Heh, I promise it's worth the wait. Right because you're most likely anxious to just start reading, I'll make this short and sweet. I do not own Yugioh, Hot Topic, McDonald's, The Panda Express, or the Movies. Enjoy!
Chapter 21
Poor Yami, he had no idea that when Marik had said four walls, he really meant four long walls, with lots of more walls in between. He lost sight of Yugi the minute they walked through the door, and was now searching frantically for the boy. Had Yami been thinking clearly he would have just transferred himself to the puzzle like last time and carried Yugi back to everyone. Then again, Yami would of had to been thinking clearly for that, as it was, Yami was a frantic mess.
The others weren't being very helpful as they had disappeared too, where Yami hadn't a clue. He just hoped they were looking for Yugi, and not doing something else less productive. Though a sinking feeling in his gut told them that's exactly what they were doing, they were everywhere but looking for Yugi.
After searching for about two hours, Yami finally found Yugi, in the last place he wanted to. Yugi was splashing younger kids with parents looking on in disapproval, in the mall's fountain. What made Yami even more irritated was that Kaiba, Marik, and Malik were sitting in benches nearby eating popcorn, watching Yugi like it was a show. What made it even worse though, was that every time Yugi looked like he was about to get out, the other three encouraged him to go splash some poor kid that had just gotten in. Yami lost it, and yelled, well screamed would probably be the better word, at Yugi.
"YUGI HIKARI MUTOU, GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!" Yami screamed at the top of his lungs.
If Yugi hadn't been high on his pain killers he probably would have been so proud. As it was though, he was on pain killers, so instead of listening he instead dared Yami to come in after him. Something Yami was actually foolish enough to do.
Vaulting over the edge of the small wading pool, Yami made a grab for Yugi, only to come up with empty air, and landing face first in the water. Getting up, Yami sloshed through the water and attempted to get some kind of a hold on Yugi. His attempts were fruitless, as the other children seemed to think of him as an easier target than Yugi was. Yami found himself drenched in water in a matter of mere seconds, and trying to see a moving target while having water splashed in your face isn't a good combo.
Eventually Malik took pity on him and offered to help. Yami accepted the help with tired gratitude, making a motion to probably corner Yugi. All this ended up doing was Yami and Malik to run into one another as Yugi ducked their oncoming trap, and crawled through the water to get away.
Yugi didn't get very far though as Yami, thinking quickly, grabbed his ankle that was just barely within his reach, and dragged him back. Getting up Yami tossed the boy over his shoulder and carried him out of the water, with Malik laughing behind him. All three of them were soaked, and as Yami had leather on, well, his clothes were bound to become even more skintight than they already were.
Walking over to the bench where the other two were sitting, Yami unceremoniously dropped Yugi on the both of them. Now all five of them were wet, and Kaiba was less than happy about it. Marik, however just laughed as Yami and Malik sat down, with Malik being in between him and Marik.
"I guess we're going to have to shopping after all, huh Kaiba?" Marik asked, still laughing.
"Shut up, and get off Yugi!" Kaiba said, rolling said boy onto the ground.
Yugi got up slowly, and sat on his knees. He looked up at them, with a slight grin, making Yami curious, as to what he was planning. His curiosity was cured very quickly, when Yugi jumped into Kaiba's lap, giving the other male a hug.
"I agree; we should go shopping because if those leather clothes of Yami's have a chance to dry, he might get mugged by that group of girls eyeing him up over there." Yugi said bluntly, like he had just aged in a matter of seconds, while pointing over to a group of girls, who were indeed eyeing Yami up.
As soon as the girls noticed that they had the males attentions, they walked, well sauntered, over to shamelessly flirt with them. They didn't even seem to notice that Marik and Malik were obviously a couple, Kaiba and Yami had no interest in them, and Yugi, was about to stake a claim on Yami.
Just before the girls reached them, Yugi slid off of Kaiba's lap, and walked over to Yami and plopped down in his. Then Yugi grabbed Yami's neck belt, and crashed his lips down onto the other males. Yami froze for a second in pure shock before kissing Yugi back. Licking Yugi's bottom lip to ask for entrance, he received it, but this time Yami decided to tread the area cautiously incase Yugi bit his tongue again.
Growing impatient with Yami's tentative nature, Yugi curled his tongue around Yami's and practically dragged the wet muscle into his mouth. Yami immediately started a war with Yugi's tongue, and won pretty quickly too. Though, he wasn't sure if it was because Yugi had let him, or if he had actually won the battle on his own. However, he made sure to claim his prize by mapping out Yugi's mouth, and he found that if he ran his tongue at a certain angle along the roof of Yugi's mouth, he got him to moan. It wasn't a quite moan either, it was very loud, and Yami loved the sound of it.
When the two finally broke apart, due to the need for oxygen, both were panting, and Yami had somehow wound up with his hands up the back of Yugi's shirt. When that had happened he hadn't a clue, nor did he care, Yugi's skin felt amazing, like satin, warm satin.
Yugi found that he wasn't just sitting in Yami's lap anymore, he was straddling Yami. Yami didn't seem to mind though, so Yugi didn't move his position. Looking over at the others, he couldn't help the smile that crossed their slightly shocked faces. Malik was the first to recover.
"And when did you become a teenager exactly?" he asked, feeling as if he was about to become really annoyed.
"When this guy here screamed out my name for the entire mall to hear." Yugi replied a mischievous look in his eye, while poking Yami in the chest. The girls had long since left, when they started to hear Yugi moan, that was.
Kaiba muttered something incoherently under his breath before getting up and yanking Yugi off of Yami. Then he proceeded to yank Yami up off the bench, as well as Marik, and then turned and started to walk away. Kaiba had taken about three steps before he realized that neither had followed him. Looking back he saw that both had retaken their seats, and were just staring at him.
"Do you two want dry clothes or not?" Kaiba asked through gritted teeth.
Yami and Marik looked at each other before both got up.
"Only if you're paying rich boy." Marik said walking towards him.
"I'm with Crayzee, besides I don't have any money." Yami chimed in.
"Whatever, let's go. Ishtar see that you don't lose him, and get yourselves some change of clothes too." Kaiba said looking past them.
"Are you paying Seto?" Yugi asked, making Yami stumble into a stop. He had only ever heard of Yugi referring to him as Kaiba, never Seto. Was Seto his first name? If so, why didn't anyone ever use it?
"Yes, and you know I prefer to be called by my surname Kaiba, Mutou." Kaiba replied his voice slightly strained.
"All right….Seto." Yugi replied back before running off laughing.
"I miss that Yugi." Marik said watching him run off.
"Don't we all? Yugi, wait up!" Malik responded back to him before running after Yugi.
"Miss?" Yami asked.
"Later." Kaiba responded before turning around and heading off.
Malik ran to catch up with Yugi, and caught sight of him just before he turned into one of his old favorite stores. Malik grinned slightly, before heading into Hot Topic as well. Malik scanned the area before he found Yugi back by the jewelry section. This was where Yugi always got his neck belts in the past, it was a shame he no longer wore them.
"Kaiba said clothes not accessories, Yugi." Malik said with a slight smirk.
"Accessories are part of clothing Malik, because they complete the outfit." Yugi said with his own smirk looking at Malik out of the corner of his eyes.
"Whatever, so how much of Kaiba's money should we spend this time?" Malik asked with a knowing smile.
"How about until we drop from exhaustion, and when did you and Marik get so close?" Yugi replied back, fingering a neck belt that said 'woof' on it.
"That sounds good to me, and about two months ago." Malik responded, turning a studded bracelet over in his hands.
"Really, how did I miss that?" Yugi asked in a surprised voice, turning his head to face Malik.
"You were really busy with the Shop, school work, and other things." Malik said in an offhanded voice.
"Oh, so you don't know how to use a phone?" Yugi asked, in a disbelieving tone.
"No, I do, it's just...never mind." Malik started to say, then shook his head to dismiss it.
"It's just what?" Yugi asked, clearly not dismissing it.
"Nothing, it's nothing, let's just have fun today okay?" Malik said hoping Yugi would drop it.
"Okay, I'll drop it, but you do know you can tell me anything, right Malik?" Yugi asked trying to catch his eye.
"Yeah, I do Yugi, I know that." Malik said looking at him.
"Okay, so which one do you think Yami would like; this one that says My Darkness or this one that says Owned Property?" Yugi asked holding the two up for Malik to see.
Malik couldn't help but laugh, the one that said My Darkness, was a dark crimson with the words My Darkness sown into it in black. While the one saying Owned Property, was a dark blue color, with the words Owned Property sown into it in dark brown.
"Oh, I think he would like both, as well as this one." Malik said handing Yugi another neck belt.
Yugi looked at it, to discover it was a dark forest green color with the words Whipped sown into it in a fuchsia color. Yugi looked back up at Malik with a smile on his face that he'd seen on more than one occasion.
"Perfect." Was all Yugi said before heading to the checkout.
Malik followed behind him, but paused when he saw a shirt that would be perfect for Yugi to wear. It was a tight-fitted, no sleeves, gray shirt, but it was the words that caught Malik's attention. Printed in black on the shirt were the words 'I don't date Psychos'; Malik couldn't help but feel that the shirt was made for Yugi. Grabbing it off the rack Malik rushed to get to the checkout, as Yugi was already done and was waiting for him by the front doors. Paying for the item Malik and Yugi exited the store.
Yugi and Malik wandered around the mall for a bit before they came across a high end gothic store, it must have been new for neither of them had ever seen it before. This surprised them, because they thought they knew every gothic store that was either in the mall or the city Domino.
"Black Dreams and Wicked Nightmares, well Kaiba's paying, you want to check it out?" Yugi asked after reading the name of the store.
"Well Kaiba's paying, so why not?" Malik responded back.
The two grinned at one another before heading into the store. As soon as they entered they couldn't help but think that the owner had chosen the perfect name for it. The store held every gothic's dream of attire. There were studded outfits, leather outfits, chains, belts, chokers, lace, and rows upon rows of black, red, and dark blue outfits. The two boys felt as if they had died and gone to heaven, before rushing off in different directions, to investigate their preferences in what they liked to wear.
By the time the two left the store, they were heavily weighted down with bags of all the items they had purchased. The two couldn't carry any more bags even if they had wanted to, so they decided to retire to the food court, as both were growing hungry.
Dropping their bags off at a table, Malik sat down and watched them as Yugi went to go get food from The Panda Express, and when he got back with his food of orange chicken, beef and broccoli and rice, Malik got up to get his own food. He got a double stacker cheeseburger with fries and a shake, from McDonalds. Sitting down the boys ate in silence.
That was one of the things he missed about Yugi's company, he never felt the need to talk all the time, he was much more content with listening. Though even Malik was smart enough to not bring up that the real reason why Yugi didn't know that he and Marik were together was because they didn't talk anymore. So Yugi being on the pain medication did come with at least one nice side affect, he got his old friend back. The one before the roof incident even existed, let alone happened.
"I wonder how the others are doing." Yugi said out of nowhere.
"Do want to go look for them, and find out?" Malik asked.
"You're kidding right? With all of these bags, I think we're better off just letting them find us." Yugi said looking at Malik with disbelief.
"Agreed." Malik responded, and the two of them finished their lunch in silence while they waited for the others to locate them.
"No, Marik, no more! I'm done trying on clothes!" Yami yelled at Marik as the other tried to force several more leather outfits into Yami's dressing room that was already packed with clothes.
"But you'll look great in these! Come on, just try them on!" Marik persisted.
"NO! You're worse than Yugi, when he wants chocolate chip pancakes with a smiling clown face! I'm not trying anything else on and that's FINAL!" Yami exclaimed.
"Yeah, but Yugi likes leather outfits, and he didn't seem to mind you wearing his old one. The only one that managed to survive in Yugi's siege to get rid of anything that reminded him of his life before the roof incident. So why not try it on for Yugi?" Marik tried to bribe him.
It didn't seem to work though as a huge pile of clothes were thrown over the top of the door, and landed on Marik. Kaiba could be heard laughing a short distance away, as Yami came out of the dressing room with about 13 to 15 outfits in his hands.
"No, not even for Yugi. Can we please get out of here Kaiba? I'm tired of shopping, and I want to find Yugi." Yami said stepping around the heap on the floor that consisted of clothes and Marik.
"Yeah, I've got to be getting home to Mokuba anyway. Who knows what kind of trouble he's been making for the Mutt and 'tame' Bakura in my absence." Kaiba said standing up stretching out his stiff muscles.
"Who's Mutt and 'tame' Bakura?" Yami asked confused.
"Oh, right, you're not familiar with the nicknames from our old group. Mutt is Jounouchi, and 'tame' Bakura is Ryou. Kulena can handle himself, but I won't let him near Mokuba anymore, not since he decided to try to teach Mokuba how to pick locks; baka Thief." Kaiba explained, as Marik detangled himself from the clothing pile.
"Oh, and Mokuba, he's your brother?" Yami asked.
"Yes, he's my younger brother. Hurry up Marik, or Malik and Yugi are going to beat us to the food court!" Kaiba responded before yelling over Yami's shoulder at Marik, who was now dragging himself out of the mountain of clothes he was piled under.
"You know, you could help instead of just standing there watching me." Marik grumbled at them.
"Yeah, but where's the fun in that?" Kaiba replied back.
"Just remember who delivers your pizza Kaiba; you never know when something unexpected might show up in it again." Marik said back as he finally got free from the stack of clothes.
Standing up Marik walked toward them, and the three of them headed off towards the checkout, so they could try to beat the others to the food court. Kaiba paid for his, Marik's and Yami's stuff, then the three of them took off towards the food court. One was hoping that the others weren't there; one was hoping they were, and the last couldn't care less.
Upon their arrival at the food court they saw Yugi and Malik sitting at a table that was quite literally surrounded by bags, and almost all of them appeared to be from the same store. Just looking at all the bags the two had around them, gave Kaiba a sense of déjà vu, when Ryou, Malik, Jou, and Yugi had discovered a new store in the mall. That had to of been what happened, Yugi and Malik had discovered a new store. A new store, that apparently went by the name of Black Dreams and Wicked Nightmares, from what all the bags were saying.
"Did you two discover a new store?" Marik asked as soon as they reached the table they were sitting at.
"Yep, and it was like we died and went to heaven the minute we walked in." Yugi responded with a smile.
"How much did you two spend at this store exactly?" Yami asked next. Kaiba was afraid of what the answer was going to be.
"Don't know we really didn't pay attention to the amount." Malik said shrugging his shoulders.
"Well, I'm sure I'll find out eventually. I've called my driver to come get us and to take us to our respective homes." Kaiba said snapping his phone shut. No one had even been aware that he had been talking to someone.
Five minutes later everyone, including the large amounts of shopping bags was all piled into Kaiba's limo, and they headed off for the Game Shop as it was the closest to the mall. After Yugi had Yami help him carry his bags, plus the ones Yami had for himself as well, into the house both boys collapsed onto the couch.
"So what's next?" Yami asked.
"We could watch a movie. I have The Hunger Games, Star Trek, Yours, Mine and Ours, Final Fantasy VII, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy set. What do you want to watch?" Yugi said in a tired voice.
"Star Trek?" Yami asked, not realizing that Yugi would take his question as the movie he wanted to watch.
"Star Trek it is then." Yugi said, pushing himself off of the couch, and walking over to the TV. He popped the DVD into the Blu-ray player, and waited for it to load. Grabbing the remote control, Yugi went to sit back on the couch, though one could say he was spooning Yami more than he was actually sitting.
Yami looked down and smirked at Yugi's new position. He then wrapped an arm around Yugi's waist and pulled him closer into his side. Yami didn't mind if Yugi was a five year old every morning, just as long as he got to cuddle with him at night, he okay with it.
Yami didn't see much of the movie Star Trek, as he had decided to see how willing Yugi actually was in his current state of mind. As it turned out Yugi was willing to do anything above the belt line, and Yami had no problem taking advantage of that while he still had the chance to. At the current moment Yami had Yugi beneath him, as he pressed his body against the others, their lips locked in a passionate kiss.
When the need for air became too great for either boy to ignore, they broke apart only for Yami to reposition his lips on Yugi's neck. He sucked hard on parts of Yugi's skin, causing the boy to moan at the sensation. Yami was quite pleased at his handiwork when he pulled away to look at it. There were three love bites on Yugi's pale skinned neck, and it made Yami even more proud to know that he was the one to have put them there. Yami didn't get to admire his work for very long though, when a hand came up to grasp his collar, and pull him back down into a searing kiss.
The two boys made out for a good two hours straight, and by the end of the session each knew all of the others sensitive spots above the waist line. Yugi suggested that they actually try to watch the movie, seeing as that was their intention in the first place. Yami reluctantly got up off of Yugi, only to be pushed down on his back, as Yugi made a pillow out of his chest. Yami had no complaints about their new position as he wrapped an arm around Yugi's waist.
Both boys looked over to the screen to see the last of the credits rolling up on it. Yugi laughed a bit into Yami's chest, before looking up at him with a smile.
"Did you enjoy the movie?" Yugi asked, knowing Yami had probably only seen up to the part where Kirk's Father crashed the ship into the Romulan's rather larger ship.
"I didn't see much of it, can we watch it again?" Yami asked smiling back down at him.
"Tomorrow, right now we need to get to bed. It's already going on 11:30, and the shop hasn't been open all week, so we need to run it tomorrow too." Yugi replied, climbing off of Yami, much to his disappointment.
"All right, that should be interesting." Yami replied.
The two went upstairs where Yugi went into his room, and Yami started to walk down the hall to his own room.
"Where are you going? You know my bed can fit up to three people comfortably right?" Yugi asked him, poking his head out of his bedroom door.
"I'm not so sure that that's a good idea Yugi." Yami said looking at him uneasily.
"Yeah, you're probably right, well night!" Yugi conceded, before pulling his head back into his room and closing the door.
Yami waited in his room until he felt Yugi was asleep through the mind link, Yugi may have been able to keep his thoughts away from Yami, but his emotions were fair game to him. He knew that when he felt a sense of pure calamity run through the link, that meant that Yugi was asleep. Yami casually opened the portal between his room and Yugi's corner and walked through.
Once Yami had settled himself comfortably in the corner, he promptly fell asleep. It felt to Yami as if he had only just closed his eyes before they were snapping open to a loud shrieking, screaming voice that filled the entire house, and probably the two next door as well.
"WHAT THE-?! YAMI WHAT IN THE DEVIL'S DOMAIN DID WE DO YESTERDAY?!"
Don't you just love the way I ended it? It's the perfect cliffhanger. Anyway, thanks to all of those who are/have following/favorited this story. Thank you to everyone who reviewed Guest and User alike. Oh, and for those of you who don't know what Roman Numerals are which VII=7. Please review, without using vulgarity! Midnight ;p