Hi everyone ! Sorry it took so long to get this out, I had to visit my
grandma and grandpa over the week end and then went to this
collage thing yesterday. I'm glad I got more reviews though! I love geting
reviews, it makes me so happy! If your reading this and you haven't reviewed, please do!
Ryou:Like anyone is really reading this stuff...
They are! *points to Wildwolf, Sarina Fannel, Bronze Eagle, Shadow-Fox,
Dark Magician, and StarStruck* They say they even like it!
Ryou:Ever think they might just be nice?
Hmf!
Seto:Your just tring to get her mad aren't you?
Ryou:Actuly I'm not.
Seto:Well your doing a good job of it.
Ryou:Just say the stupid disclaimer, Seto.
No! Ryou, you must do the disclaimer this time!
Ryou:Why?
'cause.
Ryou:Saraha does not own Yugioh. She does own Yugioh mercandise though
so don't even worry about sueing her, she'll buy your stuff and you'll
get her money anyway.
-_-' It's so true....




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My Yami lay there on the bed silently shaking, his eyes filled with the loneliness I had come to

bear in my life. Although it would seem like he would be the one who's face would be stained

with tears; it was my own that had streams of salt water flowing apon it. Yami had never seemed

to have any kind of emotions, he'd never showed any remorse for the physical or mental pain

he'd caused; though he'd never did anything that *really* hurt me. He had acted rather happy

last night, but anyone drinking that much soda in an hour would probably act happy.

I really wasn't sure what I should have been doing. You want to help him don't you? You

need to tell him you understand; that you have felt the same thing he has. My arm trembled

as I placed my hand on his shoulder and his own shaking stopped. I felt my heart beat quicken

and Yami sat up and looked at me in seeming amazement.

"What are you doing?", he whispered.

What was I doing? How had I planned to help Yami? I felt I had to speak though
.
"You act like your the only one who's ever felt like that, Yami."

He looked slightly annoyed by that.

"What? Have you spent countless millenniums in the darkness?", he growled, "As far as I

remember you've been alive less than two decades, baka."

"I understand how you feel...I..."

"You understand nothing.", his voice was flat with loathing, "You don't know what I've been

through, and you certainly don't understand the torment that was caused by the dark games."

"If I don't understand then tell me."

My nerve surprised him obviously, his eyes went wide. I waited. He muttered with anger

and turned away from me. I took it apon myself to continue.

"So you won't tell me? I'm only trying to help you, but if you really wanted help you'd make

me understand!" I hadn't meant to yell, it just ended up like that. He looked at me with contempt,

"So you want to understand do you? Fine I'll make you see what I mean."

He grabbed me by the arm and pulled me out of my fathers room, through the living room, and to

my own room. He went towards my desk and picked my school bag off the floor, opened it, and

poured its contents onto the floor. I opened my mouth to protest but he tucked the bag under

his arm, grabbed my deck from the side table, and pulled me to the kitchen. There he raided the

pantry and the fridge, putting various food ideams into the bag before zipping the full bag shut.

He dropped the bag on the floor and advanced on me. I found myself backing against the counter

on the other side of the kitchen his arms on either side of me, resting on the surface. He smirked.

"Are you afraid of me now? You know I could kill you with a single thought."

"You lie...you told me yourself, if I die you end up back in the ring."

"How observant of you. here put this in your pocket."

he held out my deck. Should I take it? What was he planing?

"Don't you trust me, my little friend?"

I looked at him, the mirror image of myself and took the deck. He smiled calmly as I put the

cards into my jean pocket and he picked up the backpack.

"Now little one, we'll be going."

"Going where?"

"We have a tournament to get to."

My mouth went dry as I stared in undeniable shock at Yami. It was one thing to do things to me, but

I didn't want anyone else to get hurt. The fact was I didn't know what he wanted with

Yugi but, it was something bad I knew.

"You can't! You-"

"We can and we will, I advise you to cooperate with-"

"I won't! Even if we tried to, we'd never get onto the boat without an invite any-"

Now Yami dematerialized into the ring and fought me for use of my/our body.

'I think it'll be quite easy to get onto the boat if I'm in charge.' he told me as he pushed

me aside and took control of the body, grabbed the bag, and left for the pier.


It had been surprising just how easy Yami had gotten us on the ship, I'd noticed that Yugi's

friends Tristen and Tea had snuck onboard as well. Yami made efforts to avoid them and the

other duelist, hiding in one of the storage rooms. Yami materialized there siting on the storage

room floor with me. He sat there silently, until the boat left the pier and we could hear the

sound of the duelist walking on the ship's decks, chattering happily. Yami muttered slightly and took the bag from me.

"What are we doing here?" I broke the quiet of are sacturary. Yami mumbled, digging through my bag.

"I said wh-" Yami stuffed an apple in my mouth. He amusingly smiled.

"You haven't eaten since last night, baka."

I pulled the apple out of my mouth, glared at him, and chewing a piece of the sweet fruit.

I swallowed before trying to speak again.

"Why are we here?"

Silence. Yami was peeking out the door, scanning the crowds for someone. He sighed and came back

to our hideout, siting against the wall. I took another bite of the apple and watched Yami

clench and unclench his fist.

"Yami?"

"What?"

"You still haven't told me why we're here."

"..."

Yami grabbed the apple from my hand and viciously took a bite. He chewed carefully staring at me

with a look of mirth dancing in his eyes; some of the fruit's juice flowed down his chin.

He licked his lips and caught some the juice on his tongue and I felt the heat of a blush rise

to my face. He chuckled lightly and offered the fruit to me. I bent my face forward in the

desperate attempt to hide my face and took the apple from his hand. Why did I blush when I thought

about him? I wondered if he was reading my thoughts right now and felt dizzy. I felt my

Yami's hand fall onto my shoulder.

"I think you need to get some air, you look sea sick."

I looked up at him, his face was unreadable. I nodded and stood up.

"What if someone sees me?"

"Then tell them your a duelist."

"I don't have an invitation. I could get arrested for trespassing or something."

"I'll make sure you don't get caught. I'll watch your back."

Wow. My Yami was offering to help me. This was a first.

"Oh..ok.."

Yami checked from the door to make sure no guards where there and motioned for me to come.

It was already dark outside and no one was on this deck. The fresh sea air filled my lungs

helping the dizziness stop. I leaned on the rail over looking the water. I wasn't sure where my

yami was behind me, but I could feel that he was somewhere nearby. What was it with Yami?

He acted pissed off when we talked about the ring or Yugi but, he was *almost* enjoyable company

most of the time otherwise. I wished he'd stop calling me baka though.

"Baka!"

a loud whisper came from behind me. I turned around to face Yami. He pointed towards the

deck above us, the sound of someone walking down the stairs to the deck I was on came.

"Shit!" I mumbled and ran to Yami who in turn pulled me into the storage area where we were hiding.

When we were safely in the room and the sound of the person was gone Yami began laughing quietly.

"What? What's so funny?
"
"You. I didn't know a little baka like you could cuss."

"I just don't cuss all the time like you, Yami. Don't call me baka."

"I'll call you baka if I want to *baka*."

"Oh, what a great comeback." I rolled my eyes and he grinned.

"Better than any of your I'm sure."

I sighed and was about to continue when Yami snapped back into a cold eyed look. He stood and

went to the door, peeking through the crack. He was shaking again. I went up behind him and he

didn't even seem to notice me. I looked over his shoulder to see standing on the deck, Yugi.

My Yami's eyes were fixed on the golden pyramid around the boy's neck. Yugi stood staring over the sea.

"Grandpa..." I could hear Yugi whisper. Yami tensed like a predator ready to spring as Yugi

began walking away. I reacted in the blink of an eye, grabbing hold of my darker compaion and

pulling him back. I held him there on the floor until I heard Yugi walk up two flights of

the stairs and Yami calmed down. I was rewarded with a shove and a glare.

"I could have gotten it! How dare you stop me!"

"I can't just let you hurt him! He's my friend!"

"I thought you didn't have any friends, Ryou Bakura."

I flinched. He'd hit a weak spot. He'd also said my name, my real name, not baka. I wasn't sure
what I wanted to do, so I did nothing.

"Are you going to do this every time I gotta do something?"

I refused to speak.

"tell me."

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why do you want to hurt Yugi?" Yami closed his eyes and sighed.

"I don't *want* to hurt the brat, I just want to get that necklace of his."

"Why?"

"I need it...I won't ever be whole again without it."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't you ever shut up?"

"Promise me you won't hurt Yugi and I'll help you."

"What!?!"

"If what your doing doesn't hurt Yugi..." I hesitated," I'll help you willingly."

I really didn't want to hurt Yugi but, for some reason I wanted to help Yami. Yami examined

me with my own brown eyes, searching for something. He closed his eyes and breathed deep before saying,

"No you won't. You don't understand what's going on and if you found out you would betray me.

I'm darker than you think little one." I replied without even thinking, saying what my heart told me.

"I'd never betray you, Yami, I-"

His eyes opened to look at me just as I relized I'd almost said something I hadn't even

conciusly thought about.

He looked at me with a softer intensity; seeming boring into my very soul. He smiled sadly.

"You don't know what your saying, your not the type to lie and if you promised me that,

you'd end up breaking-"

"Why do you push me away?"

My boldness surprised him once again, so I continued,

"All I want is for use to become friends and every time I try to help you, I'm pushed away.

Why?"

He blinked at my mini rant. He looked away from me. I crossed the line.

"Why are you scared of getting close to me!?!"

He grabbed me by the shoulders with a look that could kill.

"I'm not scared!"

"Then why won't tell me, make me understand."

He let go of my shoulders after I repeated the same proclamation as before.

"You should get some sleep, I'll keep watch."

I stared at him, he was avoiding my words, again.

Yami took off his sweater, the same as the one I wore over my green shirt and rolled it up into a ball.

"Here, you can use this as a pillow."

He pushed it into my hand and went back to the door to watch for guards.

He wasn't going to say anything else that night, so I went ahead and used my Yami's sweater as a pillow.

I lay down with the sweater under my head and pulled one of the sweater's arms into my hand.

The sweet desert smell filled my senses as the dream world came to me. Before sleep

overcame me I whispered one word,

"Yami.."

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Well another chapter down, review peoples!
Seto: Are you going to take Bronze Eagle up on her beta offer?
Umm, whats a beta?
Seto: I beleive it's someone who reads you story before you post it
so they can review it and tell you the mistakes.
Oh! Um, I'll have to think about it. Thank you for offering though!
^_^
Ryou:Who has to do the closing thing?
Seto:Make Ryou do it!
Ryou:No, Seto should do it!
No! I have taken Shadow-Fow's advice...
Seto/Ryou:Which is....
*The DBZ announcer guy walks in*
Seto/Ryou:-_-'
Well now you two don't have to do it!
Seto/Ryou:^_^
Kawaii! *somehow glomps Seto and Ryou at same time* Do the ending DBZ dude!
DBZ 'dude'-Ok...What will happen in the morning? Will Yami ever open up
to Ryou?? Will soemone pass me the cookies???
No! You shant get any cookies! Only Bishies, Reviewers, and myself get cookies!
*Cookies by Shadow-fox*
You make good cookies, BTW!
Seto-*cookies stuffed into mouth*Weli gob!(Really good)
Ryou:*to seto and DBZ dude* You let her get sugar!?! Nooooooooo!
...*_*...Hehe...
Ryou:-_-' Life as we know it is doomed.