Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Reunion ❯ What's Best ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 4: What's Best.

 

Dear Tea,

It's Yugi. We need to talk sometime soon. It needs to be a private conversation; I'm not all that confident in your reaction, I'll admit. But I heard that the amusement park would be open again soon. You know, since it's almost summer. I was wondering if maybe you'd like to go with me and we could talk there. But without Joey and Tristan with us. Kinda just the two of

 

“Delete.”

Delete

 

Dear Tea,

Hey, it's Yugi. I know this might sound crazy but I really need to tell you something important. I've needed to tell you since we met but I was never sure of how you would treat me afterwards. It doesn't feel right that I'm telling you via email but I'll be man enough to admit that I'm scared of seeing the look on your face. You see, I'm not who I told you I was. Well, I am but I never really liked my name. So I changed it to In

 

“Delete.”

Delete

 

Dear Tea,

A list of things I've needed to tell you for the past year or so but was too much of a frickin' coward to say it to your face:

 

My full name is Yugi Indigo Mutou but I changed my last name to Uriatogi because I hate my birth father, Ken'ichi Mutou, and my first name to my middle name, Indigo.

Specifically related to the above, my personally real name is Indigo Uriatogi (For explanation, see first bullet), the gangster leader Joey and Tristan hate with a passion from the Blue Streak Gang.

I beat up Joey when we were twelve just for being near this asshole named Hirutani for reasons so disgusting, I can't say them without puking or breaking something.

Seto Kaiba and my little cousin Din Dimitri were two of my top Blue Streak minions but I stopped being their leader because I changed my identity to Yugi Mutou (My first name and my blood fathers' last name) at age thirteen.

I'm a werewolf/demon/witch/Oracle crossbreed.

My biological father has been trying to take me back into the pack/kill me for seven years.

I've been trying to kill my father for seven years.

A person I trusted betrayed me and when I kicked him out of Blue Streak, he also began to hunt me down and kill me.

One of my best friends has been dead for the past year and it's my fault.

One of my best friends was the child of the best friend from the above bullet and now he's fatherless; also my fault.

All those times I was beaten up since I've been `Yugi', I could've fought back but I didn't want to give myself away.

I'm madly in love with you.

 

Well, I'll see you in school tomorrow if you're still talking to me. Please don't hate me?

Indigo Uriatogi

Alias; `Yugi Mutou'

 

“Definitely delete.” Yugi shook his head and pressed the delete button one more time on the mini laptop his little cousin made for him. Fully automated, high-speed connection, advanced virus protection system, portable plug and mouse, ThinkPad installed to use his finger as the curser on the screen; and it fit in his pocket too.

`This is pointless, this is stupid. What the hell am I doing, writing letters to this woman while my little cousin is missing somewhere?! For all I know, she's not even in Domino City anymore.'

He mentally scolded himself. He clicked the `Start' button on the screen using the ThinkPad and clicked a tile icon with `Mah Jong' written next to it, opening up the game.

`Maybe I should take a break for a while.'

Hand hovering over the ThinkPad, he continued to walk down on the deserted sidewalk. Now- he checked his watch, unsure of the time -2:30 in the morning, he had been up all night since 11:00 looking for his little cousin after he'd gotten a reluctant phone call from an unnerved Seto Kaiba (Who had gotten one from Justin Reilly, and old friend) that she was no longer in her bed. He'd searched half of Domino City and had no idea where she was. But he knew better than to give up. After all, he wasn't really Yugi Mutou, that quivering little boy in the corner playing games by himself.

No, Yugi Mutou was a mere disguise.

In his mind, in the overall reality, in the only way that anything mattered, he was Indigo Uriatogi; former leader of the Blue Streak Gang, feared by his enemies, loved by his minions (And 97% of Domino City's female population he might add), not to mention as self-assured and stubborn as they came. And being the self-assured and stubborn former leader of Blue Streak, he wasn't about to give up.

Indigo Uriatogi never gave up. Oh no. And once his mind was set on something, he'd always follow through.

So then why is it that instead of finding his little cousin, his mind was set on spilling his guts out to Tea?

`Because you're frickin' retarded from lack of sleep, asshole. That's why.'

He stopped dead on the pavement.

What in the world had possessed him to walk so far?

His head turned and groaned in hate of his neurotic behavior.

Tea's house.

`Allah, help me; this isn't good.'

........Or was it?

He shook his head and turned his eyes back to the screen, darting from one tile to another. Stumped, he clicked the `Hint' button. Two identical free tiles flashed.

Possible Move.

He.....He COULD knock on the door, ask Tea for help. And maybe while searching, if they should ACCIDENTALLY run into some thugs-

`No, no, NO! What the #$*@, asshole? Thinking that way'll get you killed!'

And possibly her, too.

`Next time think about what's best for BOTH of you next time.'

Yugi scolded himself once more. He clicked both tiles and they disappeared.

Tile selected...

Selected tiles match!

Score: 100

He had to face facts; now wasn't the time for this. D.D. was out there somewhere and with something following her, watching her, threatening her, stalking her-things weren't good.

Score: 104

`Hint'

Game Over: No Moves Left

He clicked `New Game'.

Get ready: 144 tiles are set up

Score: 0

In an instant, his curser paired up two new tiles. Two points were added to his score.

Strange, he never seemed to win at this game. Sibyl told him once when they were kids that it was because he was too stressed and couldn't see things clearly.

But, c'mon-he didn't need to believe anybody. He was Indigo Uriatogi for rats' sakes, leader of Blue Streak, loved, hated, and wanted.

Was.

Now he was Yugi Mutou, high school student, best friend to three, close cousin, and third born child of Alima Uriatogi.

And Ken'ichi Mutou.

`Hint'.

Possible Move

Click.

Tile Selected...

Click.

Selected Tiles Match!

Score: 68

D-Did the screen just black out? Hoo boy, maybe he was working too hard. Yeah, that had to be it. That's why he was so tired and clueless and stressed. He pulled his eyes to the darkened sky in thought.

Maybe he just needed a break from school, women, homework, and all those stressors. Just for a little while. A vacation.

`Sounds good. I'll ask D if she wants to go too. But where?'

Beach? Too much skin. Made them BOTH nervous.

Mall? As if she knew how to shop! And he WAS a little bossy fashion-wise, he'd admit.

Someplace outta Domino? Maybe. Depends on where outside of Domino.

Ah, forget it. Maybe he'd just stay at home for a few days. The full moon was soon, anyway.

“Oh, YES, Indigo, stay home from school. There's a fine idea. Then you'd tell Tea `Oh sorry I wasn't in school; I stayed home to keep myself from going werewolf on your asses.' Good plan, smart one. Just forget everything, forget about your cousin. Go home, go to sleep, you KNOW you deserve it. Din-Chan can take care of herself.” A similar yet distorted voice riposted. Yugi snarled.

“That's just what you would want me to do, Altus.” He snapped, looking into the darkened reflection of his now black computer screen. It was ALMOST like looking into a mirror.

Except where Yugi had a small scar under his left eye (Which he covered up using make-up; DON'T LAUGH!), Altus had a large scar cutting over said eye which was now white and pupiless.

Altus snickered.

“You can read me like a book my friend.”

“Friend. Sure.” He retorted, voice dripping with sarcasm. “What are you doing here anyway? We sealed you off.”

“TEMPORARILY! Final reincarnation means you can't restrain me forever. And this time who KNOWS when we wake up? You may have to say the chant every MORNING. Wouldn't that be a nag?”

“The only nag around here is YOU.” His No One `tsk'ed him.

“Ooh, temper, temper.”

“What do you want?”

“What I always want of course, my insipid Alter; To make you and your cousin and her friend Kaiba miserable and force you into my World; The World of Non-Being.”

“Make us miserable....”

`I-I feel like someone's....AFTER me....its crazy I know but I just can't shake the feeling...I can't sleep. I feel like they'd come after me in my sleep. I'm scared.....'

“You're the one who's been tormenting Din-Chan lately, aren't you?” Altus shook his head with a small smirk on his face.

“No, no, not me; that's ALTIA, I assure you. And I must say, Altia has been doing her job quite well. As WELL as Korjata. What a boy, scaring the hell out of Kaiba like that.” Yugi was slightly appalled, mostly angry. What did Korjata do to Kaiba? Is that why he was so finicky on the phone?

“What are you up to, Altus?”

“What I'm always up to; subduing you and taking control of your life. Then I'll make it a living hell. Just. Like. Mine.” Altus began to fade as the computer restarted itself. “Oh, and by the way, I suggest you find your cousin before Asia and Assa or my Altia get to her. You wouldn't want THAT, now would you?” With a final eerie laughter, Altus was gone. Yugi stood there, pale and aghast.

`We be burnin' not concernin' what nobody wanna say.
We be earnin' dollars turning cau we mind de pon we pay.
Worth more than gold and oil and diamonds, girls we need them every day

Reconize it

Pimpin' as we ridin'

Played from his left pocket and repeated. His cell phone (Always a fan of Sean Paul, he was). He dug into his left pocket, closed his laptop and flipped it open.

Kaiba.

Hadn't seen THAT number on his cell in a long while. He pressed the `talk' button.

“Talk to me.”

“Inge...” He said shakily, referring to his nickname.

Again, a flash from the past.

“You'll never guess who I found curled into a fetal position in front of your house.” He said with sarcasm.

“Viper....” Yugi whispered.

“With a capital V. I'm bringing her to BSHQ. You anywhere near?” Yugi nodded, forgetting he was on the phone, and then responded.

“Yeah, yeah I-I'm in front of Tea's house. It's a...few blocks away.”

“Good. Get there. Oh and Inge?”

“Yeah?”

“They're all back.”

Kaiba hung up.

Yugi's hand fell limp.

They were...all back.

Altia.

Korjata.

Altus.

`Allah, protect us.'

After all, Allah knew what's best.