Hey all. Next chapter. No witty comment to say except, this is the fastest I've ever updated......
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Don't sue me.
Author's note: My references to faeries is one I heard long ago and I might be spelling the type wrong. Forgive me my obvious stupidity.
The fact that love is easy to recieve has been disproved. I'd know. I'm a forgotten faerie. Not that humans are supposed to remember us past the age of six. But we are assigned to a specific human and we spend the rest of our lives bestowing lucky magic upon that person. My friends and I are young, but have long since matured. We were all luckily assigned to humans that were destined to be friends...not that Karin and I didn't have to work a little bit to make sure our humans were friends. Any way I'm off topic. Where was I? Oh yes, love.
Love is just as hard to receive as it is to give. There is this patheological fear of being hurt. Some people are right to be afraid. Actually most are. You never find your heartsoul, or soul mate in human, the first time around. Or at least, normally. I've heard cases of lucky few finding their chosen. My human and I are not of those few. His beloved had mine as his as how faeries spend their lives from birth until death with their humans this isn't so unusual.
My human's name is Yuugi Mutou. Mhm. That's right the King of Games. Aka my short stuff. Heh. He remembered me until he was nine, then he met Tea. He thought himself smitten. He was wrong. Tea's faerie is my brother, Trevan. Trevan was easily able to steer Tea away from crushing on Yuugi, but considering Trevan is my elder brother and I'm the younger sister this was no surprise. Yuugi crushed on her for years because of my ineptitude. His freshman to sophomore year of high school is where I learnd to control my magic a bit more. It happened as a frustrated accident. I was upset for I beleived myself a failure as a guarding faerie. I hadn't been able to protect him from that bully, I never had really. Thats when I gave him most of my lucky magic to help him solve that puzzle. It wore me out and I couldn't protect him from the things that surrounded and possesed him. I was asleep in his hair for hours until I noticed another presance. I looked up and my heart flew. A male faerie grinned down at me. He looked ancient. He spoke to me in the most ancient of tongues.
"Mine." was all he said. I had thought he was talking about my short stuff and I was about to protest until I saw a shadow that didn't belong to Yuugi drift across the floor and stroke (Yuugi's) hair gently. The male faerie grabbed my wrist, yanked me up and stared very pointedy at me. "Mine." He repeated and kissed me.
From that moment on I was determined to keep Yuugi in love with this shadow like being, which obviously amused my heartsoul, as he reclined in my human's hair seeing as how his human (aka the shadow) shared a body with him. My heartsoul only knew one English and Japanese word and that was "Mine." He told me that constantly after figuring out I didn't speak ancient Egyptain nor the ancient Faerie language.
When I finally had Yuugi beleiving he was and falling in love with Atem, aka the shadow, the latter had to leave taking my heartsoul with him. So here we are. Yuugi and I, watching the rain fall. Lonely and cold inside. I sighed and he seemed to mirror my sentiments. I grabbed onto one of his golden blond bangs and hung from it. I was already decidedly fond of his hair. Actually I had decided that when I was a baby faerie but thats not the point. He shifted restlessly and brushed his hand through his bangs. I squealed as I was dislodged from his hair but my cry was unheard.
"What's with the glare outside the window bud?" My short stuff turned and I with him. Joey stood there toweling his hair dry and Karin fluttered next to his head, clinging to a strand of his hair. Almost imperceptably Joey turned a single finger across the top of her head. Lucky. Joey had remembered Karin's name and Karin had helped him with certain...problems. She won't tell me what though.
I wish Yuugi would remember me sometimes. Occassionally I can feel him struggling like he's trying to remember something important. I just soothe him cause I can feel his pain at not being able to remember. I wish he'd remember me. I can't remember my own name.
Yuugi sighed and shrugged. To be honest he hadn't realized he'd been glaring. He'd been thinking of...something. He couldn't quite remember. Actually he had been trying to remember his childhood. At times he felt like there was something missing, a childhood friend long forgotten. He sighed in irritation when he couldn't think of a face or even the name or even worse, the gender!
"Uh, Yug?" Yuugi snapped out of his funk and realized he hadn't responded to Joey's comment or presance.
"I'm fine Joey." Yuugi gave his friend a fake grin and hoped he'd buy. He didn't but to his credit, Joey didn't say a word; he merely brushed a hand through his hair. "Alright Joey." Yuugi sighed and lost his smile. "I'm not ok. I miss Atem. Really badly." And with that he turned back to the rain outside the window.
He heard Joey shift and sigh. He couldn't take it so he turned back to his best friend. "Whats wrong Joey? You've been acting strange for the past couple weeks."
Joey sighed before throwing himself onto the sofa. He ran his fingers through his hair and seemed to contemplate something. Then he looked at Yuugi and seemed to think again. "Hey you're my pal righ'?"
Yuugi stared at him dumbfoundedly. "Yeah?"
"And you'd love me for me righ'?"
"Duh? Joey are you gay and worried about my reaction? Cause if so then let me point out that I have feelings---"
"Thas not it bud! I mean yeah, I'm gay but...it's who I'm gay for!"
Yuugi blinked. "Ok?"
"...."
"Joey," Yuugi sat down besides his friend and put a comforting hand on his shoulder, "who is it? I promise I won't think less of you."
"Its..."
"Yeah?"
"It'ssetokaiba..."
"Come again?" Yuugi asked frowning.
"Kaiba! Ok?!"
"Oh. Thats it?"
"Whattaya mean that's it?!"
Yuugi backed up. Why was Joey so frutrated over having a crush on Kaiba? He licked his lips unconsiously. "You mean you just realized this?"
Joey blushed a dark shade of crimson that Yuugi never thought possible before and looked hastily at his now twitching hands. "Define 'just realized.'"
Now it was Yuugi's turn to blush dark red. Despite what his friends thought of him he wasn't as naive as he thought. But he didn't expect Joey- of all people- to hop into bed without waiting to make sure if it was really the right move.
"Joey, you didn't!"
"I-I didn't mean ta! It just sorta.....and he was sooo...I mean c'mon! Who wouldn't.........." Joey stuttered out getting redder, if it was possible, but his eyes grew lustful yet warm. Yuugi watched on gently. He knew that look anywhere. It was the same look he used to occasionally on Atem's face. He had wondered then if the spirit had wanted him as much as he wanted the spirit. It wasn't possible, he knew it then, but it didn't hurt to hope right?
"Aaanywayyy. He hasn't contacted me, so I don't think it meant anything to him.." Joey's look was so broken hearted for once in his life Yuugi wanted to hurt the rich CEO very very badly.
"Don't say that! He'd be crazy not to love you back!" Joey stared at him. Then a bit more. Then he smiled. "Thanks Yuugi! Speaking of guys we need to get you one too!" Joey winked. "How bout we go to the club later?"
Yuugi swore he heard an eep of protest and a slightly softer laugh and he looked wildly around. "Whassamatter?"
"I thought I heard laughter."
"Y-yyeah?" Joey rubbed his neck and grinned sheepishly. "Well uh lets go!!!"
A reveiw a day brings happiness to stay! ------Is not a hundred percent sure where she heard this.
