Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Lover's Duel ❯ Be With You ( Chapter 5 )

Be With You

The next day Yami woke up to find Yugi still asleep, curled into him just like when they went to sleep last night.

He smiled lovingly at how Yugi always glowed with such innocence, even after he'd lost his innocence last nigh.

Carefully, he climbed off the bed and into the washroom to clean up some. He felt a little soar and felt sorry that Yugi would also be in a bit of pain if he was.

When he walked back into the room while drying his face he looked curiously when he heard a squeak… of pain?

He looked at the bed and watched worriedly as he saw Yugi trying to sit up, but was flinching and his eyes were shut tightly as he did.

Easily enough at realizing what was wrong he immediately felt sorry that Yugi had to go through that pain when he seemed to enjoy the game last night.

He helped Yugi up and finally noticed that Yugi had bled a little last night and carried the boy into the cleaning room and set him down in the warm water.

The small boy enjoyed the warm, scented water against his bare, sore skin as he cuddled up into comfortably.

He stayed still in the bath for what felt like hours and he even started to fall asleep and began to slide further down.

Yami noticed when he saw from the corner of his eye after coming back from staring into space and quickly, but gently so as not to irritate him, pulled Yugi up before he started taking in the water.

He carefully lifted Yugi up and emptied the water before carrying the child-like teen back into the bedroom and laid him down in the bed. He got some clothes out of the large closet and put them on Yugi, mindful of the boy's soreness still, and covered him p with the blankets.

After a few minutes, amethyst eyes open to Yami, who'd been playing with his hair in a soothing manner to get him to sleep more peacefully, and saw the other looking out the window.

He wriggled around and hissed at the slight stinging that pinged in his lower back.

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.

`He even kept his promise just like I trusted him to. It did get better, a lot better. He even warned me it would hurt and it does, but he even tried to get rid of it. How could I regret it with something like that on my mind? It's like I want to keep pleasing him now, just like last night when he smiled at him. Yeah, I'm defiantly going to like this a lot better than I thought I would… an no more tears either!' He thought determinedly.

"I'm… sorry if I had been too rough. I hadn't meant to be."

"It's alright. It had hurt from the start, like you said, but it easily got better since you waited for me and you were very gently too, just like you said too." Yugi said trying to get Yami to cheer up.

Yami could only smile that Yugi had enjoyed it rather than acted like he did, but he didn't know why since he never cared much about anybody if he hadn't known them for a long time.

`It's just confusing. How can I care for someone like this so much when I've only known them for two days?' He asked himself while taking a glance at Yugi.

Looking at Yami, Yugi sat up and ignored the twanging pain he felt as he did. He reach up and hesitantly gave Yami a hug, loosely since he wasn't sure if it was ok with the older just yet.

When the dark king didn't make any move to get away, but moved closer, Yugi tightened his grip and risked a kiss on Yami's arm, since it was the closest bare flesh he could reach from his position.

Hearing a small chuckle from the other, Yugi got bolder and moved closer still so his head could rest comfortably in the taller's lap.

Yami was surprised that Yugi was being so open with him now and not scared, hesitant at times but not scared, about what he was doing. It was more like Yugi made sure he didn't mind what he did before getting more into it, but he knew he couldn't mind since he was just glad that Yugi finally trusted him and wasn't scared as he was before.

After that the two were inseparable. Wherever one would go so would the other, though it more of wherever Yami would go Yugi would follow and be there too.

Whenever Yami sat down he would pull the small boy into his lap and let him snuggle up and get comfortable, daring anybody to say something against it ever though he knew they wouldn't/

There was really only one times when Yami wouldn't allow Yugi to be with him and that was in the main hall while somebody was getting lashes for punishment or any other such for of treatment.

If it was a trial where Yami heard what happened and then would decide the punishment and the prisoner would stay in the dungeons until the next day.

It was rare that the punishment would ever take place at the time unless it was really that severe.

And even when he called the punishment he made it only a little less than what he would've before he met Yugi, but not too much, but he didn't want Yugi becoming frightened again. That's why he would always thoroughly kiss Yugi all over his face after the person was taken away to make up for anything that might've startled him.

Of course he would feel Yugi start to shake as the crimes were called during a trial, especially if they were really bad but not enough to get punishment on the spot. But the boy only snuggle up closer and tried blocking out the words the best he could instead of leaving like Yami would sometimes suggest and wait for him somewhere else.

The two were very happy with each other and Kyra was even opening up to the idea since it was the first time she really saw Yami this happy in such a long time. Malik and Bakura were also happy at the change. It seemed Yami was finally having some well-deserved fun in his life. Even they loved Yugi. He was a ball of light glowing in every room, especially whenever he smiled and was with Yami. Whenever they could they would always play with Yugi and make him laugh, making Yami jealous that he wasn't the one doing it. But it just made Yami all the happier when Yugi came back to him.