YM: And 4 hours and much nagging later, here's the next and hopefully last chapter.

Yami: Thank Ra!! I thought I was going to die.

YM: You know, I could wait another day to write this.

Yami: O_O!! NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Evile Child: Don't worry. I won't leave her alone long enough. I wanna see how bad her lemon is gonna be.

YM: . *sob* You're so mean.

EC: Sorry, but you've never done a lemon before, so I don't know what to expect.

YM: -_-' Just do the disclaimer so I can make a fool out of myself already.

Yami: ^_^ Lemon lemon lemon! YM doesn't own anything in this chappie, and if you sue her, all you'll get is 2 mangy mutts.

YM: *holds up 2 snarling pit bull puppies* they aren't mangy, they're cute!

Yami: O_O!! Nice puppies. *runs as YM sets them down*

YM: Oh how cute. They like him. *puppies start to attack Yami*

EC: -_-' You dolt. You realize they are going to chew him up and spit him out, right?

YM: Nah, they wouldn't really hurt him *we hear fabric ripping and Yami scream for help*

EC: o.O Uh hu. Just start the fic already. *goes to pry the dogs off of Yami*

YM: K!!

Chapter 2: Time to sleep

//

"Uh, aibou?" He knew his aibou wasn't going to like this particular turn of events. Yuugi replied, slight amount of fear showing in his voice. Yami sighed and said,

"We're locked in."

//

Yami felt the panic attack almost before Yuugi had it. Before his light could say anything, he lit the millennium puzzle up, giving them light for about a 3 foot radius.

"It'll be okay. We'll just spend the night here." he said, trying to comfort his light. Yuugi nodded, still very much afraid, but he trusted his Yami, so he calmed down. A little. They went back down the stairs and back to the section on ancient Egypt.

"Aibou, I don't think you should look up anymore things on ancient Egypt. You'll hurt your eyes." Yami said when they sat down again.

"Alright Yami. What should we do then?" asked his Hikari as he sat cross-legged, head in one hand.

"I'm not sure. What do you want to do?"

"Hmmmmmm. Well, you could tell me what it was like when you lived in Egypt." said Yuugi, a little bit too innocently.

"I don't really want to think about it." he said. He heard Yuugi sigh mentally and think:

You know so much about me, my Yami, and I know so little about you. I wish you would simply open up and talk to me once and a while.

Yami was pretty sure he wasn't sure he was supposed to hear that, because his aibou smiled immediately and said,

"I was just joking Yami!! I know you don't like to talk about it. What do you really want to do?" Yami answered, but not truthfully (A/N: All you hentais can figure out what that one means! ^_^ Oh, and I think the correct question would be a who, not a what!),

"I don't know. Perhaps we could play a game?" Yuugi looked surprised, though he shouldn't be. Yami was the king of games after all, so of course he would suggest playing one.

"You want to play a game? Okay! How about, er, uh, hey, I know, let's duel! I brought my deck and I know you have yours." Yuugi suggested, smiling from ear to ear. Yami laughed.

"You know I'd win that game hands down, so why bother?" he said, still smirking. Yuugi replied smiling,

"You're right, but I have nothing else for us to do." he said. Then, Yuugi said,

"Yami what's happening? The light's fading." Yami looked at the puzzle. Indeed, the light was fading.

"Oops. I forgot. Gomen aibou." he said as the puzzle flared back up to it's original brightness. Yuugi, confused, asks,

"Forgot what?" Yami could tell he wouldn't be able to change the subject, because Yuugi had curiosity written all over his face, and when Yuugi was curious, the subject was not dropped until he had found out what he wanted to know.

"The millennium puzzle takes my energy and converts it into visible light. I simply forgot to feed it energy." he replied nonchalantly.

"Oh. But doesn't that sap your energy? (Yami nods slowly) Well, that's not fair. I can't ask you to keep that up all night." said Yuugi as he got up. He started to look for something, walking around the book cases.

"Aibou, what are you doing?" asked Yami, getting up and following his light.

"I know there are emergency candles or something around here. I remember the librarian telling us that when she showed us around the library before grandpa and I joined it, now if I could just find them. Then we can use them instead of the Millennium puzzle." replied Yuugi, stopping in front of the stairs. In front of him was a small dresser with 3 droors in it. Yuugi opened the top droor and said,

"Here we go." He pulled out a few things and assembled a small kerosene lamp.

"Aibou, this really isn't necessary." said Yami as his light poured some of the fowl smelling oil into the lamp's base and lit it with a match, replacing the glass cover and the black shade.

"Sure it is. I don't want you to get your energy zapped away, especially if you don't have to." said Yuugi, holding up the lamp by the wire handle triumphantly.

No use in arguing. When he gets that look on his face, his mind's made up.

Yami thought as he extinguished the millennium puzzle. He picked up the bottle of kerosene and 2 boxes of matches, following his aibou back to the section on Ancient Egypt. (A/N: Here's the piccie!! ^_^) Yuugi set the lamp on his pile of books and sat down to think. Yami, realizing that he was going back to writing, lay down behind him with his hands beneath his head, still awake, just relaxing. Yuugi had his pen in his mouth, and he looked *very* kawaii (YM: I didn't write that! EC: Yes, but I did!! ^_^)

~oO@Oo~

After a while, Yami realized it was getting pretty late, and he glanced at his Aibou's watch, which happened to be stationed right behind his head so he had to look at it upside-down.

Hmmmmmm. 00:11. That's, um, 11:00. 11:00!!!!

"Yuugi, do you know that it's 11:00?" he asked as he sat up. Yuugi replied preoccupiedly,

"Hmmmmmm? Oh, yeah. I've almost finished my report." He proceeded to scribble something down. Yami, shocked that his Aibou had been writing since they had gotten there 4 hours ago, he said,

"Aibou, exactly how long *is* this report?"

"Uh," Yuugi stopped writing and shuffled the papers, counting them, "14 pages front and back." Yami sweat dropped and said,

"Aibou, *why* is it that long?" A sheepish look crossed Yuugi's face.

"Well," he said as his cheeks gained a pink tint, "I'm not doing very well in Social Studies and a good grade on this paper would help a lot."

"Oh." said Yami. His hiakri was turning and interesting shade of pink, and he looked cuter than normal. That made it difficult for Yami to make coherent thoughts, which was a bad thing, believe it or not. His aibou stifled a yawn and thought,

Aw man. I *can't* be tired.

As he blinked to keep his eyes open.

"Aibou, are you tired?" asked Yami. Yuugi blinked at him and then he shook his head vigorously and said,

"No Yami, I'm awake." and he emphasized this with a yawn.

"Yes you are. Go to sleep Aibou." said Yami. It looked like he was going to protest, but then he thought better of it and nodded. He sat next to Yami on the floor, not blowing out the lamp. Then, head on Yami's shoulder, Yuugi fell asleep.

Meanwhile, Yami was chanting a mantra in his head (^_^):

I can deal with this, I can deal with this, I can deal with this, I can deal with this, I can deal with this, I can deal with this, I can deal with this, I can deal with this, Okay, I *can't* deal with this, I *can't* deal with this, I *can't* deal with this, I *can't* deal with this, I *can't* deal with this.

He was really suffering this time. He allowed himself to put his arm around his aibou - that also proved to be a mistake on his part. When he put his arm around his aibou, Yuugi snuggled closer to Yami. This is considered a bad thing.

I can handle this, I can handle this, I can handle this, I can handle this, I can - aw, who am I kidding?

Thought Yami as he lay his head on his aibou's. A while late of sitting there and getting drunk off of the sweet, tantalizingly intoxicating smell of his aibou's hair, Yami felt him curl up closer into Yami's side. It was chilly in here by his aibou's standards he was sure; Yami, on the other hand, was freezing. His side was warm though. The left, where his aibou was laying.

It can't hurt, can it?

Thought Yami as he pulled his aibou closer to him. The subject of which sighed contentedly and nuzzled softly into Yami's warm flesh.

Hn. Maybe it can.

Yami sighed, resigning to fate as he fell into a light sleep, like always.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Yuugi blinked awake. His Yami was sleeping soundly, protectively, like always. He'd always taken comfort in his other half's protectiveness, after he had gotten over his fear of his Yami, that is. At first he had been terrified of his Yami. He had even gone so far as to try and get rid of the sennen puzzle, but every time he tried, guilt would overtake him because he would think, what is it like for him to be living in a puzzle, only able to come out when I let him, which is almost never? After a while, he stopped trying to sell it on E-bay or take it apart and the like, and he decided to try and think about why he was afraid of his darkness. Sure, there was almost the death of Seto, but what else? Nothing really. It was only that incident that Yuugi could name where he openly feared his Yami. He had dwelled on it for a long time. Weeks maybe. The conclusion he came to stunned him. He admired his Yami. He didn't have the courage to take a chance; his Yami did. This made Yuugi admire his Yami, even envy him perhaps. After he realized this, he had started to gain a slow moving brotherly relationship with his Yami. He didn't know when he had started to fall for his Yami, but as he gazed at the strong confidently features that were softened by the graceful hand of sleep, he knew that now he loved his Yami more than life; more than the air he breathed. Yuugi squeezed Yami softly, happy that he could lay there in his darkness' arms and be protected, be safe, be loved. It wasn't the same kind of love he felt for his Yami, he was sure, but it was love no less, and it was just about enough for him because he tried not to be selfish. He sighed contentedly and drifted off on the a boat of clouds to the land of dreams. . . . . . . . . . (can you tell I like elaborating?)

&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*& (Yuugi's dream)

"Hello?" asked Yuugi timidly. He was standing in a very dark place. There was an eerie white mist around his feet, and it was deathly cold. Suddenly, Yuugi had a strange feeling creep over him, as if something was missing, but he couldn't figure out what. Yuugi rubbed his arms as he said,

"Is anyone here? Yami?" He couldn't explain it; he just felt weird, like something was out of place.

"Your Yami has left you." said a voice. It sounded like someone kicking a can in a field of dry leaves-not a very pleasant sound.

"What? You're crazy, Yami would never-." started Yuugi, but he stopped. *That's* what it was. The weird feeling! He couldn't sense his link to Yami at all. Not even the faintest bit.

"You know I speak the truth. Your Yami has left you to find someone worthy of himself. You are weak and craven, he has grown tired of that." said the voice.

"No. You're lying!" yelled Yuugi, plugging his ears. Then, another voice said,

"Well perhaps *I* can convince you then." Yuugi turned around and saw Yami walking up behind him with someone he had never seen before. It was a girl with fierce looking crimson eyes, paper white skin, and strait Raven hair that went past her hips.

"This is my new Aibou. She is strong and not afraid to take chances and not afraid to stand up for herself." said Yami, slipping an arm around her waist possessively.

"Y-Yami? What are you saying?" asked Yuugi, not believing what he was seeing or hearing.

"I knew you were weak, I didn't realize you were ignorant too." said Yami. The girl at his side laughed, a bubbling musical tone, but to Yuugi it sounded evil, and he wanted nothing more than to slap it out of her mouth. Tears sprung from the corners of his eyes as he said,

"Y-You can't mean that Yami." Yami threw his head back and laughed. It was a cruel sound, it held almost no mirth.

"Oh but I do Yuugi." he said. Yuugi was taken aback. Yami *never* called him Yuugi. He always addressed him by his little pet name, aibou. "Face it Yuugi. I hate you. I always have in fact. You were weak. You showed that to me when we were in the duelist kingdom fighting Kaiba. Since then I have been looking for a new soul mate, and now I have found one." The girl at his side laughed joyously; Yuugi would have thought it was a pretty laugh if he hadn't been in complete shock. He almost didn't register when she spoke. Her were flowed smoothly, but they were tipped with venom as she said,

"You are nothing now. Yami is mine and you will never get him back." Then, she looked up at Yami, and he leaned down and kissed her passionately. This was all Yuugi could bare to see. He sank to his knees. He was beyond crying now, even though silent tears trickled down his cheeks. Then, all he could hear was their laughter. Both of them were laughing at him. It surrounded him, pounded in his head and echoed through every fiber of his being. All he could do was cry over and over,

"Yami, no, please. Come back to me." as he rocked himself back and forth and plugged his ears.

&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&

Yami awoke to his Aibou rocking back and forth gently and crying silently in his sleep, holding his ears shut tightly. He was muttering something that sounded suspiciously like,

"Yami, no, please. Come back to me." It must have been some nightmare if Yuugi didn't even know Yami was right there holding him. He shook his Aibou gently to wake him, and after a moment of persistence, Yami succeeded. Teary violet eyes blinked open and took in their surroundings. As soon as they landed on Yami, fresh tears formed in his eyes and he buried his face in his Yami's chest. Over the muffled sobs Yami's keen ears picked out Yuugi saying,

"Oh Yami! You thought I was weak and cowardly, so you left me to find another soul mate and it was s-sooo dark and oh Yami!!" Yami traced soft circles on his back to soothe him and whispered calming words in his soft baritone voice. Eventually, Yuugi's sobs subsided and he was okay. Yami was gald his light was okay, but what happened next shocked him tremendously. . . . . .

TBC ^_______________^

Yami: How could you?

YM: What?

Yami: Stop there?

YM: Well, I decided that I wanted the first 2 chapters of this ficcie to be the prologue to my YGO ficcie I'm drafting, so I added in the dream sequence and stuff. This chappie is about as long as the other one.

Yami: Where's the lemon?

YM: Next chapter, I promise. If I'm lying, then I don't have 27 plushies that I sleep with, my favorites being Hiei, Yami, and Gohan.

EC: -_-' Yosha. . . .

Yami: This wasn't *supposed* to be apart of the other fic!!

YM: I know, but I'm going to tell other people to read the first 2 chapters of this fic for a prologue to it, so I couldn't put lemon in it, 'cause minors can read the other one/

Yami: I hate you.

YM: Well fine then, I just won't write another chapter.

Bakura: Hey! That means that she won't write a lemon for me and Ryou!! *pokes Yami* apologize.

Yami: No.

Bakura: I didn't want to have to do this, I usually don't sink this low, but, you leave me no choice. *holds a balck industrial size bottle of something over the sink, top off and ready to be squeezed down the drain*

Yami: O_O NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! That's my anime Hair gel!! Do you know how hard that is to get?!!

Bakrua: Yep. Apologize or I'll do it.

Yami: -_-' Alright. *mumbles*

YM: Nani? I didn't hear you.

Yami: *glares* Gomen. Now give me my hair gel.

YM: *takes bottle from Bakura* Hmmmmm. I don't think you meant it. *squeezes a tiny drop of the freaky purple gel down the drain, not even a dime size drop*

Yami: O_O NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Okay, okay!! I am so sorry it's not funny. I regret what I said immensely and I will never even think of saying that again.

YM: Okay. That's nice. But I think I'll hold onto this. It's good insurance. *screws the top back on* Oh, Bakura.

Bakura: Yes?
YM: You have earned major brownie points. If people R&R like good ficcie authors and give me 10 reviews telling me how my lemon is in the next chapter, then I'll give you a very fun lemon Bakura, sound good?

Bakura: R&R or I'll hunt down all of you hentai authors who read this and personally ring all of your necks, but not before I break every bone in your body slowly and painfully until you are continually screaming in agony. Only then will I take pity on you and send you to hell.

YM: O_O

EC: O_O

Yami: O_O

Bakura: Nani? I want wild sex, is that too much to ask for?
YM: Well, I kind of wanted them to review, not be scared away before I even post the lemon part of this fic.

Bakura: -_-'

Yami: *hears growling* What the-AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! *pit bull puppies, which were playing together now tackle Yami*

YM: O.O

Bakura: *LAO* (laughs ass off)

EC: Here puppies. Come get the nice snack *dumps 4 pounds of wet dog food on Bakura*

Bakura: AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! *screams as dogs attack him after dragging Yami over and making him fall in the mess of dog food too.*

YM: You my friend, are pure Evil.

EC: Why else do you think my name is Evile Child?