Fly: -slowly walks into the room dragging 59 backpacks- heeeeeeeeeeey -yawns and immediately collapses-

Eme/Ame: O.O

Fly: wat?

Ame: you..I...I-It's just that...

Eme: we thought you died

Fly: -sigh- might as well be dead

IM SO SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO UPDATE!!

Disclaimer: T.T really?

Last time:

Crash!

"YUGI!"

"Yugi!" Everyone in the room stood still.

Yami could only watch in frozen horror as the most precious thing in his life started to fall. The ancient pharaoh saw a flash of white as someone sped past everyone to catch the small light before he could hit the ground.

Bakura stood there with the delicate hikari in his arms cradled against his chest. Bakura watched as Yugi convulsed in pain until he finally fell limp against Bakura's chest. Ryou tried to stifle a sob as he hid his eyes in his hands. Joey shook with fury. Something was hurting Yugi and it was grave. When Bakura was sure that Yugi had passed out he slightly readjusted the small treasure in his arms and effortlessly whisked him out of the room, not once looking back.

A tense silence permeated the room. No one moved an inch trying to understand what had happened. Yugi...

"Ra," Ryou whispered.

"What the hell happened?!" came the frustrated shout from the lanky blond. Chocolate eyes gleamed with anger as he looked at his fellow classmates. Honda, Ryou, Malik, Marik, and Otogi all shuffled nervously, not looking one another in the eye. Seto kept his eyes icily focused on Yami's back trying to see how the usually calm spirit would act.

Joey tried to catch the eyes of his friends but was met with no success until his eyes finally came to the Puzzle's spirit hunched over figure. Yami's crimson eyes were covered by his blond bangs and he hadn't moved at all since Yugi fell. Yami's knuckles were white and a faint trickle of blood came from his fist.

Another silence.

"Y-Yami?" Ryou asked softly moving forward to lay a comforting hand on the Pharaoh's shoulder.

He remained unresponsive.

"Yami, Yami, please. Just look at me. Please, say something." Ryou pleadingly. Yami raised his head and slowly looked around the room with a look of agony in his powerful red eyes. He just looked at his friends as if begging them to answer his questions.

A third silence.

Only Joey and Honda had ever seen the powerful dark express anything but confidence. He had lost all self control after he had lost Yugi during his first duel with Raphael. However, this, this was something completely different. Back with Dartz Yami knew who to go after, knew how to get Yugi back. Now, he didn't know how to retrieve his lost light. and it left him alone and helpless.

After searching each and every one of his friends eyes and finding no answers Yami stared back down at his hands that had stayed clenched painfully tight. Without a word he sprinted out of the room and sprinted down the hall after Bakura.

"Now what do we do?" Otogi asked.

"Obviously, we follow Yami and Bakura to the Nurse's office." Seto's cold voice interjected.

Without another word the group went after the two yami's.

"Is there ANY change?" Joey angrily asked the new school nurse, Mrs. Murdock. His blond hair was swinging as he furiously paced back and forth gesticulating on every word.

Bakura stood by the bed with Ryou, Malik, Honda, and Otoagi all forming a ring surrounding the corpse-like form of their friend. Marik and Seto were standing against the far wall considering the chaos of the nurse's office. Lastly, Yami was sitting listlessly in the far corner of the room staring blankly at the opposite wall.

Yugi simply lay lifelessly on the blue nurse's bed. His sickly pale skin, dark circles under his eyes, and deathly thin frame were even more apparent as Yugi lay on top of the bed sheets.

"No, nothing. I don't know what's wrong. He's severely malnourished and sleep deprived, but nothing to make him slip into a coma. Mr. Moto's most pressing problem is the fact that he is unconscious for no reason." Joey let out a frustrated growl. Mrs. Murdock whipped around to face Joey. "Look, I'm sorry but there is no explanation for why Mr. Moto won't wake up!" she snapped at Joey. Seto let out a low possessive growl that went unheard.

Realizing what she had said her face softened as she glanced at Yami who was still staring unmoving at the off white walls of the nurse's office. "Why don't you take Mr. Moto home, Mr. ...?

"Atemu" Yami's voice came out gruff and indistinguishable with pain.

"Sorry?" Mrs. Murdock asked gently.

"Atemu, Yami Atemu." he said without removing his intense gaze from the wall.

"All right Mr. Atemu. You should take him home and talk with his," she glanced at Yugi's chart "grandfather."

The room was silent and all eyes were focused on the detached form of the Puzzle's spirit. Yami abruptly stood up. The screeching of the chair echoed through the nurse's office. Yami slowly and deliberately moved toward his motionless light. Yami slipped his arms under Yugi's knees and around the smaller shoulder and carefully lifted the petite figure.

"So light" Yami softly murmured. The crimson eyed teenager stared at his young charge sorrow and despair evident in his face.

With Yugi in his arms Yami vigilantly brought his hikari home.

Three days, THREE! And still his hikari had not woken up. Attempts to use the mind link had been futile. Yami was impatiently pacing in front of the bed Yugi lay on.

It had been three days since Yami had made an appearance at school after he had left with his other half laying unmoving in the taller's arms. Three days where Ryou, Joey, Tristan, Duke, Malik, Bakura, Marik, and even Seto came by to watch the light. Three days since Ryou and Malik had to make Yami eat. Three days since Joey and Tristan had forced Yami to sleep. Three days since his aibou turned 16.

"Yo Yam'!" Joey's voice rang out through the dead silent house. Yami heard steps echo as his friends trampled upstairs, he continued pacing

"Heeeeeeey Yami" Joey exclaimed exuberantly as he burst through the door, Bakura and Ryou following the happy-go-lucky blond. Yami did not stop his frustrated pacing stride. Not receiving any response the blond waved his hand in front of his friend's face.

"Yami!" Joey shouted fiercely gripping the crimson-eyed teen's shoulder, stopping the ex-pharaoh in his tracks.

"Look at me Yami." Joey gently shook the puzzle's spirit. "Please look at me Yami! Please"

Yami brought his eyes up to Joey's chocolate ones. Joey almost wished he hadn't. In Yami's crimson eyes there was a look of pain but new and angry conviction.

"Yami," Joey ventured tentatively "what are you planning?"

"It's been three days Joey! I can't stand here doing nothing!" Yami looked around at all of his friends. "I just can't."

"Then go." Came Bakura's gruff voice. "What tool you so long? Your light needs you. Go now!"

Yami's crimson eyes bored into Bakura's. After a tense second Yami broke the gaze, nodded, and fainted. Joey rushed forward to catch his fallen friend.

Ryou turned to his darkness. "Are you sure that was a good idea?"

Yami found himself in his soulroom. He was reminded of that fateful night. The last time he heard his hikari's voice, singing. Despair started to naw at his mind. Wasting no time Yami sprinted to the door and yanked it open with such force that it was nearly ripped clean off. The golden door to Yugi's soulroom was shut. Yugi's soulroom door, Yugi himself, had always been open to his darkness. Yugi had been sealed off.

"AIBOU!" he screamed at the top of his lungs as he lunged to the gold door. He frantically scratched at the door. "LET ME IN!" For what felt like hours he tried everything he could to open Yugi's soulroom door.

Yami kicked it, rammed at it with his shoulder, fired shadow magic, beat it with his fists; Yami did everything and the door wouldn't budge. His heart spent Yami coud only fall to the floor that connected his soul to that to that of his aibou's. Yami's shoulder was throbbing painfully and his hands were bloody.

"Yugi" he whispered before all Yami knew became darkness.

The next thing he saw were two pairs of worried brown eyes.

"Ryou...Joey..." Yami moaned and clutched his head. He stopped short. Bandages were wrapped securely around his hands. Yami's eyes widened.

"We d-didn't know w-what happened. A-a-all of a s-sudden your h-hands j-j-just started..." Ryou's sentence broke off into a sob. He jumped slightly as the arms of his yami secured themselves around the frightened hikari. Ryou turned and buried his innocent face into Bakura's strong chest. The ring's spirit rubbed slow circles on his light's back comforting him. A pang of loss shot through Yami's chest. Since when was Bakura a better protector?

"Yami, what happened?" Joey immediately brought Yami back to the present. Yami pulled himself up off the couch and ran upstairs to Yugi's room. He collapsed by the bed, panting heavily. He would never let his aibou leave his sight EVER again.

"Yami what the hell!" came Joey's confused shout as he, Bakura, and Ryou all followed the ex-pharaoh to the puzzle bearer's room.

"He's gone" Yami said his voice empty and shell-shocked. "He's not there" Yami's voice was now starting to rise in panic. "I can't find him! He's gone! Gone! What am I going to do? He's gone!" The puzzle's spirit was frantic now.

"Whaddya mean Yami? Yugi's right here. See?" Joey exclaimed trying to calm the distraught pharaoh by lightly touching the bed with the motionless Yugi.

"You're a fool." Bakura stated in a monotone voice as he strode over to Yugi's bed. He reached over to brush the bangs out of Yugi's face with a gentleness that no one had seen before. Both Yami and Ryou felt a spasm of pain in their hearts. "His physical body is nothing. It's his soul, his essence that is missing"

Joey just stared at him confused. Ryou, however seemed to understand and gasped.

"We have to call Shadi."

-TBC-

Yay! I finished! phew! im sorry that it took so long and that the ending was a little short.

Fly: there was some tendershipping action which was unexpected! The apocolypse is coming when there is no puzzleshipping!

Ame: -slap- snap out of it!

Eme: u have to conclude what's in the box!

Fly: ooooh RIGHT!

-Over the box peeked out wide innocent violet eyes, golden bangs and tricolored hair! An arm swung it's way over th box as ChibiYugi crawls out of the box!-

Fly: -dives- MINE

-Suddenly a small, tan, crimson eyed chibi stands in front of a scared ChibiYugi-

ChibiYami: Hey, stay away fwom him!

ChibiYugi: -tug- 'Ami. look at all the pretty stuff

ChibiYami: -glares Fly- otay, aibou

Eme: must. resist. cuteness. factor.

ChibiYugi: -gigle-

ChibiYami: -in love with his hikari-

So the mystery is solved plese read and review!!

ChibiYugi/ChibiYami: PWEASE!!

do it! do it! do it!