SS-Hiya! Should we get started quickly? Ya yup, that sounds good to me.
Tym-Sounds great to me too, here we go! DISCLAIMER: Neither of us own YGO so...let's begin.
&words to readers&
~Okey dudes and dudettes, I believe I have figured it out...two, yes, I think 2 closing chapters will tie this fic up (Including this one). But no need to worry, I'll try an make these good, and I'll probably put up an epilogue...that is...if you guys want me to. We'll see how things play out.
Last Time
~Yami took Yugi out on a midnight flight, and then told him he was an angel. Yugi understood, but it was still hard when Kelina came to bring Yami back and the two had to say their good-byes. Kelina reminded them to hurry up since this was only a see you later kinda good-bye, and the guys had a last hug before the two angels flew off.
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Angels Watching Over Me
Chapter 14
****In Yugi's room, around 10:00 AM****
After that eventful night, Yugi could hardly sleep. In fact, it took him at least two hours before he could drift off. That didn't last long though, since he woke up when he dreamt that Yami had returned. Even though Yugi got little to no sleep that night, he still got up around the same time, not wanting anyone to know that anything was wrong.
Anyway, he was presently in his bed, doing the one thing that got his mind off of Yami, solving the puzzle. He was nearly there, only a few more pieces were left in the box, and he was quite pleased with himself.
'Wow, just a little more and I'll have done it! I just wish this thing had a guide or something...I mean, how could it still be hard to solve with only 6 or 7 bits left? Huh? Yes! Another one in!' Too bad he was interrupted, otherwise, he might have finished it.
"Ahh, you're awake. Good morning Yugi." Yugi looked over, his Granpa was standing in the doorframe, waiting for his reply.
"Good morning Granpa." He stepped in pretty slowly, and took a deep breath before speaking.
"I heard that Yami left." Yugi's smile went sour upon hearing 'his' name, but tired to hide it by turning his attention back to the puzzle. When he saw his grandson's expression, he guessed that Yugi already knew, and continued. "It was probably for the best Yugi." Yugi looked up at him, a little shocked.
"What do you mean? Why would one of my friends leaving be for the best?"
"Well, if he had stayed you might have gotten hurt."
"Maybe, but I would have taken the chance rather than having him leave-" Yugi stopped abruptly, his amethyst lost in thought. 'Wait a minute, how did Granpa know that if Yami stayed, I would have gotten hurt because he had gotten too attached to me?'
"Yugi? What's the matter?" The boy blinked, his eyes searched for a while, then replied.
"Grandpa, how did you know that I would have gotten hurt if Yami stayed?" He was taken aback by this, giving Yugi more time to continue. "Hold on, do you know?"
"Know?!? Know what? I know lots of things Yugi, you'll have to be more specific." Judging by his state of nervousness, Yugi knew that he was hiding something.
"You know don't you! You know what I know about Yami!"
"Know?! I know that he's a volunteer here."
"Granpa! You know that he's not who he says he is! Otherwise you wouldn't have known that I would have gotten hurt if he had stayed (Ya, Yami told Yugi about that)!!!" By now, Granpa was backing up to the window, and Yugi had jumped out of bed. He was walking closer to him with each question, like a tiger stalking its prey, Yugi was closing in. "I can't believe this. If what I think you know, is really what I know, then you know that Yami was lying about who he was. But you didn't know that I know what you know!" Granpa was both shocked and confused, but he tried to retaliate anyway.
"Yugi, I have no idea what you're talking about. All I know is that Yami left yesterday, and I just wanted-"
"Ah ha! How did you know that he left yesterday?" Now both Yugi and Granpa knew he had slipped up, and Yugi was going in for the kill. "Because from what I know, he left really, really late yesterday. In fact, he didn't even check out in the front office, so how could you have known? *paused for effect* You know!!!" He couldn't get out of it, so he just admitted it before his keen grandson went any further.
"Yes! Yes Yugi I know, I know!!!" Finally satisfied with his confession, the could be lawyer returned to his bed, and Grandpa followed. "I know...I know that Yami is *whispers* an angel." Yugi picked up his puzzle and continued to work on it as they talked.
"When did you find out?"
"Two nights ago, when I stayed here. You thought I was asleep, but who, besides Alan, could sleep through that little talk you had with Yami? When he was hugging you, he accidentally released his wings, but retracted them before you could see them. I brought him outside shortly after, and we talked for a while, and that's how I found out. What about you?" Yugi put down the puzzle, and started.
*sigh* "He told me last night. Brought me outside, showed me his wings, and explained everything."
"I'm sorry Yugi. I wish you could have had more time to talk to him."
"It's ok I guess. I mean, I miss him a lot, but we talked practically every night before that. I'm just happy to have known about his true identity before he left."
"Hm, that's good. *looks over to his cast* I see he finally healed you."
"Ya."
"That's good, did you tell your mom yet?"
"No, I'll tell her today, and the doctor can take it off." He once again, turned his attention to his puzzle.
"Ok. Yugi, you ARE ok with all this, aren't you?"
"Yeah, everything's fine." Yugi replied without even looking up, which meant that he was anything but fine. He decided to leave his grandson to his own thoughts, and silently left the room. And Yugi had lots of thoughts to think about.
'Granpa was wrong, I was wrong, I'm not fine. *click* Why did he have to leave? Better question, why did I LET him leave? I'm sure he would have stayed longer if I had asked him to. *click* No, that wouldn't be right, that'd be selfish. *sigh* And Christmas is one of the worst times to be selfish. *Blint clint clint* Argh! Why won't this piece fit?!?' *Clint clint clock* Frustrated with the piece, he forced it in too hard, so it popped out of place, and fell to the floor. 'Oh man!' He was about to get up to retrieve the golden bit when a slender hand reached down and gave it back to him. Yugi looked up, and was met by another pair of amethyst eyes. She sat down beside him and saw the uneasy look in his eyes.
"Getting a little frustrated Yugi?"
*sigh* "Just a little mom."
"Why? Do you want to talk about it?" Yugi acted like she wasn't there, and continued working.
"No, I don't. Besides, Granpa already kinda talked to me about it."
"Oh, then you were talking about your friend, Yami." That caught his attention, and her son looked away from his puzzle, and towards his mother's face.
"He told you about that? About the whole thing??!??"
"Well, he told me that your friend left, and that you were a bit upset about it. Though, I have a feeling that he was keeping something from me."
"No, no. That was all."
"I see. Well, do you want to talk about it Yugi? You know that you always feel better when you let out your feelings."
'Ya, I do feel better after letting out my feelings, but only with Yami. But she really wants to help, I guess I can tell her about it I just have to leave out the part about him being an angel.' "Ok. It's just that, I'm sad that he's gone, that he had to leave me. I wish we had more time."
"That's natural Yugi. It's always hard to say good-bye to a friend. But, there's always the possibility of running into him. You never know when you might bump into someone who looks just like you."
"Yea, I don't think I'm going to run into him."
"I see, does he lives far away?" Yugi thought about that, and smiled.
"Uh huh, ReAlLy far away."
"What about an e-mail?"
"No address."
"Phone call?"
"Doesn't get them."
"Regular mail? And don't tell me he doesn't have one." Yugi thought about that one for a while, but when he couldn't get an answer, he just smiled.
"Really Yugi, where does he live? Heaven?" Yugi's grin just widened and he was about to come up with some kind of explanation, but Tea interupted when she came in, obviously excited over something.
"Hey Yugi!" After she took a few steps, she saw Mrs. Motou and calmed down a little. "Oh, hello Mrs. Motou, I didn't see you come in."
"Hello Tea, yes I just came in a while ago. Now what's all this excitement about?"
"Oh yea, Yugi, you have visitors!"
"Who?" For a moment he thought it could have been Yami, but thought twice about that. "Everyone's gone for Christmas..." She nodded, but poked her head outside and called to some people.
"Come on in you guys!" Yugi leaned to see who it could be, and when the person stepped in, his eyes widened in surprise.
**** Good chapter huh? Like it? Hope so! Cuz here's s'more!****
"Hi Yugi! Surprise!" The boy stepped in and rushed to his bedside.
"Mokuba! Hey, what are you doing here?"
"We came back early so that we could spend a little time with you before Christmas." Yugi smiled, then raised in eyebrow in confusion.
"Wait a minute...'we'?"
"Yes, we of course." Yugi could here the sound of boots coming closer to him, and he leaned forward to find purple boots in his line of vision. "Hey there Yugi. How've ya been, hun?"
"Mai!"
"In the flesh." She walked in and stood next to Mokuba. "So, how was your holiday?"
"Huh, a little boring, but there was some...interesting stuff here and there."
"That's good." Then she looked down at the other little boy. "Hey Mokuba, *looks around* where's Kaiba?"
"What? Kaiba's here too?"
"Ya! Seto's here-Seto?" He looked behind him, then turned around and walked out the door. "Seto!" From his spot on the bed, Yugi could see Mokuba dragging someone in.
"Mokuba! Stop it!"
"C'mon Seto! Yugi wants to see you too!" Amazingly, Mokuba managed to pull his older brother in, so he stopped struggling, and stepped in the room.
"Uh, hey Kaiba."
"Hello Yugi." The silence was eerie, so Mai spoke.
"Hey, I'm gonna get something to eat and I'll be right back guys." She walked past Kaiba, Tea and Mrs. Motou then waved before leaving.
"So that's why you were so happy Tea."
"Uh, ya. But...I was kinda expecting another person to come up after you guys." Mokuba and Kaiba looked at each other, then answered in unison.
"Who?"
****Down in the cafeteria****
"Hm, chocolate chip cookies. *picks one up* Definitely different from hot chocolate." Mai takes a bite, then slowly turns around to see the TV. Just then some guy bumped into her, causing her to fall over. She tossed her hair back before crushing the cookie in her hand and answering. "Hey loser, why don't you watch where you're go-Joseph?"
"Sorry, I'm sorr-Mai?" He helped her up, then apologized again before speaking. "So ah...what are you doin here, Mai?"
"Hmph, I was about to ask you the same thing?" He stared at her, telling her to talk first. She motioned him to walk with her, so he did. "Well, I did go skiing, but along the way, I met up with Mokuba. Then we found Kaiba, and we all flew home early, to come visit Yugi." About half way down the hall, she finished her tale, so Joey started his story.
"Ok, I originally planned on comin home early to stay with Yug for Christmas, so I left Serenity early, hoped a train, and here I am."
"Hm, what a coincidence that both of us decided to see Yugi over the the holidays huh?"
"Yea, some co-in-ke-dinc."
****Back in Yugi's room****
"Wait, you're telling me the little Chihuahua is here?"
"Yes Kaiba he is. I guess you didn't see him coming up behind you."
"But where is he now Tea?"
"My bet is he took a detour to the cafeteria." Yugi was about to agree until he heard more voices.
"No you're going the wrong way!"
"And how would you know? Wait...do you know which room he's in?"
"Yes. I had enough sense to ask the lady at the desk where Yugi is, unlike someone who just barged right in."
"All right then Sherlock, where is he then?"
"Right...*everyone looks towards the door* here. Oh, hello everybody." Yugi was the first to speak.
"Ryou! *another head pokes in* Tristan! You're here too!"
"I told you this was the right room-"
"Ya, ya, hey Yugi, how've you been?" Both boys made their way to Yugi's now crowded bedside, and saw Kaiba.
"Hey Kaiba, what are you doing here?" He just shrugged and turned away from them.
"To visit Yugi." Ryou gave him a questioning look.
"You mean, Mokuba dragged you here." Even though Kaiba didn't answer, Ryou knew the truth. He knew that the young Kaiba Corp. executive had a very big soft spot for his little brother.
"So um...where do you think Joey is?" Almost on cue, Joey popped in, with Mai close behind.
"Hey Yug! How've ya been buddy?" Yugi smiled as his best friend made his way to him.
"As fine as anyone who has to stay in the hospital during Christmas I guess."
"Ya, that's cool."
"I'll tell you what's cool," Tea started. "all of us, here for the holidays! Even though all of us had plans, we somehow managed to get together for Christmas. I mean, Yugi's in the hospital, and the rest of you were half way across the world and yet we still managed to be together." Mai quickly chimed in before Tea continued with her speech.
"Ya, some miracle." Then she looked at the clock. "Not a very long one, but good enough. Well, I'm sorry to cut this little reunion short, but I've got to get back home to unpack all my stuff." She made her way to the door, but stopped at the threshold. "I'll probably come back tomorrow, so see you all later. And get well soon Yugi." She blew a kiss (Directed to...aww you guys pick someone.) then turned and left.
"As much as I hate to admit it, Mai's right. I think I have to get back too." Tristan turned to leave. "My family is probably wondering if I made it back all right, so I got to go. Catch ya later!" His footsteps disappeared after a few seconds, then Kaiba started to go.
"C'mon Mokuba, we should get going too."
"So soon?"
*sigh* "I have to check in with my associates, and you have to unpack. But if you really want to, I guess we can come back tomorrow."
"Great! *turns to Yugi* Get well soon! We'll both see you tomorrow!" He grabbed his big brother's hand and they went out the door.
"Geez, everyone's leaving so soon. That's 4 gone."
"Well, better make that 5." Tea turned to see Ryou walking towards the door. "I told my dad that I was making a quick visit, he's still waiting outside for me. I had better be going."
"Hey Ryou!"
"Yes, Yugi?"
"Are you coming back tomorrow?" Ryou didn't hesitate to answer.
"Yes, of course I am. After all, tomorrow's Christmas."
"Great, I can show you the puzzle then." Ryou nodded.
"Um hm, glad to know that you've been working on it. See you all tomorrow." He waved, then went out the door, leaving Yugi, Joey, Tea, and Mrs. Motou in the room.
"Well, I think I'll leave you kids alone to talk. *turns to Joey* Joey, *turns to Tea* Tea, it's was nice to see you both."
"Nice seein ya again too Mrs. Motou."
"Ya, same here." She left, probably going to find Granpa. "Hey guys, what time is it?"
"12:46pm. Why?"
"Oh man, I have to go prepare dinner with the rest of the volunteers."
"Dinner? Already? Tea, you know that I love dinner and all, but who eats it now?! I mean, people are still enjoyin lunch now!"
"Well there's lots of kids to make food for, Joey. Plus, it takes time to cook it all." Joey still looked confused, so Tea decided not to explain further. *sigh* Anyway, I should leave before I get in trouble. See you guys later!" With that, she left, and then there were two.
****Up in heaven****
Kelina slowly paced around outside the Elysium Circle, wondering if her friend was ok in there. She glanced from the golden gates in front of her, to the ones the that marked the border of heaven, then thought back. When she and Yami had returned, Yanazi and a few other elders were already waiting for them. He had dismissed the others, and led Yami into the circle.
Kelina had been waiting outside ever since. She guessed that about an hour had gone by, and she was getting worried. 'How much trouble could he get into anyway? Well, *thinks back to everything that has happened* ok, a lot, but so much trouble that he has to in there for over an hour? *turns back to the gates* I hope he's ok in there.' She spread her wings, and set out to find Harlon. 'At least Yanazi can't kill him.'
****Inside the Elysium Circle****
Yami sat in a cloud as Yanazi silently flipped through a book. Yami sighed again, they had been sitting in there for an hour and the only things that Yanazi had said to him were 'Have a seat.' and 'Do you need anything?'. Yami was worried. On one hand, the elder could be looking through that book for ideas on how to punish him, or he could be so dense that he had totally forgotten about what he had done. Yami smirked, but thought better of his second idea. Elders, even Yanazi, weren't that stupid.
Yami began drumming his fingers, apparently bored of the current situation. He tipped his head up, looking at the glorious ceiling above him. He coughed louder this time, as if trying to signal Yanazi to start the lecture. Unfortunately, all Yami got was a small sentence.
"Are you sick Yami?" Yami rolled his eyes, and drummed louder. "Would you mind not doing that? Hm?" Yami looked at him. "It's very disturbing." Yami fell over anime style, and when he got up, walked up to his desk, and slammed his hands on it. The elder only looked up in surprise. "What is wrong, Yami?" The angel hung his head down, and decided to get right to the point.
"Well...?" Yanazi put his book down and stood up.
"Well what Yami?" Yami tried to control his feelings and phrased his words as gently as he could.
"What about my punishment? Or the old lecture on how angels are NEVER suppose to show themselves to their charges? Maybe even taking away my memory? I mean, with all due respect, if I were you I would have initiated...some sort of disciplinary act by now." Yanazi walked away from his desk and from Yami, then towards the wall with the clear clouds near them. He waved his hands over all of them, causing them to come together into one. He motioned Yami to come over, so he did. Yanazi kept waving his hand over it, and the pictures jumped from angel to angel, until it landed on the hospital where Yugi was. He touched the clear cloud, and the picture instantly changed to show Yugi sitting in his bed, talking to Joey. Yami tried to hide his emotions, tried to keep his features neutral, but failed. He could feel tears forming in his eyes so he turned away, and looked un into the endless sky.
"Yami, why do you look away from your most recent charge?" He walked towards the emotional angel. "Don't you want to see him again?"
"Cut the small talk. What's my punishment Yanazi?" He sighed, shook his head, and walked back to the clear cloud.
"Yami, do you know why I sent you on that assignment?"
"I don't know, there's nothing special about it. You just pick and choose...*looks up* don't you?"
"You'd be surprised." He paused, then touched the picture again to zoom in on the angel's look a like. "He seems a lot happier now, you must have done something special with that extra time Kelina bought you."
"You...you know about that." The way he said it was more of a statement than a question.
"Yami, I know everything that goes on. But, you really didn't need to pull a stunt like that if you wanted to spend more time with him." Yami stared at him.
"What?! Of course I did. If I didn't, one of you could have-"
"Taken away what you've done? Wiped your memories? Oh Yami, I thought you've been here long enough to know that that is just a tale we tell the new watchers so that none them lose sight of their mission." Yami would have dropped dead right then and there if he wasn't already an angel.
"Wha..I mean...how...but..." He didn't have any words for what he just heard, he gripped his hair and turned around to face the wall again. Yanazi thought he heard Yami say something about killing if he wasn't an angel and smiled at him. After a minute or so of deep breaths, he faced Yanazi again and spoke as calmly as he could. "What?"
"We would never undo the work that a watcher has done just because they got attached to their charge. That's ridiculous! If you wanted to spend more time with him you could have asked when the angel came down to pick you up." Yami put his hand to his forehead and slowly slid it down to his chin. He took another deep breath, then the elder continued. "I'll ask you again. Yami, do you know why I sent you on this assignment?"
"To get me off my butt?" Yanazi smiled, but shook his head.
"Well, yes, but also to teach you a lesson."
"What lesson would that be?"
"That there's nothing wrong with getting attached to someone. That it's ok to be close. I know that you never really enjoyed company other than Miss Kelina and Mr. Harlon, especially since you had never had a friendly childhood, but..." While Yanazi kept talking about his past and how him never making friends because of his violent parents caused him to be a little cold towards others, Yami thought back to what Yugi's Granpa said.
~$^flashback^$~
"Yami, I know that there's nothing I can say that'll make you change your mind, but you have to know that there's nothing wrong with getting attached to someone the way you have with Yugi." Yami lifted his head, and looked over his shoulder, while Granpa folded his hands behind his back, and closed his eyes. "It's very rare, and special when you've found someone that you can share everything with, so once you've found that person, you've got to fight like hell to keep them." He opened his eyes and stared at his grandson's look-a-like. "Do you understand Yami?" Yami nodded, but it didn't seem like he truly believed it.
~$^end flashback^$~
Now he understood. He knew why Yanazi picked him to watch over Yugi. 'Yanazi probably knew everything about Yugi, he must have known that I wouldn't be able to find him, and that once I did find him, I would get to know him. He knew all alone that I would have gotten attached to him and that's why he sent me to heal him.' He looked back to Yanazi, who had stopped talking after seeing that Yami wasn't listening. "You knew." Yanazi nodded.
"Of course I knew." He motioned Yami over to the clear cloud. "I knew that your heart was getting colder and colder with each minute you sat on that cloud. So, naturally, I had to do something. And when Yugi's picture came in, and I saw that he only needed a small healing, I cooked up a little plan, and sent you on your way."
"If I recall, you didn't just send me on my way..."
~$^flashback^$~
"Okay." Yanazi snapped his fingers and an instant photo of the youth Yami was to guide appeared in his fingers. "Here you go..."*hands him the photo*
"Huh? B-but the looks just like m-AHHHHH!!!" *pushed Yami off of Heaven*
"Good luck Yami! And don't fail this time!" Yanazi yelled. Then he closed the gate, turned, and left.
~$^end flashback^$~
"...it was a pretty mean send off."
"Heh, yes, well, that was all in the past. Anyway, now you know." He waved his hand over the clear cloud to return them to their original state, then returned to his seat. Yami sat down too, and after a few minutes, spoke up.
"Well, now what? Can I go?" Yanazi looked up from his book and replied.
"What? Oh, of course not."
"Why not? I learned my lesson, I know that it's ok to get attached to someone the way I did with Yugi...*lowers voice to a whisper* I also learned never to trust the elders."
"What was that last part?"
"Uh...nothing."
"Well, there's still the matter of your punishment to discuss-"
"What?!?!?! I thought I wasn't going to be punished!"
"Heavens no...you still caused a bit of frustration up here-"
"But that was Kelina-"
"Who was sent by you." Yami looked away. "In any case, it's not as bad as you may think."
"Anything that'll make me stay up here is as bad as I might think."
"Just listen, now your punishment is to..." As soon as Yanazi finished, Yami was in shock.
"Wh-what? You-you actually want me to...to..."
"Yes. As soon as possible."
Kelina had returned from her search, unable to find her friend. When she landed, she was met by a very excited Yami. He mumbled something into her ear before rushing off, and she got it immediatly. She hurried off to do another favor to Yami, hoping that this would be the last.
~*~*~*~*~
SS-Man that took forever. *falls asleep*
Tym-Hey! SS!!!!! *sigh* Well, she was going to say that there's only one ch. left, and there's not much chance it'll come out on Christmas...even though the next ch. is based on some Christmas thingy. So...ya, it's just because she has relatives to see and this one took a lot longer than expected. So...R/R! Oh, and check the Digimon section! I wrote my own fanfic under her name (since I'm too lazy to create my own)! My first fic...come to think of it...this is her first fic too. hm...oh well, Ashes ta Ashes!
SS-Hm...what?
Tym-Just say the closing.
SS-Uh...ok, Sweet Dweams everyone! Merry Christmas eve, and happy holidays!