Okay, so I got out of school last Wednesday, exams are over and done with, and my summer is filled with little activity here and there. That means more time for writing, yay! Took me two days to write this little chapter, but I'm happy with the results. Hope you enjoy it as well! I don't own Yugioh or Beauty and the Beast.

Yami was still holding the roses he had picked earlier and was forming a plan on how to give them to Yugi after lying about who they were for.

"Got cha', these were actually for you!" he said wagging his tail in front of a mirror.

"Lame," the clock told him.

"Surprise!"

"Nope," the chef hat stated.

"Yugi, these are for you," he tried with a stern face.

"Show emotion," Jou informed. "He thinks you're some brainless monster, so prove him wrong!"

Yami twirled a rose between his claws, trying to get rid of the forming butterflies in his stomach. "That's easier said than done."

"Well you like him don't you?"

"Of course," Yami growled. "More than anything!"

"Then be a man and grow a backbone," the clock said with his tone increasing with each word.

"Just be yourself, sir," Ryou told him. "Make Yugi fall for you, and show him there is a wonderful, sweet gentleman underneath all that fur."

"You're right, thanks for the advise."

With renewed confidence, Yami marched over to Yugi's room and stood in front of it. He pulled out his mirror and asked it to show him the teen.

The object showed him Yugi sleeping on the bed, occasionally mumbling about something too softly to understand.

'Ahh, the perfect wake-up call,' Yami thought. 'Just be a gentleman like Ryou told you.'

With that, he knocked on the door gently, waiting for a response.

Yugi awoke to the sound, with a tired yawn.

"Who is it?"

Yami froze at the voice.

'Come on, don't get nervous now,' he begged himself. 'Just give him the flowers and leave.'

But his throat felt as though it was cut off.

"Hello?" Yugi called.

"It's Yami," he finally managed to squeak out.

"Yami? What happened to your voice?" he asked.

"Oh, just a bad soar throat," he lied clearing his throat. "Can I come in?"

There was silence until a hesitant "yes" was finally heard.

The door opened to reveal the tired looking teen and a messed up bed behind him.

Lifting a brow he asked, "Move in your sleep?"

Blushing the teen answered, "A bit."

"Looks more like you dance on it."

A small laugh was his reply, making Yami's heart soar.

'He actually laughed from something I said,' he cheered in his head.

"So what's up?" Yugi asked.

"Well, uh, those roses I picked earlier..."

"Yes..." Yugi said innocently.

"Well they weren't exactly for me," he told the younger.

"Oh, then uh, who were they for?" Yugi asked already knowing the answer.

'Let's see if he can pull this off,' the teen thought with amusement.

Presenting the flowers to him, Yami then went over to a nearby desk and placed them on top.

"For the guest of the house," Yami said lamely.

'So much for giving a heartfelt speech,' he grumbled.

Yugi gave him a smile before saying, "You know, these roses are my favorite color."

"Really?" Yami asked.

"Yea, what are your favorite?"

"I love each one equally, but I do sort of favorite the original red ones," Yami told him with a little smile of his own.

Yugi couldn't see it, though, due to the hood over the taller's head.

"So, uh, when is lunch ready?" Yugi finally asked.

Yami was happy that they were starting to get into the small talk stage. "You should go down soon, it will be ready shortly."

"What about you?" Yugi asked. "Aren't you hungry, too?"

"Yea, but maybe you want to eat alone," Yami told him sadly. "You didn't want to eat with me before, and I understand."

'Wow, he's changed,' Yugi thought.

Looking at the slumped form, Yugi gave out a mental sigh.

He then walked over to the hooded figure and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder.

Crimson eyes looked at the hand in astonishment.

"Well, eating can sometimes be boring to do alone," Yugi said slowly. "So maybe some company wouldn't hurt."

Yami looked into straight into his amethyst eyes, before replying, "Well let's go then!"

"I think I should change first," Yugi told him laughing at the other's enthusiasm. "But I'll be down ASAP."

"ASAP?" Yami asked, tilting his head.

"You know, as soon as possible?" Yugi told him with a puzzled look.

"Oh, yeah," Yami said pretending to know. "Well, I'll meet you down in the kitchen."

Once he left, the teen continued to think about the wolf-like man.

'How come he didn't know what that meant?' he thought. 'I'll ask him at the table.'

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Back in the kitchen, Yami was as excited as a puppy ready to go for a walk.

"You guys won't believe what just happened!" Yami exclaimed to his three loyalest subjects.

"Don't cut out any good details," Anzu said giddily.

"Come on Yami, spit it out already!" Jou cried anxiously.

"He glanced at me without digust," Yami started, "and when we touched he didn't even shudder at my paw!"

"That's great, sir," Ryou congradulated.

"I tried to ignore it at first, but there's something there that wasn't there before," Yami stated.

"Well, I think I know the perfect thig to get you two closer together," Anzu told them.

"What?"

"A nice bowl of soup!"

"Soup?" Jou asked.

"Come on Ryou, off to the kitchen!" Anzu called.

"Yes, ma'am."

When it was just the two alone, Yami told the clock, "Whenever he's around me I get so chocked up, and I can hardly breathe. It took a little while for me get a conversation started."

"That's great man!" Jou exclaimed.

"It is?"

"Totally."

"I wanna give him something to show how special he is to me, but what?"

"Well there's the classic stuff like flowers, sweets, and promises you won't keep even if your grandma's life depended on it," a nearby clarinet told them.

"No, Honda, he's special," Yami told him. "It has to be something meaningful."

"Find out his interests at lunch, and then get him something," Jou explained.

"Yea, then you're bound to win his love," Honda cheered. "Hook, line, and sinker!"

Yugi began to go down the stairs slowly, after rummaging through the closet for ten minutes before the actual closet picked out something for him.

He wore a dark blue pair of jeans with buckled shoes and a black tang top. He had a lighter blue jacket on top of it.

'I still need to get use to the magic in this place,' he thought.

His mind began to go back to when he was talking to Yami.

'You know, there's something sweet and kinda nice about him,' Yugi thought. 'To think he was mean, arrogant, and hot headed. Now he seems so unsure and a little charming. I wonder why I didn't see it there before.'

Yugi finally got down to the kitchen where Yami, Jou, and a clarinet were standing.

The wolfish man just stared at him, gaping.

"Say something about the outfit," Jou whispered.

"It's hot!" Yami declared making Yugi blush.

"A little bit more of an appropriate compliment," the clarinet suggested.

"Oh right," the hooded figure replied striding over to the teen. "You look really nice."

"Thank you," Yugi said walking over to the table.

Yami ran over to the chair and pushed it out for him to sit in.

"Thanks," Yugi replied to the action.

"No problem."

After pushing it in, with a little bit of too much force, Yami hopped up on his chair and waited eagerly for the food to come.

"So what's for lunch?" Yugi asked.

"Soup," all three occupants of the room answered.

"Come on, Honda," Jou said dragging the clarinet into the cooking part of the kitchen, "let's try to help them out."

"Who's Honda?" Yugi asked when they disappeared.

"Oh, he just used to play some of the instruments here before..."

"Before what?"

"Nothing, don't worry about it," Yami told him.

Before Yugi could protest, the food arrived, and the servants quickly ran off to give them some privacy.

Yami looked at the soup for a little bit, sniffing what it was.

"It must be hard to eat with a hood on," Yugi suddenly stated.

"Hmm?"

"You can take it off you want to," the teen continued. "I'm not afraid of you anymore."

"Really? That's great to hear," Yami exclaimed. "I'm glad you're more comfortable."

"Me, too," Yugi told him. "So take off that hood. I know you want to."

Yami did so, revealing the beastly face of his.

'He used to remind me of a ferocious monster, but now he's nothing more than a little puppy dog,' Yugi mused with a smile.

"You sure it's okay?" Yami asked with concern.

"Don't worry about it," Yugi replied with a wink. "Now let's eat."

The teen scooped up the warm liquid onto his spoon and sipped it, expecting it to burn. He was pleasantly surprised that it was a good enough temperature not to burn, but it wasn't cold either.

He was about to comment on that to Yami, when he saw his dining companion was stuffing his face into the bowl.

Yugi let out a quiet gasp out of surprise, before silently slurping some soup from his spoon to try and ignore it.

Yami's ears picked up at the sound, and he stopped, wiping some of the moisture from his chin.

Noticing that wasn't how a gentleman acted, he reached for the spoon, and began to attempt how to use it.

The amethyst eyed boy smiled at the simple gesture, before placing his spoon down and lifting the bowl up.

Yami's ears perked up as he did the same, and followed the teen's example of how to drink it nicely.

After dinner, the two decided to chat some more.

"So Yami, why is it that this place is so, low tech?" he asked. "Don't you guys ever see the new inventions out in the world, or do you choose to stay this way?"

Yami's ears dropped down a bit before answering, "We're stuck in this time period."

"What do you mean?"

"We haven't aged in years, Yugi," the crimson eyed creature explained. "I lost count of the years we've been here, never stepping out into the world. That is, before I came to get you."

"But why is that?" the teen asked. "What did you do to stay in a place like this?"

"I made a horrible mistake when I was younger, and now I have all the time in the world to regret it," he explained sadly.

Yami looked over to Yugi and noticed that the teen was silent.

"How about you?" he asked. "What are your interests?"

"Oh, I like most types of musics and reading about whatever on my spare," Yugi explained with his eyes lighting up. "Before you came, I used to always play duel monsters."

"Duel monsters?"

"Yea, it's a card game," Yugi explained. "With life points, and trap card, magic cards, strategy, and all types of fun stuff!"

"Sounds great," Yami said with interest.

"Yeah, my grandpa taught me how to play..."

Yami felt guilty again about taking Yugi away from his family.

Clearing his throat, the wolfish man said, "I used to play that game, too."

"You did?"

"A long time ago, but then something happened," Yami explained.

"Are you any good?"

"I would like to think so," Yami huffed.

"Well I used to be known as the king of games," Yugi gloated.

"Then that would make me the god of games," Yami shot back with a smirk.

Yugi just laughed and said, "Sure you are."

Faint music was suddenly heard and it began filling up the palace.

"Who's playing that?"

Yugi listened closer, as Yami answered with a bored tone, "The servants like to play music around this time to try to lighten up the mood and practice their skills."

"It sounds beautiful," Yugi whispered.

"It does?"

"I love all types of music, remember?"

A beautiful flute solo could be heard.

"But isn't it so slow and boring?" Yami asked him.

"Not at all," Yugi said closing his eyes. "It's so peaceful and soothing. Can't you feel the power music has?"

"Nope, I always just ignored it."

"Just close your eyes and clear your mind," Yugi advised.

Yami did so, and after a few minutes, he fell into a light slumber.

"Doesn't it fill you with peace?" the boy asked breaking the silence.

"It makes me kinda happy," Yami replied. "Something I haven't felt in a while."

He looked over at Yugi, and saw that the boy had his arms folded across the table and his face was resting upon them. He looked completely relaxed and beautiful.

Yami suddenly got up and pulled Yugi along with him out of the kitchen.

"Where are we going?" he asked.

"To watch them play," Yami told the younger.

The two sat together on the floor in the music room as the instruments continued to play by themselves.

There was a piano, three flutes, a guitar, a harp, two violins, and a clarinet, all playing in perfect harmony.

"This is incredible!" Yugi exclaimed in delight. "Thank you for sharing this with me."

Yami's eyes widened a bit before he mumbled, "Your welcome."

"Thank you for complimenting our music," Honda said out of the blue. "And also to you, sir, for taking the time to listen to us."

"It's not that bad," Yami admitted. "Keep up the good work."

"Yes, sir!" the clarinet squeaked, before joining in with the rest of the instruments.

Yugi slowly began to lean towards Yami, before the music lulled him into another spell of peacefulness, and his head fell onto the other's shoulder.

Crimson eyes widened at the feeling, and a warm feeling inside began to spread throughout his body.

Honda gave his a humongous smile, as he continued to play the enchanted song.

Yea, that last part didn't really happen in any of the versions of the story that I found, but I thought it was a cute idea to have them snuggle! Thank goodness I even found that part with the music playing in one of the versions, otherwise I would be stumped. Anywho, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I'll continue to try to come up with fresh ideas. Please review and tell me what you think. Ideas are always welcome, and who knows if I'll use some of them! Chow for now.