Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Secrets Can Kill ❯ My Immortal ( Chapter 6 )

Pre: Hiya chicceras!

Yami: You're in a good mood today

Pre: *Grinning* Yep I've finally got my muse back. *Glomps M*

Yugi: *Edging away and whispering out of the side of his mouth* Yami does that mean she's gonna be nice to me now?

Pre: *Grins evilly and releases M* Oh no sweetie I most definitely haven't finished with you yet

*Yugi hides behind Yami who turns to glare at Pre*

Yami: Pretenna I demand you be nice to my Aibou!

Pre: Eck! *Hides behind M*

Yugi: *Small voice* Yami you're scaring me

Yami: *Looks worried and casts one more glare in Pre's direction before turning to hug Yugi* Gomen Hikari

Pre: *Peeping out from behind her muse* Phew I thought he was gonna send me to the shadow realm!

M: *Glaring and crossing her arms* He'd have to get past me first

Pre: *Goes starry eyed* Awww I didn't know you cared!

M: I don't but if you're gone then you won't be able to finish this story which means you won't do mine either

Pre: *Eyes begin to water* You're mean!

M: I know - it's my nature

Pre: *Sniffing* Can someone please do the disclaimer for me?

Yugi: *Wrenching himself from the death grip Yami has him in* Pre! What's wrong?

Pre: *Sniffing and pointing* She's bein' mean to me

Yami: M what have I told you about being nasty to Pre?

M: For Kami's sake can we just do the disclaimer and get on with it? The chicca's don't want to listen to you lot rabbiting on all the time!

Yugi: Meany!

M: Fine I'll do it! Pre doesn't own Yu-gi-oh or Evanescence in fact she doesn't even own the computers this is typed on it's her dads

Pre: *Sniffs* This is S and J this time chicca's it's finally here! Please don't forget to review!

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Seto frowned as he walked down the corridor to his homeroom Jay and Yami flanked on either side of him.

"What's wrong with you two?" Jay asked glancing over at the two silent boys quizzically.

Seto sighed last night he'd had the freakiest dream but it had seemed so real, so life like that he just couldn't seem to get it out of his head.

"Set, love, please listen to us."

Seto glared back at the blond-headed mutt who had just spoken wrenching his arm free from his grasp.

"I don't think so."

"But Kaiba please! What about Mokuba?"

Seto's eyes narrowed disdainfully onto the smaller boy who, underneath his piercing gaze, stepped back behind the blond his shoulders sagging in defeat.

"He doesn't care Yug' he's just too far gone buddy." The blond muttered as he gently pushed the boy towards the other two boys standing behind him.

"It's alright Yugi." The white haired boy whispered as his smaller friend flung his arms around him gripping hold of his shirt as he began to sob softly into it.

"But it's not! It's not Ryou!"

Ryou sighed raising his head to meet the worried eyes of the blond egyptian beside him, who reached out a hand to rub the smaller boys' back comfortingly, before they both returned their gazes to the confrontation still going on in front of them.

"Pathetic." Seto snorted as he watched the two trying to comfort the smaller one.

"Leave him alone." The bigger blond snarled.

Seto raised one delicately sculptured eyebrow at the mutt's threat his lips curving up into a cruel smile.

"Aww there's no need to get your hackles up Jounochi."

Jou snarled stepping forward quickly before anyone had a chance to react.

"I will you get you back." He hissed before crushing their mouths together in a brutal kiss. "My blue-eyed dragon."

"Yo, Set, Seto you in there bro?"

Seto jerked himself back to the present as Jay's voice filtered through the haze surrounding his brain.

"Sorry Jay I was just thinking." He muttered as he reached up to run a hand through his hair.

Jay raised her eyes slightly at that response before glancing over to Yami expecting to see her other friend start teasing the taller boy but instead Yami seemed to be in much the same state as Seto himself.

"What is it with you guys lately?" Jay muttered shaking her head slightly as she gave up talking to them and continued to walk on in silence.

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I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all of my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
Because your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

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Jou sighed as the classroom door flew open and Jay, Yami and Seto marched in. Jay called out a greeting to some of her friends as she made her way to her desk dragging the other two, who were still in a world of their own it seemed, behind her.

If there was one thing that Jou absolutely hated about being older than his friends then this was it. He had to see the object of his affection every single day, day in and day out, without the other boy even knowing that he existed. It near killed him to see his lovers eyes pass over him as though he was just some insignificant speck of dust.

As though suddenly becoming aware that someone was staring at him Jou raised his eyes his breath catching in his throat as he stared into the icy blue eyes that were gazing at him so intently.

'What's going on? Why's he looking at me like that?' Jou thought as Seto turned back around to face the front of the classroom.

'Oh Kami please let him be remembering.' Jou's hand reached into his pocket to clutch desperately at the cards that were hidden there. 'Please.'

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These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

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'Could it be?' Seto thought as he turned back to face the front of the classroom a faint blush fluttering across his cheekbones. 'Could the dream…be real?'

"Seto, oh Kami, Seto it hurts!" Jou whimpered softly looking up into his lovers' face.

"Shh, it's ok Jou, everything's gonna be ok." Seto said softly as he gently kissed away his tears.

"Seto!" Jou screamed as he sat bolt-upright sweet dripping off his shivering frame.

"Shh, I'm here Jou, I'm right here." Seto whispered soothingly as he wrapped his arms around him. "It was just a nightmare Jou, just a nightmare."

"Seto stop!" Jou choked out amidst fits of laughter.

"Nah-huh." Seto shook his head a grin tracing his usually cold features as he continued to tickle the blond.

"Nee-sama!" The voice, shortly followed by a small wild haired tornado, struck a chord deep within the taller boy as he caught the younger one in his arms lifting him up and swinging him around.

"You're back!" The boy exclaimed as Seto put him down before grinning and throwing himself at the blond haired mutt beside him. "I missed you too Jou!"

"And we you Mokuba, and we you." Seto replied as he wrapped his arms lovingly around his family.

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When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

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Jou's hand brushes against the two cards in his pocket as he turns his head to look out of the window. 'I wonder what we'd be doing now if everything had turned out differently.' He thought as he rested his head on his arms the teacher's voice droning away in the background. 'What would've happened if they hadn't turned to the dark? If power hadn't corrupted them all? Would we still be the same - Seto, Mokuba and I? Would we still be a family? What about Malik and Marik, would the two psychos still be perfect for one another or would they still be fighting against the destiny of their upbringing? And Ryou and Bakura, would they still love each other as they once did or would Bakura be back to his abusive ways? Would any of us? What if Yugs' fears are founded what if none of them love us in this lifetime as they did in the last? What if - Kami-sama there are so many what ifs…'

Jou turned his head to stare thoughtfully at the back of Seto's. 'I wonder…Could Yug be right? Are we really ready to face the consequences of our actions? Are they? Can any of us make up for our past mistakes when only one of us is paying for them? One of us… Oh Yug I prey to the gods that you know how sorry we are that that job had to fall to you. If I could've switched places with you I would have all three of us would if we could. Kami I hate to see you in so much pain no matter what pain I feel having to see Seto day in and day out it must be ten times worse for you. Why did you have to be burdened with all of our sins, why Yugi, why did you have to be so innocent?'

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You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
But now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

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Seto glanced down at his notebook as the teacher droned on not even bothering to pretend to be listening, he knew if it was anything important then either Yami, Jay, Bakura or Marik would tell him later. For that matter where were Bakura and Marik? Marik had been acting all secretive since he'd returned from his impromptu walk last night. He'd only came out of his daze when Bakura failed to come down to breakfast this morning and then the two of them had took off together without a word to anyone soon after. It was very un-Marik and Bakura like behaviour. Then again what in hells name was up with Yami? His tri-haired friend seemed to be in a world of his own.

Seto blinked back to the present as the bell signifying the end of lesson rang.

'Oh Kami…' He stared in shock down at his open book and the picture that was sketched there.

It was a dragon - no four dragons. Three of them had majestic piercing blue eyes and seemed to be surrounding the fourth as though protecting it from all outside harm. The fourth dragon wasn't as regal as the others and had shining ruby-red eyes that seemed to stare right into his very soul.

For some reason Seto found his eyes flying to Jou as the words the blond mutt had spoken in his dream came back to haunt him.

"I will you get you back…My blue-eyed dragon."

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These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

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'I wish, oh Kami do I wish that everything was back to the way it used to be.' Jou thought as he stood up and followed the throng of students into the hallway. 'I wish that we were all together again. All of us.'

"We'll always be best friends won't we Jou?" Yugi whispered hoarsely as he stared out over the littered airfield at the setting sun.

"Always Yug, always." Jou replied wiping a stray tear from the smaller boys' cheek. "We'll always be friends no matter where I am or who I'm with I'll never forget you."

"The same for us too." Ryou said as he and Bakura walked up behind them. "It doesn't matter whether we're in Egypt or right here in Domino we'll still be here for you. Right watashi no tenshi?"

Bakura nodded wrapping an arm round his light. "We're just a phone call away."

"Don't forget us Yugi." Malik said as he stepped up next to them followed closely be his yami.

"We might not get to see each other so much anymore but we're still here."

"If you ever want to speak to us then just pick up the phone." Seto put in as slid into place next to Jou. Mokuba, whose hand was clasped firmly in his brothers, reached to take Jou's hand with his free one smiling energetically at Yugi as he did so.

Jou nodded again. "You'll always be my best friend Yug, always, no matter how far apart we are you'll still be in my heart."

Yami smiled sadly at Jou as he wrapped an arm around his aibous' shoulders.

"It's time to go koi." Seto murmured as the now boarding sign flashed above them.

Jou nodded and turned to follow his lover and his brother glancing back one last time at his friends.

"I promise I'll be there if you ever need me Yug just give me the word and I'll come."

'I left everything for you Set. My friends, my family, everything and yet I don't regret it. I wouldn't give those good times we had up for anything.' Jou stopped as he arrived at his locker his mind swirling as he thought. 'Would I have given them up to save my best friend? If I knew then what I know now? If I could've done something would I have? Or would I have given up on that promise? Would I have chosen Seto over Yug?'

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When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

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'Am I going crazy?' Seto thought as he made his way to his locker. 'But everything, the dream, the flashbacks, the picture, even Jou himself seem so - I don't know - right? Like they are mine and belong to me and me alone.'

Seto frowned as he pulled his locker open about to deposit his books inside when something caught his eye.

Lying on top of his neatly stacked pile of books and folders were two playing cards face down.

Seto felt his breath catch in his throat and a roaring sound began to fill his ears as he dropped his books to the floor a shaking hand reaching out to the cards.

The sounds and voices of the other students faded away to nothing as Seto stood their one hand held shakily over the cards. A slight breeze ruffled his hair as it flew past picking up the cards and sending them to join his books on the floor.

'Oh Kami.' Seto thought shock turning his blood to ice as he stared down.

The Blue-Eyed White Dragon and the Red-Eyed Black Dragon glared back up at him.

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I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
That though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

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Jou smiled as he lifted his head his eyes drifting shut as he let the cool breeze wash over him.

So he'd skipped class, so what? He couldn't bare the thought of seeing Seto and not being able to touch him to be with him. Besides the way he was feeling right now he'd jump on him and ravish him and to hell with everyone and everything else!

'So many things have happened up here.' Jou thought as he opened his eyes to stare out over the railing to the city below him.

Reaching into his pocket he caressed the cards there before slowly drawing them out and bringing them up in front of his face. "This was where he gave me these." He whispered softly closing his eyes and nuzzling the cards against his face.

"And this was where you gave me yours mutt." A calm voice behind him broke through the stillness of the morning causing Jou to yelp and swing around to face it's owner.

"I'm not a mutt!" Jou said heatedly before the rest of his sentence sunk in.

Seto smiled softly as he watched Jou's eyes widen realisation flickering across his features.

"Set…?"

"Yes koi?" Seto replied.

"Oh Kami, Set you remember!" Jou exclaimed.

Seto nodded the smile leaving his face. "Yes, yes I remember. I remember everything. Oh god Jou I'm sorry I'm so sorry!"

Jou grinned stepping forward to wrap his arms around the other boy. "It's ok, everything's going to be ok now."

"Is it?" Seto muttered, burying his face in Jou's neck.

"Hai Koibito, Aishiteru-kara." Jou replied. "Besides if I've got you back then the others must be back too."

"But after everything we've put you through, after everything we've done, is that really such a good thing?" Seto asked his voice muffled with held back sobs.

Jou just tightened his hold on his other not bothering to reply as he let the boy cry against him. 'Is it really such a good thing? I don't know… Can remembering the past really save us from the present? Oh Kami I hope so for Yugs' sake as well as our own. But I have you back now my blue-eyed dragon and that's all that matters we can deal with the rest as and when it comes.'

"My blue-eyed dragon." Jou murmured softly. "Mine."

Two pairs of cards drifted softly to the ground, twinkling as the sunlight reflected off of them. Three Blue-Eyed White Dragons surrounded the Red-Eyed Black Dragon. They were together again.

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When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

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Pre: And that's another chappy done!

M: I'm dead on my feet, Can I go now?

Pre: Jeeze you guys are no fun today.

M: Can I go or not?!?

Pre: *Waving hands dismissively* Whatever.

M: *Sighs in exasperation* Fine!

*Stomps off followed quickly by Yami and Yugi*

Yami: We've gotta go too.

Pre: What!?! Wait you guys can't do that how am I supposed to write without any muses…chicca's!?!

Pre: *Stares in shock at her now empty room* Sorry about the wait on this chappy chicca's the next chappy is already done though *Thinks* Actually so is the one after that! Anyway please review -the more reviews the quicker I get the next chappy out *Grins* Doesn't everyone just love to feel appreciated every once in a while? See-ya next time! *Waves and disappears in a puff of purple smoke*

Translations:

Kami…God

Nee-sama…Older/Big Brother

Watashi no tenshi…My Angel

Yami…Dark

Koi…Love

Aibou…Partner

Hai…Yes

Koibito…Lover

Aishiteru-kara…Because I love you