Yami looked into Yugi's eyes and just got lost yet again in those amethyst orbs. "Yes Yugi, you need to get your health back." Tea said to him while handing him a sandwich. 'So that's his name, Yugi. No name could better fit such an angel.' Yami thought still looking at Yugi even though he was looking down and blushing once he noticed who he was looking at. 'He looks better when he's blushing.' Yami thought as Yugi nervously reached out to get the sandwich from Tea's hands.
Yugi slowly began to eat while Yami pulled up a seat to take care of Yugi if he needed anything, and to just keep him company. "Yugi?" Yami asked a little nervously although he didn't know why. Yugi looked up curiously still chewing on a piece of bread that he recently just put in his mouth. "Um . . . where are your parents and why are you working for Keith?" He asked not so sure if he was probing into something personal. "Well . . .my parents died when I was around eight and my sister was three, so we were left with my grandpa. We needed the money for food and clothes so I got a job for money and my sister worked for Keith when she got old enough. When my sister kept coming home with unexplainable bruises and scratches, I made her stay home to take care of Grandpa, our shop and our little farm. That's how I came to work for Keith. All the little food I received for being extra good was given to my family to share with." Yugi said finishing the piece of bread that was in his mouth. "How old are you?" Yami asked still looking at him somewhat longingly. "I'm 17 turning 18 a couple of months." Yugi said putting the food down, now full and not able to eat anymore. "Oh . . .umm . . .How do you feel?" Yami asked Yugi breaking the very uncomfortable silence in the room. "I'm fine." Yugi said just sitting up on the bed. "What am I supposed to do? Do I go home or am I gonna stay in jail?" Yugi asked, questions just popping up in his head one right after the other. Gasping, he also asked, "How am I going to help my family? How will they get food? How will they pay the bills?" Yugi said staying still and freezing forgetting about Yami for a little bit.
"Well, if you want to you and your family can stay here. But in order to stay you must do some sort of work. Do you want to?" Yami asked being the kind souled person he is, although Yugi didn't know that yet. But to say Yugi was surprised about the suggestion would be an extremely large understatement. "Are you sure? We might be too much trouble." Yugi said worriedly having second thoughts about the Pharaoh. "If I wasn't sure, I wouldn't have asked." Yami said smiling at the way Yugi's face brightened up all of a sudden and made a little squeak of excitement.
After a couple minutes Yugi stopped and thought aloud, "What work would we do?" He thought not so sure of what skill he and his family had for such a big palace. "Well, does your family know how to cook?" Yami asked thinking of different jobs his little guests' family could do. "Yea, I guess. We never had the best ingredients at home so we just improvised most of them with whatever we had. "That's okay, we have most of the ingredients you will ever need to cook. And if you ever needed more we'd just go out and shop for some more. This is actually good, we could use some new taste, the one we have now is getting a little old." Yami said to Yugi. Thinking for a little bit Yugi blurted out, "Please don't fire the cook on account of my family." Feeling guilty if that were ever to happen. "I wouldn't fire him, you guys would just switch cooking shifts every other month or so. Is that okay with you?" Yami asked, reassuring Yugi's doubt, finding the fondness towards the boy grow stronger and stronger by the passing minutes. "Of course that's ok!! Couldn't be happier!! You're the best!! Thank you so much!!" Yugi said bouncing up and down on the bed before jumping into Yami's arms and tackled him onto the bed smiling all the while.
Finishing their little laughing, tickling, play time Yugi asked, "When can we go and get my family?" "Well, I guess we can go now if you want." Yugi smiled at hearing the response and got off the bed heading towards the door. When Yugi noticed that Yami wasn't right behind him, he turned around a looked curiously towards the bed. Yami arose from the bed chuckling at how cute Yugi could be sometimes.
Yugi and Yami were walking around outside when out of the blue Yugi asked, "What exactly did I do wrong? I think I was too lost in thought and in pain to actually pay attention at all until the punishment was announced." He said looking down embarrassed. "You don't know?" Yami asked slightly surprised. "Well, honestly, knowing Keith, you probably and didn't deserve the punishment that you got." Yami said starting off. "And knowing you, I highly doubt you even did anything. Anyways, you got punished because you didn't do what Keith told you to do. Also because you and me look so similar that he might've thought one day that you were trying to mimic me. I guess he just had it in for you." Yami said ashamed that he even new a person so foul.
"What!? I did everything he wanted. I didn't even get anything for overtime. My family needed the food and money." Yugi said exhausted from trying to explain everything, but having it not come out of his mouth correctly. "I'm sorry . . . I don't know if you remember, but I saw you in the streets the day you came in. I saw what Keith did. I thought it was very nice of you to bow your head, and you handled Keith very well. I'm sorry that I didn't stop your punishment. If I knew it was you, I would've stopped it. But we have so many trouble-makers nowadays I don't care to pay attention to any of them, and I guess I thought you were just another one. I'm sorry, I'll do all I can to make sure that Keith doesn't have anyone else work for him and suffer the pain, that of which you received." Yami said still feeling bad.
Touched by this, Yugi continued to walk and slowly lifted his hand up to gently grab hold of Yami's, as they walked down the streets. "Thank you. This means a lot to me." Yugi said still holding Yami's hand getting and closer to their destination. "Any time, my little one." Yami said getting to know Yugi a little more and liking every minute of it. At hearing 'my little one' Yugi just smiled and moved slightly closer to Yami unknowingly, Yugi was starting to get a crush on the young King.
Eventually they arrived at Yugi's house and shop. It was a game shop, house, farm and apparently a little fruit shop. There was a girl with shoulder length hair and blonde bangs that were pulled to the side behind her ears. She wore a regular short sleeve shirt and jeans with a couple of wholes where her knees were, and the bottom of her pants were slowly fading away because she stepped on them too much with her shoes. Yami just assumed it was Yugi's little sister that was managing the little fruit shop. Yugi and Yami slowly walked up to his sister hand in hand. Yugi shyly picked up an apple. "How much is this?" Yugi asked. Hearing thing voice, she froze and looked up very slowly and secretly pinched herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming.