A/N: I. Don't. Own. Anything.

Chapter Six – Joyful Laughter And Tears of Sorrow

Yuugi stumbled through the door of his grandpa's game shop followed by a chuckling Yami whilst he was laughing at the memory of Joey's reaction in the library.

"Oh it was priceless Yami, the look on Miss Takaki's face when Joey jumped up like that. Then the look on Joey's face when she banned him from the library for two weeks for almost giving her a heart attack. Priceless…"

Yuugi leaned on Yami's arm, unable to stand up by himself because his legs were no longer able to support him due to his infectious laughter. Seeing his light in such obvious happiness brought joy to the Pharaoh's heart and he found himself grinning like a fool.

Yami placed an arm around Yuugi's lower back and the shorter teen looked up at the ancient spirit in surprise, the taller of the two returned the gaze with a twinkle in his eye. "Yami what are you going to do?" Yuugi asked suspiciously. Calm down Yuugi, that look in his eye doesn't mean what you think it does...

Yami laughed and put his other arm under Yuugi's knees before lifting him off the floor, "Yami! Put me down!" His only reply was another chuckle and then the spirit was running up the stairs with him in his arms. Yami booted open Yuugi's bedroom door and threw his fragile, and surprised, parcel onto the mattress.

Breathlessly Yuugi gave a nervous laugh. It's not what you think it is!

"Well you asked me to put you down…" The other said with a smile, oblivious to the thoughts he was stirring around Yuugi's mind.

Yuugi gave a strained smile as he looked into the spirit's dancing eyes, "You're evil you know that…"

Sitting up he attempted to shimmy over to the edge of the bed only for Yami to feign mock outrage, push him back down and then bend over him with a dark grin.

"Evil, Yuugi?…I have not even begun to paddle in the depths of evilness!" He grabbed Yuugi's hands then held them over his head as he began to tickle all the sensitive spots on Yuugi's body.

"Yami…Yami stop please…You're gonna kill me!" Yuugi yelled between fits of laughter. Despite being uncomfortable with the situation he found that he couldn't help but start laughing, especially when wiggling fingers had reached his very ticklish stomach.

"Okay my friend." Replied the spirit with a grin as he gracefully sat down beside his companion. Silently he watched as Yuugi sat up and straightened his shirt, slowly he looked up with an emotion Yami couldn't discern in his eyes and then the spirit was being embraced.

After a moments surprise he wrapped his arms around the smaller form, sighed and closed his eyes to concentrate on the feel of the one he loved and one never have. Another memory to store for dark hours.

You were right about the look on Joey's face being priceless Yuugi, but sharing your life like this is infinitely more so. It is torture to my throbbing heart yet I cannot stop myself from being near you.

I just needed to be held. A moment of guilty pleasure. If I hadn't have held him I think I would've tried to kiss him instead, and that would do neither or us any good. I feel so at peace in his arms, so safe and protected almost as though this is where I'm meant to be. With him.

Without realising Yuugi tightened his hold on Yami, "Don't ever leave me Yami, I don't know what I would do without you. My life would just be shades of grey, Joey and the others are my friends but they couldn't compare to you. I don't know what I would do without you there to share my life with me."

Where did that come from?! Yuugi blinked as tears started to form in his eyes, Yami noticed and rubbed away an escaped tear with his thumb.

"I will never leave you Yuugi. It is beyond me to even think of such a thing, in fact, I also thought it would be beyond you to think of such a thing. Do you know something I don't Yuugi?" the spirit asked urgently piercing his light with an intense gaze.

Those eyes contain such strong emotion, only in my dreams they contain a much stronger emotion than concern. What would his reaction be if I told him my feelings? Would concern turn into cold hatred and disgust? I can't risk our friendship simply because I've developed feelings for my closest companion, I could never live with myself if I destroyed the bond between us. Again I give into my greatest fears and will keep my silence, like many times before.

Yuugi averted his gaze, sighed and gave a sad smile, "I know no more about the future than you Yami. I'm sorry…it's just been a bad week for me, very emotional. I guess I'm just letting my imagination run away with me, don't take any notice of it." He lied.

"How can I not take any notice of it Yuugi? It's obviously making you incredibly sad otherwise you would not be crying…" True enough to the Pharaoh's words tears were now streaming down the young man's face, Yuugi gave a loud sob and Yami hugged him to his chest in confusion.

Ironic isn't it,thought Yuugi, the object of my anguish is the one trying to comfort me. Ra has a pathetic excuse for a sense of humour. Suddenly the floodgates opened and Yuugi cried until he had no tears left just dry sobs.

You'll have to wait now for me to finish re-writing the other chapters. Now before you go glaring at me again don't worry, I do have a bit of spare time to work on this now. No more exams for me! Whoot!

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Thank you so much for reading so far! Toodles!

YT