"Hmm…Yami…" Tea moaned softly as Yami kissed her on the lips again
She kissed him back as their bodies were clinging against each other, flesh on the flesh, bare naked under the blanket. The fire had almost died out in the fireplace but the warmth was more than enough in the room… Yami, with his large body on top of her, kept caressing her side and thigh as they both moved in their own dance…soothingly and harmonically…till the feeling died out… Tea let out another sigh of contentment as she looked up at her lover with a smile… Yami was looking down at her and his lips had formed something like of the illusion of a smirk but nevertheless he was a bit serious. He looked down at the beautiful woman's eyes and gave her another kiss on the lips. She smiled.
"I see you use this as a substitute for your alcohol" she teased him
"Does this bother you?" Yami teased her back in a low and hoarse whisper
She smirked playfully.
"Not really. I didn't have anything else to do myself! After all it is better seeing you on top of me like that instead of drunk outside!"
He couldn't help but chuckle a small chuckle at that and then he got out of the bed. Tea pulled the blankets up to her chest to cover her nude body from the sudden loss of warmth when Yami's warm body left hers. Yami went to the small table beside the bed and took his flask taking a long swing from it. He then looked at her
"Will you drink?" asked her
She smiled.
"I am not that heavy drinker you know…"
He had sat back on the bed and showed the flask to her.
"One sip won't kill you"
She smiled and took it and took a small sip, barely letting the burning drink touch her tongue before giving it back at him. He took another swing of it and placed it on the floor. She smiled and sat up on the bed, holding the blanket at its place under her arms and she touched his shoulders massaging them softly.
"What's wrong?" she whispered playfully at him, "Usually when we train or make love, you smirk and look at me. Now you seem distant. What's wrong?"
Yami's answer was another "hmm" as he seemed lost in his thoughts.
"What did Bakura want from you this morning?" he finally said in a demanding voice
She was taken aback by his question. His voice was low and calm but still demanding. As if he wouldn't take any answer but the true and direct one.
"Nothing really" she finally said.
Yami held her hands by the wrists taking them off him but still holding them
"Don't lie to me. What did he tell you? What were you talking about?"
His mind was still fighting with the anger that was threatening to take over him, as pictures of that morning kept flashing in his head.
That morning he had got out of the inn to go and inspect the area again, if he found a clue about a better way to get to the castle and when he entered the forest and approached close to the area the small church was, in the forest, he saw Tea and narrowed his eyes when he noticed that she was talking with Bakura! Images of the night Bakura came to his room, came to his mind:
"I'll make you suffer" he had said, "I'll make you suffer every day! And then you'll die! When I find the perfect way to kill you! Mark my words Yami!"
Yami's fists clenched. He had told him that he would make him suffer. Bakura sure knew that he was a man who wouldn't back down in any pain taken on his body…however…what if…he was planning to approach him through another person? What if…he used her to hurt him? He found himself walking with heavy yet large steps towards them. Bakura looked up and saw him. He grinned and then jumped away on some high branches and jumping from branch to branch he got lost before Yami had the time to pull his silver pistol out. He growled angrily and went to her.
"What did he want?" he demanded
Tea simply looked away
"Nothing" she said
"No one is talking you for no reason! Especially him! What did he want?"
"I told you, nothing! Stop making up stories!"
"He is a thief and a werewolf! What did he want?"
Her answer was a small chuckle and held out a piece of wood.
"You came to pretend the jealous husband or we will train a little?"
He growled. She had avoided the subject back then, no matter how much he tried to get information from her… He looked at her again. She looked away.
"I told you. Nothing important. I don't even know why he came to me in first place"
"Oh I'll tell you why!" he wanted to say. But he said nothing. He had told no one about the things Bakura had told him…and for some reason he didn't want to tell her now… He wasn't sure about it either anyway… She just smiled
"Now you are acting like a jealous husband, Yami! That's not like you"
Yami was barely holding himself from either slapping her or just push her down on the bed or something, for her childish acting
"Tea! I told you, he is dangerous! We don't know how he will act the next moment! And he can turn into his full form any minute now! What are you going to do then?"
"Face him of course. What else?"
"Yeah! Like you faced that bunch of wolves the other day!"
Tea frowned and looked down. Her hands clenched the blanket on her body. Yami bit his lip. He had totally let that slip out.
"We just made love. Let's not talk like that" she said through clenched teeth
Yami could sense shame and some anger in her voice. He regretted saying that
"You're right. I'm sorry…" he said in a low voice.
He hesitated a little and then pulled her in his arms in an embrace. She didn't hug him back. Yami sighed and let go of her and took his flask. When he was about to take a sip of it she took the flask from his hands and practically threw it away. Yami made a sound of protest but she whispered
"Arrogant bastard"
Yami couldn't help smile a bitter smile
"That's better. Usually people call me a monster and a murderer. You can call me however you want. Words can't touch me anymore…"
She remained silent and Yami could see her shivering. As if she was cold… He was about to say something when… Tea slapped him. Yami just took the slap without saying anything. As if it hadn't touched him at all… Tea then hit her palm on his chest and then again and again… And hit his hard shoulder with her small punch and then his hard chest and sometimes she was whispering insults such as "Idiot!" or "Bastard!" and others but her voice was a weak whisper and it was shaking… She raised her hand to slap him again but Yami caught her hand by the wrist before she did so.
"Are you done?" he whispered absolutely calmly
Tea was shaking…and Yami could see tears running down her cheeks…and then…she whispered
"Idiot!"
And leaned her head on his chest sobbing quietly… Yami sighed and let go of her hand to wrap his arms around her…and she was sobbing there whispering:
"Idiot… Idiot…" all the time
As if she wanted to let go of her anger by whispering that…
"Idiot…" she whispered one last time before breaking down in tears…
Yami held her in his secure arms patting her back softly. For some reason he was feeling his heart ache in that scene… Her breaking down in tears…
"My weakness…" he thought
He held her tighter
"…And Bakura knows it too…"
He held her tighter.
"I wish I could tell you that, Tea, really…but I honestly do not want to upset you…" he thought again
His thoughts made him realize that the situation he was in… He silently cursed about it!
"Damn! How did I end up in a situation like this?" the Executioner thought, "How could I get myself get bound with someone else?"
He bit his lip.
"…How could I let myself…hold something precious…?"
Somewhere else…not far away, Seto Kaiba, showered in moonlight, was caressing Kisara's hair… She was lieing on the bed… Her eyes closed and the covers were up to her neck… Seto Kaiba was looking down at her…his icy-blue eyes look like made of moonstone… His gaze was cold and yet protective… Like someone who was watching his pray…to keep it safe and sound and fresh…till the last moment…when it would be the perfect chance to strike…
"Darkness never left this place…" he thought, "Darkness never left… I brought it…I maintained it… I am that…"
His hand was still caressing the girl's hair…
"They gave me death…and I paid them back… I paid y dept to them…"
He looked down at the girl…
"She was a small ray of sunshine…no, she was not that strong…she was just a ray of moonlight inside that darkness… She came to me…because fear forced her to make that decision… However now darkness is thicker…it has come from somewhere else as well…"
He pulled his hand from her hair and caressed her cheek
"Atem…" his eyes narrowed at his own thought, "He still has no idea what he is capable of doing…he has no idea how important piece is in this chess of life and death… However this game of chess will be different…"
He pulled his hand back from Kisara's sleeping form
"We are both Kings in this chess board…and if one of us falls then the game is over…however… We're both Black Kings… This game has both white and black pieces…however the Kings…are both Black…both the same…yet so different…"
Seto Kaiba looked out of the window the pale moon
"We're both demons… He is the Demon…I am the Devil… The time has almost come…"
The moon had indeed become fuller. Soon…quite soon it would be a full moon…also…Seto Kaiba knew…oh he knew that it wasn't only the full moon that was about to come…at the same day something else…more unique was about to happen…
"Time is almost there…" the Undead lord thought again
He turned his attention to the sleeping girl again…
"Kisara…" he thought, "I didn't mean to make you a toy to my hands…not you. You are different…"
He touched her neck and he felt the blood rushing though her veins… Warm and fresh…
"There are many plans that include you, but I won't make you a toy to my hands…not you…"
His eyes glowed red
"You are the angel that happened to be born in a hole of Hell… Poor and unfortunate soul…poor creature…"
His ice heart couldn't feel many emotions…the only things he knew all those years were anger, will for revenge, emptiness…
"I am sorry Kisara but soon...soon I'll have to move to the next part… Maybe that will cause you pain…but…I have no choice…"
And with the last thought of his he leaned over her… His eyes glowing red in the dim moonlight… He leaned closer to her exposed, white neck and he opened his mouth with a low breath… He could feel her blood…her heartbeat…
However the last second he pulled away from her neck and…moved up to her face…to her lips…and he placed his lips upon hers…under the sleepless eye of moon…
"All pieces are in place…" he thought, "The final face of the game is about to begin…"
And he remained there…over when he held precious…
Outside in the forest the cold was really sharp and bitter… The wind wasn't blowing however the atmosphere was still freezing and strangely calm… That calmness was indeed something that was able to break the nerves of the calmest man on Earth… As moon was showering the snowed forest in silver, no one could imagine the deadliness of that forest…
Darkness…
Darkness was part of that land hundreds of years now…but this time much darkness had gathered there… If someone tried to listen…tried to understand… If someone tried actually to catch the sounds of forest…then he would find an abnormal sound… The heavy breathing… That breath didn't belong to an animal…but it didn't belong to a human either… It was breathing that proved agony…pain…torment… Between the panting and gasping there were growls of an animal and moans of a man… What was it?
If someone walked further…and further in the forest…then he or she could hear it clearly…
Somewhere hidden within the trees…there was a person dressed in a black trench coat and strapped shirt… His hair was white like the snow… Bakura was on the snowy ground…and his arms were wrapped around himself trying to block the unbearable pain that was throbbing in his body
"Aaarrrghh!" he was growling, "Urrrghhh!…Ahh!"
His body was curled up in a ball and almost "cut in two" from all the pain. He growled again and then he threw his head back screaming in pain and agony and his eyes had changed… They were not human anymore…
"Aaaaarrrghhhh! Ahhh!…ARGH!"
He kept on growling and moaning in pain… That pain seemed able to tear his body in half…or at least that was what he was feeling… His back arched and curled back again…his feet were trying to stabilize his body but the pain wouldn't leave him in peace… His feet had dug down the snow and the ground underneath it in the process… Bakura screamed again…
"AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHHHH!"
His eyes were almost glowing…his body was socked in sweat… That pain…that pain was similar to what he had felt the first day he was turned from human…to something else… No! He wouldn't accept that power to take over him! It wouldn't overpower him! He was its master! HE! Not that! It wouldn't become his master! It wouldn't allow it to take his sanity away! No way! However the pain was unbearable! He could feel his muscles change…and he was barely holding them back from evolving to that creature… Images were flashing in his mind…images from the destruction of his village and Yami killing that monster with the golden eyes… People catching them…throwing him to the cell… The needle in his body… The pain… The monster's roars… Its golden eyes… Yami… The pain… Yami… The monster again… His parents getting quartered before his bare eyes… Yami and the Creature… The pain… Yami… His revenge…
Bakura threw his head back and yelled at the top of his lungs as the drops of sweat were glowing in the silver light of moon…
"AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!"
However…the forest drowned his cries… Drowned them away in silence…
Yay! Another chappie is ready at last! Sorry I was so late!
Apparently I think I tortured you enough with Seto Kaiba and Kisara! But your torture isn't over yet! Yami is in a delimma and he believes that Bakura will target Tea in order to make him suffer...
Tea still hasn't got over that night with the wolves and...something is wrong with Bakura!
What is going to happen to him? Will he transform? Yami? Will he remember? Tea? Will she stand on her feet again? Kisara? Will she wake up? And finally...what is Seto Kaiba planning? And what is that event that is coming?
Wait and see! Please review me!
Enjoy!