Disclaimer: I don't own anything except Elf so don't expect anything.

I don't really like Yami xYugi pairings so i decided to bring in a newbie for Yugi.

Chapter one.

In a dark room a small figure lay on a messy bed, his deepest violet eyes gleaming behind a sheen of tears.

Beside the bed, the sound system played the song 'Desert Rose' by Sting, drowning out the sounds coming from the room down the hall.

'I dream of rain

I dream of gardens in the desert sand

I wake in pain

I dream of love as time runs through my hands'

The boy turned to lie on his side just as a cloud glided off the moon, caressing the room in pale moonlight.

Damp tri-color hair lay limp and straight across his shadowed child-like face, pouty red Cherub lips parted as they mouthed the words to the song, as a small and delicate long-fingered hand lay half-curled on the sheet.

'I dream of fire

These dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire

And in the flames

Her shadows play in the shape of a mans desire'

Yugi flinched as Yami's shriek tore through the house. It wasn't a pained shriek either.

The hand clenched in the sheet and the tears started falling.

On the bedside table, the Millennium Puzzle started to glow.

'This desert rose

Each of her veils, a secret promise

This desert flower

No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this'

The boy's eyes flicked up to stare at the glowing Puzzle, confusion written across his face.

He sat up, his hair falling like a curtain around his face and shoulders, his purple eyes staring from behind golden bangs as his hand reached for the object that had started all the problems to begin with.

'And as she turns

This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams

This fire burns

I realize that nothing's as it seems

As those slender fingers touched the Puzzle, it flared.

'I dream of rain

I dream of gardens in the desert sand

I wake in pain

I dream of love as time runs through my hands'

Yugi's hand snapped up to shield his face as the light encompassed the room but he left enough room between his fingers to see if anything happened.

'I dream of rain

I lift my gaze to empty skies above

I close my eyes, this rare perfume

Is the sweet intoxication of her love'

When the light died down, a naked figure lay on the floor. Yugi took a step forward, half hopeful, half scared.

The figure on the floor stirred and the pale light illuminated the smooth dark skin of his back, the line of one long and lean leg and the graceful angle of a lithe out-flung arm.

'I dream of rain

I dream of gardens in the desert sand

I wake in pain

I dream of love as time runs through my hands'

Yugi reached out a tentative hand and touched warm, almost hot skin.

Yugi flinched and would have pulled back when the boy on his floor rolled onto his back if a tanned, long-fingered hand hadn't flashed out and grabbed his wrist.

Eyes of deepest violet met eyes of palest lavender.

'Sweet desert rose

Each of her veils, a secret promise

This desert flower

No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this'

The face that hit the moonlight was a darker version of Yugi's. While it was almost exactly the same, the face was obviously the face of someone else, maybe a brother's.

The face was slightly narrower than Yugi's, an ivory brown that was obviously natural. His lips were fuller and more kissable than Yugi's, not by much though, and the eyes were exotically tilted and seductively heavy lidded. Around the boy's neck was another replica of the Millennium Puzzle.

'Sweet desert rose

This memory of Eden haunts us all

This desert flower, this rare perfume

Is the sweet intoxication of the fall'

The other bronze hand reached up and ran down the light's cheek in an almost familiar gesture before continuing down his neck, his shoulder, his arm and entwining dark fingers with pale ones.

Yugi spoke in a whisper. "Who are you?"

The boy smiled up at his new light with the kind of smile the snake must have given Eve, gentle and vaguely dark. "Who do you want me to be?"

Yugi lowered his face 'til was a hair's breath away from the others and whispered his answer into his mouth. "Someone who won't leave me…"

Pleez reveiw.