Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Twisted Love ❯ What am I missing? ( Chapter 1 )

--Rizu here with my very first Yami/Yugi fanfic. I just thought I'd put it up on Mediaminer in case something happens to FanFiction.net…again…anyways, I hope you enjoy it. Read and review, but please base your review on the overall Chapter, or at least try to. I'm 19 years old, my feelings aren't hurt that easily.

Chapter 1 - What am I missing?

The reign of Pharaoh Yami was as peaceful as the Egyptian people had hoped for. Just as his father, the previous Pharaoh, Yami had protected and served his people justly and with a gentle, but firm fist. However, there was something missing. The Pharaoh wanted something, but he did not yet know what that something was.

Pharaoh Yami paced his chambers silently. His dark red cape fluttered from his shoulders like blood-colored wings. The Millennium Puzzle glistened around his neck as he gripped the rope that held it. "Why can't I settle myself? What is wrong with me?"

A knock on his chamber door startled him. Yami stopped pacing and said, "Come in." He did not look at the door as it opened. In stepped one of his priests, Shimon.

"My lord, your court awaits you." Priest Shimon said.

Yami sighed heavily and fiddled with the Millennium Puzzle. He did not mean to make his restlessness so obvious, but he could not help feeling incomplete. Priest Shimon cleared his throat and asked, "Is there, uh, something wrong, my lord? Would you prefer to walk around outside before-?"

"Yes. Perhaps I should, Shimon. Tell the court I will come after a brief walk outside." Yami said and exited the room before Shimon could question him further.

* * *

Traveling towards the city surrounding Pharaoh Yami's palace, was a band of gypsies. Among them was a young boy about the Pharaoh's age. His name was Yugi and people had often said he was Pharaoh's Yami's look alike. Both young men had the same spiky red, black and blonde hair and same eye color. Except Yugi's skin was a lighter tan than the Pharaoh's.

"Grandpa," Yugi said, looking at the old man walking beside him, "will we meet the Pharaoh when we arrive at his city?"

"I don't think so, my boy." Yugi's grandpa said. "Pharaoh Yami is a busy man. I don't believe he'd have time for an audience with a band of gypsies."

Yugi sighed sadly. I just wanted to meet the guy that looks like me, he thought.

* * *

After pacing around outside for several minutes, Pharaoh Yami wore out his unease for the moment. He went inside and sat on his throne to conduct business as usual. But his heart wasn't in his duties as it usually was. High Priest Seto could see this and took his cousin aside to speak with him in private.

"There's nothing wrong with me." the Pharaoh said.

Priest Seto smirked. "What an idiot you are. Trying to hide something from me would like trying to hide grass from a sheep."

Yami said nothing. "I feel as though there's something missing in my life. But I do not know what."

"Ah yes." Priest Seto ran a finger across the eye of his Millennium Rod. "Perhaps your heart aches for a queen?"

The Pharaoh simple stared at his High Priest and cousin. "I'm not sure…"

"Why not get married? I shall find the most beautiful women in all of Egypt for you to choose from, my Pharaoh."

Yami licked his lips. "I…I suppose. All right, I grant you permission to do so."

Priest Seto bowed and left to organize a search. Pharaoh Yami turned and went back to his chambers. He couldn't imagine having a queen. Is that truly what was missing in his life? Love? He loved his people and his kingdom. Was that not the same love he could give to a queen or a queen to him?

Yami grabbed the nearest stone tablet and hurled it across the room in frustration. "What am I missing, dammit?!" He fell on his bed and panted angrily. Absently he reached over to the other side of the bed as though his hand expected to touch something or someone.

Pharaoh Yami sat up and blinked in surprise at the empty bed space next to him. Is Seto right, he thought. Do I really need a queen, a lover? His palms were sweating at the very mention of the word "lover."

That's it then, thought the Pharaoh as his head reached the pillow. I do need someone in my life. I need someone to share this bed with.

* * *

"We'll be at the Pharaoh's city by tomorrow." Yugi's grandpa said to the band of gypsies as the sun started to set. Yugi was proud of his grandpa for leading them bravely through the hotness of the desert and the dangers of the sandstorms. He helped everybody put up tents and gave out water and food.

Yugi's grandpa smiled. "My grandson will make a fine leader someday." He sat down and started eating with the rest of his people.

As night began to fall, the gypsies began to celebrate the new life that awaited them in the keep of the Pharaoh's protection. They sang and danced and Yugi watched. He wasn't much of a dancer or a singer. One of the girls was very beautiful and wrapped her silken scarf around Yugi's neck and kissed him, trying to dig her tongue into his mouth. Yugi pulled free of her and fell over backwards. A few people laughed as the dancing girl waved bashfully at Yugi before continuing her dance.

Angry and embarrassed, Yugi went to his tent and curled up on his blankets. "Damn, this is why I hate girls. They think I like that sort of thing." He spit in the sand and threw a blanket over his body. "Grandpa says I should settle down someday, but-"

"Gypsies!" said a voice from outside. Yugi realized the celebration had stopped and he came out his tent in time to see a handful of royal guards and the High Priest Seto among them. The High Priest said, "The Pharaoh wants to take a wife. We require the most beautiful girls to accompany us to the palace so that the Pharaoh may choose one to wed."

The girls whispered to each other excitedly. The High Priest chose three of the five young girls in the band. One of them was the dancing girl that kissed Yugi. She held onto him and said, "May my brother come too?"

"Brother?" Priest Seto stared at Yugi. "Why does he oddly resemble the Pharaoh?"

Yugi shrugged. "I just do, I guess." He tried to pull free of the girl, but she didn't let go.

Yugi's grandpa stepped forward and bowed low to the High Priest. "My lord, forgive the girl's outburst. He is not her brother, but my grandson. He will be our leader should anything happen to me. I request that my son accompany the girls to make sure nothing happens to them."

Priest Seto looked from the old gypsy leader to Yugi to the girl and back to Yugi. "Are you willing to journey with us?"

If it means seeing how much alike the Pharaoh is to me, thought Yugi, then of course! "Yes my lord." he said aloud.

The High Priest did not look at all pleased, but he turned to the three girls he'd picked out and said, "Women, collect what you need and let's move. That goes for you as well, young gypsy leader."

Yugi frowned as Priest Seto turned and mounted his horse. Yugi wrapped up some preserves in his blankets as well as a golden bracelet with rubies sparkling around it. His grandpa had given it to him saying, "When you find the one you love with all your heart, give them that bracelet. They will be your life companion forever."

"Maybe I'll find that special person." Yugi whispered as he felt his tent and followed the High Priest and the gypsy girls away from the band. Yugi looked over his shoulder to see his grandpa smiling and waving at him. Yugi waved back, hoping he'd see his family again someday.

"I feel so incomplete." Yugi whispered to himself. "Why do I feel this way?" He pulled out the golden bracelet and slipped it around his wrist. "I have to find the one destined to wear this bracelet…and my heart…"