Lily: *watching the readers celebrating* *sweatdrops* Man, I guess they're very happy right now...
Readers: ^__^ HE'S ALIIIIIIIIIIVEEE!!!! *keep celebrating*
Lily: *sweatdrops more*
Some readers: ;__; Ryooooooooooooou...
Iris: Oh great! ^.^ Some haven't changed much!! How nostalgic!
Lily: ¬¬;; Very, VERY funny indeed, yami... --;; Oh well...
Midnight Hikari - I'm glad you like!! Here's a new chp for yez!!
Lizzalo - Okay, here it is!! ^^
Mel Gods - THANK YOU!! ^^ Also, thank you for putting me on your favs list!! ^^ I appreciate it! Here's a new chp for you
Evil Chibi Malik - lol, I hope your yami recovers soon ^^;; Anyway, here's more fluff
SoulDreamer - wow, thanks, I guess I'm making you guys very curious, huh?? Very meanie of my part ^^;; here's some more!
crystalphoenix3 - *cries* I can't say much about Ryou... you'll have to wait!!
Shini Akusai - XD hahahaha, bad me! lol, here's a new chp for yez
Princess Strawberry - *pokes YS* snap out of it, k?? Here's a new chp for you guys, I hope you like it ^^
Yami Meko - Thanks, I appreciate your words A LOT!! Here's more a new chp for you!! (aren't I lazy, today? Writing the same thing over, and over again.... oh well ^^;;)
Radfel - Yeah, YUGI'S ALIVEEEE!!!!1 *dances around* Hmm.... some mysteries revealed in this chp, check it out!!
Sarah Harvey - yay, thanks!! ^^ Here's more
hillary - Wings of Ruby and Amethyst WAS UPDATED!! Go check it out ^^ And here's a new chp
Danski - I'm glad you like!!! ^^ It shall get better... wait and see!
Yami's Tenshi - Hmmmmmmmm.............. THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNKKKKSS!! ^^
Iris: 5 bucks my hikari is worse than yours, Kerra
Lily: ¬¬;; I hate you, aibou.... *ahem* I'm glad you didn't cry and stuff!! Yay for me!!! ^^ About the suspense... heh, gomen, but it's part of the story!! HERE'S SOME MORE GOOD STUFF!!
Crouching Tigress - Wow, thanks for reviewing all the chapters!! *gives you a Ryou plushie (all the Yugi ones are sold out ^^;;)* And hey, you asked a pretty obvious question you know... Bakura is insane! *laughs*
Bakura: Just like you....
Lily: ^^ Yesh!!
Bakura: --;;
Lily: Anyway.... *starts partying* YAY, YUGI'S NOT DEAD!! ^^
DarkMagicianGirl - Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, give me an autograph?? A DUEL MONSTER!! YAY!!!! Lol, sorry, but I thought it was a cute nickname ^^ Thanks for reviewing, and here's a new chp for you
Pretenna - XD *parties* I'M ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIVEEEEEE!! *starts dancing* Oh my Ra... thanks for saying I'm the best.... I guess that's just because Yugi's alive, huh? ^^;; Everyone was really that worried about him? *impressed whistle*
Yugi: *still being hugged*
Yami: *glaring*
Pretenna: *sticks tongue out at him*
Lily: *laughs* XD No love, Yami, no love...
Yami: --;;
cerridwen10 - O_O Oh my RA!! It's you!! It's REALLY you!!!! ^_^ Yaaaaaaaay!! I like your story so muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch!!! *ahem* Anyway.... hmm.... if you're too confused, you can always ask me your doubts, I'll gladly answer them ^^;; Ok? I'm glad you likes, and here's the new chapter!!
Angel-Guardian - ^^ THANK YOU!! Wow, I'm glad my story makes people that don't really like this kind of thing like the plot and such.... YAY!! ^^ *gives you a Ryou and a Malik plushie* Thanks! Here's the next chapter! Oh.... *holds up an Anzu plushie* So.... *gives it to you* You decide what to do with it!! ^^ I have pretty much ripped off and destroyed 10000000000000000 of those
Iris: --;; Psycho, ain't she?
Lily: ^_^
YumeTakato - Iris: Say, if you want, you can hurt her
Lily: ¬¬;; Thanks for protecting me... I promise no more evil cliffies... XD Ra knows how much they're evil!! ^^ Me glads you like!! Lol
SelenaFury - Well... this is between you and the spirit over there....
Yami: O_O HOW COULD YOU TIE UP MY AIBOU!!!??? And what KIND OF FAKE SIGN IS THAT???? *goes save his aibou*
Lily: ¬¬;; He shouts at my reviewers once more and I'll hit him... *ahem* Thanks for r/r, and here's a new chapter for yez...
Selena: *holding Yugi's left arm* MINE!!
Yami: *holding his other arm* MINE!!
Lily&Iris: *sweatdrop*
hobbit13 - *coughcoughcough* Err.... *cough* Thanks for reading... *breaths* *sweatdrops* Me glad to know you're happy to know Yugi's alive.... *ahem* O_O whoooooaaaaaa!! You're right in one of the things you said.... I can't say what, but you'll soon see! ^^ About Bakura, you shall see in this chapter... as well as how evil Anzu can get..... --;;
Yami Aro - lol, I say "Hoe" sometimes too, and I know it annoys ^^;; so, did your friend like it, by the way? I'm glad you like it!! Here's a new chapter for you to satisfy your curiosity ^^
Lily: Ah well, shall begin...
Readers: *stop partying to read*
Iris&Lily: *sweatdrop*
Disclaimer: Ugh, NO I DO NOT OWN IT!! WAAHHHH! I DO NOOOOOOOOOT!!! .......................................... I'm okay now.
Warning: Yami/Yugi shounen ai, and Anzu bashing. No liking, NO READING!! "Anzu" fans keep in mind this is "Tea".
Keys: "__" means talking and '__' means thinking
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Shades of a soul - [ Act VIII ]
By: Lily Maxwell
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"What's so amusing?" Bakura asked, with an eyebrow raised. Yami, since he had arrived in class that day, was smiling non-stop, although he kept silent most of the time. When Bakura arrived, then, Yami began to smirk and grin, leaving his friends confused and intrigued.
"I guess he's finally gone mad." Seto said, sighing. Mai shook her head.
"Geez, Malik's insanity is finally proven contagious..." she said, and Malik narrowed his eyes.
"Careful then, my dear." He smirked. "You might as well be my neeeeext victim........ bwahahahah...." he said in a frightening tone, making Mai look at him wide eyed. Bakura snickered, then got his attention back to Yami, who began chuckling when the teacher entered.
"So Yami-"
"You'll see." Yami finally replied, and everyone shared confused and curious glances between each other. The teacher asked everyone to sit down, and they did so, but they kept sending Yami curious gazes now and then.
"I have some news for you." The teacher began, smiling. "From now on, we'll have a new student. Please, come in." he motioned for someone to enter the class, and the short form of Yugi walked shyly in front of the class. Everyone gasped. "His name's Yugi Mutou, and he..." but no one was listening to the teacher anymore. Everyone began to whisper to one another, looking from Yugi to Yami, eyes wide.
But no one was more surprised than Bakura, that when found out the boy's name, looked immediately at Yami, who chuckled. His mouth hung open. That was Yami's Yugi? No way... Bakura thought he...
"You can sit in front of Yami, Yugi. He's the one everyone's looking at, that looks like you." He said, giving the class a glare, and everyone stopped staring right away. Yugi walked silently towards his seat, aware of everyone's stare on him, since the teacher had turned around, now facing the blackboard.
When he got to his seat, he looked up at the smiling face of Yami, and recognized him right away from the last day's events.
"Hello Yugi." Yami greeted, and Yugi smiled back at him.
"Hi Yami..." he said, and sat down. A girl, who sat behind Bakura (that sat beside Yami, considering Yami sat by the window), kept looking back and forth between Yami and Yugi.
"Are you two-" her high voice was asking, but Yami cut her off.
"No, we're not related. Considering our last names are actually different." He replied, and that shut the girl right away, and with a hard glare at whoever was still staring at them, Yami looked back at Bakura, smirking when everyone got back to their work.
Bakura simply mouthed "We've got to talk."
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"So... I see..." Bakura said, nodding. The others had different reactions. Seto just sighed, not really saying anything. Malik didn't get much. And Mai was the most emotive one, "awww"-ing when Yami told her about him and Yugi, and sniffing when he told her the rest, that Yugi went away, then appeared with no memory about him.
"I... don't understand a lot of things..." Yami said, looking away. Seto and Bakura nodded.
"Like, the hospital thing, right?" Bakura asked.
"And the fact that he doesn't remember you." Seto finally spoke.
"Lemme see... Yami hang out with Yugi, Yugi was supposedly a ghost, then Yugi got away, and yesterday Yami met him again, and he had no memory about their love and stuff like that?" Malik asked, and everyone looked surprised at him.
"Wow, you really got all that figured out? You're a genius, Malik." Mai teased, smirking.
"Plus, I don't understand... how could I meet him every single day... when he was in another town, and in a hospital..." Yami hid his face in his hands, and everyone stayed silent, each one thinking about something.
"Maybe you could try talking with him, Yami." Seto suggested. "You could find out some new facts that could help with the conclusion for everything."
"Maybe you're right, Seto..." Yami said, even though he thought it would be very hard doing so. Talking with Yugi, when this one didn't remember anything about him other than the fact that they met the previous day, would hurt Yami's heart even further, and Yami wasn't in the best of his emotional conditions...
"Uhh.... Yami...." Bakura began, and Yami looked up at him with an eyebrow raised. Malik got Bakura's point, and pointed to Yami a brunette girl, who was looking frenetically around, looking for someone. Getting up quickly, Yami waved him friends a "See ya later" and walked away, hoping to stay away from Anzu until the end of the lunchtime.
Walking through the school gardens, Yami spotted someone sitting under a tree, looking rather hidden from everyone else. In the person's hands, was a Duel Monsters' deck, and the person looked through the cards. Smiling to himself, Yami walked towards him.
"So, you like Duel Monsters?" he asked, and wide lilac eyes looked up at him, having a happy glow, since he recognized Yami's voice. Yami felt himself smiling widely at the boy, his heart skipping a beat or two. This always happened when Yugi smiled at him, and he just couldn't help it.
'You love him, Yami, and if you don't find out what happened, you're gonna die, that's for sure...' the annoying voice said in his head.
"Yes... do you?" he asked, tilting his head to the side. Yami took a spot beside Yugi, and smiling, he nodded.
"Question is, who doesn't?" he asked, and Yugi giggled, nodding his agreement. There it was again... the sound was so pleasing, it drove Yami's mind into madness...
'I... can't take it anymore...' he narrowed his eyes, and his expression grew a little more serious.
"Yugi..." he began, and Yugi looked up at him, blinking adorably. Yami controlled his senses, and kept talking.
"Yesterday... your grandfather said something..." he took a deep breath. "You were in a hospital?" Yami said, and Yugi paled. Leaning against the tree's trunk, Yugi looked down, not meeting Yami's gaze. Yami cried in his mind.
'Good move, pal.' There was the annoying voice again.
"I.... I...." Yugi tried to say. Suddenly, he felt a hand being placed over his own, squeezing it in an assuring manner. Yugi looked up to meet the warm glance of Yami.
"You can tell me, Yugi." Yami said, and Yugi felt himself blushing, backing away slightly, since their faces were way too close to each other...
"I..." Yugi sighed, his hands playing with his shirt-collar. Yami felt so much sympathy for him now, he did not care if Yugi remembered him or not, he placed his arms around Yugi's shoulders, in a friendly manner. Yugi looked up at him, and smiled faintly.
"You don't need to tell me if you don't want to." Yami assured, now convinced it was something that didn't make Yugi comfortable. Yugi shook his head, and Yami blinked.
"I want to tell you." Yugi said, and that made Yami's eyes grow softer. Yugi continued to play with his shirt-collar. "I... was in a coma." Yami's eyes widened.
"..... Nani...?" he asked weakly, and Yugi looked up at Yami, sensing Yami's concern. He smiled before continuing.
"I... There were.... these guys in my old school, that.... liked.... picking on weaker ones. They..." he leaned slightly against Yami. "... liked beating me. One day they hit me so much, I ended up in a coma. For... a whole month." He finished, and before he could think about anything, Yami hugged him. Yugi was surprised, and blushed, not really understanding.
'It... feels just like...... it's so real... I... I don't understand...' Yugi thought, before closing his eyes, trying to keep himself from crying. He didn't want to let Yami see how weak he is... even though he knew, somehow, that Yami would not say or do anything about it.
Yami closed his eyes, hugging Yugi close like he had done many times before. There it was. Yugi's past driving his mind into an angry and startled blur, not wanting anything more than clear everything and make those who hurt Yugi pay.
"I know I don't look like a 16 year-old... that's why so much bullies usually picked on me at school..."
"Why didn't anyone do anything?" Yami asked softly, and Yugi looked up at him, hands lying on his chest, while Yami's hands rested on his waist. A faint blush was visible on his cheeks.
"They didn't care." Yugi replied, not surprising Yami. Yugi had told Yami everything about his past... even though he didn't remember it. Smiling, Yami pulled Yugi into another hug, and ran his fingers through his hair.
"I bet you just haven't met someone worth your friendship, Yugi. But now..." Yugi looked up at him, eyes wide. "...You have me."
Yugi's mouth hung open, eyes wide with confusion and amazement. Those words... the feeling of Yami's arms... his scent, and everything else... they were so real and familiar.
'It can't be true...' Yugi thought, eyes lost into Yami's eyes. 'Maybe it wasn't... just a dream... maybe, I should tell him...'
"Yami..." Yugi began, and Yami just blinked, still smiling. Yugi would continue, if...
"YAAAAAAAAMIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!" Yami and Yugi jumped, and the taller one let go of Yugi. Looking around, he saw Anzu looking happily for him, just behind them, the tree luckily hiding their forms. Wincing, Yami noticed she was getting too close to them, and turned to Yugi.
"Yugi, huh..." Yugi was blinking. "... I'll be right back." Yami said, then got up, walking a little further, hiding behind some bushes (A/N: Hahahaha XD poor Yami).
Yugi was disappointed. He leaned against the tree, and slowly stood up. He wished to tell Yami about... when he was in the hospital... maybe...
"Ah, it's you!!" someone squealed beside him, and Yugi looked up to meet the face of Anzu. Man, that big smile on her face, and her odd attitudes scared him...
"Uh... hi, Anzu-san...." Yugi smiled weakly, regarding her name, since Yami had advised him to... huh, keep away from her.
"Have you seen Yami around?" she asked him, jumping up and down. Yugi sweatdropped, and Yami, in his hideout, saw everything and sweatdropped as well. Yugi then understood why Yami left.
"Well, I.... no, I didn't..." Yugi lied, and Yami smiled.
'I so love you now, Yugi.' Yami thought.
"Awww, too bad." Anzu pouted. Then, she smiled widely at Yugi. "Aww, but by the way, you're sooooo cute!! You don't look like 16!! Can I be your friend? Do you have any? Oh, Yami's your friend, right? Aww, you two look like brothers, you Yami's little brother! You have any more friends? You must have, friends are..." Anzu kept babbling, and Yugi backed away from her as much as he could, his back meeting the tree's trunk.
From his spot, Yami felt sorry for Yugi, and just couldn't let him be tortured like that any more. Standing up, he walked towards the two, just Yugi noticing him, Anzu with her back to him. Yugi blinked.
'I thought he feared her.' he looked at Anzu's face, that kept talking, jumping, and squealing. '.... with great understandable reasons.'
"Anzu, you were looking for me?" Yami asked, and Anzu turned around to meet him, her eyes glowing. Yami and Yugi sweatdropped.
"Haaaaaaaaai, Yami-kuuuuun!!" she said, jumping. "Why aren't you with your friends? Where's your lunch? Can you have lunch with me? What about we-"
The bell rang.
'YES!' Yami and Yugi thought.
"Awwwww, I thought we had more time... Anyway, what class do you have now? OH, it's Math isn't it? I'm in it too!!" Anzu said, smiling.
'Oh, the joy...' Yami thought bitterly.
"Me too." Yugi said, more to Yami then to Anzu. Yami smiled, deciding to ignore the girl's presence.
"Good, let's go then." Yami said, and Yugi nodded, walking beside him. Behind them, Anzu kept babbling, making both teens annoyed as hell. When they climbed some stairs next to the gates, Seto, Mai, Malik and Bakura approached them.
"Oh, so there you are..." Mai said, when they walked towards them. She smiled warmly at the sight of Yugi.
"Oh shit..." Bakura and Malik said, realizing the girl climbing the stairs just behind the two of them. Malik decided to go talk to Yami, but he tripped at the top of the stairs, and fell. Yami pushed Yugi aside, and Malik bumped on Anzu, both falling down the stairs... long ones.
"Geez, there he goes again." Bakura said, shaking his head, while Yugi's mouth hung open and he sweatdropped. Instants later, Malik and Anzu reached the bottom of the stairs.
"Is he okay??" Yugi asked, and Yami smiled.
"Do not worry, he..."
"I'm okay!!" Yami chuckled.
"See?" Yami asked, and Yugi giggled.
"What about Anzu?" he asked, as he saw a boy walking up to Malik, surprising him with their alike looks.
"Who cares about her?" Bakura, Seto and Mai asked, and Yugi sweatdropped.
'Well, they do have a point there.' His inner voice said, and he sweatdropped more.
"Let's go, we're gonna be late." Yami said, and they all entered the building. Thoughts still filled Yami's and Yugi's mind.
'I still don't understand... so he was in coma.' Holding his chin in thought, two people made their way into Yami's mind. 'Maybe if I ask them...'
'I'll tell Yami later...' Yugi narrowed his eyes, trying to build up courage for later. 'I... want to know... if... it's not just some strange intuition...'
[ To be continued... ]
Lily: WELL, there it is!! ............. What day is today?
Iris: Friday, baka...
Lily: O_o man, I was supposed to finish this on Monday....... --;; Oh well, PLEASE REVIEW!! Some things are gonna be explained soon, and we're gonna see how the situation between Yami and Yugi will end ^^
Iris: ....... hey, Lil.......
Lily: Yes?
Iris: I wonder where all the Yugi plushies are?
Lily: *looks thoughtful* Yeah, you're right...
*Somewhere near*
Tenshi: *sweatdropping, watching many readers glomping their Yugi plushies* *hugs her own Dark Magician plushie*
Pretenna&Princess Strawberry: ^_____^ *hugs their plushies*
Shini Akusai: *sweatdrops* Obsessed, aren't we? *shrugs* *hugs a Yugi plushie as well*
Other readers: *ditto* ^____________^