch my forehead.

 

“It's nothing doc. I was just in a daze.” I mumbled and push his hand away. The perfect excuse. No one ever questions you on what you were thinking about. Not that I have much to think about. Anymore at least. My future's blown so, really, I haven't got a care. I won't need to go to college, I mean, I'm not about to start kidding myself and think that I might be able to actually make it through this. Come on, me, blind. Those two just don't compute.

 

“You've know for a year that this could happen Jou.” He stated and shook his head, “I worry about you, you know.” He said smiling softly.

 

Yeah, and for that whole year I thought, `what the hell? Why worry, never going to happen to me, right?' right, never gonna happen. Its not like I took a bloody hint when I found out about my sister, noooo, I had to brush it off and be over confident and cocky. Damn personality, couldn't I have gotten another one? Can I pick a new one out of a hat? Maybe suicidal? Or rebel? Or invisible?

 

I frown and jump off the examination table, “yeah well...don't. I don't need your sympathy.” I mutter pushing past him, and slipped out the door. Guess you gotta stick with what you got, eh?

 

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Wandering down a dirty dark alleyway really gets you to thinking. When I look at the shit on the street, it reminds me of how little I own and how much of that is really worth something. Which equals out to be about….nothing, nadda, zip, zilch. I have absolutely nothing of value. Unless you wanna count the many rats living in my walls…

 

I kick an old empty can, and it skidded down the ally, to rattle to a stop against a grimy dumpster.

 

The darkness was almost like a screen, or blanket, take your pick. It felt really heavy, like it was adorned with weights. My shoulders slumped and I knew I appeared like those bums and drunks that you always saw on the side of the roads. Maybe I'll become one of them, begging for money, and to take pity on the blind boy.

 

….like hell.

 

“It's just not fair”

 

I hear the voice and I know who says it, but the thick and deep sound of pain in the voice shocked me enough to raise my fingers to my face, and feel the wetness of tears on my cheek. Great, now I was crying, I haven't cried since I last saw dad, which was what…..a year ago?

 

“It's just not fair” I sob out, and sit down heavily in the alleyway. The dirt billows out around me, and settles on my clothing like a cape, a cape that symbolizes all the difficult challenges that I went through, and are to come. Oh great, here comes the self pity.

 

“It's not fair.”

 

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Feelings just get in the way. That's why you can't get close to anyone, because sooner or later your going to leave, and they're going to be hurt.

 

“come on Jou, what's the matter? You can't keep shutting us out….” God the little guy was persistent. Maybe I shouldn't have come to school today.

 

I waved him off and gave my prize winning smile. No one ever said lying with out a voice was really lying. At least I don't think so….

 

I leaned down and poked him on the nose.

 

“ what makes you think anything's wrong? Huh Yugi?”

 

A slow and hesitant smiled curved his lips, and he shoved me away. Yes! Dodged the bullet again, no wounds this time.

 

“ Aww, its nothing Jou, you just looked so lost is all .” He giggled and ran back to his desk. Gosh he was just too… innocent, it was almost sickening.

 

I slumped back down into my desk and looked around. A few minutes to the bell and still only half the class were inside, I guess another day of detention slips and red faced yelling was ahead of us. Of course I'm normally the one receiving the burnt of them but this time, for bloody once, I was the first one to class. Of course arriving before even the janitors had come to unlock the doors isn't something to be proud of, but, I can really only go from one extreme to the next, I've gotten used to it. For future reference, you should too.

 

The one disturbing and beyond annoying thing, that I'm sure your going to find is hilarious and very expected, was that Seto Kiba, the bane of my existence, was sitting on the steps of the school, at five in the morning, waiting patiently for the doors to be unlocked. No wonder he was the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company, the prick never slept! The bloody bastard had the balls to sneer at me, I tried to twist my lips into a sneer as well, but failed and I just looked away. I knew he stared at me for sometime, till he turned back to his book, that looked like…manga, maybe, I hadn't paid that much attention. Once you catch sight of his lips, really, your attention slips.

 

What was worst was he decided to sit right beside me today, so he heard everything that went on between Yugi and me. All morning the building feelings pushed against the pipes that symbolized my resistance. I prayed to Kami that they stayed stable, at least till the end of the day. Great, now he was staring at me. The prickly feeling covered my neck and I almost shuddered at the tingling that ran from the base of my spin to the top of my head. How dare he, he has no right to look at me like that!

One: I was positive he was straight.

Two: he's never given more than contempt to me.

And three; the curiosity act was making my stomach churn with the need to break down.

 

I turned to him and glared, trying to make him go away. Obviously it was a horrid attempt. Because he just looked back, just as blank and empty his eyes were. Never had he looked at me with emotion.

 

“ what?” I hissed, hoping he got the hint that I really wasn't in the mood to talk to him, Just looking in his direction sent my nerves and hormones on edge. In my brain I was on my hands and knees, begging Kami he'd go back to his `ignore Jou' mood.

 

“ you look like you slept in a dumpster, mutt. What happened?”

 

mission failure, hint not taken, self destruct in three seconds. My brain screamed in its small confines.

 

3

 

I was taken aback. Yeah, so I fell asleep in the alleyway after crying my heart and soul out onto the dirt floor, that did not mean I hadn't gone home and changed! I even stood in the shower and practically drenched myself in soap! I brushed my hair this morning!!!

 

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“ its none of your fucking business, now is it Kiba?” my voice cracked.

 

“oh, so the mutt does bite eh?” he snapped back.

 

1, self destruction in progress.

 

You know what comes after that, don't you? Yep, you guessed it, the plumbing finally broke. The nuts went flying, water went spraying and, the one thing I wanted to avoid, tears pushed up on my eyes to leak out. Just fucking great, no?

 

I stood up, pushing my chair so forcefully it tipped over. I must have pushed that chair pretty freaking hard because the next thing I noticed, the room went eerily quite. Or another possibility was that I'd accidentally yelled at Kiba instead of hiss. When the girls began to giggle and whisper behind their delicate hands, I picked the latter.

 

With hands over my mouth and tears running down my face I speed out of the room like a bullet leaving the barrel. Great, now everyone will know… there'll be questions, and jokes, and the worst of all…pity.

 

Then it hit me,

 

Oh my fucking god I just cried in front Kiba.

 

I really shouldn't have gone to school today.

 

 

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