Title: A Trial to the Afterlife
Genre: romance, pure fluff
Rating: T for mild language and some violence (might change)
Pairings: YamiXYugi; BakuraXRyou; SetoXJonouchi; MarikXMalik; HondaXOtogi
Summary: After the Duel between Yami and Yugi, Ra takes the souls of the two star-haired boys and places them into a trial, where, if they lose, then Yami passes into the afterlife. But, if he and Yugi win, then Yami gets to stay in his own body. With the help of Bakura and Ryou, whose bodies were broken up into the trial stage, spirits as their guides, and the mental assistance of their friends, will they succeed in winning this trial against the afterlife?
Me: The next chapter!
Lucy: The Sennen Tauk/Necklace's Trial!
Louis: Please enjoy it!
Chapter Ten: Trial of the Sennen Tauk Part I
Tick... Tick... Tick...
He didn't know where he was. Yugi was surrounded by a cold darkness, and no matter how often he tried to awaken, his body was just too wrapped in the darkness to let him.
'Where am I?' Yugi thought softly.
His eyelids started fluttering, and before him, an image of the sun and the moon appeared.
The sun started vanishing behind the moon, and the darkness became even darker, if that was even possible. Yugi tried to awaken himself again as quickly as he was able, but he failed. He saw the sun starting to vanish fully, until it was gone, and even the moon seemed to vanish, just a thin rim of light showing that they still existed.
If...
Sun...
Illusion...
Break...
Yugi felt the words swirl around his mind, and he wasn't able to tell who the voice belonged to. It sounded so familiar, and yet Yugi didn't know wo or what the voice belonged to.
"Yugi?"
Yugi felt his eyelids flutter open as soon as he heard his name being called. He glanced over and saw the white ceiling of his bedroom in the Kame Game Shop, and he could see the pale blue of his walls.
"W-where am I?" he whispered.
"Yugi? Are you awake now?" the same voice asked.
Yugi glanced to his right and was greeted by a pair of familiar crimson eyes. He felt his heart pounding slightly in his chest, and tears were filling his eyes. Yugi covered his mouth with his hand.
"Y-Yami..." he whispered.
Yami was sitting right beside him, looking down at him. He was smiling down at him, but unlike when Yugi had last seen him, Yami was dressed in a large white shirt with a pair of black jeans. He seemed a bit older too, and his skin was still as pale as Yugi's was. Yugi felt something strange about all of this.
"Yugi, why are you crying?" Yami asked, reaching forward and wiping the tears from Yugi's eyes. "Did you have a bad dream?"
"B-bad dream?" Yugi asked with a confused blink. "Yami, where are we right now? Why aren't you wearing your Pharaoh get up? Which trial are we in now? What Egyptian god is doing this?"
A small smile crossed Yami's lips.
"Trial? Pharaoh get up? Egyptian gods? Oh, Yugi, that must have been one Hell of a dream," he said. Yami rubbed the younger boy's forehead and then slowly rose to his feet. "Come on, I made breakfast. We should go eat it."
Yugi sat up and watched as Yami started walking down the stairs.
"B-but Yami!" Yugi called. He threw himself out of the bed and went running after Yami. "But what about the clothes that I am wearing? I got these during the Trial, remember? The gods made me wear this revealing get up?"
Yami glanced over his shoulder and smiled at Yugi.
"I repeat," he said with a small laugh. "That must have been some dream. Yugi, you have always wore that pair of pajamas, so there isn't really too much different. What trials are you still going on about?"
Yugi blinked innocently and glanced down at his clohes.
He saw that the thin camisole-like top with the golden designs on the collar that he wore that fell to his thighs and covered his private areas and trailed to his ankles in the back, and the red cape on his shoulders were gone and replaced by his pale blue pajamas that he always wore while he was at the Kame Game Shop.
"B-but, I thought..." he whispered slightly.
Yami smiled and turned back towards him. He rested his hands on Yugi's shoulders and brought himself closer. Yugi felt his face heat up, and he could tell that Yami was smiling truthfully.
"You are awake now, Yugi. Come back to reality," Yami joked.
Yugi blinked a few times and then glanced up into Yami's crimson eyes. He felt something strange sweep over him as he stared into the eyes of the man he loved. It was something... odd.
Yu... llusion.... up...
"Huh?" Yugi glanced around a few times in confusion. 'That voice...'
"Hm? Yugi, what's wrong?" Yami asked.
"Thought I heard Ryou calling me for a moment," Yugi responded. Yami blinked and stared at Yugi in what seemed to be confusion. He looked as if Yugi had just suggested that Kaiba had a crush on Anzu.
"Ryou?" Yami repeated. "Who's that?"
Yugi snapped a confused look into Yami's eyes. "W-what?" he whispered in disbelief. "R-Ryou is our friend! You know, the hikari of the Sennen Ring? Bakura's boyfriend and hikari?"
"Who's Bakura?"
"Bakura is the tomb robber that has been guiding you through the trials! Yami, you knew him back in Egypt! You sealed yourself in the Sennen Puzzle after you defeated him!" Yugi shouted.
Yami touched Yugi's shoulders and locked his eyes with Yugi's.
"Yugi, I have never been to Egypt. I have never met Bakura or Ryou, whoever they are. You and I met at Burger World one day when you were being bullied. We dated for several years, and we live together in the Game Shop now that your grandpa has passed away. As for the Sennen Ring and Puzzle, I have no idea what they are, but if it's an idea for a story, then it's a rather good one," Yami said with a small laugh.
Yugi stared at Yami in disbelief.
He didn't remember any of it.
'M-maybe it was all just a dream? Was my whole life just a dream? Grandpa's dead? Bakura and Ryou don't exist? The Sennen Items never existed? All of this never existed?' he thought in shock.
Yugi settled down and nodded slightly. "I-I guess you are right, Yami. It was such a realistic dream, though," he said. 'It doesn't matter if it was all a dream. I have Yami by my side. That's all I wanted...'
Yugi closed his eyes and let himself accept the reality of things. With his eyes closed, Yugi didn't notice Yami's eyes flash for a moment, and the smile creep across his lips.
"So," Yami said with a clap of his hands. "Are you ready to eat now that you have gotten over your dream?"
"Yeah," Yugi said with a smile.
Yugi... He's.... sion... don't.... him... If... sun... illusion.... break...
"Hm?" Yugi glanced around again, but decided that he was just being paranoid. He slowly went to the window, seeing that the curtains were closed. He reached for them to open them and let some light in.
Once his hand touched the curtains, Yami grabbed his wrist.
"D-don't open the curtains!" he stuttered. "I-it's light enough in here. We have the lights on. Is there really any reason for us to open the curtains on and let the sun in here?"
"Hm? Yami, are you okay?" Yugi asked softly.
"I-I'm fine," Yami stammered. He sighed, shook his head, and returned to his same old composure. "So, shall we eat?" he asked, pointing towards the table, where he had laid out the food.
Yugi went to the table, and they ate in silence.
Yugi kept on trying to push out the thoughts of the Sennen Items, the Trials, and everything that he thought had been a reality. He just came to terms that he had been imagining all of it, and he accepted his new life with Yami.
Yugi stood and went to the couch.
Yami followed Yugi and sat beside him on the couch. He slowly reached over, touched Yugi's cheek, and then carefully pushed him down on the couch so that Yami was pinning him down.
"Y-Yami?" Yugi whispered in shock.
"Shh," Yami whispered with a small grin. "It's all right. It's not going to hurt. Don't you trust me?"
"Y-yeah," Yugi whispered. He settled back against the couch. "I trust you..."
"Good," Yami whispered. He went down and locked eyes with Yugi. "I'm glad that you trust me, Yugi. I was getting worried, the way you were talking this morning about those Items and this Trial thing."
"Yeah," Yugi whispered softly. "I guess it was all just in my head..."
"That's right," Yami whispered with a grin. "It was all just in your head. But it's okay now."
He pressed his lips against Yugi's neck, and laced his fingers with Yugi's own. Yugi leaned his head back gently and closed his eyes lovingly, letting the man he lvoed take control of the situation.
'It's just fine this way,' Yugi thought lovingly. 'Yami and I are together. I can stay like this forever. So, I made Ryou and Bakura up in my mind. It;s just fine so long as I have Yami beside me.'
Yugi felt a familiar tugging in the back of his mind. Yugi... don't....believe him... If... sun.... illusion.... break...
'Huh?' Yugi thought as he was slowly shifted back into awareness. 'Someone is calling me? I don't understand what's going on...' The same tugging yanked in the back of his mind.
Yugi! He's.... not... ami... If... sun... illusion.... break...
Yugi slowly opened his eyes and could still feel Yami kissing his neck and shoulder. 'I don't understand. "If sun illusion break"? I don't know what that means. What will I do? Yami, do you know?'
Yugi suddenly gasped as he remembered what Yami had said to him during the trials.
[Begin Flash Back]
"If you two are to pass into the next trial, you will be seperate again. But no matter what happens in there, no matter what illusions decieve you, will you two trust one another until the very end?" Ma'at asked.
Yugi and Yami glanced at Ma'at, then the doorway, and then they glanced to one another, locking eyes. Purple met bright crimson, and then they both turned back to Ma'at, and her black eyes met theirs.
"Yes, my goddess Ma'at," Yami said.
"No matter what happens?" Ma'at asked, raising a thin eyebrow to the two star-haired boys standing before her. Yami gave a nod. Yugi nodded a few times, squeezing his fists.
"No matter what decpetions befall us, I shall believe in Yami until the very end, no matter what happens to me because of it," he said.
Ma'at was silent, her eyes roaming over the two star-haired boys. She watched for any signs that they were lying to her, but when she saw none, she rocked back and then clapped.
"Admitted," she whispered.
With a loud bang of her staff, the two disks rose to the top of the flat platform, and finally jerked to a stop. Yami and Yugi jumped from the disks and landed on the platform before turning and dashing to one another.
"Yami!" Yugi cried, leaping into his yami's arms. Yami caught him and immediatly sunk to his knees, holding the little light as physically close as he could get him.
"Yugi..." he whispered. He glanced over and spotted the Ma'at had vanished, and he saw the doorway to the next trial. Yami sighed and glanced down at the little light in his arms.
"Yugi, we must move to the other trial," he whispered. Yugi shook his head violently against Yami's chest.
"No! Not yet!" he whispered.
Yami carefully brought Yugi back, looking his hikari in the eyes. "Yugi, it will be all right, I promise. We will defeat these trials, and we will be together again."
Yugi was silent before nodding slowly and sniffling.
"O-okay," he whispered softly.
[End Flash Back]
The memory swirled around in Yugi's mind, and he could stull feel Yami's arms wrapped around him. It felt so different from the way Yami was holding him right now.
'Yami... I still have faith in you...' Yugi thought. Yugi was suddenly snapped into a strange awareness.
This man wasn't his Yami.
The way Yami held him, the way Yami treated him, the way Yami spoke, the way Yami kissed him, it was totally different from the way that this man was doing it. This man... was not Yami!
If... sun... illusion... break...
Yugi repeated the message a few times and then remembered when he had tried to open the curtain. It was morning. The sun was up. And Yami, or... whoever this was, was too afraid of the sun to let it be open.
Yugi could hear Ryou's voice shouting at him in the back of his mind, and he could hear Ryou complete the message. Yugi gasped as it was made clear to him. He knew what to do now.
"If the sun comes out, the illusion will break!!" Yugi shouted aloud.
The false Yami reeled back and stared at Yugi in horror. Yugi could see the fear plastered on his face, and then he took it as his chance to get away before he was stopped.
Yugi leaped out from underneath the false Yami and ran for the curtains.
"Shit!" the false Yami hollered, but he wasn't fast enough.
Yugi grabbed the curtains and threw them open, letting the sun pour into the room. The Kame Game Shop stayed the same, but when Yugi glaned back and looked at the fake Yami, he was gone.
In his place was a tall young man with a crocodile head, though he was humane from the neck down.
He was dressed in Egyptian clothing, like all the other gods, and some scras littered his mocha flesh. His eyes were beady and black, but kind none the less, and he wore a golden headress.
"Heeeey," the god said with a chuckle. He waved his hand at Yugi. "I was gettin' scared that you weren't gonna snap outta my trance before it was too late, little one. Don't scare me like that ever again."
"Who are you?" Yugi asked carefully.
"Oh," the god said with a chuckle. "I am Sobek, the Egyptian god of the river."
"Ah," Yugi said with an understanding nod. "Should have figured that out when I saw the crocodile head. So, where is Ryou? Or was the illusion right and he never existed?"
"Oh, that's mean!"
Yugi glanced over his shoulder and saw Ryou sitting on the couch with his arms folded over his chest. Ryou still sported his white and green cat/dog ears, his long silver hair, his green and white clothes that were so similar to he outfit Yugi had been given, and he was still floating slightly in the air.
"Ryou-chan! So, you were here all the time," Yugi said with a sigh of relief.
"'Course I was! I was shouting the riddle to you. I was thankful that you finally were able to figure it out," Ryou said with a relieved sigh. Yugi laughed nervously and looked back to Sobek.
"So, which trial is next?" he asked.
Sobek smiled and showed off his teeth. "That would be telling. That's what you have Ryou for. Now, your beloveds are in the next Trial, but only if Yami listens to what Bakura tells him. But if you have faith in him, and if he has faith in you like you believe in him, then it should be all right," the god said with a grin.
Yugi smiled and looked to Sobek. "Where is the exit?"
"Over there," Sobek said, pointing to the doorway. "If you go through there, you should be in the next trial before you know it. And, if Ra wills it, Yami will be right there after you."
Yugi smiled and turned to Ryou. "Shall we go?" he asked.
Ryou stood up, his feet barely touching the ground. "Yes, let's go!" he grinned.
Yugi nodded to Sobek. "Send my regards to Yami?" he asked. Sobek nodded softly, and then Yugi leaped into the doorway that had formed behind the doorway to the next trial.
Sobek turned and giggled at the creature that was manifesting before him.
"Now... we'll see if Yami is as capable of overcoming the same illusion, shall we?" he asked. The creature manifested into the form of a young woman with long red hair and brown eyes. She smirked and nodded slowly.
Me: Yay! Yugi defeated the Trial!
Lucy: But now, Yami must defeat the illusion within his Trial!
Louis: Will he be successful? Please review to find out xD