Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Children of Destiny ❯ Epilogue: Reward for Faith ( Chapter 23 )

Chapter: Epilogue. Reward for Faith.

Author: Madyamisam

Rating: R

Pairing: Multiple (mainly Y/YY and S/J)

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from the franchise Yu-Gi-Oh!

 

Yugi stared blankly at the large gates of the Kaiba Mansion. The humming buzz by the speaker came to life bringing him out of his reverie.

 

“State your name and business”

 

There was a pause of bated breath as he stuttered out his name. A tumult of emotion was in his heart before clearing his voice and trying again. ”Yugi Mutou, I'm here to s-“

 

“The gate will open for you now” the voice on the other end interrupted and just as abruptly, the iron bars gave way for him, however a couple of guards marched towards him. Yugi wasn't intimidated as he had learned a lot about standing up to opponents but was cautious all the same as they led him.

 

When the doors of the Kaiba mansion opened, the tall brunet with piercing cobalt eyes glared defiantly down the smaller teen.

 

“Hello Kaiba,” Yugi whispered.

 

“Don't think I'm letting you anywhere near him if your going to fly off the handle like you did”

 

“I just want to see him.”

 

“And do what?” Kaiba narrowed his eyes, his body fully blocking the way.

 

“It's ok Seto” a small voice behind the billionaire teen called. The figure hobbled weakly from behind him. The stick he was holding to support himself wobbled slightly from his weight but held still long enough to meet the tri colour haired boy's eyes. Joey gave a sheepish smile underneath a large bruise on his face. A slight twitch from the shorter of the two and Kaiba, who was keeping vigilant came between them. Yugi flinched at the reaction but he knew in his guilty conscious why. The trip back from China was a quiet and solemn one where Yugi refused to speak with anyone except on his puzzle. Days turned into weeks as he fixated the golden pieces like an obsession. Almost everyone kept their distance, Joey being the one exception as he was resigned to face the consequences should his “theory” proved to be false. It was merely days ago since Yugi attacked the blond like a rabid animal when the final piece of the Millennium Puzzle had finally been placed. Yet there was still no sign of his lover. Since then Kaiba had kept Joey away from Yugi and even ensured the smaller teen was locked up and sedated in the hopes that he would calm down and think rationally. He had already lost his family, the love of his life and he was about to destroy the last important bond he had. Today was the first day that Yugi had been let out and as much as Joey pleaded to see him, Kaiba denied it.

 

“Yugi… I'm really sorry” Joey whispered as tears formed in his eyes as he wanted to hug his best friend. Kaiba blocked his way. Yugi merely stared blankly at Joey which made it all the more difficult as the blond looked away. A small smile appeared on Yugi's face before his face broke down with tormented guilt. Streams of tears fell from his face.

 

“Look at me” Yugi said as a familiar warmth filled his chest a dim humming light glinted from the upside down pyramid on his neck. He started to stand tall and the familiar aura that Yugi's friends had known had returned. His eyes opened with a look of guilt and hope. Seto and Joey's eyes widened as the former pharaoh stood in Yugi's place.

 

“I hope I can repay you for your faith in me and Millennium Puzzle. Yugi's felt so much guilt for hurting you, I hope you can forgive him.” Joey chuckled as he came from behind the brunet that had been protecting him for the past week and gave Yami a hearty hug.

 

“Hey, we're best mates and besides, from the way he pummelled me he can totally kick ass now so I won't ever have to worry about some of douche bags picking on him at school anymore,” Joey joked. Yami breathed a smile of relief as he gave back control to his hikari.

 

“I'm so sorry!” Yugi sobbed as he held the blond tightly. Joey chuckled wincing slightly from the pain pushing Yugi back a bit more to face him again.

 

“I told you man, we friends.” Joey assured. “I'm just glad that you're gonna be all right now” The two embraced. Yami sighed happily inside the puzzle. He hadn't been in here for a while but it was a lot warmer than he remembered. After a waiting a while wondering the contents of his soul room, he heard a knock on the door. He chuckled as the door opened and Yugi leapt into his arms and adorned him with a deep kiss. Things were definitely going to be all right from now on.

 

THE END

 

A/N: I finally f***ing finished this thing. I can't even comprehend how long it took for this final chapter to come out but I finally did it and I don't expect all you lovely readers to forgive me for taking so long but I'm really, really sorry that it did. Unfortunately it's not the most satisfying end as I've been having a lot of trouble getting back into it plus I'm planning to rewrite the entire series of stories here to try and reduce the amount of plot holes there are. The stories being, Ice Mask, My Fair Yami, Child and of course Children of Destiny. For the most part I'm actually planning to change or add a lot of detail to these stories. Ice Mask in particular I'm planning to extend into a multi chapter story rather than a one shot so we'll see how it goes. I'll keep the original stories up if you like to go back to reading just so I can go back to compare the differences between myself as a writer at 16 and myself as a writer now. But I'm happy if you've kept your hopes up for this story to finish and finally reward you with this final chapter and epilogue. Thank you so much.