Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Hunters ❯ Jou's Real Family History ( Chapter 9 )

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/ Yugi to Yami / // Yami to Yugi // \Ryou to Bakura\

\\ Bakura to Ryou \\ [Malik to Marik] [[Marik to Malik]]

(Seto to Jou) ((Jou to Seto))

*General conversation* Personal thoughts +Commands+

On with the story! Enjoy!

The Hunters

Tiger_Serenity

Chapter Nine

Jou's Real Family History

Jou's View

Jou had come in a few minutes later. Solomon was as usual sweeping the store. Yugi was upstairs sitting next to a prone Yami. Dama leaned against the window. "Hey, Yug."

"Hey, Jou."

"Where's Seto?"

Yugi laughed. "Guess."

Jou looked around the room. He didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Then he looked down. A dark blonde furball was curled in a corner of the room with its tail over its nose. Jou laughed. "He's a cat!"

"Grandpa called him Kaiba."

"So now we have a cat and a dog. But, they aren't as the actually appear."

"Grandpa came in a second ago to say that the police brought your stuff over. It's in the spare room which is now your room."

"Did he see?" He looked between Yami and Dama.

"No. We are invisible to him."

"If someone had told me a week ago that vampires really exist, and that I would meet someone who killed them with the ability to change form, I would have laughed in their faces."

"I would have also."

"Yeah, but you didn't tell your best buddy that you had the ability to really summon Duel Monsters. I can't do that."

Suddenly Dama smiled. "Are you so sure about that?"

"Huh? I don't have an item like the others."

"Who says you need an item."

"Dama, what do you mean?" Yugi shifted uneasily on the bed.

"Jou, did you ever wonder why your father called you a freak?"

"Uh…."

"Dama!" Yugi's jaw dropped.

"Actually, yeah. What did he mean?"

"You are not fully human."

"Nani?!?" Jou's jaw dropped. Yugi started at his magician.

"Yami told you about the sect of people that broke off and became vampires in the story of his people. However, there is a part that he does not know about, but we monsters do. When the people started turning dark, several were against it. They split yet again.

They crossed the ocean, and landed in America several hundred years before Christopher Columbus in your history books. They blended into the people there. They became medicine men. Many had totem poles erected in their honor.

Over the years, things changed. Conversions became less frequent because the mate refused to cause the other the pain. Instead, they chose to age as a human does. When their mate died, they would cease their own heart and go on to the next world.

Children were rare. The ones who survived were cherished.

Jou your grandmother was a full blood. She gave birth to your mother, who is half. She gave birth to you and your sister. You are both quarters.

One day you were extremely sick. You were having trouble eating and breathing. Your father didn't know what to do. When your mother came home, she took you into the bedroom. After a few minutes, your father followed her. Before she could hide, he saw what she was doing. She was feeding you blood from her own wrist. She used the remaining strength she had after feeding you to erase his memory. However, after he became abusive she realized he was not her true mate. She tried to leave him.

In his rage, he left. He crossed the path of a vampire. It promised him revenge and power. It started to convert him. Partway through the process, a hunter attacked and destroyed the vampire. However, since your father was still mostly human, he could not kill him. He erased the memory of the vampire. He told your mother what had happened.

She filed for divorce. She tried to take you with her, but for some reason the courts refused to release you to her care. You would remain with your father. She called us to her side. She let you chose a guardian, even though you were only seven years old. You walked right up to him, and wouldn't let go. In that moment, he became your guardian and protector. But, your mother still feared for your safety because of the vampire blood running in your father's veins.

You are so thin because you were not brought up on amounts of blood, as you should have been. You did, however, retain certain abilities. One being the ability to heal quickly. A normal human would take three months or more in a cast to heal a broken leg. You healed in a month. The doctors started to question why. Your guardian was forced to call me to block their memories.

After a couple of years the vampire blood became more active. You father's mind became sick and twisted. He began attacking people during the night. He started drinking heavily.

One day he came home drunk to find you talking happily with your guardian. You were about twelve years old at the time. He was giving you a tiny bit of blood to ease you. It triggered the memories that your mother and the hunter had changed. He threatened to kill you if he ever saw the two of you together again. He told your mother that night over the phone that you had run away from home.

That night he let the vampire blood seize full control of his mind. He attacked you. Your guardian was seriously injured defending you. He was forced to pull back when your father had you by the neck. I was summoned again to his side. Before your father could strike you, I attacked him by freezing him in place. I placed the best seal I could over the blood, but I knew it would not hold for long.

Your mind was traumatized. I was forced to erase a lot of your memories. Because he was so injured your guardian was forced into hibernation. We tried to prevent it, but his body shut down on its own to repair itself. He was the only one who could go to your side voluntarily. Before I returned with him, I again blocked your father's memory.

About three months ago my seal finally broke. His memories came back as the blood again seized control of his mind. He attacked you again. There was another struggle. You did not see it, as you were unconscious. He still hasn't forgiven himself. He feels he is too weak to protect you, as he was yet again forced into hibernation. He did not call me in time. Over the next two months…

After he woke, he asked me to watch over you through Yugi. I had already been doing so. You do not remember him, since I was forced to erase your memory of him after the first attack. He has watched you silently ever since."

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Yugi was staring at Dama. Jou was in shock. His mind was whirring. Suddenly, everything snapped into place. He smiled. "Asman!"

He didn't appear. Jou looked at Dama. "He blames himself, Jou."

"Asman, please!" Jou was close to tears. "I don't blame you! You did what you could. It's not your fault your body shut down."

Still nothing. Jou sighed as he softly let the tears start to fall. "My father is dead. Seto killed him. I remember that now, too. He suddenly had a Blue Eyes named Dreg in his face." He still did not appear. "I miss you…"

"I could not protect you as I should have." A figure sighed as he appeared.

"Asman!" Jou leapt at him. Yugi stared. The Flame Swordsman easily caught Jou. "I don't blame you. You shouldn't blame yourself. Before she left, my mother taught me that everything happens for a reason. I met Seto, Asman. I think I was supposed to."

"And I am glad that you did. I was there in the background. Seto have your father quite a fright. It's no wonder he suffered a 'heart attack.' Seto knew I was there, but he didn't know why. He asked me as you were telling the police your mom's name. I told him that I would only tell him when my master told me to tell. He was quite mad at me."

"I wondered why he turned into a sourpuss for a few minutes."

"He was staring right at me. If you had turned, you might have seen me."

"What all can I do? I know I heal fast, but what else?"

"You can not change form, if that is what you are wondering. Nor can you mentally communicate unless bonded. You can, however, summon us when the need arises. Your voice also works if it is something you are passionate about. Like Duel Monsters. You tricked Rex Raptor into making mistakes by using your voice. That is how you won Ryagon, the Red Eyes Black Dragon, when you were 15. Remember? You can also for material things if it is something you really want. Do you remember that shirt you created after you saw it in the store?"

"I created it? I thought my dad had bought it. No wonder he looked at me weird, and asked it I had stolen it."

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Jou and Asman talked to catch up on what each had missed. Jou was happy that he had finally regained a part of himself. He had long felt that something had been missing. Yugi listened eagerly as he learned more about Asman. He slowly started drifting asleep in Dama's lap.