Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of the characters (unless otherwise stated) Kazuki Takahashi does, nor do I make any money from these stories.

Hmm, time for a little Yami-angst me thinks…

After All This Time

Yami stood on the cliff's edge looking down at the rough swell of the ocean as it crashed against the rocks, he had nothing left to live for, his adoptive grandfather had passed on to the next life a few months before, his friends had all moved away beginning their new lives with their boyfriend's/fiancés, and Yugi, his best friend in the whole world had just disappeared. Closing his eyes Yami remembered how he had wished that Yugi would come home, come home and be with the people that loved him then, loved him now…

Yami closed his eyes again as he remembered how Yugi had stood there stunned at the news, and Yami watched, noticing that Yugi was the only one who seemed to deflate and lose his sparkle when he had announced that he was now dating Anzu, then, after two months he had announced their engagement, Yami could have sworn he saw Yugi die that day, but he was happy and willing to believe that he was mistaken…

Yugi had tried so hard to hide it and Yami had tried so hard to ignore it but the former spirit knew the truth, that the news had devastated his aibou…he'd known how Yugi felt about him, but…

Yami had thought that although everyone else had left him, left him to face this modern world alone it didn't matter because he still had his fiancée Anzu, a girl who had been in love with him from the very beginning, a girl that because of the strength of her so-called love for him had stopped him claiming the one he truly wanted, the one he still wanted, the one whom he now knew he would always want…he gave a humourless laugh as he remembered… fiancée indeed, it was but – Yami looked at his watch – 11 hours ago that he'd found out that his so called fiancée had been cheating on him. It wasn't the fact that she had been cheating that had gotten to him the most, it was the way he had found out…

"Anzu darling." He'd called out

"Yes sweetheart." She'd answered

"I have to go into the city to pick up some more merchandise, would you mind watching the shop for me?"

Anzu wrapped her arms around her fiancé's waist and kissed him, "No of course not." She pulled his jacket closed and wrapped a warm scarf round his neck, "Take care." She whispered giving him a quick kiss, "I'll be waiting for your return."

With a warm smile Yami tightened his arms around the woman he loved "I'll be as quick as I can." He said as he kissed her again before climbing into the old but reliable car he owned and set off on his journey. Yami hadn't gotten far when he suddenly realised that the money he had saved to buy his next lot of merchandise was still in the safe at his home, he turned the car round, wanting to not only to retrieve the money but to see his lovely fiancée before he left on his journey for the second time…

Yami was surprised when he arrived back at the shop to find that it was closed, he looked at his watch it was only 4.43pm it should have still been open for a couple more hours at least, he was worried, had something happened to Anzu while he'd been gone for that one short hour? If she was hurt he would never forgive himself…he cautiously made his way inside the darkened shop carefully checking the lower rooms one by one, hoping to find his beloved fiancée safe in one of them before he ventured upstairs…it was then he heard it, a moan, but it was not a moan of pain it was a moan of pleasure…a shiver ran down Yami's spine he knew what it was, he just hoped and prayed that he was wrong…he opened the door to find his fiancée lying on their bed with another man buried deep inside of her, moaning her name as he pressed her hands into the mattress as he took his pleasure from her and returning it twice over.

Clearing his throat Yami almost laughed at the look on Anzu's face when she finally realised he was there. "Anzu." He said as calmly as he could through the pain of betrayal, "You have until I return home from the city, if you are not out of here by then, I will not be held responsible for my actions."

Before the woman could beg him for forgiveness, plead with him to let her stay he turned and left. On the way out he called her father "Mr Mazaki, Anzu will need your help moving her things out of my house."

"Why Yami, what has she done?"

"She has been unfaithful, I want her gone before I return home."

"There must be some mistake, she wouldn't." Her father tried

Although he knew the man couldn't see it Yami shook his head, "No, Mr. Mazaki there is no mistake I have just witnessed it with my own eyes." Atemu closed the phone…

He sat in his car on the corner of the street tears still falling as he watched Anzu's father pull up and storm into the shop, he watched as he saw the tall, bulky man throw the half-dressed younger man out into the street then go back inside and start yelling at his daughter as he made her pack her things, the last thing he saw was Mr Mazaki angrily pull his daughter Anzu from the shop and almost throw her into the car.

Yami knew why the man was angry. He had considered Yami a good catch for his daughter, what with him being a respectable small business owner with no other ties or relatives and now she had ruined it, ruined their name with her selfish actions…Now Yami wanted nothing to do with her…or them.

Anzu had called him that night, telling him she still loved him, wanted him and that whoever that man was – Yami hadn't caught his name – was just a fling one last hurrah before their wedding… Yami never spoke the entire time Anzu was on the phone "Yami? Darling? Please, answer me." Anzu pleaded through her tears. Still saying nothing Yami put the phone down. He waited for Yugi's return sure he'd come back when he'd heard of his break-up with Anzu…

Then he'd read about Yugi's wedding that had taken place a few months before, the last person he knew was now out of his life, that's why Yami now found himself here on the cliff's edge, he'd made sure to leave Yugi a note telling him he was sorry, telling him he should have listened to his heart and stayed at Yugi's side instead of doing what everyone expected of him, how he wished with all his heart that he could have it all to do again, if he could he would not make the same mistake, this time he would follow his heart, straight to Yugi…

Yami let himself fall…

Three days later Yugi and his new husband returned to the home he once shared with his loving grandfather and Yami. Gently stroking the pictures of himself, Yami and his grandpa, Yugi was clearly upset that he hadn't been there for his grandfather's last few days, but the old man insisted he went ahead with the wedding. Yugi looked in the kitchen and noticed a note on the table, recognizing the handwriting as Yami's, Yugi, without reading it screwed it up and threw it into the nearest bin. He would never read the last sentence written on the note.

Come back to me Yugi, I love you, I always have and I always will.

YAMI.

*sighs* You know I'm not so sure I like this after all.

2022 Edit nope still don't like it but PimA insisted it stays...