Another chapter up for the New Year! Happy Holis everyone.
Even with Yugi's most recent growth spurt he doesn't reach up to Yami's nose, barely brushing Yami's chin if you exempted his hair. With everything that Yami has done for him, driven people insane, killed, crippled, Yugi was never afraid. Because they deserved it. They had enjoyed hurting and destroying people.
For the first time in ages Yugi is afraid. Afraid because with those words that spilled from his lips and his hatred, which had disappeared leaving only emptiness and guilt, Yugi thinks that he might deserve it too.
Yami has no anger. How could he have anger at his hicari's feelings? They're justified, oh so justified because with all that was happening, with Anzu who has her heart set on wooing him he says to himself, and having his own body, and a whole new world to duel in, that he had overlooked the one that was so precious to him.
There have always been gaps in Yami's memory, but they have come less and less now he has his own body. So he trusts his memory, now more than any other time, and rummages through all that has happened lately and comes up with only one memory that has Yugi, and solely Yugi in it from the last month. It is at this realization that all of the ex-pharaoh's air seams to evaporate and his legs fall beneath him, crumpling like a house of cards.
With the care the Yugi showed every being, even if it had wronged him, Yugi approached his Yami and knelt in front of him. Using a single hand Yugi tilts Yami's head back up from where it hung pridelessly. Yami's almost crimson eyes are dark and shadowed even when Yugi turns them tords the light. His entire body reads 'I hate me, so should you' and just gets worse when Yugi gives him a puzzled smile before leaning forward and kissing Yami on the forehead before whispering "don't worry, I forgive you" in a quiet warmth filled voice.
"How? After all I did, all that pain and anger?" Yami asks helplessly.
"Easy. I love you" Yugi answers with another smile.
Standing, Yugi never stops smiling. When he is at his full height, he offers his hand to his darkness sitting on the floor, saying "come on, we should get breakfast before it's all gone"
Yami stays sitting on the floor, just looking at Yugi with the final understanding of why Yugi is his hicari, why he is Yami, before taking the offered hand and walking down the stairs his hicari leading the way.
I have met only two people can get me out of an 'I hate myself' slump. Both of them are girls. Both have been my best friend at one time or another. I have fallen in love with them. One I got over, the other still has me bewitched. Worst of all, I don't I can have either of them.
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