Hi! This is just a two-shot I'm posting to help me get out of a funk I'm having. I have some other stories I should be updating that I can't because I've lost my inspiration. Please leave constructive criticism! (Also, in this story, Yami/Atem won the ceremonial duel, was granted his own body, and lives with Yugi.)
"Anzu! Do us all a favor, and just shut the hell up! Okay? NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR YOU SPEAK!" Atem's voice roared over everyone else's. They all froze except for Anzu- whose body shook from holding back violent sobs. At the realization of what he'd just said, Atem felt horrible, but he couldn't just back out of what he said. He couldn't take something like that back. So he stood his ground and made it look like he had no regrets whatsoever regarding what he'd just said. When on the inside, he was breaking just as much as Anzu.
"F-Fine, At-tem... I didn't know you felt that way," Anzu's broken voice said as she fled the game shop. Jonouchi and Honda ran after the girl, calling insults back over their shoulders to the ex-Pharaoh. Atem felt worse as the seconds passed by. What happened next is what really made his want to cry. Yugi, his light, his other half, opened his mouth to say something, hopefully something reassuring. But instead closed his lips, shook his head, and silently left the room with the exception of the noise the chain on his pants made as he walked away.
Atem really needed to hear what his hikari would've said. But even his shorter twin wouldn't speak to him. He ran up the stairs, all the way up to his room and flopped face-down on his bed. He wanted to cry, but he just couldn't. He couldn't let the tears fall. Because he really didn't have any. He wasn't sad he was angry. Angry at himself for letting the prideful, arrogant, romantically impaired Pharaoh of God-knows-how-many-millennium-ago still dictate what he did and said in today's modern age. Where there was no need for a Pharaoh.
And there was no need for him to hide.
Suddenly there was a knock on his bedroom door. Glancing at the digital clock in his room he noted that it was already 6pm. He'd been there much longer than he thought. I guess time flys when you're anguishing, he though. Opening the door, he found his light, looking marginally less hateful than before.
"Why'd you say that, Yami?" Yugi asked after some time. "I... I don't know, Aibou?" the taller responded, stepping aside to let the younger know that he was welcome into the room. Yugi walked in and Yami closed the door. They both sat on his bed, before Yugi spoke up again. "Yes, you do."
Yami sighed. He felt like he did and he didn't. He sort of knew why. But when he went to say his reasons aloud they didn't make any sense! "Because I love her," he finally admitted, and thought about stopping there. But maybe Yugi could help him. Maybe if he said the rest, Yugi could help him make sense of the mess of thoughts he had. "But it isn't right. Eventually, one day, I'll have to leave Aibou and-"
"But you don't have to leave now!" the shorter boy interrupted and stood. "You're not leaving today and I'm pretty sure you're not leaving tomorrow. Hell, I'll make a stretch and say you're probably not leaving next week. And neither is Anzu. And you both clearly care for each other. At least to me it's clear. So this 'I hate you' facade you'be been putting on since the ceremonial duel hasn't fooled everyone."
"Yugi..." Atem was speechless. Never had he heard Yugi be so direct. But he wasn't wrong. Yami had to apologize and so after Anzu. He had to pursue her until there was nothing left, until she was his and only his. But now there was something getting in the way of that...
"But Yugi... aren't you...?" Yami couldn't get those words out either. He really needed to work on his speech. Nonetheless, Yugi giggled and pulled the taller into a tight hug. "I'm happy you're being so considerate of me, Yami. Especially now. But no, I'm not into Anzu anymore. In case you haven't noticed, I've been interested in a more... masculine audience lately," the boy admitted, looking up at his darker half. "Heh... I do my best to leave those parts of your mind alone," Yami told him. Yugi smiled and thanked him for leaving him some sort of privacy, seeing as they shared a mind and therefore shared thoughts as well.
They both smiled wider as Yugi let go of Yami and walked to the door. "Anyway, the real reason I came up to get you is because dinner was ready," Yugi told him as he made his way downstairs, his empty stomach becoming more of an issue.
"I'll be down in a minute!" Yami called, felling better to some degree.
A/N: There's only one other chapter to this. I'll post it tomorrow. (If you leave a review, could you please tell me if you prefer when people use the character's Japanese or English/American names?) Thanks!