Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten Memories - Jounouchi’s Story ❯ Jounouchi ( Chapter 3 )

Taking a deep breath, the physician looked into the man's amber eyes and spoke, "Pegasus… you've been borne a son, and he's just fine."

Pegasus closed his eyes and sighed softly. Opening his eyes once more, he looked to the doctor. "What about Cynthia…?"

He withdrew a deep breath and looked once more at the other. "I'm afraid there were some complications and she died shortly after giving birth."

The silver haired man paled and collapsed backwards into a chair, unaware of anything other than the words echoing in his mind.

Cynthia was… dead?

He buried his face in his hands and placed his elbows on his knees and cried.

He stepped out into the hot, dry town, pulling his hat lower over his amber eyes. Standing next to him, a small child of four wrapped one arm about one of his legs, the other busily clutching a slightly ragged lion cub doll. Blinking at the town before him, he turned his large chocolate eyes to Pegasus.

"Ish ho', daddy."

The man smiled at his son and gently ruffled his mop of blonde hair. "I know it is, Jounouchi, but we're only going to be here for about a week, two at the most." He turned slightly, Jou letting go of his father's leg to clutch his doll tighter, and picked up the two suitcases next to his feet. "Stay close to me, Jou; I don't want you to get lost."

"Otay, daddy," Jounouchi chirped, setting off with his father.

Jounouchi cuddled his stuffed animal and glanced out the window of the Egyptian apartment. His dad had left a few hours ago to inspect some old ruins and the blonde child was starting to get bored.

"Yuk'o?" Jou spoke, turning away from the window to face his caretaker who was currently sprawled out on the couch. "When's daddy comin' back?"

The tall man rolled his sapphire eyes before closing them and leaning his head back to rest on the arm of the couch. "I told you before, kid, I don't know." He lazily opened one eye and glanced at the toy in the boy's arms. "Are you sure your dad wants you to keep playing with that thing?"

Jounouchi nodded and clutched the doll tighter.

Yukio closed his eyes once more. "Whatever…"

The boy cast a final glance out the window before moving over to the couch. Gently he tugged on Yukio's sleeve. "Yuk'o? Do you wanna pway a game?"

"No. Look, kid, just go in your room and, I don't know, play with your dolls or something - just leave me alone."

Jou pouted at the one on the couch before brightening up. He looked to his toy and spoke, "Me an' you can go an' pway Can'y Lan'! C'mon Sim'a!" And with that, the boy dragged the doll to his room to pull out one of his many board games, leaving Yukio to grumble at the emptiness of the room around him.

The moon shown down her silvery light as Pegasus tentatively entered the apartment, a sketchpad in one hand. Silently stepping inside, he shut the door behind him and smiled as he saw Jounouchi curled up on a chair next to the couch, sleeping peacefully, where Yukio sat, a book in his hands. The red haired man looked up at Pegasus and quirked his lips. Pegasus walked over to the couch and, after placing his sketch book on a nearby table, gently picked up his son. Looking at Yukio, he tilted his head in the direction of the door. With a nod, the redhead put the book down and silently left the apartment.

When the door had closed once more, Pegasus carried Jou to his room, stepping over all the board games that had been left out previously, gently laying the child on his bed and pulling the sheet around his body. Glancing at the floor, he picked up the lion cub plushie and gently placed it under the blanket next to his son. Still asleep, Jounouchi rolled onto his side and draped and arm about the toy, bringing it closer to his body. Quirking his lips in a smile, Pegasus leaned over and softly kissed the boy's forehead. Standing, he once more picked his way out of the room, stopping by the den to pick up his sketchpad before heading into his own room.

After stripping down and redressing in a plain white shirt and faded blue shorts, he clambering into his own bed, though instead of laying down for sleep, he sat upright against the wall, flicking on the bedside lamp and opening the sketchbook. Resting on each of the pages was a sketch different creature of myth. Under each was a set of hieroglyphs and under those was the English translation.

Flipping to a page near the middle of the book, he paused and ghosted a finger over the outline of the sketch - a regal-looking dragon with a long, graceful neck, sharpened claws and large awesome wings. His eyes flickered to the hieroglyphs before settling on the English translation.

Blue Eyes White Dragon.

Around a year passed by, and Industrial Illusions produced a card game of creatures of the elements, great magic and dark traps.

It was called Duel Monsters.

Though not exceedingly famous, there were still those that enjoyed the game and even a few companies that wished to expand upon the game.

And thus was the reason for the meeting between Gozaburo Kaiba, CEO of the most prominent building in Japan known as Kaiba Corp., and Pegasus J Crawford, CEO of Industrial Illusions.

The afternoon sun shone through a large window, illuminating the large office in which sat two males - Pegasus, who sat behind his large oak desk, working away at whatever it was he had to do, and Jounouchi, who was sitting in an over-stuffed chair, happily looking at three shiny Duel Monsters cards. Upon each of them were a single, white dragon with a long graceful neck, large wings and eyes of brilliant sapphire. He stole a glance at their titles and smiled to himself as he mumbled them out loud.

"Bwu Eyes Whi' Dwagon."

At his desk, Pegasus glanced up and smiled at the sight of his child. He had always been worried that Jou would never really have any fun by himself in his office, but Pegasus knew that he hadn't been spending enough time with his son and so decided to bring him along whenever he could.

As though he could feel his father's eyes on him, Jounouchi looked up and gave a gentle smile which Pegasus returned. Before he could say anything though, his intercom crackled and his secretary's voice floated out of it.

"Mr. Pegasus, Mr. Kaiba is here to meet with you."

He pressed a button and spoke, "Ah, excellent. Send him right in." Letting go, he turned to Jounouchi. "I'm going to have to talk with this man for a while and I'll need you to go outside and be nice and quiet. Can you do that for me?"

The blonde child smiled broadly and nodded, placing his cards in his pocket.

"That's great." At those words, the doors to Pegasus's office opened quietly and a tall brown haired man with piercing blue eyes stepped inside. Without a single glance at Jou, he walked right up to Pegasus's desk and gave a polite bow (Pegasus standing and returning it before sitting once more.). As the adults began to talk, Jounouchi quickly and quietly slipped out of the room and into the waiting room. The secretary looked up from her computer and smiled at the child before turning back to her work. Jou smiled at her for a moment before noticing three others in the room.

Sitting in one of the barely cushioned chairs was a semi-tall woman with long, thick black hair and bright grey eyes dressed in a pretty red dress. In her lap was a small baby of about one with the woman's black hair and bright grey eyes. She was clothed in a frilly, pink dress. Next to her was another child the same age as Jounouchi and looked a lot like his father with his short brown hair and bright blue eyes.

Jou smiled and stepped up to the pretty lady.

"Hewwo," he said.

The woman looked down at him and smiled sweetly before speaking in slightly halted English. "Hello. Who are you?"

"I's Jounouchi Crawfor'," he said, beaming and pointing to himself.

"I am Hana Kaiba." She gave the babe in her lap a small bounce and she giggled softly. "This is my daughter, Mokuba." She placed a hand on the boy's shoulder and he looked at Jou inquisitively. "And this is my son, Seto."

The other boy nodded and mumbled a soft, "Her… Hello."

Jou smiled and tried to remember what his father always told him to say when meeting someone new. "Ish nice ta mee' wou."

The oldest ones smiled politely before Seto caught sight of the cards in Jou's pocket. With a tilt of his head, he questioned, "What're those?

The blonde blinked before smiling and pulling them out for the other child to see. "Thay'we Dewl Munsh'ers Cawds. Thay'we thwee of the only fwore in tha world."

"Rear-lly?" The child's blue eyes widened slightly and a genuine smile tugged at the corners of his lips.

"Yuh-huh. Daddy gave thwee o' them to me ta keep."

"Wow…" Seto looked up and pretty soon, the two children were conversing about anything and everything they could think of.

Quickly, the hours past and Gozaburo emerged from the office, looking slightly pleased with himself. He paused and cast a glance at his wife and said something sharply in Japanese before continuing on. Quickly, Hana leapt to her feet and started after him, Seto following closely.

Before he could even contemplate the thought, Jou stood and called out to Seto. When the brunette paused and looked over his shoulder, the blonde stepped up to him and help out the three dragon cards.

"Hewe, I wan' you ta have these."

With a confused blink, Seto looked up and tilted his head slightly. "Why are you giving me these?"

Jou merely smiled and replied, "So tha' when we mee' again, I'll know is you."

After a moments pause, Seto took the cards with a smile. "Ok. I will keep these safe for my whole life!" He then cast a glance at his father who had an impatient frown on his face. "I need to go now. I hope I will see you later."

Jou beamed at him. "Me too."

Months later, as the moon hung in the sky, her full, silver light shining down upon the world, a tall redhead crept just outside the Crawford mansion. Gleaming sapphire eyes narrowed upon one window.

Soon he would have his revenge. No longer would he have to listen to Pegasus's all-high-and-mighty attitude. Soon the other man would be crushed beyond belief.

Now all he needed to do was start his revenge…

Jounouchi gave a soft sigh in his sleep as he turned over, clutching Simba tightly. Only a few hours ago his father had lovingly tucked him in for the night. Sniggling closer to his pillow, he was blissfully unaware of the tall man creeping in through his window.

Once fully inside the room, the man smirked as he looked upon the child. This would be even easier than he thought…

Reaching down, he yanked the thick blanket off the child and grabbed him none too gently. Jou's eyes shot open, but before he could utter a singly sound, the man clasped a hand tightly over his mouth, the other taking a length of rope and binding his wrists and ankles. He then pulled a bandanna out of his pocket and stuffed it in his mouth as soon as he moved his hand away so as not to let him make a sound.

"Now, now," he hissed, smirking. "Children should be seen, not heard - weren't you ever told that?" Looking down at the boy, he frowned. It was too bad he was so young - otherwise he could have had some real fun with him…

Oh well, no time to dwell on that. Clambering onto the bed, he straddled the boy's hip and raised a long dagger above his head, ready to send it crashing down into the child's chest.

Pegasus's eyes opened suddenly. Sitting up, he looked about his darkened room.

Something was wrong…

Swinging his feet over the edge of his bed, he stood and silently exited his room, heading down the dark halls, subconsciously tip-toeing to Jounouchi's room.

Upon reaching the child's room, Pegasus was surprised to hear soft scraping on the floor and terrified to hear muffled cries. Without a second thought, Pegasus threw open the door and turned on the lights. He was greeted with the sight of Jounouchi, bound and gagged. Sitting upon him with a dagger held above his head was…

I hope I didn't screw up on da chibi-talk - even though I most likely have… (*hates children - especially those under the age of ten - and will do just about anything to get away from them*) *sigh* End one cliffy and start another. People are gonna kill me…

Yami: Speaking of killing, isn't that what you were going to do to Jou?

Angel: Yeah, well, the kidnapping sorta wrote itself and I'm too lazy to rewrite it.

Yami and Kura : *roll eyes*

Angel: Bleh… *flops on bed* Paaaaiiiinnnin…

Kura : … What's with her?

Yami: She just had her first ever ballet classes two days in a row.

Angel: Meee leeegss… They burrrnn…

Yami: No they don't.

Angel: Quiet you! *sigh* Reviewer Q and A time again… Kura you do it.

Kura : No.

Angel: *chucks eggtimer (don't ask why it's in my room - I don't remember ^^;; ) at him* Do it!

Kura : OW! Fine *grumblegrumble* lessee…

… but whats with kura? - sniper6

Angel: I'll answer this one - Ra only knows! He's just being a jerk! Which is about the only thing he knows how to do - aside from fuck with my Disclaimer Box!

Kura : >=P

Angel: *starts chucking junk at him*

Kura : Ow! Pain!

Yami: -_-;;;; *sigh* If any of you have anymore questions, just go ahead and ask them - not like we'll care. In face, I think Angel would be ecstatic to know people are actually reading theses ANs. *flips on Disclaimer Box*

DB: -~- Angel doesn't suck…… She blows! -~-

Angel: BAKURA!! *starts pelting more crap at him* You lying fucktard!

Yami: *shudder* I've never been more disgusted in my entire life… *thinks* Waitaminute - yes I have… Still… *shudder*

Angel: *after reducing Bakura to a bloody pulp (don't worry, he'll be back… Or mebby you should worry… I don't know - I'm sick right now! o.o;;)* Perverted asshole… *grumblegrumble*

Yami: … Anyway, for the real disclaimer - Angel does not own Yuugiou. Never has and never will.

Angel: So there! >P