NEVER ENOUGH YGOS

[awishforfriends]

[For those actually loitering inside the building today, you may end up seeing a small little boy with weirdly spiked hair wandering around, most likely having passed you by. Perhaps he asked one of the less helpful people around for directions to some city or outside, and just gotten turned around.

As it is, he's been in and out of rooms and hallways at least three times now. It's only once he's -- somehow -- on the roof again that he finally surrenders to the prospect that he's lost, sighing and flopping his back against one of the AC units.

His hands reach down to fiddle with the large, golden object around his neck, looking up to the sky.]

Jounouchi-kun... Honda-kun... Anzu... where are you?

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[blueyesfanboy]

Yugi... [He stops, shooting loathing looks at the other boy from his vantage point. Kaiba's grown a bit, since you last met...and Yugi, you've stayed the same!]

[awishforfriends]

Ah, Kaiba-kun...

[Wow he really did grow... a lot, in fact. Don't mind Yugi just blinking a bit. What did you do to your hair?]

You're here too?

[blueyesfanboy]

Unfortunately. [He coldly responds, continuing to give Yugi a rather venemous look.]

Did you just show up then?

[awishforfriends]

[The look makes him squirm a little. Okay, yeah, the Kaiba he remembers was actually pretty cruel, but he's not quite used to this obvious, searing hatred.]

A little while ago. I met Bakura-kun, but that's about it...

[blueyesfanboy]

[Get used to it, Yugi, because it's the only look Kaiba's interested in giving you right now.]

Bakura...hm. He's not the only worthless person I've been unfortunate enough to encounter here.

[He smirks.] No...but I'm sure you'll find that out for yourself soon enough, Yugi.

[awishforfriends]

[Please stop, what did he ever do to deserve this, it's not like he let some evil alter ego of his screw up your other dim... oh right.

As it is, he squirms a bit more, pointedly avoiding Kaiba's gaze.]

Ah, find out what?

[blueyesfanboy]

[Ha Ha. Yeah.

Kaiba seems to enjoy how uncomfortable he's making Yugi right now!]

About all the worthless trash this place brings in. You'll recognize a few of them, Yugi.

[He smirks again, tapping at his deck inserted into his first generation Duel Disk.] I could tell you more...for a rematch.

[awishforfriends]

I'm sure they aren't worthless, Kaiba-kun! You shouldn't call them that...

[Yeah, SO uncomfortable right now, sheesh. He blinks, looks at the duel disk, then up to him.

...Um.]

Rematch... of what? I don't think we ever played any games together...

[blueyesfanboy]

What?

[That...actually has Kaiba's eyes widening, shock written clearly on his face. How could Yugi not remember?! How could he forget Death-T, and their duel...?!

This wasn't possible...!]

Did you hit your head or something?!

[awishforfriends]

[He reaches up, rubbing his head a little.]

It doesn't feel like I did... [But he apparently met Ryou before, yet couldn't remember it. Maybe this was the same?] Have... we done something before, Kaiba-kun?

[blueyesfanboy]

Hmm..! [Kaiba was clearly, and deeply, insulted.]

You fool. If you can't even remember, then you're just as useless as the rest of them. I wanted a challenge, but you're just a sniveling dog.

[awishforfriends]

Ah...

[What is he supposed to say to that? He really doesn't remember, and it shows. What do you want him to do, Kaiba? Randomly pluck memories out of the air?]

...Sorry...

[blueyesfanboy]

[Fed up, Kaiba lets out a derisive huff and turns to walk away.]

Later...

[awishforfriends]

[Ug.

It had taken Yugi a while to disengage from Bakura without being suspicious, and even longer to find the Nurse's office. The cut on his arm had only gotten worse in its throbbing, but something about it had made him paranoid, not wanting anyone to see.

Probably because getting knifed in a school was not exactly a common occurrence.

Either way, after having to resort to taking supplies from the nurse's office (and leaving her a note that said he'd find a way to repay her), he had managed to find an empty bathroom to duck into. Really, he would've rather returned to his dorm and fixed it there, but the pain in his arm was getting a bit unbearable, and the arm was getting stiff to boot. At least in the bathroom he wasn't likely to be bothered, so it hadn't been too big a deal to toss his jacket and shirt over one of the sinks and check out his arm.

It... looked bad, to be honest. It thankfully hadn't bled too much, so just keeping his arm out of sight had worked to hide the stains, but it looked like this was worse than he thought.

He entertains the idea of going to the nurse for a moment, then shakes it off. Something about her makes him nervous, and besides, he already got the bandages and everything.

Might as well get to work, though the moment he starts trying to wash it out he can't bite back the whimper at the pain. Oh, this is going to be bad...]

[blueyesfanboy]

[Enter Kaiba, for once without his peripherals as he'd just entered the bathroom to splash some water onto his face. He was exhausted and frustrated, and when he initially enters he leans back against the door and lets out a sigh as he locks it.

...Then he turns and spots Yugi, immediately straightening up. Practically trembling at being caught off-guard like this. It was even more obvious in this dim yellow lightning that Kaiba was sporting dark bags under his eyes. In fact, it was questionable if he slept at all.

While staring, his eyes trail over the scene before him, stopping at the wound on Yugi's arm.]

[awishforfriends]

[Yugi had frozen the moment the door had opened, looking over and staring when he saw who it was. If he's noticed the vulnerability, he sure doesn't show it, mostly because he's halfway through wiping down his arm with tears on his own face, and thus in quite a worse position than Kaiba.

He says nothing, though, just sort of staring at the other teen with the almost rabbit-esque "the snake is watching me" look on his face.]

[blueyesfanboy]

[Yugi may feel worse off, but Kaiba felt as if his own nerves were about to boil over.]

Yugi. Hm! What happened to your arm? [He smirks.] Did you get attacked by a vicious kitten?

[Did somebody hurt him...? Because if anybody's going to hurt Yugi, it's going to be him. He'll tear down the one who did this.]

[awishforfriends]

Uh...

[What the hell did he even say? That he had no idea what had happened? That he had blacked out again and woken up to this... horrible gash? That Kaiba's guess was as good as his?

Hahahahaha, yeah right.]

H-Haha, I just... tripped and cut it on s-something on the wall, that's all.

[...Because he's totally not giving obvious lying tells. Nope.]

[blueyesfanboy]

You cut it.

On a wall.

[Yeah he's buying that about as much as that Kuriboh card you like so much.

Kaiba steps closer, looming and intent on keeping the topic on Yugi.]

It looks like a knife wound. [He would know about those.]

[awishforfriends]

[Uh-oh. Yugi tries to edge away as he comes closer, eyes briefly flickering to the door in thought. Running out would be rude, but he really doesn't know how to explain this thing without at least some more time to come up with something.]

M-Maybe someone else something sharp there? H-Hah...

[Why are you such a bad liar, self. This is terrible. Edging away a bit more...]

[blueyesfanboy]

[Kaiba notices the look, but he'd locked the door when he came in. Even if Yugi went for it, he'd have to undo that first.]

I doubt it. [He reaches out, grabbing Yugi by the arm and tugging him forward to get a better look. his gaze was leering, unphased by the injury.]

[awishforfriends]

[Yeep! Caught! Yugi gives a pained yelp that sounds more like a puppy that was just kicked as he's manhandled by his wounded arm. The rough jerk causes it to start bleeding again, in fact, and he's biting back the urge to tear up again.]

K-Kaiba-kun!

[That hurts a lot. The cut may not be deep enough to bleed buckets, but it's deep enough to be painful.]

T-that hurts...

[blueyesfanboy]

[Hmm...a wound like this could easily kill somebody with an infection if left untreated. And it definitely wasn't an accident.]

Why haven't you seen the nurse, you fool? Who did this to you?

[awishforfriends]

S-She wasn't there, so I d-didn't want to bother her... i-it's not that bad anyway...

[Why yes, he is ignoring the other question, why do you ask?]

[blueyesfanboy]

Not that bad? Heh. I guess if you don't mind dying.

[Kaiba suddenly lets go of Yugi's arm.]