Here's the next chapter.

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Chapter 51

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Yugi was sitting on the bed upstairs watching as Yami and Atemu started packing clothes into a duffle bag. Yugi wanted to talk to them seeing as they weren't happy about what they were going to do having Yugi, Ryou and Malik so close when they fought with him. Yugi didn't know how to break the ice between the three of them and he wasn't sure if he should try talking to them.

Yugi sat in silence looking out the window before he finally thought of something. He stood up and walked out of the room before he headed outside. The others were in their room packing up bags so Yugi met no one on the way down the stairs and out of the house. He figured it wouldn't take long before the two were running down the stairs and outside to find him. Yugi walked down towards the like and sat on the small dock down there. He needed to relax and since his two lovers weren't helping he decided to try and do it himself and if they wanted to help they could.

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Atemu looked up when Yugi left the room and frowned but continued to pack bits and pieces into the bag he had in hand. He was doing his packing as Yami did Yugi's and his own. They were packing up a few bit and pieces to put in the cave.

Atemu was walking by the window when he saw movement in the corner of his eye and turned to look out. Atemu sighed and turned to Yami who was just coming from the bathroom.

"Yami look at this."

Yami walked over and growled lightly. "Why would he go outside? He knows it's now too dangerous to be alone."

"Don't know but let's go see him."

They both walked out of the room and downstairs and outside. As they walked down they saw Yugi was sitting on the dock with his bare feet hanging in the water. As they got closer they saw him turn his head slightly obviously hearing them approaching him.

"Yugi what are you doing out here?" Yami asked as they sat on either side of him.

"Well the air was so tense inside I needed some fresh air."

"Why didn't you ask one of us to come with you? It's dangerous now for you to be alone." Atemu asked gently.

"Because I needed to relax."

"You still should have asked one of us to come." Yami told him as he wrapped his arm around his shoulder.

"But you were both in a mood and I figured if I asked it would be shot down so I figured even if I only got a few minutes it was better than nothing."

"We wouldn't have shot you down." Atemu argued.

"Really because the air was so thick in the room that I didn't know what would happen. You both haven't been happy with the last couple of hours."

They both sighed as they didn't realise they had made Yugi feel that way.

"Yugi we're sorry. We didn't realise it. We would just prefer that you were far away from the fight. We don't know what could happen." Atemu said.

"I'll be safer with you. Not away from you. I know you don't like this pan but I think it will be safer."

"Let's finish packing up and getting you all to the location."

They had all decided that they wouldn't say the word 'cave' so that in case anyone that shouldn't be around wouldn't know where. Yugi sighed and climbed to his feet and walked back inside after taking the crutches from Atemu.

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It had been a couple of days and all the stuff was set up in the cave and they were now just waiting for the traps to be set off. They were all sitting around fidgeting. They had been playing cards for the better part of the morning and they were getting agitated.

"Argh! I can't take it anymore!" Bakura yelled in frustration.

"Bakura calm down." Ryou said.

"No! I'm sick of sitting around."

"Bakura why don't we go for a walk." Ryou said and nodded to Akefia to join.

Akefia stood up and grabbed Bakura's arm and pulled him to his feet. Bakura followed Akefia and Ryou out of the cottage and everyone let out a sigh of relief.

"You can't blame him." Yugi said. "Everyone is tense."

"Atemu I'm going to check the traps. Something feels off. It's too quiet." Yami said softly so that Yugi and Malik didn't hear, even if Marik did.

"Ok."

Yami stood up and left the room before racing back in a minute later with Akefia, Bakura and a scared Ryou behind him. Everyone got to their feet at their sudden entrance.

"We need to go now!" Yami said as he grabbed Yugi into his arms, while Atemu grabbed the crutches.

Everyone hurried out the back and out into the forest . Yugi had wrapped his arms tightly around Yami's neck, shaking. Yami ran into the cave before depositing Yugi on the ground in the back of the cave before racing out with Bakura and Marik. It had been decided that Atemu and Akefia would stay behind with Yugi, Ryou and Malik while Yami, Bakura and Marik would go out and fight. This way they had someone protecting Yugi, Ryou and Malik in case someone got passed and found the cave. Yami would have sealed it but no guarantee that it would stop anyone for long.

Yugi sat on the ground and wrapped his arms around his legs and just waited. Atemu and Akefia had already changed their form and were still large enough to scare anyone that comes in and still small enough to hide and have enough room for everyone to be comfortable. Akefia was over with Ryou and Malik in another area and the two were sitting on the ground and Akefia was wrapped around them.

Yugi looked up as something moved around Yugi. Atemu was also in his snake form and wrapping around Yugi and rested his head on Yugi's shoulder. Yugi smiled at him and Atemu licked his cheek.

"It will be alright."

"I know I'm just worried about them."

"They'll be fine. It will be over soon."

"I know. I'm just worried."

Atemu licked his cheek again before resting his head on Yugi's shoulder. Yugi shivered slightly before relaxing against Atemu. Yugi knew that even while they were all positive about everything he wasn't. He hated this. He wanted to be back at home not having to worry about getting hurt or killed. He just wanted to go back to university and finish his course, enjoy his time with his friends, with his boyfriends. Not this.

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I don't think they'll be too many chapters left for this story.

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