Yani's POV

"Yani! Wake up!" Kaiba pulled back the covers as I sat up and rubbed my eyes. "We're going to be late for school!" he warned, pulling my leg over the bed. I looked out the window and I saw clouds obscuring what should have been a wonderfully blue April sky.

"No wonder," I mumbled and changed while I was walking down the stairs, the air shimmering as it wove clothes for me as soon as I thought of what to wear.

"Kaibaaaaaaaa! Let's gooooooo!" I called up the stairs, making Mokuba run down the stairs and into the limo.

"I told you to call me Seto," he said, jumping the last seven stairs to the ground. I wasn't feeling quite well then so I just stood until he caught up with me and didn't say anything.

"Yani, are you ok?" Kaiba asked me, touching my forehead with the palm of his hand. "Holy crap. Yani, you're burning."

"I'm fine!" I snapped and dragged him by his tie all the way to the limo.

I couldn't concentrate in school, not even to draw. Every three seconds, I would look out the window and feel that clouds were still swirling outside the window. I felt something… restless in me. Like I wanted to punch something. Needless to say, Kaiba was worried.

"Yani—" I started to cough, interrupting whatever Kaiba was saying. Nothing too serious though, just light coughs.

"Yani, you're sick. I'm taking you home."

"No you're not. Just let me finish today at least…"

"It's not like you do anything significant at school," he said, frustrated. "Why don't you go home and rest?" We stared at each other, both of us frustrated for one reason of another.

"Because it's the only time I get to see Yami," I said quietly, walking towards the final class of the day.

When I got home, Kaiba made me go to sleep right away.

"You're sick," he interrupted when I tried to argue. "Bed, now."

"I don't want to."

"I wasn't asking for your opinion. That was an order."

"I have things to do Kaiba."

"They could wait until you're better."

"I can do what I want. I'm old enough."

"You're in my house. Do what I tell you."

I snapped.

"No! You're not my brother! Stop telling me what to do! I'm fine, okay? Stop bothering me!" I screamed at him. Suddenly, a bright light flashed to my left side. Then, everything became darker as moonlight streamed in from the window.

"Listen to the mortal, little wolf cub."

"Listen to him, love."

I turned to find Lady Artemis and Apollo staring tiredly at me.

"Don't call me 'love', Apollo," I spat to the blond-haired teenager. He smiled an easy smile, flashing his white teeth and looking like the perfect male model for surfing gear.

"But you're so pretty and—"

"I prefer brunettes," I shot, glaring daggers at him.

"Yani, you're sick. Just admit it," Apollo said with a shrug.

"It doesn't matter if I'm sick or not, oh so called 'God of Medicine'!"

"You cannot spurn love that way, wolf cub," Lady Artemis said, her voice ringing through the hallway. I bowed to her. In this form, she was a small child with a white and silver tunic which accented her silver and black hair, tied into pigtails.

"I am pure in your favor, Lady. I have not loved!"

"That is not the reason you have not loved," she whispered, slowly melting away. "Look carefully within your song, wolf cub and you will accept the true reason why you reject the mortal." Seconds after she disappeared, Apollo gave me a playful wink and disappeared in a flash of light.

I howled. Just sang my heart out into the sky as I let my frustration break in waves.

"Yani, bed."

"NO!"

"Yani, you're throwing a tantrum."

"Maybe I want to! I hate growing up! I wanna be a kid again!" Just like that, I was crying. "The world is so messed up! Being a kid was so much easier! I DON'T WANT TO GROW UP!"

Before I had time to think, Kaiba flipped me over his shoulder, tossed me on the bed, and lay down next to me. I felt him smiling in the darkness and this made me stop crying.

"Why so smug?" I asked him, brushing a hand lightly over his face.

"I prefer girls with black hair," said the brown haired mortal, leaving the room before I could say a word.

Kaiba didn't bother to wake me up the next day. When I slowly came to, I heard him making a phone call to the school telling them Yani and Seto Kaiba would not be attending school. I almost yelled at him but when I tried to get up, I just collapsed back into bed. I felt sick, really sick and when I looked out the window, I confirmed it was still cloudy. My head felt like it was encased in lead and as soon as I moved, a pain shot through both of my temples. Kaiba heard me trying to move and quickly walked into the room.

"Don't move Yani, you have a really high fever," he said, sitting next to me and placing an icy hand on my forehead. I kicked the blankets away.

"Too hot," I mumbled, curling around his waist, hoping he was cooler that I was. His eyes widened when I untucked his shirt and slid my hand until it rested on his stomach. But he understood and took off his shirt.

"Do you know why you're sick?" he asked after most of my body was touching some part of his skin.

"It's too cloudy."

"Yani, are you delirious?"

"No Kaiba."

"If a man has a million US dollars, what is the best plan he should undertake to get a billion British shillings?"

"I'm not delirious."

"Which plan?"

"I wouldn't know the answer to that question even if I weren't delirious!" There was a silence as I tried not to throw up and focused on the mortal's arctic skin.

"Kaiba…"

"Seto," he growled.

"I'm going to die."

"AP economy isn't that bad, is it?" I struggled so that I was sitting up and facing him.

"No Kaiba," I said softly, "Really, I'm going to die."

"You ARE delirious."

"How many days has it been cloudy?" He thought for a while, looking into my eyes.

"Four." There was dead silence as Kaiba looked at me and I looked at my fingers.

"If the clouds don't clear up… I die tomorrow."

"Yani, just get some rest—" I flipped him over, sat on his stomach, and pinned his hand over his head.

"LISTEN TO ME!" I screamed, "I'M. GOING. TO. DIE!"

He overpowered me easily and sat up, still keeping me on his lap. With one hand, he brushed the tears away from my face and raked a hand through my hair.

"Why?"

"I need moonlight, Kaiba." There was silence as he considered what I said.

"You're not going to die." I rolled off him.

"You are the most stubborn, idiotic, disconnected—"

"I won't let you die."

"Kaiba, you are so blind in your own way."

"Hn."

"I can't see what's right in front of me but I can see what's going to happen. You! You're just unable to see what's going to happen although you can see what's going on right in front of you!" Pain shot through my head and I started to cough again. When I stopped coughing, Kaiba held a cup of Swiss spring water to me and made me drink the whole cup. Then, he pulled the covers over me again and just lay there beside me, saying nothing.

"Can I go to your office today?" I asked Kaiba, gently covering his face with my hand.

"No."

"Why not?"

"The obvious reason, heart."

"Don't call me that, Kaiba."

"Hn." I laughed softly in spite of myself.

"What are you laughing at?" Kaiba asked, slightly indignant and worried.

"…love it when you say that…"

"Hn?"

"Yeah… you say that to everyone else so… special when you say it to me 'cause… talk to me more than you talk to them." I felt Kaiba place a hand on my head again and I closed my eyes. I could feel my words starting to slur together.

"Just go to sleep, Yani." I heard him say as he cupped my face with the hand that was on my forehead.

"Kissm'furst…" I heard someone that sounded like myself slur. I felt Kaiba's face get closer to mine, his breath mingling with mine. Then he backed away, silent.

"Demand that of me when you aren't half dead and hallucinating." I could hear him slowly getting out of bed so I wouldn't wake up. All of a sudden, I grabbed his shirt sleeve and pulled him so that he was lying next to me again.

"Don't leave me…"

For the next how so many hours I was out, I was aware of what was only happening to me. I couldn't move my body because I was so weak and I felt nails being hammered into my head. I coughed, a lot and I felt blood come up my throat during the later hours. Soon, I hallucinated hands all over my body and death in the middle of moonless nights. Sometimes, I had hallucinations of men with ammunition belts slung over their shoulders and knives by their waist. Every time that happened, I screamed, even though I knew it was a hallucination. I heard Mokuba's frantic, shrill cry and Kaiba's whispered reproach.

Kaiba turned my head to the side and I threw up blood and bile into a bucket. Gentle fingers cleaned out my mouth and water washed out the blood. But constantly, I felt his body by my side, his skin in contact with mine as he slowly ran his hand through my hair. All day and night, he didn't leave me once.

Then, it was over. I was wide awake, somewhere outside. I hadn't opened my eyes but I could feel the warm night air around me and a warmer body supporting my back.

"Are you awake, Yani?" I opened my eyes to glowing moonlight raining from a cloudless sky. I shifted against Kaiba to get off him but he just pulled me back so that my back was resting against his chest.

"Yeah," I whispered and then started to cough weakly. When I stopped, my chest hurt too much to sit up so I just leaned back against him.

"Where are we?" I asked after a minute. He shifted and that's when I noticed Mokuba was nestled into his side, a blanket over him.

"On the roof."

"How did I get here?"

"I carried you."

I didn't saying anything more, just listened to the sound of cicadas and crickets chirping. And the sound of that steady heartbeat behind me. Kaiba moved his arms around my shoulders and placed his cheek on the top of my head.

"I don't think you realized how scared I was."

"I'm sorry," I apologized.

"I never said you had to say sorry."

"I'm sorry, nonetheless."

I felt around my wrist for what I was looking for and then when I found it, clasped it around Kaiba's wrist.

"It's a bracelet, so you're going to have to put up with a little more teasing in the locker room." He examined the silver bracelet made with the silver wire and strung with bead charms of a wolf, a moon, a sun, a glass of wine, a seashell, a human bone, a caduceus, an olive branch, a bundle of wheat, and a hammer.

"Thank you Kaiba." The bracelet tinkled as he moved his arms more securely around me.

"You're welcome."