Annime: Time to answer some questions!

Kristy: Annime doesn't own Yugioh or anything not belonging to her!

Chapter 5

Yugi and Yami walked down the sidewalk. Yami had taken him to the park to calm down. Yami pondered in his mind the biggest question he could think of. He looked at Yugi, and he saw Yugi's head was down. Yami sighed. He didn't want to put Yugi in the situation he was in an hour ago. Yami huffed in frustration; this got Yugi's attention.

"What's the matter?" Yugi looked up at Yami as they both stopped walking.

"Nothing, it's nothing," Yami answered trying to move forward, but Yugi stopped him and shook his head.

"No, it's something. If it were really nothing, then you wouldn't be sighing and huffing around about it."

Yami had he head down as Yugi scolded him.

"Can I ask you something, Yugi?"

"Yes…What is it?"

"Well," Yami scratched his head, trying to find the words. "W-why doesn't your dad's family like you?"

Yugi took Yami head with both hands and made Yami face him.

"Yami," Yugi said in a very serious tone. "That was the big question?" Yami was confused when Yugi started to laugh. "Yami, they don't like me because they don't like my mom."

"Why? Why don't they like your mom?" Yami was confused. Why was Yugi laughing?

"Well," Yugi took Yami's hand and dragged him to a bench, "they don't like my mom probably because they didn't except her in the first place. You see, my uncle and dad were the babies of the family. They always asked for permission from the older sisters if they could go out with curtain girls. Well, when my dad started going out with my mom, he hadn't asked for permission. He thought they would LOVE her. He was wrong. They didn't think she was good enough for him; they thought he would stop going out with her. Nope, he kept going out with her, and they started disliking her more and more because they thought of her taking him away from them. One girl didn't think this; that was my aunt you meet before, and my dad's brother liked my mother and respected her as well. Another reason they don't like my mom may be because she is high it social status. Besides those, I'm not really sure."

Yami looked at Yugi. Why did Yugi have a smile? If Yami was disliked by all of his father's side of the family, he would be crying. Yugi just smiled. As if sensing his thoughts, Yugi looked up at him with his smile and said,

"I've gotten use to the fact they don't like me, but sometimes the lengths they go to kinda' scare me."

Yami looked into Yugi's eyes. He really saw happiness; wait…he could also see something else…abandonment? Well, the feeling of being abandoned, and maybe he saw a bit of sadness. Yami didn't like it one bit. He could tell Yugi had gotten use to hiding those feeling, and he also knew it wasn't health for Yugi.

"I'll always be there for you, Aibou." Yugi looked at Yami with a confused look as Yami look his hand. Yami wore a sad smile. "I know this is eating you alive inside, Yugi."

Yugi was very surprised. No one had ever seen through the fake happiness! How had Yami noticed? May he should try again.

"Thank you, Yami, but I'm really fine! You shouldn't worry over it."

Yami shook his head again. "Yugi, don't be scared to tell me how you REALLY feel. I'm not going to run away or think of you differently."

Yugi was stunned. He could believe Yami could just read him like a book like that. 'Maybe-', but Yugi stopped thought. It couldn't be! He was still looking into Yami's eyes and Yami tightened his grip.

"Thank you," Yugi whispered when he put his head on Yami's shoulder. Yami was surprised by the action, but let Yugi's head stay there. 'Maybe-', but Yami stopped his thought. It couldn't be!

Yami and Yugi walked home, holding hands. 'It's nothing!', both thought, but was it true?

As they got to the game shop Yami let go of Yugi's hand to get ready to reach for the door knob. They went upstairs and got ready for bed and fell asleep, but Yami didn't finally close his eyes until he thought, 'Maybe it is something.'

The next day was like every other. They went with their friends somewhere, then came home and got dressed for bed and went to bed nothing was out of the ordinary, except for the fact that Yami couldn't get Yugi out of his mind and Yugi couldn't get Yami out of his. Yugi was in denial, but Yami wanted to explore the feeling even more. Yami was every close to asking Yugi to go out with him, but he always chickened out. Yami was also nervous that Yugi didn't like him. Well, that wouldn't be the worst of his problems for very long.

It had been a good two weeks since the run in with Jessie, and everything seemed to be back to normal. Well, until they ran into someone else Yugi was familiar with. Telldedo. Dedo for short. Yugi and he gang were walking down town, and Dedo had stepped out of an ally way and accidently run into Yugi. Yugi fell and looked up at Dedo. His happy expression stayed on his face as Dedo scowled.

"Go rot in a hole!" Dedo yelled at him. Dedo stood up, kicked Yugi upside the head, and left. Well, he was getting ready to leave, but Yami punched him and slammed him against a brick wall.

"Don't ever, EVER touch him again! Do you hear me?" Yami yelled into his face.

"Well, this is different," Dedo said with a mocking smile. "You have caring friends, Yugi. How much did you pay them?"

This time Joey came and punched him in the face. "Don't say that! Yugi is a great person who deserves friends!"

Dedo smiled again "Well, cousin, can you please tell them to let me go? I'd like to be off now."

"I do not control their hands," Yugi said back with a snappish voice. "They are their own people."

"Well, your slaves are their own people, but you still tell them what to do," Dedo retorted with anger in his voice.

"My family has not one slave!" Yugi yelled at him fire roaring in his eyes. "We treat them kindly and pay them a fairly great amount. They are not just servants, but also like family."

"Yes, you have told me, but why should I believe a word you say?" Dedo struggled to get free from Yami's grasp, but Joey helped Yami slam him back against the wall.

"You should believe him because he's not a liar!" Tea screamed at him. Tristan was at Joey and Yami's side immediately as back up, and Duke stood back to grab him if he escaped.

"You will see! You will all see!" Dedo yelled hysterically. This surprised the gang and he slipped out of Yami and Joey's grip. He ran back into the ally way he had come out of.

"Let him go," Yugi said, stopping Yami and the rest of the gang.

"But he's getting away!" Joey said with determination.

"Let him go," Yugi repeated as he sadly looked in the direction Dedo had run to.