Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Proliferation of the Lotus Flower. ❯ Chapter 16 ( Chapter 16 )

# He woke feeling really… tired actually. The sunlight piercing into his eyes didn’t help his desire to roll back over, but if the sun was up, he knew his duty was to be up too. His body felt clammy and silky, an unusual feeling. He groaned and turned on his back.   This was not a good idea. Sharp pain jabbed up his spine originating from his ass. He bit down the pain and winced. Was something even supposed to go in there? In the heat of the moment he hadn’t cared much, but Yugi doubted some of the stuff they’d done last night. In fact he wondered if Yami didn’t have some ulterior motives.   Yugi turned his head; Yami was fast asleep, snoring softly, actually. Yugi nudged him with an elbow. “Good morning.”   Yami groaned and rolled over so Yugi nudged his captor harder. “I said good morning.”   “Go crawl down some hole and die. ‘Tis still morning.” Yami mumbled and buried his face into his pillow.   Yugi giggled softly and slowly sat up, he bit back the pain the movement caused and threw the blankets off the pirate.   “Cold!” Yami grunted.   “Morning.” Yugi imitated.   “Damnit! No! I’m not waking up!”   “Please? I’m in a little bit of pain…”   “Put some ice on it.”   “Well… I’d love to… but… it’s not a normal place to be hurt.” Yugi spoke delicately.   Yami grunted.   They sat there in silence for a while until Yugi was finally rewarded with a wine colored eye opening and blinking dozily at him. “Urg… find Anzu and tell her to give you some healing lubricant. I’ll put it on for you.”   “Okay!” Yugi smiled brightly, despite the fact that he was still tired and climbed over Yami to get out of the bed. The ship barely swayed in this place and sometimes Yugi forgot he was on a wooden vessel in a deep, dark sea.   The prince stretched as much as his body was able to once he was off the bed and opened Yami’s clothing chest, rummaged until he found some dark clothing and began dressing. He glanced over his shoulder and found Yami watching him, a small blush covered his features and Yugi shrugged his shoulders, into the vest he’d nabbed. He wasn’t embarrassed, he told himself. Yami and he were best friends now and after last night, he didn’t think he should worry about his pure body being seen by a commoner. Yami was an exception now.   Yugi went for the door without his usual bound, internally he was wincing; it wasn’t easy to walk.   The skeleton crew were working outside, Yugi had gotten used to people not being up until later in the day, it was weird and unusual, but it seemed to be the thing on the ship. Yugi waved to the galley workers, they were eating their morning gruel. Thinking about it, Yugi was a bit puckish himself, lucky Anzu was the cook as well as the healer.   “Ye’re lookin’ very relaxed, kido.” Jounouchi’s voice called from the crows-nest. His voice was soon followed by the mage who slipped over the railings and caught the nearest riggings with ease. Sometimes Yugi wondered if Jounouchi didn’t use magic to move the way he did.   “That’s because Yami and I… erm…. I slept good. Anzu’s in the kitchens, right?” Yugi covered his mouth, he’d almost blurted out the most sacred of secrets!   Jounouchi was grinning when he finally landed on the deck. “Ya’ slept good, eh? Looks like it too.”  He leaned forward and pulled Yugi’s ear. “You’ve got a bite-mark.”   Heat raced up Yugi’s face and the small prince hurriedly side-stepped Jounouchi and trotted down into the kitchens. Stupid observant people!   #   Cobalt eyes fluttered open slowly, there was a reason why he was awake, he knew it, but he couldn’t quite… oh, the bed was empty.   “Stupid jumpy human.” Seto grumbled and rolled over.   “Stupid stuck-up elf.” Came a reply from a few meters away.   Seto grunted and rolled back over, ears flicking at the sides of his head. “Sometimes I’d swear your hearing was as good as mine.”   “It probably is. Are ya’ sleepin’ in t’day?”   “…no, I guess not.”   “Well… just ‘cause it’ll make ya’ all hot un’er da’ collar, ya’ should know… yer’ lil’ child has a hickey on ‘is ear.” Jou teased.   Seto grunted and yawned he still hadn’t glanced at the human. “Pull the other one. That captain of yours was out of commission last I heard.”   “I forgot ta’ mention he woke up last night? How could dat’ have slipped my mind?” Seto could hear the human slap his cheek in mock horror. “No, really, how? I was goin’ ta’ rub it in dat’ dere’s’ only one bed in da’ capt’n’s cabin…”   “Quit it, human.”   “Well, ye’ can ask Anzu if she did some healin’ ‘or Yami last night. In fact, Yugi was limpin’ in her direction dis’ mornin’, probably after some healing lube…”   “The prince… why… oh, stop bullshitting or I’ll give you something to really shut you up.” Seto threw his pillow at the antagonist and sat up. His left ear twitched and the Elf pushed it in, sending a rush of sound back to him. That’s why he’d been having tunnel hearing.   “A’right, don’t believe me. just wait till ya’ see ‘im yourself.” Jounouchi backed out of the room, leaving the grumbling Elf to get dressed on his own. Not that Seto needed the little mage around to help him get dressed. No, certainly not. Especially since the human was so abstinent about watching him dress. Pervert; Seto certainly didn’t get off on it.   nope.   He slipped into the clothing Jounouchi had magicked for him and waited for it to adjust to his posture before he started putting his armor on. He didn’t like what the human had been hinting at. Okay, he didn’t like it that he almost actually believed the evil little conjuror. Jou had made a few comments that Seto had let get to him before, and so he figured that this was just like those other times. Nothing to really alarm about, just some attempt to get him flustered and infuriated.   No pirate would be stupid enough to take advantage of a crown prince… right? Of course not.   But then, Yami was a scary sort of pirate. Very… pirate-y.   Seto shook his head, strapping his sword to his belt. See, now he was letting Jounouchi get to him. There was nothing to fear.   But then, Yugi was such an innocent little creature. Very vulnerable.   The Elf ran a brush through his hair, noticing that his hair had grown a little, it needed to be cut.   But then, they’d been sleeping in the same cabin for almost a week now and…things happened.   Growling Seto stepped outside. Stupid human, making him paranoid, making his brain bleeeeeeddddd.   #   Yugi was leaving Anzu’s kitchen when he almost ran into the captain of his bodyguards. It was the Elf’s reflexes the stopped him falling flat on his behind. For which he was fairly thankful, considering he was already fairly sore in that area.   “Good morning, Seto.” The prince greeted, motioning the Elf to rise after Seto gave him a bow.   “Good morning, Your Highness.” The Elf paused, cobalt eyes sweeping over Yugi’s form in an inspective manner. “What are you doing down here… visiting the healer?”   Yugi turned pink and stuttered. “Just getting some… something for the captain… the pain is bad… I mean; the pain he’s in… why are you so interested? It’s nothing, nothing at all. Nothing important! Of course not. Not like I’m making friends. No. Don’t worry about it. Don’t have any friends at all. Nope. None.”   Yugi pushed past his guard before Seto could say anything, he came up short when the Elf placed a hand on his arm. “Yugi… Your Highness… be careful who you trust, there are a lot of unscrupulous people in this world. Especially aboard a pirate ship…”   Yugi nodded silently and pushed past him. He chose not to reply to that. Of course, it was Seto’s job to sway him away from having any friends.   Everyone else that had been captured was actually getting along with their conditions except Seto, the Elf was steadfast on his stance of being against anyone not having a horrible time. Strange enough that they were having a good time, but stranger still that someone was objecting to it at all. Would the Elf prefer them to all be tortured and disfigured horribly?   Yugi shook his head. He was finally getting a taste of the world, and he realized that he liked it, and Seto, of all people was trying to stop him from enjoying himself? how silly!     ~ To be Continued…     Sweet notes: Ack, sorry about the short chapter. I’m sort of losing interest in this one, I already know how it’s going to end and I don’t really like it. It’s a very melancholy story for me. >_<; *stupid author minds and knowing where things end, what happened to the days where I let the characters write it themselves*   Yugi: Hey! Don’t blame us, it was a crappy story to begin with!   Yami: Yeah!   Sweets: You’re telling me this NOW? Dude, why not… Oh, I dunno, a fuckin’ WHILE ago?   Seto: Because… ummm….because we’re the rulers of this universe and what we say is what is and what shall be.   Sweets: bad character! *whaps him* bad! Bad!   Seto: @_@;   Jou: Hey! We need him alive for immortals!   Sweets: Do not!   Jou: Do too!   Sweets: Not!   Jou: too!   Malik: Uhh, Jou, he’s a vampire in immortals… he’s sort of already dead.   Jou: Bad evil dude! *whaps* bad!   Malik: #_#;   Sweets: Hey! I need him alive for….. oh… no, don’t worry, he’s not a main character in anything.   Marik: Actually I’ve been meaning to bring that up with you… about him… and ME…. not being main characters…. In ANYTHING.   Sweets: Oh, look at the time *checks her wrist* gotta go… gotta dash, you know how it is…*runs for it*   Malik:…. SWEETS!!! GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!   Reviews minna-san?                   & nbsp;