Yukai bit her lower lip, resisting the urge to tell Yami of her past. Though she held no grudge or problem being with Yami she was afraid of him, not knowing when he could strike at her. She was truly frightened of the boy. How could she trust him to not hurt her? All the stories she had ever heard of the Pharaoh were that they were creatures as high as the Gods and just as powerful, they reined over the defenseless people and if any one made a wrong act in the Pharaoh's eyes they would be put to great punishment.
Yami blinked, not knowing why Yukai suddenly was holding still as if she was afraid to even breath in front of him. "Yukai?"
Yukai snapped her head to the ground from looking at Yami. "I'm sorry sire, I didn't mean to stare at ye…"
Yami didn't like the rules, he saw everyone as equals, why it was the way it was he didn't know, but he surely didn't like it. Yami put his other hand out and took Yukai's other hand. He pulled her close to him; Yukai began to gasp in panic. Yami whispered in her ear. "Shh….it's ok….don't be afraid."
Yukai was really scared, though she wanted to believe that she was safe. Soon she stopped gasping short breaths and held still and calm. Yami wrapped both of his arms around her back, pulling her to him so that her hands were on his bare chest and that her face was almost kissing his gold neck/collar coverer.
Yukai became a bit uneasy. "Sire, why are you—" She stopped herself in mid-speak, for a slave couldn't ask any questions.
Yami sighed, "Don't obey the rules!" Yukai wanted to look into his eyes and just search them until she found the answer to her questions, millions of questions she had for him, many of which why he didn't like the rules or to give out orders and punishments.
Yami held her tight, feeling her against him was all he wanted right then, just to know that she was there if he needed to ask a question. A few seconds later a question that had been set aside in his mind re-surfaced again: What had happened to Yukai's village, what so terrible that only she remained? Had she killed her people because she didn't like them or did someone or something do it and couldn't find her to be killed with the rest of her people?
Yami thought it'd be best if he didn't ask straight out, if he could just build up to his real question. "Yukai, what was your village like?"
Yukai thought for a moment. "It was a small village with many caring people, all of whom didn't like me though." Yami waited to hear if there was more. "Many people came to us from all over the deserts looking for refuge from the four palaces, mostly the south palace."
"The people who came, who were they mainly?" Yami was holding back on drowning Yukai in his questions.
Yukai tilted her head, studying the gold around his neck, but continued her story. "They were mainly men in black suits that couldn't melt fast and were hard and heavy. They also had many weapons and a crest not from Egypt."
Yami realized that the village of Yukai's birth had aided the army that had killed his father, but he wanted to be sure before he jumped to conclusions. "So…what did the crest look like?"
"It was a huge red dragon with a sword in its left front talons and a flower in its right front talons. The tail of it was nothing but leaves, it was a very pretty design." Yukai said all that she could think of, best to answer Yami's question.
Yami grew slightly angry, pulling Yukai tighter against him; Yukai held her breath and fought from tilting her head up in frustration. In a slightly shaky voice, because he was mad, Yami spoke carefully. "So, you think that design was pretty? Your people aided the enemies of Egypt to the south so that they may proceed farther into our lands and kill the people?" Yami was losing his temper and Yukai could sense it. "Your people must've died at that hands of the savages to the south!" Yami began to yell. "And now you come here, all peace-like and I find that your people aided the army that killed my father!"
Yukai shot her head up, hitting Yami in the jaw with her head. She scrambled from his grip and distanced herself around nine feet from him. "Well, we didn't know! They were quiet kind to us! We had and never will have any cares for the rest of Egypt or its people!"
Yami became quiet frustrated. "Watch your toung!"
"No! I shouldn't!" Yukai was fighting back for the honor of her people and to correct the Pharaoh, though she knew well she could die doing this.
"Yes, you should! I'm warning you, if you don't straighten up then you won't leave this hall alive!" Yami couldn't believe what he was saying, he loved Yukai and now he was giving death threats to her? Why? What just is his anger searching for? It was a puzzle to him, and if Yukai ran from him for this he would never forgive himself.
"I don't care what you do to me! I'm merely correcting you!" Yukai still wouldn't stop.
"Correcting? More like ordering this into my brain!" Yami became more agitated.
"I may show respect to Egypt and its dumb king, but I will never mean it!" Yami became furious, Yukai had called him dumb and he didn't like what she said next. "And, I will never bow down to you or any of your family, even your cruel mother!"
Yami walked the distance to Yukai and grabbed both her arms, he held her firmly so that if she tried to get away it would hurt her. "My mother wasn't cruel!"
Yukai became afraid but showed no signs of it. "Hurt me and all the world will see just what a monster you really are!"
Yami blinked, taking that to thought. "You deserve some time in the dungeons! They're dark and dank and I think you'll enjoy them! They'll fit to you nicely with that bratty attitude!"
Yukai lunged her head forward and bit Yami's wrist. Yami grunted down his scream and released Yukai in a throw into the pot Paradox had put her into earlier. Yukai scrambled out of the pot and made a break for the doors, as she did the pot shattered to the ground. Yami looked at the pot, it had been his mother's, then to Yukai. He ran after her, after a few moments Yukai was on the ground, held there by Yami who was almost lying on her directly.
Yami leaned his head down, putting his right cheek on Yukai's left cheek. Yami had no intention of hurting Yukai, but he could sense that she was frightened and wanted to get away. Yami calmed himself, regaining his composure. "Yukai... Yukai, please listen to me?" Yukai tilted her head from Yami's, but Yami's face just followed hers. "Yukai, please? Please, just listen." Yukai tilted her head so it seemed she wasn't listening.
Yami sighed heavily, "I'm sorry, please, forgive me. I didn't mean it or anything of it... it's just, I don't like people insulting my mother right in front of me or at all for that matter. I don't care a hyena if you insult me or Mallid but my parents and grandparents I do greatly care about."
Yukai sighed next, "I'm sorry, too. I was judging your mother even though I've never even known her and that was wrong of me. I'm sor—"
Yami cut her off. He couldn't hold his urge. Being so close to her lips and not touching them with his was just far too annoying. Yami had tilted his head over and kissed her right on the lips. A soft, sweet kiss, the taste of mint from her hair melted to his nose and made him love her even more. He could feel her grow tense beneath him, so his right hand moved from its position of having her left arm held down to holding her hand.
Her hand was soft and delicate. The taste of her lips were so unique, so special, so...so...
Yami blinked, as he poked open one eye and thought. /Minty? Her lips are minty...? Okay.../ Yami thought for a second. /I guess she got into my tin of mints in my room...it'd be too dangerous for her to try and get them directly from the kitchen due to Cookie hating her.../
Yami pulled from the kiss, but not releasing Yukai from his strong grip. "Yukai, please..."
Yukai had turned her head down as soon as he had ended the kiss; she was too stunned and afraid to look at him now. Yukai, in a shaky voice found her strength. "How...how..." Yami waited, curious as to what she needed to say next. "How—why—why would you do that to me!"
Yami sighed, ashamed he had let himself become selfish when that was one of the many things he hated. "Yukai, I'm sorry...I didn't mean to—"
Yukai shook her head ferociously at him. "NO! Go away! LEAVE ME ALONE!" Yukai lunged up and hit Yami right in the face with hers right on his chin. Yami pulled off her, hanging onto his chin. As soon as she was free, Yukai stood up and ran down the dark corridors to the front doors.
After Yami had regained his senses he jumped after her, yelling for her to stop. Yukai not once followed them. Yukai soon found herself at a dead-end wall, with just a window to escape. This window was different from the others found in the Pharaoh, it had glass on it and thin cloth bars.
Yami grinned to himself. /Heh, she has nowhere else to go, I've got'er now/
Just at the last possible second Yukai jumped from a tackle, Yami ended up kissing the wall, and (shielding her head with her arms) she jumped right through the glass window. Yukai had zero percent clue as to what was waiting for her out of the window, she fell right into the Nile River. A small patch of it was weaving its way through the Pharaoh as a sort of small channel. Yukai broke the surface and began to swim to get away from the Pharaoh, both the person and the building.