Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Young God ❯ Chapter 7b ( Chapter 14 )

Chapter 7b

Seto woke to a bright morning with birds chirping outside. He opened his eyes and looked around. Everything seemed pleasant enough so far.

There was a sound of singing. A maid, at least, and Seto sat up and tried to dress with a snap of his fingers.

Of course, that didn't work. Then Seto remembered the device on his circlet.

" Kami-sama." Seto sighed. He looked around. Do I have to spend my entire day in this?

Deciding he had to, and should ignore the stares coming from the servants at his strange attire, Seto picked up courage and walked out, still groggy.

To his surprise, the others were not surprised at his robes and did not pay much attention to him. Seto looked at the clock.

" Shoot, this is the latest." He looked at the One Thirty on the clock.
" Yugi's playing today." Seto thought out loud.
" There's a television over there." One of the servants pointed out. Seto paused at how the servant guessed, then turned on the television.

" Well, Yugi seems to be a pretty good boy for a mortal, eh?"
" What are you doing here Rishna." Seto growled.
" Geez, sometimes I wonder if you are becoming the person you act." Rishna looked at him.
" I'm not in the mood for this." Seto went on watching. " Why are you here?"
" It's almost time."
" For what? To bring me back home only to push me here again?"
" It's not the whole story, Seto."
" Look," Seto turned around, ignoring the stares from the servants at the beautiful language. " I don't need you gods to watch over me because I am going to die anyway."
" Really?" Rishna was angry now. " Look. You've been imprisoned by a mortal. You would have been considered a weakling."
" Wasn't I always?" Seto answered. " I had been kicked out and forgotten. I don't even know why you're bothering to come to me, Rishna. Do you think this is amusing?" His voice suddenly rose. " Is this all a game to you gods? Do you think that I'm some kind of toy to watch and play with and to throw away when the amusements are over?!" He stood up, the Mighty Seto, and even the device could not hold his anger in check as he began glowing a bright white.

" Sana!" Rishna cried, and dodged as the bright rays hit at where she once stood.

Seto quickly regained his composure. He sat down again and this time blocked everything that Rishna was trying to tell him. The goddess finally gave up and sat down beside him, holding a cold hand as she tried to search for a younger friend that was no longer there.

" Actually," Anzu began, " The whole ordeal is ridiculous."

Yugi had to agree. That was one dumb opponent.

Ryou sat down. " Where are Isis and Shadi?"
" We'll have to find them." Pegasus answered. " In person."
" Jolly." Jou said dully.
" With the Millenium Items?" Yami asked. Pegasus rolled his eyes.

" I still don't get why you guys had to kidnap him." Yugi blinked.
" The truth is," Yami began, " Seto really does not like Millenium Items.

Banat, Malik, and Pegasus all had an expression that would have mimicked a Japanese cartoonish face-fault.

Yugi, however, had absolutely no clue to what Yami said, who was also wearing the expression.

" What do you mean?" Ryou asked.

The three millenium holders shifted uneasily.
" Ehh..."
" Uhh..."
" Ano..."
" It's simple really." Pegasus answered, having not been there himself to witness the whole ordeal. " The last thing Seto was told five thousand years ago when he was leaving his home was to avoid every holder of the Sennen Items because they are corrupted and will kill him. Naturally, Seto did not believe otherwise, and because of some incidents he had no reason to."

It was actually the first time anyone had seen the Millenium Spirits act extremely uncomfortable.

" Oh..." Yami blushed at Yugi. " I did some stupid things in that lifetime."
" Shut up. You did plenty of stupid things in that lifetime. Everyone knew how you dealt with Isis." Banat laughed.
" And that thing with the rain." Malik pointed out. " You were basically trying to get Seto's secret out."
" I was fifteen!" Yami cried,
" Who was trying to be eighteen, and writing down the age eighteen in all the records," Banat countered.

Yugi, Ryou,Hikari Malik and Pegasus were content to watch the yamis batter. Jou, Honda, and Anzu thought this was amusing as well. As for Mokuba, he had no clue what was going on.

" Sure, you're a genius, Pharaoh."
" After threatening him."
" Whipping, like you normally do and-"
" Nearly ra-" By this time the two spirits stopped and looked down in shame as Yami remained silent.

" That was not very smart of you two either." Pegasus said cautiously. Yami answered by returning to the puzzle. Cecelia sighed.
" How old are they?" She asked.
" Older than Seto."
" That's plenty old."
" Tell that to their brains." Pegasus got up. The next competition was beginning and he had to go.

" Take care of Yami." He told Yugi. " He and Seto go back a long way. That long way was harsh."

" That was one stupid player." Seto thought to himself out loud as he went upstairs into the balconey. He had found out that they didn't mind him in Pegasus's room because he couldn't possibly steal anything anyway.

Good thing Rishna's gone. He thought to himself. She's becoming quite a pain.

Even as he thought that he felt his heart ache with loneliness. He wanted her to stay and to bicker with him as they had done when they were children. He wanted her to scold him for his stubbornness.

I wish I could sleep and never wake up. He thought. Maybe I should try that.

He barely finished that thought before he was.

" Wake up, Kaibaboy. You've been sleeping, the servants say, for two whole weeks. We missed you at the championship."

Seto opened his eyes to meet with laughing amber ones.
" Pegasus?"

The man looked like he was suffering a little from jetlag. But other than that,

Wait a minute. I was in Pegasus's balconey before. That means, kami-sama!

" Iie, you weren't that heavy, it would have been easy to carry you across the long hallway and down the stairs, then up the stairs with your weight. It's your height. You were too tall. The servants, by nature, are lazy." Pegasus answered as he left his bedside and smiled.

Seto hurriedly jumped out of Pegasus's bed and was secretly thankful that Pegasus only came home just now.

" Alright, now that you're here, why am I here as well?" Seto blinked. " I'm really starting to regret bringing back Cecilia. You really didn't deserve it."

If Pegasus was hurt he didn't show it.
" Oh, right, you were disabled. That device is really resourceful, eh? You would take back that comment about my wife if you know what we're planning."
" We?" Seto blinked. " Who's we?"

" That is the last time I'm going in there," Jou ran into the room. " Oh, Seto! You're up. About time, we've been waiting a good five minutes." He was followed by Banat, who looked angry at Honda, and Anzu and Mokuba followed Yugi.

" Alright, now that I know who the " we" are, why are the " we's" here?" Seto asked.
" To bring you home." Yugi answered. " Though Yami's not too happy about it."
" I don't want to go home."
" Whaddya mean?" Jou sounded surprised. Pegasus sighed.

" Come along, Kaibaboy. You know you want to, and you need to too." He said, taking the younger one's hand into his. " It's the most we can do."
" And how will you do that?" Seto asked.

Pegasus was silent for a long moment and Seto realized.

" Iie..." He turned even paler than before. " Iie iie iie iie iie!!"
" Seto!" Yami appeared, and Seto withdrew to the far ends of the balconey.
" You can't!" Seto cried, starting to whimper. " You won't!"

" Seto," Yami began, but the young child was beginning to cry like the child that he was. Horrors planted on horrors as he remembered what Yami did to him this lifetime and that. He turned around and leaped over the balconey.

Yami followed soon after.

Pegasus turned to the others while the Millenium spirits sighed.
" That did not work well." Yami Malik said.
" Hai." Banat muttered. " For the love of Ra..."

Yami jumped and threw himself upon the terrified god, pinning him to the ground. Seto screamed. It was a dreadful scream and Yami would have relented if he didn't know what he was doing. But he knew.

" Sana! Rsh nikun!"

Another scream, a desperate plea for help, and then sobs and pleas for Yami not to hurt him.

" Sana, shidame. Shidame." Yami said soothingly, feeling the young immortal relax beneath him. " Keina."

Seto seemed to calm down a little.

" Everything will be alright." He told the young child in his immortal language. " We'll help you. None of us will hurt you, I promise."

" Please," Seto pleaded, and Yami let go slowly.

Seto flipped up but Yami was too quick for him, wrapping his arms around his and rolling to the side. Seto bucked and struggled, red spittle flying from his lips and onto Yami's clothes, but Yami held on. He was not extremely fond of whatever device Pegasus had planted on Seto, but now he's grateful.

He talked to Seto softly in the language he had learned by some miracle. Yami knew that of all the difficult languages in the world the immortal language was ten times harder. He stroked Seto's hair comfortingly as they lay there, the taller god trembling beside him in his arms, trapped.

" I'll hand it to ye, Pegasus, that was something ye had to do." Jou admitted. " I've never seen Seto so scared in my life."
" He's been scared quite a few times towards the end." Banat said. Malik nodded.
" I wasn't there," The other yami said, " But Banat told me everything."
" How did Yami learn the immortal language?" Ryou asked.
" Yami's smart." Banat admitted. Malik looked too unhappy to say anything at all.
" Hai he's smart." Pegasus admitted as well.
" What's so bad about that?" Honda asked, looking at the unhappy expressions on the three.
" That sort of means they're resigning." Anzu whacked him.
" Well," Cecilia looked rather amused, " They're home by now." She waved her hand and the door closed.
" How did you do that?!" Honda cried.
" I'm an undead." Cecilia looked like Mai for a moment. " Seto didn't let me lose all my powers. I still have to get use to walking up the stairs though-"
" They didn't have stairs in Heaven." Pegasus broke in.

" Why did you close the door?" Mokuba asked.
" Seto doesn't want us to see him. " Pegasus answered. " Might as well. I don't feel like seeing him either."

" Seto?" Jou blinked. For a moment the others didn't know what he meant.

Pegasus blushed. " The actual name is easier to remember than the nickname." He answered. " In any case-"
" Alright. How are we supposed to find Shadi and Isis?" Jou asked.
" Simple." Cecilia answered. " Doubtless Shadi and Isis will be in Egypt. The Sennen Items work better there, and although we'll have a little struggle with Seto, we should be alright taking him with us. Shadi should be near the Pyramids of Giza."
" Aw, do we have to?" Jou asked.
" Iie." Pegasus surprised him. " You can stay right here with Shizuka and your friends. The only people who need to go are the holders of the Sennen Items."
" Keep that mouth shut." Anzu warned. " We're not getting left behind."
" Is Egypt hot?" Honda asked.

Pegasus ignored him. Pretty much everyone did.

Rishna looked on as the dark spirit held the hand of her young friend. She would have been happy, seriously. She wanted to be happy. But seeing Seto like that, on the point of death, yet not turning to her, wounded her at heart.

He ALWAYS turns to me. She thought. Whenever he got a scraped knee and when his mother's not there he ALWAYS turned to me. Why now Seto? I've come to take you home. You trust the evil spirits more than you trust me now. And Pegasus Pegasus trapped you! He nearly murdered you! If Yugi hadn't gotten you out in time, perhaps we would have lost you for good.

A tear trickled down her cheek but she ignored it.

Slowly she slipped into the shadows.

I will not leave you Seto. She promised. My Sana.