Room 326

Aibou… really
is dying. Now. He won’t last an hour. I can feel it. The doctor… the doctor
actually saw fit to tell me so…

He sits there,
his hand wound tightly around Yuugi’s limp one, looking into his face. The
Light… the Light is fading. He knows now why Bakura was screaming… this is
torture. Feeling the Light going out and there’s nothing to be done about it…

Don’t leave me…

The room is
crowded, but Yuugi is all that matters… all that is important… Jounouchi sits
nearby, and Honda and Otogi and Anzu and Shizuka… Bakura is still in the
hospital – mercury poisoning. Ryou is dead. All of Aibou’s remaining friends
are here to see him go, but he can’t see them…

Only Yuugi…

Hikari…

Light…

Aibou…

Why? Why can
no one do anything? Shadow powers are useless… I cannot save you, Aibou…
Technology and medicine are useless… There is nothing that can stop my Aibou
from going on, leaving me here…

The Light
fades. Dimmer now. It will go out soon. Begging has done no good… Yuugi won’t
return. Pleading, tears, love… nothing is enough to save him…

Powerless…

I am powerless…
useless… I cannot even save the one soul I care so much about… please, Yuugi,
don’t leave me here like this…

Dimmer now.
Almost gone.

“Yami?”

Dead crimson
eyes rise to meet Jounouchi’s. Aibou is going… why do you distract me? Precious
seconds of my aibou’s failing life…

“Is he…?”

Bloody eyes
turn back to the frail body before him. “He is going… not gone, not yet, but
going…”

One of the girls
turns away, to cry silently on a boy’s shoulder. Yes, everyone cry… for the we
are losing our sun now… the Light that warms the world…

Dimmer still.
Going now.

No, Yuugi, don’t
go! I need you! Please, Yuugi! Aibou – I need you! Please, you can’t leave me
like this… I cannot exist without you!

Please…!

And then… the exact
moment when the light goes out…

Cold….

So cold…

So empty…

So alone…

So…

…dark…

…no…

…yuugi…

~I love
you, Yami… Good-bye…~

…yuugi…

…love…

…alone…

“Yami!”

Wha…?

Aibou… where
is Aibou… his Light in my mind…

He’s gone…

“Kami-sama!
Yami, thank goodness! We though we lost you too when Yuugi…”

Jounouchi?

“Yuugi…”

“Hey, Yami… it’s
okay… he died – but you’re not alone.” Honey-brown eyes capture blood-red ones
and force them to listen. “You are not alone, man.”

“What…?”

“You fainted,
when he… went. Or passed out or something – they couldn’t wake you up. They… they
said for a while it looked like you were going to die too…” Worry… worry in
those deep dark eyes… Don’t bother. Aibou is gone, so there is nothing left in
the world worth worrying over.

“I’m…” What?
Okay? No… not okay. Never okay. Not without Yuugi… “I’m alive…”

“Yeah, man.
Yeah, you are.”