Loving You 21

Seto Kiaba sat quietly in his home room. The small light creeping from the closed windows landed on his perfectly colored auburn hair and his cold blue eyes glistened softly. A silver suitcase sat firmly by his side and he tapped a pen on to the wooden desk. Slowly, everyone began to enter the room. Looking around, his eyes examining every seat, he noticed that Joey and Yugi were no where to be seen, but he did see Yami. The tall, strong teenager looking down at his books, examining yesterdays assignment.

"Good morning," Kiaba replied, standing from his seat and walking towards Yami.

The boy grunted and turned the page. His wet spiky hair sticking up at odd angles. "Aren't you going to say hi back?"

"I wasn't thinking about it." Yami replied. "But since you have this reason for nagging me, I figure I should listen."

The older, and more knowledgeable boy laughed. "I hope you didn't forget about Nat over there." his head turned towards his ex girlfriend, sitting in the front row.

Yami cleared his throat. He didn't want to tell Kiaba, but he had forgotten. "When's the dance again?"

"Tonight."

"Tonight!" his voice yelled high as he stood up. All eyes cast themselves upon the two boys. Kiaba grabbed his shoulder and sat him down.

Grabbing his wrist he nodded. "Yes, tonight. At 8 o' clock." With that, Kiaba walked off, grabbing his blue coat, pen and suitcase on his way to the door.

Yami sighed and caught his red face in his hands. He had totally forgotten the idea, and with Yugi's condition he had to be home. No way he could take Natalie to the dance, but if he didn't what would Bakura do? "Hey, are you okay?" soft words came from above, making the contemplating boy look up.

"Hey Natalie." Yami sighed, his crimson eyes meeting her blue ones.

She took a seat right next to his since class had started. "Is Kiaba giving you a hard time? You know how he is."

He shook his head. "You still up for this?"

"I have to do this whether I want to or not." Natalie whispered, "I didn't want to tell you this, but they got stuff on me too."

He was utterly shocked" What do you mean? Stuff on you?!"

She smiled. "I'm not so innocent. I kinda...." she trailed off, looking back to her work. "I made a bad choice."

Yami nodded, he didn't want to push her. Knowing girl, you do NOT want to push them or your head will be gone. "So, I'll pick you up at 7:45."

"You got yourself a date." she said before raising her hand to answer a question. What she said made Yami wince.

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The day was quite as Yami returned home. His navy blue jacket now off his shoulders and showing a well fit teenage boy. His golden bangs shown as bright as the sun with his crimson eyes closed in thinking. He still didn't know how to tell you Yugi about the dance. Yes, the younger boy did know, but how did he feel? Usually he would just come out and say it. Now, Yami wasn't sure on what he would do. Coming to a halt at the game shop, he noticed a familiar face behind the shimmering glass. Jichan, Yugi's grandfather was home. "Welcome home." Yami smiled to the elder man as he came in and dropped his stuff in the closet.

"Yami! Good to see you again!" two arms hugged Yami. "I bought you a souvenir!"

The teenager giggled. "Oh really?" he followed Jichan in back of the registers. There a small black bag had his name on it. "Thank you. May I go upstairs?"

"Yes, but hurry down quick. Customers want cards you know." Jichan smiled warmly at Yami before he could vanish up the stairs. "Boys these days, always in a hurry."

Yugi coughed under the covers when he heard the door open. Before he knew it, two arms peeled away the blankets off of him. "Hey there abiou."

"Yami? Home already." he smiled.

His boyfriend nodded. "You know I wouldn't go out with the others when your sick like this. I bought your books home too."

"Thank you." Yugi replied, kissing Yami on the lips. His tender flesh warm from the sunlight. Wrapping his hands around Yami's neck, he held on to the pharaoh. Of course, neither of them had any complaints as the older boy's tongue pushed it's way through their lips.

After a minute, of licking Yugi's lips, Yami pulled back. "Alright, I got to go help your grandfather."

Both giggled softly before having a short kiss and Yugi let Yami step out. Noise and wordless chatter reached Yami's ears as he stepped down the stair. Looking across, to the kitchen, he saw Tea, Joey and Tristan laughing. "Hey guys, what are you doing here?"

Joey gave him a thumbs up. "Just wonderin' on how are little buddy is doin'."

"Yeah, can we see him? We want him to know his friends are here for him!" Tea smiled, sipping a coke she had. The white plastic looked dark compared to her glossy yellow finger nails.

Yami nodded and pointed up the stairs. "Go right ahead. Just don't hug him."

Tristan winked as they headed up. "Don't worry, we'll leave him for you." With an evil snicker he ran up the stairs before Yami could hit him. Chuckling lightly, he stepped into the main game room. "Do you want me to take the registers?"

"Your funeral." Jichan said in sarcasm, grabbing a broom.

Yami slipped behind the glass case and rang up 0 cents to get the machine working. "What do you mean?"

"Monday checking remember?" the elder man replied. "You have to count all the money and break even."

"Ugh, I forgot." Usually Yugi would be the register but since he was out, Yami had no choice but to do it and the cleaning of the cases. He looked up to see Natalie standing right in front of him. Obviously she must have came in quickly because he hadn't noticed her entrance. "Natalie?" Instantly he saw the tears well up in her eyes and began to sob. Quickly, well a bit more then quicky, he ran to the other side and she hugged him. Confusion over whelmed Yami. Looking at Jichan, the elder shrugged before resuming his job.

"Oh Yami, I can't do it!"

Yami took her to the back room and sat her on the cough. The white fabric cushioning them, bringing relaxation to them. "Okay, Natalie, you have to calm down. What's wrong?"

Sniffling she tried to calm herself. Golden bangs fell into her sparkling blue eyes, and covering her rosy cheeks. With a reluctant gesture, he wrapped his arms around her quivering body. "It's okay, you can tell me."

"Kiaba.. He was gonna pay me..." she sobbed, her breaths rasped. "He was going to pay me to tell everyone at school what you are. At first, I thought it wouldn't matter, but just the other day." she took a breath. "I heard about Richard. How something strange happened and what you did. If they knew Richard was right then everything would be horrible for you!"

Yami went wide eyed. "You betrayed me? After all we've been through?!"

"I'm sorry." tears still falling. "I was so angry at you for dumping me, that I didn't realize it. I told Kiaba I wasn't going, and the blackmail was fake. Everything will be fine."

Yami sighed, burring his face in her golden locks. When was the last time he had hugged a woman like this? "It's okay. Thank you for telling me this."

Natalie looked into his crimson eyes as he pulled away. "I love you." and with that she sealed their distance between them with a kiss. It was so enchanting, that Yami melted instantly. He knew it was wrong, he loved Yugi, but he couldn't pull away.

"Stop-" yami was cut short as he tried to get free when he noticed something.

Something that scared him

Something he didn't want to see

It was Yugi,

Staring right at him

He had seen it all.

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TA DA! ^_^'' Yeah sorry for the OMG ending but hey, I didn't know what else to write. Hope everyone enjoyed. Ta ta!

PS: I didn't know how short this story was! It was so short it SCARED me. Yeah, really short

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