Chapter four

Ryou and Bakura had stayed over that night, much to Yami's displeasure. Ryou and Bakura had slept downstairs as the spare bedroom was already occupied and Yugi only had a single bed.

The next morning, Bakura was first to rise… or so he thought. He went up to Yami's room and opened the door carefully, hoping to see the pharaoh asleep. He was shocked to see Violet in there. They were duelling.

"Dark magician in defence." Yami muttered. He sounded very agitated.

"You're duelling at five in the morning?" Bakura snapped. Violet and Yami jumped, not realising he was there up till now. Yami's eyes narrowed and he scowled.

"Get out before I kill you." Bakura shook his head.

"Nope. I want to see who wins." He smirked and sat down next to Yami, who glowered at him and turned back to the game.

Half an hour later, by only one hundred life points, Yami won by sheer luck.

"You're a lot better than Yugi." Violet said, putting away her deck.

"I wouldn't have won if you had got that card you wanted."

"You're right about that!" Violet smiled and left. Yami sighed, and then he remembered Bakura was still here. He made a mental note to kill Violet for leaving him on his own with Bakura.

Yami turned round to the albino.

"You can go now. You saw who won."

"Why were you duelling her at such an early time?"

"She couldn't sleep and I was bored. Now get out." Bakura gazed at Yami failing to mask his depression.

"Do you have any idea how miserable I am without you?" Yami rolled his eyes and stood up.

"No. But I get the feeling I will if I don't push you out of my room and slam the door behind you before you get the chance to tell me." Yami did just that and sat back on his bed and closed his eyes. 'Why me?' he thought sadly.

Bakura stared at the door for a while before leaving in a huff. He spotted Violet over in her room.

"You ruined my life!" he yelled at her from across the hallway. Violet looked up at him briefly before getting up.

"I didn't. I've already told you that. It's your fault for being jealous and seeing things that weren't there. Yami doesn't love me… he never will. I realised that yesterday when you came back. I even just left you guys in the same room alone and you didn't try and patch it up." Bakura was shocked.

"You did that on purpose?" Violet nodded and smiled.

"You should really go back in there."

"I would… but my life is in danger in that room… there are a lot of sharp and harmful things in there."

"Well… Yami and I are going to the cinema tomorrow. The films called 'Deadly toxic'. It's a horror film. Why don't you go too?" Bakura nodded and left. He couldn't believe it. Violet was actually on his side on this! Well that made things a lot easier. He just hoped Violet was right when she said that Yami didn't love her. 

Yugi and Ryou were up just past twelve that afternoon. They found two notes on the front door. One said:

Gone to the cinema

      Luv Yami and Violet.

And the other said:

Gone to stalk pharaoh boy and purple girl

  Go get laid or something.

       Bakura.

Yugi sighed.

"Why can't Bakura just leave them alone?"

"He's pining big time over Yami. You should have seen him at camp after you left. He was a miserable sod."

At the movies, Yami and Violet got front row seats in the screening. The music was blaring and the picture was so close Yami felt sick.

"Do we have to sit this close?" he yelled over the adverts.

"Coward!" Violet grinned.

"Am not!"

"Sit here then!" Yami shrugged and turned back to the screen. 'I should have brought binoculars to look backwards though.'  (AN/ therefore making the picture smaller ^___^)

The movie was horrific. Even Yami was scared. Violet just sat there in complete silence, mouth open slightly in awe, flinching ever so vaguely when someone's head was bitten off and lay in a pool of blood on the floor, twitching.

After it, Yami walked out looking rigid and frightened. Violet walked out and grinned.

"That was great!" Yami stared at her. She shrugged and pulled him out into the light. "Come on!"

"Where're we going?"

"Park!" Bakura was watching from a bush. He followed them to the park, where Violet led Yami to the lake. "I'm going to see if they sell fishing rods here. Wait there!" she ran off and spotted Bakura lurking near a tree. "All yours!" she said and ran straight for the gates out.

Bakura took a deep breath in and walked up to Yami.

"Hi." He said quietly.

"Fuck off Bakura. I'm waiting for Violet to come back."

"Yami… please. I miss you!"

"Tough! You lost me for life when you made out with that girl!"

"I only did that for you!"

"That makes even less sense than I thought your answer would." Yami said glaring at Bakura. He got swiftly up and pushed past the tomb robber. "And for your information… I think I care for Violet. She's nice and fun and a good duelist and not evil." And Yami turned and left. Bakura stood watching Yami's retreating back. 'Violet said he didn't love her! Lying bitch!' He growled and left in the opposite direction for home.

Violet saw Yami heading towards her looking really pissed off.

"Where were you?" he asked

"I… um, saw one of my friends and had to talk to them!"

"Whatever. Bakura was here! I need to get away from here." Yami stormed past her and out of the park again. Violet turned to follow when Bakura snuck up behind her.

"Wait! You said Yami didn't care for you! He just said he did!" Violet opened her mouth in shock. She couldn't stop herself grinning.

"Really? Wow that's so cool!" Bakura scowled.

"You said he didn't feel anything for you!"

"I was guessing!" Violet said hastily, raising her arms in defence. Bakura growled and left.

Back at home, Violet walked in to see Yami still looking pissed off, sitting on the sofa. Yugi and Ryou were nowhere to be seen. Yami looked up and smiled.

"Sorry for leaving you with Bakura." Violet said, "Where are Yugi and Ryou?" 

"Out somewhere. Listen… do you… like it here?"

"It's like a second home!" Violet said cheerfully. She felt a lot more apprehensive around Yami now.

"Well do you want to stay here forever? You can redecorate the room if you want and everything!" Violet looked stunned.

"I, um don't think that's a good idea. My mother will call all the time… and there's Bakura!"

"I like it when your mother calls. Like I said- it releases a lot of anger! And Bakura can go fuck himself for all I care."

"You sure you wouldn't mind? What about Yugi?" Yami shifted slightly.

"Well I kinda asked him to get lost so I could ask you." he blushed and stared at the floor. Violet grinned.

"In that case, I need to go shopping!" Yami looked up at her questioningly. "For lilac paint!"

Bakura returned to his house, slamming the door shut and thudding into the living room. Yugi and Ryou were making out on the settee. Bakura paid no attention to them and went straight upstairs. 

"There's no way I'm letting Yami go. Violet's right though… I did ruin my own life."

Yami and Violet went to the home shopping shop in town. Violet picked out lilac paint and grinned.

"Everything I have is a different shade of purple." She said to Yami.

"Yeah… um, listen… I told Bakura I cared for you… you know… but I kinda only did it to get him to leave me alone… so if he says anything about it… don't worry, I don't ok?" Violet smiled and nodded, masking her disappointment expertly.

Once back home, they found Yugi and Ryou on the settee watching TV. Yugi looked up.

"Bakura called." Yugi said. Yami's eyes narrowed.

"And?"

"He said he wants to see you tonight to talk about some stuff." Yami scowled.

"Tell him to talk to someone who cares!" Violet sighed.

"You should go." Yami turned to her in disbelief.

"I thought you were with me on this!"

"I am! That's why you should go! If only to straighten a few things out. 'Cause you're definitely not happy now."

"I'm not going."

"If you don't go I'll never speak to you again."  Yami thought for a while before slouching down by Yugi.

"What time did he say?"

I can't believe I'm wasting my time listening to that moron. Yami sat on a park bench over looking the lake. Why always here? It sparks memories I really don't want to think about. He gazed up at the moon to see the time. Eight. You're late Bakura. Damn tomb robbers… never could tell the time. Bakura arrived five minutes later.

"Well… I never expected you to be late for your own grovelling."

"My hair got caught in the door." Bakura said simply. Yami bit his lip to stop himself smiling.

"What do you want?"

"To apologise. I'm really sorry for making out with a girl that I didn't even know the name of. Wait there." Bakura took out a piece of paper. "Right. I was wrong to think that you liked Violet even more than me… even if you do now… back then you didn't… right?" Yami nodded and closed his eyes. "Yeah… and also I'm really sorry for being so jealous and seeing things that weren't there. You are entitled to friends and do not need to spend every waking moment of your life with me." He recited. Bakura took a huge breath and waited for a response. Yami opened his eyes and looked back at Bakura, smiling.

"Do you know how long I've waited for that?"  Bakura tried to think of an answer for a while, before realising it was a question he couldn't possibly know the answer to.

"I have no idea." Yami grinned and leant forward to kiss him. He pulled away fairly quickly to gaze at him.

"Ok tomb robber.  You've got me back. But if I catch you with someone else, I'll kill you with a very big blade." Bakura grinned.

"I wont. Don't worry." He got up slowly and pulled Yami up. "C'mon. I'm bloody freezing." Yami wrapped his arms round Bakura and they walked back to his house.

Violet sat with Yugi in the living room while Ryou prepared tea.

"Do you think they'll be ok?" Violet asked. Yugi nodded and grinned.

"They'll get back together. They're destined for it. Well… they have followed each other though two lives."

Bakura and Yami came through the door about half an hour later. Yugi and Ryou were huddled in a corner of the settee asleep and Violet was on the opposite one. She looked up to see Yami still with his arms wrapped around Bakura and smiled warmly.

"Glad to see you two are ok." She said. "I'll leave you alone now." Yami grinned and sat down next to her.

"Thanks for making me go." Violet winked and got up. She was about to leave when the phone rang. Knowing full well who it was, she went swiftly into the kitchen.

"Hello?"

"Violet. You come home right now." She sighed and motioned to Yami.

"It's for you." she whispered. Yami took the phone gladly.

"Hi again." Violet was still listening.

"You! You are corrupting my innocent daughter!"

"You can't be serious. I can tell you truthfully that I do not know a single person that is 'innocent.' Now, as much as I love chatting to you, my boyfriend just came home, and I really wanna go make out with him." Bakura smirked from the living room. Yami knew full well that that remark would piss Violet's mother off incredibly. It did.

"YOU'LL DO NO SUCH THING! My daughter is there!"

"Well duh. I think we've established that." Yami put the phone down and sighed. "I love the phone. Not all modern inventions are stupid wastes of spaces."  Violet smiled and headed upstairs, dragging a very sleepy Yugi, and Ryou with her.

"Why did we have to go?" Yugi asked, eyes only half open. He kept tripping up and groaning. Ryou on the other was really awake and grinning at nothing in particular.

"Yami and Bakura need 'alone time.'" Violet answered.

"I can't believe you're being so good about this. It's so obvious you fancy Yami." Yugi said, louder than normal because he was still half asleep. Violet hoped to god that Yami hadn't heard.

"Shh! Yami's got what he wants, that's all that matters!" Yugi shook his head in disbelief and turned his attention back to trying to get up the stairs without obtaining serious injuries.

Ryou went on up ahead and ran into the guest room, which had several paint cans in it and new curtains and lamp shades, all in different shades of purple. 

"Purple, purple everywhere, but not a spot of pink!" he said, grinning manically again.

"What's wrong with him?" Violet asked.

"He had too much sugar. You should have left him asleep." Yugi mumbled, before collapsing on the bed and falling asleep immediately. Ryou climbed onto the bed and started poking Yugi.

"Wake up! I wanna play!" Violet sighed and walked over to the window. Yami wont want me here if he's got Bakura back. I'd better go in the morning.

In the morning:

Violet woke in the early hours of the morning to leave. She was going to her second cousin's house in America, as there was no way she was ever going home after what Yami had said to her mother. She glanced over at Yugi and Ryou. Ryou was dangling upside-down on the bed, head almost touching the floor. Yugi was under the covers fast asleep. She sighed. she was gonna miss this place.

Violets POV

I should go now. Everyone is asleep, so I wont need to say goodbye. I hoped that Yami would have the sense to take the paint back and get his money back. I tiptoed downstairs silently and into the living room. Bakura was dangling off the sofa in much the same fashion as Ryou. Yami was nowhere to be seen. I went through the living room to the door and opened it. My heart jolted when I saw Yami outside.

Normal POV.

Yami turned when he heard the door open. He frowned slightly.

"Why are you out so late… well early?"

"I'm, um… leaving." Yami's eyes grew wide.

"Why?"

"Well I thought you wouldn't want me around now that you have Bakura back." Violet blushed slightly and was glad of the shadows across her face. Yami just stared at her for a while.

"But I want you to stay." He said finally. Violet looked at him questioningly. Yami sighed. "I… well you're like Yugi in a way." Yami's face looked strained like he was trying to explain the meaning of life. "I feel like I can tell you anything… I just think of you as a sister. I know that sounds weird, but no one, not even Yugi, has ever felt so much like family as you do. That's why I wanted you to stay." He blushed. "You must think I'm stupid." Violet smiled slightly. She hugged Yami tightly and Yami gasped for breath.

"I've never had a brother before." She looked up at him excitedly. "It's kinda cool that a pharaoh thinks of me as family!" Yami grinned shyly and sighed.

"Thank god that's over. I was dreading telling you that I thought of you as a sister. I thought you'd think I was demented."

"Never crossed my mind." Violet said smiling.

Three months later:

Yami scowled as loud laughter was heard over blaring music above him. Violets had three friends over and were apparently having the time of their lives.

Bakura squeezed him tightly and grinned.

"Don't worry about it."

"She makes too much noise!" Yami complained. Yugi was opposite him with Ryou.

"You really are starting to sound like family!" Yami's scowl turned into a grin.

"Really?" Yugi nodded. Yami got up and went upstairs. The music stopped and Yugi heard Violet yelling at Yami. Yami came downstairs minutes later with a CD. "No more of that." He said, grinning.

The phone rang and Yami answered it.

"Hello?"

"Hi Yami. Is Violet there?" it was her mum. She had finally accepted Violet was staying there and now phoned once a week to check on her.

"Hold on." Yami covered the mouthpiece and yelled "Violet get down here!" Violet stomped downstairs and snatched the phone off him.

"Lousy brother." She muttered before speaking to her mother. Yami grinned wider.

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