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Odd Couple	By : DragonetteVie Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > Het - Male/Female Views: 4539 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A door opened in the back of her head. It seemed an odd thing to think, but it was her only basis for comparison – the sensation of a door that opened inside of her head. Cool air rushed around inside of her skull, through her veins until the chill found a spot to settle in her bones. Suddenly, she could no longer hear the drone of her teacher, or see the back of her classmate's head or the problems on the board. There was a noise not unlike a long, slow creak of rusted hinges, and a blackness that filled her sight like a cloud.
Something tried to speak. Not in a true voice, but in a curdled rasp that didn't sound much like a voice at all. It came from somewhere deep inside of the darkness, a fog that rolled around her ankles and up to her ears. The words it spoke were incoherent whispers, but she didn't need to understand the phrase.
Something wanted out. It had been imprisoned for too long, and it wanted to escape through that door in the back of her head.
Her pencil snapped beneath her thumb. The entire class turned to look at her as she stared dumbly at her hand, littered with splintered wood and fresh blossoms of blood. She found herself unable to reconcile the presence of blood with the blackness that overtook her head. A long gouge ran down the length of her thumb, one that swelled and dripped onto her paper.
She felt more than heard her teacher ask her to go to the nurse. Someone pressed a handkerchief into her palm, and suddenly she was in the hallway, alone. The growl from the darkness grew louder, more determined. She tried desperately to shut the door, but it refused – the wind was still too much for her to fight against. She could only hope that whatever bound the creature in the dark would hold until it let up.
The wind came from down the hall – she could feel it, but at the same time she didn't feel it at all, in much the same way that the door existed but did not exist all at once. She turned it face it, and it seemed as if the hall itself was encased in the same inky black that filled her mind. When she walked, she walked through shadows that didn't exist, against a typhoon with winds that didn't blow. Her forehead began to throb angrily as she stumbled towards the source, and the rusty screeches grew louder.
“Kokoro-kun?” Jou's voice broke through the howl. “Are you alright?”
She hadn't seen Jou or Honda approach. Her brain, trapped by ethereal darkness, struggled to compose a reply as the once-gangster raised her hand to look at it more closely. The injury really was severe, for a broken pencil to be the cause. Several large splinters of wood protruded from her flesh, stained with blood and lead. She must have squeezed it well after it snapped.
“I'm fine. I'm going to the nurse now.”
“The nurse is in the other direction.”
The door slammed shut. The darkness suddenly vanished, the wind fell flat, and the angry wails faded to silence. The pain of her injury suddenly took on a new life, where it hadn't so much as throbbed a moment earlier. Jou and Honda both politely escorted her to the nurse. The sheer amount of damage she had inflicted to herself during her stupor surprised even the physician – she was lucky the worst of it didn't require a handful of stitches. Everyone begged for an answer as to how she could do so much damage – for she had to have clenched that broken pencil in her fist for nearly a minute – without being aware of it.
She feigned a migraine. Her release from the nurse's office coincided with the end of the school day, and at her locker she was met with whispers and glances from many of her own classmates. She ignored them – it wasn't the worst rumor to go around about her. The source of that bit of unpleasantness appeared beside her, a mass of spiked hair at her shoulder. A third year, in a relationship with a first – she couldn't help but dwell on how unimportant that should be to everyone but them.
“Jounnouchi-kun said you were hurt.”
“It's nothing.” She smiled down at him as they pushed through the crowd in the locker room. “Just don't know my own strength, is all.”
“He said you had a migraine, too.” The young student observed. “But you don't get migraines. What happened?”
She glanced down at her hand. She had bled slightly through the bandage, and it continued to throb angrily at her, as if in defiance for it being ignored. The nurse had dug around in the wound for nearly ten minutes with tweezers to make sure the stray debris was removed, and the injury seemed determined to ensure she didn't forget.
“It's nothing, really. I just got lost in my own head.”
He didn't seem like he believed her. They continued to walk in near silence until the Game Shop came into view. They bid one another good afternoon at the door, and she continued the several blocks to the apartment building. She passed through several crowds of shoppers along the way, but ignored most of them, determined to get home and complete at least one assignment before she set to dinner preparations.
The door flew open. She paused midstep and stumbled into the crowd, overcome by the nighttime void in her head. Her eyes flew across the faces that she didn't truly see, and abruptly settled on a young man, her own age or so. He stared down at his chest, surprised by something in much the same way that Yugi seemed to be by his puzzle on occasion. He glanced up, and through the crowd managed to lock eyes.
The thing in the darkness crawled out. It pulled itself from the shadows as it growled and screamed in the same tone of metal when ground against more metal. The boy seemed to startle, as if he could sense the creature that tried desperately to free itself from the last of its bonds. She could just make out the faint shape of a large ring beneath his sweater as it began to glow, brighter and brighter the longer they stared.
Suddenly the not-words made sense. She threw herself sideways, elbows out as she forced her way through the crowd and into a nearby alley. She came out the other side at a full sprint, and refused to stop until she was safely locked within her apartment. Her father glanced up from his hand-held game and cigar, and asked her what happened, but she couldn't quite hear him. The only sound in her head was the memory of that thing behind the door, when it's grinding and snarling became words.
It had told her to run.
A/N - As most of these chapters have no sexual content, warnings will be placed at the start of each chapter, where applicable. I also freely admit this isn't my best work. Constructive critique and comments, even suggestions are welcome. Flames will be deleted. I don't mind my work being critiqued, but be polite about it - I'd do the same in your position.
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