YAMIS RETURN
Author's Note: OK, second fanfic attempt. Don't be too harsh with me! I'm hoping that this one will be a little more literate and way longer. Here goes! (I'm using half-and-half Japanese names and English names, just because.)
Summary: The yamis are called back from the spirit world by their hikaris, who have been miserable without them. MarikXMalik, BakuraXRyou, YamiXYugi. Minor IshizuXSeto, AnzuXJoey, and TristanXDuke.
Yugi pressed the glowing redial button on his cellphone for the fifth time, then hung up quickly. No. It was wrong. This was the way things were meant to be. The saying became a mantra in his head as the words lost their meaning. He repeated the redial-hang up-berate ritual a few more times for good measure, then switched his tact and called Malik instead.
"Yeah?" came the slightly bored voice. It seemed duller than before, but everything did now. "What?"
Yugi hesitated with what to say. "Does your sister answer her phone?" he blurted without thinking.
"'Course. Why?" Damn. It was going to be harder to resist calling the older Ishtar now that Yugi knew.
"Oh, I see. You miss him." Malik finally guessed after a few moments of silence from the shorter one's end.
Yugi drew breath, intending to yell how of course he missed him, but Malik continued. "Yeah. Me too. Well, see you, Yugi."
The other end clicked, and Yugi found himself listening to the dial tone for a minute or two. So, it wasn't just him that desperately wished for the company of his yami. Malik's voice sounding duller wasn't just the normal colourless feel of the present world. The emptiness he felt was common.
It didn't make him feel any different. It didn't make him feel anything.
He hadn't been able to feel. Not since he left.
Yugi had been making aborted calls to Ishizu Ishtar since Yami had left, hoping beyond hope that with her magical connection to ancient Egypt, she could bring him back. But he told himself that it was how it was supposed to be, that Yami had had to leave because he had served his purpose in this world and deserved to go to the next one, and that it was his own duty to let go.
Yugi didn't believe a word of it.
Sighing, he lay down on the covers, and fell asleep, watching the sun rise slowly.
Yami trailed his hand through the lazy waters of the Nile, looking around. He did this every single day, this routine float down the Nile in his own private luxury boat, sometimes with Mahad. The afterlife was everything he could have wished for, everything he had ever dreamed.
Yeah, right.
The afterlife was missing one thing, and that was why he floated down the Nile each day. To search for the one thing that could make his eternity utter perfection.
Yugi.
Ra, Yami missed him. The innocence in his large violet eyes, the childishly high voice, the sweetness of his loveable demeanor. Mana provided childish behaviour, that was true, and admittedly she was quite sweet, but Yami ignored her advances.
Yami didn't like girls.
He didn't want to come clean about being gay, because he knew he was probably alone in it, but he didn't want to pretend to be together with Mana just to discourage it. So he spent his days in solitude, or with Mahad, floating down the Nile, searching for the one thing he couldn't find.
His hikari, his koi.
His Yugi.
AN: Okay, this one was really short. BUT, I meant it to be like that. The next chapter will be Ryou's and Bakura's points of view, and after that will be Malik's and Marik's.
Japanese Words:
koi-love
yami (not capitalized)-the darker half of a soul [literally darkness]
hikari-the lighter half of a soul [literally light]
One more thing…
Can someone PLEASE tell me what AU means? I can't find it anywhere!
That's all.
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