Yes! ^____^ Thank you all for the great reviews.

Zypher - Thanks for the reviews, both of them.

Keisha - Thanks for the e-mail and don't worry your question will be answered in this chapter, so continue reading.

Little Yugi - Thanks for telling me what a Yaoi is, it really helped me. And to everyone who has read this far;

THIS IS GOING TO BE A YAOI.

Yami: WHAT?! O.O (He can't believe what I just said.)

You heard me Yami. And don't give me that look.

Yami: What look? O.O

THAT LOOK!

Yami: Oh, sorry.

That's o.k. But lets just move on.
Chapter 3 ~ Friends

*Yami's View*

One day had passed since I met Yugi. But during that time I had been hiding in the dark, away from the sun, thinking.

I was sitting on a coffin, in the mausoleum that I perched on the night before, with my chin in my hands. I could still taste Yugi's blood in my mouth and my fangs had refused to retract. I was just lucky that I got out of Yugi's house when I did. If I hadn't. well it would have been very bad.

~*~ Flashback ~*~

"Yami." I said, looking out the window. Yugi looked up at me in question as tears still fell from his eyes. "That's my name, Yami." Yugi nodded slowly.

And in that moment, I heard the voice of the vampire echoing in my mind.

"Take him." It hissed. "Take him NOW."

"NO!" I mentally shouted back. I had to get out of here, before I lost control.

"I'll go now." I said, before getting up and leaving the room though the window.

~*~ End ~*~

I sighed and tipped back, my back resting on the lid of the coffin, looking at the ceiling. What was I going to do? I had tried to forget about Yugi, but. I just couldn't. I couldn't extract the feeling of pure rage that I had felt when those too mortal guys had cause harm and pain to him. And I couldn't forget how Yugi's eyes were filled with pure terror on that night.

Something was just keeping me form forgetting any of it. My concise, I guess, kept telling me to stop running away, that I wasn't going to get anywhere if I just ran. But I was afraid what would happen if I got to close to little Yugi. I may not be able to control myself.

I sighed again and tried to get some sleep, just before the sun went down.

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Some dark threatening storm clouds had come by, blocking out the silver moon. It would soon rain and I wasn't prepared for that, or with what happened next.

I was sitting on the roof of the mausoleum when it happened. I saw Yugi again.

He had come back? I thought that after what happened last night, I would never see him again. Yugi walked up the street, looked up at me, and motion for me to come down.

I looked quickly around, checking to see if anyone else was around before I jumped down, right in front of him.

I gave him a questioning look before he swallowed and spoke. "I-I just wanted to say thank you, for last night Yami. If you hadn't been there, then I'm pretty sure that those men would of killed me."

~Go on,~ The voice of the vampire hissed in my head. ~Take him, I know you want to.~

I bit my bottom lip, in an effort to keep myself from doing anything bad.

I was not going to take Yugi's innocent, I wouldn't.

Yugi looked up at me smiling slightly, and I relaxed. His warm smile just seem to quiet the voice inside me, which I was thankful for, even if the voice was gone just for a little while.

But suddenly, I heard the sound off some people running towards us from my right.

My head jerked over to see who was making such a loud noise, as it sounded like about three people were coming. Yugi looked up at me and then followed my sharp gaze.

And then I heard a slightly New York accented voice call out. "Yugi! Hey Yug. Is that you?" Two more voices then joined in with the first one.

"Yugi! Are you OK?" they both cried.

My eyes narrowed and I saw that two boys and a girl were running towards us. The boy with the accented voice had blond hair and brown eyes, he was also wearing a grass green coat and had a flash light in his hand, the beam of light bobbing around since the guy was running. The boy running behind him was really tall, had a head of pointed brown hair, and was wearing a brown trench coat. And behind them was a girl with brown hair and blue eyes. She looked the most tired though, because she stopped for a breath as the other two ran.

The boy with blond hair stopped running when he was about 10 feet from us, the other guy following suit. He then redirected the flash light so it shown on Yugi.

Yugi blinked and asked. "Joey, Tristan, Tea, what are you doing here?"

"We came to see if you were all right." The boy named Joey said.

"Yeah," The Tristan guy said, "Your grandfather wanted us to come find you."

I took a step back, since I had been staring at the beam of light the whole time. I couldn't allow that light to touch me. I wasn't really sure what would happen if the light did touch me, but I backed up just the same.

"Hey! Who's that?" the girl named Tea asked, pointing her finger at me. Joey then placed the beam off light on me.

My eyes widened as the light hit me. I probably looked like a deer stuck in the headlights of an oncoming truck, because, personally, that's what I felt like. And then, the pain attacked me.

It was terrible. It felt like my heart was being ripped out of my chest. I opened my mouth and this horrible, shrieking came out of me. It was the sound off pain, emitted from a vampire.

Tea, Tristan, and Yugi covered their ears, trying to block out the sound. While Joey just stood there, frozen in place. I think he was shocked to see what was happening to me, he didn't worry about the noise.

My legs felt weak, so I fell to the ground, taking in fast, quick breathes. I had never been caught in direct light before, so the frist thing that went to my mind was that I was going to die. Of coarse, I really couldn't die, but the pain was enough too make me forget that little piece of info. I shut my mouth, as not to attract other vampires.

"YAMI?!!!!" Yugi cried out in fear. He then ran over to me and laid his body on top of mine, trying to block out some off the light.

"JOEY TURN OFF THAT LIGHT." Yugi commanded, as I was fighting back the urge to open my mouth, and let out my painful cry again.

Joey was so shocked about what was going on, that he dropped the flashlight. It made a shattering noise as it hit the ground, the light dimming and then going out.

"OH MY GOD!!!" screamed Tea, taking a step back. "HE'S A VAMPIRE?!!!!" She then covered her mouth, as not to scream.

Joey and Tristan's eyes narrowed, and they looked at me like they were going to strangle me, which they probably wanted to do anyway.

Yugi looked up at them and his arms wrapped themselves around my chest and held on to me tightly. He was making it a little hard form me to breathe, but I was glad he was there. I was weak from the light and in no contusion to try and get away from the two, mad, teenaged, boys.

"Yugi, get away from him." Tristan said, taking a step towards us.

"No." Yugi said, his voice scared but forceful. "He's my friend, you guys."

I felt my breath get caught in my throat. Yugi considered me a..friend? I stared down at the ground, trying to piece this new info together. I had just met Yugi last night, and he considered me as a.friend? I then smiled, if I was his friend, then he was mine.

Joey, Tristan, and Tea looked at each other for a minute before looking back at Yugi and nodding. Yugi smiled, and slowly got off of me.

"Are you O.k. Yami?" Yugi asked me, his eyes full of concern.

"I-I'm o.k." I answered, trying to get up. I got to my hands and knees, but when I tried to get up, I found that my whole body was shaking from the exertion. Yugi reached out his hands and took hold of me, slowly helping me up. I guess I was more tried then I thought.

Joey, Tea, and Tristan watched me, just waiting to spike me if I even made a move. I got a little of my strength back, so I stood up and slowly looked at each one, my eyes sizing them up.

Joey looked away from me. Tristan tried staring back at me, but failed. And Tea took another step backwards.

Yugi looked a little worried about what I was doing, so he sighed. I smiled slightly, showing my fangs to the three mortals in front of me.

Tea whimpered and took another step back. I would of laughed, if I hadn't heard the sound of danger coming.

My eyes narrowed as I tried to figure out how far away the danger was. Yugi looked up at me to figure out what I was doing, but I didn't pay a lot of attention. The danger wasn't very close, but it would be best if Yugi and his friends got out of here.

"We have to go." I declared firmly. Yugi's eyes widened and he started looking around, trying to see why we had to leave.

"What, why?" Joey asked skeptically, as if he didn't believe me.

"Because your in danger." I said, keeping my voice firm. "Go home."

But at those words I felt someone grip my hand tightly. I looked down and saw Yugi's wide eyes looking up into mine.

He didn't say anything, but I could see him shake ever so slightly, but weather it was form the cold chill in the air or the fear that he might die, I didn't know.

I gently squeezed his hand and whispered, "Don't worry, it will be o.k." Yugi smiled at this before I placed my eyes back on Yugi's friends.

Tristan and Joey looked at each other for a moment, and then started walking down the street, towards Yugi's house. I smirked slightly; I guess they still didn't trust me.

Tea took one more, good look at me before running after the two guys. And I slowly walked after her, gently leading Yugi away from the graveyard, his hand firmly in mine.

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Okay. This chapter has clocked in for being 1499 words long. Just for the record.

Also, thanks to:

Zypher, Keisha, and Little Yugi for reviewing. You guys are great.

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Yami: Please say, "Yes." Because if you don't then I swear by Ra that I will hunt you down and send you to the shadow realm.

YAMI! Don't threaten our readers.

Yami: (sighs) Fine.

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