Meanwhile Solomon had placed Yugi on the bed and was sitting beside him when he heard the door opening from behind.

"How is he?" Yami asked coming inside.

"He's sleeping. I gave him some ferrum to drink and then he fell asleep" and caressed Yugi's head tenderly.

Yami came and stood above the bed. Yugi was covered with a blanket and his eyes were closed. His breathing was silent and calm. However he was so pale! His lips almost had no color! Yami kneeled next to the bed.

"Oh, Yugi! What have I done to you! How did I end you up like this!" he whispered

Solomon put a hand on Yami's shoulder.

"He's strong Yami. Even if he doesn't look like it"

"I know…" said Yami while he was thinking that someone who was gives his blood to a vampire to feed…

"It's all my fault!" he said again, "You must hate me now, grandpa"

"No, Yami. I don't hate you. I'm not even angry at you"

"You can't understand! I'm a monster!"

"Yami!"

"It's true! If you knew…if you knew…"

He sighed and caressed one of Yugi's blond bangs.

"It is completely impossible for me to resist to his blood. I savor every single sip! So delicious…so…tasty…I just can't resist and I just want more! My thirst for his blood can't be quenched! It's like I can never have enough of it! Even now…even now I want his blood! To feel it feeling my mouth…running down to my throat…its sweetness on my tongue…"

He shook his head not allowing himself to continue.

"I appease only when I drink Yugi's blood…It's disgusting!" and covered his face with his hand.

Solomon remained silent for a little while. Then he spoke.

"Yami, I think you should go with them. One brotherhood of vampires maybe can help you."

Yami looked at him surprised.

"What do you know about this?"

"Almost nothing. Ishizu talked to me vaguely about brotherhoods that vampires make at times, but that just came to our conversation by luck"

"What do you know, grandpa? Please tell me!"

"I know just a few legends that I'm sure you know as well. A bunch of superstitions and nothing more. I've heard lots of things in my journeys when I worked as an archeologist in Egypt."

"You've never told me that you worked in Egypt!"

"I was in a team of archeologists. I was working with my best friend. That's why I'm telling you. I've heard lots of things. To me you'll be always my grandson!" and hugged him tightly.

Yami, touched, hugged him back. Suddenly he jerked up.

"Yugi!" and checked his pulse again.

"Thank God!" he sighed in relief, "For one moment I thought that his pulse…his heart…Oh, Yugi!"

"Calm down, Yami. Everything is gonna be alright." Solomon said and pressed him gently to make him sit on the chair again.

By noticing Yami's melancholic expression, Solomon desisted to change subject.

"You made new friends, I see"

Yami snapped his head to him slightly confused.

"That girl…Anzu…Anzu Mazaki...?"

"Oh, yes. Anzu…She saved my life once and she advised me"

"Really? Is she beautiful?"

Yami smiled with a dreamy smile and looked to nowhere for a little.

"Yes she is…" he whispered without noticing

"Mm!" Solomon smirked craftily.

Yami jerked up when he realized what he had just said.

"No! Nothing like that!"

"Yeah, right!" Solomon thought.

"She was the one who first told me about the brotherhood"

"You do trust Anzu right?"

"Of course! Yes! I trust her with my life"

"Then if Anzu trusts them, maybe you should trust them too."

Yami seemed thoughtful. Solomon stood up saying

"I'm going to bring Yugi a medicine to protect him from anemia. I'll be right back" and left Yami alone.

Yami remained there staring at Yugi's sleeping form. But he had started feeling uncomfortable again. His breath started becoming heavy as if the air in the room wasn't enough. He was becoming thirsty again.

"Blood…" was saying a voice in his head.

He focused on Yugi's neck where now was a plaster. However before Yami's sensitive eyes were visible two red spots piercing the cotton of the plaster. The calm heartbeat of Yugi's was coming in perfect opposition to his own that was beating as if his heart wished to pop out of his chest.

"…even now I want his blood…" his own words were echoing in his mind.

Was it possible? Even in the condition Yugi was he still…

Absolutely mechanically and noiselessly he stood up while his now red eyes were glowing in the darkness.

"… So delicious…so…tasty…"

Making no sound he bent over Yugi.

"…To feel it feeling my mouth…"

He gently took the plaster off and faced the two holes.

"…running down to my throat…"

He smelled the blood and climbed on the bed on top of Yugi. He bent down even more. His fangs lengthened.

"…its sweetness on my tongue…"

He opened his mouth, ready to sink his fangs into the already opened holes while his breathing was heavy…Then…

"Ya…mi…" Yugi mumbled in a half-sleeping, half-unconscious state.

Yami stopped even to breathe. He immediately got away from Yugi.

"Ya…mi…" Yugi's raving went on. "…big brother…"

Yami was frozen in his spot with his eyes stuck on Yugi. Yugi was calling him! Not grandpa. Not his mother or his father. He was calling HIM! And he…he was ready…oh, God!

Yugi's weak little fist clenched the sheet.

"Yugi…" Yami said, his voice just above a faint whisper.

He kneeled next to the bed and took that hand in his own ones.

"I'm here Yugi…I'm here…" he was whispering in a shaking voice.

The door opened and Solomon got in holding a small glass in his hand with some thick syrup.

"We must give it to him to drink"

"I'll handle it, grandpa" said Yami taking the glass.

He passed his other hand behind Yugi's back and lifted his upper body so his head would lean backwards. He brought the glass to Yugi's half-opened lips.

"Drink little one…drink…" he was whispering as he was pouring the liquid bit by bit in Yugi's mouth.

Yugi's throat convulsed softly, subconsciously, to accept the liquid. Yami laid Yugi gently on the pillow and covered him with the blanket.

"This will relieve him a little." Solomon said.

"I don't think so" Yami thought, "It would be better if that vampire had let me die when he bit me!"

He turned to Solomon and whispered,

"Grandpa please…kill me!"

Then Solomon slapped him on the cheek hardly. Yami cupped his cheek with his hand and looked at his angry grandpa.

"If you dare even think something like that again, I will lock you in a room no matter how much you'll be begging me for blood!" Solomon said in a low, angry voice.

"But…"

"I don't want to hear anything, young man!"

"But would you bare this sight?" he asked pointing Yugi on the bed.

"Yugi is in this condition because of me!"

"Who are you and what have you done to Yami? Yami I knew would never quit! Not even when the possibilities were against him! And now you're telling me you're giving up!"

Yami turned his head elsewhere.

"Yami turn to look at me!"

He did. His eyes were almost watered.

"Look at Yugi!" he told him sternly

Yami shut his eyes and clenched his teeth.

"Look at him!"

Gasping, Yami looked at Yugi and felt his heart bleeding.

"His sacrifice means nothing to you? After all he did you're going to throw everything to garbage?"

"Grandpa please…"

"Do you think that he would like that? All he did, he did it for not to see you quitting and you're going to betray him like that?"

"Stop!" Yami couldn't hear these any more.

"I don't know what's going on in your head, but I won't let you give up on everything and throw Yugi's sacrifice away!"

Yami was shaking because his words were reminding him Yugi's words:

"And you might hate me Yami but… I won't let you quit yourself!"

His nerves broke. He buried his face in his palms and started to cry with stewed, uncontrollable sobs. Solomon wrapped his arms around Yami's shoulders.

"Calm down son…calm down…" he was whispering.

However Yami's ears was reaching only Yugi's words:

"Don't cry, Yami… Everything is gonna be alright…"

Well...chapter 20...

Yami's guilt...Yugi is ill...and Solomon talks to Yami

THEME

Guilt and sadness (Vampire Knight Guilty Ost Main theme) (by the moment that says "Yami was frozen in his spot..." till the end)

Please comment my fic and soundtrack!

Enjoy!