Lady Deadly Nightshade: I do not own Yu Gi Oh!! I only wish I did!
Lady Deadly Nightshade: Well here is Chapter 9, just like I promised. It's almost as long as the last chapter. So please enjoy it and review it. By the way today is my birthday.
*Gabriel, Dante, Yugi, Yami and others enter the room*: Happy Birthday LDN!
Hey it's some of my muses. How sweet of them to wish me a Happy Birthday. So anyway everyone, please enjoy the chapter! Don't forget to review, that would be a great B-day present, since I love getting reviews! Also happy B-day to Drakon, it's so cool we share a birthday! ^_^
Chapter 9- She's Not Her
Yugi knocked gently on Téa's door. He knew she was home, he could sense her. He also knew he could just appear in her apartment, but he thought it would be more polite to knock and be asked to come in. "Téa, it's me, Yugi!" He yelled staring at the closed door. "I just want to make sure you're all right!" He knocked on the door urgently.
"Yugi, is that really you?" Téa's voice came muffled from behind the door.
Before Yugi could stop himself, he laughed in pure relief. She was all right! Yami hadn't lied to him. "Yeah, it's me!" He replied and his voice held a hint of happiness.
Téa partially opened the door and stood behind it.
Yugi smiled at her. "You are all right! I can't believe he didn't lie to me!" Yugi breathed in relief.
Téa eyed him suspiciously. Was it really him? She thought to herself.
"Téa, why are you looking at me like that?" Yugi asked her.
"Yugi, when and how did we meet?" She asked him.
Yugi was taken aback by the question, but he answered it. "I met you a few days ago when I saved you from some thugs." He said without hesitation. "Why?" He added questionably.
Téa visibly relaxed. "It is you!" She said in relief. She opened the door wider for Yugi to pass through it. "Come on in Yugi." She told him.
Yugi walked in and Téa closed the door behind him. He watched her with mute fascination as she revealed a black cooking skillet from behind her. She had it hidden behind her back. Yugi couldn't help himself and laughed in amusement. "What were you going to do with that?" He asked laugher in his voice.
She shrugged her shoulders and blushed slightly. "I don't know. It was just a precaution." She replied sheepishly.
"Incase I was my bother Yami?" Yugi replied. "He told me he had come here." He gestured to her, permission to sit down.
"Go ahead." Téa told him.
Yugi sat down on her couch. "I'm sorry if he did anything to you. If he hurt you in any way." Yugi said sincerely.
"It's okay Yugi, but why didn't you tell me you have a twin. It must be cool to have a twin." She told him. "Even a scary and intimating one like that." She added.
Yugi scoffed. "Cool? Not very." He replied sarcastically.
Téa set the skillet down on her coffee table and sat down beside Yugi on the couch. "Something happened between you two, didn't it?" She presumed.
"Yes, something did." He replied vaguely, his tone soft.
"I don't mean to pry but what happened?" Téa asked him.
He sighed deeply. "Many things happened between us. He is the reason why I am this..." He let the word die in his mouth.
"What are you? What do you mean?" She asked him.
He turned to look at her. His expression very serious and grim. "Téa, I'm a vampire." He told her. "He sired me." Her face went blank on the words, she didn't seem to understand. "He changed me into one." He added hastily.
Téa looked at him shocked, in disbelief. "You can't be serious?" She asked, swallowing loudly in her throat.
"Quite. Actually," He replied. "I've been alive for hundreds of years."
Something dawned on Téa's face. "How is your wound?" She asked.
"What wound?" He replied. He lifted his shirt to show her. Indeed there was no wound, just a smooth muscled stomach. She tentatively reached over and stroked where the wound should have been. She touched his pale skin and it was cool, while her hand was hot on his flesh. Yugi jerked back like she had burned him. "I heal faster then a mortal." He stated simply.
"So your brother turned you?" She asked him, removing her hand from him.
"Yes. He did it against my will." He told her spitefully. He lowered the shirt back down over his body. "I wanted to die and instead he gave me this life."
"I'm sorry." Téa reached over and placed her hand on top of his sympathetically. "Is that why you dislike each other?" She asked softly.
"No, back when we were both mortal, we fell in love with the same woman. Yami met her first but when I met her something inside me woke. A new feeling, an emotion that I never felt before until I looked into her eyes. I think she felt it too." Yugi smiled as he remembered. "After that moment we were drawn to each other, like a moth to a flame. I knew my brother liked her too, but I couldn't distance myself enough from her. I told her that my brother loved her, as he had confessed it to me many times. I begged and pleaded with her that we should stop seeing each other and that she should be with my brother, but she wanted me." Yugi paused and took a deep breath.
"My brother has always been resentful of me. Jealous because even though we are twins I was always favored over him. I told him he was foolish. We are one and the same. Having Anzu favor me was the last straw for him." He sighed. "He was so upset that he left. He packed some of his belongings and he left. Just like that he disappeared from my life. That was very difficult, he was all I had. I had sacrificed my happiness for him and he still left me." Yugi turned to look at her, tears in his eyes.
"The only person I had left was Anzu, but upset over my brother leaving, I pushed her away from me. The guilt in me wanted her to leave me alone. She had been a huge rift between my brother and I. No sooner was she gone from me that my soul ached for her. I needed her like I needed air to breathe. So I went to her and asked her for forgiveness. I loved her so much that I couldn't let her go. I proposed to her after we courted for a few months. A few days after I proposed, would be the last days that we would both be alive. We would both die, but my case wouldn't be permanent. Our deaths were caused by my foolish brother."
Téa gasped. "Did Yami kill you and Anzu?"
"No, but he had set a series of events into motion by angering a powerful man." Yugi told her. "It was a case of mistaken identity that cost us our lives." His tone was sad. "When Yami and I went our separate ways we never mentioned to anyone that we are twins. Even know no one knows the truth." He looked at Téa, sadness on his face. "That's why I am also responsible for Anzu's death."
Téa looked stunned. "What? Why?" she asked him.
"If my damn pride hadn't gotten in the way and if I hadn't tried to protect my brother. She would still be alive." He said regretfully.
"You loved her so much." She told him.
"With all my heart and soul." He replied.
"Yugi, you have to realize it's not your fault." Téa told him sincerely. She scooted over closer to him and squeezed his hand gently with hers. Yugi turned to look at her. "You can't keep blaming yourself. You did what you had to do." Téa looked into his sadden amethyst eyes. They reflected so much: pain, sorrow, someone suffering from a broken heart. She caressed his cheek and leaned into his face. Her lips pressed gently on to his and she kissed his softly. Just as she was about to deepen the kiss, Yugi hesitated and tensed. He gently pushed her away from him. "Téa, I can't, I'm sorry!" He apologized and stood very quickly. "I can't do this!" His tone was soft, but full of pain.
"Yugi, what's wrong?" Téa asked and she also stood from the couch.
Yugi quickly headed for the door of her apartment. "I'm sorry!" He said again. He quickly walked out the door into the corridor. Somewhere in his mind, Yami's words kept repeating themselves to him.
That girl is not her. She never will be her either. She's gone and she's never coming back. You just have to accept it.
Damn you Yami, he cursed mentally. He wasn't sure if he sent the words out telepathically to Yami. He wasn't sure if Yami heard him, but frankly Yugi didn't care if he did hear him. Yugi vanished.
LDN: I hope you guys liked this chapter. I gave some background on what happened in the past, but don't worry more to come on that. Poor Téa, can you say denied. Well don't condemn Yugi, he has his reasons. Well I hope you guys approved of this chapter, now please review. ^_^
Next Update:? (sorry peeps, but I don't have an update date set out for right now. I need to work on the story more, see which way I want to take it before I upload anymore. So please be patient with me. Believe me I won't make you wait long for new chapters. I promise. ^_^