AN: Hey guys, another shortie but a sweetie (or something like that) I've been in no mood to post sad stuff (frankly there's enough real world sad stuff going on right now) so yay for the fluff. I don't own Yu Gi Oh! btw

As always thank you all for the reviews and faves (and here's hoping for more!) I love it when you guys take the time to give me some feedback (it's excellent encouragement) so I appreciate reviews very very much.

To the ppl who reviewed that I can't PM thank:

lbrylady (42): I actually didn't know that! That's really interesting, thanks :) And thanks for the review! (haha I've actually become mildly obsessed with that story I think...it seems to be popping up a lot lately when I write)

Guest (42): Well there will be a follow up, and I'll possibly combine them into a separate story later on, but if I did it would almost certainly just be what was written here and not elaborated on. So far there's Introduction and Mystery and the follow-ups will most likely be Problem and Solution. Thank you!

Guest (22): Aw, thanks! I don't know if there will be a sequel or not, but I've got a semi-similar story in the works at the moment that was actually originally a prompt for here...and then became waaaay too long to be a chapter here! But I'll see if anything good pops into mind as a sequel for this too!

Really though, thank you all for your reviews, they make me very happy. I really am glad that you enjoy this story and fuel my hopes of actual authorship someday :) I hope you'll keep enjoying these and my other stories! Thanks!

46. Rain

For some reason, whenever it rains I have the urge to call you and ask, "Hey, wanna go play outside with me?" and because it's you I do, and I never care about how childish or stupid it sounds.

But you don't really like the rain, so you'll laugh and say, "Yami, it's raining outside." I'll pretend I forgot, or didn't know, even though we both know I didn't and I did, and we'll usually end up at your house, sitting on your couch or your bed, playing video games or watching TV.

It's been going on for years. I don't really know why.

Today it must have started raining long before I woke up; there are already larges puddles littering the pavement and sizable streams leading into sewage grates. It's one of those hard spring rains: thick, heavy drops that fall straight down without the assistance of any wind to guide them, and still too early in the season to think of discarding jackets even in the best weather.

It was a total downpour when I looked out the window, so when I called today and asked that same question and you laughed that same, musical laugh, I wasn't expecting you to say, "Sure, why not. Where do you want to meet?"

And now I'm standing under a tree in the park down the street from my apartment building, holding an umbrella above my head with one hand and the other shoved into my coat pocket. My breath is coming out in steamy puffs in front of my face. My fingerless leather gloves aren't keeping the freezing numbness out of my exposed digits. I feel kind of like a complete ass. And my heart is beating faster.

Through the obscured curtain of rainfall a blurred figure comes running in my direction and suddenly there you are, jogging with your jacket pulled up to cover your head in the middle of the deserted sidewalk. You, the one who's always so prepared and cautious and hates the rain.

When you reach me you're red-faced and breathless and entirely drenched. I move to cover you with the umbrella, standing close to keep us both dry. My heart beats even faster.

"Yuugi, you're going to get sick like that, where's your umbrella? Here. Take my jacket."

While I try to maneuver you laugh, and the rain frames your voice like tinkling bells. "No, it's fine Yami. So, what did you want to play?"

To be honest I didn't plan this far ahead; I wasn't expecting you to do this with me.

"I don't know...what do you want to play?" For the first time I feel awkward around you; you've thrown me off-balance Yuugi Mutou.

But you don't seem affected. You seem oddly self-assured today, more confident, laughing and smiling so beautifully even as you're apple-cheeked and water turns your hair into heavy chunks that stick to your face. You're so lovely Yuugi and you don't even know it.

"How about tag?"

"Tag? Sure."

You take one step forward, then another. My heart is pounding violently as your arms sweep up and lock around the back of my neck. Your feet arch so slightly as you pull my head down and lift yours up. Our lips press softly together under the privacy of the umbrella.

It's pouring out, and chilly, and you're soaked through all your clothing undoubtedly, so you should be cold, but you're so tantalizingly warm, almost burning. I'm shivering and shaking so badly, but I don't feel anything other than your heat flooding me.

My grip loosens on the umbrella handle, but before it can fall to the side you gently release me and take a slow step back. My lips tingle where yours just were. I don't know what to say.

Then you look up at me with those pure eyes in that limpid gaze of yours and quietly say, "Tag. You're 'it'." With a laugh you turn and tear off running deeper into the park without the safety of my umbrella under the spring monsoon. I don't hesitate to drop my umbrella to the ground and chase after you, following in search of the melodic sounds of your frivolity, hidden under the rainfall that surrounds us.

I will catch you Yuugi. I will chase you forever and catch you again and again, just so I can tag you with kisses until you know you're 'It', and will be every day, for the rest of my life.

Long-winded intro was long...Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed it and please review :)