Ring: *Smiled helplessly* I'M SORRY! SORRY SO SO SO SORRY GUYS!!!!! I'm soo sorry that I didn't write this chapter sooner after the first one!! Please don't flame me!!! (T_T)
Iura: *Rubbing her head* Gee… that's a lot of sorrys~
Ring: Of course!!! Because I was soo darn stupid!! Of even thinking about giving up on my very first story… well… Asian Angelkun? Please so forgive me about updating so late… well… for about two weeks to be exact… so sorry!! Because… I thought no one else liked my story besides you that no one else reviewed! And I lost fate for a while until I checked my e-mail later and for the first time in two weeks… THERE were actually other review messages sent to me!! And I didn't see them in my list cuz I kinda deleted them… I don't know how but I did… so… SORRY SOOO SORRY!!! Also to Bluekun, and Sparkykun!! Thank you all so much for giving me hopes to write on!!
Yugi: *sighed* There she goes again~ * sweat dropped* High in sugar- (-_-6)
Ring: *Face puffed* I'M NOT!!! SERIOUSLY!! Well… NOT THIS TIME!!
Iura: *Plugged her ears* Ok ok- well you don't have to shout about it! *Annoyed*
Yami: *Chuckled* I wouldn't be talking if I were you~ *Cross handed once again, half bored plus tired*
Iura: *Trembled and slowly turned to face the Pharaoh* And WHAT? *She warned* does that mean?!
Yami: *Rolled eyes* It means, Stupid! That no one here can be as loud as you. *Smirked, and both Ring and Yugi sighed and looked at each other 'Here we go again~'*
Iura: *Veins popped, both at the name the other yami called her, "Stupid" and about being the loudest of all* WHY I OUGHTA-
Yugi: *Just before Iura finished her sentence… He interrupted*
STORY STARTS IN COUNT DOWN!
5-!
4-!
3-!
2-!
1-!
*Apparently he didn't want the two yamis to ruin anything again.
Iura: *Shocked* WHAT?! How dare you- NO… WAIT!!- *Too late, Ring watched as Yugi pulled the screen before neither Yami and Iura could react-* (0o*)
Yugi: *grinned evilly* 0-!
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Chapter two- All I need was time
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6am in the morning… but Yami lies awake in his soul room, not on the bed but the cold stone floor with a knocked-down candle stand beside him (A/N: Iura: Ha ha ~ (Ring: URA!! What in the world??) ops), that "hell" from last night had shoved him off the soft divan, and kept him off.
The ancient pharaoh didn't sleep, not even a wink. Why of course he couldn't, although the pain that suddenly erupted from throughout his body was gone, Yami's head still aches and his body still numb.
'What… time is it…?' he couldn't tell.
Tried as he did but couldn't get up, so he forced his eyes open and slowly swiveled the head, absorbing some blurry colors and shapes of the maze walls and the ancient designs that was curved on to them thousands of years ago, when he was still a pharaoh.
That, was his soul room he was seeing, what's within. Although he was beginning to recall some of his memories from the pass, they were still not enough to tell Yami "what exactly" each symbol on the walls meant. They were like puzzles, pieces of scattered forethoughts that came to him each time unexpectedly, and like clips of shortened videos with details cut off.
'Morning… I hope…' He doubted.
Yami was really hoping if Yugi had awakened, so seeing his room unlock, maybe he would pay him a visit. But the fact is… it's still 6 at dawn. Domino High, Yugi's school wouldn't start until 8:30… and Yami had always know that his hikari wouldn't get out of bed until the very last second...
"Well, good thing I'm still- pretty much-… alive…" the tiresome boy teased weakly, much to himself.
Peeking down to his right, then the left, and sighed in release that both his hands were back to normal… Or are they? He wandered. Recalling of what happened just a few hours ago, when he jolted wide awake by his sudden electrocution of his body, and it kept increasing its force until it finally died down just not long ago, lucky it wasn't an eternal pain.
Closing his eyes, still seeing clearly of what happened to his hands, to the fingers…
'So… it's finally… time…?' he sighed, and in his breath there was grief.
Yami now thinking of the lexis which Yugi had delivered to him sometime before.
"What comes around would always come… there's nothing you can do to avoid it… so why not just, take them as they come?"
Repeating the sentence and at the same moment, picturing the image of how innocent and carefree Yugi looked when he said the words. Yami, for some reason, began to tremble again, but this time it was not because of the cold.
I don't think he understand…
His eyes tightened .For the first time since the long millenniums, he knew, because he recognized the hateful feelings. For a long time he didn't but now, Yami knew he was feeling "Fear".
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"NO!!! NOT AGAIN!?" The boy with red spiky hair complained as he jumped out from his bed, tossing everything asides to find his daily uniform. Yep, Yami was right again, about his hikari sleeping in.
Sunlight had its track already to the tip of Yugi's bed, which sided horizontally by one of the four walls, it was such a beautiful day to enjoy life outdoors, yet unfortunately, Yugi's life would be at school.
Now balancing on one foot, Yugi struggled to don his blue familiar pants with a toothbrush stuck in his mouth, and bubbles covering allover.
"Yugi! Finally you're awake!" His grandpa who's previously setting up the Game Shop for business called from beneath the floor, as he heard the noises of Yugi bouncing and bumping into walls and other objects.
"Grandpa-! Why didn't you wake- me-?" Yugi called back.
It wasn't like Sugoroku didn't try or anything, but since Yugi's TIME-WIZARD alarm clock has already done his job for him, which was smashed to the floor with the rest of some other junks again immediately after it ringed, (A/N: Yugi: ops… I did that?), there's really no point of risking his bump into his grandson's room, because there's no telling of what Yugi would do to him this time.
(A/N: Yugi: what?? What did I do last time?? *Concerns a little* oh… that? Ring: *sighed~* Yugi? Don't talk…)
"Oh god- I'm so ganna be-" Yugi bounced some more while he put on one of his sock, not noticing the image of the taller boy in the mirror standing right behind him.
"WAAAA!!!"
Both Yami and Yugi shouted in shocker, after when Yugi finally looked up and into the mirror, which was cover with photos of him and his friends, but never has he put up one of Yami's picture, not THIS big! They both tripped over Yugi's things that he threw all over the place earlier, and fortunately, both landed on something soft.
"Ya-Yami?" Yugi poked his head out from behind his old toy box so as to some of his childhood toys rolled out and bounced teasingly to the floor. Yugi soon recognized the familiar face, which he seemed to have almost forgotten.
"What was that-?" Yami was also startled as he huddled backwards against one-of-the many pillows on Yugi's bed, and shoved it in front of him to form a shield.
Both boys' eyes were wide as they blinked and send blank looks to each other; until the older one finally, got up to his feet again, thrusting the poor Kuribo looking cushion over his shoulder. Clearly he was only shaken, not by Yugi but his aibou's scream.
Yugi, who was now eyeing him with unease and confusion, attached his nose on top of the box's plaster. (A/N: Haaa~~ (=^-^=)
"He… Hey morning-! Yami!"
As he remembered Yugi felt a little sadness flowed through him about not considering Yami for the pass few weeks, or was it a month already? Well, either way, he was now surprised about seeing the pharaoh's face so suddenly.
"Hum… What's- Up?"
His darker half ignored him, taking his time to absorb the settings. Gee, what mess- underwear hanging and socks scattered everywhere compared with his toys, garbage of chips bags and paper balls that's two-for-one rolled of tissue, placed nearby his trashcan and not in it. Some of the Duel Monster's posters on the walls were damaged. And on his desk were Yugi's gym clothes from last week, eew- gross! There were sheets of paper poking out from beneath the pile of disasters, which, believe it or not, was his homework! (A/N: Yugi: please!! I'M NOT THAT CHAOTIC!!)
At this, Yugi stood and felt embarrassed when he noticed the somewhat worn-out look on the pharaoh's face.
"Er… well, I haven't been cleaning up for sometime now-" He laughed helplessly, and his foot trying to kick away a petite rubber-sword of FLAME SWORDSMAN to the side.
This is so- Yami couldn't continue.
"Huh… I'll clean up later!" Yugi promised as he read the other one's mind, but when will he really do that?
Never mind the mess! As the little one thought of how he was going to talk to Yami now, the fact of ignoring his darker half made him sore from guilty of sins, and how will he start his apologies?
"Don't worry, I'll help." Yami began as he looked up from the floorboards to Yugi, who looked back at him with even surprised plus confused eyes.
"We'll wash this place clean after when we return from school." The pharaoh smiled.
Huh…? Yugi couldn't believe his eyes, but it looked like Yami wasn't mad at him or anything like all. The ancient pharaoh was plainly having a conversation with him just like those ones they used to have… at this, Yugi's heart warmed.
Wait! Before Yugi grinned back he grasped at a pointer to what Yami said. Did he say "WE"?
"What's the matter aibou? Don't like the truth that I'm coming with you to school?" Yami had read Yugi's mind.
His dark half's familiar chuckles and the name of how he had always love to call Yugi, his "partner", those were more than enough to drunk Yugi with sweetness into the veins. How he longed for the words and feelings, and everything about his yami, why didn't he feel of it this way before and why the heck he had ignored Yami for such a long time??
"Oh! No-! It's just I was surprised about… that-"
"That I've never come with you to your school before, correct?" He continued and Yugi nodded, who's face was pink now.
"And I thought you didn't like schools…" Yugi's head tiled as he said shyly. Although he's never amide it, Yugi had always knew that Yami didn't like anything about school asides his friends.
"Well," The pharaoh sighed, and then he smiled once again softly "I didn't. It's just that I think sometimes people need some changes, and so, I've decided that I should start with the nearest thing there is."
That, a fatal lie, the truth was that he hadn't much time left… and…
"Oh really~?" Yugi teased, as he brought the reason but just purposely wanted to irritate his yami.
"Sure~" Yami snickered, and they both did, already forgotten about school.
It was just like the old time, when they would sit together, joked about anything and everything, anything at all with pleasure and ecstasy. They both wished to any and every god they know that this ecstasy could just persist… forever…
"Yugi! You're very late you know!?" Grandpa's warning died the laughter, leaving only echoes.
"Oh shoot!" Yugi flustered as he saw time from his watch, which was shaped of another TIME-WIZARD. Yami watched as his hiraki began to stuff anything he considers as school's materials into his bag, there's no more time to sort from witch to which!
"Mr. Shokodai is soo ganna flame me!!"
(A/N: Made up name!)
"If he does I'LL flame him."
"Oh please don't!"
"Fine then I'll Mind-Crush him!"
"Ouch, that'll be hard."
"Why?"
"Cuz' I don't think there's any brain in him for you to do so?" It wasn't supposed to be a question but it sounded like one. They both cackled a little further as Yugi approach the door. "You coming?" He asked.
"Later, I'll need to do something before leaving." was the pharaoh's reply.
Yugi then send him disappointed gape, "What about breakfast?" He questioned once again.
//I WILL eat it.// Yami smiled as his voice echoes thought Yugi's head,
//Don't worry about me, now, hurry, I really don't want you to miss your entire first period!//
/Okay then…/
Yugi replied in the same method Yami used. "I'll see you in class!" and Yami nodded as he watched his hirari delightfully disappeared from behind the door, who likely suspected that it would be an interesting day.
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The wind brushed lightly, and a friendly sense of Yugi's room as well as the warmth of the Sun had the ancient king completely forgotten about his exhaustion as he took a deep and contented breath, pleased to see his aibou thriving as always, guess there really was no need to be anxious a great deal for Yugi…
His body had at last recovered fully at the lack of numbness from early this morning, but when he remembered why the pain occurred his heart hurt again.
I… can't tell him that! He decided.
No… Yami didn't, and he never will tell Yugi what was going on to his body, even supposing that Yugi by now perceived the difference. Yami himself has been acting strangely all morning, of both physical and emotional features, and although they haven't seen each other for a long time and he wasn't certain about it, Yugi had still recognized how dissimilar Yami was from before.
He won't understand…
Yami put his mind to replay the panorama of how Yugi smiled at him with absolute pure, and free from care. That was the smile he'll never forget- and he swore to protect it as long as he still lived!
I guess this is all that I can do
His fists tightened
What I must do…!
The cruel sky was as usual, bright blue and clear as if it was teasing the ancient spirit, laughing at him as if nobody could help care any less of what he was about to become, that without him, world still spins and life goes on. But he didn't mind, humbly looked up to the endless space above.
"Please," He prayed. The King of Games, who once even defeated death, hid his sorrow and misery. There were still so much to say, so much he wanted to do together with Yugi, and the most of all, he needed to confess, of how he really felt for Yugi for such a long time before he regretted the instant his soul dissolves to become a part of the skies…
Please…! All I need is time…!
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Ring: Well, that the end of my second Chapter! Hope you like it! (=^-^=) *Began talking as to ignore the three others who were arguing still at the back* No!! Yami's all lost now… what will he do? What can he do to be exact? It hurts to see Yami suffer… doesn't it? Will he really vanish from the soul to nothing?? NOTHING?! Don't ask me! I'm not quiet sure about how the story is ganna go either… *Smiles* I guess you'll just have to take them as they come! --- *Bothered by the noised behind her, and when she turned she saw three bodies piled up one on top of another? NO! Only the two boys were on top of each other, rolled up by layers of thick blankets and finally wrapped with circles of ropes. Yugi the base, which's seemed to be out-of-breath and already fainted. And Yami in the middle was, however, struggling. BIG sweat drop for Ring-* (._ .6)
Iura: *Still with the leftover cut-off ropes in her hand, grinned from ear to ear with HUGE satisfactory* Now tell me how you like THAT!! *Still standing on the very top of the disaster*
Yami: *Hue and cried with insanity although helplessly* GET OFFA ME YOU STINKY WRICKED DINASOUR THATWEIGHT 10000000MILLION TONS!!! *Still trying as hard as he could but no use of freeing himself*
Iura: *some more veins popped, She bounced herself once but hard, landing on her bump and watched as Yami choked more right underneath her, and Yugi? No more reactions from him except more white bubbles oozed from his mouth, eyes pale white not to mention that he's pressured by all the weight above him, including the thick bedspreads* some more of those insults and I guarantee you that you won't see tomorrow's sunrise again~! *She was proud and graceful about learning a few Wrestling strategies in the old days. And who says those shows weren't healthy??*
Ring: *Screamed* YUGI!! *And she rushed over to help the younger boy on the bottom, because the older one on the top seems to be "fine"? Well, in a situation better than Yugi just then… Yami gave a small moan and his mind too wandered off somewhere~ meaning fainted* NO!! YAMI!! NOT YOU TOO!!! URA!!!
*Iura finally jumped out of the way as she watched her aibou unwrapping the poor boys, she laughed at how idiotic the two unconscious ones looked and Ring began to through stuffs at her, scoring her to land a hand. Iura wasn't happy but she did as told, when the layers of blankets were out of the way the two girls carried the guys out the door*
PLEASE REVIEW!!! (=^-^=)
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