Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ From Friends to Lovers ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: Ok, how many times must I say this? I don't freaking own it! Ok!?

Hine: Ok, by popular demand, Love and Pain is getting a sequel!

Yami Kyle: Actually, three of her friends told her she should.

Hine: Well, three is popular………… right? Right?

Yami Kyle: *snorts*

Hine: *pouts* Hmph. Anyway, uh, this is a Y/Y with S/J as well since it's a sequel and all and a little H/O since a: I think they are cure together, and 2: Honda needs a lover as well ya know…………. Oh, and by the way, this takes place a week after Love and Pain.

WARNINGS: Yaoi and uh…………… angst I think and mentioning of child abuse.

<…………………> = Yami to Yugi

/…………………/ = Yugi to Yami

Chapter 1

Yugi's POV

Ok, now this is weird. Jou is NEVER absent and yet he's been absent for what, a week now? I'm really worried about him…………… I mean, I've asked everyone! Well, not Anzu. I know I know, I'm little innocent Yugi and I trust and like everyone. Well, Anzu is a bitch. Yea, I can cuss as well. Surprised? Well, you shouldn't be. I'm 17 for Ra's sake. Anyway, I even asked Malik and Marik. So that means I've asked Ryou, Bakura, Honda, Otogi, all his teachers, the principal, who was very rude and told me I didn't need to know I might add, Malik, and Marik. Well, I cant believe I'm about to do this but here goes nothing.

"Kaiba, have you seen Jou lately? I mean, he's never absent and I'm-." he cut me off before I could finish my question.

"The puppy's staying with me and that's all you need to know."

Well, at least I know where he is and at least I know he's safe……… I think.

<Aibou, are you still worried about Jou?>

Startled, I replied shakily. /Yea, I mean…. He's never absent and, and, and…… I'm just so worried./

<Aibou, although Kaiba's not the most trust worthy person on this earth, he wouldn't hurt Jou and you know it.>

/Yea, but still……/

I heard my yami's laughter as his voice faded. I was so caught up that I didn't even realize that the bell had rung ending the period and the school day. I finally got out of my seat and left for home.

*************AT THE KAME GAME SHOP*************

Honda, Otogi, and Ryou were all at my house sitting around watching t.v. Suddenly, the show we were watching changed to a newswoman standing outside a house.

"We interrupt this program to bring you a special news update. Jounouchi Mejinori has just been arrested for a multitude of serious crimes. They include child neglect, child abuse, irresponsible drinking, and attempted murder. His only son, Jounouchi Katsuya was the soul victim of all of these crimes."

The screen changed to a scene with Seto holding a frightened Jou in his arms while Mejinori was being dragged off by 4 police. The same newswoman then walked over to Jou and Seto.

"Jounouchi, what are your words on this?"

Instead of Jou answering, Seto did.

"Excuse me, but are you an absolute ignoramus? Can't you see that he doesn't want to talk-" He was off by Jou.

"It's ok Seto. You want to know my thoughts on this, well how's this for you? I sure hope Satan, Anubis, Hades, whoever the hell is down there gives mercy to that asshole because I sure as hell won't."

"Well, that's…….. nice to know." She quickly left the two and went over to Mejinori. "Sir, do you admit to having committed the crimes you are accused of?"

"Of course I do. That little shit deserved everything he got. Its just to bad I couldn't have finished his punishment." As he finished this statement, the newswoman gasped, as did everyone at the site and anyone who was watching at the time. Well, not everyone. Seto glared death at him and Jou hugged Seto tighter than he had been which is really saying something when you think about it.

"Don't worry Jou, you're safe now." Seto said as he stroked Jou's cheek.

I gasped. Jou, why didn't you tell any of us? How could this have happened? You could have died! Now I feel so terrible. I'm the worst person alive. I should have seen that Jou needed help but I didn't. Maybe I'm not really a good friend. Maybe I'm about as useful as Anzu.

<Aibou, it's not your fault and you know it.>

/Yami, I'm Jou's best friend. I didn't know that that was happening to him and you say it's not my fault?/

<Hikari, even if you had known, what could you have done?>

/I guess you're right…. But why didn't I see?/

<Maybe you did, but didn't want to, so you pretended you didn't know?>

~~~Yami's POV~~~

<Maybe you did, but didn't want to, so you pretended you didn't know?>

Yeah. That's how I feel with my Hikari. I know he doesn't love me. How could he? I'm pure darkness. How can anyone love the darkness? I do know that he doesn't love me, but I don't want to, so I pretend I don't know. I pretend that everything is fine and dandy. Yeah right. One of these days I'll have to tell him. Sooner better than later I guess ne?

"Honda, did you know about any of this?"

He looked at me and shook his head. "I knew something was going on with Jou, I always had but I knew that Jou would want to keep it to himself. So I guess I didn't really know a thing."

Otogi wrapped his arms around Honda in comfort as Honda began to shake.

"Koi, I think we should get going ne?" Otogi asked to Honda who nodded in reply.

Yuugi turned off the t.v. and the others left. He turned to me with his eyes questioning. "Yami, have you ever been in love?"

I gasped. This was not the question I had been expecting. Maybe he does love me. It's worth a shot I guess. I smile down at him lovingly and nod my head. His eyes tear up and he ran upstairs. One minute he's here and I'm practically confessing my love for him, the next minute he's in tears and running from me. He must know that I meant I was in love with him then. Why else would he run away disgusted. He was crying because his protector is a gay. Why does this have to happen to me……

~~~Yuugi's POV~~~

"Yami, have you ever been in love?" I asked suddenly.

He turned towards me and smiled nodding. He was in love. No, my chances are over. You can't fall out of love, I've tried. Whichever girl he is in love with I wish I could be. My eyes began to tear up and I ran upstairs to my room. I locked the door quickly and took off my puzzle. That way he couldn't simply go into the puzzle and come out on my side of the door. I took out my diary and started to write fiercely in it. The only thing that will ever truly know how I feel.

~~~In diary~~~

Yami, my love, whom I shall never have, how can this be? That your affections have already been bestowed? I should try I guess to win you back, but your eyes showed just how deeply you loved that person. A love that deep could never be broken, and when I think of it that way, it hurts even more. To know that I'll never have you. Some might say I'm being pessimistic but I'm simply a realist. Optimists have no sense of realism. It's like if you're taking a "true or false" test and you simply guess at all of them. An optimist would say that they'd at least get half right, though, anyone with a sense of reality know just what utter crap that is. Now that I know that Yami is in love with another, I don't think I have anyone. Maybe I should just let myself waste away? No, I'm innocent little Yuugi, remember? Yeah, I think I just have to continue with this stupid charade. I don't get it though. Doesn't anyone realize that I'm not nearly as innocent as they may think? Well, I'm not damnit. I cuss, I have sexual fantasies, G-ds know I have fantasies. Just the other night I dreamed that Yami and I were- I better not get into that lest this journal be found one day. Wouldn't want who ever found it to know that I was a "queer." There's another reason that my chances with Yami are gone. I'm gay. Yup. If Yami were to find out it would be the end of me. I don't know what I'd do. Journal, you know everything about me and if you ever tell anyone, I'll have you burned. Look at me, what am I doing? I'm talking/writing my thoughts to a journal as if it could answer back? Am I really that much in love that the only person I trust with my secrets about Yami is an inanimate object? Seems that way. Well, who knows? Can't say for sure really……. Oh well, Yami's pounding on the door. Probably so he can check up on his "innocent little Aibou." Heh, yeah, his innocent little Aibou who dreams of him day and night……. Well, ja.

~Yuugi

~~~Yuugi's POV~~~

I stop writing and put my journal away. I wipe my eyes and take a few deep breathes. As I walk to open the door for Yami a thought hits me. What if the one he was referring to was me? It's a long shot but I have to try. I open the door and kiss him deeply and passionately. I hope this works out…………………..

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Hine: YEAH! IT'S DONE!

Yami Kyle: *stops a stop watch* Let's see Hikari, only about a few months. Good timing.

Hine: *hits him* Shut up……..

Noa plushie: *giggles*

Hine: Yes…….. well, I'm going to answer the review for the final chapter of Love and Pain now.

To Youko Demon: Thankies! So glad you liked it!

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Noa plushie: That all Hine?

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