(A/N: Ahh, it's good to be back! :P This is the year's first update!! Nyaa!! n.n Too bad it's not a very happy update T-T I'm working on Codename's next chapter too, so it should be up later, or maybe tomorrow, depends on the time I take to finish it and the time I take with my homework u.u stupid school...

Disclaimer: I don't own Yami or Yugi, nor I own Yu-Gi-Oh! Thank Kazuki Takahashi-sama for giving us such an awesome anime! Kerii and the plot are my only belonging, enjoy!)

Shōnen-Ai High School

Chapter 19

It had been almost a month since that day.

Neither Yugi nor Yami had mentioned it in the presence of the other one, either. Both of them were too embarrassed to talk about it with each other. But Yugi, indeed, had spoken to Ryou about the event.

"I—don't know what got to me. Suddenly he kissed me, and I… I kissed him back," he had said, without giving any sort of detail, knowing that Ryou wouldn't ask if he hadn't said anything about it.

"So, is there mutual love between the two of you or something similar?" had asked the white-haired. The little one hadn't given him an answer.

Besides that, both acted as if nothing had even happened. Of course, the smaller one had been having trouble pretending that he didn't get uneasy around Yami, and he felt that Yami had been also having the same problem, even if he could control it more.

Today, the crimson-eyed and his look-a-like were with Kerii at the room with a "MUSIC" sign with bold letters in the door. There really wasn't a music club, but there was a room with instruments for people who liked to play once in a while to relax from the typical teenager stress.

"Yugi-kun, have you ever written a song?" asked the girl, sitting in the bench of the piano standing in the middle of the room.

"I've tried, but never been able to," said the boy with an apologetic smile.

"What about you, cous' cous'?"

"It's not like I've ever been good with letters in the first place," answered the relative. The blue-haired laughed in sympathy.

"Eh, then you won't really help, but still," she added, placing her fingers on the keys. She breathed slowly, deeply, closed her eyes, and then she began to play.

Yugi gasped as a beautiful melody rang within his ears.

Was that product of Kerii's hands?

It couldn't be possible.

"She's a composer," whispered Yami lowly not to interrupt his cousin. "This is what she does best."

"I can hear it," replied his look-a-like. "She's amazing!"

"I still have trouble believing what she can do," he added, smiling kindly. "She really is a talented musician."

Suddenly, the melody stopped roughly. Both guys turned to the girl. She turned her head in their direction and smiled in sympathy.

"Gomenasai," she said. "I forgot I wasn't alone."

"Nani? Kerii-chan, that was, by far, the most beautiful thing I've ever heard! You shouldn't have stopped!"

"Arigatou, Yugi-kun!" she thanked him. "I was meaning to ask you what kind of music you'd like for the play, but then this one came into my head and I had to play it. Guess I got too carried away."

"You just thought it?" repeated Yami incredulously. "You hadn't even planned it?"

"Hai and iie, respectively."

Yugi's mouth opened widely. So Kerii could also make up things from one second to the next one!

"Now, for my question…" Kerii's voice drove him away from his thoughts. "What kind of music would you like? Since the story's already planned and stuff, I'd like to start working with the songs. Yami-kun says…"

"Calming, kinda soothing at the same time, romantic, I guess," answered the crimson-eyed.

"Is that so, ne?" The girl turned to Yugi. "Yugi-kun says…"

"Same here, and I'd also like a hint of sadness in some of them, like when they break up, for example," he responded. Yami's gaze went to him.

"I see," spoke the girl. "Hai, I'll start thinking on them!"

"Can we be of any help?" asked Yugi, trying his best to ignore the crimson-eyed's gaze still piercing him.

"Not really, Yugi-kun," answered the girl with a sad smile. "You can come after I finish, so you tell me what you think."

"How long do you estimate that will take?" asked Yami.

"Etto—I guess you can come in half an hour and I'll have at least 4 songs." Yugi almost chocked at the statement.

"You sure have some free time, ne?" he asked.

"I just have a very widely open mind, that's all," she said. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll get to work."

"Sure." The crimson-eyed grabbed Yugi's arm, "Let's go," and dragged him out of the room without giving him a chance to say 'good-bye.'

-

"How long has she been a composer?"

"Oh, I'm not really sure. I guess that a while before starting to live with me, but I don't know."

The two look-a-likes, after leaving Kerii-chan to her work, had decided to take a walk through the school to kill some time. It was the start of the weekend, and probably the school's major population had gone home.

Now both of them were starting to get uneasy as the conversation was already dead.

Yami was strongly fighting the urge to push Yugi to the wall and attack him.

Yugi was resisting an urge just as strong as Yami's of asking him to kiss him again.

Damn the hormones.

The taller one's hands started shaking, and he, in order to keep Yugi from noticing, hid them in the pockets of the jeans he was wearing.

"O- Oi, Yami-san, daijoubu ka?" asked Yugi, pointing at his trembling hands.

Crap, he had noticed.

"Daijoubu," answered Yami roughly, glaring and turning his sight away from the boy.

"Oh…un," he said, his gaze falling to the floor. The taller look-a-like took a glimpse of him with the corner of his eye.

Dammit, don't do that! he thought angrily. If you just knew how much it affects me to see you like that… He stopped his thoughts as soon as Yugi almost caught him staring at him, and quickly turned his eyes away once more.

"A- Ano… Y- Yami-san?" asked the boy shyly.

"Hm?"

"O- Ore…"

"AAHH!" Both look-a-likes came to a halt stop as a chilling scream penetrated the silence. They waited for it again, wondering if it had just been their imagination. Just when they were about to shrug it off their minds, "AHH!"

They heard it again. Yami's face went pale.

"That was Kerii."

-

"KERII-CHAN!" they both yelled, running through the door of the music room.

The blue-haired girl was sprawled across the floor, next to the piano's bench, gasping for air, almost as if she was choking. Yami kneeled down next to her cousin.

"Kerii, Kerii, c'mon, cous', say something!" he said, carrying her in his arms and slightly slapping her cheek. "Kerii, wake up!"

"C- Close—I… feel it…" she managed to say between gasps. "Emi—Emi…"

"Get out," said Yami lowly, angrily, to Yugi.

"N- Nan—?"

"GET OUT!" he hissed at the boy, who, with a sad and shocked expression, ran out of the room. Yami felt a hate for himself rise from within his heart, despising what he had just done to the poor little one.

"Y- Yami-k- kun…" panted Kerii, reaching for his arm. "He… he's—c- close…"

Yami didn't need to ask who she was talking about. He had known the answer, ever since the girl had started living with him, perfectly well.

Emiya Kotomine, Kerii's stepfather and legal guardian, was somewhere around, and he was up to no good.

Crap.

(A/N: Ne, probably some of you already had this in sight... probably not...

Anyway, for the ones that like Kerii, start to get ready to say good-bye to her, cuz she'll be no more in the story in the second next chapter, and worse, maybe next chapter she'll be gone, so... review, minna-san! And forgive my late update! n.n;;)