Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ You Don't Want This ❯ Yami/Hikari's Trust ( Chapter 4 )

Yami/Hikari's Trust

A few days later, Yugi and Yami decided to go hand out at the mall. Both boys were very happy to be around each other and it also seemed as if Yugi was feeling a little better about Yami and didn't crows around him so much like when he first came back, but he was still a little skittish sometimes when he was gone for a long time.

As they were walking passed the various shops they spotted Joey and the others standing around and talking with each other. Yami was about to suggest they go over when he noticed Yugi had gotten a weird look in his eyes as he stared, almost hatefully if not completely, at them.

"Yugi, are you okay?" Yami asked as he turned around to face him.

"Those guys and me don't talk with each other much these days." He explained as he looked away from the small group.

`That's weird; those guys were always close before. Maybe things really have changed.' Yami just shrugged. "I'll be back in a minute then. I'm going to go say hello."

Yugi reluctantly let him go. Yami got the feeling he wasn't being told the complete truth.

`Might has well let him go. I don't want him getting curious just by not letting him go say hello. Besides, maybe they won't tell him.' Yugi thought as he watched Yami walk towards them.

As Yami made his way over, Bakura was the first to see him, and thinking it was Yugi, was about to say something to the others. But then he noticed the extra spikes of blonde and piercing crimson eyes.

He was very surprised to see the old Pharaoh, but waved a hello.

"Hey, Yami! Where've ya been hidin?" Joey almost yelled as he slapped Yami across the back playfully.

"No where much. Just around, but I'd rather not talk about it." He answered as he looked down at his feet.

"Hey, that's okay bud. You don't have to tell us if you don't want to. We completely understand, right guys?" Tristen smiled.

Everyone nodded and Yami felt a little better.

"So what've you guys been up to then?" Yami questioned.

"Nothing much, just hanging practically. Getting through school …" Joey started.

"Joey, you don't even do your homework. I'd say you're failing school rather than getting through it like the rest of us." Malik laughed jokingly.

The blonde sulked as he pretended to pout from the comment.

"Same old Joey. How about the rest of you? Doing good?"

"Yeah, but that's not the best part. I have a …" Tea started.

"A boyfriend!" Joey and Tristen screeched in girly like voices.

Tea sneered at them as Yami and the others laughed.

"She's only been reminding us every chance she gets." Marik commented. "Hey, isn't that him over there right now?" He pointed to a guy in the crowd; Yami didn't pay attention to whom.

"Oh, it is!" Tea squealed happily. "See you later, guys." She said turning away. "Hey Robert!"

"So when did you get back, Yami?" Ryou asked, finally speaking up.

"A few days ago. I met up with Yugi and …" Yami stopped in mid-sentence as he immediately noticed the change of expressions in his friends' faces and eyes.

Everyone seemed to get a bit angry and Yami didn't know why.

"What's wrong guys?"

"So I guess you haven't found out yet?" Joey spat out.

Yami looked at him, confused out of his mind.

"About his little secret and new attitude that he's got." The blonde added.

Yami was completely confused by this point. "What do you guys mean? Yugi isn't hiding anything from me, is he?"

"Boy, if you don't know what he's doing then he's hiding more than you think he is." Bakura frowned.

"Yeah. Yami, he' …"

"Yami?" A soft voice entered the spirit's ears.

Everyone looked behind the dark one to see his light.

Malik quickly leaned down and whispered to Yami that he should watch Yugi carefully.

He didn't get to finish nor let Yami ask what that meant because Yugi started pulling on his jacket with worried eyes.

"Yami, please?" Yugi asked with an innocent voice.

Yami nodded and he waved to the others with promising eyes saying he'd watch him and maybe see them later.

On the way home the two holders of the Millennium Puzzle began to get hungry so they stopped at a burger place.

The first thing Yami noticed was that Yugi, who barely ate much when he was with him two years ago, ate a lot more than he usually did. He shrugged it off as another one of those things that had changed with his light.

"Hikari, you seem quite hungry today." He pointed out.

Yugi looked up at him and smiled before going back to his third burger.

Yami just smiled back at him as he occasionally took sips from his soda. `I'm glad that I'm back. And I'm glad that Yugi wasn't mad at me. It feels so right to call him my hikari and aibou again. I'd hate it; I'd hate myself if he didn't want me to call him such things.' The spirit thought.

When they got home Yugi excused himself from Yami and released his arm as he went to the bathroom upstairs. The dark one waited for his partner in the game shop.

The small door's bell rang and Yami turned to see whom it was only to find Joey and the rest of the gang with him.

"Hey, guys. What brings you here?" Yami smiled before his eyes widened a bit at the scene before him.

Bakura's arm was around Ryou's waist and the light was leaning into him comfortably. Marik also had his arm around Malik's shoulders quite possessively before loosening to death grip to see no one else was in the game shop. Yami could easily guess that the four had gotten together and he felt a pang of sadness and jealousy towards the two couples at their good fortuned.

"Say Yami, is Yugi around?" Ryou asked with the arm still wrapped tightly around his waist.

"Yeah, he's in the bathroom, but he'll be out in a minute if you wanted to talk to him." He answered.

Everyone got an uncomfortable look on their faces as all the pairs of eyes shifted to the stairs before coming back down.

Marik who removed his arm from his light's shoulders. "I'll tell him."

`That's weird; they're all so serious. Even Joey and Tristen and those guys are impossible to get serious. I wonder what's up; especially with Joey and what he said at the mall earlier.' Yami thought as he remembered what the blonde had said about `Yugi's secret and new attitude'.

Yugi, who wan just coming downstairs, heard this and ran the rest of the way downstairs and hid partially behind Yami cutely and asked in a seemingly excited and curious voice, "What do you want to tell Yami, Marik?" His eyes showed otherwise as everyone but Yami saw the glare he was giving them.

"It's nothing important really. We were only messing around with him." Marik quickly answered.

Yami was about to question them when Tristen piped up. "We have to get going now. Maybe we'll talk some other time."

The spirit nodded their farewell as they left while Yugi only growled lightly at them.

Yami sighed and turned around, grabbing Yugi's shoulders. "Tell me Yugi; tell me with yami and hikari's trust what happened between you guys. You used to be so close with each other and now you're like this. Please tell me why." He ordered.

Yugi only backed away from the small grasp, knowing Yami wouldn't hold him there to tightly, and looked away angrily.

Before he knew what he was doing he was yelling at his darker half.

"Don't you start about a yami and hikari's trust, Yami! You don't even have the nerve with you running off and not even telling me! And on my birthday nonetheless you jerk! And I actually went out and looked for you! I yelled at those creeps that just left because they thought we should've just given up on the second day thinking that you didn't want to be found! And when I did find you what did you do, Yami? Tell me what you did!"

Yami was stunned to say the least as he found his feet and the tiled floor very interesting.

"I walked away." He answered quietly, but truthfully.

"You walked away! From me after begging you that I wanted you back! I can't believe I wasted all those years on YOU!! You're nothing but a traitor and I want you out Yami! I want you out and I hope to Kami I NEVER see you AGAIN!"

Yami was taken aback by the outburst as it got greater and louder. IT hurt him like never before at those words, knowing them to be the absolute truth. That's what he hated about it. He still hadn't even gotten over what he had done to his light and hearing this only brought back his pain and back it came ten fold.

He looked down at his feet and let the tears fall, knowing it wouldn't matter if he was strong for Yugi or not since it was obvious the boy hated him now and hadn't really forgiven him for leaving like he had said.

`He lied.' Yami faced helplessly as the two words kept repeating in his mind. `He lied … He lied … He lied …'

"You're right." He whispered to the angry boy in front of him. "You're right and always was. I am and always will be sorry for what I did to you. I'll never forgive myself for it either."

He then turned around and ran out of the shop, never turning around and not even knowing where he was going to go. But if had turned around he would've seen Yugi's own tears as the leaked uncontrollably from his eyes.

"You don't need to be sorry, Yami. I am … I am so sorry. I didn't mean it; please come back. Don't leave me … all alone … like this. Don't go … like my friends … did …" He whimpered helplessly to the deaf ears quickly retreating from the shop, just like he wanted for no reason.

He curled himself into a ball and cried for Yami to come back. That he was sorry and hadn't meant a word of it. He didn't want Yami to leave him and abandon him like his friends had only weeks before he returned to him.

But if he had he would've seen Yugi's own tears and his cries that he was sorry and he hadn't meant it. He curled up into a ball and whispered in a hoarse voice because of his tears that he needed Yami with him and he didn't want him to go away and abandon him again like before and like his friends had weeks before.