Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Gin no Umi o Wataru ❯ Chapter 17

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Joey watched as Seto headed down the hall. Seto looked worse than he had before. Yugi's eye have lost their twinkle, even Mokuba seemed more subdued, and for what?! They haven't gotten any closer to solving the problem and freeing the people trapped in the virtual games. When he asked Seto, all he said was that they hadn't been working at this for very long and something would come up soon Growling, he leaned back on the bed and tried not to scream

* * *

Jahi smiled as he plucked the strands of the lap harp. He looked up, his tanned skin set around turquoise eyes. //Come in, Joey. This is, after all, your mind. What is your idiot mate doing now?//

“Hey, that's just it. Nothing! We know who has the people, we know the system, and we're so worried about making sure every little thing has a plan, a back up plan, and a back up plan for the back up plan. I understand we can't just go in there and kick ass, but Seto is gonna run himself ragged just to make sure he planned for everything. Which he can't do anyways.”

Jahi nodded, standing up he moved behind Joey and rubbed the knot that was forming right between Joey's shoulder blades. //I understand. Sef used to do the same thing. It annoyed me. I'd distract him with sex but I doubt you're close enoughto Seto for thisyet. Your Seto, his Noa, my Seferet, and our Nkosi. They all have one really big problem. They are Royals or as close as to be in this day and age.

//If they don't handle it, they believe it will all turn sour. They have this idea that they can see everything, do everything, be everything. It doesn't help that my Sef was very used to taking care of his siblings. The Pharaoh was too busy learning to be a pharaoh. So of course it fell to the second born, or perhaps I should say the known second born, to be the one in charge of the others. Much like your Seto, though yours only has one thankfully. Except he feels that way with his employees and his new found siblings.

//Noa and Nkosi of course knew how he would react once he discovered the connection.//

Joey nodded, catching his bottom lip in his teeth. “They're jerking him around and they mean to do it to him for a long time!”

Jahi nodded, still rubbing the knot. His eyes connected to Joey's and twin smiles curled their lips as twin voices rang out in the room.

“And they hate that!”

* * *

Yugi followed the bodyguard down the hallway, when he had asked the guy why he was under guard in Kaiba Corp., he just smiled and said, they never let their principal down. The guy nodded to another standing in front of a door. The guy at the door knocked and opened it. Poking his head inside, he asked for Duke.

Duke pulled open the door, “Hey, Yugi. What's up?”

“Ummm can we talk? Alone?” Yugi shifted from foot to foot.

“Yeah.” Ducking back in, he waved to his lover and stepped out. “I'm afraid these guys won't leave us alone but ummm is there somewhere else we can go? .”

Yugi's guard smiled at them and waved them further down the hall. The guard who had asked Duke to step out followed behind them. They walked down the hall silently until they came to a door. Qin, Yugi's guard opened the door and waved them in. “We'll wait out here so you may talk privately.”

Yugi nodded and entered the room. The door shut behind Duke. They were in a large conference room. One whole wall was glass and it looked over Domino. Yugi stared out the windows at the lights and cars moving far down below.

“So, what's up, Yugi?”

“It's Tristan… and Ryou.” Yugi frowned. “Even Yami is worried. He… thinks Ryou is really bad off without Bakura. I agree with him. Tristan, he blames himself and…”

“HE SHOULD!” Duke's eyes blazed. “He didn't have a secure system, he basically handed Bakura over to Noa. Now I admit, this other version of Ryou, this Bakura is nuts but to just hand him over to the same person who shot up a school is insane!”

“He didn't mean to, he… made a mistake, but he loves them. You do know he's with them, he loves them, he really does. I'm just worried, I'm worried that he'll do something stupid. Yami suggested that he talks to someone but who would believe us?”

Duke nodded. “Nuts, well… any advice from the pharaoh?”

Yugi frowned and changed before Duke's eyes, “If this was my court, I would have him speak to one of my court magicians. Most likely, Seferet as the wielder of the scales, he can do the most, save for Tjatyu. Seferet for all his gruffness was still the most comforting to talk to.”

Duke stared at him, “It amazes me every time you do something like this. Ok, so you want him to talk to Seferet but isn't that… Kaiba?”

Yami nodded. “That is a problem. Seferet may hate someone and still counsel them, Kaiba on the other hand…”

“Well, Shadi is here, he can talk to him.” Duke smiled, “the biggest problem, is that Tristan is going to destroy himself at this rate and then where would Ryou be?”

Yami nodded, “And you and Pegasus?”

“He doesn't think it will last, he figures that in five or ten years I'll want a wife but until then, he's going to enjoy all the time we do have.”

“Then he will be surprised when you celebrate your thirtieth anniversary, won't he?” Yami asked before changing places with his lover and Yugi ran for the door.

“WHA? Yami, do you know something?!” Duke ran after the pharaoh.

* * *

She hated to rush about but she couldn't afford to be late today. Trying desperately to get her erring she fumed as a knock came on her door.

“One minute!” Slipping it in, she grabbed her shoes and slid them on. Sighing, she walked over the door and opened it.

“Mrs. Taylor? May we speak to you about your son?”

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Tristan groaned and slammed his head into the desk. “I am majorly screwed.”

“Oh, yes, you truly are, darling.” A female voice replied from the doorway.

Tristan jerked his head up and turned around. His adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed air. “Mom. Didn't expect to see you here.”

Mrs. Taylor walked over and nodded, slipping off her shoes, she sighed. “I know. What I didn't know was that my beloved son was taking what I taught him and using it to abuse Kaiba Corp computers, hacking in to them, not to mention that somehow you managed to lose one of your two boyfriends. Of course I didn't know you had boyfriends, hell I didn't know you were gay. So Instead I get a couple of suits to come to my door to let me know that you fucked up a system that I spent eight years working on. I don't know exactly what pisses me off more. However, I do know that once we save your boyfriend; you, me, he and he, will be sitting down to have a nice long talk. And yes, you are in so much trouble that it may in fact be another eight years before you ever go out on a date again. Ok, precious?”

Tristan nodded, he knew that his mother was beyond angry at him, otherwise she would be sniffing him and insulting his skills as unworthy. A glare from her and he pushed all his notes over to her. “Mom, I… I really haven't been going out with them for long. I just started and then this happened. There's…a lot and I don't know how to explain it but I never meant to hide anything from except the ahhhh KC stuff.”

Mrs. Taylor kept reading over the notes. “We will discuss your complete and total tapestry of lies later, for now tell me why you can't implement theory three?”

“Ummm yeah, that's because of what's in the system. Did you know why Gozabarou Kaiba needed so much space? Do you know what he put in there?”

“I heard many rumors but actual truth… I doubt it.”

Tristan stared at his mom, knowing he had to tell her. “Don't. Gozabarou downloaded the complete memories and experiences of his own child.”

He sighed and started at the beginning

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Bakura frowned. He tried to block the pain from his leg. He knew who had trapped him here and why but he also knew staying in the enemy's camp was pure idiocy. Gritting his teeth, he walked around the virtual world, trying to remember something that his other half said.

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“So this game, is played only in the mind?”

“Not exactly, Bakura. It's more like how we can play a game in our mind with each other, except the computer let my mind connect to another person's mind.”

Bakura's eyes lit up, “So I don't have play a shadow game with only these fools, here in Domino?”

“NO! No more shadow games! Please. Maybe it's better to say that the computer connects to a special part of the internet… ahhh a sorta invisible realm where computer's talk. When you get to that place you can battle with others or complete a quest or just hang out.” Ryou smiled. “Like a less violent place that your Shadow Realm, also with more colors!”

Bakura growled and swung half heartedly at his gentle half, “So if this internet is a place where computers talk, why can't we use yours to get t here? Why do we have to use that idiot priest's?”

Ryou shrugged, “Well, because Kaiba has locked this particular place on the net. He's placed trapes and locks.”

“Hmmm, am I not the king of thieves?”

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I am the King of Thieves, and no lock, even by that puerile infant Nkosi will keep me out. If he's trapped me, then perhaps he has trapped others. One should really make sure that their victims can't escape before placing them in a trap. Oh this will be so much fun!

* * *

Joey opened his eyes blinking against the bright light. A noise from off to the side caught his attention. Seto was in the closet, bent over and searching for something. Smiling at the sight of his boyfriend, he sat up and pulled his knees up and leaned forward. “It's not there. I tossed it. I thought we should settle this. We were in love. We can be in love. We are giving it a chance, right? Well then, I want the only pain in this relationship to be what I give you and the only pain I'm gonna give you is stretching, biting, and sucking pain. Got it?”

Seto turned around slowly and stared at him. “You tossed it.”

“Ummm.” Joey smiled ruefully and bit his lip, twisting the end of the blanket. “Yeah, I don't care what Gozabarou Kaiba did to ya! If my blood dad isn't allowed to beat me then that fuck doesn't have any right to hurt ya. And don't say he ain't; don't you say that without what he did to you, you'd still hurt yourself. Cause you wouldn't! If you get to needing it then you come to me. That's part of being in love, ain't it?”

“Joey.”

“No, and ya know something? Why haven't we gone after Noa and this Nkosi guy? We know where they are.”

Seto stood up and walked over to the bed, sitting beside his boyfriend. “Because we have to plan, we have to make contingency plans, we need to block off any plan that will cause us problems. We have to plan…”

“But we can't.”

“We can.” Seto nodded and stood up, “Rest now.”

“Seto, we can't. No matter what we do, this guy has all the power of the internet right? And no matter what we do, he's gonna outfox us. So being clever isn't the key. Maybe fighting is. You don't think I win all my fights by being smart, do ya?”

Seto raised one eyebrow.

“Maybe what we need to do is fight. This guy knows you, he knows how you act right? He knows how you plan. So don't, throw his plans off course.”

Seto turned and headed for the door.

“I know what yer gonna do. You're gonna go to your office and read reports and yell at people to step up quick. Same as ya been doing, right? I'm telling ya that it's the wrong thing. You need to forget that, you're running around trying to manage every little thing. Enough!. Stop worrying about what Tristan and they are doing. You may be a computer genius but he managed to hack you and no matter what you did, he still managed to escape. So maybe, just maybe, he's better at this than you. He has the skills, use him but don't look over his should. He hates and it annoys him. Unless he's trying solve problem with his fists, don't bug him. And get his mom in here. She'll sit on him and she taught him everything he knows. You trust these people, your people, right?

“Stop worrying about the people trapped in the VR world. I'm worried about them too but we, you and I, can't do a single thing for them! They, as far as we know aren't being hurt, and Nkosi may have made a serious mistake. He got Bakura trapped in there. A lot of that world is based on the Egypt we remember, right? Well, Bakura was actually there. If I know Bakura, he's gonna find some way to break out wherever they're keeping him and cause trouble.

“There is so much we can't do that we should do what we can. And that's fight Noa and his alter ego. Remember, their problem is with us, it started with us. In Ancient Egypt it started with you telling Nkosi, `No'. Here it started with you taking Noa's place. I know it sounds strange but trust me, Seto. Noa is taking advantage of you. He knows how you act. They're jerking you around, and you're letting them.”

Seto stared at him. “Every time I think you are just opening your mouth to bark you actually say something interesting.”

“Oh yeah… no dog jokes if you ever, and I do mean ever, expect me to go on a date with you!” Joey got up, and headed towards the dresser.

“Fine, I'll give them their orders and wait, oh great lord of ages.” Seto smirked and bowed.

“Fuck waiting, we're gonna get in there and beat the crap out of Noa and Nkosi. You call the others in, except Tristan. I think we should grab Yami, Yugi, Ryou, Marik, and Shadi. Leave the others here.”

“We? No. I'll take that insufferable pharaoh and go. You will be staying here.” Seto turned to the door. A shoe connected with the back of his head and bounced onto the bed. Eyes wide, he felt where it had hit and slowly turned around.

“Fuck you, Seto. I'm going. And you can either let me go or I'll find a way when you're not looking. And if you try to block that then I promise you, when you get back. I'll leave.”

“Fine. You can instruct my driver to take you back to that rat's nest you call an apartment.” Seto's eyes were cold.

“You bastard! I don't want to leave, but I don't want you to decide what I can and can not do. I'm going in. In case you haven't noticed, I need to be there.”

Seto sighed and sat on the bed. “Why? Neither Noa nor Nkosi have a problem with you.”

“Because you need me, Seto. And Seferet needs Jahi. You're always stronger when you're taking care of someone else. I am not gonna let ya go, so don't worry.”

//He is right, my other self. Seto, stop being as much an idiot as I used to be.// A mocking voice sounded in his mind. Seferet was amused but not surprised at this turn of events.

“Fine. If the doctor approves of you going, then I'll say nothing else.”

“Thanks.” Joey knelt down to pull up his pants.

Seto walked over to the door and opened it, turning back he stared a rare sight. A quiet Joey. “Next time, don't even bother telling if you plan to leave. Just leave.”