Let Go

Okay poeple, after long waiting and many exams on my part, I'M STILL NOT UPDATING REGULARLY. °sees people sweatdrops as they'd expected something else° Yeah, very sorry. I can tell you all that I had my last exams today and because of that, I'm going to update the chap. Because of all the exams I've barely had any time to write though, so I wanna get a few chaps ahead of you guys so I can actually keep up with updates every Saterday. That, and I mihgt have to do some exams over so I'd have to study for that again, which would interfere with this. Somewhere around the 20th of June, then I think I'll be able to get back to writing with my full attention and I'll get this fic done, I swear.

Well, I hope you all enjoy and R&R peope!

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--: 02 :--
Bloodlust

“Yami, you want to come to the park with Yuugi-kun and me?” Kumiko poked her head into her brother’s office, only to blush at seeing other people besides her brother there. Obviously Yami was in a meeting and she’d just disturbed him. “Oops, sorry.”

The woman sitting opposite Yami scowled in disapproval at her but the man beside her smiled gently. “It’s okay, we were done anyway.”

Kumiko relaxed a little, “I’m still sorry-“

“You better be,” Kumiko flinched as the strict looking woman cut her off, “we were in a very important meeting and you could’ve interrupted us.”

Yami let out a small sigh. The meeting had already been hard to endure with the woman constantly nagging on and on about things they’d already discussed in previous meetings and it seemed she’d just found a new victim. Well, he had to admit that she did have a point. Kumiko could’ve interrupted something. She walked into his office a bit too freely really. It was just too damned hard to refuse her anything.

“Kumiko, can you please wait outside?” Yami watched as Kumiko nodded silently and left the room, a slightly crestfallen look on her face. Yami felt his heart wrench but managed to keep it out of his body language. He knew Kumiko had to learn this sooner or later, he just hated it that he had to be the one teaching it to her.

“That’s all she’s getting? Leave the room?” The woman opposite Yami stood up, disapproval written all over her face. Yami mentally sighed. Why did this woman insist on giving him a headache?

“Mundy-san, I think I know how to handle her best since she’s my sister.” Although Yami’s voice left no room for debate, the woman seemed not to care, making the man sigh in exasperation. Yami mentally smirked; it seemed he wasn’t the only one getting tired of the constant nagging.

“Ya-, I mean Atemu-san. She could’ve interrupted something. Obviously she wasn’t raised properly-“ The rant continued and Yami had to calm himself so he wouldn’t attack the woman. Stupid Americans and being so disrespectful. It was fine if she forgot those stupid honorifics but she’d just hit a nerve when she spoke of Kumiko’s upbringing.

“I was the one who raised her.” The woman immediately shut up at the cold spoken words. Her eyes widened slightly as Yami’s eyes flashed dangerously at her, the colour turning slightly darker with anger, “Now I believe we were done.”

The man and woman facing Yami nodded stiffly before quickly leaving the room. Yami sighed again and rubbed his temple. He really needed to keep a closer check on his power. At this rate he was going to hurt someone one of these days, and that was the last thing he wanted to happen. Above all that, his demonic powers had been acting up lately. Somehow making his temper a lot shorter than usual and his desire for fighting bigger.

Yami shook his head. No, he could control himself. Bakura and Mariku had told him he was probably just reacting to this Tsumi guy. His powers could feel the challenge and his past-self wanted nothing more but to take that challenge. It would pass eventually… at least he hoped so.

He quickly typed a few more notes of the meeting down on his computer before putting away all the paperwork and walking to the door. Kumiko was waiting for him in the hall, eyes focussed on the ground and face still crestfallen.. “Kumiko?”

The girl looked up, obviously startled. She quickly turned to him, already opening her mouth to apologize but Yami held his hand up so she would be silent. “Don’t, I know you’re sorry. Come in.”

Kumiko relaxed slightly but she was still a bit tense. She could see her brother was going to lecture her, and that was something that didn’t happen often. She hated it. Yami even seemed to be angry with her, something that happened rarely… actually, it hadn’t happened before, now that she though of it. Not really anyway.

“Kumiko, how many times have I told you not to barge in here because I could be in a meeting?” Yami sat down behind his desk as Kumiko took her spot opposite him. She was refusing to meet his gaze.

“Uhm…I think I lost count after 50 times or so…” She smiled nervously and Yami sighed again.

“Than why don’t you listen?” Yami’s words came out harsher than he’d intended but he couldn’t stop them. He was irritated and annoyed. He let out a frustrated sigh and rubbed his temple before focussing on Kumiko again. “You’re grounded for a week.” Kumiko didn’t look up but Yami could feel her aura becoming even sadder, a slight spark of anger maybe even.

Throughout the years the two siblings had been as close as siblings could get. When they were young Yami had always tried to protect her from everything, and even after Yoru’s death they stayed close. Yami couldn’t even remember the last time he’d punished Kumiko, and he doubted he actually ever really had.

He watched as Kumiko nodded slightly, looking up at him with sad eyes, “Can I still go to the park with Yuugi-kun?” She wasn’t even using anything to convince him like she usually would, but Yami was too irritated to really care about it, “No, you´re going home and to your room.”

Kumiko nodded again and left the room, leaving Yami to slump back in his chair and stare at the ceiling. Had he overreacted a bit too much? He had acted a bit too angry but she really needed to learn…

He stayed like that for a couple of minutes before sighing and looking back at the huge pile of work just taunting him from his desk. He grimaced. He definitely wouldn’t be home before eight tonight. He swore he was going to kill Bakura for sending him home yesterday to propose to Yuugi; now he had even more work to do.

He shook his head before getting to work. The sooner he started the faster it would be done. And besides, it would take his mind off Kumiko.

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Russet eyes followed as Kumiko passed by to leave the building. Bakura scowled at seeing the sad expression still on her face. So it had finally started huh? Well damn, that sucked. He let out a frustrated sigh before muttering something about going for a break to his co-workers and leaving, not caring about the protests the others gave.

Quickly making his way to another part of the building, Bakura didn’t even bother to knock or explain himself, as he entered a room and dragged Mariku with him, muttering the same excuse to the surprised looking people around them before simply leaving again. Protests were once again ignored, even if some of them came from Mariku.

“Bakura?! What are you doing?!” Bakura just kept dragging the blonde with him as the other struggled to get free.

“Oh just come along, baka. Kumiko just walked out of the building all sad. Since when did Yami start punishing her?” Mariku’s struggles ceased and the other suddenly started to walk alongside the white-haired demon.

“So what’d he do? I mean if she deserved it…” Mariku trailed off, looking at Bakura suspiciously.

“She walked into a meeting with that bitch what’s-her-name-again and the woman scolded her some. Usually Yami would’ve gone down on his knees thanking whoever had interrupted that woman from whining, so this is new. He’s getting more frustrated by the moment. He can’t hold back much longer.” They walked into a new office without bothering to knock, watching as the person they were now facing looked up from his phone call.

-“Mutou-san?”- Yuugi sighed at the two demons standing in front of him, before quickly turning back to the phone call.

“I’m sorry; my secretary just came in to remind that I have an important appointment. Is it alright if I call you back afterwards?” the person on the other line reluctantly agreed and Yuugi hung up, looking at Bakura and Mariku with a look that clearly stated: ‘this-better-be-imporant’.

“Secretary?” Bakura scowled even more but decided against going further into it as they had better things to do right now. “It’s starting.”

Yuugi’s eyes widened and he softly cursed under his breath. “You have to kidding me. Eight years he has no problems at all and now this?” Yuugi resisted the urge to bang his head on his desk.

“Well we all knew this was going to happen. I think the excitement of someone like Tsumi around is activating his powers. He can’t handle it and he’ll break sooner or later.”

Mariku glanced out of the window for a second before grinning, “Let’s unleash him on Hell when that comes. It’ll be fun to see him killing everyone there.”

Bakura whacked the blonde on the head. However tempting the idea was to him, they all knew it couldn’t be done.

The reason why a demon with a soul would go insane wasn’t just because he was surrounded by demons that did kill at will. The other reason was that the demon himself would at one point lose himself to his own powers. Although his soul would keep him from killing, his powers would eventually push him to do it in a fit of bloodlust. The demon would afterwards feel guilty for what he’d done, after finally snapping out of his rage. A guilt that mostly destroyed the demon. This process didn’t stop though, it could repeat itself as many times as the demon’s life allowed.

Ever since Bakura and Mariku had come to live with Yuugi and Yami, they had kept a close eye on the older of the two, checking to see if he wouldn’t go into the bloodlust. They themselves had experienced it more than once but it had only been while they had lived in Hell. Since they didn’t care about demons one bit their guilt had been kept to a minimum, if even there. If Yami would unleash his bloodlust while in the human world though… he was the strongest demon for a reason and no one would be able to stop him.

“We’ll have to tell him.” Yuugi sighed and leaned back in his chair, a grimace on his face. Great, no one had been able to spoil his happiness, hadn’t been ever since Yami had proposed to him yesterday but this was definitely a damper on everything. If Yami would go into his bloodlust there would probably be no wedding at all.

Bakura snorted, “You want to go tell the guy that there’s a possibility that he can’t handle his powers and he’ll start killing off everyone in sight. He’ll just tell you to not worry and that he can handle it. Even I know him well enough for that.” Mariku nodded in agreement.

“Well what then? We just go with the flow and we don’t do anything?” Yuugi stood up and walked to the window to stare into Domino, “There are too many people here at risk. Just look outside and you can see that.”

“Well, we were hoping God-dearest might have an answer.” Yuugi gave Bakura an annoyed look. Soul or no soul, Bakura had never had any respect for God, and would never get it either. In any case, Yuugi had to grudgingly admit that Bakura was right. Yami wouldn’t believe them and would just brush it off as not important. Maybe God was their only chance…

“Fine, I’ll go but you have to keep an eye on him. If he does anything-“

“We’ll knock him out.” Bakura smirked at the thought. He knew he probably couldn’t pull it off but it was good to dream. Yuugi snorted, having the same line of thoughts obviously, before casting a few spells. His wings sprouted out of his back as his angelic robes appeared. Another spell was cast to conceal him from mortal eyes before he walked to the window and opened it.

Before leaving, Yuugi turned back for a second, “What did he do anyway?”

Bakura too cast a quick spell to relay his memories of what had happened. Yuugi grimaced before quickly flying out of the window. No trip to the park for Kumiko and he then. No wonder the girl hadn’t shown up.

“So you think God’ll help?” Mariku wasn’t really interested anymore, his short attention span kicking in once more. Bakura just snorted.

“Who knows? I don’t get that guy one bit so we’ll just have to wait and see. Come on, before anyone starts complaining we take too many breaks again.”

Both left the office as if nothing had happened, going back to their work and ignoring the complaints that were thrown at them. Neither of them really cared about what anyone thought of them anyway.

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Yuugi landed at the gate of Heaven and was easily let in by the two guards standing there. Both greeted Yuugi cheerfully, glad to see him back since Yuugi barely came to Heaven nowadays. Yuugi smiled back at them, greeting them with cheerfulness, even if it was just a show. He needed to get to Seto, now.

Quickly making his way through Heaven, Yuugi stopped at the house that belonged to the brunette and his best friend. He was about to knock on the door when he hears small moans coming from the living room. He sweatdropped. Okay, he obviously picked a wrong time to come but he really needed their help right now.

Yuugi knocked, making sure to do it loud enough for even those two to hear. Stumbling was heard and a few groans as something – or maybe someone – hit the floor. Yuugi held back his laughter at all the noises as someone came up to the door.

A grumpy looking Seto with his robes opened slightly and hair a complete mess opened the door, a glare on his face to scare off anyone who had just interrupted him. Yuugi burst into laugher completely now and Seto’s glare became harsher, even if he now recognized the person standing in front of him.

“What in Heaven’s name are you doing here?” Joey came up behind, his state being similar to that of Seto’s only his neck was littered in love-bites. Joey didn’t glare like Seto had though. His eyes only lit up in happiness as he saw his friend.

“Well… I need some help…” Seto was about to open his mouth to make a nasty comment but Joey simply pushed him aside so Yuugi could enter,

“Don’t mind Seto, you know how he can get. Want somethin’ ta drink?” The glare Seto threw him was meant for killing purposes surely, but Joey simply ignored it.

“Thanks, Joey, but I think if I stay too long Seto will do something to me. I’m here for Seto really.” The brunette looked mildly interested, glaring at his lover still more important to him than paying much attention to Yuugi.

“What do you want?” Joey gave his lover a quick, annoyed look before leading Yuugi into the house and into the living room. All sat, Joey quickly tried to straighten his robes as best he could but Seto didn’t even bother with it.

“It’s Yami.” Yuugi started quietly. Seto’s attention suddenly turned completely to Yuugi and Joey raised an eyebrow questioningly. Yuugi sighed again before telling them what Bakura and Mariku had taught him about demons with a soul. After he’d told them everything, he mentioned Yami’s behaviour for the last two weeks or so.

“So we’re gonna have a rampagin’ Yami on our hands?” Joey’s voice sounded nervous, obviously not really knowing what to do about the situation.

“Something like that. I’ve never seen a demon in bloodlust before so I have no idea what to expect really. His tempers come and go so I don’t think it’s going to happen tomorrow or anything.” Yuugi looked at Seto, “Do you think you can talk to God about this? If he can’t control himself anymore…”

Seto nodded before finally straightening his robes, obviously deciding that this is more important than what he’d been doing with Joey.

“I’ll go talk to him right away.” He glanced at the worried face of his friend. “Don’t worry Yuugi, Yami’s too stubborn to give into something like this.”

Yuugi smiled weakly as Seto left the room and then the house, before turning his eyes to the ground sadly. Joey sat down next to him and rubbed his back gently, “Come on, you know Seto’s right. It’s one of his annoying qualities.”

Yuugi smiled a little at his friend’s comment, “I know, but I’m still worried. Bakura and Mariku said there isn’t much you can do against this all so… what if he hurts people?”

Joey sighed, “Dose two are just nuts. Dey don’t know what dey’re talkin’ about.” Even though both knew that wasn’t true, Yuugi just went with it for now. Illusions were sometimes better to keep up than thinking about the harsh reality.

“Thanks, Joey. I think I’m going to go back now. I hung up on someone important and I think he didn’t really like that…” Yuugi chuckled a bit before standing up, “Sorry I took Seto away from you.”

Joey shrugged, “I think he’ll get back to me on dat as soon as he’s talked ta God. Don’t worry.” He let Yuugi out of the house and watched his friend go with a frown. He hoped Seto would be back soon with an answer, for both Yuugi’s and his sanity.

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Seto carefully knocked on the doors to the throne room of Heaven, waiting to hear the permission to enter. For a second no answer came until the doors swung open. Seto calmly entered, bowing before the seemingly young man sitting on the throne.

“Please forgive me, but I have important news.”

The man looked up from the book he’d been reading and raised an eyebrow at the brunette, “Seto, how many times have I told you not to bow and be so formal? I sure have lost count.” The man pushed some of his long chestnut bangs out of his jade-green eyes before focussing back on Seto again, “What do you have to tell?”

Seto stood straight and looked at the man, “It’s about Yami.” The man’s attention was immediately completely on Seto at hearing the name of the person he still didn’t trust completely.

“Don’t tell me he’s gone all demonic after all.” Seto chuckled and shook his head. God relaxed in his throne and nodded for Seto to continue.

“Bakura and Mariku fear he might be going into bloodlust soon. He’s been acting temperamental and stressed. They fear he won’t be able to stop it.”

God frowned in thought. If Yami was to go into a state of bloodlust no one would be safe from him. To make matters worse, Yami knew how to get to Heaven on his own and could simply come here in that period too. Time after time the demonic Prince had proven that he was stubborn and wouldn’t just give up, but the bloodlust was something not many could resist.

“I see, that is a problem.” He let out a sigh before standing up and pacing around. There wasn’t much to do at the moment really. He knew this time would come sooner or later but he’d hoped later rather than sooner.

“Is there even anything we can do?” Seto followed the tall chestnut-brown haired man with his eyes, seeing the thoughtful look on the other’s face. They’d never even attempted to stop a demon in bloodlust. Mostly it happened when they were in Hell and demons would only get hurt. Less demons meant less worries for them so why even try to stop it.

“I don’t know. Stress is one of the main causes why he would most likely lose his control so I suggest keeping him away from that and trying to relax him. Also, the threat of Tsumi will challenge him so keep him distracted from that. Other than that we can’t do anything right now. If it gets too bad and he really can’t control himself anymore, then I will have to take more drastic measures.” Another frown came onto his face before he turned to Seto again.

Seto nodded before bowing once more and leaving. The blonde ruler watched him go before turning to sit on his throne and looking into the pool of water standing next to it. A quick spell was cast and an image of an annoyed Yami sitting behind his desk appeared. The crimson-eyed Prince was obviously frustrated and stressed because of all the work laying in front of him. Not really the relaxed state he should be in to keep his bloodlust in check.

‘At this rate he’ll lose his control within the month…’ God sighed and let the image fade away. He’d just have to keep a close eye on the other like he’d used to from now on. If Yami indeed lost control, he was probably the only one who could match up even a little. It was true that Yami was stronger than he was, and a demon in bloodlust only increased his power, but maybe he could delay the other so he’d calm down a bit more. After all, Yami was still human for the most part, not just demon. God had absolutely no idea what the bloodlust would do to someone like that, but he hoped the human side would calm down faster than with a normal bloodlust.

That was really all he could for now, hope. Hope that Yami would be able to keep himself in check and even if he lost control, it wouldn’t be for too long.
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And that was it for this update. Wow, PLOT! There's actually PLOT in this chap! °sweatdrops° This is special, I usually postpone my plots until at least chap 4 or so... yeah, this calls for celebration. Not only for this, but in 3 chapters I haven't done a single cliffhanger! FEAR ME! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Okay, all craziness over, I'm starting that party. Whoever wants to join me, come over! The entree is a review XD For those not coming, review ayway ne?