AN. Thanks to all my reviewers. This chapter is for you and wouldn't have been posted if you hadn't said that you liked my fics.
Disclaimer: Anei no own Yugioh. Anei no own nothing. Anei stupid author who can't write worth crap.
"But Yami why?" Yugi's anguished cry echoed through the Game Shop.
"You wanted me to leave, I'm leaving." Yami's voice, as if designed to contrast with Yugi's almost hysterical tone, was calm and level.
"Yami I didn't really want you to leave! I'd never want you to leave me! Don't go!! Please, don't go." But he was too late. His yami was already gone.
"He can't be gone," Yugi whispered numbly, "He can't be." The puzzle was a dead weight around his neck dragging him down. "He'd never leave me." Memories of himself and his yami paraded through his mind.
In Pegasus's castle at Duelist Kingdom his yami had done everything in his power to help Yugi but had allowed Yugi to make his own choice. Earlier in the fight with Kaiba Yami had been willing to kill to get Yugi's grandfather back despite having no connection to the old man himself. He had done it all for Yugi's sake. Eating ice cream together, talking with Tea about how one was really the other as well and if she wanted one she would get both. That had made her give up on them all right.
But all good things come to an end some sooner than most. So many people had tried to kill them, so many dangers had passed. Flashes of Yugi's enemies passed through his mind. And then Malik had used Joey and Yami had changed.
Yami no longer seemed to trust Yugi to make his own decisions. Yami's protectiveness was stifling and his possessiveness equally frightening. It was unnerving being the focus of that complete attention. Yami would watch him sometimes for hours on end, gaze never wavering from his aibou. And Yugi was not happy about this.
It had been cute at first; gallant almost. Yugi had always wished for a fairy-tale prince to come spirit him away beyond all danger. He'd dreamed of someone who would wait on him hand and foot. Didn't everybody? But then Yami had started and things had changed. The dream was better in his imagination than when it was transferred to reality.
Yami had done everything for Yugi and Yugi had finally gotten fed up. He had talked to Yami about it several times before and each time Yami would promise to do differently. Nothing ever changed though. Yami never really changed. So Yugi had yelled at him to leave if he couldn't change his behavior and he had. He had taken Yugi on his word and left.
Now Yugi wished that he hadn't. That none of this had happened. He had his grandfather but that was all. Everyone else liked Yami better. Yami was cooler, stronger, faster, tougher, and better than Yugi and everyone knew it. It had been Yami who Tea had asked out. Yami was the one his friends all looked to for advice. No one wanted Yugi anymore.
Yugi ran to his room, throwing himself on the bed and pulling all his plushies to him in a tight embrace as silent tears ran down his cheeks. He couldn't keep even that small semblance of normality up for long though. Yugi wailed his grief into the plush Magicians robe.
This story is continued in the stories 'Coming back to you' and 'Finding you again'. Sorry for the inconvenience but I had not originally intended to continue this at all. Your reviews convinced me to continue. Thank you for reviewing and please read the sequels.
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