To Want Love

P.S. Sorry that it took so long to get this chapter up but both me and Darth had little things happening that didn't help us with our work. But here it is chapter ten with Darth's help it has been turned into a work of art. Remember to thank Darth for all her hard work and go see here profile at fanfiction.net. Thank you to all that have review. I hope you like.


Chapter Ten: Food And Two Little Talks

Yami had just gotten back to the house with his groceries when he saw Bakura walking down the hallway that lead towards the weapon room. Deciding that this was as good of a time as any to talk to the white-haired demon he called out: “Hay Bakura, I need to talk to you!” When the other demon stopped in his tracks but did not look at him, Yami continued: “Come here a moment, will you?”

There was a put out sigh from Bakura before the demon growled out in an annoyed tone of voice: “What now, Mr. High and Mighty?” The demon then turned around and finally looked at Yami in the eye. To say that Bakura looked pissed off right at that moment would have been a very mild expression.

“Nothing to bad Bakura or too time-consuming”, Yami assured the irritated demon. Even with the other’s foul mood he could not resist adding: “And I know how valuable your time is.” At Bakura’s warning glare Yami decided to get straight to the point and hurried to speak out as quickly as he could without seeming like he was trying to be quick: “I was just wondering if you have found yourself a mate that you haven’t told anyone about.” The star-haired demons was actually very satisfied with his act of pretending to not be interested in the matter at all.

It turned out that there was no need for Yami to act uncaring, since Bakura was thoroughly confused by his words, which became apparent when he questioned: “Mate? Are you feeling okay Yami?” There was a deep passion in the other demon’s voice as he insisted: “You should know better than anyone that I don’t have a mate, don’t want a mate, and most definitely don’t need a mate in my life.” After this tirade Bakura finished in a careless manner: “But that aside, why would you ask something like that?”

“No reason really”, Yami spoke out with a shrug. “It is just that I was just visiting the town and I happened to see someone who looked a lot like you while shopping. I thought that he was you for a moment but he turned out to actually have manners. In addition to that he was human, of course, and seemed very kind…” Yami trailed off there, knowing that no more would be needed to get Bakura curious about the human. There was one well-know and effective way to catch Bakura’s interest and that was to hide something from the demon. It was also known that Bakura did not easily show his curiosity.

“Is that so?” Bakura questioned sceptically. “So some kid looks like me, big deal. I see no reason for me to be interested in someone like that. So why would you bring up mating while talking about him, Yami?” As Bakura asked these things his tone of voice was uncaring, a clear sign that the demon was only acting like he did not care one bit about the answer. Yami knew the other demon well enough to see through his façade and it was with a small smirk on his face that he spoke: “As I said before, nothing really.”

”Whatever”, Bakura snapped then. “You’re acting really weird, you must be sick or something.” The white-haired demon shook his head. “Do us both a favour and go lay down. It’s time for my workout now.” And with that Bakura turned away to walk down the hall, towards the weapon storage to get himself some equipment before continuing on to the training facilities.

Yami just looked after Bakura for a short while before taking off into another direction, one that lead to the storage room. The demon dropped off the groceries there, taking a portion of it with him on a tray to take up to the room that he was holding Yugi in. After starting towards the room Yami though to himself: ‘I really hope this works. I really need for Yugi to start trusting me at least a little bit.’

When Yami got to the right floor he was surprised to run into Seto and Jou just outside Jou’s room. After catching a few words of the conversation as he neared the star-haired demon found out that the two were talking about the upcoming mating season, and moving Jou’s things out of his own room and into Seto’s rooms. And as the distance grew smaller Yami could hear the conclusion to the conversation.

“No, no”, came Jou’s insistent words. “If I move in before the mating show then we can save that time later on.” The blond’s voice turned pleading as he whined: “Come on, Seto!”

“But moving all those things acquires a lot of energy and if we do it now then we will most likely be busy with the job all the way to the time for the mating”, Seto argued in a reasonable tone of voice. “Jou, I know you don’t handle well with waiting and your words do hold some truth in them. Still, I don’t want to risk you being too tired to go through with the mating. Please wait until after the mating show. I promise you that we will move your things then.” The brunet ran his knuckles down Jou’s cheek in a gesture of affection. “If it makes you feel any better we can start by just moving some of you things in but nothing to big.” With those last words Seto stepped right in front of Jou and wrapped his arms around the human to hold him gently against himself.

Smiling at the sweetness of the two Yami walked past the couple and headed towards the door of the room that he had given to Yugi. Knocking on the door for the sake of manners and then speaking the spell to open the door Yami stepped into the room to see Yugi still in the exact same spot in the room where he had been in when Yami had left. The only thing that had changed was that Yugi had fallen asleep in his corner.

Putting the tray of food down on the bedside table Yami went over to Yugi to pick the boy up off the floor. He then took the sleeping angel to the bed and laid the boy down on the sheets. With that done Yami moved over to the door to leave as he thought: ‘Well, there is nothing I can do for the moment with him sleeping. He must be really tired from all the excitement of tonight. The best thing to do would be to let him rest then.” The demon nodded himself as he made the decision. ‘I will talk to Jou and have him talk to Yugi.”

Stepping out of the bedroom Yami headed down to Seto’s room, guessing that Jou would be found there from now on. Opening the door a creak to check inside the demon saw that Jou was indeed in the room, sitting in a large cushioned chair that Yami suspected had been put there just for the blond. Glancing around Yami noticed that there was no sign of Seto and he made his way into the room, walking up to Jou before asking: “Where did Seto run off to?”

Jou glanced up at Yami before replying: “Seto said he needed to get something from the lab.” The human tilted his head to the side then. “And Yami? About what you did for me before in the lab? I wanted to thank ya.”

“You’re welcome, Jou”, Yami told the human quickly. “I actually came here to talk to you about something. Do you think you can spare the time?” With that Yami moved over to sit on the armrest of the chair and Jou moved around in the chair to accommodate the demon.

“Sure I have time for ya, Yami. What’s up?” the blond spoke helpfully and frowned when he looked at Yami more closely. Apparently noticing the worried look on the demon’s face the human spoke out: “Is something the matter Yami?”

“No”, Yami started but then trailed off and tried again: “Actually, yes. You see, when I went down to eat I saw that same boy I told you about before. He was being held in one of the cages, so I saved him and brought him up here into a secure room.” The demon gave the human a desperate look. “Now, the problem is that he doesn’t trust me at all and won’t come anywhere near me, not even when I’m very gentle with him. I was wondering if you could talk to him. If there is anyone in this house who can calm him down it’s you.” Now, finished with his tale, Yami waited patiently to hear what Jou had to say.

“Well, I can’t say that I blame him for not trusting you. He has the right to be frightened”, Jou started. “But I will talk to him a little and see what I can do about the situation.” The blond human then looked up and to the doorway and Yami also heard the sound of the door opening. It was Seto, who walked into the room, holding a tube of something.

“Okay then”, Jou spoke out then as he turned to Yami again. “If that is all for now then I still have things to take care of before turning in for the night.” The human gave the demon a friendly smile before finishing: “I’ll see you tomorrow then, okay?”

“Yea”, Yami spoke with a nod of his head as he stood up from his sitting place so as not to have Seto bite his head off for being so close to the brunet’s human, inside the other demon’s room, no less. Yami gave Seto a nod of greeting before glancing at Jou and speaking: “Good night to you as well and thank you.” Satisfied with having taken care of things Yami made his way out of the room after saying that. The demon headed towards his own room to see if he could get any sleep that night.


A.N. Right now chapter eleven is done but I am going to wait and let Darth put it up on fanfiction.net first. So look for it there before here.