Author's Notes: Oh my God! Dear Kami-sama, this chapter could have been
written SO much better in the beginning! It gets...okay...near the
end...but it still could have been better in my opinion! Especially
compared with Soulmates, my other story!
Disclaimer: Um, duh. I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this story. I'd be drawing it. Duh.
YGO Cast: She actually said the disclaimer instead of making someone else do it!!!! *all faint*
Yu-Gi-Oh
Eyes On Me
By Dragon Mistress Cassie
Chapter One: In the Eyes
Yugi tossed and turned as he slept, his eyebrows furrowing briefly and then relaxing. He twitched as he slept, remembering that thing that had happened earlier today.
~"But I think I have a strategy that will stop you in your tracks," Kaiba announced, and began to slowly take steps backward, not caring where he was going. Yami and Yugi, together, barely heard their friends' comments.
"Kaiba!" Yami shouted desperately, sharing Yugi's feelings while in his body. "Stop this!"
Kaiba took one last step up onto the edge of the tower, and began to speak. While Yami heard him, there were only bits and pieces for Yugi. Yugi was busy staring into Kaiba's eyes, horrified at what he found there. Kaiba's eyes told him that he desperately wanted to rescue his brother, but knew he would lose to Pegasus no matter what he did, even if he trusted in the Heart of the Cards. Knowing that he couldn't help his little brother was tearing him apart inside.
Kaiba wanted Yugi to kill him.
'This is crazy!' Yugi said to the ancient spirit within him that had yet to name himself. 'I can't do this!'
'I must,' the spirit insisted. 'WE must!'
'No, there must be another way!'
Yami, wishing only to help his hikari get his grandfather back, could care less about the reincarnated version of his rival from Egypt.
'There isn't,' Yami replied.
"Kaiba, I never back down!" Yami shouted. "Celtic Guardian!!! Attack Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
Yugi was torn between being loyal to his grandfather and not hurting another person, and rescuing his grandfather. It was Anzu who helped him see the right choice. She took off towards him, running at a stumbling pace, though it was like slow-motion to him.
"Yugi, you can't!"
Her cries were faint in his near-deaf ears, watching his Celtic Guardian streak towards the prized dragon of his rival, who was looking shocked that Yugi had gone through with his attack.
But it wasn't Yugi that had done it. It was the spirit within his Millennium Puzzle.
The King of Games.
"Stop this!" Yugi heard faintly. "This isn't like you!! Call it off!"
'She's right!' Yugi thought frantically. 'We can't do this!!'
"STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Yugi shrieked, falling to his knees. The Celtic Guardian slowed, and then finally stopped, his shoulders slumped, his saddened gaze downcast. Anzu stopped before Yugi, watching guiltily as Yugi sobbed.
Kaiba smirked, chuckling. "Couldn't do it, huh? Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack Celtic Guardian!"
The card was blown away, and Yugi never noticed when his life points dropped to zero, his Kuriboh army disappearing into thin air.
"Yugi!" the small boy heard as if he were down in some deep chasm.
'How could you stop the Celtic Guardian? We had almost rescued your grandfather...and you threw it away...' Yugi heard loudly inside his head before there was silence.
"Hey, easy, man, it's okay," Jounouchi tried vainly to comfort him. Yugi poured out his feelings of fright for the spirit within his Millennium Puzzle.
'HA! What a weakling!' Ryou heard in his head. He paled. It looked like his own yami was back from the Shadow Realm.
'Did you miss me?' Bakura snarled within the boy's mind. 'We'll see just how much you miss me after I've taught you not to disobey me during duels!!'
Ryou trembled, and knew almost exactly what Yugi was going through. He was afraid of his Millennium Item's spirit.
"I'm sorry," Anzu sniffed, and Yugi was broken from his thoughts. He looked up at her, dazed. "But you did the right thing. Your grandpa wouldn't have wanted to be rescued like that. I'm sure he's proud of you." (Yes, I know this isn't correct, but I haven't exactly seen that episode in a while, okay? Gimme a break, ne?)
Kaiba said something, and Anzu lost her control, beginning to scream at him.
"He spared you! Kaiba, he showed you compassion, which is more than you deserve!!"
Yugi tried to tell Anzu to quit shouting at him, that he was just trying to save Mokuba, but no sound would come, and his mouth wouldn't move.
"He lost the game."
"The GAME?! It doesn't matter if he wins or loses some lousy game! Yugi has a heart, Kaiba. Yugi has us. He has friends to help him. And what do you have, Seto Kaiba? What do you have at the end of the day? Tell me!! TELL ME!!!"
Kaiba snarled, grabbing the Star Chips he had won from Yugi. "I have all that I need!!"
Kaiba walked away, his plum-colored cape flapping wildly behind him.
"Yeah, keep foolin' yerself," Jounouchi drawled.~
Yugi was curled up in a tight ball, a large amount of sheet clutched in his fists as he remembered what had also happened that day.
~"You've lost more than just this duel, Kaiba-boy. You've lost the only chance you had at retrieving your brother's soul," Pegasus declared, Kaiba staring like a drunken man at him. "Oh, but don't worry. I will spare you a lifetime filled with grief."
Pegasus lifted his hair away from his face, and before Kaiba could realize what was going on, Pegasus had snatched his soul from his body. Yugi's eyes widened to twice their normal size, and he began to tremble, his fists clenched as tears threatened to spill out of his eyes.
"He's gone," Yugi whispered, and buried his face in his arms on the railing, trying hard not to let his sobs be heard. For some reason, knowing Kaiba was gone from this world, in a another dimension, saddened him more than he would've thought it would, considering Kaiba was his rival.
"He was like one of us," Yugi declared, more to himself than anyone standing on the platform with him. "He just wanted to save someone he loved..."~
Yugi cried out, sitting bolt-upright in bed and panting as if he had run a marathon. The dreams about Kaiba's soul being taken had transformed into a nightmare of his grandfather's voice speaking to him, moaning his name and telling him to beware Pegasus.
'Yuuuugi.........'
Yugi froze.
(blah, blah, blah, all that junk with Yugi following his grandpa's voice happens, and on with the story)
'Yugi...save me...'
Yugi's heart stopped. It was Kaiba's card! And there was Mokuba's! They were all on separate tombstones, like some freak-show to display souls. When the cards finally quieted, and then disappeared altogether, Yugi, again, sat bolt-upright in bed.
'Woah, talk about déjà vu,' Yugi thought. 'What a weird dream. But...it didn't feel like a dream. It felt so real...'
Yugi looked up at the moon through his window. 'I will save you all...Grandpa...Mokuba......Kaiba...'
(Way later, after Pegasus is defeated, and everybody is rescued...oh, and, by the way, I don't quite know what happens at that point in the story 'cause the WB hasn't released it on TV yet, so if this is wrong don't send any flames. They will provide hours of amusement for me and my fans before they are deleted.)
Yugi took a deep, steadying breath, felt Yami's comforting presence in the back of his mind, and then knocked on the big oaken door. When no answer came, Yugi frowned and pushed the button that obviously meant the doorbell. To his horror, it sounded like a huge gong, which traveled throughout the mansion. More than likely all the neighbors knew when someone was at Kaiba's house.
Yugi gulped, and was just thinking of tearing up the street back the way he came when the massive door opened and Mokuba's face peered out at him. Both boys blinked.
"Yugi-kun/Mokuba-chan?" they both said at the same time, and then began to laugh.
"Did you come to see Oniichan?" Mokuba inquired. Yugi felt butterflies in his stomach take off, but he smiled and nodded. Mokuba returned the smile, told him to follow, and then led him up a circular staircase and through hallways full of doors. Yugi was just wondering if this was really a house you could live in or a labyrinth when Mokuba stopped so suddenly that Yugi almost bumped into him.
"Here's Oniichan's study. Go ahead and knock. I've gotta go finish my homework. Ja ne!"
"Ja!" Yugi replied cheerily, and then when the boy was gone felt a nervousness he had never felt before.
'Oh, come on, aibou, you can do this. Just go in there and tell him.'
'Easy for you to say,' Yugi grumbled to Yami. 'You're not the one that's going to be speaking.'
A chuckle ringed inside his ears though the hallway was silent. Yugi had gotten used to the weird combination. 'I'll help you, if you want.'
'Oh, thank you, I feel SOOOO much better,' Yugi drawled. He did feel a little better, though, and so he knocked, feeling as if he were jumping off a cliff into a dark hole that had no bottom as far as he could tell.
"Who is it?" a grumpy voice came from the other side of the door. Yugi swallowed.
"It's Yugi, Kaiba..."
There was a long pause.
"Come on in, then."
Yugi felt as if he had hit the bottom of the hole, and opened the door, peeking his head through the crack.
"Um, hi," he greeted the taller boy. Kaiba smirked good-naturedly.
"Hi. In or out?"
Yugi was puzzled for a moment before he realized that half his body was outside the room while the other half was inside.
"Oh! Gomen!" Yugi laughed, stepping inside the office and shutting the door. Kaiba gestured to the leather chair in front of his desk, and Yugi sat down in it, feeling oddly small in the large chair. Yugi cleared his throat tentatively and began to stall.
"W-What are you working on?" Yugi questioned, seeing papers before Kaiba on the desk. Kaiba grimaced.
"Bills and organizing files for Kaiba Corp."
"Sounds like fun," Yugi commented, and they both chuckled. Yugi searched mentally for something to say, and was just about to open his mouth and ask the question when Kaiba interrupted him.
"Yugi, you're stalling. I can tell you're nervous, and I don't know why, but I can assure you I'm not gonna eat you," Kaiba informed him gently. "So why don't you just tell me what's on your mind?"
Yugi swallowed and was silent for a moment before looking up into Kaiba's eyes across the wooden desk.
"You wanted me to kill you that day on the tower, didn't you? Don't deny it- I could see the way your eyes looked at me," Yugi blurted the question that had been nagging him ever since that aforementioned day. Kaiba heaved a huge sigh.
"I knew this question would come up at some point," Kaiba muttered, massaging the sides of his head.
"Well?" Yugi inquired when Kaiba didn't answer him. Kaiba sighed again.
"Yes, Yugi, I wanted you to kill me."
"Why?" Yugi asked bluntly. Kaiba didn't meet his eyes as he spoke.
"Because I didn't deserve to live. I had hurt both you, your grandpa, and your friends in some way, whether directly or indirectly. I'd let Mokuba down. I knew I would lose to Pegasus and let Mokuba down again."
Yugi pounded his fists down on the armrests of the leather chair. "And that justifies making me try to kill you?!?!"
Kaiba stared at him, stunned. Yugi looked up at him with watery eyes.
"You don't deserve to die! I never wanna see your eyes like that again, you hear me?! You mean so much to Mokuba! How do you think he would feel if you left him?!?! How do you think I-"
Yugi paused, shocked at his words, and hastily tried to cover it up, acting as if he hadn't meant to yell. He took a breath and sighed, acting as if he were calming himself.
"How do you think I would be able to keep Mokuba from getting so depressed he might commit suicide?" Yugi continued "calmly", glaring into Kaiba's eyes boldly. He mildly felt Yami's sudden shock at realizing what Yugi had been about to say, but blocked his thoughts from his yami.
Kaiba sighed. "I don't know."
Yugi's eyes burned with a mild anger none of his friends, minus Jounouchi, had ever seen before. "You don't know."
"No, I don't. I don't know if that justifies trying to force you to kill me, I don't know how you would keep Mokuba from getting depressed, and I sure as hell don't know why you care so much whether I die or not."
Yugi paused, his cheeks turning a slightly pink color that was barely noticeable, and stuttered for a moment before finding his voice.
"Because I don't want to see Mokuba hurt, and because, Seto Kaiba, I would like to be your friend, not your rival."
Yugi felt a suppressed explosion in his mind from Yami's soul room. Yugi tried hard to keep a straight face as a string of Egyptian curses came from his darker half's soul room. Kaiba stared at him, and didn't answer.
When Yugi finally got tired of the silence, he sighed, and stood. "Just think about it, kudasai?" (Kudasai means please, but only if it's at the end of a sentence. Onegai means please if you're using it by itself. Just a little F. Y. I.)
"Ja ne," Yugi called sullenly over his shoulder before leaving the room and making his way slowly back through the many hallways of Kaiba's mansion. Yugi descended the stairs, and was just about to exit the house through the front door when Kaiba's voice rang out from the top of the stairs.
"Hey, Yugi."
Yugi turned questioningly, looking up at the tall form leaning against the railing of the second floor. Kaiba gave him a warm smile.
"Thanks for caring."
Yugi beamed back up at him, waved, and then left the house feeling better than he had in days. He hadn't gotten five houses down the road when his yami popped out of the puzzle and demanded to know what the fuck was going on.
Yugi smiled innocently. "I was just trying to give him a normal life."
Yami grumbled all the way home, his eyebrow twitching.
(at the Kaiba mansion)
Kaiba sighed reflectively after his front door closed, turned, and began to walk back to his office, his mind whirling with thoughts. Yugi didn't want him to die, Yugi cared about Mokuba, and wanted to be his friend. To be honest, Kaiba had never had a friend. Sure, he'd had business partners, but no actual friends. Mokuba was his brother, but that still wasn't the same. He had no idea how to be a friend.
"Afraid you're gonna make a mistake and drive Yugi away?" a soft, familiar voice sounded from behind him. Kaiba whirled.
"Mokuba?! How long have you been listening?" he inquired accusingly. Mokuba grinned, and flashed a peace sign.
"Ever since Yugi-kun got here."
"Mokuba-chan, you rascal!" Kaiba teased, slightly flustered at Mokuba's words.
"You want me to help you know how to be a friend?" Mokuba questioned innocently. Kaiba sighed.
"Fine."
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Author's Notes: Well, not quite a cliffhanger, but it sorta is. Just be glad I'm not going all out Cliffhanger-Of-Death mode! BWUAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Bakura: *looks over at Ryou* You let her watch something on vampires, didn't you?
Ryou: *sweatdrops* It's not my fault she went over to a friend's house and rented Interview With the Vampire and Resident Evil!
Yugi: *thoughtfully* Hey, I remember that movie...
Yami: *grabs author* Why. Are. You. Pairing. MY. Koibito. With. Seto. Kaiba?!
Author: *glares and flashes the contract first seen in Chapter One of Soulmates, and then the almighty mace-sama*
Yami: *goes to sulk in his soul room*
Disclaimer: Um, duh. I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this story. I'd be drawing it. Duh.
YGO Cast: She actually said the disclaimer instead of making someone else do it!!!! *all faint*
Yu-Gi-Oh
Eyes On Me
By Dragon Mistress Cassie
Chapter One: In the Eyes
Yugi tossed and turned as he slept, his eyebrows furrowing briefly and then relaxing. He twitched as he slept, remembering that thing that had happened earlier today.
~"But I think I have a strategy that will stop you in your tracks," Kaiba announced, and began to slowly take steps backward, not caring where he was going. Yami and Yugi, together, barely heard their friends' comments.
"Kaiba!" Yami shouted desperately, sharing Yugi's feelings while in his body. "Stop this!"
Kaiba took one last step up onto the edge of the tower, and began to speak. While Yami heard him, there were only bits and pieces for Yugi. Yugi was busy staring into Kaiba's eyes, horrified at what he found there. Kaiba's eyes told him that he desperately wanted to rescue his brother, but knew he would lose to Pegasus no matter what he did, even if he trusted in the Heart of the Cards. Knowing that he couldn't help his little brother was tearing him apart inside.
Kaiba wanted Yugi to kill him.
'This is crazy!' Yugi said to the ancient spirit within him that had yet to name himself. 'I can't do this!'
'I must,' the spirit insisted. 'WE must!'
'No, there must be another way!'
Yami, wishing only to help his hikari get his grandfather back, could care less about the reincarnated version of his rival from Egypt.
'There isn't,' Yami replied.
"Kaiba, I never back down!" Yami shouted. "Celtic Guardian!!! Attack Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
Yugi was torn between being loyal to his grandfather and not hurting another person, and rescuing his grandfather. It was Anzu who helped him see the right choice. She took off towards him, running at a stumbling pace, though it was like slow-motion to him.
"Yugi, you can't!"
Her cries were faint in his near-deaf ears, watching his Celtic Guardian streak towards the prized dragon of his rival, who was looking shocked that Yugi had gone through with his attack.
But it wasn't Yugi that had done it. It was the spirit within his Millennium Puzzle.
The King of Games.
"Stop this!" Yugi heard faintly. "This isn't like you!! Call it off!"
'She's right!' Yugi thought frantically. 'We can't do this!!'
"STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Yugi shrieked, falling to his knees. The Celtic Guardian slowed, and then finally stopped, his shoulders slumped, his saddened gaze downcast. Anzu stopped before Yugi, watching guiltily as Yugi sobbed.
Kaiba smirked, chuckling. "Couldn't do it, huh? Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack Celtic Guardian!"
The card was blown away, and Yugi never noticed when his life points dropped to zero, his Kuriboh army disappearing into thin air.
"Yugi!" the small boy heard as if he were down in some deep chasm.
'How could you stop the Celtic Guardian? We had almost rescued your grandfather...and you threw it away...' Yugi heard loudly inside his head before there was silence.
"Hey, easy, man, it's okay," Jounouchi tried vainly to comfort him. Yugi poured out his feelings of fright for the spirit within his Millennium Puzzle.
'HA! What a weakling!' Ryou heard in his head. He paled. It looked like his own yami was back from the Shadow Realm.
'Did you miss me?' Bakura snarled within the boy's mind. 'We'll see just how much you miss me after I've taught you not to disobey me during duels!!'
Ryou trembled, and knew almost exactly what Yugi was going through. He was afraid of his Millennium Item's spirit.
"I'm sorry," Anzu sniffed, and Yugi was broken from his thoughts. He looked up at her, dazed. "But you did the right thing. Your grandpa wouldn't have wanted to be rescued like that. I'm sure he's proud of you." (Yes, I know this isn't correct, but I haven't exactly seen that episode in a while, okay? Gimme a break, ne?)
Kaiba said something, and Anzu lost her control, beginning to scream at him.
"He spared you! Kaiba, he showed you compassion, which is more than you deserve!!"
Yugi tried to tell Anzu to quit shouting at him, that he was just trying to save Mokuba, but no sound would come, and his mouth wouldn't move.
"He lost the game."
"The GAME?! It doesn't matter if he wins or loses some lousy game! Yugi has a heart, Kaiba. Yugi has us. He has friends to help him. And what do you have, Seto Kaiba? What do you have at the end of the day? Tell me!! TELL ME!!!"
Kaiba snarled, grabbing the Star Chips he had won from Yugi. "I have all that I need!!"
Kaiba walked away, his plum-colored cape flapping wildly behind him.
"Yeah, keep foolin' yerself," Jounouchi drawled.~
Yugi was curled up in a tight ball, a large amount of sheet clutched in his fists as he remembered what had also happened that day.
~"You've lost more than just this duel, Kaiba-boy. You've lost the only chance you had at retrieving your brother's soul," Pegasus declared, Kaiba staring like a drunken man at him. "Oh, but don't worry. I will spare you a lifetime filled with grief."
Pegasus lifted his hair away from his face, and before Kaiba could realize what was going on, Pegasus had snatched his soul from his body. Yugi's eyes widened to twice their normal size, and he began to tremble, his fists clenched as tears threatened to spill out of his eyes.
"He's gone," Yugi whispered, and buried his face in his arms on the railing, trying hard not to let his sobs be heard. For some reason, knowing Kaiba was gone from this world, in a another dimension, saddened him more than he would've thought it would, considering Kaiba was his rival.
"He was like one of us," Yugi declared, more to himself than anyone standing on the platform with him. "He just wanted to save someone he loved..."~
Yugi cried out, sitting bolt-upright in bed and panting as if he had run a marathon. The dreams about Kaiba's soul being taken had transformed into a nightmare of his grandfather's voice speaking to him, moaning his name and telling him to beware Pegasus.
'Yuuuugi.........'
Yugi froze.
(blah, blah, blah, all that junk with Yugi following his grandpa's voice happens, and on with the story)
'Yugi...save me...'
Yugi's heart stopped. It was Kaiba's card! And there was Mokuba's! They were all on separate tombstones, like some freak-show to display souls. When the cards finally quieted, and then disappeared altogether, Yugi, again, sat bolt-upright in bed.
'Woah, talk about déjà vu,' Yugi thought. 'What a weird dream. But...it didn't feel like a dream. It felt so real...'
Yugi looked up at the moon through his window. 'I will save you all...Grandpa...Mokuba......Kaiba...'
(Way later, after Pegasus is defeated, and everybody is rescued...oh, and, by the way, I don't quite know what happens at that point in the story 'cause the WB hasn't released it on TV yet, so if this is wrong don't send any flames. They will provide hours of amusement for me and my fans before they are deleted.)
Yugi took a deep, steadying breath, felt Yami's comforting presence in the back of his mind, and then knocked on the big oaken door. When no answer came, Yugi frowned and pushed the button that obviously meant the doorbell. To his horror, it sounded like a huge gong, which traveled throughout the mansion. More than likely all the neighbors knew when someone was at Kaiba's house.
Yugi gulped, and was just thinking of tearing up the street back the way he came when the massive door opened and Mokuba's face peered out at him. Both boys blinked.
"Yugi-kun/Mokuba-chan?" they both said at the same time, and then began to laugh.
"Did you come to see Oniichan?" Mokuba inquired. Yugi felt butterflies in his stomach take off, but he smiled and nodded. Mokuba returned the smile, told him to follow, and then led him up a circular staircase and through hallways full of doors. Yugi was just wondering if this was really a house you could live in or a labyrinth when Mokuba stopped so suddenly that Yugi almost bumped into him.
"Here's Oniichan's study. Go ahead and knock. I've gotta go finish my homework. Ja ne!"
"Ja!" Yugi replied cheerily, and then when the boy was gone felt a nervousness he had never felt before.
'Oh, come on, aibou, you can do this. Just go in there and tell him.'
'Easy for you to say,' Yugi grumbled to Yami. 'You're not the one that's going to be speaking.'
A chuckle ringed inside his ears though the hallway was silent. Yugi had gotten used to the weird combination. 'I'll help you, if you want.'
'Oh, thank you, I feel SOOOO much better,' Yugi drawled. He did feel a little better, though, and so he knocked, feeling as if he were jumping off a cliff into a dark hole that had no bottom as far as he could tell.
"Who is it?" a grumpy voice came from the other side of the door. Yugi swallowed.
"It's Yugi, Kaiba..."
There was a long pause.
"Come on in, then."
Yugi felt as if he had hit the bottom of the hole, and opened the door, peeking his head through the crack.
"Um, hi," he greeted the taller boy. Kaiba smirked good-naturedly.
"Hi. In or out?"
Yugi was puzzled for a moment before he realized that half his body was outside the room while the other half was inside.
"Oh! Gomen!" Yugi laughed, stepping inside the office and shutting the door. Kaiba gestured to the leather chair in front of his desk, and Yugi sat down in it, feeling oddly small in the large chair. Yugi cleared his throat tentatively and began to stall.
"W-What are you working on?" Yugi questioned, seeing papers before Kaiba on the desk. Kaiba grimaced.
"Bills and organizing files for Kaiba Corp."
"Sounds like fun," Yugi commented, and they both chuckled. Yugi searched mentally for something to say, and was just about to open his mouth and ask the question when Kaiba interrupted him.
"Yugi, you're stalling. I can tell you're nervous, and I don't know why, but I can assure you I'm not gonna eat you," Kaiba informed him gently. "So why don't you just tell me what's on your mind?"
Yugi swallowed and was silent for a moment before looking up into Kaiba's eyes across the wooden desk.
"You wanted me to kill you that day on the tower, didn't you? Don't deny it- I could see the way your eyes looked at me," Yugi blurted the question that had been nagging him ever since that aforementioned day. Kaiba heaved a huge sigh.
"I knew this question would come up at some point," Kaiba muttered, massaging the sides of his head.
"Well?" Yugi inquired when Kaiba didn't answer him. Kaiba sighed again.
"Yes, Yugi, I wanted you to kill me."
"Why?" Yugi asked bluntly. Kaiba didn't meet his eyes as he spoke.
"Because I didn't deserve to live. I had hurt both you, your grandpa, and your friends in some way, whether directly or indirectly. I'd let Mokuba down. I knew I would lose to Pegasus and let Mokuba down again."
Yugi pounded his fists down on the armrests of the leather chair. "And that justifies making me try to kill you?!?!"
Kaiba stared at him, stunned. Yugi looked up at him with watery eyes.
"You don't deserve to die! I never wanna see your eyes like that again, you hear me?! You mean so much to Mokuba! How do you think he would feel if you left him?!?! How do you think I-"
Yugi paused, shocked at his words, and hastily tried to cover it up, acting as if he hadn't meant to yell. He took a breath and sighed, acting as if he were calming himself.
"How do you think I would be able to keep Mokuba from getting so depressed he might commit suicide?" Yugi continued "calmly", glaring into Kaiba's eyes boldly. He mildly felt Yami's sudden shock at realizing what Yugi had been about to say, but blocked his thoughts from his yami.
Kaiba sighed. "I don't know."
Yugi's eyes burned with a mild anger none of his friends, minus Jounouchi, had ever seen before. "You don't know."
"No, I don't. I don't know if that justifies trying to force you to kill me, I don't know how you would keep Mokuba from getting depressed, and I sure as hell don't know why you care so much whether I die or not."
Yugi paused, his cheeks turning a slightly pink color that was barely noticeable, and stuttered for a moment before finding his voice.
"Because I don't want to see Mokuba hurt, and because, Seto Kaiba, I would like to be your friend, not your rival."
Yugi felt a suppressed explosion in his mind from Yami's soul room. Yugi tried hard to keep a straight face as a string of Egyptian curses came from his darker half's soul room. Kaiba stared at him, and didn't answer.
When Yugi finally got tired of the silence, he sighed, and stood. "Just think about it, kudasai?" (Kudasai means please, but only if it's at the end of a sentence. Onegai means please if you're using it by itself. Just a little F. Y. I.)
"Ja ne," Yugi called sullenly over his shoulder before leaving the room and making his way slowly back through the many hallways of Kaiba's mansion. Yugi descended the stairs, and was just about to exit the house through the front door when Kaiba's voice rang out from the top of the stairs.
"Hey, Yugi."
Yugi turned questioningly, looking up at the tall form leaning against the railing of the second floor. Kaiba gave him a warm smile.
"Thanks for caring."
Yugi beamed back up at him, waved, and then left the house feeling better than he had in days. He hadn't gotten five houses down the road when his yami popped out of the puzzle and demanded to know what the fuck was going on.
Yugi smiled innocently. "I was just trying to give him a normal life."
Yami grumbled all the way home, his eyebrow twitching.
(at the Kaiba mansion)
Kaiba sighed reflectively after his front door closed, turned, and began to walk back to his office, his mind whirling with thoughts. Yugi didn't want him to die, Yugi cared about Mokuba, and wanted to be his friend. To be honest, Kaiba had never had a friend. Sure, he'd had business partners, but no actual friends. Mokuba was his brother, but that still wasn't the same. He had no idea how to be a friend.
"Afraid you're gonna make a mistake and drive Yugi away?" a soft, familiar voice sounded from behind him. Kaiba whirled.
"Mokuba?! How long have you been listening?" he inquired accusingly. Mokuba grinned, and flashed a peace sign.
"Ever since Yugi-kun got here."
"Mokuba-chan, you rascal!" Kaiba teased, slightly flustered at Mokuba's words.
"You want me to help you know how to be a friend?" Mokuba questioned innocently. Kaiba sighed.
"Fine."
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Author's Notes: Well, not quite a cliffhanger, but it sorta is. Just be glad I'm not going all out Cliffhanger-Of-Death mode! BWUAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Bakura: *looks over at Ryou* You let her watch something on vampires, didn't you?
Ryou: *sweatdrops* It's not my fault she went over to a friend's house and rented Interview With the Vampire and Resident Evil!
Yugi: *thoughtfully* Hey, I remember that movie...
Yami: *grabs author* Why. Are. You. Pairing. MY. Koibito. With. Seto. Kaiba?!
Author: *glares and flashes the contract first seen in Chapter One of Soulmates, and then the almighty mace-sama*
Yami: *goes to sulk in his soul room*
