A/N I want to thank you all so much for reading this story. It's been a while since this fic began, and now it's come to an end. Quotes by Kittynn.

~*~ Chaper 14~*~

The funeral went by in a painful blur of words and colors.

Everybody was already gone.

Except for Yami, who still lingered there in the darkness.

And it had begun to rain..........

Yami stood in the pouring rain, the cold droplets stinging against his skin. They dripped down his face, falling from his bangs that hung in his eyes. The very same eyes that had once glowed with a warm, brilliant crimson, but were now dulled and overcast with a kind of gloom that were there only once before.........

-Daddy, how long will Mommy sleep?
.........She'll sleep forever.
-How long is forever?
Forever is not long at all.

Gone.........forever..................just like before.........

Over the years, his heart hadn't healed. Time had passed, but the pain was still there. And now his heart was being torn apart again, reopening the faded emotions that were so familiar to him.

People kept asking him if he was okay. And every time, he answered 'yes.' But, then again, what was he supposed to say? That he was hurting more than they'd ever know? That he wanted to collapse and cry and scream at the top of his lungs, all at the same time, but instead kept everything inside?

How could they tell, by just looking, that he had lost everything in the world that mattered?

Yami was now drenched through and through, but still, he could not take his eyes off the dreary, gray scene where they had laid Yugi to rest. The rain began to come down harder, splattering off the leaves, off his face, off his body..........

Just when he thought he would break, a soft voice called from behind.
"Yami."
The tri-color haired teen whipped around, and stared at Yugi's grandfather.
Without another word, the elderly man grabbed Yami's hand, and pushed a small, worn out book into his palm. And then he left, disappearing into the curtains of rain.
Yami slowly looked down to the book already covered in little droplets of water.

***
In the shelter of his car, Yami slowly opened the book to where a bookmark had been placed. It was a book of quotes.........

The whole page was filled with words blending together in a mass of black and white. In the middle of the page, three lines were underlined.

"As the falling snow floats softly to the ground and the thundering rain starts to pour, you fill my heart with a warmth that can never go away."

Right beneath the quote, scrawled in neat handwriting were the words
".........You made my last wish came true........."

Tears starting to form in his eyes, Yami looked up to the slowly- clearing sky. A soft, shimmering rainbow was forming against the light sky.

A promise of things to come.