Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ A Different Kind of You ❯ Meeting Up Again ( Chapter 7 )

Yugi hurriedly dried off from his showed and clothes himself in his new leather pants and loose, white shirt, not buttoning it completely. After toweling his hair off as quickly as possible he ran from the bathroom and skid to a stop in front of his door where a familiar figure was already sitting.

"Duke," the violet-eyed teen gasped.

Said person turned slowly and smiled softly at him.

"I'm so sorry," Yugi bowed lowly, "I hadn't meant to keep you waiting and I…" He immediately stopped in his ranting apologies when Duke's shadow covered his tense form.

"It's alright, Yugi, don't worry about it," the taller said, lifting the youth's face up by placing a warm hand on his blushing cheek, "I can understand if you'd want a shower, Yugi. It's no problem at all. In fact," he narrowed his eyes mischievously, "I'd prefer it so I can have the pleasure of those wonderful images."

Unneeded to say, the statement didn't help Yugi's blush any.

"Are those new clothes," Duke grinned easily.

"Y-yeah, I just got them t-today," Yuki kicked himself for stuttering.

"Nervous, Yugi," Duke laughed. "Don't worry, I'm not upset," he said quickly after seeing Yugi look away embarrassedly. "Come here, I'd like to catch up with you."

Yugi's eyes widened, but he didn't hesitate to move over next to Duke after closing the door and putting the sign up.

"So how have you been? It's been quite a while," Duke started.

"It's been okay, the usual I suppose: sore and tired all day and when night comes be the perfect plaything for rude customers."

The answer caused Duke to laugh richly and fall sloppily onto the bed, causing Yugi to smile at him. He always enjoyed Duke's company; the older was always so comfortable around him. Yugi was glad to know that his crush felt so at ease around him and in his small, yet cozy, room that he felt they could talk about regular things like best friends do.

"I'm sorry I haven't been to see you in a while, even if just to say hello. The truth is, Yugi," Duke sat up and cupped the side of Yugi's face with a hand, "I'm missed you very much, Yugi. I've actually been really worried about you after I stopped coming to see you on a regular basis."

Yugi looked down, "You don't have to worry about me, Duke. I've still got Malik and Marik to help me. They wouldn't let anybody pick on me or anything like that."

Duke laughed and nodded, "They seem very protective of you." It was the last thing he said before claiming Yugi's lips in a close kiss.

The youth moaned into the kiss and easily fit into the much-missed rhythm and embrace that was Duke. He didn't even realize that he was starting to be undressed until he felt cool air along his upper body. He blushed slightly when his favorite customer's "talent" came back to him at how he could remove his clothing with such ease and not even let him notice. Usually, it was Yugi who had to do the undressing since his other customers just didn't like it… or whatever.

"Just relax; you've had a long night," Duke whispered huskily into ear.

Yugi shivered at the voice, but closed his eyes and let himself be lost in the sensations of somebody pleasuring him for once. He vaguely wondered somebody would pay to give it to somebody else rather than receiving it for themselves, especially with somebody like Duke who was a busy guy and lived quite a ways away from the whorehouse. His thoughts quickly surpassed him though as a warm, wet tongue started drawing designs along his chest.

"Let me take care of you this time," a same voice said to him, accenting each word with a kiss, moving further down with each one.

The violet-eyed teen could only moan in response as he let Duke do whatever he wanted to him.

`As long as I can be with him, I don't care what happens,' Yugi thought to himself, closing his eyes causing his other sense rise greatly.

Yugi must've been more tired than he thought because in the next few minutes he was fast asleep with Duke watching him silently, enjoying the angelic face the was relaxed completely before him.

"You've had a rough night," he repeated in a whisper, bringing one of the blankets that were falling off the bed over his and Yugi's cooling bodies.

When morning came Yugi nearly worried himself sick when the last thing he remembered from the night before came back to him. His eyes shot open and he would've fallen out of the bed if it weren't for the arm wound around his waist.

The movement shook Duke awake and he smiled slightly at the younger teen.

"Duke, oh my god! I am so sorry! I didn't mean…I mean, it was a long night and the two appointments before you…I mean that's no excuse I should've…"

Duke rolled his eyes at the rambling and then silenced Yugi with a kiss, effectively shutting his mouth and causing him to look away.

"Don't worry about it, Yugi. Sometimes you just can't help it. On one side, I could feel extremely honored that you'd feel so comfortable around to cause yourself to go to sleep, even if you moaning with pleasure just minutes before," he joked.

"I still feel really bad though," a red tint rose in Yugi's cheeks, "Nothing has ever happened like this before."

"I told you not to worry about," Duke kissed the tip of his nose and smiled at him.

"You won't have to pay," Yugi quickly stuttered when he saw Duke reaching for his wallet on the side table, the younger figuring he put it there sometime after he fell asleep.

Duke quickly looked back at Yugi and sighed, "Well, I want to do something for you then. Whether you'll believe me or not, I did enjoy myself even after you fell asleep. You look quite angelic and simply delicious when you're asleep after all."

"The whole point of coming here though was so you could be fulfilled while I'm awake though," Yugi looked down, playing with the folds in the sheets.

"Actually, I only came here because I didn't know any other way to see you. I missed you while I was away and I guess I just wanted to visit with you. Making an appointment though seemed like the only way to do it since I didn't know any other way to see you."

To say Yugi was shocked would be an understatement. He quickly looked anywhere but where Duke could see his burning red face.

`He missed me? DUKE missed ME? Could that mean that he has feelings… NO! Yugi don't think like that. He probably just thinks of you as a friend. I'm sure he's got lots of girls lined up for him, maybe even much better guys than I could ever be.'

"I know," Duke said excitedly, snapping his fingers in triumph, "Are you doing anything today?"

"Um…. Not that I know of right now. I was going to go to the park though to see if a friend's there," Yugi answered, thinking, `Friend? Yami? Yeah right; I'm not sure what to call him, but I know I want to see him again. I might get lucky at the park like the last two times.'

"I see," Duke said excitedly, "In that case, why don't you come over?"

"What?"

"Yeah, come over to my place. That way I don't have to pay, but you can pleasure me all the same."

"You mean, instead of doing it here we'll do it at your place?"

Duke couldn't help but laugh at the innocent, but not seemingly, question. "Of course not, silly. There are different forms of pleasure after all. In the case I'm speaking of, why don't we catch up? Just talk, you know? It's been a while after all."

It took a minute for the meaning to take hold of Yugi, but when it did a large smile broke out on his face and he nodded excitedly. "That would be so awesome, Duke! Thank you!" Without even meaning to, Yugi launched himself at the older teen and hugged him tightly. "This'll be great; I promise I won't fall asleep."

The older teen chuckled lightly and returned the embrace before letting Yugi move away. "This will be great, Yugi. I consider you one of my very best friends after all. There's so many things I wish to tell you."

Yugi smiled and nodded, unable to think of anything else to say without looking too excited. `This could be my chance that I've been waiting for. Today might be the day! The day I tell Duke… what I really feel for him. I hope so. I might finally have something… someone to live for.' The thought alone could've made Yugi's day perfect, and nobody was going to take it away from him.

"I should be going," Duke finally said after a moment's silence. He pulled over his wallet and scribbled on ripped off piece of paper his address and the code to open the gate. "If the guards give you any trouble just call me on my cell phone. I put that on there too. Just call me before you leave so I'll know roughly when to expect you so I can watch for you and make sure those goons don't dive you too tough a time."

Yugi nodded and made sure he put the paper somewhere where he wouldn't lose it in the mess he called his room. `I'm definitely cleaning this place up before I go out.'

Duke stood and ruffled Yugi's hair before heading for the door, "By the way, Yugi, don't beat yourself up over last night. I probably would've done the same had I been in your situation."

The younger nodded one last time before the door closed behind Duke and Yugi was free to his own devices for a little while. Glancing over at the paper he noticed there was also a time, which Duke hadn't mentioned. `I've got a few hours at least before Duke's going to be free. I'm sure he's got a lot of things to do after taking a night off like he did.'

Yugi decided to get dressed and head out to the park. After all, he wasn't really sure when to expect Yami to be there if he was going to be there at all. He wasn't even sure why he was compelled to see his red-eyed look-a-like, but he did.

Hurrying out to the park he looked around for the familiar head of identical spiky hair among the people who were already there.

"It's definitely been a while, Yugi," a deep voice said from behind said teen, startling him greatly.

"Yami," he yelled before calming down. "It hasn't really been that long."

"That's true," he shrugged, "So what brings you to this dump once again," he asked as he lit up a cigarette from a fresh pack.

"You smoke?"

"Once in a while, only when I get too tense for my liking though," he replied as he took a long drag, "So? Why here?"

"I could ask the same of you since I'm always running into you here," Yugi joked.

"Easier to pick up the chicks. I don't know why, but there's something that makes girls attracted to a guy when they're around the flowers in this trashy place."

"Maybe because they think it's romantic?"

"This coming from a guy who shares the same views of love as I do. How would you know that?"

Yugi shrugged, "I'm not sure. I guess I'm just here to be here," he answered the earlier question, not wanting Yami to think he was stalking him.

"You're a terrible liar." Yugi started. "You looked like you were looking for somebody."

Yugi blushed and looked away, knowing he'd been caught.

Instead of rubbing it in or accusing Yugi of things like stalking he walked over to a bench and sat down, motioning for the younger to join him. "So how did your night go? I was worried," he finished quietly.

"Last night? What do you mean?"

"Your appointments?"

"How did you know about those?"

Yami quickly looked away, "Well, I figured since you go to a whorehouse you'd have some appointments every night or something like that."

Yugi didn't quite believe him, but decided not to push it. "I should go. Me being around you isn't going to help you any with picking up the girls." He stood from the rickety, paint-peeling bench and started to walk away.

"Wait," Yami suddenly called from him.

The younger looked back and was surprised at the softened expression on the usually hard face.

"Stay, I didn't come here for girls; I lied."

Yugi rose an eyebrow in response and turned to look at the older more comfortably. "What then?"

"I… I wanted to see you again," he admitted grudgingly, almost inaudibly.

"You did," You asked, completely surprised that they'd both had the same idea.

"Yeah," he answered before quickly adding, "but don't get the wrong idea or anything."

Yugi laughed, "I won't." He walked back over to the bench and sat down. Without meaning to he asked, "What idea do you want me to get?"

Yami was startled by the boldness of the question, but looking at Yugi's face he realized the question wasn't meant to be asked out loud. He chuckled and decided to answer. "I can't stop thinking of you, I guess. You've definitely intrigued something inside of me to make me want to see whenever I can."

The younger blushed at the response, not expecting something quite like that.

"It's weird, you know," Yami continued. "I've never felt something like this towards anything in my entire life."

"Should I feel honored or something," Yugi joked.

Yami smirked at him, getting the point that he was too serious right then. "So…uh…what are you doing tonight? I thought we could hang out or whatever."

"I'm going over to… a friend's house. He's one of my regulars, but I haven't seen him for a while. He came back last night though, but he admitted that he hadn't really wanted to do anything, he just wanted to see me again," he blushed lightly, thinking once more what he this morning about admitting his feelings at last. "So he invited me over to his place and I'm going to hang out with him."

"Oh," Yami looked away, slightly disappointed that he wouldn't be able to be with Yugi, even if he didn't know why he felt so connected to him. "Maybe some other time then."

Sensing the disappointment in his voice, Yugi smiled and pointed out, "I've got a few hours before I need to head over there though."

For the first time in what felt like forever, Yami smiled a real smile. "Want to get out of this dump then?"

Yugi laughed and nodded, "Okay."

The two spend the rest of their time together just walking mindlessly around the city and talking about anything in particular. They enjoyed each other's company and learning about the other in all aspects. Yugi even got as so comfortable as to even talk about his customers and what sort of people came in now and then. He explained how some even had moods they liked when they came in and, to make their stay the most enjoyable, Yugi would continually set up the room like that whenever they came in.

"I guess you've got to have a lot of patience for something like that," Yami had noted after Yugi explained about the candles and the different scents he let out into his room whenever Espa Roba came calling.

When it finally came time for Yugi to head back to the whorehouse so he can clean up before heading over to Duke's, the two walked back in silence. Just before Yugi disappeared behind the door for the night, Yami stopped him one simple phrase:

"I called last night."

Yugi froze in his tracks and stared over his shoulder at Yami curiously. The older looked away as he explained.

"I called this place last night to get an appointment with you. That's how I knew about your appointments."

Before Yugi could say anything, Yami turned and ran from the whorehouse.

`That was definitely… unexpected. Why would Yami do something like that if he goes to the park for somebody instead and not having to pay for it is definitely a bonus.'

Leaving the thought to wander, he headed inside to get ready.

When he felt presentable and not like some hoodlum off the street, Yugi picked up the paper from his side table and headed off in the right direction.

He stopped in front of an impossible large gate, with a long winding path up to a large house.

`That's no house; that's a mansion,' Yugi thought incredulously.

After countless minutes of standing there, staring at what lay in front of him in disbelief, Yugi walked over to a small box by the gate and looked down at the piece of paper for the code.

Just before he pushed in the numbers though, he froze. "Oh no," he moaned, "I forgot to call him. Let's just hope the guards don't bug me then."

He punched in the four digits and watched as not the large, iron gates opened, but a smaller man-sized door just to his left opened mechanically.

He stepped in and the door closed behind him. He headed up the long pathway as he looked around the green property.

`This is almost like a fairytale or something. It seems way too perfect looking,' He couldn't help but think.

There were large trees placed randomly around the large yard and the entire area except for the dirt path leading up to the mansion was covered in lush green grass.

"There's even a pond way over there! Though for all I know, that could even be a lake or something. Is that a willow by its edge," he squinted to get a better look, "It is! Duke definitely must be doing good for himself if he can afford all this."

Looking around further he became curious, "But where are those guards."

His question was easily answered when he saw two burly men at the door of the large house. When his person was noticed they rushed over and started barking out questions in the rudest tone Yugi had ever heard.

"What are you doing here?"

"Who are you?"

"How did you get you get in here?"

"What is your business with Mr. Devlin?"

"Gentlemen, please, let the poor guy breathe," a joking voice said from the door.

Yugi looked up and never felt more relief than now at seeing his secret crush standing there smiling down at him.

"This is a good friend of mine, Yugi. He might be coming around more often even so get used to seeing him."

"Yes, sir," the two men said simultaneously.

"Good. Yugi, come with me."

Without wasting a second, Yugi ran up the few steps and in through the door, closing it behind him. "Sorry I didn't call," he said quickly when Duke turned to look at him.

"Don't worry about it, I'm sure you had other things on your mind."

Yugi nodded and slightly blushed as he noticed Duke staring down at him with a soft expression. He looked around instead and noted, "You've got a really nice place, Duke. You must be doing good for yourself with that game."

"Yeah, the game did most of this, but I've got a few other things out there that I'm hoping with also be somewhat popular, but you can't always be lucky. I'd give you a tour, but the cleaners get all uptight when I start wandering while they're trying to tidy up and stuff."

"That's okay, it can wait if you really want to show me around."

"That's true. After all, you'd want to know your way around if you're going to be coming over here more often."

"I am?"

"I'd like it if you did."

Yugi blushed, `Should I wait a little longer? Or tell him now?'

Duke collapsed onto a plush looking couch and gestured for Yugi to join him. "Would you like something to drink? Or eat?"

"No, I'm fine, thanks." He sat down and fell into an uncomfortable silence.

"Is everything okay, Yugi? You seem distracted."

`Am I that noticeable?'

"It's nothing, he answered. It's just been a while, I guess."

"Yes, of course. You came here to catch up how silly of me. I'm the one who invited you and here I am just glad that you accepted the invitation," he laughed.

Yugi laughed along with him and the two started talking much like him and Yami had earlier that day. `If only every day it could be this comfortable and easy going.'

After finally telling each other everything they possibly could and with much detail it was already very late.

"I had realized time had gone by so fast," Duke said with surprise as he looked at the clock on the mantel above the fireplace. "I'd really hate it if you walked all the way back to that place all alone. Unfortunately my driver has probably already gone for the night and I don't really trust my guards enough to get in a car with them behind the wheel," he joked, "They're mostly just for looks to get people off my back."

"I'll be fine, Duke."

"No, you can stay here for the night. I insist."

Yugi blushed and looked away, knowing there wasn't any way he was going to be able to go off alone. He agreed and allowed Duke to lead him up to one of his spare bedrooms.

"My room is that one at the end of the hall if you need me at all. The bathroom's in the other direction just before you reach the stairs. Will you need anything else?"

"No, I'm okay."

"All right. I'll be back with something for you to sleep in."

Yugi blushed again, but was glad his crush hadn't noticed as he walked out.

He returned moments later. "They might be a bit big," he explained, "but I hope they'll be okay."

"They're fine, thanks, Duke."

"All right, I'll see you in the morning then. Good night, Yugi."

"Thank you, good night, Duke."

Duke closed the door behind him and an overwhelming sense of depression hit Yugi as he walked over to the bed and sat down on it. `I didn't get a single chance to tell him at all. How pathetic is that? I could tell him now, but he might even kick me out and then I'd be stuck. Well, it's not like I've never wandered around in the dark before. If I get kicked out that's the least that can happen, right?'

Knowing he wouldn't find this courage again he decided not to dress in the other clothes in case the worst would happen and headed down the hall where the Duke's door was slightly open and a stream of light was coming from it.

He peeked in and noticed Duke talking on his phone. He decided to wait for him to get off before going in.

"Don't worry, Serenity, he's just a friend; nothing more than that, I promise."

Fear struck Yugi at the thought of who he was talking to. `Why would somebody worry about somebody being just a friend…unless…"

"I didn't do anything with him last night. I just went over to see him, that's it."

`I shouldn't of come here if Duke…'

"I'm only in love with you, Serenity. I could never have feelings for somebody else. I'll never go back to that place if you don't want me to."

Yugi's entire world broke before him as he collapsed on his knees, noticing how Duke didn't even take notice of the slight thump he created at his door, causing the crack to widen revealing his form easily.

"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow."

Tears streamed down Yugi's face as he couldn't help but listen to the conversation.

"Goodnight, love."

The phone clicked and Duke sighed as he set it down. Noticing that his door was slightly open he looked over just as he heard a door close from down the hall. Curious, he walked down to Yugi's room and knocked lightly.

"Yugi? Did you need something?"

He heard light sniffing and quickly became worried. He was about to open the door when Yugi's muffled voice told him he was fine. He wanted to check on him, but decided against it, knowing he'd like privacy if he were upset about something too.

Yugi listened as Duke's footsteps faded before he looked up from his huddled position in the far corner. He'd never been hurt like this before; never in his entire life had felt more heartbroken.

`Yami was right,' he thought as his tears began to speed up, `There's no such thing as love, especially for somebody like me.' He knew Yami hadn't said anything about somebody with his profession couldn't have love, but it definitely seemed like a possibility with emotions running through him right then. His whole world had crashed around him and his ripped to innumerable pieces in the span of a phone call that he wasn't even supposed to have heard.

`I'll never be able to love again,' he convinced himself as he continued to cry, `I won't ever let myself love again; Never!' He stood and headed for the door, intend on leaving as fast as he could. He just wanted out. He might not even head for the whorehouse. `I'll leave this entire city.'

He reached for the door handle and froze as he saw a pad of post-it notes on the desk.

`But Duke…he deserves to at least know, right? Shouldn't he know how I felt, especially since this…no, that, since that was the last feeling I'll ever have towards anyone.'

He reached for the pad and searched around the desk for something to write with. He wrote down a quick, scratchy note and as he finished tears dripped onto the paper. Yugi didn't bother trying to wipe them off as they soaked in the note either. He tore of the small page and stuck it on the clothes before quietly heading out of the house and running down the street.

~~

Duke,

I'll never be able to express how I felt to you

As I had wanted to, but I thought you should

At least know since I know I won't ever let myself

Feel like this ever again. I know you're already in

Love with somebody, but I wanted you to know

I loved you too.

~~

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Hey everybody, sorry for the long wait. I just couldn't get this chapter to work with me and plus I was a bit bummed out on inspiration when I only got like two or three reviews from the last chapter. I can understand why, but still I was kinda upset about it. So to make it up for you from Pegasus and Espa I added in a bit of Yami for you to enjoy. Hope you like this one at least, or I might just stop since it's turning out to be a hopeless cause if nobody likes it. Lol.