Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Coming Together ❯ Out of my Life ( Chapter 9 )

To say Yami was bored was an understatement. Yugi had left for school only and hour before and already he could think of nothing to do to help keep his mind off his little love. Celtic and Dark had even left to spend more time together and, even though they invited him, Yami stayed behind so he wouldn't get in their way and feel even worse about Yugi not being with him.

`Hurry home, little love.' He pleaded even though it was useless. He knew Yugi couldn't hear him so why was he even bothering to try? `Maybe if I go for a short walk I can clear my mind a little. I just need to try and forget about him long enough for the baka clock to speed up.' Nodding to himself he grabbed his jacket and headed off after locking the game shop and house up with the spare keys.

He walked down the street slowly, hoping the longer he took to get back the shorter time he'd be alone when he got there. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a large piercing pain shed through his being and stung his heart.

He collapsed on the ground to his knees and started to breathe harshly for a minute before it suddenly all stopped except for the numbing coldness spread throughout him now.

`What was that?' He thought, scared. `I hope Yugi's okay. I couldn't bear it if anything were to happen to him.'

Yugi laughed happily as he looked around at the different items in the gift shop. `Maybe Yami will like one of these.' He thought, picking up a mini-flashlight in the shape of a sarcophagus. `No, this is just cheap stuff. What I want to get him has to be really special.' He continued looking around.

Yugi's history class was on a fieldtrip just at the border of a forest and mountainside. People had set up a gift shop in the shade of the forest, which was where he was now. On the mountainside though was a man-made cave where the same people had made a walkthrough of different exhibits. There was one with an Egyptian tomb and a Pharaoh being mummified and Yugi was hoping the gift shop would have something nice to give Yami since he used to be a real Pharaoh.

Yugi sighed in defeat as he walked out of the store. `All of those things are just little trinkets. I wanted Yami's gift to be really special.' He walked along the edge of the forest, looking up into the sky. `Maybe there's something at the lake that the guides told us about when we got here. What was it that they said you had to be lucky to find? Oh well, I'm sure I'll know it when I see it or when someone else has found it.'

He turned and headed down a worn path towards the lake that was just a quarter of a mile away. He still had a few hours before he had to be back to leave so maybe he could find something at the lake that was special enough for his Yami. Unknown to him two blue eyes were sparkling dangerously after him.

Arriving at the lake he saw some of his classmates there as well. Some were sticking their feet in the cool water and others who brought their swimsuits were swimming around. Yugi had decided not to bring his swim-trunks since he wasn't that good of a swimmer and he didn't know how deep the lake was.

He walked into the water just so it was lapping gently against his shoes. He began searching for something that would look good.

`Hey, I know. Maybe with some of these rocks that look really pretty I could make him a necklace or something? Yeah, that way it's really special because I made it for him. I hope he likes it, but I don't think I'll be able to finish it before we leave.' He thought, picking up some more rocks that he thought looked really pretty.

Having enough he ran back to the game shop and went into the small arts and crafts room attached to it, glad that the people who set this exhibit up were letting the kids have lots of different activities they could do.

He set to work after getting some rope, using the special rock-pointer the guides told his class about that made making small holes through rocks easier.

About two hours later he was finally finished. `I can't believe I got it done before we left. It looks really great though. It'll look wonderful with Yami's red eyes too!' He thought excitedly. To keep from losing it since the class wasn't supposed to bring their backpacks and he didn't have any pockets, he placed the hand-made necklace around his own neck. `It's perfect!' He smiled happily. `I'll go for a short walk since we don't have to leave for another half an hour.' He stepped outside and started walking down one of the paths that he was told just went in a circle.

Halfway done though he stopped. `Something's not right.' He thought, meaning to turn around and run back. As he turned though he ran into another person's chest. Out of instinct when he was scared he wrapped his arms around the person and rubbed his face against them.

After calming down some he leaned back with his eyes closed, hoping it would help him relax a bit more.

"I'm sorry about that. I just got startled I guess." He apologized, rubbing his eyes from stray tears.

"Oh don't worry about it. I was hoping to have you crawl back to me soon enough." A chuckling voice said back.

Yugi froze. `I-I know th-that voice.' Cautiously, the short teen opened is eyes and looked to the person he had run into with fear. Shaking his head at whom he saw he began to take a step back, but for every step he took back the predator took one step forward. "Sh-Shidosha.' He whispered, his voice gone hoarse.

"That's right, little Yugi. And this time you'll want to stay with me." He chuckled.

"No way! I'll never go anywhere with you! What are you doing here?"

"I came to get you, little love."

"Don't call me that!"

"Oh, but I think you'll be begging for me to call you that very soon."

"What?"

Shidosha raised his hands and formed a ball of dark energy in his hands. As it grew Yugi shook with terror. He didn't know what was going on but if it concerned Shidosha getting what he wanted and saying it with such confidence as he was he knew it couldn't be good on his part.

Once Shidosha seemed satisfied with the size of the ball, which was about the size of a large beach ball, he smirked and threw it at Yugi forcefully.

The teen didn't have time to scream as the ball surrounded him and immediately started working at his body. It stung and cut at his skin and he screamed for his life, wishing and hoping that somebody could hear him while Shidosha just laughed at his struggled to get away from the unbearable pain.

"Try as you might, little Yugi, but no one will be able to hear you since you decided to walk so far by yourself. Foolish mortals!" He laughed evilly.

Tears sprung from Yugi's and stung down his face as some of the drops slid into open wounds. He tried screaming louder but his voice was going hoarse already from crying so hard. He felt something being torn from within him, deep inside. He tried to fight whatever it was but lost quickly from not having any strength left in him and he easily filled with an empty void where his heart should be.

Yugi stopped struggling and closed his eyes. His last tear he could muster slipped from his eye as he whispered, "I love you, Yami." He then fell unconscious to the ground.

The dragon laughed at the now lifeless boy. "Now you're mine to mold, little Yugi. Mine to love and no one else's. Yami will be broken when he finds out. I just can't wait to see the baka Pharaoh's face when he finds his true love now loves another." He picked up the boy and cradled him in his arms before teleporting away.

Ryou and Marik were walking home from school when Ryou saw someone lying on the ground on the other side of the street.

"Hey, Marik, who's that? You don't suppose they're in trouble, do you?" He pointed to the unmoving figure on the ground.

Marik shrugged. "Let's go find out. I'd feel better if we at least knew anyway."

Ryou nodded and they ran across the street, both gasping as they saw Yami lying unconscious.

"Let's get him home. Malik and Bakura will know what to do." Marik told Ryou, knowing Ryou was too soft to be able to keep calm. He held Yami on his back and carried him as fast he could with Ryou trailing behind, obviously from shock at seeing their friend on the ground.

"Bakura! Malik!" Ryou called as he opened the door for Marik and himself.

Bakura and Malik came out from behind a corner, Change of Heart and Witty Phantom right behind them.

"What's wrong, love? You sound worried." Bakura held his white-haired lover closer as he felt the young boy trembling slightly.

"We found Yami. He was laying unconscious on the sidewalk a ways from the game shop." Marik answered, turning around to show them.

"Let's put him on the couch them and get him comfortable. Hopefully he'll come around sometime tonight so none of us has to stay up and watch him just in case." Bakura ordered. Malik took the frozen body off of his own lover and carried him to the couch.

Ryou and Marik fetched some blankets for him and covered him up tightly to warm him up.

Yami's eyes fluttered slightly before opening completely and looking around. He had a hard time registering the faces he saw as well since his mind wasn't completely focused on that but the dull pain throbbing inside of him like and open void.

When he did recognize one of them he flung himself to them and held on to them. Bakura didn't know what to do when that happened but he wrapped his arms around the smaller and held him closely.

"What happened, Yami?" He asked quietly, in case Yami had a headache.

"I-I'm not sure. It hurt so much and it's so empty." He mumbled.

"What hurts, Yami, what's empty?" He tried once more.

"Inside. Something happened and I don't know what. I went for a walk while I waited for Yugi to come back home and something happened. It hurt so much…just all of a sudden. It pierced my heart and it makes me feel so empty inside. I'm scared and I don't want to leave Yugi if that's what it means." Yami mumbled.

"Why don't you try going to sleep, Yami? It might make you feel a little better and then you should try eating something. I'll call Yugi since he should be home by now and let him know since he's probably worried." Marik offered.

Yami nodded and lied back down on the couch. In no time at all he fell asleep. Bakura stood and walked over to Ryou who was sitting in the farthest chair.

"I'm sorry, Ryou. I know you don't like these kinds of things. Why don't you go take a warm shower, it'll help you relax. And when you come back down I'll make some hot chocolate for you." Bakura smiled and kissed his lover's cheek softly.

Ryou nodded and headed up the stairs after kissing Bakura on the same cheek. Bakura smiled after him as he disappeared up the stairs.

Dull, pit less violet eyes opened slowly as the lifeless boy looked around slightly, his eyes settling on the only other person in the room.

"Hello, little love. I'm glad to see you've awakened." Shidosha smiled lightly.

Yugi scooted away from the human-formed dragon unsurely. "

"Don't you remember me?" He asked innocently, although he already knew the boy didn't even have a mind until he formed one for him.

Yugi shook his head horizontally and continued to look the other teen up and down.

"I'm your lover, little Yugi, Shidosha. You scared me to death when you didn't wake up after that fall."

"Fall?" Yugi spoke, his voice a little hoarse from not using it for a while and after all the screaming.

Shidosha stood and handed Yugi a glass of water, which he drank gratefully. "Yes, a fall. You took a class trip to a museum of exhibits out in the wilderness and you fell. I was so worried about you when I came to pick you up and they carried you off."

Yugi looked down. "I didn't mean to worry you then. I'm sorry I forgot about you if you're so important to me."

"Don't feel bad, my love. You couldn't help an accident. I'm sure you'll get your memory back soon."

Yugi smiled at him and nodded, yawning in the process. Shidosha wrapped his arms around Yugi, enjoying the feel of the soft skin against his own in such a relaxing way.

"My little love, soon everything will be better, you'll see." He kissed Yugi's cheek as he felt the smaller fall asleep against him. He smiled evilly. `This is perfect! Yugi is all mine and once Yami finds out it'll be easy to dispose of him with his weakened and broken heart.'

Yami awoke to the sound of worried voices. With his newly formed headache he couldn't really identify the owners though and he didn't want to listen but since they sounded worried he did.

"How can he not be there?" One voice said somewhere to Yami's left.

"I don't know. He just never picked up and Yugi never does that. He wouldn't sleep if Yami wasn't there with him when he should be."

"Do you think it's possible Yugi went looking for Yami when he didn't return?"

"Maybe, but he should've back by now. I mean it's 3 o'clock in the morning. Yugi can afford to stay out this late or he'd never get to school and if he didn't he sure wouldn't stay awake."

"I hope Yugi's alright."

`Yugi's gone? I wonder where he went off to.' Yami thought, starting to drift asleep. Before he could though his mind registered everything the voices had said and he shot up off the couch completely awake. "Yugi's gone!?"

Marik looked to the ground sadly and Ryou moved closer into Bakura's embrace. Malik walked over to his own lover and put his arm around his shoulders in comfort.

"I went to call Yugi after you feel asleep again so he wouldn't worry when he got home and you weren't there. He didn't pick up so I tried again a few hours later. I've stayed up this entire time trying to tell him but the phone is never picked up which means he isn't there." Marik explained, still finding his feet to be an interesting thing to focus on at the moment.

Tears welded up in Yami's eyes but he forced them away. "Something's wrong. Something just isn't right. Yugi, have to find him!" He raced for the door but a pair of arms stopped him quickly.

"It's pouring rain outside, Yami. At least put something warmer on." Bakura reasoned, Malik nodding behind him.

Yami nodded and let himself be led upstairs and changed quickly into some warmer clothes that belonged to Ryou.

The five of them then set off to look for friend (or lover), calling his name as loudly as they could, trying to get it to reach as far as they could under the hard pouring rain.

Yami ran through the park and into a clearing to see if Yugi was hiding to escape the rain under the thick trees around it. But instead he found something much more surprising. Yugi was standing in the same clothes he was wearing before he left the house and was now soaking wet. He was kneeling on the ground looking at something as he continued to rub something over the sidewalk around the perimeter of the clearing.

Getting frustrated and slightly sad, he stood and turned around. "Shidosha?" He cried.

"Shidosha." Yami whispered to himself in shock. "Why is Yugi calling for him? Doesn't he see me here?"

"What is it, little love?" Shidosha smirked as he saw the Pharaoh standing on the other end of the clearing with a confused expression on his face.

"Where does he get off calling my Yugi his?" Yami growled under his breath, trying not to lose his temper and scare his little love.

Yugi held up a small piece of chalk in one hand and pointed at the drowned picture on the sidewalk with tears sliding down his face and mixing with the rainwater pouring around him. "It won't stay and I was trying to make a dragon for you. A Blue Eyes White Dragon because I know you like them. But it won't stay." Yugi cried and wrapped his arms around his `lover's' waist, dropping the chalk to the ground in the process.

"Don't cry, little love. It's only because of the rain, it's washing it away. Why don't you try again tomorrow? Maybe by then it'll have stopped raining and you can try again." Shidosha offered, proud that Yugi wanted to give him something so precious, precious to him anyway.

"Okay." Yugi shivered, wrapping his arms tighter around Shidosha for warmth and pulled himself closer.

"There's my boy." He smiled down at him. "Why don't we go home now? I wouldn't want you to catch a cold." Yugi nodded up at him and smiled. Just to get on Yami's nerves and play with him a little, Shidosha leaned down and captured Yugi's lips in a small kiss. He leaned back up and led Yugi back into the shadows, looking back once to sneer at Yami's hurt face.

Yami turned slowly and headed back to the game shop, not wanting to see the other four nor wanting to explain what he just witnessed. It tore him up inside and out, his heart shattering into a million pieces; never to be put together again.

/Yami!/

Yami glanced up and looked around. `What was that? I could've sworn I heard someone call my name. He shrugged and continued walked at a slow pace.

/Yami! Yami, help me!/

Yami quickly spun around and looked in all directions around him as fast as he could. "Hello? Whose there?" He called out. No answer. Silence was all around him. He continued walked again. `It sounds like Yugi, but Yugi's with Shidosha.'

/Yami, please!/ The voice pleaded.

Yami looked into his reflection through in one of the puddles, ignoring the voice now.

"Yami!" A voice called from behind.

`That's a different voice now." He turned and saw Malik and Bakura running towards him followed quickly by Marik and Ryou.

"There you are. Don't want to lose you too. So did you find him?" Marik asked.

"I-no, I didn't find him and I looked everywhere." He lied.

"Maybe when it's not raining so badly. Hopefully tomorrow we'll have a better chance. We promise we won't stop until we find him, Yami. We know how much you love him." Bakura stated, trying to encourage his down friend a little bit; it wasn't working.

Yami walked past his friends and headed for the game shop. "I'd rather be alone now, you guys. I'll see you tomorrow." He called back before they could ask him where he was going. At last, long-hidden tears finally unable to hold back anymore fell from Yami's crimson eyes. Never stopping even after crawling under the thin covers of Yugi's bed, not bothering to dry off.