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?

Comments

[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.]

[awishforfriends]

[That almost as hurts as much as the yanking, and he holds his arm protectively against his side.]

I'm not going to die! It... was just an accident, that's all.

[It's hard to tell who he's trying to convince, him or Kaiba. But really, now he's getting genuinely scared. What if it is that bad? He has no way to explain it at all, but at the same time, if he really needs to get treatment...]

[blueyesfanboy]

You will if it gets infected.

[Kaiba turns, heading for the door. He wore a small smirk.]

Whether you live or die doesn't concern me, Yugi. If you don't want to take my advice, then it's your own funeral bells ringing in the distance, not mine.

[awishforfriends]

[Ah...

...it's true, Yugi doesn't really know much about wounds. And Kaiba... well, he probably knew more. At least, he seemed to. The smaller boy turns his gaze to the ground, but he can feel the sticky warmth on his hands from the blood seeping out.]

...Which way's... the nurse's office again?

[He's been convinced. He'll just have to try to come up with something on the way there.]

[blueyesfanboy]

Just keep going left. You'll see it.

[Kaiba unlocks the door, opening it as he prepares to exit.]

[awishforfriends]

...Ah, Kaiba-kun! Wait.

You... look really tired. You haven't been sleeping well, have you?

[blueyesfanboy]

[He stops, turning to shoot Yugi a threatening leer. Of course he hasn't been sleeping. He'd just spent six months in a coma and before that...he was plagued by nightmares of being torn apart by monsters. Now he was stuck here, and he still suffered from those nightmares.

The only reason he cares for you to live, Yugi, is because once he defeats you he can quell some of the anger in his heart, and the nightmares in his mind.]

Get to the damn nurse, Yugi.

[awishforfriends]

[The leer almost freezes Yugi's heart right in his chest and he's almost genuinely regretting ever asking. He takes in a weak breath, just sort of suffering the look about as well as you'd expect a canary to suffer the look of a lion.

...But... something was very wrong with him. And he tried to help...]

What's the matter... Kaiba-kun?

[blueyesfanboy]

Every day I spend having lost to you, Yugi.

[Kaiba clenches his hand into a fist as he raises it to chest-height.]

You may not remember anything but I do. [He narrows his eyes.] Now get to the nurse. I won't accept you dying before I have my revenge.

[awishforfriends]

Revenge...?

[He doesn't understand. He really doesn't. Revenge for what? What did he do? He can't think of anything, just that something happened to Kaiba after he... was hit and blacked...

...No, it couldn't be that, could it? It couldn't... but... Could it...?

The possibility is chilling, but something in him makes him ask.]

What... did I do, Kaiba-kun? What did I do when I blacked out?

[blueyesfanboy]

... [Why doesn't Yugi remember?

He says he...blacked out? When Yugi gets that fierce look in his eyes and becomes the "other Yugi", can he really not remember? But even then, he should remember Death-T.]

Oh, it wasn't you. [Now he swings the door open, leaving.]

[awishforfriends]

[Wasn't... what? What's going on here? Yugi's left standing in the bathroom for a good five minutes, just trying to process it.

Kaiba was so angry. He claimed revenge for something. But then suddenly... wasn't him...?

It only makes his head hurt to match his arm. And standing here... won't do much good, will it?

He pushes the door open finally, heading off to get to the nurse's office and let her take care of it.]