• 1-Racing my back
• 2-Chapter 2
• 3-Chapter 3
• 4-Chapter 4
• 5-Chapter 5
• 6-Chapter 6
• 7-Chapter 7
• 8-Chapter 8
• 9-Chapter 9
• 10-Chapter 10
• 11-Chapter 11
• 12-Chapter 12
• 13-Chapter 13
• 14-Chapter 14
• 15-Chapter 15
• 16-Chapter 16
• 17-Chapter 17
• 18-18

Ahehehehehehehehe..^^°(
sweatdrops, as several readers give her a dirty look) Yes, well, as I said,
sorry about the delay, it’s just, I got so many stories, I can hardly keep
track with them.

Ok, let’s continue
with this one, thanks to all of you who reviewed so far, and thanks also for
sticking by!

Ja ne!^^

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6.

Darkness.

Everything
was darkness, it surroundentaentangled, suffocated, filled him, he tried to
escape, tried to run, jump, crawl, sneak away, but it was always there, just a
step ahead of him, calling his name, mocking, teasing, playing, hurting him.

Groaning,
he turned around himself, trying to find a way out, when he noticed a shadow, a
negative shadow, admidst the black swirls.

He raced
towards it, and the darkness roared in anger, giving chase after him, and he
ran, as fast as his feet would carry him.

His
heart nearly burst out of his chest, the blood rushed in his ears, his sides
ached and his lungs burned, but he kept running, even as the void licked at the
soles of his feet, he leapt, threw himself forward through the hole-

“Katsuya!
Wake up! Come on, buddy, wake up already!”

Golden eyes
flew wide open, and he shot up, his body covered in sweat, panting heavily,
shivering with fear and repulse.

Searching
around for the origin of the voice, his eyes met orbs of chestnut and violet,
aswell as green-brown and-blue?

“Se..to?
Wha- Where am I? And what are you doing here?”

The CEO
smirked, though it lacked a great deal of his usual smugness.

“You
collapsed in the middle of the road, and nearly got run over by my limo. I had
my driver bring you here, aswell as your friends. You’re welcome.”

All
arrogance left his face and voice, when he asked:

“Seriously,
what happened there, Jou? It’s not like you, to just lose counciousness. And
the fact that you slept for the past thirty-eight hours-“

“Thirty-eight
hours?” screamed Katsuya in horror and disbelief. His eyes frantically searched
the room for any kind of clock, and came to rest on the calendar.

Kaiba was
right, he had lost more than one and a half days of his life.

Looking
around, he came face-to-face with his sister.

“Nii-san,
do you remember, what happened? Because Yugi told me, this wasn’t the first
time, and that you had a break-down at school the other day.” Shizuka’s soft
eyes grew sad.

“Why..why
do you keep those things to yourself, Katsuya? You know, we’re always there to
help you, don’t you?”

he smiled
half-heartedly.

“I know,
it’s just..I don’t want you folks to worry. Especially not you.” He caressed
his siter’s cheek with one finger.

“I’m sorry,
I just thought, I could do this by myself. Well, looks like I was wrong.”

Honda
cleared his throath.

“So, you
really don’t remember what happened the past two days? Like, that you were
screaming in your dreams?”

“Screaming?”

“One two
three,

little
Jounouchi sitting in a tree,

then
came Kanashimi, and shook the tree,

and
little Jounouchi was nowhere more to see-“

“Shut the
fuck up! What the hell did you do to me, you sick bastard?” yelled Katsuya,
trying to make out his dark side’s form in the crown of the cherry tree he was
seated in.

With a
smile, Kanashimi glid down the rough bark with the movements of a snake, a
sight, which made Jou’s hair stand on it’s ends. Still he didn’t give in to his
fear, he wanted answers, and he wanted them now.

Three
meters above the ground, Kanashimi let go of the tree and jumped down, landing
gracefully on his feet. Stretching, he yawned, before returning his attention
to Katsuya.

“You
were saying?” The blond seethed with anger.

“I was
not saying, I was demanding.
I want to know, what you did to me, and how come, I lost track of a bloody thirty-eight
hours! And how am I supposed to explain my screaming to my friends, did you
ever consider that? What the hell were you thinking, scars-for brains?!?” he
roared.

Purple
eyes bore into honey ones, and Kanashimi’s voice wormed itself into Katsuya’s
ears like liquid poison, when he replied:

“Just..making
a point, Jounouchi-kun. Just making a point.”

“Well?”
asked Yami, who had switched places with Yugi, when he felt
something..strange..pass through Jou’s being.

The blond
sighed, scratching his head, before answering in all honesty:

“I..I don’t
know, I mean, I remember snippets-scenes-from a nightmare, or rather, several
nightmares, but they don’t make sense. I don’t know,” he sighed, “perhaps this
is, what the shrink warned me from, that my concience might catch up with me at
the most unexpected moment. Or maybe, I did hit my head a little harder on the
pavement, than I thought.”

“Or maybe, you’re simply going crazy”,
chuckled a dark voice in his mind.

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Or rather,
somebody’s driving him crazy, huh? C ya round!^^