Zodiac Love

By: Taru Taru Animegal

Rated: T for Teen. Rating may go up depending on content. For now, may contain mild violence, language, drugs, yaoi, and/or Tea (Anzu) bashing.

Summary: "I am... I have... I think... I feel... I will... I analyze... I balance... I desire... I perceive... I use... I know... I believe..." Watch as Yami and Yugi work their way into an undying love through the power of the Zodiac!

Moishi Moishi!!! This is the authoress speaking! …yes, I am working on a new story! …yes, it is a Yu-Gi-Oh story! …no, I probably never will stop creating new stories from random ideas. It's just one of the things that keep me busy in the loads of free time I have!

…what's that, you say? You don't know what I'm talking about!? …oh wait; this is my first Yu-Gi-Oh story! Duh!!! –hits head- but anyway, My name is Taru-Chan, I love yaoi, and I write SasuNaru and RikuSora in my loads of free time. So, if you like either of those pairings, I highly recommend you check out my other stories!

…What? You want to know why I'm writing this? Well… if I had to answer, I'd probably say for a change of pace (and over-cramming a ton of Yu-Gi-Oh stories in one night!!) and the story plot really goes with the anime. That is, what I have SEEN of the anime. After the Battle City tournament, they just sort of started playing re-run's, and I got tired of it. I know that they had to do a ritual battle, but I don't exactly know what happened! So I'm just gonna say that Yami Chose to say in Domino, and now have his own body. But, if any of you know what REALLY happened, I would like to know!

Ok, I've rambled on enough, let's start the story!!!XD

Regular

"Speaking"

'Thoughts / Flashback'

(Yugi to Yami)

((Yami to Yugi))

-OMGITSALINEBREAK!-

Yugi stared at his secret crush who was now at the board, scribbling down the answers to a math problem only a genius would know. He knew how wrong it was, oh yes, but he couldn't help it. They had been together for so long that it had now turned into something deeper then friendship. Something more hidden, something sinful to most of mankind, something forbidden.

He looked away when he heard snoring in the seat to the right of him. Joey had fallen asleep halfway through the class. Though, what can you expect if your kept up all night by your potential boyfriend? Especially when this boyfriend happened to be the owner of the most prestigious game company in the city?

Yami set down the marker and headed back to his seat next to Yugi. His aibou, his hikari. The one person he couldn't have no matter how hard he tried. Yugi was too pure. Yami wouldn't allow him to fall into the darkness.

He silently watched, though, how he kept poking his blonde friend to stop him from snoring. There was nothing he could do but watch. Watch as he silently grew up and away.

Both of the look-alikes were thinking the exact same thoughts, and everyone knew it. Tristen, Joey, and Tea all watched the two from afar, hoping that fate would bring the two together. Ever since they were separated, both of them had gotten sadder in a way. True, they were happy to SEE each other…

But they weren't connected.

They felt as if their bond had broken when they had separated. Sure, the mind link was still there, but what about the connection? The very thing that kept the Pharoh alive for nearly three years. The little place that yugi had in his soul for the darkness.

Was that still there?

Thee bell rang and Joey pushed out of his chair, shouting something about killing Tristen with a lightbulb. Yugi laughed and picked up his books, Yami was right there beside him, but only smiling in contrast.

'Some things never change…' Yugi thought to himself before heading out the door.

-OMGITSALINEBREAK!-

After school, Yugi's grandpa was away on a business trip in brazil, Yami had to go over to Bakura's to help take care of Ryou, who has been in bed all day with the flu -Tomb robbers don't know much about medicine and taking care of the sick.- and his friends had already taken the day off to go to an expo, leaving Yugi to tend to his grandfather's shop. Joey had offered to stay behind and help out, but the young boy just smiled and said he would be fine.

Of course, he was expecting more then just two customers at the time. He sat behind the counter boredly, hoping that one of the passer-byes he saw walking would enter the store. No such luck.

He sighed and turned away, thinking of what else he could possibly do. Whenever he got bored like this, he would normally talk to Yami when they were still connected…

Wait…

'That's it!!' Yugi focused his energy and tapped into the mind link they still possessed. The first time Yami talked to him when he got his own body Yugi soared into the air and landed on the chandelier in the living room. The elder just laughed.

(Yami?) The boy asked hesitently. He wasn't shy about it, he just didn't want to startle the old pharaoh if he was doing something important.

((Yugi? Is there something wrong?)) Yugi heard, concern lining the more masculine voice. He inwardly shook his head.

(I'm just bored. No one's coming into the shop…) Yugi sighed, staring out the window again. He felt like going out and putting up blinking lights to make the people acknowledge the place.

((Sorry, Yugi. I'm kind of tied up at the moment, or I would come back. Bakura just burnt the pot of boiling water…)) Yugi pictured this weird look and heard Yami chuckling in his mind.

((I feel the same way. I have to go now, before Bakura pours any more cooking oil onto the flames. I won't be too long… I hope.)) Yugi's eyes visibly went wide at the thought of Bakura adding heat to the flames. He shivered and just hoped that Ryou wouldn't come downstairs to see that the kitchen was burned down…

or Yami and Bakura, too…

No. he wouldn't let his mind wander to such idiotic thoughts. He knew that the dark halves would be safe, they were the mightiest people in all of ancient Egypt!

…Still, that didn't stop the tri-colored one from worrying about his Yami…

His Yami…

That didn't sound too bad…

He felt his leg collide with something underneath the counter. It fell in a loud 'thump' , causing Yugi to jump and look at what had fallen.

It was a book, made out of a leather binding and sheets of old notebook paper that were sewn into the book. Yugi marveled in it, while staring at the ruby embedded in the front cover.

He picked the book up carefully and set it on the counter, opening the leather binding and looked through the pages carefully. He stopped, however, when he couldn't read what was written on the pages.

'Maybe there is some sort of key hidden in here…' He turned to the back of the book and found a couple of loose papers attached to a leather strap. He pulled them out, looking at the translation of symbols.

He soon flipped back to the beginning of the book and started translating. It kept his mind busy, and no one was coming in anyway. One by one, he decoded the letters, making the book out to be some kind of spell book.

For the next couple of hours, he deciphered the first two chapters of the book, one being a tutorial, and the second being a spell of creation of some sort. He had deciphered the title to the next chapter when Yami walked in through the back door.

"What you up to, aibou?" He called. Yugi shut the book with a slap, hiding it back under the desk when Yami walked into the shop.

"J-just closing up for the night." The younger said, hopping off from his stool and picking up a broom. He headed over to the shop windows, rolling out the paper curtains and locking the door, turning the 'open' to 'close'

"Let me help you then." He went behind the counter to pick up a broom, but yugi stopped him in the process.

"U-umm… let me take care of it…W-why don't you get dinner started?" Yugi stuttered, trying to get Yami as far away from the book –and the stairs- as possible. He gave Yugi a weird look, but agreed anyway.

The taller teen left the shop and walked down the hall, puzzled by why Yugi would be so hesitant about letting him help with the shop. Could it be that he was hiding something? Or…

'No… he's just hiding something…' He thought quickly, not even letting the second idea come into his mind. There was no reason his light wouldn't want him around.

Was there…?

-OMGITSALINEBREAK!-

Meanwhile, Yugi was stumbling up the stairs with his book in hand. He didn't want yami to see what it was, especially when he could probably use it at least once. He set the book on his bed and opened it up to the third chapter.

'Love and to be loved, a spell to finding your soul mate' could it be that this spell really could show you who your love is? Yugi started deciphering. As much as Yami knew the rights and wrongs of a kitchen, he had little experience with an electric appliance other then a microwave. Yugi knew that he would spend two hours trying to make a decent dinner, then give up and stick something in the magic cooking box, which gave him plenty of time.

He took his sheets of paper and let his fingers and brain do the work for him. In just an hour, he had unraveled the mystery of the third chapter.

Yugi read the instructions carefully, pulling out his old bamboo mat and the candles and incense his grandpa had given him for his birthday last year. He knew that they would bound to come in handy one day no matter the situation.

He took a seat in front of the dim lit mat and set the book on top. He had shut out the lights, the only thing seen was the glow of burning incense and fire from little tea candles.

Emento mas morne schra nit a (enter the chapter and feel the power) mit en Zo di ac minni pun ah (of the zodiac's will of love) buu, mene act a pree (But only at a price)

One ka minwa te koikenzu go tenta mou dea n mea ar fugi ni chi ga. (Only shall your true love be revealed if you give your heart and soul to the gods.)

Yugi read the rest of the instructions, carefully pulling out a piece of his hair and burning it into the flames.

"Une Dea n Mea ga fugi ni (I give my heart and soul to the gods)" Yugi muttered this chant as he watched the smoke rise to the ceiling, dispersing in a puff. The young boy felt something tingle inside him, this needed sensation running through his veins. He looked over to the final instructions, carefully placing his hands above the flame.

"Ai Capri sh un Dea n Mea koikenzu (In exchange for the heart and soul of the one I love)" Yugi burnt out the candle just as Yami called him down for dinner. This was going to be interesting.

-OMGITSALINEBREAK!-

A/n: well, that actually turned out longer then I'd expected, but not by too much. I hope you all enjoyed and are excited for the next chappie! (CAUSE I SURE AM!!!)

OH!!! And as you have probably noticed, I am using the ENGLISH names for the characters, mainly because those were the names I grew up with them as, and so I know them as there English names! (If that made any sense what so ever!) For those who don't know who is who:

Tea : Anzu

Tristen : Honda

Joey : Jonouchi

I think that's pretty much it… I will get started on the next chapter tonight and hopefully be done with it by tomorrow (mainly because I want to know what happens too!) so please send in nice reviews to fuel the fire that is my imagination, and unless you want to be thrown into the shadow realm, please refrain from sending anything worse then NICE constructive criticism. Mean criticism hurts my feelings and causes me to not want to write (Hence why none of my long stories have been completed yet…)

OH!! and the words I used I own. this is my special language that no one else knows since I change it so much!!!XD

Special thanks to these two AWSOME writers who made this idea come into my head:

Egypt Motou

UsagiLovesDuochan

And thanks to all of my readers!!!

Next chapter: Aries; I Am