Hold On

Keara: Okay, so one wrong thing and I’m doomed? … Okay, I think I’ll go kill myself before you get your hands on me then, because I have way too many things left that you would kill me over *goes to make will and then kill herself*

Dragonlady222:*grins* yes, what will happen. All there is to find out is to read ne? ^^ have fun with the chap!

Catti-dono: Ghe, the age proving thing doesn’t work anyway because you can fill in a random age even if you’re not old enough *whistles innocently* And about the sin thing. Well I figured love isn’t a sin. So if sex is linked to a love like this, you can’t make it a complete sin even if Yuugi was still an angel… or something like that. *shrugs* hey, it gives lemon so I don’t think anyone will complain. Anyway, have fun with the latest chap!
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What’s up with everyone? I’m getting only a few reviews now, and I was actually proud of getting 5 each chap at least so far *pouts* wht, you guys don’t love me anymore? Well fine, the punishment will be at the end of this chap and I think most of you will already know what I’m talking about *looks very innocently* R&R!
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--: 09 :--
Reason

Yuugi snuggled closer to Yami as he felt the other’s arms tightening around him protectively. He smiled as he noticed all the glares his boyfriend was throwing at every student that so much as dared look at them. It had been two weeks since the incident where Kumiko had gotten kidnapped and they had gotten together. Yami had proven to be a bit possessive and overprotective of him now that they were together, but Yuugi couldn’t help but love that.

“Mi-chan, you can’t kill them by glaring.” Kumiko giggled at her brother’s antics and smiled sweetly as he pouted at her.

“Well they do turn away because of it, so I’d say it’s at least half working.” Both Yuugi and Kumiko giggled at that, and Yami only pouted more.

“Just let them, Yami. What do you care if they stare?” Yuugi looked up at his boyfriend innocently. He knew Yami hated it when people stared and whispered about him, and ever since they had officially gotten together that had been happening a lot.

Yuugi glanced around and spotted a familiar blue-eyed brunette glaring at them - or him in particular was more like it. Anzu definitely didn’t like the fact that Yami and Yuugi were officially dating, and the rumors about how far the two were in their relationship didn’t go unnoticed by her either. As head cheerleader she was gossip-central, so she knew every little detail of what was going on around her. She was still trying to send every bully in the school – and some even out of school – after him, but with Yami now playing as his bodyguard almost every second of the day, it was really hard.

The brunette also tried to break the two up by spreading false rumors – Yuugi had cheated on Yami with another guy, Yami had been flirting with a lot of girls lately – but both saw right through the lies. Yuugi knew that Yami was still too closed to start flirting with random girls, and Yami knew Yuugi wouldn’t betray him like that after giving up so much for him in the first place.

Anzu’s last attempts had been to simply flirt with Yami again while trying to push Yuugi away. Actually, it was about time for another try really. Anzu tried at least twice a week. It was Saturday and she’d only tried once so far.

Just as that thought had passed Yuugi’s mind, Anzu moved closer to them, swaying her hips in a very seductive manner – or at least any other guy would think so – and having a ‘come-hither’ look on her face.

“Oh Yami-kun.” Yami rolled his eyes at the purred words. Couldn’t Anzu take the hint already? He wasn’t interested in her; he doubted he was even interested in girl in general actually.

“What is it, Mazaki-san?” Yami really sounded annoyed, his words coming out as a growl almost, but it didn’t faze Anzu the slightest. She sat down next to them against the Sakura tree, leaning forward enough to let Yami look into her top that already showed a lot of cleavage anyway.

“Well I was wondering, it’s your birthday soon, right? Do you know what you’re going to do and who you’ll invite yet?” Anzu leaned closer, her eyes half-lidded as she tried to look seductive. Yami gave her a bored look.

“My birthday is Monday, and I’m just going to celebrate it Sunday at home with Kumiko and Yuugi.” Yami smirked at the scowl, passing Anzu’s face briefly. Yami and Yuugi had stopped using surflixes ever since they started dating – though Yami called Yuugi ‘Aibou’ more than he called him Yuugi - , and Anzu hated the fact that she was still ‘Mizaki-san’ for him. Of course Yami would much rather call her a bitch, but he had decided against that a long time ago. She would just ignore it and he could possibly get into trouble for it. She simply wasn’t worth it.

“Don’t you want to invite me?” Anzu’s face turned back to seductive as her hand went up to caress Yami’s cheek. To her surprise it was Yuugi who slapped it away.

“Take the hint, Mizaki-san.” Yuugi’s face showed annoyance. He was really getting sick and tired of Anzu trying to seduce Yami. It wasn’t working and irritating as hell.

Anzu glared at him, “Stay out of this. This is between me and Yami-kun. What do you know about it?”

Yuugi snorted, “Last time I checked, I was the one dating him.” Ouch, that had Anzu flinching.

“He’s just using you to make me jealous!” Anzu’s glare hardened, “You’ll see; he’ll dump you for me as soon as he’s had his fun with you.”

“Why would he want to make you jealous? You’re already throwing yourself at him so it isn’t exactly needed.” Both glared at each other until Yuugi felt Yami’s arms around him tighten. The boy looked up to find Yami looking at him amusedly.

“Don’t look so angry, Aibou. You look much cuter when you smile.” Yami leaned down and kissed Yuugi’s forehead tenderly, before giving the other’s hair an affectionate nuzzle.

Anzu glared harder as Yuugi smiled again, before snuggling into Yami’s chest once more, “You can stop doing this, Yami-kun. You really don’t have to make me jealous.”

“I’m not trying to.” Yami said calmly, not letting Anzu ruin his mood this time, “I’m simply flirting with my lover.” He could see Anzu’s anger once again flaring up at those words, and smirked at her.

Kumiko looked between her brother and Anzu, before cocking her head cutely, “Is she really so dumb that she can’t see you love Yuugi-kun or is she just acting?” Both Yuugi and Yami chuckled at the innocent question as Anzu’s eyes widened in shock. Did a kid just insult her? Without even trying to?

“She’s not a very good actor, so I think it’s real, Tenshi.” Yami smirked at the furious look on Anzu’s face, before the girl stood up with as much grace as she could muster at a time like this.

“Tell me when you’re done with the kids, Yami-kun. Maybe then you’ll finally see that you’re throwing away a lot by spending all this time with these losers.”

Yami’s glare came back. No one insulted Yuugi and Kumiko. “If you say one more word about Yuugi and Kumiko, I’ll make sure you won’t live to see another day, Mizaki-san.”

Anzu palled a little as she saw how much that threat was meant by just looking into Yami’s eyes, before she quickly walked away to the group of cheerleaders sitting at one of the tabled outside. Yami smirked again as he saw her leave, satisfied that he had scared her for at least a couple of days.

Or so he hoped at least.

Yuugi chuckled, “Think she got the hint this time?”

Yami snorted, “I doubt she’ll stay away for long. She’ll probably be back by Monday to bug us again.”

“True.” Yuugi smiled, “So we’re not really going to do anything tomorrow?”

“I thought we might catch a movie, go out for dinner, and then just relax back home or something. Nothing really big or anything.”

Kumiko looked at him curiously, “But Mi-chan, it’s your 18th birthday. Shouldn’t that be special?”

“Kumiko-chan is right you know.”

Yami sighed and smiled at the two, “Sorry guys, I’m not one for celebrating my birthday big. It’ll just be a night out for the three of us okay?”

Both pouted, though stayed quiet as Yami just smiled affectionately at them. They were only trying to help – Yuugi even more than Kumiko – but he just wanted them with him during his birthday, having fun without doing something too extreme. So what if it was his 18th birthday? The only reason why it was going to be special was because he now had two people he really loved to celebrate it with. That, and his father was leaving him alone more and more.

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Yami and Yuugi came in laughing, Kumiko tailing behind them and giggling at the tipsy state her brother and his boyfriend were in. After the movie they had gone to a small club and Yami had drunk just a little too much, though not enough to get them drunk. Kumiko had to admit that her brother was quite funny like this, though the dancing Yuugi and he had displayed was… maybe a bit too much for her to know right now.

One of Yami’s arms was wrapped around Yuugi’s waist, though Kumiko wondered if it was really just because her brother liked to hold Yuugi that way or maybe also to keep himself balanced.

Then again, Yuugi didn’t really seem to mind.

“You should’ve seen the girl’s face when I told her I had a boyfriend, priceless!” Yami grinned at the memory. A random girl in the bar had been flirting with him when Yuugi had gone to the toilet, and Yami had simply told her that he was already taken… by a guy. The result was, as Yami had said, priceless.

“I really would’ve loved seeing that.” Yuugi giggled as Yami sat down on the couch and pulled him into his lap. Yuugi immediately cuddled up to Yami as the other’s strong arms wrapped around him. Kumiko sat down next to them and grabbed the remote.

“So where do you think father is?” Kumiko looked up at Yami questioningly. It was past 12 – it was a surprise to both Yuugi and Yami that the girl hadn’t fallen asleep yet but Yami had decided to let her stay up as long as she wanted, as he’d call in sick for all of them tomorrow for school – and they hadn’t seen Yoru’s car parked outside.

“I don’t know, but I’m not complaining.” Yami smiled and sat back as Kumiko flipped channels, relaxing into the soft couch and snuggling Yuugi close to him.

The sound of the front door slamming open made them all turn to the direction of the hallway. The door separating living room and hall from each other also slammed open as a furious looking Yoru stood in the door opening. Yami instinctively help Yuugi tighter as he moved Kumiko to stand behind him. Yuugi looked at the scene worriedly, but didn’t say anything.

“You,” Yoru growled low in his throat, his eyes blazing with fury, “where did you come from this late?” The question was more of a demand than anything else, and the slightest bit of fear etched itself into Yami’s eyes, though he tried his best to hide it.

“We went out… For my birthday?” Yami nervously fiddled with Yuugi’s shirt as he tried his best to sound confident. It was just too bad that the fear for his father was too big, and it would probably never go away.

“Did I give permission for that? No I didn’t. I give you a place to sleep; I even let you keep your bitch here when he should be out on the streets with all the other useless trash. And you won’t even listen to my rules?!” Although Yami’s temper wanted to flare at the remark about Yuugi, his fear was holding him back. Yoru walked into the room further, glaring at the presents lying on the table. One of them was a beautiful drawing of Yami and Yuugi in a forest, and was obviously drawn by Kumiko as she didn’t really have a lot of money to buy anything. The second present was a crystal statue of an angel that strangely resembled Kireira. Her wings were spread and the woman had a serene smile on her face. Yoru’s temper flared further as he though of his dead wife.

“This is what the runt gave you?” Yoru picked up the small statue and held it up, Yami immediately got up, pushing Yuugi behind him as well as panic spread across his expression.

“No, please don’t, not that.” Yoru just smirked as he ‘accidentally’ dropped the crystal angel. Yami tried to grab it but was too late and it shattered on the ground into a million pieces.

Yami’s eyes widened in horror as he knelt down by the broken pieces. Yuugi had made the statue with his magic after seeing some pictures of his mother, and had given it to Yami as his present. The image was so liking and the magic had formed every detail perfectly. Yami had been overjoyed. And now… it was all broken.

Tears gathered in his eyes as he heard Yoru laugh and felt Yuugi tug on his arm. He ripped his arm away, standing up with tear filled eyes, though a glare was very much there.

“Bastard!” Yami’s fist lashed out and punched Yoru in the stomach. The man doubled over as Yami ran away through the still open front door. He ignored the yells of Yuugi and Kumiko as they came after him, and kept running.

After a few blocks he couldn’t hear the two anymore, though he kept running. He felt bad about running away from them, knowing they hadn’t done anything wrong, but he just wanted to be alone right now. He had no idea where he was going, tears blurring his vision quite a bit, but when he finally stopped and wiped the tears away, he saw the entrance to the park.

Yami smiled wryly. So he had brought himself to the only place he could think peacefully huh? Well it made sense. He slowly entered and walked around, slowly calming down enough to think straight again, though this only made sure he became angrier at Yoru.

“Poor little boy, all alone and angry.” Yami’s bowed head shot up to look around for the person who had spoken those words. It was almost 1 AM so there shouldn’t be anyone else here…

His eyes met with equally crimson orbs, as a shadowy figure stood near the pond, under his favorite tree. Yami stopped and looked at the man suspiciously, trying to see the man through the darkness.

The other chuckled and came closer, the light of the streetlamps now making it possible to see what the man looked like.

Yami’s eyes widened as he saw black leather-like wings, sharp claws, and pointed teeth. This was no man obviously, this was a demon. Well if angels existed, than why not demons? Yami mentally sighed; his life was so screwed up.

“You’re angry at your father, you want revenge, and you want it to be painful.”

Yami glared, “Straight to the point I see. Who are you and what do you want from me?”

“My name is Aknunkanon, demonic overlord. What I want is to help you get your way. I’m always in for a nice bloodbath or at least torture.” Aknunkanon smirked at the though of seeing Yoru suffer. If would be so much fun to see the other screaming for mercy instead of screaming at him that he’d been keeping information from him.

“The demonic overlord comes all the way to Earth only help little old me, and the only reason is because he wants to see someone get tortured?” Yami raised a skeptical eyebrow, “What’s your real reason and what do you get out of it.”

“I have my reasons for wanting to help you.” Aknunkanon smirked at the frown on Yami’s face, “As for what I get out of it. For one a nice show, but you are right, there is another price to pay.”

Yami muttered under his breath about his rotten luck, crap life, and going totally crazy, before shaking his head to clear it of all thoughts so he could concentrate on the conversation. “So what’s the price?”

“Just the same cliché thing as most movies make us get, your soul. You get power beyond your wildest imagination, and you can do whatever you want with it, but in return I want to have your soul so I’ll be sure you use all that power in a way that I like it.” Yami blinked at the answer. So those type of movies weren’t that crap at all huh? Well no way was he taking this deal, he preferred his soul right were it was.

Right?

Right.

Although… having the power to finally get back at Yoru really did sound appealing, and he knew he could never do anything as long as he was as he was…

Aknunkanon grinned maniacally as he watched the doubt dance around in Yami’s eyes. The other wanted to take the deal, but was being stopped by his morals. Well then Aknunkanon would just have to do something to weaken those wouldn’t he?

“Just imagine,” Aknunkanon’s magic formed a ball between the two of them, and Yami backed away slowly. He watched as images appeared in the shadowy orb, showing Yoru in all kinds of painful situations, some Yami could’ve never thought of, and were certainly not possible without the magic Aknunkanon was offering.

Yami’s resolve started to fade. He really wanted to get back at Yoru, and he’d do practically anything for it. But… Yuugi… he couldn’t…

“Worried about your angel friend?” Aknunkanon mentally growled. That runt was probably the only thing that was standing in his way of getting Yami. “I’m sure he’ll understand if he really loves you. He’ll understand that you had to do this.”

Yami looked at the ground. Yuugi was an angel, and this man the demonic overlord. Could he trust the other’s word? On the other hand, Yuugi would understand this… right?

“I… don’t know…” Yami whispered, not looking but now hearing the pained cries coming from the black orb. He clenched his eyes, trying to think of the right decision. What had this life really given him? Only Yuugi and Kumiko but they would surely understand. If he told Kumiko of what their father had been doing all these years she wouldn’t be angry, would she?

“Just think of all the people you can get back at with all that power. Yoru, the students at school, everyone else that made you life a living hell all these years…” Aknunkanon played with the orb in his hand, his mind constantly thinking of new ways to kill or torture Yoru. If Yami wouldn’t do it, at least he’d have more than enough ideas to do it himself now.

“I… I want…” Yami swallowed as he looked up, his eyes already revealing that he was going to agree to what was being proposed to him, but his mouth not yet wanting to say the words out loud.

Aknunkanon held out his hand, “Just take my hand and I’ll seal the deal. You’ll have all the power you can get, and the only thing you’ll lose is your soul. What do you really do with that anyway?”

Yami hesitantly brought his hand up, thoughts still running through his head but his body working automatically to grasp the other’s. This was it, he was finally going to have his revenge on everyone that had made his life so hard…

“Yami!” Yami whirled around at the sound of Yuugi voice and watched as two figures ran up to them. Yuugi’s eyes widened as he saw Aknunkanon and he immediately grabbed Yami and pulled him away from the demon ruler.

“Stay away from him!” Yuugi glared, and this one was definitely intimidating. He would not let Aknunkanon have Yami. He would not let that happen!

“Yuugi, he’s just-“

“Trying to trick you into giving him your soul!” Yuugi growled. Yami had never seen Yuugi react to anything like this, and his old doubts came back.

“How dare you interfere with my business! This is none of your concern!”

“Isn’t it? You’re about to take my boyfriend away by not telling him the entire truth about whatever deal you promised him! Did you tell him what a soul really is to people?!”

“Oh you’re the one to talk! Like you’ve been telling him everything, huh Angel!”

“Yami already knows I was an angel, and that was different!”

“Oh was it? And I think you have something else to tell him too!”

“Don’t you dare start about that! That was a long time ago, and he has nothing more to do with that!”

Yami blinked and looked at Yuugi questioningly, then switched his gaze to Aknunkanon. The demon was smirking in triumph while Yuugi was still glaring daggers at him. Yami frowned and took Yuugi’s hand. “What’s he talking about, Aibou?”

Yuugi’s gaze switched to Yami and the glare immediately vanished, “It’s nothing, Yami. It doesn’t matter for you anymore. Aknunkanon is just trying to find a way to get you to take the deal, but if you lose your soul, you lose your feel of right and wrong too.”

Yami scowled and glared at the other man. Yuugi would understand huh? No way would Yuugi understand if he went evil.

“Doesn’t my little fact matter, Angel? Because I think it does. After all, it might just show him how much he belongs to my side.” Aknunkanon’s smirk widened, “Don’t you think so?”

“That was his past life! He has nothing to do with that anymore!” Yami once again looked between the two arguing males in confusion. A past life? What were they talking about? Did past lives really exist? Had he done something wrong in his past one?

He turned Yuugi around and looked the other in the eyes sternly, “Yuugi, what is he talking about? What did I do?”

Yuugi shook his head stubbornly, “It doesn’t matter. It was in your last life so it doesn’t apply to you.”

“Oh just tell him, or I will.”

“Don’t you dare tell him!”

“Well if you won’t, I will do it.”

“People! Shut up!” Ex-angel and demon looked at the frustrated Yami in surprise. They hadn’t expected an outburst like that. “Now that I have your attention, just tell me what the hell you’re talking about. If it doesn’t matter anymore, then you can just tell me.”

Aknunkanon smirked wickedly as Yuugi’s protests were cut of by a stern look from Yami. “What we’re talking about, my dear Yami, is the real reason why I want you to accept my deal. Do you know what you were in your previous life?”

Yami frowned and shook his head slowly. If he knew that he wouldn’t be getting so frustrated over this, now would he?

“In your previous life, dear boy,” Aknunkanon smirked at the desperate looking Yuugi, “you were my son, the heir to the demonic throne and the most vicious demon of them all. You were well-known for your torture ways, and you were the strongest among us. All that power is locked up inside you, just waiting to come out again. You belong with me, my son. You belong to the dark side.”
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*smirks* I wonder how many people are wondering right now how I plan on explaining this one. ^^ have fun trying to figure that out during the next week and please do review!

P.S.: I’m rewriting HO into an original meaning I have to change names and appearences. I covered most of the characters already, but can’t think of a name that would suit Aknunkanon (I suck at thinking of names, I really do). If anyone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated. Thanx guys!