Hello everyone. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to update. School has started back and I have had a lot to do with that, plus time has just gotten away from me. So here is very boreing chapter two! Yay for me, eh?

Warnings: Hmmm...guess i have to put more yoai in here. I really didn't want to make this one like my others...oh, well!

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Chapter Two: The Monkey's Paw-Wish One: Aftermath!

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Yugi walked slowly downstairs, paw clutched tightly in hand. He stung from Yami's words, but he guessed he had gotten the easy end of that conversation. He passed his dark's room, and paused outside.

He could hear him pacing. The mind link was blocked.

Yugi thought he should say something, and even had his hand up ready to knock, when he decided against it. They would probably just get into a fight. The two halves had only fought twice before--but both times had been knock-out, drag-out fist fights that had not gone over to well with his grandfather.

He continued on down the hall to his own room, where he lay the paw on his bedside table, and went to sit under the window.

He looked up at the sky, pale blue around a luminous moon darkening to a deep velvety black pin-pricked with bright stars. A few smokish clouds painted patches of grey on the velvet. The sight produced a sigh from the young hikari.

Catching the clock out of the corner of his eye, Yugi decided to go to bed. It was after midnight.

How am I going to fix this?

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The next morning at school, Yugi sat with his head down. He really didn't feel that great. He was sleepy, his head hurt, and he was even more downtrodden than the previous night--if that were possible.

Yugi had thought of something last night before he had dropped off to sleep. Yami had said he had always loved him and Yugi had always returned the feelings. Apparently, the wish had changed more than the present, but why?

"I got it in an old shop somewhere on the other side of Egypt, I can't remember where exactly, but it's supposed to be magical. The shop owner told me it would grant four wishes to whoever held it, but it was cursed and could only bring remorse on the wisher, instead of happiness. So I put it up there and I guess I forgot all about it."

Why didn't he have any new memories? Well, it had also just changed more than just his and Yami's relationship as well, because this morning he had seen Joey and Kaiba kiss and nearly passed out from shock.

Yugi caught himself before he could drop off again. He was so sleepy--he had hardly gotten any sleep. Nightmares plagued him.

In the first he could remember, he found himself in the middle of a long corridor. It was dark, the walls a dark red-the color of old blood. He was frantic. Looking for something. And he couldn't find it.

Suddenly, he realized something awful followed him, and he became aware of what he searched for. His dark. At the end of the hallway. He ran on, each step becoming labored, and soon he could make out a limp figure against the wholly red-ness of the existence.

He could feel nothing but cool darkness--and it didn't belong to Yami's soul, heart, or mind.

Yugi continued on, not wanting to meet the dark figure, but fearing the evil presence behind him even more. The hallway grew darker as he neared the end. Then, just as he fell to his knees, the dream ended.

"Yug, hey, YUGI!!" Yugi was shaken from his memories by his best friend-Joey Wheeler. The one person he really did not want to see right now.

"Oh, hi Joey."

"Alright, now tell me why you broke up with Yami." Yugi rolled his eyes, he knew this was coming.

"I, well, I don't know." Joey raised an eyebrow. "I really can't say actually...."

"Yugi, you are my best buddy and I'm gonna tell you how it is--that was the stupidest thing you have ever done. You don't even have a reason!" He was starting to loose his patience.

"Joey, it's really none of your business." a cool voice said, radiating from behind the blonde. It was the second person Yugi wanted to see the least right now, of course, making his grand entrance-Seto Kaiba.

"Yea it is..." Joey said half-heartedly.

"No, love, it isn't. Now come on and leave him alone." Joey pouted a little more, but Kaiba convinced him with a kiss1 at which Yugi rolled his eyes, but he was happy to be left with his thoughts once again.

Another remembered dream had found it's way into his current thoughts. In this one he walked in a graveyard. It was night. A huge moon sat in her midnight sky, showing off her shimmering face. Yugi looked up at the sky, then down at his surroundings.

Fog swirled at his feet, around the crooked, broken tombstones, and over the small hill in the distance. It was cold. Not really the cold you feel, but the cold that just makes you numb that's usually associated with grave sites. He didn't like this place, that was evident, but instead of turning onto the path that he somehow knew would take him out of the place, he chose a path further into the rows of tombstones.

He walked what seemed like forever, dodging rocks that were half-submerged in the rolling white vapor. Passing another row of dark stones, he noticed something glinting gold. He walked slowly over to the grave, not quite believing what he was seeing. His old puzzle hung from the corner of the cold stone.

But, that's not possible, that was destroyed years ago...

Yugi was shocked out of his thoughts again by the evening bell. He looked around, startled. He was sitting in his rapidly emptying sixth period class, having no idea how he had gotten there.

'Oh, well, time to go home and confront his darkness. He was not exactly looking forward to it. At the house, Yugi had just sat his books down and was about to call out for Yami, but was beat to the fact.

(Yugi.) Yugi jumped and reeled, Yami's slightly chilly voice causing his heart to race. Yugi decided to take this time to apologize.

((Yami, I'm sorry for hurting you.)) he could almost feel Yami stiffen.

(I don't want to talk about it.)

((I think we should.))

(Why?)

((Because, I hate it when we're mad at each other.))

((and, I was a complete and total jerk.)) Yami smiled to himself, careful not to let any emotion through the link though, he wasn't quite ready to forgive and forget just yet.

(Yes, I know that.) Yugi came out of his room, into Yami's to find him on his bed, staring at the monkey's paw.

"Is something different about this thing?" he asked, for a moment, all the ice gone from his voice."Weren't all of it's fingers straight?"

"Yes, I told you Yami, I wished on it." Yami looked at him sideways.

"I'm sorry Yugi, I still don't believe you."

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OH MY GOSH!! I updated YAY! Anyways,

1 This is hard for me to imagine, how about you?

Well, R and R, I g2g, I'm missing my show!!