Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Unfufilled Vow ❯ 12:57 ( Chapter 10 )
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By: Shiroi Misa 
Jou gave Kaiba the clue but will he understand its true meaning?
Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Thriller / Suspense / Supernatural / Mystery / Horror / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 09.07.2003 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.4K | Visits: 549 | Status: Completed
Jou gave Kaiba the clue but will he understand its true meaning?
Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Thriller / Suspense / Supernatural / Mystery / Horror / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 09.07.2003 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.4K | Visits: 549 | Status: Completed
Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh. Sniff, over 200 reviews on ff.net I feel so loved. I thought what better way to say thanks then to put a rush on my next chapter and treat you guys to another instalment sooner then expected. I know, I'm slow. SORRY ~_~ So has anyone figured out what 12:57 means. So far no ones guessed it, but let's see if anyone was thinking the right answer for...
12:57
Yugi, with the help of Yami, gathered himself together enough to hear Chisa statement. "I-It wasn't me who found it...it was Jounouchi." The young boy sprang up.
"What do mean it was Jounouchi?" Chisa jumped at Yugi's sudden reaction. She wordlessly pointed to the screen. Yugi almost stop breathing at the sight. The videotape was paused the time showing 12:57 and in the middle of what should have been an empty room stood a faded image of Jounouchi. Chisa's hand was shaking as she contacted Hide and Kaiba.
"Chisa? What in blazes are you talking about?" Without saying a word she sent the image to the two men.
* * * *
The moment Kaiba saw the image he almost hit the floor from shock. Hide was more confused that anything else.
"Chisa, what is this? Why are you showing this still?" Kaiba gulped and pointed to the time in the lower left corner. Hide rubbed his eyes sure he was seeing things.
"Wait a minute, this can't be right. The cliff was at least 30 minutes away. He would have been dead around 1:00am, this has to be a mistake." Chisa wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"That's just it, he's only on this one frame. I was scanning the tape for clues but it started going haywire and it just stopped on this image. I don't know what's going here." There wasn't much to the image but there was no mistake, it was Jounouchi. Kaiba took a hard look at the image and thought he saw something on the wall behind him but he couldn't make it out.
"Chisa, can you enhance that image on the wall beside him?"
"I'll try." The whole group watched as the image was enhanced bit by bit. Yugi was squinting trying to get a better look at what appeared to be his best friend.
"I think he's pointing to that thing on the wall." Hide agreed.
"Focus on the square shape by his hand." After about a minute the image was finally clear. It was a photo of a two level house and it looked fairly old. Kaiba glanced at the wall in the room where the photo should have been and saw a faded outline like it had been removed.
"Is there any way of telling where that house is?" Kaiba asked knowing it was Jounouchi telling them where Mokuba was taken. Fortunately Hide recognized the location.
"Well I'll be dammed, I know those cliffs. That's Widow's Ridge!" Kaiba turned to the detective.
"Do you know where that is?"
"I know it's those cliffs I can't say exactly where."
"We're going there NOW!" And without a second thought the teen sprinted up the stairs and out of the building heading for the car. Hide had a hard time keeping up with his young boss and was eternally grateful he had the key. He was panting when he finally reached the car. "Get in! We're going to Widow's Ridge RIGHT NOW!" Hide was in no mood to argue when Kaiba was like this. He jumped in and hit the gas. Chisa had heard enough to call in to the station saying she just received an anonymous tip saying the kidnaped boy was in a house somewhere on Widow's Ridge. The problem was there were a large number of house along the cliff side that went on for miles. In truth, the house could be anywhere.
Hide looked at Kaiba who was straining like he was trying to think of something. "What's going on here? Did you know what was in that video still? What makes you think your brother's at that house?" Kaiba didn't look up but for some reason he felt compelled to answer.
"He's been trying to tell me all along. Jounouchi was doing everything he could get it through my thick skull but I was ignoring it as always." Hide was starting to get worried.
"Um, Kaiba? Jounouchi's dead, you do realize that don't you?"
"I know that! But that hasn't stopped him from visiting weather I'm awake or asleep. And don't call me crazy because Mokuba saw him too. In fact he was lead to Jounouchi's body by something he thought WAS Jounouchi!" Hide wasn't sure if Kaiba was telling the truth or going nuts with all the guilt hanging over his shoulders. But the fact was Kaiba believed it and there was also that strange still in the video. He had seen many strange things in his career including a psychic who somehow knew where the body of 11 year old murder victim Yoji Tanaka was. There were many things he could never explain and maybe this was one of them. Having nothing else to go on he decided to humor Kaiba's theory of Jounouchi's ghost trying to help them.
"Let's just say for a moment you're right and Jounouchi really is trying to tell us something. Why didn't he just tell you who it was from the get go?" Kaiba was asking himself the same question but he knew part of the answer.
"I think it was because he didn't know his attacker. He can't seem to communicate very much, just these little clues here and there. He was even cursing me through a Ouija board before it burst into flames."
"What exactly did he tell you he might have left you a clue you're just over looking?" Kaiba thought hard trying remember every little detail.
"He didn't say much through the board, just that I left him to die, 'Go to Hell', Danger, and the time of his death." Hide looked up.
"His time of death?"
"Ya, 12:57 that number has been flashing all around me more than anything else." The detective thought for a moment and was puzzled.
"But why was his time of death so important? I mean, we pretty much knew when he died. From what you've been telling me Jounouchi can't communicate very well so why would he bother telling you exactly when he died." Just then the car radio flickered with an odd static sound and a number was flashing: 12:57. Hide was so distracted he almost didn't see the oncoming car to his left side. He shrived missing it by only a few inches.
"Geez!" He held back a curse. "Wasn't that radio broken when you slammed your fist into it?" But the near accident had no effect on the young burnet for he had just realized what the dead teen had been trying to tell him all this time.
"OH MY GOD THAT'S IT!" Hide jumped seriously considering pulling over to avoid an accident.
"What's it?" Kaiba quickly pulled open his briefcase and accessed his employee records.
"He's HAS been telling me who it was all this time. How could I have been so stupid I've been staring at the answer every day at work and I missed it, GOD!"
"Care to share with the rest of the class or do I have to keep guessing?" Hide said now getting a bit annoyed.
"You said it yourself. Jounouchi didn't know who his killer was so he had to find another way of telling me who it was. It would be useless to describe him so I had to think about what it was like to see through his eyes. It should have hit me when we found out he worked for Kaiba Corp. Everyone who works for me had an ID badge with an eight digit number. Only a lot of the older employees still use the old system that includes a for digit number. Don't you see? It wasn't a time, IT WAS AN ID NUMBER!" A beeping noise alerted him that his search was complete. He hit a few bottons and in an instant he came face to face with Hiro Sato age, 44 Kaiba Corp. ID #1257.
Kaiba froze, this was him, this was the man who took Jounouchi right from underneath his nose. His eyes narrowed when he remembered something. He remembered this man coming into work a little late that Friday and as he passed by the teen CEO saw he had a bandage on the side of his face. It didn't mean anything at the time, but now he realized what he should have picked up on long ago. "So now we finally have the face of the monster we've been hunting." Kaiba sent the image to Chisa while he searched his database for any property he own.
"BINGO! He inherited a house from his dead mother and guess where it is?" Hide looked excited at the news.
"Widow's Ridge." Kaiba nodded and gave the detective the address. They raced to the sight as Chisa was updating the cops. It wasn't long before a house came into view. The same house that they saw in that creepy video still.
'Hang on Mokuba, I'm coming. Please let him be alright.'
* * * *
The clouds were now blanketing the night sky over an old house that stood alone on a lonely Ridge. It was a old home in much need of repair unchanged since the previous owner died several years ago. There were many stories about this house, many said the woman who owned it was crazy. But everyone seemed to truly believe it once it was discovered that she hung herself in this very house. The only visitor she ever received was a middle age man who worked hard at not being seen, at least his face.
Once in a while a teenager would venture in on a dare but would be chased away by loud footsteps or someone shouting. Some thought the place was haunted more sensible people figured it was a homeless person or a few crack heads that have taken up residence. What they didn't know was that a killer had returned to the place he once called home. He wasn't so foolish as to kill the dumb kids who decided to trespass, oh no, that would lead the cops right to his door. He preferred to select his victims more precision and care. In fact, his latest little play thing was waiting for him in his mother's own bedroom.
The child was in tears, which was just the way he liked it. The little one had good reason to cry because his legs were broken by his kidnaper to insure that he could not get away. So far everything was going to plan, soon he would take his revenge on Seto Kaiba. And he would do it in the cruelest of ways, by making his little brother one of his 'playthings' and leaving the corpse somewhere where he would find it. He was astonished by the fact the It was the Kaiba brothers who found Jou in the first place but that just made it all the sweeter for now they knew what was in store for young Mokuba. Kaiba must know his brother was missing by now but he had been careful not to leave any clues behind but even if he had been discovered he was prepared and it didn't matter if it cost him his life. In his mind, it was worth it.
It was time now, time to complete the next part of his plan. He slowly walked over to the bedroom making his footsteps loud so that the child within would tremble in fear knowing the monster was coming. In his head he was already planing out what he would do differently from his other victims but then again he wanted Kaiba to know it was the same person who took young Jou so maybe he should do this one exactly like the last, even if it did take a few days.
* * * *
Mokuba had never been so scared in his life. He was trembling from fear and from the pain in his legs. They were still bleeding and even the slightest movement made him scream in agony. He was tied to the bed and even if he could get loose there was no way to call for help. Then he heard it, footsteps. He cringed, the monster was coming back. He knew this was the same man that took Jounouchi and right now wished he had listen to him when he tried to warn him. Somehow Jounouchi had known he was the next target but was unable to tell him who was targeting him. He recognized the man however. It was one of his brother's employees he knew not by face but by the badge he was still wearing. He could only pray to whatever god was out there that his brother would figure out Jounouchi's clues and come get him.
Just then the door swung open to revile a large slightly overweight man smiling at him like he was piece of meat. As the man crept closer Mokuba closed his eyes too scared to look. If he had he might have seen the horror in the man's face as the window's and the mirror in the room started dripping with blood.
To be continued in...The End
A/N: Just to make it clear this is not the final chapter. The next chapter is called "The End" to go with my theme. There will also be an epilogue which will be the official final chapter. But before then I have been working on some fan art I for anyone who is interested. And for some people who have said I should wright original stories, that has been a pet project I have been working on for a while now. I am in the mist of trying to complete an original short horror story called, "Dream Maker" Since I hope to someday get it published I will not be putting any part of it online for fear someone may take it and claim it was theirs.
Sorry for the shameless plug, if it ever gets looked at I plan to have a few people help me edit it as you know my grammar sux. Thanks again for over 200 reviews, and I'll try to hurry with the next chapter.
Later, Shiroi Misa
12:57
Yugi, with the help of Yami, gathered himself together enough to hear Chisa statement. "I-It wasn't me who found it...it was Jounouchi." The young boy sprang up.
"What do mean it was Jounouchi?" Chisa jumped at Yugi's sudden reaction. She wordlessly pointed to the screen. Yugi almost stop breathing at the sight. The videotape was paused the time showing 12:57 and in the middle of what should have been an empty room stood a faded image of Jounouchi. Chisa's hand was shaking as she contacted Hide and Kaiba.
"Chisa? What in blazes are you talking about?" Without saying a word she sent the image to the two men.
* * * *
The moment Kaiba saw the image he almost hit the floor from shock. Hide was more confused that anything else.
"Chisa, what is this? Why are you showing this still?" Kaiba gulped and pointed to the time in the lower left corner. Hide rubbed his eyes sure he was seeing things.
"Wait a minute, this can't be right. The cliff was at least 30 minutes away. He would have been dead around 1:00am, this has to be a mistake." Chisa wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"That's just it, he's only on this one frame. I was scanning the tape for clues but it started going haywire and it just stopped on this image. I don't know what's going here." There wasn't much to the image but there was no mistake, it was Jounouchi. Kaiba took a hard look at the image and thought he saw something on the wall behind him but he couldn't make it out.
"Chisa, can you enhance that image on the wall beside him?"
"I'll try." The whole group watched as the image was enhanced bit by bit. Yugi was squinting trying to get a better look at what appeared to be his best friend.
"I think he's pointing to that thing on the wall." Hide agreed.
"Focus on the square shape by his hand." After about a minute the image was finally clear. It was a photo of a two level house and it looked fairly old. Kaiba glanced at the wall in the room where the photo should have been and saw a faded outline like it had been removed.
"Is there any way of telling where that house is?" Kaiba asked knowing it was Jounouchi telling them where Mokuba was taken. Fortunately Hide recognized the location.
"Well I'll be dammed, I know those cliffs. That's Widow's Ridge!" Kaiba turned to the detective.
"Do you know where that is?"
"I know it's those cliffs I can't say exactly where."
"We're going there NOW!" And without a second thought the teen sprinted up the stairs and out of the building heading for the car. Hide had a hard time keeping up with his young boss and was eternally grateful he had the key. He was panting when he finally reached the car. "Get in! We're going to Widow's Ridge RIGHT NOW!" Hide was in no mood to argue when Kaiba was like this. He jumped in and hit the gas. Chisa had heard enough to call in to the station saying she just received an anonymous tip saying the kidnaped boy was in a house somewhere on Widow's Ridge. The problem was there were a large number of house along the cliff side that went on for miles. In truth, the house could be anywhere.
Hide looked at Kaiba who was straining like he was trying to think of something. "What's going on here? Did you know what was in that video still? What makes you think your brother's at that house?" Kaiba didn't look up but for some reason he felt compelled to answer.
"He's been trying to tell me all along. Jounouchi was doing everything he could get it through my thick skull but I was ignoring it as always." Hide was starting to get worried.
"Um, Kaiba? Jounouchi's dead, you do realize that don't you?"
"I know that! But that hasn't stopped him from visiting weather I'm awake or asleep. And don't call me crazy because Mokuba saw him too. In fact he was lead to Jounouchi's body by something he thought WAS Jounouchi!" Hide wasn't sure if Kaiba was telling the truth or going nuts with all the guilt hanging over his shoulders. But the fact was Kaiba believed it and there was also that strange still in the video. He had seen many strange things in his career including a psychic who somehow knew where the body of 11 year old murder victim Yoji Tanaka was. There were many things he could never explain and maybe this was one of them. Having nothing else to go on he decided to humor Kaiba's theory of Jounouchi's ghost trying to help them.
"Let's just say for a moment you're right and Jounouchi really is trying to tell us something. Why didn't he just tell you who it was from the get go?" Kaiba was asking himself the same question but he knew part of the answer.
"I think it was because he didn't know his attacker. He can't seem to communicate very much, just these little clues here and there. He was even cursing me through a Ouija board before it burst into flames."
"What exactly did he tell you he might have left you a clue you're just over looking?" Kaiba thought hard trying remember every little detail.
"He didn't say much through the board, just that I left him to die, 'Go to Hell', Danger, and the time of his death." Hide looked up.
"His time of death?"
"Ya, 12:57 that number has been flashing all around me more than anything else." The detective thought for a moment and was puzzled.
"But why was his time of death so important? I mean, we pretty much knew when he died. From what you've been telling me Jounouchi can't communicate very well so why would he bother telling you exactly when he died." Just then the car radio flickered with an odd static sound and a number was flashing: 12:57. Hide was so distracted he almost didn't see the oncoming car to his left side. He shrived missing it by only a few inches.
"Geez!" He held back a curse. "Wasn't that radio broken when you slammed your fist into it?" But the near accident had no effect on the young burnet for he had just realized what the dead teen had been trying to tell him all this time.
"OH MY GOD THAT'S IT!" Hide jumped seriously considering pulling over to avoid an accident.
"What's it?" Kaiba quickly pulled open his briefcase and accessed his employee records.
"He's HAS been telling me who it was all this time. How could I have been so stupid I've been staring at the answer every day at work and I missed it, GOD!"
"Care to share with the rest of the class or do I have to keep guessing?" Hide said now getting a bit annoyed.
"You said it yourself. Jounouchi didn't know who his killer was so he had to find another way of telling me who it was. It would be useless to describe him so I had to think about what it was like to see through his eyes. It should have hit me when we found out he worked for Kaiba Corp. Everyone who works for me had an ID badge with an eight digit number. Only a lot of the older employees still use the old system that includes a for digit number. Don't you see? It wasn't a time, IT WAS AN ID NUMBER!" A beeping noise alerted him that his search was complete. He hit a few bottons and in an instant he came face to face with Hiro Sato age, 44 Kaiba Corp. ID #1257.
Kaiba froze, this was him, this was the man who took Jounouchi right from underneath his nose. His eyes narrowed when he remembered something. He remembered this man coming into work a little late that Friday and as he passed by the teen CEO saw he had a bandage on the side of his face. It didn't mean anything at the time, but now he realized what he should have picked up on long ago. "So now we finally have the face of the monster we've been hunting." Kaiba sent the image to Chisa while he searched his database for any property he own.
"BINGO! He inherited a house from his dead mother and guess where it is?" Hide looked excited at the news.
"Widow's Ridge." Kaiba nodded and gave the detective the address. They raced to the sight as Chisa was updating the cops. It wasn't long before a house came into view. The same house that they saw in that creepy video still.
'Hang on Mokuba, I'm coming. Please let him be alright.'
* * * *
The clouds were now blanketing the night sky over an old house that stood alone on a lonely Ridge. It was a old home in much need of repair unchanged since the previous owner died several years ago. There were many stories about this house, many said the woman who owned it was crazy. But everyone seemed to truly believe it once it was discovered that she hung herself in this very house. The only visitor she ever received was a middle age man who worked hard at not being seen, at least his face.
Once in a while a teenager would venture in on a dare but would be chased away by loud footsteps or someone shouting. Some thought the place was haunted more sensible people figured it was a homeless person or a few crack heads that have taken up residence. What they didn't know was that a killer had returned to the place he once called home. He wasn't so foolish as to kill the dumb kids who decided to trespass, oh no, that would lead the cops right to his door. He preferred to select his victims more precision and care. In fact, his latest little play thing was waiting for him in his mother's own bedroom.
The child was in tears, which was just the way he liked it. The little one had good reason to cry because his legs were broken by his kidnaper to insure that he could not get away. So far everything was going to plan, soon he would take his revenge on Seto Kaiba. And he would do it in the cruelest of ways, by making his little brother one of his 'playthings' and leaving the corpse somewhere where he would find it. He was astonished by the fact the It was the Kaiba brothers who found Jou in the first place but that just made it all the sweeter for now they knew what was in store for young Mokuba. Kaiba must know his brother was missing by now but he had been careful not to leave any clues behind but even if he had been discovered he was prepared and it didn't matter if it cost him his life. In his mind, it was worth it.
It was time now, time to complete the next part of his plan. He slowly walked over to the bedroom making his footsteps loud so that the child within would tremble in fear knowing the monster was coming. In his head he was already planing out what he would do differently from his other victims but then again he wanted Kaiba to know it was the same person who took young Jou so maybe he should do this one exactly like the last, even if it did take a few days.
* * * *
Mokuba had never been so scared in his life. He was trembling from fear and from the pain in his legs. They were still bleeding and even the slightest movement made him scream in agony. He was tied to the bed and even if he could get loose there was no way to call for help. Then he heard it, footsteps. He cringed, the monster was coming back. He knew this was the same man that took Jounouchi and right now wished he had listen to him when he tried to warn him. Somehow Jounouchi had known he was the next target but was unable to tell him who was targeting him. He recognized the man however. It was one of his brother's employees he knew not by face but by the badge he was still wearing. He could only pray to whatever god was out there that his brother would figure out Jounouchi's clues and come get him.
Just then the door swung open to revile a large slightly overweight man smiling at him like he was piece of meat. As the man crept closer Mokuba closed his eyes too scared to look. If he had he might have seen the horror in the man's face as the window's and the mirror in the room started dripping with blood.
To be continued in...The End
A/N: Just to make it clear this is not the final chapter. The next chapter is called "The End" to go with my theme. There will also be an epilogue which will be the official final chapter. But before then I have been working on some fan art I for anyone who is interested. And for some people who have said I should wright original stories, that has been a pet project I have been working on for a while now. I am in the mist of trying to complete an original short horror story called, "Dream Maker" Since I hope to someday get it published I will not be putting any part of it online for fear someone may take it and claim it was theirs.
Sorry for the shameless plug, if it ever gets looked at I plan to have a few people help me edit it as you know my grammar sux. Thanks again for over 200 reviews, and I'll try to hurry with the next chapter.
Later, Shiroi Misa