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Pyra: Thank you so much for the suggestions! As soon as I looked over the new reviews inspiration hit me head-on!

Yami: Aren't you going to do the disclaimer?

Pyra: No...... YOU ARE!!!

Yami: I not going to. (Gets a stubborn look on his face)

Pyra: Yes you are because I own all the Yu-Gi-Oh! characters including you!

Yami: You do not!

Pyra: TRICKED YOU!! You just said the disclaimer.

Yami:........damn. (WHAM!)

Pyra: You have a foul mouth, Yami. Anyways, here's the story! ^_^

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"But - who? Why?" Yugi asked his yami.

"I don't know."

"What's going to happen?"

"...I wish I knew, Yugi. I'll try to help you, but if the poison is fatal and it's started to kill you..... I don't know what I could do..." Yami trailed off. "You should go back to sleep, though, Aibou, it may help." Yugi didn't respond. He sat with a sort of distant look on his face, trying to answer the many questions that tormented him so. Why would someone poison him? Who? Would he live to tell the tale?

"Yugi," Yami said softly. Yugi was so deep in thought and so submerged in fear that he didn't here him. Yami sighed. He laid a hand on Yugi's chest and his third-eye glowed. Yugi never lost that distant look while his eyes half-closed. He finally shut his eyes all the way and became limp in Yami's arms. Yami gently set Yugi down. As he looked at his aibou, he felt the now all to familliar feeling of having his heart torn two ways. He stroked Yugi's hair gently, tears welling up. He did not even bother to brush them away as they streamed down his cheeks.



"Hey, Tristan?" Joey asked as the two walked down the sidewalk. "Where do you suppose Yugi is?"

"I have no idea," Yugi had been missing for almost three days, and Tristan and Joey had taken up the search for him. Joey's mind wandered as gazed up at the cloud-less blue sky. He and Tristan passed a park when Joey thought he saw something. He looked towards the direction from which the movement had come and didn't see anything at first.

"Hey, Tristan," He said as he search for the source of the movement.

"Yeah?" Then Joey caught a quick glimpse of someone.

"Bakura..." He whispered to no one in particular.

"Wha?" Joey was caught by surprise at Tristan's response and in the moment that his attention was elsewhere, Ryou disappeared. Joey searched for him for a few seconds, but gave it up as hopeless. "What did you see?" Tristan asked him.

"It was Ryou," Joey said.

"Yeah right, I think you're seeing things, man."

"I....guess," Joey siad, but he wasn't too sure of that being the case.



Yami absently conjured up his magic and used it to try to help Yugi. Questions taunted and teased him. Who had poisoned his aibou? And why? Would Yugi live? Did Yami want Yugi to live? Yami caught himself with that last question. Of course he wanted his aibou to live!! Didn't he? Again he was feeling two ways about his aibou. Concern and....... hatred? Yami shook his head furiously to rid it of the those thoughts. Why was he thinking these things?! A ways back in time he would have been absolutely sure that he loved his aibou (sorry, not yaio), after all, Yugi was his light. But now...? He wanted to love his aibou in that way again, but something kept him from it. What Yami didn't realize was that the something was actually a someone.

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Pyra: Whew! That was fun!

Yami:....for you perhaps.

Pyra: You don't like it? *u_u* (cries a little)

Yami: No wait! I didn't mean it like that!

Pyra: (still weeping pathetically)

Yami: No, no! I love your story, Pyra! Don't cry....

Pyra: (stops crying) You do...?

Yami: Yes, yes! It's just ticks me off a little at the thought that I would think like that!

Pyra: ^_^ ok!

Yami: Please R&R!

Pyra: Uhh, thaks, Yami,

Yami: you're welcome.

Pyra: Anyways, tell me what you think and I'll see you in the next chapter! ^_^

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