Author's notes: OMG! I got 3 reviews in less than 12 hours! I guess this one is doing better than Azure Isle Fantasy! Don't worry about that story, I'm still writing it, but I had a bad case of writers block.

Taryn: Well, I was the one who wrote this story.

Wolfie: Nuh uh!

Taryn: Yes huh!

Wolfie: No, my other muse did! All you write is lemons.

Taryn: *gets out claws*

Wolfie: *growls*

*"Real Slim Shady" comes on radio*

Wolfie & Taryn cat Muse: *sing* I'm SLim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady-----

Sane Lady Wolf: BTW, the song in here is "Naked" bu Avril Lavigne.

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Yami awoke in a peacefully quiet room. There was a warm breeze blowing in from outside, tossing the curtains two and fro. There was a faint scent of flowers, and an aura of

strawberry-golden light throughout the room. Yami felt the soft, thin sheets of a bed draped across his body, and a fluffy pillow beneath his head. He felt the warmth of his light's skin, and felt the little one breathe; up and down in a soothing motion.

Yami smiled. How he wanted to love the little one. Yami snuggled up against Yugi and gently slid an arm beneath his back. Yugi's skin was bare, as was Yami's, but both the boys wore boxers underneath the covers. Yami leaned closer to his little light, peacefully sleeping like an angel dozing on a cloud. Yami brushed his lips against Yugi's forehead. The little one did not stir.

Yami opened his eyes and eyed his light's face. ~He's so perfect...~ Yami moved closer and softly pressed his lips against Yugi's. Yugi awoke to find his Yami extremely close to him, particuarly his face.

"Yami, did you..?" whispered Yugi as he brought his hand to his mouth, examining it with his fingers.

Yami slid down to a corner of the bed and hung his head, staring fearfully at the floor. He didn't want to be hurt. But before he could think of something to say, Yami broke into a violent cough. He wheezed and choked, and grasped his throat when the racket ceased. Yami looked over sadly at Yugi; pain and exhaustion in his eyes.

Yami broke into a cough again, but suddenly stopped. He scrambled out of the bed and ran into the nearest exit, which was lucky to be a bathroom. Yugi heard violent retching and coughing from the bathroom.

Yugi got up and walked into the room where Yami lay, breathing heavily, on the tile in front of the toilet. Yami felt bile rise again, and leaned over and heaved. He emptied his stomach of any food in it, and leaned exhausted over the bowl. Tears slid down his face.

"It hurts my throat..." wheezed Yami. Yugi walked over to the sink and picked up a disposable paper cup. This one had drawings of sea creatures on it, seals, dolphins, and many assorted fish. He filled the cup with water and brought it to Yami, who was still heaving, but produced nothing.

"Here, take a drink. It might help. Wash your mouth out first."

Yami took the cup in his hands and sipped the water slowly, rinsing his mouth of the foul aftertaste. He then gulped it down, and a relaxed smile swept across his face.

Yugi helped his yami to his feet and walked him back to the bed.

"Thank you, Yugi..." he whispered.

Yami sat up and stared at the floor again.

"Yami..."

"Yugi, I have been holding this back from you for a long time. I'm sorry for intruding you," he said. "I've debated myself for a while...I just didn't know how to tell you I love you."

The two boys fell silent. Yami winced and looked at the floor, awaiting a response from Yugi. Yugi looked blankly at him for a moment, and crawled over to Yami across the bed. Yugi didn't look Yami in the eye. Yugi sat there for a moment, and then purpousely fell over onto Yami's thigh. Yami was beyond shocked as he looked down to see his light's head resting on his upper leg. Yami accepted the passive response from his hikari with a new feeling of trust and happiness he had never felt before.

"Aibou...?" he said.

Yugi merely nuzzled Yami's skin. Yugi's head had worked its way up to the curve of Yami's sitting hip, nuzzled in the very top of his thigh. Yami stroked his light gently at the same time that he was absorbing the happiness Yugi was giving him.

Yugi sat up and turned around a bit, and then fell backwards, so that his back was draped across Yami's legs, and he was facing upward, looking Yami in the eye. Yami wanted so badly to touch him, or cradle him--

Yugi sat up and Yami supported his back with an arm. Yugi, without warning, leaned forward and locked his lips with Yami's. Yami slid an arm under Yugi's knees, cradling him sweetly. Yugi wrapped his arms around Yami's neck and deepened the kiss. Yugi began to rub Yami's back, squeezing the tendons in his shoulders to find that they were totally and completely relaxed.

Yami had let his cover drop, his shell crack, all the layers he had painted onto himself wash away. He was unprotected, opened, and stripped. He trusted Yugi so much that he couldn't keep anything from him anymore. He let his layer of bravery, leadership, and discipline drop. He was stripped of the personalities he had made, and was revealed truly to Yugi. The real Yami, the yami capable of trust, feeling, sadness, love, and vulnerability burst through the walls of secrets and omission.

Then you came around me

The walls just dissapeared.

Nothing to surround me

Keep me from my fears

I'm unprotected

See how I've opened up

You've made me trust

I've never felt like this before

I'm naked around you

Does it show?

You see right through me

And I can't hide

I'm naked around you

And it feels so right.

Yugi pulled away and ran his hand across Yami's face, which was splotched with red. Yami closed his eyes and nuzzled Yugi's hand slowly, and grasped Yugi's wrist with his own hand. Yugi leaned back up and kissed him again, this time spreading his lips open, inviting Yami to explore.

Yami took the chance and explored the sweet taste of his light. Yami was careful not to invade Yugi to much, or worse, hurt him. He didn't want that. All he wanted was for Yugi to be happy.

Yami was the one to break away this time, lifting Yugi off the sheets and laying his head onto a soft pillow at the top of the bed. Yugi smiled; he too was blushing furiously.

"Don't ever leave me," said Yami.

Yugi remained speechless as he slid his arms out from under he covers and wrapped them around Yami's shoulders.

"Turn around," he said. Yami did as he was told, and Yugi sat up and began to gently massage Yami's back. Yugi started with his shoulder tendons, which were as relaxed as ever. He continued down Yami's back, knowing every pressure point and muscle to rub and how to tend to it just right.

Yami was overwhelmed with the simple pleasure he felt when his light and lover stroked him and pressed his muscles in just the perfect way to send a small burst of adrenaline through his body. Yugi worked his way down to Yami's hips and stopped.

"Remove them, aibou, I don't care." spoke Yami in a heavy and breathy voice. Yugi hesitated at first, but eventualy removed Yami's boxers and grasped the tendons in Yami's upper thighs. He massaged his other half all the way down to his ankles and then stopped.

"Yami, I dont know how to say I love you back."

Yami turned around and grinned at Yugi.

"Do you trust me?" he asked.

"With my life."

Yami, despite his lack of clothing, leaned forward and brushed his lips against his light's. The two boys, cuddled up against each other, drifted into a relaxed, dreamless sleep.

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