Dove: Ok. Damn you DragonDreamer Yami Dragon! She got it right parsley. Damn it!

*Pout* How many of you figured it out? Was it that obvious? Damn. SHIMADA!

I'm sad. I think my other chappies were better than my last. I don't think I wrote it very well.

On with the fic!

The Tears of Forgiveness ~*~*~*~*

"NO! This CAN'T be happening!" Yami screamed.

Everyone was crying or thinking up a way to get the one who was responsible.

"MALIK!" Seto yelled. Facing the cliff they see Malik had disappeared with Ishtar nowhere to be found.

Bakura stared at Yugi with a heavy heart. He clasped on to his knees next to Yami. Both had an empty look in their eyes. Ryou was crying not from the pain of the battle but for losing a friend. Seto had an angry scowl on his almost flawless face. He had his arms tightly wrapped around a crying Jou to keep him from doing something stupid.

The ocean's waves began to sway closer to the grieving group. "I can't believe it." Malik whispered as he walked to the group. Ishtar was walking next to him quietly.

Malik landed on both knees, a guilty look on his face, he reached out to touch Yugi's cheek lightly. "Look at what you cased, Malik." Snarled Yami. "I might have deserved this but not Yugi."

"Yami's right about one thing, Yugi did not deserved this. He was far too innocent to be dragged in this." Said Ryou wiping his tears, he kneeled next to Bakura and held his shoulders. Bakura had still not snapped out of this.

Jou glared at Malik deadly, "Why Yugi?" he snarled softly.

Malik began to cry again. "I d-don't kn-kn-ow."

Bakura blinked slowly, he slowly stood up and watched as Malik cried over Yugi. Jou began to cry again and turned to the closest person, Seto. He barred his head into Seto's shoulder.

Seto's hold tightened at this. Ishtar simply watched Malik. He may have done this for him but he wasn't worth Yugi's life. He was going to still watch Malik until the end of the world but he wasn't going to comfort him just yet.

Slowly tears collected at Malik's chin. "He. He di-dn't de-deser-ve th-is."

"This is your fault, Malik. just because you hate me doesn't give you the right. Hate me all you want but don't hurt anyone." Yami said glaring at him.

Malik looked up with sorrow-filled eyes at Yami, why wasn't he killing him by now? Right now he felt like killing himself. He may have been in a blind rage and trying to keep his Desert Rose but Yugi. Why did he attack Yugi? . Was it because he was the weakest? Was it because he was in love with Yami? Yami might have been his enemy but if Malik were he he'd kill everyone who was even close to being responsible.

The tears fell from his chin and landed on Yugi's closed eyes.

Bakura kneeled down next to Yugi and picked him up. Everyone looked clueless as to what he was doing but fallowed as Bakura turned and headed back to the forest.

When they got to the heart of the brunt forest they saw it was Yugi's little hut. Bakura laded Yugi flat on his back and whispered into Jou's and Seto's ears.

Bakura stepped back and snapped his fingers. Water began to rise from the ground.

"This isn't Malik's fault Yami. This is yours; you let Yugi lie there on the beach burning as if he wasn't anything to you. You could have done something to stop this, not just when he was burning but before. You could have talked to Malik, convince him you would never harm Ishtar." Bakura said all this calmly.

Yami began to cry. His anger now focusing on himself. Was Bakura right? Was it his fault? What more could he have done? "I-I d-didn't. kn-n-ow wh-wha-t to do." Yami looked own at Yugi's now limp body in a pool of water. He looked do peaceful, even is a terrifying death.

Seto and Jou took one of Yami's arms and threw him at Yugi's body. "How could you not know?" asked Jou hissing.

Seto glared at Yami in discuss and pure hate. Yami began to sob as he realized he should have done something more. Talk to Malik, look for the fire and take it out when it was still little and controllable. But he couldn't do that. It was big before Yugi began to burn.

"This can't be true, I do not believe I would have listened to Yami in the first place. It is not his fault!" yelled Malik. "It is mine!"

The wind began to blow hard. It was freezing. Yami looked back a Jou and Seto. They both had they're eyes closed and a hand on each other's cheek.

Yami turned quickly making his tears fly and hit numerous places. Yami can't live without Yugi. He'll kill himself before he was alone like he was before Yugi.

Yami hid his eyes behind his face, not wanting to be here. He'd rather be in his grave.

Yugi's hand slowly moved with the wind and touched Yugi's chest. A ripple affect occurred on his skin, clothes and hair.

Within seconds Yugi was lifting his hand and gently touched Yami's cheek lovingly.

Yugi smiled. "You really think I would leave you that fast?" He asked.

Yami gasped, he didn't know about rebirthing.

Yugi sat up, stretched and smiled at Malik.

"Thanks Malik! If feel great. Oh and Bakura thank you too I needed a distraction, I swear I was about to cry."

"Yu-Gi?" Yami asked slowly. Yugi giggled.

"What you really thought that I can look this young all the time? Only Bakura knows about my rebirths, maybe Jou?" Yugi looked at Jou and Jou smiled.

"Yah, you were great two lives ago, last one we broke up. I think?" Jou laughed at Seto's confused face. "You're not a virgin?" "You really though I was a virgin?" Seto shrugged. "Yugi was my first, I'm aiming for you next. Yugi's a virgin now, what two times over? Did ya get action last life Yug?" Yugi shook his head sadly, trying not to smile.

"So this was planned?" asked Yami.

"Nope, only when I die, I reborn. I've been murdered most of the time. Sometimes it's by accident. Sometimes it is not. This time was, uh different, a misunderstanding."

Jou smiled, "Hay Seto, how many times have you killed Yugi?" Seto looked at him as if he was crazy. "Um, I think it's one a year. every winter, but Yugi's still around only cause of his pine trees. It's great that Malik burned Yugi's redwood, now it's going to look great in about twenty- fifty years."

"How bout everyone else?" Asked Jou.

"Never." Answered Ryou.

"I think it's three now, from floods." Answered Bakura.

"Never." Answered Ishtar.

"First time." Answered Malik.

"Also never." Answered Yami.

"I've done it a lot, tornados." Answered Jou.

"I over did my plants like five times and suffocated myself, I really felt like a genius those days." Smiled Yugi.

"Now enough about killing me, I'd like to live at least six months before I die again."

"Alright, It's been a LONG day. I think I'll take Seto and bug the shit out of him."

"Does this mean we have a new couple?" asked Yugi.

Seto smirked and wrapped an arm around the mutt, "It's not a bad idea."

And off they went their separate ways.

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Dove: Told ya I knew what I was doing.

VOTE: Yami/Yugi lemon first or Seto/Jou?

My first lemon: Ru ke~ Chappie 5 My second: This fic Ryou dominate Bakura. My third: My Malik/Ishtar one in this one.

I'm thinking about doing another lemon in Ru Ke: If you've read it, VOTE: Should I and who's dominate?

VOTE: Which couple first, who's dominate?

Ja ne!

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