This is the Sequel to More Than You Realize. ^^ This probably isn't as good as More Than You Realize. Go read it! I'll try to make this as good as the other one. And yes…Yami and Bakura will get together…eventually…….^________^
Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh.
Warning: Yaoi! Don't like? Then this is the time to turn back!
Couplings: Bakura/Malik(For Now),Yami/Bakura (Later), Seto/Ryou, Yuugi/Jou
Only Your Heart Knows Why: Memories
Bakura lay on his back, watching shadows play on the ceiling. The house was eerily silent, except for his breathing and the soft snoring of the boy beside him.
Ryou had moved in with Seto six months ago, so he was left alone in the house. Ryou had tried to convince him to move into the vast mansion also, but Bakura refused. Though he had only been at the Kaiba mansion three or four times, the place held too many memories for him.
Bakura closed his eyes, reprimanding himself silently as he felt tears well up. He tried to fall asleep, but was unable to.
Insomnia. Insomnia had plagued him for the last three years, especially around the holiday season in the winter.
With a soft, frustrated growl, he sat up, placing his feet on the cold floor.
Bakura reached over and opened the bottom drawer of the bedside table. He reached inside and came out with a locked box. Taking the key that hung on a chain around his neck, he unlocked the box.
He pulled out a smaller silver box and opened it slowly. The object in the box glinted as the moonlight hit it. It was a gold wristband, about two inches in width. In the middle of it, inscribed in silver was a Y intertwined with a B. Running along the top and the bottom of the wristband was an inscription:
--- Bakura, Merry Christmas koi. I hope you think of me whenever you wear this even if I'm not around. I love you with all my heart, for now, eternity and beyond. I'm so lucky to be able to love you and to be love by you. Forever and always, aishiteru. Yami ---
Tears were brimming up in his eyes as he gazed at it. Memories flashed through his head. Smiling crimson eyes. A deep rich laugh. Wild tri-colored hair. Hurt, betrayed eyes glaring at him. Angry words. Yami leaving.
Bakura let the tears fall, careful to keep it from hitting the wristband.
The boy beside him stirred. Bakura quickly put the wristband back into the silver box, closing it and locking it back into the bigger box. He placed the locked box back into the drawer.
Long lithe arms wrapped around his waist and pulled him against a lean body.
"Bakura, what's wrong?" A husky, sleep-filled voice asked him.
"Nothing's wrong." Bakura said wiping his tears away.
"Koi, you're crying, tell me what's wrong."
"Go back to sleep, Malik, I'm fine. Just a bad dream."
Malik gave him a skeptical look, but the finality in Bakura's voice shut him up.
"Don't stay up to long," Malik kissed the top of Bakura's shoulder, before lying back down.
Bakura gave a small nod, staring intently at the wall. A small snore moments later told him Malik had fallen back to sleep.
A graceful young man appeared in front of him. Familiar crimson eyes gazed back at him. Lips curled up in a soft smile.
Bakura reached his hand out to touch him, but his hands only touched thin air as the figure disappeared. It was a hallucination. A mere hallucination.
"Damn it!" Bakura cursed, burying his face in his hand.
"Why do you keep doing this to me, Yami? Why do you keep haunting me?!" Bakura cried, his brown eyes glistening with tears.
Three years. Almost. Another twelve or so hours would make it exactly three years.
The clock read 4:15am.
Yami sat on the sofa, staring out the window. Snow was falling lightly outside.
In Yami's hand was a framed photo. It was a rare one of him and Bakura. It was taken when they had kissed under the mistletoe at Seto's Christmas party. The memory brought a small smile to Yami's face. But the smile turned into a frown, as he remembered what had happened a few short hours after the kiss.
Angry tears flowered from his eyes. The pain and betrayal he had felt and had tried so long to push away resurfaced.
He had left. Left the town, with only Yuugi knowing where he went. Of course, Jou, Ryou and Seto eventually found out.
Yami had made them promise never to tell anyone where he as he tried to erased the memories. The anyone he had specifically meant was Bakura.
Bakura had gotten together with Malik, six months after he had left. And they had been together for the last 2½ years.
Yuugi had been reluctant to tell him this information, but Yami forced it out of him.
Yami laughed bitterly to himself.
'He moved on a long time ago, Yami. He's probably forgotten about what happened three years. Why do you still bother crying over him?'
'You still love him, that's why.'
'Of course I don't love him!! He betrayed me, why would I still love him? He's happy with Malik.'
'But you do love him. Don't lie. You know you can never stop loving him, no matter what he does.'
"I hate him, damn it! I hate him!" Yami yelled at the window, tears splashing on the framed photo.
'Liar.' That was the only statement before the voice in his head went silent.
"No…I don't love him. I can't still love him." Yami said, shaking his head.
Yami's eyes landed on the card that sat on the end table. It was an invitation. To a Christmas party. At Seto's. One that Bakura would be attending.
"Can I face him again? Should I go?" Yami looked at the photo, his hands tracing the outline of Bakura's face.
The deep midnight blue of the sky soon gave away to the bright colors of the morning.
Yami sighed, looking out the window. "Well…it's been three years…I can't avoid it forever."
Yami turned his attention back down to the photograph, "I guess I'll see you again, Bakura."
The calendar in Bakura's room and the one in Yami's living room had the same date encircled with the same caption.
December 25th. Seto's Christmas Party. 7:30pm.
It was 5:30am on December 25th…14 hours till they would see each other again. Memories, buried for three years, would once again resurface.
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End of the long first chapter.
That was bad…wasn't it? Sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The next chapter will be better.
Well…um…review please and tell me if I should continue this…^^;;; ::runs off to update other stories::
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