Chapter Four
And Its You
The dagger pierces my skin. And I feel the warm blood-offering comfort but becoming cold under the circumstances. She looks at me with no pity as my hands are covering the wound near my chest and my face is at hers..
She gets ready to strike once more.
I watch around me, seeing as they are advancing. I close my eyes.
I can hear everything. The knife rising in the air; getting ready to strike. Though I never hear it slash through my skin. Something's happened. Why am I not wounded?
I open my eyes. Yuugi looks at me. His face still grim but, his hand holding Anzu's. Stopping her. It never touches my Egyptian skin. The hikari offers me a hand and I stagger as I take it.
'why? Won't you let me die? After it all has happened this way…?'
I ask to myself. Too afraid to draw breath and utter the words out. But he knows. He is reading it through our mind link. I look into his crimson eyes, menacing and cold.
His young and tender voice replies and I hear the words
'because I love you. Because you have been there for me aibou. And I can not watch you be prey for them for I have been. Stay strong until I can get you out of here'
…*…
The crowd around them started to wonder. What was this new bond? This new happiness that had ebbed into the web? This was not part of the Beings, for they were a people who believed in no happiness. And in his despair, Yuugi had found them.
'You have found happiness so you chose to leave?' Came the voice from one among them
Yuugi nodded and Yami groaned in his hands.
'Please let me leave'
'you do not leave from the Beings'
'I must leave. Tell-me-what-I-must-do!' he said through gritted teeth
'isn't it obvious?' the voice uttered angrily, as a sword was thrown to him
Yuugi brandished the sword, its blade as made of glass shone though due to no light.
'YUUGI NO!'
'STAY OUT OF THIS! I GOT INTO THE BEINGS SO NOW I WILL FIGHT FOR MY LEAVE'
'Yuugi please no… Yami groaned as he watched the two fight. He could barely stand yet he rose gradually. Yuugi didn't notice.
The Beings fought with viciousness, but Yuugi had almost succeeded, as the Being trembled trying to get his sword under his grip again.
'You will pain' Yuugi spat.
Yami watched them, slowly trying to stop Yuugi. Nothing was worth murder.
Yuugi took the blade and began to swing. Yami ran limpingly between them before the blade hit the Being.
A painful scream and the ripping of clothes filled the hushed stone arena.
Yami collapsed to the ground.
'I couldn't love you Yuugi, and I'm sorry…I knew to much…and now it was time for me to go…'
'Yami...yami…yami..'
He felt the dark drain of his warmth and his eyes close and the hands of death took the pharaoh and his legacy. He touched his hand, held it and found a crumpled note.
'Yuugi, I know I am going to die tonight. I am sorry for all the pain but it was inevitable and I knew I had to face my death at the hands of you. I knew that we could never become anything more than friends, even though you always felt that we belonged together. I knew too much Yuugi. I know of everything that will happen, and everything that has happened. It is that the Pharaoh must deal with. And now, you have let me rest from this destiny. From this prophecy.'
With tears in his eyes, Yuugi folded the note and kissed Yami.
*
Who can say for certain that you are still here?
Its been so long that I've stayed in this dark room and I fear that I will never return to the earth and view the sunlight again. I remember your memories, a faint image of you smiling, but they have escaped me and fragments are only left now. Your rich blood still staining my fingers, your love still in my heart. My life grows weary of this dark box of ignorance and hate around me, longing for the touch of another hand or the love of another innocent one shattered by the dark ones.
I know that you are sorry, but you have eternal rest. Eternal slumber. I am not plaguing your mind, I am not ebbing into your conscious, slowly driving you insane, stumbling to find the lost fragments of reality and betrayal. I go crazy more and more as the time passes and it has only been weeks after your slaughter by my hands.
I'm sorry for loving you. For caring about you. Now are you sorry for killing me inside?
**
A loud noise disrupts me from my shadowy doom. Someone enters the room.
A soft, trembling, crying voice can be heard and it sounds beautiful. Now I won't be alone. Someone can share my pain.
'I try to rise, but I stumble. The voice asks, 'is anyone there?'
I can not believe it. It is another light. Another one. My voice quakes as I manage to utter out:
'Ryou?'
And Its You
The dagger pierces my skin. And I feel the warm blood-offering comfort but becoming cold under the circumstances. She looks at me with no pity as my hands are covering the wound near my chest and my face is at hers..
She gets ready to strike once more.
I watch around me, seeing as they are advancing. I close my eyes.
I can hear everything. The knife rising in the air; getting ready to strike. Though I never hear it slash through my skin. Something's happened. Why am I not wounded?
I open my eyes. Yuugi looks at me. His face still grim but, his hand holding Anzu's. Stopping her. It never touches my Egyptian skin. The hikari offers me a hand and I stagger as I take it.
'why? Won't you let me die? After it all has happened this way…?'
I ask to myself. Too afraid to draw breath and utter the words out. But he knows. He is reading it through our mind link. I look into his crimson eyes, menacing and cold.
His young and tender voice replies and I hear the words
'because I love you. Because you have been there for me aibou. And I can not watch you be prey for them for I have been. Stay strong until I can get you out of here'
…*…
The crowd around them started to wonder. What was this new bond? This new happiness that had ebbed into the web? This was not part of the Beings, for they were a people who believed in no happiness. And in his despair, Yuugi had found them.
'You have found happiness so you chose to leave?' Came the voice from one among them
Yuugi nodded and Yami groaned in his hands.
'Please let me leave'
'you do not leave from the Beings'
'I must leave. Tell-me-what-I-must-do!' he said through gritted teeth
'isn't it obvious?' the voice uttered angrily, as a sword was thrown to him
Yuugi brandished the sword, its blade as made of glass shone though due to no light.
'YUUGI NO!'
'STAY OUT OF THIS! I GOT INTO THE BEINGS SO NOW I WILL FIGHT FOR MY LEAVE'
'Yuugi please no… Yami groaned as he watched the two fight. He could barely stand yet he rose gradually. Yuugi didn't notice.
The Beings fought with viciousness, but Yuugi had almost succeeded, as the Being trembled trying to get his sword under his grip again.
'You will pain' Yuugi spat.
Yami watched them, slowly trying to stop Yuugi. Nothing was worth murder.
Yuugi took the blade and began to swing. Yami ran limpingly between them before the blade hit the Being.
A painful scream and the ripping of clothes filled the hushed stone arena.
Yami collapsed to the ground.
'I couldn't love you Yuugi, and I'm sorry…I knew to much…and now it was time for me to go…'
'Yami...yami…yami..'
He felt the dark drain of his warmth and his eyes close and the hands of death took the pharaoh and his legacy. He touched his hand, held it and found a crumpled note.
'Yuugi, I know I am going to die tonight. I am sorry for all the pain but it was inevitable and I knew I had to face my death at the hands of you. I knew that we could never become anything more than friends, even though you always felt that we belonged together. I knew too much Yuugi. I know of everything that will happen, and everything that has happened. It is that the Pharaoh must deal with. And now, you have let me rest from this destiny. From this prophecy.'
With tears in his eyes, Yuugi folded the note and kissed Yami.
*
Who can say for certain that you are still here?
Its been so long that I've stayed in this dark room and I fear that I will never return to the earth and view the sunlight again. I remember your memories, a faint image of you smiling, but they have escaped me and fragments are only left now. Your rich blood still staining my fingers, your love still in my heart. My life grows weary of this dark box of ignorance and hate around me, longing for the touch of another hand or the love of another innocent one shattered by the dark ones.
I know that you are sorry, but you have eternal rest. Eternal slumber. I am not plaguing your mind, I am not ebbing into your conscious, slowly driving you insane, stumbling to find the lost fragments of reality and betrayal. I go crazy more and more as the time passes and it has only been weeks after your slaughter by my hands.
I'm sorry for loving you. For caring about you. Now are you sorry for killing me inside?
**
A loud noise disrupts me from my shadowy doom. Someone enters the room.
A soft, trembling, crying voice can be heard and it sounds beautiful. Now I won't be alone. Someone can share my pain.
'I try to rise, but I stumble. The voice asks, 'is anyone there?'
I can not believe it. It is another light. Another one. My voice quakes as I manage to utter out:
'Ryou?'