A short time later Yukai came walking back into the throne room in a tan robe, clean and with short hair. Her face as well as her body was clean. Her robes were to her knees and long lose sleeves almost covering up her hands. Her hair was just about to her shoulders and was roughly cut at the ends. Her bangs had been pulled in front of her face so her bang style was almost the same as Yami's, as for her hair it was cut almost like a boys but not long enough to mix with her bangs.
Yami sat up as he saw her enter the room, so did Mallid. Mallid marched right over to her and shoved some books, paints and brushes into her arms.
"Write what's on every page onto this wall." He said pointing to a wall to his left behind some pillars near the throne. Yukai nodded quietly and started. Mallid walked over to Yami. "You have to keep an eye on her. Don't want her to be led astray, do you now, hmm?"
Yami looked to his brother and said softly so Yukai wouldn't hear. "Shush up! She shouldn't be held here!"
"You think she should be back in the village? Back at being free once more? Back at breaking the law?" Mallid began to taunt.
"Stop it!"
"Is she too beautiful for the all mighty Pharaoh to handle?"
"Stop it!" Yami loudened his voice.
"Is she too worth while? Too lovely? Too innocent?" Mallid was going over the top.
"STOP IT!" Yami threw a punch to Mallid, who easily dodged and stepped back.
"I'll see you in the morning, then…sleep well." When he got to the door he turned and snickered. "Well, maybe not!"
Yami gritted his teeth and had his fists clenched.
"Do you two always fight?" Yukai asked, not turning from the walls she was carving on.
Yami softened and looked to her. "Not really. Most of the time we understand each other, but since our parents died he's been going all-strange on me and we haven't been able to agree on anything. I don't understand what's wrong. He won't tell me."
Yukai gave a soft smile. "He's alright."
"Huh?"
"He just needs some time alone to figure things out." Yukai still didn't look from the wall.
"How can you be so sure of what you say? It's almost as if you know what he's feeling!" Yami became a bit curious, remembering what his father had told him about his father's grandfather.
"I…I…I'll be silent." Yukai let her head fall slightly but it snapped back up a few seconds later to continue her work.
Yami sighed, wanting to know more, but he knew so long as she was there she would never tell, never tell a soul about what happened in the desert to her village. What happened to her during her time before she was pulled to the Pharaoh? Before she was ever even thought of to come to the city of Cairo.
"I'll be back soon." Yami left the room and walked through the halls silent. He walked right on down to the Temple of Seth within the walls of the Pharaoh. He entered the small room and stood before the statue of Seth after he had closed the door behind him. "Seth…"
Seth felt someone's presence within his temple and floated down to see who it was. "Yes?"
"Seth, there's a new girl here. I don't know, but she seems different then everybody else." He sighed. "I don't know why but it's like she's…special. …She is like nothing I've ever seen—especially her eyes!"
"Her eyes? Special? …Hmm…" Seth floated in the air with his arms crossed in front of Yami. "Sounds like…" He titled his head up so he looked into Yami's fire crimson eyes intense to know the answer. "LOVE!"
Yami's face went white as a sheet. Then pure red. "FATHER!" He snapped his hand right to his mouth and turned a deeper red and turned away.
"Father? Me? Oh, Yami …it's alright." Seth uncrossed his arms and still floating hugged Yami's neck from behind, smelling his maroon hair. "It's alright. Tell me everything you feel."
"I…I…I miss my father. And my mother." Yami's shoulders sagged slightly. "When I'm around her I feel safe and warm…as if my mother was right there holding me…caring for me." He paused, afraid to say it. "Loving me…"
Seth sighed and let Yami go. "Yami, it's alright. Tell me more."
Yami sighed and turned back to Seth, his face had returned to its natural color, but had tears within his eyes about to flush their way down his cheeks to his chest and then to the floor. "I miss my parents so badly!" He fell to his knees, crying.
"Yami …what is the last main phrase your mother said to you? Can you remember?" Seth floated firm.
(Author's Note: Hey! He's a god! He doesn't feel like standing! Is that so bad? Okay, sure! rollseyes Laugh it up!)
"She said…to find…sniff the one who's been hurt as badly as I have. sniff sniff Oh, Father! I miss her so badly!" His eyes widened at what he had called Seth once more.
"It's alright…my son. From now on I'll aid you just as your father would and even better if I can. But I can't replace him or your mother, I can only substitute." Seth smiled softly to a trembling Yami.
Yami closed his eyes in a smile and popped up and hugged Seth. "Oh, thank you, Father!" The action was so quick to Seth that they both fell onto the floor, Yami on top of Seth.
"Oh! So now I'm a bed, am I?" Seth grinned and then teleported out from under Yami, sitting on his back, eating an apple.
Yami hit the ground. He felt Seth on his back and looked. "HEY! GET OFF! I'm no chair!"
Seth took a bite and then swallowed. "Really? I hadn't noticed you were down there! Where'd you come from! Japan!" Seth was joking around.
"Father!" Yami sat up, pushing him off, but laughing. He then stopped returning to his serious mode. He looked slightly dazed out, slightly swaying, with his eyes shut. He sighed quietly.
"Do you?" Seth interrupted his 'son's' memory.
"Do I what?" Yami asked, clueless.
"Love her?"
"Love who?"
Seth became irritated. "The new girl! Sure sounds like you do." Yami turned crimson once more. Seth began to laugh. "Lover-boy!"
"Father!"
Seth stopped laughing. "What? You're blushing!"
Yami blushed more. "Okay! I'll admit it! –I do!" Seth smiled with both pride and satisfaction. Yami went back to swaying closing his eyes.
"Show her." Seth once more interrupted the memory.
Yami's eyes shot open as he began to jibber. "I—I—I can't!"
"Why not? You love her, don't you?" Yami was silent. "You forgot about the side Pharaoh rule, didn't you?"
"Um…yeah." Yami admitted. "It's been so long since I've even read that rule. Not reading that rule for so long makes you kinda forget!" He paused and looked up to the ceiling and then back to Seth. "Uh…what is it?"
Seth anime-dropped backwards. He straightened out. "You don't even remember?"
Yami felt guilty of not remembering whatever the rule was. "Uh…no."
"If you love someone then in a room with no one else but that person, on their soul for them to not tell anyone, you may act out your feelings to them…even if they order or ask you to stop." Seth floated back up and threw his apple at Mallid, who just passed by. Mallid and him began to fight and they left the temple and Yami.
Yami hung his head. "Ugh! They never stop, do they?"
Seth came floating back in, locking Mallid out. "So?"
Yami blinked. "Her eyes."
"Huh? What about them!"
"Shadows…in her eyes. Like a cat… Then a bright light…repeating itself…" Yami blinked, thinking harder.
Seth smiled. "Tell me everything you feel when around her."
Yami thought hard for a second. "I feel…a want…a need."
"A lust?"
"YES! The feel of going into her, hugging her, touching her bare chest with my hands! To massage her bare chest and belly with my own bare hands! To feel her breath on my face and neck…her eyes only for me! To have her hands in my hair or caressing my face as I suck…wanting more of her…more and more…feeling every crevice and bit of her…all of it—of her for me and only me! No one to have her or take her…just me and her together." Yami began to feel selfish with all the lust just to be with a girl when he knew just a huggle with her would be more then enough for him in even seven life times!
Seth sighed; realizing how strong Yami's emotions were for a girl he barely knew. "So…ya know her pretty well, huh?" Yami was silent. "To talk like that makes it sound as if you two have been friends for years, both or one waiting for the right moment." Yami stared at Seth. "What if she doesn't love you? What if she doesn't want everything you do? What if she is just an ordinary small servant girl who happens to be the only survivor of an ash-can village that broke the law by claiming itself to be free and nursing anyone and anything back to perfect health?"
"She's not ordinary." Yami claimed.
"Oh? Is that so?" Seth sat on his own statue's head. "Maybe you know her more then I thought. Or is my guess right on target?"
"It's like she knew what Mallid was feeling." Yami looked to Seth. "She just said he was alright and that he needs to think things over. It's like she knows what people are thinking—feeling!"
Seth tilted his head to the left. "Is that so? What happened when she was first dragged in? Did she stare at you, not letting her eyes leave you because of fear? What?"
Yami sagged his head. "Oye! I…was too busy looking at her to even notice if she was looking at me, but when I looked into her eyes she looked back, right through the mud on her face and in her hair…like she was investigating me while I investigated her."
"Oh?" Seth tilted his head to the other side. "I say if you feel so strongly for her go and let it all out right onto her…not stopping even if she begs."
Yami was shocked. "But…what if I hurt her?"
Seth shook his head. "It doesn't matter, so long as your love is shown. Remember, love is worth much more then pain."
"But I don't want to hurt her!" Yami protested again.
Seth looked away from Yami to the wall. "Fine! Then if you love her so much and don't even want to take the chance of hurting her then perhaps she doesn't even want to take the chance to remain here!"