Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Probationis Vitae ❯ More Problems ( Chapter 16 )

More Problems

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Yugi Mutou

Also, I may not update for a while (I know, I know, AGAIN) because I'll be going on vacation soon. Be reassured though, I will be working on writing, or at least trying. We'll be gone the second and third week in July. We're going to Arizona (a.k.a. the Grand Canyon) though so I may not have too much time. BUT I will try.

Also, here are the symbols:

/…../ is Yugi to Yami.

//…..// is Yami to Yugi.

\…..\ is Ryou to Bakura.

\\…..\\ is Bakura to Ryou.

^…..^ is Malik (hikari) to Marik (yami).

^^…..^^ is Marik to Malik.

"~…..~" is someone talking on the other end of a phone, walkie-talkie, etc.

~*~*~*~

The next day woke to find a group fourteen teenagers spread out, asleep on the Mouto family living room. This group was the group of teenagers who had, just the previous night, barely escaped from having their minds trapped in their own nightmares for all eternity. That alone would wear anyone out, even if three of them are reincarnated spirits, one is a Watchman, most are professional duelists, and six are specially trained `Robin Hood' thieves. However the sleeping group was about to have to wake-up to face the day.

Yugi was the first to wake up. He slowly opened his amethyst eyes, but he quickly closed them again with a groan when he was met with sunlight in his eyes. He rolled over, only to be met with a barrier. He was met by a very warm, solid barrier that was, he found out when he cautiously opened his eyes, his Yami. Yugi smiled when he saw the relaxed face of the ex-pharaoh, it wasn't often that one could see the spirit completely relaxed. It was then that he realized that he was lying on the floor by the downstairs window, not on his bed, and for a moment he couldn't figure out why. Then the memories of what happened yesterday suddenly flooded his mind and he sat bolt upright, being careful not to accidentally jar and wake his yami.

Yugi looked around and saw the unconscious forms of all his friends. The two Egyptians, Malik and his yami Marik, were lain out on the couch, Malik lying on top of Marik. Ryou and Bakura had been placed on one of the armchairs with the leg rest up, and Ryou had been placed on top of Bakura. Damien had dragged Selene to the other armchair and, after raising the leg rest, lay down on it with her on top of him. Jo and Seto were leaning against the wall to the right of the television, which was about seven feet from the couch, and Jo was cuddled up against Seto. James was sitting on the other side of the television, his odd colored eyes still closed in exhausted slumber. Finally, laying long-ways between the television and the couch was Jake, Jason, and Derek, all of them curled up around each other. All in all, it looked almost as if they were a group of friends who had partied too much and then collapsed at the closest house as soon as they could, too bad it wasn't something that innocent.

Yugi sighed, knowing that he would have to get up soon to face the day. While he sat there in his silent contemplation, Yami silently stirred beside him. Ruby eyes opened to be met with the sight of his lover sitting silently in thought. A small smile spread over his face as he sat up beside Yugi and, before his hikari noticed him, wrapped his arms around his waist.

"What are you thinking about tenshi?" Yami said, startling Yugi out of his thoughts with the combined force of him grabbing Yugi's waist and his words in the previously nearly silent room.

"It all looks so peaceful," Yugi said quietly, gesturing around to his sleeping friends, "it's almost as if the past few weeks haven't happened. If I didn't know for sure that all that wasn't a dream, I'd almost be convinced that we'd just returned from the dance club and crashed at our place. It seems almost unreal."

Yami nodded in agreement with Yugi, he could clearly see what his light half was thinking. He actually agreed with him. If it wasn't for the fact that they both knew what was going on, then he would've thought that it had been exactly as Yugi had said.

Shaking the darker thoughts away for another day, Yugi suddenly stood up. At his yami's odd look, he sent a message through their link. /I'm gonna go and make breakfast. I have a feeling that they're all going to be starving when they wake./

//Let me help you then hikari.// Yami said, following his little lover into the now bright kitchen to start to make breakfast.

Bakura was the next to wake up. As his sleep-fogged brain recognized where he was, he just became even more confused. First off, he and his sleeping hikari, whom he'd identified as the weight on his chest, were both in Yami and Yugi's house when, last he remembered, they were both at the base trying to rescue Yugi's friend Selene. Second, how did he get here at all. Surely he would've remembered traveling to the ex-pharaoh's home after what must've happened. And third, what was the smell currently coming from the direction of the kitchen. It smelled like bacon, eggs, biscuits, and an arrangement of fruits. His now more active brain managed to guess that, somehow, they had managed to complete the mission, successfully if the fact that he could see Selene in this room was any indication, and somehow gotten to the Mouto household. And now the ex-pharaoh and his lover were making breakfast, he managed to deduce this when he saw everyone else that had come with them lying scattered about in the living room.

Bakura had almost decided that the temptation of the smells coming from the kitchen weren't enough to lure him from his current position under his hikari when his stomach gave a loud growl. Knowing he had to get up now as his stomach would not leave him alone, he gently shook his hikari awake. As much as he wanted to let his lover sleep, his white-haired angel was probably going to be very hungry when he woke up and now a little pissed if he knew Bakura didn't wake him when the food was fresh.

Ryou stirred a little when Bakura shook him, but he didn't wake up right away. Smiling softly at his hikari's attempts to stay asleep, Bakura reverted to mind speak.

\\Ryou, hikari, it's time to wake up. Currently the pharaoh's hikari is making breakfast, and unless I'm much mistaken it's probably just finished.// Bakura said, using the lure of a good breakfast to wake Ryou up. As much as he tried to, he could never cook very well. And even he admitted that the ex-pharaoh and Yugi's breakfast was really good.

Ryou blearily opened his chocolate brown eyes and replied. \I'm up, I'm up, but we'd probably better get the others up. Goodness only know what Jo would do if we deprived him of food.\

Bakura chuckled at his hikari's comment before the two of them proceeded to wake everyone else up. Jo in particular was difficult to wake up, despite Seto's help, until Bakura said that they'd just eat breakfast without him. That got him up double quick. Finally it was just Damien and Selene left to wake up. Damien was easy to wake up, but Selene just stayed unconscious.

"She's probably still exhausted from what happened," Damien said, trying to cover up how nervous he was feeling, "let's let her sleep for a while."

As it turns out, the while lasted all through breakfast and straight into the afternoon. At that time, they were all becoming a bit worried. They all knew how strong she was physically, the Venators and Yugi more than the others because they'd trained with her, and they couldn't believe that it was because of physical exhaustion that she wasn't waking up.

When evening rolled around with no change, most of the group reluctantly left, though they promised to come by as soon as they could the next day.

As soon as his friends had left, Yugi plopped down onto the couch and sighed. Yami did the same right beside him while Damien sat on the unoccupied armchair and Jason, Jake, and Derek sat on the floor in front of the television. James, who still hadn't left, was leaning against the wall behind/beside the television.

"It's been a whole day," Damien said, looking at Selene's unconscious form, "and she still hasn't woken up. I'm really worried."

"I checked her over for any signs of exhaustion or maybe physical trauma, but I didn't find anything. The only thing I found out was what you'd already told us about, and the bruised rib and gash on her arm from before. Both the ribs and the gash are healing and neither is the cause." Jason said, his voice showing clearly how worried and confused he was.

"It may be something that they forced into her body," James said, odd eyes trained on the unconscious girl, "like a poison of sorts. For all we know, they may have injected it into her or forced it down her throat."

"I'd thought of that," Jason replied, "but I don't have anything to test it with. And I'd only really be able to test it for known poisons when they might've used an original one that they'd made themselves."

There was silence for a minute before it was broken by the sound of the doorbell. Yugi gave everyone a confused look, he wasn't expecting anyone tonight, and his grandpa wasn't due back until the end of the summer.

Sighing, Yugi got up and headed toward the door. When he opened it, though, there was no one there. He stepped out the door and looked around the yard, which was empty and silent except for the normal sounds of the night. Finally, he looked down and saw that at his feet was a white envelope. Written in a curvy script he'd recognize anywhere, despite the fact that it had been years since he'd seen it, was his name. It was a letter addressed to him from his father.

AN: I finally got it out. Please review!