8 Years Later
"Joey!" Yami yelled out for his personal assistant. "Yes, your highness." Joey said as he walked out of the shadows and bowed down before his formal brother. "What's on the schedule today?" Yami asked, sitting on his throne with his head high and proud. "Well, today we have the once a month family dinners. Check on the slaves, walk around the town, solve any arguments to see." Joey said bored of having to say the same thing over and over again. Well then, let's get started." Yami said standing up and heading towards the dungeons. On the way, Yami said hello to anyone who his passed his path no matter what social class they were.
Contrary to popular belief, Yami, unlike the many kings before him, put up a very kind front instead of being cold, cruel, and having a heart like stone. People still feared him because of the rumors of what he does to people who went against the laws. Most people also thought that he was just like all the other kings, ruthless, because . . . well, he's a vampire and that's how kings are, aren't they? Yami set in his mind a long time ago that he would prove to them that he wasn't as mean as people thought he was. And the way he was going to prove it was by going into the streets and talking to almost everyone, or at least saying "Hi."
When Yami went into the dungeons, he checked on the inhabitants and asked how they felt. Unfortunately those conversations never went further than that. After all, he still had to keep some of his reputation. After Yami made sure that none of the prisoners were hungry or sick, he decided that it was time to go into the village and look around at the different kind of things that the merchants sold.
Yami walked up and down the market looking at all the different foods and clothing. On the way back to the palace, he saw a little boy, seemingly no older than thirteen walk to the front of a shop holding at least two gallons of water on his shoulders. As the little boy looked up he saw the King walk by, he stopped and bent his down as much as he could to show his respect. One thing that caught Yami's attention about the boy was that they look almost exactly alike because of the hair they both shared and his beautiful, hypnotic amethyst eyes.
The little boy stayed bowing his head down a minute too long because the guard that was watching him pretended to bump into him knocking over all of the water. Caught off guard, the little boy fell, spilling all of the water that he carried from the well to his masters' home. The angry guard, pulled out his whip and whacked the little boy between his words, "Hurry up! smackDon't be so clumsy! smack Watch were you're going! smack I need the water for my bath!"
"I'm sorry, I'll get the water again." The little boy wailed in the familiar feeling of pain, readying himself for the long journey ahead with a now aching back. "Don't talk back to me, just do what I say." The guard said proud of how he was handling a slave and thought that he would impress the King. So he bowed his head towards Yami, but Yami just looked away from him in disgust and walked away, towards his home.
"Look at what you did Yugi!" Now the King disapproves me because of you" The guard, Keith, said. "Sorry." Yugi said leaving to get another two gallons of water. When Yugi came back with the water Keith said "Go get me a chicken. I'm hungry." while sitting down to watch Yugi struggle with the large amount of water on his shoulders. "But-". "No 'but's' just do it." Keith said, not really caring how tired or exhausted Yugi was from the long walk. Yugi poured the water out into the vases that were set out, then left to go and get Keith's chicken.
"Here's your chicken sir." Yugi said as he entered the building. But instead of being greeted with a mean scowl, he got punched in the stomach by another guard and was told that he was under arrest for impersonating the King, and for threatening Keith. Yugi was still in a lot of pain and only heard the end of what the guard said, he somehow managed to get out a, "I would never do such a thing." Yugi groaned out. "Just shut your moth and we'll find out what to do with you later." The biggest guard said while walking Yugi out of the little shack. Yugi wasn't the strongest person in the world, so struggling was basically useless.
Finally the guards brought Yugi to the palace where Yami was sitting. "Your highness, this man was caught trying to mimic your handsome looks and was disobedient towards his master, Keith." "I was not! I was getting him a chicken just like he wanted!" Yugi yelled out for some reason, even though he knew he was in front of an extremely feared Vampire King. Many of the guards and government people were vampires, and fed on all the people who disobeyed the rules. Yugi just feared that he would be the next one on the list.
"Shut up!" You were not asked to give your opinion!" one of the guards said while putting his foot on Yugi's back pushing it down while pulling his arms back. With a yelp of pain from Yugi, the guard just pushed his foot into Yugi's back even further into the unknown lashes for more pain. "Joey!" Yami yelled out. "What should we do with him?" Not recognizing the hypnotizing eyes that he saw earlier today, and too bored to pay attention to what the boy looked like.
Hearing this Yugi lifted his face, etched in pain, to see a blonde walk out of the shadows carrying a book. "According to this, he should receive around 50 lashes, for impersonating you and a beating or two for being a disobedient slave." Joey said. While Joey was reading the punishment Yugi looked over to the young man sitting in the throne and obviously saw that he was completely bored out of his mind. The guard noticed that Yugi wasn't looking down, so he pulled Yugi's hair up to make him look up at the ceiling. He was met with a scream full of surprise and more pain.
Yami's facial features changed from being bored from being annoyed at hearing the slave yelling and screaming. Noticing his brother's change in attitude, Joey asked, "What's wrong?" "Nothing, just take him away." Yami said, wanting some peace and quiet once and for all. While the guards were taking Yugi away, he dropped his head in defeat as he accepted his fate.
somebody asked me about the prince thingy, i 4got wut culture that was, i just remember it...sry...um..thanx for ur review! and sry i spelled throne wrong b4...) R&R plz!!