Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Coming Together ❯ Memories ( Chapter 10 )

I must say I was getting a little sad that I'm not getting very reviews anymore. I think I'm going to start crying. But then again if people are starting to lose interest in my fic I could always delete it. If you don't want that to happen then you betta try and prove it to me. K k, on with the fic.

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Two figures lay in a bed. One with their arm wrapped protectively around the smaller. Shidosha was a bit irritated as he lay there and watched Yugi breathe and sleep soundly against him, whimpering every once in a while.

`I was supposed to have him by now, but he said he wasn't ready for it. I want him to stay with me but he isn't ready for anybody to take him and he would leave and go somewhere else and end up remembering and then ruining everything I had planned. I'll just have to wait a bit longer for him until he's ready, but that better be soon. The sooner I take his innocence from him is the sooner I can destroy that Pharaoh.' Shidosha thought.

Kibun and Bukiyo stood outside the door, both sighing with relief. They turned and left, walking away from Shidosha's room.

"I'm glad Yugi wasn't going to let Shidosha take him. That would be awful." Kibun muttered.

"Yes, it's fortunate, but how long will it last? If Shidosha keeps treating him like a perfect couple and makes Yugi happy all the time than that poor boy will be ruined when he starts thinking that he and Shidosha were really meant to be together forever." Bukiyo muttered back.

"I know. I hope Master Seto comes back soon. The sooner he comes the sooner we can stop Shidosha from hurting Yami and Yugi. Those two belong together and I regret everything I did to them in the past, I want to help them now."

"I agree. Everything will be fine once our master comes back from his business trip. It's a good thing we decided not to go when he offered or else Yugi would be in greater danger since we're the only ones who know. I wish we could just tell Yami, but he wouldn't trust us."

"We're going to have to try. At the rate Shidosha's going with Yugi there won't be any time for the end of the week to come and that's four days away."

"I know, I know," Bukiyo shook with pain. "He is going pretty fast. He's only had Yugi for a few of days and he's already tried taking him. That would break Yami for only knowing that much. Even more so since he already thinks Yugi doesn't want to be with him after he saw those two together in the park the day Shidosha brainwashed him."

"Then we're going to Yami?"

"Right now. Let's go."

The two dragons ran the rest of the way out of the mansion and all the way down the street to the game shop.

Yami groaned and fell from the couch he'd slept on for the past three days.

`Three days since Yugi left for that bastard. I miss him so much, but why do I bother staying here? I should just drop the puzzle over a building and go inside before it hits the ground. That way I won' be a bother to Yugi anymore. He's never home anyways.'

/No Yami! Please don't!/

`That voice again, it sound like Yugi but it can't be.' Yami looked around the room.

Before he could dwell on the voice anymore the phone rang and Yami got up and went to pick it up. `Yugi's the one who taught me how to use this thing.' He thought sadly as tears formed in his eyes. He wiped them away before picking the receiver up. "Moshi moshi, Turtle Game Shop."

"Hello, Yugi, it's your grandpa. Is everything all right? Your voice sounds a bit deeper."

"Uh…no, grandpa. I'm fine, thanks for asking though. I'm just have a…. a little cold I guess; no big deal. What did you call for?"

"I just wanted to let you know that I'm sorry I won't be able to make it to your birthday after all. I really am sorry Yugi, but I have to stay until the end of the month. I'm so sorry Yugi, I really didn't mean to."

"No, that's fine, grandpa. Don't worry about it. I'll just hang out with Ryou or Marik that day."

"Okay then. Keep out of trouble and get some rest for that cold."

"I will, bye."

"Bye, love you Yugi." The beeping noise that followed showed his grandpa had hung up.

`At least I don't have to worry about explaining this just yet. It doesn't feel right if I explained it, but how's Yugi going to?''

A consistent knocking and doorbell ringing suddenly entered Yami's broken mind and he went to answer it. `I hope it's not those customers again. Yugi hasn't shown me how to work the cash register.'

He opened the door and instantly regretted it. Two dragons in human forms, one with two scars over his eye and the other with a scar going down his cheek, were at the door.

They tumbled in and pulled Yami against the wall after closing the door, holding him firmly so he couldn't move.

"Okay, I know you don't trust us very much right now, but you're going to have to at least consider what we're telling you."

Yami scowled but nodded.

"Thank you. Kibun, why don't you start?"

The other dragon nodded and looked back at Yami. "Here's the deal: we're sorry about everything we ever did to you in the past and in the present. They were terrible mistakes and we regret ever doing them but this time I swear we're trying to help. We don't want anything to happen to you or Yugi."

"What are you talking about? I've never trusted you; I never will, so get out and leave me alone. It's bad enough your brother stole my entire reason for being!"

"Will you just shut up and listen! This is for your own good." Bukiyo yelled at him, nodding for Kibun to continue.

"Anyway, you have the right to know. Yugi was kidnapped by Shidosha and was brainwashed. Shidosha told Yugi lies and false facts so Yugi would be with him and love him so he could have Yugi like he always wanted and break you apart at the same time for what you did to our master in the past. And since Seto's out on a business trip right now Shidosha picked now to act and he did. And last night was the worse. Shidosha tried stealing Yugi's innocence."

"What!" Yami yelled, tears forming in his eyes. He looked down and away from the two dragons and let the tears he'd been shedding for the last few days fall once more. `My love, my only love, how could I let this happen to you? It's all my fault.'

"We're sorry about this, Yami. But there is good news."

Yami looked back up at the two dragons. His eyes more red than a few minutes ago and nodded for him to go ahead.

"Yugi stopped him and told Shidosha he wasn't ready to be with him like that for a while. Shidosha was pissed about it naturally but since he wants to keep Yugi he's going along with it for now." Bukiyo explained.

Yami nodded.

"We should get going now. I wouldn't like to try and explain why we were here if he finds out."

Yugi nodded once more, not trusting his voice, and led the two out the door. After he closed it he slid to his knees and cried his heart out for what seemed to be the millionth time to him.

A few hours later Yami locked up the house and the game shop doors and took a walk down the street. He didn't really know where he was going, but he was hoping it would help clear his head up so he could at least think properly; his head filled with images of what Yugi could've been through the night before while he was crying his eyes out if he hadn't refused Shidosha. The puzzle lay around his neck, dangling from side to side as Yami walked. He wasn't sure why he brought it though. It was actually useless unless Yugi was wearing it, but Yugi was gone and he wasn't coming back; that Yami was sure of.

`Why should I stay? There's nothing here for me.' He thought as he looked up at one of the tall building around him. `It wouldn't be hard either. I'll drop the puzzle from the top and go inside real fast before it shattered on the ground.'

/No Yami! Please don't! I need you, I love you!/

"That voice!" Yami spun around. He still didn't know where it came from. "It sounds like Yugi, but it can't be. Yugi's gone and he always will be now." He said to himself as he began walking down the street once more.

He sat down in one of the park benches and sighed sadly, hoping that none of Yugi's friends were around and would mistake him for Yugi.

`I don't know if I should trust those dragons or not. After all they did just stand there and watched as Shidosha nearly raped Yugi when he was normal. And how can I ever forgive them for what they did in the past? How do I know it's not a trick or anything?'

/Yami, please! You must trust them; you have to!/

"Why won't that voice be quiet?!" Yami practically yelled as loud as he could. "I don't want to hear it anymore! I want it to leave me alone!" Yami jumped off the bench and ran as fast as he could, hoping that he could escape whatever it was he was hearing.

He ran so fast he didn't realize where he was going and before he knew it he was on the ground laying on the person he ran into. He sat up and shook his head to clear his head before looking to the person he knocked over to apologize. Before a word escaped his lips though he gasped.

Yugi lay underneath him looking up to him. It was the first time Yami actually looked at him since he left to Shidosha's arms. Yugi's eyes didn't have their joy and happiness in them anymore. They were dull and lifeless, almost like he were really dead inside.

Yami stood and held out a hand for Yugi. "I'm sorry about that. I've been kind of having a bad week and needed to clear my head. I wasn't really looking where I was going. You ok?"

Yugi stood without taking the offered hand. Yami pulled it back, pained by the action. "I'm fine." His voice even sounded dead. It didn't have the full of life tone to it anymore either.

"Yugi!" A voice called just up the street.

Yugi turned back towards the voice. "I have to go now." Before he ran off to the voice calling him, mostly likely Shidosha.

Yami turned and sadly walked back to the game shop.

Yami walked up to his and Yugi's room and dropped to the floor on his knees by the bedside. Unable to hold it in any longer, Yami cried his eyes out once more. Crying like he wanted to ever since Yugi went to Shidosha's arms instead of his.

He wasn't sure if he stopped crying or not when he fell asleep. The cold, icy wind from the night blew in and brushed across his face as he slept, chilling him to the bone in his cold, thin attire.

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"Please, Yami, it hurts too much. I don't like this anymore, I don't want it to hurt anymore. Please, don't go more, it won't get better; I know it won't."

"Shhh, Yugi. It's going to be okay. I promise you it will get better." Yami soother as he removed his fingers after being satisfied Yugi was stretched enough. "I know it hurts now, but it's only because you're untouched. It's get better, I promise that to you. Please just relax."

Yugi sniffed lightly and looked at Yami. "It will, you really promise?"

"I promise with all my heart. And if it doesn't than we won't do it again."

The boy smiled slightly, before frowning again to give it some thought. "And we won't do it again?"

"We won't do it again." The Pharaoh confirmed.

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Yami looked down at the noise and watched sadly at the remained pained expression on Yugi's face. He picked up his pillow and lowered the blanket and put it underneath Yugi so his lower back was cushioned.

"Thank you, Yami." He whispered and the other looked away and back out the window. Curious, the smaller looked at him and raised his head from his own pillow. "Is something wrong… did I do something wrong?"

Yami quickly looked up, surprised the little one thought that. He shook his head and looked back out the window. "Little Yugi, do you regret it… what you gave to me?" He asked hesitantly.

Yugi was scared that that was a way of telling him Yami he had regretted it, but he answered the question anyways with a quiet no.

Yami smiled. "Thank you."

"D-do you regret it, Yami?"

The older also shook his head no too and this caused Yugi to smile at him.

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"Well Yugi, I hope you're happy with yourself. You even managed to fool me with your act that you were happy here." He spat out.

Yugi looked at him with wide eyes. "B-but Yami, that's not true! It isn't, that not what hap…"

"Quiet!"

Yugi scooted away from Yami, but the king just picked him up by the front of his shirt.

"Please, Yami I swear that's not what happened." Yugi tried once more.

"I don't want to hear your excuses!"

"But Yami!"

SMACK

In his surprise at what he had done Yami dropped Yugi to the floor and turned his back on him.

Yugi's hand was holding his reddened cheek as he continued to stare at Yami with fright, also not believing what he had done.

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The Pharaoh leaned down and placed a small kiss in Yugi's ear. "I'm sorry for slapping you and telling you to go away. I should've listened to you instead of just assuming things. I'll talk to my guards for you as well and if they give you anymore trouble about you who or what you are just tell me and I'll take care of them myself."

Yugi nodded. "I'm sorry too. I didn't mean to go outside the gate, but I should've been paying more attention to it." The boy leaned up and placed a quick butterfly kiss on Yami's cheek.

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Before the boy could get too far though Yami grabbed his wrists and held him there gently, so he wouldn't hurt Yugi further. After a minute Yami moved in and held Yugi to his chest tightly as the boy continued to struggle against him. It barely lasted though when Yugi relaxed into the touch that was so familiar to him.

Yami smiled slightly before he nodded to his friends to leave. The three stood and left, Bakura closing the door after them, nodding an apology towards Yugi before disappearing.

At the sounds of the door closing Yugi then burst into more tears as he struggled to get close to Yami.

"Don't let him get me, Yami, please." The boy pleaded quietly, mumbling into Yami's chest. "I don't him to come back, Yami, don't let him come back."

Yami could only hold him as close as he could until the shaking and sobs subsided.

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Yami woke up from his much needed sleep to crying and the feeling of being jumped on and looked up to see Yugi.

The Pharaoh smiled tiredly and began closing his eyes, still half asleep, when the image he saw registered in his mind. Yami flew up and clutched at Yugi with need. Yugi held him back as he hid in his face in Yami's bare chest.

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"I should have your head! I thought you were my friend! Friends are not supposed to hurt their friends or anybody else's friends of theirs!"

He quickly shut his mouth though as he looked around and saw Yugi sitting peacefully at the table and nibbling on some of the things Malik placed in front of him.

Yami immediately forgot about Malik doing what he did and smiled and shook his head as he picked Yugi up from where he was sitting just as the light was about to pick up another piece of fruit from a bowl.

Yugi gasped as he picked up but settled back down again easily as he was placed into Yami's lap. He smiled but as he reached for the same fruit he was about to pick up before he noticed it was gone. The teen slumped and looked behind him as he saw Yami was eating that piece he wanted.

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After finishing his small meal, having already eaten earlier, he wriggled around his seat to get his plan started and sure enough he felt that poking of a growing erection and a gasp following a small moan in his antics.

Yugi smiled inwardly and jumped off of Yami quickly so the Pharaoh couldn't grab him and make a retreat to their room like he usually did. He giggled at Yami's face and ran to the door, turning around to mock at Yami's troubled and looking innocent at the same time as Yami kept staring after the boy disbelieving Yugi had done such a thing to him.

Yugi then made the rest of his play in action. "Hey, Yami, you want to take care of your problem you have find and catch me first." And before Yami could blink again Yugi had ran from the room.

Malik and Bakura took one look at the door, moved to Yami's face, and then looked at each other before bursting into fits of laughter at what Yugi had done. Bakura calmed down a little and tried to get a breather as he wiped a tear from his eye. He slapped Yugi on the back to break the constant gaze from where Yugi had been standing already minutes ago. Malik helped to shove him from his seat and laughed some more as he stumbled to regain his balance and stared at them angrily.

Bakura glared back playfully as Malik smirked. "You'd better hurry if you want to win this game." The blonde told him in a very taunting voice.

Yami blinks before his crimson eyes widened at realization that Yugi had really said what he said and really meant what he said when he said it. He ran out the door without another word and raced around the palace trying to find his koi.

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In the morning both boys felt wonderful.

"Thank you, Yami. For getting rid of that feeling Seto gave me. I don't feel sick anymore when I think about it."

Yami kissed Yugi's temple and then his nose. "There is no need to thank me because I would've helped in anyway that I could've anyways."

They both went back to sleep since both were still exhausted from their activities of the night before.

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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.

~

"I love you, Yami."

"I love you too, my little Yugi."