HI! Here it is- the last chapter of Samusa Naraku. I know- it's taken a little while for me to get around to typing it up. Gomen. But this chapter is longer than the others, like promised. I'm glad so many have liked this story, so I hope you'll like the ending! Enjoy!

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Disclaimer: When worms fly and the sky turns neon pink, only then will I own YGO. Until then, -snuggles with Joey plushie- I'll keep to my plushies.

Samusa Naraku: Part Four

I'm looking around my cold abyss, the one I've been trapped in for what seems like forever. The one that has kept every warm emotion from coming to me, and has kept every strand of light from touching me. It won't allow any of the warmth that I so long for. All there is is darkness and silence. It's been silent the entire time I've been kept here, but I can feel it changing. It feel's more like a pregnant pause, the kind right before something happens. I can't tell if it's good or bad- I just know that it's something. So all I can do is wait a little more, staring at that speck of light above that's been taunting me for the past two and a half months. Will it finally open, shed light and warmth inside this cage, and make the walls shatter? Can I finally, after so long, be pulled out of here and be able to feel warm and happy again?

Will Seto be in that light with me?

I pull my locker open right after I enter the combination. I begin to put away the books in my arms, but something catches my eye. I look, and my breath hitches. There, in one of the vent slots, is a folded piece of paper. ...Did my heart just skip a beat? I shove the books inside and grab the note, hopping like hell that it's from Seto. Slamming the locker shut, I follow the crowd of teens out the doors to head home.

A few minutes later, I'm behind the school and plopping on the grass under a bushy tree near the wall. Wow... I never noticed that it was spring... People my age walking with their friends without jackets, some actually in shorts. The grass is bright green and growing again. The trees' leaves are coming back to life in full bloom. The sky is a flawless cerulean blue...

Seto's eyes...

I pull the note from my pocket, feeling my heart speed up. Is this what I've waited so long for? I hope it is from him... What will I do if it isn't? If it is from Seto, will it release me from this depression? Carefully, trying not to tear it with my slightly shaky hands I unfold it. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding- Seto's perfect handwritting.

'Joey, meet me after school at the tree in the back of the building.'

Holy hell... It's so blunt, so simple, yet it has my heart racing. I'm here, Set, I'm here... I look around to see if he's coming, but he's nowhere in sight. Come on... Come tell me that I haven't been waiting and keeping my hopes up for nothing... Tell me that I'm loved and wanted in this world...

Just a minute more of waiting, even though I'm so sick of waiting. I can't wait until he comes and says that I can stop waiting. Then again, I've been able to live with just waiting for him. It feels like this long wait has made me accept my soul feeling like an empty shell. No, just a moment longer won't hurt...

Dammit, Seto... Come out here, answer the questions that I've only been able to ask myself. Tell me, my heart, my entire being, every single thing that I want to hear. Please... Don't bring bad news...

I can't keep my eyes off the corner that I know he'll come around. I'm listening really hard for his footsteps, a swish of one of his annoying trenchcoats, yet all I can hear are teenagers. I can feel my blood pounding though my veins, feeling as if it were fire. Okay... I'm ready to watch him come around that corner and approach me, his blue school uniform fitting his slender body perfectly, his hair shiny and slicked back like it normally is, and those eyes... Cold as my heart, yet... loving. At least I hope they'll be...

Kami, I beg of you... let him love me. Let him tell me that my holding my breath for him has not been in vain...

Oh... There he is... My Kami, he's perfect. Flawless. Perfect in every way imaginable. He's so thin, yet he looks so strong... Long, slender legs, carrying him across the grounds towards me. ... What's that in his eyes...?

"Hey," he said, walking up to me.

Why is it getting harder to breathe?

"Hey," I reply, getting up.

I can't look into those eyes. I can't tell what he's feeling.

"So you got my note?"

Gods, that voice. So... seductive...

"Yeah."

Tell me what I'm dying to hear.

He manuvered himself to look into my lowered eyes. "Something wrong?"

Heh, more than you know, Set. I wish I could tell you...

"No."

Tell me...

"Is it because I made you wait so long?"

Yes... It's felt like an eternity...

All I can do is nod.

Crap. I feel like I wanna cry now. But I can't.

He's starting to smile. Geez, even his smile's perfect. But, this one's different... Why do I feel warmer? "Thanks for not badgering me for my answer."

I hear my mind wimper. Any day now...

"Was it hard to wait so long for me?"

No crying, not now... Just a little longer...

"... Just a little, I guess."

I hold in my gasp somehow. He's so warm... I feel like I can just melt right here. This is what I've been waiting, longing for... Just being in his arms...

"I apologize. I noticed that you've been looking down the entire time you've had to wait."

Tell me you love me. I need to hear it.

My forehead falls to his left shoulder. For once, I'm speechless.

"If it helps, it was hard for me too... I didn't want you to be in pain for so long."

Wow... The great Seto Kaiba is able to be compassionate. Wait... to me? Shit, the tears are coming. It doesn't help at all that he's softly rocking me from side to side, and holding me so close... I can't say what I want to. I'll give away that I'm almost in tears.

"Joey. Look at me." I feel him lean back so he can look at me. I hurridly close my eyes. "Joey, come on." My eyes open, and a look of relief went on his features. "Guess what."

I can only smile. It's the way he said 'Guess what.', I guess. He said it softly, and he sounds so happy...

This is it... I can feel it.

"What?"

... Holy Kami... Is this actually happening? Am I in another one of my dreams? I feel like... moaning. If he's kissing me, it could only mean...

He loves me...

My world... the heartless walls that have kept me and my emotions caged, they're shattering. It's starting at the top and working its way down. That tiny speck of light is expanding, ripping away the walls, and dissolving the debris. The walls are breaking aparting large, black shards, going so fast... And now I'm enveloped in light. In Seto's arms and in the middle of this glorious kiss.

A single tear falls down my cheek. I can finally be happy.

END

... -bursts into tears- It's so beautiful...! I love it so much! -mumbles- Even though it was inspired by my idiocity... But we won't go into that! I'm happy now, so therefore Joey must be, so it's all great and good! -grin- I hope you liked the ending. Took me a bit to write it, actually, trying to make it as long as I can. Did it work? Anyway, PLEASE review this final chapter. Tell me that it's as good as I think it is, k? Luv ya lots!

Written from 9-27-04 to 10-7-04

Special chapter added in 1-05