Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Creature Comforts ❯ I Miss The One That I Love A Lot ( Chapter 4 )

Author's Note: I didn't know the Dark Magician in PJ's would be so adored, so I just had to make a picture of it. http://www.geocities.com/draconianeyes/magicianpjscolor.jpg . Isn't that just so cute? (CHIBI-NESS!) One of my best pictures, if I do say so myself. *blinks and watches as modesty flies out the window* o^.^o;; Heh...beginning and ending words are from Bush's "Swallowed".

Creature Comforts

Chapter Four: I Miss The One That I Love A Lot

Yugi sighed from the edge of the soft bed. The Dark Magician was asleep once more, curled up and warm under the soft covers and dressed in those too-cute-to-be-legal pajamas. Earlier he had spoken with the magician about why he was there and he'd had the strangest feeling that Yami had been listening to them. He could almost hear him now...

//Yugi...//

/Yami?!/

//YUGI! By Ra, Yugi, you had me worried! Where are you?//

/Um.../

//Yugi, where are you?//

/I'm not quite sure...and you wouldn't believe me if I told you./

//Yugi, tell me where you are.//

/With the Dark Magician.../

//WHAT?!//

/Ow! Yami, that was loud!/

//Sorry, but what do you mean, 'with the Dark Magician'? That's a Duel Monster card.//

/It's kind of strange, but I was taken to where the Dark Magician is. I guess I'm inside the heart of a card./

//You're what?//

/Inside the heart of a card, I think.../

//I kept hearing that...that exact phrase. That you were safe inside the heart of a card. And I heard you talking with someone in a dream of mine. You were asking him why you were there and he said he was lonely and you wanted friends.//

/That's exactly it, Yami! He told me magic doesn't alway come in the form of spells, too. Did you hear.../

//That you missed me?//

/Yes...I do, Yami, and I'm really sorry for what I did. I didn't mean to hurt Joey and Tristan, I honestly didn't.../

//I know, Yugi. We forgive you. We all miss you, too, and we wish you would come home.//

/Okay, I will....Yami?/

//Yes?//

/...Does grampa miss me, too?/

//Of course he does, Yugi. He misses you the most out of all of us.//

/Okay...and Yami?/

//Yes?//

/I miss him, too. And Joey, Tristan, Bakura, and Téa. Tell them that, okay? And that I'm coming home very soon./

//Alright, Yugi.//

/I love you, Yami.../

//I love you, too, Yugi.//

And with that, the telepathic conversation ended. Yugi looked over at the sleeping Dark Magician and shook his shoulder to wake him. Once again, blue eyes fluttered open and the mage looked at Yugi, this time giving him a playful glare.

"Are you going to make a habit of interrupting my sleep?"

"Sorry, but...I want to go home now. I managed to get through to Yami somehow and he says that everyone at home misses me and wants me to come back..."

"Alright, I'll find a spell to get you home." the magician agreed and patted the boy's head, though the child could see a little reluctance in his blue eyes. He had made fast friends with the magician and now he had to leave, probably never to return. He would miss the kind sorcerer very, very much.

*----------*

"Yugi's comin' back? Where is 'e? How'd ya get ta talk to 'im? Did 'e phone ya or somethin'?" Joey gripped Yami's shirt tightly with his uninjured arm. The former pharaoh removed the blonde's hand from his shirt and sighed in annoyance.

"He spoke to me telepathically. And...well, it's hard to explain where he is. He didn't know very well himself."

"Then how is he going to get back?" Téa asked worriedly. After the glare she'd given Yugi she didn't care if he was in Tibet, so long as he came home so she could apologize.

"I think it's best to let him explain when he comes home."

"Alright..."

*----------*

The Dark Magician already had a wonderful speaking voice, but when he sang it was like listening to an angel.

The spell had required a melody to lull the person to sleep before they traveled between dimensions. Fortunately the tome contained the notes to the melody and the magician could read music very well. Now the somniferous tenor voice had Yugi's eyelids drooping and he was nearly to the point of melting from the gentle caress of the magician's hand on his back.

Before the magician had begun the spell, Yugi had given the mage something to remember him by.

One of his buckles.

It wasn't much, but the Dark Magician said he would treasure it always.

Slowly the Latin words caused Yugi to float away into sleep, and before the Dark Magician's very eyes his body slowly faded away into the darkness as it slipped back to the boy's own world. He stayed silent for a moment before finally saying something.

"I'll miss you, Yugi."

*----------*

"Yugi..."

"Mmm..."

"Yugi, wake up..."

"Mphmm..."

"Yugi, wake up..."

"Hmm...? Yami?"

"Welcome home, Yugi."

*----------*

"'Ey, Yug', there's somethin' weird wit' yer Dark Magician card!"

"What is it, Joey?"

"Looks like 'e's got a buckle 'round 'is neck, like you do."

"Really? Interesting."

"Does it hafta do wit' the fact 'dat you stayed wit' 'im fer a while?"

"Actually, it does. I gave him one of my buckles to remember me by."

"Oh. Ya miss 'im?"

"Very much."

~~~I'm With Everyone

And Yet Not~~~

By the way, when Yugi says "I love you" to Yami, he means it in a brotherly way.
(Update, MM version): There WILL be shounen-ai in the sequel! Though not between Yugi and Yami, it is a very cute couple and it got me rather famous. (People copied that couple (without my consent, might I add), and then the copiers got copied, and it went on from there....)