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Chapter 33

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Yami concentrated and soon his legs knitted together and created a tail. Yugi's jaw dropped as he stared at Yami's tail. Yami chuckled softly causing Yugi to look at him in shock.

"We are naga's as well but we just don't have the spell that keeps us in naga or snake form. We can change into either form we want."

"You have got to be kidding me."

"Touch it, if you don't believe me."

Yugi reached out and gently ran his hands along the scales. Yugi gasped as he ran his hand along the smooth cool scales.

"I believe you."

Yami smiled and removed his tunic and laid it on the ground beside the bed. Yugi could see a scar that was sort of hidden by his scales just half way down his tail. Yugi looked at it gently brushed his fingers along it.

"They got me and had chained me up, in chains, and used me as bait to get Atemu and the others. It nearly killed me in the process. They were smarter than what the hunters had predicted seeing as they had magic that other naga's didn't have. I do to but seeing as I was already injured I really couldn't do anything, I was too weak by the time I woke up."

Yugi looked at it before looking at the bed sheets. He could understand why Atemu wanted to keep them here. He didn't want anything to happen to the ones under his care. Yami chuckled softly causing Yugi to look up at him.

"You don't have to worry Atemu won't stay upset with you for long. It would take a lot more than escaping to make him angry enough to last a while. It was to be expected that you would all try to escape."

"I know you weren't in love with Atemu when you obviously first met. Did you try to escape, I mean they must have captured you three as well."

"No actually, our reason for being here is completely different why Atemu and the others kept you three here."

"Can you tell me?"

"Maybe another day." Yami said causing Yugi to become confused.

"To tell you that story would involve me trusting you again."

Yugi jumped and looked to the entrance to see Atemu coming out of the darkness of the tunnel and into the chamber. Yugi looked at the sheets and kept his mouth shut. He was nervous to be around him again now that he is upset with them.

Yami looked at Atemu and smiled; he'd seen him in the tunnel and knew that at the moment he wouldn't want the boys to know how they got to be with them.

"We didn't use anything from the story you told us against you." Yugi said softly, not looking up.

"True but to reveal how they came to be here would still require me to trust you with it."

Yugi looked at his hands that were in his lap and wrapped the animal skin around him more and shivered. He suddenly felt cold again so he climbed out of the bed and moved over to the fire that was still going. Yugi curled up on the ground beside the fire and leant against the wall next to it. Yugi's body shuddered before stilling and he just stared at the fire and blocked out everything else around him.

Yami watched Yugi climb out of the bed and sit down by the fire. He watched him shiver before stilling and staring at the fire. Atemu did the same before he moved over to the bed and sat behind Yami and wrapped his arms around his waist.

"I missed you."

"I know I missed you too." Yami said as he leaned back against him. "You know you need to let what they did go. They were scared and if I had met you the same way and had family I wanted to return to I may have done the same."

"Yami had it been that way back when I first met you I probably wouldn't have bothered to try and get you back. But technology has come a long way in a thousand years. You have seen that. What I'm doing is also to protect them. You know the way the hunters work. They will hurt the boys any way necessary to get the information about us they want."

"I know."

"Don't worry about it."

"It's the boys I'm worried about. They have families."

Atemu sighed and lay back pulling Yami with him and he wrapped his tail around Yami's. Yami relaxed against him and stared at the entrance to the chamber. They had their back to Yugi to give him some privacy. As Yami started to fall asleep, Atemu felt the same way but sat up and carefully pulled out from behind Yami and turned to Yugi. He was asleep against the wall.

Atemu smiled and moved over beside him and lifted him into his arms and moved over to the other side of the bed next to Yami. He moved the blanket on the bed back before laying Yugi down and chaining his wrist to the bedpost. He covered Yugi in the blanket before blowing out the torches on the walls, leaving the fireplace going and climbing back into the bed behind Yami and falling asleep.

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Ryou whimpered silently as he was led through the tunnels to Akefia's and Bakura's chamber. Ryou knew Akefia was angry at him and he couldn't really blame him for it. Ryou let out a squeak when his wrist was grabbed when they got back to the chamber and he was dragged over to the bed and chained back to it. Ryou whimpered as it was done a little harshly but he kept his mouth shut. He didn't want to piss him off.

"Akefia, that wasn't necessary."

"Yes it is. We are both going back to sleep and he needs to be chained up."

"That chaining up wasn't what I was talking about. It was the way you did it. You heard what they said and remember he wasn't pretending to get along with you."

"Yeah well he's lost my trust in him."

Bakura sighed and sat down on the other side of Ryou so he was in the middle of the bed. Akefia sat on the edge of the bed next to Bakura and lay down. Ryou gasped as he watched Bakura's legs change into a tail and he couldn't help but stare.

"I thought you were human." Ryou said in shock.

"I was till Akefia changed me. Does that change anything?" Bakura said with a slight glare.

"No, but why can't Akefia, Atemu and Mariku do the same; change to human form?"

"Because of the extra spell the naga priests put on them. Have you heard the story?"

"Yes sorry that's right I remember now."

"So Bakura what did you get up to back in the city?" Akefia asked.

"Nothing other than the usual, causing chaos and stealing things like I usually do." Bakura said as he lay down and rested his head on Akefia's chest.

"You steal?"

"Yeah it's what I use to do as a human a thousand years ago and also murder people." Bakura said as he turned onto his side to look at Ryou.

"Bakura enough. They have got to earn my trust for us to tell them your story."

"M-M-Murder."

"Yeah well who I murdered had it coming to them." Bakura chuckled.

"O...Ok."

"It's time to sleep seeing how we've missed some sleep."

Ryou looked away as he slipped his shoes off and slid under the blanket on the bed and stayed by the edge of the bed. Ryou closed his eyes and faced the entrance to the chambers as he fell asleep.

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