- Yugi's Pov-
I woke up to find Yami awake next to me. He was sitting up and his back was against the headboard while from his waist down he was under the blanket. I sat up and put my back against the headboard.
"Morning. Did you sleep well?" I asked him.
"No. I did not sleep that good. I keep having this nightmare last night every time I had it I woke up. So I stayed awake." He told me.
"What did you dream about?" I wondered.
He looked away from me and looked out the window. His hands where into fists. A single tear then rolled down his cheek.
"I don't want to talk about it. Just thinking about it makes me scared." He said.
"What could be so terrifying that it would make you this scared?" I asked, almost yelling at him.
He looked at me then toke a long pause.
"Losing you. You dieing in front of me and not being able to help you. I don't want that nightmare coming true" He told me as another tear fell.
I looked into his eyes and I could see he really was scared of his nightmare and of it coming true.
"So your dream...was about me?" I asked, worried about him.
"Yes and you where stabbed by someone. You told me who it was just before...you died...in my arms." He said sadly.
More tears fell from his eyes.
"Who would stab me?" I wondered.
"Tea. She did it because she told me that if she could not have you no one could." He explained with anger in his voice.
"That sounds like something she would say." I said.
"The dream was like my promise being broken." He muttered.
"Promise?" I wondered.
"Yes. Last night, while you where asleep, I made a promise to you." He told me.
"You did?" I questioned him.
"Yea. I promised...to protect you with all my life no matter what, even if I died trying." He said,
"You promised that to me?" I asked almost starting to cry, but held the tears back.
He grabbed both my hands so they where in his. I blushed a little.
"Yes and I will always keep that promise no mattter where you are. If you where right next to me or miles away. As long as your heart beats...i will always be there for you." He said as he placed one of his hands on my heart.
"Always?" I said starting to cry.
"Always. If I ever lost you Yugi I don't know what I would do. I don't know how I would survive." He said starting to cry again lowering his head.
I lifted his head up and wiped his tears away.
"I will never leave you Yami. Until you send me away then that will be the only time." I told him.
"Thank you, Yugi." He said.
He hugged me placing his head on my shoulder and I blushed even more. He moved his head up so his red crimson eyes meet mine. He held his hands at my waist.
"Do you feel any better then you did yesterday?" He asked.
"Yes much better, but I still think I have a little fever. It should be gone soon." I told him.
"Good. What to go downstairs to see what Mahad has today for breakfast?" He asked me.
"Sure." I answered.
He let go of my waist and got out of bed. He walked to the other side of the bed to help me up. Not letting go of his hand we walked to the kitchen. When we got there, Yami let go of my hand. We saw Mahad by he stove while Isis and joey where next to him. Joey was complaining to Isis.
"Mom do I have to help?" He wined.
"Yes! I told you over a hundred times to not go playing around the hallways at night past your bed time. So this is your punishment. You will help Mahad cook and help me clean for today." He told him.
"Fine." He sighed and helped Mahad start breakfast.
We walked over to them and Isis greeted us.
"Ah! Well, well what do we have here? Welcome sleepy heads your finally awake." She said laaughing a little.
"He was awake before I was." I told her, almost starting to laugh along with her.
"Well he must have waited till you got up." He said.
Isis walked closer to Yami.
"Thank you for telling me about Joey last night." He said softly.
"Your welcome. Can't let that boy get away with everything." He said softly also.
"Yes I know. I letting him help Mahad and me today, so he should be busy." She said.
"Thats good. We will be in the dinning room." Yami said.
We walked into the dinning room. We both sat down in are chairs and waited.
"What did Joey do last night?" I asked Yami.
"I toke a walk last night after you feel asleep and while I was walking back to your room I could hear Joey playing and runnign aournd in the hallway. He was mostly following me." He said.
"Really?" I wondered.
"Yea. Then I found Isis and told her. She went racing after him." He told me.
"Wow. You must have really good hearing?" I told him.
"I do. Even out of my monster form I can still hear, smell, and see vary well." He said.
"I guess its not easy keeping secrets from you?" I joked.
"Guess not." He laughed.
We sat there and laughed for a moment unil Joey and Mahad came out of the kitchen with breakfast. We ate in silence until we where all done. Then Isis and Joey toke are plates away. We sat there a little while just looking at each other until Yami broke the silence.
"Its suppose to be warm today Yugi. What do you want to do?" He asked me.
"I want to stay inside today. Even if it is warm I still have a little fever." I told him.
"True." He paused for a moment to think. "I know! How about me and you go to the collecton room for the whole day? I can show you all the best cards. Then when we are done we can duel for a little bit. How about that?" He asked.
"That sounds like a good idea. But lets change into some different cloths first. I want to get clean ones on." I told him.
"Alright. When I'm done I will meet you at your room or do you think you can find you way yourself to the collection room?" He said,
"I should be able to find my way." I told him.
"Alright, but if you get lost just yell my name. I should be able to find you." he said.
"Alright I'll remember that." I said.
We both got up from are seats and walked out of the dinning room. We walked down the same hallways together until we came to a cross in the hall. I had to go right to my room, but Yami had to go left.
"We leave off here. Don't worry I will meet you back by the door of the collection room." Yami told me.
"Alright, see you there. I will call you if I get lost." I said.
"I will be lisening." he said.
We both walked down the separate hallways. I looked back once but Yami was already gone. I finally made it to my room and put some new cloths on. I put on a short sleeved gray shirt and black pants. Once I was done getting dressed I headed back out into the maze of hallways. At first I knew where I was going but I think I made a wrong turn some where and was in a hallway I did not recognize. I got scared at fisrt but I remembered what Yami told me.
"I have to call out his name." I remembered.
"Yami! Help!" I screamed.
- Yami's Pov-
I got to my room and put new cloths on. I put on a baggy longsleaved black shirt. I cold not find a pair of pants so I put on a clean pair of ripped purple shorts, which at one time where pants but got torn apart when I transformed when I was wearing them. I did not put my cape back on I just left it on the floor. I walked out of my room and headed fro the collection room. I got to the door and waited till Yugi arrived. I leaned against the wall with my arms folded across my chest. I then heard my name.
"Yami! Help!" I heard someone yell.
The sound of my name was faint but I could hear it.
"Yugi? He must have gotten lost?" I wondered.
I moved from my position on the wall and walked down the end of the hallway. I heard my name being called again.
"Yami!" The voice yelled.
I followed the voice and started to run to where I heard my name being called.
"Yami!" The voice yelled again.
This time it was closer. I was on the right track. I turned down another hallway and saw Yugi standing there with a confused look on his face.
- Yugi's Pov-
I heard footsteps off to my right. I froze for a moment but then saw Yami running down the hallway towards me.
"Yami! You found me!" I yelled happily.
"Told you I would be able to." He said.
"Figures. Can you take me to the collection room now? I called you because I did not know where I was." I told him.
"Thats why I'm here. What are friends for? Come one lets go. Just be glad I have good hearing or I would never be able to find you." He said.
He held out his hand to me and I toke it. He lead me threw the hallways till we go to the door of the collection room. Yami let go of my hand and held the door open for me. When I walked inside I was again amazed. Me and Yami shared this room now. He asked me the first time we came here. I finally said yes after Yami gave me the Millennium Puzzle. I still have the Millennium Puzzle, but it was in my room, I forgot to put it on when I left the room in a hurry to meet Yami. I now treasured the puzzle, always keeping it safe. Yami gave it to me to remember him in someway and I will never forget that day when Yami gave it to me. I looked around the room still, until Yami got me out of my moment of awe.
"Yugi?" He said.
"What?...Huh?...Oh sorry Yami, I'm still amazed by this room." I told him.
"I wouldn't be surprised. Come with me Yugi, I want to show you the most powerful and rarest cards in this collection." He said waving to me to follow him.
We walked to the middle of the room where there was a medium sized table with glass on top of it. Yami walked over to the table, I stood next to him. I looked down at the table to see 3 Duel Monster cards under the glass.
"What are they?" I asked Yami.
"These are the e Egyptian God Cards. The most powerful cards in the game. These are so special I keep them together and separate them from the other cards. Which is why they are on this table." He told me.
"Wow! Why don't you use them?" I wondered.
"Because I don't want to. I just have them for the collection itself but I do use them every once and a while." He said.
"What are there names?" I asked looking back at the cards.
He started with the red one on the far left.
"This one is Slifer The Sky Dragon. He's the first one I ever got." He told me.
He then pointed to the next one in the middle, which was blue.
"This is Obelisk The Tormentor." He said.
He pointed to the last one on the far right, color of yellow.
"Now this one is the most powerful out of the 3. this is the Wing Dragon of Ra." He said.
"Wow they are amazing!" I said with excitement.
"I know." Yami replied to my excitement.
"I have an idea. Put the god cards in your deck and duel me. I want to see how they work." I said.
"I don't know Yugi." He said thinking hard about it.
"Come on just this once." I begged.
I just looked at him, almost giving him puppy eyes.
"Please?" I begged again.
"Alright, but just this once." He said giving in.
He lifted the glass off the table and grabbed the 3 cards.
"Come on, lets go to the Dueling Room." He said.
He grabbed my wrist with his other hand and lead me out of the room and to the dueling room right next door. He let go of my wrist and opened the door and we walked in.
"Your deck is still where you left it." He told me.
I remembered where it was and walked over to the shelf and had my deck sitting right next to Yami's. I grabbed my deck off the shelf and sat down at the dueling table. Yami grabbed his deck and sat down across from me. He put the God cards in his deck then shuffled it.
"We will play until you play all the God cards." I told him.
"Alright." He agreed.
We dueled 3 times in a row. He played one god card each game, I lost all 3 times. He played Obelisk the first time. Then Slifer the next time and played Ra in the last duel. Each one more powerful then the next. All having unbelievable powers that I could not compete with.
"Those cards are really powerful." I told him.
"Told you so." He said.
He was looking threw his deck and taking out the God cards. He got up and put his deck back on the shelf. I followed behind him and put mu deck back right next to his. He then walked out of the room with me right behind him, he walked back into the collection room. He walked to the middle of the room where the table was and put the God cards back under the glass. As he put the cards back I saw a shelf over at the side of the room with cards stacked on top of it. I walked over to it a\to find a deck on the self. I picked it up and looked threw it. The first cards I saw where 3 Blue Eyes White Dragons'. They where vary rare cards.
"What are you doing?" Someone asked behind me.
I Jumped, almost dropping all the cards. I turned around to see Yami behind me.
"Whose deck is this?" I asked.
"It's Kaiba's." He answered.
"Kaiba's?" I wondered.
"Yea. He leaves it here in this room. He duels ever once and a while." He told me.
"Really? Does anyone else duel?" I asked.
I turned around and put Kaiba's deck back on the shelf.
"Yes. Joey has a deck also." He told me.
"Joey duels?" I asked shoked.
"Yea, but he keeps his deck in his room." I said.
"Awsome. I should ask to duel him at sometime." I said.
"And he might agree." He said.
We then heard a knock at the door. We walked to the door while Yami opened the door. We saw Shada standing out in the hallway.
"Sorry for interrupting you master." He said with a bow.
"You weren't interrupting anything, Shada. What is it that you want?" Yami asked.
"I came to tell you that dinner is ready." Shada said.
"Alright. We will be down." Yami told him.
Shada bowed again, then left. Yami turned around to face me.
"Ready to go down and eat?" He asked me.
"Yes. I can't believe we spent all this time down here." I said.
"Time can fly when your having fun." He said.
He grabbed my hand.
"Guess so." I said.
We walked out of the room and headed into the dinning room. We sat down in are seats and waited till the food came. When the food did come we ate in silence until we where all done. Yami got up from his chair and walked over to me.
"Come with me." He said.
I walked by him in the hallway as we headed to his room.
"Guess he wants to watch the sun set?" I thought.
We got to Yami's room and he walked to the balcony. He stood on the balcony with his arms on the railing and looked out at the sun. I came up next to him and looked out along with him. We just stood there as the sun went behind the hills. Yami moved his hand closer to mine but blushed then moved his hand back.
"So...Yugi, do you feel any better?" He asked still blushing.
"Yea, a lot better. I think my fever is completely gone." I told him.
"Well thats good. At least your better." Yami said smiling a little.
I smiled back at him.
"Yea." I replied back.
The sun was gone now and the moon was out. I looked up at the stars and saw them shine brightly. After a while I gave out a little yawn.
"Tired?" Yami asked.
"A little." I relpied.
"What to go to your room and go to bed?" He asked.
I yawned again and nodded. Yami held his hand out to me.
"I'll walk you back." He said.
I toke his hand and we walked off the balcony and out of his room into the hallway. He walked with me to my room and then I got in bed. Yami pulled the covers on me. He turned around to leave but I wrapped my arms around his waist. He looked back at me.
"Yugi?... What are you doing?" he asked with a surprised face.
"Please don't go. Can you stay here for a little while longer?" I asked.
He paused for a moment.
"Sure." He said.
I toke my arms off him and patted the empty space on the other side of the bed, to tell Yami to lay there. He went to the other side of the bed and laid down with his head against the headboard. I moved closer to him and laid my head on his chest.
"Thank you." I said.
"For what?" He asked.
"For staying with me. I like falling asleep next to you" I said blushing a little.
"Really?" He wondered.
"Yes, I like the feel of your warmth next to me and the sound of your heart beat before I fall sleep." I told him.
Yami said nothing. He just wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me closer to him. I buried my head in his chest and taking in his sweet smell of roses. I grabbed onto his shirt, not letting him go. He put his head on top of mine. I then listened carefully to his heart that beat slowly in his chest, drifting me closer to sleep. I then closed my eyes all the way and fell asleep.
- Yami's Pov-
Yugi's grip loosened from m shirt and he fell limp in my arms. He was fully asleep and his breathing was slow and calm, and I still held him in my arms. I bent my head down and kissed his forehead.
"Good night." I whispered.
I put my head up and just looked down at Yugi sleeping.
"I wish things would stay this way. I have to tell Yugi soon how I feel about him, but if I tell him would he return my fellings? I know deep down that Yugi has feelings for me, just as I do for him. But what keeps me wondering is, will Yugi except me?" I thought.
I looked out the window and sighed.
"I have to tell him tomorrow." I whispered.
I let go of Yugi and slowly got out of bed, trying not to wake him up. I headed for the door and walked out into the hallway. I needed to find Shada, I need to talk to him about tomorrow. I walked threw the hallways looking for Shada. Just as I was about to give up I saw him walking sown the hallway towards me.
"Shada!" I yelled so he could hear me.
I ran up to him.
"Master? Is there something you need?" He asked.
"No, I just want to talk to you." I said.
"About my idea for tomorrow?" He wondered.
"Yes, I want to go with your idea for this 'date' with Yugi. I figured that tomorrow I could tell how I feel about him and maybe he will tell me the same." I told him.
"Alright master. I will range everything and maybe it will work for you and Yugi." He said.
He walked past me and turned down another hallway. I walked to my room, but before I opened the door I thought about Yugi and that he would wake up without me there. Well it was only for tonight. I walked into my room and got in bed.
"I can't wait for tomorrow." I said.
I shut my eyes and fell asleep.
- End of Part 21-