me: this chapter is really f 'in long!
SYRUS: over 3000 words pre-edit...wow...
JADEN: wow indeed
me: okay, this is my long awaited sequel to What Reason? The Heartstealer! now, before you get any ideas, this fic goes more magical than the it's prequel. REEAALLLLY more magical
JADEN: i think that was bad grammar
me: how should you know?
ZANE: i think that was bad grammar
me: shut up Zane
SYRUS: i think that was bad grammar
me: (huggles Syrus) i'll do better next time
JADEN/ZANE: figures
Darker Sides: thank you! (takes ice cream) yes, i tease. but i make up for my teasing in the first part of the first chapter. YAY!
JADEN: we have sex! O.o
me: you'll see
Pugy: Jou! heh heh, what made you think that (laughs nervously)...heh...(shoves ice cream into mouth)
XxSexiItxX: well, here is the very cool sequel! i hope you enjoy!
Ronin 32: bunny scares me...NO THREESOMES! and this isn't a love triangle ((sorry!)) and sorry bunny,no full-force lemons. porn is for later fics/chappies
DarkIceRaven: really? you like it even though it's yaoii? AWESOME! and about the epilouge...ahem...FUCK YOU! i told you in chapter 7 it would be horny fluff
Kori Tenshi: and yet, i can't get it into a C2...thank you for the compliments. i just love getting compliments! makes me want to write more! (fire appears in background)
SYRUS: the house is on fire!
me: CRAP! start fic! (runs for water)
ac-the-brain-supreme does not own Yugioh GX. if she did, she'd totally screw the damn thing up
Sleepy silver eyes opened slowly. They closed almost immediately from the light that filled the once-dark room. Syrus made a little groan of displeasure. Syrus felt a hand stroke his pale cheek and another play with his hair. Again, those hypnotizing eyes opened, this time to see the semi-blurry frame of his lover and boyfriend.
"Jaden" Syrus whispered preceding a yawn.
Jaden chuckled softly, moving closer to the pale boy of his affections. "Sleepy are we?" the tan brunette asked.
Syrus nodded. "What happened to my glasses?" Syrus didn't remember taking them off. He wanted to see everything that happened.
"I took them off when you fell asleep. They're by the lotion" Jaden explained in a soft voice.
Syrus hummed a reply. "So how are you feeling?" Jaden asked, wrapping his arms around the body that he worshipped the night prior.
"A little sore, but it's a small price to pay" Syrus replied. Two hands went to the small of his back and started to massage the area. That wasn't the sore spot Syrus was talking about, but that didn't matter.
"You think anyone heard" Jaden asked.
Syrus was more than certain that even the Obelisk students had heard them. But that didn't matter either. "I'm pretty sure."
Jaden smiled a small, yet overly happy smile. He nuzzled his nose into Syrus's pale chest, kissing it as well. His hair tickled the underside of Syrus's chin, making the small boy giggle. Syrus wrapped his hands gently around his lover's neck, enjoying the smell of ginger Jaden's hair produced.
"Syrus," Jaden whispered, "do you think we could stay like this forever?"
"Like what?"
"Like this. In each other's arms. Forever, never letting go…" That last sentence came out as a mumble.
"I hope so, Jaden" Syrus whispered back.
And there the two boys laid, running off the natural high that was the more than welcomed side effect of the drug called love the two boys made last night. Lying naked, under the soiled bed sheets, they believed that beautiful moment was private.
They were wrong.
For in a faraway universe that was at the same time right next to Jaden and Syrus, there was a ball that floated in the pale luminescence of a magical light from below.
"Beautiful." The voice was female. Soft. Hungry. "Absolutely beautiful."
A pale hand with talon-likeblack fingernails trailed over the ball's surface, making it ripple as if water.
"Completely devoted. Completely dependant on the other. This is the kind of love I like to rip apart." An evil glee was held in that last sentence. "But who to remove?"
A claw sliced the ball in two. The slice left Jaden on one side and Syrus on the other. "Decisions, decisions…I know!"
A disturbed laugh rippled through the dark room.
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Jaden and Syrus walked hand-in-hand to meet their friends. Jaden kissed his boyfriend's head, enjoying the smell of vanilla that was natural to Syrus. Both boys were still off the buzz from that morning.
As they approached, an exhausted-looking Chazz's blood-shot eyes widened. The pale as snow boy stomped up to the couple and pointed in Jaden's face. "You…"
"Well, hello Chazz!" Jaden said happily.
"Do you know that you kept the entire dorm up all last night?" Chazz asked, obviously angry. "It didn't matter if I had ear plugs or not, your disturbing activities were loud enough to pierce through that!"
Syrus blushed. Not only from the fact that their whole dorm knew that he and Jaden made love, which is a very private thing, but that Chazz was announcing this in front of Syrus's brother. Zane may have been cool with Syrus having Jaden, who is one of Zane's biggest rivals, be his boyfriend, but Syrus was sure that his brother did not want to hear about his little brother was sexually active.
Jaden didn't seem to be embarrassed at all. He lookedhappy as he walked by Chazz, taking Syrus with him, and sat down and pulled Syrus onto his lap. "You're just jealous that you don't have someone as adorable as Syrus to love" Jaden said, squeezing Syrus's waist gingerly.
"What!" Chazz yelled, "I am not jealous, you perverted homo!" Zane gave Chazz a warning glance.
"Yeah, and I'm the Queen of England!" Jaden proclaimed with an amused smile.
Chazz glared at the other Slifer. He was left silent.
Jaden smiled as he nuzzled Syrus's soft neck. Syrus giggled at the contact.
"Gag me" Chazz said.
"Oh Chazz, get your head out of your ass" Alexis said with that attitude all girls have when things aren't going their way. Alexis discovered she liked seeing Jaden and Syrus make out. She liked it a lot.
Bastion would rather not see his friends do that kind of thing, but he was much more polite than Chazz, so the Ra student just coughed politely. Jaden and Syrus knew from many a cough that Bastion was getting uncomfortable, so they stopped their nuzzling.
Another Slifer student came up to Jaden and said, "Jaden, Dr. Crowler wants to see you. And quick!"
"Okay…" Jaden said, not remembering seeing this student before. "Hey, who are you anyway?"
"Does that really matter? Crowler sounded really pissed!" the boy said frantically.
"Isn't he always when Jaden is involved?" Chazz whispered.
Jaden gave Syrus another kiss before getting up. He started walking in the direction of Crowler's office. The boy turned to look at Syrus, who was starting to talk to Zane about something. Zane's eyes caught up to see the boy's eyes. They were different.
"Hey, you're Syrus, right?" the boy asked, addressing the smaller bluenette.
"Yeah. Why?" Syrus asked, feeling a little unnerved at how the boy was looking at him.
"I need to show you something" the strange boy said with a kind enough smile.
"What is it?" Syrus asked.
"You'll see" the boy said as he grabbed Syrus's arm.
Syrus was unwillingly pulled along towards the forest.
"Is it just me," Zane started, "or is there something weird about that kid?"
"Like what?" Alexis asked.
Zane closed his eyes. "Have any of you seen him before?"
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"Where are you taking me?" Syrus whined. The strange Slifer boy was still pulling Syrus's arm towards the woods.
The boy didn't answer. He just kept pulling on Syrus's arm until they ended up in a little meadow. A little meadow that Syrus knew very well. Syrus could hear the thoughts he had had three months ago when he had last been in this meadow. Three months since he and Jaden had been going out. Syrus thought that pain had been buried, but no. It was still there.
"Wh-Why did you…" Syrus looked to the strange Slifer boy and stopped. The boy's eyes were glowing a bright violet color. Syrus's eyes widened in fear.
The small boy started to back off. "What? Doesn't this place seem interesting?" the boy asked, but his voice had changed. It was mixture of the boy's original voice and another, sinister one.
Syrus tried to turn and run, but the boy threw a ball of dark energy at the blue-haired duelist, making Syrus fall unconscious. The boy, or whoever was controlling the boy, smirked in victory. Their plan was going well.
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Jaden walked back to his friends in an angry mood. "Hey guys, guess what. Crowler didn't want to see me! And he gave me a week's detention for disturbing him!"
"Really? Why would that kid lie about that?" Alexis asked.
"Why don't we ask?" Zane proposed. He pointed towards the boy, who was looking lost and confused.
Jaden strode over to the boy, who looked frightened when he saw the visibly angry Jaden walk over to him. "Okay kid, why did you send me to Crowler's office?" Jaden demanded.
"What? I didn't tell anyone to do anything" the boy said, backing off.
Jaden looked at the kid like he was crazy. "What do you mean? Are you a retard or something? You told me 15 minutes ago that Crowler needed to see me!"
"No, 15 minutes ago, I was looking for my friends when a raven jumped up at me. Scary things, those ravens." The boy shuddered as he remembered the black, feathery thing jump up out of nowhere at him.
"What are you talking about?" Jaden asked again.
"Listen, I'm new here, so I don't know who you are. But I do know that I didn't tell you anything about going to Crowler" the kid explained.
Jaden blinked. Zane walked over to the brunette's side and asked, "Where's Syrus?"
"Who's Syrus?" the boy asked.
"Syrus, my brother. The boy you just took into the woods" Zane explained coldly.
"What? You took Syrus into the woods!" Jaden yelled, grabbing the boy's collar.
"I don't know who Syrus is!" Then the boy seemed to remember something. "Hey, you're that homo that everyone's talking about, aren't you?"
"What's it to you?" Jaden asked angrily. He got his face so close to the now-frightened boy that their foreheads nearly touched.
"Uh…um…nothing, j-just that you're loud; I…I got to go" the boy said as he squirmed out of Jaden's grip and ran away towards the Slifer dorms.
A terror fell over Jaden. Syrus was in the woods, most likely lost. His beautiful angel…at the mercy of anyone or anything that came across his path; Jaden had to do something!
"Jaden wait!" the brunette heard Zane call, but he didn't wait. He ran as fast as his legs could take him. Jaden needed to find Syrus. He may not have been as sick as he was last time he was in the woods, but still, Syrus was too kind to kill anything, even if it was for his protection.
Jaden tried to get whoever he ran into to help him. But they didn't want to. No matter how much he begged, no one would help the gay guy.
The more Jaden searched for Syrus, the less likely he found it to find that boy Jaden loved so much.
No…no he can't be!
But it was no use trying to hide the truth. And the cold hard reality struck Jaden as he entered the bed room him and Syrus shared.
Syrus was gone. Again.
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Syrus opened his eyes to see a wide expanse of blue sky stretch above him. The ground was hard and a little uncomfortable to lie down on. The bluenette sat up to find him sitting on a wooden bench in a some-what familiar park.
Syrus started to freak out. This wasn't the island! That boy must've abducted him and taken Syrus here. To this park; which seemed really weird. But still, Syrus was in panic-mode, so any explanation was acceptable at the time.
Syrus got up and started to run out of the park, nearly running into a couple along his way. When he ran across the street, he nearly got run over by a car. But still, Syrus ran even when he was getting yelled at by the driver. He didn't, couldn't, stop running. He needed to get to the docks. He needed to find out where he was. He needed to get home. Syrus needed to do a lot of things, but the thing at the top of his list was to find Jaden. Find Jaden and find a safe harbor within those strong arms that protected and comforted at the same time.
Finally, Syrus was so tired he stopped running. Leaning against a wall, Syrus tried to regain his breath. He looked around more carefully this time, now that his mind wasn't as fogged up. And he remembered.
Syrus was in downtown Domino. He had only been here twice, once as a kid and once for the dueling exam. But still, he could remember all these tall buildings, all the shops and restaurants and schools that Syrus remembered wanting to go into so many times.
Syrus took a deep breath. Okay, he knew where he was. And now he had two options. Option one was to find a person who would take a 15-year-old boy back to Academy Island, which was about a day's journey away via boat. Option two was to get out of the city and to the suburbs where he could get his parents to help him get back to Academy Island. Both options involved money, which Syrus was definitely lacking in.
I could get a rowboat. But that'd take days, and I still don't have that kind of money!
Syrus groaned as he slid down the wall. The bluenette looked up the now gray and cloudy sky, as if for inspiration. It's going to rain, Syrus's mind noted.
Syrus got back up again. He needed money, which he was in a serious lack of at the moment. Maybe he could get enough money to get train and bus tickets home, but his parents would yell at him. They might not even let Syrus go back.
Syrus shivered at the thought. If Syrus didn't go back, he couldn't see Jaden. And if he couldn't see Jaden… And if Syrus tried to talk his way to getting his parents to help him back to Duel Academy, the subject of Syrus's lover would come up. There was no way that Syrus's parents would let him go back after he told them. They might brainwash Syrus into thinking he was straight. That having that wonderful, loving night he had with Jaden was a bad thing.
Syrus could cry at that thought. There was no way that Syrus would go to his parents after thinking that.
Standing up, Syrus decided what he had to do. He needed to find out how much money a boat cost. Then he'd have to work for that money as best he can. Maybe the school year would end by the time Syrus would have enough money, but that was a risk Syrus had to take. It was either that, or be brainwashed by his parents into being straight.
Syrus, with new determination, started walking in the direction he was originally headed. Then the gruesome fact dawned upon him.
He had no idea where the docks were.
Syrus groaned again. He needed to ask someone. He saw a group of boys not far away and looking about his age. Deciding to take a shot, Syrus nervously walked up to the group of taller boys. "Excuse me…" Syrus started in a small voice. The group of boys, which had three all together, looked at Syrus with malice in their eyes.
"Well, well, what do we have here? A lost little school boy?" one of the boys, who had black hair, said as he and his friends circled in on Syrus. Raindrops could be felt on the pale boy's forehead.
"Looks like it. Y'know what we do to school boys kid?" the second one with blonde hair asked.
Syrus was frightened out of his mind. He had been cornered like this before, so he knew the outcome wasn't good for him. But there was one thing that separated both incidences. These boys had alcohol on their breath.
The third one put his one hand on Syrus's butt and the other on the small boy's chest. "He feels like a good one boss."
Syrus didn't like the sound of that or of the thunder that rumbled in the distance.
"I hope he is a good one. The last one wasn't as good. Not obedient, ya see. Ya wanna know what happened to him?" the one with black hair asked Syrus as he trailed a finger down the smaller, weaker boy's chest to his stomach.
Syrus didn't want to know the answer. He hoped he never will. Thunder clashed and, in a flash of lightning, Syrus ran for his life. The rain fell harder as Syrus heard the lead boy shout "Get him!" Moving his short legs as fast as they could take him, and more, Syrus ran away, trying to find a crowd somewhere so he could get lost in it. But the rain drove everyone into their houses or businesses, leaving little to no people on the street.
Poor Syrus could hear the sound of footsteps behind him as he ran forward; trying his best to not trip or run out of energy too soon and have his body give up. Seeing an alley not far ahead, Syrus turned sharply into it and dashed behind some trash cans near a dumpster.
"You can't hide from us" said one of the boys. Syrus pulled off his jacket and put it over his head for protection from the rain and, hopefully, from the boys. But hope was not the best thing to base a decision off of. The gang of boys found the cowering Syrus and reached a hand for the trembling youth.
The hand went to a very private area, making the boy scream at the top of his lungs. Someone, anyone, please help! Syrus screamed in his mind. Jaden! Save me!
"Hey, what're you doin' scum?"
That wasn't Jaden's voice.
"Get outta here blondie, we don't need you to chaperone us. 'Sides, we're only having fun!" the one that had touched Syrus's butt yelled.
The hand that was holding Syrus let go and balled into a fist, ready for a fight.
"Listen, I'm only gonna tell ya monkeys dis once. Leave da kid alone. What he do to you anyway?"
Syrus pulled his coat further onto his head as the sounds of a fight started. Who was this person who was saving Syrus? A Good Samaritan? Or someone like these boys, who wanted Syrus's body for a toy?
Syrus whimpered softly, wishing more than ever that he was in Jaden's warm arms, safe from this rain, those boys, and whatever evil intentions Syrus's "savior" had in mind, if there were any. Syrus wanted to feel Jaden's warm breath on his forehead when he said everything was alright. Syrus wanted to know that Jaden was there with him, kissing the forehead of the small, frightened boy who coward from drunken idiots that would've done Lord knows what to Syrus.
Eventually, the sounds of the fight died down, leaving nothing but the sound of rain and footsteps. Some going away, some moving closer.
Syrus tugged the wet coat further down so that he could see no one and no one could see him.
"Don't worry. Dey're gone now. You don't have to worry about dem" the voice of Syrus's savior whispered.
Syrus only whimpered and trembled some more.
"C'mon, you're safe."
Syrus's Slifer jacket was gently being pulled from his wet, cold hands.
"Dere's no need to worry, kid. No one's going to-"
The person stopped when the jacket came loose from Syrus's hands. Syrus's silver eyes gazed tearfully and frightened into the shocked eyes of a blonde-haired, brown-eyed boy.
me: dun dun duuuunnnnn!
SYRUS: you nearly got me molested!
me: i have another fic where you do get molested. but that story is for another time.
JADEN: we get seperated!
me: yesh...yesh you do. what? it's for the drama, damn it!
ZANE: you're a horrible writer!
me: (punches Zane) any other complaints about my abilities as a writer?
ALL: no
me: good! now, review and i shall give you more to read! later!