Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!
As sad as it was, the piece had ended. Almost immediately, Yami launched himself up from his seat and clapped furiously. Soon other people in the room followed his example.
Blushing furiously when he saw the prince to be the first to applaud and stand for him, Yugi quickly turned away as his instructor came up to talk again. When he had left the throne room and entered the room that his group was assigned, he was soon greeted with some of his friends.
"You do good man?" his friend Jou asked running up to the soloist.
"Yeah, did you do good?" his other friend Honda asked, coming right up behind Jou.
"I guess so…I guess it was good enough because the prince himself stood up and applauded," Yugi explained, trying to fight off the blush that was inching up.
"Whoa…you must've been good if the prince did that!" Jou exclaimed.
Seeing that the trio had somehow made their way over to the buffet the priests had set for them, Yugi then saw his instructor come into the room.
"Attention everyone," the man started, "What an excellent performance tonight! You all did a wonderful job. Even the prince seemed excited about the performance, and I have heard that he is quite hard to please," the instructor added.
After he had said this, the group immediately cheered their satisfaction and that their hard work had paid off.
When the cheering died down going to only soft chattering, Yugi turned to see his other friend coming up to the table for a bite to eat.
"Hey Ryou," Yugi greeted, as he poured himself a drink.
"Hey Yugi. I heard that you did very well," Ryou said.
"You did really good too Ryou. I mean the way you played that Tar (1) in the last piece," Yugi congratulated.
Along with Ryou, there were three other drummers, one of them being Honda. And of course, Jou played the Mizmar (2).
Seeing that the two friends had stopped talking, Ryou walked away, probably to confront Jou and Honda of eating too much of the royals food.
Yugi smiled. It seemed like only yesterday when the three had met. The three friends were mere orphans, and alone. None of them knew how to play an instrument more than less knew what one was. But when their instructor found them, it was like they were brought into a new world, a world of music. They had each been given the choice of which instrument that they would like to perform with. And since then, the three had been friends, making up music of their own, and simply enjoying each other's company.
"Hey Jou, Honda! Save some food for the rest of us!" Yugi shouted happily as he ran towards his friends.
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"I'm going to be in so much trouble," Yugi whispered to himself as he sneaked out of the room his group was staying in for the night.
Closing the oak door, making sure that it wouldn't creak in the process, Yugi swiftly let the handle go as he ran down the hallway to where he was supposed meet the prince again.
When he made it to the actual hallway, Yugi stopped running and walked instead to create less noise. Taking notice of his surroundings, he noticed that there was only one torch lit, and it seemed like someone was holding it…the prince.
In a sad manner, Yugi walked up to the prince and stopped before him, readying himself to once again to be grabbed and dragged away to who knows where.
Looking up, wondering why the prince hadn't dragged him away yet, Yugi almost gasped. The prince was smirking…?
'What's going on?'
Chuckling to himself, the prince then kneeled down to his height and grabbed Yugi's chin forcefully. "I'm glad you decided to actually come Yugi," the prince said teasingly.
Not getting an answer from Yugi, the prince started again. "But then again, you'd probably know the consequences if you didn't show up."
Yugi well knew the consequences; his instructor had told the group them. Seeing what kind of things could happen to you when in the presence of a much higher person than yourself, nothing good could possibly come out of it.
"And I thought that you seemed like the talkative one from before," the prince scoffed.
"W-well that was only b-because you were p-pulling me away f-from my p-practice session," Yugi stuttered barely over a whisper.
"Hm, so you do talk," the prince, observed with a smirk.
Seeing that Yugi's eye's had drifted to the floor, Yami quickly took Yugi's arm and led him out to the gardens again.
'At least he isn't being rough.'
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"So, I know that your name is Yugi, and you clearly perform with the ney in the orchestra and solos…so tell me, where did you come from?" the prince asked curiously.
Yugi had no idea why the prince was asking him so many questions. He may as well just answer them.
"I was an orphan…my grandfather and mother passed away when I was only about four years old. Then I met my best friend Jou, and then Honda. We were all orphans until our instructor found us and took us in, giving us shelter and food for a while," Yugi started.
After a couple of hours, Yugi actually found himself laughing at the prince's stories. It surprised him really. He had thought that the prince was a stubborn person at first, but hanging out with him Yugi found that he was a total different person.
Looking up to see where the moon was sitting in the sky, Yugi noticed that it was right overhead; nearly midnight.
"Not to be rude my prince, but I have yet to learn your name," Yugi asked sincerely.
"Just call me Yami," the prince said in a bored tone.
Silence engulfing the two, an idea finally popped into the prince's mind.
"Come with me," Yami stated, getting up from the bench.
"Where will we be going?" Yugi asked, not sure that he should trust the prince anymore.
"My room," Yami said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
Yugi gulped in silence.
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"You like?"
"Of course…but I really should get back to my group's room, we have to get up early tomorrow and leave for our next performance," Yugi stated.
Yami frowned. "No, I will not allow that Yugi. You will stay with me," Yami stated strongly, taking Yugi's hand firmly.
"But I can't just leave my group…it would be like taking part of my family away," Yugi said, his eyes drifting downward.
Feeling a little guilty, Yami's gaze dropped onto Yugi. When Yugi put it that way…no, Yami would make sure that Yugi would stay with him. Yugi somehow lifted his spirit, made him happy for the first time in weeks. Distracted him from Teana…
"Then please stay with me for tonight. And I promise that you can leave with your group tomorrow," Yami pleaded, not really sure that he agreed with his last statement.
Yugi looked up to him, with a small smile on his face that made Yami blush a little, "alright."
With Yami jumping into bed, Yugi hesitated for a moment and thought. Was this all just some trick for Yami to bed him? Or was nothing interesting going to happen?
Slowly pulling the silk covers over himself, Yugi braced himself for whatever Yami could possibly do to him. Feeling nothing happening for a couple minutes, Yugi turned his head to see Yami fast asleep already. Yugi breathed, nothing was going to happen tonight.
Pulling the silk sheets closer to him for warmth, Yugi soon drifted into the world of darkness.
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DG: Here's chapter 3 for all you good people out there! Sorry if the chapter was a little shorter. Honda and Jou will always be the same, won't they? Anyway, please R&R!!
(1): A Tar is a big-framed drum.
(2): A Mizmar is like a trumpet and clarinet combined. You play it like a clarinet, but the sound is like a trumpet.
