Memories Should be Treasured

The next morning all seemed pretty good



 

 

The next morning all seemed pretty good. Yugi seemed to be
back to normal and Yami was happy about that. Yami kissed him good morning
before he went downstairs to see if his mother had started making breakfast
while Yugi went to go take a shower. As he walked towards the kitchen though he
noticed something peculiar about something in the hall; something that just
didn’t feel right. Looking around he noticed after a few minutes he noticed
that the telephone that was set up by the wall on the small wall table was
missing, but the cord was still there.

 

‘Maybe mother’s going to get a new one today or it needs to
get fixed.’ He wondered to himself.

 

He continued on the way to the kitchen and saw his mother
flipping pancakes over the stove. He walked over to her and hugged her from
behind and giving her a small kiss on the cheek.

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“Good morning, mother.”

 

“Morning, sweetie.” She replied back, only taking her eyes
off what she was doing for a small minute to give him a returning hug and kiss.

 

“Mother, are you getting a new phone for the hall? I noticed
it was missing, but the cord is still hanging around the table.”

 

Kiore stopped what she was doing and looked at Yami with
shock on her eyes. “I thought you were fixing it up in your room because it was
acting up or something?”

 

Yami slowly shook his head and looked around the kitchen,
seeming to somehow think it would give him some sort of answer. That’s when
noticed that the cordless phone that hung on the far wall looked like it had
been ripped out, the cord that connected it the wall was hanging loosely and
carelessly out of the wall, torn down the wall a few inches.

 

“Mother, what happened to that phone?” He asked as soon as
he took the whole scene of where it was in.

 

Kiore turquicquickly and gasped. “Where’d all the phones go?”

 

“Something’s getting weird, mother?”

 

“What’s getting weird? And what’s burning?”

 

Yami and Kiore turned to look at the stove where a burnt
pancake was now sitting in the pan starting to smoke.

 

Yami turned to Yugi while his mother took care of the burnt
pancake in the pan. “Yugi, can you go upstairs and check out my mother’s room
to see if the phone’s there?”

 

Yugi, hair still wet and clothes sticking lightly to his wet
skin, gave Yami a curious look before turning and heading back upstairs.

 

A few minutes later he returned with a weird look on his
face. “It’s gone. The cord’s just lying on the table. What’s going on? Did you
know that the phone was missing?”

 

“I had an idea it would be missing. The ine in the hall and
the one in here are missing too. “

 

“For now let’s just eat breakfast and then we’ll look at the
other two phones: the one in the study and my cell phone; it should be in my
purse upstairs. I was going to call the police to have them come watch the
house or see if they can do something while Keith’s on the run. You’ll never
know if he’ll try to get back here for revenge or something.”

 

“Do you think he’ll try something, Kiore?” Yugi asked
stiffly, moving closer to Yami for a bit of comfort.

 

“You never can tell, Yugi. Don’t worry though, sweetie.
We’ll makee hee he never has anything to do with us ever again.” She told him
to try and help him calm back down.

 

Yugi nodded but still edged closer to Yami and wrapped his
arms around him.

 

“Nothing bad will happen, Yugi. I promise it won’t.” ‘It
just can’t,” Yami added silently as he wrapped his own arms around Yugi and
held him closer.

 

After breakfast Kiore suggested the two boys see if the
other two phones are gone or still there while she cleaned up the dishes. They
agreed and left to check the study’s phone first.

 

Upon entering it was immediately noticeable that the phone
wasn’t there and the cord once more was lying on the table as if it were
completely forgotten. Yami sighed and left to go upstairs, Yugi followed
quickly.

 

Yami checked his mother’s purse over five times before he
finally dropped it back on the ground and gave up. “All the phones in this
house are gone. What’s going on around here?”

 

“You don’t think somebody came in last night and stole them,
do you?”

 

Yami looked up with a defeated look. “I have no idea, Yugi.
I mean, who would steal four phones?”

 

The amethyst-eyed teen shrugged lightly and helped pull Yami
back up from the floor. “Come on, Yami. Let’s go tell your mom. Then she can go
to one of the neighbor’s house and call the police to come over.”

 

Yami nodded and allowed Yugi to lead him out of the bedroom
and back downstairs.

 

Down in the kitchen the couple told Kiore about the phones
and she sighed deeply.

 

“I guess I’ll drive over to Mrs. Kilborn’s and ask if I can
use his phone to call the police. No doubt they’ll be interested to hear this.”
With that said, Kiore stood and left to grab her coat and left the house. “You
boys wouldn’t mind staying here in case anything else happens that you could
tell the police when you get here, would you?” She called just before she
closed the door behind her.

 

Yami and Yugi both shook their heads to show they didn’t
mind before she left even though she already closed the door.

 

“So what should we do now?” Yugi asked, turning to look at
Yami.

 

The crimson-eyed boy shrugged. “Let’s just look around the
place. Maybe we’ll be able to find out something.”

 

The you nod nodded and followed Yami into the library. Both
looked around for anything they hadn’t seen before when Yami glanced at one of
the cases in the back and gasped.

 

Yugi hurried over to him and asked what happened.

 

“All these bookcases were full before. Now three books are
missing.” Yami explained.

 

“Do you know which three?”

 

Yami shook his head. “I never had any reason to come back
here before; these were all my mother’s books and I don’t like the stuff she
reads very much.”

 

“Oh,” Yugi couldn’t think of anything else to say. “Well
this is something to tell the police then, unless you’re mother just brought
them up to her room to read at night.”

 

“No, she doesn’t like reading in her room. She says it’s too
distracting or something like . Sh. She only likes to read in here. Besides, I
haven’t seen her back here in ages. We’ll ask her if she knows anything about
it before we assume anything though.”

 

It wasn’t long before Kiore returned with a relieved smile
on her face. “I almost missed her. The police are on their way though. Did you
find anything else we should tell the police?”

 

Yami nodded slightly. “I think so. Follow me, I need to show
you something.”

 

The couple led her into the library.

 

“Did you do anything with the three books that were here?”
Yami asked her curiously.

 

Kiore shook her head. “I haven’t read anything back here in
a long time. I wonder what happened with them.”

 

“Do you remember what they were?” Yugi asked.

 

Kiore shook her head as if it were help her remember
somehow. “I’m not real sure, I haven’t been back here in so long it seems;
might even be years I’m sure. I think they were instruction books or something
like that.”

 

A light bulb went off somewhere in Yami’s head. “Were they
s ons on how to rewire things?” He asked excited, hoping they had an idea.

 

Just as he said that the lights went off and Yugi
immediately went to Yami’s side.

 

“What’s happening, Yami?”

 

Yugi shook his head before remembering Yugi might not be
able to see him. “I’m not really sure, Yugi.”

 

Minutes later a knock rounded on the door and somebody
called out for Kiore.

 

Yami, Yugi, and Kiore scrambled as fast as they could with
only managing to have a run-in with a table before reaching the door.
Flashlights held by three different policemen met them when they entered that
hall and they had to squint their eyes and hold their hands up to block the
lights from their faces.

 

“Officer Daily?” Kiore asked.

 

“Kiore, what happened with your lights? And I told you time
and again to just call me Dave.”

 

“Sorry, Dave. I don’t know what happened to them, they just
suddenly went out while we were in the library. My son and his boyfriend found
something else you might be interested in.”

 

“And what’s that, Kiore?”

 

“Well, besides the phones, they went to search for anything
else that was missing mysteriously or anything else you might find interesting
and they went to the library and found that three of my how-to books were
missing. I’m pretty sure they were how-to books and I remember one of them was
how to rewire electronics.”

 

“Maybe that’s how the lights went out. Somebody rewired them
and took the phones so you couldn’t call anyone, but whom? Keith couldn’t be
completely crazed on getting you to try something so soon, would he?” Dace
mused to himself. “Yami, would you be as so kind as to take one of my men to
wherever you keep the fuse box so he might spread some light back on the
place?”

 

“Sure.”

 

ve, ve, go with Yami.”

 

“Can I come too, Yami?” Yugi asked, holding his arm tighter.

 

“Actually, Yugi, I think you should go upstairs to your room
and stay there until somebody comes to get you.” Dave answered for Yami.

 

“But I…”

 

“Yugi, please don’t try to argue. You know how dangerous
Keith can be when he wants something and you’re not exactly the strongest
person to be able to handle somebody like him.”

 

Yugi felt tears spring to his eyes at the detective’s words.
Without another word he turned and ran up the stairs and slammed the bedroom
door behind him.

 

Yami turned around as soon as the door slammed shut and
glared angrily at the officer his mother called her best friend. “Was that
really necessary? You didn’t have to spit it right in his face!”

 

“Yami, just take Marve to the fuse box and you can yell at
me later.”

 

“I have the right mind to refuse right now, but since Yugi
doesn’t like being in the dark I’ll do it.” He turned on his heel and headed
for the kitchen where the basement door was located, not even waiting to see if
Marve was following or not.

 

~~

 

Yugi sat on the bed grumbling to himself. “It’s not fair.”
He continued to mutter. After he tired of his continuous muttering he quieted
and laid back down on the bed, furious with the police officer for talking to
him like that.

 

‘He’s supposed to be a policemen for crying out loud. You’d
think he’d be a bit nicer about telling obvious things. I mean, couldn’t he
have just said it’s not safe and he didn’t want me to get hurt if Keith was
behind all this? I could’ve handled that!’

 

Not long later the lights flashed once and went, then a few
seconds later something buzzed and they flipped back on.

 

Yugi jumped up from the bed, intent on going back downstairs
now, but somebody grabbed him from behind and covered his mouth to keep him
from screaming.

 

A familiar voice he wished he would never hear again
whispered into his ear. “Hello, love. How ‘bout you and I have a little chat; I
haven’t seen you in so long it seems. Or maybe, we can go find Yami and I can
have fun with the bot you you.”

 

Yugi’s eyes widened at the obvious meaning and vigorously
shook his head.

 

“No? What a shame, but that wasn’t really giving options;
that was more of…let’s say an order. Do you still disagree with me?”

 

The amethyst-eyed teen continued to struggle against Keith’s
hold, but he still didn’t seem to be able to get away from him.

 

Keith smirked and Yugi could feel it against hir asr as warm
breath continued to caress his ear. The left arm tightened around Yugi and held
him tightly against Keith’s muscular body, the older man grinding himself
suggestively against Yugi’s ass. His right arm shifted something around behind
him and Yugi’s eyes widened even her her when he recognized a gun in his hand when
it came back into view. He immediately stopped struggling.

 

“That’s what I thought, my beautiful Yugi. Now, let’s go
find Yami.”

 

Before Keith could start forcing Yugi towards the door it
opened and Yami stepped in only to freeze at the door when he saw what became
of his beloved koi.

 

“Yugi.” He whispered in a strained voice.

 

“Ah, just the person we were going to go look for. Thanks
for saving us the trouble.”

 

Crimson eyes shifted to the gun that Keith was holding
directly at Yugi’s head and he found himself having trouble breathing.

 

“You wouldn’t want anything bad happening to your lovely
boyfriend would you, Yami. Come here and sit on the bed like a good boy and
I’ll make sure neither of you get hurt.”

 

Yami, knowing that Keith wouldn’t bluff about something like
that, swallowed around the rather large lump in his throat and walked slowly
towards the bed. He wasn’t a fool though. He knew exactly what Keith was going
to do with him, but if it meant keeping Yugi safe then he’d do it a million
times over again. He sat on the bed and felt his body start to shake, but not
out of fear for what was going to happen to him, but for Yugi and what he must
be going through.

 

“That’s a good lad.” Keith shoved Yoverover to the bed and
told him to sit down. He also sat on the bed and ordered Yugi to kiss him while
he unbuckled his belt. Adding that if he tried anything than nothing good was
going to come out of it.

 

Yugi nodded shakily and moved his hands down to where an
easily seen growing bulge was appearing in Keith’s pants as he started to
unbuckle Keith’s belt along with his pants as he also started to kiss him the
best he could without totally grossing himself out.

 

Keith removed his left arm from around Yugi and brought it
up to Yami’s shirt, smoothing it out sexily (or so he thought) and began to
unbutton it.

 

“Yami, have you told Yugi we found the phones in the
basement? What’s taking so long, I thought that…” Just at that moment Kiore
walked in and froze in mid-sentence at what she was calling to Yami and Yugi to
scream. The three policemen ran in behind her and had their guns up. They also
froze when they saw what was happening. They then saw the revolver in Keith’s
right hand and held their guns up more securely once more.

 

“Freeze, Keith! You’re under arrest!”

 

Yugi pulled away and stared at the doorwntilntil he tensed
and glanced to his left (Keith’s right) where the gun was pointing directly at
him.

 

Keith smirked and stopped drawing designs on Yami’s chest
where his shirt hung open. “No, I believe the fun has just begun. Now, you can
either watch the wonderful display we’re about to put on whether you leave or
not or you can leave and try to forget what you just saw. Either way I’m going
to enjoy myself with both of these gorgeous boys.”

 

Tears were streaming down Kiore’s eyes as Dave moved slowly
forward and wrapped his arms around her, bringing her too him and away from the
entrance of the bedroom where Keith, Yami, and Yugi were still watching.

 

“Yugi!”

 

The youngest jumped and moved his violet eyes to Keith.

 

“Continue.” He ordered sternly.

 

Yugi shook, but tried to hide it as he moved forward and
continued to kiss Keith’s swollen lips.

 

Yamenchenched his eyes shut as Keith continued to move his
callused hands around on his chest before they moved south and unbuttoned his
pants one-handedly.

 

“Keith, please! Don’t do this! Take me instead!” Kiore
shouted, trying to remove herself from Dave’s grasp as her husband started to
pull down her son’s pants to reveal his black and red boxers underneath.

 

Keith looked up from what he was doing once more with a
smirk. “No, I think I prefer these two much more than you. At least they know
how to please.” He insulted, chuckling evilly before he resumed his task
intently once more.

 

Kiore finally escaped from Dave’s arms and started running
towards Keith and her two sons, Yugi adopted by her own mind since she’d come
to know him so well over the time he’d been with her and Yami. “Keith, no!”

 

Keith growled and held the gun up to Yugi once more.

 

“Yugi!” Yami shouted as he shoved his way up from the bed
and pushed Keith hard enough to aim the shot somewhere else, causing a hold to
be blasted through the wall.

 

Yugi fell to the floor with a thud and tried to scramble
away from Keith, his eyes bouncing from Keith to Yami then to Keith again. He
prayed with all his being that Yami would be able to get away from Keith
safely.

 

At that same time as Yugi was watching Keith and Yami, Yami
and Keith were fighting over control of the gun. Keith kicked Yami in the gut,
causing him to keel over on the bed and crouch over his stomach as tightly as
he could.

 

“Yami!” Yugi called as he started to stand, but then gasped
came from the door and Yami opened tired eyes to where Keith was now pointing
his gun at and he froze when he saw it was pointed right at him.

 

“Keith!” Kiore stepped forward, closing the door and locking
it quickly behind her so the three officers couldn’t get in quickly. She
hurried forward but froze when the revolver was then pointed from Yami to
directly at her.

 

“Mother!” Yami coughed out.

 

Yugi looked at the gun and then at Keith’s hand as the
finger started to pull back on the trigger. “Kiore!” Standing up as fast he
could he ran over to where Kiore was standing and pushed her out of the way,
causing her to fall to the floor, just as Keith pulled the trigger.

 

Unbelievable pain filed through Yugi as he felt himself come
into contact with the floor just before. He curled into himself as he briefly
heard his name called from two different people.

 

Yami tackled Keith to the floor and grabbed the gun from
Keith throwing towards his mother. He then brought in all his anger that he
ever felt for Keith and used to punch Keith as hard as he could, causing him to
get knocked out enough that he wouldn’t have to worry about him for a while. He
quickly scrambled over to where Yugi lay, curled into himself still.

 

“Mother, let the officers in so they can take Keith out of
here before he gets conscious again. Go call for an ambulance for Yugi.”

 

Kiore nodded and hurried over to the door to let them in.
When they looked around the room though they saw Keith smirking, holding the
gun directly at Yami, who didn’t even notice he was being aimed at.

 

Before anyone could say or do anything Keith fired the gun
with a big bang.