They soon arrived at the garden, Yugi and Yami sat on the bench in the gazebo, comfortable in each other's presence. "Can I ask you something?" Yugi asked slightly nervous. "Sure." Yami said looking towards Yugi who was looking right back at him. "Um . . .well . . .what's it . . .oh. . . never mind." Yugi said suddenly changing his mind, although the question was still nagging inside him. "Wait, what is it, you can ask me anything." Yami said moving so his whole body faced Yugi and held both of his hands together in his lap. "Well . . . I was just wandering, what's it like being a vampire? How can all you guys walk in the day? Don't you eat blood a lot?" Yugi wanted to ask more but held back knowing it was rude to ask them. "Being a vampire has its ups and downs." Yami said while standing up and walking to the side of the gazebo. "I have to feed on someone once a week, it may seem mean, but that's the way we live, but we only feed on the people who are bad and break the law. It's good as well because I get to fly around sometimes at night and check on the people in the town and make sure that everyone is safe and sound, I don't do that every night though, that would be murder. The guards and my family are aloud to walk during the day because we have something in us that are also in humans that allow us to walk during the day, although I do tend to forget the name of the gene, I'm happy we have that little trait." Yami said thankfully. "Oh. . ." Yugi said standing up walking towards Yami and taking his hand.
Yami looked down to his hand and slowly lifted his eyes to meet the beautiful eyes that he has grown to love. They stared into each other's eyes lovingly as Yami started to lean his head into Yugi's closing the distance between them. Yugi also started to lean in and both boys unconsciously began to close their eyes. Seconds away from the kiss that they both longed for, their lips less than centimeters away, DING DONG, DING DONG, the dinner bell rang and Yami opened his eyes, turning away from Yugi surprised by the loud amount of noise, and blushing madly.
'I'm never going to get a chance.' Yami thought. "Come on, it's time to eat." Yami said disappointed. Having enough of his hopes rising then being diminished, Yugi said, "Yami." "Hm. . . ?" Yami answered turning around facing Yugi again. Right when Yami turned around, Yugi leaned up and closed the space between them, kissing Yami on the lips, but when Yami didn't respond after about three seconds, he started to step back, and not wanting to break the contact, Yami leaned forward, taking a step and holding onto Yugi's waste pulling him closer to himself making the kiss deeper. Yugi slowly raised his arms and put them over Yami's shoulders and they stayed like that for what seemed like minutes, but in reality only several seconds before Yugi broke apart taking a deep breath of air.
"Hello. . ." Yami said a little dazed out. Giggling, Yugi led himself and Yami back to the palace to eat dinner. "Oh! I have to eat with my family today. I'm sure you guys could join us if you want." Yami suggested excitedly. "It's ok, I don't want to be a burden." Yugi said looking down, "No burden, I promise. Please . . ." Yami said practically begging, "We'll see . . ." Yugi said still a little unsure.
With Kadi and Grandpa
Where should I put this grandpa?" Kadi asked holding a box. "I guess you could put that over there." Soloman said pointing to a corner in his room. "Ok." Kadi said dropping the box in the destined corner, then running back into her room, wanting to finish unpacking as fast as she could. On the way out with another box, Kadi accidentally tripped over her own feet and was about to fall over if a boy around her age hadn't caught her. "Um . . . thank you." Kadi said standing up, taking a step back and looking at the boy that saved her from the fall. He had worn out jeans, and a plain white t-shirt on, a little longer than shoulder length silver hair, and doe brown eyes. "Your welcome, are you ok?" The boy asked, helping her dust off. "Yeah, I'm fine." Kadi said. "Here, let me help you with those boxes." He said picking up a box. "No it's ok, you don't have to." Kadi said, trying to get the box back, but noticed she was too late as the boy started to walk away with it. Turning around with the box in his arms, he said, "It's alright, I was sent over here to help out. Um. . . were would you like this to go?" Ryou asked. "It goes over there on top of that box in the corner." With that, Kadi turned around to get her own box, and started to transfer the many boxes.
"Um . . . so what's your name?" Kadi said bringing the last box over to her grandfather's room. "Ryou. Are you going to start unpacking?" Ryou asked starting to open up the boxes that were left in her room. "I'm Kadi, um. . . I guess I can start unpacking." She said while opening boxes with clothes in them and started to place them in drawers. "So, how long have you been here?" Kadi asked Ryou as he opened the rest of the boxes. "As long as I remember, where do you want these?" Ryou asked pointing to a couple of books and pictures. "Um, I guess they can go on the bedside shelf." Kadi said bringing her T-shirts over to the first drawer, folding them nicely.
Kadi and Ryou finished unpacking, and they were sitting on Kadi's bed talking and laughing. 'Sigh' "I haven't had this much fun talking with anyone for a long time." She said, looking up to the ceiling, daydreaming. Ryou looked over to her smiling and saw how pretty she looked in the dimming sunlight. But then, Ryou looked down to her neck and saw that she had scars on her neck that looked like it came from a rope. "How'd you get that?" Ryou said leaning in closer to inspect her neck a little bit. "Hm?" She said looking over to Ryou, but was taken aback when she saw how close he was to her. Realizing he was looking at her neck, she immediately looked down and tried to cover it, "It's nothing." Kadi rushed out a little too quickly but looked towards Ryou. "You can't tell me it's nothing. I mean . . . it's not nothing . . ." Ryou said worriedly. "Really, it's nothing to worry about." Kadi tried to say reassuringly.
"Who did it?" Ryou asked, hoping she didn't try to hang herself or anything like that. "My . . . old master." Kadi said not really wanting to remember him, but knowing that Ryou wouldn't take a 'no one' as an answer. "Apparently I was being too disobedient, so when I came back from a chore he sent me to do; he knocked me out with a beer glass that I guess he was drinking earlier. While I was unconscious, he tied me up, I think he was a little messed up in the head though. For the rest of the day, I just got dragged around by a piece of rope. It was probably the worst day of my life. But again, he was drunk, so he couldn't have controlled what he has done. Anyways, all that's in the past, and it doesn't matter because now I'm here with you." Kadi said telling Ryou about her story.
"It doesn't matter if he was drunk or not. You shouldn't have gone through any of that." Ryou said angrily. "Who was it?" He said wanting to find out this person and rip him apart to pieces, noticing he was being really protective of her, he looked down so she wouldn't see the small shade of pink that covered his cheeks. "Keith, my brother worked for him too, but he had to go through much more pain than me." Kadi said standing up and walking towards her dresser. Thinking about how happy she was, to have a brother like Yugi, who would do almost anything for her, just to make sure she was happy and unharmed.
Slowly Ryou stood and moved towards Kadi and hugged her from behind. "I know this scar looks terrible, but no matter what I tried to do, it just wouldn't go away. I'm sorry, I shouldn't be bothering you with my silly problems of the past." Kadi said looking down sadly. "Kadi . . . you could never bother me with your problems. It doesn't matter how many scars you have on your body, you'll always be perfect in my eyes." Ryou said trying to cheer Kadi up a little bit.
While Ryou's arms wrapped around Kadi's waste, hugging her close to him, he leaned his chin on her shoulder as she wrapped her arms over his and leant her head back a little bit looking into his doe brown eyes. Staring contently into each other's eyes, Kadi smiled. "Thank you, you have no idea how much that means to me." She said sighing happily, and completely relaxing in a newly found crushes' arm, and vice versa for Ryou.
Kadi opened her eyes find Ryou looking straight at her, but instead a couple inches closer from before. Something inside of Ryou made him want to lean his lips closer to Kadi's then they already were. Their lips got closer and closer, when their lips just barely touched eat others, there was a knock on the door. "Kadi, come on, it's time to eat, you can finish unpacking later." Solomon said.
Jumping out of each others' arm at the sudden noise, Kadi yelled out, "Okay Grandpa, I'll be there in a little bit!" Taking Ryou's hand she said, "Come on." Walking to the door. "I can't, I have an important get together. We can meet later though, ok?" Ryou said heading towards the door with her all the same. At the door they parted ways.