Title- ShisouHiryuu

Part-20?

Author- DMYamiyugi

Warning- Yaoi…um…killings, demon things, and…yeah ; Using Atemu as well, not Yami.

Genre- Romance I think…some sad stuff and all…

Parings- YugixAtemu and maybe some others

Disclaimer- I do own Yugioh! looks around the area Oh fine…I don't! ;-;

Summary- Young Yugi is a freshman at collage. Everything is new, and he is struggling slightly to become comfortable with his surroundings. Having to contain his family secret as well, he becomes stressed. One day, he runs into a young sophomore, who has some secrets of his own that intertwine with Yugi's. And soon, secrets will be reveled and some for the better good and pure happiness and others drawing the darkness closer and closer.

Chapter 20- Letters

Yugi slowly trudged his way back into the house after Aokii made him run for, overall, 2 hours. The boy almost fell into his room as he opened the door and then collapsed onto his bed. Reaching up, he turned the light on and then began groping all over his dresser, trying to find where he put his cell phone down last night. The cool plastic never met his touch. Yugi sat up now, eyes confused and slightly annoyed. Scanning his dresser, all he saw was his notepad, his light and the wood finish. His right eyebrow rose in confusion.

Sitting up and swinging his legs over the side of his bed, Yugi began to stand, wincing pain shot through his sore thighs. Grabbing onto his dresser to host himself into a standing position, he began searching the room with his eyes, not even daring to get on his hands and knees. The pain would defiantly be too much for now, and Aokii wanted him to do a work out again that afternoon (it was only 10o'clock in the morning). The young mage's violet eyes scanned his whole room, from top to bottom. The teen began turning some things over, like his sheets to see it the phone was under there. Standing straight, he took off out of his bedroom and down the stairs. Entering through the giant ebony doors into the grand living room, his violet eyes scanned the area for any person or thing. Spotting his grandfather in an old wingback chair. He advanced.

"Hey grandpa," he started. The elder looked up, his reading glasses tilted over his nose.

"What it is Yugi?" he asked, taking his glasses off.

Yugi took a second to catch his breath, considering he practically ran down here. "Have- have you seen my cell phone anywhere?" he asked. Those dark, plum colored eyes gazed up at him, somewhere in their violet depths showing a certain, odd emotion. One Yugi could not quite place.

"I took it," the man stated as simply as stating it is was sunny out or not. Flipping the newspaper he was reading out, the grandfather placed his glasses back on and began scanning the human news.

The teens eyes were wide, his mouth a-gap and sweat beginning to precipitate over his forehead.

"W-what?" he sputtered out. Sugoroku sighed.

"I-took-it," he stated more clearly. Yugi just stared.

"Y-you what? Grandpa…w-wait, why?" he bellowed. "I really don't appreciate you taking my stuff without asking, of you wanted to use"-

Sugoroku cut him off. "No I did not want to use it Yugi. I do not want you calling people this summer. I want you to focus fully on your teachings from Aokii and your studies. All those human things, you don't need them." The elder man gazed up at Yugi, his eyes sharp and stern. "The only people you really need to be in contact with this summer are mages, and you can talk to them without silly human technology. You will get the phone back at the end of the summer," Sugoroku turned back to his paper. The grandson felt all color drain from his face.

"B-but, what about people at my collage? I…I can't get in contact with them, they're human!" he bellowed.

"To bad," the elder said. Yugi suddenly felt anger.

"Grandpa, what about my plan I have on it, I will be paying for nothing!" he bellowed, attempting to get his grandpa to agree and give him back his cell phone. Sugoroku shook his head.

"I canceled it. I will pay for you to change it when you go back to school. Now go and take a shower or something, you're sweaty from Aokii's work out," he said. More anger brewed up inside of Yugi.

"Grandpa, give it back now!" he yelled.

"I canceled your plan remember? The phone would be no use to you now," he said, reading. Yugi felt his legs turn to water. What…why did he do this? Of all the things, he had to take that away! It was his only connection with his old friends, with Atemu.

"Grandpa, you know I can just go out and buy another one right?" he asked, voice icy. The elder sighed.

"Yugi, just get over it an move on. I forbid you to use or get one, now please," he stood. "I must be going, I have work to do." At that said, Sugoroku exited the room and soon his footsteps died away. Yugi eyes were fixed on the chair, his eyes beginning to well up with tears of anger and despair. Growling now, he kicked the chair so hard, it fell over. Although, doing this action left his leg in pain. Wincing, and letting out a few muttered curses, the teen exited the room. Stomping up the stairs, he walked into his room and slammed the door shut, locking it with the regular lock and with his magic, so even his grandpa couldn't get in. Standing still for a second, then boy limped over to his bed and fell face down onto the sheets. Placing both arms under his head and the teen began to cry. He lied there, for what seemed an eternity, crying out his sorrows into the pillow. Soon, the salty water stopped pouring down his face and Yugi was able to sit up. He reached up with his left hand and took his necklace from its lonely hiding spot under his shirt. Staring at it for a second, the teen let his eyes sadden. Wiping his sleeve over his eyes, he finally let out a small chocked sigh.

Standing now, the boy traveled over to his walk out balcony area, and opened the tall glass doors wide, allowing the small summer breeze to flow into the room. The teen smiled sadly, and then walked back to his bed and sat down.

Placing his head in his hands, Yugi sighed once again. Now what was he going to do? He did have his laptop, and could try to use e-mail or IM.

The teen sighed once again. If his grandfather went through all that trouble just to get his cell phone away, he most defiantly canceled the Internet connection to the house. Or at least made it so Yugi could not connect with his laptop. Letting out a breath, the teen began to stand once again. What could he do now? He could just forget about it, and go on with his life. Just allow his grandfather to get his way.

'No…' the teen whispered into his mind. 'I will not let him get his way…but…I have no way of telling Atemu that my phone and internet was taken away. Mail? Maybe…grandpa might catch me but,' he let out a grin. 'What the hell, I'm in the mood to take a chance. If it means one last time to write to Atemu…I'll take as many chances as I can.'

Yugi's Internet was, in fact, gone. That however, didn't dampen his spirits on trying to contact Atemu though mail. Hoping to every god out there, that his grandfather didn't find out about his little plot, Yugi set out on trying to get the small piece of paper out of the house. He could use their mailbox…but it was risky. He could try it, and maybe get it out, but there was the fact that someone might check the mail and see it.

So, now Yugi had to figure out how to get to town. He could drive there and mail it in one of those large, blue Postal boxes. It would work. It should work. Now it was just getting out of the giant house and to the town.

/-With Atemu-\

One young man was now pacing back and forth through his apartment complex. What had happened, was Yugi hurt or worse? Why had he not heard from him for over a week? His e-mail box was empty everyday, his phone never ringing to the sound of Yugi calling.

Atemu paced back and forth, around and around his living room. Yugi would for sure tell him if something was wrong, but if something was really wrong…he didn't know what. The dragon tried calling Yugi's cell four days after their last conversation, to see if everything was going all right. What he got was a computer woman's voice saying there was no such number.

Atemu then would fume and call the same number again and again. The only voice he would ever hear was the stupid computer woman. After at least 15 times of calling, the dragon gave up, hopelessly confused. He then tried e-mail, IM and any other electronic messaging he could find. He didn't dare send airmail, he didn't want anyone at the Motou household to figure out who he was. Or what he was to Yugi for that matter. He sent at least ten e-mails to Yugi, but got none in reply.

He was at a loss. Another week went by and he had not heard anything from Yugi again. He had called Ryou and Bakura to see if they had heard from the teen. The said no, Yugi hadn't called them in three weeks. It was soon becoming that long for Atemu.

He was pacing again, pacing and pacing around his home. His computer was on, e-mail up, waiting for something to come. His phone was also on, sitting on his table, waiting to ring. Both devises made no sound. None. Atemu was going to fly all the way to the east coast if this kept up, he needed to know, and he needed to know what happened to his hikari!

Finally, finally after pacing for a whole hour and a half, Atemu fell down onto his couch, right arm over his face and a strained look over his lips. The man had not had a good night sleep for days. Nightmares of what might have happened to his lover plagued his mind and dreams. Dark lines were forming under his crimson eyes and his face was beginning to pale in the lack of sleep. The dragon did not want to be unhealthy like this, it was just…he couldn't sleep, no matter what. One night, he was up till four, watching random shows on his TV from his bed, and eventually falling asleep with the devise on. Now he was really starting to feel the effects of doing that.

There was a knock at his door. Atemu lifted his arm off of his face, and glanced over at the door with tired eyes.

"What is it?" he inquired loudly.

There was a reply, seemed like a man in his late 30's. "Mail," he said. Atemu let a sigh escape his lips and then sat up.

Heaving himself off of the couch, he stretched and let out a small grunt. "I'm commin', I'm commin'," he muttered, walking slowly to the door and then opening it. The man outside had a simple postal suite on. A navy blue short sleeve shirt and shorts, he also he had a small hat on. Handing Atemu his mail, the postal man gave a small wave and walked away. Atemu closed the door with the back of his foot and began threading through the envelopes.

"Bills…more bills…collage shit," he then just threw all of the mail into his kitchen table, when one envelope caught his eye. It was yellow, and there seemed to be hand written things on the front instead of typed names and return addresses. Atemu blinked, eyeing it suspiciously.

"Huh…" he began to pick it up. "Wonder…from Ryou and Bakura maybe?" he looked down at his name and address scrawled over it.

Relief and happiness suddenly coursed through Atemu's being. He quickly opened the letter, not even bothering to be neat, he needed to see if what he thought was correct! Pulling the real letter out, he eyed it with a smirk over his face. There were around four papers in the bunch, all folded over each other. On the very front of all of this was a little note.

:If you DARE as mock me for the stationary I used I'LL KILL YOU:

That was simply written on the front of the letters. Atemu began to laugh as he opened the packet of all of them and began to read.

Dear Atemu,

I am so sorry for what has happened! Oh yeah, I WILL know if you have mocked me for this stationary! I had no really good paper so…I was stuck with this… So what, Hello Kitty stationary is CUTE (in my opinion).

Ah, anyway, I'm…so sorry I was not able to give you signs to this earlier. My…my grandfather has taken everything away. My phone is gone, my Internet, every contact I may have with you…it's all gone. I wish that is could have told you earlier, but I had to write this out and then send it and…ah it took so long! I had to somehow get out of my house, down to town and send it! It was so hard to do…I was scared my grandfather would catch me. But I got it done…I did.

I miss you…so much. So much, gods it's just hurt so much when he said my phone, my e-mail was gone. Atemu, I need…to see you again. I wish I could, I do so much. I can't though…not till next year. This just might be the only thing I can send to you for the next two months. I'm sorry, this is all I can do. I know I said this before, but it will keep popping up in this letter. I miss you so much, so so much. Look for that phrase again, because it would be appearing again and again through out this letter…

Atemu let a small grin pass his lips as he read though this letter. Yugi was telling him how his teachings with his sensei were, and how angry he was with his grandfather, and of course said all the time how much he missed Atemu. Finally, he began getting to the ending of the letter.

…I hope to be seeing you right when I get back ok? I miss you (again!) …Take care. I love you

Love

Yugi -heart-

Atemu then smiled more. Holding up the letter to his heart, he let out a happy and contented sigh.

"I love you too…" he whispered. Walking around and into his room, Atemu places the letter on his nightstand, not wanting it to go out of his site for even a second. Treading back into his living room, Atemu eyed the other mail on the table. Blinking, he reached down and took one. Eyeing it, the dragon opened the collage envelope carefully, hoping the seal wouldn't rip. It tore slightly, but otherwise was fine.

Grinning now, Atemu took out the regular letter and threw it in the trash, since it was as good as junk. Taking his own paper and pen, the lover began to write his own reply to Yugi. Yes, he knew that it was risky, but he just wanted to see…just to see. Writing out a quick, and to him, kind of short letter, he placed it in the used envelope and then carefully whited out his own name and address and put in Yugi's. In the best handwriting he knew of. Holding the letter back, examining his neatness, he grinned. This just, just may work. Taking some stick glue, he glued the seal back as neatly as possible. The reason he was using the collage envelope, was that maybe he could pass it off as one! If Yugi's grandfather found this letter, he should only see a collage return address, meaning nothing weird about it right?

'Well…' Atemu thought with a small grin. 'It should work. I mean, at least I can give him one reply…maybe we can do this more too!' he was now almost giddy with excitement. Sometimes being daring was just too much fun. Holding the letter back again, he blew upwards.

"Well…I hope this works the way I want it to…" he laughed lightly. "Oh well, as long as Yugi's grandfather doesn't open it…I'm fine…" his eyes lightened with happiness and he twirled his bracelet around his wrist. It had become a small habit, whenever he was thinking or bored, he would twirl the wristlet. Smiling, he glanced over at his clock to see what time it was.

"Hn…I should be able to get this in a public mailbox…heh," he stood, the stopped suddenly. "Wait…" glancing back over at the clock, he gasped out loud.

"Holy shit, I have work in 10 minutes! Gods, I forgot I was working today!" he yelled to himself, holding his forehead tightly. "Damn damn!" he bellowed, placing the letter neatly on the table and then running into his room to dig his uniform for work out from under the who knows what's and where's.

Throwing the thing on quickly, Atemu bolted, out of his room, grabbed the letter and ran down the steps. Sprinting to his car, the man hopped in quickly and placed the letter in the passenger seat as he buckled his own seat belt.

"Suppose I'll have to mail it after work…" he muttered. Quickly pulling out of his parking space, he shifted to drive and speeded out of the lot. Driving to the gate, he paid the man who was at the both and then zoomed out and down the street, hoping he wasn't late…again.

Finally driving into a parking space, Atemu practically sprinted inside. Walking around to the back of the restaurant, he sighed, right, exactly, on time. An older woman came out from behind some shelves and grinned.

"Bout time you got here Atemu. It's lunch hour, some of those business people are getting testy," she laughed lightly. Atemu smiled.

"Ah, I can imagine," he said, grabbing an apron to place around his waist and a note pad. He was, in fact, a waiter and this restaurant. It was a tad bit higher class than a chain restaurant. Just a nicer, Japanese restaurant.

Atemu was very lucky to get this job. It paid well, so he wasn't in dept with rent and being half-Japanese defiantly got him in. They place was pretty big for their Sushi and seafood, but was also a mix of Japanese meat foods and some Chinese. The dragon had lost his old part time job from when he was in school because he was too far away to get there in decent time. Now, though, he was hoping he could stay here, at least until Yugi came back. The teen loved Sushi, and since Atemu was working here, they might give him some discounts eventually.

Atemu suddenly smiled at the thought. 'Well,' he tightened the cloth around his back. 'We'll see.' Walking over to a counter, he snatched a pen and the exited the swinging doors.

"Try and get all those fat businessmen's orders, you know they'll take awhile to make!" the woman manager bellowed. Atemu chuckled, and gave a wave in reassurance that he had heard her. Walking out into the more dimly lit eating area, he traveled over to one table of some…edgy customers.

"Hey, what's with the business around here, you're slower than a turtle!" one man yelled. He was wearing a dull suite, and it seemed his behind could barley fit in the seat. Atemu had to surpass a sigh; he was used to this kind of treatment. Many businessmen were rude and inconsiderate. But, that didn't mean they all were.

"I am deathly sorry," he apologized, trying to be as polite as possible. "I can take your order now though." The fat one gazed up at him with his little, black eyes, then nodded.

"Yes, that'll be good," he muttered. His other colleges nodded, and Atemu wrote everything down, and then smiled; as a waiter, one must always be polite no matter what.

"It'll be out as soon as possible," he said, taking their menus and walking back to where the kitchen was.

Ripping the sheet off, he handed it to once of the cooks. "Dozo here," he said, the other took it.

"Demo thank you," he answered. Atemu then smirked.

"Karera…ano, totemo urusai desu…1" he let out a small laugh. The cook laughed as well.

"Hehe, karera wa anata no ateru kuro desu?2" he asked, cocking his head to the side. Atemu ran a hand through his hair.

"Haaaaaai…shimatta jitsugyouka…3" he muttered, then turning he walked out of the kitchen, going back to work. The cook sighed and shook his head.

"Ah, baka wakamono,4" he murmured, walking over to the stoves and began to cook.

Atemu had walked over to another area where he was able to put some plates filled with food onto a tray. Heaving the thing up onto his shoulder, the dragon walked out of the kitchen. The tray was on one of his shoulders and a fold out mini table to put the tray on when he got to the customers under his left arm. Stopping in front of the people, he gave a polite smile and handed them all of their dishes. The people, being nice, gave him thanks. Not all people do that now a day. Walking back to the kitchen, he ran a hand through his hair.

'Ah, not to much longer till I'm out of work…thank god!'

/later\

Atemu had driven his coal black car right up to the blue, giant mailbox. Taking out the letter he had made, he gave a smile.

'Well, lets hope this works…' he thought hopefully. Then, the man laughed. "I hope Yugi won't just throw it away as junk mail!" He shook his head, smiling.

"Well, we shall see…" he muttered, opening his eyes and then dropping the letter in. Waiting a second, the dragon sifted into drive and shot out of the area and down the highway. Smiling, he reached up and whipped out a CD from the above carrier, then set in the disk drive of the car. Pressing play, he then turned the volume up to half max.

He grinned, turning it up a bit more when he noticed the song he liked. Letting out a laugh, he also reached over into the glove compartment to snatch his glasses out. Placing them over his eyes, Atemu released his left hand from the wheel and hung it out the open window. Yes, this was defiantly a man who never left the state of never ending warmth. Especially in the summer season. As of now, it was exceptionally warm out, and Atemu had nearly opened all of his windows, not bothering to use air conditioning since he was going to stop soon anyways.

The college student finally saw his destination after driving for a couple minutes. Smirking, he turned the wheel sharply and speeded right into the parking area. Then immediately hitting the brakes, he forced the car to skid slightly over the dry pavement into parking spot. Closing the windows and turning the car off, the dragon exited his car and the stretched. The being was now out of his regular work uniform and wearing long, kaki shorts and a white, long shirt, with a short sleeved open shirt over that. That piece of clothing was a light tan color with the picture of a dragon on it and different kinds of Kanji next to it. His feet were bearing simple flip-flops. He let a smile cross his tan face as he walked out onto the beach area. The beach consisted of a small park like vicinity, with tress and a paved sidewalk, but also had a lot of food stands for pop, hot dogs, pretzels, ice cream and more. The dragon shifted his sunglasses more to cover his eyes and traveled over to the ice cream stand. He was in the mood for that.

Treading into the line, the man glanced up at all the specials and choices. Eyeing the vanilla, he thought of how Yugi's hair smelled like that. Mentally chuckling, he glanced over and saw a brownie chocolate. Cocking his head to the side, Atemu pondered. Vanilla with strawberries, or chocolate with brownies?

'Ah, both sound so good!' he thought. 'And I want a cone…huh…cone…chocolate and vanilla swirl! Mm, yum.' He smiled. 'Sounds delicious!' Atemu thought happily. Finally getting up to the front counter, he ordered what he wanted and paid. Walking to the side to wait, he glanced up at the clear sky, losing himself in thought. Suddenly, an ice cream cone came straight into his face.

"Sir! Your ice cream," the woman said, annoying that she had to stand her for nearly a minute before the man noticed her. Atemu blushed, embarrassed, and took the cone, thanking the woman. Walking away, the dragon licked the top scoop, which was the vanilla and strawberry. Letting out an "Mmmm" of enjoyment, the being the moved to lick the second scoop, chocolate and brownie.

"Mmm…oishii…5" he muttered, smiling as he began devouring the meal. Finishing the first scoop, he then began eating the next. Finally, he finished the ice cream and then popped the whole cone into his mouth, considering it wasn't that big. Walking forward more, the crimson-eyed man walked over to one of the boardwalks and began traveling down the wooden planks. Walking down the area, Atemu began glancing at all the people here. Some woman stared back at him, giggling to their girl friends and talking in hushed whispers. Atemu would then roll his eyes and continue walking, lifting his bracelet clad hand up to brush his fingers through his air. That, thankfully, would send off enough of a signal to the girls that he was taken. They would then mutter again to each other and walk away. The dragon would also observe some of the other humans here. They were so interesting to him. Such strange things, how did they survive without magic? And how could so many of them…look just so weird?

Atemu mentally chuckled. Usually dragons were…better looking. It was just their way, they had more of the appealing shape and looks. At first it was in full sense of mating. The dragon race, in the beginning, was very spread out over the world, so the chance of meeting a dragon female and/or male in the same city as you was rare. So the dragons naturally managed to have appealing human bodies, so they could mate with humans easier. So now, all of them just did. That reason in particular, is why it is rare to see a pureblooded dragon now. Atemu was one of the very, very few. Since more dragons mated with humans and then got half dragons as children, the act of having a pure, full-fledged dragon was unlikely. But then again, if the human blood didn't dominate over the dragon, the parents would have an almost pure dragon baby. It would have a dragon form and human form.

There were never more half-dragons with more human blood than dragon blood, it was quite a similar amount of both. When a family does get a name for being completely pureblooded, they will make sure that it stays that way, and that their family name gets passed on. Like Atemu's family, the Akasaki family, they wanted a boy very badly.

The fact was, they got one and they STILL were disappointed. Atemu kicked one of the wooden rails. He just had to be born…this. This dark…thing! The dragon sighed and walked over to sit on one of the built in benches on the boardwalk. Falling into the seat, he glanced over at some couple walking hand and hand. They passed by the man, not even noticing his presence. Atemu's eyes saddened, and he glanced down at his bracelet. Oh how he wished Yugi were here…everything just seemed so bland without him. These walks on the beaches were much more enjoyable when Yugi was by his side.

Atemu smiled at those memories, bringing him out of that small, depressive state. Sighing once again, he leaned back and closed his eyes, enjoying the warm sun on his skin. He sat there for a good while, just basking in the afternoon glow of the sun. Soon, the sun's rays began to diminish, meaning dusk was soon to set over the city. Atemu had opened his eyes, and was now standing, stretching. Letting out a loud yawn, he began walking back to his car.

DMYY-

1- They…ah, very annoying.

2- Are they giving you trouble?

3- Yeeees, damn businessmen

4- silly youngster

5- Delicious

-falls- man oh man, sorry for the REALLY REALLY late update ppl! xD I have been so SOSOSO busy lately omg! xD I defiantly needed to wait for a break (like today and this week) to get all my chapters read! The story was at a standstill for awhile, but is movie again lol. Thank you ALLL for reviewing! I am ALMOST at 200 w00t:D :D whoever is my 200th reviewer, might get a giftey gift -giggles- we shall soon see (I can even give out pics too….i do draw:P) Please, pleasey, PLEASE review:D

Also, I noticed I, by accident, altered Atemu's last name -sweatdrops- his name is

Atemu Akasaki!

Ok? Right, I'll change the previous chappies later :D Please review!