Unbelievable forces

Chapter 6

All that the ancient egyptian spirit understood was that he had confessed his feelings to his beloved partner, and although that had released him from a truly heavy weight on his shoulders, he felt like it was the worst moment of his life, the most horrible thing in three thousand years.

He had thought, even dreamed, of that moment countless times but it never seemed like a real thing or a possibility in the slightest… until that morning when everything changed and he knew he had to confess, not knowing what it could cause. Yami had been so into himself he couldn´t notice the initial reaction of his aibou, all he desired was to be with him in all possible ways and show him how much he loved him.

From all reactions he could have expected he received the worst one, maybe asking Yugi to jump into his arms and confess he also loved him meant too much, or something as cheesy as the young boy saying "oh Yami I´ve been waiting for so looong" blushed and shiny eyes, yeah that would have been over the top, he had this situation in his hands: his aibou had run away from him, crying and shaking, looking completely horrified as if he had said the most horrible thing ever.

The spirit remained in his seat with his mind in blank, shocked and not being able to move a muscle for about ten seconds that felt like an eternity, after that something hit him and made him snap out of his trance, the realization that Yugi wasn´t there.

Yami stood up so quickly it looked as if some force had dragged him out of his seat, once he was out of the place he turned to one side and the other to see if Yugi was still around…nothing, he was gone.

He felt his heartbeats increasing their rhythm as he turned to look at every possible direction, cold sweat drops began appearing on his forehead and the back of his neck, left right in front of him…there was nothing.

Yugi had just disappeared, his new and temporal body started to shake threatening to surrender and made him fall on his knees, a quick and involuntary glimpse to the sky made him recover his energies, the sun was just a thin orange line on the horizon meaning he didn´t have much time.

The former pharaoh gather the last pieces of his courage and started running to where his heart and soul told him to go, on his way he cursed himself for not paying attention to the roads and streets Yugi had previously led him.

After a couple of minutes of running without a clear destination Yami reached a small park surrounded by flat buildings. Some squirrels were running to the trees and a bunch of children and their mothers were in the playground, that peaceful afternoon image woke a memory in his mind; that park was near Yugi´s house, about fifteen minutes from there, he faintly remembered that his partner would frequent that place after school, the sound of birds chanting and the wind in the leaves would make him feel comfortable and helped to complete the most difficult home works.

Yami was just about to retake his way when he felt something grabbing and pulling his hand.

"mister!" said a sharp voice, a small girl, wearing a hat with a flower on top, was pulling his hand trying to get his attention.

"huh?" it was everything Yami could say, his mind and emotions were a mess, he needed no find Yugi immediately but he had no idea of where he could be, the time was running against him and there was a girl who had appeared from nowhere calling him mister.

"our cat" said she with a serious tone of voice looking at Yami with decisive eyes and pointing at the top of a tree with one of her little fingers.

Yami raised his gaze, in the top of a medium sized tree, amongst some branches he could see a small creature.

"Yeah what about it?" Thought the former pharaoh, he didn´t feel comfortable around children, it wasn´t like he found them annoying, he just didn´t have enough practice dealing with them. Yami just looked at the little girl with a questioning gaze, trying to say what do you want me to do?.

"please miser… brin im down" asked the girl babbling, she was around 5 or 6 years old, behind her was a second child, another girl who was younger than her and was dressed in a similar way, probably her sister.

But he was in a hurry and just couldn´t help those children, just when he was about to open his mouth the girl spoke again.

"please?" she begged almost crying, her big brown eyes started to shine, behind her the little girl was already crying and sobbing, just before that they had been trying to act like adults, the older sister talking so seriously and looking at him in the eyes, perhaps they´d had to gather all of his courage to talk to him but they were just little girls worried about their pet.

Yami looked around him in confusion, there were a lot of adults and mothers all over the park but they had chose him to help them, he didn´t understand it, a bit doubtful the crimson eyed duelist nodded and went directly to the tree, which he climbed in a clumsy way, how he did that, he didn´t know, perhaps all the adrenaline from before helped.

The cat was on the edge of a weak thin branch, looking scared, his green eyes turned to look at Yami with fear, with a quick move he grabbed him and thought it was mission complete…but the cat got scared and scratched his face, Yami instantly let it go and took his hand to the injured cheek.

Pain, at last he could feel it and also he was bleeding, it was just a few drops but even so he couldn´t help feel anxious.

"Why did you do that?" he finally spoke scaring the kitten even more "Your owners are so worried about you because you thought it was a good idea to climb all the way to here" scolded he with the same tone he used against his opponents in duels "But now you just don´t have any idea of where you are, can´t you see I´m doing this for your own good? Don´t you think about anyone else besides yourself?" Yelled Yami without realizing how weird he looked scolding a scared kitten like that, but something hit his mind like a bucket of cold water.

"I´ve been…careless" whispered he calming himself a bit "All this day I´ve done nothing but think about myself, all I wanted to do was confess my feelings…without thinking about Yugi´s own feelings…he did so much for me today" he sat on the strongest part of the branch and relaxed for a moment looking at the sky, the cat also relaxed and began approaching him.

"He spent all of his savings to take me to the arcade and invite me lunch…and what did I do" the cat had completely approached his side and was right next to his feet "Whine and act like I didn´t even care" He started to caress the cat´s grays fur.

After taking a long deep breath Yami caressed the kitten and grabbed him softly, then he climbed down the tree, the two girls came immediately afterwards.

"yaaay you did it miser!" exclaimed the younger girl, who had remained silent, excitedly and glad that their pet was fine.

Yami gave the small creature to the older sister and caressed his fur for the last time, it purred in response.

"Thank you so mush" said the girl with the hat and made a reverence, the other girl imitated her and then the two sisters ran to their mother´s side on the other side of the park.

"Mom mom! Shizu is okay" screamed both of them as they disappeared from Yami´s sight.

Yami felt relieved, now his mind was clearer and his body didn´t ache anymore, the afternoon breeze caressed his face and messed his hair giving him a much needed feeling of peace. He closed his eyes for a couple of seconds and breathed some fresh air.

"Mou hitori no boku!"

Out of the blue the former pharaoh clearly heard the voice of his partner so he opened his eyes and searched the place, but Yugi was nowhere to be found again.

He then realized that he had heard the voice inside his head…but how?

"The mind link?" thought he not really understanding the cause of the event "Could it be that I´m re gaining my previous state?" he quickly turned to see the sky, it was getting dark meaning that the day was almost over.

Knowing his last hours as a normal person were running out the crimson eyed duelist quickly tried to remember the way to Yugi´s house from the park and the voice he had previously heard, it was not just Yugi thinking about him, he had feel him somehow and because of that Yami knew that his partner was inside his home, or at least that was what he wanted to believe.

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Yami ran restlessly for fifteen minutes only obeying his heart until he could see the game shop from the distance, he couldn´t help smile a little and ran even faster, once he was at the door a bitter surprise was waiting for him: the shop was already closed.

"Damn it!" cursed Yami yelling he quickly thought about a way to enter and went to the front door and rang the bell almost frantically. He waited just half a minute and couldn´t take it anymore, he knew no one was going to open the door.

"I can feel you aibou" thought he, his heart beating desperately, cold sweat drops running down the back of his neck, arms and legs shaking.

"The back door!" the thought hit him like a thunder and made him run to his last resource, only to find that it was also closed.

Just when the nameless pharaoh thought his luck couldn´t get any worse he saw the light at the end of the tunnel: the back window was open!...

Although his last resource was a bit far from the ground Yami didn´t care, using some of his last energies he jumped and helped himself to get through, right when he thought it had been a successful mission he tripped and fell to the floor hurting his already tired body even more.

Once he got in the house he didn´t have time to pay attention to the pain he was feeling, he ran directly to where he thought his beloved partner was.

"…Aibou?" asked he carefully and with a soft voice, the door to Yugi´s room was closed so he just stayed in front of it, feeling the presence of his light through it.

"Go away!" Yami heard Yugi yelling almost in front of him, he must´ve been sitting next to the door. His heart was filled with joy just knowing that his aibou was there just a few centimeters away, but felt anxious again just after understanding what he had just heard.

"Yugi I…understand…I was reckless and shouldn´t have said it like that…" he waited for Yugi to answer but there was no response so he had to continue "I know you spent a lot of money just to give me the best day of my life…well my entire existence… and I acted like I wasn´t comfortable with it" he could hear Yugi sobbing "…aibou…I don´t remember anything from my past, from before you solved the puzzle…but I can tell you that I´ve never felt this way towards anyone…I can talk with you about anything and be myself when I´m with you, you understand me like no one else…I feel so happy when we play or joke…Yugi you´re like…my best friend, but also…I love you"

After saying that for the second time that day Yami felt like a heavy stone had fallen from his back, he closed his eyes and sat next to the door that separated him from his light.

"I love you with all my heart…in this state I feel it even more strongly, I want to be with you always…" he closed his eyes again and breathed deeply, feeling relieved again, confessing his love had brought him so much internal peace.

"Do you think I left…because of that?" Yugi spoke suddenly but Yami didn´t know what to answer, he certainly didn´t understand why Yugi had left like that. "Yami…I thought you didn´t want to go out with me because you were scared…and I couldn´t blame you for that..on the contrary I wanted to make you feel …well"

"And you did it aibou, I will never forget this day"

"But…" he started sobbing again and continued to talk crying "you…had to say it and ruined it all!"

"Say what?"

"that you love me!"

"aibou…I´ll understand if you don´t like me like that, I´ll never say again…please…try to understand me, I had to say it…confess my love and I regret noth-"

"You don´t understand anything!" interrupted Yugi yelling and crying louder.

Yami remained silent for seconds while he heard Yugi crying.

"I didn´t want to hurt you Yugi, I´m sorry please let me in so we can talk bett-"

"Yami you are a fool!" he interrupted again "I love you too!"

The former pharaoh couldn´t believe what he had just heard, his light had also confessed his feelings but…why was he acting like that?

"ai…bou? What did you say?" he stuttered feeling how his heart was shrinking and about to start crying too.

"I love you!... I don´t know how, when or why…I´ve been in love with you for a long time, why else would I offer my own soul? Why else would I be willing to surrender my own memories in order to be with you?"

"Yugi open the door…please" begged he, his voice broke and a tear rolled down his cheek, every second he was separated from Yugi felt like the worst torture.

"I can´t…" cried Yugi "If I open this door…I don´t know what will happen, I must be strong!"

"but why!"

"Because this cannot be!" Yami´s heart broke into pieces, his face was already next to the door "Don´t you understand it mou hitori no boku? We can´t be together! That is why I´ve kept the secret for so long even when it was so painful… you are an ancient spirit with no memories, your only purpose in this world is to recover your lost memories…and once you achieve that, you´ll be gone"

Yami knew Yugi was right, he covered his face with his hand and the tears began rolling down restlessly.

"We are just not meant to be together Yami…it will never work, never…the promise you made…that you and I will always be together can´t be…"

"aibou…" said Yami without trying to hide his tears, it was the first time Yugi heard him cry "Do you want to know …how I got this body?" there was no response "the gods spoke to me last night…they told me that…I could make a wish" he tried to sound calmer "but I had to choose, recover all of my memories without fighting for them or have a body for twenty four hours"

"Why didn´t you…"

"Because if I chose that, I´d have had to forget everything about my present self, forget you… I couldn´t…I didn´t even need to think about it twice, I knew I couldn´t live in a world where you didn´t exist"

"Mou hitori…no boku…"

"You´re right, I cannot promise you that I will be here for you always, I cannot give you the life you deserve…I don´t even have a body to show you how much I love you but…" there was a heavy silent for a moment that felt like an eternity. "I can swear to the gods that…I will love you with all my heart, mind and soul for as long as I am on this earth, no…even when I have to go wherever my fate takes me I´ll love you, just you, I can promise you that, I´ll protect you, take care of you and love you, my little aibou"

Yugi didn´t say anything, he just stopped crying and sobbing.

"Please my love…open the door" said Yami standing on his feet, happy that he had finally been able to speak with his heart.

After another moment of silent there was a sound, a click, and the door to Yugi´s room was unlocked.

To be continued…

a/n:

sorry it took me so long to update but don´t worry because well you know the part that you´ve been waiting for is almost here!

Hope you like this!

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