YM: Hi!! I'm back.
Yami: Don't kill me off!! Please?
YM: Sorry, you'll have to talk to EC, she's the muse here.
Yami: -_-' That's like talking to a rock.
EC: I heard that!! .
Yami: O_O No!! No, I didn't mean it! I swear. Just don't kill me off!! Please!
EC: Hmmmmmm. . . .well, I suppose I won't
Yami: Whew!
EC: At least not in this chappie. . .maybe.
Yami: ;_; I'm trusting my fate with a whacked out evil sugar high muse. Ra help me.
EC: *whacks Yami* Quiet you!!
YM: -_-' Alright children. Settle down.
EC: *Sticks tongue out at YM*
Yami: -_-' YM doesn't own YGO and if she did, we'd all be dead, insane, or really really messed up, so you can tell she has nothing to do with the production of it.
YM: :-P Meanie!!
EC: Just start the fic. We'll see where it goes. I don't know if I'll kill Yami or not. Although, none of the reviews said to, I don't have to take their advice, do I?
YM: Yes you do, they'll be mad at *me* if you don't!!!
EC: You just start the fic, k?
YM: -_-' K.
Chapter 5: Yami's Sacrifice
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"Yami? Yami. You can go back to your soul room now." He said, gently touching his Yami's forehead. When he got no reaction, he said again, "Yami. Come on. Go back to your soul room so you can rest." No response. Yuugi tried for a pulse, panicking. . . . . . .
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He found one, although it was alternating between quick and sporadic and close to stopping. Quickly, Yuugi summoned up what energy he could and brought Yami back to the world of the conscious, albeit barely. Breathing quick and panting, Yuugi couldn't understand what was happening. His Yami was a spirit, he had been alive for 5 millennia, so how is it that a simple fire could kill him.
"It's not just the fire. I expended my energy drawing cards forth. That is what did this to me, not the fire, although breathing the smoke in didn't help." Yami managed to choke out through gasps.
"Are you alright?" asked Yuugi. Yami smirked awkwardly, as if he found something amusing and appalling at the same time.
"I could be, if the gods choose to favor me a second time." he said, a slightly sadistic note in his voice. Yuugi registered this, eyes growing wide and shocked as he asked in no more than a soft whisper,
"Are you going to, d-die?" He chocked on the last word of the sentence, barely being able to push it out over the quickly forming lump in his throat. Yami, not wanting to scare Yuugi, said as best he could,
"Well, not yet, and probably not at all. The gods have favored me before, perhaps I will be as fortunate a second time." He smiled reassuringly at Yuugi, the subject of which was on the verge of tears. It was becoming increasingly difficult to keep his eyes open, and when he shut them for a second, he felt warm liquid drop onto his cheeks. Opening one eye, he saw Yuugi was indeed crying, and through his sobs, he said,
"This is all my fault!! If I hadn't insisted that we come to the library, then you wouldn't be dying right now." Yami smiled and would have wiped away his light's tears, but he couldn't muster the strength as he said,
"Ah, but then we wouldn't have been able to recognize our feelings for each other, watashi no chibi hikari. In that way, this is a good thing." Yuugi took his hand up and cupped it to his face saying,
"I would rather live a lifetime of not knowing than know only for a few minutes and then loose you." Yami said, his strength albeit diminishing,
"But our time together was sweet. Always know this: Aishiteru, watashi no itooshi hikari." Closing his crimson eyes for what seemed like the beginning of eternity, the last breath left his lungs in a soft exhalation of finality.
"Yami? Yami! NNNNNNNNooooooooooo!!!! Yami, don't leave me, I love you." He whispered. One tear made it's way down his cheek, and it feel on Yami's forehead. The eye that was hidden there flared to life and engulfed Yuugi in a safe and gentle light; to Yuugi it felt the same as Yami's embrace. Then, the world flared to white and vanished. . . . . . . . . . .
TBC. ..
Yami: So you killed me off anyway? Great. Just great.
EC: Don't panic, you're not dead yet; unless the reviewers want you to be.
YM: Anata, how were my sentences? They were supposed to be:
Watashi no chibi hikari = My little light
Aishiteru, watashi no itooshi hikari = I love you my beloved light
Or did I majorly screw them?
EC: Who cares?
YM: *whacks EC* *I* care!! I'm trying to learn the basics of Japanese, and she's helping. A LOT!!
EC: *rubs head* ouch.
Yami: Wuss.
EC: -_-' that's it, you're dead.
Yami: O_O IIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!!!! I didn't mean it!! Honest!
EC: R&R and you'll get another chappie.
Yami: Tell her not to kill me off!! Onegai!
YM: Oh yes, don't flame me for the short chappie. I wanted to stop before the good part ^_^ I'm giving it away, I know, but you deserve an explanation. Besides, all I get are rough ideas. My muse won't tell me what to write in complete thoughts; just random things I get here and there. It really bugs me. -_-'
EC: You'd blab them to everyone if I told you.
YM: Would not!
EC: What were you doing a second ago?
YM: I was er. . . Um. . . . Oh, urusei, anata wa bakayaro. (How was that Anata?) ^_^
EC: Take your own advice.
YM: :-P
Yami: R 'n' R onegai.