Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Love is Unexplainable ❯ Compassion and Understanding ( Chapter 6 )

Yugi was exhausted, both physically and emotionally. He'd worked for hours with Seru and, though they still had a lot of work to do to raise his grade, he was improving bit by bit.

`Everyone has to start somewhere I guess. Besides, I'm doing this for Yami.' Yugi smiled at the thought and rolled over in his bed. `Thank kami it's Friday. I don't think I'd be able to get off this bed even if I wanted to.'

Heavy eyelids closed with utter relief and Yugi released himself to the darkness of sleep.

~~

Screaming and crying invaded his senses. He didn't know where he was or how he got there. He could recognize a woman's voice; the one who was crying.

Yugi opened his eyes and glanced around. `I thought I was in my room. How did I get here?' A ray of light, seemingly appearing from nowhere, focused lightly on two forms huddles closely together. `What's wrong with them?' He wanted to call out to them; try to help them, but his voice wasn't working.

He tried walking and was relieved to see that at least his legs were functioning the way he wanted them to. He hurried over to them and laid his hand gently on the sobbing woman's shoulder. Somehow, he didn't know how, but he knew his voice was working now. "Excuse me," he whispered, "Are you okay; do you need help?"

The woman looked up and the man finally moved to show he too had tears burning in his eyes. Yugi was amazed at the similarities between him and these two adults. `Who are these people?' He couldn't help but wonder.

The woman's violet eyes widened as she looked at him and, to Yugi's great surprise, she threw her arms around his neck and held him tightly. He could just make out her mumbling words being lost into the neck of his shirt.

"My Yugi, my darling Yugi. You've found your way back to us; I'm so relieved." She whispered over and over again. Yugi didn't know what to do, but if it gave the woman a sense of relief and it calmed her, he was willing to let her do as she wished for the time being. After all, she wasn't doing anything wrong.

"Our son, how we've missed you so much." The man finally spoke. Yugi started for a minute when he turned his head and found himself looking into familiar crimson red eyes.

`Those are Yami's eyes. Who are these people?' Amethyst eyes widened and he couldn't help but wonder, `Could - could these people be my real parents?'

~~

Yugi awoke with a start and glanced around the room. `That dream…what was that?' He glanced over at the clock and it read 11.30PM in flashing red letters. `I wonder if grandpa's still up…maybe he'll be able to answer my questions?'

The teen scooted off the bed and moved sluggishly downstairs, his only thoughts occupied by the dream about the two adults who looked so much like him… `And Yami.'

Yugi was relieved to see that his grandpa was still awake and he hurried over to him. "Hey, grandpa, do you have a few minutes?"

"Of course, Yugi. What can I do for you?" The old man smiled up at the teen, motioning for the teen to take a seat beside him.

"Well, I had this really strange dream just now and I was wondering if you could help me. You see, it was all black except for a spotlight where two people, a man and a woman, were holding each other closely and they were crying. I went over to them and then they said I was their son. They looked so much like me and…" He paused, not sure if he should add the part about Yami. He opted against it and continued. "And I was just wondering what my real parents were like. What they looked like and all? Could you tell me, grandpa, please?"

Solomon Mouto shook his head sadly and stood from the couch. "I'm sorry, Yugi, but I can't. Even if I did know anything of your real parents or even all the details of why they put you up for adoption, I can't tell you. It's completely confidential and yes," he said suddenly, seeing Yugi start to interrupt, "even from you."

"But that's not fair. What they live here and I could meet them? They could be my neighbors for all I fucking know!"

"Yugi! Watch your mouth!" The old man scolded.

"No! I'm sick of this! It isn't fair that I can't know about my real parents even if it's the slightest color of their hair or a speck of their eye color. Even how damned short their hair is!" Yugi turned on his heel and stormed out of the house as fast as he could, not sure where he could go.

~~

Yugi walked slowly through the deserted park near his school. He had decided to go to Yami's place, but he didn't want to disturb his… what was Yami to him now? Surely they weren't friends from the way Yugi had treated him and for the same reason they definitely weren't anything more than that. However, he had walked by the house, but the entire building was dark minus the automatic garage lights that went on at motion.

The teen slumped in a wet park bench, not scaring what it would do to his pants. `Rain seems very fitting for my mood now anymore. But I suppose I'm no good for that so the after effects of it will be good enough.' He thought as he looked at his hand, dripping with water from touching the bench.

A single drop of water falling on the tip of his nose made Yugi look towards the darkening sky. `Could it be… ?' Not a second later rain was starting to fall down like there was no tomorrow. `Seems like the gods answered my prayers.' A small smile appeared onto Yugi's face as he continued to stare up into the grey clouds covering the sky.

"Hey! Is that… Wait here!" A voice, familiar to Yugi, called to someone else. "Yugi? Is that you?" Someone with blonde hair now standing in Yugi's line of vision asked.

The teen nodded silently, not wanting to break the euphoria of peace the rain had given him.

"Kami, Yugi! What on earth are you doing out in the rain barely wearing anything?" The blonde yelled and hurriedly wrapped his arms around his friend.

"Puppy?"

"Seto, it's Yugi!" The blonde called out to his boyfriend not ten feet away from where they were.

"Come on, Yugi, let's get you home. Your gramps will be worried about." The blonde stood and pulled on Yugi's hands to help him up, but the teen didn't budge and he looked down worriedly at his amethyst-eyed friend. "Yugi?"

Wordlessly, Yugi shook his head, his eyes glaring at nothing looking as hard as ice.

Joey looked back at Seto and, with a sigh, nodded. The blonde turned back to his still glaring friend. "Then we'll take you to Seto's, Yugi. Would that be fine?"

Yugi's eyes softened and the teen nodded. He allowed himself to be pulled up but his legs quickly gave out on him, almost as if they were made of jelly, and he fell to the ground on his knees.

"Yugi?" Joey asked with concern in his voice.

Someone, Yugi wasn't sure who, knelt beside him and wrapped his arms around him, helping him up, but they didn't stop there. They picked Yugi up completely off the ground and into their arms, holding him like a parent would with a small child and carried him down the park. It wasn't until Joey's form appeared in Yugi's slightly slurred vision that he realized it was Seto who was carrying him.

With that single thought in mind Yugi felt his eyelids giving out on him and it wasn't long before Seto stopped in surprise at feeling Yugi's small form slump completely in his arms. He looked into the teen's face the best he could and couldn't help a small, careless smirk cover his face.

"Seto? What's wrong?" His boyfriend asked, slightly behind him.

"Nothing, pup. He's just gone to sleep."

"Out here?" Joey asked with disbelief.

Seto nodded.

"He must be exhausted for something like that to happen. I wonder… what happened to make him not want to go home. Do you think he got in a fight with his grandpa?"

Seto shrugged and continued down the sidewalk, even more careful not to trip in the growing puddles in the various dips along the way. He wouldn't want to be responsible for even more injuries to be carried by the small teen resting in his arms.

~~

Joey hurried to open the door and stood aside so Seto could enter first with the still slumbering Yugi in his arms.

"Pup, I'm going to get Yugi dried off and into some better clothes so he won't catch a cold. Would you find someone and have them fix up the closest bedroom to our rooms for him, please?"

"Of course, Seto." Joey hurried off to do as told.

Seto moved towards the bathroom. He dried Yugi off the best he could without waking him and removed his clothes down to his boxers and dropped them into the sink before turning to one of Mokuba's robes he had grabbed on the way to the washroom. He knew his little brother wouldn't mind Yugi using it, especially if it kept the young duelist from becoming sick with a fever.

A knock on the door was heard and Joey stuck his head in. "The room's ready for him."

Seto nodded and picked Yugi back up, following Joey to the room that had been prepared. He was pleased to find out it was only a few doors away from his and his koi's room.

He laid Yugi down on the bed and covered him up warmly before following his lover out and into their own rooms to dry off.

~~

Yugi's eyes blinked once, again, and finally opened sleepily to look around the room. He had most definitely not fallen asleep here. He regained his senses and remembered he had been in Seto's arms when he had felt the urge to rest. He figured he must be in one of the guestrooms in Seto's mansion. He pushed the covers away from him and searched for a clock to see the time.

A digital one was set up on a desk by the door and it read 2.20AM.

`When did I go to sleep?' Yugi mused as he stared at the clock carelessly. Dropping the matter he headed for the door. He needed to get something into his stomach before it woke the whole household with its rumbling.

He opened the door as quietly as he could and looked around the hallway before closing it slightly behind him. That's when he noticed the slightly too-small bathrobe and he was wearing and wondered when that had been put on him. He didn't care though when he found he was only wearing his boxers underneath.

`Seto or Joey must've done it while I was sleeping. I must've been very tired if I didn't wake up.'

He noticed a door slightly cracked open and he moved towards it, peering in quietly. A saddened frown came over his face as he saw his best friend snuggled up beside his millionaire lover, the latter's arms holding the blonde tightly. He closed the bedroom door back to its original state and headed down the hallway in search of the stairs.

He was surprised, especially in his still half-asleep state, that he managed to find the stairs on his second try wandering aimlessly through the halls of the second floor. He walked noiselessly down the stairs and wandered into the kitchen, glad that he knew the first floor well enough to find it without getting lost. He was slightly surprised when he saw a few people working tirelessly around, mopping the floor and putting spare dishes away.

One woman noticed him and hurried over, bowing slightly in respect. "You should be asleep, sir. Master Seto told us not to disturb you and you were sleeping out in the rain."

"Actually, I was wondering if I could get something to eat. I kinda… skipped dinner at my place and I can't exactly go home now without having to worry Seto or Joey."

"Yes, I understand, sir. What would you like; I can get it for you."

"Could I get some hot chocolate, please?" The young teen asked hopefully; he really needed something chocolately.

The woman seemed to sense his need for chocolate and offered him a friendly smile and laughed even. "Of course you can. Young Master Mokuba always loves a hot chocolate before resting for the night. If you could wait for a just a second to finish what's left of my cleaning I would be happy to make it for you."

"Sure, no problem; I wouldn't want you to get in trouble on my sake."

The maid nodded once more and went back to what was left of her duties. It wasn't long, maybe ten minutes at the most, before a steaming mug was placed in front of him. "You might have to wait for it to cool down; I hope you enjoy it."

"Thanks for going through the trouble. Could I maybe drink this in the living room down the hallway?"

"It was no trouble at all. Just be careful; that room was already cleaned."

"I'll make sure to clean up if I do have an accident." Yugi stood with his drink and walked out into the hallway and into the dark, peaceful quiet of one of the living rooms.

Yugi sat down on a plush and comfortable dark blue couch and closed his eyes in relaxation. He didn't know how long he was like that, thinking over everything that day… or yesterday, however you wanted to put it. A creak on the floorboards caused his eyes to flinch slightly at the noise, but otherwise he didn't move. When the warm mug in his hands was gently removed Yugi hasped and opened his eyes.

"Seto…I didn't….I mean I." Yugi stuttered.

"Relax, shrimp, I was just taking one worry of your mind. So, do you want to talk about why you were in the park while it was raining?"

Yugi looked at the hardwood floor, feeling tears come to his eyes as his mind played back the argument he'd had with his grandfather just before he ran out of the game shop only a few hours before. "Not really."

Seto sighed, but sat down beside Yugi in silence. After a pause of what seemed like an eternity to Yugi, the older spoke again. "It would be easier if you just told me, Yugi," using the teen's given name for once instead of some other name like he liked to call everyone else. "If you don't it's only going to eat you from the inside."

Yugi's eyes widened and he felt even more terrible for what happened. Before he even knew what he was doing he threw himself onto Seto's chest and ended up crying out the entire thing to Seto, soaking his night robe during the entire process. "Oh, Seto, I've never felt so terrible in all my life! How am I ever going to apologize to him?" Yugi cried out in his mumbling.

Seto didn't say anything during the entire thing. He felt it better if he didn't say anything other than hold the younger teen close and comfort him as much as he could. When Yugi seemed done with his confession he held the saddened youth tighter and tried his best to make him feel like his life wasn't coming to a complete end.

"I'm not sure what to say, Yugi, that could make you feel better. I never wanted to know who my real parents were since they dumped me and my brother without caring. However, I'll admit you situation is much different since your parents had to give you up without wanting to. I promise you though, if I could anything to make this better or easier for you I would."

"Seto," Yugi choked out. "I don't understand, you always seem so cold towards me like you hate me. Why now?"

"To be honest, I don't want to help you at all." Yugi gasped but otherwise stayed silent, trying to move away. Seto, however, held him closer. "Joey talked me into trying to get you know you better and I thought it was as good as time as any when I saw you leave after looking in the bedroom."

"I meant to be quiet. I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it, I was already awake. Now that I've heard what you've been going through I'll admit that I do feel something towards compassion for you now. I promise I'll try to be more understanding towards you."

Yugi gave a watery smile and nodded. "Thanks, Seto."

"Try getting some sleep, Yugi. You look like shit." The CEO joked lightly.

To prove the point further, Yugi yawned. He laid his head down on Seto's chest and closed his eyes. After falling asleep once more, Seto picked the teen up and carried him back up to his room, stopping at the kitchen to tell one of the servants to take care of the mug in the living room.