Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Coming Together ❯ One More Down ( Chapter 6 )

In the morning Yami woke up feeling cold. He opened one crimson eye and then the other to find Yugi was no longer with him. He looked up the door creaked open to see him walking in with a tray.

"Oh good, you're up. I made us some breakfast and I checked that message you told me about last night. It was my grandpa and I already called him back and told him I went to sleep early."

Yami nodded and moved over so Yugi could sit down and place the tray of food between them. They both ate silently before Yugi got up and took the tray back downstairs.

Yami decided to take a shower and went into the bathroom. After a few minutes of looking at the three different knobs he got frustrated and walked back into Yugi's room. He looked around and saw Yugi sitting at his desk in the corner with papers and a few books spread around him.

"Yugi?"

"Hmm?" Yugi mumbled without looking up and quickly writing something down on one of the papers in front of him.

"How do you work the shower? There's too many knobs." Yami asked.

Yugi stopped writing and looked up to see Yami's embarrassed face. He suppressed a giggle as he stood up and motioned for Yami to follow.

They stepped into the bathroom and Yugi pointed to the smallest knob. "You pull this out if you want to take a shower and if you want to take a bath you leave it and put the plug into the drain." He pointed to the two knobs a little higher and bigger than the first. "The on the left is for hot water and the one on the right is for cold water. You can adjust them until you get a temperature you like." He explained.

Yami listened carefully told him and nodded. "I think I got it now."

Yugi smiled at him. "Ok then. I'll be in my room if you need anything else. Oh," he pointed to the shelf on the wall. "The bottle with the blue cap is shampoo and the one with the pink cap is conditioner and there's soap in that green box." Then he pointed to the rack next to the shower. "And you can use the white towel to dry off."

"Ok, thanks Yugi. Um… where's Dark Magician and Celtic Guardian?" He asked.

"They're downstairs watching a movie I think. Maybe we can watch one later if you want. But not too late because I have school tomorrow and I'm going to finish my homework before we do okay?"

Yami nodded and watched as Yugi turned around and closed the door behind him. He then stripped down and stepped into the bathtub. He pulled the small plug up and played with the knobs and after being nearly burned twice and frozen three times from the water he finally got a temperature he liked and soaked under the spray for a while.

He turned around and took down the two bottles and the small box from the shelf and opened the one with the blue cap. He poured some of the shampoo into his hand and then opened the other bottle and poured conditioner into his hand. He mixed them together as he massaged his head.

After rinsing the soap out he put the two bottle back up and opened the green box. He lathered the soap into a washcloth and washed himself off afterwards.

He turned the water off and unhooked the white towel from the hook it was hanging off of. He dried himself off and tied the towel around his waste before opening the bathroom door and walked back to Yugi's room.

**

Yugi turned around at hearing his door open and gasped at what he saw.

`Wow!' Just staring at his taller and darker look-a-like made his pants tighten and he quickly turned back around before he was caught staring. `He looks so hot like that.'

He hastily finished writing the last bit of the answer to the question he was answering before he closed his book shut and stood up. Without looking at Yami he announced he was going to take a shower too and left with a pair of fresh clothes.

Yugi immediately turned the shower on as cold as it would go and pulled the small knob up. He stepped under the spray under and willed his half hard erection to go away.

After it painfully disappeared Yugi stepped out of the shower and dried himself off with his cream colored towel. He dressed in his new clothes and walked back to his room, hoping and praying that while he was in the bathroom taking care of his problem Yami had gotten dressed.

His prayers were answered as he looked in and Yami was just finishing pulling a shirt over his head and fixing his hair so it wasn't flat.

"Done already?" He asked after turning around to look at him.

Yugi just nodded, not trusting his voice just yet, and walked back to his desk to cram all his books and homework into his backpack.

**

"Why are you always such an ass towards everyone except Master Yugi!" Dark Magician practically screamed out, forcing his tears to stay away so he wouldn't give the other monster the wrong impression on anything. He hated fighting with his secret love but sometimes he was just too stubborn to not yell at him.

"Why do you care!" Celtic yelled back as he finished pulling his shoes back on and headed for the door.

"Because I do! And where are you going!"

"Will you just butt out of my life! I don't care about anyone or thing except myself and my master Yugi meaning I don't care about you!" Celtic yelled back before slamming the door closed behind him.

The mage stood staring at the door, Celtic's last words echoing through his mind.

`I don't care about you!' He said. The magician fell to his knees once they became too week to hold him up and let the tears come, not caring if the swordsman came back and saw him as a weakling anymore.

`He'll never love me then. I'll never know what Master Yami and Yugi had or may have right now. I'm not meant to have anybody to care for me.' He thought sadly.

`I'm supposed to be all alone. Celtic will never be mine.' The mage cried.

He was startled out of his depressing thoughts when a pair of warm arms wrapped around him. He looked behind him and into the innocent, violet eyes of his smaller master.

"Is everything ok?" He asked. "Do you want to talk about it?"

The mage nodded slightly before turning around and hugged the boy back.

**

Celtic stood outside the game shop, allowing himself to cool off before going back inside. Part of him was glad the mage hadn't stormed after him but the other half wished he had.

`Why am I so drawn to him? I love my master but I can't stop thinking about that damned magician.' He growled silently.

"You two get in another argument." It was a statement, not a question, from about the warrior's head.

He looked up and found himself to be looking into two different brown eyes, one slightly darker than the other.

"What are you doing here?" Celtic growled.

The magic card flew down from the roof and settled itself next to the elfin warrior and shrugged. "I needed to stretch my wings. They were getting a bit cramped."

"What if someone saw you?" He asked, not sure why he was caring or not. `I think Master Yugi is rubbing off on me some.' He thought.

"They wouldn't. I'm very careful. I've already done it a few times anyways." She answered. "So what were you two fighting about this time?"

"None of your business." He quickly answered angrily.

"Touchy. Well if you're not going to tell me then I'll go ask Dark then." She made to go into the game shop.

"He was trying to have a conversation with me alright?" He answered.

She smirked and turned back to him. Her wings folded around herself and a minute later that unfolded and disappeared behind her back, now in the same form as Celtic.

"How'd that get into an argument?"

"I didn't want to talk to him." Celtic shrugged, starting to walk away.

"You know, somehow this reminds me of something I heard Master Ryou talk about while he was reading a book for school a while back. It was `opposites attract' or something like that. If I didn't know any better I'd say that that saying is very true. Take my masters, light and dark just like your master and Yami as well as Malik and Marik."

"Why are you telling me this exactly?" Celtic questioned as he turned back around to face her.

She rolled her eyes and walked up to him. "Can't you figure it out? You're always acting like you know everything that's going on around you."

"I do not!"

"You do too and you know it. But you know something, you're wrong. Or else you would know that you're hurting you very own master, the one you claim to love and would never do anything to hurt him, just by fighting with Dark Magician." She unfolded her wings once more and transformed back to her original self and took flight.

Celtic was unable to say anything back because he didn't know what to say and if he did she wouldn't be able to hear it. He ran back over to the door and looked inside through the window beside it.

Inside were Yugi and Dark Magician holding each other closely. Dark Magician was crying into Yugi's now tear-soaked shirt and wasn't showing any signs of letting up anytime soon. Yugi was trying to comfort the mage and was petting his hair back in a way to soothe him.

He couldn't hear if they were talking or not but he was sure it was about him and it wasn't saying how nice or strong or anything like that he was. He was sure Dark was telling his Master Yugi what happened.

`But he was yelling just as much as I was, why is he crying over it? It's not like I said anything mean to hurt him or anything did I?' He tried to think back to their fight but instead was plagued with what Change of Heart had told him about opposites attracting each other. `Damned magic monsters. They always find a way to make you feel guilty about something.' He grumbled.

He turned around and started walking down the street, not sure of where he was going to go.

**

Yugi finally calmed the crying mage down enough to talk to him. He waited patiently for him to collect his thoughts and have his breathing at least come to something resembling normal once more.

Slowly the magician pulled himself from Yugi and looked into his eyes, nodding slightly to show he was ready to talk.

"So what happened?" Yugi asked, giving the mage somewhere to start without having to think much.

"We were watching a movie and after it ended I asked him what he thought. A little after we started yelling and he said stuff like `why do you care' and I'm not even sure how it got there to begin with. Before he left he said he didn't care about anybody but himself and you and that it was always going to be that which meant no matter how I tried it was always going to be that way." He explained, not wanting to stop so was thankful when Yugi didn't interrupt.

"You like him don't you?" Yugi questioned.

Dark looked up with sad eyes and nodded. "Is it that obvious?"

"No," Yugi shook his head. "Not really. It's just that people don't usually break down like you did when someone says they don't care about them."

The mage blushed and looked away.

"I'm sorry he has to act like that towards you. I wish he wouldn't be like that towards people but that's just how he is I guess."

"Does it hurt you to see him like that?" The mage asked looking back towards him, neither of the two noticed that the door had opened and the topic of their conversation had stepped back into the room to listen quietly.

"Yeah it does. I don't like it when people fight or act like that. I get enough trouble from people at school to know that much. To have to deal with somebody like that here and somebody who's supposed to mean something to me hurts like no end."

**

Celtic stopped midway to where the Change of Heart and Witty Phantom were staying. He wanted to ask that magic card what she meant by what she said earlier with more detail but also because of what she said it made him want to turn back and apologize to the mage for some reason. The will to turn back became to strong for him and he turned around and ran back towards the game shop.

He stepped into the house quietly just as Dark asked his young master if it hurt him to see him like that. He didn't say anything since they hadn't notice him by the door yet, intent on wanting to hear what Yugi said to see if the Change of Heart was right.

At Yugi's answer Celtic's eyes widened. `She was right then. But does that make her right about everything? Probably, as much as I hate to admit it she an be pretty wise she can be.'

He turned his attention back to the conversation and cursed himself for not listening more intently.

"So when did you start to like him?" Yugi asked the mage.

Celtic's eyes widened. He quickly stepped forward and scooped his little master in his arms and deposited him on the bottom step of the stairs, pushing slightly enough to get the hint that he wanted to be alone with the magician.

Once Yugi left he hardened his eyes and turned back around to look at Dark who was cowering away from him by the couch.

"So you like me? That's why you kept bugging me about everything." He stated, smirking inwardly. `Time to test Heart's theory of `opposites attracting'.'

Dark nodded and tried to get farther from the swordsman without falling completely off the couch.

"How long?" He questioned, stepping closer.

"A while."

"How long?" He asked louder.

"Since we were in the Shadow Realm. I didn't say anything about it because I knew you'd never return my feelings even if you didn't love your master." Dark cried out, trying his hardest not to raise his voice and cry like he had before in Yugi's arms only a minute ago.

He made it to look like he was going to burst with fury as he closed the distance between them. He grabbed the front of the mage's shirt and watched as the mage clenched his eyes tightly, obviously expecting to be hurt and not caring.

His smirk became visible as he slowly, ever slowly, closed the distance between the lips.

The mage's eyes opened wide for a second before they easily slipped closed once more, enjoying the warmth of the elfin warrior's soft lips against his own.

After a minute they broke apart and Celtic watched Dark's reaction closely. He was satisfied with the result and let go of the shirt and used one hand to caress the mage's cheek while the other snaked around his waist to hold him closer.

"And how much did you like that?" Celtic asked quietly, his voice having softened as well as his eyes.

Dark's own blue eyes opened and smiled at the other monster. "Very much so… but…"

Celtic was taken aback. "But what?"

"If you don't mean this please don't do this."

"I mean it, everything is what I feel about you."

"What about Ma-Yugi?" Dark questioned, holding himself from saying master since Celtic got all the more angry when he called Yugi that while they were fighting.

Celtic chuckled. "What ever happened to `master' when saying Yugi's name?"

"You didn't like it when I called him that earlier." Dark stated.

"You can call him that on two conditions."

Dark took in a deep breath before asking what the conditions were.

"One is that I get to call Yami master as well and the other is if you kiss me again." Celtic answered.

Dark smiled and happily obliged, closing the distance between the lips once more and giving everything he could into it. When he pulled back he gave one more kiss on the elf's cheek. "I'd love it if you would call Master Yami your master as well."

"Good because I was going to start calling him that anyway." Celtic smiled, a real smile.

"Celtic?"

"Hmm?"

"Thank you, but what changed your mind?"

"You could say a little birdie with magic gave me some help today."

Dark happily accepted that answer and snuggled up against Celtic's chest as they both settled easily onto the couch.

**

`That's three couples down. All that's left is for Yugi to start liking me now… but I'm beginning to have my doubts that he'll never love me again. And if that's true than I'll go back to the puzzle. Please Yugi, please come back to my arms.' Yami thought sadly as he watched the two on the couch next to Yugi on the stairs.

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