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When Yugi entered the mansion again he had no idea what time it was or how long he had been out there, but he felt so much calmer after taking time to just get away from this place. Even though he was freezing cold he didn't go to find a desperate source of warmth, he wasn't either going back to his room. Instead he was going to discover more of the mansion like he had wanted to. He walked to the door underneath the large staircase to enter the second foyer. From there he gazed around, there was another staircase that led up to more rooms besides the ones on the floor he was on now. Yugi didn't know where he was going but he picked a door at random then walked to it. This door was on the other side of the staircase and had the design of fireworks on it.

Yugi reached for it then opened the door. When he walked into the room the lights instantly went on, almost blinding him. He looked away for a moment to get his eyes to adjust to the light difference. When he looked back he couldn't believe his eyes, before him were possibly hundreds of boxes of fireworks. Each one was a different color, size and shape. Yugi had never seen this many fireworks before, not even on the fourth of July. Why would they need this many fireworks? This strangely seemed like way too much. Maybe they had other festival's here and used the fireworks then.

Deciding he didn't want to mess with anything he backed out of the room after shutting off the light then closing the door. Yugi turned and then picked another door that was a few away from the one he had just visited. This door had the comedy tragedy masks carved into the door. Yugi opened it and this time the room was already lit with a few candle lights. He walked into the room and was instantly blown away by how many different masks took residence in this room. There were masks so diverse and ones that were a simple white. There were even masks of animals and dragons.

All of these masks hung on the walls, some were in arms reach, others either you needed a ladder or would have to bend down to get. In the middle of the room was a mirror which Yugi approached. He looked at his refection before back to the masks. He wondered why they had so many masks, maybe it was for other guests who didn't have a costume for the masquerade, or if something happened to their mask they had plenty of other options. Yugi already had his costume for the masquerade so he didn't need a mask but at least he'd know where to go if something happened to his. Though right now he was sort of sick of masks. All they did was hide you face from everyone else…

Yugi heard the door all of a sudden slam behind him. He quickly turned from the mirror to run to the door, he tried desperately to open it but it was useless, somehow it was jammed.

"All of these empty faces… how they remind me of my own…"

"Let me out!" Yugi cried as he continued to try and open the door.

"Love…"

Yugi pulled as hard as he could before managing to open the door and escape. He made a quick decision and ran up the stairs to the double doors that were before the top of the stairs. He hastily went through them and shut them closed behind him. He then found himself in a completely dark room, if it weren't for the very tall windows on the back wall he wouldn't be able to see even his own two feet. Yugi could tell that this room was very boundless, though he couldn't tell much else due to how dark everything was.

All of a sudden a very luminous light came from the ceiling, seeing that it was a complex chandelier with hundreds of crystals hanging from it. Underneath the chandelier stood his phantom. He was everywhere, Yugi couldn't escape him.

"This is the ballroom… I could almost say it's as beautiful as you."

This time Yugi didn't try to escape. He slowly began walking towards the middle of the ballroom. Not taking his eyes away from the tall shadow as he walked towards him.

"This is where you and I will be for the masquerade, I must say that I don't even need a costume…"

When Yugi stood before him he gazed up into his blue eyes. Those eyes haunted him. "Can I know your name? You must have one." Yugi questioned.

He stared at Yugi for a long moment before he spoke. "I have never been asked for my name… I don't even think I remember what it was…" The phantom all of a sudden reached down to stroke Yugi's cheek softly with his black long fingers. "Why must you be so beautiful…"

"Why must you wear that mask? If you want me to love you, won't you let me see your true face?" Yugi asked in a soft tone of voice so not to upset him. In hopes that it might work.

The phantom stopped stroking his cheek to cringe. He then gripped Yugi's collar tightly to lift him off the ground and stare threateningly at him. "You want to see the face of a monster! I have told you once that only the dead could see it and not be disgusted…"

Yugi fought his fear as he gripped onto the hand that held his collar. "Please… I want to see you."

He stared at Yugi before all of a sudden dropping him back down onto the ground then turning away from him. "You want to see me…"

Yugi watched as he reached up, he guessed to grab his mask since Yugi couldn't see him. Yugi then saw as he brought his hand down to drop the mask onto the ground.

"You want to see me…" he muttered again.

"Yes." Yugi replied as he came to walk around the phantom to stand in front of him. He still couldn't see his face due to that he had his head hung low and the hood over some of his face while his hands covered the rest of his face. "Please…" Yugi begged. Yugi reached up very gently to place a hand on his elbow to get him to lower it.

After a very long moment he removed his hands from his face. He then pushed the hood back and rose his head to gaze at Yugi. "This is what you wanted to see?"

Yugi gazed at him in astonishment. Yugi had expected two things when thinking of the phantom's face. He had expected there to be nothing or something that was completely disfigured. With his mask off Yugi could tell his eyes glowed and stupefied him much more than before. He had chocolate brown hair that was styled in the same way as Seth's except it was shorter in the back. His skin was the same tone as Yugi's though he could see the evident pain that he'd been hiding from the world. There were three what looked like scratch marks right underneath his right eye, they trailed as far as his cheek. Then on his jaw up to his ear on the same side was a large burn mark, both of these showing that he had been burned and brutally scratched like someone had wanted to claw his eye out or completely burn his face.

Besides those minor flaws as Yugi saw them he was incredibly handsome. Yugi couldn't even find words to describe it, how could he think of himself as a monster? He was twice as attractive than anyone he had ever come to know, Yugi was captivated once again.

"Why do you insist on hiding your face? You are very handsome…" Yugi trailed a little embarrassingly while having admitted it out loud.

The phantom gazed at Yugi a long moment before he bent down to pick up his mask he then outstretched his hand to Yugi. "Wont you come with me?"

Yugi stared from his face to his hand. Not sure if he should do this but he found his hand hesitantly meeting with the phantom's so that he could grip his hand with a black gloved one. He then was instantly whisked away, finding himself almost running after the phantom who was leading him towards a wall in the ballroom. Yugi already had a feeling where he was leading him, so why had he taken his hand? He was just going to become a prisoner again, though why did he almost want to go with the phantom? Was he beginning to fall in love with him?

When they were standing in front of a wall the phantom placed his hand on it and gently let his fingers wander around it before stopping on something. He then pushed against the wall and it seemed as though a square of the wall receded and then a new passage was opened for them. One that was dark and beckoning them to the tomb. The phantom led Yugi through this passage and as soon as they were inside the small corridor the wall shut behind them. They walked quickly straight forward, able to see due to the dim candles that lit the passageway.

Yugi didn't know whether to be afraid of this or not, what if this time the phantom didn't let him leave? What if he kept him forever in that room? Yugi couldn't anticipate his actions because they were so unpredictable. One moment the phantom could be speaking of love and the next he could be holding him up by his collar and tossing him around like a worthless puppet. Was that really someone he wanted to love? Someone who didn't understand how to react to emotions of another? For some reason after seeing his true face Yugi felt more drawn to him, or in another sense more attracted to him. Still appearance wasn't everything and the phantom was so reckless when reacting, it was impossible to just try and ignore it.

Soon they reached a wooden door, the phantom managed to open it then Yugi found himself standing within the tomb once again with the door abruptly shutting behind him. Yugi watched as the phantom walked to the bed. He dropped his mask onto the ground before sitting at the edge of the bed and hunching over while covering his hands with his face. Yugi wasn't sure what emotion he was trying to go through this time but he unsurely approached him.

When Yugi was before him he gazed at his form before gently placing a hand on his knee. Hoping that it wouldn't upset him further then he looked to be.

The phantom all of a sudden brought his head up to look at Yugi. He reached over to grasp Yugi's cheeks within his hands then pull him closer to his face. "How are you so willing to come here with me after everything I have done? How do you still follow me? How can you look a monster in the face without cringing at the sight?"

Yugi stared intently at him before finally making up his mind after thinking so much of the phantom. Yugi moved his hands to place over the one's that held his cheeks. "You are not a monster and at first when you told me your story I pitied you. I felt guilty and wanted to help you because of it. I follow you because I want to, I don't feel forced or like a captive… for my phantom… I have discovered that I love you." Yugi told him surely while then very slowly letting his hands move to the phantom's face. His fingers gently skimming over the scratches and burn mark on his face. "I want to save you from your solitude, I want to save you from your curse… I want to love you."

The phantom gazed at him for the longest moment. Seeming to try and register and figure out what Yugi had just said to him.

When he didn't reply Yugi decided to help him discover what he meant. Yugi very slowly leaned as close as he could to his face so that their foreheads were almost touching. He looked into the phantom's eyes that were still clouded with confusion and uncertainty. Yugi knew that if he did this then he will have chosen what he wanted to do, he will have chosen the phantom. That was exactly what he wanted. Yugi closed his eyes while then pressing his lips to the phantoms. His lips were oddly very warm and Yugi found kissing him a sensation up his spine that tingled every little nerve. He wished he could have kept his lips connected with his longer but he had to see his reaction.

As Yugi backed slowly away and opened his eyes he saw that the emotions that had once been in his blue eyes had evaporated. What he now saw was a growing understanding, a love, a want, and a lust. Yugi then found himself engaged in another kiss but much more forceful then before and this time the phantom was in control. Their lips began moving together in a feverish rhythm as the phantom's hands slipped down from Yugi's cheeks to wrap around his waist to pull him as close as he could. In turn Yugi let his arms go around his neck and melt deeply into the kiss. Not once had he ever felt this way when kissing Yami. There had never been as much passion as there was now.

When the kiss was broken for breath the phantom pulled Yugi up onto the bed and moved him to where his back was over the pillows. The phantom hovered over Yugi before leaning down to kiss him again, this time much more lovingly like he was beginning to control his emotions. Yugi all but complied when he felt a tongue slide across his lower lip, he parted his lips eagerly to let an almost foreign tongue enter his mouth. Yugi hastily met with the foreign tongue and rubbed against it many times before feeling light headed. As they separated with panting breaths Yugi felt his heart thumping wildly in his chest and a growing tightness in his pants.

The phantom then sat Yugi up, he hastily removed Yugi's coat and shirt then laid him back down to begin kissing from his lips downwards.

Yugi in return moaned sweetly with the feel of such warm soft lips connecting with his own skin. As if each kiss sent a wave of electricity through his small body. When one of his nipples was reached and sucked on, Yugi arched his back in pure pleasure.

Suddenly the phantom backed away from Yugi to gaze at him.

Yugi rose an eyebrow In question. Had he already done something wrong?

"My name…" he began while lowering himself once again to be face to face with Yugi. "Is Seto Kaiba."

Yugi, after a moment smiled. "Seto… I like that name."