Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Shadow of the Past; The Light of the Future ❯ Only One ( Chapter 25 )

Yay! *jumps around happily*

 

B/M: ??? *looks at Atem*

 

Atem: I'm not her babysitter.

 

*hugs them* I love you guys!

 

B/M/A: ??????????????????

 

Bakura: OKAY!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!?

 

I just got a couple reviews and my SJ for March has finally come in! *hugs self* I'm soo happy I could… I could… *starts tearing up*

 

Marik: She's scaring me… *hides behind Bakura*

 

Bakura: Get off of me!

 

Atem: At least she's better then last time.

 

“Talking”

`Thinking'

~Place/Time~

-??? POV-

`la la la' - song(s)

^Flashback^

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Like a shooting star

Across the midnight sky

Wherever you are

You're gonna see me fly

Like a shooting star

Across the midnight sky

Wherever you are

You're gonna see me fly!

 

Across the midnight sky~!

 

Where were you to hold my hand

Do the things that we had planned

Yes, I need you by my side

When things go crazy

 

I just need to know you care

Guaranteed that you'll be there

When I wake up in the night

Will you be my guiding light?

 

I don't care how far

I'll take a plane tonight

Just tell me where you are

And everything's gonna be alright

 

Like a shooting star

Across the midnight sky

Gonna fly

Just to be with you tonight

Like a shooting star

Across the midnight sky

Gonna fly

Just to be with you tonight

 

Ch. 25: Only One

~Modern Day~

Atem woke up, panting. `Gods!' He thought. `How long was I out?' he sat up to find out he was in Yugi's room and looked at the time. `Five o' clock in the damn morning?' He sighed and got out of bed only to stumble a little. “Damn it.” He whispered as he held onto the edge of the desk. “Okay…” He said to himself. “Take one step at a time and go from there.” He slowly and carefully walked from one corner of the room to the next until he can walk normally. His stomach growled and knew that he was allowed to help himself.

 

He headed to the fridge and got himself an apple before he sat down and ate a couple bites before sighing. He got up and headed back to the room and looked through a bunch of pictures until he found one picture and ran out of the shop. `That shop had better be open!' He thought as he ran towards the city.

 

When he went up to a jewelry shop, only to find out that it didn't open for another few hours. “Shit!” He said then sighed and looked at the picture in his hand. It was a small picture of him and Yugi that one summer where they went to the United States and went into one of those small picture booths and the first four was wacky faces, goofy expressions, and laughing. But the last picture was them smiling as if they were in a photo gallery. `I can't believe how stupid I was…' He thought as he started to walk towards the park. `It was right in front of me this whole time… Since the third grade! And I was too stupid and blind to see it…' He looked at the still dark sky as he pondered the same question.

 

“Atem?”

 

He looked over to see Bakura. “Bakura? What are you doing out here?”

 

“Same goes for you.” Bakura said adjusting his scarf. “Aren't you freezing?”

 

“Surprisingly, no…”

 

Bakura sighed. “What's today?”

 

Atem shrugged as the other looked at him.

 

“Don't you remember anything?”

 

“I remember coughing up blood and passing out.”

 

Bakura stayed silent as he mentioned the other to follow. “You've been in a coma for four, maybe five days.”

 

“That long?”

 

Bakura nodded. “You had everyone worried…” The other sighed. “Was it my `past-self'?”

 

“I thought we discussed this?”

 

“It's still haunting me!” Bakura said angrily, but sighed. “Sorry.”

 

“No problem… But would you like to talk about it?”

 

The other sighed. “Why not… but… Answer me this… What the hell were you doing out here?”

 

“I wanted to get a locket to put this picture…” He lifted the small picture up. “So that I will always be reminded how much of a blind idiot I was and know who I love for all this time.”

 

Bakura just looked at the other. “Leave it to the deep minded people to think of something so simple.”

 

“Oh really? And what about you? What did you do to prove both you and Ryou that you love each other?”

 

Bakura readjusted his scarf to cover half his face. “None of your business…”

 

“Come on now! I told you mine!”

 

Bakura was silent for a moment before lifting his wrist. The other blinked and looked at him. “There's a bracelet!” He said looking away.

 

Atem looked and had to swallow his laugh as he saw a silver bracelet with cute, tiny white bunnies going along the wrist. “You must love her a lot to wear this around.” He said calmly.

 

“Of course I do! I can't imagine my life without her!” Bakura said then blushed and looked away once again.

 

Atem nodded and finished looking at the bracelet. “At least you know from the moment you saw her, you were in love…”

 

“Don't give me that Atem.”

 

“It's true! You and Ryou have been together for years now, but I knew Yugi longer then that! And then it's Duke and Tristan, Joey and Seto, Marik and Malik, and Lisa and Moukaba!”

 

“God help them all.”

 

“Yeah, but they all knew they were in love, and I'm the only blind one in the group!”

 

“Well… yeah!”

 

“What?”

 

“You're not only intelligent, cool, determined, stubborn smart-ass in the group, who has many college graduations to break the stock market. You're also the blindest person I've ever met.”

 

“And you didn't tell me?”

 

“We were wai-“

 

“We…?”

 

“The whole gang knows about how blind you are…”

 

“Everyone…”

 

Bakura nodded. “Except Yugi…” The other blinked.

 

“What?”

 

“She's in love with you, but she's blind to see that you're blind because she thinks that you think of her as a little sister and a best friend, only!”

 

Atem was silent then said. “I really screwed things up, didn't I?”

 

“You said it, not me.”

 

Atem chuckled and patted the other's shoulder. “Thanks for talking to me, Bakura.”

 

“You're welcome…” He said. “Now get your hand off of me or loose it.”

 

Atem did and went their separate ways. `Well that went well…' He thought as he sat down on a bench. He shivered, realizing how cold it was outside. He closed his eyes and went back to a vision he just saw recently.

 

^Flashback: Ancient Egypt^

-Atem's POV-

I remembered getting up to see what I/he saw and that was when the strange masked man before he disappeared and then I saw Yugi. I was surprised to see her in that condition, but I was glad she was alright. “These cuts and bruises aren't that bad.” I/He said.

 

“That's not what I meant…” She said as she looked away.

 

I got a small flash of memory when Slifer was defeated which nearly did a number on his/my souls. “But I'm alright now… see… I'm still here…” He said, trying to comfort her. “If you didn't come, I probably would have been dead then… and…”

 

`Smooth idiot...' I thought as she dabbed the cold moist cloth on some of the wounds. `And at the same time, you're right.'

 

“Just don't scare me like that again.” She said then added. “At least let me know before you do.”

 

“I'll try, but I won't guarantee it.”

 

She then started dabbing his/my face.

 

“Even in your condition, you're still amazing…” He said aloud.

 

“Pardon?” She asked.

 

“What?” He said… the moron.

 

“You said something.”

 

“No I didn't…” I shook my head.

 

“Yes you did.”

 

“You're sure it wasn't a trick of the mind?”

 

“No… I'm pretty sure you said something… I believe it's between the lines of `in my condition, I'm still amazing'…”

 

“I was actually talking about you.”

 

They stared at each other. I swear this is a classic move.

 

“I can't lie to you, can I?”

 

“I have the ability to make others guilty for not telling me the truth.”

 

I nodded. `It's true…' “Good ability to have.”

 

“It doesn't work all the time, but it does work.”

 

I wondered about that. `I, not only lied to myself, but to Yugi as well. But why didn't she use that ability for me to realize? Unless… she was waiting for me to figure it out that she loved me and she doesn't want to force anyone…' My thoughts stopped there when I felt on my/his lips. I noticed that everything was completely dark before I felt myself going back and his/my eyes opened to see her, smiling softly and a small blush on her face. He/I went for another kiss and I enjoyed the feeling that I was getting, until I woke up.

^End of Flashback^

 

I sighed as I looked at the picture once more and smiled before kissing the picture and getting up to run back to the jewelry shop once more. `Yugi…' I thought. `I promise, when you come back, I'll take you out on a real date.' I stopped as I watched the sunrise from the ocean horizon. `Our first real date.' The idea was great in my mind as I thought about where would be a great first date spot. I was thinking so much that I missed the shop… by ten blocks. But I laughed, knowing it was going to take more then a locket to carve my feelings for all eternity. It was much deeper then that. Either that or I'm just thinking way too much, as usual.

 

~Later: Normal POV~

Atem got back into the game shop, where Grandpa looked up from his newspaper.

 

“Oh Atem! I see you're up and about.”

 

Atem smiled. “Sorry to have worried you in any way.”

 

“You did give me one heck of a heart attack when you looked like you were going to die.”

 

“I'm sorry about that as well.”

 

Then Grandpa noticed something. “What's that around your neck?” He pointed to the silver heart on a silver chain around his neck, which occupied the Puzzle.

 

Atem smiled. “Just something to show the world I'm taken.”

 

Grandpa blinked, not getting it.

 

“I only belong to Yugi, and no other will take her place.”

 

Grandpa did get that. “Atem… come here for a moment.” The young man did and the old man whacked him with a rolled up newspaper.

 

“Ow!” Atem said. “What was that for?!”

 

“For taking this long to finally come to your senses!”

 

“I guess I deserved that.” Atem said as he recovered.

 

“Well…” Grandpa said as he re-opened his paper. “You know from the time Yugi gets back, you'll be using the guest room.”

 

“I know…”

 

“Then we're in an agreement?”

 

“Sleep in the guest room, leave the door open when I'm in her room with her, and don't do anything to her until she's out of college and married.”

 

“Hold it right there!”

 

“Gone too far?”

 

Grandpa grinned. “With the marriage part, yes.”

 

Atem grinned as well. “I understand, but as I said before, I only belong to her and no one else.”

 

Grandpa looked at him as if debating wheater or not he should trust the young man now. He then smiled. “Your father, god bless his soul, raised you right and you are by far the maturest young man I've seen, even in high school.”

 

“I get that a lot from my teachers.”

 

“I know, I'm your guardian after all.”

 

“So you don't mind if I ask Yugi to be my girlfriend?”

 

Grandpa smiled at him. “I wouldn't mind if you asked her for her hand.”

 

“So you're giving me your blessing this early?”

 

“Only half.”

 

Atem chuckled. “Thank you Grandpa Mouto.”

 

“Not a problem lad… Now stop standing around and get moving with those boxes with the new shipments.”

 

“Yes sir!”

 

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In my dreams I'll always see you soar above the sky

In my heart there'll always be a place for you

For all my life

 

When I think back on the times

And the dreams we left behind

I'll be glad cos I was blessed to get to have you in my life

When I look back on these days

I'll look and see your face

You were right there for me

 

In my dreams I'll always see you soar above the sky

In my heart there'll always be a place for you

For all my life I'll keep a part of you with me

And everywhere I am there you'll be

 

And everywhere I am there you'll be