I am. SO SORRY FOR THE DELAY. I SWEAR I TRIED TO BRING THIS UP SOONER! But sadly, I won't be updating as much as I did before since I started to work as well as going to school, so my time is running short x.x . So sorry guys, but I promise that this story won't be abandoned, and will be completed. I'm sure of that! (So sorry for the delay, please take this huge chapter as an apology. I'll try to bring the next up as soon as I can!)

murtagh1, Yes, that's right! ;). Huahaha, I'd like to have a party like that one too! xD. Seto really thought about it before acting! :D. Yes, poor Yami, but Seto is... kind of a closed person. He won't open up so easily ;w;. Hueheheheh, it needs to be a collar because reasons ;). Also, I love the thought of claiming a lot too! Yami is getting there, and so is Seto... this chapter lets a bit of his stress and trauma finally show up...

Howl3, Hey you! :D :D. YES, Seto had a great idea with that collar didn't he? xD. I'm glad that you liked the flashback! :D. (Well, Yugi was the original owner of the Puzzle ^^;. heheheh.) Don't worry, don't worry at all! I've been so busy that I couldn't even update properly, and I'm so so happy that you stuck with me for so long! xD. (Get better soon! :D)

McNuggets (omg that name is priceless! xD), I'm so happy that you like it! :D :D. I'm trying to make Yami look cute, haha. I hope you enjoy this new chap as well! (The Prideship starts to get strong there!)

I acknowledge awesomeness, Hello there! :D. I'm so honored to be your first Pride!author! There's so many better people out there, you should take a look at other work pieces as well because Pride has some very good and entertaining fics! :D. I'm so glad that you enjoyed mine though! (Yami has a connection with Yugi, Mokuba and Seto, in different levels. Basically, everyone who was able to put a piece of the Puzzle together has some sort of connection with him ;). You'll see!).

sandyapples2, Another new person! :D :D. Thank you so much! Heheheh, everyone is talking about how the Yugi\Yami bond was surprising, but it's necessary for the fic's plot! ;). Yes. Seto has no choice, but that doesn't mean that he won't try to challenge the destiny like he always does! I'm so glad that it intrigued you, you can see a little bit of what happens in this chap...
(Yes, possessive Seto is so good, heheheh!)

WARNINGS: Possessive! Seto. Horny! Seto. Lime. (No smex yet, sorry! ;w;). Also bulling, violence, penalty games, canonical self-hatred on Yugi's part and more, so be careful!

The silk beneath him was downy and comfortable, but didn't outweigh how much being in this place was boring.

Even though the Kaiba Mansion's safe box was HUGE, it simply wasn't very interesting. The tall, steel walls were littered with shelves that were littered with smaller safe boxes. Each of these boxes contained thousands and thousands of different kinds of currencies. Dollars, Yens, Libras... even pure gold and rare stones were included. It was a gigantic gray place, and went as far as as Yami could see. An almost infinite metallic corridor, under lock and key to protect anything that Seto considered valuable.

Apparently, now that included him as well.

Sighing, the spirit arranged the blankets under him and tried to get back to sleep. He wasn't successful, and found his mind drifting away to the events that occurred in the last day instead.

His birthday party was simply... amazing. He knew that Kaiba had the desire to make it for him since a long time ago, but they didn't had the resources to make a party at the time. When they went to Gozaburo's mansion, the boys were too afraid of getting too much out of the line, so it was impossible that time as well. But now... Seto was able to do it. Surprisingly, the CEO apologized to him various times for "not making it big enough" or "not making it perfect enough" for him, even though that was one of the best nights in the ghost's live. Yami didn't understand Seto's line of thoughts. His aibou was getting way too deep in this ostentatious and expensive world, maybe it was time to take him away from it again, even if just for one day.

It seems to be a good idea. But...

Yami looked around and sighed when again, he saw no signs of an exit. Seto locked him into the safe box after seeing him trying to sneak the Puzzle into the CEO's schoolbag. The place was huge and protected with several technological mechanisms of defense, including lasers and trapdoors and all of these things. These weren't Yami's biggest problems though... the maze he had to cross to get to the mansion was. He couldn't remember things to save his live, and Kaiba was taking advantage of it.

Why was his aibou being so cruel?

Yami's only reason to exist was protect and take care of the two brothers. His safety wasn't important when put side to side to their safety. There weren't even many dangers that could actually hurt him, so he honestly didn't know what his aibou was thinking. At least Seto bothered into leaving him comfortable and feed...

A loud metallic sound echoed through the enormous place, immediately making Yami's body go stiff and spiky in alarm.

"Yami?" A voice spoke, almost shyly.

"Mokie?" The ghost muttered in surprise, rearing up to look for the small kid. He found the eleven years old approaching him with a tray of some short.

"I brought you food!" Mokuba said proudly to the spirit, bringing a closed hand to his own chest before smiling happily. Yami giggled as his tentacles began to poke the dishes and bring the most interesting ones to his mouth. He munched the expensive food gloomily, thinking about his other aibou and worrying about what could happen with him alone and scared in this vast, dangerous world...

...well, Kaiba certainly wouldn't be scared but still...

"What's wrong?"

Yami almost jumped at the sound of Mokie's voice.

"I... I... "

"You're eating a plate."

The spirit immediately dropped the half-eaten dish, staring wide eyed at it when it shattered on the floor.

"Oh... I'm... I'm sorry..."

"Something is clearly wrong Yami, talk to me."

The ghost shyly looked away before muttering: "I wanted to go with Seto... I... I need to be by his side."

Mokuba immediately felt conflicted, and it showed up on his face. His brother had actually told him to keep out an eye for Yami and don't let him leave the safe box, but... Yami looked so sad here. And the place wasn't interesting at all as well. Keeping the spirit locked here was just mean. Maybe he could let Yami out, but keep him inside the mansion...? It has been a long time since they've played together too, why not take this opportunity before Yami is following every single of Seto's steps again?

The idea was too tempting to let pass.

"Well, you can go out with me, but you have to promise that you won't get out of the mansion."

"Deal!" The ghost seemed a bit too happy with the perspective of getting out of there. As he and Mokie shook hands, the spirit crossed two fingers behind his back... a trick Seto taught him a long time ago. A promise loses it's worth when one does that. Yami wasn't used to do this, he never had a reason to and it was simply... wrong. But this was the only way he could be free to take care of Seto and NOT feel bad about breaking any promises at the same time!

Escaping the mansion was shamefully easy. Everything that Yami had to do was play with Mokie and tire him out enough to pass out, then carry him to his bedroom and tuck him in bed.

As he watched over the pile of black fluff to make sure the boy was actually sleeping, the ghost couldn't help but feel guilty after seeing how excited Mokuba actually was about spending time with him. Of course, Seto was important and needed his attention the most, but... Mokie was also there. Both he and his big brother weren't giving the kid all the attention he needs and deserves.

But he couldn't stay brooding here forever. After getting Seto back safe and sound he could plan an entire day to spend with Mokuba and make up for all of the lost time.

For now, Seto was still his priority.

Domino High has always been a stupid and pointless idea.

Seto was starting to see Yami's point now. He lost track of how many bullies tried to (unsuccessfully) maul him just on his way to the class. Unsurprisingly, he was a main target since 'new guy' and 'rich'. They never stood a chance. His size, his vast knowledge on martial arts and his higher IQ gave him an almost unfair advantage. Also, most of these guys were morons.

To be more accurate, all of them but one.

Ushio used his position as the 'Demon of Morals' and his physical strength to steal money away from the weaker students. Kaiba almost sympathized with that desire. But the man's methods were... unnecessary. It'll only end up with everyone's hate against him boiling to the surface and every student on school teaming up to overthrow his power and give him the lesson he deserves. That's was the main reason for Seto to avoid... violent methods of convincing. They were fast and efficient, but the worst strategy for the long run. It's better to be as subtle as possible and carefully trick them into trusting him, slowly wrapping them around his fingers.

The CEO strongly hoped that he wouldn't be forced to fight against Ushio without Yami by his side. He did have various bodyguards around but he just didn't trust them enough, and the (noticeably ugly) man was uncomfortably close to him height wise, and way heavier. Seto was sure that his skills were more than sufficient to knock him out but he wouldn't leave a fight like this one without some bruises and he'd rather not smudge his white suit, thank you.

Other than small frys bothering him most of the day, it wasn't entirely bad. The knowledge that Yami was safe in the mansion soothed him down a bit. At least he wouldn't worry about Yugi doing anything funny trying to get the real Puzzle back.

Speaking of him.

Yugi looked pretty down the entire day, but he seemed particularly sad now. Maybe it was the two wanna be bullies making fun of his hair and game addiction, but Kaiba wasn't very sure.

The blonde one was apparently called 'Jounouchi ' . He was particularly annoying for Seto for some reason. The way that he basically wandered around the smaller boy and pushed himself in front of him like a stray mutt craving for attention simply got into the CEO 's nerves. The other one wasn't as bad, but still annoyed him somehow... It must be the hair.

Kaiba was taken away from his thoughts when the teens started to be slightly lousier. Stressed out, the business man looked out of the window and wished with every single piece of his being to be anywhere else.

Hours later, it was finally time for recess. Seto almost sighed in relief. He was finally free to get out of this low class room and read something in peace. "I swear, if someone tries to hit me again, in more ways than one I'm going to bring Yami here and make him bite their heads off. " Kaiba bitterly thought as he tried to glare his way through seas of giggling girls and mad looking boys. He almost regretted leaving Yami home. Almost.

As he walked away from the building, the deafening sound of voices began to low down. Relieved, he grabbed a random book in his backpack and was just about to read when another, weirdly familiar sound reached his ears.

Kaiba's face immediately turned into a frown.

Someone was being beaten up. That wasn't weird in a school like this one but damn he wanted to read. Maybe he should just go to his limo and stay there until the bell rings... the problem is that his vehicle was right on the corner of the school. He'd have to get past these bullies if he wanted to get there.

Sigh. Apparently he doesn't have a choice.

Yami crawled through Domino High's empty corridors, looking for his aibou. He made sure that he wouldn't be seen, dragging the Puzzle behind him as quietly as he could. The spirit affectionately stroked the collar on his neck, purring softly as he felt the KC marks all around it.

He misses his aibou so badly...

The dark, slimy being slid through a window when he finally realized that no one was inside the building and his aibou was probably out as well. He looked around, a bit blinded by the bright sun but happy to see that there was lots of students around. His aibou was definitely there somewhere!

The ghost practically dashed through the school.

Yugi cowered against the wall, coughing and then shivering with the pain on his body.

"You better not forget to pay me tomorrow..." The big brute pulled a knife out of his jacket.

"Or I'll be forced to use this..."

He burst out laughing, the haunting sound hurting the smaller boy's ears until the man left.

Yugi swore silently, bringing a hand to his forehead and shaking his head from side to side.

"What I'm going to do?! I don't have so much money!"

The small boy had lost count of how many times things like this had happened. He was almost used to the pain, since letting himself be beaten up was the quickest way to be left alone. That way the guys would get tired of him and go away- but Ushio was persistent, and apparently, not afraid of doing more than breaking some bones.

Yugi bluntly got on his feet, stumbling as he tried to walk away. He needed to get to his class... he couldn't lose another math exam or Miss. Chouno would have his head!

He barely gave two steps before his knees went limp and he crashed on the ground. Pain crawled through his shivering members and he realized that getting up again was impossible. Ugh... looks like he won't get out here so soon. If only Anzu was at school today... he hated having to wait for his grandpa do pick him up, especially when he was like this.

"Why am I worthless like this...?" He sighed with tears in his eyes. The feelings of sadness, fear and loneliness overcame his heart again and the small teen couldn't help but let tears run down his face.

"I hate myself..." The boy muttered as he cowered against the wall, trembling in pain.

'What's this...? What's this feeling...?' Yami wondered as he stopped on his tracks. Seto's smell was close, but he could feel... something painfully calling for him, and even closer. He had never felt something similar before, and it was making him unsettled and nervous.

How...? Was it Mokie? It couldn't be. He and Mokuba didn't have a bond that was strong enough for telepathic calling, and he saw Mokie sleeping just some minutes ago.

So... who? Should he follow Seto's familiar scent or try to help this mysterious person...?

Who could it be?

Yami's curiosity and the obviously pained waves he was receiving made his mind.

Decided, the dark spirit dashed through the patio, being guided by the weak whimpers reaching his ears.

He found the kid in no time. It was laid down, crying to itself. Yami bumped his head to the side, confused. He couldn't smell any blood. The kid was obviously hurt though...

Pitying the small thing, Yami crawled closer, sniffing it's body. Yellow eyes blinked in realization. Enveloping the kid in dark, slimy tentacles, the ghost was surprised when he didn't scream. Instead, large purple eyes stared at him in awe, a tiny mouth opening and closing very, very slowly.

"W-Why are you helping me?"

The spirit blinked in surprise to hear that question. What an weird kid! Not 'What are you? ' or 'Get away from me!', no, it was a 'Why are you helping me?' ...!

"You're hurt." He answered innocently. The boy shivered at the sound of his deep voice.

"B-But..." The small teen rubbed his eyes. "W-What are you?"

Oh, here it was.

"I'm Seto's." He stated proudly, lifting his head as far as he could to show his awesome collar to the smaller one. Since he met Seto and Mokie, he spend his free time wondering how he could answer that very same question, and finally, he has a response.

"H-Huh? " The boy blinked, eyes resting on the silver plate on the ghost's neck. Tiny letters under a huge 'KC' symbol caught his attention.

"Yami...? Are you someone's pet or something?"

Growling, the ghost shook his head violently. "NO! Not a pet! " He shrieked as dark tentacles snapped against the ground.

"A-Alright! I don't even know why I'm asking anyway. That beating up must have messed up my head again and I'm seeing things. Still... thank you... for not letting me here." The kid muttered shyly, looking away from the interested yellow eyes.

"What's our name?" Yami inquired as he bumped his head to the side again.

The boy stopped suddenly. He wasn't expecting that at all...

"It's Yugi. Nice to meet you, Yami."

"Nice to meet you too!" The spirit replied happily. A new friend!

The kid couldn't help but giggle at the other's excitement. That shadow-thing was pretty cute for an hallucination. His body immediately protested against his laughs and a weak whimper was forced out of his throat.

Yami's eyes immediately gained a dark tone.

"Who did this to you?"

"W-Well... It was Ushio. There was nothing I could do, really. "

"I'll take care of him for you." Yami immediately promised for the smaller one, a familiar feeling of protectiveness taking over his chest. A fiery yellow eye appeared on his forehead as his power began to shine...

Then he felt his soul burning inside his body as something pulled it closer to the wide eyed kid in front of him. Yami was barely able to let out a weak cry before everything went black.

Seto sluggishly walked past the dark corridor where certainly some weak kid was being beaten up. It wasn't his business, at least not until a horrible pain attacked his mind, as if something was being violently teared off him.

What is that?! He never felt anything like this before!

Seto gasped when he saw a blinding yellow light illuminating the dark alley. Blue eyes widened as realization hit him harder than a car crash.

"YAMI!"

"It's Game Time!"

"What the-? You've got the money already? I must be very good at my job."

The small person smiled mischievously, pulling a bunch of money out of his jacket.

"Win against me and I may consider giving you even more than I own you..." He laughed, balancing the chunk of money up and down leisurely.

Seto entered in the dark alley, stopping just in time to see Yugi chopping a bunch of money on his own HAND.

Wait... this isn't Yugi. This sure as hell isn't Yugi.

Blood-red sharp eyes, wild hair with much more golden bangs and that familiar dark presence...

Yami...?

"My h-hand! I can't control it!"

"Too bad. Your greed is taking over. You're not going to win this game. "

"Shut up! If I can't stab the money, I'll stab you!"

"Alright then..." The ex-spirit muttered as an eye began to glow on his forehead.

YAMI!

"Penalty Game!"

"GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

Ushio screamed horribly for some seconds until he suddenly stopped and looked around in awe.

"Money...! Money! Money!"

"Hmn. I may have been a bit too soft with this one." The person muttered. Deep red eyes finally wandered across the place and landed on widened sapphire-like eyes.

"S-Seto?" The boy shuddered in surprise.

Kaiba immediately approached the ghost and held both of his shoulders firmly.

"Get out of that midget now! GET OUT! GET OUT!"

"S-Seto! S-Stop it! I'm leaving! I'm leaving!" The spirit pleaded as he forced himself out of the smaller one's body, which fell to the floor. The ghost shook his dark form around for a bit to get used to his usual body again. And then he looked up to the young CEO, nervous about what could happen. He shamelessly disobeyed his aibou... and then THAT happened. He had no clue of what he was supposed to answer when Seto asks about what the hell he was doing, since he didn't even know it himself!

Yugi coughed weakly on the ground, slowly regaining conscience. Before Yami could even look at the smaller one, Kaiba grabbed his ghost by the fist and dragged him to his limo, forgetting everything about having to stay on that forsaken place. The spirit yelped as he was violently thrown on the back seat. Scared, he tried to shrink to diminish Seto's anger but to his surprise, his body remained the same. Blinking, he looked to his own hands and realized that they looked... far more 'real' than usual. Almost like... actual hands, and not a see-through, smoke-like fantasy.

He immediately thought about telling Seto but the other refused to look at him, eyes focused on the window as they drove their way home. Yami looked down, embarrassed by his own actions.

When they arrived at the mansion, Kaiba grabbed him by his fist again and dragged him for the closest room. Throwing the spirit inside, he entered and locked the door. Yami backed away slowly, whimpering when the CEO began to crash the closest objects on the floor and walk from side to side with a rage-filled face.

"S-Seto... I'm so sorry... I'm-"

"You're sorry?! You're sorry?! You'll be sorry after I'm finished with you!"

The ghost cowered against the wall, looking up to the angered teen.

"I-I..."

"You willingly disobeyed me! I was trying to protect you from the same bastard that you were possessing a few minutes ago! WHY?! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?! And more importantly, WHY DID YOU NEVER DO THE SAME WITH ME?!"

"S-Seto, I-I swear that I didn't knew I could do that...I-I never..."

"SHUT UP!"

Yami tried to make himself even smaller again, his tentacles coiling around his body as if it could protect him from the other's rage.

"How could you do that?! I was there, worried sick about you and you go and do that? I... I was... I just don't want to lose you!"

"S-Seto..."

"I SAID SHUT UP!"

Yami let out a mortified cry when his partner suddenly dashed to him. Seto pulled him by his hair to make him stand up. The spirit yelled at the sudden violence and tried to back away, but Kaiba's hands hold him firmly in place. Yami swallowed hard and looked at his aibou's hateful blue eyes, shivering in fear. Seto never acted like this before...

"You're mine Yami. MINE."

"S-Seto...! Y-You're scaring me-"

Yami's eyes went wide when the CEO pushed his mouth on his. Kaiba's lips felt so soft and warm against his own, and the spirit couldn't help but sightly enjoy it even when Seto was so altered like this.

"Mine." Seto whispered when their lips separated. "The collar wasn't enough. I guess I'll have to show it to you another way..."

"H-Huh?" Yami muttered before his lips where captured forcefully again. The hand that was firmly grabbing his hair slowly softened it's grip and began to caress him fondly but roughly at the same time.

"Mine. Mine, mine, mine, mine..."

"S-Se-Seaaahh...ah..." The ghost lost the track of his words because of how daring Seto was being. His hands where everywhere on his body- Seto had never touched him like this before. Gripping, caressing, stroking... Yami's mind had turned into a blur by the time the CEO gently pulled his legs apart... fitting his own dressed lower side to the spirit's, Kaiba rubbed their hips together, making both of them moan loudly with the resulting sensation.

Yami could fell a bulge in Seto's pants while he grinded against the ghost's soft, slimy body but the spirit was completely unaware of what was happening. All he knew was that it felt good to be so close to Seto, so good to feel their bond overflowing with passion and pleasure, and so good to have Seto on top of him... he couldn't think straight. The awful feeling of fear became dull and almost disappeared...Seto's scent was everywhere, his caresses, his lips... these bright blue eyes looking at him with despair, anger, passion and fear mixed all mixed inside the colorful orbs... If his body wasn't 'locked up' because of the previous happening, Yami was pretty sure that he would have morphed into a puddle of goo right now.

"I'm going to take you." Seto whispered against the other's ear. "I'm going to take you so hard you won't be able to think about anything other than me for the rest of your life." He continued to mutter. Yami was barely able to hear a zipper being pulled down when a knock sounded on the door.

"Nii-sama? Yami? Are you guys ok?"

Seto let out an almost animalistic growl. Yami's eyes gained focus again as he answered Mokie's worry with a soft "Yes."

As soon as Mokuba opened the door, Kaiba arranged his clothing and turned his back on the spirit, dashing out of the room and letting an weakened, confused and aroused spirit behind to gather everything about what just happened.

Possessive! Seto is dangerous sometimes... take care Yami.
Yugi actually talked to Yami for the first time, and we see a bit of what happens when the spirit gets too close for too long... hehe. Kaiba isn't amused and won't let it stay that way, trust me!

Anyways, hope you all enjoyed this chapter, even with all the delay and bad grammar and stuff! Thank you so much for all the kinds of support, it makes my day, so much love for all of you! Special thanks to gracefulmiracle here, for helping me out with the ending and bringing the chapter sooner (and better!) for everyone! :D.