"Dark and Light"
Chapter Five
"Seedsl"
Yugi: Is there anything we need to say before this chapter?
Cherry: I don't think so. Oh, just one thing. I've decided that until I get the honorifics right, I'm going to go ahead and leave them out of the story.
Yami: Okay, then, let's just start.
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Yugi asked Anzu and Ryou to wait in the living room while he himself stood just on the other side of the door, waiting for Yami and Jounouchi to realize they were alone in the shop besides Sugoroku. He didn't have long to wait; a sharp word from Yami notified him that they had noticed. He was unprepared, however, when the door swung open sharply in front of him, smashing him in the face.
Yami, who had been the one to open the door, looked absolutely mortified and shocked when he realized what, or rather who, it was that he'd hit with the door. Yugi stumbled backwards and landed harshly on his hind end on the floor. Jounouchi saw Yugi sitting there, covering his nose with both hands, and he turned a questioning eye to Yami.
"I didn't know he was there," Yami said, clearly distraught by the fact that he'd hit Yugi so hard. The last thing he wanted to do was to give his little beloved any sort of injury.
"Yugi, are you alright?" Jou asked as he bent down to help Yugi stand back up.
"M-my nose . . ." Yugi mumbled, his words hardly discernable because of the hand partially covering his mouth.
Yami came over and tried to move Yugi's hand, but it wasn't budging. He frowned slightly. "Let me see, Yugi," he softly commanded.
Yugi immediately felt nervous; he felt a slight trickle of blood on his hand from his nose, and he didn't want to upset Yami because of it. When Yami's frown deepened and the tug on his hands became a little more forceful, Yugi gave up resisting and complied.
Guilt hit Yami like a ton of bricks when he saw the blood. Instructing Yugi to tilt his head back, he told Jounouchi to tell Anzu and Ryou that they would only be a minute and he had Yugi guide him to the bathroom.
Once they were in the bathroom, Yami sat Yugi on the toilet and proceeded to get some paper towels. He brought them over to Yugi and told him to use those until the bleeding stopped. Yami was quite familiar with nosebleeds and how to deal with them; he often got into fistfights with Bakura as a child and almost every time got punched in the nose.
"Gomen ne, Yugi," Yami whispered. "Gomen."
"It-t was a-an accident," Yugi replied just as softly. "D-don't be upset-t Yami."
Yami smiled and then gently pulled the paper towel away from Yugi's nose. It had stopped bleeding, so they could now leave the bathroom. In the living room, Anzu, Jou, and Ryou all looked tense.
"Are you okay, Yugi?" were the first words that spilled from Anzu's lips.
"He's okay, Anzu," Yami answered, seeing that Yugi was taken aback by the interest in his well-being.
Yugi sniffled a little while his friends all sat down on the couch. There wasn't enough room for him to sit, too, and they all noticed when Yugi started for the adjacent chair. Yami, however, was having none of that. Before Yugi could react, Yami had scooped him up and sat him on his lap, an action that even took him by surprise.
When Yugi looked askance of Yami, he shrugged and said, "I don't mind."
Yugi, who was trembling again, picked up the television remote and turned it to his favorite channel, one that caused Jounouchi to raise an eyebrow.
"Cartoon Network?" Jou asked.
"Y-yes. It's m-my favorite ch-channel," Yugi muttered. "Why? D-do you w- want t-t-to watch something e-else?"
Jou shook his head. "Naw. I was just surprised that you'd watch cartoons. I mean, you are in high school."
This earned Jou an arctic look from Anzu and Yami. Ryou raised an eyebrow at Jounouchi. "I still watch cartoons, Jou. Does that make me and Yugi immature or something?"
Jou turned the barest shade of pink and said, "Of course not. It just surprised me, that's all."
Anzu shook her head. "You should really think before you speak," she teased.
A show started and Yugi suddenly smiled brightly. Dexter's Laboratory was one of his favorite shows. Ryou grinned at him. "You like this show? I certainly do!"
Yugi nodded. Yami smiled at the back of his head. He could sense that Yugi was starting to feel more comfortable with his friends, so he sat back and pulled Yugi back so they could both sit more comfortably. The next thing that occurred surprised them all; the second Yugi's back touched Yami's chest, he gave a pained cry and jumped off of Yami's lap.
All of them blinked at the petite teen while he just stood there gasping for air, his small hands covering his now-racing heart. Yugi turned and looked at Yami with something reminiscent of fear in his eyes.
"What's the matter, Yugi?" Yami asked, standing up and reaching a hand out to touch Yugi's shoulder.
Yugi shied away from Yami's outstretched hand, now trembling more than they had seen so far.
"G-g-gomen-n," Yugi whispered, stuttering worse than ever. "I-I n-need t-to go to m-m-my r-room f-for-r a m-minute." He turned and bolted up the stairs, leaving all of them, especially Yami, in a state of total bewilderment.
Why on earth had Yugi shied away from him like that? What could have caused the young boy such fear that he ran like that from Yami . . . unless he had felt . . .?
Oh no!! If Yugi had felt the dark power inside of Yami, that made things a lot more difficult. He already knew that Yugi had within him the Seed of Light, the exact item that the Shadow Realm needed, and to be able to remove it from him . . . Yami ended that thought. He did not want to think about what he was going to cause. However, if the seed had manifested some of its power into Yugi's being, then Yugi would be able to sense the difference in Yami's aura, which of course would be an extreme one because Yami was from the Shadow Realm rather than the Light Realm, and that meant Yugi would be afraid of him now! And that was not something Yami wanted!!
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Yugi leaned against his door after he shut it behind himself. What was that? What was that wave of darkness that he had felt from Yami? It had been so intense that it had hurt! He had felt darkness off of people before, but never like that!! And to think it was coming from Yami . . .
Now that he thought about it, though, it made some semblance of sense. The name "Yami" did after all mean "dark." Yugi shivered nonetheless. That darkness hadn't just been in Yami's aura; it had been a sort of power that radiated from him that he hadn't sensed until he had been in close contact with him. He wondered why that was, because he could always sense things like that just by glancing at people. He had always been able to, ever since he had been a child.
From the time Yugi had been born, he was able to feel these things. That was why he would always scream and cry whenever someone with a dark presence held him (or so he assumed. His grandfather told him this, so Yugi had just made a guess as to why he screamed.) As he got older, the ability became stronger, and nowadays Yugi found himself able to tell what sort of a person someone was just from a glance. When he had glanced at Yami at school that morning, he had seen a good person, one with a bit of mystery around them, but a good person. Now, he was wondering if that was right. Darkness so strong that it hurt . . . that had never happened before! Now he was afraid. There was only one thing he could think to do.
"Powers of day, powers of night, reveal the spirit and shine your light!" Yugi chanted quietly.
An orb of light floated from Yugi's chest and hovered in front of him for a moment before taking on the form of a human not too much older than Yugi. She had green eyes, pale skin, and silvery hair. She wore a long, pure white, flowing gown, and she looked at Yugi with concern.
"What is the matter, Light Bearer?" she asked in a musical voice.
"Downstairs. Just now. Boy my age. Darkness." Yugi's trembling worsened as he looked at her, and he sat down hard on the floor.
She glowing woman smiled at him. "Why don't you try telling me from the beginning?" she suggested.
Yugi took a deep breath and said, "Hikari, downstairs just now, I was with my new friends, sitting on one boy's lap. He pulled me backwards, I guess so that we could sit more comfortably, but the second I touched him, I felt such an intense wave of darkness that it actually hurt me! The thing that scares me the most about it is that I didn't feel it until I touched him."
Hikari bent down next to Yugi. She was the spirit of the Seed of Light, which Yugi knew was embedded within his body. Ever since she had made her presence known to Yugi, he had started running to her whenever he sensed a great darkness.
"Allow me to see into your mind. I will look for myself to see this person," she whispered.
Yugi did and relaxed his mind. She peered through the memory and saw Yami's face. The moment she did, she gave a startled cry that caused Yugi to look up at her. Hikari had never expected to see on of the denizens of the Shadow Realm here! At least not yet! And what made it worse was that she could see further than Yugi could as far as reading auras went, so she saw what she was certain even Yami was unaware of; Yami held the Seed of Darkness within his body, just as Yugi held the Seed of Light. This meant that . . . she smiled to herself.
So, it was finally time.
"Hikari, what is it?" Yugi asked.
She smiled down at him. "You needn't be afraid of that youth, Light Bearer. He may have a dark power, but there is no need to be afraid of that power. In fact, one day soon, your life will depend on his power. I would suggest you try to get a bit closer to him. He is tied to the fate I am always telling you about." With that said, she reverted to being an orb of light and returned to the seed within Yugi.
Yugi was completely lost. This was the very first time ever that Hikari had told him to get closer to someone with an aura like that. Normally she told him to steer clear. Yugi suddenly giggled lightly. Even if she had said to stay away from Yami, Yugi wasn't 100% sure he'd be able to. He was attracted to Yami like no other.
Steeling himself, Yugi opened the door and started back downstairs, only to find Yami coming up.
"Yugi, are you okay?" he asked with sincere concern. "Did I hurt you of something?"
"I-iie," Yugi assured him. "Y-you didn't. S-something just s-stung me, th- that's all." Yugi wasn't even lying. That had stung.
Yami raised an eyebrow, unconvinced. "Are you sure?"
"Hai, I-I am!" Yugi smiled. "L-let's go b-back downstairs. I-I probably scared e-everyone b-by taking off l-like that."
He politely scooted around Yami and headed downstairs while Yami just stood there. He heard the voices of their friends float up the stairwell, asking Yugi what was the matter, and Yugi's mumbled reply.
Yami remained thoroughly unconvinced of what Yugi had said. He was certain that he was just glossing over something. There was, however, nothing he could do about it, at least for the time being. He turned and joined his friends (this time allowing Yugi to sit on the couch while he sat in the chair) in watching the remainder of Dexter's Laboratory.
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Cherry: I'm bad! I'm so bad! Now I've added a whole new twist to the plot!
Yugi: . . .
Yami: . . .
Cherry: What?
Yugi and Yami: Nothing.
Cherry: Whatever. Listen people! Remember to review! Please review!
Chapter Five
"Seedsl"
Yugi: Is there anything we need to say before this chapter?
Cherry: I don't think so. Oh, just one thing. I've decided that until I get the honorifics right, I'm going to go ahead and leave them out of the story.
Yami: Okay, then, let's just start.
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Yugi asked Anzu and Ryou to wait in the living room while he himself stood just on the other side of the door, waiting for Yami and Jounouchi to realize they were alone in the shop besides Sugoroku. He didn't have long to wait; a sharp word from Yami notified him that they had noticed. He was unprepared, however, when the door swung open sharply in front of him, smashing him in the face.
Yami, who had been the one to open the door, looked absolutely mortified and shocked when he realized what, or rather who, it was that he'd hit with the door. Yugi stumbled backwards and landed harshly on his hind end on the floor. Jounouchi saw Yugi sitting there, covering his nose with both hands, and he turned a questioning eye to Yami.
"I didn't know he was there," Yami said, clearly distraught by the fact that he'd hit Yugi so hard. The last thing he wanted to do was to give his little beloved any sort of injury.
"Yugi, are you alright?" Jou asked as he bent down to help Yugi stand back up.
"M-my nose . . ." Yugi mumbled, his words hardly discernable because of the hand partially covering his mouth.
Yami came over and tried to move Yugi's hand, but it wasn't budging. He frowned slightly. "Let me see, Yugi," he softly commanded.
Yugi immediately felt nervous; he felt a slight trickle of blood on his hand from his nose, and he didn't want to upset Yami because of it. When Yami's frown deepened and the tug on his hands became a little more forceful, Yugi gave up resisting and complied.
Guilt hit Yami like a ton of bricks when he saw the blood. Instructing Yugi to tilt his head back, he told Jounouchi to tell Anzu and Ryou that they would only be a minute and he had Yugi guide him to the bathroom.
Once they were in the bathroom, Yami sat Yugi on the toilet and proceeded to get some paper towels. He brought them over to Yugi and told him to use those until the bleeding stopped. Yami was quite familiar with nosebleeds and how to deal with them; he often got into fistfights with Bakura as a child and almost every time got punched in the nose.
"Gomen ne, Yugi," Yami whispered. "Gomen."
"It-t was a-an accident," Yugi replied just as softly. "D-don't be upset-t Yami."
Yami smiled and then gently pulled the paper towel away from Yugi's nose. It had stopped bleeding, so they could now leave the bathroom. In the living room, Anzu, Jou, and Ryou all looked tense.
"Are you okay, Yugi?" were the first words that spilled from Anzu's lips.
"He's okay, Anzu," Yami answered, seeing that Yugi was taken aback by the interest in his well-being.
Yugi sniffled a little while his friends all sat down on the couch. There wasn't enough room for him to sit, too, and they all noticed when Yugi started for the adjacent chair. Yami, however, was having none of that. Before Yugi could react, Yami had scooped him up and sat him on his lap, an action that even took him by surprise.
When Yugi looked askance of Yami, he shrugged and said, "I don't mind."
Yugi, who was trembling again, picked up the television remote and turned it to his favorite channel, one that caused Jounouchi to raise an eyebrow.
"Cartoon Network?" Jou asked.
"Y-yes. It's m-my favorite ch-channel," Yugi muttered. "Why? D-do you w- want t-t-to watch something e-else?"
Jou shook his head. "Naw. I was just surprised that you'd watch cartoons. I mean, you are in high school."
This earned Jou an arctic look from Anzu and Yami. Ryou raised an eyebrow at Jounouchi. "I still watch cartoons, Jou. Does that make me and Yugi immature or something?"
Jou turned the barest shade of pink and said, "Of course not. It just surprised me, that's all."
Anzu shook her head. "You should really think before you speak," she teased.
A show started and Yugi suddenly smiled brightly. Dexter's Laboratory was one of his favorite shows. Ryou grinned at him. "You like this show? I certainly do!"
Yugi nodded. Yami smiled at the back of his head. He could sense that Yugi was starting to feel more comfortable with his friends, so he sat back and pulled Yugi back so they could both sit more comfortably. The next thing that occurred surprised them all; the second Yugi's back touched Yami's chest, he gave a pained cry and jumped off of Yami's lap.
All of them blinked at the petite teen while he just stood there gasping for air, his small hands covering his now-racing heart. Yugi turned and looked at Yami with something reminiscent of fear in his eyes.
"What's the matter, Yugi?" Yami asked, standing up and reaching a hand out to touch Yugi's shoulder.
Yugi shied away from Yami's outstretched hand, now trembling more than they had seen so far.
"G-g-gomen-n," Yugi whispered, stuttering worse than ever. "I-I n-need t-to go to m-m-my r-room f-for-r a m-minute." He turned and bolted up the stairs, leaving all of them, especially Yami, in a state of total bewilderment.
Why on earth had Yugi shied away from him like that? What could have caused the young boy such fear that he ran like that from Yami . . . unless he had felt . . .?
Oh no!! If Yugi had felt the dark power inside of Yami, that made things a lot more difficult. He already knew that Yugi had within him the Seed of Light, the exact item that the Shadow Realm needed, and to be able to remove it from him . . . Yami ended that thought. He did not want to think about what he was going to cause. However, if the seed had manifested some of its power into Yugi's being, then Yugi would be able to sense the difference in Yami's aura, which of course would be an extreme one because Yami was from the Shadow Realm rather than the Light Realm, and that meant Yugi would be afraid of him now! And that was not something Yami wanted!!
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Yugi leaned against his door after he shut it behind himself. What was that? What was that wave of darkness that he had felt from Yami? It had been so intense that it had hurt! He had felt darkness off of people before, but never like that!! And to think it was coming from Yami . . .
Now that he thought about it, though, it made some semblance of sense. The name "Yami" did after all mean "dark." Yugi shivered nonetheless. That darkness hadn't just been in Yami's aura; it had been a sort of power that radiated from him that he hadn't sensed until he had been in close contact with him. He wondered why that was, because he could always sense things like that just by glancing at people. He had always been able to, ever since he had been a child.
From the time Yugi had been born, he was able to feel these things. That was why he would always scream and cry whenever someone with a dark presence held him (or so he assumed. His grandfather told him this, so Yugi had just made a guess as to why he screamed.) As he got older, the ability became stronger, and nowadays Yugi found himself able to tell what sort of a person someone was just from a glance. When he had glanced at Yami at school that morning, he had seen a good person, one with a bit of mystery around them, but a good person. Now, he was wondering if that was right. Darkness so strong that it hurt . . . that had never happened before! Now he was afraid. There was only one thing he could think to do.
"Powers of day, powers of night, reveal the spirit and shine your light!" Yugi chanted quietly.
An orb of light floated from Yugi's chest and hovered in front of him for a moment before taking on the form of a human not too much older than Yugi. She had green eyes, pale skin, and silvery hair. She wore a long, pure white, flowing gown, and she looked at Yugi with concern.
"What is the matter, Light Bearer?" she asked in a musical voice.
"Downstairs. Just now. Boy my age. Darkness." Yugi's trembling worsened as he looked at her, and he sat down hard on the floor.
She glowing woman smiled at him. "Why don't you try telling me from the beginning?" she suggested.
Yugi took a deep breath and said, "Hikari, downstairs just now, I was with my new friends, sitting on one boy's lap. He pulled me backwards, I guess so that we could sit more comfortably, but the second I touched him, I felt such an intense wave of darkness that it actually hurt me! The thing that scares me the most about it is that I didn't feel it until I touched him."
Hikari bent down next to Yugi. She was the spirit of the Seed of Light, which Yugi knew was embedded within his body. Ever since she had made her presence known to Yugi, he had started running to her whenever he sensed a great darkness.
"Allow me to see into your mind. I will look for myself to see this person," she whispered.
Yugi did and relaxed his mind. She peered through the memory and saw Yami's face. The moment she did, she gave a startled cry that caused Yugi to look up at her. Hikari had never expected to see on of the denizens of the Shadow Realm here! At least not yet! And what made it worse was that she could see further than Yugi could as far as reading auras went, so she saw what she was certain even Yami was unaware of; Yami held the Seed of Darkness within his body, just as Yugi held the Seed of Light. This meant that . . . she smiled to herself.
So, it was finally time.
"Hikari, what is it?" Yugi asked.
She smiled down at him. "You needn't be afraid of that youth, Light Bearer. He may have a dark power, but there is no need to be afraid of that power. In fact, one day soon, your life will depend on his power. I would suggest you try to get a bit closer to him. He is tied to the fate I am always telling you about." With that said, she reverted to being an orb of light and returned to the seed within Yugi.
Yugi was completely lost. This was the very first time ever that Hikari had told him to get closer to someone with an aura like that. Normally she told him to steer clear. Yugi suddenly giggled lightly. Even if she had said to stay away from Yami, Yugi wasn't 100% sure he'd be able to. He was attracted to Yami like no other.
Steeling himself, Yugi opened the door and started back downstairs, only to find Yami coming up.
"Yugi, are you okay?" he asked with sincere concern. "Did I hurt you of something?"
"I-iie," Yugi assured him. "Y-you didn't. S-something just s-stung me, th- that's all." Yugi wasn't even lying. That had stung.
Yami raised an eyebrow, unconvinced. "Are you sure?"
"Hai, I-I am!" Yugi smiled. "L-let's go b-back downstairs. I-I probably scared e-everyone b-by taking off l-like that."
He politely scooted around Yami and headed downstairs while Yami just stood there. He heard the voices of their friends float up the stairwell, asking Yugi what was the matter, and Yugi's mumbled reply.
Yami remained thoroughly unconvinced of what Yugi had said. He was certain that he was just glossing over something. There was, however, nothing he could do about it, at least for the time being. He turned and joined his friends (this time allowing Yugi to sit on the couch while he sat in the chair) in watching the remainder of Dexter's Laboratory.
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Cherry: I'm bad! I'm so bad! Now I've added a whole new twist to the plot!
Yugi: . . .
Yami: . . .
Cherry: What?
Yugi and Yami: Nothing.
Cherry: Whatever. Listen people! Remember to review! Please review!