As Yami held his little koi, he hit the ground on his knees; he felt so weak after summoning up such a huge creature, but he didn't want to let go of his lover.

"Come on Yami," Jou said helping Yami back onto his feet, he almost had to carry the older vampire as he led him back towards the mansion.

Seto limped over to the discarded staff and picked it up looking at the rather harmless item, now that Bakura didn't have it; he followed them using it as a walking stick for the most part. Jou got both Yami and Yugi settled on the couch and helped Seto get comfortable in his chair before running off to get some vodka and blood. Yugi shivered as Yami held him trying to cuddle close for warmth,

"Yugi? Are you feeling all right?" Yami whispered holding the little vampire close.

"M-m-my back h-hurts," he stuttered out, even the transformation hadn't effected his heart it was still in the same rough condition.

"Could you turn around for me?" Yami asked gently helping the little vampire turn over with his back to him. Yami gasped, his eyes widening at the sight on Yugi's lower back, right about the same place as on Osiris, there was a dark black puncture that looked like it sunk deep into his back, the area around it was turning black as well and the puncture itself was very slowly oozing out blood.

"Seto!" he called his eyes still wide with shock.

"Come look at this," he added, Seto got up with his blanket still wrapped around his shoulders and slowly came over sitting down next to the two.

"What do you think this is?" he asked pointing to the wound; Seto looked at the place he was pointing and his eyes widened too.

"I have no idea," Seto replied reaching out to touch, as soon as his fingers even grazed the injury Yugi's muscles tensed and he let out a pitiful cry. Yami slapped his hand away instantly,

"Did Bakura do this earlier?" he asked rubbing his hand.

"No, it wasn't there... before I transformed him," he said the last part slowly.

"No, it couldn't have been that it hit Osiris not him," Yami muttered to himself.

"What?" Seto asked.

"Just before Bakura died he stabbed Osiris with that staff of his," Yami told him pointing at he staff resting against Seto's favorite armchair.

"I didn't think it would get Yugi as well though," he added rubbing the pale skin above the wound.

"I don't know, as your advisor you never told me how that spell works, the last time you summoned that thing though you used your first and only wife for it," Seto told him

"I didn't really think you be so stupid as to repeat that mistake," he added glaring at him. Yami glared back,

"I never had a wife, a wife is someone you love and they love you, she was a concubine my father forced on me to produce an heir," Yami said sticking his finger in Seto's face.

"Now help me with this problem, this wound looks bad," he said laying Yugi down on his stomach.

"Fine, then, he was stabbed by that staff let me get the damn thing," Seto said obviously annoyed. He returned with it in his hands,

"It smells like burned flesh to me," Seto told him setting it down.

"He stabbed him with the end," Yami replied trying to spark up enough shadow to heal his hurting lover, but he was so weakened he could barely do even that. Seto took his hand in his and shook his head.

"Stop, you'll only hurt yourself again," he sighed.

"Let me do this, I know more about anatomy than you anyway," Seto told him pushing Yami over a bit.

"Fine," Yami replied softening a little Seto could be a pain in the butt sometimes, but he did have his good times when he'd turn into the lover he'd known so long ago. Seto bent over Yugi and brought up one small thread of shadows, he very carefully prodded it into the puncture wound. Yugi tensed and tried to wrench his head around to see who was causing the pain, making Seto pull away from the small body on the couch.

"Yami, do something to hold him still, I don't want to hurt him," Seto said to him pouting a bit.

"Yugi it's okay, this is the real Seto he's not trying to hurt you," Yami told the little one, rubbing his shoulders gently and kissing him on the cheek.

"N-no, I don't w-w-want to hurt?" Yugi whimpered.

"Yugi, I don't want to make it hurt, just relax and kiss Yami or something," Seto told him running a cool hand along his back, avoiding the black area. Yugi slowly relaxed, laying his head back down on the couch so he could look at Yami; Seto started again equally as slow. Yugi immediately drew Yami in close, holding onto him tightly as Seto worked on his back.

"What is this?" Seto murmured he had his eyes closed and was literally looking into the puncture as he went along; he'd hit the farthest extent of the wound, there was something buried there. It looked like a tiny electric blue egg but it was slowly dissolving into the skin around it, becoming fused with the flesh; he prodded it experimentally and he heard Yugi cry out loudly clinging to Yami's neck; the other vampire gently pressed his lips to his koi's in an attempt to distract him from the pain. Seto stopped and stilled he didn't know how to get the thing out.

"Seto what did you find?" he asked having let go of Yugi.

"I don't know, it's dissolving into him though," he replied opening his eyes.

"It's effecting him somehow," Yami told him pointing to Yugi's mouth.

"His fangs are getting longer," he said. Yugi opened his eyes a bit,

"Yami it hurts!" he cried trying to get up. Yami tried to hold him down, but Yugi looked at him and he froze, his eyes, his eyes were so bloodshot that the whites of his eyes were almost completely red; Yugi was about to go into a blood lust.

"Seto, we have to move him," Yami said urgently calling the taller vampire's attention to Yugi's eyes.

"How?" he started to ask, but the small vampire in front of him suddenly stopped trying to get up and was hacking into the couch cushion. Seto didn't even wait; he picked up Yugi and ran with him to one of the closest spare bedrooms as Yugi continued to cough and hack. He set him down on the bed just in time for Yugi to cough up a small glob of blood. Yugi tried to hang onto Seto but the blue eyed vampire moved away and left the room to the sound of Yugi crying.

"Seto what are we going to do?" Yami asked standing outside the door.

"He just went through blood lust a little over a week ago, he's not supposed to do it again for another century," Yami said worriedly.

"I think it has something to do with that thing I found stuck in him," Seto replied moving away from the room, he could hear Yugi's cries through the door.

"We have to stop it, he doesn't have that much blood in him and his heart his close to dieing; I don't think he can take another blood lust this soon," he said wringing his hands nervously.

"I know, but he could kill us if we try to remove that thing now," Seto replied covering his ears.

"I was lucky I wasn't here when he went through this the first time, did he really sound this bad before?" he asked.

"No he didn't, he did sound bad but not this bad," Yami replied pressing his ear to the door he couldn't stand it, his little lover was in pain. He opened the door a bit and looked in on him, Yugi was doubled over on the bed with his hands on his throat, the black area on his back had gotten even larger, at the moment blood was just dripping from his mouth. He shut the door again and turned to Seto,

"We'll have to do it while he's under blood lust then, I don't like the fact that he's suffering" Yami said sadly.

"You are going to have to hold him down for me," Seto told him coming to stand next to him. Yami sighed,

"Sure, I'll hold him for you just try not to hurt him too much," he told him opening the door, Yugi looked up at the sound of the door opening, his blood shot eyes standing out against his pale face, he was panting and wheezing heavily as he grabbed his chest. His pupils contracted and his breath caught, his heart was trying to send the blood out of his body, which meant running the blood flow backwards, but it just wasn't strong enough to do it though.

"H-h-he-he-help," was all he could manage out. The two vampires stepped in and shut the door; Yami walked up to Yugi, the small vampire wasn't in the stages of blood lust that made him wild for blood yet. He got Yugi off his knees easily and laid him on his stomach again; Seto got up to kneel on his other side as Yami pinned Yugi to the bed, Yugi was actually going willingly. He brought up the shadows like he had done before and prodded his way through the puncture wound. Yugi cried/gargled out as Seto quickly reached the egg; his mouth dropped open, the thing had become about the size of a large marble, much bigger than before. He separated the one shadow into two and made like a pair of tweezers, as soon as he even touched it Yugi screamed trying to move away, but Yami had a strong grip on him so he couldn't move. Seto hit a problem though once he had clamped onto the thing it wouldn't come loose.

"I'm sorry Yugi," Seto murmured just before he pulled the hand he was controlling the shadows with back with a sharp jerk, ripping the thing away from the flesh it had become fused to. Yugi let out a blood curdling scream and struggled as hard as his weakened body could. He soon stopped though coughing horribly; Seto held up the blood coated thing to look at it before he crushed it, looking down at Yugi the blood pooling on his back from the open wound.

"Y-Yami! c-c-can't breath!" Yugi cried urgently trying to hold onto Yami.

"Seto I know you're a healer, but Yugi needs to go to a hospital," Yami said lifting Yugi into a sitting position he pressed an ear to his chest, there was no heart beat his heart was dead!

"Seto hurry!" Yami said lifting the almost limp Yugi off of the bed. Yugi was slowly drifting from conscious to unconscious as Yami carried him, his fangs went back to normal and the little ones eyes became clear again. Yami barely heard Seto's rapid footsteps behind him; he ran outside and to the car, Seto was right behind him jumping into the drivers seat and starting the car. They could have jumped but that would have defiantly given away the fact that they were vampires, that would be a very bad thing. Yami laid Yugi out on the seat beside him he pressed his ear to Yugi's chest he could barely hear the faint unhealthy beat of the little ones heart, he felt for a pulse on his neck the same as his heart, barely there. He leaned down and breathed into Yugi's mouth doing CPR until Seto screeched to a halt in front of the ER entrance to the hospital. Yami picked up Yugi again and ran in past the security guard and up to the front desk.

"Ma'am, help, his heart's almost stopped beating!" he told her urgently showing her the boy in his arms.

"Oh my God!" she cried hitting one of the call buttons under the desk; in seconds a man with a stretcher and a doctor were speeding towards them, they put Yugi on it and wheeled him off with Yami running behind them.

"'Ami!" Yugi cried for him as nurses rushed to put an oxygen mask over his face.

"It's going to be all right, Yugi," Yami told him as they rushed through a pair of doors, leaving Yami to stand outside, before he could tell him the three words he wanted most to tell him,

"I love you."

Gruzzee: sorry short kinda sad chapter it should get better though (I think)

Cazi: aibou I thought you said you would stop doing these things

Gruzzee: I know I know, it awful but like I said it should get better next time... oh and by the way Southern Baptist as I am I believe in wed lock before babies (no offence to any of you reviewers and readers) so I guess I'll just say this: any with reasons this couple should not be wed speak now or forever hold your peace... even though I am the author and can write anything I want.

Cazi: and in the meantime push that button down in the corner to R&R and come back for more.