Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Dark Legacy ❯ chapter Three ( Chapter 3 )
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By: The Chaotic Ones 
Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Fantasy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.21.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 657 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Fantasy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.21.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 657 | Status: Completed
Aaries: sorry about this taking longer, but our host body just switched jobs at work and has been exausted lately. Chaos: Yea.... I STILL hate little kids.... ((grumbles for a little while))
Jef: By the way, the asterisks we normally mark our actions in are no longer working on FF.net (Beta’s Note: because it’s a HO! ((Chroni’s stories have been heavily affected))) so instead we will be using these "((" and these "))" to mark our actions and author notes.
Angel: Now on to the interesting stuff. ((Rubs hands in anticipation)) first off, here are the Review replies.
To Osiris-Lee: You’re so great, we love you! Honestly. The longer the review the better in our opinion, and we’re glad you liked the plushies. As for Kina, she actually plays a very influential role in both this fic and Legacy of Light, the second installment of this story. Yea, Yugi is Mute, but we will establish a mind link with Yami by chapter six or seven, and in the fourth Legacy story he will gain telepathy. Yep, we fully intend to have four stories under Legacy, and they will be Dark Legacy, Legacy of Light (about Ryou and Bakura. Naturally Bakura will be a thief, what else can we do with him?), Dragons Legacy (about Jou and Seto), and Legacy of the Moon and Stars. The last one is actually the least planned out so far but, it will focus on Marik and Malik, as gods.... Uh... is that TMI? As for Bandit Keith, we had forgotten about him, and to be honest when we first started writing about this didn’t even know who he was. We’ll use him. Do you think we should Use Anzu as an evil Priestess? ((Beta’s Note: YES)) Oh well, thank you very much for reviewing again.
To kenshinfan21: Really? We’ll have to check those stories out and let you know what we think. Thank you for reviewing again. ^__________________^
To SoulDreamer: we are glad you think so ((blushes and scratches the back of our head in embarrassment)) Here is the next part, Enjoy. ^__^
To YugiYamiforever: Thank you, it feels good to know that people will watch for our next chapter.
To I Forget: Thanks for reading Sky's story, and it is a little confusing at this point, but we got to read all of it before it was deleted from ff.net, and it all makes sense in the end. We hope to one day be as good as Sky. As for Chroni's betaing job, yea, she’s really great. We will let her know that you were impressed. We always are, Chroni takes our words and makes them like, ten times better, we love her. Here is the next part, enjoy.
Aaries: Thanks again to Chroni, our Beta reader!! You’re the Best Ever!! ((Chroni blushes and smiles))
Jef: A special note about when Yami and Yugi meet: it’s probably NOT going to be love at first sight for Yugi, (come on, Yugi is just a gift avert his wrath) though we plan to have Yami thoroughly smitten by the end of this chapter, he just won’t know it. Yugi has had some very bad experiences with masters in the past, so bear with us while Yami breaks down his barriers.
PR: WE-DO-NOT-OWN-YUGIOH-BUT-WE-DO-OWN-LADY-KINA-NER-MINTAREN-SO-DONT-STEAL-HER -WITHOUT-PERMISSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aaries: Oh and before we forget, we WILL make Yugi dance this chapter instead of waiting and making it vague like we did before. >.< that was a hard decision, and Chroni is probably going to hate us for it... Oh well, we're sorry but we wanted to make this version better than the other one.
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Yugi kneeled where he had been instructed to wait, trembling slightly with fear and uncertainty as he listened for Lady Kina and the Dark Prince to return. Yugi was to provide entertainment for the Dark Prince and Lord Mejiah Mintaren after their meeting, and as such Lady Kina wanted him to wait in the room while they talked. In preparation for his debut he had been washed and thoroughly cleaned, dressed in clean white silk pants that cuffed around his ankles, with silver belled anklets and braclets that chimed with his every movement. The traditional dancers attire. Yugi had been trained to be able to move silently even with the bells on so that he would not be an unwanted distraction, but when he was dancing, the bells would act as cymbals so that every time he moved he would create his own music. Yugi wore no shoes, but most slaves didn’t, so this was in no way unusual.
Lady Kina had instructed him exactly what dance to do; and thinking of it made Yugi blush heavily. She had chosen a mildly erotic dance for Yugi. It would be hard to perform the proper footwork for it, but Yugi was very good at what he did. He knew he was good, though he really didn’t like showing his talent to others, thus his dilemma. If Yugi messed up, the Dark Prince probably wouldn’t want him, but Lady Kina would be disappointed in him. It was really a choice for Yugi: try to stay here by not showing his full abilities, or please Lady Kina, the woman he considered as a mother more than his own.
It really was not a choice at all.
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Yami sauntered down the hallway, his black and gold robes flowing around him in an impressive manner as he followed the unimportant noble. The room he was lead to was spacious but dark, with mahogany wood paneling covering the walls in a display of wealth. Wood was rare in this desert land, and mahogany had to be imported from thousands of miles to the north, making it very expensive. There were three people waiting in the room for him, and Yami examined them minutely before he sat down. There was Mejiah, the patron of the house, sitting in a well padded chair and covered with blankets. Mejiah was ancient, and it showed in his frail lanky frame, aged face, and nearly bald head. There were three or four short white hairs combed over his head, and many of his teeth had fallen out with age, but that did not detract from the air of danger around the man. Mejiah was powerful still, with a perfectly clear and sharp mind shining behind his squinting old eyes, and age had done nothing to dull his cleverness.
Also in the room was Mejiah’s comparatively young great grand daughter, Kina Ner-Mintaren, Mejiahs Heiress. She was very intelligent, and that was the only thing Yami gave her credit for. She was a Priestess of the Light Gods, and Yami despised all of them on principle - they were hypocrites, he was the Dark Prince. Kina was rather nice looking, with long brown hair that was tied back in a simple style that most other noble women would have ridiculed her for, and she wore a plain dress as opposed to the bright, frilly things that a less sensible noble born daughter would wear. Yami still didn’t like her very much.
The last occupant of the room was a small slave kneeling by the back wall, and after a cursory glance Yami dismissed him. He was dressed as a dancer and would likely provide entertainment after their discussion.
"Welcome, Dark Lord." Mejiah rasped out, his voice dry and scratchy with age. "May I presume to inquire why you are here?"
"It has been brought to My attention that your house has been buying all of the slaves on the market. This has been unnerving to the lesser nobles and I wish to put a stop to any . . . unrest before it becomes a problem." Yami explained. "Why are you purchasing all of the slaves?" he then asked bluntly. He never really did like pussy-footing around his own court in attempts not to offend.
Mejiah simply raised an eyebrow for a second before chuckling. "It’s very simple." he rasped, and Yami got the impression that the man would drop dead any second of old age. "The general quality of slaves has gone down recently and to compensate for it, I have initiated a testing program to separate the trainable slaves from the rest. However for it to work, I need as large a group of slaves as possible to start off with. All of the ones we cannot train to satisfaction, we will resale at buying price." Mejiah explained.
Yami thought about this for a moment before breaking out into a grin. "That would put you in effective control of the entire slave trade, giving us a lovely little monopoly on one of the largest markets in Egypt." Yami observed, somewhere between amusement at his noble’s tactics and anger at the market being cornered. Slaves were important even to pharaohs, but he sincerely disliked paying through the nose to get them from his underlings. "You’re leaving behind quite a legacy for your children, aren’t you?"
"It will not be that hard for them to live up it, my Lord." Mejiah said, amusement twinkling in his ancient eyes. "Choosing the right slaves to train is something I have taught my children well. For example, my granddaughter Kina found a very agile young one a few months ago to train as a dancer."
"Truly? What kind of dancer?" Yami asked, his curiosity suddenly getting the better of him. It was a little known fact that before Honored King Kage died, Yami had had quite a harem of dancers. When he became the High Prince he had dismissed them so he could straighten out the country, and he had never gotten around to replacing them.
"He learned everything we taught him." Kina said, speaking up for the first time. "I personally had to oversee his training because he learned all that the handlers had to teach him very quickly. I heard that you had a fancy for dancers, and arranged that you might see a demonstration if you like," she offered, with a glint of pride in her eyes.
"It could do no harm." Yami said, nodding his approval.
"Very well. Yugi, would you come over here." she said to the slave that was kneeling by the wall. When the boy stood up, Yami finaly got to get a good look at him and was surprised by the similarities between the boy looked and how he looked. But . . . looking closer, Yami saw that the boy was much paler, and his dark hair had slightly lavender highlights, not the deep, blood wine burgundy of Yami's hair. The boy looked down the entire time he walked to Kina, and so all Yami saw of the boys face were blond spiked bangs, and his lower face, but that alone was enough to convey the beauty of the child to Yami. This boy was indeed a child, standing a full head shorter than the seventeen year old monarch, and with a slender build that no full grown man could ever hope for. "This is Yugi, my dancer." Kina said simply as an introduction.
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Yug i had listened the entire time, feeling nervous and unsure when they started talking about him, and he did his best to keep his hands from trembling. He had never actually danced FOR anyone before... When Lady Kina called him over he kept his eyes on the floor in front of his feet and went to stand before her and the others.
"He is very... small. Can he truly dance so well as you say?" the Dark Lord asked, his rich voice sending chills down Yugi's spine. Yugi was startled, wondering how anyone could doubt Lady Kina's words so easily, before remembering that he had doubted her once. It sent a pang of sorrow through his heart for the decision he had made, and for a moment he wondered at changing it. He firmed his resolve though when he felt Lady Kina's eyes on him. Yugi would do everything in his power to please her...
"You may begin, Yugi." Lady Kina said simply, and that was all that Yugi had been waiting for.
Yugi walked to the center of the room, in the clear space beside the low table that served no purpose other than to make the room seem less empty. It was in Yugi's way, but such things had never bothered him before, and Yugi simply took it as a personal challenge to incorporate the thing into his complex dance. Never lifting his eyes from the floor Yugi closed his eyes and began his routine.
@~ @~ @~ @~ @~ @~ @~ @~ @~ @~
Yami was enthralled by the grace of this creature as he moved across the room, the bells on his wrists and ankles giving no voice to his motion. Surely no earthly being could be -that- perfect in movement, and it could be nothing but subconscious, for Yami would have felt any magic or power that the boy used. It was a surprise to the silent room when the boy moved suddenly and the bells rang out, true and clear. It was a simple movement, as the boy had only tilted his ankle up, and lifted his arms to his side in the traditional starting position of a story dance.
The boy held that position for a moment before lifting his head slowly and taking a deep breath. Yami found himself taking a breath as well, though quieter and sharper than that of the boy, because the boy was so like himself yet so very different as well. If his movements had seemed perfect, then his features shattered that illusion by showing a beauty that seemed to be so much more than it was. His face was small, and shone in an ethereal way, with gentle curves that could never have served as well on any girls face, petal soft lips parted slightly to allow air into his mouth and lungs, and at last gentle curving eyebrows and long eyelashes that any lady at court would have killed for. Yami felt a distinct pang of -something- when he realized that the boys eyes were closed, and he wanted nothing more than to see this angel's eyes in that moment.
Then the boy began moving again, in simple steps that Yami recognized as the languid motions of a love ballad. The simple steps were performed with complete care and yet at the same time utter disregard of the normal laws of movement. Gracefulness and innocence poured from his form like water from a river, but his steps and other movements became quicker a moment later as his pace suddenly changed. XPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXP
Aaries: And thus Yami is smitten.
Chaos: but Yugi didn’t REALLY dance in this chapter, at least not all of the dance.
Aaries: Don’t worry, next chappy starts out with Yugi’s POV (kinda,) and explains part of the dance, then switches to Yami’s, then back to Yugi’s as the dance comes to an end, and then back to Yami's as Yugi finally opens his eyes.
Chroni: He’s gonna do the whole thing with the big hunk of furniture in the room, with his EYES closed? Wow.
Aaries: Hehe!! Yep ^_^ isn’t that the only way to do it?
Chroni: >.<
Angel: By the way, whats up with the eyes thing? slaves were never alowed to look their masters in the eyes in Egypt, and it would have been a double blasphemy for them to look into the pharohs eyes because NO ONE looks into the pharohs eyes, on pain of death or something like that.
Aaries: >____< MY story, MY rules!!! besides, who said Yugi would be looking into Yami's eyes? I happen to know for a fact that its posssible to look into somenones eyes without them looking into yours.
Chroni: ((is doubtful))
Jef: In any case, review and let us know what you think. We tried to make this chapter plenty long, let us know how we did.
Aaries: By the way, we have been getting five reviews for each chapter, and while we are eternally grateful, we’re also greedy. So we are going to hold off writing the next chapter till we get SIX reviews for this one, making a grand total of sixteen reviews in all. ((Gets evil gleam in eyes)) Let us know what you think! ^__^*
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Hey guys. Good stuff. You might want to make a note on the next chapter that you know and acknowledge the fact that no one EVER looked in the Pharaoh’s eyes, but for story purposes it’s an important plot device. Say that you knew it even if you didn’t, because it’s an important part of the Egyptian culture.
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Jef: By the way, the asterisks we normally mark our actions in are no longer working on FF.net (Beta’s Note: because it’s a HO! ((Chroni’s stories have been heavily affected))) so instead we will be using these "((" and these "))" to mark our actions and author notes.
Angel: Now on to the interesting stuff. ((Rubs hands in anticipation)) first off, here are the Review replies.
To Osiris-Lee: You’re so great, we love you! Honestly. The longer the review the better in our opinion, and we’re glad you liked the plushies. As for Kina, she actually plays a very influential role in both this fic and Legacy of Light, the second installment of this story. Yea, Yugi is Mute, but we will establish a mind link with Yami by chapter six or seven, and in the fourth Legacy story he will gain telepathy. Yep, we fully intend to have four stories under Legacy, and they will be Dark Legacy, Legacy of Light (about Ryou and Bakura. Naturally Bakura will be a thief, what else can we do with him?), Dragons Legacy (about Jou and Seto), and Legacy of the Moon and Stars. The last one is actually the least planned out so far but, it will focus on Marik and Malik, as gods.... Uh... is that TMI? As for Bandit Keith, we had forgotten about him, and to be honest when we first started writing about this didn’t even know who he was. We’ll use him. Do you think we should Use Anzu as an evil Priestess? ((Beta’s Note: YES)) Oh well, thank you very much for reviewing again.
To kenshinfan21: Really? We’ll have to check those stories out and let you know what we think. Thank you for reviewing again. ^__________________^
To SoulDreamer: we are glad you think so ((blushes and scratches the back of our head in embarrassment)) Here is the next part, Enjoy. ^__^
To YugiYamiforever: Thank you, it feels good to know that people will watch for our next chapter.
To I Forget: Thanks for reading Sky's story, and it is a little confusing at this point, but we got to read all of it before it was deleted from ff.net, and it all makes sense in the end. We hope to one day be as good as Sky. As for Chroni's betaing job, yea, she’s really great. We will let her know that you were impressed. We always are, Chroni takes our words and makes them like, ten times better, we love her. Here is the next part, enjoy.
Aaries: Thanks again to Chroni, our Beta reader!! You’re the Best Ever!! ((Chroni blushes and smiles))
Jef: A special note about when Yami and Yugi meet: it’s probably NOT going to be love at first sight for Yugi, (come on, Yugi is just a gift avert his wrath) though we plan to have Yami thoroughly smitten by the end of this chapter, he just won’t know it. Yugi has had some very bad experiences with masters in the past, so bear with us while Yami breaks down his barriers.
PR: WE-DO-NOT-OWN-YUGIOH-BUT-WE-DO-OWN-LADY-KINA-NER-MINTAREN-SO-DONT-STEAL-HER -WITHOUT-PERMISSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aaries: Oh and before we forget, we WILL make Yugi dance this chapter instead of waiting and making it vague like we did before. >.< that was a hard decision, and Chroni is probably going to hate us for it... Oh well, we're sorry but we wanted to make this version better than the other one.
XPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXP
Yugi kneeled where he had been instructed to wait, trembling slightly with fear and uncertainty as he listened for Lady Kina and the Dark Prince to return. Yugi was to provide entertainment for the Dark Prince and Lord Mejiah Mintaren after their meeting, and as such Lady Kina wanted him to wait in the room while they talked. In preparation for his debut he had been washed and thoroughly cleaned, dressed in clean white silk pants that cuffed around his ankles, with silver belled anklets and braclets that chimed with his every movement. The traditional dancers attire. Yugi had been trained to be able to move silently even with the bells on so that he would not be an unwanted distraction, but when he was dancing, the bells would act as cymbals so that every time he moved he would create his own music. Yugi wore no shoes, but most slaves didn’t, so this was in no way unusual.
Lady Kina had instructed him exactly what dance to do; and thinking of it made Yugi blush heavily. She had chosen a mildly erotic dance for Yugi. It would be hard to perform the proper footwork for it, but Yugi was very good at what he did. He knew he was good, though he really didn’t like showing his talent to others, thus his dilemma. If Yugi messed up, the Dark Prince probably wouldn’t want him, but Lady Kina would be disappointed in him. It was really a choice for Yugi: try to stay here by not showing his full abilities, or please Lady Kina, the woman he considered as a mother more than his own.
It really was not a choice at all.
XPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXP
Yami sauntered down the hallway, his black and gold robes flowing around him in an impressive manner as he followed the unimportant noble. The room he was lead to was spacious but dark, with mahogany wood paneling covering the walls in a display of wealth. Wood was rare in this desert land, and mahogany had to be imported from thousands of miles to the north, making it very expensive. There were three people waiting in the room for him, and Yami examined them minutely before he sat down. There was Mejiah, the patron of the house, sitting in a well padded chair and covered with blankets. Mejiah was ancient, and it showed in his frail lanky frame, aged face, and nearly bald head. There were three or four short white hairs combed over his head, and many of his teeth had fallen out with age, but that did not detract from the air of danger around the man. Mejiah was powerful still, with a perfectly clear and sharp mind shining behind his squinting old eyes, and age had done nothing to dull his cleverness.
Also in the room was Mejiah’s comparatively young great grand daughter, Kina Ner-Mintaren, Mejiahs Heiress. She was very intelligent, and that was the only thing Yami gave her credit for. She was a Priestess of the Light Gods, and Yami despised all of them on principle - they were hypocrites, he was the Dark Prince. Kina was rather nice looking, with long brown hair that was tied back in a simple style that most other noble women would have ridiculed her for, and she wore a plain dress as opposed to the bright, frilly things that a less sensible noble born daughter would wear. Yami still didn’t like her very much.
The last occupant of the room was a small slave kneeling by the back wall, and after a cursory glance Yami dismissed him. He was dressed as a dancer and would likely provide entertainment after their discussion.
"Welcome, Dark Lord." Mejiah rasped out, his voice dry and scratchy with age. "May I presume to inquire why you are here?"
"It has been brought to My attention that your house has been buying all of the slaves on the market. This has been unnerving to the lesser nobles and I wish to put a stop to any . . . unrest before it becomes a problem." Yami explained. "Why are you purchasing all of the slaves?" he then asked bluntly. He never really did like pussy-footing around his own court in attempts not to offend.
Mejiah simply raised an eyebrow for a second before chuckling. "It’s very simple." he rasped, and Yami got the impression that the man would drop dead any second of old age. "The general quality of slaves has gone down recently and to compensate for it, I have initiated a testing program to separate the trainable slaves from the rest. However for it to work, I need as large a group of slaves as possible to start off with. All of the ones we cannot train to satisfaction, we will resale at buying price." Mejiah explained.
Yami thought about this for a moment before breaking out into a grin. "That would put you in effective control of the entire slave trade, giving us a lovely little monopoly on one of the largest markets in Egypt." Yami observed, somewhere between amusement at his noble’s tactics and anger at the market being cornered. Slaves were important even to pharaohs, but he sincerely disliked paying through the nose to get them from his underlings. "You’re leaving behind quite a legacy for your children, aren’t you?"
"It will not be that hard for them to live up it, my Lord." Mejiah said, amusement twinkling in his ancient eyes. "Choosing the right slaves to train is something I have taught my children well. For example, my granddaughter Kina found a very agile young one a few months ago to train as a dancer."
"Truly? What kind of dancer?" Yami asked, his curiosity suddenly getting the better of him. It was a little known fact that before Honored King Kage died, Yami had had quite a harem of dancers. When he became the High Prince he had dismissed them so he could straighten out the country, and he had never gotten around to replacing them.
"He learned everything we taught him." Kina said, speaking up for the first time. "I personally had to oversee his training because he learned all that the handlers had to teach him very quickly. I heard that you had a fancy for dancers, and arranged that you might see a demonstration if you like," she offered, with a glint of pride in her eyes.
"It could do no harm." Yami said, nodding his approval.
"Very well. Yugi, would you come over here." she said to the slave that was kneeling by the wall. When the boy stood up, Yami finaly got to get a good look at him and was surprised by the similarities between the boy looked and how he looked. But . . . looking closer, Yami saw that the boy was much paler, and his dark hair had slightly lavender highlights, not the deep, blood wine burgundy of Yami's hair. The boy looked down the entire time he walked to Kina, and so all Yami saw of the boys face were blond spiked bangs, and his lower face, but that alone was enough to convey the beauty of the child to Yami. This boy was indeed a child, standing a full head shorter than the seventeen year old monarch, and with a slender build that no full grown man could ever hope for. "This is Yugi, my dancer." Kina said simply as an introduction.
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Yug i had listened the entire time, feeling nervous and unsure when they started talking about him, and he did his best to keep his hands from trembling. He had never actually danced FOR anyone before... When Lady Kina called him over he kept his eyes on the floor in front of his feet and went to stand before her and the others.
"He is very... small. Can he truly dance so well as you say?" the Dark Lord asked, his rich voice sending chills down Yugi's spine. Yugi was startled, wondering how anyone could doubt Lady Kina's words so easily, before remembering that he had doubted her once. It sent a pang of sorrow through his heart for the decision he had made, and for a moment he wondered at changing it. He firmed his resolve though when he felt Lady Kina's eyes on him. Yugi would do everything in his power to please her...
"You may begin, Yugi." Lady Kina said simply, and that was all that Yugi had been waiting for.
Yugi walked to the center of the room, in the clear space beside the low table that served no purpose other than to make the room seem less empty. It was in Yugi's way, but such things had never bothered him before, and Yugi simply took it as a personal challenge to incorporate the thing into his complex dance. Never lifting his eyes from the floor Yugi closed his eyes and began his routine.
@~ @~ @~ @~ @~ @~ @~ @~ @~ @~
Yami was enthralled by the grace of this creature as he moved across the room, the bells on his wrists and ankles giving no voice to his motion. Surely no earthly being could be -that- perfect in movement, and it could be nothing but subconscious, for Yami would have felt any magic or power that the boy used. It was a surprise to the silent room when the boy moved suddenly and the bells rang out, true and clear. It was a simple movement, as the boy had only tilted his ankle up, and lifted his arms to his side in the traditional starting position of a story dance.
The boy held that position for a moment before lifting his head slowly and taking a deep breath. Yami found himself taking a breath as well, though quieter and sharper than that of the boy, because the boy was so like himself yet so very different as well. If his movements had seemed perfect, then his features shattered that illusion by showing a beauty that seemed to be so much more than it was. His face was small, and shone in an ethereal way, with gentle curves that could never have served as well on any girls face, petal soft lips parted slightly to allow air into his mouth and lungs, and at last gentle curving eyebrows and long eyelashes that any lady at court would have killed for. Yami felt a distinct pang of -something- when he realized that the boys eyes were closed, and he wanted nothing more than to see this angel's eyes in that moment.
Then the boy began moving again, in simple steps that Yami recognized as the languid motions of a love ballad. The simple steps were performed with complete care and yet at the same time utter disregard of the normal laws of movement. Gracefulness and innocence poured from his form like water from a river, but his steps and other movements became quicker a moment later as his pace suddenly changed. XPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXP
Aaries: And thus Yami is smitten.
Chaos: but Yugi didn’t REALLY dance in this chapter, at least not all of the dance.
Aaries: Don’t worry, next chappy starts out with Yugi’s POV (kinda,) and explains part of the dance, then switches to Yami’s, then back to Yugi’s as the dance comes to an end, and then back to Yami's as Yugi finally opens his eyes.
Chroni: He’s gonna do the whole thing with the big hunk of furniture in the room, with his EYES closed? Wow.
Aaries: Hehe!! Yep ^_^ isn’t that the only way to do it?
Chroni: >.<
Angel: By the way, whats up with the eyes thing? slaves were never alowed to look their masters in the eyes in Egypt, and it would have been a double blasphemy for them to look into the pharohs eyes because NO ONE looks into the pharohs eyes, on pain of death or something like that.
Aaries: >____< MY story, MY rules!!! besides, who said Yugi would be looking into Yami's eyes? I happen to know for a fact that its posssible to look into somenones eyes without them looking into yours.
Chroni: ((is doubtful))
Jef: In any case, review and let us know what you think. We tried to make this chapter plenty long, let us know how we did.
Aaries: By the way, we have been getting five reviews for each chapter, and while we are eternally grateful, we’re also greedy. So we are going to hold off writing the next chapter till we get SIX reviews for this one, making a grand total of sixteen reviews in all. ((Gets evil gleam in eyes)) Let us know what you think! ^__^*
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Hey guys. Good stuff. You might want to make a note on the next chapter that you know and acknowledge the fact that no one EVER looked in the Pharaoh’s eyes, but for story purposes it’s an important plot device. Say that you knew it even if you didn’t, because it’s an important part of the Egyptian culture.
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