Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Lover's Duel ❯ Gone ( Chapter 8 )

Okay people, I made this a double update since this chapter is going to be kind of short. Enjoy and I'll try to get the next chapter out soon.

Gone

He heard the same voice from yesterday slither to his ears and echo in his head like a snake.

"You don't have to be a baby once you become a man a have some special discipline."

Yugi froze at the list and alcohol crazed voice as he was carried from the room, Yugi being to scared to do anything but hold on tightly and hoped not to be dropped or hurt too painfully.

He was carried out of the palace surprisingly unnoticed and Seto walked towards the gates quickly.

As everything started to register to Yugi as he saw the gates, he started to remember what happened what happened when he passed those gates the last time and he tried pulling away to get back to Yami even harder, but even then it was too hard for the boy in the strong hold the ex-priest had on him.

It was too late and he was thrown inside the back of a cart and a ferocious, giant dog kept him in his place and far from the door. He curled up and tried to think about Yami to keep from crying as the cart started to move away. Yugi looked up and shook in fear as he saw the palace getting further and further away and he couldn't do anything with the dog there.

It felt like hours later when Seto pulled him roughly from the cart and pulled into a house far from the town or anything that resembled civilized, or anything that Yugi was used to by now.

He was tossed harshly onto a bed and wasn't given anytime to gather anything into his confused and frightened mind before his clothes were ripped from him and shoved in mercilessly and Yugi screamed at the harshness and pain he was given.

At that exact moment Yami woke up and felt cold as he used his hand to search the bed for his small lover he thought was there. In not finding him he became confused and cracked his eyes opened.

"Yugi?" He called the child's name quietly, but loud enough for anybody in the room to hear.

Silence was his answer and he looked around the room as he sat up in the bed. He looked to the small table and found it was empty of a note he thought would be there.

Panicking, he ran out of the room and shouted Yugi's name as loud as he could as he searched the palace and every room there.

He found Kyra talking to Malik and Bakura and easily noticed his fears were reality: Yugi wasn't in the palace or anywhere outside it, but still within the gates.

He quickly went over to them with worry as his hands began to shake. In rage Yugi wasn't there and someone took him away or in fright that Yugi wasn't there and someone has him.

"Kyra, Yugi isn't here. I've searched everywhere. I… I fear something happened to him. Please, please tell me you've seen him?" Yami didn't care he was showing somebody he actually knew was scared felt like and he didn't care they could probably see the tears forming into his eyes and if they did he was grateful they didn't mention it.

All three were worried. "We haven't seen him since yesterday afternoon when we found him with Seto." Kyra told her worried friend. They were sure the boy wouldn't want to leave Yami's side for a while yet with what happened.

The four went back to Yami's room in a rush and began searching it for anything that might help them know who took him and where he could've gone.

"Yami, come here! I think I found something!" Bakura shouted from where he was kneeling on the floor by the door.

Yami looked at the red blood spot and it registered to him and he panicked once more as he remembered Yugi's cut from yesterday on his cheek from where Seto had slapped him.

"It's Yugi's, I'm sure of it. That cut couldn't have healed already and it was vulnerable of being ripped open if it was scraped and hit roughly. And it wasn't here this morning I know because I stayed up all night keeping Yugi calmed down whenever he woke up from another nightmare."

"Maybe there's more we can follow?" Malik suggested as he walked out the door and down the hall to start looking, the other three following.

"I was right! Look here's a couple more drops!" Malik called and the other three ran up faster to the end of the hall.

They followed the other drops where they ended outside. Instead of blood though they found two sets of footprints in the dirt. One set looked careful but still too large to be Yugi's. Over those steps were footprints that looked like someone much smaller than the first and that person was struggling and being half dragged it looked like. The prints ended just a little outside the gate where cart tracks were imprinted.

It didn't take very much thinking to put it together.

Yami saw red and cursed Seto's name as loud as he could into the sky.