Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ House of Cards ❯ The Trial, part 2 ( Chapter 12 )

Hi everybody! Looking forward to a long chapter? Good. It's Superbowl Sunday. Which to me means...I get the computer all day! YAY! I hate football, or gridiron, or whatever you want to call it. I just don't get it.

After re-reading this story, I realized that I've made a few typos, and wrote a few sentences that made no sense. I'd appreciate it if you people would point those out to me. Grammar is important to me, and I want this to be as easy to read as possible.

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Yugi stepped into the room and looked around. There were rows of benches on either side of a narrow aisle. At the front of the room sat six men in a row, all wearing uniforms, next to each of them was a man in a suit. He could feel his heart race as he looked at the back of their heads. I can't do this, he thought to himself. He froze in the center of the aisle. Suddenly, he felt a warm hand on his shoulder.

"Yugi, we're here wit' ya." Jounouchi's voice grounded him and he continued to walk to a bench at the front of the room.

Yugi sat in a fog, occasionally nodding at something Jounouchi or his grandfather said, but not hearing anything. He focused on the men sitting to the left.

"Yo, Yug," Jounouchi nudged him and he noticed everyone else standing up. He quickly got to his feet.

He sat down again as each lawyer entered a "not guilty" plea for their clients.

He watched as Dr. Enoki took the witness stand. He didn't hear anything that was said, there was a roaring in his ears. More people took the stand, but he didn't recognize any of them. Before long, everyone was standing up around him. Yugi shook his head in an effort to lift the haze around him.

"What's going on?"

"They're breaking for lunch," Sugoroku explained.

"Oh."

"Mr. Mutou, may I speak with you?"

Yugi turned in the direction of the voice. A tall red-headed man was looking at him, he recognized him as the prosecuting attorney. He nodded slightly.

"Now, Mr. Mutou, are you ready? You will be the first witness called after the lunch break. The defense will be ruthless. Are you positive you can handle this?"

Yugi swallowed, and nodded again, "I...I'm ready."

"That's a good boy. Eat well, you need your strength."

"Yes sir."

The rest of the lunch recess passed in silence. The only thing Yugi would remember about it later on was the occasional reassuring thought or feeling from his other half.

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"The prosecution would like to call, Mr. Yugi Mutou to the stand."

Yugi took that as his cue, and walked to the stand.

"Mr. Mutou, would you please state for the record your full name and your age."

"Yugi Mutou, twenty years old."

"Mr. Mutou, place your hand here, good, now do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"

"I do."

"Mr. Mutou has waived the right to a translator, correct?"

"Yes, sir, I speak English."

"Very well, Mr. Mutou can you tell us what happened, in your own words, on the night of April 23?"

"I was driving home from work, when my car broke down..."

"Why did it break down?"

"I...it ran out of gas..."

"Thank you, please continue."

"A woman, er...a man dressed as a woman came to the door, and offered to help me. I agreed and started walking with him to the nearest payphone. As we were walking...I...I...was pushed against a wall." *Yami, help!*

*It's alright Aibou. Remember to breathe.*

Yugi took a shaky breath. "I was pushed against the wall. A man had put his hand over my mouth, I couldn't yell. I was dragged away from the main road. I was pinned to the ground."

Sharp fingernails tore at his clothes. He felt his skin tearing where the fingernails went to far. "You are mud, you deserve to eat mud."

"I screamed, one of the men pulled my pants off. He...he...flipped me over."

*Aibou, take a breath.*

Tears rolled down Yugi's face, as he tried to compose his thoughts. "I...I...he...pushed his penis into my...my anus." He was openly crying now.

"I...I heard a gunshot from where Shirley was. When the first man...was through, another man came and did the same thing. I...I was kicked...I screamed."

"Mr. Mutou, please calm down. It's ok."

Yugi opened his violet eyes to look at the red-headed man. "I'm s-sorry."

"Don't be, you went through a lot that night, as Dr. Enoki said."

Taking another shaky breath, Yugi continued, "I passed out after the fourth man...entered me. When I came to, I tried to get to the main road. I crawled over to Shirley. She, he was dead, there was blood coming out of his chest. When I got as close as I could to the main road, I started yelling...the next thing I remember was in the hospital."

"Thank you Mr. Mutou. Would you mind telling the court of your injuries?"

"I both legs were broken, the left one just at the ankle, the right in multiple spots. I had broken ribs, and a punctured lung. My right shoulder was dislocated, and I had tears...in my bottom."

"Thank you, do any of the physical injuries still bother you?"

"Objection, relevance?" one of the defending attorneys spoke up.

"It has been ten months since the incident, if there are any problems still it would show how severe the injuries were, and if they are, in fact, permanent."

"I'll allow it, answer the question, Mr. Mutou."

"My right leg still aches from time to time. I'm going to physical therapy for it. Also, sometimes it hurts when I cough."

"Thank you Mr. Mutou. Do you remember the faces of any of the men who attacked you?"

Yugi nodded.

"Please answer allowed so that it can be put on the record," the judge prompted.

"Yes."

"Are they in the courtroom here today?"

"Y-yes."

"Please point out the people who you remember being there."

Yugi lifted his right hand and pointed at three of the men sitting in front of him. This was the first time he had dared to look over at them, and his heart was so fast he thought it would jump out of his chest.

"Is there any way you would be able to identify the others?"

"I...I...would remember their voices."

"We have tape recordings of the men, your honor, I would like to play them in the court room, and see if Mr. Mutou can identify them."

"Go ahead."

Yugi's palms were soaking wet, he was shivering, and his breaths came in quick gasps as he listened to the voices. Somehow, hearing them brought him back in time again, to the alley.

A man was behind him, "you like it don't you?"

Yugi knew he had an erection. As the man slammed into him, he felt himself ejaculate. He was so dirty. He knew he didn't like this, he was so dirty.

"Mr. Mutou."

"Yes, that one was there." Yugi had apparently answered during his flashback, although he wasn't sure how.

"That will be all, your witness."

The attorney who had objected earlier walked up to the witness stand. "Mr. Mutou, at any time during this alleged assault, did you say, 'no'?"

Yugi closed his eyes. "I said, 'don't and stop' and don't remember if I said 'no'."

"You seemed to remember other details, why not this one?"

"Objection, leading, relevance."

"Question withdrawn." The defense attorney smirked.

"Mr. Mutou, you do not need to answer that."

"Ok."

"Mr. Mutou, at any time during the encounter, did you experience pleasure?"

"Objection!"

"Question withdrawn."

"Mr. Mutou, are you homosexual?"

"I..."

"Objection, relevance, your honor."

"Question withdrawn. I have no further questions. The defense rests."

Yugi shook until the red-headed attorney motioned for him to get down. "It's alright Mr. Mutou. You did a good job. You may go home if you wish. You're part in this is done."

The tears slipped down Yugi's face as he shook his head. "I need to know what happens."

"I understand Mr. Mutou." He led the small man to the bench next to Jounouchi and his grandfather.

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*Yugi?*

*...*

*Aibou? Do you want me to take over? I'm proud of you. You did a good job.*

*Yami, I liked it. I came...I...*

*Yugi. Come; let's go to your soul room. I'll take over, and make sure you aren't needed. I doubt anyone will expect you to speak now anyhow.*

*O...Ok.*

Lifting Yugi up and placing him on the bed, Yami held his shivering hikari. *Yami, I came...I liked it? I shouldn't have liked it. It's my fault, I liked it...I'm bad...I'm so dirty. Don't touch me. I'm dirty.*

*Hush. That's not true. Your body reacted, you didn't. You aren't dirty. You are my hikari, and I wouldn't lie to you.*

Yugi clutched a pillow to his chest as he pushed Yami away. *Please Yami, go away. I don't deserve you. I'm dirty.*

Yami sighed; he knew there was no purpose in speaking to Yugi at this moment in time. He instead chose to listen to what the man on the witness stand was saying.

Yami gasped as he saw that it was the man he had almost Mind Crushed.

The prosecuting attorney was interrogating the Private. "So, Private Johnson, if you admit to the actions, how can you say you are not guilty."

"Objection, my client has a right not to incriminate himself."

The man on the stand smiled, and Yami gasped as their eyes met. That man is evil...I should have mind crushed him when I had the chance.

"I will answer the question, I want the answer on record though."

The judge nodded, "As long as you understand you are waiving your Fifth Amendment rights."

"I understand. I didn't commit a rape, or a sexual assault, or a murder as you so succinctly have charged me with. I was teaching the men," he sneered at the word, "how to be men. People who fuck other men are not truly men. I was giving them the opportunity to see the error of their ways. And then I freed their soul to go to God after they had been taught. Jesus showed me what to do, and how to do it.

Those men would have gone to Hell had I not done what I did. I am not sorry for teaching them the lesson that they needed to learn. God hates fags. God worked through me to enact Justice on the men whose crime was homosexuality. As it is written, the punishment for homosexuality is death. I was fulfilling that punishment, and teaching the men the error of their ways so that they repented before they died. I apologize that Mr. Mutou didn't die as I had intended, but judging from his hair, he too has repented, and when he dies will be going to heaven."

Yami's red eyes glowed as he tried to comprehend what the man had said. He eventually decided to ask Yugi about it later. *Yugi?* He returned to the smaller man's room.

*Don't touch me...*

*I won't, just wanted to see how you are doing.*

*I'm fine. Go away.*

*Yes, Aibou. I'll leave you.* And he left the crying Yugi.

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"All six of the U.S. Servicemen who were on trial for murder and rape have been found guilty. Four have been sentenced to death, the other two life in prison. Now we go to Jisaki for the weather."

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Ok, longest chapter ever written...at least for me. I'm gonna go curl up in a ball now and sleep for a week. My daughter has something to say first though: mng mmmmnjn jmnj bbh bjjnbiuu6789u8f9ujm bnvd

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