Yami, Bakura, and Marik were walking out of The Alanshar Public Library. It was fairly close to Mai's so it was a short walk but Yami couldn't get the unnerving feeling that something was wrong out of his head. They walked around the corner, Marik and Bakura talking about thieving tools when all three of them stopped. The door to Mai's house was open and Mai was coming around a different corner. Yami looked at Marik and Bakura. They nodded and all three made a dash for the house. Yami was the first through the already open door and so was the first to see the disaster zone that had been Mai's house. The table in the dining room was broken into several separate pieces, the wood flooring was scratched beyond all repair, and Yugi wasn't anywhere to be seen.

"Yugi!" Yami was going through the house calling the smaller one's name. Then he passed the study he heard a small whimper from the corner. He went in and turned on the light. He looked around and saw Yugi hiding in the corner.

"Yugi, Yugi it's me Yami." He said, earning a look from the small boy. Yami winced. His face had multiple scratches on it and he had a gash above his right eye. Yugi sniffled then threw himself toward Yami, making the older on lose his balance and fall over.

"Yugi its okay I'm here now." He cooed, running his hand through Yugi's hair.

"Hey Yami what happe-" Bakura had entered the room to ask something but got his answer when he saw Yugi.

"I'm not sure." Yami replied never looking away from Yugi.

"Yugi could you please tell us what happened? We want to help." He said softly. At first Yugi didn't answer, mostly because he felt hysteria creeping into his mind, but also because he was still stunned and embarrassed that he threw himself at Yami. When Yugi did answer it was a slur of words that nobody really understood. (A/N I highly recommend you read this slowly)

"SomeladywithbrownhaircameinandsaidthatshewaslookingforaLiveOnebutIdidn'tknowwhatshemeantandshesaidthatifIdidn'ttellhershewouldkillmeand-" Yugi stopped. Just going back to the memory made him sick.

Flash Back

"Why hello there small one." A tall brown haired woman said. She was wearing a pink/purple dress that had a violet collar. She also had some staff thing that had a crescent moon at the top.

"U-um excuse m-me but w-what do you n-need?" Yugi stammered, hoping Yami would be back before something happened. The woman smiled.

"What I'm looking for? Really now you should know the answer to that." She said, amusement in her voice. Out of instinct Yugi shook his head no and the woman started to laugh uncontrollably. She the picked up Yugi and threw him at the table. The table broke on impact causing splinters to fly everywhere. Yugi winced as he sat up and put his hand above his eye. Blood. He was bleeding. Yugi just stared and the crimson liquid in his hand unaware that the woman was coming towards him. He snapped back to reality when he felt the woman's fist make contact with his face, sending Yugi backwards. Yugi quickly regained enough composure to make a dash for a room. Any room. He went into the first he saw and hid in the corner. He looked at his surroundings. A small desk, a bookshelf, and a couch. He must have been back in the study. Yugi sighed in relief, but quickly inhaled it again. He heard someone walking towards the room. He whimpered in fear, instantly regretting it. The light flicked on and he heard his name being called. He looked up and was met with a warm, comforting crimson gaze.

End Flashback

Yugi was unaware that he was talking out loud. When he stopped talking he whimpered and nuzzled his head into Yami's chest making the older one blush. Marik, who had entered the room during the explanation smiled at his friend's embarrassment. He thought the two actually looked cute together. Still smiling he left Yami to comfort the small boy. Also, he knew Bakura wasn't going to take the job of explaining to Mai what happened to her house.

So after Marik left they sat there for awhile, until Yugi finally said something that they could both understand.

"Yami I'm scared. What if that woman comes back? What if someone gets hurt? What if-" Yugi stopped and blushed. Yami was now right in front of him with his forehead on his own, his hand in his.

"If that happened," he said getting closer to Yugi "I would kill her in an instant." He said before Yami's and Yugi's lips met.

At first Yugi resented the idea and started to push away, but calmed down enough to accept the kiss that was being given to him. They broke apart, the need for air growing important and looked at each other, both red faced. Yami was first to speak.

"Yugi I'm so sorry! I couldn't control myself. Please forgi-" Yami stopped as a small finger was put over his lips. He was shocked to see Yugi smiling at him before he gave him a hug. Then Yugi said

"There's no need for me to forgive you" he said. He pulled away just enough so that Yami could see his eyes

"Don't forget I accepted what you gave me remember." He said smiling as he pulled the other into a kiss. When they left the room they were greeted by three smiling faces. Marik, Bakura, and Mai didn't say anything but they knew what had happened. Call it intuition. When they left Mai told them that she had gotten them better transportation to cross the sea.

"He said that he and his crew would give us a ride as long as I didn't turn them in." she said when they reached the dock they saw a weird looking boat. It had a goat like head at the bow that looked big enough for someone to sit on and the sails had a skull and crossbones that had a straw hat on.

"Hey you up there?" Mai called. There was a quick shuffling and then a kid with black hair and a straw hat jumped down. Mai smiled as the rest of the crew came out. There was an orange haired girl in a T-shirt, a blond guy in a suit, a guy with turquoise hair holding one, two….three swords, a guy with brown hair, a guy in goggles, and some little reindeer thing in a red hat.

"Every one," Mai said "Meet Straw Hat Luffy. He's going to be taking us to Spiracle in exchange for me not turning him in." she said. The boy smiled and walked over.

"Hi I'm Luffy." He said a giant smile on his face. He then started pointing to the people who had also come off the ship.

"That's Nami." He said indicating the orange haired girl "She's our navigator." He said, then pointed to the sword guy.

"That's Zoro, I rescued him from the palace and he joined my crew as, I guess you could say payment." He went down the line of crew members. The blond was Sanji the cook, the guy in goggles was Ussop. Luffy said he hit things with a slingshot. The reindeer was chopper who was apparently the ship doctor and insisted on seeing Yugi's injury from the day they met Mai. Then everyone started talking and Yugi noticed Luffy forgot the brown haired guy.

"Umm Luffy?" he asked Luffy turned to him looking confused, then looked back at Yami. He kept doing that until Yugi was sure he was going to get whiplash.

"You two look the same." He said to Yugi. Yugi looked at him then at Yami who was smiled, then went back to talking to Nami.

"Umm Luffy," he began again. The straw hat boy turned to him again, this time not saying anything.

"Who's the guy with brown hair?" Luffy followed Yugi's gaze

"Oh that's Tristan. He stowed away on our boat a few days ago. Said he was going to KingTip and said this was faster than walking." That was all Luffy said before turning back to Marik and Bakura laughing about something. Yugi just walked over to the ship. He decided to take a look around when something caught his arm. He turned and saw Tristan glaring at him. Yugi was sure that he was going to get thrown off the ship but before Tristan did anything Yami elbowed him in the stomach, causing him to drop Yugi. Yami smirked in victory and went over to help Yugi up. After Yugi was up and brushed off Yami turned and saw Tristan already on his feet glaring at both of them, then skulking off.

"What was that about?" he asked Yugi. Yugi shrugged. Then both of their attentions were caught by Mai saying that Luffy was going to give them a tour of the ship. Yugi smiled to Yami then hand in hand started running towards the group.

That night after the tour and after Sanji cooked dinner everyone was in bed. Yami and Yugi had originally been given a room with two beds, but they pushed the beds together and were now peacefully sleeping. Yami had his arm around Yugi's waist and Yugi's head was curled up chest. Both slept peacefully that night. Loving each others company….loving being loved.

End Chapter

Yes I know how stupid the ending is but it's all I could think of. As for me putting the straw hat crew in it made sense since Mai is a bounty hunter and Luffy has a bounty on his head. It also took me forever to come up with the scene where Yugi and Yami kissed but I thought the one I chose was pretty good and I hope you thought so too. Also Tristan isn't part of Luffy's crew I just needed a place to add him into the story. And since I forgot at the top I don't own Yugioh or anything else in this story.

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