Disclaimer: (sigh) how may times must I say this? I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

A note to my Yami (YamiKITG) Sorry about the chocolates…mmm (munches) but they were sooooo yummy! Here is the next chapter…mmm still so yummy…Oops hikari on a sugar-rush! Wheeeeee!

Chapter 10

"Yugi! Yugi! Wake up!"

Yugi stirred and opened his eyes looking right into Sugoruku's own. He blinked confused for a second or two before feeling the now cold and stiff body still in his arms.

"What happened?" Sugoruku demanded very much in shock at the scene before him. He had gone in to see if Yugi and Atemu were okay and had found Atemu dead with his Egyptian dagger still sticking out of his chest. There was blood all over the bed and Yugi was asleep.

"Oh Jii chan it was terrible." Yugi began to cry again still hanging onto Atemu's body perhaps in the vain hope it was all a terrible nightmare and that he would wake up any minute. The smell of blood was heavy in the air and Yugi knew there really was no bringing him back.

"Tell me what happened Yugi." Jii chan said slightly less brusque than he had done a moment ago.

"All that death and destruction that's been happening across the world, it…it was Atemu Jii chan. He was being possessed by an evil being, and it was making him use his power to destroy the world. It told me that it wanted to rule the world and make everyone its slaves. It said it needed Atemu because of him being Pharaoh and so Atemu said he had to die to end it. Why him Jii chan? Why not someone else? I couldn't go through with it so Atemu had to do it in the end." Yugi stopped unable to carry on talking and all his grief flowed out of him as he cried.

Sugoruku tried to take it all in and although the story was bizarre, he had seen enough strange things in his life-time including his own grandson sharing his body with a three thousand year old spirit, to know that he was telling the truth. Besides there was no way Yugi would have committed murder without it being a life or death situation.

Jii chan gathered Yugi into his arms and rocked him gently.

"I believe you Yugi but what are we going to do? We have Atemu's body and if you're found out unfortunately the authorities would not believe your story and they will lock you up for a long time."

"I don't want to go to prison." Yugi whispered through his tears. He was feeling scared now. He hadn't thought past stopping the evil entity from destroying the world. Neither he or Atemu had thought about what might happen afterwards.

"Listen Yugi, I think the police are very tied up at the minute with all the death and destruction that's happened over the last few days so for now I think we're safe but we need to decide what to do. Maybe we could bury Atemu somewhere outside of the city."

"Yes maybe we should." Yugi said thinking that at least he would be able to say goodbye to him properly this time and maybe that would make the loss a little easier.

"We should deal with that though." Sugoruku said indicating the dagger still buried in Atemu's chest. Yugi swallowed and pulled the dagger out with some effort due to the fact the blood had dried solid. He handed it to Sugoruku who got up and left the room leaving Yugi to say his last goodbyes to Atemu.

His heart was heavy with sorrow for his young grandson. He had gone through so much in his short life and now he had to deal with this. He shed a tear of his own while he cleaned the blade of blood and replaced it on its stand. He grabbed a blanket and made his way back up to Yugi's room.

"Here, wrap him up in this and we'll take him somewhere to bury him." he said and Yugi nodded sadly. With great care, Yugi wrapped Atemu's body in the blanket and picking it up he cradled it closely to himself.

"We'll have to go out the back way." Jii chan said "You need to change before we go though you're covered in blood."

Yugi looked down at himself and found his clothes were saturated with dried blood.

"I think I'll go and shower." He said and laid Atemu back down on the bed.

Ten minutes later he emerged looking fresh and clean and gathered Atemu's body into his arms again.

"Maybe we ought to wait until it's dark." Sugoruku said thoughtfully thinking that people were going to notice them carrying a body shaped object and ask questions. "We will be less conspicuous in the dark."

"Yes I agree Jii chan." Yugi said thinking to himself that at least he would have a little longer to spend with his former soul partner.

Yugi was still sitting with Atemu in his arms as the day faded into dusk and Sugoruku returned. His tears had dried up and he was just rocking back and forth trying to piece together this whole mess in his mind but he was getting nowhere.

"It's time to go Yugi." He said gently and Yugi lay Atemu down so he could put on his jacket before gathering him up into his arms again and following Sugoruku out of the house and into the deserted streets. Since this whole thing started the streets had been very quiet and at night not a soul ventured out into the streets. Everyone was fearful of what was happening in the world. Most had listened on radios to the news and the advice was for everyone to stay indoors.

They made their way out of the city and by the time they got to the country, Yugi's arms felt as though they were going to drop off.

Sugoruku led them to a hill overlooking Domino and set down the two shovels he'd brought.

"Let's bury him here." He said and the two of them began to dig a grave for Atemu.

It was a long time before Sugoruku was satisfied that they had dug deep enough. Yugi held Atemu for one last moment before lowering him into the hole and bowing his head as he stood he hoped wherever Atemu was that he was happy and not worrying about him or missing him too much.

Anobi stood and watched with glee as Atemu's screams reverberated round the cavern. True to his words he had created a huge cage in a room in which a furnace burned. In the centre of the furnace chained to an upright stone block was Atemu.

He screamed as the fire burned at his soul. Being a spirit now he could not be physically burned but that made the pain no less intense.

"Please make it stop." He cried out in anguish but all he got was laughter.

"Foolish pharaoh, you sold your soul to me and now you will remain here and burn for eternity. You could have saved yourself from this by allowing me to continue but now that I can't I shall simply enjoy watching your torture."

"You're a monster." Atemu said through clenched teeth. Every ounce of his being was being burned by the fire. He tried to block it out but this was demonic fire and could not be quelled by will power alone. He screamed again as Anobi caused it to become very intense round him and he wished for the millionth time that he had never agreed to sell his soul. He should have been satisfied with his lot in the afterlife he realised and while he burned he wondered vaguely what Isis and everyone else was doing.

Anobi watched for a while longer before leaving and closing the door to Atemu's hell leaving him alone in his torment until he decided to return to gloat some more. The door acted as a silencer and when it was shut no one would be able to hear his screams.

"Nice work master." Sulchi said approvingly and Anobi nodded not entirely pleased with the situation but satisfied that Atemu belonged to him and was suffering.

Back in the real world, Yugi and Sugoruku had returned home and Yugi was wondering round the house at a loss for what to do. He spotted the Egyptian dagger and went over to it.

"Jii chan can I keep this in my room?" He asked the old man. Sugoruku looked a little worried by the request.

"You're not going to do anything foolish with it are you?"

"Oh no of course not it's just that it's Egyptian and Atemu was Egyptian…" Sugoruku nodded in understanding.

"Yes by all means take it."

Perhaps letting Yugi have a little piece of Egypt in his room might help him come to terms with what had happened. He was currently bundling Yugi's bed sheets into the wash to try and get rid of the blood but he expected he'd have to throw them away as blood was notoriously difficult to get out. There was also blood on Yugi's mattress and he knew they'd have to dispose of that too and soon.

"Yugi you'll have to sleep on the put-u-up bed tonight because your mattress is stained."

"Yes Jii chan." Yugi said not happy about having to sleep on the bed that Atemu had slept on the brief time he had been here, and at the same time not really wanting to sleep on a bloodied mattress. Atemu's blood.

He took the dagger and made his slow way upstairs holding it against his chest. He opened his bedroom door and going in he sat on the edge of his bed where there was no blood. He put his hand out and stroked the now brown stain. Closing his eyes he held the dagger tightly.

In his mind's eye an image flashed before his eyes of Atemu in torment and suffering and of someone watching in obvious pleasure. He could almost hear Atemu's screams and feel the incredible pain he must be feeling.

He cried out and dropped the dagger. As he did so the vision vanished and he opened his eyes.

What did that mean? Was it a true vision? Or his mind playing tricks? He really hoped it was the latter because if it was real and that was happening to Atemu he didn't want to think about it.

Despair crashed over Yugi with the force of a tsunami wave. What if it had been true? What could he do? There was only one way he knew of to enter the afterlife and what then? He didn't have any powers as such so how would he be able to fight whoever it was making Atemu suffer.

The sensible side of his mind spoke up convincing him that it wasn't real and that Atemu had returned to his friends in the afterlife and was happy.

"But why did I get a vision of a place I've never seen before?" Yugi asked the empty room and the only reply he got was silence.

He lay down on Atemu's bed the dagger once more in his grasp but this time no vision flashed before him. It was the early hours of the morning when he finally fell into a fitful restless sleep.

TBC…

Yami Seirei: well there you go more done and I promise more as soon as I can write it!