Angelus Fletus Est
Me: Okay. You all have my deepest, sincerest apologies for not updating for two months. I'M SO SORRY!!!!! But the term "free time" has become a mere memory as of late, and then Writer's Block hit!
Thank God for snow days. At least I'm able to write.
Before I go to the reviews, I want to thank you all deeply. I've gotten so much support, and so many good reviews...*tears up* guys...I have 311 REVIEWS!!!! *bursts into tears and glomps reviewers* I don't deserve such good readers...
*sniffs* anyways, to the reviews!
To Starheart: *turns bright red* A-arigatou! Really I don't deserve such good words...*turns redder* WHEE!!! *puts on jacket and sweatshirt* THANKS!!! I LOVE THEM!!!! Yami: *smirks and points the Pest Obliterator at Katya* Yugi: glares NO, Yami! Yami: *pouts* you ruin all my fun.
To KWS: I just gotta abbreviate your name lol. Well I guess I got advice from you anyway. Lol I'm really starting to depend on you hehe you've bailed me out like three times! Arigatou, I wouldn't have been able to start writing this without ya.
To Agentpudge: *starts giggling* talk about randomness...any chance of insanity there, AP? Aww, Yami, good for you! You appeased her for five minutes!
To stupid kid 04: Yeppers, more Yugi angst. This isn't Angst/angst for nothing! I decided that I'm gonna write a happy ending though.
To Anubis: *grins* I use "meanyhead". Yes, Yami is a big meanyhead in this ficcie *bonks Yami* MEANYHEAD! Yami: OW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?! Me: ^.^ Yugi: ^.^ Don't worry, This chapter isn't as angsty.
To Difinity: *pouts* Meanyhead. Yugi's mine. *giggles* but I'm so glad you likes this story! I likes your fics too!
To Ihire: Sure, I'll be glad to . No, I didn't --; I guess my email is evil.
To TrueFan: laughs Yeah, you gotta copyright that. Another random review coolness! Hehe. blushes awwww, thank you!!!
To Sparky16: AH! DON'T KILL ME! Lol. shrugs I think so, too, but since a lot of people want some yaoi, I'm going to go down the middle and put some shonen-ai in it. Nothing bad, don't worry. I hope it doesn't ruin it for you TT
To EVERYONE: glomps reviewers again NEVER...in my WILDEST dreams (and believe me they're pretty wild)...did I EVER think that this would get over 300 reviews!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!! DOMO ARIGATOU!!!!!!
Yugi: *also glomps reviewers and smiles cutely* Arigatou for making Katya-chan happy!
Me: *starts to melt*
Yugi: *giggles* She's so funny.
Me: *melts into a huge puddle*
Yugi and Yami: *laughing*
Yami: Amusing, but pathetic.
Me: *returns to normal and pouts* Meanyhead.
Yami: -.-
Me: Anyways, this won't be as angsty. I'm giving y'all a break from the angst and putting a bit of humor in this time. Hope you don't mind!
Oh yeah. I'm also winging it again. I lost track of where I wanted to go. So...bear with me. I'll get me ideas back...hopefully...
I don't need to tell you this, do I? Oh well...
/Yugi to Yami/ //Yami to Yugi// \Private thoughts\
Yugi was doing his homework in his room when the door opened to reveal a very irritated Seto, with a giggling Mokuba behind him.
"Hello, Yugi," Seto said. He sounded tired.
"Hey Seto...what's so funny, Mokuba?" Yugi asked, sending a questioning look to the amused younger Kaiba.
"If he'll stop giggling, I'll come in and tell you," Seto couldn't help but smile. "Go do your homework, Mokuba."
Mokuba pouted. "Oh, fine..." he signed and went across to his room.
Seto came the rest of the way in and closed the door. He laughed when he saw Yugi's puzzled expression. "Mokuba finds it amusing when I scare my executives."
Yugi had to grin. "So do I. I'd love to see them quake in fear like that..."
Seto chuckled. "I have to say, I find it amusing myself." He looked at the desk behind Yugi that was piled up with books. "Am I interrupting anything?"
"Nothing interesting," was the reply. "I'm almost done anyway." Yugi's grin turned impish. "Now let's hear the horror story."
Seto laughed again and complied.
~*~*~
Yami paced the floor of his room, thinking hard. \Damnit\, he thought in frustration, \I can't think of any way I can show my aibou how sorry I am...I truly want to make it up to him...\
He sat down on his bed and put his head in his hands. \How could I have been so blind?! Yugi...he never said a word...not a word...\
Yami thought about calling him but remembered that Yugi was at Seto's. "And there is no way that Seto would let me speak to Yugi..." he mused aloud. \I'll have to thank him someday for taking such good care of him.\
Yami stood, reaching a conclusion. "I have to quit stalling," he said to himself. "Tomorrow, no matter what it takes, I am going to go up to him, apologize, and hope that he can find it in his heart to forgive me."
~*~*~
::The next day, at school::
Yami glanced over at Seto and Yugi, who were sitting together and dueling again. He smiled slightly; Yugi was in stitches over something the billionaire had said, and the brunet was laughing along with him. \At least he's happy\
"Yo, Yami, snap out of it!" Tristan snapped his fingers playfully in front of Yami's face. The pharaoh turned and glared; he still couldn't forgive Tristan for his comments about Yugi the other day. "Whoa, dude, sorry."
Tea butted in [A/N: uhh...is that the right word?]. "Oh my god, we so have to see Daredevil. I've heard such awesome things about that movie!"
Joey nodded. "It can't beat Spiderman, though, that kicked TOTAL butt!"
"Oh dream on, Joey—"
"I agree with Joey," Yami cut in; Tea was getting on his nerves. "Though I would like to see the movie." He kept an eye on his hikari, trying to find a moment where he could catch him alone.
The discussion next to him turned into a debate. Yami sighed, tuning them out until the bell rang. He'd have to wait until later.
~*~*~
Yami was rather frustrated; he hadn't been able to talk to Yugi once all day. He and Seto were always hanging out together, and Yami was not going to apologize in front of his rival. Yes, they were friendly rivals, but rivals nonetheless.
He glanced over at Yugi, who was getting his things out of his locker. No Seto. \FINALLY!\ Yami thought in relief. At last he could talk to his hikari.
Yugi checked his bag to make sure he had everything. A slight smile hovered on his lips; he couldn't wait to go to Ryou's! Ryou had told him that he'd meet him here in a few minutes; his locker was on the floor above Yugi's. Yugi slammed his locker closed and was about to take off when a voice stopped him in his tracks.
"Hello, Yugi." \Yami?\ Yugi turned, and, sure enough, his yami was standing in front of him, looking rather awkward.
"Hi, Yami..." Yugi said uncertainly, "What is it?"
Yami fidgeted a bit, shifting uncomfortably. "Yugi...I...um..." \Oh, come on you stupid pharaoh, just say it!\ he chided himself mentally.
"Yeah?" There was silence for a moment. Yugi, thinking that Yami wasn't going any further, began to turn away.
"I wanted to apologize." Yami burst out suddenly.
Yugi stared in shock. "Huh?" he asked dumbly.
"I...I want to apologize." Yami repeated, looking even more uncomfortable. "I...I know I haven't...well...been good to you lately...and I'm truly sorry...and I hope that I can make it up to you," he finished, looking at Yugi seriously.
Yugi stared. "Apologize?!" he said loudly, making Yami start. "You...you want to apologize?!"
Yami just nodded. "Can...can you forgive me?"
Something in Yugi snapped. "Forgive you?!" he yelled, taking Yami completely aback. "Forgive you, when you ignored me for so long?! Forgive you, when you went out with your friends every night, not caring or noticing that I was left behind?! You expect me to do that that easily, Yami!"
Yami was at a loss for words, and merely stared at his angry hikari.
"You never cared, Yami! You never cared that I had no one who would talk to me; you never cared that I got picked on again and again, heck I don't think you noticed! You wouldn't even believe me when I tried to explain something to you, and you're supposed to know me better than anyone! You never noticed, Yami, you never did! You never cared! Why should I forgive you so easily when you left me in the dark for so long?!" Yugi glared at his yami; his hurt and anger had finally burst out.
They stared at each other for a while, one pair of eyes showing anger, the other, shock. They stayed that way for a minute or so, before a voice interrupted them.
"Yugi?" Yugi turned. It was Ryou. Suddenly he felt a bit like a hypocrite. \I was able to forgive Ryou...but I can't forgive my yami...\ he thought. \Ah, but Ryou never did anything to you, did he?\ a nasty voice in the back of his head spoke up. \He never made jokes about you, never laughed at the jokes, never figured you wouldn't care.\
"Hi, Ryou." He said, more quietly.
"Ready, Yugi?" Ryou smiled slightly.
Yugi brightened a bit. "You bet." His white-haired friend put a hand on his shoulder in silent comfort, and they walked down the hall together, leaving Yami standing there, stunned speechless.
~*~*~
"What was that all about, Yugi?" Ryou asked his shorter friend as they walked to his house.
Yugi wouldn't look at Ryou. "Yami...Yami said he wanted to apologize." Ryou waited, knowing this wasn't the whole story. "He...he asked me to forgive him. To forgive him! After all those times he ignored me—" Yugi stopped suddenly, his eyes dropping to the ground. "Sorry, Ryou...I sound so selfish, don't I?"
"No, you don't, Yugi," Ryou said firmly. "It's natural to not want to forgive someone after they've hurt you for so long. It isn't selfish. Personally, I think Yami had that coming," he added as an afterthought as he walked into the house with Yugi.
"What's this? The pharaoh has finally been shown up?!" Bakura walked out of the den into the hallway, smirking.
Ryou sighed. "Hello to you too, Yami" he said. "Always nice to know I'm appreciated," he added with a grin.
"Oh, I'll show you appreciation, hikari..." Bakura pretended to glare. Yugi looked a bit frightened but relaxed when Ryou laughed.
"Konnichiwa, Bakura," he said.
Bakura looked at Yugi and grinned. "So the pharaoh got what was coming to him at last, I hear," he said to Yugi, who looked a bit uncomfortable.
"I'd appreciate it if my thoughts were kept to myself, oh dear yami of mine," Ryou said dryly.
The said yami looked amused. "Come on in, brats," he winked. "Oh and Ryou," he added, seeing that his hikari had opened his mouth to say something, "I'll be good." He smirked, causing the two hikaris to laugh.
"I doubt that, Bakura, but I thank you for trying," Yugi said, smiling mischievously.
The latter stared at Yugi for a moment before laughing. "So the pharaoh's brat has a sense of humor! Don't worry, my hikari threatened to make me bake brownies if I didn't control myself." Yugi giggled, and they went into the den. "So, Yugi, Ryou, tell me all about this come-uppance so I can bug the pharaoh about it later..."
~*~*~
Yugi was practically skipping back to Seto's. He'd had more fun than he'd had in a long time. He'd forgotten how the tomb robber's humorous remarks left you in stitches.
He stopped at the gate to Seto's house. "Your name." The computerized voice said monotonously.
"Yugi Motou," he responded, and the gate opened for him. He ran the rest of the way to the door and opened it.
Mokuba nearly knocked him over as he came in. "Hi, Yugi!" he beamed. As far as Mokuba was concerned, Yugi had become a second brother to him.
"Hey, Mokuba," Yugi smiled back, "Seto home yet?"
"Yep," was the cheery answer, "And I beat him again!" With Yugi's guidance, Mokuba had become a pro at his favorite Nintendo racing game.
"And I think that Yugi should stop giving you advice, li'l bro," the aforementioned billionaire stepped into the room. "Really, Yugi, it's an insult to my dignity," he added with a wink.
"What dignity?" The violet-eyed boy said innocently.
Mokuba giggled, and Seto pretended to glare. "I resent that." They walked up to Yugi's room together. "Did you have a good time?" he asked.
"Yeah! I think you and Bakura would get along well," Yugi replied, "both of you have evil senses of humor."
"I'm taking that as a compliment," the brunet said, amused. "Hey, Yugi, I saw your yami after school today with the funniest expression of shock on his face. What did you say to him?! That look was priceless!"
Yugi looked down. "He...he apologized and asked me to forgive him...and I snapped."
Seto smiled a genuine smile as he placed a hand on Yugi's shoulder. "He had it coming a mile away," he said, "I'm proud of you, Yugi. He needs to see that not everything can be mended immediately."
Yugi felt better and smiled up at Seto. "Thanks." Then he smirked. "But if that's an attempt to get me to advise you so you get your dignity back, it won't work."
Seto chortled, "Little devil that you are. I'll leave you to your homework then. I should go do mine, too," he added as an afterthought.
Yugi took his books out and began his work as Seto left. He stopped for a moment and a big smile lit up his face. \I'm not a shadow anymore,\ he thought, \I have friends who care now. I...I think I'm happy.\ And, the smile still on his face, he began his work.
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Me: Lame, most likely. Funny? I hope so.
Yami: Good? Fat chance.
Me: -.-;;; You won't quit, will ya?!
Yami: NOPE!
Me: Meanyhead.
Yugi: *giggles*
Me: Oh yes. I have no free time anymore, so don't expect an update right away. I will try to update sooner than I have been though.
Oh yes, as a small note to those of you who are evil enough to try kidnapping my Yugi...
Yami: *smirks* I've placed an Anti-Kidnapping spell on Yugi. No one can take him unless Katya says so.
Me: Arigatou, Yami.
Yugi: *huggles Katya and Yami*
I don't need to tell you lovely readers what to do, do I? Naaah, didn't think so. *Points to review button* But I'll give you a hint anyway. Ja ne!