A/: BAH, it is taking me a day to write each chapter. O.o I have no life, sorry ladies and guys. Sooo here is the next chapter. If you are confused on the soul thingie, here:

The Soul power is the power or force the soul gives off. For example, Yugi's would be the power of "light", while Yami's would be "darkness". I think you all have figured out that Jou's is "fire". Well, Syaraon has "nature", Sakura's is based on all things, since she is the clow mistress. Anzu's would mostly be "light". Question is, who's light is brighter? Anzu or Yugi?

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Chapter Thirteen: Ai seta koto sore dake de

If you love someone

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Yugi sat up and screamed. He grabbed his hand, and slowly saw a slash mark form on the pale translucent skin. Yugi quickly stood up, and backed against the wall, shaking. 'Something is wrong with Yami! I need to get out!' another pain gripped him, and he screamed louder.

Sheila opened her eyes and looked up at him. "What is wrong, Yug?"

"I-I don't know!" Yugi grunted through his pain. "S-Something must be wrong with Y-Yami!"

"Oh no, not good!" Sheila growled, and turned around. "Make inu [1]!"

Silphe growled. "How dare you, child! No matter, your time shall come." she smiled up at Yugi. "Ah, are we in pain, little one?"

"What have you done!?" Yugi shrieked and fell to his knees.

"Me? Oh I have done nothing!" Sliphe laughed. "Your little pharaoh has that done by himself."

"What do you mean?!" Sheila snapped at the other woman, who currently was a hold of her body.

"The Millennium Item Yugi poses, child." Slpihe smiled. "It connects Yugi and the pharaoh together. One feels the others pain. And, thanks to a little nightmare, Yugioh is off killing himself!"

"No!" Yugi cried. "Yami would never to that!"

"Not unless he lost the most precious thing to him, right Yugi?" Silphe laughed. "And if one of you dies, so will the other..slowly..and painfully."

Yugi shook his head. "YAMI-KUN!" he cried out.

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Yami snapped his head up. He had just heard someone yell out his name, but he didn't see anyone. The piece of Jou's blade was still in his hand, but he was piercing the skin. He looked back at it, seeing the red blood fall from the blade on to the ground. He cringed in pain, but it wasn't anything near what he had lost.

He had lost the only important thing in his life. His kindness, his light, his only thing he cared about more than anything. Yami closed his eyes in sorrow, and took the blade and pierced the skin of the other hand. He could feel the blood running down his arm, but he didn't care. He wanted to be with his light. Yami pressed harder, and tears began to fall. He had failed, and no matter what Sakura said, he had. Yami promised to protect his light, even if he himself died. If he couldn't protect Yugi now, he might as well die. Yami opened his eyes, his blurry vision pointed out the blood stains on the puzzle.

He didn't care.

~~~~~~In the Shadow Realm~~~

Dark Magician girl screamed in pain and clutched her heart. She fell to her knees, gasping for breath and her eyes wide. The attack subsided, and the spell-caster monster stood. Levitating herself, Dark Magician girl flew past the darkness of the shadow realm, and found her brother with the Celtic Guardian. ~Brother!~

Dark Magician turned to her, and nodded. ~Yes, we felt it as well. Master is in trouble.~

~What if it is Little Master?~ the elvin guardian asked. ~We can feel his pain as well.~

~Or it could be both.~ Dark Magician Girl stated. ~Both Master and Chibi Master can feel another's pain.~

~Either way, sister.~ Dark Magician said. ~Someone is suffering, and we should know why. Even if it just Master or Little Master, we need to know.~

~True, Magician.~ Celtic Guardian agreed. ~If something isn't done, then all of us could be lost. If even the Little Master dies, then the Shadow Games will open, and destroy everything!~

~Even Mistress!~ Dark Magician Girl gasped. ~We must go now..but who? One must stay and keep the caios down. No doubt that this has affected everyone that belongs to Master.~

Celtic Guardian bowed. ~I shall stay here, and keep everything down. You are the strongest of us, and can only ask what is wrong. I will inform my sister, Mystical Elf, and brother, Ancient Elf. We won't let whatever has happened let the Games get away. Master wanted them sealed, and sealed they shall be.~

~Good-bye, Guardian!~ Dark Magician Girl kissed his check, and disappeared.

~Good-bye. Please take care. We shall be back.~ Dark Magician gave a hug, and patted his back. He then too, disappeared.

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Yami shook in grief, as the blade came further into his hand. The sooner he died, the better. He couldn't be without his light...it was all he had left.

Dark Magician appeared behind Yami. "Master!" he gasped he then flew above him, and snatched the blade from him.

"Give it back, now!" Yami ordered through his tears.

Dark Magician Girl blinked. "Master, why do you torment yourself? What has happened?"

"Yugi....is gone..." Yami cried and fell to his knees.

"Chibi Master?!" Dark Magician Girl gasped. "How can that be!?"

"He is not dead, master." Dark Magician said. "If he was, you wouldn't be here. The soul connection would be broken. You would disappear, and return to the Shadow Realm...until someone else solved your puzzle."

Yami's eyes filled with even more fear. The cold, darkness, evil, insanity all came back to him. His body began to shake, and blood still pored from his scared hands. "...no.."

"It is true, Master." Dark Magician Girl said. "Yugi would be dead, and you would be alone..not even Mistress could see you."

Yami clutched the side of his face. "No! That isn't true! Tenshi and hikari will always be there!"

"Master, not forever." Dark Magician said. "One day, they will die and leave you."

Yami shook his head furiously. "No! Yugi said he'll never leave me!"

"He can't keep that promise, Master." replied the magician. "Neither can you."

Yami's eyes widened.

"You can't always be there for Little Master. One day, you won't be needed. One day, Little Master will be confidant to be on his own, he will have learned his lesson from you. Little Master is strong, but he won't always need you."

"I don't want to go there...not there....." Yami sobbed and pounded his fists on the ground. "It was cold there...no light! No hope! No faith! NO LOVE!" he yelled in sorrow.

"Master?" Dark Magician Girl asked. "If you kill yourself, will you have that? Will you have faith, hope, love, light? Will you have Mistress or Little Master? Will you solve anything?"

Yami laid down on the grass and cried. "Why bother living? I can't do anything right, everything I do is never right! I kill un-mercifully. Women, children, men, families!" he pounded his fist on the ground. "I cruse the day I was born, the day I was Pharaoh, the day I was TRAPPED!"

Dark Magician Girl blinked and turned around. Her eyes widened as she saw Sakura behind a tree, seeming half-asleep. The spell-caster could tell Sakura had just now come, and was stricken by the Pharaoh's words. She turned back to her brother, and tried to tell him. Dark Magician just shook his head and leaned down to his master.

"Master? Perhaps we should head back? I am sure everyone is worried about you, especially Mistress." Dark Magician helped his master up, and patted his back. His eyes went to his sister, who was still looking at the tree. "Sister, is something wrong?"

"No! Nothing, never mind brother." Dark Magician Girl shook her head. She put her master's arm around her shoulders, as did her brother. They helped Yami limp back to the city in the trees.

Sakura looked down. There was the Hope, or Void card. Her lips let out a heavy sigh. "I knew this would never last. He is still angry, and I cannot blame him! Sometimes, I cruse myself for even thinking of putting him in that puzzle."

"Mamma!" Hope shook her head. "If you didn't, he wouldn't be safe. Pharaoh is just to blind to see what you have given him. You have given him a place to be safe."

"But he doesn't want that, Hope, he wants..." she sighed. "He wants to die and be with his family. I ripped that from him.....Sak-ku-rah stole that from him."

Hope blinked. "Maybe we should just get back to Jou."

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Anzu smiled as Jou opened his eyes. "Jou-chan! You're alright, thank god." she hugged her friend, and helped Honda bandage the rest of his wounds.

"What..happened?"

Syaraon looked up from his leaning position against the wall. "Jou-sama. You have used the special power your soul was given in the Cauldron. It was blessed with a blade of fire, which you also used."

"What about Mai?" Jou asked weakly.

"She is gone." Syaraon said sadly. "By the time we got there, she was gone."

Anzu blinked. "Where is Yami and Sakura?"

"Right here, Hikari Mistress."

They all turned to see the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl sit Yami down on the bed. Anzu gasped at Yami's slit palms. "Yami, what happened?"

"Someone is toying with our Master's mind, making him think things that are not real." Dark Magician said. "They tricked him into thinking Little Master was dead. This couldn't happen, but they hit his button, er so to speak. Master tried to kill himself."

"He tried to commit suicide?!" Syaraon gasped. He stopped leaning. "Yami what is your problem!? You should know when something isn't right! You should know that Yugi wouldn't be dead without you being affected!"

"I don't know anything, anymore." Yami whispered and looked at the ground.

"Please, Master Syaraon." Dark Magician Girl pleaded. "Our Master is in a confused state, and lost. Much how most human beings become, according to Guardian Brother."

"Who is that?" Honda asked.

"You will find out, Master Honda." Dark Magician said flatly. "Right now, I believe the best thing to do is leave."

"What about Sakura? Where is she?" Anzu asked.

"I am here."

Dark Magician Girl faced her mistress, seeing the hurt inside her eyes. She bit her lip. "Mistress, may I ask you of something?"

"Yes."

"I would asked if my brother and I can stay, to protect you." Dark Magician Girl said, and bowed.

Sakura's eyes filled up with fire. "I don't care, and don't ask me! I have told everyone I do not want to bother with the affairs of the monsters, or the Shadow Realm! You all know I hate it, and that stupid game!"

"Stupid game, Mistress?" Dark Magician asked.

"Yes!" Sakura said, outraged. "It does nothing but separate people from their loved ones! It does nothing but turn those who love one another against each other!"

"Please, Sakura-ko, calm down!" Syaraon pleaded.

"Mistress.." Dark Magician Girl asked in a hurt voice.

Sakura shook her head. "If Yami wants to curse the day that I saved him, than let him! I will not, I repeat, will not be apart of this stupid fight for power! My job was to protect Earth using my powers, not fight over the power of a stupid thing I have no job with!"

"No connection?" Dark Magician questioned. "You were married to Master in Egypt. Your brother was a Prince of Egypt, and both had the Shadow Realm power."

"And it both destroyed them!" Sakura yelled, and even Yami cringed. "Just leave me alone!" she ran past them all and out the door.

Yami hung his head. He then looked up, and balled his fists. The pharaoh stood and followed after her.

Jou sat up and sighed. "Were you able to get Mai's body?"

"What good would have it done, Jou?" Anzu asked. "They have her soul."

Jou cursed. "I hate this! First I try to save my sister, and now I can't save Mai! What good am I?"

"Jou, you have a good heart, that is what matters!" Honda said.

"He is right, Hino Master." Dark Magician Girl nodded. "Don't worry, my brother and I will help you find your love."

"Love? I never said that!"

"It is very easy to see, Jou-sama." Syaraon said.

Anzu giggled. "Yeah, it is!"

"Hey, stop pickin' on me!"

"But Jou, it is so easy!"

"Shut aup ya pointy haired dimwit!"

"What your mouth, mop-top!"

"Dat's it, Honda, your dead!"

Dark Magician Girl giggled, and turned to her brother. "Is something wrong?"

Dark Magician shook his head. "Nothing that we can fix."

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Sakura stopped. "Yami, stop following me." she turned on her heel, and Yami almost ran into her. She looked into his ruby eyes, and fire roared with in hers. "Don't you understand anything?"

Yami glared right back at her. "I understand that we must help get rid of this Silphe, together."

"I don't want anything to do with you, don't you get it?!" Sakura yelled. "You seem to hate me, so why do you try and convince me that we should be together?!"

The Pharaoh took her wrists, and looked straight into her eyes. "Because, then why did we meet again?"

Sakura yanked her wrists away and saw blood tippling down her arms. Her eyes widened and she looked at Yami. She took his hands, and turned them to face up. Sakura felt sickened by what she saw. "Why, Yami?"

"I thought I had lost everything, tenshi." Yami whispered.

Sakura blinked. She could since her lover's pain, angst, anger, and hate. Sakura took out a white napkin, the one she had used to help Jou's forehead. She licked a clean part of it, and took the Millennium Puzzle in her hands.

Yami watched, almost intrigued by what she was doing. His blood red eyes watched as she cleaned the dried blood from the surface of the Puzzle. He looked down at it.

Sakura then frowned and took out to wrapping bandages. She was grateful Syaraon told her to bring a first aid kit. Her hands slowly wrapped Yami's palms, and then she smiled. "All done..is something else wrong?"

Yami took the puzzle into his hands. "It is my gift, it is my curse." he said flatly.

"Gift or curse, it gives you love." Sakura smiled. "Yugi loves you."

Cautiously, Sakura took a note out of her pocket. She handed it to Yami, and watched nervously as he scanned the Japanese script on it. She wasn't to happy with the face Yami gave her.

"What is this? What does this mean?" he asked, baffled by what seemed lyrics.

"You can't read it, can't you." Sakura said disappointedly. She took the note, and closed her eyes. "When you were taken from Yugi, he found the note you left him. Yugi then came to me, and asked me to wright a song for you." she looked up at him, feeling tears coming up. "H-he wished you could hear it."

Yami nodded sadly. "Sakura-ko, I miss him."

"He misses you too, Yami." Sakura said. She wrapped her arms around her waist, and Yami wrapped his arms around her. "Why don't you ever let your emotions out?"

"I shouldn't, it shows weakness." Yami muttered softly.

"Yami, your human." Sakura whispered. "You have weaknesses, like them or not, but you do. It is just part of being human." she closed her eyes.

"How do you know Yugi loves me?"

"Kanashii koi nande nai to, anata wa osturi to itta. Ai seta koto sore dake de, shita wa senanda to [1]." Sakura said and kissed Yami's nose.

ami kissed Sakura passionately. It wasn't a forceful kiss, but light and almost feathery. He opened his eyes and put his forehead to hers. "Aishiteru Sak-ku-rah, eien ni[2]."

"I know." Sakura smiled and rubbed her nose against his. "I say we head back, and..woah!" she yelped as Yami carried her. She wrapped her arms around his neck, and closed her eyes, yawning.

"Oyasuminasai [3], tenshi." Yami whispered and went back to the others.

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Dark Magician looked up, and his sister stood. All eyes were on Yami as he walked in. Yami nodded. "Lets go, all of us."

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[1] There isn't a sad love, you said so. If you love someone, there's nothing else you need. (From Tenchi Forever: I can hear a love song)

[2] I love you Sak-ku-rah, eternally.

[3] Good night [angel]

A/N: I lost myself in this chapter. O.o So much angsty stuff in this, uh? If there is any confusion, Jou is "Fire Master", Anzu is "Light Master", Yami is "Master", Yugi is "little master", and Sakura is "Mistress." Don't you feel so bad for kaiba? Gettin' his soul ripped out!? Geez, more fellow.