YM: I'm back!! Sorry I didn't talk about my puppies last chappie. They were napping. But I'll make it up to you!! Promise!!
Yami: O_O NNNNNNooooooooo!!!!!!
EC: Lady Kaiba, I'd like to meet your muses; I'm a vampire too, and I think we might get along.
YM: Evile Child, this is no time to sort out your social life!!
EC: :-P
Yami: YM doesn't own YGO, and you can tell, because I don't die in the magna.
YM: :-P Take-hey look!! Hiei's waking up. *puppy yawns and stretches*
Yami: *Runs*
YM: And look, here's Yami!!! *Yami licks YM's hand* J
Yami: *climbs the oak tree in YM's backyard*
EC: -_-' If they come near me, I'll kill them both.
YM: . You're so mean to my little puppies!! *Whacks EC*
EC: *dodges said whack* Just start the fic.
Chapter 6:
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"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. .
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Yuugi landed hard on his back with a thud. Groaning slightly, he opened one eye. Where was he? It was dark, with a light golden mist surrounding everything. There was a person standing, no, make that a giant, 20 feet away from Yuugi.
Though it had the body of a human, it was anything but human; it's head said this, for on it's shoulders was the midnight colored head of a Jackal. It's long pointed ears were gold veined and each held a gold hoop with a round violet gem on it. Its hair was a startling green, styled in many braids with gold, green, red, and pacific colored beads adorning the ends. A copper colored headband circled his head, and that was the only plain thing on him. Electric blue, something outlined his eyes and was his eyebrows, styled in a suspiciously Egyptian style.
His copper-toned chest showed for he wore no shirt; just a gold collar with lavender, pacific and green-blue gems drawing liquidated patterns on it. A cuff was around his right shoulder that matched the collar for design, cleverly made to flow the same way as the gems on it's match. Around it's waist was a gold belt, the center of which was a large gem that seemed to flow from green to blue to lavender to blue to green and back, never remaining one color. The skirt he wore met in the middle, right crossing over left and flowing smoothly. He wore gold sandals that sparkled in the light that came from nowhere and yet everywhere all at once.
He held a tauk in one hand and seemed to be conversing heatedly with someone. Yuugi looked down to see who it was, because obviously they weren't as tall is this person, thing, whatever it was. His breath caught when he saw who it was.
Yami was dressed as a pharaoh from ancient Egypt, and Yuugi had never seen him that way before. His tri-colored hair was astrune with gems of all colors and shapes; they were braided into his blonde bangs and twisted into his red and ochre spikes so that they glinted teasingly in the dim light. He wore a gold collar also, but his was adorned with rubies and diamonds that worked together to create the effect that it was fire. His white skirt had diamonds sewn into the cloth, making it glitter translucently. The belt he wore had inscriptions on it-Hieroglyphics-but Yuugi couldn't read them. The giant looked up as Yuugi walked closer, intent on seeing his Yami. Yami turned around, red eyes questioning, and when he saw Yuugi, they widened in surprise, delight, and astonishment.
"Y-Yuugi?! How, how did you get here!?" He said, grabbing his light as soon as he was close enough and hugging him tight. The giant, uh, thing, said in a loud echoing voice,
"Who is this?" Yami turned to face him, an unreadable look painted on is features as he said,
"This is my light from the other world." He bowed, still holding Yuugi tightly. The thingy quirked an eyebrow.
"How is it he is here? He is not dead yet, or I would know." he said, slight confusion evident in his voice.
"Yami," Yuugi whispered, "exactly where is here?" Yami smirked at his little light and said,
"This is where-"
"You do not know who I am boy!?" The giant thundered. Yuugi buried his head in the crook of Yami's neck, quite afraid of whatever it was.
"Answer me!" He thundered again, sounding slightly annoyed. Yuugi cautiously looked up at him and whispered,
"N-no, sir." The giant looked astonished. This boy did not know who *he* was? He could understand him not knowing some of his brothers or sisters, but *him*?!
"I am Anubis, the god of embalming, and I am here to judge your Yami and decide where he will spend his afterlife." he said in a not-so-menacing voice. Yuugi looked up at him, still shaking like a miniature earthquake, and said,
"P-Please, let Yami l-live."
"And *why* should I? I spared him one time, I do not see why he deserves a third chance, when most beings don't get a second." he thundered. Yuugi, instead of cringing, looked at the god fearlessly, though his shaking betrayed his voice, and said,
"Because. Because I love him. With all my heart and soul." Anubis looked at him thoughtfully for a second and waved his hand. Yuugi felt himself being dropped, and heard Yami yell. He turned around to see his Yami being slammed into a wall that hadn't been there before, and his wrists and ankles being bound with what looked like gold manacles. Anubis then said,
"You say you love him? If this is so, you'd be willing to do anything for him, correct? (Yuugi nodded) Even give up your life? (Yuugi, without hesitation, nodded) Then that is what I require. A life for a life. You must sacrifice yourself to save your darkness." Yuugi replied almost instantly,
"Alright. I'll trade my life for my Yami's. I would rather him live than die." Yami's crimson eyes widened.
"No Yuugi! No. I want you to live; I don't deserve to! Please Aibou, you have a long life to live, I have been alive for 5 millennia, it doesn't matter if I live or die!! Please, take it back Boku no ai, boku no itooshi hikari." Yuugi turned to face him a small smile and said,
"Yes it does matter. It matters to me. I love you my Yami, and I want you to live." Then, he turned to Anubis, "Take my life instead of Yami's; I'm ready." But nothing could have prepared him for what happened when Anubis waved his tauk over Yuugi. A searing pain ripped through his entire being, a white hot inferno of pain and suffering. Screaming in pain, his knees buckled and he sat on his hands and knees, beyond crying and close to being beyond screaming.
"Yuugi, no!" Yami yelled as he fought the binds that held him to the wall. Pulling as far as he could, he only got to the extent of the chains, no matter how hard he pulled, they wouldn't give. Anubis laughed at seeing this and said,
"Fool boy! No matter how powerful a sorcerer you are or how strong you are, you'll never be able to break those chains; they were forged by Ra himself!" Yami glared up at him and said with his eyes because his mouth was too tired, Watch me. I'll get to Yuugi one way or another. Just then, Yuugi cried out again, a searing agony ripping through Yami's mind, as the last traces of their link were awakened by the raw emotion his light felt.
He looked over at his light's body and saw that Yuugi had fallen, not having the strength to sit up any longer. No, NO!! He can't be dead. No! was the frantic thought that flooded his mind as he ripped forward, pulling as hard as he could, not being able to budge the restraints. A tear slipped down the pharaoh's cheek; the fist one in 5 and a half millennia. A howl ripped from his throat and echoed through the chamber as he straigned even harder against the chains,
"NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!" Then, there was a loud crack, like someone breaking a bone, and Yami was hurtled foreward, the force of his strain giving him momentum abound. He didn't even take the time to shoot Anubis a smug look; he went straight to Yuugi's side. Don't be dead, don't be dead, Please don't be dead! Yami thought as he checked his light's neck for a pulse. . . . . . .
TBC .. . . .
YM: Just joking!!! This is where I was going to end it, but I decided that I might as well finish the story J
Yami: Help!!! *Hiei attached to his leg, Yami attached to his arm*
EC: -_-'
Continuing as if nothing happened. . . . . . .
And couldn't find one. He chocked back as sob as he laid his head on his light's chest, listening for his light's heartbeat; the one that had lulled him to sleep countless times before, bringing a warm comfort to the former pharaoh.
Tears slid down his cheeks as he heard nothing, not a single sound. Cradling his light to his chest, he asked through what would have been their link Why? Why Yuugi? I-you-GODS I WISH THERE WERE A WAY TO TAKE THIS BACK. He sobbed into his light's chest, wishing that there were something he could do, anything at all, but it seemed that this matter went over his head.
"It is done. You will now return to the living world, Yami no Yuugi." said Anubis. Yami clutched Yuugi tighter, and as he felt himself being pulled through the veil between worlds, he kissed his light, softly and tenderly, a goodbye kiss, for he was certain he'd never see his light again. . . . . . . . .
TBC. . . .
YM: Hmmmmm. Was that cliffhanger worse than where I was gonna end?
EC: Yep, I think so.
Yami: Get it off me, get it off of me, GET IT OFF ME!!!! *madly flailing arms as puppies bite down harder to hold on*
YM: Don't do that Yami!! If they fall off, they'll get hurt!!
Yami: So?
YM: *scowls* So? SO?!!!
EC: *to Yami* Now you've gone and done it. She's pissed.
Yami: x_X
YM: Hiei, Yami, teach Yami no Yuugi some courtesy.
Yami & Hiei: *growl and let go of Yami, landing at his feet*
Yami: O_O Uhhh. . . .he he. . . Nice doggies. . .*runs*
Yami & Hiei: *chase*
Readers: *hear the sounds of someone yelling and cloth ripping and dogs growling*
EC: Did you really have to do that?
YM: Yep. He made me mad. Now I'm not so sure I'm going to make this a happy ending.
EC: How can you? Yuugi's dead!!
YM: Yes well, we can remedy that. . . .^_^ *evil grin* R&R to find out how!!
EC: Our goal is 100 reviews, think you can do it?