Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ I wish it had been you ❯ I wish it had been you ( Chapter 1 )

Hi everybody. Here is a fic between Joey and Kaiba, my new obsession, I hope you all like it as much as I do, but I warn you, no yaoi!

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I wish it had been you

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Jounouchi laid on the cold floor in the living room. His father wouldn't pay any bills and he was the victim of it. He shivered madly, even though he was covered in blankets. His face was black and blue and his entire body was covered in scratches and bruises, things that no one knew about. Jou's body ached all over and he found it even hard to move. The blankets wouldn't warm up for some reason and Jou felt as if he could die any moment now, if only he could.

Suddenly, the door slammed and Jou could allready smell the scent of alcohol, even without looking up at the man he called his father. He heard the usual swearing and yelling of his father but this time, he heard something else to. He heard sobs coming from his father, silent sobs but still loud enough to make Jou look up. His father never cried and even though he would beat the living daylight out of his own son, Jou still loved him.

He looked up and saw that his father's face was all red and stained with tears. Every now and then, he would drink from his bottle and sob some more. Eventually, he sat himself down in his chair and looked at his son who was clearly surprised. "You stupid mutt!" he yelled. Joey didn't know what was going on but he allready knew this wasn't going to be pretty. He shivered some more and stared into his fathers cold eyes. His swaying hand was swatting away flies while he tried to fixate on his son.

Jou took his chance and carefully shifted over to his father. "What's wrong dad?" he asked with a worried tone in his voice. This made his father explode with rage. "What's wrong?!" he yelled. "My best friend died, that's what!!!" he screamed at Jou and kicked him against his ribs, causing him to land hard against the wall. An old wound in his head had reopened again and Jou got dizzy. He reached over to the back of his head and hissed a little when he felt the blood dripping in his neck.

Suddenly, his drunk father stood in front of him again, crying hard. He picked up Jou by his collar and pressed him against the wall while he used his free hand to kick his face. Finally, he punched him hard in his stomach and Jou coughed up some blood. "I wish it had been you." Growled Jou's father in his ears. He released Jou who landed on the ground with a thud and kicked him against his face, smrking when he heard his nose crack.

Jou looked up at his father, not minding the blood that was coming from his nose and looked at him while his eyes filled up with tears. "W.What?" he asked, tremblin a bit. "You heard me" his father responded. "I wish that you had died instead of him" Jou bowed his head and stared at his blood that was forming a puddle on the floor. He was beaten by his father his entire life, and he admitted that it hurt, but nothing had hurt more then the words that his father had spoken mere minuts ago.

"and now scram" said his father while he turned his back towards his own son. Jou rised from the floor and used the walls as support. The blood hadn't stopped from coming yet but Jou didn't really care. He didn't say a word and just obeyed his father. Without even grabbing his coat, he stumbled outside without looking back, not even noticing that tears were starting to fall.

When he was outside, his father immediatly locked the door and closed the curtains. It had been really cold inside but it was ten times worse outside, especially without his blankets. To make matters worse, rain was suddenly pouring out of the sky as if the gods were trying to torture Jou as much as they could.

Jou tried to walk to the park that wasn't too far from here but found it difficult to walk, to even stand on his legs without support. He took a few difficult steps that brought him away from his "home" but eventually collapsed in an alley, being sure that he would die a lonely and cold death here. People who saw this happen just closed their curtains, not wanting anything to do with the poor boy, just minding their own business.

While the streets were filling with water, Jou did his best to tilt up his head so that he wouldn't swallow to much water, noticing that this was hard to do but eventually, he managed to turn around and to stare at the dark sky above him while the rain was pouring down on his face, that was allready numb from the icy-cold water and wind. He just wished that he brough his coat, or that he at least had been able to walk to a tree or something...

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Kaiba opened his umbrella the minut that the rain started to fall. He loved to take these walks trough the simple neighbourhood, but he would never admit this. He was glad if he could get away from the paperwork and the computer that he was using every hour of the day. He was glad to get away from the people that would never leave him alone just to see how other people lived, enjoying the sight of a happy family, sitting in front of the fireplace, no matter how simple it looked, it looked peacefull.

Apparently, the rain didn't intend to stop falling very soon and Kaiba just smirked at the water that formed puddles in the roads, making his shoes soaking wet. Suddenly, he turned around a corner and heard a short moan. It sounded like a pained moan, but he couldn't really regognise who made the noise.

A little curious, he looked into the alley where the sound came from and immediatly widened his eyes. Right there, in the middle of the alley, laid Jou, all bruised and hurt, not able to move, staring at the sky above him, his eyes allmost closed. The water that was surrounding him was colouring red and made the whole scène look even more dramatic.

Kaiba quikly ran over to Jou and used his umbrella to shelter him from the rain. He saw how Jou was shocked at first but apparently closed his eyes with a pained expression. Eventually, he feel unconcious, his fingers still twitching a bit. Kaiba immediatly panicked and kneeled into the water to lift the blond out of the water. He was scared when he felt how cold Jou was and he immediatly lifted him up in his arms, leaving his umbrella behind, running back home, trying to keep the blond alive, hoping that he would survive and wondering what had happened to the mutt.

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How was that? It's chapter 1, but not finished yet....duh!

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