Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ You Don't Want This ❯ Truth Revealed ( Chapter 6 )

Truth Revealed

Yami cradled his light against him as he gently picked his unconscious form downstairs.

He placed him gently on the couch before rushing off to use the phone, calling for an ambulance.

He waited impatiently for it to arrive and continued looking out the window waiting for the sirens to come within his hearing so he could at least have some kind of hope his hikari was going to be ok.

`Please be okay, Yugi. I can't bare it if anything bad were to happen to you. This is my entire fault it has to be. If I just kept my mouth shut than I could've kept my eye on you, Yugi. Why do I have to be such a baka sometimes.'

He looked back over to the unmoving form on the couch as silent tears made small, sad patterns over his cheeks as they fell to the floor leaving small-darkened dots in their wake.

Finally, the sirens could be heard and he picked his light up into his arms and rushed outside to meet them.

The men in white coats placed Yugi onto the bed and allowed Yami to ride with them. Yami was grateful since he didn't want to leave Yugi alone anymore.

He stepped into the back and sat kneeled next to his pale light, holding his hand as they drove quickly down the streets towards the hospital.

Once arriving the doctors told Yami to wait in the waiting room as they rushed Yugi off behind some white double doors.

`But I want to go. Yugi please be all right. I promise I won't leave you now. I'll stay as long as can just to be as close to you as I can. I swear on all the gods in Egypt I won't let anything bad happen to you. I need you here, you just can't leave.'

Yami let the tears fall once more as they refreshed they tracks on his face from just minutes ago. He kept thinking over the possibilities of what could have happened with his hikari.

`He could've on drugs, but how would that make him pale? He could've made his own drug? Or what if he could've been poisoned somehow? No, when would someone have done that?' Many more possible answers came to Yami, but just as fast as they came he came up with a rejection for it.

Hours later a doctor came over to Yami.

"Excuse me?" He asked.

Yami looked up, his eyes red from crying. He stood up and looked back at the man. He had a little lighter than black hair and light blue eyes.

"Yes?" Yami answered after a minute.

"You came in with the boy a few hours ago? Spiky hair that's black and red with blonde bangs; he was found unconscious in the bathroom."

Yami nodded.

"I have a few questions for you. Do you think you could answer them for me?"

"I'll try."

"Thanks. First off, what's the boy's name?"

"Yugi Motou."

"How are you related to him?"

Yami hesitated before answering. "I'm his brother."

The doctor nodded as scribbled something on his clipboard. "That's what I thought. And what's your name?"

"Yami."

"Have you noticed any changed in Yugi since before you found him?"

Confused, Yami thought about this a little. "A little, but I've been away for the past two years so I didn't know if I should've worried about them or not."

The man nodded and scribbled some more notes on his clipboard. "What kind of changes?"

Yami thought about it. "Well I noticed he ate more than he used to, but I didn't pay much attention to that. I also noticed that him and his other friends that he'd been really close with in the past now act as though they hate each other and won't really talk with each other anymore and I found that very strange but neither of them would tell me what happened between them. He also has a bit of trouble sleeping at night, but when I asked him about it he said not to worry about it."

"Thank you, Yami. We'll let you know if anything happens." He turned to leave.

"Wait!" Yami accidentally shouted louder than he had intended to. "Do you know what's wrong with Yugi?"

The man turned back around. It looked as though he was considering telling Yami or not. He sighed and nodded. "Yugi's bulimic and he has been for some time now. He has little chances of actually making it because of this. That's why I asked you if you noticed any changed that might've caused him to turn bulimic."

Yami went deathly pale and looked down, nodding his thanks as he slumped back in his chair disbelievingly.

The doctor walked back over to him and placed his hand on his shoulder, patting his gently.

"I'm very sorry Yami. We're trying very hard and doing everything we can to help your brother. Sometimes it even puzzles me why people do such things to themselves. Afterwards, the doctor left.

About an hour later of more tears and thinking how he could've let this happen, Yami saw Joey and everyone else rushing towards him. He was still sitting near the double doors where Yugi had disappeared and was obviously alone, having not been visited by the doctor since he left from asking him the questions.

They walked slowly and nervously to him. Joey sat down next to him, not knowing to say just like everyone else.

Yami looked at him with broken eyes; painfully obvious he was killing himself on the inside, but still trying to stay alive for Yugi's sake. "The secret," he whispered in an almost inaudible voice. Everyone looked at him quietly as they waited for him to continue. "The secret was that Yugi was bulimic, wasn't it?" Everyone looked anywhere but directly at Yami, a second later everyone nodded slightly; almost like they didn't really want to tell him the truth but had to anyways.

Yami felt more tears coming to him and before he burst out in waves of sobs he was led into the arms of Bakura, who had sat down on the other side of him. He rubbed Yami's back slowly trying to calm him down. Nobody was even about to try and stop him though. The truth hit him hard and it wasn't exactly the best way to find out.

After calming down a bit, Yami looked up at everyone. His eyes asked the one question nobody had the guts to answer. `Why?'

Marik took a deep breath and sighed. "I think we should tell you what you've missed these past two years Yami."

Yami didn't really want to, but knew he had to just in case it could help in any way for Yugi.

"After you left, Yugi changed himself around completely. He refused to eat and the only physical thing he did was cry all the time. He kept making wishes for your return and even looked for you everywhere." Malik started.

"He got mad at us because we tried telling him that you probably didn't want to be found. He stormed back to the game shop and I guess that's when he broke apart from us." Joey continued.

Ryou spoke up next. "Bakura, Malik, Marik, and I hadn't been able to help look that day since we had an idea to make posters as a surprise for Yugi. We saw him running away from the others and followed him after we found out what had happened and told him we'd talk to the others. Something came up though and we couldn't help him anymore and he must've thought we just decided to give up too. It was the complete opposite though and he just pushed us away when we went to apologize to him."

"After not eating for a while, he eventually wore himself out so much he had to stop coming to school. He wasn't crying anymore but we knew he was eating himself apart on the inside. His Grandpa had to put him in the hospital to get his strength up and he stayed in there for a good two weeks before they released him. He started to eat again after that, but looked twice as hard for you as before." Bakura spoke.

Tristen continued after that. "It was now about a year after you had left. It was a weekend when we saw Yugi again. We knew he'd gotten out of the hospital, but hadn't seen him. When we did see him though he walking towards downtown and we'd noticed something different about him already. His entire outfit appearance was different. We ran over to him and asked what was and he told us to get lost. That was the first time we actually talked to him in about a little over a year. Once downtown Yugi met up with these three other guys. He was speaking to them about something and when he looked back over at us so did the other three. They walked towards us and one of them had a knife while the other two had broken glass bottles, Yugi didn't have anything with him. We ran after that and that was last time we saw him until Monday."

"That Monday was the worst." Marik started up again. "It was the day we found out his second secret, apart from being in that gang but that wasn't the important one. It was a little while after lunch and Bakura had gone with Ryou into the bathroom since he wasn't feeling well and went to put something cool on his forehead since Ryou refused to go home and was just dizzy or something like that. Anyways, when they got in there they saw Yugi and he was …um well."

Yami just nodded to show he knew what Marik was talking about.

"Well anyways yeah that's what he was doing and Bakura and Ryou asked him about it. Yugi just glared at them and told them to mind their own business. Each time after lunch or anytime he ate we watched him walk into the bathroom. Malik finally had enough of it and stormed over to him while he was exiting out of the restroom for what seemed to be the fifth time that day. The rest of us followed. Malik and Yugi argued for a bit over it and Yugi stormed out before Malik could really get started on what Yugi was really doing to himself."

"All of us kept trying to get Yugi to stop what he was doing and he pushed us away all together. Eventually he just ignored us and if we even tried touching him or going over to him he'd huddled against the three others that was in his gang. He knew that was enough to keep us away since we didn't want anyone getting hurt." Malik told Yami.

Yami interrupted. "I've noticed you haven't mentioned Tea in any of this. Where was she all this time?"

Bakura got an annoyed look on his face. "She was too busy hanging all over her boyfriend to even notice Yugi or anyone else existed and she still is. That's why she's not here too. I'll bet she doesn't even know Yugi's sick."

Suddenly something in Yami's mind clicked and he remembered that one-day when he first came back and saw three guys beating Yugi up downtown. He remembered what one of them had said before they left and everything clicked and made sense about it. Yami must've done something and the rest of the gang had punished him for it.

Night fell over Domino and everyone in the waiting room had to go home. Yami really didn't want to but he knew he had to. He allowed Malik and Ryou to lead him out of the building and back to the game shop.

Yami visited the hospital everyday and stayed as long as he could, or at least as long as he could stand without breaking up; especially if none of his friends could be there with him to help him.

Other than that the days and nights were pretty restless and uneventful for Yami. Nobody knew what they could do for the dark one except made sure he ate and at least tried to sleep so he wouldn't end up checked into a room in the hospital as well.

A few days later when Yami and everyone else was with him, the same doctor came over to them, noticing the dark one and recognizing him as Yugi's brother.

Yami looked up when he saw the doctor and easily remembered him from before as the one who told him about the painful truth of Yugi's self-inflicted sickness. He stood up with everyone else behind him.

"Yami, I have some good news. It seems your brother is quite the fighter and is going to make it."

He waited to continue as he saw everyone have tears gathering in their eyes and Yami cried into a long, sandy-colored haired boy's (Malik) shirt.

Once Yami looked up again the doctor continued. "Yugi's still very weak and won't be leaving for a while yet as long as everything goes according to plan. We're allowing visits to him now, but he can only handle one person at the moment."

Malik lifted Yami away from him and looked him in the eye, nodding to him that he should go.

Yami looked around at everyone else who was nodding in agreement with the Egyptian. He looked back at Malik to make sure.

"I think I speak for everyone when I say that we're not ready to face Yugi just yet and apologize for everything they said to him just yet. We did say some pretty mean things to him and we need time. Go ahead, you're his `brother' after all." Malik added. He was going to say yami, but didn't think it was right in front of the doctor and decided to play along with the siblings thing.

Yami looked at him sadly and nodded. He stood on shaky legs and, with Malik's help, gained his balance once more from crying and leaning against the blonde. He followed the doctor past the double doors and was led by one of the nurses down the hall.

It was a very quiet walk and the whole while Yami could only think about Yugi. He was happy, excited really, to know his love, his Yugi, was going to make it. But that didn't change the fact that he was nervous too. What was Yugi going to say when he found out and was he still mad at him?

`Oh Ra I hope he's not. I couldn't bare it if he was. I still need to apologize from before too. I haven't forgotten that. Okay then, first thing I do is apologize to him.' Yami announced in his mind.

A few hallways, many turns, a couple floors up, and he stopped in front of a door with the number 327 on the door and the name Yugi Motou placed next to the door.

With a shaky breath once the nurse, for privacy, deserted him he turned the gold knob and walked in.