Disclaimer: I don't own Pegasus. I don't own Yami(even though I want to), I don't own the whole frigging show. But, I now own more than a deck of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards as of Sept 17th! Yay! ^-^ But, please, don't sue me, I'm just writing this for fun, capeesh?

~ShOuT-oUtS!~

Just on a small notes before I get to shout-outs-- Thankies to everyone who's reviewed so far! ^-^ I really like the in put from you guys, brings my confidence up, and even small suggestions help, even if I end up not using 'em. ^-^ But now, onto shout-outs--

Sarina Fannel--Ya, don't you just love 'em? ~_^ Sorry 'bout that, just had to do at least one really nasty cliff-hanger in this story! ~_^ Hope this chappy makes you happy!

Felina-- You hate me? *tear, sniff* ;-; JK! ~_^ There will probably be some Yugi angst in here somewhere in this chappy, so read on! ^_^

~Chapter 9~

Soft clicks. Tiny tappings, much like foot steps. Some whispering. As well as the wind howling; those noises filled the whole area up.

Yugi felt that the darkness that was envoloping him slowly started to fade away, and he started to regain consciousness. He tasted a bit of metalic blood in the corner of his mouth, which was probably just a scratch from his upper lip, sinking down into his mouth. He whiped his lips with a bit of his blue jacket's sleeve, feeling that his arm was pretty heavy. With his vision a bit blurred, his hearing was a bit dull, but could still notice all of the clicks, and taps, and such. He tired to focus on something to make his vision clearer, which just happened to be someone's almost lifeless body right in front of him.

Yugi groaned, as he widened his violet eyes from barely slits to compleatly open. Where am I? he wondered, Last thing I remember was.. Realization struck him. Oh my god, where's Seto? But he already knew, it was the body laying down in front of him. Yugi struggled to sit up, grinting his teeth. He felt a bit dizzy, but he could tolerate it for now. He noticed that Seto was pretty close to him, just about 3 decimeters away from him. Yugi reached out to him, and shook his shoulder, "Seto," he whispered, "Seto, wake up."

Seto groaned a bit, then shifted so he was facing Yugi. He opened his eyes a bit, and asked groggily, "..Yugi?"

Yugi nodded a bit. "Ya, it's me."

Seto blinked a few times, then tried to sit up, too. But, instead, he ended up flopping back down weakly. He grunted in pain as his face hit the ground, and rubbed it a bit with a slightly dirty hand. "Where the hell are we?" he grunted.

"That's what I'd like to know," Yugi replied.

"Look around, Yami, and you'll see."

Yugi and Seto turned around to the front of the darkened room, which, surprising Yugi a bit, had bar doors. Standing behind them, was the red-head Denki, grinning ear to ear evilly.

"W-what?" stuttered Yugi.

"You're on death row, kid."

"Death row?!" sputtered Seto.

"Didn't I just say that? Anyway, just to let you know, because of the crimes you've both commited, Yami being somehow driving Giselle to the brink of insanity, and intterupting our duties to keep all slaves in line, not to mention escaping the castle twice; and you," Denki pointed to Seto, "That you killed Akira the top guard, both are you are going to be hanged tomorrow at 11:00am. Enjoy your last night on earth, twerps." With that, Denki laughed out loud, and walked away from the cell.

With grinted teeth, Yugi stood up shackily, and stumbled towards the cell doors. He slammed into them, and grasped onto the bars tightly. "Seto didn't do anything, Akira was dead when he came!" Yugi choked on a sob, "He was dead when he came." Yugi choked on another sob, and slid onto his knees, feeling hot tears fall down his peach cheeks. He still clutched onto the bars, "He's innocent...he didn't do it.." ..I did. I finally realize, I did it. My sinking feelings about hainvg part about it was right. I stole Akira's soul. But...what scares me is, that I think he deserved it. Of course he did, but.. Yugi's thoughts trailed on, as silent hot tears continued to fall down his cheeks.

Seto stared at Yugi, biting his lip. He wasn't sure whoever this Akira was, but...

Seto looked down, then up at Yugi. Trying to stand up this time, Seto used his hands to try and support himself. Suddenly, a whole lot of strong pain went right through his head, and he yelped out in pain, falling back to the ground with a soft 'thump'.

Yugi looked back at Seto, worry in his slightly bloodshot eyes. "Seto!" he gasped, crawling towards him. He shook Seto's shoulder when he reached the much taller 16 year old, "Seto, what's wrong? Are you ok?"

Seto looked up at Yugi, smiling weakly, "Just peachy. I'm fine, just...slipped, that's all."

"Are you sure?"

Seto nodded, then tried again to sit up. He grunted in pain from his head, struggling to hold himself up in a sitting position. He inched towards a nearby wall, and leaned his back against it. He sighed, and closed his eyes. After a few moments, Seto asked, "So, I've been wondering, Yugi, why did those guards call you Yami? Who's Akira? What the hell's going on around here?"

Yugi breathed out. "It's a long story."

"We have more than enough time on our hands."

Yugi shook his head, "'Guess so," he sighed. He absently rubbed his fingers against his blonde bangs, and said, "Well, first off, the reason I'm called Yami is because I told them my name was Yami, you know, to cover myself up whenever I went outside the castle walls to save someone. Like my mom, or in this case, my friend Bakura, and even you. I went to warn you because the guards think you killed Akira."

"No kiddin'. But who's Akira?"

"...A guard," Yugi answered, stumbling on his words. "He was found dead one day, with no trace of how he was killed, 'cept that some guards said that his soul was stolen."

Seto nodded stiffly, "Right, I get that. But why did you say your name was Yami? Why not Bob, or even Joe?"

Yugi couldn't help but half smile at that, "I have my reasons."

"Well, if we're going to die tomorrow, I'd like to die knowing that I knew exactly what the hell's going on here, and why you called yourself Yami."

Yugi sighed, "Well, as you know, Yami means 'dark' or 'darkness'. I called myself that, because...I was my darker self at that time."

"..Darker side?" Seto raised an eyebrow skepically.

"Hard to explain," Yugi started, "But I first got my darker side when I solved my puzzle," Yugi pulled his puzzle from under his shirt, and showed Seto, "He was, like, the spirit that came from it, and he became my Yami, or darker half."

"...Your shitting me, right?"

"No," Yugi shoke his head, "It's all true. You met him before when we first met, he was controling my body at that time."

"Well, that explains why you look a bit different right now than before,"

Yugi nodded, then closed his eyes, looking downwards, "But, I can't trust him anymore."

Seto's blue eyes snapped open. "Why not?"

Yugi turned away, "Because, he took Giselle's sanity. I don't want that to happen again...And before, I didn't realize until before, but with Yami,..we killed Akira. That's why I knew you didn't do it. You couldn't have." Yugi held back a tear, "So, now, one of the only few people I can trust I can't trust anymore. Before, I could trust him, my best friend, Jou, and my mom, but now...now my list is down to just two."

"Wow, that's pretty bad," Seto bit his lower lip, "But, did you ever think of the reasons why he did it? Think them over."

Yugi looked up slightly, "Well, he..killed Akira because he would have killed Jou's mother...a-and he took Giselle's sanity because...because she also would have hurt Bakura.."

"Well, that would explain it, Yugi," Seto replied, "He did it to protect innocent people. He probably wouldn't have if he had no reason."

"Still, I wouldn't have expected him to do such things," Yugi said, shaking his head slowly, "From what I of him, he's kind-hearted, confident, and strong-willed. He put others before himself, risking his own life to save others. He's...he's always there for me, ever since I've solved my puzzle around two or three months ago; that's roughly, it's hard to keep track of time here.."

Seto nodded, then closed his eyes again. A minute past in silence.

"Wait a minute," he started, you say you solved the puzzle just three months ago. How long have you been here?"

"Hmm, let's see," Yugi closed his eyes, "two, three, four...probably about just over a year,"

"Well, for one thing, it's hard to believe anyone here has survived this long in this pit of misery, but another-- how could you have gotten the puzzle in the first place, if you had been here for about a year? I doubt you wouldn't have gotten caught if you stole it from a guard, and I doubt you could just waltz in here with that puzzle in here, going, 'I'm going to solve this puzzle to kick some of your butts, is that ok, Sir?'"

"Well, for one thing, I wouldn't say it like that," chuckled Yugi, but then turned serious, and turned away, "But...it's a matter I'd rather not talk about."

"Yugi, you can tell me," Seto opened his eyes, and looked into Yugi's eyes, "You can trust me with this. I know we haven't known each other long, but to most people, I'm a very reliable person. Besides, I'm going to 'croak' tomorrow, so I wouldn't be able to tell anybody else about this, anyway,"

Yugi looked up sadly at Seto. Just looking him straight in the eye, and he could tell that Seto was being truthful. Yugi looked downwards again sadly. "A-alright," Yugi started, with a sniff, "I...got the puzzle...from my Jii-chan,"

"Was that so hard?" Seto asked with a small smile.

Yugi shook his head, "It get's worse, Seto. That guard, Akira, he...well, one day, Akira was picking on me, you know, because I asked him something. He was...going to beat me with his whip, when Jii-chan came to my rescue. But, while doing that, Akira ended up whipping him. He got the pain, and ended up having his injuries infected, because he wasn't able to clean them out or anything. Then...he got sick, real sick. About one month or so after that, he..." Yugi's voice broke, "...he...he died in front of my mom and me. But before he did die, he...gave me my puzzle." Yugi broke down into a fit of sobs, but could just manage to continue, "He was my best friend! Jii-chan was my best friend, I had no friends at all, he was my only friend! A-and he died, because of m-me..." Then next part was barely a whisper as he continued to cry, "E-even now, it still k-kills me t-to.." Yugi couldn't take it any longer; he trailed off, and just continued to cry.

Now Seto didn't know what to do; he felt really bad for making Yugi have to relive that experience, and wanted to comfort him, but he really wasn't the type to really open up much. "Yugi, I.." Seto trailed off gently, placing a hand on the boy's shoulder. What happened next surprised and confused him; Yugi wrapped him up in a small hug, and continued to cry into Seto. It was the kind of hug a little kid would give someone when they were really sad, and just wanted someone to comfort him. The kind of hug when a person was feeling barely any hope at all, and the only emotion they could feel at the time was pure greif and sadness. They kind when someone really close had left them without warning. This made Seto feel sad as well, and he gently returned the hug to him. (A/N- Just a note: no yaoi here either! :P) "Sumimasen, Yugi,"

Meanwhile...

Oh my god, Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god... Jou thought rapidly in a panic. He was fidgeting a lot as he sat in his cell, hugging his little sister tightly. Above them, was a speaker phone, which they had never noticed before until now, and it was making a speech in a booming voice.

Attention, all prisnors, he said the last bit in a small chuckle, Prisinors, yes, your all our prisinors!! Bwahaha!

Shut up, Denki, and do it right! said a another voice, with a spanish accent.

Well, your no fun! Anyway, I'm announcing that we, meaning I, --ow!! Panchito...! Well, we have found two outlaws on the island, one that used to be/is a slave here at Duelist Kingdom, and the other, an intruder. They both have commited crimes here that cannot be tolerated, and will be exicuted at noon tomorrow. Their names are-- Seto Kaiba, and Yugi Motou. Hehe. Now, get back to work, dammit!!

Jou was compleatly shocked, and Serenity was shaking and crying in sadness and fear for their friend into her big brother's shoulder. Jou bit his lip, Oh my god, I shouldn't have let him go!! Now, since he got caught, he's going to die, along with some other dude! God damn it, why me?? Hell, why him?? He's my best friend..! Jou kept himself from shreading tears, as he looked down. Poor Mrs. Motou. After hearing that, she must have had a heart attack or something. I...I...

Serenity looked up at Jou with brown bloodshot eyes, "N-nii-sama, what will happen to Yugi-chan? What are we going to do?"

Jou bit harder down on his lower lip, "I...I dunno," he admited, then looked at his sister with kind eyes, "But, I've gotta do somethin'. One way or another."

Meanwhile...

Pegasus was fuming. Since when did he issue this exicution?? He angerly pushed down on the buzzer of his intercom on his desk, placing down his glass cup which was full of red wine(Hehe, druggy. ~_^). A second later, he heard a female voice, "Yes, Mr. Pegasus?"

"Send in Demetri now, Heidi." Pegasus replied coldly.

"Yes, sir,"

A few minutes later, a meek looking Denki entered the room. "You hollored, Master Pegasus?"

"Yes, I did," Pegasus replied at first calmly. Then with a frown on his face, he slammed his hands against his desk, making Denki flinch. "Since when did I say you could hang two people, Demetri?? I was never told about this, and I want answers, dammit!"

"Um, I um, Master Pegasus, I thought that is what you would do, sir," stuttered Denki nervously.

"Well, it isn't! Maybe for Yugi-boy, but not for Seto Kaiba! I wanted him alive, remember?"

"Y-yes sir," Denki nodded, "But I thought that--"

"You thought nothing!!"

"Can I just speak for myself, sir?"

"...Fine, fine, whatever makes you happy."

"Well, I'd be happy if I got a raise, sir--"

"Not what I meant, Demetri! And your pushing your luck, by the way, do you want to have your soul in the shadow realm for a day, again??"

Denki shook his head fearfully. "But, what I'm trying to say is, if Kaiba is out of the way for good, and only Mokuba is alive, then he'll be able to give you the technology without having his older brother interfere with your plans, sir."

"Hmm..." Pegasus rubbed his chin for a minute, "You have a point there, Denki. Fine, I won't put your soul in the shadow realm." Denki sighed in relief. "This time. If you do something like that again, though, don't think I won't follow through with what I preach. You got it?"

Denki nodded. "Yes sir,"

"Now, get out of my face." Denki then ran out the room without another word. Pegasus leaned back in his chair. Now I won't have worry about Kaiba-boy anymore after this. But...I'm still not certain if Yugi-boy has that puzzle yet. But if he does... Pegasus closed his eyes with a small smirk, ...I'll know by tomorrow.

Meanwhile(again)...

Some time passed while Seto and Yugi were locked up in their cell. Seto was now sleeping, while trying to withstand the pain in his head, which he still hadn't told Yugi about, and Yugi was staring out of their cell, thinking about how they might be able to still be living after tomorrow. I'm so uncreative. Yugi thought with a small sigh.

//... ... ...Aibou?//

/*sighs* Yes, Yami?/

//Listen, I'm sorry about before. I promise I won't ever do anything against your wishes again.//

/...Yami, I'm sorry, too; I over-reacted./

//No, you didn't. You acted your own way, and I respect that. And, I'm sorry for bringing out a bad reaction from you, and in general.//

/What do you mean 'in general'?/

//I'm sorry I haven't always been there for you, Aibou. I overheard you and Seto talking before. I had no idea that you've been through that much pain. I can see and hear what you see and hear, and also read your thoughts, though I won't unless it's very important or if you want me to or not. So, I never knew about your Jii-chan..//

/It's alright. But I guess you can see why I hate it here more than other people do, huh?/

//I would myself if that happened to me.//

/..I was wondering, what were your parents like? I don't know really anything of your past, Yami./

//...I...don't know, Aibou. I've been in that damn puzzle so long, I just...forgot my past. It's like I have amnesia, and I can only remember a few select things. Like, what I was called at some points like Yami, I was born in Egypt, and stuff about Duel Monsters. The rest...is a blur.//

/Oh. I'm sorry, Yami, I didn't know../

//Looks like we're even now; we both know something about each other we didn't before.//

/I Guess so...but since you heard about my Jii-chan, I guess you heard that...we're being exicuted tomorrow../

//Not if I can help it.//

/What?/

//Don't worry, Aibou, I'll think of something. I'll get you out of this jam.//

/*smiles* Arigatou, Yami. Oh, and one other thing./

//Yes?//

/I forgive you./

~To Be Continued...~

A/N- Looks like this chapter came out sooner than I expected. And just a lil shorter than usual... O.o But I bet you're wondering what will happen next, eh? ~_^ Well, then please stick around for the next chappy, which I hope to get out soon, depending on my mood! ~_^ AKA, review!

IN NEED OF HELP!!!

I know, I know, this may be a bit soon, but I need to know something for the finale of this story-- which song should I use for the last chapter?? Don't worry, there will be a lot of chapters before the last one, so don't fret! ^_^ I just like knowing these things ahead of time. I have two songs in mind here-

Hero by Chad Kroeger feat. Josey Scott(the song from the Spider-man soundtrack. ^___^)

Hero by Enrica Eglasis, can't spell his name, too damn hard, but I hope you know what I mean(clue, first verse-- would you dance if I asked you to dance?)

Those are the two songs I want to use. And I can't choose!! @_@ But don't you think that both of them are called Hero, eh? ~_^ Anyway, what I'm trying to get at is that this is a poll-- which song should I use? So, please vote in your review! Thankies! ^__^