A Duelists Love Triangle

Chapter 7

Kaibas POV
It took me a while to comprehend Wheelers appearance. He had cuts, bruises and most likely broken bones too. I know I am a very strict and cruel person at times, but even I feel some sympathy for the dog.

I knelt down to lift him up into my arms. If I went to a normal hospital about this the geek squad would instantly know what is wrong with him, which means they would freak out... I'll do him as favour by taking him to my personal doctors as I'm pretty sure this is not the kind of thing he would like to talk about with the geeks as he seems to have been hiding something from everyone, and this may tie into it.

Joey, what ever the hell is wrong with you, I will find out as I won't be able to sleep until I figure it out.

I carry him out the door and gently lay him into my limos back seats and tell the driver to take him to my personal doctors. I held him near me keeping his head rested on my lap to reduce the risk of him hitting his head more. I stare at his blood stained blonde hair. I can't help but to want to touch it... So I lifted my hand to stroke his hair as if I were petting a dog. It was softer than expected, or at least the sections that were blood free.

What am I thinking anyway? These are such unnecessary thoughts for the head of a company! Anyway, the mutt looks like he's been attacked. Hmm, somehow I think that whatever hurt him this bad may have also been the same reason he squealed in pain when I chucked him into the car four days ago... My theory is that he's been in some sort of gang and possibly gotten on the wrong foot with one of them, something that would be expected from wheeler.

We finally got him into a special hospital bed in a private well established doctors room. Every where in the room had been cleaned thoroughly with disinfectant. It smelt like chemicals mixed with lemon, so like a hospital and the room was plain white. I laid down Joey on the bed and my doctor began to examine him.

"Tell me Mr Kaiba, when did you find this boy? And do you have any idea what may have caused him to be in this condition?" My doctor asked me. I made him my personal doctor because he is simply the best doctor in domino and he dosent waste time.

"I found him just forty five minutes ago in his house with shattered glass on the floor and blood splattered all over his living room, I believe he may have been attacked by a gang member of some sorts." I said as I attempted to analyse the situation. The doctor continued to look over him thoroughly and then lifted his shirt up. What I saw made me widen my eyes more than the first time I saw my blue eyes White dragon card. His chest didn't only have new cuts on it, but it seemed like he had been in these situations longer than I thought. His chest also had old bandages on it to cover up old, but still recent cuts.

"Mr Kaiba... I think we should report this to the police. Usually people with this many wounds are involved with many different kinds of crimes, as the victim. I have a feeling it could be an abusive relationship, attacked by someone who has bad ties with the victim or it could even be self harm..." My Doctor spoke warily. Hmm, he does have a point. There are many hypothesis on what could of happened to him, however I will not report this to some lousy police force. If Wheeler is involved in some gang fight he could get arrested, and I want to do what ever I can to stop that from happening! Mainly because the mutt is one of my rivals and I prefer to have one more person to duel other than Yugi.

"No, we will do no such thing! I will figure this out on my own without the work of some stupid men in uniforms! Also self harm? Wheelers not the kind of person who would do such a thing! If he did then why would he decide to cut his chest of all places? Or even smash a bottle off of his head? Anyway, I will deal with it. Is he all bandaged up yet?" I rant on mercilessly. This whole situation with wheeler is stressing me out. I don't even understand why I'm getting so worked up over this.

The doctor had finally finished bandaging Joey up, and allowed me to take him home. I decided that I will take him home with me and keep him there until I figure out what's wrong with him. Arghh, I shouldn't need to do all this! Haven't his so called friends figured out something's wrong with him?! I've watched him get depressed in class when looking at Yugi, he puts on a fake smile for his friends (especially Yugi) and then at the sight of Yugi walking into my room then running away crying, he totally turns against me and goes straight to Yugi? Yugi must know something that I don't because Joey acts the strangest around me and him. I think I will pay him a visit today, to get some of this stuff off my chest, because Yugi seems to be the one causing all the problems!

I had finally dropped off Joey at the mansion and had laid him down carefully on my bed with my best guards protecting him (just in case).

I then take my leave and visit Yugis game shop. I swing the entrance to the shop open sharply as I see a small boy with spiky tricoloured hair putting games on the shelves, however I must have startled him as he dropped the box of games he was holding.

He then turned red and said,

"K-kaiba?!"