Me: Okay, continuing from last chapter ^w^ I do not own YGO or anything pertaining to YGO ^_^ (Really tired right now so just don't feel like typing a lot...)

Puzzled Past

Chapter 8

Forgiveness

Yugi stood from his bed and walked over to the door. He put his ear against it and listened for any sign of Yami still there. His brows furrowed when he didn't hear any sounds and he decided to crack the door open. Yugi peeked around the corner of the door, he wiped away the tears when he found that Yami wasn't waiting on him. He walked down the stairs to look around and see if he could find Yami, but he was nowhere to be found.

Yugi found a note on the counter that read 'Dear Yugi, went to a hotel down the street. Figured I should leave you be for a while. I don't expect you to forgive me, I'll just distance myself for a while. You say the word, and I'll head back to Egypt with my parents when they get here. I'm sorry for being a jerk. ~Yami' in cursive letters.

Yugi ran into the living room where Yami's bags had been by the door. A gasp escaped his lips when he found they were gone. "Yami..." He whispered, fresh tears beginning to flow down his cheeks. Without thinking Yugi walked out his front door, he didn't know for sure how long he'd been in his room, but it'd been a while. Who knew what time Yami had left, but Yugi had to find him. He locked his door and turned to run away but bumped into someone.

"Whoa there sport" a familiar voice chuckled as strong arms caught him from falling.

Yugi looked up and gasped "Atem?"

"That's me" Atem chuckled.

"Yugi!" Heba cheered as he wrapped his arms around Yugi. "This is little Atellie."

"It's nice to meet you" Yugi smiled at Atellie.

"Where's Yami?" Heba asked, looking around as if expecting Yami to come out of thin air.

"Yami and I got in a fight. I'm going to find him. I have to make things right." Yugi said before running off "I'll be back! I'm going to get Yami!"

Yugi ran until his legs hurt, finally in sight of the hotel. "I really hope he's here."

"Ya know, talking to yourself doesn't get you very far" Heba said, startling Yugi.

"Heba? What are you guys doing here?"

"Sweetie, Yami is our child, if anyone knows him, it's us. We're worried about him too."

"Yami's been depressed since he left you. Which caused him to develop a bit of an anger problem. He had it in high school, and him leaving you just made it develop more" Atem added.

"You have to understand, Yugi. Yami isn't the same guy that left here. He's grown into a man that defends his pride and his loved ones."

"You just have to be patient with him."

Yugi looked down "I know that. But, I just got so mad because he was planning on going to jail, just to get back at Ushio."

Heba chuckled "And that's what he does. He's learning to control his anger, but he needs help."

"Well" Yugi sighed "He's supposed to be in here. Let's go find him."

The four of them turned and walked into the hotel, hoping to find Yami inside. Yugi approached the front desk "Excuse me. Can you tell me if a Yami Sennen is checked in here?"

"No I cannot. Enjoy your day" the man behind the counter said, playing on his cell phone.

Yugi sighed, his eyes widened a bit when Heba stepped forward and Atem pulled him back. "You're going to want to stay back a little bit" Atem whispered in Yugi's ear.

Yugi looked up at Atem then back at Heba. Heba was wearing the kindest smile he'd ever seen, though it was pretty obvious anger was behind it. "I'm going to ask you one more time fuck face" Heba growled "You either tell me where I can find my son, or I'll take that pretty new phone of yours, and cram it down your throat!"

The man's eyes widened as he looked at the shorter man in front of him. "Name?"

"He just told you his name!"

Atem grabbed Heba's shoulders and gently pulled him back "Please excuse my husband, just tell us where to find Yami Sennen before he loses his patience."

"Room three oh four" the man replied.

"Thanks." Atem led the way gently guiding Heba to the elevator, Yugi holding Atellie's hand as they walked towards the elevator.

Yugi ran out of the elevator while Atem grabbed Atellie. He searched the door numbers until he finally found 304. He knocked on the door but there was no answer. When he tried to turn the door knob it was locked. "Yami?" He turned to Heba and Atem when there was no answer "He's not answering. Now what?"

"I'll show you what" Heba said, pulling out a random card from his wallet. He slid it through the card reader really fast and got the door open. "Never underestimate me" Heba giggled.

Yugi pushed the door open and walked inside. Yami's bags were in the room, but he didn't see him anywhere. "I said get the hell out!" Yugi heard Yami yell.

"Oh c'mon" a female voice said.

"I've told you a million times I'm not interested! Now get lost!"

"You don't look like you're not interested" the girl said.

"Get the fuck out! I don't know how the hell you got in here, but I know how you're leaving!"

"You can't touch me."

"Either you walk out that door, or I throw you out the window!"

Yugi heard glass break and a groan from Yami. He ran from where he was standing and into the room Yami was in. Yami was laying on the bed, holding his head and groaning in pain. He wasn't wearing a shirt and looked like he'd just got out of the shower. The girl had short brown hair and was dressed kind of trashy, though she looked to be a theif. "Now then" the girl said as she sat on Yami's hips.

Yugi felt something in him snap, and before he knew it he was across the room and punching the girl off of Yami. "Get the hell off him" Yugi growled as his fist made contact with her face.

The girl rolled off the bed, hitting the floor with a loud thud. "Y-Yugi?" Yami groaned before his head fell back, and his eyes closed.

"You bitch" Yugi growled as he leapt across the bed. Hotel security came and seperated the fight that had broke out between Yugi and the girl, taking the girl downstairs to wait for police.

Yugi got a bowl of water and started dabbing the right side of Yami's head with a rag. He put his right hand on the other side of Yami's forehead and started rubbing his thumb against it. "Yami. Please be alright. Please wake up" Yugi whimpered.

It was five minutes before Yami showed any signs of movement. His brow furrowed and unfurrowed before he slowly opened his eyes. "Yugi?"

"Yami!" Yugi yelled.

At first Yami throught Yugi was going to embrace him, but was surprised when Yugi's hand came down across his face. "You idiot!" Yugi yelled as his hand made contact with Yami's face.

"Ouch. What the hell?"

"That was for leaving my house!"

"You were mad at me!"

"You started it!"

"You wouldn't let me comfort you or accept my apology!"

"Shut up and kiss me!"

"You-! Wait, wha-" Yugi pressed his lips to Yami's cutting him off. Yami's eyes widened in surprise before slowly closing as he relaxed and kissed back. Yami was in a daze as Yugi pulled away, it took him a minute to realize that Yugi had pulled away. Yami slowly opened his eyes and looked at Yugi, a smile spreading slowly across his face. "What was that about?"

"Heba, cover Atellie's eyes." Heba chuckled and did as he was told. Atem sensed where this was going and covered Atellie's ears as well.

Yugi climbed up and sat on Yami, pressing his forehead to Yami's. "You're gonna shut up, and listen to what I tell you. Understand?" Yami opened his mouth to reply but Yugi put his finger on his lips "You nod or shake your head." Yami raised a brow but nodded anyway. "Good. We're going to play a game. Loser gets dared to do something. If you refuse the dare, then you have to take off an article of clothing. If you can't complete the dare, you lose an article of clothing. The first one naked runs around the town in his pants and screams how much they love the other."

Yami couldn't help the chuckle that escaped his lips. "Okay" Yami mumbled around Yugi's finger.

Yugi leaned down so he could whisper in Yami's ear. "We can start now" he whispered before nipping Yami's ear.

Yami looked over Yugi's shoulder at his parents "You guys can leave... Now."

Atem chuckled "We get it. We'll be at the house if ya need us. See ya tomorrow."

"Bye you guys" Yugi said, waving at the family as they left. "Now where were we?" Yugi growled playfully, locking lips with Yami.

Me: Okay, I wanted to put this game in this fic because I think it'd be something these two would do. Just to play around, because they both love games, they both love challenges, and I feel like it's something they'd do... XD Anyway, next chapter I'll get to the game itself... So it's going to get crazy. ^w^ Until next time *waves* Goodbye! :)