Gruzzee: hello Gruzzee reporting in Cazi's feeling better he got over his cold so now he's up and flying right -literally-

Cazi: -from his perch on the stairway banister- Yup fit as an eagle, no more bed for me

Gruzzee: get down here bird brain and help me with this –holds up a big box marked (from: Japan)-

Cazi: oh, fine –pouts and opens the box for me-

Gruzzee: -big eyes- yay my shipment of Yugi plushies has come in –hands one out to all the nice reviewers- thank you to: Perished Hope, Pharaohs Angel, yaminakathy, Crouching Tigress, and PerennialOutlander, and anyone else that I missed.

Cazi: just pat him on the head and he sprouts wings

Gruzzee: and now while you guys are playing with those Yugi plushies I will begin the chapter and remember I don't own Yu-gi-oh.

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Yami awoke with a weight on his chest he looked down to see Yugi cuddled up next to him with his ear pressed to his chest.

'Oh, yeah' he remembered now Yugi had woke him up by accident and tried to run away

'I wander why he said 'don't hurt me' what could those guys have done to him?' he thought, how could someone harm such a sweet special kid. He gently shifted Yugi so he could get up he started to cover Yugi with the blanket when he started whimpering, that's why Yugi had his head to Yami's chest he had been listening to his heartbeat. Yami shook him slightly to wake him he slowly opened his eyes

"Hi" Yami said

"You want some breakfast?" he asked

"Breakfast?" Yugi asked sitting up rubbing the sleep out of his eyes

'Good lord he doesn't know what breakfast is?' Yami thought incredulously

"Food?" he said taking a stab at that word

"Uh huh," Yugi swung his feet of the couch standing up and stretching. Yami couldn't help but chuckle at the sight of Yugi stretching cause when he stretches all his wings stretch with him making him look about five times bigger. Yugi turned around

"What's so funny?" he asked as his wings seemed to work involuntarily and fold themselves behind him

"Nothing, come on I'll show you where the kitchen is" Yami led Yugi through the small house; Yugi was amazed by the smallest things he kept asking what everything was, which slightly concerned Yami from the sound of it Yugi had been kept in practical isolation almost his entire life so far. Yami finally made it to the kitchen after being stopped so many times by Yugi's questions. Grandpa was there cooking pancakes Yugi was sniffing the air for the new smell

"I smell something I've never smelled before" he told Yami. Yami sniffed too

"What you've never had pancakes before?"

"Nuh-uh, is it food?"

"Yeah"

"Yay food, when can I eat I haven't eaten in forever!" Yugi's eyes suddenly widened and he slapped his hand over his mouth; apparently he had said something he shouldn't have.

"Yugi is there something wrong?" Yami asked seating Yugi at the table. Suddenly an image flashed in front of Yugi's eyes it was a small room about as big as the kitchen it was dark and Yugi was sitting in a chair it looked like one of those chairs you see in a dentists office and there were people all around him with masks on and long white coats. Yugi suddenly jumped out of the chair Yami had sat him in looking scared; Yami had all ready sat down and grandpa was serving up the pancakes he tapped Yugi on the shoulder

"Something wrong my boy?" Yugi jumped away

'Who's that?!' unfortunately Yugi had jumped back far enough to trip over his chair and land in a feathery heap on the floor when his wings had tried to catch him. Yami rushed over to help him

"Yugi are you okay?" he asked helping him up

"I'm fine I-I've got to leave!" he said starting for the door Yami grabbed his wrist before he could get away. Yugi let out another one of his deafening screams (A.N: imagine the noise that the harpy lady makes except higher pitched) breaking down and crying

"Let me go I don't want you to get killed" he cried pulling weakly at his wrist a few of his smaller feathers had come out and were drifting down lazily. Yami crawled up to Yugi and slowly wrapped himself around his body making a sort of human shield pressing Yugi's head against his chest

"Shhhh, it's okay Yugi I'm not going to die I won't let anyone hurt you, sh, sh, sh" Yami whispered to him rubbing small circles on his back. Yugi shut his eyes tears still streaming down his face, and again he heard a familiar noise in his ear he liked it, it was kind of calming

"Yami I hear something" he said pushing his head up closer

"My heart."

"Oh, yeah" all the muscles under his hands relaxed as Yugi sighed he would have loved to sit there and listen to Yami's strong heartbeat forever but he knew he couldn't.

"Yugi, would you please tell me what is going on, why you flinch at almost everything that moves, why you think I might die, why you have wings?" Yami asked quietly

"I can't"

"Please, Yugi I won't tell anyone what you tell me"

"Okay" Yugi said sadly. Yami carried Yugi into the living room and sat him down on the couch with one arm still wrapped around his shoulders just in case he tried to run again.

"All right now tell me"

"W-well I think it all started twenty years ago I don't know w-w-w-who started it he came by once or twice while I was there and I only know what his motto was 'God has weakness man has none'. He wanted to be God, Yami, God! He researched for years hacking into government money to fund it and hire professionals I think it was twelve years ago he made a breakthrough he succeeded in making his first one h-he created my older brother of the project, man, he was smart Yami, I wish you could have met him, he was a great brother he's the one w-w-w-who s-p-pared my l-life" tears started to prick at the edges of Yugi's eyes Yami patted him on the back.

"It's okay Yugi I'm here for you keep going," he said rubbing his back.

"His life span had been shortened he had a set death from the beginning and his growth rate was quickened so they could harvest the necessary data off of him, he died when he was eight I was only three, Yami, do you realize what his death did to me even at that age I loved him and that man nicked his life like he was just another useless lab rat." Those tears that he had been holding back finally spilled over with one heart-wrenching sob into Yami's shoulder. Yami held onto him, that was horrible but something rang through his head.

'He wanted to be God, Yami, God!' This guy had tried to play the role of God and had succeeded in doing so but the main questions where, why, and how.

"I know Yugi I lost my parents when I was little too but still why do you think I'm going to die?" Yugi sniffled wiping away the tears in his eyes.

"I had a sister too she was born a couple years before me she was a lot like him she was really strong and when I mean strong I mean when I was four she got really mad at one of the doctors she picked up one of their desks and threw it at him" he said giggling slightly

"She made me happy she played with me when ever they weren't testing her she made the funniest faces for me, then last year someone came and visited us he didn't look like the normal people who saw us, who always wore masks and long coats, he just wore a jacket and jeans like a normal person he was really nice to us and treated us like friends he came back once or twice but they found out he was visiting us at night and sent out hunters after him they brought him back in chains and woke my sister up they took her away kicking and screaming and put her in one of those tanks along with that man and they didn't come out. So now there was just me no others had been made they thought that now was the time to finally get rid of me since my brother and sister were gone; so they abandoned me they took all the research with them and locked me in that cage, but I picked the lock and got out but I didn't know where to go so I just stayed there. Then you came along and well here I am." He finished sadly

"But why would they want to get rid of you, you seem fine to me" Yami said looking him over.

"I wasn't supposed to live, they had taken DNA from my brother he had these big, big, strong, brown wings" Yugi stretched his arms out as wide as he could to emphasize how big. "They wanted more specimens like him with normal life spans, so they took his DNA and injected it into a bunch of embryos I was one of them but for some reason they decided to stop that project they were afraid that when we were grown up we'd turn on them, so they tried to destroy all of them but somehow I survived so they just kept me going when I was actually born they tried to kill me but big brother got in the way and protected me he let me grow and he took care of me he liked me I looked a lot like him except he had blond spiky hair and had brown wings and well look at me you can see the difference and after big brother died. I just had my sister and losing big brother hurt and I knew why he died so when they started testing me I'd flunk all the tests on purpose though I did turn in some of the coolest looking mazes drawn on those test papers that's how I got my name, Yugi. But they knew I was smart and forced me they would hit me with a riding crop like a stubborn mule and when my smarts wouldn't satisfy them they used my body they ran all kinds of tests on me and they never allowed me to fly even though I wanted to they beat me when I cried at night whenever I went to find my brother or sister at night when I had a bad dream if they found me they would hit me and yell at me to go back to my cage so you see that's why they didn't want me I was a mistake and shouldn't have been born" he ended crying.

"That's horrible not to mention illegal no person should be put through that they should be stopped they don't deserve to live after taking so many lives!" Yami said

"There has to be some way to stop them, do you know where they might have gone?" Yami asked him

"N-n-no! Don't chase them you could end up like him if you do, and I don't want you to go!" Yugi yelled clinging onto Yami. Unfortunately when he grabbed Yami he grabbed onto the spot on his shoulder where the bullet had nicked, and Yami hissed in pain. Yugi let go and looked at him.

"You got hurt," he said pointing to the bullet wound, Yami looked at it he had forgotten all about it.

"That? It doesn't hurt much you on the other hand need some attention and clothes" he said realizing that Yugi was still in the small hospital gown and he could see some healing scratches on the back of his arms and probably else where too.

"I get clothes I've never had real clothes before either" he said his eyes lighting up

"Yes but first you need a bath I'll fix up some cloths for you later" Yami said getting up. He led Yugi upstairs to the bathroom he left him there while he changed into cloths that could get wet. He went back to the bathroom and closed and locked the door he filled the bathtub with plenty of lukewarm water and asked Yugi to strip and get in. Yugi had a slightly different physique too he was extremely thin but had a big well muscled chest if Yami remembered right birds had huge hearts and lungs and better chest muscles for flight so to Yugi that was natural. When Yugi turned to get in the tub and Yami got a good look at his back just as he thought Yugi's back was covered in thin long scratches and bruises and so were the outsides of his calves. Yugi eased himself into the water lying down to get his wings good and wet too Yami set out to clean his hair as Yugi relaxed; he squeaked a little when Yami hit knots in his hair before he rinsed it out.

"Sit up please" Yami asked Yugi once he was done with his hair Yugi leaned up for him his wings where now good and soaked so they drooped down. Yami handed Yugi a bar of soap and washcloth for him to do his front side (A.N: get your mind out of the gutters guys Yami's just helping the poor kid with a bath) Yami gently washed his back being careful around the scratches and bruises. As Yami got closer to his wings Yugi started to twitch every time he got close,

"Yugi why do you do that?" he asked

"Do what?"

"This" he tapped one of Yugi's wings to show him

"Oh that" he said as he twitched yet again

"A while back I snuck past the guards and made it outside I made a little too much noise flapping and trying to fly and one of the guards caught me so to teach me a lesson they laid me down and clipped my wings I moved around to much so they yanked out a couple of my primaries which might I add hurts a lot and I guess I've been like that ever since" he explained as Yami tried to finish his back

"If I really think about it I can stop it for a little while." He added as Yami finished his job. Yami stood him up and gave him a towel Yugi grabbed a couple of spare ones, laid them out on the floor as he sat down to dry out his wings.

"Hey Yugi I'm going to go fix up your' cloths, um, about how long does it take for you to do that?"

"Er, about an hour I can do it in less if you want me to"

"No, no take all the time you want" he said leaving. He almost ran right into Grandpa as he turned out of the bathroom.

"What are you up to?" he said suspiciously

"Just getting Yugi some cloths grandpa. I've got to fix something up for him other than that other thing he was wearing at least until we can figure out a way to get some other cloths" he explained

"Well, proceed, then just don't do anything too weird," he said chuckling as he went back down stairs. Yami hurried into his room and started searching through his closet for his cloths that were to small he found one of his leather tank tops and a pair of jeans he grabbed a pair of scissors off his desk.

'Sorry old friend' Yami took the tank top and started cutting what he did was cut chest on down on the back of the garment then brought a couple of loose straps from the front and made it to tie in the back. He took the newly cut shirt and pants to Yugi who was just finishing up his wings and had a handful of feathers that had come out while he was drying.

"Yugi I've got your cloths now" he said handing Yugi the things he had picked out he got the pants on just fine but then he held up the shirt.

"Um, how am I supposed to get this on?" he said looking over his shoulder at his own wings.

"Like this" he said taking the shirt and slipping it over his head and helping him tie it in the back leaving his wings free to move, he looked at him self in the mirror then he turned to Yami who'd been watching him the whole time and gave him a big hug.

"Thank you Yami this is the best"

"Actually that's only temporary until I can get you some better cloths" he said smiling

"Now go downstairs and eat you must be starving" he said pushing Yugi out the door

"What about you?"

"I'll be down in a little bit I just need to clean up and I'll be right down," he said shutting the door behind him. He picked up one of the feathers Yugi had left off the counter and looked at it closely

'Wow I can't believe it I've got a real bird boy in my house and the boy is the nicest person in the world even though he's been treated like dirt before I guess he thinks of me as the family he never had,' Yami thought putting the feather in his pocket he bandaged himself up and went downstairs to join Yugi.

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Gruzzee: aw you've got to admit that was kind of sweet the way Yami treats Yugi and that heart thing I was playing with at the beginning is going to play into the story later

Cazi: ah I guess so but you came up with a horrible past for the poor guy I mean you killed his brother and sister.

Gruzzee: I know and I still kinda feel bad about that but it's gonna get better now this was just kind of a filler chapter and now Yugi's gonna get to meet Jonouchi-kun ((oops))

Cazi: don't give it all away screwy

Gruzzee: sorry Cazi now all you out there in the 3D world pleez R & R and come back for more. Oh and here's another plushie for my beta reader without whom my punctuation would be horrible.