Yeah, yeah, chapter five!! I believe that there will only be four or five more chapters and yes, they will be action packed. I love ending a story jammed with action. I do have this entire story planned out, the only thing I'm debating is whether I'm going to take two chapter ideas and combine them into one chapter or separate them into their own indivual chapters. Oh well, I'll figure it out when I get there!! n.n

And here's where I apologize for the wait. I've been so busy this past week and I was injuried. I scrapped half the skin off my left index finger, and I couldn't bend it for two days without it busting open and bleeding again. And rather then smearing blood all over my nice white keyboard, I decided to wait on typing. And my puppy had a Vet's appointment to have his staples removed from his surgery two weeks ago.

Thanks for the reviews guys! You readers are wonders!! Each review means a lot to me.

Oh! And someone left a review marked only as  "o.O" and let me know that I was spelling hikari wrong. Thank you!! You are reading a fan fiction by the official worst speller in the world. If I spell anything else wrong please don't neglect to tell me. My best friend, spell check, doesn't work well on Japanese words.

So here's the next chapter in this story on the way to its conclusion. I hope you enjoy it as much as you have the others.

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My Immortal

CHAPTER FIVE: I WILL REMEMBER YOU

"I will remember you,

Will you remember me?

Don't let your life pass you by,

Weep not for the memories.

Remember the good times that we had?

I let them slip away from us when things got bad,

How clearly I first saw you, smiling in the sun,

Wanna feel your warmth upon me, I wanna be the one.

I will remember you

Will you remember me?

Don't let you life pass you by

Weep not for the memories.

I'm so tired but I can't sleep

Standing on the edge of something much too deep

It's funny how we fell so much but we cannot say a word

We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard.

I will remember you

Will you remember me?

Don't let your life pass you by

Weep not for the memories.

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose

Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose

Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night

You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light.

I will remember you

Will you remember me?

Don't let your life pass you by

Weep not for the memories.

I will remember you

Will you remember me?

Don't let your life pass you by

Weep not for the memories

Weep not for the memories."

           

~ I Will Remember You by: Sarah McLachlan~

            Yugi dragged his feet behind him as he wearily trudged after his friends. They had temporarily put off their search for Yami in light of the nice day to be at the park. Yugi had no objections, he needed a rest before they began searching again. He was used to having two souls powering him through the day. Now he was relying on only his weak one.

            Yugi crawled under a nearby tree where he sat to watch his friends play Frisbee with a disk that Joey had snagged from some preoccupied teenagers. He would have played if wasn't so tired or short. His height always left him feeling embarrassed as pass after pass flew way over his head. Instead, a quick nap under a nearby tree would do nicely. It was cool in the shade and Yugi found that he drifted off rather quickly.

            A light voice lulled Yugi out of his slumber. He sat up slowly expecting to see Tea shaking him, telling them they were done and they could go find Yami now. Instead he saw a woman sitting on the other side of the tree trunk with what looked like a wolf curled up at her feet.

            "Yugi." She whispered. "Yugi, why do you feel afraid of me?"

            Yugi quickly scrambled to his feet and glared at the woman sitting there. How did she know his name, and how on earth did she know what he was feeling. The wolf slowly picked up its head and yawned, showing rows of jagged sharp teeth. Yugi instantly recognized the creature.

            "Is that a-" He started but the woman cut him off.

            "It's Silver Fang." She agreed. "And he's not a duel monster to me. Silver here is my friend. Loyal to the end. He'll always be by my side. You have a friend like that, don't you Yugi. But he's being misguided right now."

            Yugi's eyes widened and his mouth dropped open. She had to be talking about Yami. Yami would always be there because their souls were tied together by the puzzle. Except now he was missing.

            "Y-yeah." He answered, sitting down in front of the woman. She had now caught his attention. "But he's left. I think he ran away but I can't find him. And I need him. He's more a part of me then you could understand."

            "Ah ah, I wouldn't be to sure about that." The woman waved a finger in front of Yugi's face. "The Pharaoh knows not what he does anymore. He's tied so closely to your mortal soul that whatever he feels will save you, he does. So I wouldn't think that he's left you quiet yet."

            Yugi sat back. This woman knew that Yami was the pharaoh. And besides that, he hadn't even told her that he was speaking of Yami. There was something about her that intrigued him. Maybe she was the magic presence he felt when they entered the park.

            "Who are you?" He asked. "And how do you so much about Yami or me?"

            The woman laughed and gently stroked Silver Fang's head.

            "My name is Cleopatra." She spoke softly. "And I know much that even you and Yami don't know. Things that can lead you into great danger. But you must have faith in your second half Yugi. Know that whatever he does wrong, he does only thinking of you. To abandon him would be to shatter his heart. And when you do see him again, remember all the good times you had. Remember him, and the way he lead you out of the horrible life you lead before. Remember the way he brought friends into your life. Remember the way he saved your Grandpa after the shadow realm over powered you. Remember everything he's done for you because he will remember everything you've done for him. And that's what's going to save you."

            Yugi could only stare at her with watery eyes. She sounded just like his Grandpa, and like his Grandpa, she was right. This whole situation was his fault, but he couldn't fix anything until he could find Yami.

            "Yugi?"

            This was Tea's voice. Yugi looked around to find her, but she was anywhere. He turned back to Cleopatra but she was also gone. All that remained of her was a patch of tiny black violets.

            "Yugi, wake up."

            Again Tea called from her hiding spot. She had told him to wake up, which meant he was sleeping. Closing his eyes tightly, he willed himself to wake up. Suddenly he felt as though he was being shaken. He opened his eyes once again and this time saw Tea, Joey and Tristan leaning over him. Slowly sitting up, he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.

            "Did you have a good nap?" Joey asked, a hint of a joke in his eyes.

            "Yeah," Yugi yawned, "And a strange dream. At least I think it was a dream."

            Tea  sat back and eyed Yugi wonderingly. "You think it was dream?" Her voice was questioning. "What else could it have been?"

            Yugi sat there for a second, thinking of the answer to Tea's question. He had been asleep, he knew that because his friends had woken him up, but it felt so real. And that woman, Cleopatra, knew so much, even more then he himself knew, which meant she wasn't something his subconscious mind had created.

            "I don't know what I'm thinking." He finally answered. "All I know was this woman said that Yami wasn't trying to avoid me but actually protect me. She said that he thinks that him being gone is what I want and that he's doing it to keep me happy. And she even knew that Yami had once been the Pharaoh and much more then either me or Yami himself know. But she made one thing clear. When I see him again, I have to forgive him for whatever he's done. She said it's the only thing that can bring Yami back."

            Yugi started to step on the pathway when a man ran by almost knocking him over. He gasped and stumbled backwards where he was almost then trampled by a woman who appeared to be chasing the man. He could hear his friends frightened cries, but knew he was okay. Suddenly a feeling flickered to life in his puzzle. Yugi's heart  leapt into his throat.

            "Yami?" He whispered to himself.

            Another form suddenly slammed into Yugi knocking him to the ground. Yugi heard the startled grunt as the man who hit him regained his balance to continue running. But even that one muttered syllable caught Yugi's ear. From his spot on the ground he watched the other man stumble to his feet. This time when he spoke, the name came out stronger as happiness flooded the young teen's heart.

            "Yami!"

~*~

            Yami followed the sense of magic into a clump of trees. He was determined to find the source of the mysterious feelings. Finally he spotted it, but it wasn't what he expected to find. And to say it shocked him would be an understatement.

            Underneath a tree sat a cloaked woman. At her feet laid a curled up Silver Fang. Which meant the woman was a sourcessess. For only those which ultimate magic powers could summon a duel monster to life.

            "You're right Pharaoh." The woman suddenly spoke, startling Yami back into whatever reality he had just fallen into. "I do hold magic far greater then many you or your young aibou have run across."

            Yami flinched at the mention of his pet name for Yugi. He knew he wasn't going to hear that word for a while, expecially since Yugi wanted nothing to do with his dark half. He turned half away from the woman sitting under the tree. He didn't want her to see his shame, his failure.

            "You haven't failed Yugi." The woman whispered, once again startling Yami. "Thinking that way is what is going to keep you two from each other. Listen to me Yami, my Pharaoh, the boy needs you just as much as you need him."

            Yami scowled. As much as he loved Yugi, he didn't need anyone. He wanted Yugi back because he missed his hikari's company. But if Yugi didn't want him around anymore, Yami would survive, he didn't need anyone.

            "That's where you're wrong Yami." The woman spoke again. "You do need the boy. Think about it. Where would you be without him. Still locked within your dark soul room. He brought you out Yami, he showed you the light. He's the one that you do need. Remember him Yami, he's the one that saved you."

            Yami stared at the woman, unaware of the tears that began coursing down his cheeks. He absently rubbed at the feeling of unfamiliar moisture on his cheeks. He remembered when Yugi had finally completed the puzzle and set his soul free. He remembered how frieghtened he had been when Yugi fainted while in the Shadow Realm. He could remember the odd look of fierceness in Yugi's eyes when he battled all those times to save not himself, but Yami's powers. But mostly he remembered the hugs that Yugi would wrap him in, the little games he would, the times he would give up just so that Yami could control their body until he had enough grasp on his magic to create his own.

            "Do not weep for the memories, my Pharaoh." The woman brought Yami back into his own body. "If you take that approach I fear you will just watch you life pass you by. You must do one thing in order for the two of you to be reunited."

            Yami dropped to his knees in front of the woman. His eyes held an utter hoplessness.

            "What?" He murmured more to himself. "What must I do?"

            "Remember not to let the power consume you." She spoke gravely. "Do not fall victim to the pull of darker magic. You will be weak, but as long as you have your light by your side, no magic can destroy you. Remember that when the time comes, do not push him away."

            And just as quickly as she had appeared, the woman was gone, leaving nothing behind but a small patch of black violets. Yami stared at the empty space with a bitter fascination.

            "Yami?" Another voice called from somewhere behind him. But this was a voice he knew, a voice that held no magic. It was Janie.

            Yami slowly rose to his feet, seemingly cool and collected. But inside his mind was tossing and turning with what the woman had told him.

            Cleopatra…

            This voice whispered from the far corner of his mind. He realized that that had to be the woman's name. But how he known that if she never once told him. There was only one way that he could receive that information with out having found it out directly.

            Yugi.

            Yugi must have met the same woman, and even though he could no longer sense his dark half, their subconscious minds were still linked, and still trying to smooth over the other's discomfort. Yami closed his eyes, hoping that if he dove deeper, he may be able to link fully with his aibou.

            "Yami, there you are!" Janie's voice shattered any hope he had of doing that. He slowly turned to smile at his rescuer. "What are you doing hiding out in the trees? Someone might think you're a crazy rapist or something!"

            Yami's brow furrowed in confusion. He glanced around him quickly, as if he suspected to catch something lurking there. Finding nothing, he turned back to Janie.

            "What's a rapist?" He asked the question slowly, making himself sound far younger then he appeared.

            Janie rolled her eyes and dragged Yami out of the trees. He watched her expentaly, waiting for an answer.

            "Its nothing you need to concern yourself with." She smiled and sat him back down on the bench. "I came back over to ask you what flavor ice cream you wanted and saw that you were gone. So then, what flavor do you want?"

            Yami sat there for a second. He believed the kind Yugi always gave him was called 'chocolate' but he wasn't sure. He went to reveal this to Janie when he caught something familiar out of the corner of his eye. His attention snapped to the man that walked by as his entire body bristled in defense.

            It was him, the one that had been in Yugi's room that night. The one that had beat him and left him in the streets for dead. It was him that was still a looming threat to Yugi.

            Janie noted this sudden change in Yami and took a step back. She looked almost as if she feared he would explode.

            "Yami," Her voice betrayed her by squeaking. "Yami what is it."

            "That's the man that attacked me." His voice held little emotion. "That's the man who poses a threat to my aibou."

            Janie turned and saw a man staring at them with a mix of horror and humor in his eyes. Without warning he took off running. Yami was startled by the man's retreat and before he could do anything about it, Janie was off and running.

            "Stop you!" She was screaming after the man. "Stop right there and I won't have to hurt you!"

            Fear leapt up in Yami's chest. If that man could take him down so easily, then surely Janie would pose no threat at all. He knew he couldn't let anything happen to her. Without a second thought he ran after Janie and his attacker.

            Yami wasn't paying attention to the real world when he slammed into someone. He grunted and stumbled a bit, determined to regain his balance and go save Janie. But something pulled at the corner of his mind right before a voice spoke his name.

            "Yami!"

            Yami froze and slowly turned to face the owner of the voice. He was greeted by his mirror image. Time seemed to stop for seconds as Yugi took a step towards him, clutching the puzzle tightly in his hands. Yami took a step backwards, fearing that Yugi would strike him, call him horrible things and curse him for bringing so much trouble into his life.

            Trouble! That one word reminded him that Janie was still chasing that mad man and could be in danger. He continued taking shaky steps in the direction they had run, overjoyed at finally meeting up with his aibou, yet terrified that his stalling could cost Janie her life. His steps grew faster as he realized that he was running backwards.

            Horror crossed over Yugi's features and Yami could feel his heart breaking. As much as he wished he could shake the feeling, it hung over him. He had crushed his aibou. But he needed to save Janie. He could always meet up with Yugi later and explain what happened, but he if he didn't act at that moment, he may never see Janie again. With that final thought, Yami turn and ran from Yugi, who called out to him desperately.

            Yami could hardly see Janie in front of him, but he was able to make out her form slipping into an alley way. His senses jumped into overdrive as feared the worst. Increasing his speed, Yami quickly sprinted into the alley after her. To his amazement, he found it empty. There was no sign of Janie or his attacker.

            "They must have gone into a building." He murmured to himself, remembering how he had followed his attacker into a nearby building before being jumped. "Janie could be in trouble."

            "Or you could."

            Yami jumped at the new voice and flash of evil that ran through his mind. He was about to whirl around and face his new attacker head on, when a hand slid around his neck and pulled up against someone's chest.

            "I've been waiting since last night to do this." His attacker hissed. "I'm glad she's finally done playing around and we can get down to business."

            Yami struggled in the man's strong grasp. He heard a crackling sound that he automatically tied to electricity. Yami had only heard it once before and it was when Yugi's Grandpa was trying to fix their dishwasher. He had done something odd and wound in the hospital overnight. So why would he be hearing that sound again, and in this alleyway. He didn't see any dishwashers.

            "Good night Pharaoh." His attacker laughed in his ear.

            His attacker ripped up the corner of his shirt and jammed something into his bare side. Yami jerked quickly as something surged through him. A pain followed it, racking painful claws up and down his arms and legs. Yami choked before uttering a scream of pain. The world around him started to grow fuzzy and Yami felt him losing his grasp on reality. But before he fell completely into the dark, he heard someone laughing. And it wasn't his attacker.

            Janie was laughing.

Uh oh…what have I done?! Anyways, the next chapter will be short which means the one after that should be out quickly too. I have Friday night and all Saturday entirely to myself so I should be able to get a lot of writing done. *crosses fingers* here's to hoping!!

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