A/N: this is the answer to a request by my friend Anshi-chan. I hope she likes it.

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Song: Stay by Lisa Loeb

Genre: romance I guess...

Summary: Yami said some things he wishes he could take back.

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Stay
By Pop Flower Millenium (on the continent of Ohio, in the Antarctic ocean, there lives the Half-Dead Elf Men, most of which are named Tom)

Yami sighed as he looked in the mirror, the full-sized mirror showed his sullen features, the dark rings under his eyes, the hollow look in his eyes. All of this was a result of one thing; her
She caused all this

You say
I only hear what I want to

...no...

You say
I talk so all the time

He had done it...all him...

So

He had said things...done things...but that was the past...now...now she'll never be back though...but he didn't care...not really. Did he? He was better off without her there. Wasn't he? He didn't really miss her. Did he?

And I thought
What I felt was simple

Anthy stared at the house she was standing in front of, Kaylynn's motorcycle zooming away from her. She didn't know why she was back here...he didn't miss her. He had told her to go. He had wanted her gone...hadn't he? Well, one thing she knew for sure was that she wasn't needed there, she wasn't going to go back...

And I thought
That I don't belong

Then she turned away from the building and started to walk away, hoping Kaylynn had been pulled over already so she could get a lift, she wasn't going to come back here anymore. She wasn't going to reminisce on the past any more.

And now that
I am leaving

But she stopped and, as if pulled by some unseen force, she turned back towards the house and looked at it...she could see him faintly, he was standing there staring into a mirror, he looked so...

Now I know that
I did something wrong

...sad...

 Cause I missed you

she narrowed her eyes slightly and turned away again, walking down the street...let him wallow if he wanted to. She didn't care. It was his own fault. Not hers. Right? She looked over her shoulder one more time...

Yeah
I missed you

Yami folded his foot under him as he sat down on a chair in the living room, he looked out the window and watched as a white haired girl and a blonde haired boy walked down the street. He was talking and she was listening, she spoke and he'd respond...he'd never responded to her when she spoke...he'd just talked and hadn't given her opinion a second thought...

You say
I only hear what I want to

That's what she'd said...he didn't listen...

I don't listen hard

...didn't pay attention...

Don't pay attention

To anything she said, or did, or suggested. She had been a booster for him, but that was it. Now he knew for sure...he had done something terrible...he'd hurt her...more then she'd ever hurt him. He had hurt her bad enough to make her leave him.

To the distance
That you're running

She walked into her apartment, again waving to Kaylynn, who finished ripping up her speeding tickets, reckless endangerment tickets and other tickets and then drove away.

To anyone

Anthy smiled. She wished she could have been more like the carefree, grinning friend she cherished so much. Kaylynn had always had a certain something that made everyone take a step back from her. Something Anthy didn't have.

Anywhere

Jetta. Jetta had a bright, cheery aura about her that Anthy didn't. Jetta made everything seem so simple that it was strange to think that anything as bad as what had happened could happen.

I don't understand
If you really care

He was bullheaded and stubborn. That's all there was to it. He hadn't really cared. Or else he wouldn't have hurt her.

I'm only hearing negatives

He wouldn't have said those things to her. Or done those things to her. Or told her he was better off on his own...

No

He shook his head and stared hard at the window, he was hearing her all too clearly; "Get away from me! Who the hell do you think you are?! Why would you say that? Maybe I am better off without you!" the slam of the door in his head made him cringe as he touched his cheek where she'd planted her fist during their last and first fight...she'd hated him then.

No

For all he knew she hated him now too.

Good-bye

 "Good-bye, Yami!" SLAM!

So I

She squeezed both her eyes shut and the pillow in her lap. Then she leaned over and clicked on the radio.

I turn the radio on

He turned the volume up and sat back, still looking out the window at the couple outside of his house. He was getting tired, dazed as his vision blurred slightly, he could have sworn that the white haired girl was Anthy and that she was smiling and talking to him...but it was a dream.

I turn the radio up

Then he closed his eyes and wished for one more chance...to take back those words...

And this woman was
Singing my song

...all those hateful words...

Lovers in love
And the others run away

...all those angry things he'd said...

Lover is crying
Cause the other won't stay

and he knew that he felt tears on his face as he closed his eyes and hugged his knees tightly, not wanting to look out the window anymore.

Sometimes I wonder
Why we're waiting for the others

She smiled a bit when she thought of the things Kaylynn and Jetta might say if she consulted them on this matter of heart...wondered if Joey and Malik had ever done anything like this...

Who were
Dying since the day they were born

She'd seen Kaylynn and Malik fighting constantly, everywhere in fact, but they were always tied to each other...she wished she and Yami could have been like that...constantly making up would be better then never having the chance, wouldn't it?

You look back

Jetta and Joey didn't seem to have any problems, Joey surprising Jetta with gifts, Jetta sitting there with and her just...being there seemed to make Joey ecstatic. She wished she could be like them.

You think that I'm throwing
But I'm thrown

But she wasn't. She was different and that's why she was alone now.

And I thought
I'd live forever
And now I'm not so sure

He thought that being immortal would make him colder. Make him smart enough to not fall for the same tricks twice...by the likes of Bastet no less. She did resemble his queen...but so did Ryou on a certain level...but Anthy had loved him like Bastet had. Anthy had been his queen when he thought he'd lost it all.

You try to tell me that I'm clever

Seto was smart. Bakura was cunning. Joey was loyal. Malik was devious and clever. Kaylynn was ruthless and wild. Jetta was intelligent and bright. Ryou was gentle. Yugi was kind...but...

But that won't take me anyhow

She...

Or anywhere

She was an angel...and he'd clipped her wings.

With you

But she'd stuck by him.

You said that I was naive

She bowed her head as she remembered the argument they'd had...the things he'd said...

I thought that I was strong

"Are you stupid? Why would you even think that I pay no attention to you! if you're so starved then why don't you go find another person to feed off of?!" ... "Get out of here, then! And don't you dare ever come back here! Never"

I thought Hey
I can leave
I can leave

She bit her bottom lip hard enough to draw blood as she squeezed the fluff out of the pillow, drops hitting the cushion of the couch as she cried. She'd been wrong. She missed him. She needed t see him smile again. But how? He wouldn't take her back. And her pride prohibited apology...

But now I know
That I was wrong
 Cause I missed you

He missed her. He was too shy to say anything, and too proud to lose anymore then he already had. But he wanted her back with him again. Back where she was needed. Back where he could be by her side again. Back together.

You try to give away a keeper
Or keep me cause you know
You're just so scared to lose

Neither one of them suspecting the similarities in their patterns of behavior as they both looked out their windows, Yami resting his cheek on his leg, which was still up by his chest. Anthy squeezing the nearly dead pillow in her lap. Both missing the other.

And you say
Stay

Neither one of them knowing that they were thinking the same thing...missing the same thing...wishing on the same star...

You say
I only hear what I want to...

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A/N: End! I know, spur of the moment story, but, I wanted to finish it for her. After all, Anshi-chan IS my very best friend in the world. So, I guess...this is it...here's the end of another songfic by da masta!!!!