A lot of people liked the "Double X chromosome beast" line. Yep, Malik is the awesomest, and yes, that is a word, thank you very much. I can not take credit for it though, that is my blood relation's creation. Still, I won't deny its great! YAHOO!
Barely anyone went for the bonus. I guess it's not as obvious as I thought it was. Someone asked if it was Kagura from Fruits Basket, but since I have never seen or read Fruits Basket that's highly unlikely. All I know is there's a guy who wears a white trench coat (like a certain CEO we all know) who turns into a cow, which I think is awesome but again I've never seen it. No, the real answer is Sakura from Naruto, I basically copied her entire speech to Sasuke, you know before he totally dumped her, heehee, that was great. Not that Sakura is as bad as Anzu, cause she does actually do stuff… sometimes… maybe… ok I hate her guts too, SO SUE ME!
ACTUAL WARNING! THIS IS A SHONENAI YAOI CHAPTER, ah… I mean… STORY. THERE WILL BE TWO MALES um… DOING SEXUAL GAY STUFF! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
There is also bad language, violence, yucky scabby things, hair, partial nudity (which I probably should have mentioned in chapter 1 now that I think of it, except Atemu was all naked instead of- (hits self)) not that you all are going to see anything anyway I mean its all written down, you'll have to use your powerful imaginations, AND sexual stuff. Beware.
I do NOT own any Yugioh characters or Our Lady Peace Lyrics, although Ryou's car that's definitely mine, I just let him borrow it.
This chapter brought to you by… bandages…? Wait, there are no bandages in this chapter. Um, how about hairbrushes?
ONWARD!
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Chyaputa 12: Silence, Painful and Deadly
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A half an hour later Yugi pulled the car up to the hotel Ryou and Malik had been staying at.
"Where will you guys go?" Ryou asked helping Bakura out of the back seat of the car.
"Well, I guess we'll have to go back to the apartment," Yugi said. Ryou looked over at Atemu questioningly. Atemu knew exactly what he was thinking. If Atemu went back to the apartment, he'd find Anzu again and that would definitely not be good. But what would happen if Yugi went back? Would she throw him out of the house before he even got a chance to pick up his stuff? Chances were that Yugi going back to his house would also be a very bad idea.
"Ah…" Atemu began awkwardly. He shot Ryou a meaningful "get lost" look.
"Well, I guess I'll get Bakura cleaned up then…" Ryou said hastily, catching the message, and slammed the car door shut as he starting walking Bakura to his room. Yugi and Atemu were alone in the car now, Yugi in the driver's seat and Atemu sitting in the seat across from him. They glanced at each other and then nervously looked away.
"Um… Aibou," Atemu said looking at his feet. "There's something I need to tell you… About Anzu." Yugi's pulse raced.
"What about her?" Yugi asked, voice squeaking.
'It couldn't be… it can't, I don't believe… Atemu couldn't have gone to Anzu.'
"You never actually told Atemu how you felt. For all he knows you still love Anzu! What makes you think Atemu hasn't given up and gone to the only person who actually loves him?"
"You remember at the wedding when she said she loved me?" Atemu asked. Yugi nodded shakily, fearing the worst. "I really didn't have anywhere else to stay so I stayed at your apartment with Anzu and… well…"
'Atemu can't be in love with Anzu, can he!' Yugi felt like screaming.
"Aibou, I don't think she loves you anymore. Actually I'd say she's pretty much gotten over you," Atemu admitted, flinching waiting for this fact to hit Yugi. Yugi stared at his dark side intently waiting for him to continue.
"Is that all?" Yugi asked timidly when Atemu didn't resume. Atemu looked up awkwardly.
"Well, I just think it would be a bad idea to stay at the apartment tonight… sense, you know, Anzu's got that weird obsessive crush over me…" Yugi's heart jumped.
"Do you… like her back?" Yugi asked even more cautiously, not looking at him.
"Like her? Gods, no! She creeps me out!" Atemu exclaimed fervently. A warm sensation glowed in Yugi's chest.
"Well, I guess we're both stuck here for now," Yugi said casually, trying not to let a broad grin creep onto his face. "I'll get us a room for the night, okay?" Yugi opened the car door, got out and practically skipped off towards the main hotel office. Atemu stared after him and then realization hit him like five ton weight had fallen on top of his head.
'Get us a room… for the night? Us… Me and Yugi… alone. In a hotel. For a whole night.' Atemu's insides squirmed and all the sudden he felt very much like singing.
I'm a thief. A liar. An angel in the fire.
A king. A drug. The push that comes to shove.
I'm a freak. A star. I'm everything you are…
"Malik!" Ryou cried as he opened the door to his and Malik's hotel room. "Malik, I'm back! Where is he?" Ryou said curiously helping Bakura sit down on one of the beds. "He couldn't really have gone anywhere…" Ryou looked down at Bakura, brown eyes examining him. "You're going to need to wash up but first…" he shuffled around in his things to find a hairbrush. "Lets get rid of those tangles." Bakura looked away as though he wasn't listening, eyes empty and cold. He hadn't said anything since they had left the abandoned warehouse.
Ryou urged Bakura to sit on the floor as he sat on the bed, resting Bakura's skull between his knees. He began brushing but progress was very slow. For one, the hair was tangled so bad that Ryou had to cut large knots out of it out and he kept finding strange things like twigs and pieces of glass hidden within the white mass. Then ten minutes later, the hairbrush finally broke under all the pressure and Ryou had to give up but at least he had made some kind of improvement.
"Can you handle the bath by yourself?" Ryou asked not looking at Bakura. Bakura lifted up his head and stared at Ryou transfixed, a very strange light in his dark eyes. Slowly he shook his head, his gaze still on Ryou. Ryou turned rather pale, his hands shook as they fumbled around the suitcase. He pulled out a pair of clean red boxers and tossed them to Bakura, Bakura caught them clumsily. "Put those on." Ryou turned his back as Bakura began to undress and walked into the bathroom to start the water, pulse hammering against his tight chest.
A minute later Ryou heard Bakura entering the bathroom. Ryou turned around and his breath caught in his throat.
Bakura's skin was an ugly, unhealthy color of gray. Most all his wounds were visible now; they were horrible dark scabs against his pale skin. Ryou stood up to help him but Bakura walking stubbornly passed him, body rigid, his legs shaking as he awkwardly sat down in the tub, splashing warm water over the sides. Ryou picked the soap and the bath brush and began to wash his back and the cuts over his body.
"What did this to you?" Ryou asked concerned. "Was it the world of the dead?" Bakura snorted, his back hunched, Ryou could see all his muscles and bones showing grotesquely through of his gray skin.
"Hell? No, this was not hell's work," Bakura hissed. "Your living world gave me these scars." Ryou paused in his washing, his face crippled in pity. "Stop that look," Bakura spat nastily. "This is my punishment."
Washing Bakura's hair made him dizzy, Ryou couldn't help running his fingers through his sliver locks over and over again, brown eyes wide with fear and some other emotion he found impossible to describe. He tried to keep his mind blank through the process and not to let his fingers linger on Bakura's pale skin.
Finally they were done; Ryou wrapped many towels around Bakura's body and then went to fetch some more clothes from him to wear.
"You'll have to wear something of mine, I don't have anything else. And I think Malik's stuff is too small." Ryou found the biggest stuff he had brought with him, Bakura was not a lot taller than Ryou but he was broader in the shoulders. Ryou gave him the clothing and then left Bakura to dress himself, closing the bathroom door behind him as he walked into the other room.
Bakura stared after him, frowning. He shrugged the towels off body and caught sight of himself in the mirror, gray skin, ugly bones and all. He scowled.
'This is who I have become, huh?' he thought bitterly, legs shaking in their weakness. '(1)Yadonushi… no, not anymore…' he corrected himself. 'Ryou… that's what they call him,' he recalled. 'I don't have you to take care of my body anymore…' He looked back at the bathroom door. 'Am I so repulsive… that you won't even look at me?'
Apparently I'm to blame, but apparently I've been framed.
"So, here it is," Yugi announced opening up his and Atemu's hotel room. It wasn't fancy but at least it was clean. Both he and Atemu had no luggage, Yugi having been kidnapped by Bakura and Atemu having left the apartment in such a rage he had forgot to take anything with him. Atemu walked into the room and the door closed dully behind them.
Silence, painful and deadly silence filled the suddenly very small room. Atemu tried to entertain himself by going over to the bathroom. He picked up a complementary mug with his shaking hands.
"Ah, nice place…" Atemu muttered, trying to start a conversation.
"Yeah… It is," Yugi agreed. Silence again. Someone had to speak.
"I'm sorry," Atemu said finally, eyes downcast and shadowed. "I should have tried harder to find you after Bakura took you away."
"Its okay," Yugi reassured him calmly. "It all turned out alright." Atemu kept his eyes on the ground. Yugi gulped the rest of his worries down and he approached Atemu from behind trembling. Atemu had to know, Yugi had to make him understand. "Atemu…" Yugi began.
Atemu turned to see Yugi was standing right behind him. His stomach squirmed.
"Aibou…" Atemu repeated watching his light closely, red eyes shifting.
"I…" Yugi began looking away. "During the wedding-"
"You don't have to explain," Atemu said kindly, brushing him away.
"But I do!" Yugi cried urgently. Atemu stepped back in surprise, back against the sink. "It should have been me! I was the one who was supposed to stop it! I was going to! Anzu just got there first…"
"Yugi…" Atemu said, red eyes shining.
"I don't love Anzu," Yugi said clearly, staring right into Atemu's face. "I thought I did but I was just confused. She was there for me when other people weren't. When she came back from New York she cheered me up. I was depressed because everyone else had dreams and futures to look forward to. I just had Duel Monsters and the memory of you following me wherever I went."
"Aibou, I'm sorry…" Atemu began but Yugi continued.
"When she was cheering me up she talked a lot about you. Apparently she had been thinking about you a lot too. We began to remember all those adventures we had had back in school. I guess the memories of you sort of brought us together." Yugi's gaze sank, eyelids drooping. Atemu was silent.
"Now I know the only reason that she and I got together was because… I reminded her of you," Yugi explained. "And for me, it might have been easier to marry my best friend than to go on, trying to fill this empty space in me that you left behind… We were both just replacing each other with the one we wanted to see. Of course, I didn't realize this until I was already standing at the altar about to say my vows." Yugi looked up at Atemu again.
"Can you forgive me?" Yugi asked, tears starting in his purple eyes. "I missed you so much I would have taken anyone for you…" Atemu wrapped his arms around Yugi's body.
"I love you, Mutou Yugi," Atemu said clearly in Yugi's ear, hot breath hitting Yugi's neck. Yugi sobbed and dug his face into Atemu's chest.
"You waited all that time," Yugi said thickly through tears. "Do you hate me?"
"Not in the least," Atemu said calmly, not letting Yugi go, allowing the man to cry into his chest.
"I think I love you, Atemu," Yugi said, arms tightening around Atemu's body. "I can't think about anyone else but you! I want to make you happy! I feel things… I want…"
"I'll take that," Atemu said happily.
Yugi let go of Atemu's waist and in a flash, without hesitation or resistance, grabbed Atemu's face and cupped his mouth around Atemu's lips. Atemu pulled Yugi closer, one hand on Yugi's head the other pulling his hips closer to Yugi's own. Yugi poked his tongue into Atemu's open mouth. Atemu hummed with pleasure and responded. In their desperation and previously held back emotions, their lips and teeth crushed against each other painfully.
Atemu pulled suddenly away.
"What is it?" Yugi asked fearing the worse. Had he done something wrong?
"You bit me," Atemu said a finger on his hurt lip. Yugi turned quite red.
"I'm sorry!" Yugi squeaked. "But you did the same thing to me last time." Atemu grinned sheepishly.
"I did?" he asked. Yugi pointed to the cut on his lip that was still slightly visible. Atemu laughed. "Guess we need some practice."
"Yeah, I guess we do," Yugi said nervously. Atemu scooped Yugi up in his arms.
"Where to?" Atemu asked playfully. "Would you like to lie down?" he asked suggestively, nuzzling Yugi's ear with his nose.
"What?" Yugi cried, giggling. Atemu chuckled, pulling Yugi out of the bathroom, towards the bed.
"Don't worry, I'll go slow on you," Atemu said kindly, biting the soft skin on Yugi's neck playfully.
"You don't have to…" Yugi said before he could stop himself.
"I want to," Atemu said, red eyes dancing, holding Yugi against him tightly. "I don't want to scare you away."
"It's not like I've never had sex before, you know," Yugi argued defensively.
"I believe you, aibou," Atemu said with a small laugh, laying Yugi down on the bed's quilted cover. "But I just want to be with you." Yugi grinned and pulled Atemu onto the bed beside him and curled up next to Atemu's chest.
"I want to be with you too," Yugi said truthfully, pulling Atemu's head closer and kissing him again.
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AAAAAAAAHHHHH! FLUFF! (runs screaming around the room)
I'm not actually that good at fluff, but I tried my hardest! YUGIxATEMU FOREVEA! YAY!
Yep, I know what you're all thinking. You all wanted that scene to continue, didn't you? Unfortunately I don't write that graphic stuff, sorry no lemons. But hey they finally got together!
(1) Yadonushi means, Landlord, master, host stuff like that. Bakura calls Ryou that in the manga when he talks to him. Yep… BUY THE MANGA DAMMIT! Its soooooooo much cooler than the anime, really, it is.
Well, there you are, Y/YY storyline is basically completed. But what about Ryou and Bakura? They still have some kinks to work out. Malik returns on the next chapter of HINAFTYCC! (heehee, that's fun)
Oh and for all those people who wanted this to happen,
Anzu: I LOVE YOU ATEMU!
Atemu: (bitch slaps Anzu)
There you are. And just a note, Anzu will not be appearing in any more of the following chapters. HAZAA! (dances) I FINALLY GOT RID OF HER!
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