Lily: *writing in the same day as the last chapter*

Yami: That's what I call inspiration!

Lily: ^_^ yay! At least I can run from Mr. Writer's Block in this fic.... HE DOESN'T EVEN COME NEAR IT!! *laughs evilly*

Yugi: *sweatdrops* And who has gotten way too much around Bakura?

Yami: Lily Maxwell Daniels is the one!

Yugi&Yami: *sweatdrop*

Ryou: I wonder if she doesn't have other fics to worry about?

Iris: She does have...

Lily: ¬¬U What, you guys want me to stop writing this fic? Okay...

Everyone: NO! COME BACK HERE!!

Lily: ^_^ Glad you are such understandable people!

Bakura: Glad to know you are such a blackmailing kind of person... *sighs* As for the stupid disclaimer, Lily does not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or us, Yu-Gi-Oh! people...

Yu-Gi-Oh! cast: YAY!

Lily: ¬¬U

Bakura: *glare at them to shut them up* ...... she just own the plot and her stupid OCs.

Yugi: This fic contains shounen ai... But I don't think we should be warning you anymore ^_^ The pairings are *blushes* Yami/Yugi... Bakura/Ryou and Seto/OC. Also, there'll be Anzu bashing.

Iris: "__" means talking, '__' means thinking, italic is flashback, //__// is Yami to Yugi and /__/ is Yugi to Yami. There, we've done it.

Everyone: BEGIN!!

Lily: OKAY!! Geez, impatient people...

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Runaway - Chapter 8: Like it should have always been

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(A/N: Yami: You got sugar now, didn't you? Lily: ^______^ Yami: Thought so... -_-U Lily: But it's a good title! Yami: I know, I just wanted to annoy you *grins* Lily: ¬¬U Why does everyone like doing that?)

Ellian was at home, one hour later, finishing some of the homework for the next day, since it was Monday and she had to had it all done or she would be in trouble (A/N: HAH! And you thought they were on vacation? Or maybe that I had forgotten about the stupid school, huh? Nooo, I didn't! The whole thing happened during the weekend... ^^U lol.... But HEY! Yugi was planning on skipping school by running away? Baaaad boy...), when the doorbell rang. Wondering if this was some kind of "Let's go to Ellian's house and keep her from finishing her homework or taking a nap" day, she stood up and walked to the door, finding herself face-to-face with a worried-looking Jounouchi.

'Everyone's coming to my house with a very worried face today.' She thought sadly, and smiled at Jou.

"Hi Jou, what's up?" she asked, and the blonde smiled slightly.

"I was wondering if you saw Yami, Ell? I called him at home, but he wasn't there." Jou said, and Ellian blinked.

'I guess I can tell him.' She thought.

"Yami's with Yugi." She smiled. "I told him where he was." She finished, and Jou's jaw dropped open, his eyes almost popping out.

"You knew where Yugi was? You KNOW where Yugi is?!" he asked, shaking her shoulders.

"Y-y-y-y-y-yes!!" she managed to say while stopping the boy from shaking her any further, grabbing his arms. "And calm down, Jou!" she said, adjusting her clothes and hair.

"Talk me to him! Take me to him!! C'mon, c'mon, do it Ell!!" Jou said fast and excitedly, almost jumping. This sure got a giggle from Ellian.

'And to think he was ignoring Yugi... Oh well, he's Jounouchi, ain't he? His brain is not something to be proud of, as someone I know would say...' Thought Ellian smirking.

"Okay, Jou, I'll take you to him." Ellian said, and closed the door behind her.

"Let's go!!" Jou said, and pushed Ellian forward.

"C'mon Jou, just. quit. pushing!" Ellian complained. But guess what?

It didn't work.

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For the past hour Yami had been holding Yugi still, and this was sure getting the younger one sleepy. The warmth of Yami's body, the comfortable feeling that filled him, and how perfect this all seemed...

But then Yugi's mind finally woke up from its daydream, and Yugi let go of Yami, which gained very a disappointed groan from Yami. Yugi looked in his eyes, and the darker one smiled.

"Something wrong, Yugi?" he asked gently. Oh, things seemed to have gotten really better and like it were before...

"How did you find me?" Yugi asked, tilting his head to the side (A/N: CUTE!! *hugs Yugi plushie*). Yami smiled.

"Ellian knew where you were here, and I... uh, asked her to bring me here." He said, but knew that he kind of "demanded" Ellian to bring him there, and sure would think of doing something.... bad with her if she refused.

'Even being her reincarnation...' He thought. (A/N: I challenge you to find out who is "she"! ^_~)

"But I never really thought you'd be in Chris' mansion." Yami finished, playing with Yugi's hair. Yugi blinked.

Chris..... Chris....

'That's it!!' his mind screamed.

"Ah!!" Yugi exclaimed, gaining a confused look from his companion.

//What is it, Yugi?// Yami asked in his mind.

"The girl... she's Chris Daisuke, isn't she?" Yugi asked, and Yami blinked, nodding.

Chris Daisuke. The cold girl that entered their school just last year, like Ellian. She never really talked to them, and was silent and distant, usually found reading a book under some tree. She wasn't kind of their friend... actually she was no one's real friend, so it was acceptable and understandable that Yugi didn't recognize her. And then Yugi remembered... that she wore a crimson bracelet on her right wrist, something he just noticed this morning when she came to bring him breakfast. It was a present... Given to her by...

Yugi smiled. Now everything was clear.

"Yugi?" Yami called his name, and he got back from his thoughts. "What is it?"

"It's just that I... didn't actually remember Chris at first, and was thinking on who she was till now." Yugi admitted, and looked at the floor, ashamed. Yami smiled, and pulled Yugi to him, into another hug.

"I see... Well, I would be surprised if you recognized her at first glance, for you never really talked that much with her, ne aibou?" Yami asked, and Yugi smiled, nodding. Then Yami smirked. "And I myself just talk to her and know her better cause, remember who she's gotten as a boyfriend?" he asked, and Yugi giggled, nodding.

"Who would have thought he'd find a perfect girlfriend?" Yugi asked.

"Who would have thought he'd find a girlfriend." Yami joked, and Yugi laughed. "But hey, don't you think they're perfect?" Yami asked, and released Yugi to look at his beautiful face.

"Yes... both are really... how can I say?" Yugi looked thoughtful for a moment, and Yami laughed.

"'Sweet'?" he asked grinning, and Yugi nodded.

"Very funny." Said a voice at the doorway, and both looked up, finding Chris there, arms crossed. They laughed nervously.

"Hey there, Chris-san..." Yugi said, and she looked at him. Then at Yami. And chuckled.

"I see that, you two finally made up?" she asked, seeing that Yami was still holding Yugi. "And back to jokes?" she asked, her eyes narrowing.

"You could say so..." Yami said, looking at Yugi.

Chris was probably about to say something, when the doorbell rang. She sighed and climbed down the stairs. The bell rang again. And again. And yet again...

Chris growled under her breath. Whoever this person was, was going to hear some "things"...

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Jou pressed the doorbell many times, and Ellian sweatdropped. Chris was not the kind of person you would want to get annoyed at you...

"Uh... Jou? If I were you, I'd stop..." Ellian said, but Jou kept singing the doorbell again...

When Chris opened the door herself, she looked very annoyed and quite angry. When she saw it was Jou, then...

"Where's Yugi?" he asked, entering the mansion without being invited, and looked around, amazed.

"You climb the stairs, turn left, enter the second corridor, then it's the last door... HEY! WAIT!!" Ellian said, and Jou hurried to climb the stairs, and did everything Ellian told him to.

This of course pissed Chris even more...

"I'm gonna kill him..." she muttered under her breath, and Ellian sweatdropped, both running up the stairs. When they were on top, Jou was standing there, looking back at them.

"Jounouchiiiiiiii..." Chris hissed, getting closer to him. He turned his back to them, and waved his arms around, seeing the corridor where Yugi was supposed to be. He, accidentally, hit Ellian with his arm, and the girl fell the stairs.

"AAAAHHH!!" she screamed, and Chris could do nothing but watch with wide eyes as her friend fell all those stairs...

Jou, completely oblivious of everything, just ran towards Yugi's room, which got Chris even angrier.

'Hope Ellian's okay...' she thought, looking down the stairs, where Ellian had finally reached the bottom, and was rubbing her head. Chris then followed Jou.

Jou opened the door wide, and when saw Yugi in Yami's arms, grinned widely.

"YUG!!!" he exclaimed, and hurried to the boy, taking him out of Yami's arms, and hugging him himself, and Yami, in the process, was thrown out of the bed. "We've found you! Are you okay? It's great to see ya Yug!!" Jou kept saying, and Yugi laughed.

"It's good to see you again, Jou." He said. His friend was crying openly, and he knew that he probably felt as bad as Yami.

His friend let go of him, sniffed, and grinned widely. Then the grin faded, and he looked at the ground.

"I... I'm sorry, Yugi. We were really stupid ignoring you like that. But we didn't intent to, Yugi, I swear!!" he said, begging Yugi for forgiveness with his chocolate orbs. Yugi nodded.

"I know, Jou. It's okay, really." Yugi said, and Jou grinned again. "Now, everything is..." Yugi said.

"Yeah, you know, Yami was the one who got most affected when you ran away. He got deep in depression, you know..." Jou said, then felt someone hit him in the head. "Ow, HEY!"

"I'm still here, you know, Jou?" Yami asked, then threw Jou out of the bed, and hugged Yugi again.

"HEY!" Jou complained again, but smiled.

"JOUNOUCHI KATSUYA!!!!" came a scream from the doorway, and Jou stood up quickly, facing a very-very-very-pissed-off Chris. "Who do you think you are for entering MY HOUSE LIKE THAT?!" she continued. "Do you even realize what you've done to Ellian?! And how come you ENTERED THIS ROOM WITHOUT BEING INVITED?!" she yelled, and Jou sweatdropped.

"JOOOOOOUUUUUU!!" yelled Ellian at the doorway, holding the right side of her head and with her right eye closed in pain. "WERE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?!"

"Ellian, what happened to you?" Yugi and Yami asked at the same time.

"Yeah, what happened, did you fall from the stairs or something?" Jou asked, and Ellian and Chris felt their jaws drop open.

"You mean you don't know?!" Ellian asked in amazement, and Jou shook his head. Chris hit her forehead with her palm.

"How dumb can you get, Jounouchi..." she muttered and exited the room.

"What?" he kept asking.

"You kind of accidentally made me fall down the stairs." Ellian said, and Jou's eyes widened.

"I did? Oh my, sorry, sorry Ellian!!" he told her quickly, and she smiled. Taking her hand off her head she saw some red liquid on her hand, and was shocked.

"I'm bleeding!" she exclaimed, and everyone gasped.

"C'mon Ellian, sit here." Yami said standing up, then motioning to the bed, beside Yugi. Ellian did so, and smiled at Yugi.

"I'll bring the aid kit." Chris said at the doorway, and left. Soon after, the doorbell rang again. Everyone in the room heard Chris' scream in annoyance. "Jounouchi, get the door!" she yelled from wherever she was, and Jou sweatdropped then shook his head.

"One time she's yelling at me, the other she's asking me to get the door. What does she think I am, her pet or something?!" he muttered under his breath, making everyone in the room hold a laugh.

Yugi was really surprised they were there. His friends were back to him, and they were there exactly for him.

"How are you, Yugi?" came the voice of Ellian, and Yugi looked at her. Yugi looked around for Yami, and found him leaning against the wall just across them. He smiled.

"I'm fine now, Ellian." He said truthfully, and she nodded. Once Chris was back and bandaged Ellian's head quickly, Jou came in, fuming. Probably the last minutes he had been talking with the new guests, who now entered the small room.

"Yugi! How are you?" asked Ryou, walking towards the bed, and standing in front of him. Yugi just smiled, and Ryou took it as a positive answer. Next to the door were more two figures, and one of them was sure the cause of Jou's annoyance.

"This turned out as some kind of reunion? I never thought Yami wold find out Yugi was here so soon." Came the handsome voice of Seto Kaiba, and at the sound of his voice, Chris quickly smiled (A/N: She knew how to do that?) and walked over to him. Seto saw the bandage on Ellian, and looked over to Jou. "I bet that was your doing?" Jou growled.

"How do you know that?" he asked, and Seto chuckled, Chris rolling her eyes.

"Well, no one can really stay around you without getting in some kind of trouble." She pointed, and Ellian sweatdropped. Yugi was just watching everything, his mind jumping.

They were all there. They really were!

"In resume, puppy can't do anything good." Seto said, and Jou frowned.

"Look..." he was about to say, but another voice cut him off.

"Are you going to fight forever? Are we going to stay here doing nothing forever?" asked the voice of Bakura.

"You can always go, Bakura." Yami answered, until now very quiet.

"Yeah! No one really asked you to come, you just came because Ryou wanted to come too! We're all here for Yugi!!" came the voice of Honda from the doorway, until now trying to make his way into view.

"Okay, this is it! I want everybody exiting this room right now!" Chris said, pushing everyone out of the room. Yami and Ellian were the only ones left there.

"I guess I'll go home. I have some homework to finish." Ellian said and stood up.

"AH! I have homework!" Yugi exclaimed just as she stood up, and both taller teens looked at him. Ellian smiled.

"When I'm finished, I can come here and you can take a look at mine. No one will ever know." She said winking.

"I can get your books, Yugi." Yami said, and Ellian nodded, then she left. Yugi and Yami were now alone again in the room. Yami walked over to Yugi's bed and sat down again.

"They all came here to ask about me and ask if I was okay..." Yugi said, and Yami nodded.

"I told you, Yugi... we are all sorry..." he said slowly and very low, looking into the nothing. Yugi hugged him all of a sudden, making the older one blink, and nodded.

/But... there is... someone.../ Yugi told his yami through their mind link, and Yami frowned.

"You were the ones who almost ignored Yugi! Or haven't you realized that he was there too, not just Yami? It wasn't just me, but it was part your fault too! So yes, I'm not surprised that he left, and by the look of things, I thought you wouldn't mind it either!"

Those words were still very recent in Yami's mind. He knew Yugi meant Anzu, since she was the only one who didn't come to see him, and it reminded him of her very words from the day before. Anzu didn't care about Yugi, and Yami knew about it now. But he didn't know how to tell that to Yugi. Not knowing what to do, Yami released the boy (Yugi pouted after this) and smiled to him.

"I'll go to your house bring your books, okay?" he told the light, and stood up. Yugi panicked, not really knowing why, and hold his wrist, making that Yami looked back at him blinking.

"But Yami..." he complained silently, and looked down. Yami smiled. He leaned over, and hugged Yugi.

//Don't worry, aibou. I'll be back real soon, okay? I won't leave you.// he assured in Yugi's mind, and felt the boy nodding. Now sure he could leave, Yami released Yugi, and walked out of the room, closing the door silently behind him.

Climbing down the stairs, he heard the voices coming from the rich living room. Entering the ambient, Yami spotted everyone there, eyes looking at him the moment he stepped into the room. Jou was lying on the couch comfortably, like it was his, with Honda at his feet, glaring at him, a look that said "Would you sit like a normal human, this ain't your house, don't you have any manners?". Ellian and Ryou were sitting on another couch, Bakura leaning against a wall just behind them. Seto and Chris (this last one massaging her temples) were sitting on another couch, across Ryou's, their back to Yami.

"What do you think, Yami?" Honda asked, sighing at Jou's bad manners and horrible behavior.

"Yeah, you think Yugi will forgive us?" Jou asked, hurt clear in his voice. Yami just looked into the nothing, deep in thought.

"I don't know... He seems to have accepted our apologies but..." he said, closing his eyes.

"After everything you guys put the boy through, give him at least time." Bakura hissed, rolling his eyes.

"You don't expect Yugi to forgive you so easily and fast, do you?" Seto asked, Chris' head lying on his shoulder. "You have caused him..."

"Too much pain..." Ryou finished for him, looking very disturbed by the situation.

"At least you guys kind of knew what he was going through!" Jou exclaimed, pointing to Seto, Chris, Ellian and Ryou. "We had no idea, and because of that, we kept hurting him more and more!" he continued, then hiding his face on the couch's cushion, afraid of breaking down.

"Jou's right..." Honda said, and everybody felt into a disturbing silence for the next few minutes. Ellian then sighed, and stood up.

"Just give him time, okay?" she said. "I'm sure that in the right time... Yugi'll learn to forgive us, just if we do our best to redeem ourselves."

"If it depends on me, Yugi'll never be alone ever again." Yami confessed, and Ellian smiled acknowledging.

"Yeah, I'm with Yami!" Jou and Honda exclaimed. Ryou smiled, and Bakura just stood neutral. Seto and Chris just shrugged.

"Yugi'll be very happy for that." Ellian said, winking. Then, for like the thousandth time that day, the doorbell rang. Chris growled low under her breath.

"If you want, I can tell the person to go away." Seto offered, but the girl stood up.

"Thank you, but I prefer doing it myself... My way." She said annoyed, and went towards the front door, very well seen from the living room. They heard she exclaim a loud "What the hell?!" and they soon spotted a dark-brown haired girl talking to Chris. She was about to close the door on girl's face, when Yami and Ellian got there, facing her.

"What the heck are you doing here?" Yami asked in a low and threatening tone of voice.

"I called to everybody's houses and someone at Ryou's told me he was here, so I supposed everyone else was here. So, what are you doing here?" Anzu asked happily, like nothing was happening.

"Yugi is here, now... Go. Away." Chris said under her breath, and was ready to close the door when Anzu grabbed it and stepped into the house.

"Really? Can I see him?" she asked smiling, and the others from the living room, plus Yami and Ellian glared at her in awe. How could she ask such a thing after what happened the day before at Yugi's house?

"Anzu... get out before..." Yami was about to say, when Ellian grabbed Anzu's arm tightly and forcefully dragged the girl out of the house, muttering a "I'm going, be right back" to Yami, while shutting the door behind her.

Outside, Anzu complained that her arm hurt at Ellian's grasp, and just once they were out of the mansion's yard, did Ellian release her.

"Who do you think you are asking if you can see Yugi?" Ellian asked, anger filling her whole being. "YOU aside from anyone in that room should NEVER ask such a thing! You have no right to see him! And Yami's too happy right now for you to come and ruin everything!" Ellian kept her voice down, for not causing a scandal on the street.

"That's exactly because of Yami that I wanted to see Yugi." Anzu spat, a sick grin appearing on her disgusted features. "I didn't want to see the shrimp ever again, and would love not to ever do it in my life again, but if it makes Yami happy that I'm his friend, then I'd sure do it." She finished, and Ellian didn't know if she was shocked, or deeply disgusted at Anzu.

"How can... you say that? You would pretend to be Yugi's friend, when you despise him, just to be with Yami?" Ellian concluded, and Anzu nodded.

"Of course! Yesterday it made clear to me that Yami really cared about Yugi, being worried sick about him and such. And I'd do everything to be with Yami." She leaned over and whispered on Ellian's ear. "I'd everything to have him. And you have no idea how badly I want him right now. Yami'll be mine. I know he likes me." she said, then smirked.

At that one, Ellian could do nothing but laugh at Anzu's face, which made the bitch really mad.

"What are you laughing at?" she asked, and Ellian looked at her, her eyes have a sparkle of enjoyment on saying the words she was about to tell her.

"Yami doesn't like you, Anzu. In any way. After yesterday, I can say he pretty much hates you by now, or maybe even despises you, as much as you despise Yugi." She told her, and Anzu's eyes went wide. "And I'm pretty much sure he'd never like you in that way ever, Anzu."

"Why not? I'm hot and smart enough for him to fall easily for me." she smiled evilly, but Ellian's eyes kept the sparkle. "What are you implying? That he likes you..." Anzu smirked. "... as much as you like him? Keep dreaming."

Ellian's eyes showed hurt for no more than a mere second, and she was smiling again.

"I do love Yami, but I know he doesn't love me back. He likes me as a friend... Even maybe as a sister, and I'm just happy with that. That's enough love that he can give me, and I accept that with open arms." Ellian told Anzu.

"So what are trying to tell me? He likes someone else?" Anzu asked, and Ellian raised an eyebrow.

"You have no idea of Yami's feelings, Anzu." She smiled. "And I'm happy for that. I know who Yami loves, and no, I'm not the one who's gonna tell you. I'm pretty happy for him, and I'm sure the person loves him back. Yami's happy, I'm happy, everybody's happy." She leaned over to Anzu, and had a hard glare. "So go away, and leave everybody alone, Anzu. No one likes you, and no one will ever again."

With that, Ellian walked off, leaving Anzu quite perplexed at the middle of the street. When she heard the door of the Daisuke's mansion opening and Yami leaving the house, she decided not to talk to him, afraid that Ellian's words were true. Instead, she left quickly, and Yami made his way peacefully towards the Game Shop, where he grabbed Yugi's book, and headed back to where his aibou was.

Inside the mansion, meanwhile, just as Yami left, everybody looked at each other.

"We have to do something with Anzu." Jou said.

"Yeah, man. I won't stand that girl coming talk to us, and annoying us any further." Honda said, and Ryou silently nodded. Chris smirked.

"Don't worry." She said. "I have an idea."

Later that day, Yugi, with the help of Ellian, finished his homework. And, most to Yami's great happiness, said the most awaited words that the sennen spirit wanted that moment.

"Yami, let's go home?"

[ To be continued... ]

Lily: *phew* Loooooooooooong chapter... But I pretty much liked it! ^_^ Didn't you?

Iris: Yeah, Anzu bashing!!

Everyone: *cheers*

Lily: But next chapter there'll be MORE Anzu bashing for Anzu haters!! You just have to wait... AND SEND YOUR IDEA, OK?

Yugi: *nods* Please, don't forget to review, or Lily won't do the next chapter, and won't do fluffiness...

Yami: O_o *hugs Yugi in fear*

Lily: Yeaaaaaaaaah... *grins evilly* Review = new chapter = fluff closer. No review = no new chapter = no fluff. SO REVIEW!! Onegai?

Iris: So see ya all later!!