Kiyama: It's been well over 2 months since I've updated and I am so sorry for that. Things had been going on but I am here now and this fic will likely end very soon onlyabout two more chapters left. And I've added a pairing to the mix. SetoxKisara along with SetoxYami, YamixYuugi. Please enjoy.

--Time Two: Letdown


The winds blew through the window and over the soft white bedding that covered the sleeping one underneath them. His soft amethyst eyes slowly lifted as he groaned, pushing himself up in the bed, the covers falling over his lap.

"Yuugi where-"

He looked beside him, expecting to see the abundance of joy he would always wake up to see every morning. But as he looked as the clean and untouched side of the bed next to him, a sharp pain stabbed him like a hot knife in his heart. His heart bled but no blood leaked out of his body. That didn't matter because on the inside, it felt all too real. Atemu wanted his partner but that really wasn't an option now. If only he could make up for his mistake.

"How many times must I tell you…?" Atemu turned around to see the one who had captured him. This time he wore an unbuttoned white shirt which exposed his chest with sliming white pants, giving him a heavenly glow with beautiful sunlight that shined in. Seto stood before him, crossing his arms across his chest looking down at the depressed form in front of him. "You cannot blame yourself for what she did."

Atemu looked away from him, not wanting to believe it. To him, he was at fault; it was his careless mistake that got him into his current state. He wanted to cry, cry and let his shame fall down his cheeks in the tiny droplets of his sadness. Just remembering the incident pained his shattered heart.

"What is it? What did you want to tell me?"

"Well… I've kept it from you for a long time… And I know you're with Yuugi and all… but…" She bit her lip.

"But what Anzu?" Atemu asked her. She gripped onto the sofa cushions until her knuckles turned white. "Come on you can tell me what's bothering you." He said smiling at her. Her head hung low, her bangs covered her closed eyes. Atemu was beginning to worry if anything was seriously wrong with her. "Anzu, we're friends, you can tell-"

"But that's just it! I don't want to be just your friend!" She looked up at him, anger in her eyes, "Why can't you love me? Why do you have to love Yuugi?" She shouted. Atemu was shocked, he never knew she felt this way about him, he had never felt that towards her, only Yuugi, his savory angel of light.

"I have nothing against you or Yuugi…" She said her voice quiet again. "But what you two are together is sick! It's not natural!" She yelled at him, making him jump off the couch. He stared at her with his pained amethyst eyes. How could she say such a thing?

She had seemed to take it so well when he and Yuugi had announced it to their group of friends. Jounouchi, Mai, Honda, Shizuka, Otogi, Bakura… they had all taken it as not a surprised and they were happy for their new relationship. But then, she did look slightly disappointed now that the memory re-danced within his head.

"But the thing is…" She stood up from the couch, and walked slowly towards him. "I love you, Atem, more than anything else." And with that she forced him to the wall and kissed him. Atemu eyes widened as he forcefully pushed her away from him.

"Anzu, what the hell-" But his words stopped when heard a crash of breaking china on the wooden floor. Looking over past the sofa, he saw a broken form of his hikari no tenshi. Yuugi stood, his eyes perplexed and tears burring his vision as they leaked out of the corners of his eyes. He sniffled before he spun on his heel and ran up the stairs, to his bedroom that they now shared.

"Aibou! Yuugi!" He called after his heartbroken lover as he broke into a run, leaping over the couch, leaving Anzu to sulk as he went to aid the one who he called, 'Aikouka'. Reaching the top on the stairs, Atemu darted to the bedroom at the end of the hall where Yuugi's sobs could be heard.

Entering the room, he watched as Yuugi rubbed his eyes, his sobbing rather loud cracking Atemu's heart, and breaking it like broken glass. He dared not to say a word for he knew what it looked like, exactly how it would look to Yuugi. But then, his Aibou was so tender-hearted, it must have devastated him.

"Aibou, I-"

"No… I don't want to hear it." He choked on his sob. "You lied." Yuugi sniffled. "You lied to me." Yuugi said, his voice louder as he looked at Atemu, tear steaks covering his cheek, turning them rosy as he eyes continued to fill with salty dewdrops that would wander down again.

"But Yuugi, she-"

"No!" Yuugi yelled, closing his eyes. "Why don't you just go and be with her, you never really loved me!" Yuugi choked on his sobs as he attempted to rub them dry. Atemu felt like his heart had stopped beating, could he be dead? No, it was too painful to be dead.

"But I love you-"

"No you don't!" Yuugi shouted, choking on his sobs as he opened his eyes, sweet big amethysts, "I thought that after I shared my feelings for you that you would feel the same. You said you did but now I know that you didn't!" He sniffled as tears fell down his cheeks, the pain clear in his face, but especially in his torn eyes.

"But I don't lo-" Atemu tried once more.

"Why don't you go fuck you're bitch!" Yuugi screamed, his fist clenched and his tears pouring. Atemu stared at Yuugi, speechless. What could he say? But how could he watch as his Aibou just tear himself apart. He was so influential, he was so delicate and Atemu had broken him.

Tears seeped out from under his closed eyelids; opening them his vision was blurred. "Aibou." He whispered, tears in his voice. Seto sighed, reading the memory through Atemu's mind eye.

"Stop blaming yourself for it already. It was her fault, not yours." Seto exclaimed, becoming irritated. Atemu looked up at him, his eyes filled and his face stained.

Pathetic.

"I don't care…if I'm pathetic." Atemu whispered, "I know I'm pathetic, I hurt my Aikouka… my little Yuugi." Tears dripped off his chin fell to the blanket on top of his lap. Seto sighed, he knew now that as torn as Atemu was, he would never completely submit to him, considering that he could never let go of his lover. He had once felt that way about someone, but now he tried desperately to hide it and forget them.

"Do you really wish to see him?" Seto asked sitting on the empty side of the bed, looking at Atemu. Opening his amethyst eyes, he looked at Seto with sadness looming over him. He hesitated before he nodded 'yes'. Seto reached up and placed his palm directly on Atemu's forehead, slipping his fingers through the silky tri-colored strands. Closing his eyes he said, "I will take you to see him. Now close your eyes and think of him." Seto said.

Doing as he was instructed, Atemu closed his eyes and thought about seeing his angel, seeing him happy with his wonderful smile that just made him want to smile back. Atemu suddenly felt wind rip around him as if he were flying through he sky at immense speeds.

He stopped.

"Open your eyes." Seto's voice echoed. Atemu's eyes opened slowly, cautiously. In front of him he saw the window of room Yuugi's room, the room that was once both of theirs. Looking around, he saw that both he and Seto were sitting in a tree directly outside Yuugi's home.

How? Atemu shook his head. Now was not the time to ask. He looked back inside, eager to see his Aibou.

There was Yuugi, sitting on his bed in his light purple pajamas with his messy tri-colored spiky hair sticking out of the pillow that he buried his face into. He was crying and it made Atemu's heart sink as he watched Yuugi's shoulders shake and hear his sobbing clear from the outside.

His heart stopped.

Aibou…

End of Time Two--