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Hey everybody! Here’s the next update, sorry it took so
long. *hits head repeatedly*. Actually before I get on with the fic I just
wanted to make a quick little favor that if you go to FictionPress.com and
check out my original stuff. It’s all the stuff I do in my Creative Writing
class and I thought people would like to see it. There’s only a few things up
there right now, but I would really appreciate it if you did check it out and
maybe review them for me. My penname is still magic_reeni so they shouldn’t be
that hard to find. Thanx lots!!!

 

Oh! And one thing (I promise this time) some of the
beginning of this was written as part of the newly added lemon in the last
chapter, but there was just no way I could leave it out after all her hard work
so I asked if I could put it as part of the next chapter.

THANK YOU LADY ETERNAL

 

~~

 

Pharaoh Yami woke up early the next morning and stretched
widely, cracking his back slightly as he did. He carefully removed the covers,
making sure they stayed on Yugi, before standing, putting a loose robe on, and
looking out the large window overlooking Egypt.

 

‘What a strange dream.’ He thought to himself.

 

“Yami?” Yugi mumbled sleepily as he sat up, rubbing his eyes
cutely.

 

Yami turned and stared into Yugi’s eyes before realization
dawned through him. “Yugi,” he whispered before chuckling slightly.

 

Yugi stared up at Yami curiously. “What’s so funny?”

 

The young pharaoh’s eyes sparkled. ““You,” Yami murmured,
walking over to Yugi and kissing the pulse point below Yugi’s ear. “You were holding out on me, aibou. Even when our lovemaking didn’t hurt you
anymore, you were never such a hellcat in bed.”

 

Slowly, Yugi lifted his head to meet Yami’s laughing crimson
orbs. Those crimson orbs that were
dancing with tender mirth, just as they always had when Yugi surprised
him. Was it possible? Did he really remember? “You… you remember?”

 

“I can’t believe I ever forgot,” Yami replied tenderly. “My hikari… my precious, innocent aibou… I
knew you had such passion in you; why did you never show it to me?”



Yugi blushed as crimson as Yami’s eyes, his gaze fixing on
the angry red marks his teeth had left on Yami’s collarbone. “I… guess I was too shy before. But I needed you so much, I just… couldn’t
help myself.”



Chuckling again, Yami brushed tender kisses over his
face. “Don’t worry, aibou. You can be as shy or ferocious as you want
in our bed; I promise to love you just the same.”

 

A large smile broke out over Yugi’s face before he jumped
from the bed, not caring about his state of undress, and hugged Yami tightly
around the middle. “This is great, Yami. Now things can go back to normal.
We’ll never have to be apart again. And Ryou and Malik can stay here with
Bakura and Marik too. It’ll be just like old times except 5000 years into the
past.”

 

A frown covered Yami’s face, but it went unnoticed by Yugi
as the younger teen bustled over to where his clothes had been thrown and
started pulling them on, tripping as he tried to pull on his pants.

 

“Yugi, what about…”

 

A knock rounded on Yami’s door and the pharaoh was
interrupted. Yugi jumped over to the large door and pulled it open, smiling at
his two best friends and their boyfriends when he saw them.

 

“Ryou, Malik, good morning.” He hugged them as well, not
caring about htrantrange he might seem to them.

 

Bakura and Marik glanced at Yami and saw how he he looked.
Bakura turned to Ryou and gave him a small smile and a kiss on the cheek.
“Marik and I need to talk to Yami for a minute. You three head down to
breakfast and we’ll join you in a short while.”

 

“Okay, Bakura.” Ryou nodded. “Come on, Yugi. You can tell
what’s got you so excited so early in the morning.”

 

Once the door closed the two tomb robbers turned to the
pharaoh.

 

“What’s wrong with you? Surely you like seeing Yugi so
happy, don’t you?” Marik smirked.

 

“I told him I remembered everything about our lives together
and I am happy that I’ve remembered us, but now he’s said that he’s going to
stay here with me.”

 

“What’s so wrong with that?” Bakura questioned, looking at Yami
as though he had grown a second head. “Ryou and Malik are going to stay so why
shouldn’t Yugi?”

 

“Ryou and Malik said they were going to stay here for the
rest of their lives?” Yami asked in amazement and disbelief.

 

“Well, no…but I just assumed that…”

 

“So you assumed that they were going to stay with you when
they haven’t said anything of the sort; that’s real smart of you, Bakura. I
would’ve thought you’d know Ryou couldn’t do that. He’d miss his father too
much and you know how he doesn’t like letting him down since he’s the only one
his father has left.”

 

“Malik has no reason to go back though.” Marik started to
argue, fear falling into his voice must to his dislike.

 

“What about his sister? As much as they don’t act like it
they do love each other and care for each other very much. You should know that
better than anybody, Marik.”

 

“Well what’s holding you back from admitting he’ll be happy
here?” Bakura muttered darkly.

 

“Nothing’s holding me back from saying it, but it’ll only be
lies. Sure, he’ll be ecstatic about staying here for maybe a week before he
starts to miss his grandfather and then all his friends. He won’t say anything
though because he doesn’t like to disappoint people.”

 

“So you’re saying that know we’ve found our soul mates again
and they have the chance to spend the rest of their lives with us, you want us
to make them go back to their own time and away from us?” Marik yelled.

 

“As much as I hate to admit it, yes, Marik I am saying that.
They don’t belong here. They’ll miss their friends and their family, but they
won’t want to leave us. The decision to stay and miss their old lives or go and
leave us forever will tear them apart.”

 

The three ceased from their conversation when Yugi, Ryou,
and Malik stuck their heads in the door.

 

“You three are taking too long. Is everything okay?” Malik
asked, looking at Marik.

 

“No, everything’s fine. Let’s go have some breakfast.” Yami
answered. The three yamis followed their hikaris out the door.

 

Unknowing to any of them, as soon as the door shut the
Millennium Puzzle sitting on the floor where it was put the night before
started to glow a golden shade before it quickly faded back to normal.

 

~~

 

After breakfast the three couples separated to spend some
quality time together, though if going by the lustfuaresares Marik had been
giving Malik and the advances Bakura was throwing Ryou it didn’t take much of a
genius to figure out what they were going to be doing. Yami and Yugi though
decided to walk through the gardens together, enjoying the peace and quiet it
brought. Unfortunately, that’s when Yami decided to bring up his worries
instead of leaving it for a more appropriate time.

 

“Yugi, about staying here.”

 

“Don’t worry, Yami. You don’t have to feel like I’m being
obligated because I love and I won’t have any regrets. I want to stay here with
you for the rest of our lives.” Yugi interrupted. “It’s going to be like
heaven, Yami.” Yugi’s eyes started to glow with happiness. “It could be just
like old times with Ryou and Malik staying too.”

 

“You don’t understand, Yugi. What about your grandfather and
Joey and the rest of your friends; won’t you miss them?”

 

“What are you trying to say?” Yugi asked worriedly, backing
away from his yami to sit on one of the benches.

 

“Yugi, you have to go back. You don’t belong in this time
and you miss everybody in your old life if you stay here. I am glad to have
seen you again and that I remembered who you were, but I want what’s best for
you and that’s being with your friends and family back home.”

 

“Oh, I see then.” Yugi whispered detachedly, his bangs
hiding his eyes. “I suppose you’ll want Ryou and Malik to go back with me
then.”

 

“That would only be the fair thing to do.”

 

“Only the fair thing?” Yugi looked back up at Yami, hurt and
betrayal clouding his eyes. “Does that mean you don’t care if they go back and
you’re making it sound like my life depends on it?”

 

“No, they need to go back too.”

 

“Fine, we’ll leave as soon as they’re done.” Yugi stood and
headed for the archway that led back inside the palace, stopping in front of
it. Without out turning around he struggled out a pain-filled, “If you didn’t
want me to stay with you, Yami, you could’ve just told me that instead of
telling me to go away.” He then walked back into the palace.

 

Yami stood there with widened eyes and anguish filling his
crimson orbs. “I didn’t mean to make it sound like that. What have I done? I
never meant to hurt you, I only wanted what was best for you.”

 

~~

 

Yurudgrudged through the halls before coming to a stop in
front of Bakura and Ryou’s doors. Hoping that he wasn’t going to be disturbing
too much of their time together, he raised his hand and quietly knocked.

 

A groan, muffled by the door, answered him and he took that
for him to open the door. Without any squeaks Yugi pushed the door open and
peeked his head inside, unknowing to him that his eyes showed all his pain and
small tear tracks were slightly visible on his barely tanned skin.

 

“Ryou, I don’t mean to disturb you or anything. I just
wanted to tell you that we’ve been asked to leave so we’ll be going home as
soon as you and Malik are finished.” He forced out into a calm, even voice.

 

Bakura sat up quickly with disbelief etched over his face.
“Who asked you to leave?” He demanded.

 

“We’ve only just come, Yugi. Don’t you think we deserve at
least the rest of the week?” Ryou begged with hope filling his words, almost
making it seem like they could come true.

 

Yugi shook his head. “No, Yami wants us to leave so we’ll
leave as soon as we can. H-he is the pharaoh after all so we just better do
what he says.” He faltered slightly.

 

“Oh, Yugi.” Ryou whispered, seeming to understand now. “He
didn’t bring that up while you spending time together, did he?”

 

Tears filled Yugi’s eyes now and he nodded slowly.

 

Bakura growled at Yami, his hate for the pharaoh returning
full force. ‘Yami, you idiot! You only just received your memories of your life
together and then you bring this up on him the same day! I know we decided they
should go back, but this is ridiculous! We didn’t mean this fast; at least not
Marik and myself!’

 

The yami was pulled from his thoughts when the bed shifted
slightly and he looked over to where Yugi was sniffling slightly into Ryou’s
bare chest, his hikari holding his affectionately and rubbing his back to help
calm him, lightly rocking them back and forth. Ryou looked up at him with a
concerned expression.

 

/Why would Yami do this to us, Bakura? You’d think he’d
understand, especially aftertingting his memories back only just today?/ Ryou
asked him through the mind link.

 

//I rather not talk about this right now.// Bakura growled,
images of Yami being tortured in every possible way were sent to Ryou, causing
the hikari to shiver slightly and tighten his grip on the young teen in his
arms. //I’ll be right back.// The yami of the ring leaned over and picked up
his discarded pants and put them on before hurrying out of the room.

 

Ryou only looked after his lover for a minute before looking
back down at Yugi. “Don’t worry, Yugi,” he whispered. “Bakura and Marik will be
able to handle this if not anybody else.”

 

~~

 

Bakura pursued around the halls of palapalace before he
finally got fed up and rounded on one of the servants. “Where’s your blasted
Pharaoh?” He growled at her.

 

The young girl fell to the ground in quivers and lifted a
shaky finger towards the gardens. “H-he’s been i-in there since Y-Yugi left
h-him th-there, s-s-sir B-Bakura sir.” She stuttered fearfully.

 

Bakura stormed away from her and into the direction he was
pointed to. He almost felt like setting the whole of the garden up in flames to
find the blasted darker half of the puzzle instead of zigzagging his way
through all the plants and brightly colored flowers. Instead he only had to
walk a short ways before spotting him sitting on the edge of the fountain,
lazily drawing little nothings in the water with his finger.

 

“Yami, you complete and utter bastard! What in the name of
all mighty Ra were you thinking when you brought that up to Yugi!”

 

The young pharaoh looked up at the angry yami, his eyes
rimmed red slightly, before looking back down at the water and continuing his
drawings. “I merely did what I thought would be the correct decision to make by
bringing it up to him. Clearly it was the wrong thing to do if he chose to seek
you for you to yell deafly loudly at me.”

 

“Quit with the nonsense talk crap and look at me when I’m
trying to pent out my anger on you!” Bakura ordered, somewhat surprised when he
didn’t have to repeat himself once Yami did look at him and kept his mouth
shut. “He didn’t come to me he went to Ryou and I happened to be there to hear
what he said.” He growled, tuning down his anger. “We hadn’t even agreed when
they should leave and it is their decision whether they want to go or not. For
all we know they might never be able to go back even if they wished to do so
with all their beings.”

 

“Yami you Ra-damned, Anubis-fucking, revolting piece of
shit!” A loud voice shouted, promise of death filling his every word. “What in
the name of all Egyptian lands were you thinking?! Where you even thinking at
all!?” Marik screamed at the pharaoh.

 

Bakura looked slightly amused when he saw Marik stampede
over to where they were standing and started shaking Yami mercilessly by his
clothes. “So how did you find out, Marik?”

 

Marik turned to him with red flames hindering in his glaring
eyes. “Ryou came in and told us whhe bhe bastard Pharaoh had said to Yugi.
Malik went to comfort this asshole’s hikari with yours and I came to help you
kill him.”

 

Bakura nodded, expecting Ryou to have Malik help him with
Yugi. “Well I was doing rather well on my own but I never said that he didn’t
deserve even more toture. After all,” he turned stone-cold brown eyes on Yami,
who was watching them cautiously, “we never did discuss what to say to them.
Pharaoh here thinks he’s so high and mighty he can just kick them out. We’ve
got news for you though, Yami,” he spat the name dangerously, “all three hikaris
are staying here and until all three us decide when to decide to bring
up then give them a decision on what they would like to do. Is that
understood, your highness.”

 

Yami looked absolutely, and somehow unbelievably, even more
broken than when Bakura had first marched murderously up to him mere minutes
ago. Obviously, what he had done to Yugi was starting to sink in.

 

“Yugi,” Yami’s sadly detached voice choked out almost
quietly. “Where is he?”

 

“I don’t think I’ll even let you have the pleasure of seeing
him, Pharaoh.” He spat out Yami’s title. “After what you’ve done to him I
wouldn’t even blame Malik, nor even Ryou for that matter, if they had their own
way with you once this has all been explained to them.” Marik growled
threateningly.

 

“You’re hikari is going to be staying with us until it is
his own wish to see you again. Though I wouldn’t even put it past you over-loving
and ever-forgiving hikari to not ever wanting to see you again. If only you’d
seen him when he came into my Ryou.” With that Bakura turned and walked out of
the garden, Marik following shortly and just as intimidating.

 

~~

 

Marik and Bakura walked into the two halves of the ring’s
room much calmer than when the hikaris’ had seen them last.
sp; sp;

Ryou looked at Bakura with the tug of a small smile on his
lips. “Is everything okay now, yami?”

 

“Yes, Ryou. You three won’t leave until further notice.” He
smirked.

 

“What was all that about though?” Malik questioned.

 

Marik gave him a small smile and pulled his hikari into his
arms. “We’ll explain some other day.” He promised.

 

Yugi stirred from where he lay, apparently asleep against
Ryou’s shoulder while sitting in his lap and arms holding him like the
white-haired hikari would disappear and never come back. His broken amethyst
eyes looked up at Bakura hopefully. “Everything’s going to be okay now, right?
You won’t make us leave and we’ll always be able to be with you?”

 

“Poor kid,” Bakura couldn’t keep him from saying, shaking
his head sadly. “Don’t worry about that. We gave Yami a piece of our mind for
you and you don’t have to see him until you want to.”

 

Yugi nodded and crawled away from Ryou only to rest his head
in Bakura’s lap once he sat down on the bed, holding his closest leg like a
small child would to a teddy bear. “I thought he loved me, I thought he still
did, especially after last night. He doesn’t want me around anymore though.” He
cried, holding tighter to Bakura’s leg.

 

Malik crawled over to Yugi and him and Ryou rubbed and
caressed his back comfortingly to help calm him.

 

“Don’t cry, Yugi; Yami still loves you no matter what
happens between you. I’m sure he was only thinking for your best interests when
he brought it up.” Ryou explained lightly.

 

Yugi nodded tiredly and hiccupped. “I hope so.” He whispered
before falling into a fitful sleep.

 

Bakura brought one of his hands up and pet Yugi’s hair like
he would many times to Ryou’s. ‘Baka Pharaoh,’ he thought angrily. ‘You always
made stupid decisions before but this has got to be number one on your list.
How could you ever want your hikari to leave you so soon when he loves you this
much?’