-the next morning-

Gina woke up to smell the faintest smell of vanilla, "where is that lovely smell coming from?" she wondered. She turned to see the Yami and turned back into Yugi and was sleeping with her, and she didn't even have a nightmare. His physical contact, with me comforted me so I could sleep, but....... she thought. She found out that the vanilla smell was coming from Yugi's hair (I got this from It's no game story, I hope he doesn't mind me doing this). She took the smell in, she had always loved the smell of vanilla ever since she was a child. She knew how she felt for him, but didn't want to put him in any danger because of her. She moved in closer to Yugi and took in more of the vanilla smell, and held Yugi close to her. She cried quietly into Yugi's bare chest. She gasped quietly and looked up at Yugi's face. Good... she thought she didn't want to wake him. She climbed out of bed, and put on a sparkly pair of white pants. She stood with out a top on and tossed her pajamas onto the bed. She looked at Yugi and sighed, she walked over to her dresser and searched in the drawer. Then she found the shirt she wanted, it was black and appeared low necked. She put on a clear strapped bra, and put the shirt over it, now that it was now on her body it was a 'no-cloth-on-shoulder' shirt.

She looked in the mirror to see that her hair wasn't clinging to her face like it had been, recently instead it was soft and silky like it normally was. Odd.... She thought but put it out of her mind and walked down the stairs to eat something.

Yugi reached for Gina to find she wasn't even there! Yugi opened his eyes, and she really wasn't there "where did she go?" Yugi wondered rubbing his eyes. His ruby-purple eyes wandered around the room, with a groan he got up out of the bed and walked down the stairs. He didn't even bother with putting on any of his clothes 'cept the pair of pants he already had on. On the fourth to last step of the stairs, he leaned against the railing and looked around. He saw Gina eating at the table, and walked down and stood behind her. Gina sensed something but paid it no heed, until she felt a pair of gentle hands touch her shoulders. "Eeep" she squeaked, and turned to see Yugi smiling at her cutely, and she looked at him blankly.

Yugi grabbed her hand and pulled her to her feet. Then he tried to embrace her in a gentle hug yet again to be pushed away. Gina sat back down, holding herself. "Why won't you let me near you!!??" Yugi cried, Gina didn't look at him "I don't want you to get hu-" Yugi grabbed her upper arms and shouted in her face. "The only thing that is hurting me right now is your silence! Gina forced to look into Yugi's tear filled eyes, she understood what he wanted of her. Yugi wrapped his arms around her and expected to be pushed away like the last time except it didn't happen. Gina's eyes swelled and harshly wrapped her arms around Yugi's neck, and cried into his bare chest. "Gini...Its alright" he whispered into her ear, to calm her. Then he heard her say "Did you know that your hair smells of vanilla?" Yugi was taken aback by the question. Gina looked up into Yugi's eyes, and put on a weak smile, Yugi smiled and shook his head "no I didn't.." Unexpectedly Gina cuddled against Yugi's chest and giggled "Well you do, and I love it" Yugi couldn't help but smile he seemed to be getting though to her.

"Tell me why.." Yugi whispered, and Gina's face lost its smile. "It's a curse, anybody I care for will die..." and she started to sob again. Yugi held her even closer. "That's what as been bugging you? Don't worry Yami, protects me....along with you helping him" Gina looked back up at Yugi's face and smiled. Yugi smiled back and nuzzled her neck, "Please don't worry, It's me wants to protect you.." Gina backed away from Yugi. She smoothed out his lips with her fingers, then stroked her lips against his cheek. Yugi moaned loving her caressing him, "Gini, please let me get closer to you. I'll protect you." Gina smiled with happiness back in her sapphire eyes, and leaned closer to Yugi and gave him a gentle kiss. When she was about to pull away, Yugi pulled her back to him. Gina wide eyed, smiled against his caressing lips, and closed her eyes. She didn't care anymore about the ancient curse put upon her family. All she cared about was Yugi, and him being there with her.

Yugi pulled her away "did you like that?" Gina looked at him with her eyes only half open and nodded blushing a deep crimson. Yugi pulled her closer again and kissed her again, and noticed that her lips tasted like...something sweet. Strange he had never noticed this before, but he pushed that out of his mind and concentrated on Gina pulling her even closer to his warm body.

He pulled away and Gina stroked his hair with her hand, "Your so kind....and caring" she said as she cuddled closer to him. Yugi smiled and closed his eyes. While he caressed her hair What soft and silky hair Gini has... Yugi thought. He loved the fact he was getting closer to her like they use to be, before she left for Egypt. "Gina!!" a voice said and Gina knew who it was. "Auntie, don't get mad" she said, Yugi looked over at Gina's aunt. She had medium length hair which was blonde, and her eyes where a dark green. "Miss, don't be mad. I Gini's boyfri-" but Yugi couldn't finish. "The Millennium Puzzle!" The woman shouted and grabbed it and looked at it carefully. "You must be the descendent boy, Gina always talked about, well go on you two" and Gina's aunt left the room. Yugi looked puzzled, he also had a sweat drop the size of the titanic right now. "What was that about?" he asked, and Gina giggled "My aunt is always that way. Don't worry about it" She leaned up to kiss Yugi once again. In his head Yami looked on "Damn that woman...." Yami said and Yugi paid it no heed. After the kiss Yugi looked at Gina's attire "Boy, you like doing this to me don't you?" Gina looked confused, then smiled "No not really, I just wanted to wear this" Yugi was taken aback but smiled and just held her close to him not daring to let her go.