Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Goin Down In Flames ❯ But you'll need me when I'm not here at all ( Chapter 7 )

Shadow: okay, here I am, trying to update quicker!! [Typing so fast her fingers fall off] X_x

Specter: You still have to do your `Homefun' too!

Shadow: AAAAAH THE EVIL HOMEFUN!!! NO! ^^; okay sorry I ate those really yummy school cookies that are so yummy they are a sin to eat and get me really very sugar high!!!!!!!!! HEHEHEEHEHHEHEHEHE!!!

Specter: o_O and she hasn't even done her Homefun yet!!

Shadow: uh...heh? ^-^

Specter: U_U forget it...Homefun sucks compared to writing this story! R&R please!!!

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It was officially spring break 2003 and Yami was currently lying on a large towel sunbathing next to Anzu who was snuggled up next to him. And in truth...he was completely miserable.

It was as everything just blew up in his face. Yugi left him, he just got back his report card to find he had flunked most his subjects, he didn't enjoy the company of his friends...just everything was bad.

And he couldn't even succeed in getting a tan! What was the deal?!

//I must admit, the gods must certainly find pleasure in torturing me// he thought as he scooted himself slightly away from the brunette girl huddled close to him.

The spirit sighed and sat up, unable to find a comfortable position and knowing his tan was being denied of him. Walking over to the water's shore, he tentatively placed his big toe in the test the temperature. It was pretty cool, but not cold. Refreshing would be more of an appropriate term of description for it.

"Seto don't splash me!" a cheery voice yelled, followed by a shrill giggle and the sound of a body falling into the soft ocean waves.

"Aw but Koibito, you look all sexy when your trying to dodge water bombs," a deeper voice replied. A giggle ensued this remark as well and splashing was heard once more.

The puzzle spirit turned to his right to see a certain CEO and his hikari laughing and playing in the water. A mental knife full of guilt and jealousy stabbed at his heart.

//Is that how we used to be, Hikari? Did I make you laugh like he does now? Did we play together in such a carefree manner? Did I ever call you Koibito? Did I ever get the chance? Before I became this-this _monster_...did I hold you like he does? Did I comfort you in a way more appealing than him? Did-did I ever love you like you deserved to be loved, Hikari? //

He watched as the two continued their water war. Inevitably, Yugi lost. He didn't have the force to dodge Seto's splashes of water and create his own at the same time to throw back at him.

//Did you ever truly love me Hikari, or did your heart belong to another this entire time? Were you trying to conceal your feelings for him by placing them on me like I did with Anzu? Did you try to hide from your love for him? Or did you really want to be with me throughout it all?//

As he carefully eyed Yugi, he noticed the bruises and scars that marred his body; //I did that to you Hikari. I flawed your perfect skin...and I did it out of my own greed. Will you ever be able to forgive me my precious? Will you be able to, if you ever did at all, love me once again? Will you be able to put the past behind us if I could make it up to you right now?//

"Hey Yami, why are you just staring into space?" Anzu asked, having woken up from a light slumber and latched onto his arm.

"I'm just thinking, that's all," he answered, tearing his eyes away from the happy duo that splashed in the beach water not even twelve feet away.

She yawned slightly and rested her head on his shoulder, "well it's kind of creepy, truth be told. Your eyes just went all blank...it was as though you were in sort of a trance." She laughed at the irony in her own statement.

The ex-pharaoh's crimson orbs fell back on Yugi and Seto but he forced them to turn to Anzu's azure irises, "it would appear as that, hm?" He sighed and turned back towards the beach. Once he got to his towel, he gathered his belongings and told his friends goodbye. Then he left, making up some excuse as so the gang would not follow hi back to his home.

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Yugi giggled again as he settled himself comfortably in Seto's limousine. They had just spent a super fun day at the beach and decided to turn in for an early night so they could eat dinner at the mansion and spend time with Mokuba, the brunette's younger brother.

"Little brother, we're back," Seto yelled when they reached the house.

"We're in the kitchen!" was the answer, followed by soft laughter.

//We?// Seto wondered following the sound of his younger sibling's voice.

Yugi followed and gasped as he saw non other than his darker self sitting on one of the barstools in the kitchen talking to the black haired child.

"You...! What the fuck are you doing in my house?!" Seto screeched, pointing accusingly at the puzzle spirit.

Yugi stepped closer to make sure he really saw who he thought he saw, "Yami...here? But...why?" he whispered to himself.

Yami smiled and patted Mokuba on the head before standing up and walking towards his Hikari.

{{Aibou I've missed you...it's been such a short while but I need you back with me}}

Yugi backed away slightly. "No," he whispered.

Yami's raised an eyebrow and extended an arm, brushing in against his soul partner's cheek. He could feel his Aibou was partially lying and that a part of him wanted to go with the spirit. {{No...? But Yugi I need you, I can't last without you by my side again}}

{Why not... you don't have anyone else who is willing to be your bedroom doll?!}

{{Yugi...Koi-}}

Yugi curled his fingers into fists and glared up at Yami, {don't you dare call me that!} A few tears made their way down his cheeks and over Yami's hand. {How can you even say my name and that word in the same sentence?

Seto and Mokuba watched the exchange of expressions between the two spiky-haired boys.

"Big brother what's going on?"

"I don't know. They must be speaking telepathically," the CEO answered.

Mokuba still looked confused, but he shrugged it off and went to the refrigerator to grab a soda.

{{Yugi please just listen to what I have to say!}}

{They're lies! I don't want to listen to your lies!} Yugi screamed inside their mind link.

Yami clamped his hands over his ears as the screech filtered into his head, {{Yugi please I am not lying to you! I love you so much...that is the only reason I was cruel to you! It's the truth I swear to you...I would never lie about my love Yugi.}}

{You love Anzu}

[[No, I don't! Please listen to me Yugi! Yugi please I am begging you!}} By this time Yami was on his knees, arms encircled around Yugi's waist as he cried hard into the petite boy's chest. {{Please listen to me Yugi. I love you so much that it hurts to have you apart from me. When you said you hated me it ripped me apart inside. It brought me back into the darkness...please Yugi I don't want to be in the dark anymore!}}

He clutched Yugi's shirt, thinking if he let go the puzzle holder would disappear. {{Please Yugi...save me from the darkness again. I need your light to chase away my shadows. Please...}} he looked up pleadingly at his Hikari, "please Yugi..."

{No! Leave me alone! Please just go away!}

{{I can't leave without you, Tenshi. I can't survive without you. I need you with me...we are bonded! You can't just leave me alone! I don't want to be without you...I don't want to forget what we had...I don't want to forget you!}}

Yugi tried to blink away his tears but with little luck, "I'm sorry Yami but...I do." He turned slightly and ran down the hallway into the office room.

Yami collapsed on the ground in tears, "Yugi! Yugi don't...please don't leave me," he wailed.

Mokuba, seeing the spirit's torment, rushed over and patted him on the back. The innocent eight-year-old had no idea what had gone on between Yami and Yugi. He just knew that his brother and the short spiky-haired duelist were close. And if Yami was close to Yugi, then he was probably close to Seto too...and so that meant Mokuba liked him right away. (Shadow: is Mokuba eight? Well he is now! ^^;)

"Yami are you alright? I'm sorry about whatever just happened..." Mokuba whispered, continuing to pat the spirit soothingly on the back.

The spirit growled slightly and picked himself up off the ground, smiling at Mokuba before lunging at the elder Kaiba. The black haired youth let out a terrified scream as he watched his brother get slammed to the ground and have his neck enveloped by to hands.

"You bastard..." Yami seethed, tightening his grip on Kaiba's neck. "You twisted son of a bitch. I'll kill you for taking him away from me...I'll kill you with my own two hands!"

"Yami let go of my brother!" Mokuba yelled, slapping the taller teen on the back in effort to get him away from the brunette. Seto gagged underneath Yami, flailing his arms and legs to free him; or at least lesson the force of Yami's grip.

"L-let go!" The CEO managed to breathe out.

Yami's eyes started glowing slightly. (Shadow: @_@ oooooh pretty glowing eyes!) "You took him away from me and manipulated him into loving you instead...The only thing that comforts me, is knowing that you will die under my hands!"

The brunette continued to struggle against Yami while Mokuba continued to yell at Yami and fear for his brother's life.

"Bitch!" Kaiba yelled, rolling over so that Yami was underneath him. "Ah you don't like the turning of tides I see," he sneered as he mimicked what Yami was doing him by choking the spirit. Yami growled loudly and socked the CEO in the stomach.

"You know it the execution sentence to mar the skin of a Pharaoh?" Yami seethed, connecting his fist to Seto's head and rolling them over once again so he was dominating the fight.

"I'm afraid we aren't in Egypt anymore, _oh royal highness_," Kaiba mocked, hitting Yami in the side.

"Bastard!"

"Fucker!"

"Manipulator!"

"Rapist!"

Yami's eyes widened, hurt evident in them as he pulled back just as Seto socked him in the stomach, causing him to go flying into the wood table on the opposite side of the room.

Yami winced as he stood up, nursing his injured stomach whilst glaring at the elder Kaiba. Without another word, he left the mansion.

Once he was home the spirit opened the mind link for a moment, {{Yugi, please forgive me...I still love you.}} Then he closed the link once more.

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Over at the Kaiba Mansion, Yugi's eyes flew open at the thought Yami let filter through his mind.

{I love you too, my darkness} he said before closing the link as well.

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