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Chapter 7

Yugi slid into his black, studded leather jacket with graceful ease as the last remaining beams of sunlight died behind the hills of Domino City. He sneered in its direction, as the symbol of the Egyptian sun god Ra sunk pitifully down from the sky. A feeling of hatred and spite swelled deeply within him, threatening to resurface when he heard the low feminine moans of pain whisper from behind him.

He had almost forgotten the weird little Goth girl that had allowed him to take up residence in her extremely dark and tomb like home during his stay at Domino City…and of course had supplied him with his 'other needs.'

She lay slouched against the doorframe with an even paler complexion than he had found her in, with two tiny puncture wounds on her neck that were still oozing delicious trails of dark blood. Examining her from afar, he realized that he had taken too much from her too soon…though he didn't really care whether she lived or died, as he could easily relocate, but it would be too much of a hassle and inconvenience.

Walking over to her slowly with his hands in his pockets, he couldn't help but be amused by how large her eyes grew when she took in his form, seeing him as a god, chiseled to perfection with dark handsome looks and surrounded by intimidating power that she found easy to submit to.

He knelt down on one knee to stroke her chalky toned face with the same tenderness a lover would use, sadistically enjoying the way her heart leapt in chest. The fool was already in love with him.

His darkly glinted eyes lustfully scanned her semi-naked body, taking in the sight of all her bruises and partly healed puncture wounds from the previous nights before…coming to the conclusion that he had been a little too rough with her.

She rested her hand on his, staring softly into his eyes with a small weak smile on her lips, ignoring the pain she felt in the hope that he would once again take her into his arms and 'love' her again. Such a fool…

He decided that he wouldn't kill her just yet as he needed something to entertain him during what was promising to be a very long stay in Domino City.

He had been surprised by how accommodating Domino City had been so far, practically crawling with human scum that was easy to miss, and even provided satisfactory entertainment, such as the many gang fights and rapes- live porn! And drive by shootings that he had witnessed on a daily basis. However, one particular battle didn't entertain him, but in fact did the opposite.

His brother should have destroyed the gang that attacked him, but didn't, and Yugi was still pissed about that.

Indeed his brother was not yet a fully-fledged vampire, but he was capable of far more than a mere human. Yet in battle he fought like a pansy…a wuss…there was no word strong enough to describe how pathetic he'd been…or how painful it had been to watch. It was enough to make Yugi ground his teeth together in frustration.

Yami had always been the strong one…the physically intimidating one…the one with sharp features and quicker reflexes that made him the better fighter. And even though their appearances were strikingly similar, Yami had always been the more handsome…and everyone's first choice. But now…

He threw an iron-fisted punch through the concrete wall of the small bedroom, breathing through its plaster as though he had broken through a sheet of paper. Anger raged through him like an uncontrollable wild fire that threatened to burn through his sanity and what was left of the little control he had over himself.

Unfazed by his sudden act of violence, the girl snaked her fingers down his sides suggestively, snapping him out of his train of thought. Any other day he would have taken her, but she was barely alive as it was and there was so much that he had to do that evening. The girl that had won his brother's affection would be working later that evening at the dodgy little nightclub that had served him as a 'take-out' joint since his arrival in Domino City.

Tea… he knew her name from listening in on several of her conversations, and found that he liked the sound of it. A knowing smirk spread across his lips, as everything was falling into place…piece by piece.

Tea glanced around her nervously as she made her way through Domino City's crowded back streets, which were filled with suspicious characters…watching out for one in particular.

She hadn't slept a wink since confronting her father's message, written in large letters that shattered her dreams and hopes of a brighter future. He had broken into her apartment, her only place of safety that she had ever known, and took it away from her…just like everything else.

He had stolen her innocence and lessened her value as a woman. He had taken her childhood and turned it into a nightmare. He had humiliated and disgraced her for his satisfaction and amusement, and ruined her life. She would never know what it would be like to attend the ballet academy she had worked so hard to get into, or travel overseas to perform Swan Lake in places like New York or Paris…and she would never see Yami ever again.

She felt as though her heart had been ripped apart. Never seeing Yami again was like the Earth losing it's sun. She had thought about him every second and every minute of her day since falling into his embrace, remembering how safe she had felt in his arms, as though danger itself was afraid of him.

She was in love with him…

Tears welled up at the corners of her eyes, spilling delicately down her cheeks as her whole world slowly crashed around her.

He would never return her feelings, for she was worthless to him. It was no secret that men practically passed her around like a bottle of salt. She was a whore…a dirty unworthy whore and nothing else…used and broken. Yami had class. There was no way in hell that he would ever want her, or protect her.

She could feel her father's cruel eyes on her, knowing that he was watching and waiting…and there was no doubt in her mind that he intended on killing her.

She paused in her steps, glancing sideways at the railing that prevented many people from falling to their deaths on the highway below. Her life no longer held any meaning and if she had to die…if fate had cruelly decided that she had to die…then she would do it herself. Her father would not take this away from her too.

With slight hesitation, she climbed the railing, keeping her misty blue eyes on the road below as the traffic reached its peak…

(Flashback)

The pain of waking up made it hard to think, as his dark red eyed fluttered open to a world he wished he had never been born in. He was lying on his back in an unfamiliar room, surrounded by a strange musty odor that he couldn't place.

He tried to lift himself from the bed, but instantly fell back as a sharp electrifying pain stabbed at his sides in protest and the world spun around him in a wild dance that made it impossible for him to see straight. He wanted to throw up, but forced the bile back down his throat, trying desperately to ignore the heated pain the seared through his body.

He felt her presence before he felt her weight rest lightly on top of him.

"You shouldn't move Prince Atem…" her sickly sweet words crooned, as she gently brushed his electric-bolted bangs out of his eyes, "…you have been very badly injured."

"Get…out…of…m-my…sight…Dendera…" Yami gasped through the ripples of pain that coursed through his limbs.

He felt Dendera's wondering hands roam over his bare chest, stroking him intimately as she lowered herself down onto his body. He tried to lift his arms to throw her off, but she held him down with an iron grip.

"Now, now Prince Atem…" she whispered huskily in his ear, "…You shouldn't exhaust yourself in your condition." He could practically hear the sadistic smile in her voice.

"Dendera…get off me!" He growled as his strength hastily returned to him.

She smiled down at him with cold, lust filled eyes…slowly running a hand down his thigh in the direction of his most sensitive area suggestively, with a look in her eyes that dared him to do something about it. He groaned at the contact, disgusted with himself for enjoying it.

"Doesn't that feel good Prince Atem?" she whispered seductively, slowly unzipping his pants, "I can make it feel even better."

Yami's eyes widened in horror, and he somehow found the strength to pull her off him, throwing her onto the opposite side of the bed before leaping off it. Glancing around the room, he soon realized where he was.

"What the hell am I doing in your room?" He growled, as memories of his first night with her, in this very Ra forsaken place, flooded back to him. This was where he had lost his virginity by accident to her…the Succubus of Egypt…his worst possible mistake that he would regret for the rest of his life.

"I brought you here to recover," Dendera replied with false innocence that she made look like a joke.

Before Yami could ask what she had meant by recover, he noticed a fatal appearing scar that had ripped down from his left shoulder to the right side of his ribcage, though it had healed remarkably quickly while he had slept, and was nothing more than a pink line. It was then that he had suddenly remembered his brother…who had tried to kill him.

"Where's Yugi?" He rasped angrily.

Dendera smiled cruelly with a knowing look in her eyes.

He grabbed hold of her throat and growled angrily, "Where is he Ra-damn it!"

Dendera flinched back. Fear lightly tinting her eyes as she remembered whom she was dealing with. "He's…He's…he had to feed…for the transformation to be completed," she whispered, sounding far more nervous than she looked.

Realization hit him like a cold wave of ice…and as stupid as his question was…he couldn't stop himself from asking it.

"What transformation?" he asked numbly, feeling his body ready to crumble beneath him.

"His transformation into a vampire…"

(end of flashback)

He had almost been too afraid to wonder into his room that evening, afraid of what he would find after Yugi had made use of it to entertain his 'dinner guests.' Of course Yugi was never one to disappoint…as what had once been light blue bedspreads, were re-colored with dark rusty bloodstains as well as other substances that he'd rather not have thought about.

He would never sleep in that room again, nor would he ever return to that apartment after tonight. He was leaving Domino City for good and would start afresh somewhere else, perhaps another city or small town…which ever he came by first. Not only had Domino City lost its charm, his brother's interference had made it impossible to live in…yet he couldn't help, but risk one last glimpse at the girl who made it so difficult for him to leave.

He turned into an alleyway with blind determination, trying to walk away from all his problems that he had created. It was for the best that he left her to her own life where she was safest and independent…and wouldn't have to fear the dark. He had no right barging into her life, bringing with him nearly every kind of evil that ever existed…even though he couldn't bring himself to deny how much he wanted her.

This had never happened to him before.

He had never experienced love…yet he knew the moment that his brother had threatened her life that he was in fact very much in love with her…but how? The question repeated itself over and over again within his mind, and yet the painful truth seemed to scream louder.

It seemed ridiculous to him at first, as coming from a world where love didn't exist, he had never had reason to believe in soul mates. Vampires didn't feel…they were not romantic or compassionate. The only thing they felt was blood and lust, caring only for themselves…and Yugi was the perfect example of that.

He swayed slightly and fell against the alley wall, completely drained of energy and overtaken by an overwhelming sense of regret and pain. He regretted lying to himself about what he was and running into the human world in which he would never belong…believing that he should have chosen death instead. He would never be a human, and therefore, would never be good enough for a beautiful girl like Tea.

He would have fallen victim to sleep, when the darkly sweet, demonic voice of his younger brother penetrated his thoughts. 'Asleep on the job?'

His eyes snapped open as he glanced upwards to where Yugi was perched in a kind of gargoyle pose, on the rooftop, smirking down at him evilly.

An image of how weak he looked, slumped up against the wall with dark rings under his eyes and an even paler complexion than he usually had, flooded his mind.

"I hate it when you do that," Yami grumbled under his breath, hardly in the mood for his brother's taunting.

"If you weren't so weak, you'd be able to block it," Yugi replied smugly, leaping off the ledge and landing on his feet gracefully as though he had hopped off a small step.

Yami narrowed his eyes.

"I could catch you a cat if you'd like?" Yugi offered.

"No!" he grumbled in response as his irritation grew.

Yugi chuckled lowly under his breath. "Oh yeah, I forgot that you're a cat person."

"What do you want?" Yami grumbled irritably, unsteadily raising himself from the ground.

"Me? Oh, I was just out looking for a good place to grab a bite…or two. Know of any good places?" Yugi smirked, driving his hands into his pockets with his head cocked slightly to the side.

"Go to hell…I'm sure they'll be overjoyed to accommodate you," Yami muttered bitterly, massaging his left shoulder, which had received most of the lumpy couch's brutality, while he had lain awake all night and day in an attempt to fall asleep.

Yugi grinned in amusement. "I believe Heaven doesn't want me and that Hell is afraid I'll take over," He said through a small smile. "Quite frankly I don't think I'm welcome in either of them."

Yami raised an eyebrow, before Yugi began to snicker.

"I'm glad you find that amusing Yugi," Yami said bitterly, making his way passed his shorter brother.

"Oh for Ra's sake, come on! Lighten up! Jeez you sound older than you really are!" Yugi retorted in annoyance. "Look, let's just hunt together for old time's sake."

Yami paused in his step to glare back at him, his anger welling up dangerously inside of him. "Get this through your thick skull – I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU!"

His enraged voice bounced off the scum covered alley walls in loud echoes. If he had said that to Yugi three years ago, he would have instantly regretted it and would have dropped to his knees and begged for his forgiveness…but as he glared into the eyes of the vampire before him, who showed no emotion on his perfectly masked face…he felt absolutely nothing.

Yami didn't even bother to try and read his younger brother's mind, knowing that it would be a useless attempt. Like Yugi had said, it was all about strength, one of the reasons why he could block unwanted entries in his mind, whereas Yami could not.

Yugi's mouth opened slightly as though he were about to say something, but then drew his attention to something over Yami's shoulder, frowning darkly.

Following his gaze, Yami found himself looking at a middle-aged man that stood sinisterly at the entryway of the alley, glaring darkly at the two of them as though they had done him harm. There was something familiar about him, but Yami couldn't place exactly what it was or if he had ever come across him before.

Realizing that they were staring at him, the man turned around and left sparing them a single backward glance before disappearing into the night. Yami had to swallow the uneasy feeling that he had about the dark stranger, deciding that the insomnia he had been suffering through the past few days had been messing with his mental state.

"I don't like that human," Yugi whispered sharply, his tone and expression perfectly serious.

"Well why not kill him? Isn't that what you do to all the people you don't like?" Yami grunted as he pushed himself off the wall and forced himself to take a step passed his brother. Though he usually didn't see eye to eye with Yugi, he couldn't help but agree on the fact that there was definitely something unlikable about the guy.

"I would have thought you of all people would want that honour for yourself," Yugi replied, his eyes still glaring ahead of him at the empty street in which moments before a human had stood. His voice no longer held an amused tone, and Yami was unnerved by how serious he sounded.

"Why?" he spat.

Yugi narrowed his eyes in disbelief as though he believed that Yami was purposely acting dumb, but when his confused expression didn't change, Yugi's face softened in understanding, and for a very short second, Yami glimpsed the brother whom he had lost so many years ago.

"He's been lurking around your little toy lately," Yugi said through a shrug as a smirk curled onto his lips, eliminating the brief image of his human self and replacing it yet once again with his cocky vampiric attitude. "If you're not careful you may lose your place in her life."

Yami's eyes widened in realization as pieces of the puzzle began to fit into place. He remembered how she had run into his arms, petrified of whatever she had thought was behind her…but now that something had a face, and Yami now knew what it looked like.

He couldn't believe that he owed his thanks to Yugi for this…but there were other dangers besides him and his brother as well as their other dysfunctional family that had to be reminded of. Tea was in danger…every instinct in his body alarmed him of that.

"She's not a toy Yugi," he mumbled before sprinting off in the direction that the stranger had left in, not caring that he had left Yugi behind. He made it to the end of the block, catching the stranger's scent, which was vaguely familiar, when a figure leapt in front of him, blocking his path as a huge eight-wheeled truck sped passed.

"Yami! You fucking idiot! What in the name of Ra are you doing you fucking imbecile!" Yugi bellowed, his eyes glaring daggers that seemed sharper than his fangs, which were partly sticking out the corners of his mouth…a sign that he was extremely pissed off.

Yami grinned without humor. "Wow 'imbecile' is a big word for someone that only stands a foot from the ground."

Yugi didn't catch the joke and ground his teeth together in frustration. "You need to feed immediately, your senses are pathetic-"

"Like you care," Yami spat, maneuvering his way around Yugi so that he could cross over to the other side of the street, taking care to check for traffic.

'Idiot, you're making yourself a walking target! You can barely stand you fool! Yugi's frustrated voice blared in his mind, though Yami paid little attention to it. 'Ra Yami this is the worst area of town to be in the state that you are in!"

Yami ignored Yugi's mental voice and continued forward as the trail began to fade.

Shit!

Not only was he losing the scent, his night vision was also failing him, and soon he found himself partly blinded by the invasive blackness. Yugi was right…he needed blood.

He was about to make a right turn, when by some God-given-sign, he had the urge to look up. He heard the sounds of traffic flee passed him at dangerous speeds, realizing for the first time that he was in an area where a lot of cars traveled through, yet what his eyes saw almost stopped his heart.

Like an angel she peered down from the heavens, with the saddest look on her delicately beautiful, tear stained face, standing dangerously close on the edge of the drop-off. He stood there, frozen by her beauty and concerned for her safety, feeling a sense of dread crawl up his spine.

Perhaps it was incorrect of him to assume that humans didn't generally climb over the railings to get a good look at what was below them, and Tea didn't seem to be the adrenaline junkie sort.

He was about to call out to her, when she let go of the railing…

Oooooooooo...dodges friut (Ha I'm getting better at that!) Anyway my sister asked me to explain something that i think I should share with everyone - that if Yami and Yugi are twins, why do I refer to Yugi as Yami's younger brother - well- Yugi will sort of be sixteen forever, and Yami is nineteen. Yami is also taller. And its safe to say, Yami is also the first born...hehehehe I'm already working on the next chapter, so see you guys soon!