I do not own YGO! DUEL MONSTERS.

Although Yūgi trusted his brother and believed in what Mana had said, he really couldn't endure the scene he had just witnessed, nor what he had just heard.

"Yūgi! Yūgi, wait!" he heard Yami calling him from a prudent distance.

"Yūgi," Mana, next to him, also did the same, although she didn't seem quite determined like his brother.

And, although he didn't plan to stop, he did. So suddenly that Mana almost went through him if it wasn't because she stopped just in time.

He gave Yami a chance to reach him and only turned when he knew that his brother was a couple of meters away from him.

The night lights illuminated his worried and regretful expression, while some people saw them with a distinguished dissimulation.

"When?" he wanted to know then.

Well, he really didn't want to know. He needed to know it.

"'When'?" Yami repeated with sincere confusion.

Yūgi stomped the ground impatiently and clenched his fists.

"When were you planning to tell me, Yami?" he asked. "When were you planning to tell me that you had something with Téa? That she felt something real for you?"

For a few seconds, Yami could only keep silent.

"I... I didn't plan to," he looked away.

Ironically, Yūgi laughed. He laughed at himself. Sure! How had he not noticed?! Yami was his twin, he knew him better than anyone!

"Always. You are always like that. When will you learn to trust me? I am your brother, for God's sake!" he shouted. .

Yami stretched a hesitant arm.

"Yūgi, I... I'm sorry."

"What are you sorry about? Hanging out with the girl I've been in love with all the time? Or not telling me you did it?" he breathed outrageously, something very abnormal in a passive person like him. His eyes, by chance, landed on Mana and she looked away as she hugged herself. He knew it then. "I can't believe it, you didn't say anything either!"

Before the strong accusation, Mana was startled.

"Me?! It wasn't for me to talk!" she replied sure of what she said.

"Oh, but you empowered me before, didn't you?" Yūgi argued, leaving her silent and Yami confused.

Angry, he took the Puzzle off his neck sharply and threw it straight at Yami, losing his ability to see Mana for the moment.

As soon as he stopped, then, Yūgi began to move away from the place. He needed to be alone and silent. He didn't even pay attention to the constant vibrations that his cell phone, announcing incoming calls, gave him.

With curved lips down and looking away in case his eyes started to get blurry, Yami had to count to ten so that his mood returned to an acceptable condition.

Mana, next to him, could only look at him with an expression of comfort. Her big green eyes said many things that, for the moment, he couldn't decipher.

"I'm sorry," she said finally. "If it hadn't been for me..."

Yami looked at her. He could get mad at her. Blame her for all the coincidences that had occurred since her appearance, but he didn't. He wasn't an explosive person, much less someone who shouted blindly. All this was due to himself.

What was he thinking? Was he always like that?

With the Puzzle, with Mana and now, with the inappropriate relationship with Téa... Why couldn't he speak clearly with Yūgi when he was his twin brother?

"At—Yami?" Mana called him.

He denied with his head. They had more important things to talk about at the time. The thing about Téa will pass, the thing about Yūgi... He didn't know, but he would have to accept whatever happened.

After all, Yūgi wasn't upset with him for dating Téa, he was upset because he decided to keep it a secret.

In silence, he took the same path as Yūgi to his home, only slower and less excited to arrive.

He hoped that at least his grandfather had fun in the museum.

Once in Yami's room, he told her everything he had heard from Ishizu without covers and with an impressive reluctance.

His eyes were constantly on the floor, or in the window, and the rest of the house was so quiet that Mana could hear herself swallow.

"... And then, she gave me this," Yami said, leaving the crumpled paper on the bed.

Mana came over to read what he said.

Room 408. East Wing of Domino Hospital.

"I-Is it...? Do you think that I—?" she pointed to the paper and pointed to herself looking at Yami.

He nodded.

"Yes, you're there. Your body is," he said, inspiring and exhaling deeply. "Only your family visits you. Yūgi and I were invited to go, maybe you can—"

"I want to think about it," Mana interrupted seriously.

"Think about it?" Yami raised an eyebrow, confused.

"I must think of some things, you know? Not only me…" she looked at him, then, trying to make him understand what she meant.

Her... situation may be important, but it wasn't more important.

Yami was just trying to think of something else.

"Go," she said, calling her attention. "You have to talk to Yūgi."

"No, we need time—"

"It's not like that," she interrupted, leaving the paper in the background and standing exactly in front of Yami. Looking directly at his beautiful amethysts. "You don't need it. Neither you nor him. You know what you were wrong about and Yūgi knows that you know it. He is waiting for you to go for him properly."

"Mana..."

"If you're still sitting here, we're not going to get anywhere. I also need to think about my stuff and, if I can't reach a conclusion, I want both you and Yūgi to help me solve it. Both are important to me, don't you see?"

In a desperate act, Mana placed her hands on Yami's and squeezed them with the intention of making him understand.

They should only speak. If they spoke, they will understand. She was sure of that, just check it out.

But... Why was she sure of that? And why did she want to check it out?

She pursed her lips and let Yami's hands free to start pulling on his arms.

"No, wait, Mana," he tried to stop her, and forced his feet so she couldn't move him, but Mana didn't give up.

"I won't let you in until you come with Yūgi," she insisted, changing position to get Yami out of the room.

And, once she got him to be under the threshold, she closed the door tightly so that Yami didn't put up any more resistance.

Then there was silence and her thoughts began to torment her more.

Talk. Talk. Talk. Talk.

She wished she had talked more with someone. Talk well with someone. No secrets, no false smiles and no regrets in between.

But with who?

And, above all, why?

Yami leaned his back against the door of his room once Mana threw him into the hall. The house was dark except for the small lighting that came from the other side of the house, specifically the crack that separated the door from the floor of Yūgi's room.

He thought of insisting and returning to the safety of his four walls. Mana couldn't even touch things, how the hell had she done to close the door?

No, Yami noticed. She hadn't closed it. He had done it himself in an unconscious act.

He sighed realizing that he wasn't going to win anything by running away from the situation, it had been hours since they arrived from the museum, at least they wouldn't be as elated as they were at the time.

He knocked on Yūgi's door a couple of times and waited. It was only about twenty seconds that made him start thinking again about returning to his room with Mana, but then his brother's face appeared in front of him.

He had a raised eyebrow silently asking what he wanted and, once he opened his mouth, there was no turning back.

"I'm sorry," he said at last, but he didn't let Yūgi answer him. "Sorry for never telling you anything. I'm not going to excuse the thing about Téa, it was a thing in vain and that should never have happened. Also when I didn't talk to you about Mana. I always feel that I have to take care of my problems alone and I really didn't want to get you involved in something that…" he shook his head when he saw that he was getting nothing and took a breath before continuing. "I don't care if you're angry, I deserve it, but I want you to know that I'm very sorry and I'll do what I can to change it. It's not that I don't trust you, I do, and that's why I don't want to bother you."

Yami swallowed when he realized that he had said many words, very quickly. Yami wasn't a renowned talker, so he notoriously ran out of air when he finished what he was going to say.

Yūgi, on the other hand, remained expectant, looked serious, but a sparkle in his eyes betrayed his obvious amusement.

Then a slight smile escaped his expression.

He sighed.

"I'm not angry," he confessed. "I'm just... tired, I guess. There have been many things."

"Tell Mana," Yami rolled his eyes and Yūgi laughed.

"She should have a worse time, I should apologize for blaming her too. She's a good girl, I'm glad you like her," Yūgi commented lightly without noticing Yami's surprised expression.

"I like her?" repeated incredulously. "You exaggerate."

Yūgi looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Aha, I do," he ended up saying without interest and soon changed the subject when he closed the door of his room behind him. He leaned against the wood and crossed his arms in front of his body. "Speaking of her, I assume you have already told her some things. I want to know too."

"You sure?" Yami frowned. "Wouldn't you rather be, I don't know, alone or depressed in your room?"

Yūgi shook his head without paying attention to the joke.

"I already told you, I'm not angry or sad and, if I were, it wouldn't matter, because I want to help Mana. It has nothing to do with you, Mr. Arrogant."

Surprised and graceful, Yami recalled that Mana, at the time, also called him that. Those were coincidences of fate he liked.

Then, after analyzing it in silence, Yami began telling him the same he told Mana, but more summarized and less detailed. In particular, he highlighted the part of the accident and about the hospital.

"Is she in a coma?" Yūgi wanted to know as they headed to see Mana.

Yami shrugged.

"I didn't ask, but I assume she is."

"Should we go?" continued the younger twin brother. "I mean maybe she is in that state because she doesn't have her soul, or something like that? Maybe she will wake up, haven't you thought about it? Besides that we could find the one who is following her, or what the old woman said."

"I thought the same, but it depends on Mana. She ... I don't know what she wants."

They both stopped at the door of Yami's room and looked at the knob, wondering if it was a good time to enter. It hadn't been many minutes since Yami left, but Mana could be a little anxious.

Then, counting to three in his thoughts, Yami opened the door and entered with Yūgi following in the footsteps.

And the first thing Mana said to see him was:

"I don't want to go to the hospital. Not yet."