Disclaimer: I don't own (runs away sobbing) but if I did Yami's ass would be mine mwahaha!
Chapter 3
Yugi and Yami woke simultaneously the following morning. Yugi's arms were still round Yami and he made no move to remove them. Yami had turned in the night and was now facing him.
"You okay?" He asked and Yami nodded. They locked eyes again and again they both felt drawn to each other.
"Yami…" Yugi murmured. He could feel Yami's warm breath on his face and he closed his eyes. The emotions he had locked away the night before pushed at the door trying to get free but Yugi fought them back.
"I…I can't do this." Yugi said and with an enormous amount of effort, he broke the eye contact. Yami gasped.
"I'm so sorry." He said and almost jumped from the bed. Yugi got out of bed and without another word, fled from the room.
He stood in the bathroom and splashed cold water on his face. Why was it every time he looked at Yami's eyes he wanted things he knew he shouldn't but they felt so right and he didn't want to stop them.
He looked at his reflection in the mirror and for the first time ever, tears began to course down his cheeks.
"I want him…want him so badly it hurts. But I can't, it's wrong to get involved."
The voice in his head came to him.
"If you follow your human heart, you can never return to heaven and you will become human fully."
"Fully human?" He whispered and the face of the archangel swam in front of him in the mirror.
"Yugi, if you fall in love with this mortal, you will have to stay."
"I think it's too late." Yugi said as his tears continued to fall. If he stayed with Yami, he would never see his friends again. Ryou would be so sad but being an angel, he wouldn't be sad for long.
"It hurts." He said putting a hand to his chest.
"If you want it to stop you can come back now. You can remain in heaven with us and not be sent to earth again. You have to choose Yugi and there is no going back."
"I don't want to come back. But if I stay I know what I will choose."
"You know you will not receive any more help and you will have to find your own way in the world. When you come to the end of your earthly life you will be just the same as any other human soul. You will also lose your power."
Yugi heard the front door open and close signalling that Yami had gone.
"He's gone, I have to find him! I can't come back, I can't lose him."
"Then your decision is made." The archangel said sadly. Very well. He paused as if waiting for instructions and then looked at the other.
"You are now fully human. Your powers have gone and you are free to remain on earth but I must warn you no matter how much you beg and want to return should this human reject you, you cannot come back."
"I know, I have to go and find him." Yugi said backing away from the image of the archangel in the mirror that had already begun to fade.
"You have been granted some money to start you off Yugi after that it is up to you."
"Thank you." Yugi said looking on the face of him for one last time before running from the room.
The archangel in heaven watched him go. He had lost count of the times angels had been sent to earth and fallen in love with humans but they had always ended in tragedy. Why should this be any different? Sadly, he closed the link to earth and left to tell Ryou what had happened.
Yugi felt his powers leave him and knew that he was fully human now. It saddened him but he knew that this, whatever it was that he had found, was not going to go away.
"Yami!" He called as soon as he left the apartment. He ran through the streets wishing that he knew where to look or even where he was going. He wished now that he still had his powers so he could use them one last time to find Yami but nothing came to him. He didn't really expect it anyway.
He came to a park and looked round. It was a beautiful tranquil place and it made him smile slightly. He ran on through it every so often calling Yami's name but hearing no answer.
He searched the city all day but by dusk, he still had had no luck. His shoulders slumped as he retraced his steps back to his apartment not looking up until he had reached the steps to the front door.
A figure was seated there, a figure with tri-coloured hair…
"Yami!" Yugi exclaimed when he saw him. Yami was shivering from being sat there waiting for him and Yugi wondered how long he had been there.
"You're so cold." He said when he took Yami's hand to help him up. The moment they touched, Yugi felt emotions coursing through him once again like lightning but he quashed them for now, needing to get Yami into the warmth of the apartment.
"How long were you sitting there?" He asked as he unlocked the door to let them in.
"M…Most of the d…day." Yami said through chattering teeth.
"Come on lets get you warmed up." Yugi said and sitting Yami on a sofa in the lounge, he ran upstairs to get some blankets off his bed.
Wrapping Yami in them he went through into the kitchen and looked at the kettle. He needed to make Yami a hot drink so he filled it and tried to remember what Yami had done that morning. Tentatively he pressed a button and to his surprise, a light came on.
He breathed a sigh of relief and busied about making drinks as he was fairly cold himself.
He carried the made drinks through and set them on the coffee table.
"Yami, what made you come back?"
"I don't know." Yami said looking a little warmer than he had before. "I was walking away but something made me turn round and come back, I don't know what it was but I knew I didn't really want to leave, even though I didn't want to take advantage of your hospitality anymore."
"I have a confession to make." Yugi said knowing that Yami probably wouldn't believe him but needing to say it anyway.
"What is it?" Yami said looking fearful. Was Yugi going to say that he didn't want him here now anyway? That yesterday and this morning were too much and he didn't want to know? He never expected Yugi's next words.
"I'm an angel, I was sent to earth to help you and when my assignment was completed I would have to return."
Yugi paused to allow this to sink in.
"An angel? Are you serious?" In Yami's mind things fell into place. The strange powder Yugi had used and his lack of knowledge about kettles. He nodded.
"I believe you but that means you will have to leave." He said looking broken.
"I don't have to leave."
"I…I don't understand, you just said…"
"I know I would have had to leave if I were still an angel, but I'm not now."
Yami shook his head trying to clear the fuzz that had appeared. This was very confusing and he didn't understand. Yugi was an angel and now he wasn't? Why?
"I was given a choice by the archangel this morning just after we nearly…" Yugi didn't want to say 'kissed' and a flush rose to his cheeks again.
"Anyway I was given a choice. Heaven or you and I chose you."
"I still don't understand." Yami said unable to comprehend what he was being told fully.
"Well I could either return to heaven and remain there and never be given another assignment, or I could stay here and become fully human and be with you." Yugi explained.
The penny dropped.
"You mean you gave up being an angel just for me?" Yami looked dumbstruck. "But why?"
"Because I couldn't bear the thought of eternity without you." Yugi said his voice reflecting his feelings.
"I couldn't bear to leave you this morning. When you were holding me, I didn't want you to ever let me go, but I didn't want to stay and be a burden to you so I left. I had to come back though."
Yugi smiled.
"You could never be a burden Yami. I don't fully understand what I am feeling as I have never felt human emotions before yesterday but I know I never want to lose you."
They were sitting so close now, faces very close to each other then Yami pulled back.
"Yugi there were two toothbrushes in the bathroom last night, do you already have a partner?" Yugi giggled.
"Oh I'm sorry I forgot to tell you, one is for you."
Relief washed over Yami and he relaxed as Yugi moved closer to him. He closed his eyes and closed the final barrier of air between them. Their lips met and the emotions that he had so carefully locked away the night before, burst through the door and rushed through him like a torrent.
It was so perfect, so right and Yugi knew then what love really was.
The kiss was long and passionate and when the two broke apart, they were panting heavily.
"Yugi…that was…"
"Amazing." Yugi finished for him and Yami snuggled into his arms.
"I wanted to kiss you last night." Yugi said. But I couldn't it's forbidden for an angel to fall in love."
"You gave everything up for me?" Yami said the full force of what Yugi had done flooding his mind.
"I had to." Yugi said honestly and he tilted Yami's head up towards him again for another long and deep kiss though this time it was more passionate and urgent than before.
They made love, right there on the sofa and afterwards they lay in each other's arms. They seemed to fit together so well as if they were two halves of a whole.
"I love you Yugi."
Yugi held Yami close to him and it was as though even their hearts beat as one.
"I love you too." Yugi said and they drifted off to sleep together.
TBC…
Yes this is not the end! There's lots more to come
