Here we are, next chapter. I'd like to thank my reviewer Rannaty for your insight ;3 I tried to implement you're advice into this chapter, hope you notice.
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Disclaimer: If I owned Yugioh, Yami and Yugi would be lovers..
"Look, Master Yugi, I get what you're saying. Master Yami really shouldn't have just sprung on you like that. But he means well, and you know he's not the best conversationalist."
Soft purple eyes flickered over to meet concerned brown warily before looking away, sides heaving in a loud sigh as the smaller ran a hand through his hair. "I know..it's just...Joey, he kissed me. Without any warning." Yugi murmured, trying and failing to stop the blush from heating his cheeks at the memory.
There was a pause as the blond eyed the entity, then Joey's lips formed a mildly puzzled frown. "What warning did you want? 'Hey Yugi, I'm going to kiss you now. Kay?'. Would that have honestly been less startling?"
Amused at his friends choice of words the Dawn released a small giggle, giving a shake of his head. "Okay, good point. I suppose I still would have been taken aback. It's just...it seemed so out of the blue. I had no idea he felt that way."
Mouth dropping the Northern Lights gaped at his friend in open bewilderment, reaching up to clean out his ears, clearly not believing what he was hearing. "You..really? How could you have possibly overlooked it!? His feelings for you are as obvious as the hatred Master Marik has for Master Bakura!"
"Uhm...about that..." The small, hesitant voice startled both of them - Yugi and Joey both jerked around to find the speaker, and located two sheepish looking stars standing a short distance away. "Good evening to you, Master Yugi." Malik added as he gave a respectful bow to the entity, Ryou following suit.
"Hello Ryou, Malik." The Dawn responded in kind; neither of the elite showed surprise that the other knew their names. After all, it was just another thing an entity could do - know the name of each and every individual they set eyes upon, if they so chose.
Eyebrows raising the other elite currently present sized up the two strangers, then gave a small hum of curiosity. "What do you mean, 'about that'? Last time I checked, I'm pretty sure Master Marik definitely was plotting Master Bakura's death..."
Ryou giggled, smiling impishly. "Last time we checked, which was about...half an hour ago, Master Marik was forcing Master Bakura to sit still so he could explore every inch of his neck."
Two sets of eyes widened in equal shock. What!? Joey and Yugi looked at each other, then back at the stars, minds trying desperately to process this new piece of information. The mentioned stars were wearing equal giddy grins; after all, they were now safe in knowing that the Moon would be well taken care of. No near death experiences for him!
"Marik...and Bakura..." Yugi muttered to himself, still bewildered at this sudden change of events. Certainly he had suspected something of the manner when their plant witnesses's had testified that the Sun had saved the Moon, and obviously had been seeing to his well being. But the fact they were now together...
"Uhm, Master Yugi?" Ryou's now hesitant voice broke through his thoughts and the entity slid back into focus, blinking at the stars that had, at some point, taken a seat in front of him and Joey - who appeared to still be suffering from a bad case of shock.
The Dawn gave the two a reassuring smile; not that it seemed very necessary, considering they obviously knew his reputation, and were already acting more relaxed around him then they had when they had been in Yami's presence. "Yes. Ryou?" He responded, reaching over to press the tips of his fingers against the back of Joey's neck; just the right amount of pressure and the Northern Lights snapped back into focus with a small yelp.
"Ow, Yugi! What was that for?" The blond whined, earning a small grin from the entity, but no vocal excuse. After all, Yugi didn't have to give an excuse for anything he did if he didn't want to.
But he did anyway's. "Sorry Joey, but you were zoned out." He explained, then turned his purple eyes to the two stars, both of whom seemed a lot more skittish then before. Frowning, he wondered if they thought he hurt Joey more then he had. No...they looked almost...guilty. But why..?
"Master Yugi, we're not going to lie." Malik began, eyes lowering to gaze at the floor. "Master Bakura sent us to talk to you."
Yugi's eyes widened in shock. "Bakura did?" Why on earth would Bakura be sending people after him? That seemed...strange. Immensely. If anything, he would have expected Yami to send someone - or more likely, come himself. So what was the Moon up to?
"Master Yami's very upset." Ryou piped up, leaning heavily against his blond companion, eyes sad. At those words the Dawn cringed slightly; apparently, Yami was involved somehow. "He told us what happened..." He added with immense hesitation, obviously less brave then Malik and still a little wary of upsetting an entity.
Yugi's eyes widened, pink flaming up in his cheeks. Yami had told them? How many people knew!? Noticing the panic Malik quickly leapt in. "He only said anything because Master Bakura was prying!" He practically yelped, desperate to avoid any misunderstandings. "He didn't give it up easily. It's not like Master Yami has been going around telling everyone.." The blond stars last few words faded into a quiet mumble - quite uncomfortable defending the Dusk against the Dawn. It seemed wrong somehow.
Slowly relaxing the violet eyed entity released a shaky sigh; that sounded more like Yami. Guilt gnawed at his stomach - he really needed to stop jumping to conclusions like that. He knew the Dusk would never willingly talk about something so...so...something. If there was one thing the other respected, it was Yugi's privacy.
"I know he wouldn't do that." The smaller admitted, glancing at Joey from the corner of his eye; the Northern Lights was listening to the conversation with a strange expression on his face, as if desperately trying to figure something out. Yugi decided to leave his friend to his thoughts. "It's just...I'm confused. From what Joey said, Yami's had an obvious...crush on me for a while. I don't know why I never noticed. But when he kissed me...I just had no idea how to react! It frightened me, I guess..."
There was a thoughtful silence, then rather abruptly Malik snorted, turning to frown at his boyfriend. "Ryou, why are we talking to Master Yugi? If you ask me, I think Master Marik should be the one talking with him. Didn't Master Marik go through pretty much the exact same thing with Master Bakura? Only on a much lower scale."
The blue haired star hummed thoughtfully, giving a slow nod of his head. "You have a point...I mean, Master Marik pretty much felt the same way about Master Bakura's approach." Before they had agreed to go speak to Yugi, the two stars had insisted they be told exactly how the two entities had gotten together. The Moon had been eager to share - the Sun however, had been quite distracted playing with Bakura's shirt, and had stayed out of the conversation.
Of course, he hadn't protested at all when Bakura told them what Marik had told him. "Exactly." Malik nodded, glancing at Yugi from the corner of his eye, noting the entity seemed quite interested in where this conversation was going. Perfect. "I mean, Master Bakura kept flirting with Master Marik, but Master Marik mistook his attention for something else. And when Master Bakura kissed him..."
"Though his method was a little less violent then Master Yugi's, it still meant the same thing. Master Bakura's attention scared him, he ran from it." Ryou added, also keeping a close eye on Yugi, while at the same time pretending to be completely focused on the other star.
"But in the end..." Malik was fighting very hard not to grin; the look of dawning understanding was beginning to light inside soft purple eyes. This was going better then he thought!
The pale skinned star wrapped it up with one, simple sentence. "Master Marik wanted Master Bakura, and only ran because the feeling scared him."
"I'm going to talk to Yami." Yugi declared mere seconds after the two stars had stopped talking; they both grinned hugely.
"Great idea." They chimed together, immensely satisfied their thrown together plan had worked out so nicely.
"Wait wait wait." The three turned at the sound of Joey's voice, raising their eyebrows at the frowning blond. The Northern Lights looked to each of them in turn, slowly lifting his hands in a 'let's get this straight' sort of way. "...Marik and Bakura are together?"
There was a seconds pause. And then both stars and the Dawn started to giggle.
I'm not saying nothing! R&R!
