Due to popular demand, I have decided to write more to this fic. This wasn't originally planned, I'm a one-shot kinda girl, but hey, fans are fans, and I write for the fans!!!

So, without further ado, or more boring explanations/lectures, I bring you more Yu-Gi-Oh angst!!!

Oh, and even if this won't be uploaded in time, have a Happy Halloween everyone!!!

~~~~~ Rain of Tears Part Two: the Silent Darkness

Yami sat in the bedroom, staring at the wall, the lights on only because Yugi's grandfather had turned them on when the sun had set. Yami didn't care, Yami would never care again. His precious hikari was dead, and it was all his fault.

"Yami, you in there?" Joey asked, standing outside the door, afraid to open it, afraid of what he might see. Yugi's grandfather had warned him that Yami was acting strange. He hadn't moved from his spot on the bed for the past week, ever since he had brought Yugi home, dead.

Yami had insisted that the boy was just sick, that he would be fine. All Yami had to do was tuck Yugi in, dry him off, warm him up. Yugi's grandfather had been too heartbroken to try and shatter the ancient pharoh's illusion at the time.

But now, as the old man walked into the room everyday, turned on the light, and tried to speak with Yami, he realized his mistake. Yami could not, would not admit that Yugi was dead. He would sit there, in an empty room, alone. He had not eaten, and his skin was clinging to his bones. His hair had drooped, and faded, but still Yami would not move. He would only sit, and mutter.

Mutter to Yugi, ask for forgivness, apologize, and beg. He would beg, more than anything else in the world, that the small boy, now buried in the ground with his parents, would come back to him.

Yami did not answer when Joey came into the room.

"Yami, it's me, Joey. Gramps told me that you..... weren't doin so well." Joey sat down next to his friend, and noticed the dust that had settled on Yami's clothes. Yugi's grandfather had not been kidding when he had said that Yami had not moved in over a week.

"Shhhh, you'll wake Yugi. He needs his rest, he's sick you know. He really shouldn't have been out in the rain, I shouldn't have let him go out in the rain." Yami whispered, his reality admitting that Joey was there, but no more than that. Joey felt tears slip down his cheeks, and hugged his friend, hoping that maybe it would break him out of his delusions.

It didn't.

"Joey, you're making too much noise. You'll wake Yugi." Yami whispered again, too weak to pry himself away from Joeys grip. Joey hiccuped a sob, and ran from the room, not bothering to hold his tears back any longer.

One of his two best friends was dead, and the other's mind was lost because of it. Joey ran, and ran, and ran, trying to block the horrible images from his mind...


"Yami, please. I know that Yugi is dead, but you must eat. It won't help Yugi if you die too." Yugi's grandfather sighed, trying to convince the ancient pharoh to take a sip of soup. Yami turned his head toward him, crimson eyes dull and lifeless.

"Yugi's...... dead? But he's right here, sleeping? Can't you see?" Yami whispered, motioning at the Dark Magician plushie that was tucked under the covers. Yugi's grandfather shuddered, and left the room, taking the soup with him.

"I'm sorry, Yami. I'm sorry that this had to happen to you, and Yugi." Yugi's grandfather whispered, tears streaking silently down his cheeks as he made his way downstairs, away from Yami's room.


"Is it true Yugi, are you really dead?" Yami whispered outloud, staring at the plushie in his arms. He could not contact the doll mentally, he could not sense his hikari, and it was tearing his soul apart.

"Yugi, please, answer me! You have to wake up, you have to wake up!!!" Yami sobbed, burying his face in the doll, soaking it once more with his tears.

"I miss you so much Yugi, please!" Yami sighed, laying down on the bed, drifting into a silent sleep of darkness.....


Yugi's grandfather looked into the room later the next morning, and smiled sadly as he saw Yami's still form resting, clutching the Dark Magician plushie tightly in his last warm embrace.....


Owari


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