I think this will be a shorter chapter... Maaaayyybeeeeeeeee... Probably not. Deeeeeefinitely not.
I promised after all ;D
Amu: How can he not sw-
Hush! You're going to spoil!
Amu: I am not!
Chapter 2!
Amu was asleep when Yugi woke up. He didn't want to disturb the creature's needed rest, so he decided to go out grocery shop quickly. As expected, he had a little hint of a cold. Droopy nose, puffy eyes, and a constant spinning in his head were plaguing him that day.
He was getting some shrimps and fish food, maybe some sushi for himself. God he loved sushi. And hamburgers. He gave himself a cheesy grin at his own thoughts as he dropped some cheeseburgers in his basket. He wondered what else Amu would eat... maybe he'd like some salmon? He hoped Amu wouldn't turn all cannibal on his fish though... Even if Amu was hardly the same size as most of them, he was in no way to be called weak! Yugi knew now it wasn't.
As he walked to the counter, a girl bumped into him, and he apologized. "S-Sorry miss!"
Said girl giggled and waved it off. "I'm the one who's supposed to say sorry!"
Yugi laughed as well and took a moment to take her appearance in. Brown hair, with two of the most beautiful sapphire eyes he had ever seen and a lovely pink dress. Yugi blushed. She was pretty!
"Well then…" She awkwardly said, "I'm in a bit of a hurry, so maybe see you around?"
"Uh, yes!" Yugi nodded. 'I didn't even… get her name…'
He found himself riding back home on his bike thinking about that pretty girl, when his train of thought was interrupted by what he thought was a car alarm was going off. The closer he got to his home however, the louder it got. He remembered he didn't have any vehicle but his bike to get around town and this could only mean one thing: Amu was awake.
Sighing, he had stormed inside, plunging his fingers in his ears to block out the sound as his groceries were thrown aside. Running up the stairs, Yugi called out to the creature and was relieved when it stopped wailing.
"'Qu-eeeeak!" The sea creature complained. What was this human thinking!? Leaving him alone like that! He… He was scared… His eyes looked directly at Yugi, who noticed the scared look at once. He couldn't be mad at Amu now! Look how he was trembling, and his colour was so white! Just as his eyes!
"Amu..." Yugi sighed as he walked over to the smaller, who was sitting at the rim of the glass pot, and petted his head. This time Amu did not protest and Yugi told him, "Just because I'm not here, doesn't mean I'm never going to come back."
The smaller, still trembling, wanted to be picked up and Yugi held out his finger, letting Amu suck himself stuck on his finger and listened how the small being made some sort of a purring sound. Yugi rubbed the little creature's head with his thumb and Amu seemed to enjoy it as he pushed his head back. The teen went downstairs and tried to get Amu to sit back in the tank with the other fish, but Amu had other plans. He wanted to stay with Yugi instead.
Sighing, Yugi knew better than to force it and gave up, beginning to prepare dinner for that day. He had chosen to eat hare tonight, and it needed to be prepared. He loved cooking anyway. His grandpapie taught him how to do so, and often Yugi would cook more because of the… - obvious reasons.
He didn't want the man to hurt himself or anything, and he had been getting a day older…
Until…
"Ah!" He cursed when he felt the knife sting into his finger, wincing as some blood began to show. Amu squeaked and jumped from his shoulder onto his hand, catching Yugi by surprise. The teen began to feel a little lightheaded but ignored it for now, watching Amu patting the bleeding finger and licking the wound, against Yugi's protest, who hissed as Amu did. He tried yanking Amu off, but failed, the suckers stuck to his hand and making red marks when he tried to remove their owner.
"Stop!" He ordered, but Amu did not seem to listen. Instead, the creature opened its mouth wide and…
"AAAAHH! It bit me!"
Yugi yelled in panic. He flung his arm around to get Amu off, but it was to no avail. No! He had to cover the wound before more blood came out! Yugi didn't like blood, well, who did- but he got dizzy from it, -oh god was he falling!? It was getting all black in front of him…
"Squeak!"
Yugi felt himself fall on something soft, catching him and he groaned. Someone warm was holding him. He couldn't see who, but whoever it was…
…
A soft, purring noise reached Yugi's ear… He was lying on the ground, a wet towel sloppily placed over his head, Amu on his chest, looking at him. Holding up his hand, Yugi didn't spot anymore than a mark instead of a cut on his finger.
"… Wha…" He sat up, carefully clutching Amu against his chest as he examined the hand. There were little bite-marks on the palm of his hand, speaking of which, it was covered in a slime of some sort.
"Who…" He looked around, finding nobody around him, when he was sure there had been someone! Anyone!
He slowly rose to his feet, trudging over to the doorframe to linger there. There was not a soul but his and Amu's. Yugi looked at his hand again, healed from the cut, but showing the red marks of the suction cups that had been there previously. He shook his head unsurely and turned back into the kitchen to finish the food. He couldn't stand to ponder about things he couldn't understand. The same was for Amu.
He selfishly went on with his own life, albeit trying, really trying his best to take care of the smaller, but he hadn't even looked up anything that could even explain Amu's existence. Perhaps he should do that, he mused, later today…
He felt Amu nuzzle his hand with a squeak, and patted the smaller, with a dizzy head getting back to preparing dinner.
Yugi didn't like changes. The reason he didn't leave this old house. The reason he kept being alone. The reason of every single thing in his life. Yugi did not like changes, because most changes were negative, and killed out the good reasons to ever try to change.
By the looks of it, he had been out for only a few minutes.
He mulled over what had just happened, continuing to make his dinner, all the while, Amu sat on his shoulder, squeaking excitedly. Right, he had to feed the fish too…
When Yugi was done with everything, he put the food away and nudged Amu's head again.
"How about some salmon for you then?" He asked, getting out said fish from the fridge and cut a slice of it into smaller pieces. Amu happily ate them, and, to Yugi's surprise, ate more than he thought the small creature ever could. Good to know he liked salmon too. At least Yugi wouldn't have to throw away the last bits that he was never able to finish before the expiration date passed no more.
He was busy stroking Amu's head, when he noticed something on the tentacles that looked like dry slime.
"Amu..." Yugi frowned, "You're all dried up!" He carefully cupped Amu in his hands and walked over with the curious being to the aquarium. Since the suction cups couldn't suck themselves stuck without being wet, Yugi was able to force Amu into the water. The other fish immediately came to greet him and Yugi smiled.
"Why don't you take care of them? I'm just going to get my stuff, no screaming," He said, wagging his finger as if lecturing a little child. Amu just watched him.
Yugi ran upstairs and gathered his books and laptop, before coming back downstairs again. Amu was pressing his face against the glass, as if trying to mock Yugi. Yugi stuck out his tongue playfully and Amu backed up a bit. He blinked a few times, before swimming away and hiding under a rock. His tentacles coiled around it before changing colours to blend in. Laughing, Yugi opened up his laptop and began searching for some answers.
"Human octopus..." He muttered as his fingers punched down on the keyboard. "Hhmmmmpff!" He frowned as his leg tingled, beginning to fall asleep. He'd sit there for a while...
"Examples of human octopi, folklore of human octopi... Legends of human octopi... ... ... Sightings of human octopi?" He clicked on the link.
"Deep in the ocean, a scuba diver's team was exploring the bottom of the vast water known as the Atlantic sea. All was going well until one of them sent out an alarm signal. …"
Yugi blinked. No, that wasn't interesting. Probably a hoax story.
"Cecaelia..." He clicked the link.
"Also known as an octopus person, the Cecaelia are very dangerous..." Yugi frowned. This was obviously a fake, but he went on.
"They are protectors of dark depths within the seas that should never be discovered, and are often seen as very unfriendly and unreasonable. They are a subspecies of the mermaids, rumoured that they once were one themselves, but became Cecaelia because there has been put a curse on them. They are known as sea demons as well as sea witches. It is highly rare for a male Cecaelia to show up as proved several times in ancient paintings and art..."
Hmm… If old cultures had contact with these creatures at one point…
Yugi tilted his head. A thought came up. Maybe Amu was a girl then... It was really hard to say at this point, because it would be as difficult as getting a baby and guessing whether it was a boy or a girl... Apart from the... obvious method... But he guessed Amu wasn't a girl. Something just told him so.
"Venom?" He suddenly yelped when he came across the page. "All octopuses have venom, though most are not dangerous to humans, they do paralyze other sea animals. The Cecaelia is believed to have a stronger variant of venom like the blue-ringed octopus though, which can kill up to, at least, eleven men..." Yugi cringed.
"Squeaky?"
He looked over to Amu who seemed to have rested just a bit more, but now was demanding his attention again.
"What's up?" He asked.
"'Queaky!" Amu held out his little arms again.
Yugi didn't think Amu was any of the things the web-page said about the Cecaelia, except maybe a little for the poisonous part, since there was a bit of truth in that. He stood up from his chair and let Amu latch onto his fingers. He rubbed Amu's back softly, taking a towel and making it slightly wet before wrapping Amu in it. He sat back down on the chair in front of the pc, petting Amu with one hand, and with the other, he searched around the net.
Amu jumped out of the towel and over to the screen of the laptop. He sat on the keyboard and patted the screen the whole time. It was then that Yugi realized Amu was hunting the pointer on the screen. Laughing, he played the little cat and mouse game with Amu, smiling when Amu 'caught' the pointer, but wasn't able to get it 'out' of the pc.
He looked up when Amu doubled over. "Hey are you ok?"
Amu looked over to the fridge.
"You're hungry again?" Yugi gawked. Amu just kept staring at the fridge.
Despite being small, he could surely eat a lot. Yugi had to buy more food for Amu than for himself!
It's been about 3 weeks ago that Yugi found him. Eventually, Yugi told himself he had imagined the accident in the kitchen and must've spaced out or something.
Winter had come and ice was forming on the water in the north of the country, making Yugi wonder if it would come as far as here. He was a bit unlucky when his boiler suddenly broke, leaving him with a cold house. Heck, even the aquarium was warmer!
He'd luckily been able to repair the boiler quickly.
Amu behaved well. A week ago, school started, and he became accustomed to waiting for Yugi to come home. He still didn't want to sleep alone with the fish, so most of the time Yugi just carried Amu's pot around the house.
When Yugi went to school though, he told the creature to keep an eye on the other fish. Yugi also came to know that the young girl he had met a few weeks ago was in his class! He told Amu that she was pretty.
Amu always looked how Yugi made homework, his miniature nose scrunching up at the math homework. Yugi didn't like math either to be fair. Amu did show a big interest however in the native language, often having Yugi read it aloud.
It was Monday when Yugi came home grudgingly. He had dealt with a beating from some classmates. He'd 'accidentally' tripped over their feet, and deserved a 'warning'.
He was so upset about it, he ran straight upstairs and searched safety within the confines of his room. He stood there, looking angrily around the room, shaking, in search of something he could break.
He ran back downstairs and gritted his teeth, letting out an infuriated scream, roaring at the top of his lungs.
"Squeaky!?"
...
Yugi had stilled. He turned to look at Amu and sank to the floor. After a few sobs, he rose to his feet and took Amu with him, back upstairs. He made his homework in silence. His results would be bad. Really bad. Like 0/10. He didn't care... At least he tried.
Thinking about taking a shower, he sighed as he rubbed Amu's head, and then turned, leaving Amu's pot on his desk. He didn't notice though that Amu was clinging onto his sleeve. Seems Amu was curious to find out what Yugi was doing every time he told the creature he'd 'take a shower/bath'. Yugi hadn't said it now, but the Cecaelia seemed to be able to tell when Yugi was going to do so.
The teen shrugged the clothes off his body, and jumped into the bathtub-shower, his muscles relaxing when the hot water hit his skin, and he sighed in relief. Maybe he'd take a bath now that he was at it. All the while Yugi was making himself a bath, Amu was wriggling his way through the mass of clothes. To him, it was a game. When he finally got out of the mess, he looked up to see Yugi sitting in a big cup, water spraying down on him. He coiled his tentacles, before trying to find a way to climb up.
His ran out of luck though, as everything was so much bigger than he was…
You know what? Why not just use the 'hand-levator'?
"'Queaky!"
Yugi blinked and looked at the door. Did he just...? No... No it couldn't. He was imagining things… He closed his eyes again and-
"'Queaky!"
He looked up again and straightened, the water rocking back and forth and spilling some onto the floor. That didn't come from his room...
"'Queaky 'queaky squeee!"
He looked around the bathroom and finally saw Amu calling out to him, sitting on his clothes.
"Amu! How did you...?" He asked, cupping the Cecaelia in his hands and heaved up the smaller. He sighed as Amu squealed happily in his hands and he was trying to stand up, but slipped and knocked his head against the wall.
"Shit!" He cursed. He grabbed for the back of his head, rubbing it, before realizing he was no longer holding his charge! He might as well have crushed him!
"Amu?!"
'Blub!'
Something just… dove into the water.
Yugi searched the water for the smaller creature. Something nipped his leg and he went over to touch it. It moved over to his foot. The teen hauled the foot up and laughed when he heard Amu chirping, but wasn't clinging to his leg.
Good thing he didn't put any soap into the water, or it might've stung Amu's eyes!
Wait…
It… It almost seemed as if the water was rising!
Panicking, Yugi backed up as the water kept rising slowly up until the edge and spilled onto the bathroom-floor.
Two, huge, suction-cup-attached arms shot out the water and latched onto Yugi's arms, keeping him still, and finally, Amu came back up, breaking the surface and getting water EVERYWHERE! If Amu wasn't taller than Yugi right now, Yugi'd worry about cleaning it up, but he was too shocked out of his mind to do so.
Six more octopus arms spilled over the edge of the bathtub or were squashed against the wall as they coiled around, the sea-creature's human body stretching itself in odd angles.
Amu looked like he'd just woken up or something, his eyes pressing themselves shut. He rubbed one of his eyes as he hissed. When they opened, he blinked several times, before Amu observed his own hands, clenching and opening them experimentally. He let out a yawn, the gills on the sides of his neck opening up so wide Yugi could see the opposite wall through them. At last, Amu's crimson gaze fell with fluttering eyes upon Yugi and he curiously approached the teen.
"A-A- Uhm-," Yugi's hands found Amu's shoulder, stopping the other from approaching any further.
His eyes' pupils were horizontal slits, like a real octopus'. It was slightly creepy, unearthly. Yugi couldn't read those eyes, and that scared him even more. How did this happen? How did he become so big!? What was going on!? Yugi didn't understand!
Amu had his face pushed into Yugi's, probably not knowing the meaning of personal boundaries, and sniffed through his nose thoughtfully. Or… No, he was sniffing Yugi. His head followed his nose to the crook of Yugi's neck.
Yugi's heart was racing from surprise as Amu brought Yugi's arms close to his face and inspected the smaller's hands. He laid his own, webbed hand against Yugi's carefully, and smiled, purred even.
Despite from the membrane that webbed Amu's hand, they were almost the same. Almost the same size too. Amu's hands were a little bigger than Yugi's, and slimmer. And slimy, ew…
Yugi just kept still. He didn't really know what Amu was after, though he couldn't help but find this situation familiar somehow.
Amu's gaze went down as he released Yugi's hands, and he came closer to Yugi's personal areas.
Yelping, Yugi tried to back up and cover himself with his hands, his eyes closed tightly and his head was turned away from the Cecaelia.
Amu tilted his head and seemed to have dropped that subject when he took interest in Yugi's feet. He looked back and forth between his tentacle-arm and Yugi's feet, and gave a confused frown at Yugi.
As if he only now realized they were... different.
Yugi took the time to take in Amu's facial features... He had a very sharp face, perfectly positioned cheekbones, sharp eyes, and that perfect, slightly tan skin.
Yugi swallowed thickly and reached out his hand with the intention to pat Amu's head. The other recognized the movement and pressed his head against Yugi's hand, making another low, purring sound.
"You're… such an amazing creature, Amu," He told the taller, a smile coming to his face as Amu kept pushing back. He didn't expect Amu to pull him into a crushing hug or, for God's sake, speak!
"Amu."
Yugi blinked and looked up at the hybrid human hugging him. He wouldn't be able to actually learn to speak actual language, would he? That would be way too awesome! And embarrassing after this event, but awesome nonetheless!
"Amu?" Amu pointed at himself this time. He already knew his name, Yugi was sure of that, but he wanted to have Yugi confirm it.
"That's right, that's your name; Amu," Yugi smiled.
"Amu!" Amu pointed at Yugi.
"Haha- uhm, no no," Yugi wagged his finger playfully, "My name is Yugi!" Amu squinted his eyes. Yugi wasn't sure whether he was thinking, or glaring at him, and he swallowed a lump in his throat.
"Yuuuuuu...Gi!" Amu said, attacking Yugi's face with cuddles. Yugi laughed and slightly hugged back.
"That's right!" He laughed. Amu was too excited to stop now and kept repeating the same thing.
"Yugi Yugi YugiYugiYugiYugiYugiYugiYugiYugiYu-!" The boy put a finger on Amu's lips, succesfully silencing the other. "You sure like to hug a lot..." Yugi smiled.
"... Amu like hug lot!" Amu grinned.
"Yes, Amu likes hugging a lot, which is you, so you should say 'I'" Yugi explained.
"I likes hugging a lot?" Amu tilted his head. Yugi laughed and shook his head.
"I like hugging a lot!" Amu tried again.
"Yes!" Yugi praised him by rubbing his head once again, uttering a small, "Wauw."
This was actually happening! Amazing!
"I... I... I like Yugi a lot!" Amu pressed his lips together and hid a smile.
"Y-You do?" Yugi blinked in surprise. Amu seemed to calculate something else, his eyes zoned out a bit, before his mind came back to earth. "Yugi... Likes... Amu?"
"O-Of course! You're my friend!" Yugi said a bit flustered.
"Friend?"
"Yes."
"Friend?" Amu asked again.
"Someone that stands beside me, and… helps me... You help me Amu... More than you think you... do..." Yugi's eyes began to water a bit. Amu was alarmed when the tears leapt down Yugi's face, and panicked. He was swaying his arms back and forth, unsure what to do, and his gills were opening and closing up rapidly.
Yugi didn't realize this, until he felt a tongue lick his cheek.
"A-Amu!? What are you doing?!" He jerked in surprise.
Amu veered back to the other side of the tub, looking like a scolded dog. He only tried to clean Yugi's face from the wet tears...
"... Sorry... I shouldn't have yelled," Yugi shook his head. Amu released an audible breath before he edged closer to Yugi again. Secretly, he couldn't deny it that he wanted to taste more of those salty tears. He curled his lower arms around Yugi's legs a bit, and his others around Yugi's torso, hugging the smaller again. Maybe he shouldn't lick them off... Maybe he should... Kiss them away? Could he do that? Should he do that?
Yugi staggered when two lips were placed over his left eye. Amu pulled back and placed his index finger beneath the tip of Yugi's chin, and heaved the smaller's head up, to make Yugi look at him.
"Yugi... Are you... alright?"
"Y... yeah..." Yugi answered, lingering into the spell Amu had created, though the latter didn't even know he had.
"... Amu... Where did you come from?" The human suddenly asked.
"Amu... Come from?" The taller tilted his head.
"Yeah, where were you born? What's the first thing you remember?" The smaller clarified.
"... Yugi is the first thing I remember!" Amu smiled.
Was... Was that a lie? Why did he hesitate? No, that couldn't be plausible in a situation like this. Unless… he had hit his head! Wait…
Yugi raised a hand to Amu's temple and searched for a wound or anything, but found only a thin scar on his eyebrow.
000
"Say, Amu, how about wearing a t-shirt?" Yugi teased as he was putting on his PJ's. When he was done, he took the t-shirt of one of his plushies, and fitted it over Amu's head and arms. He was smaller again. He had tried to explain to Yugi that he couldn't speak in this form. Yugi guessed it had something to do with the amount of water that there was. If that was the case, he wondered just how big Amu could get!
"Hmm..." Yugi looked at the 'I love hugs' text that was on the t-shirt. "It fits!"
Amu didn't seem so keen about wearing it... It was a bit too big... It was more of a blanket than a t-shirt to him. He looked up to see Yugi looking at his book-shelf, picking out a book.
Amu yawned as he looked over to the pot that Yugi had placed on the nightstand.
Yugi smiled and put Amu in the water. He settled himself thereafter into his bed and began reading. He didn't get further than the second sentence as Amu squeaked.
"... You want me to read it for you?"
Amu nodded, smiling.
It was wednesday and Yugi had taken Amu on a walk. He didn't bring the pot, as he figured Amu'd like to swim in the sea. At first he was afraid to be left alone, that Amu would leave him, but it turned out that Amu panicked when Yugi put him in the water. Amu was a bit taller, but nothing close to that one time in the bath…
"Don't worry, you'll swim, and I'll walk," He explained. Amu tilted his head before nodding.
Yugi blinked as he watched Amu swim a little deeper. He began walking as Amu followed him. After a while, Yugi stopped. He looked how Amu seemed to relax in the water and smiled. But…
Something was off… Yugi tilted his head as Amu came closer and swallowed when he realized Amu was triple the size of what he had been in the bathtub. And he was still growing larger!
His eyes settled on Yugi, and the young man paled. Without a second's thought, he turned around and ran up to the steep dunes, never reaching them, as a big tentacle wrapped around his right leg and pulled him back to the sea effortlessly. Before he knew it, he was hanging dozens of meters in the air, two, huge eyes staring down at him. "Oh my god!" He whimpered in panic.
He was going to get eaten! Amu was going to gobble him up like one of those shrimps and- and-
Amu tilted his head and gently dropped Yugi in both of his hands. One of his lower arms poked Yugi and Amu smiled, but Yugi didn't meet his eyes, and was trying to protect his head with his arms. Was Yugi… afraid?
Amu frowned. He didn't want Yugi like this… He never meant any harm to Yugi! He just wanted to show Yugi his trick… He held Yugi closer and waited till the other dared to look up. Then, he smiled. Yugi looked away again, only a few seconds, before slowly getting up. He held out his hand and Amu closed in so Yugi could touch the bridge of his nose.
Yugi smiled softly, feeling a little more confident, Yugi patted Amu's front head and smiled.
"You're not going to eat me, right?" He softly asked.
"Nooooooooo!" Amu frowned, his voice full of shock and indignity.
"O-Ok we-well you… could you put me down please?" Yugi swallowed thickly.
Amu smiled and did as the smaller asked.
"Want to eat fish?" Amu asked.
"Uhm.." Yugi shrugged.
Amu grabbed something in the water and hauled it up, showing Yugi the fishnet he had found, laying it next to Yugi.
"Where did you find this?" Yugi inspected the net as Amu turned back around. This time, he had to use both of his hands to heave up whatever it was he grabbed for. Yugi caught a glimpse of it and cursed.
"The… The …"
Amu tilted his head as he put the shipwreck in front of Yugi. It looked intact on the bottom, but the top that usually stuck out looked a little dent. It must've toppled over in the storm a few months ago!
"The Kurib-oh-my god!" Grandpapie's ship! Yugi nearly screamed in excitement. "Amu!" He called the sea-creature over, spreading his arms happily. Amu shrank down to human size and swam towards Yugi, his head low, thinking he did something bad at first. When Yugi walked into the water towards him and hugged him, he smiled too and hugged back.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" Yugi's breath hitched.
When it was time to go back home, Amu showed Yugi that he had collected some neat little treasures, such as shells and snail houses. Yugi loved them. Amu was happy to make Yugi happy.
Yugi thought about what to do with the ship as they walked. The motor would be busted, but… He glanced at Amu… Amu would have no problem to help him, right?
All he had to do was clean out the cabin and the deck and hope it would stay afloat. That or he would make it a beach-boat-house. The cabin was big enough to put in a bed and store some food… He'd think about it later.
As Amu came swimming back towards Yugi, the taller couldn't help but coo at the cute sight of Amu swimming in the small waves, puffing and gaping with his mouth like a fish. Yugi wanted to pick the now smaller up but Amu kept circling around his boots.
Hey-Hehhey!" Yugi laughed as he got Amu out of the water, but the smaller was still swimming in his hands, not realizing he was out of the water. This whole time he hadn't stayed under for more than 5 minutes, as if making sure Yugi hadn't left him. Guess they both had a fear of losing the other. Yugi had nobody but Amu. But what about Amu? Did he still have family?
"Amu, why didn't you go back to your home?" Yugi asked him when he had returned home and was sitting on the bed with Amu in his lap. He looked down to see Amu was asleep and sighed. Guess today was fun... If only he knew Amu wasn't really asleep.
A month and a week passed, and Yugi and Amu had grown inseparable. Yugi had another embarrassing moment when Amu suddenly took interest again in the little monster between his legs... Was it too much to ask to stop looking at it?
But that wasn't the only thing, no, Yugi had once fallen asleep in bath with Amu, only to wake up, wrapped up by huge tentacles. It took him a moment to realize they were Amu's, as he was gawking at the man that laid in front of him. Amu was asleep too. Yugi bit his lip. He wanted to... stroke that ever so soft looking, spiky hair!
Softly, he moved over and petted Amu, making the sea creature purr in his sleep. Yugi tilted his head and brushed the back of his fingers against those strange-looking ears. They were soft, fin-like, but they weren't open like they usually were. He kept patting Amu's head until his ears did flap open very suddenly. It startled Yugi, and Amu laughed. Then he began to shrink, and his tentacles unwrapped themselves from around Yugi. Amu was really attached to Yugi. And he was just as attached to Amu.
He never had any full conversations with Amu, as the other wasn't always able to reply back other than "Squeaky!" or something he tried to mimic that Yugi had said, but he didn't mind.
He knew Amu was somehow trying to make him happy. But... he knew Amu wasn't as oblivious as he portrayed himself. Amu was smarter than you'd think. Amu was compassionate, cheered Yugi on, and Yugi realized that he didn't feel as alone as he thought he would.
Amu was the little ray of light in his life.
Yugi was able to make some friends at school as well, but he was terrible at keeping in contact with them over the weekends. He occasionally lost his phone and such...
But all was good as it was now. For Yugi, it could stay like this.
I know, but this was getting ridiculously long!