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Millennium Hearts

~* Part 8; Maze of Tears *~

  "Is he okay?"

   Joey sucked in a breath and shook his head, his mop of blonde hair swishing around with him. "No, he's been so  withdrawn, like he's trying to find Yami. Sometimes, in his dreams, he calls out to him. It's kind of depressin'."

   Mokuba looked down and nodded. Poor Yugi. Mokuba glanced to his sleeping brother. He was sitting in the chair, head rested in his hands. Even in his sleep, Seto had kept his dignity. He felt bad for Yugi, the both knew how it felt to lose someone you loved, especially when they were so close to it, but neither Mokuba nor Seto wanted to think about it.

   "I hope he finds him, somehow. Is there anyway at all we could help? Maybe I can visit him…."

  Joey slowly shook his head. "No, he isn't really talking to anyone, not even me."

  Mokuba's eyebrows drew together and formed a worry line on his usually smooth skin. "I feel so bad, it's my fau.t he got in this mess. Him and… Yami you said?" Joey nodded, he had explained (with great difficulty and frustration) about Yami and the puzzle. It took a while, but Mokuba was slowly getting used to it, and his young mind was readily excepting this new concept for his imagination. Seto of course didn't exactly believe it, but he went along with it for the sake that other than them being brothers, there was no other logical explaination. Mokuba continued. "They both rescued me. If I hadn't wandered out alone, they wouldn't be like this." His sad, grey eyes were cast downard as his fingers played with the white sheet covering him.

  Joey grabbed Mokuba's hands causing Mokuba to look up at him with surprise. "Don't' you ever think dat Mokuba! Yugi and Yami… their like… their like a magnet, der north, and trouble is south, dey jst come natural. Even If you hadn't been der, they would have someone found dos guys, or someone just as bad, and something along the same lines had happened. You get what I'm sayin'?"

  "Nobody ever gets what your saying, mutt." Joey turned his head slightly to glare at the once sleeping boy. "Now, get your hands off of my little brother and beat it."

  Joey made an annoyed 'ch' and left the room. Leaving the Kaiba brother's alone.

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  "Anythin' change?"

  Tea looked up, her blue yes stained with tears as she shook her head. "Yugi's been so quiet, what if we lost both of them?"

  Ryou's eyes drew together and he shook his head. "It really won't matter." his British accent shown through, "They're apart of each other. One dies, so does the other, just, if Yugi dies, Yami disappears, or if Yami dies, part of Yugi's soul disappears."

  Tea bit her lip and looked down at Yugi. "Poor Yugi…" She gently put her arms around him and squeezed. "Come back, Yugi! We need you. Yugi…"

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  Yugi was getting more worried by the second – not to mention frustrated. He was cold, frustrated, lost and angry, angry mostly with himself, and even with Yami for leaving him like this. He wrapped his arms around himself and sighed. Yea, he was lost. His aibou's soul room was very complex and confusing. Yugi imagined that even his Yami, the keeper of this maze, would get lost in here. His shoulders feel. Was that the problem? How was he ever going to find him now?!

  …Yugi…

 "Yami?" Yugi whirled around to look behind him. No one.  Yugi bit his lip and turned back around and continued walking.

 …Yugi…

  Yugi ignored the voice this time and continued walking.

  …Come little Yugi…

  Yugi stopped and closed his eyes. Why was Yami's soul room playing with him? He was walking in a long hallway, no doors or anything to hide in! Okay, there was a bunch of shadows, but Yami wouldn't tease him like this. He wouldn't hide in the shadows!

  …Aibou…

  Yugi felt the tears rushing in his lost violet eyes. "Stop it!" He cried. He put his hands over his ears to block out the voice.

 …Yugi…

 …Aibou…

…Come join me…

 "STOP IT!" Yugi fell to his knees, tears coming down his cheeks. "Stop it…" His hands remained over his ears, and his eyes were still clamped shut. Why were they doing this? These voices…

…Yugi…Find me, Aibou…

  Yugi's eyes opened in wonder, the tears stopped. That voice, that one rang clear in his head. Was that Yami? What about the other voices? He felt a tug to the right. He held his breath and looked. A sigh escaped his lips. Nothing. Just a wall. The tug remained.

  The other voices were still calling him but remained in the back of his mind. He stood up from his position and wiped the tears from his cheeks. He stared at the wall for a few minutes. The tug never wavered as he took a step towards the blank wall. 'Oh, what the heck.' He thought. 'So I may run into a wall, whose going to know?'

  Yugi took a deep breath and stretched his hand out in front of him. His face set in determined, the tears ceased to fall and the voices had completely vanished.

  Yugi was once again alone with his thoughts.

Now see, the next chapter is rather interesting, so if you review, I might post it up a whole lot faster than before, so ne! (picture me sticking my tongue out)

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