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Yami no Game: Death's Awakening

Chapter 13

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Yugi watched fearfully as Yami and Aqua feasted upon a man, realizing the man to be Kanekura-san from the museum, hunger gleaming in their eyes as they tore and ripped off flesh hungrily. 'No, this can't be, they told me that the myths weren't true…that they weren't demonic spirits.' he thought, backing away before he ran off.

Yami's ear twitched lightly and he raised his head, sniffing the air lightly before gasping. "No, it can't be." he whispered and Aqua looked to him. "What's wrong?" he asked. "Yugi was just here…I believe he saw something that he shouldn't know of just yet until he was ready…" Yami whispered. "You don't mean..." Aqua murmured. He nodded to confirm his fears.

"He knows."

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Yugi was in his room, sobbing as he thought about the time he spent with Yami and Aqua's newly acquired forms.

'I thought they were just normal spirits, normal spirits that were trapped because of them doing a good cause for the country they came from. Now here they are, showing me that they were nothing but bloodthirsty beasts that feed off the living and keeping it all a secret from me. I could've accepted that but since they never told me, how can I ever trust them again?' he thought, still crying.

He heard footsteps and buried his head into his pillow. He heard a faint knock and Yami's voice floating through the wooden door. "Yugi, please, come out and we'll explain everything." he murmured. "No, you betrayed my trust. I believed everything you said and this is what you kept from me. How can I ever trust you again..." he whimpered. "Please, we're sorry but we didn't know if you would even accept us as demons. That's why we kept it as a secret from you. You heard the myths and we feared what you could've done. Please understand." Aqua spoke.

"No! How can I understand?! You said you cared about me! That you would tell me everything and I would do the same! But this! You kept it a secret from me, your own partner! How can we even be part of the same soul if you don't share something as important as this?! I thought I could trust you but you broke that now. It's best you two just leave me and never come back!" Yugi cried, looking to the door which was now open.

Yami stood stoic but one could clearly see the pain in his eyes from Yugi's words. "You can't mean this, aibou..." he started but Yugi cut him off. "I'm not your partner anymore! Just leave! The both of you! I hate you both!" Those last four words shattered everything inside Yami and Aqua. "No, it can't be..." Yami started, tears now coursing down his face.

"I can't lose you, aibou. Please, aibou, don't make us leave..." he whispered but Yugi only curled up further on the bed. He fell to his knees and sobbed. "No! I can't lose you, aibou! We can't lose you! Please, don't let us go!" he cried, banging his fist onto the hardwood floor of his bedroom. "Just leave. Leave and never come back here." Yugi whispered softly and Aqua, who too had tears rolling down the sides of his face, helped Yami back up.

"Come on, we best do as he wishes. Yugi, little master, we're sorry we betrayed you for this. In truth, we love you to our very core, that's why we punished those that could've put you in danger. We hoped everything we did will at least make you forgive us to some extent. We'll leave now and never come back as you wished." he whispered and led Yami out. "I don't want to leave. Please, I don't want to leave aibou, my love..." Yami sobbed as he was led from the room and soon the shop. "This is what he wished, Yami, and we vowed to obey his every wish. Let's go, maybe there's a place we can go." Aqua murmured and with another sob, he nodded and soon flew off, Aqua following behind him. He looked down to the watch that he kept around his neck and pulled it off, dropping it to the pavement before following Yami once more.

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Back inside, Yugi was now sitting up once more, arms wrapped around his knees as tears still coursed down his cheeks. He thought over the facts of the myths then how they treated him. It wasn't like anything the myths spoke of. Compared to them, he trusted their word more than the words circling around the Sennen Puzzle. He realized his mistake and knew he shouldn't have yelled at what they thought could've been danger to themselves.

'They have been sealed away for so long and I was the only one to complete the puzzle...they didn't want to scare me by confirming what many called the curse of the Sennen Puzzle. They feared me because I held their life in my hands.' he thought. "I'm so sorry…Please, forgive me. I didn't mean to yell." he cried. He stood up and ran from his room and down the stairs, bursting out the front door of the shop and looked up into the air, just barely seeing the two demons' silhouettes gaining further and further distance to a point where they couldn't be seen in the night sky.

"Yami! Aqua! Please come back! I'm sorry!" he shouted but they didn't hear and he fell to the ground. "Why? Why did I yell at them for something so stupid? They probably kept it a secret from me cause they didn't want to scare me off before I could get the chance to know them more. Everything they did was to help me. And all I did was pushed them away…now, they're gone." he whispered then looked up, seeing a gleam in front of him and saw the watch that Aqua wore.

He crawled over to it, feeling too weak to stand on his own, and picked up the watch. It was frozen in time now, a second away from the twelve which would have made it exactly 12:00. 'There must've been a meaning to this watch. That's why Aqua had it on. I need to find out and fast.' he thought as he stood and soon ran to the nearest library, desperation and hope fueling him.

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They were soon flying over Egypt, their old home and probably their only home. Aqua sighed as they landed in a remote part of the desert region. "Come on, maybe we can make some sort of burrow or something to house us for the time being." he muttered and Yami only nodded absentmindedly. Aqua placed a hand on his shoulder lightly to comfort him before he started to dig through the sand and dirt, Yami only watching for a silent moment before going over to help him.

Once they were deep underground, Aqua used the shadows to started making a series of tunnel that would at least lead them to a town and oasis. "I really miss aibou." Yami whispered as he sat on a protruding, flat faced rock. "I know, Yami. I miss him as well but we both knew that he would probably react this way after he found out. Just not in the way we were expecting when we told him." Aqua replied. "Well, it was our fault. We kept such an important secret away from him all because we didn't want to be sent away like this or sealed back into the cold, dark chains of the puzzle. But we waited too long and now he's angry at us for doing this to him. Hopefully he's happier without us around." he said, looking to Aqua.

"I think he'll be fine. He now doesn't have to worry anymore about bloodthirsty monsters in his shadow."

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Yugi finally made it to the library and looked through everything he could find on Egyptian mythology but nothing came up about Yami and Aqua. "There has to be something here. Yami and Aqua has to be part of Egypt's history somewhere." he said desperately as he looked through another book and found nothing. He hiccupped lightly from crying as he closed the book. 'Yami and Aqua are gone forever and nothing here is helping me. Now I'll never know the purpose of this watch and if it could help me in some way.' he thought sadly.

He started to place the books away but after he placed the last one back, he saw a dusty one hidden in the dark corner of the bookcase. "Wonder what this could be?" he murmured to himself as he picked up the book and went to sit back down at the table, placing the watch beside him. He blew away the dust from the book and saw the same eye that was on the puzzle on the book. "Hopefully I found something." he said once more as he opened the ancient tome.

In Ancient Egypt, it is said one item was forged to contain the souls of the two demonic spirits after losing their mortal form to a cursed spell. They seek for the one they wish to have as their eternal soulmate but many who solved the puzzle were never perfect so they dealt punishment to those that didn't suit them via a dark game, also known as a game of death.

They were known as the game kings and never lost a game to their victims which they use their vitality as payment for their loss. They hoped that one day, they will find their match but to no luck. Rumor has it that if they found the one they wanted to be with, one would wear a watch to show the time they had before they regain a true form and claim their mate when the clock strikes twelve. However, if something were to happen and they were sent away by their partner and not by another, they would leave the watch which their partner can use to grant a single wish.

But myths were told that the wish wanting to be granted will only work based on certain times. The closer to midnight it is, the chances that the wish will be granted to their partner and no other.

Yugi looked to the watch and was almost giddy with joy to see that the watch was only a second away from midnight before it was frozen. 'Hopefully this myth is true about them in particular. I don't want to be away from them any longer than I want to be. I miss them and I regret ever yelling at them and sending them away.' he thought as he picked up the watch and made his wish, closing his eyes.

The watch gave off a golden glow and he felt the rush of power wash over him in waves. He soon felt like he was being tugged through a vortex but he still kept his eyes closed as he was being transported to Yami and Aqua's new home.

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After getting their meal for the night, they laid on separate shadow-conjured beds. Aqua was already asleep but Yami was not, only lying there, silently reminiscing on those days that he and Aqua were able to spend with their aibou. 'Guess I need to stop thinking of him as such.' he thought as he buried his head into his arms. He wasn't aware of the golden light appearing into the cave until he felt a brush of wind along his back and looked up, seeing a form in the light.

Aqua groaned softly and looked up as well and gasped. 'He couldn't have? I thought he didn't want to see us ever again.' he thought as Yugi's form showed through the light and it disappeared soon after. Yami sat up and looked to him. Yugi opened his eyes, still clutching the watch close to him and looked to them. "Yami?" he whispered, hoping it wasn't a dream. "Yes, it's me but why did you come? I thought you wanted us to leave you." Yugi dropped the watch and ran over to him, tears of happiness coursing down his face. "No! I was so wrong! I don't want you two to leave me. I made such a big deal over a secret that I should've waited until you were ready to tell me. Anger just came over me cause you kept something so important from me but I can see why. You just didn't want to frighten me and made the situation worse for you two since I held your lives in my hands." Yugi whimpered as he wrapped his arms around him. Yami was stunned to hear this but returned the gesture.

"You did all this just to find us again?" Yami asked and he nodded against his chest. "Yes, I'm so sorry for sending you away. I do love you. My anger spoke out those words and I didn't mean it. Please, do you forgive me for being so cruel over something so trivial?" Yugi asked, looking up to him. Aqua smiled and left his bed, walking over to them. "Of course we will. As long as you accept us for what we are." Aqua said and he nodded. "Of course, how can I not?" he replied as he looked to him with a smile. Yami smiled as well before standing. "How about we get back home now? I'm sure you need some sleep after crying for so long." Yami said as he wiped away Yugi's tears and he nodded as he held onto him.

He left for the dugout entrance and Aqua looked back down to where the watch was and picked it up, it returned back to normal and the last second ticked off, making it midnight and he smiled. 'We finally have our mate now and he has accepted us even through hardships just from what we are.' he thought before he left out as well.

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From afar, Keara watched from below, happy to see that they were together now. 'Good for you that you are together. I don't want to see you two any sadder than you need to be. Best of luck for you both and I'll come to check on you two regularly.' she thought before flying off.

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Zypher: And that's all for that chapter. See, I told you everything will turn out well for them. Anyways, hoped you enjoyed it and will be waiting for the next. See you soon.