(A/N: Yeah, yeah, I know, I should work on Codename, DEMO! I'm trying to finish this story first and then focus completely in my other fanfic. THEN I could begin with my other projects and have everything in order!! -Superman pose- ON WITH THE STORY!!
Disclaimer: None of this is mine except for the plot, thank Kazuki Takahashi-sensei for creating Yu-Gi-Oh! or 49,366 fanfics wouldn't exist! P.S. I'm just counting the main Yu-Gi-Oh!, not GX or 5Ds...
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When Yami came into the room again, his eyes were red and puffy. Yugi didn't want to ask what was wrong, so he just smiled when Yami slightly glanced at him. The crimson-eyed managed to smile back even just a little before the happy gesture was erased from his face.

"How're you feeling, Yami-kun?" asked the boy as his lover got into bed, giving him his back. He tried to make it sound like he was asking about his recovery condition and not the incident that had happened merely moments before.

"Daijoubu," lied Yami, holding back another sob.

"Do you want me to call a nurse?" Even if Yugi trusted the other one with his life, he could tell that he was definitely not fine.

"I said I'm fine!" Yami wanted to kick himself; he hadn't meant to raise his voice like that, not with his little one. Although he couldn't see it, the crimson-eyed knew Yugi's expression was a hurt one now. "I…" he stammered in an effort to fix what he'd caused. "I'm fine, little one, really. I just need to rest." At this, the tension between the two seemed to vanish bit by bit.

"Oh, etto… s-sleep well, Yami-kun."

"Hai."

More tears slipped from Yami's eyes as he drifted off to sleep. He couldn't bring himself to even think about breaking up with his angel. Why, oh WHY, did the boy have to be so kind, so caring, so loving? No, he couldn't do it.

But what could he do?

Shōnen-Ai High School

Chapter 33

"Mama! Papa! Look what I did!" A small boy with crimson eyes ran towards his parents with a sketch in hand. He'd just made a beautiful drawing of two boys holding both of their hands and he wanted to show it to his parents. He ran across the filming studio where they worked and finally reached his mother.

"Yami, sweetie, Mama and Papa are busy now," said his mother when she saw him. "I thought we agreed that you'd stay quiet and still now that we already brought you to our work?"

"Demo, Mama! I just wanted to—"

"What's this commotion about?" His father showed up next to his mom, and Yami's smile widened.

"Papa, I wanted to show you and Mama my drawing!" The boy held up the sketch for his parents to see it. But gasps of shock and frowns weren't exactly the response he'd thought of. "What's wrong?"

"What is this monstrosity?!" yelled his dad angrily.

"Nani? Mon-Mon-what?" tried to repeat Yami. "What's that, Papa?"

"Why did you draw this?" questioned his mother, taking the sketch away from her son.

"B-Because I thought it was cute," answered the confused child.

"This kind of relationship should be prohibited! It's against the order of nature!"

"The order of what?"

"It's wrong!—sick and wrong and disgraceful towards both society and humanity!" His father took the sketch and began to rip it apart with his own hands. Yami's eyes widened in disbelief and fear.

"Iie, Papa! Onegai, don't!" cried the boy, running up to his dad in an effort to save his drawing.

"Don't you dare to defy us, young man!" said his mother, raising her voice and yanking her son's arms away before he reached her husband. "We don't ever want to see this kind of… this kind of abomination done by your hands again!"

"But… But Mama, Papa…!"

"That's the end, Atemu Yami!" Yami shut his mouth at his dad's words and looked down, his eyebrows knitted in sadness and his eyes trying hard to hold back the tears that began flowing down his cheeks. "Was I clear?" The boy managed to nod his head slightly. "I said, was I clear?"

"H-Hai, Papa."

"Good." The crimson-eyed child could only stare at the tiny bits of his sketch being thrown to the floor with controlled fury. "Now, go to where your mother and I told you to be, and stay quiet and still this time, understood?"

"Hai, Papa." Yami turned around and walked away from his parents, leaving a trail of invisible disappointment and bitterness behind him.

From that day on, Yami knew he would never be able to trust his parents.

-

A week flew by, and Yugi felt that whatever had happened with Yami's family was causing some distance between he and his boyfriend. Every time he wanted to ask, he barely managed to stop himself before revealing he'd been accidentally eavesdropping on the older teenager's conversation. And each time he asked Yami if he was all right, the answer would always be the same.

"Daijoubu, little one."

Soon afterwards, they were allowed to leave the hospital, but when Yugi tried to intertwine his fingers with Yami's, the crimson-eyed took his hand back and instead put it around the boy's waist, only saying "I'll take you home, Yugi." There wasn't the smallest hint of affection in his words or in his action, and that was when the amethyst-eyed boy realized there was something wrong.

Yami surely didn't want to… b-b-break up with him, right?

-

"Jii-chan?" called Yugi while his grandfather was making dinner the first night he was back home.

"Nani, Yugi?" The boy tried to choose his words correctly.

"T-This is just a hypothetical case," he said, nervously playing with his fingers. "Let's say that this guy, um, Makoto, has a boyfriend, etto… let's call his boyfriend Hizashi."

"Yush," mumbled Sugoroku.

"Well, imagine that Makoto and Hizashi have been going out for a while, ne? Suddenly, there seems to be trouble with Hizashi's family, and Makoto… l-let's say that Makoto accidentally heard him arguing with his family over the phone, but he quite didn't hear it all, ne? Remember, this is all just hypothetic."

"Mh-hm," muttered the elder, finishing making dinner.

"Hizashi is obviously troubled by whatever happened with his family, a-and Makoto wants to somehow help. Demo, he doesn't know how to do so without telling Hizashi he knows about his family." Yugi took a deep breath as he felt the worst was yet to come. "Through some days, Hizashi becomes… k-kinda distanced from Makoto, and Makoto wants to know if Hizashi wants to break up with him or not."

"Mh-hm." Sugoroku set down the two plates on the table and then took a seat himself. His grandson took a sip from his glass of juice. "So, how long has this been going with you and Yami-san?"

Yugi almost choked on his drink. "I-I told you it was a hypothetical case!"

"Yugi, you are so terribly obvious, my boy," said his grandfather, chuckling slightly. "I don't know what Yami-san's family troubles are, but he just probably needs some support from his boyfriend." Then his smile faded into a dead-serious expression. "Explain that you heard him talking on the phone and that you want to help him. Figure it out between both of you, Yugi."

The amethyst-eyed boy looked down, drowned in his thoughts, and then he grinned and got up to hug his grandfather, thanking him.

-

The first place he searched for Yami was in school, but the older teenager was nowhere to be seen. He found Ryou and asked him if he'd seen the crimson-eyed.

"I haven't seen him since I went to visit you at the hospital," he answered. "Perhaps he's with 'Kura-kun? I think he's in the Art Room."

After that, he went to the Art Room, and indeed, he found Bakura, who was apparently sketching.

"Bakura, have you seen Yami-kun?"

"No, I don't think so," replied the albino. "Oi, now that you mention it, he seemed to be really distracted lately. I heard him saying something about having problems with his parents and making a choice."

"A choice about what?" repeated Yugi.

"I got no idea!" said Bakura. "He was muttering crap to himself, but I saw him packing some of his things, like he's planning to move or something like that."

Yugi tried calling his cell phone, looking for him in the shop where Zanira worked and everywhere they'd gone in a date, he even managed to get his house number and call him, but he got no answer.

It seemed just like Yami had vanished into thin air.

(A/N: The chapter was LAME, I know, but bare with me, ONEGAI!! T.T I'll try to have next chapter as soon as possible! Oh, and thank you all for your wonderful review from last chapter! Please review this chapter as well!! See you next time, minna-san! Sayonara! :D)