Sorry it's late. Really really late. I've had trials and studying and stuff, so i haven't had much time to work on this story. Plus a bit of writers block. Meh.

Disclaimer: Dun own anything except Elfy. And the general storyline.

Chapter Five

Yugi rolled over, too tired to really bother waking up. He was warm, he was safe, he was comfortable and he had that nice fuzzy feeling of well being you have when you're not quite asleep and not quite awake. He was content to just drift through this realm of thick warm mist and hot orange water. Elf was here too. Yugi lay half-in, half-out of the water against Elf's chest and in his arms.

/…What is this/ Yugi wondered idly.

Elf shifted slightly in his kneeling position, smiling sleepily into his kitten's hair. //This is my Soulroom./

Yugi yawned cutely, stretched, rubbing his eyes and before snuggling into Elf's chest. Elf's bare chest.

Yugi pulled back slightly out of habit, before he stopped and snuggled closer(1).

They lay like that for a while before Yugi pondered aloud something that had been bugging him for some time. And that awe-inspiring question that had caused much agonized pondering for centuries(2) …

/…Do you think a vegetarian would eat animal shaped cookies/

/…Yugi…where do you come up with this crap/ There was a silence(3).

/Dunno. Same place I got the whole theory for gravity./

Silence.

/…Gravity's a myth, you know. Earth just sucks./

More silence flowed in Yugi's direction.

/…Huh. Yeah…Whatever./

Elfy laughed. /Who the hell needs a comedy channel when they've got you prattling aboutuseless shit like this/

/Hey! I'm not-/

Yugi was interrupted by someone clearing their throat.

I hope I'm not interrupting anything.

/Nope./

Yugi craned his neck forward and smile, waving with his free hand. /Hi, Bakura. Whatcha doin' in here/

Indeed, Bakura was standing in his skillfully rumpled school uniform, up to his ankles in water and hand on hip. Drool worthy.

I could ask you the same thing, what with you turning up on my doorstep, ready to drop from exhaustion. Not to mention I didn't know anyone could have two yamis at once.

Both Motous looked surprised, but Yugi answered. / Who? Yami? Nah. He stopped being my yami when he got a body and severed the link between us./

Bakura nodded. That explains the pharaoh, but not him. He motioned to Elf with his head.

/I can answer that./ Elf shifted and changed his usual naughty smirk for an expression of serious contemplation. / As you know, a yami is the darker part of the hikari's soul. If anything happens to the hikari, it can be expected that the same would happen to the yami and visa-versa. Now, when Yami severed the link, Yugi found himself missing part of himself that was essential to his existence, because Yami, being the control-freak he is, repressed any 'negatively influenced' emotions-/

/Like lust and anger./

Elf sighed in annoyance. / Like lust and anger, thus making Yugi easier to control. Anyhow, when Yami's influence suddenly disappeared from Yugi's mind, his mindset was forced to mature too quickly, expelling all this emotional excess. Yugi, in an unconscious attempt to fill the void Yami left, fashioned the emotional excess into another consciousness, which the Millenum Puzzle, who's sentient by the way, then manifested into a yami who wouldn't use Yugi as a means to an end. Thus, I, Elfinite, came into existence./

There was a long contemplative silence as Bakura pondered over this new information and how it could be turned to his advantage.

So…what do you want me to tell the third wheel hammering on my front door?

Elf growled and pull Yugi closer. /Nothing. We're not here. Yugi left the Puzzle with you and took off to who-knows-where./

Kay.

It was noted on both sides that the other hadn't answered a question.

1 On the grounds that 'Hey, I've already screwed him, so what am I complaining about'.

2Or at least a decade.

3 There was a bottomless quality to Elf's silences. And also a certain directional componant. Yugi later learnt to dread these silences. He always fell for it. He always tried to fill it up. It was suspected it was revenge for the Dewy Kicked Puppy Eyes™.