I have the next chapter of unbroken typed up but for some reason I can't get ff.net to upload it!! So I'm posting this chapter first and I'll try the Unbroken again tomorrow. Then I'll do two chapters of that one. Thanks and sorry for the delay!!
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Aurora: What problem?
Moons: -.- …my computer problem…remember…the monitor broke and I had no way to type anything. Well's its been fixed!
Aurora: What, you got a new monitor? Bravo.
Moons: Loser! No, I got my graduation gift early.
Aurora: And what was that?
Moons: A LAPTOP!! My very own computer with my very own Steven Tyler wallpaper!!! I'm so excited. Now my updates will be more frequent because I can type whenever!!
Aurora: Great, so now I'm working in over drive…why am I supposed to be happy?
Moons: You aren't, but I am. And so are my readers! So here's the next chapter of "Have You Ever?" And for all you Sailor Moon fans, I hope I don't do the show a injustice. And just so you know…I've seen both the English and Japanese versions of this show and I've decided to stick with the English names but go with some other parts of the Japanese version. So please, don't be to harsh if I screw something up. Just let me know of my mistake in a review. Thank you and let's get on with the chapter!!
Have You Ever
CHAPTER TWO
Yami was aware of a dull throbbing in his head. He groaned and pressed his face deeper into his pillow. The after effects of an energy drain were hell. He tried to raise his hand and felt the weakness again.
"Yami?"
Yugi's voice was soft but still ebbed at the nagging throb in the back of Yami's head. He winced out of pain and guilt. Yugi must have been worried sick about him. After all, he had just collapsed the night before. And he wasn't sure how much Yugi remembered about the attack. Forcing his eyes open, Yami sat up and looked at his hikari. Yugi had a horrible case of bed-head, but other then that he looked fine.
"Yami, you're okay." He sighed. "You worried me when you just passed out last night. What caused you to drain all your energy that fast?"
Yami frowned. So Yugi didn't remember last night? But he did remember seeing him faint, so maybe he recalled parts. Yami rubbed his temples hoping to quell the growing headache.
"Do you remember what happened last night aibou?" Yami asked in a tired voice.
Yugi's brow furrowed in confusion. He seemed to be trying to recall the previous night's events. After a while he shrugged.
"I remember looking at the stars with you and talking." His nose scrunched up as he sunk back into thought. "Then there was a blast and you went off to see what caused it. All I remember after that is waking up here and having you collapse in my lap after what I can only imagine was an energy drain."
Yami winced. So he remembered enough to cause him guilt. It had been quite an energy drain, but it had been to save Yugi's life. Taking a deep breath, Yami decided to neglect to fill Yugi in on all of the last night's happenings.
"You didn't miss out on much. He lied. "The after effects of the blast knocked you out. I grabbed you and brought you back here. You needed energy badly so I lent you some of mine. That's what knocked me out. But we're both fine now and that's all that matters."
Yugi was watching Yami with wide eyes. He had given up a part of himself to save him. No not save him, revive him. Tears of gratitude burned at the edges of his large purple eyes as he grabbed a hold of Yami's hand.
"You didn't have to do that Yami." He whispered. "I would have been fine come morning. And you on the other hand must have a splitting headache."
Yami frowned. If only it had been that simple. Yugi would not have been fine come morning. He would have been nothing more then an empty shell. And his headache wasn't splitting. Yet. With a heavy sigh, he laid a hand on Yugi's shoulder.
"We're both fine." He spoke slowly to Yugi. "And that's all that matters. It's my destiny to protect from danger Yugi, and that's what I did. No questions asked."
Yugi nodded and gave Yami a big grin. He knew that Yami was lying, he could sense it. There was something else going on, something major. And whatever reason Yami had for hiding it Yugi felt he could trust him. But there was something nagging him. It was something that was telling him to pursue this conversation further. But after noticing the distant look in Yami's eyes, he knew that sitting around the Game Shop wasn't going to get anything done. He jumped up off the bed and turned to his surprised yami with a large grin.
"Let's go for a walk!" He pointed towards the window where the sun was pouring in through the open shade. "There's no point in sitting around here. Let's go enjoy this nice day."
Yami groaned and rolled his eyes. Being born of the dark, he wasn't particular of the sun. He almost forgot what the Egyptian sun felt like. The way it had been so warm that standing it its rays to long left you feeling as though you were cooking. But he would do anything for his aibou, so pushed himself to his feet and followed Yugi to the door. When Yugi pushed it open Yami had to raise an arm to block the intruding brightness.
"This better be worth it." He mumbled under his breath.
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"Yami look!"
Yugi pulled on his disgruntled yami's arm. Yami turned his head and saw what looked like a temple. Its beauty struck him into an awed silence. Without looking at Yugi he spoke.
"What is that place?" His voice came out hushed.
"That's a temple." Yugi answered. "You can go there and pray for things. Like a better life, safety of another, those sort of things. Why don't you go give it a try?" Yugi pushed him towards the large steps. "I'll go get us something to drink and come back and meet you in a few. Okay?"
Yugi didn't wait for an answer, he just turned and ran. Yami raised a hand to call after him but he was already gone.
"Damn you Yugi." He grumbled starting up the stairs. "I don't know your culture. How am I supposed to try something I don't understand?"
Yami pulled his leather coat tighter around him. He was unusually cold. Maybe it was because he had been thinking about how hot his kingdom used to be. Nothing could top an Egyptian day, summer or winter. He came to a quick stop. That was it! Just because he was at this temple didn't mean he had to pray their way. Sneaking to a secluded part of the area, he dropped to his knees and began muttering in his ancient tongue.
He knew exactly what he was going to ask Ra for. Protection over his hikari. He still didn't know what that creature was after, but he knew that he hadn't seen the last of it. Something caused him to shiver. Somehow he knew that his fight wasn't over.
Yami was about to end his plea when something jumped on his shoulders. He let a squawk of terror and automatically assumed the worst. They were back and they wanted to take him out so they could get Yugi. He jumped causing what ever attacked him to fall from his back. Yami spun around to face his intruder and was greeted by an unusual sight. There at his feet sat a jet black cat. A crescent moon marked her forehead. His terror was forgotten as he broke out into a broad grin.
"Hey there kitty." He bent down on one knee and scratched behind its ears. "Isn't that an unusual mark. A moon. Reminds me of so much that I hold close."
The cat began to purr and Yami laughed. His deep voice came out sounding smooth. He didn't hear the footsteps that approached him from behind until a soft voice spoke.
"You like cats?"
For the second time in a span of minutes, Yami's heart leapt into his throat as he spun around. His crimson eyes were open wide as though he were expecting an attack. But this time the person standing behind him was a girl who appeared to be his age. She had long black hair and eyes that were violet like Yugi's, but fierce like his. She tilted her head to the side and gave him a small smile.
Yami felt a strange sensation. He couldn't pull his eyes away from her face and a part of him wanted to jump up and wrap her in a protective embrace that he would never break. A slight blush crept to his cheeks at that urge.
"Uh, yeah." He finally answered her question. "Cats always remind me of home."
"Well that cat's name is Luna." She pointed a finger at Luna and then at herself. "And I'm Raye."
Yami rose to his feet and extended a hand out towards Raye. She slipped one of her small hands into his grasp and shook it firmly. She couldn't help but notice that he was surprisingly good looking, standing there wearing a black leather jacket, black muscle shirt and jeans. Raye fought off her own blush.
"I'm Yami." His deep voice sent shivers down her spine.
The name in itself was a shock. Yami, darkness. It was almost frightening to meet someone with a name that meant something so odd. There was something about him that Raye couldn't seem to put out of her mind. It was like she had meet him somewhere before.
It suddenly hit her like a lightening bolt and she gasped. He was the boy from the night before, the one she had sworn on Mars to protect. And now he was standing in her temple in all his glory. She knew she had to take it as a sign, whether good or bad.
"Are you okay?" Raye had hardly noticed that she had zoned out until he called to her. She brushed back a strand of her long black hair and tried to give him a reassuring smile. It didn't work to well as she tried to fight past the butterflies that were swarming in her stomach.
"I'm fine." She glanced back at Luna who was watching Yami with a strange alertness. "And I'm sorry if Luna scared you. She likes to jump on strangers. Strange thing is she's really not my cat. She's my friend's Serena."
Yami laughed and patted Luna's head. Luna didn't purr this time. Instead she tried to focus on his face. Yami noticed this and began to feel uneasy. It was almost like Luna knew something about the real him. He was about to try and make a getaway when a familiar voice spoke behind him.
"Yami? What are you doing here?"
Yami had to smile at the light British accent he heard. He turned to see his and Yugi's white-haired friend Ryou. And what was even better was there was no sign of his tomb raider yami, Bakura.
"Hello Ryou." Ryou walked over to the duo with an innocent grin, so much different then his own yami. "I'm just here because Yugi kind of forced me to. I really don't much about your culture so I resorted back to my own."
Ryou laughed. He knew exactly what that was like. Bakura gave him problems with everything that he didn't understand. That was the only reason he wasn't there now. He refused to do any form of temple.
"What's your culture?" Raye interrupted the two's conversation.
Yami turned his attention back to her. She stood there, with her head titled towards the side in confusion. Luna sat on her shoulders, and if Yami wasn't seeing things she was still glaring at him. The thought was unsettling. He fumbled before finding his answer.
"I-I'm Egyptian." He finally forced the answer out. "I've only been here for…for…"
Yami stopped. He really didn't know how long he had been there. He had helped Yugi beat Pegasus and save his friends and defeat Marik to save his friends. But he had no idea how long that had been. He really hadn't gotten a grasp on time until his memories had come back.
"A little over a year." Ryou answered for him startling Yami. "He was sent he by his father who thought he could have a better life over here. He lives with his brother Yugi and Grandfather."
Yami had to try hard to hide his shock. How had Ryou come up with that story so fast? He must have used it when someone questioned Bakura. He was extremely grateful that Ryou would use it for him. He gave him a hidden smile and turned back to Ryou and her glaring cat. She wore a large, excited smile.
"Wow!" She looked Yami up and down, raising another blush to rise in his cheeks. "You're from Egypt? Did you ever visit any Pharaohs' tombs? I love ancient history like that. I think it would be just amazing to have been alive then. Everything about that time sounds so magical."
Yami could only stare at Raye in amazement. This girl loved everything he came from. She could sit there and listen to all the stories of his past and find it enthralling. Yugi could listen to him, but not for extended periods. He'd get antsy, start feeling as though it were a history lesson. The need to go hang out with his friends would raise and Yugi would beg Yami to leave the past be and enjoy the future.
"I know a lot about the ancient ways of Egypt." He nodded and tried to ignore the look that crossed Ryou's face. "I loved being there, and in a small way I'm upset that I can never go back."
A sudden wave of depression swept over Yami. He was right. A small part of him missed his past terribly. He missed his friends, his servants, and his princess. But the other part of him knew that if he received this wish he would miss his hikari more then anything. Yugi was his other part, his light. Without him he would only be half a person.
"But my life here is one that I know I can never leave." He gave a sad smile. "So I've had to give up my old life. I'm sorry to see it go but it must."
Raye was about to say something when high-pitched giggle stopped her. She growled and lowered her head as another girl of apparently the same age ran up to them. She had long blond pig-tails that were connected to her head by balls of the same blond hair. She wore a huge grin as she approached Raye.
"Oh Raye!" She cooed. "Who's the cutie that you're talking to? Are you going to introduce me or are you going to just stand there and keep him all to himself?"
Raye glared at her before giving her a sneer.
"I can tell you one thing Serena." She spoke with an air of superiority. "His name isn't Darien!"
Serena's eyes grew wide. She turned away from Raye in a childish pout.
"I wasn't going to try anything." She whined. "I was just going to introduce myself. He's obviously a friend of yours. I thought I had the right to know him too."
Yami watched this interaction with some trepidation. The two of them fought like Joey and Tristan. It was actually quite amusing to watch. Except for the fact that Luna was still watching him. He was about to say something when another girl broke into the argument.
"Raye, Serena, enough!" She had blue hair that was cut in a short, bob-cut style. Her soft blue eyes were narrowed. "You two half to stop this fighting. It starts to get annoying after a while."
Yami turned to Ryou to comment about how much this interaction reminded him of their own friends, but stopped short. Ryou was staring at the new girl with wide awed eyes. Yami saw something his soft brown eyes that caused his to smile sadly. He saw love and adoration. He turned back to the girl and saw her giving Ryou a shy smile. Looked like the feeling was mutual. Serena leaned towards Raye, her argument forgotten and giggled.
"Looks like Amy found a new boyfriend." She grinned at Raye's shocked reaction.
Amy blushed and covered her mouth behind a fist. Ryou blushed as well and scuffed at the ground with his shoe. Their shyness was amusing. Yami stood there grinning at his blushing friend. He went to make his own comment when he was interrupted by two more female voices.
'How many of them are there around here?' He asked himself.
The two that approached appeared to be complete opposites. One was tall with brown hair pulled back in a ponytail. She had eyes that were a gleaming green. Yami could tell by looking at her that she would be the wrong person to mess with.
The other was short with long flowing blond hair that was half pulled back in a large red bow. She had shinning blue eyes that seemed to have a permanent smile. Perched on her shoulder was another cat but this one was white with a crescent moon on its forehead. It gave Yami a curious look over and then appeared to glare at him just like Luna. It leapt from the girl's shoulder and landed firmly on Yami's. The force knocked him back a few steps.
"Artemis!" The blond girl cried, pulling the cat off the startled dark's shoulder. "What's gotten into you?" She gave Yami an apologetic smile. "I'm sorry, he never does this. I'm Mina."
Yami gave a weak smile and nodded. Cats were highly thought of in Egypt therefore he had always been tied to them. But he guessed the cats in Japan didn't think the same way.
"Yeah, that was kind of weird." The taller girl gave Yami a large smile. "I'm Lita. And you are?"
"I'm Yami." He had never had to introduce himself so many times in one day. Maybe he could finally pass off as entirely mortal without Yugi's help. "And this is my friend Ryou. Nice to meet all of you."
"Yes, nice to meet you." Echoed Ryou.
"You're British?" Amy seemed delighted by this.
Ryou blushed again and knew that if Yami ever talked to Bakura he would never live this down. Which basically meant he was safe. Yami and Bakura argued like Raye and her friend Serena. He shook his head slightly.
"I'm afraid not." He gave Amy an apologetic smile. "I lived there for most of my life and the accent seemed to stick. My father moves around a lot and I used to move with him. Now I'm old enough to live on my own so I stay here when he leaves."
Amy didn't seem disappointed by this and nodded to say she understood. Yami smiled. Ryou seemed to have found himself a love interest. Then again neither of them seemed to doing anything more then making eyes at each other. And Amy hadn't meet Ryou's room mate, that baka Bakura yet. Once that happened, her urge to hang out at Ryou's place may drop.
Yami cast another glance at the two cats and noticed that both of them were staring at him with narrowed eyes. He swallowed hard and tried to back away from them, but this action drew Raye's attention. She followed his gaze down to the two cats and saw their steely stare. She was stunned and worried. Luna and Artemis never acted this way around people unless they suspected them. But Yami couldn't be of the enemy. She had had to save him the other night, not fight him. She would have to talk to them later. They really seemed to be upsetting him, almost as if he could sense their anger.
"Yami!" A light voice called from behind the group. "I'm back. I'm sorry it took so long. You wouldn't believe the line in the store. It was practically out the door."
Yugi ran up to the group and for the first time noticed the five girls that stood opposite his dark and friend. He also noticed the way that Yami looked at one with dark hair and violet eyes. She seemed to have the same regal fierceness to her features that Yami did. He decided to introduce himself.
"Hi, I'm Yugi." He chirped and gave a quick wave, almost dropping Yami's drink in the process.
Yami moved faster then any would have given him credit and grabbed the titling cup before it was able to completely over turn. He gave his light a grin an took a swig from his catch.
"Thanks Yami." He gave him a sheepish grin and turned to the girls. "Who are your new friends?"
"I'm Raye." The dark haired girl answered before naming off and pointing at each of her friends. "And that's Lita, Amy, Mina, and Serena."
Yugi noticed Raye's priestess outfit and his grin grew wider.
"You own this temple?" He asked in a rushed voice.
Raye gave him a gentle smile. He reminded her so much of Rini. Speaking of which, she decided that the two had to meet. They both looked like they would be the same age.
"Yes I do." She seemed to rethink her answer. "Actually my grandfather does. I live with him and help him run this place. He's getting too old to do it himself."
Yugi's eyes brightened. "Really? Me and Yami live with our Grandpa too! And we help him run his store cause it's too much work for him."
Yugi smiled. So there were similarities between Yami and Raye. This would make his end of the deal so much easier. Yami had just been talking the other night of wondering what love felt like. Now was his chance to help his yami figure it all out. He suddenly remembered that he had promised Grandpa they'd only be gone for an hour and then they'd come back to help him at the shop.
"Which reminds me, we have to go!" Yugi turned to Yami with a panicked look on his gentle features. "I promised Grandpa we wouldn't be gone long before we'd come back and help him. We really have to go Yami or he'll start to get mad!"
Yami's eyes widened. He remembered the last time the two of them had flaked out on a promise to help Grandpa. They hadn't been able to flake out for another week because they hadn't been allowed to leave the house. Only Yugi was able to escape for school. Yami had become Grandpa's temporary slave. And it hadn't been fun.
"All right." He nodded quickly and then looked up at Raye. "It was really nice meeting you. I'll see around."
Both he and Yugi turned and ran for the Game Shop. Ryou, upon noticing he was now alone, gave Amy a shaky goodbye and followed his retreating friends. Raye watched Yami leave with a slight sense of sorrow. She really did like him. There's was just something about him that wouldn't let her stop thinking of him. She gave a quiet sigh as she watched him take the temple stairs two at a time.
'I will see you again.' She thought. 'Maybe not as myself, but we will meet again.'
~*~
He watched the two brothers leave the temple followed by their white haired friend. There was something about that boy that he didn't trust. And it wasn't the fact that he appeared to be moving in on his girl, Raye. Of course Raye really wasn't his girl, and that guy didn't know him. But that was all besides the point. The point was he had worked so hard to catch Raye's admiration and no upstart in a fancy leather jacket was going to steal her from him. He decided he had to follow that guy and let him know.
Brushing some of his long brown hair out of his eyes, Chad set off after the two look a likes. He was going to make that guy listen, no matter what he had to do to get him to.
Moons: Ta da! I've introduced almost all the characters in the story.
Aurora: What the hell!! I thought we agreed that there would only be one romance story between Raye and Yami! What the hell is this Ryou/Amy shit?!
Moons: Ignore her and her language. She's swearing more because she's trying to keep the romance muses from redressing her again. And no, you agreed that there would only be one romance story. I have an idea for a Sailor Moon/Yu-gi-oh! Series. And let me tell you. I think the second story will be better then the first.
Aurora: So there's going to be five of them?!
Moons: Maybe…maybe more.
Aurora: x.x
Moons: While I got her knocked speechless, please read and review this chapter…I'm going to start the next chapter of "Unbroken" that story is just starting to heat up!!