Zypher: Oh thank you all for reviewing the last chapter so here's chapter three to Unwanted, Unloved.

Unwanted, Unloved

Chapter 3

When they got back home, Yugi went into the living room, Yami and Aqua following behind him. He sat down on the couch and Aqua moved to sit beside him. "Will Yugi teach now?" he asked. He pat his snout. "Yes, I will." He smiled and clapped like a little child. "Yay, Yugi will teach!" Aqua said happily. "Yugi will teach us." he corrected. "Now for your first lesson, repeat after me." he said and they nodded.

After a few hours of teaching them, they were getting better but they still need to be corrected at certain points. The bell of the shop door rang and Jou's voice called through the doorway. "Yugi! Are you here?" he called. "Oh no, it's my friends and I haven't told them about you two." Yugi said as he got up.

"You two stay here while I talk to them, ok?" he said and they nodded. He pat them one more time before he left out the room. "Hey guys. What brings you here?" he asked. "We came to see if you were alright? There was a report on the news saying about some body parts being found in an alley along with some blood. Police are on full alert about some beast roaming around the city and is giving out a reward for whoever find it or them." Kaiser said.

Yugi was worried. 'If someone sees Yami and Aqua again, they will report them and I can't bear to lose them. I promise Varn and Chailen that I will care for them.' Yugi thought. As he was in thought, he never knew his friends saw the bandages. "Yugi, what happened? Did that beast get you too?" Diamond asked worriedly and he looked up.

"No! I was caught by some bullies when I was walking home late last night."

"Why were you out so late? You know you could've been hurt more than mere bullies, Yugi." Kaiser said. 'I can't tell them about Yami and Aqua. They may report them to keep me safe and I don't want that.' Yugi thought again and Diamond saw the worry. 'Is he keeping something from us?' she thought to herself.

"I know but I'm fine now. Just in a little pain." Yugi said with a small smile. Jou nodded. "Alright, as long as you're ok. We don't want to see you hurt, Yugi." Jou said before they left. Yugi sighed but heard the bell ring again and saw that Diamond came back in. "Yugi, there's something more that happened yesterday, isn't it?" she asked and he sighed.

'She figured it out but I don't want to tell her.' Yugi thought before looking to her. "Diamond, can you keep a very big secret? You can't tell no one, not even Ryou." Yugi said and she nodded, knowing the importance of what he's about to tell her. "Come with me." he said and she followed him into the living room.

Yami looked up and was slightly afraid of Diamond. She may not be human but he still worried that she will shun him. "Yugi, what are they?" she asked, looking down to him. "Remember the story I told you and the others about?" he asked and she nodded. "Yeah, the one about the two sad Egyptian demons. Are they really the demons from the tale?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah, I found them in a dark cave when I was hiding from the bullies. They were very scared and lonely. I couldn't leave them to die so I took them home.

"Of course, I didn't know their names and I didn't feel satisfied with giving them a name. So I went back to the cave they were in and found out their names. When I left out though, I was caught by the bullies and they beat me. One was about to rape me but Yami and Aqua came to save me. That's why that news report came up. I didn't want you guys to know because I didn't know if you would keep the secret or tell someone about them and get them caught." Yugi said, his eyes tearing up slightly.

Diamond felt bad and kneeled down to hug him. "Yugi, you shouldn't have kept a big secret away from us. You can trust us. We are the only ones who knew about that story since it was in hieroglyphics and your grandfather was the only one to decipher them. You know we wouldn't do anything to them to make humans look even worse than they think now.

"With them on the watch for them makes it worse so you need to be careful. We'll do our best to help out as well Yugi, you know that." Diamond said and he nodded as he hugged her back. Yami walked over to them and looked to Diamond curiously, Aqua heading upstairs silently.

She looked to him and reached out a hand quietly. He sniffed it lightly before rubbing against it, wanting her to pet him. She smiled and stroked his head lightly, hearing him purr softly. "Don't worry, we along with the rest of Yugi's friends will keep you two safe from those that wish to hurt you." Diamond said and he nodded.

"Thank you for help." he said quietly and she smiled before she released herself from the hug and got up. "Well, I better get back to Ryou and the others before they wonder where I went to. I will tell them about the demons so they know they're here and help out if needed." Diamond said before looking to Yami. "And I want you and your friend to stay away from public eyes. I don't want to see you two get caught." Diamond said and he nodded and watched as she left out.

"She nice." Yami said and Yugi nodded. "Yes and so are my other friends. You or Aqua don't need to worry about them. All we need to do is make sure other people don't see you. I'm happy to know no one reported anything about seeing you two today." Yugi said and he nodded before he yawned.

"Well, it seems you are tired. Go ahead and get some rest." Yugi said and was about to walk away but Yami wrapped his arms around him. "I don't want to sleep alone." Yami whispered softly and he nodded, feeling a little tired as well. 'But I'm not that tired, I'll just stay until Yami falls asleep.' Yami picked him up and headed upstairs and to Yugi's room.

When he was in the room, he lied down on the bed and placed Yugi down beside him. Yugi stroked his neck quietly and listened as he purred, falling asleep after a while. Yugi kissed him on his snout lightly before slipping out of his grip. 'Hopefully this threat to them will be gone soon. They need to get out more but I can't as long as the police are on watch.' Yugi thought as he looked to Yami and then Aqua. He was about to leave the room but he heard his name being called out and he turned back to see Yami woke up again. "Don't leave." he said softly and Yugi could resist the sad look he gave him and walked back over to the bed.

Yami pulled him back onto the bed beside him and nuzzled him. "Please, don't leave." he said and Yugi nodded. "Don't worry, I will never leave you or Aqua. I promise you that I will take care of you better than those that once trusted you and then shunned you because you were demons. You should never have been treated like that." Yugi said. He sighed as he continued to nuzzled him.

"Next to Varn and Chailen, you are the nicest person we know of. We don't want to lose that." Yami said and Yugi smiled. "I know. Now go ahead and go to sleep alright? You are tired." Yugi said and he nodded. Before he fell asleep, he turned Yugi to face him and placed a gentle kiss on his lips. "Night, aibou." he said before falling asleep once more, holding Yugi close to him like he was a stuffed toy.

Yugi was blushing after the kiss and looked to see the calm expression Yami showed and smiled again, kissing his snout again before falling asleep. 'I will always be here for you.'

Diamond gathered the others to the park and told them what Yugi told her. "So, that was the remains left in the alley. This is very serious then. If someone other than us knows about those demons then we are in for some trouble and so Yugi since he takes care of them. We can't let them feel that humans would do something to hurt them. They are very fragile with emotions and only trust Yugi and us so far." Ryou said.

"I can't believe who would want to hurt them. There has to be some way we can keep people from hurting them. If I can take one lucky guess, if they found out about them, they will take them away from Yugi and torture them if not kill them. They don't need anything like that." Jou murmured.

"I agree, they already had enough pain with being exiled from their home. The police don't need to make it worse. I vote for one of us to go there once everyday so we can get to know them and have them trust us more until the heat dies down and they are safe again." Diamond said.

They nodded with that plan and went to leave. What they didn't know is that their most hated enemy was walking by and happened to have heard most of their conversation. Anzu didn't believe in the occult or the story Yugi told that day in school but hearing this made her curious.

'I need to start listening in on them more often. If they are true to what they say, I could get the reward and maybe get custody to take care of them myself. They are helpless but I can make it to where they aren't.' Anzu thought and started to make her way to the game shop.

Yugi woke up when he heard the bell to the game shop ring again and as much as he didn't want to leave Yami's embrace, he still needed to tend to customers. He moved Yami's arm lightly so he wouldn't wake him up and got up, walking downstairs. What he saw is someone he didn't want to see. "What do you want, Anzu?" Yugi asked.

He along with his friends never did like Anzu and try to avoid her most of the time since she almost has her life revolve around insulting them. She always thinks just because she could date any guy she wanted, has popularity and is leader to the cheerleading team she could do anything she wanted. "Oh nothing, just heard something interesting today when I took a walk through the park." Anzu said.

"Ok and why does that bring you here?" he asked again, ready to just drop this little conversation and head back upstairs. "Because it happens to deal with you. You happen to have some visitors that are being hunted by the police. Am I right?" Anzu said and that caught Yugi's attention.

'Oh no, she must've heard Diamond explaining to my friends about Yami and Aqua. We are in so much trouble now.' he thought with worry. She saw the look and smirked. "But I am willing to keep my mouth shut if you do something for me." Anzu said.

"What do you want?" Yugi almost growled. "I never believed in the occult but hearing that you have two living demons here with you makes me wonder. Why don't you show them to me. If you do, I promise to not tell the police where the 'beasts' are hidden." Anzu sneered. Yugi wished he could do something to her but he couldn't for if he sent Yami or Aqua here to kill her, people will see through the windows and make the situation worse. "Fine but you better keep your word." Yugi said darkly and went back upstairs, Anzu following behind him.

He walked into his room and Anzu moved him out the way and gazed at the two sleeping demons. 'They are so beautiful. No, more like exotic since they came from another land. I must make them mine and I know I can. I have the better advantage. Yugi can't stop me from revealing his secret so they are mine for the taking.' she thought and turned to Yugi.

"Yugi, they are so wonderful. Makes me wonder, how you could take care of them?" Anzu questioned. Yugi hated to answer her questions but he knew he couldn't stop her from calling the police to take them away. "They have a childlike disposition so their feelings can be broken easily. I try to not do that or have anyone else do so. I take care of them with the love they deserved." Yugi said.

"Really? Then I guess you won't mind if I take one, will you?" Anzu said. Yugi looked to her, shocked. "No! You can't! That's crossing the line there! I'm not letting you take them away from me!" Yugi hissed and yet softly so he wouldn't wake them up. "Well, then. I guess I will just head to the police station and tell where the 'beasts' are hiding shall we?" Anzu growled and left. Yugi fell to his knees, his hands balling into tight fists.

Tears came to his eyes at the decision he had to make for Yami and Aqua's safety. 'I can't believe I did this. She is making it a lose/lose situation. If I gave them up, Yami or Aqua will have to deal with her torture and that will break their trust in me because I gave one of them to such a fate. But now, I made a decision that will ruin their life anyway and there's no way how I can stop it.' Yugi thought sadly.

"Why did it had to come to this?" he asked himself, never knowing Aqua woke up and was watching him. He heard most of the conversation and was quite angry that Yugi was forced to make a decision he didn't want to make. 'He made a decision that could be our doom. This shows his loyalty to us and we can't let that be ruined.' he thought as he got up and went to wake Yami.

When he did, he told him what happened and he was worried but knew that he couldn't worry about it now. His fate along with Yugi's is on the line now. He got off the bed and walked over to Yugi. "Aibou, Aqua has told me what happened and we are not going to be caught. We are going to leave now. Head back to Varn and Chailen's shop. We be safe there." Yami whispered and he looked up.

"That's right, we still have hope. Come on, let's hurry before the police comes." Yugi said and Yami nodded as he picked him up. They headed downstairs and out the back door, making their way back to the pet shop where Varn and Chailen waited for their return.

Back in Egypt, a red dragon stood upon a pyramid, looking in the direction of Japan. 'The two exiled demons are there and are in danger along with the boy. I must go for they must be put into a safer place before they are separated from the angel who takes care of them so well and put into the care of a evil witch by force.' she thought as she unfurled her wings and flew off, hoping to make it before they could be found.

Zypher: There, that's it for chapter 3. Will Yami, Yugi and Aqua be safe from the police or will they be caught and Yami and Aqua forced into being in Anzu's 'care' with a little persuasion on her part? Find out in chapter 4 but we all know you need to review. Reviews equals chapter 4.