With You

Yugi blinked once and then again to focus his eyes on the unusually
black room




 

 

Yugi blinked once and then again to focus his eyes on the
unusually black room. The last thing he remembered was watching Ryou and Malik
argue over the game they were playing. Looking around he realized he’d never
been in this room before.

 

Behind him he could barely hear the sound of somebody
shouting for him and pounding on the door. He turned around to answer Yami’s
calling, but he stopped before he even got a word out and realized that
somewhere a red light was brightening the room and in front of him, blocking
the door and only exit as far as he could tell for the room, was the Dark
Magician.

 

He watched him with a curious look, knowing that the mage
had made him come to the room somehow without him knowing since he was the only
other being in the room. He was still upset with the Dark Magician for what he
had said earlier to him.

 

Dark Magician motioned to behind Yugi and amethyst eyes
turned curiously to see what he was gesturing at. He blinked when he saw a
chair fade into the room and he turned back to look at the mage.

 

“I thought you’d like to be comfortable. I need to speak
with you of something of importance.”

 

Yugi felt like growling but he held his tongue. “I already
know what you’re going to say. You want me to go back home.”

 

“There’s no doubt in my mind that you know what I’m going to
say, but there are several reason as to why you should go back.”

 

Yugi sighed and looked back at the door. If Yami couldn’t
get in then there wasn’t a doubt in his mind that the mage had it locked.
“You’re not going to let me out until I agree with you, are you?”

 

“I can’t force you to agree, Yugi, just listen. But yes, I
won’t let you out nor Master Yami in until you listen to me at least.”

 

The teen sighed again and walked over to the chair, flopping
down in it. He figured the faster he cooperated the faster he’d get let out.
“Alright, I’m listening. What do you want to say that’s so important you had to
lock me up and make me hear what you need to say?”

 

Dark Magician raised an eyebrow at Yugi’s strange attitude,
but he figured he’d had enough of people tryin tel tell him and the other
hikaris to go back home. “Very well.” He walked over to Yugi and sat down in
another chair he faded into the room.

 

“Since you already know what I’m basically going to tell you
I won’t start off by repeating that, but I do have something to ask you?”

 

“Hmm?” Yugi asked, his voice laced with boredom.

 

“Do you miss your grandfather and the friends you left
behind?”

 

Yugi’s eyes widened and he glanced up at the Dark Magician;
that definitely hit a nerve. He’d been here for months and every day it seemed
like his conscience kept telling him he needed to make a decision soon. Every
day the hurt and the pain for his friends that still believed him to be mad at
them for what Seto had said continued to grow; the same went for his
grandfather who must’ve been scared out of his mind with worry of what could’ve
happened to him when it was discovered he wasn’t there.

 

“Yugi?” The mage questioned when the boy had been silent for
a while.

 

“I – I do.” He whispered quietly, not wanting to admit that
Dark Magician was right. “But that doesn’t mean I want to go back to my time!”
He finished quickly and more loudly than he’d wanted to. Lowering his voice
once more he finished, “I love Yami too much to go back. I can’t leave him
again.”

 

“I know you love Master Yami with all your heart, Yugi, and
it’s obvious he knows this and feels the same for you. What about your
grandfather though? Did it ever occur to you that he might believe you to be
dead after missing for so many months?”

 

Yugi tensed. The thought of that hadn’t even come to him.

 

Before Yugi could say anything however, the maontiontinued.
“And what of your friends? Did you even think of how long you’d stay here when
you had the chance to come here? And if you did stay for a while how would your
grandfather find out where you were or that he’d even wait for you? He’s bound
to have gone back to your home long ago and your friends had to have found out
when Ryou and Malik hadn’t gone to see them yet.” The mage reasoned.

 

“But I’ll be heartbroken if I have to leave Yami again and
this time it’s going to be for good.” Yugi’s eyes teared up and his voice
choked as he said this.

 

Knowing the boy would probably like some kind of comfort
Dark Magician moved forward and knelt down so he could wrap his arms around
Yugi. Yugi also wrapped his arms around the mage and waited for himself to calm
down before letting go.

 

“And what about Ryou and Malik. They’ll be devastated to
know we have to go back too.”

 

Dark Magician nodded in agreement. Though in his mind he was
silently praising himself for finally being able to get through to Yugi. He
still felt bad for making him hurt this badly about it though.

 

“What am I supposed to do with the empty feeling that I get
whenever Yami’s not with me?”

 

The mage smiled and hugged Yugi close to him once more.
“Yugi, do really think that Yami isn’t always with you? I know it hurts now and
before it still hurt because it was such short notice when he had to leave, but
did you even try to make it better. You stopped hanging out with your friends
and pushed them away. Tell me, did you ever look at Ryou or Malik after your
yamis left?”

 

Realization dawned on Yugi and finally found out how stupid
he’d been all this time; he nodded. “They weren’t as hurting as I was because
they had each other and our friends to talk to. They didn’t feel like the world
had come crashing down like I did and I only pushed them away when they tried
to help.”

 

The mage nodded. “Now if you did go back do you think the
friends would try to help you again?”

 

Yugi shook his head.

 

Confused, the mage asked Yugi why they wouldn’t help him
like they tried to last time.

 

“Because they think I hate them.” He mumbled into the
magician’s chest.

 

“Do you think that makes them hate you and not care for
you?”

 

Thinking about this for a minute, Yugi shook his head. “I
don’t think so.”

 

“And with Ryou and Malik to be able to back you up to show
them you don’t hate them after all, do you think they’ll be willing to give you
a second chance?”

 

“Maybe.”

 

“So, have you decided what you’re going to do now?”

 

Yugi pulled away from the magician and looked around the red
dimmed room. He felt cold all of a sudden and wrapped his arms around himself.
He could still hear Yami pounding and yelling at the door for him and briefly
he thought he could hear the others calling out for him as well. Blocking them
out he tried to think. Sadly, he nods. “You’re right. I don’t belong here and I
do want to go back home. I love Yami so much but I do want to go back home. I
miss everybody there and I just want to go home to my own time.”

 

The mage nodded and the door just then flew open, Yami and
the others rushing in.

 

Yami looked around and found Yugi, now sitting on the cold
floor in utter darkness with the little light showing in behind with showing
tears trekking down his face. He ran over and gathered his koi in his arms and
kissed his face over and over again repeatedly asking in between kisses what
happened to him.

 

Instead of answering Yami’s cnuounuous question, Yugi looked
at Ryou and Malik. “We need to go back.” He choked out through his steadily
flowing tears.

 

The two hikaris look at Yugi in complete surprise and
confusion. Nobody had been able to get Yugi to say those words willingly and
now, here was, telling them they need to go back. Without having to be asked it
to realize it though, they deeply missed their friends and their family back
home and wanted to desperately see them again. Both reluctantly and sadly they
nodded their agreement.

 

Just then a portal appeared behind them and Yugi stood,
wrapping his arms around Yami. “I’ll miss you so much, Yami. I understand now
that you’ll never leave me no matter how far apart we are. You don’t hate me
for deciding this, do you?”

 

“Of course not, Yugi. I think this is the bravest decision
you’ve ever had to make. I’ll love you forever and I’ll never leave you’re
side. You’ll always be in my heart and my mind.”

 

Yugi nodded. “And you mine, Yami.” He pulled away and headed
towards the portal where Ryou and Malik were waiting, having already said there
goodbyes to their yamis as well. Tears already making their way down their
cheeks, even Malik who usually hated crying in front of people.

 

“Yugi.” Yami called back.

 

The amethyst-eyed teen turned around to look at Yami
questioningly.

 

The Pharaoh walked away and placed a kiss on Yugi’s lips,
putting all his love he felt towards Yugi into it. After pulling away he placed
a gentler kiss on his cheek. “Know that I’ll always love you no matter what. I
don’t want you to feel bounded to me though. When you step through that portal
you’ll be in a time where I don’t with the living, which means you won’t have a
lover. I want you to find somebody so wonderful and loving who was meant just
for you and I don’t want you to feel like you’re betraying me. Can you try
that? For me?”

 

Tears leaked out of Yugi’s violet eyes, but he nodded. “I’ll
try, Yami, but no matter what part of my heart will always be for you only.”

 

Yami nodded. He then pulled the Millennium Puzzle off from
around his neck and placed it around Yugi. “I don’t need it anymore. Will you
keep it safe for me, Yugi?”

 

Yugi nodded once more and turned away, holding his hands out
for Ryou and Malik. Together the three stepped through into the bright light,
leaving their lovers behind in the past; to be a thing of the past.

 

~~

 

Yugi, Ryou, and Malik woke up from the familiar
unconsciousness they awoke from the first time they went through the portal.
One thing was definitely different though and they noticed it before they even
opened their eyes.

 

“Yugi, Malik?” Ryou called, a tad bit of worry heard in his
voice. “We should’ve be laying on something soft, should we?”

 

The three teens opened their eyes and gasped. They were
laying on Yugi’s bed back in Japan and smiles appeared on all of their faces.

 

“The portal took us back home!” Malik laughed.

 

“At least that saves us the worry of figuring out how to get
back here from Egypt.” Yugi half joked.

 

Hearing the familiar bell of the game shop downstairs, they
jumped off the bed and ran down the stairs, Yugi calling out eagerly for his
grandpa.

 

Reaching the game shop, Solomon Motou nearly had a heart
attack when he saw his grandson and two best friends running down the stairs in
the shop. “Yugi! How! Where!” Tears made their way down his aged face as he
held Yugi and his friends in his arms. Hlievlieved they had been dead or hurt
when he couldn’t find them. The Egyptian officers told him to go home though
after staying a month over the time he had planned on with a promise he’d have
them sent home safely if they ever turned up.

 

“I’m so sorry for everything, grandpa! I’m got so much to
tell you!” Yugi told him excitedly, glad to finally be back home.

 

~~

 

Hours later everyone, including Joey, Seto, and Isis, were
crowded in the Motou living room staring in awe at the three hikaris who had
just told their tale. Yugi finished it off by saying, “So we stepped through
the portal and here we are.”

 

“So you got to see Yami and the others again? That’s pretty
cool, Yug. I’m really happy for you.”

 

“Yeah, I’m going to miss him so much, but this time I’m not
going to crawl into a shell and act like the world had come to an end. That is,
if you’re willing to forgive me and help me.”

 

“Ah, Yug, how could you ever believe we’d abandon you like
that?” Joey joked around.

 

It was a very exciting day and that night when Yugi went to
bed, he was surprised that it didn’t feel as bad leaving Yami and the other two
yamis knowing that his friends were going to be with him this time.

 

~~

 

A few days later after school Yugi was walking dohe
he
halls, looking down at the ground wondering how he was ever going to make up
all the stuff he missed while he was gone. He knew history wasn’t going to be a
problem since he’d already talked to his teacher and he’d said he’d give him a
passing grade if he wrote a five page essay on his trip to Egypt, when he
walked right into another person and they both fell to the ground.

 

The other person laughs, a deep sounding laugh, and holds
out his hands. “Sorry about that,” he says. “I should’ve been paying attention
to where I was going instead of looking at the map of this crazy school.”

 

Yugi takes the hands while he rubs his back where he fell on
it with his other. “Don’t worry about it. I wasn’t paying attention either.”
Yugi finally looked up and gasped, losing his voice at the person he was
looking at.

 

“Yami!” A person called from down the hall and getting
closer. Another teen with lonite ite hair and sharp eyes running after the
person who had called out.

 

“I think I finally found the stairs we need to get out of
this place.” The person gasped out.

 

The white-haired teen noticed Yugi before the other and a
smirk spread over his face. “Whose this, Yami?”

 

“Uh, I don’t know. I just ran into him.” He turned back to
Yugi who was looking at them strangely. “Are you okay? You look a bit pale.”

 

“What? Oh, yeah; I’m fine, thanks. Um, I’m Yugi.”

 

“Nice to meet you. At least one person in this school is
nice anyway. I’m Yamichi, but I like being called Yami. This is Bakurani,” he
gestured to the white-haired teen, “and Mariku,” he pointed to the other,
bleach-blonde teen.

 

“Just call me Bakura…”

 

“And me Marik.” Mariku interrupted.

 

“Okay. Would you mind if I asked you why you don’t like
you’re given names?” Yugi asked curiously.

 

“Oh, sure. See our favorite subject in our old school was
World History because our teacher made it really fun. When we got to Ancient
Egyptian times he liked to joke around with us because we have these strange
resemblances to three important people from back then and our names almost
matched them too. It was Pharaoh named Yami, me, a retired tomb-robber who
turned out to be good friends with the Pharaoh, Bakura, that’s him,” he pointed
to the white-haired teen.

 

“And then a tomb watcher who got a hired position and was
also really good friends with the Pharaoh and tomb-robber, Marik, which is me.”

 

“Anyways,” Bakura continued, “our teacher started calling us
by those names and we ended up getting attached.”

 

“That’s really cool.” Yugi told them, amazed that he’d never
heard anything about his lover in his history books before.

 

“So, Yugi, you know this school pretty well?” Yami asked.

 

Yugi nodded.

 

“Cool, can you help out of here? We’re so lost.” He blushed
in embarrassment for having to admit.

 

Yugi laughed and nodded. “Sure, it takes a while to get used
to the place.” It was then that Yugi noticed that they hadn’t gawked at him for
looking almost exactly like Yami, the Pharaoh Yami nor the Yami he was now
walking beside. He decided to leave. “If you guys want, I can introduce you to
my friends tomorrow. I’m sure they’d love to meet you.”

 

“We’d like that a lot, Yugi. They’ve got to be someone if
they hang out with someone as cute as you.” Yami joked.

 

Yugi blushed but laughed along with them. ‘Nope, this wo be be all that bad at all.’