Haku: -Runs in, whilst being pummelled with garbage- Sorry! So sorry! Okay,
who threw the Piano?
Y. Haku: Erm... That was....
Yugi: ME!!! -Prepares to throw a ten tonne weight-
Haku: Wow, Yugi. You're stronger than you look. -Prepares to run away again-
Yami: Aibou, if you kill her, she can't update. A lot of reviewers would do well to remember that too... -Looks pointedly in Summer's direction, whilst nursing multiple wounds-
-Barrage of waste stops.-
REPLIES:
Yamishadowcat22: Was it intense? Okay then. And this is the final chapter, so all shall be revealed, including who belonged to the brown eyes.
Jkateel: Okay then.
Autumn Ann Star: SUMMER! IF YOU KEEP ATTACKING ME, I WON'T BE ABLE TO UPDATE!!!!
Yami: Though she's blasting us right now, must I remind you not to yell at the Reviewers?
Mimiheart: Well Yugi has forbidden it too you know.
MysticDreamer673: Yes, Anzu DIED! MUAHAHAHAHA!
Yami: YESS! No more obsessive stalker!!!!
Dagger5: I'm glad you like your Neko.
I luv Kai: It's gotta be a spork!
Yami: Probably not.
Y. Haku: Took the words out of my mouth buddy.
Princess Krystal01: Yes well, you see I am NOT predictable... I try not to be anyways.
Y. Haku: She'll fall over in 5... 4... 3...
Haku: I won't fall, whoa! -falls over-
Y. Haku: Well, that was 2 seconds early, but hey!
Saiyan Jedi: I'm not done with Yami yet, but here, Have a chibi Yami.
Yugi: -Grabs the Chibi- MINE!
Haku: Err, an Inu Yami?
Yugi: MINE!
Haku: YUGI!
Yugi: Err... okay then. -Gives over the Inu Yami-
Curtis Zidane Ziraa: Updating now.
DISCLAIMER:
Yugi: We all know the standard drill now. She doesn't own us, so she can't get sued.
Cast of Yu-Gi-Oh!: YEAH! LEAVE HER ALONE!
}Yami to Yugi{
{Yugi to Yami}
WARNING:
Promised Shounen-ai in this chapter!
Yami: That was evil, putting it in the Epilogue.
Haku: I know. ^_^
~~~
Arise, the Phoenix.
~~~
(Yami: Er... I'm not going to comment. Haku: You just did.)
It was black, all about him, it was black. He had no idea where he was or how he got there, but he'd been here for awhile. At least he thought he had. The time that had passed could have been minutes, or it could have been years, he didn't know. Suddenly, there was something warm, and quite contrasting to the cold outside, within him. He felt it, in the back of his mind, a gentle presence.
}Hikari, come back to the light. Come back to where you belong, please.{
There was something familiar about it, something he couldn't quite place.
"Who are you?" He called, into the blackness. His voice was swallowed immediately by the darkness, and the voice didn't come again.
~~~
Yami looked at the unconscious form of his Hikari, lying almost peacefully in the white linen of the hospital bed. The glowing warmth of the mind link he took comfort in, but he wanted YUGI back. Four days, sitting in the sterilized ward, watching as the doctors prodded and poked him, sleeping in an uncomfortable chair, holding Yugi's hand and stroking it gently.
He tried the mind link again, calling out to Yugi in the way he had done many times before, yet still with no response. He sighed and fell upon memories for the brief few minutes before the doctors came back again.
~~~
The doctors looked from Yami and Yugi with increasing interest. The resemblance between the two was amazing. One of the faceless creatures had to say something.
"Are you two related? You are so familiar."
Yami couldn't tell this person the truth, after all, how do you tell someone that you're the Pharaoh of ancient Egypt reincarnated in the form of your Great great great great great etc. grandson, who has such a tiny percentage of your blood in him that you can fall in love and not be accused of incest? (Haku: XD! I've always wanted to write that! Y. Haku: You're just weird Hikari.) He just smiled and said, "No, we're not related, he's just a very close friend of mine."
The man nodded. "He's very sick, did you know that? In fact, I'm surprised he survived so long. After treating themselves this badly, most people would have collapsed after 2 months, and by what you have told me, he has lasted at least six. He's still very weak though, and I'll be surprised if he pulls through." This, of course, made Yami feel SOO much better.
So this saw Yami sitting by his Hikari's beside, looking at the ominous IV attached to the hand that he was not holding, of staring blankly into space. He had visitors from time to time, first was the police who had a few questions to ask, then had scolded him on his recklessness, then surprisingly, Bakura, who seemed to have grown quite attached to the little light, then Jou and Honda, the second of which apologising time and time again for his behaviour, though he wasn't sure or not whether these comments fell upon deaf ears, and he said he'd come back once Yugi was awake. The steady stream of visitors hadn't stopped over the past four days, with even the Kaiba brothers dropping in, and Seto doing the unexpected, actually putting a hand on Yami's shoulder and comforting him. Mokuba just had a few quiet words to the limp form and left.
Yami barely ever left his light's side. The only times he did so was to heed the call of nature. He whispered things to the sleeping form, promises, goals, dreams, talking to the boy in the way he did before Grandpa's death, though greatly saddened by the lack of response he received.
"Yugi." He ran a silken finger down the boy's face, and the crystalline tears streaming from his eyes showed all his emotion as next he spoke. "I'm so sorry. I know I tell you that at least twenty times a day, but if you give me a chance, I will change it all. I do love you Yugi." He leant down and kissed the boy's fore head gently. "I love you. Please wake up."
Almost in response to this, the boy's eyes fluttered open. They still had that cold, deadened look, and Yami would be surprised if they ever lost it, but they held the spark of warmth that was Yugi. The smile on the boy's lips when he saw Yami was one full of innocence and love, not the cold and hard one that was last there.
"Aibou?" The boy asked in a quiet voice, looking at Yami as if hardly daring to believe it. Yami's face mirrored this expression.
"Hikari!" With that, he collapsed onto a startled Yugi, sobbing and uttering all his insecurities, about his fears that Yugi would hate him, and leave him forever, that he would have never gotten the chance to make up for everything he'd done, how stupid and pigheaded he'd been... It all came out in the tears that were now dampening Yugi's bedclothes.
Yugi made shushing noises whilst looking incredibly awkward. Never had he had his Yami do this before. "I was afraid I'd loose you forever Aibou, and what would life be without you?" Yami asked him this very quietly, earning a startled glance from his partner.
"What do you mean?" Yugi gave him another glance.
"I love you, Aibou." (Y. Haku: Awww..... so sweet!)
The door chose that moment to creak open, and a familiar white haired teen poked his head around it, immediately blushing when he saw Yami still half- glomping Yugi. "Oh sorry, Am I interrupting something?" The British accent the teen carried gave his voice a pleasant rolling quality.
Yugi looked at Ryou with almost the same red tinge. "N... not at all. Hi Ryou."
Reluctantly, Yami let go of his light, but kept sending him worried glances as if worried he'd disappear into thin air.
Ryou gulped and looked like he was about to set himself to say something, causing Yugi to throw him a curious glance. "What is it Ryou?"
"Erm... well... you see... I kinda..."
"Spit it out Ryou." Yami commented, looking at the Hikari with heightened interest.
"Okay. IkindagotBakuratotakeYugioutofthegameshopandpretendtorunawaysothatyamiwoulfi nallyadmitthathelikedYugi."
"Err... What?" Yami and Yugi asked together, then looked at each other with a faint smile.
Turning beet red, Ryou repeated more slowly, "I kinda got Bakura to get Yugi out of the game shop and pretend to run away so that Yami would finally admit he liked Yugi."
"WHAT???" Yami bellowed, swelling up with indignance.
"You heard. And keep your voice down oh almighty one, you're in a hospital." A familiar sneering voice said from the doorway. Bakura straightened from where he was leaning upon the doorframe and entered. "It was quite a plan if I do say so. Ryou knew that Yugi was upset, and that Yami was hiding his feelings behind Anzu, so he managed to convince me to get Yugi for him and put his plan into action. Of course, his plan never involved Yugi getting blasted by a Blue Eyes, but for you two to duel, and to realise how futile the feud you had was."
Yami seemed to deflate as Yugi looked at him. They met each other's glance, apologies mirrored in both Amethyst and Ruby.
"I kinda had to follow you as well. Just to make sure that everything went smoothly."
"Oh." Yami said, and for once in his life, the Pharaoh was at a loss for words.
{Don't worry Yami, I'm sure that Bakura has made a very clear note of that so he can tease you later.} Yami jumped, and then looked at his smiling Aibou. {Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.}
}It's alright, it's just been so long since we used the mind link.{
{I know, and I plan to change that.} Yugi replied, happiness evident in his 'voice.'
Bakura sighed, as he watched the brief mental exchange. "Well, seeing as you two have both admitted love to each other, you'd be a couple now?" He said, grinning, but for once, a genuine grin. "I'll be off then. Come on Ryou."
Yami looked up at the Tomb Robber's retreating back. "Just one thing before you go, Tomb robber, Don't ever make reference to our sexuality."
Bakura grinned. "Of course not, Ya Poof." With that, he slipped his arm around Ryou's shoulders, and kissed him on the cheek, much to Yugi and Yami's surprise.
"Well I'll be the ruler of an Ancient civilization." Yugi said, as the door closed behind Ryou.
"No Yugi, that's my job." Yami commented, a cheeky glint in his eyes. "And if you'll forgive me, there's something this Pharaoh's wanted to do for a long time." With that his lips caught Yugi's in a passionate kiss, underneath the setting sun, peeking in through the window of the city hospital.
~~~
The story doesn't end there, Oh no. It progressed to see Honda coming in the next day to apologise again and again for what he said to Yugi, wringing the poor boy's hand until it felt as if it would fall off. Afterwards, it was Seto's turn to come in, this time accompanied by Ryou, once again looking bashful and sheepish.
It turned out that there was more to Ryou's plan than he had originally given away. It had involved getting Bakura to blackmail Kaiba into giving him his Blue Eyes. Ryou had also planted the ad. in the Magazine suggesting that there was a fourth Blue Eyes. Basically, Seto wanted his Blue Eyes back. Yugi reluctantly handed it back, he'd grown quite attached to it in the short time he'd had it. He'd challenged Yami again, and the match had ended in a draw. Yami had drawn better cards this time. The deck went to one member of his unknown fan base who had sent him about 100 'get well soon' cards, when the press had found out he was in hospital. Yugi had liked the deck, but it felt so much better to be back with the monsters he was used to.
~~~
Yugi was discharged from hospital a week later, and that night found him sitting in the living room, resting his head upon Yami's lap
{Yami?} Yugi voiced, looking at his dark curiously.
}Hmn?{ Yami replied, showing that he was listening. }What is it Yugi?{
{What made you drop Anzu in the first place?} Yugi asked, now wanting to sit up, but finding himself unable to for Yami's arm was holding him pinned against the Dark's side.
}If I told you, you wouldn't believe me Hikari.{ Yami gently kissed Yugi's forehead.
Yugi turned and looked at him curiously. Yami took this moment to sweep him into a passionate kiss. The boy shuddered under his Yami's spicy lips, so intoxicating that he never wanted to be let go, and when he felt Yami's tongue run along his bottom lip, pleading for entrance, he gladly gave it. Yami's tongue explored his mouth freely, filling it with his dark's taste. Finally, when breathing became difficult, they pulled away, and stared lustfully into each other's eyes.
Yugi smiled at his dark, their faces barely an inch apart as he commented, {Would it break the mood if I turned on the Television?}
Yami laughed. }Maybe, but it's fine by me.{
Yugi grinned and giggled. "Well then, What do you want to watch?"
Yami laughed and pulled Yugi into his lap. "Whatever you want to watch Aibou, Whatever you want to watch."
~~~
Haku: And so that's it.
Yami and Yugi: Erm... very fluffy.
Y. Haku: I just love a soppy ending!
Haku: So Yugi DIDN'T die, so please, no more trying to kill the authoress! And remember to give me your final R and R. Luff ya guys!
Y. Haku: Erm... That was....
Yugi: ME!!! -Prepares to throw a ten tonne weight-
Haku: Wow, Yugi. You're stronger than you look. -Prepares to run away again-
Yami: Aibou, if you kill her, she can't update. A lot of reviewers would do well to remember that too... -Looks pointedly in Summer's direction, whilst nursing multiple wounds-
-Barrage of waste stops.-
REPLIES:
Yamishadowcat22: Was it intense? Okay then. And this is the final chapter, so all shall be revealed, including who belonged to the brown eyes.
Jkateel: Okay then.
Autumn Ann Star: SUMMER! IF YOU KEEP ATTACKING ME, I WON'T BE ABLE TO UPDATE!!!!
Yami: Though she's blasting us right now, must I remind you not to yell at the Reviewers?
Mimiheart: Well Yugi has forbidden it too you know.
MysticDreamer673: Yes, Anzu DIED! MUAHAHAHAHA!
Yami: YESS! No more obsessive stalker!!!!
Dagger5: I'm glad you like your Neko.
I luv Kai: It's gotta be a spork!
Yami: Probably not.
Y. Haku: Took the words out of my mouth buddy.
Princess Krystal01: Yes well, you see I am NOT predictable... I try not to be anyways.
Y. Haku: She'll fall over in 5... 4... 3...
Haku: I won't fall, whoa! -falls over-
Y. Haku: Well, that was 2 seconds early, but hey!
Saiyan Jedi: I'm not done with Yami yet, but here, Have a chibi Yami.
Yugi: -Grabs the Chibi- MINE!
Haku: Err, an Inu Yami?
Yugi: MINE!
Haku: YUGI!
Yugi: Err... okay then. -Gives over the Inu Yami-
Curtis Zidane Ziraa: Updating now.
DISCLAIMER:
Yugi: We all know the standard drill now. She doesn't own us, so she can't get sued.
Cast of Yu-Gi-Oh!: YEAH! LEAVE HER ALONE!
}Yami to Yugi{
{Yugi to Yami}
WARNING:
Promised Shounen-ai in this chapter!
Yami: That was evil, putting it in the Epilogue.
Haku: I know. ^_^
~~~
Arise, the Phoenix.
~~~
(Yami: Er... I'm not going to comment. Haku: You just did.)
It was black, all about him, it was black. He had no idea where he was or how he got there, but he'd been here for awhile. At least he thought he had. The time that had passed could have been minutes, or it could have been years, he didn't know. Suddenly, there was something warm, and quite contrasting to the cold outside, within him. He felt it, in the back of his mind, a gentle presence.
}Hikari, come back to the light. Come back to where you belong, please.{
There was something familiar about it, something he couldn't quite place.
"Who are you?" He called, into the blackness. His voice was swallowed immediately by the darkness, and the voice didn't come again.
~~~
Yami looked at the unconscious form of his Hikari, lying almost peacefully in the white linen of the hospital bed. The glowing warmth of the mind link he took comfort in, but he wanted YUGI back. Four days, sitting in the sterilized ward, watching as the doctors prodded and poked him, sleeping in an uncomfortable chair, holding Yugi's hand and stroking it gently.
He tried the mind link again, calling out to Yugi in the way he had done many times before, yet still with no response. He sighed and fell upon memories for the brief few minutes before the doctors came back again.
~~~
The doctors looked from Yami and Yugi with increasing interest. The resemblance between the two was amazing. One of the faceless creatures had to say something.
"Are you two related? You are so familiar."
Yami couldn't tell this person the truth, after all, how do you tell someone that you're the Pharaoh of ancient Egypt reincarnated in the form of your Great great great great great etc. grandson, who has such a tiny percentage of your blood in him that you can fall in love and not be accused of incest? (Haku: XD! I've always wanted to write that! Y. Haku: You're just weird Hikari.) He just smiled and said, "No, we're not related, he's just a very close friend of mine."
The man nodded. "He's very sick, did you know that? In fact, I'm surprised he survived so long. After treating themselves this badly, most people would have collapsed after 2 months, and by what you have told me, he has lasted at least six. He's still very weak though, and I'll be surprised if he pulls through." This, of course, made Yami feel SOO much better.
So this saw Yami sitting by his Hikari's beside, looking at the ominous IV attached to the hand that he was not holding, of staring blankly into space. He had visitors from time to time, first was the police who had a few questions to ask, then had scolded him on his recklessness, then surprisingly, Bakura, who seemed to have grown quite attached to the little light, then Jou and Honda, the second of which apologising time and time again for his behaviour, though he wasn't sure or not whether these comments fell upon deaf ears, and he said he'd come back once Yugi was awake. The steady stream of visitors hadn't stopped over the past four days, with even the Kaiba brothers dropping in, and Seto doing the unexpected, actually putting a hand on Yami's shoulder and comforting him. Mokuba just had a few quiet words to the limp form and left.
Yami barely ever left his light's side. The only times he did so was to heed the call of nature. He whispered things to the sleeping form, promises, goals, dreams, talking to the boy in the way he did before Grandpa's death, though greatly saddened by the lack of response he received.
"Yugi." He ran a silken finger down the boy's face, and the crystalline tears streaming from his eyes showed all his emotion as next he spoke. "I'm so sorry. I know I tell you that at least twenty times a day, but if you give me a chance, I will change it all. I do love you Yugi." He leant down and kissed the boy's fore head gently. "I love you. Please wake up."
Almost in response to this, the boy's eyes fluttered open. They still had that cold, deadened look, and Yami would be surprised if they ever lost it, but they held the spark of warmth that was Yugi. The smile on the boy's lips when he saw Yami was one full of innocence and love, not the cold and hard one that was last there.
"Aibou?" The boy asked in a quiet voice, looking at Yami as if hardly daring to believe it. Yami's face mirrored this expression.
"Hikari!" With that, he collapsed onto a startled Yugi, sobbing and uttering all his insecurities, about his fears that Yugi would hate him, and leave him forever, that he would have never gotten the chance to make up for everything he'd done, how stupid and pigheaded he'd been... It all came out in the tears that were now dampening Yugi's bedclothes.
Yugi made shushing noises whilst looking incredibly awkward. Never had he had his Yami do this before. "I was afraid I'd loose you forever Aibou, and what would life be without you?" Yami asked him this very quietly, earning a startled glance from his partner.
"What do you mean?" Yugi gave him another glance.
"I love you, Aibou." (Y. Haku: Awww..... so sweet!)
The door chose that moment to creak open, and a familiar white haired teen poked his head around it, immediately blushing when he saw Yami still half- glomping Yugi. "Oh sorry, Am I interrupting something?" The British accent the teen carried gave his voice a pleasant rolling quality.
Yugi looked at Ryou with almost the same red tinge. "N... not at all. Hi Ryou."
Reluctantly, Yami let go of his light, but kept sending him worried glances as if worried he'd disappear into thin air.
Ryou gulped and looked like he was about to set himself to say something, causing Yugi to throw him a curious glance. "What is it Ryou?"
"Erm... well... you see... I kinda..."
"Spit it out Ryou." Yami commented, looking at the Hikari with heightened interest.
"Okay. IkindagotBakuratotakeYugioutofthegameshopandpretendtorunawaysothatyamiwoulfi nallyadmitthathelikedYugi."
"Err... What?" Yami and Yugi asked together, then looked at each other with a faint smile.
Turning beet red, Ryou repeated more slowly, "I kinda got Bakura to get Yugi out of the game shop and pretend to run away so that Yami would finally admit he liked Yugi."
"WHAT???" Yami bellowed, swelling up with indignance.
"You heard. And keep your voice down oh almighty one, you're in a hospital." A familiar sneering voice said from the doorway. Bakura straightened from where he was leaning upon the doorframe and entered. "It was quite a plan if I do say so. Ryou knew that Yugi was upset, and that Yami was hiding his feelings behind Anzu, so he managed to convince me to get Yugi for him and put his plan into action. Of course, his plan never involved Yugi getting blasted by a Blue Eyes, but for you two to duel, and to realise how futile the feud you had was."
Yami seemed to deflate as Yugi looked at him. They met each other's glance, apologies mirrored in both Amethyst and Ruby.
"I kinda had to follow you as well. Just to make sure that everything went smoothly."
"Oh." Yami said, and for once in his life, the Pharaoh was at a loss for words.
{Don't worry Yami, I'm sure that Bakura has made a very clear note of that so he can tease you later.} Yami jumped, and then looked at his smiling Aibou. {Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.}
}It's alright, it's just been so long since we used the mind link.{
{I know, and I plan to change that.} Yugi replied, happiness evident in his 'voice.'
Bakura sighed, as he watched the brief mental exchange. "Well, seeing as you two have both admitted love to each other, you'd be a couple now?" He said, grinning, but for once, a genuine grin. "I'll be off then. Come on Ryou."
Yami looked up at the Tomb Robber's retreating back. "Just one thing before you go, Tomb robber, Don't ever make reference to our sexuality."
Bakura grinned. "Of course not, Ya Poof." With that, he slipped his arm around Ryou's shoulders, and kissed him on the cheek, much to Yugi and Yami's surprise.
"Well I'll be the ruler of an Ancient civilization." Yugi said, as the door closed behind Ryou.
"No Yugi, that's my job." Yami commented, a cheeky glint in his eyes. "And if you'll forgive me, there's something this Pharaoh's wanted to do for a long time." With that his lips caught Yugi's in a passionate kiss, underneath the setting sun, peeking in through the window of the city hospital.
~~~
The story doesn't end there, Oh no. It progressed to see Honda coming in the next day to apologise again and again for what he said to Yugi, wringing the poor boy's hand until it felt as if it would fall off. Afterwards, it was Seto's turn to come in, this time accompanied by Ryou, once again looking bashful and sheepish.
It turned out that there was more to Ryou's plan than he had originally given away. It had involved getting Bakura to blackmail Kaiba into giving him his Blue Eyes. Ryou had also planted the ad. in the Magazine suggesting that there was a fourth Blue Eyes. Basically, Seto wanted his Blue Eyes back. Yugi reluctantly handed it back, he'd grown quite attached to it in the short time he'd had it. He'd challenged Yami again, and the match had ended in a draw. Yami had drawn better cards this time. The deck went to one member of his unknown fan base who had sent him about 100 'get well soon' cards, when the press had found out he was in hospital. Yugi had liked the deck, but it felt so much better to be back with the monsters he was used to.
~~~
Yugi was discharged from hospital a week later, and that night found him sitting in the living room, resting his head upon Yami's lap
{Yami?} Yugi voiced, looking at his dark curiously.
}Hmn?{ Yami replied, showing that he was listening. }What is it Yugi?{
{What made you drop Anzu in the first place?} Yugi asked, now wanting to sit up, but finding himself unable to for Yami's arm was holding him pinned against the Dark's side.
}If I told you, you wouldn't believe me Hikari.{ Yami gently kissed Yugi's forehead.
Yugi turned and looked at him curiously. Yami took this moment to sweep him into a passionate kiss. The boy shuddered under his Yami's spicy lips, so intoxicating that he never wanted to be let go, and when he felt Yami's tongue run along his bottom lip, pleading for entrance, he gladly gave it. Yami's tongue explored his mouth freely, filling it with his dark's taste. Finally, when breathing became difficult, they pulled away, and stared lustfully into each other's eyes.
Yugi smiled at his dark, their faces barely an inch apart as he commented, {Would it break the mood if I turned on the Television?}
Yami laughed. }Maybe, but it's fine by me.{
Yugi grinned and giggled. "Well then, What do you want to watch?"
Yami laughed and pulled Yugi into his lap. "Whatever you want to watch Aibou, Whatever you want to watch."
~~~
Haku: And so that's it.
Yami and Yugi: Erm... very fluffy.
Y. Haku: I just love a soppy ending!
Haku: So Yugi DIDN'T die, so please, no more trying to kill the authoress! And remember to give me your final R and R. Luff ya guys!