Chapter Seven: ikiru koto wa kake dakara 
 Because that's why we're alive
                                       
-------- 
 
Sakura opened her eyes to find it raining and her in it. Someone was carrying her on their back, and trying to be gentle about it. She lifted her head for a moment, but felt dizzy and went back into the darkness.
 
Sheila shuddered in the wind, and coughed. She turned her head to see Yugi running up to her with the taller boy that looked like him. "Come on, you can take her in here." She opened the door and let them in. "This is the place my band and I stay at. Be free to stay for the night, if you want." Sheila hung up her coat and continued to the kitchen.
Yugi looked up at the taller boy. He was still in shock, and could find nothing to say to him. The young Japanese boy turned his head back to Sakura, and put a damp cloth on her head. He looked worriedly at her.
Sheila came back and handed them each a towel. "I just ordered Pizza." She then took out her long braid, and dried out her hair. "So, Yug. Tell me about this handsome guy here."
"Yug?" the taller boy asked. "Wouldn't you call him Mouto-san?"
"I am American, new to this thing." Sheila lifted an eyebrow. "Plus, you have failed to introduce yourself. I am Sheila Summers, and you look a heck of a lot like Yug there."
Yugi glanced at the taller boy, and looked back to Sheila. "Will Sakura-Chan be ok?"
"Dunn no," Sheila looked at her. "seems like that bully took a lot out of her." She then pointed to two rooms. "You guys can sleep there. One room has two beds, so you three can figure it out when Saku wakes up." Sheila than moved back into the kitchen. "You guys want something to drink?"
"root beer, arigatou." Yugi said.
"Ok, here." Sheila tossed them two cans. "I'll be back. There is a check on the counter, and the pizza guy will show up soon. I have to run errands for the band. See ya!" she then grabbed her coat and went back to her motorcycle.
 
Yugi sat in a chair, staring at the ground. He could feel the other boy's gaze on him, then Yugi took a deep breath. "Why did you come back?"
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Why did you chose to come back now, Yami?" Yugi seemed afraid to say his name. "After almost two months of being gone, you wait till I am almost killed to come back! Why?"
"Two months?" Yami asked in shock. "Two months, are you sure aibou?" he was paralyzed in shock. "Only two months?"
"What do you mean by that!?" Yugi shot, still looking at the ground.
"…it felt like a millennia." Yami whispered. "I am sorry Yugi, I don't know what happened…"
"How can you not know, Yami?!" Yugi asked, tears chocking up in his throat. "How!?"
Yami stood in shock still. His aibou was yelling at him. His light, his partner. Yami sat down on the ground. "Last few things I remember was you talking to be about snow, and machines beeping, with people screaming. Then everything went dark, and I was lost."
He paused, and kept on going. "Aibou, you may not understand, but I was in a Crystal World, or something near it. All around me were souls, souls being tortured and lost. They were screaming, screaming because of the pain of being separated from their loved ones! Screaming!" Yami looked at his light, and for the first time Yugi could see that Yami was scared. "I almost gave in, aibou, I almost did. I wanted to just forget everything…you, Sakura-ko, everyone! I wanted to curl up in a ball and just die…"
"But you where dead." Yugi said.
"Iie." Yami shook his head. "My body was aibou, not my soul. Then I heard someone calling out to me, just too me. Out of a herd of thousands of souls, it was me." He looked at Yugi longingly. "It was you, aibou. Your voice somehow made it, and I knew you were in danger. When I opened my eyes, I saw that Summer girl trying to save you."
"You killed that man!" Yugi shot up, and horror filled his eyes.
"Aibou, I didn't mean to.." Yami tried to reassure his light. "I tried to knock him out, not off the cliff.."
"We could have run Yami!" Yugi cried. "If you had just held that man, we could have run away!"
Yami stood up. "Please aibou, calm down. I didn't mean to upset you. I would never try to upset you, ore no hikari."
Yugi stood up. "Don't call me that!" he snapped at Yami, tears running down his face. "You leave me, and come when I almost die! You are not a aibou, a partner!"
"…Yugi…you're my light, and I am your dark." Yami stuttered. "If something happens to one of us, something will happen to the other.."
"You think I care!?" Yugi yelled. "You left me Yami! You promised never to leave me!"
"I didn't mean to, ore no hikari.." Yami whispered.
"I am not your light!" Yugi yelled. "I don't want anything to do with you!" he cried. "Yami, you killed a man! You killed someone! Even if it was to save me, you killed someone! You promised not too.."
"I said I didn't mean it…" Yami said, his voice containing hurt.
"Like you didn't mean to almost kill Kaiba when we dueled in front of the castle!?" Yugi snapped. "Like you didn't mean to when played that game in the Shadow Realm with Bakura!?"
"If I didn't, you'd still be trapped in there, aibou!" Yami said.
"Like you didn't mean to let your country down!?" Yugi continued, not stopping. "Like you let your wife, and child die!? Like you didn't mean not to be taken by the games?!" Yugi was crying hard now, and his face red from yelling. "Yami I hate you!" he grabbed the chain around his neck. "I hate you, Yami! You lied, your never there for me!" he then took the puzzle off, and tossed the puzzle to the ground. "I never want to see you again, Yugioh!" he cried and ran down into the hall.
Yami hung his head, and tears fell to the ground. The one thing happened to Yugi that he never wanted to have happen, he became cold and non loving. Yami fell to his knees and sobbed, his whole body shaking. He felt something touch his shoulder.
"He didn't mean it." Sakura said in a whisper, trying to save some strength. She had awoken when Sheila left the house, and listened to the whole conversation. "Yugi is lost, and he needs your help."
"He doesn't want my help." Yami said in between sobs. He looked up at her, tears running down his face. His crimson eyes were hazed over, and he clung to her waist. "Aibou doesn't need my help…Yugi doesn't need it." He corrected himself, and looked at the golden puzzle. He reached over and handed it to Sakura. "Please, do something with it."
"What are you going to do?" Sakura asked. She helped her lover to the coach, and held him like a sobbing child. "Yami, he may not see it, but he does need you."
"Doushite?" Yami asked. "Doushite? Why does he treat me as if I where someone of evil?" he looked up at Sakura. Her eyes were filled with wisdom, and kindness. "He was right about one thing."
"Nani is that, Yami-kun?" Sakura asked.
"I did let my country down." Yami hung his head, breathing in between sobs. "I let my wife down, I let my child down." He chocked a sob. "I let my father down."
Sakura blinked, and lifted his chin up with her hand. "Yami-kun, you did not let them down. Your father was proud of you, Yami." She brushed a tear away with her thumb. "You didn't let me down. The only way to let me down, Yami-kun, is by giving up. By not believing in yourself, and forgetting the bond you and Yugi share."
"He doesn't want a bond, Sakura-ko." Yami said. He laid his head down in her lap. "He doesn't want me."
Sakura closed her eyes and ran her fingers in his hair. "Yami-kun, you didn't let our child down either. I am sure he understood." She waited a few moments for Yami's cries to calm, and she lifted his head up. Sakura brushed more tears away form his eyes, and smiled. "Aishiteru.. Yami-kun." She said to him. "You're my knight in shinning armor, and never forget it."
Yami smiled a bit and nodded.
Sakura kissed him gently, and pulled away. "I think we should see if that pizza is here, ne?" she stopped and looked up as Sheila came up with the pizza. "Nani?"
"I guess you didn't hear the bell?" Sheila giggled. "No matter. I have it here, where is Yug?"
"He and his older brother had a fight." Sakura said. "This is Yami, Yugi's brother. He is visiting from out of town."
"Nice to meet you, Yami." Sheila smiled.
Yami nodded and turned back to Sakura. He kissed her cheek. "Gu-yoru, Sakura-ko." He then sat up and left for the room with one bed.
"That was some hell of a fight, they must have had." Sheila said.
"You don't know how bad Yugi-chan hurt Yami." Sakura said, watching Yami's door. "You just don't know."
 
That night, Yami stood in the door way watching both his tenshis sleep. He was clutching Yugi's puzzle in his hands, which were shaking. He heard someone move, and he closed the door. Yami turned and saw Sheila standing there, in a sleeping robe. "Nani?"
"I am sorry, Yami." Sheila whispered. She looked him dead in the eyes. "Maybe it would have been better if you stayed there, ne?"
Yami looked back at the door, then back to her. He recognized her voice, the same one that helped him find Yugi. "Domo Arigatou."
"No problem, Yami." Sheila smiled. "Just give Yugi a few days, maybe he'll lighten up. Just get some sleep."
"You?"
"I have a thing tomorrow." Sheila sighed. "My band is getting together. Sakura can fill you in, night."
 
Sakura looked up from breakfast. Yugi was eating fast, while Yami was standing there. She stood up, and both people looked at her. "This is so childish!" she told Yugi. "You told me your life would be better when Yami came back, and now he is! Why does that make you so angry? It is not his fault he died…" she paused. "someone killed him. Anzu saw it with her own eyes, and I felt it! Yugi, you should be grateful Yami is here!" she clutched her knife and fork. "Your going to be all alone one day, Yugi. It will be no body's fault, but yours."
She then looked at them. "Yami, Yugi is staying at my house for a week. Grandfather is out, and he requested that he come to me house, come on."
 
------- 
 
"Papa! I'm home!" Sakura said as she ran threw the house. She smiled as her father sat at the table, the half reincarnation of Clow Reed. 
"Ohaiyo! Welcome back, Sakura." Her father said. "Where is Yami and Yugi? I think I should talk to them, ne?"
Sakura was still shocked. Somehow, her father was able to know when things happened, and when things where bad. She smiled though. "Yami-kun, Yugi-chan! Papa wants to talk to you!"
The two identical boys entered the kitchen.
 
 
--------- 
 
cliffhanger! Sorry, about that! Anyways. If you guys want translations, just ask, ok? ^-^ I needed to add some kind of romance in there, cause this is the first Action-Adventure one I have written with out NO romance! Man, it scares me! Ok. So Yugi is pissed at Yami, and Yami is now in depression. Sakura is trying to patch things up. Yue, Kerberous and Syaoran know something is up. And Sheila knows WAY to much for her own good. Oh, and when Sheila said "That Egyptian woman", she did NOT mean Sakura.
 
Note for those who haven't read Star Child/Temple of Dreams: Sakura was known as Sak-ku-rah in Ancient Egypt, and Sak-ku-rah was a name of a temple in real ancient Egypt. Yugioh(Yami) was to marry Sa-ku-rah when they where older. Blah Blah Blah, some icky angst stuff. Yugioh then was in a battle with Seth, and Sak-ku-rah at the time was pregnant, and Seth killed her. Blah, Yami got trapped in the puzzle.
So, then when Yami and Sakura find out about their past lives, they fall in love. ^_^ Kawai, ne? So, that is why they were kissin' and stuff.