Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Friend In Me ❯ Discovering Darkness ( Chapter 3 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Heh, here we are, after the holidays, and another chapter for you! Have fun...



Friend in Me: Discovering Darkness



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//You put it together? Why haven't I been released then? Why are you here instead?// Yuugi thought about this for a second before he replied.
/My Ka-sam dropped her glass vase when I showded her the puzzle. I don't remember much after that./ Yami stood and started to pace.
Yuugi sniffed and sat down. He was tired, and cold. But before anything else could pass through his mind, the burning light came back.
/Yami! Help me! It hurts Yami!/ He screamed. Yami turned to him, running to try to pull him away. But in the process he too got burned.
They screamed together as they were pulled roughly from the darkness of the puzzle's walls....




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"Yuugi, baby, please... Please come back to me!" Ayamé sniffed as she held the limp little hand in hers. Tears ran down her puffy, tear stained face. She sobbed into the bed as her husband, Katsura, rubbed her back comfortingly.

"It'll be okay Ayamé... He'll be just fine. Come on, we need to let him rest. Visiting hours are over now. Besides, my father needs to talk to us." Katsura quietly said as she nodded and started to get up.

"He'd also like to visit his only grandson in the hospital, if you don't mind..." Said Sugokuru as he knocked quietly, so as not to disturb or frighten the two distraught parents. "I will be very careful, I promise." He smiled lightly as Ayamé nodded and sighed.

"It's alright Sugokuru, I'm sorry about yelling at you earlier. It's just that, he's my only baby, and I couldn't... couldn't..." She sobbed as the thought came to her. "If he died, I just couldn't handle it! He's only two years old for Kami's sake!" She sobbed again as Katsura led her out of the small room.

"Otou-san, please watch him untill I get her under control. And nothing about the you-know-what, okay?" Sugokuru steered the two out the door. "Yes my son, I'll be a good boy alright?" He chuckled as the two walked down the hall.

He sat down next to the bed and put a hand to Yuugi's forehead. He sighed as he felt the fever in it, and sadness washed over him. He pulled out the puzzle and played with it as he thought to himself.

'How did this happen? He shouldn't even be alive! But the puzzle must somehow be keeping him alive...' He was startled as the puzzle grew warmer and Yuugi's heart moniter started to beep intensely. He suddenly had to drop the too-hot puzzle onto the bed, where it touched the boy's skin, and instantly cooled. Yuugi seemed to shudder momentarily before he awoke, screaming.

"YAMI!" He shouted, then all went still. A nurse came running in after hearing his screams.

"Oh my Kami! What happened? I'll get the doctor!" She ran back out of the room. Sugokuru tried to grab the puzzle before his son and daughter in law came back in to find him with it. But as he reached for it, it seemed to disappear. "The hell-?" Sugokuru cursed as it disappeared, desperately thinking of what to say to the doctors who were already filing into the small room.

"His fever's gone down, but his heart rate has gone up? How is this? Sir, did you see anything or do anything to this boy?" One of the doctors questioned as two more were taking blood.

"No, I didn't see anything! My grandson here just started to move, then yelled and went still. Then the nurse came in and left to get you!" He almost shouted to the doctor. Just then Ayamé and Katsura came racing into the room. She held a hand to her heart as she gasped. Katsura "shhed" her as he wrapped her in a tight embrace.


Meanwhile, with Yuugi and Yami... ~*~



//Yuugi!// Screamed Yami as he was burned. His body was wrapped around Yuugi's small frame to protect him from the light. But just as he felt the light dimming, Yuugi screamed again as this time the light came from _him_.

/Yami, it hurts so much! Don't let go, please! I don't want to be alone!/ The frail boy suddenly went quiet as he passed out. Yami gathered his strength and called out to the shadows that were fast retreating from the bruning brightness.

//Come to me, spirits in the dark! Cover us both in a blanket of night! Keep us safe, and well protected, keep us both heart to heart!// He almost passed out from the energy it took to do the spell, but his power over the darkness prevailed. It cooled them down immediately, and all was safely dark again.

//Yuugi, Little one... Are you okay?// He reached out to the boy's mind; to try to awaken him.

/Y-yami? Is that you?/

//Yes Little one, it is me. How are you?//

/I feel funny.. Like I want to wake up, but I can't. I want my Ka-sam!/ He started to cry as he held to the spirit of the puzzle like a babe to its mother.

//I'll help you to find your ... ka-sam?... And I'll stay with you forever, okay?// He slowly rocked the boy in his arms as he hummed a song he had heard as a small child.

//Hush now my child, feel no pain. Coming with the night is the summer rain. When the rain is falling fast, my child you will know then...// (A/n: I just made that up, don't ask, it isn't important to the story or anything...)

Yuugi was now fast asleep, and Yami was keeping guard. But just when Yami felt that they were safe, the light came back. This time though, it didn't burn. He could hear people, and some sort of beeping noises. When the light was not as bright, he could see the people. Some were dressed in funny white robes, with pointed objects in their hands. Others were dressed very strangely, with bright colors and odd robes.

He looked around, to find out where he was, but nothing was remotely familiar. He realized suddenly that Yuugi was no longer in his arms, but lying in a bed. The little one was covered in tubes, and attatched to the strange beeping machine.

"Ayamé, please, you need to go. You need to get some rest... Please..." The man next to the woman -- Ayamé -- sobbed. "But my baby, my Yuugi! Oh Kami!" She broke down again.

//So Yuugi's Mother, or as he put it "ka-sam" is this woman Ayamé. So why is she crying? There wasn't anything wrong with him when I found him..?//

He looked back to the tiny form on the bed. He notince the linens wrapped around his neck tht were blood stained. The funny white-robed people were unwrapping his neck. Yami gasped as he saw the awful slash across the poor child's neck.

//Yuugi! How- why- what!// His questions were answered by the sobbing woman.

"It's all my fault! How could I be so careless? He came up behind me and showed me that awful puzzle, and I just blanked out. Next thing i know there is glass all over, and he's unconcious on the ground with blood pouring out of his neck!" She sobbed some more before she was escorted out by the man whom she was talking to.

Yuugi stirred a little as he came around.

"He's waking up doctor!" Said one of the nurses. "Good, finaly some good news..." Muttered one of the "doctors".



Well, that's it for now. I hope to have some more for you in a few days or so...

Kani: Yeah, right... Liar...
Mono: Shut up!