Lily: *runs away*
Yami: No use, Lily, they'll haunt you down until they can hurt you badly...
Lily: *from somewhere really far away* BE QUIET, YAMI NO YUUGI, YOU BAKA!!
Yami: ¬¬;;
Bakura: *in charge of the mad R/R team "Death to Lily"* *growls* YOUR RADDAMNED FAULT!! Why did you kill RYOU?!
Lily: FOR THE PLOT!!!
R/R: ¬¬;; *mad but understand*
Bakura: *has a psycho mind and doesn't understand* *goes haunt her down*
Yugi: O.o;;
Iris: *sweatdrops* Err... Well, we're not putting reviewers notes, so that Lily won't try explaining her reasons for "Ryou's" death and "Yugi's death", you know, not to spoil or anything...
Lily: ^^ But I do thank Princess Strawberry (geez, meanie Ra... *laughs*), Flowers ("Nani?" means "What?" ^^), Pretenna (*sweatdrops*), babygurl1, tyrell, Shini Akusai (there's a big note for you down there *points down*), Dark Destiny15, YumeTakato, ChaosDragon2, Evil Chibi Malik (*sweatdrops*), radfel (lol, your email sure is inspiring *thinking about creating one as britneys_messengerofdeath* *laughs maniacally* Iris: *highly doubts she will but sweatdrops anyway*), and Yami Aro (it's never late to review!! ^^ *goes kill Anzu*). Some little notes though:
To Yami's Tenshi: ^^ YOU ROCK!! I highly thank Kerra for the *grins* big help, and yesh, when I can, I'll ask for you help again... mwahahahah... *smirks* *ahem* Also, I have read Back to you, ^^ the review is there, go check!!
Iris: Also, Kerra, I know the feeling *glares at Lily* *smirks* THANKS FOR ALL THE GIFTS!! *simply grins at the book ("How To Get Things From Your Hikari")* Will come in use...
Lily: *sweatdrops* Uh... well... *grins*
Lily&Iris: DEATH TO ANZU!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!
Anzu: 0_0U
Lily&Iris: *fight the urge to kill her cause Tenshi likes her*
Lily: By the way... ^__^ I've dedicated a fic to you too!! It's called Angels, please go there review... ONEGAI!!
To SelenaFury: I dunno what, but Yami wants to talk to you... *hugs Duo protectively just-in-case*
Yami: YUGI IS MINE, YOU HEAR?! MIIIIINEEEE!! MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Iris: *sweatdrops* We got the idea, Yami...
Yami: Yugi belongs to me. ME YOU GOT IT?! HE'S MINE!! *glomps Yugi and doesn't plan on letting go*
Yugi: *sweatdrops*
Lily: ¬¬;; Do not shout at my reviewers, Yami no Yuugi no baka...
Yami: *still muttering "mine" and kissing Yugi's cheek*
Lily&Iris: *sweatdrop*
Disclaimer: Why do I have to keep saying this? -.-;; No own, no sue...
Warning: Yami/Yugi shounen ai, no like, no read, and you should know that by now...
Keys: "__" is talking and '__' are thoughts
Note: To Shini Akusai:
I decided to put this here since you said you don't read anything not fic-related. I suppose you are reading this now. Now, I'll answer some things about your complaints...
1- The real notes inside the fic are the (A/N: .) ones. Only the () ones, they are not simple notes. They have to do with the fic, and are actually part of it. You say they are unnecessary, but I don't put a lot of them (the real ones I say). The ones inside the ()'s are part of the actual fic, so I don't really see where it disturbs people's reading. (okay, so I did put some useless notes here and there... SORRY!! I'll stop, I swear)
2- The author's notes at the beginning aren't really long. If you didn't skip them, you'd see that, the most part of it is Reviewers Thanks. I'd put this in there, but I suppose you have no idea that there are actually Reviewers' notes in this fic. But there are, and my big Author's Notes aren't really just random babbling. But I admit that I rant a little (*coughawholelotcough*). But looks like people actually read them, and if they don't like it, they just skip it, like you do. I guess that that doesn't have a real negative side on the fic?
3- I don't have a beta. I know it's good to have one, but I'm not planning on it. I guess that, as long as my writing is readable and nice, I don't need desperately a Beta Reader. I think that, because I can just post my fics on weekends, I'd have to take too long to actually post my chapters... And I actually like to post my chapters soon. You think I really need one? I don't know...
I thank you for liking my fic, and I don't think you're a bitch person ^^;; I actually think that you are thinking right now "Man, this Lily girl is really a bitch... I try helping and she refuses all my advice!". I hope I didn't seem rude or offended you up there... I really thank you for taking so much of your time to post such a constructive review for me, and I feel honored for such thing ^^ I hope you keep reading my fic... And liking it. Thank you!
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Shades of a soul - [ Act VI ]
By: Lily Maxwell
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He had his eyes closed, and seemed deep in thought. The words his friend gave him still intrigued and tortured his mind. It couldn't be true. He couldn't be living a lie, could he? He couldn't be loving someone that didn't really exist in this world anymore, brought back here by some kind of unknown force. Yugi was real.
And Yami held onto that thought firmly.
Sitting in his classroom, Yami didn't say a word at all since he entered the room. Seto, the first of the 5 to come, had given Yami a greeting his friend didn't reply. Raising an eyebrow, Seto asked Yami what was wrong, but when he didn't reply, Seto gave up. Mai came later, and had a similar reaction as Seto. Malik and Bakura were the last ones to arrive, and Bakura seemed slightly serious, having his eyebrows frowned.
"G'morning!!" Malik said cheerfully, and Mai smiled to him, while Seto only nodded in acknowledge of his presence. Looking over at his friend Yami, he blinked seeing that this one hadn't greeted him. "Yami?" he asked, but this one didn't answer.
He walked in front of Yami and waved his hand in front of his face, while Seto sighed, and Mai seemed annoyed.
"He won't answer, Malik." Seto said, just as Yami looked up.
"Good morning, Malik." He said, then turned his eyes back at looking through the window, Seto and Mai blinking. Finally, Seto growled under his breath, and Mai pouted and frowned.
"Fine, so he won't greet me but the freak he does." Mai said, and Malik blinked.
"Hey!! I'm not a freak!!" Malik complained, and turned around abruptly. Tripping on a desk (A/N: do not ask), Malik flew a few centimeters forwards, and hit his jaw on the floor. Getting up slowly (and complaining), he was too preoccupied with his jaw he didn't see the teacher's desk in front of him and ended up tripping greatly over the desk, falling on the other side. When he got up, he hit the face on the blackboard, falling back to the floor. (A/N: if you did not understand this, just think a big mess and Malik)
At this Yami raised his eyebrow in amazement, Mai just rolled her eyes and said "Freak", Seto shook his head, and Bakura, finally getting out of his serious mood, snickered evilly.
A sandy-haired teen, looking amazingly like Malik appeared at the doorway, looking curious about all the cries, complaints, and odd sounds that came from the classroom, and peeked inside. Everyone was sweatdropping, and someone said an "I'm okay!!" at the class' front. Looking over to the cross-eyed, dizzy boy now sitting on the floor, the new boy hurried to his side.
"Malik, are you okay?!" he asked. Looking over to the boy, Malik's face brightened.
"Ishtar-koi!! Huh..." he blinked and tilted his head to the side. "Why are there two Ishtars?" his friends sweatdropped and chuckled, Mai laughing pretty much, Yami just remaining neutral. Ishtar sighed and helped his look-alike up.
Watching the two made Bakura remember about Ryou (A/N: since they all looked alike... Bakura and Ryou, and Malik and Ishtar I mean), and that made his mind get serious again, reminding him about Yami's situation.
Looking over to Yami, Bakura noticed that this one looked deep in thought, and seemed like he wasn't in this world. He barely blinked or paid any of the class' mess attention, and just "gazed" through the window, his gaze in truth lost in thought.
"Yami?" Bakura called, and his friend looked up. The look of anguish in Yami's eyes made Bakura felt a bit guilty, but he knew he hadn't done anything wrong. He knew his friend could be in a very odd situation, and that at the end something bad was going to happen. Bakura knew it.
Bakura himself knew about his fate.
"Bakura, I..." just as Yami was about to say, the bell rang, and a few minutes later, the English teacher entered the classroom, and looked quite confused and intrigued about why her desk was totally out of place.
The day went by extremely slow for someone who wanted so badly for time to pass. At lunch, Yami tried to be as away as possible from his friends (because of Bakura), but the particular white-haired teen that he did not want to see at the moment came in his direction anyway.
"Bakura, look..." Yami tried to say, but Bakura held his hand up, as a sign for him to stop.
"Yami, I know you don't believe me. Or at least, don't want to." He said firmly, and Yami looked away. "But what I said is true, and I'm really serious about that."
"But how can you be so sure?!" Yami asked, looking up questionably at his friend, his face showing the pain he was going through. "I can feel him, Bakura. I can clearly see him, and freely touch him. There's now way he is..." he trailed off, unable to continue.
"Look, Yami, as I said, I've already been through it. I know it seems real, but..." his fists almost bled at the force he was using to keep his pain and anger. "... it is not. I know it."
Yami did not look at his friend's face, and a little more minutes later Bakura sighed and walked away, leaving Yami to his own thoughts, and his dilemma.
That very same evening, as the water that fell from the skies met the surface of the earth below, a amethyst-eyed angel (would it be literally?) comforted the one he loved, noticing that the very same thing that bothered him 2 nights ago was still bothering him.
Yami did not tell Yugi about any of his words with Bakura, and didn't ask him the question that burned inside his chest. He just couldn't. He was afraid that, if he said one word, Yugi would leave him and never come back, if it wasn't true. If it was true... Yami didn't know if he could handle it. And with the feeling of the boy in his arms, his smile and his soothing words, he just didn't dare telling him anything.
Yami lived each day for the next month as if he hadn't ever heard Bakura's words, and Yugi was there, fully with him, with one true love...
~^: One month later... :^~
His eyes scanned from one side to the other, looking for the one he so deeply cared about, and that kept his mind all day long on thoughts about him.
Yugi sat at the middle of the path, smiling at the nothing. Smiling himself, Yami walked silently to him, the wet mud making his movements smooth and almost imperceptible. When the purple-eyed boy finally saw him, he got up quickly and hugged him, almost making him fall. Yami smiled and hugged him back.
When Yugi let go of him, Yami saw in his eyes an emotion that he didn't understand and couldn't make out, so he just blinked the confusion away and smiled. Yugi smiled back and touched the side of his face.
"Yami..." he said in a very sweet voice.
"Hmm?" Yami asked, while kissing his forehead.
"Thank you." He said, and Yami blinked once. Twice.
"For what, little one?" he asked, tilting his head to the side pretty much like Yugi did.
"For everything." He smiled more. "For being here."
"You don't have to thank me, Yugi." He said, getting Yugi in a tight embrace. After he let go, Yami kissed Yugi. He was surprised at how passionate Yugi seemed. Looked like it was the last time he would be doing that...
"Wow." Was all he could say when they parted. Yugi smiled and giggled, hugging him again.
"Aishiteru, Yami..." he said, hugging the taller one really tightly.
"Aishiteru, Yugi." Yami replied, then kissing his forehead again.
When Yugi let go of him, he looked rather... sad? Mixed with... an unknown bit of happiness?
"I got to go, Yami." He said, and those very words made Yami's eyes go wide. Usually, it was Yami who said he had to go, and Yugi just nodded and kissed him goodbye. But now... Yugi had to go?
Somehow those words made Yami's heart froze.
"Yugi...?" he whispered. The little one started to walk backwards.
"I'm sure..." he smiled. "... we'll meet again." This made Yami hold his breath, and his heart skipped.
"Yugi... nani..." he said, walking towards the one that kept walking backwards.
"Jaa ne... Yami." And with that, he turned around and ran away.
Yami, finally noticing what was to happen, tried running after him. But he lost sight of Yugi due to the mess of trees, and had to stop to catch his breath. He looked from side to side, everywhere, but he didn't find Yugi. He fell to his knees, and the rain fell harder than ever.
"Yugi..." he whispered. "Why did you leave me...?" his tears were lost within the raindrops that fell on his face, his long-lost true happiness, just found in a little more than a month, shattered.
So Bakura was right?
And now, Yugi had to leave him, in order to finally go where he belonged? Among the real angels?
Yugi was really a spirit? He was really dead?
"Yugi...." his cries were muffled, as a thunder bolted in the sky, as if trying to cover his pain, the rain trying to calm his soul.
But it was useless. Yugi left him. And he could only be healed...
... When he would be truly with him again.
[ To be continued... ]
Yami: WHAT THE HELL?!
Iris: *sweatdrops*
Yugi: ;_;
Yami: ¬¬;; Liiiiiiiiiiiilyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...
Lily: *nowhere in sight*
Iris: *picks a note from the ground* "For all those who want to kill me, or just make me feel pain, since I gotta finish the fic, I won't be back until the next chapter. Keep in mind that I have a reason for everything I do... and please, do not hate me ^^;; - LM" *sees a bag* *opens it* It's full of plushies... there's another note... "For all those who cried during this chapter"
Yugi: *gives the plushies to the crying readers*
Ryou: ^^;; Please, do not forget to review, and then Lily will be more than happy to continue this...
Bakura&Yami: *plotting her death for after she finishes this fic*
*Somewhere*
Lily: *hiding under Tenshi's bed*
Tenshi: *sweatdrop* *with a tissue* ;_;
Kerra: *hugging the life outta Chibi Yami*
Chibi Yugi&Chibi Yami: *sweatdropping*