Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Lover's Duel ❯ That's How He's Felt ( Chapter 16 )

That's How He's Felt

`Please don't let anything bad happen.' Yami thought as he ran through the halls, a foreboding feeling growing in the pit of his stomach and he didn't like what he was feeling. `Something bad is going to happen. I have to find Yugi!'

Yami ran down the stairs taking two at time to the dungeons and flung open the door to the game room. As he ran inside he saw his Dark Magician standing in front of a portal that looked a oval shaped black hole, worry was the only thing laced as emotion in the mage's eyes.

"It's Yugi." The purple-clad magician simply stated as he gestured for Yami to follow quickly.

The Pharaoh did so and stepped through the portal and into the Shadow Realm. The mage motioned for Yami to follow and it felt like hours before they stopped to see Yugi tied to a wall, head down, and surrounded by three Blue Eyes White Dragons. The Celtic Guardian was there as well, blood coming down his face from a deep slash in his right cheek.

Yami was furious that these monsters would dare take Yugi from him. It was then he noticed Change of Heart lying unconscious at Bakura's feet. On the other side of him Malik was holding the Witty Phantom as he tried to soothe the pain he was feeling.

The Dark Magician threw an attack at the blue dragons and went on with a large battle between them. After large gashes were given and blood was thrown in puddles on the floor, one of the dragons began laughing.

Yami growled. `How dare he laugh, my Dark Magician is one of the strongest monsters around.' "What do you have to laugh about? You find this funny, do you? Release Yugi at once!"

The dragons huffed and laughed some more before the dragon on the right smirk sadistically. "

"How do you know you Yugi doesn't wished to be brought here to die?' He responded simply.

Yami's crimson eyes widened, "What are you talking about? Why would Yugi wish for something such as this?"

The dragons laughed at him once more, snickering things like `he's so oblivious to the obvious' and `and he claims he loves this boy yet he doesn't know what he thinks in that pretty head of his'.

The middle dragon now stepped forward and tossed his head before answering, his blue eyes shining evilly with each word spoken. "You Yugi's been wishing it for a long time, your highness." He said spitting out the last word with hate and disgust. "Ever since your little one felt as though the one that supposed to love him was neglecting him. Seems like he's not so little if he has big wishes."

Yami glanced at Yugi before looking back at the three large beasts before him; the Dark Magician levitated right next to him. "I love Yugi and would never neglect him. I couldn't help it if I had business to attend to and didn't wish for him to such gruesome things. Isn't that what Celtic Guardian was for, to keep him company and make it less lonesome for him?"

"But he doesn't love the elf like he does you. He gave his heart to you and you ignored him, what kind of lover are you?" Yami growled loudly as he listened to the insults being thrown. "The Guardian even tried warning you, even if his intentions weren't meant to help you but keep you thrown off."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"But you didn't listen much, we take it, considering his wishes continued to be pleaded. To take him away from this world so he wouldn't burden anyone any further." They continued, ignoring his question.

"For the past weeks he's been wishing for this death since he no longer felt needed and wanted, but a burden and a pain; no longer loved by the one he gave his heart and life to. What did you do with that gift, I ask. You left it to think these horrible things and now we're here to give it to him."

Yami let the tears come, not caring that anyone saw. He was broken and he cursed himself for letting things carry on this far. He should've noticed the change, but he didn't. He wasn't around Yugi enough to notice anymore and Celtic did try to warn him, even though he wasn't sure about the other thing the dragons told him about his reason of chasing him away.

The dragons turned their white heads at the shuffling noise coming from the boy before violet eyes slowly opened.

Yami gasped at the sight. Yugi's eyes were red from crying, the usual cheerful and bright violet was now nothing more than a little lighter than what was considered black.

"We believe it is to be done quick. It would've been done by now if someone had not so rudely interrupted." The left dragon snorted quietly, but loud enough for Yami to hear.

The three dragons laughed at the look on Yami's face and decided it would be fun to stall things a bit longer.

"I'm sure you'd like it if you could see just how much turmoil you put your poor lover through wouldn't you. So you can spend the rest of your pathetic days wallowing in self pity and cursing yourself for what you yourself made you lose." The middle dragon stated smugly.

The three monsters' eyes flashed quickly before Yami was covered in a bright, white light. When he could open his eyes again he noticed he was back in his chambers. By the window was Yugi with his head down, looking out over Egypt from his perch.

Yami walked over and looked at him sadly. He knew this was an illusion made by the dragons, so he knew that Yugi couldn't see him. If he could though, Yami would make sure this never happened.

Tears were making silent trails down Yugi's cheeks and his eyes were slightly red and puffy from crying helplessly for so long.

Another brief flash and Yami found Yugi was once more in his room. Yugi was sitting on the floor with some toys Yami had gotten for him a while back. There were a few blocks scattered around the boy, but the teen was only interested in what he was holding in his hands. It was a gold box with the mark of the Pharaoh on the front and lid. Yugi's fingers were lazily making patterns over the lid of the box before he opened it and took out a few of the cards inside.

Yami already knew the box the minute he saw. He didn't only have the Dark Magician as a monster, but a lot. He kept the Dark Magician's card with his at all times since he was his first monster and good friend, the other cards he placed neatly inside the gold box Yugi was looking through.

Yugi looked through the cards as he cried to himself. He was looking through the cards muttering silent nothings to himself. His head turned to look at the door, hope filling his eyes as it started to open. His face fell though and he turned back to the cards when he saw it was nothing more than a servant coming to take his uneaten breakfast away.

`Seto's dragons were right. He was only wanting and waiting for me and didn't care for anybody else.' Yami thought to himself. `Why did I never notice this?'

Another brief flash of white and Yami was met with the final and worst sight so far. Yugi was curled up on the floor close by the door. His eyes were swollen red from crying and sobs racking his body as he mumbled for Yami to come back to him.

`Where's Celtic Guardian in all this? Did he turn him away or not summon for him to come?' Yami thought worriedly as he kneeled next to Yugi watched him sadly.

The last thing Yami heard Yugi mumble to himself before he was transported back to the Shadow Realm was, "Yami, what did I do to make you not want to be around me anymore, what did I do wrong? I don't want to be here anymore… I just want to die"

Yami continued to stare straight ahead even as he was back in the Shadow Realm with the others. His heart had shattered at those words and the way Yugi had said them, so hurtful and scratched from his many cries, made it hurt even worse.

"Now you see what we were trying to tell you. I'm sure you believe us very easily now when we tell that Yugi did wish for this upon himself. All of it just to make you happy, Pharaoh." The dragon on the left spat out the last word.

Yami finally came back to reality at the word and stared at Yugi, his every emotion showing: hurtfulness, sadness, broken reality as his world came crashing down.

"And now you're far too late to save him." The dragons laughed once more.

Off to the side Yami could hear Malik and Bakura growl madly. They were now kneeling on the ground, as they were unable to hold themselves with their injuries they earned before Yami had gotten there.

Once the dragons stopped laughing they turned back to Yugi and fired a Blue Lightening on the boy to end his misery for him.

When the smoke cleared though, it wasn't Yugi who was dead but Yugi undone from his bonds and kneeling on the floor with the Celtic Guardian's head in his lap. Yugi was crying as he kept asking the guardian `why?'

"I wasn't… about to let you get anymore hurt… more than… necessary. You've had that enough… with the way you were… taken… unwillingly from your family… and thrown at the Pharaoh. Then Seto took you away …from him and he raped …you endlessly. He hurt you …and scared you… and scarred your… beautiful skin. I just… couldn't take… it; I don't want… you to get hurt anymore… Master Yugi."

As the elfin warrior started to disappear from the cruel world of the Shadow Realm, Celtic took one more shaky breath and looked at Yugi sadly. "I loved you… Master Yugi… I truly did but… I want you to be happy… with Yami now." He then faded and disappeared from Yugi's lap.

Yugi looked horrified by the sight of his friend by giving his life just to save his own. "NO! Celtic, come back!" He cried loudly.

"Yugi!" Yami called after him and for towards him as he saw the three Blue Lightening attacks coming for him once more.

Yugi looked up and didn't have time to even take in a breath in or even blink as the blue light washed over him in pain and agony. It was the worst thing he'd ever felt in his life. Worse than when Seto raped him and told him terrible things about Yami not wanting him. Worse than when Yami had slapped him. Even more worse than when Seto had threatened to kill Yami.

"Yugi! Yugi, come back!" Yami cried out when the attacks made him disappear from view before blacking out completely.

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Yami woke up once more and looked around the darkened game room in confusing. After a minute realization clicked. "Yugi!" He cried out, remembering that Yugi had died and it was all his fault. `The one I love is gone and there's nothing else in this world left for me. He was my whole world.'

The broken form of the Pharaoh looked over and saw Malik and Bakura, lying unconscious nearby, with their respected monsters next to him, the Dark Magician among them.

Yami cried silently to himself for as long as he could remember before everything suddenly went black.

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"Pharaoh Yami," a loud voice called to the broken king. Yami looked up, his sadness and pain showing clearly in his sorrowful crimson eyes.

"What do you wish for, Pharaoh Yami?" The deep voice asked him.

`What does he mean?' Yami asked himself as he started to think on the question. A minute of pondering on it, Yami realized he'd wanted the same thing even without him knowing all his life: someone to love him and help him change from being the usual kind of ruler who's ruthless and unfair.

"I wish… I wish for my lover back." Yami told him, trying hard to keep his voice from choking as memories of Yugi's death just minutes ago flashed through his mind.

"I cannot give you that, Pharaoh Yami. Your lover's soul is already resting and without a body his soul will have no way of coming back anyway."

Yami fell to the blackened floor, holding his head in his hands trying hard to not make those words mean too much to him, but they did. No matter how much he tried the memories wouldn't go away and the pain and hurt of his life just in one day kept coming back ten fold to him.

After moments of silence the voiced called back to Yami. "There is another way you could be with him though, if you are willing to take it."

"I'll do anything to be with my Yugi again! Please, tell me what I have to do!"

Seven golden items appeared in front of Yugi and he looked at them curiously. "These are the seven mystical items of the sennen that you can use to find your lover once more when the soul is reborn into another body."

Two of the items began to glow and Malik and Bakura's bodies appeared in the dark room.

"Each one of the items has a special gift. The rode is for advice and the ring for heart." Malik and Bakura's bodies also started to glow and their souls were sealed inside one of the two; Malik in the rod and Bakura in the ring.

An upside pyramid then began to glow. "The Sennen Puzzle is for strength for being in the form of a pyramid but since it is upside down it symbolizes hurting strength instead."

Yami nodded and closed his eyes as he felt his own body beginning to glow and his soul being pulled within the puzzle. The last words that fell from his lips before his body dropped to the ground lifeless was, "I love you with everything I have Yugi and I'll come back to you one day."

"Now you must protect Yugi and be with him for as long as he keeps the puzzle."

The puzzle shattered into pieces as the seven-sennen items faded out and separated across the sands of Egypt, hoping to be found by their chosen ones.