I can see when you stay low nothing happens. Does it feel right? Late at night, things I thought I put behind me haunt my mind. I just know there's no escape now once it sets its eyes on you, but I won't run; have to stare it in the eye.
Stand my ground, I won't give in. No more denying; I got to face it. Won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside. If I don't make it, someone else will stand my ground

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Saturday, October 22, 2005

t w o

 

Twelve hours later, Katsuya was still a bit jetlagged but feeling a little more human. Even with the occasional memory flash to drag her out of a sound sleep, she'd gotten about six or seven hours of rest; maybe by noon she'd be fully functional again.

At the moment, though, her bladder was screaming to be emptied, so she dragged herself to the bathroom. She absently noted the phone ringing but opted to ignore it; her father could get it or, if he was sleeping too, whoever it was could call back when she was awake. She was on her way back to her room when her father called to her.

"Katsuya?" She leaned on the wall as she looked at him, eyes half-lidded. "Is your friend Bakura's sister in town?"

Katsuya blinked slowly. "She goes to the same school as Shizuka, so no, unless she's skipping. Why?"

"Your friend Yuugi just called and said something about going over to Bakura's and seeing boobs." He said it so calmly that for a second she thought he was joking.

"Fuck. Where's the phone?" she asked, pushing off the wall and crossing to the end table. Her father didn't even try to scold her for swearing, just handing her the handset and making sure his daughter wasn't going to fall over while she talked.

The phone rang four times before she heard a click. "Huh?" Apparently Ryou was still dealing with jetlag too.

"It's Jyonouchi," she said, not even trying to disguise her voice, she was so tired. "Yuugi said he's coming over there to see boobs."

"What?!"

She didn't know Ryou could squeak like that. "Yeah, he called here and told my dad that," Katsuya confirmed. "I'm asleep so I'm not going with. Hell, I'm going back to bed now." With that said she dropped the phone and started walking down the hall once more; behind her she could hear her father talking but all her attention was focused on getting back to bed. Actually, the wall would work just as well, so she leaned against it and let her eyes fall shut again.

The next thing she remembered clearly was sitting bolt upright in bed, panting hard and fighting back tears. Even with the sun guarding her sleep, she wasn't safe from the memory of what had happened to her in Battle City. A glance at her alarm clock showed that it was close to five in the afternoon; her father would definitely be at work by now, but she really didn't want to be alone, not after that nightmare.

Hell, maybe she should go back to therapy; it had helped somewhat during the divorce, and this was worse than the turmoil she'd gone through when her parents were fighting for custody. And Yuki-san had said she could call her anytime, even if the last time they'd talked was around the time her mother (or The Bitch as Katsuya called the woman who'd given birth to her) and Shizuka left Domino.

Decision made, she slipped out of bed and went to check the phonebook for Yuki-san's listing. She found it in the kitchen, along with a note to call Yuugi. Katsuya frowned. She really did need to talk to someone, but Yuugi was still convinced that she was male.

"First thing's first," she said to herself, flipping open the phonebook. After calling the new number and getting a late (seven-thirty that evening) appointment, Katsuya dialed her best friend's number. He must have been right beside the phone, since he answered it on the first ring.

He didn't even say hello: "Jyonouchi-kun! Bakura's a chick!"

Okay, did the stewardess on the plane give Yuugi coffee or was he taking some kind of medication? "Um, what?"

And the boy was babbling. "Well, mou hitori no boku came back, and he said mou hitori no Bakura was too, and that she's a woman, and we went over, and she's got a better rack than Mai, but she wouldn't let me see them and threatened to cut my balls off, and mou hitori no Bakura's a hot chick!"

"Yuugi, have you been eating green tea pocky again?" she asked; the boy always acted strange when he'd been eating that stuff. "And slow down, man. I can't make sense of anything you just said. It sounded like you said mou hitori no Bakura's a woman."

"She is!" came the (loud) reply, and in the background she could make out Yuugi's mother telling him not to yell into the phone. "Mou hitori no boku and I went over and saw her! She's hot, Jyonouchi-kun. You really should have come with us."

"Yeah, well, some of us suffer from jetlag," she replied, mentally adding, and PMS, and the two combined aren't pretty.

"I'm sorry." At least now Yuugi was speaking in a normal tone of voice. "How are you feeling now, Jyonouchi-kun?"

"More human," Katsuya admitted. "I'd come over and hang out for a while, but I've got a couple things to take care of this evening."

"Oh, that's okay, Jyonouchi-kun. I don't want to get you in trouble with your father."

...okay, she really had to kill Honda for starting the rumour that her father was an abusive alcoholic. That boy always got her dad and her uncle mixed up, and it didn't help matters that the men were twins. Add the fact that neither of them liked Honda that much and you had a recipe for trouble. It still annoyed her, though.

"Thanks," she said rather than attempting to set the record straight; she didn't have that much time right now. "I'll see you in school" - she glanced at the calendar and finally realized that she'd slept the whole day away - "tomorrow."

"Okay. Bye, Jyonouchi-kun!"

"Later, Yuugi." She hung up the phone and checked the time. She was going to have to hurry if she was going to make her appointment on time, especially since she needed to shower and dress.

And who knows? she mused as she headed back to her room to grab some clean clothes. Maybe if I get the desert off me I can get him out of my mind for a while.


Updated 4:08 PM
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Stand My Ground is a story set in Eternal SailorM's Jillian universe; for better clarity it's advised to read both works in conjunction. Yuugiou and all characters appearing herein are © Takahashi Kazuki.

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