Hi there! Deka-chan here! Starting a new story again! This one is about puzzleshipping too ;D.
Well enjoy and arigato gosaimasu for reading!
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If I'd never met you I wouldn't be here...
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It all started on January 1, 2003. You were there at that party, in that bunny costume, even though you were embarrassed out of your wits. I thought that made it look cuter, a blushing bunny. I saw you, it wasn't love at first sight, but we saw each other, and I knew that I had wanted to get to know you better, not exactly love at first sight, but definitely close. After that, fate took its course and coincidences started happening.
I saw you in class a bit more, but could never catch up to you at the end. I guess you had always been there but I hadn't noticed before, I never paid attention anyway. I started to see you everywhere, the café down the street, the hallways, but I could never seem to catch up to you... Who would've thought that after so much chasing, you would be the one to catch me?
I learned your name: Yugi. 'The most beautiful name in the world', could you believe I'd said that? It made you blush, and I smirked, you were so adorable.
We went on one date, and I knew you were the one.
I couldn't get you off of my mind before, but this was just ridiculous. I called you every day, walked you to every class I could, helped you with anything and everything, I had begun to obsess over you.
After a while, I felt that it was time and I asked you to marry me. I had been so nervous, and the look on your face had been no help, you looked just as nervous as I was. But you said "yes" as soon as you'd gotten your senses together, in fact, you screamed it.
And then came the accident.
I was driving down the highway after a particularly stressful work dinner, it had been raining for the past two days, so the roads were quite slippery. We were arguing, over something stupid I bet. I can't even remember the details. I accidentally swerved off of the rode, and you almost flew through the windshield, thank god for me covering you, or you could've died… I wasn't so lucky.
I've been in a coma since then. I could've died, but I took that risk for you.
So yeah, maybe if I hadn't met you, I wouldn't be here right now, needles in each arm and a respirator attached to my face. But then again I'm not exactly gone yet, and if I hadn't met you, I wouldn't have had the best three years of my life either.
So, while I'm here, feeling just a bit weak, because I thought our relationship could've been a mistake. I wouldn't have my life any other way.
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I sat there next to him, scared and teary-eyed,it had been a year since the accident. His family was going to pull the plug, and I had no say over it, because I wasn't his husband.
I know he's fighting for dear life, and maybe this was a mistake... NO. This couldn't have been a mistake, I wouldn't have had my life any other way. I've been in love with you for four years, I can't bear being away from you so long. I can't believe I let that thought even begin to take a hold of me. Please, Yami wake up...
I grabbed your hand, tightly, I leaned over and kissed you, I hope this isn't the la- wait. Did I just feel your hand move?
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I had felt the darkness creeping up on me. I felt the warmth of something, then another warmth, I think they're on my hand, and my lips...? I went towards the first warmth, I hadn't wanted it to leave, I grasped it, and felt my eyelids start to move.
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"Yami?" I felt my eyes grow wide and I immediately called for a doctor "Doctor! Doctor! Come quickly, please!"
"Yu- gi?"
"Yami," I felt tears come to my eyes "You're okay... Doctor! Come quickly!"
"What, the patient is awake! Nurse!"
"Yes ma'am."
"Inform the patient's immediate family, quickly and check him for any signs of brain damage."
"Yes ma'am."
I panicked, could my sleeping angel be a vegetable? "Brain. Damage. Tests?" I uttered, shakily, my voice cracking at the last word. "Why, is there something wrong with him?! Please tell me there's nothing wrong with him!"
"Relax Mr. Mouto. Just standard procedure, the sooner we finish, the sooner he can go home."
Relief swept over me like a tidal wave, I sighed, and looked at my yami, the nickname I'd given him a while back. He flashed me a tired grin, and I felt another tear come to my eye. "Don't cry, Yugi. She said I'm fine..."
"I know, I'm just so happy."
I got out of the hospital that day. Everyone caught me up on everything. Yugi and I got married the next month.
I can't help but remember that split second when I was in a coma, when I felt like Yugi and I were a mistake, but how could any mistake bring so much joy? So yeah, maybe if I hadn't met him, I wouldn't have been in a coma, I wouldn't have missed my sister's wedding, and my parent's divorce, but if I could change it I wouldn't, because if I hadn't met you, I wouldn't have had the best years of my life.
_-~10 YEARS AFTER WE MET~-_
"Jaden! Hurry or you'll be late for your first day of high school!"
"I'm coming Papa!" Jaden, our adopted son, came bounding down the stairs in his new school uniform. We raised him from a baby, Yami and I. He calls me Papa, and Yami dad, so that we're not confused with the other.
"I wish the world had ended, like the Mayans said." Jaden grumbled.
"Jaden, don't say things like that or I'll confiscate your duel monsters deck including the Winged Kuriboh I got you for your birthday."
"But dad—!"
"No buts Jaden."
"Fine. I'm off to school!"
I sighed, I never would have known how good of a father he was had I lost him... I'm so glad I didn't. I smiled warmly at my Yami.
He raised an eyebrow. "What's gotten you so smiley?"
I smiled wider. "Just the fact that Jaden has the best father ever." I kissed him lightly, and he pulled me into his arms."You know, I've been thinking lately."
"About what?"
"That accident… What I would have done if you had..." I teared up at the thought and buried my face in the warmth of his chest. "It was my fault, I started that idiotic argument, I distracted you from the road, and then you protected me. It was all my fault..."
He sighed "It wasn't your fault, Yugi. Please stop crying and look at me." I lifted my head so I could see him, he wiped away a stray tear. "I'm fine now anyway so what's the problem? Why do you feel guilt for something that happened in the past and didn't even affect us?"
"It's the fact that it didn't affect us is what makes me feel even guiltier, because had it not happened, we would have had the same life with less trauma." I sniffed "Plus," I rolled up his shirt sleeve and pulled his arm to his face "You still have the scars..."
He sighed, then before I knew it he had picked me up (bridal style of course, this is Yami we're talking about here) and was carrying me up the stairs. I instinctively clasped my arms around his neck, before he ferociously crashed his lips onto mine. I snatched my lips away quickly. "D-don't you have w-work?"
"Nope. I took today off, because today is the anniversary of our first meeting, the 10th actually." I just remembered. Oh no! How could I forget such an important day! I mentally face palmed while he laid me down on the bed in our room.
"Yugi, do you know how long it's been since we had sex?"
I pretended to think, because honestly, I had been counting the days. "Hmmm... About three weeks, why?"
He grinned evilly "Because you have to make up for every, single, day now..."
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I know what you're thinking, 'Well what is the actual story about?', simple. It's about the events actually leading up to the accident in detail, and also a little more about why Yugi feels so guilty about it. Well please review if you don't mind or else I might discontinue this story ;D. Ja na!
Re-evaluated and rewritten, July 19, 2013