Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Emergence ❯ Gone ( Chapter 14 )

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Emergence

Chapter 14: Gone

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Yami and Mahado

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Yami shivered, "I'm what?"

"Insane." Mahado took a cookie from the tin and sat back in his chair. "You and Yugi are two halves of the same soul." He nibbled a corner of his cookie and took a sip of his tea, stretching his feet out to the fire and settling back into his chair. "You, my pharaoh, are the dark half, the logical half, that plans and keeps things in order. Yugi is the light half, the emotional half, that provides balance and stability." He shrugged lightly, "Without you he looses his ability to think in a logical, coherent manner. Without him, your feelings start swinging wildly back and forth. Being separated for so long, both your minds are starting to deteriorate."

Yami shivered and stood up, "I need to get back…"

"But don't you want what you came for?" Mahado tipped his head to look up into Yami's eyes.

"Do you…?"

Mahado grinned and nodded, "I looked it up a few millennia ago, just in case I ever wanted to go back to that realm. It's really very simple."

Yami sat back down and picked his tea back up, feeling relief course through his mind. "Tell me."

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Honda

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"I can't believe you! How can you do this?!" Serenity shrieked over the phone.

Honda blinked at it cluelessly. Someplace in the back of his mind, a voice was saying `Way to go moron', but the front of his mind was fuzzily confused. I had to tell her. Isn't honesty the best policy? He made a soothing sound, "Serenity, I love you. I just don't want to date you any more. I like Ribbon."

"Ribbon! You ass! I find out you've been hurt and when I call you tell me your seeing another girl?!" Serenity's voice could be clearly heard on the other side of the room, making Anzu and Mai wince.

"I wanted to be honest with you…"

"Honest! When has honesty been important to you?" Serenity's voice dropped a decimal or two, as she growled. "You lying piece of shit!"

"Babe, don't be so angry. I honestly do love you. I just want to date someone who doesn't fuck a different guy every week." Honda's inner voice tried to smack him on the head and only succeeded in making him fumble the phone as Serenity made a incoherent shriek of rage.

"I can't believe you. Your fucking some little ho and your making me sound like a fucking street walker."

Honda scratched his head, "I didn't say that. I just said you fuck a different guy every week. You don't think I'm going to marry someone like that do you?"

"Marry! Who said anything about getting married! I'm going to…" Serenity trailed off in a series of snarls. "You bastard, you were the worst fuck I ever had. Your pathetic."

Honda's inner self squirmed, and even his outer self was now starting to feel the first tinge of anger. "Look babe, you act like a ho, you sound like a ho, just go out and get the right clothes so you look like one too. Truth in advertising."

"I'll kill you! How dare you say that." Serenity gasped.

"Truth hurt? What do you think people are saying about you babe? Even your brother knows that you're a bed hopping slut." Honda could hear the words hit as she hissed in her breath.

"Shut the fuck up you fucking asshole. I hope you and your little slut are happy together burning in hell." Serenity slammed the phone down, cutting the connection.

Honda blinked owlishly at the receiver. "Oh, well, that didn't go too bad."

"I'd hate to see a bad one then." Mai stood up and took the receiver form Honda, setting it back in it's cradle.

"Oh, bad ones with her usually end up with me getting hit, maybe a few bruises, and," he looked thoughtful for a second, "something like this, I'd probably end up bleeding."

Anzu looked worried, "Is she really doing that Honda?"

Honda sat back in the recliner next to the phone and nodded, "Yeah, she got it from her mom."

"Oh, poor Jo." Anzu shook her head, "Was that why his parents broke up."

Honda's inner self tried desperately to shut his mouth, but once again medicine and stupidity won the day. "Yep. She apparently was sleeping around the whole time. Jo's not even his dad's real kid. She was fucking some gaigin and Jo was the bonus."

Mai leaned forward from where she was perched against the phone table. "Honda, shut up."

"Huh?"

"Shut up, and do it now." Mai thwaped him on the head. "You're babbling things you shouldn't babble." She walked over to where Anzu was sitting with her mouth hanging open. "We're going to pretend you didn't say that and leave before we hear anything else we'll have to pretend not to hear."

"Hey, don't go!" Honda whined struggling out of the chair, while his inner voice cheered madly.

Mai shoved him back. "Sit boy. Maybe get some sleep. We'll call you later to see how you're doing."

"But…" Honda tried again to stand up, only to be pushed back.

Mai walked out the door, tugging Anzu after her. "Later.:

Anzu managed a wave as the door slammed behind her, "I'll call when I get home."

Honda's inner voice sighed, I'm really going to hate myself in the tomorrow.

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Bakura and Ryou

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Usually, the walking down the hall was a rather boring activity. A few steps, maybe glance at some of the pictures of his family that hung on the wall, maybe notice a spot on the carpet that he'd have to get around to cleaning later. In all, rather a dull thing to do. Unfortunately, that was before Ryou's yami had stayed up two days straight swilling espresso while bent over a computer and perched on a ergonomically correct chair. Now, Ryou was finding that just standing up straight was beyond his powers, walking was an exercise of miracles, each step seemingly an act of god. Walking down the hall was akin to a trip up the side of Mt. Everest on a pogo stick.

"Just a couple more steps…" Ryou gasped as he creaked his way past a picture of his sister smiling and happily waving. He wobbled and leaned against the wall for a second, before taking a deep breath and continuing on his trek.

Bakura was sleeping. At least, Ryou guessed he was. His yami had yawningly stumbled down the hall between their soul rooms and had disappeared into his own dark side, closing the door behind him. Ryou felt a bit bad about that, he had been curious to see if his yami had found anything new. Now, if he truly wanted to know, he'd have to brave the darkness of his other's domain.

"First things, first." Ryou pushed himself off the wall, using the momentum to propel himself into the door of his room and stumble to his bed, where he collapsed into an aching heap. "I think it would be easier if he just beat me next time."

I heard that you know.

"Yami!" Ryou closed his eyes, willing himself to stand in front of his darkness in their soul corridor.

Bakura stood in the door of his room, leaning on the frame. His wild hair in damp limp tangles around his shoulders and his eyes heavy with long delayed sleep. "You should be careful what you wish for, hikari."

"Did you find anything." Ryou ignored his dark's teasing, instead slipping close to him, snuggling against his side and letting his tired other rest against him. Now, that he didn't have to deal with the body, he was feeling better than his yami looked.

Bakura grumbled, tugging Ryou backwards into his room. "Yeah, I found something."

"Really, what?" Ryou stumbled as he found himself standing in soft warm sand. One of the problems with his yami's room, was that it seemed to change periodically. Just when he'd get used to it being one way, it'd change into something else. Today, it was sand, soft warm wind and thick blanketing darkness..

Bakura didn't answer. He just kept walking, leaning slightly against his light's shoulder and trudging through the sand with his head down, looking intently at the nearly invisible ground.

"Yami?"

"What?" Bakura grumbled, steering his light along slightly.

"What did you find out?" Ryou tried to stop, but Bakura caught his hand and pulled him along. A soft gold light seemed to be glowing faintly in the distance and they seemed to be heading for it.

"Singing." Bakura grumped.

"Excuse me?"

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Yami

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"…the Song of Orpheus?" Yami set his tea cup down. "I came all this way to find out I have to…

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Marik

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Marik blinked down at the book in his lap. "I have to sing a song? That's it? I have to croon some silly ditty?"

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Bakura and Ryou

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"I'm doomed. Ra hates me." Bakura shook his head, drooping against his light. "There is just no fucking way I am singing some idiot tune."

Ryou found himself standing outside some kind of tent. A delicate dancing light flickered from within. "But that's wonderful!"

Bakura stepped away from him and pulled open the flap to the tent, waving Ryou to go in. "It is not wonderful. It's horrendous."

"But if all you have to do is sing…" Ryou stepped inside, finding himself standing on a soft woven carpet. A small brazier sat in the middle of the tent, it's fire casting warm light across the scattering of pillows and cushions that clustered in the tent's corners. A small trunk was tucked against one wall, which Bakura sat on.

"There's only one problem." Bakura slumped. "I can't sing."

"Oh, it's not that bad. It's not like you have to go on stage and perform." Ryou sat down next to his dark. "You don't have to sing it well do you?"

Bakura sighed shaking his head. "Do the words tone deaf mean anything to you?"

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Kaiba and Jonouchi

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Kaiba sat glowering out his window at Domino City's skyline. As he watched, the first fat rain drops of a storm hit the windows with soft splats. Soon the tempo started picking up till no one single drop could be identified. Lightning flashed eerily across the sky and a second later thunder boomed after it. Jonouchi, asleep on the bed behind him, rustled uneasily before once again settling into deep sleep.

"Who the hell are you?" He looked over to where the token sat on his desk, now wrapped in a silk handkerchief and surrounded by a protective circle. He smiled to himself. He'd go to his grave before giving the pharaoh the satisfaction of knowing he believed in magic, but he could still drag some impressive things out of his memory when he needed to. He wasn't entirely sure what he'd done, what the mechanics of the whole process were, but deep inside, he was confident that the token wouldn't be bothering him anymore. Now, if he could just dig up something that would lead him to his mystery attacker.

Another flash of lighting and a quick boom of thunder caused Jo to shift, muttering in his sleep. Kaiba glanced over with a smile that quickly disappeared. More than anything else, it was that the attack was at least partially aimed at Jo, that infuriated Kaiba. He could take care of himself, tucked in his mind and soul was a well trained and powerful sorcerer. But Jo? Jo, who had already had his mind and soul violated by that wacko Marik? Jo, who's only protection was a thick skull and unswerving loyalty to his friends? No. Whoever tried to drag Jo into some sick shadow game, was going to pay.

He'd spent the entire day running down every lead he could find and had ended up nowhere. Kado, his head of security, was even now searching, trying to trace where Duke had been, in the hopes of finding his attacker. He'd even pulled Jame away from cooing happily over his recently departed assistant's files and computer disks, to try to track down who would benefit most from his absence. There had to be some reason why they had wanted him out of town and up at that convention.

He stepped away from the window and walked over to the bed, looking down at the slender blond that lay curled on his side. A slight bruise could be seen, even in the dim light of the room, shadowing Jo's cheek. A inch long scrape trailed across one edge of it. Kaiba reached out and carefully touched the mark. How dare they drag him into this.

Jonouchi's eyes fluttered open, "Se'o?"

"Go back to sleep." Kaiba stepped back, only to find himself caught by one of Jo's hands wrapped around his wrist.

"You too."

"In just a minute, I want to call and see if Yuai is alright." Kaiba stroked his lover's soft pale hair. "Sleep love. I'll be right back."

Jo's eyes were already closing. "Okay, but jus' a min't."

Kaiba quietly padded away, scooping up the phone on his way out to the hall. He closed the door behind him, making sure not to disturb Jo and dialed the hotel number.

BEEP

"I'm sorry all lines are down. Please try again later."

Kaiba frowned at the phone, hung up and dialed again.

BEEP

"I'm sorry…"

He hung up and stood frowning at the phone. How very interesting. The very place you were about to take an unplanned vacation to, has phone problems. He silently walked back into the room and replaced the phone. He shrugged out of his robe and slid into bed next to Jonouchi, who promptly curled against him. Just how far does this go? And why does it go there?

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Honda

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The morning was dreary, the world was a soggy mess and rain still splashed down into huge puddles that lurked on every sidewalk, lawn and road. Small rivers swarmed down the sides of streets, rushing into storm drains in a seemingly never ending flow of brown. Honda, looked out the window at the depressing weather and thumped back onto his bed.

Oh man. Did I ever fuck everything up yesterday. The only good thing that happened was the Ribbon went home before I developed verbal diarrhea. Oh man, oh man. Jo is going to kill me if he ever finds out what I babbled.

The phone at his bedside rang. He looked dully at the phone remembering his little chat with Serenity. Yep, defiantly dead meat. The phone rang again and he reached for it.

"Hello, Morons R Us, this is Honda, the head moron. How can I fuck you up?" Honda muttered into the phone.

"Feelin' better?" Jonouchi's voice was annoyingly chipper for such a nasty day.

"Just come over and kill me, okay. It'll save you time later." Honda thumped back onto the bed beaning himself with his own cast as he tried to cover his eyes.

"Sure, but first, is Yugi over with you?" Jonouchi's voice sounded just a bit tense.

"Uh, no. He's at the convention. Remember?" Honda rubbed his suddenly sore nose, looking at the ceiling.

"Yugi's grandpa's been trying to call up there since yesterday. The phones have been down and he just go through. They said Yugi and Yuai left yesterday afternoon. Security said they caught a ride with some hippie dude in a van." Jo defiantly sounded worried now.

Honda sat up, "Isn't he at his grandpa's then?"

"Nope, he never showed and Yuai hasn't showed either."

"Look, they probably had car problems or something." Honda dragged himself to his feet and started looking around his room for a rain jacket. "I'll head over to Yugi's place and see what's up. Why don't you call the girls and if Yugi isn't home, we'll go look for him."

"Yeah, okay. But Honda, be careful, really, really careful. Freaky things are happening right now."

"Not a problem." Honda found his jacket and was trying to get it on one handed, with a cast. "I'll call you in a few."

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Reviews are always loved and cherished, every single one, so if you want to be loved and cherished, Review!

Velvetina: Yami, Yugi and Yuai have a lot of issues to deal with and not the least of which is coming up soon. Hey, don't forget Haski! I sure haven't…^_^

DemonandGoddess: I do love Mahado…I feel bad that most of the time (my story included) he's such a minor character. Well, Yugi's still in loony land, but at least Yami now knows the problem and you can be sure he'll be rushing back to his light asap.

amunra: Hmmm. Does Yugi disappearing count as a rush along the road to insanity? You'll just have to wait to see. Please try not to go insane though, I'd feel bad if you did.

Daebird: The inspiration for this story was me driving. I always think when I drive. I started kicking around the idea of what would happen if Yugi and Yami were separated and what each one gives to the other. I also was inspired by another idea, but that hasn't been revealed yet and I don't want to spoil it. Let's just say I read a few too many bad fics and came up with an alternate interpretation of events.