hey all! here we have the last and final chapter of this story! squee!! ^__________^ go me!!!

oh, and i've got a lil joke for y'all; how do you make a kleenex dance?

you put a little boogie in it!

*snickers *

yam: *rolls eyes * onna, that was so lame

aww, shudd up, yam. i think it's cute, and it's kinda appropriate for this fic....boogie.....boogie man.....get it?

yam: ..........

yug: ............

malik: ............

-_-. at least i try.

yam: and fail miserably

hey! *glares at yam *

yam: time to start your stupid fic! *takes off running *

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Yami shifted his sleeping hikari further up on his chest, nuzzling his face into his soft, tri-colored hair and peering through one half open crimson eye at the closet as he felt a shift in the energy in there. He was sorry he had doubted his aibou, and he unconsciously hugged the smaller one tighter against his body.

Yugi, meanwhile, was thoroughly exhausted by now, and was curled up against Yami, fully and deeply asleep. Yami fought sleep off as best he could; he had to be fully alert and aware to catch....whatever was in there. Yami's eyes narrowed as he tried to home in on whatever was in there, to get a sense of it's power, but, in the vast darkness, he couldn't track the creature. He had to wait until it made itself known.

The closet door creaked open a tiny bit, the rusted hinges squeaking, then the piggy bank scraped against the dresser slowly, like an invisible hand was tugging at it. Yugi whimpered, nuzzling his face into Yami's chest, and the older boy responded by shifting his body so his slim frame was covering more of Yugi's tiny, petite one.

The piggy bank fell to the carpeted floor, bouncing heavily. Then, Yugi's rubber ducky fell as well with a squeak. Yugi shuddered. Yami tightened his arms about him. The window panes rattled. Yugi cried out, pressing his small form more tightly against Yami, and the former pharaoh felt a warmth as Yugi was so terrified that he'd lost control of his bladder yet again. But, thankfully, this time, since the little one was wearing a diaper, nothing got wet, so Yami could continue to feign sleep.

Somehow, this entity's presence was familiar. It was distorted, changed, and stronger, but it was familiar. Yami searched his mind, wondering who it could be, but he'd faced and defeated so many opponents, that he couldn't place this faint aura. Well, whoever they were, they were going to pay, dearly.

Yami felt a tugging on the blankets that covered them. The hair on his spine stood on end, and he got goose bumps and suddenly felt chill. That entity was close.....way too close for comfort. Yami's eyes snapped fully open, his crimson depths ablaze with fury, and the millennium eye glowed on his forehead as he shot to a sitting position. His dark powers allowed him to see in the darkness. Yugi was brought up as well, cradled in Yami's arms and snuggled against his chest.

Yami didn't falter nor show any fear once. There was a creature at the end of their bed; it was a terrible monster with pasty white face, purple hair going in all directions, rotting green teeth bared in a feral grin, and malicious, beady black eyes. It looked so familiar....yet so different.......

"Aww, pharaoh, don't you remember me? I'm heartbroken." The figure laughed.

Yami's narrowed eyes suddenly snapped wide in recognition. "Panic." He growled out.

"Took you long enough."

"I sent your pathetic soul to the Shadow Realm. How did you escape?"

Panic's wicked grin grew. "Lets just say not all the monsters there wanted to destroy me. I polymerized with one of the monsters, and I became the boogie man. Now, I'm back for my revenge. "

Yami smirked, his eyes not showing any fear, for he felt none. "You're nothing but an overgrown bully. So typical of your lot. You wanted revenge on me, so you thought to pick on my precious aibou. "

Panic laughed yet again in evil pleasure. "And it worked quite well, too. You're little brat won't be sleeping dry anytime soon." He cackled, his soulless black eyes flickering to Yugi's curled up, sleeping form. The tiny hikari wore a simple over sized t-shirt of Yami's, since all of his pajamas were dirty. The baggy t-shirt had ridded up, exposing Yugi's diapered bottom.

Yami's eyes narrowed in anger, and he arranged Yugi's shirt so it modestly covered the sleeping angel. Then, he lay Yugi down, and stood up, walking towards Panic, who retreated into the closet.

"That's it, come on in, stupid pharaoh." Panic howled as Yami stepped right after him into the closet, and immediately gasped. They weren't in Yugi's closet anymore; all around them was nothing but eternal darkness, a place devoid of hope, love, and light. The Shadow Realm.

Though Yami's heart beat quickened, he didn't show any outward signs of it. He had to defeat Panic, one and for all. No mercy this time; the demon clown's soul was going to be utterly destroyed.

"You think I'll be easy to defeat, don't you, Yami? Well, this time around, I've grown much stronger. And I am familiar with your attacks; you can't surprise me." Panic was nowhere to be seen, and his voice echoed around in the darkness. Yami couldn't trace his energy.

"Once I'm done with you, and I have sealed you away in the Shadow Realm forever, I'll go and tear your hikari's mind to a thousand tiny bits! He's going to end up in a mental institution for the rest of his little life! And I'll even haunt him there. I'll drive him over the brink of insanity."

"That's what you think!" Yami yelled back in the darkness, then noticed that the echo was softer in one corner, almost as if there was a solid mass there to block it.

Yami smirked. His millennium eye glowed very bright, illuminating the darkness and showing Panic's surprised form, then the former pharaoh held out his hand, palm splayed. "Obliterate!" Yami's eyes glowed a demonic red, making him look truly terrifying, as a wave of ever lasting darkness rushed out of his hand, a huge, palpable mass of purple, blue, green, and black, heading straight towards Panic, engulfing the human soul turned demon.

Panic's cry suddenly froze in his mouth as the darkness washed over him, ripping and tearing him to pieces, slowly disintegrating his body and soul, and when the thick mass dripped into an evaporating, calm and bubbling puddle on the darkness of the Shadow Realm floor, Yami smirked.

There was nothing left of Panic. It was as if he'd never existed. Yami smiled and his millennium eye glowed again, opening a portal back into the human world and his hikari.

Yami found Yugi curled up and softly whimpering his name, clutching fearfully at the bed sheets as he squirmed, suffering from another night mare. Yami checked him, and, sure enough, his diaper was soaked. Yami sighed, yawning with exhaustion. He was beyond tired; he hadn't used his Shadow powers in a long time, and that took a toll on his already tired body. He quickly changed the sleeping hikari's diaper then settled down to sleep.

Both of them slept the rest of the day.

owari.

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yaaay! 'tis done! now, if only i could finish my other fics!