AN. I own it!! Of course I'm also clinically insane but hey, who cares.

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            Where are you going?" Malik cried as his yami stood in the doorway glaring at him. Marik was leaving.

            "Where I'm going is none of your business." Marik replied harshly. "Just accept that I'm going away for a while; at least a month, maybe more. I won't be seeing you." And he left shutting the door with a resounding crash.

            "Don't go," Malik called after him, knowing even as he said it that it was a futile effort. Even if his yami heard it when had Marik ever done what Malik wanted him to?

*****Flashback*****

            "Please, no!! Don't, onegai, I'll be good, I will, just don't, Ah!!" Malik's pleading was interrupted by a scream of pain as Marik flung him into the wall again. He knew it had been a mistake to beg for mercy but it hurt!

            "What have I told you about talking during my lessons?" Marik asked him threateningly.

            "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," sobbed Malik, curling up to minimize the pain. "I didn't mean to disobey you," Marik kicked him, smirking at his pained cry. "I'm sorry," Malik screamed but the lesson continued.

***** End Flashback*****

            'Actually' thought Malik wryly 'He nearly always did whatever I didn't want him to do.' It hadn't mattered; they had still completed each other. Now, though, Marik had left, his presence was gone, and it was all Malik's fault.

*****Flashback*****

            "I hate you!" Malik screamed at the blank walls of his bedroom. If he spoke against Marik he'd be punished but he had to relieve his anger somehow. "Why won't you go away? Go get yourself killed or something! That way at least you'll never bother me again."

            "You mean that hikari?" Marik's voice asked from the doorway.

            Malik looked up, terrified but nodded slowly. If he didn't he'd just get it worse later. "Yes yami-sama," the words were nearly inaudible.

            "Then I suppose you're lucky. I'm leaving."

*****End Flashback*****

            And he had. Now Marik was gone and Malik was left with a big empty hole in his life where his yami's presence had been. His sister had left him in disgust and had forbidden Rishido to come near him again. So now he was completely alone. He curled into a ball on the cold floor and cried.