Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Coming Together ❯ Fazes ( Chapter 4 )

The next morning the four are sitting in the living room pondering over what to do next. Yugi looks up with a small smile on his face.

"I have an idea." The other look at him expectantly and waited for him to continue patiently. "How about we go down to the mall and find some clothes more appropriate for Dark Magician and Celtic Guardian to wear? I'd hate to cause suspicion if people saw them like they are now."

"So would I, little Yugi, but they'd cause suspicion anyway unless they can change a few appearance about them. But it was a good idea."

"We can change how we look to." Dark Magician offered.

Yugi and Yami looked at the mage. "You can?" Yugi asked.

The two monsters nodded before standing up and a glow surrounded each monster; a purple for Dark Magician and a forest green for Celtic Guardian.

When the glows subsided there stood two slightly altered versions of their loyal monsters. The Dark Magician had his same colored hair but it was shorter and it reached his shoulders just slightly and in a neat manner. He now looked like the same age as Yami, but he was still wearing his mage clothing. Celtic Guardian was also in his same warrior clothing, but he looked the same age as Yugi and his ears also looked like a humans as well. His blonde hair had also shortened some and the markings that usually resided under his eyes had disappeared.

"Wow, they look amazing." Yugi stared at one and then at the other before his eyes settled back on the first.

Celtic blushed and turned to look out the window. Dark Magician smiled at the small boy before looking back over at Yami. "Master Yami, if we could borrow some clothing from you and Master Yugi then we'd be ready to go at anytime."

"Of course you can. Yugi wears somewhat baggy clothing so he should be able to assist Celtic and my clothing should fit you just fine. Follow us."

After changing into more present time clothing the four left the house and headed to the mall.

**

They were just about to step into the first store when Yugi heard his name being called and he turned around to see Ryou and Marik running towards them.

"Hey, Yugi. What brings you here?"

"We just have to get some clothes for some friends. How about you?"

"Same here." Malik looked up and pointed over to where Malik and Bakura were walking towards them with two other people following close behind, one more confidentially and less nervous than the other.

"Enough of that, Yugi, we have something amazing to tell you." Ryou piped up excitedly.

"Really? What's that, you guys?" Yugi asked curiously.

Marik smirked at Ryou and Ryou smiled back before they grabbed Yugi's arms and pulled him over to a secluded part of the store in the far corner.

"It was amazing, Yugi. Malik is so good…"

"And Bakura too!" Ryou whispered excitedly.

"What's amazing? What are they good at?"

"We did it with our yamis last night, Yugi." Marik smiled at Yugi's surprised expression. "It was so amazing…and wow. We're so in love with them now and they feel the same completely."

"Yes." Ryou agreed wholeheartedly. "Bakura repeated over and over in my hear some truthfully and lovingly and I nearly fainted from how he made me feel." Ryou got a dreamy look in his eyes as did Marik as both teens started to replay the events through their memories.

`Yami hasn't done anything like that with me. Does he care and love me like he said when I first met him after solving the puzzle? He certainly seemed enthusiastic but he hasn't done anything since… has he lost interest and think I'm too young?!' Yugi thought in a panic. He was broken from the rest of his thoughts as Marik and Ryou wrapped their arms around his shoulders and started shaking him and asking him questions.

"So how bout you, Yugi?" Marik smirked devilishly at him.

"Yes, Yugi, how was your night with Yami. It must've been very amazing as well, wasn't it? Did he tell you he loved him as well?"

"If he did you better have answered him back with a pleasing answer… oh, and if he didn't then you better have said it to him first." Marik mock punished, wagging a finger in front of his eyes playfully.

"Take it easy, Marik. Poor Yugi must've have had a the most perfect night of all if he's taking so long to answer. Come on, Yugi, you have to tell us sooner or later; why not make it now? It's not embarrassing to tell us at all and if you are then you shouldn't be. We are your closest friends after all, remember?" Ryou smiled down at him.

Tears welled in Yugi's eyes that Yami didn't love him like he told him. `He doesn't care for me then. He hasn't done anything to even try to win my heart and even Marik and Ryou have something and they're… well Ryou is just as innocent as I am… or he at least used to be.' He willed the tears to leave and not to fall in front of his friends. `I can't cry or they'll now before I tell them the truth. I'll cry when I get home and lock myself in my room.'

Failing to conceal his tears of sadness though Ryou quickly kneeled in front of his close friend and wrapped his around him, motioning for Marik to do the same. The Egyptian kneeled as well and wrapped his arms around Yugi as well.

"What's wrong, Yugi? Please tell us, we hate for you having to feel so pained like this. Did it not go well with Yami like we thought?"

**

Meanwhile, Malik and Bakura were talking with Yami and introducing their two companions as Change of Heart and Witty Phantom.

Witty Phantom looked to be the same age as Marik and Malik. His pointed ears and orange skin have gone to a normal looking humans. His striking blonde hair had also faded into a more subtle looking color of blonde and was shorted a little and made more spikier. He was also wearing one of Marik's outfits.

Change of Heart looked basically the same except she was wearing Ryou's sweaters, her white skirt showing that she wearing her normal white dress underneath until they could get more girlish clothes for the only female card of their group. Her wings were also gone and both sides of her were the same color; not one side dark and the other side light.

"They came last night after we got cleaned up from our um…*cough*…love-making. We decided to come shopping for less conspicuous clothing for them to wear since they're obviously going to be staying for a while." Bakura explains, pointing over to the changed Witty Phantom and Change of Heart.

**

Yugi looked back at Yami sadly. `He's not interested like he really said he was…he can't be. You can tell in Bakura and Malik's eyes the way they steal glances at Marik and Ryou that they really are in love with each other. Yami barely even takes a sneak at me. He must see me as a little kid like every other person does. He's keeping his distance from me and everything.' More tears began forming in Yugi's eyes and he felt so lonely and unloved at the moment now that his two friends had moved away and were looking through different outfits. They had said they were going to give him some time to calm down before they started to interrogate him about what was wrong.

They came back a little while after Yugi was finally able to get the tears to stop.

"Well, Yugi? Are you ready to tell us now?" Marik questioned as he kneeled back down next to his multi-colored haired friend, Ryou taking the opposite side.

"We haven't done anything like that." Yugi whispered and leaned down to hide his face in Ryou's shoulder.

The white-haired teen frowned and wrapped his arms around Yugi, whispering `it's going to be okay' and `it'll happen soon, sometime really special' into the smaller boy's ear to comfort him.

**

Yugi's eyes shot up as he felt a great pain pierce his heart and sadness wash through him. `Yugi…he's wearing the Millennium Puzzle today. He must be very upset.' He thought as he looked around to find out what was wrong with Yugi.

After spotting him over in a corner with Ryou and Marik he walks over and asks the two if he could be alone with Yugi for a minute. The two leave and he kneels back down in front of his small hikari.

"Little Yugi, what's wrong? Please tell me so I can make it go away and stop plaguing your young and innocent mind."

"It's nothing really." Yugi quickly lies and looks away. "Ryou and Marik were just trying to help me since I still have that bad headache from yesterday. It seemed fine this morning but it seems to have gotten worse." He quickly blurted out. "It hurts real bad. Maybe I should go back home and wait for you guys there after I take something?"

"It think that's a great idea, Yugi. Why don't you try taking a nap as well, it always seems to help well when I had a headache back in Egypt."

"I think I will. Thank Yami," Yugi quickly waves and walks out of the store.

**

Yami and the others leave a few hours later with nearly everyone holding a bag of clothes in their hand. "Celtic, Dark Magician, why don't you stay the night at Malik and Bakura's, if that's alright with them? That way it'll be quieter at the house and I can take care of him easier."

"Yes, Master Yami. Anything to help my little master." The deformed mage bowed slightly.

"It's okay with us, Yami. We don't mind." Ryou offered.

The elfin warrior huffed angrily before turning and following Marik and the others the opposite direction as Yami.

Yami shook his head. `How Yugi can put up with that attitude he's got sometimes is a mystery to me.' He then turned and headed out of the mall to the game shop with his monster and Celtic's new clothing.

**

Once Yami got home he placed the bad on the table, deciding to check on Yugi to see how he's feeling first. He walked upstairs and opened the door quietly in case Yugi had fallen asleep. What he saw was a big surprise waiting for him.

Yugi was sitting on the bed in tight leather pants and no shirt covering his pale chest; Blood red rose petals surrounded his petite form.

"Yugi…" Yami starts uncertainly. "Yugi, what are you doing? If you aren't feeling well you should be resting."

Yugi turns his face to stare at Yami seductively before rising and walking over slowly to the spirit of the puzzle.

"Yugi, what's going on…" Yami started again but was cut off abruptly as Yugi's soft lips pressed over his.

Yami's eyes widened in surprise but didn't dare push Yugi away since he was so happy that Yugi was doing this and after all the time he waited to be together once more with Yugi. He pushed back against Yugi to return the kiss lovingly and stopped trying to figure out what made Yugi's decision about this change so suddenly.

Yugi didn't waste anytime in trying to get Yami undressed and with Yami's pleasure and bliss filled mind he let Yugi do as he wanted while he too undressed Yugi with his hands while he memorized Yugi's velvet, sweet lips once more.

Yami laid Yugi down on the bed gently and savored every taste he took as he kissed over Yugi's body moving lower and lower before he kissed the tip of Yugi's aroused manhood. He moved back up and kissed Yugi's swollen lips once more as he moved a finger to Yugi's puckered entrance and pushed in, expecting the resistance that came.

"Relax, my little Yugi. Soon it'll feel better; I promise." Yami kissed him once more before moving to his neck and started to suckle it tenderly and he moved his finger around within his smaller lover.

After a few seconds he pushed in a second finger with the first and soon after a third. Once he was sure Yugi was ready for him he positioned himself and started to push in. A whimper caught his ears and he froze to look up at Yugi.

"Yugi?" He whispered softly.

Violet eyes turned up to look at him and Yami was frozen solid by what he saw. `This isn't right… he doesn't want this.' He pulled back and sat up. He could tell in Yugi's sweet eyes that he didn't want this, but was going for something else: something to prove… but what did he have to prove by doing this?

Yami leaned down and he picked up Yugi's flannel blanket and wrapped it around himself and Yugi to cover themselves and not get cold. Yugi allowed it and curled himself into Yami's lap and started to cry. Yami's heart wrenched at hearing the tears and pain coming from Yugi and wrapped his arms around the smaller and younger boy.

A short while later Yugi calmed down and his breathing went back to normal as he just lay in Yami's lap with his face hidden in the older's bare chest.

"Yugi? What did you think you were trying to do just now? Doing something so extreme and lose something so precious when you didn't really want it to begin with… and you were the one that started it in the first place. Please tell me what were you thinking?" Yami asked with concern and hurt mixed in with his voice.

"I thought you had given up on me because I pushed you away the first time you kissed me and you were only trying to comfort me then. I thought I wouldn't want me anymore because I'm not exactly the same as I was in your past and wouldn't be good enough for you; the one you fell in love with. Marik and Ryou told me what they did with Malik and Bakura today too and told me that they were in love with each and knew it would last an eternity and forever." Yugi cried as he continued to hide his face in Yami's warm chest.

Yami wrapped his arms around Yugi and hugged him close, kissing his forehead softly and burying his face in Yugi's soft, multi-colored hair. He pulled away from Yugi slightly so he could look into his eyes and smiled lovingly at the smaller boy. "Yugi I fell in love with your spirit, not how you acted or how beautiful you were on the outside, that's just a really good bonus, I love you for what's on the inside. On the inside you still are the same spirited and fun-loving Yugi that you always were and nothing's going to change that; no one except you can change that but Yugi and even then it's a very difficult to do."

Yugi smiled and allowed Yami to kiss his small tears away with light touches of his lips.

"Why don't I go get us some hot chocolate to help us relax a little?" Yami suggested. At Yugi's nod Yami made to remove the smaller from his lap but before he could Yugi leaned forward just slightly and placed a light, feather-soft kiss to Yami's lips and pulled away to whisper a quiet thank you to his slightly different look-a-like.

Yami was surprised but nodded and hugged Yugi closer to him for a brief second before putting Yugi back down on the bed and pulled his pants back on. He turned around and wrapped the blanket around Yugi further to keep him warm from the cold temperatures outside before turning and heading downstairs.

He returned a few minutes later with two steaming mugs of cocoa. Yugi easily noticed the small marshmallows floating in his mug and he smiled a thank you at Yami before testing the hot drink and found it to be the perfect temperature to drink right off the bat, just the way Yugi liked it.

While Yami watched Yugi he felt bad about making him feel the way he did but he didn't want Yugi forcing himself to go through with it just to prove that he wasn't a child. He looked up at Yugi and told him seriously, but not so much that he sounded angry, "I never wanted you to feel the way you did and making you feel like you needed to do something like that just to prove something or another to your friends."

Yugi nodded his understanding and promised he would never do something like that ever again.

Yami smiled. He pondered over another question he wanted to ask and nodded to himself. "Yugi, is what you did mean you were ready to be with me again or was it still all part of what you were to trying to prove?"

Yugi thought for a minute and was just about to answer when the telephone rang and Yami went to answer it.

Yami came back a minute later. "That was Malik. He said we need to go over and see what was up with our monsters because they're in a big argument over something and it was pretty tense."

Yugi frowned but nodded nonetheless. `Maybe I can tell Yami when this is over with.'

Yugi and Yami got dressed in clean clothing and ran down the street towards Malik and Ryou's place as fast as they could.

When they got there Celtic was just trying to leave the house with an angry Dark Magician telling him to run like he always had been and that he didn't care.

Yugi ran up to Celtic and told him to stop and he did so and watched as Yugi walked over and hugged him close. "Is everything okay with you and Dark Magician? I'd hate it when people fight."

Celtic shook his head. "No, but it's nothing really important and you shouldn't be worrying over it, Master Yugi."

Dark Magician growled. `It IS a big deal because I'll never understand that baka guardian. He'll only ever open up to Little Master Yugi and has a grudge against every other thing in this world, even when they're trying to get close to him and be his friend too.' He thought angrily. But inside his heart was breaking apart knowing he could never have Celtic no matter how much he was falling for the elfin warrior.

Unknown to them three figures were lurking in the shadows watching them closely, all three looked the same except for one small difference and all three with evil smirks placed on the lips. All with white hair and piercing blue eyes.

One with a scar going down his right cheek turned to the other two. "Our master with be very pleased once we get Yugi Motou in our claws."

The second, one with two scars over his left eye, but not so much that it would be blinded, nodded and glance over to the two embracing. "This will be fun to break apart those lovers again."

The third, one without any blemishes on his face, held his hands up and replayed a scene all three of them remembered very well and very proud of it.

**"Yugi!" Yami called after him and for towards him as he saw the three Blue Lightening attacks coming for him once more.

Yugi looked up and didn't have time to even take in a breath in or even blink as the blue light washed over him in pain and agony. It was the worst thing he'd ever felt in his life. Worse than when Seto raped him and told him terrible things about Yami not wanting him. Worse than when Yami had slapped him. Even more worse than when Seto had threatened to kill Yami.

"Yugi! Yugi, come back!" Yami cried out when the attacks made him disappear from view before blacking out completely.**

"Yes, this is going to be a lot of fun to mess with them. We get to mess with their relationship again and we get to make sure they stay apart this time so our master will be pleased with us for bringing back Yugi Motou's true lover."

The other two chuckled with the third and held up their hands and brought forth their power.

Back over at the crowd a blue mist surrounded Celtic and Yugi. Yami yells for them to look out. Before he can get over to them though Yugi and Celtic start to fade from their view.

Tears flow down Yugi's eyes but they have a faraway look to them.

Flashback

`Seto's dragons are right; Yami doesn't care for me anymore. He probably never did. Why does he keep me around if I'm just to be a burden to him and in the way? I've been waiting for him but he's always too tired to talk to me when he comes back.'

The salty water of tears splashed to the ground as he thought more and more about Yami.

`I just want to die. That way I won't be a burden to Yami anymore… or anyone else in the palace who deserves to be happy.'

At that last thought a blue mist surrounded his body and he was transported to the Shadow Realm.

End of Flashback

Just before he faded out completely he wakes up to Yami's cries and he lets the tears fall freely now.

"Yami! Yami please save me, I'm scared!" Yugi thought as his last vision to the past reminded him he was going someplace where he might never come back. Reminded him of how he was murdered by the three most ruthless and dangerous dragons in the whole of Duel Monsters.

He then disappeared. Yami stops as tears of his terrible pain at having unable to save Yugi for the second time in his life. Out of habit he looks up to the stars and curses his old priest loudly in his native tongue.

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So what did you think? What do you think is going to happen to Yugi? And who are those three in the shadows? Ok, never mind that's a stupid question because I'm sure you already know if you've read Lover's Duel. Then you'd be an expert at who it is since Yugi encountered them several times and experiences are bad.

Anyways, I love suggestions for future chapters (hint, hint) they make me right faster just as much as reviews do so feel free to give me any suggestions for future chappies.