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A Fairy Tale

Yugi

Yami groaned as he awoke. His head was pounding and it felt like someone had shoved cotton in his mouth. He vaguely noticed the feel of sheets covering him and a soft pillow under his head. Perhaps it had all been a dream. Yeah, that sounded about right. He had just been dreaming about magic, and fairies, and things that didn't make sense.

The human slowly sat up and opened his eyes, despite feeling like someone had taken a sledgehammer to his cranium. Yami slowly glanced around the unfamiliar room. All hope of everything just being a dream falling fast. He rubbed his eyes in an attempt to make sure he wasn't still dreaming. Yup, he STILL wasn't in his own room. Lovely.

It was just chance that Yami looked down and to his right. There, sitting in a chair and with his head laying on Yami's bed, was Yugi. The little fairy was fast asleep and had half his face buried in his arms.

Yami felt his face heat up. 'How long has he been there?' He wondered. Yami reached out tentatively and ran his hands through the smaller boys hair. It was soft beneath his fingers.

Yami froze when Yugi's eyes flittered open and he lifted his head, Yami's hand still present there. They stared at one another for a moment before Yugi got his bearings and launched himself at the unsuspecting human.

"Yami, you're awake! I was really worried about you!" The little fairy curled up in Yami's lap and clung to his neck. "I stayed here all night to make sure you were okay."

Yami was frozen in place. He wasn't use to such show of affection. "Oh, um… Thank you… I think…"

Yugi pulled back and looked in to Yami's eyes. "You're not hurt or anything, right?"

The humans eyes widened and his heart began to beat faster. Why was this little kid having such an affect on him? "Um. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that I'm not hurt… My head hurts though. I'm kind of hungry to…"

"I'll get you something to eat!" Yugi cried as he jumped from Yami's lap and rushed toward the door. "I'll be right back!"

Yami sighed as he propped a pillow up and leaned back onto it. His headache was gradually subsiding, but was replaced with hunger. How long had it been since he had eaten? The human wasn't sure, but it was to long for his liking.

He closed his eyes and his thoughts soon drifted to Yugi, causing the poor human to turn red as a tomato. Yami growled as he ran his fingers through his hair and pulled. What was WRONG with him! Why was he reacting this way to some little boy? He pulled harder on his hair in an attempt to force the image of the cute, NO, little fairy out of his mind. Unfortunately the only thing he succeeded in doing was making his eyes water.

"Yami?" The human froze and slowly looked up. Yugi was standing beside his bed with a tray of something that smelled like heaven and a concerned look in his eyes. "Are you okay? I brought you some food…"

He quickly released his hair. "Yeah, I'm fine. Um… Thank you…" Yami said sheepishly and took the tray from Yugi.

Yami ate in silence, at least for a little while. He didn't really know what to say to the fairy next to him. He had never been good at small talk. To his relief, Yugi was the one who broke the silence.

"Does your head still hurt?"

"No. Not really…"

"That's good! Grandpa told me to make sure you were alright."

"Speaking of your grandfather, where is he? Is he home?"

"No… He isn't home." Yugi frowned and tapped his chin, thinking. "He didn't really say where he was going. But he IS the village elder. I would assume he's doing his elder stuff."

Yami smiled a little. "You don't know what his duty's are, do you?"

Yugi blushed. "No… Even though I'm supposed to take over for him when I'm older, I have no idea what being the elder entails. I know you're the villages protector, but not much beyond that…"

"You're taking over? What about your father?"

Yugi looked down and folded his hands. "Father died when I was really little, so did Mom."

"Oh… I'm sorry."

Yugi's head popped up and he gave Yami a big grin. "No worries! I was to young to remember them, so it's not like I can miss them or anything!"

Yami's heart sunk a little. Even though Yugi had a grin plastered to his face, he could tell it was forced. He hadn't meant to upset the poor kid. Yami decided to change the subject. "How old are you?" He asked as he reached to set the tray on the bed side table.

"Twenty-five!"

The tray clattered to the floor and Yami was looking at Yugi as if he had suddenly grew horns. "You're what!"

Yugi cocked his head to the side. "Twenty-five."

"Years?"

The fairy laughed. "Well yeah. What else would it be?"

Yami gaped at him like a fish out of water. "Your lying."

Yugi pouted, crossed his arms and turned his head away. "Nu-uh."

The human had to mentally slap himself to keep from thinking of how cute Yugi looked like that. What was wrong with him? He didn't think ANYONE was cute. Ever.

"That proves it right there! You can't be twenty-five."

"And why not?"

"Because… Because you just don't act like it!"

Yugi suddenly began to laugh. "You must be thinking in human terms. Fairies age much slower then humans, and we live longer to. In fact, Grandpa is about five-hundred, be he claims he's lost track."

"Oh." Was all Yami could muster.

"I guess I would be considered about sixteen, in human terms."

Well that made a little bit more sense in Yami's head, but Yugi didn't really act like a teenager or look… He stopped that though. Hadn't Yugi said something about fairies being short? Yami sighed and rubbed his temples. "Well… What ever. Help me stand up. I'm tired of laying down."

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Alright. I'm coming close to finishing Split Souls. And I'm trying to figure out what to replace it with. I have two ideas, but I want your opinion! I have summaries of the two replacements on my profile, so give me feed back!