Chapter 3: (In chap. 20/After Ra takes Yami's shadow magic away)

Later on in the day Yugi dragged Yami out from their home in order to wake Yami up. Yugi then remembered that Yami needed to be resized for clothes, as of right now Yami was wearing something of Yugi's at the time.

Leaving into town Yugi lead Yami towards the seam stress building once again, waiting for the nice lady who made clothes for the both of them the first time to finish up with his mate.

Before long Yami returned with the woman, telling Yugi that it will be at least a day before she had one set of clothes finished.

Understanding that both Emperors left the building, deciding to walk around some more before heading back inside the wall.

After an hour the two ran into Aknamkanon and Amara as they were also taking a walk around town like every morning. The four walked and talked about mostly random stuff that didn't involve sleep, yet that was all Yami wanted to do, lay down and sleep and not think about this whole finishing his changing thing.

With a silent sigh Yami strayed from his parents and Yugi, not really wanting to know what Yugi would do to him once he found out where he wondered off too.

Within minutes Yugi found out where Yami had went and pulled him back to rejoin his parents, continuing to walk.

After awhile the four found a place to sit down, Yami complaining "Why do we need to stay up a whole day after this change!?"

Amara and Yugi raised a brow at him as Aknamkanon answered "Because if you want to stay up then you wont be able to until you get used to the feeling of staying up."

Yugi chuckled lightly "He's right you know, though it is hard the first night. Once you get past the first night then it's easy."

Yami groaned laying his head down on the table they sat at. A half hour later Yugi pulled Yami back towards the Palace while Amara and Aknamkanon had other stuff planned for today.

Once in the lounge Yugi found Ryo and Bakura hanging around with Heba and Marik while playing some game until Atemu and Malik came back from doing something, while Joey was off doing something on his own. Seto was probably stuck in the technic area like usual.

Yami wondered back upstairs, no comments from Marik or Bakura this time.

Heba grew surprised that his brother had grown so much taller than him in one night, but remembered that all boys grew to the tallest height in each family from his mother explaining that to him a few days before the wedding occurred.

Ryo figured that Yami would grow taller once he saw how tall his parents were the day it was known.

Yugi came out from the kitchen as Ryo asked "So how is Yami taking the part of staying up?"

Sighing "Not so good, he asked awhile ago why we needed to stay up for a day."

Ryo cringed "Ouch, who explained that one to him." He questioned.

Walking forwards Yugi sat down near Ryo "His dad and I, yet he disliked the answer."

A little bit later Seto showed up with a brand new techit, like all Vampires wore, in a small box for Yami. Asking where Yami was Yugi pointed towards the stairs.

Understanding Seto went to the stairs and began climbing them. In a way Seto was curious to see how much Yami had changed with his temper like Joey had when he was turned. Joey was fun to mess with that day just like it would be fun to mess with Yami if he was just like Joey, if not it would be worth a try.

Seto returned from upstairs after five minutes, a frown across his face. He made it to the front door before stopping at hearing Marik's remark "Wow, this is the first time that Seto didn't get what he wanted."

Sighing in defeat "Yes and I'm ashamed that Yami could ignore my remarks the whole time I was explaining to him how to work the thing. He must be really out of it if he couldn't make a comeback to some stuff I commented on." Seto stated "Then again Yami's not Joey so that is checked off my to-do list." Seto then left as he was trying to ignore a certain someone.

Yugi released a tiered breath "Seto's old personality is kicking back in. I have a feeling that he will get much worse later on."

Everyone who was in the room with Yugi most likely agreed with him on that one.

All throughout the day Yugi had been constantly asking Yami if he was still awake through their link. If he hadn't Yami would have drifted off to sleep long ago.

Heba also made sure to check up on his brother from time to time when he got bored of reading or something of that line, though it didn't really help things when either Bakura or Marik tagged along with him, but Yami somehow managed to get by without either one of them losing their lives, yet soon after they arrived they left Yami alone until the humans needed to sleep for the five hours.

During that time Yami was at peace, enjoying the quietness of his room, though Yugi's pestering got the annoyed tone when replying back to him, but all Yugi could do was ignore Yami's remarks that were thrown his way, resulting in Yugi sulking on his end and leaving others questioning why he was doing that sort of thing.

Either way Yugi continued to check up on Yami twice per hour until he himself went back to his room. Speaking of going back to the room, that didn't happen until after the sun had gone down, the reason why well, planning something for Yami so he could stay awake until eight in the morning before Yugi would let Yami go to sleep.

Entering the room Yugi walked on over to the bed "Are you alive, you haven't replied to my question in over four minutes?' Yugi asked raising a brow, stopping at the side of the bed before crawling over to Yami's still form, his head buried in a couple pillows while his shoulders and back rose up and down as if he was in a small sleep.

Yugi wore a questioning expression before reaching over, pulling the few pillows from over Yami's head. Once the pillows were gone Yugi then found out why Yami hadn't been answering him for that amount of time, it was because he had dozed off within that time before Yugi had returned to the room.

Releasing a tiered breath Yugi smirked, laying down and propping himself up with one of his palms. After a few seconds Yugi took in a medium breath in before blowing lightly in Yami's face.

Grunting Yami scrunched his already closed eyes even tighter, shifting his tired body around while flipping his head to the opposite side of where Yugi lay, going still once again when in a better resting position.

Frowning Yugi tried again, this time running a couple fingers down Yami's back. Yami's eye instantly flew open at that moment as he didn't want to know who was in the room with him. Either way he stayed still, slowly figuring out who was in the room with him.

Yugi continued to slide his fingers down Yami's back, making sure to press a few pressure points while making his way in between Yami's shoulder blades or in between the wings before pressing down in that area.

Yami jumped in surprise, instantly waking up from that.

"So you are awake, thought you had fallen asleep on me."

Turning his head around Yami sweat dropped, seeing Yugi's not so innocent sadistic smile. Yami knew that he had just done something that he wasn't suppose to do "I was resting my eyes, not sleeping." Yami stated the truth "Since I don't want to be around the others right now this is the only thing I can do beside trying not attack those two jerks who always tag along with Heba when they come up here."

"Oh is that so, well I guess that's okay. As long as there is no dreams popping up into your mind then it won't go against your final step." Yugi said, returning his face expression back to normal, calming Yami down as well.

Standing up Yugi went into his closet, grabbing a light jacket before coming out and tossing it to Yami still laying on the bed "Get your shoes on, I set something up for you in order to stay up the rest of the twenty-seven hours that remain."

"What kind of thing did you do this time." He asked slipping his new shoes on that he got earlier that morning in town with Yugi, before going for the jacket Yugi tossed at him.

Yugi smirked "You'll find out soon enough."

Yami dreaded those words for the entire few minutes they had until he and Yugi met up with Ryo, Joey, Malik and Atemu outside the wall behind the five towers. Yami's jaw dropped at knowing that these four would be joining them in whatever Yugi had planned.

"Okay so here is the deal. We'll be playing hide-and-seek with the addition of tag." Yugi stated, earning raised brows from each one before beginning to explain the rules that were basically the same with both games "It's simple, like in hide-and-seek one person waits about a minute before looking for the others, as in tag one person is it and has to tag someone else in order to not be it. Combining those two games we get Hide-and-Tag. The rules are simple. One person is it and has to wait about a minute before searching for everybody." Yugi pulled out an unlit glow stick "This glow stick comes into play with who is it. Once nightfall comes the one who has it can crack it, lighting it up as it doesn't last long at all. Rule one: Once found the person who is spotted by the tagged can run away from the one who is it as in hide-and-seek you can't. Taking that out you can run and or hide again once out of the tagger's sight and smell, but if they tag you or hit you with the glow stick you are it. As for the previous tagger, they can run or teleport away as long as they don't go into town, back inside the wall or over this territory's boundary line." Yugi explained "Does everyone get the gist of the rules."

Atemu, Ryo, Malik and Joey all nodded, leaving only Yami who asked "The question is...Who's going to be it?"

Yugi smirked giving the others a quick glance with his eyes, which told them that they could take off and go hide.

All four quickly noticed that look and walked off in four different directions, Malik saying "Make sure that you don't stay around here too long."

Yami became confused by Malik's words. He didn't even know who was it yet until Yugi came up behind him, whisper close by his ear while slipping something into his back pocket "Your it." Yugi stated quickly taking a step back, just missing a quick swipe from Yami's arm.

"Why me!"

"You are the main reason why we all are playing this game, so it should be you who is the first tagger. Besides, I thought you liked playing games." Yugi countered.

"I do but not when I'm this tired. I can't even think straight while being like this." Yami snapped back.

Yugi continued walking backwards "You don't need to think, just listen and use your nose." He said, spinning around and taking off running, shouting back "The one minute is almost up!" And was out of sight in seconds.

Yami face palmed, sliding his hand down his face before reaching into his back pocket, pulling out the glow stick that Yugi had placed in there. He then sighed, mumbling to himself as he began walking off in a random direction "As long as I can make it to eight tomorrow morning, then I can sleep all I want to tomorrow."

After about five hours of playing Yami had finally tagged someone else to be the tagger, that person being Joey the first time around. Yami was happy enough that he instantly ran off after tagging Joey. Tossing the glow stick into the air, Joey caught the glow stick as Yami disappeared into the woods.

As the hour passed Joey then tagged Malik.

Another hour Malik tripped Ryo, leaving those two into a small match but they quickly ended it as it would get them nowhere in this game.

Once again another hour passed with Ryo being it. He ran into Yami once or twice, but both times Yami averted his sights and got away. A few minutes later Atemu popped into sight, running after him and tagging Atemu without a second thought.

Sighing Atemu became it for an hour like the others had. He knew that the other lords had been it for an hour like him, but Yugi still remained as he was the toughest one to get your hands on. Smelling the air Atemu quickly found where Yugi had been hanging out, following his scent. Within minutes Atemu was with Yugi, chasing him down. Within that chasing Atemu had gotten in front of Yugi without his knowing and tackled him, both rolling in the dirt before falling still.

Standing up both dusted themselves off, Atemu tossing Yugi the glow stick, retreating through the portal and putting some distance between them.

Rubbing his head Yugi sighed, beginning to go look for someone else to take his place.

Yami sat in a tree after two more hours of hiding from Yugi who still had the glow stick. Yami had been successful in getting away from his husband many times, yet he knew that he wouldn't last any more attempts at him.

Holding his breath Yami heard footsteps from below. He knew that it was Yugi walking around down there and he didn't want Yugi hearing his breath, so holding it in was the best option even if Yugi could smell his scent.

Yugi smirked, continuing to walk through the woods like he usually did when taking a walk.

Yami sighed a breath of relief once he could smell Yugi going farther away, sliding down the tree's trunk and panting for breath as Yami was exhausted.

Thinking out loud "Is the point of this game to play it until you die?" He asked, thinking that nobody was around when all of a sudden his nose twitched at smelling someone behind him.

"Nope, just until eight in the morning." The person replied as Yami spun around, finding Yugi perched on another branch nearby his own. Yami knew that Yugi had still been it as the glow stick was hanging around his neck by a piece of string he had tucked away inside his pocket and not knowing that it was there.

Without chancing it Yami leaped down from his branch, dashing away with what little strength he still had in his legs.

Yami failed somehow.

Yugi waited a few seconds after Yami had leaped down from the tree, somehow tossing the glow stick at Yami and getting the string around it to hang around Yami's own neck.

Skidding to a stop Yami turned back around, exclaiming "How in the hell did you manage to do that!"

Standing up Yugi smiled sweetly, almost as if there was an invisible hand being placed in front of his lips "Oh, that...takes practice." He replied, teleporting away instantly after.

Sighing once again Yami continued playing.

The night continued all night through morning, everybody getting at least a couple more turns being it before 8Am came around.

All six returned to the Palace, Yami surprised at himself that he actually made it to eight.

Yami headed straight to the room to shower and change into something comfortable for bed, mostlikely going to be woken up later by Yugi, telling him something about 'Are you going to sleep all day' or something of that line.

Speaking of Yugi, he also went to take a shower before the meeting started in a couple more hours. The same with the lords before waking their mates for the day.