To Want Love

P.S. As I said I would I have now posted chapter eighteen for you all. As I always say thank Darth for her great work on this story. She is the best bata I could have ever asked to have gotten. And again remember that now I do now have a yahoo account and am part of the little_Dragon group. I well be posting all of the chapters to this story up there. Those in little_Dragon look forward to getting the newest of chapters as soon as I fine out how to do so. Well I hope you enjoy.

Chapter Eighteen: Yugi’s Decision

After the mating show, during the last hours of the day Yami wandered around the hallways instead of being inside his room. He was walking around and thinking about everything that had happened since Yugi had come into his life. It seemed like they had first met an eternity ago but truth be told it had only been mere weeks ago.

‘I remember seeing him sleeping by the water the day I met him’, Yami thought to himself. ‘He had looked so happy and unaware that his life was going to end up like this. He never expected a demon to want him as a mate, or being taken to this house by hunters and put in a cage like an animal…’ A soft sigh escaped from between Yami’s lips. ‘I just hope that he well never hate me for what has happened to him. I wonder if the mating show helped him to finally make up his mind.’

At that last thought Yami looked around to find himself in one of the few hallways that were rarely used. The reason that the hallway in question was almost never used was because it was used as storage space for magical and potentially dangerous items. Something completely safe-looking like boxes could eat you with the right spell cast on them. The potential threat had Yami turning around and going back to his own room with quick strides. Just as he rounded the corner to the hallway along which all the masters’ bedrooms, his eyes fell on Yugi, the human standing right outside of his room.

The sight of the boy was unexpected and immediately had the demon wondering what Yugi was doing out here, not to mention so late at night. His little one should have been in bed a long time ago.

Walking up to Yugi’s side Yami asked: “Are you okay little one? Why are you wandering the hallways so late?” When he looked Yugi up and down as he spoke, he noticed that Yugi had a pillow in his arms, pressed against his chest tightly. His tone softened considerably as he spoke: “Oh, you can’t sleep, is that it?”

Yugi looked glanced around him a couple of times before answering: “Yea, I was having trouble sleeping for some reason and was wondering if you were still up. You once told me I could come here and talk to you about anything.” Yugi lowered his gaze at the floor as he continued: “You did not answer when I knocked on the door but I didn’t want to go back to my own room.” With the boy’s face lowered Yami did not see Yugi’s expressions at all as the human finished: “It felt wrong to just turn back.”

If Yami had looked a little closer at the boy’s face he would have seen the blush on Yugi’s cheeks, but sadly, he was not looking closely enough and was only aware of how scared Yugi seemed to be at the moment. Yami did note that this time it was not because of him or the house but because of something else. With that thought he made up his mind and said: “Yes, I did say that and as you can see I’m awake.” He spread out his arms and smiled at the human. The gesture softened as he continued: “You look like you have something on your mind. Come in and we can talk. That is, if you’re okay being in the same room with me alone.”

Yugi had, of course, blushed even more when Yami said that last bit. But nonetheless he nodded his head in agreement and said: “Thank you. I really don’t mind and I would like to talk to someone.”

Nodding his head Yami opened the door to his room and allowed Yugi to walk in first. The demon watched as Yugi went in slowly and then looked around for a bit before walking over to the loveseat. The human took a seat on one side of the seat and lifting his knees to his chest Yugi looked back at Yami. The demon took that as the cue to sit down himself. He took a seat on chair near Yugi and observed Yugi silently, waiting for the boy to start speaking.

There was silence in the room a while longer, before Yugi finally opened his mouth and spoke: “You know, the first time I came here I was sacred of everyone. That changed when I talked to Jou and he cleared up some things for me. Jou helped me a great deal back then and I wasn’t as sacred of you anymore. I was still sacred of this place, though, as well as not knowing where I was.” At that Yugi lowered his feet on the floor, sitting regularly as he laid his pillow on his lap.

Yami just looked at Yugi in silence for a moment before he said: “I think I understand. Anyone would be sacred if they were taken from the life they lived and forced to live somewhere else.” The demon ran a hand through his hair. “I’m fully aware of that and I felt really sorry for that mistake and wanted to make things right. That is why I gave you the choice to leave. It was all unfair to you and I would not want to force my mate to stay with me.”

“I know all of that. And you really are a great guy. But still, after the mating show everything just seemed to click into place, you know?” Yugi seemed like he was finally starting to fall asleep as he spoke. The fact that the other was falling asleep in his seat became apparent as the boy started to slur out his words.

Making up his mind to just let Yugi go off to dream land, Yami decided to speak his own part right away: “Yea, I know what you mean. It was like that the first time I saw you. Suddenly I felt like I knew so much more without knowing anything at all at the same time. That’s what you mean, right Yugi? Yugi?”

Yugi had fallen asleep on the loveseat with his pillow still in his lap. Smiling ever so slightly Yami got up and walked over to where the human was. Picking him up he looked at Yugi’s sleeping face for a moment before moving over to his own bed. Lowering Yugi down on the mattress he tucked his little one in before going back over to one of the chairs to sleep there.

Despite sleeping in what might have been considered a bad position, Yami slept well that night. That was because the demon felt like things where okay when he knew that Yugi was near. And Yugi was sleeping as soundly as Yami. It was one of the better nights of sleep he had gotten since coming to the house.

Early the next day Yugi woke up in a room that he did not recognize at first. But when he looked over to the chairs on the side, seeing Yami’s familiar form sprawled in one of the chairs, he remembered how he had fallen asleep while talking to Yami in the demon’s room but he did not remember climbing into bed.

‘Yami must have put me in his bed after I had fallen a sleep in the chair’, Yugi concluded in his mind. ‘And he took the chair so that I wouldn’t get frightened if I happened to wake up in the same bed with him.’ The human looked at Yami with a sad yet fond smile, feeling sorry for making the demon lord sleep so uncomfortably. ‘I know what my answer is going to be Yami. Just wait until I tell you tonight. I will let you know my final answer soon enough but first I must take care of some things, like talking to Jou.’

Moving as silently as he could Yugi left the room and headed back to his own room where he got ready for the day, one that was certainly going to be eventful. Yugi was feeling excited but he could not help but be nervous as well as he thought: ‘I just hope that I can go though with everything. I don’t want to make Yami feel like I could never make a good mate for him…’

A.N. As always I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Thank Darth for her hard work. I hope to see you all back here again. I well now post chapter nineteen for you all to read and enjoy.