WhiteMageRyou: same old don't own ygo .. thanks for all the review peoples! so our time together is coming to an end .. -cry- .. we'll always have Rome!

Mokuba: ... uh... yeah... well, here it is, the final chapter... enjoy! don't forget, theres a character death warning!

WhiteMageRyou: ... oh and uh ... I sorta left it up to the reader to decide on what happens to Mokie in the end... maybe I should shut up?

Mokuba: ... yeah, you go and do that... like I said, enjoy the final chapter everyone!

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I sat in the car... my hand stayed on the door handle... I wanted to go out there... to weep with my friends ... with his friends... his family ... No one said anything to me when they came... The rain had stopped just in time for them to watch.

I closed my eyes. I wasn't going to cry... Why did life throw these pains at me? ... What have I done to make the ones I love... die?

---Yugi---

A couple of weeks had passed. I stayed with Mokuba as much as I could. We planned our wedding like there was no tomorrow. We had everything ready, down the to the types of fruit that would be in the fruit salad.

Then that day came. I could hardly sleep, but somehow I had fallen asleep. I awoke to the sound of a knocking on my door. Smiling, I opened it. Joey instantly put his hand around my neck and gave me a nuggie. We laughed and sat down on the bed.

"Why are you up so early Joey? I've never seen you so energetic this early." I joked.

"I couldn't let my best friend yug be alone on his wedding day huh." He said. I smiled.

"Thanks Joey."

"Now, enough of that mushy stuff, ya gotta' get ready." He said standing up. "Today's your day ta' shine."

I looked at the white tuxedo hanging up. Now that the day had come, I felt so nervous. I would finally be Mokuba's. I wouldn't have to worry about us breaking up... he promised me he would never leave me if I never gave myself to anyone else ever again.

I spun around, now dressed in my tuxedo. Joey clapped. "Work it Yug!"

I laughed. He handed me the vail and the flowers, Lily of the valley, daffodils, and red tulips.

"Is Mokuba up yet?" I asked. Joey shoke his finger at me.

"Yug, don't you know da' bride can't see da' groom until he's walkin' down the isle?"

I blushed. "Oh right ... but can't we just beak the rule? I want to tell him I love him one last time before I marry him."

Joey smirked and shook his head. "Nawh, come on Yugi. We gotta' get you to the church."

He patted me on the back and we started out of the house. I took a deep breath as I got into the car. "This is really it."

Joey got in on the drivers side and nodded. "You've gone through a lot Yug, you'll be fine."

In the car I couldn't help but think Mokuba deserved better than me. Who was I to go behind his back with Ryou? It was my fault for letting Mokuba know I loved him back. It was my fault Kaiba was gone. It seemed like our love caused nothing but pain for Mokuba...

Staring out the window I watched the trees fly by. I wondered what Mokuba was thinking right now. Did he have regrets? Did he have any hatred for me? Was he having second thoughts?

I stopped myself. I wasn't having second thoughts. My heart belonged to Mokuba and no one else. His belonged to me and only me. We would be together forever. That's why we're getting married after all, to prove that our promise to each other will always stand. I with him, him with me. I smiled, clearing the rest of my doubts from my mind.

"You okay Yug?" Joey asked glancing at me as he drove.

Nodding I said, "Yeah, couldn't be better."

"Good, cuz' I got the butterflies for ya' then." He laughed nervously. "Seein' my best friend gettin married just get me all teared up. I can still remember the day we became friends like it was yesterday."

We both started to laugh. "You were a real block head." I said

"But thanks ta' you, I changed my ways." Joey said.

I started to say something else when I saw the deer. "JOEY!"

He swerved, already seeing it and the car went off the road. The car flipped so many times...

Somehow I had ended up a few feet away from the car. I coughed and it hurt. My whole body was in pain. I opened my eyes and looked up at the sky. "Damn..." I whispered. I coughed again, this time blood came. It rolled down the side of my face.

I didn't want to move but I had too... I had to get to the church ... our wedding...

Joey was climbing out of the over turned car. His arm was bleeding and he had tons of scratches all over him. He saw me and went wide eyed. "Yugi!" He rushed over to me, limping badly.

"Yugi..." His eyes were watering... why was he crying?

"Don't cry .. it was just.. an .. accedent.. we can still make it." I said, as I spoke more blood came.

"No Yug... we can't..." The tears streamed down his face.

"We can.. walk.. or ... call someone..." there was more blood...

"Yugi... you don't have ta' talk..." Joey said. I realized he wasn't looking at me, but at my chest. I slowly moved my hand to where he was looking. It was so hard... it took all my energy to feel the sharp smooth glass. I felt the feeling drain from my hands. It was covered in a slippery warm liquid that was turning cold in the wind. Blood? ...I hadn't felt anything ... when did it happen?

Yami grabbed my shoulder. 'Yugi, Yugi look at me!'

His voice was so far away... my hand dropped to my side, the gold necklace I had been holding so tightly started to slip from my fingers...I didn't want to let it go... it was Mokubas gift to me...but I was numb...I swear saw Kaiba standing there. His face wasn't sour and mean looking though. He smirked at me.

I couldn't find my voice. Why was I dying, why was I going to leave Mokuba alone in the world ... why was I going to have to hurt Mokuba again...

"YUGI, SAY SOMETHING!" Joey cried out as my eyes went lifeless.

---Mokuba---

I stood there for so long. People started to whisper after a while. Joey and Yugi weren't here... why? Yugi promised ... he promised he'd be mine.

I played nervously with the bottom of my jacket. Yugi ... where are you?

It seemed like forever... Some people left... some stayed... but I didn't care about them... I wanted to have someone come and tell me Yugi was going to come down the isle now.

Night came... I sat on the footsteps of the church forcing myself to not cry. Malik sat down next to me. He was one of the only people who hadn't left yet. He put his hand on my shoulder.

"I'm sure something important came up, Yugi wouldn't leave you like this." He said trying to ease my broken heart.

I didn't say anything back. It's not like I would have time to say anything anyway... There was a loud gasp.

"Over there!" Someone pointed. I stood up, praying it was Yugi... no... it was Joey.

I looked past him, Yugi was supose to be coming here with him, wasn't he?

My heart stopped... Joey's clothes were ripped, his arm covered in dried blood and still wet blood. His face scratched, his hair a mess. He ignored everyone who went up to him... He came right to me.

"J-Joey... where's...?"

He looked down and closed his eyes, a few tears rolled down his blood splattered face. "...dead."

"No...n-no! You ... He can't be... Don't say that!" I screamed. Joey continued to look away from me. I found myself punching Joey. He fell to the ground and who was left from my wedding ran to him. Malik grabbed me and held me back.

I demanded my tears to be held back, I demanded my anger to be bottled. I wasn't going to cry because Seto wouldn't cry.

A few days later...and after the funeral...

The morning sun warmed my cold face. I stopped typing on my computer and looked out the window, squinting. How long had it been? .. I lost track of the nights. I got up and walked to the kitchen. I just needed another glass of coffee. I stopped in front of the mirror in the hallway. I rubbed my eyes. Seto continued to stare back at me.

I gave a small cry and threw the mirror off the wall. My pace quickened... every bit of relfection I had ... I saw Seto... I turned around and saw him in the window glass. "Stop it!" I yelled.

I started to run.. but everywhere I went, he was there. I raced out the door and down the street but still ... every window, every puddle of water ...

"Stop!" I cried out. I ran out of the city streets and into a field. I turned around .. there was my shadow... no... not my shadow, Seto's shadow. It reached for me. I screamed and tried to out run it. I tripped and skidded in the wet grass. My hands touched the cold roughness of carved letters in a rock. I looked up and saw the tombstones of Seto and Yugi. I started to back away but my shadow stopped me.

I wasn't going to cry ... no matter how afraid I was, I would not cry. Seto wouldn't cry and I was- ... what was I saying? I wasn't Seto... Seto was my brother. I looked up to him, not be him.

The burning of my tears hurt my eyes. I wasn't Seto and I would never be. He drove me away just as I had done to Yugi. I swallowed the lump in my throat. I had been blinded by the monster in my heart. I was too afraid of becoming Seto that I had become him anyway...

I started to sob... I cried to hard I couldn't breath. My hands gripped their tombstones tightly. "Why did both of you have to be taken away from me?" I cried out.

There was a crack of thunder and the light sprinkle of water fell on my face. My tears rained harder then that.

But then the drizzle of rain stopped hitting my face. I opened my eyes and saw the black unbrella over my head. I looked at it's holder. His face was worn and sad like mine.

"I didn't know you were going to be here... I just thought I would say a good bye..." He said not giving me a single glance.

I stood up, "He who has foresaken life is in his death."

He looked at my tear-soaked face. "Have you forsaken life then?"

I fell into Ryou's arms... I wasn't Seto ... I was myself. I was Mokuba Kaiba, and no one could take it away from me, not even myself. He held me close as I let myself go. I closed my eyes and took a last breath.

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