Me: Okay... I dunno how long this chapter will be, but I know it's not going to be no 26 pages long or anything... *cough* *cough* Fallen *cough* Anyway, I think Fallen covered all the explaining and describing in her chapter... So I'm going to attempt to not repeat anything she said, but rather just come in with the Yami POV...

Fallen: Veeery subtle, Nickey. Need a cough drop? *laughs* And yeah, I tried to cover most of the symbolism and seniment and whatnot for the story in that chapter, but god knows I'm forgetful and probably left out a detail or two. But meh. I'm so excited to start working on the next chapter for this story, and to show everyone what we've got in store for them in the future! :'D Well, I'll stop rambling now.

Enjoy the chapter!

Disclaimer: Fallen and I do not own YGO or anything pertaining to YGO. This is a fanmade fic made for entertainment purposes only. (You forgot this last chapter, Fallen... [Well, shit, I better go fix that now])

~ Chapter V ~

Heartbreak

It was extremely dark. Almost as dark as the time I'd entered the Room to my heart. I kept hearing distant sounds, but couldn't make out what they were. Suddenly I felt... defeated... As if everything were suddenly of no use to me anymore. Why was I feeling all this heartache? All this pain? It sure as hell didn't make any sense to me.

I felt as if I could just sit there and cry for the rest of the day. That was impossible, I'd given up crying. I hadn't cried for so long, because it was pointless. It was my fault we were in this place today, and crying did nothing to help.

I heard a rumble off in the distance. Oscuridad. He couldn't talk to me, and he couldn't reach me, but he continued to let me know he was there. I could feel his anger, feel how badly he wanted nothing more than to rip his talons through someone's flesh. The anger bubbled inside me, making my sadness turn to uncontained fury. The growl that escaped my lips surprised even me, which caused me to chuckle at myself.

The darkness began to swirl around me and I closed my eyes, relaxing into the shadows.

"Yami!"

I opened my eyes, hearing my brother's muffled yell for me. Why was he yelling? And for that matter, why was his voice breaking? Was he crying? Man, nothing made sense anymore.

The scene around me started to shake, as if I was being stirred from my position. Which also didn't make sense, since I was still in the same position I'd been in from the start.

Once again I closed my eyes, wanting nothing more than to fall asleep and let the shadows take me to wherever they willed.

"YAMI!"

My eyes shot open at my brother's scream, looking up I found Marik hovering over me, his eyes glistening with unshed tears. Bakura sat next to him, a look of worry and concern on his face, his own tears beginning to streak down his cheeks.

"Why are you guys crying?" I ask, my voice sounding a bit hoarse after waking from my slumber.

"Idiot! We've been yelling for you for ten minutes!" Marik snapped at me, anger and worry lacing his voice.

"You scared the bloody hell out of us," Bakura growled. His white hair looked a little messier than usual – not that it was overly tidy to begin with.

My eyes roamed back up to our big brother who was leaning over my face. His hair was pretty tousled, too – again, not like we could help our messy hair. I shrugged before sitting up, out of my brother's arms. "You didn't have to cry though. Jeeze, I'm fine."

"You looked dead, idiot. Next time you wanna sleep, sit up and do it, don't pick a new position just because you're bored!"

"I didn't pick a new position because I was bored. I picked a new position because the last one was uncomfortable."

"Then don't lay on your back like someone would lay a body in a casket!"

"Damn – you're too loud, and it's too early for listening to you." I lifted up my hand and playfully threw it over my brother's face. Sure I was the youngest, and his 'baby brother', but he didn't have to scream at me over something so stupid.

All of us turned towards the door, myself with half-lidded eyes as I was still somewhat asleep. The damned thing made a click, yet no-one had walked in yet. That's never happened.

"Okay boys," the woman sang as she entered. The 'woman' as we referred to her as, couldn't have been much older than us. We were sixteen and she didn't look any older. Then again I hadn't seen anyone else outside of the faculty members since I was six. For all I fuckin' knew people could've developed some anti-aging shit.

"Time for lunch!" she continued to say in her usual, cheerful tone. "Yami?"

My eyes were already half-lidded, and I hated when she singled me out; kinda pissed me off. So instead of lowering my eyelids, my brows furrowed and I shot her a glare. I couldn't help but think she was annoying. She may be cheerful and nice on the outside, but she's still a faculty member of this hell hole. "What?" I growl, jaw clamped tightly shut.

"Aren't you going to eat today? I made a bunch of good food."

"Did you poison it while you were at it?"

I didn't miss the hurt look in her eyes at my words. I just chose to ignore it, why should I care if I hurt her feelings? Not like anyone cared to hurt me, feelings or otherwise.

"Yami" Marik scolded me.

"What? Why should I care about her? She's no-one special." What the hell was I getting yelled at for?

"You'll have to excuse him, he's an asshole."

"What the fu-"

"And watch your language!" he scolded, thumping me on the head with his fist.

I simply growled at my brother, returning to the wall that I usually sat against. As I sat there I leaned my head back, the heartache beginning to return. It was a mixture of anger and sadness and honestly I was confused. I haven't felt emotions like this in a long time... so what was going on? My hand shifted to where my heart once lay in my chest. Why now? Why after all these years of being locked up, am I suddenly feeling so pained? Why do I feel so... alone?

"You look like you're in pain," Bakura said softly from beside me.

"I'm fine," I whisper back, my voice not able to manage more than that.

"Doesn't look like it," he argued back.

"Will you ju-" I was cut off by our older brother cramming a biscuit in my mouth.

"The least you could do is eat. I thought you wanted to die anyway. So if it is poisoned, won't you get what you wanted?" Marik grumbled bitterly, looking at me with those eyes.

Under his stare I shrunk downwards along the wall. He'd looked at me with those eyes once before. The eyes that always show that no matter what he says, he doesn't mean it, and he hates the fact that he has to resort to saying it just to get his way. Meaning: sure, he spoke the words, but he didn't actually mean them. He was just saying them so I would eat again.

"I don't like being here any more than you do. But just watch. You'll see; we will get out of here."

"Not unless it's in a body bag," I spat bitterly. Marik may be the older brother, he may be the one that tries to shine light in us all, but nice words were just that. I've faced the facts. I have given up. I don't believe that we'll see the light of an actual day again, outside of this prison. This was our world, the 'yami' world. Dark, full of despair, where no light dared to touch.

A man entered our room an hour after we had eaten. He told Bakura to come along and he did as he was told. Marik and I just sat there, allowing our brother to be handcuffed and lead out of the room.

I felt as if I were trapped in an endless cycle. One that would eventually drive me mad. I had to have some type of endurance because I hadn't gone crazy or needed a padded room... at least, not yet. They hadn't put me in a straight jacket so I knew I was okay so far. But either way, my mental stability, I could feel it beginning to waver.

Unconciously I began to rock back and forth. The rock wasn't enough to notice unless you were paying very close attention, which apparently my brother was. Marik got up and walked over to me, his hand running through my hair gently. "It's going to be okay. You'll see," he whispered again.

"Why... Why are we being locked up like animals in a zoo?"

"I'm sorry, I don't know why..." I could hear the sadness in his voice. I heard all of his thoughts in just that one sentence.

"Marik.."

"Yeah?"

"I'm not disappointed in you. I don't hate you or anything. And it's okay if you're still afraid of me... I'm afraid of me, too..."

I heard his quiet gasp, and I didn't need to look over at him to know his eyes were wide. "Yami... How... How are you not disappointed in me? If I had grabbed your hand that day... If I had just pulled you away-"

I cut him off. "Then we would've been captured without a fight." I didn't want him to blame himself for all of this. It was my fault, anyway. "Marik, I know that it was my fault you two got captured. If I hadn't transformed and shocked you guys into not moving the way I had, you two would've escaped. Even if I had been trapped here... and... I would've been okay with that." My voice lowered to a whisper with the last sentence. It was the truth. Everything that had happened to us... It was all my fault. Thanks to me, we could never be free, we would never meet our Kindreds, and we'd never be safe.

"Yami, I don't blame you. It was our fault too. After all," he added, his voice becoming more cheerful as he continued, even though it was still laced with sorrow, "You're our little brother. We're supposed to protect you. But... we failed to do that. So... I'm sorry... We're sorry."

"I never blamed you guys anyway..."

"We will get out of here, Yami," Marik repeated for the umpteenth time, "I dunno when and I dunno how, but you'll see. We'll be free again."

"Wishful thinking?" I ask teasingly, a smirk pulling at the corner of my lips.

"Shut the fuck up," he chuckled, playfully shoving me, making me fall to the side.

Our happiness was short-lived when a guard came in and took Marik, bringing Bakura back in and putting him in the opposite corner. They always seperated us when we started to do things like laugh or have any sort of fun. I had caught onto their game long ago. They were trying to keep us seperated, without actually placing us in different rooms. They wanted to break us, without shattering us completely.

I had a few theories on why they did this, but none of them made any sense. Maybe whatever they wanted from us required some amount of mental stability. If we were seperated, the isolation would surely make us go insane right off the bat. We'd be so grief-stricken, that survival would no longer be possible for us. Either way, they wanted to keep us together, and I didn't think they'd leave us by ourselves for any extended period of time, aside from going in for experiments.

I honestly lost count of how many experiments I've been through. I think the last one was

'Experiment Eight-Hundred-Fifty-Nine', going off of what one of the scientists said. Not that they went in any consecutive order or anything... It's not like they started with 'number one', or something like that. We were covered in holes from the IVs, shots, blood and skin tests and samples, pain and endurance observations, and any thing else that they just happened to think of. The tests were meant to cause us pain, from the skin sampling where they actually peeled off parts of our flesh, to the pain tests that were simply there to see how much pain we could endure before we let out a yelp. Or passed out.

Whichever came first.

Marik and Bakura had broken before I did. After all, I have felt one of the greatest pains one can face. I've witnessed the greatest pain that someone could possibly feel, first-hand. I'd watched my whole world come crumbling down right in front of my eyes. Nothing was more agonizing than watching your loved one fall into Death's hands right in front of you. Nothing.

At least, that's what I believe.

We ate dinner in silence, not really knowing what to talk about. Well, at least, not for any subject that would allow us to stay in the same room. Fortunately, that didn't last long. Because, pretty randomly, Bakura started to feel pain in his stomach and chest. "Hey, I have a question," he gasped, after catching his breath.

Marik and I exchanged looks before looking back at our middle-brother. Bakura motioned for us to lean in closer, which we did, curious as to what our brother wanted to whisper to us. If it needed for us to be quiet enough that any potential, outside parties couldn't hear, it had to be important.

"Have either of you two... felt anything, at all today?"

My eyes widened a bit. Had Bakura been feeling all those... emotions, that I had been? What about Marik? Had he felt anything? My line of sight shifted to our older brother, who just stared at Bakura as if he'd grown a second head. "Marik?" I whispered, reeling back a bit when he turned his wide-eyed sights on me.

"S-Sorry," he said, blinking away the shock that his gaze once contained. "Yami, have you been feeling it too?"

"Y-Yeah... Th-That's why I kept my eyes shut earlier. I felt so many emotions that I haven't felt for so long... I-I was just trying to figure out who's they were... Where they came from all of a sudden..." My voice had dipped to a lower tone with the last sentence. I did know that those feelings, those emotions, weren't mine. But.. who's were they? And why was I feeling them?

A knock on the door stopped our conversation in its tracks. We exchanged a glance with one another, brows raised, before looking back at the door. "Since when do they knock?" Marik scoffed, rolling his eyes.

"I always knock," a familiar voice chuckled. A teenager with short, brown hair, and sharp blue eyes popped his head in the door. The brunette reached his arm outside the door and flipped on all the lights, which caused us to cover our eyes quickly.

"Leave it to Seto to be the dunce of the faculty," I half-chuckled, half-muttered.

"Almost everyone else is gone," Seto informed us.

"What!?" The three of us yelped in unison, standing up from our spots on the floor.

"Whoa, I said almost everyone. I barely got away to come talk to you guys."

"What the bloody hell is going on?" Bakura asked, voicing all our thoughts into one sentence.

"People will be coming in here any minute. They've found your Kindreds."

"Great, so another family is about to be violently ripped apart..." I grumbled bitterly. "Maybe they'll Merge with their Ka, too, and destroy this dump."

"No. They didn't hunt them down like they did you three," Seto explained to us, his face matching his serious tone of voice. Something dark flickered behind his eyes.

"Well, then how did they find them?" Marik asked, the suspension getting to him.

"The three of them came into the Matching Center downtown. Pegasus saw the results of the Test and trapped them inside."

"The hell is a Matching Center?"

"The Matching Center was made to help people find their ideal Matches. Their Kindred. It makes it a lot easier to find them. However, thanks to that Matching Center, your Kindred are about to be in the same predicament as you guys are. Pegasus has ordered over half of the men from this facility to the Center with tranqualizers. If one of them attempts to Merge with their Ka, they will be taken down before any destruction can come to the city."

"Great. Just what we need, a bunch of men with tranqualizers," I cheered sarcastically.

"Your sarcasm is as great as ever, I see," Seto chuckled in reply to my comment. "Alright, I have to go. I'm sure they'll be here within the next half hour. Given that nothing happens before then..."

He walked out of the room with that ominous message, flipping the lights off on his way out. Somehow, I found myself silently hoping nothing would happen. I wanted to meet my Kindred, but I also wanted yell – no, scream – at them for being so stupid. My brain ended up a mess, which I didn't get. I don't believe I've ever been so conflicted before. But then again, I've been here since I was six. Back then, the only thing to be conflicted over was what to have for a snack.

"I can't believe they finally found them..." I heard Marik whisper, his back sliding down the wall. I shook my head free of it's conflictions, and looked back at my brother. "Ten years, and they finally found them..."

"All three of them at once, though?" Bakura pondered aloud, earning our attention. "Isn't it kinda weird that the three of them went to this Matching Center at the same time?"

"I dunno," Marik returned, almost sounding lost, "We don't even know who they are. Every time Pegasus would put us in the system, I don't think our Kindred weren't even registered."

I spaced out as my brothers continued to talk. My eyes looking around, but not really seeing anything, as my brain became a jumbled mess again. I closed my eyes when a headache began to surface, retreating to my Soul Room where I could be alone. It was quiet there. If Oscuridad were still free, I was pretty sure it'd be the exact opposite. But since he was trapped, I was alone.

"I dunno if you can hear me or not," I said aloud, my voice echoing in the darkness, "but they found them, Oscuridad. They found our Kindred... And now they'll be put in here like me and Marik and Bakura." I couldn't help how small my voice became at that last sentence. Now our other halves would be put in here, like animals in a cage. After being free all this time, they were to be locked up.

"They should've known better... They shouldn't have gone to that Center..." I growled softly to myself in conflict and confusion. Even a little bit of grief. "What were they thinking?"

I felt defeated. It was as if everything was... over now. Our Kindred were supposed to stay away from this place, not get trapped in it with us! My sadness turned to anger, and my anger to rage. Pegasus would pay for this. All, of this. We would have our revenge, even if it took us a lifetime. Bringing our Soul Mates into this mess... that bastard had just taken a step too far. He will pay. I'll make sure of it.

Even if it's the last thing I do.

Nickey: THAT is where I am ending that. I hope you all enjoyed, have a happy and safe, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to those of you who do not celebrate Christmas, either way, I hope you enjoy your winter. Be safe everyone! My wonderful Hikari here gets to take over next chapter, but we wanted to give you this one as a Christmas present from us to you! Until next time everyone! *waves* Goodbye!

Fallen: Oh-ho, so I'm your Hikari, am I? Why, Nickey, I'm flattered~ XD Well, anyways, I can't wait to finish up my own chapter, now that we're finally starting to get somewhere! I PROMISE, you guys won't have to wait another four-to-six months like you have in the past for my next contribution. I'm on winter break until January 5th, so we've got that much going for us! Plus, I'm just straight-up excited as fuck to get this show on the road! XD

Ok, I'm done, have a happy December, everyone~!