Yugi awoke to a pair of arms tightening around his waist, pain shot through his body and his eyes immediately shot open; he began to fight, something clinked nearby and he struggled even harder it was Bakura, Bakura was after him again! In reality all it was was Yami, Yami had been holding him as he slept and the clink was the sound of the IV that Jou had hooked up to him.

"Help!" Yugi cried trying to struggle away, alerting the dragon sentinals next to them, Marik instantly set out to comfort the small vampire. But Yugi wasn't listening, all he saw was pain and Bakura, he struggled free of Yami's grasp and landed in a screaming heap on the floor, ripping the IV out of his arm.

"Yamiiii!" he screeched curling up on himself, holding his arm in pain, Yami was immediately off the couch; he reached out for his little koibito but when he touched him he curled up tighter and began to scream in pain as the night terror continued and he began to relive the mornings events in his head. Yami finally just reach out and grabbed Yugi bringing him into a tight embrace, holding onto him.

"Yugi, Yugi, it's me Yami, I'm here," Yami whispered to him trying to calm him.

"Shhhhhh, it's okay," Yami cooed, holding Yugi's head to his chest, Yugi stopped fighting and settled for heart wrenching sobs as the pain of his movements hit him like a ton of bricks.

"Sh,sh,sh, Yugi let me help you," Yami purred nuzzling the pained body in his arms. They sat that way for what seemed like forever, until Yugi's sobs became small whimpers. Malik actually came close behind the little one and nuzzled the small area available on his back with his nose mimicking his younger brother; it was amazing even to him how much this poor human was making him 'feel' again. Yami looked over at Malik and smiled slightly, he had only seen the older dragon act like that for his brother never for anyone or thing else. Yugi continued whimpering, he clung to Yami like a gecko his breathing and heart rate had risen and he was beginning to pant into Yami's chest.

"Yami," Yugi croaked out quietly scared.

"I've got you Yugi," Yami said shutting his eyes as he buried his face in Yugi's bangs.

"Lets get you off the floor," Yami said wrapping his arm under the little vampires legs, Yugi cried out as he was moved but put up no resistance.

"Yugi, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I know you are hurting," Yami told him kneeling on the floor next to the couch; Malik helped him, propping the little one up onto the couch. Jou returned, with Seto following behind him, he saw the small group around the couch and approached them looking over the back of the couch at Yugi.

"Are you okay little Yugi?" he asked, Yugi didn't respond, he merely looked weakly up at Seto and blinked hazily at him.

"How do you think he feels Seto?" Yami questioned back, glaring up at him for asking such a stupid question. He sighed and turned his attention back to Yugi, cuddling the dazed little vampire gently.

"Did you get rid of him?" Yami asked Seto.

"I didn't have time to, after you got away he called me a fella and jumped back in the direction he had come from," Seto replied frowning at the thought that he had practically let him go.

"Fine, let him retreat... Seto can you help heal him, you know you're the true medic in the family," Yami said his healing skills where so rudimentary that the best he could was what he had done to Ryou earlier and that would cause Yugi even more pain, he definatly didn't want that.

"Sure Yami, you may be a constant pain in the ass, but that doesn't mean Yugi should suffer," Seto replied coming around the couch to sit next to Yami, Yugi followed him with his eyes all the way around, he had heard the words 'Yugi' and 'suffer' right next to each other and it scared him.

"Okay every one leave the room," Seto told them.

"Why should we?" Marik asked indignantly,

"Because I can't concentrate when I have two loud-mouth dragons and their pet staring over my shoulder," Seto replied irritated.

Marik bent and huffed a cloud of soot into the back of Seto's hair, turning the back of his head a nasty shade of black, before he stood and led Ryou away, with Malik following close behind him. Jou left behind them with out a fight; he knew how serious Seto could get over healing, it was something Seto prided him self on. Yami was the only one who stayed behind; he wasn't about to leave Yugi's side not even for this. Seto viciously was sweeping at his hair trying to get the soot out but gave up when it wouldn't come off.

"Yami, be ready to hold him if he starts to move away," Seto told him reaching out for Yugi, who had curled up against the couch as far as he could go. There was something not right about Seto.

They streached Yugi out flat on the couch, after a few cries of protest, he and Seto finally began he spread out his thin fingers over Yugi's chest and Yugi began to cry again. Seto was hurting him he could feel it, it felt like a snake was constricting around his heart, slowing the beating the muscle itself was going dead very slowly, and Yugi began to pant.

"Yami!" he called, scared, his heart had almost completely stopped beating, it was still working but barely.

"Shhh Yugi, it's going to be okay," Yami cooed unaware of the damage Yugi was feeling. He continued on down Yugi's body but the little one began to struggle, his small chest heaving up and down as he tried to breath and keep his heart circulating blood; when the little one looked up at Seto's eyes he saw Bakura not the kind, blue eyed, slightly sex-crazed, vampire that had helped him through his own first night as a vampire.

"Hold still," Seto commanded, unable to keep a solid hold on him when he was jerking around.

"No! Bakura," Yugi cried Yami bent over him and held onto him, running his fingers through his koi's hair. Seto smirked, the little one could see past his facade. He pressed down a little harder on the little ones stomach and continued on, the tears inside Yugi were next to be 'healed' only when he did it he made Yugi feel it by making each and every tear burn as he closed it; there would be scars left behind but no body would know about them but their owner. All the while he was doing this Yugi was panting and hacking, his weakened heart pumping rapidly to survive, tears streamed down his face as the pain hit his body. He wrapped his arms around Yami, pressing his head into his chest, trying to get his koi to notice his drasticly slowed heartbeat, Seto finished the 'healing' and got up.

"There, that should do it," Seto said walking away; Jou reentered the room with the brothers Ishtar following close behind, Yugi was still clinging to Yami, pressing the older lover's head into his chest.

"Yami, what wrong with Yugi?" Jou asked looking at the two.

"Heart... Heart!" Yugi rasped, coughing, his chest was hurting badly and he was trying to get Yami's attention. He carefully unwound Yugi's arms from around his neck and held his small hands in his.

"Yugi, breath, tell me what's wrong, what did Seto miss?" he asked looking into his wheezing koi's eyes. Yugi tried to take in a nice deep breath, but his chest wouldn't alow it.

"Heart, hurts," he sighed, relieved, when Yami finally pressed his ear to his chest. Yami immediately noticed Yugi's fluttering heartbeat.

"Sh, okay Yugi, breath, slow down, I'll go get Seto," Yami said getting up. Yugi grabbed onto Yami like a leash; he wasn't hurting more than an ache in his lower half and didn't mind moving so much.

"No! No Seto, Bakura!" Yugi tried to wheeze out, shutting his eyes against Yami's well toned stomach. Yami stopped and looked down at his koibito,

"Yugi, what's wrong?" Yami asked kneeling back down to Yugi's level.

"He... Is...Bakura..." Yugi wheezed out tiredly he yawned slightly, a sign he wasn't getting enough oxygen to his brain.

"Yugi, that was Seto, you know him," Yami replied feeling his forehead.

"A disguise," Yugi responded hacking, sitting up and leaning forward as he hacked into his hands; Yami rubbed his back gently.

"Yugi are you sure?" Yami asked, his anger rising slowly that he had allowed Bakura to touch his koi again, Yugi nodded looking weakly over at him.

"He... Squeezed my... Heart," Yugi told him showing his lover, with hand motions, what it felt like he had done.

"Beating to slow," Yugi coughed grabbing Yami.

"Hold me," he whispered hoarsely to him. Now that Yami had noticed, he could feel Yugi's heart pulsing inside his chest; Yugi was almost pushing himself into a heart attack.

"Yugi, I'll keep him away, relax, I mean it you are pushing your heart too hard," Yami whispered running his hand over his back; he felt Yugi heave a huge sigh and go slightly limp in his arms. Yami laid Yugi back on the couch, and turned to Jou.

"Where did he go?" he asked Jou already knew who he wanted.

"He went that way," Jou said pointing towards the kitchen, the blood supply!

"Malik you may hate me, but please, for Yugi's sake, come with me," Yami pleaded to Malik. Malik looked down at the shorter vampire and the first thought to come to his head was, what can I get out of this.

"Give me and Marik a permanent room and a new bed and I'll come with you,"

"Malik!" Marik chided raising a paw and wapping him good and hard on the back of the head. Malik growled at him and turned back to Yami.

"Fine, deal," Yami said turning and just about running through the door with Malik loaping along behind him. They reached the kitchen Yami's fears were confirmed at the sight that met them; Bakura had dropped his disguise, his staff in hand and was leaning heavily on it. The once shiny black glass was covered in a thick coat of glistening blood, a bottle from the freezer lay shattered at his feet, the staff was mutating again; the ring at the top was getting bigger as it absorbed the blood, the wings were turning downwards and sprouting two spikes at the top that extended over the ring and connected at the points.

"Bakura!" Yami shouted angrily, running towards him; he dove at the thief to tackle him, but as he got close to him, he bounced back with about the force of being shot out of a cannon. He hit Malik, who barely budged, and looked up those same blue and black shadows had wrapped around Bakura in a loose shield. Bakura looked up at them with narrowed eyes.

"You will pay today oh weak pharaoh," Bakura shouted, standing, the blue shadows circulated around him wildly. Suddenly they shot away from him and towards Yami and Malik.

"Move Malik!" Yami shouted at the dragon, diving to the side; Malik was like a giant moronic snake though, he immediately slithered out of the way, crouching low and snaking his way around a counter. Yami jumped on the older dragons back, unlike the real Seto he was short enough to ride either dragon. Malik immediately protested but Yami pulled his head back around to face him.

"Look, your scales can probably take most of his attacks, my body probably can't take more than about two of his attacks, besides I've seen Marik and you like this before," Yami told him smirking when the older brother glared at him.

"Thaaaanks, that means I'm a walking body shield, right?" Marik said narrowing his lavender eyes.

"Yes, now, move!" Yami said kicking his heels into Maliks shoulders. Malik crawled forward keeping one side to the counter,

"Do that again and I'll just drop you in a perfect range for him to attack you," he growled, his spines trying to rise with Yami sitting on them. They both looked up over the edge of the counter as another bottle was sent shattering to the floor; Yami moaned pitifully when he realized the bottle had been one of his favorites, he'd been aging it for close to ten years now.

"Sickem Malik!" Yami whispered fiercely, crouching low on the dragons shoulders as Malik charged over the counter, presenting his this heavily scaled chest and fore arms for an attack, as he charged towards Bakura. Bakura looked up again; the ring on the staff was large enough to probably pass a dog through, and the blue shadows had formed a sort of portal.

"I can now bring forth a monster far greater than you can fathom; come forth my demon Diabound!" Bakura called the portal pulsated once, twice, then finally the beast erupted from the ring. It was huge, it filled half the kitchen, it made Malik look like a kitten, the creature's upper body a pale gray with wings of the same color, it's lower body molded into a hooded albino cobra's head. It's head, decorated with fan-like projections, bared down towards them, growling and bearing its sharp teeth. Malik stopped so suddenly he practically sat down, skidding to a halt inches away from it; Yami dug his fingers into his scales to keep from falling off as both of them stared wide eyed into the huge face before them.

"Tear them limb from limb," Bakura commanded his voice dripping with satisfaction.

"Retreat Malik! Retreat!" Yami shouted pulling back on the crest of hair on his head. Malik snorted, blowing a cloud of black soot and sparks into Diabound's face turning the almost white skin black; Malik reared back, scraping the monster across the face with his claws, before wheeling around and fleeing the kitchen.

"Malik, living room now," Yami commanded being the most scared he had ever been in centuries.

"No, shit Yami," Malik growled back, running as fast as possible toward the living room. They hit the living room, Jou was bent over Yugi, stroking the coughing vampires back.

"We have to get out of here!" Yami cried not leaving Malik's back.

"Jou, grab Yugi for me, Bakura just summoned something huge in the kitchen and Malik made it angry," Yami added looking behind him, the monster had just rounded the corner and was darting towards them.

"Malik, no time for the door, if you love Yugi or Marik, you are going to break a window to get out," Yami said quickly pushing the dragon forward. He quickly cast up wall after wall of shadows in the door way, blocking off the main entrance for the monster; it hit the shadows with a bang and a loud roar, Yugi looked up from his hands at Yami.

"Yugi we have to go," Yami said Picking him up, he heard an evil hiss behind him and spun to see the giant cobra's head reared back ready to strike; it had wound its way around to the other doorway. Yami focused even harder and created a block for that door cutting off the snakes head, it dropped to the floor with a loud thud and it evaporated into thin wisps of blue and black. The monster on the other side of the wall let out an angered roar and Yami felt it trying to shred down the shadows; Yugi was slowly climbing Yami to his feet where he stood wobbling and aching next to Yami, his gaze had locked on where the giant serpant's head had been.

"Y-Y-Yami what was that thing?" Yugi asked shaking as he clung to Yami.

"Something we need to get away from fast," Yami sighed the amount of power it took to hold up the large amount of shadows needed to hold back the creature on the other side was wearing him out, he hadn't used this much power in a very long time. Yami turned around when he heard the shattering of glass, Marik stood in the window pane shaking his head which he had used to break the window.

"Come on Yugi," Yami cooed Yugi could barely stand, and his breathing was still ragged and laboured.

"You get to ride Marik," he said picking Yugi up, Malik had his head stuck through the window.

"Come on Yami," he called noticing he was moving slower than normal.

"I'm moving as fast as I can," Yami panted dropping to his knees, the giant monster was shredding at the shadows, and Yami was feeling it. Malik dove through the window coming up next to Yami just as the shadows broke in.

"Come on you ass!" Malik shouted he bent into an almost impossible position picking Yami up by his shirt collar and slinging him over his back with Yugi. Diabound charged into the room, wings flapping, its tail was back and it lunged forward just as Malik turned back. He kicked out like the stubborn mule he was and caught the snake clear in the face, gripping with his claws as he came back down, he crushed the things head down with his heels.

He bounded off through the window, before Diabound could lash back at him for hurting its tail; Jou, Ryou, and Marik were all ready outside Malik traded off to Marik, Yugi had to lie back like he had done before the last time he had riden because sitting forward made his breathing almost impossible. Yami stayed on Malik's back,

"The lake, go to the lake" he told them, holding onto Malik's neck, and before the monster still inside the house could realize that they had gone outside they ran, to the lake.

note: If I remember right fella was considered an insult in Arabic it was like calling some one a dog, or a peasant.

Gruzzee: another chapter, okay guys I promised no more rape scenes, of course there will be no lemons for a while either ((DUHHH!))

Cazi: jeez aibou you almost gave Yugi a break there ((rolls eyes))

Gruzzee: I know, next chapter he'll get a break, well sort of

Cazi: well good, he needs it in the mean time R&R people and come back for more