Coming Out Of The Dark

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And I just realized how naughty the instructions Solomon gave Yami for the credit card reader sounded ;-)

Sorry this update took so long - I've been doing battle with the kind of ear infection I haven't gotten since -- well, since ever, really. I've had swim ear before and it always cleared up in about a day or two at the most on its own, but not this time. This time my left ear swelled almost completely shut and man, did it EVER hurt. It's still a little bit puffy, although it's much better (and I feel much better now that the cotton plug the doctor put up there three days ago fell out - that thing was almost gettingse tse than the original infection.)

BTW, I picked "The Hulk" because it's the most recent movie I've seen - I have to say, it was much better than I'd expected, and I'd heard it was very good. It even had a sweet-but-doomed romantic subplot. (My boyfriend was pretty impressed, too - I think he expected it to suck.) Besides, Yami's thinking that if he picks a movie with some potentially scary parts, he might well end up with Yugi on his lap And And the little kid behind then was actually behind us at the theater - he was much too cute to be annoying. And BTW, Jada' line near the end is paraphrased from "The Italian Job." That line was so funny I had to find a way to use it somehow.....

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While Yami was in the shower, Yugi slipped back downstairs. "Ji-chan? I---" He blushed and trailed off, not knowing what to say.

"Shush, Y I'l I'll be fine here. It's a slow day," Solomon replied, smiling. "Go enjoy your movie."

"Yami and I -- it's not like we -- I mean---" Yugi's blush grew more intense, if that were possible.

His grandfather chuckled and hugged him, then pushed him back enough to look into his eyes. "What's important is that you find someone who's going to love you and care for you and always be there for you when you need them. Someone who's going to love you for who you are." He pushed back a strand of Yugi's golden bangs. "Now go get ready before Yami gets too impatient."

Yugi hugged him quickly. "Thanks, Ji-chan."

Solomon watched with a smile as Yugi ran back up the stairs. He hadn't said "someone to take care of you" even though he'd been thinking it, knowing that Yugi might take offense. Yugi was like his mother - too beautiful and innocent and giving for his own good. Solomon's biggest fear was that he'd fall victim to the same kind of predator that she had --- thank the Gods Yugi didn't remember that horrible night, at least consciously. Solomon had done his best to keep it that way, too, even making the courts change his grandson's last name back to Mutou - anything to keep him from having to remember. He couldn't have been more relieved when the Millennium Puzzle had bestowed upon Yugi his own guardian spirit - and if Yami was in love with him, so much the better.

~*~

When Yugi got back upstairs, Yami had just finished getting dressed. The dark spirit smiled and took his little hikari in his arms. "Now, where were we, koibito, when we were so rudely interrupted?"

Yugi, who had almost convinced himself that he would never be anyone's koibito, almost cried. It was all too perfect to be happening - he was certain he was going to wake up at any moment and find out it had all been a dream. The part with Yami, that is. He knew the part with Tea dumping him had actually happened. He whimpered as the dark spirit's mouth claimed his once more, tongue slowly exploring the sweet interior of his mouth. Yugi quivered, melting into Yami's embrace as the darker slowly ran his hands over his body, wanting just to touch him as much as possible. The kiss lasted for a good several minutes before Yami reluctantly broke it. Yugi swayed on his feet and nearly fell, dizzy from the sudden rush of oxygen to his passion-fogged brain, clutching at Yami to keep his balance. Yami laughed affectionately and hugged him tight, burying his face in Yugi's soft hair.

"I take it you liked that, koi?" he murmured.

Yugi nodded, hiding his face against Yami's chest so the pharaoh wouldn't see him blushing. After a few minutes, he looked up and Yami kissed him again, much more chastely this time.

"I love you, chibi tenshi," he whispered.

"I love you too, Yami koi---" Yugi whispered shyly, realizing as he said it that he did, more than anything.

Yami smiled at the endearment and kissed Yugi's pert little nose. "Come on, koibito, let's get you ready. I want to show you off."

Yugi blushed again.

~*~

"ARRRR! ARRRRRR! RRRRRR! GRRRRRRRRR!" Behind them, Mokuba Kaiba was banging a pair of gloves that looked like huge green hands together and growling. With him was a girl who looked to be about Yugi's age, who Yami had never seen before. She looked almost exactly like Seto's baby brother.

"Stop it, kiddo, you're seriously embarrassing me---" she groaned. She had on faded jeans with wide sweeping bells and a sleeveless black t-shirt that featured a fuzzy pink bunny holding its little nose and the caption YOU SMELL LIKE BUTT. Yami's first thought was that Pegasus would probably have liked it.

"You're making me angry," Mokuba warned, getting in her face. "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." He had on a Hulk t-shirt, Hulk shorts, Hulk sneakers and a Hulk baseball cap.

"What makes you think I like you when you aren't?" she retorted, then sighed. "Sorry. This week has totally sucked. Not to mention blowed." She frowned. "Or is it blew? This week totally blew? No that's not it----"

"Yeah, you said Darryl dumped you for that garden snake."

"Gardiner skank," she clarified.

"Same difference," he said.

"No it isn't. Garden snakes serve a purpose on this Earth. Besides, they aren't poisonous," she pointed out.

Yugi and Yami glanced at each other. //Do you know her, aibou?//

/Not really. I think Tristian does./ Yugi replied. /Someone said she's Seto and Mokuba's cousin, that Seto finally tracked them down./

//Well, if it means you're mine now, little angel, I'm glad she dumped you. I love you so much. I could never begin to tell you in a million lifetimes how much you are to me.//

Yugi blushed, smiling shyly at his darker half. Yami looked at his koi in utter adoration. Yugi had, perhaps too willingly, let Yami pick out his clothes - snug black leather pants and a black sleeveless t-shirt. The black made his beautiful amethyst eyes look even more intense. He took his small one's hand as the line moved up.

~*~

Inside, the theater was crowded - the opening of a much-hyped movie and yet another rainy weekend making it a good day for the Domino City Multiplex. Yugi and Yami found seats in a small row of three on the left side of the theater, about three-quarters of the way toward the front - most likely a wheelchair row, Yugi speculated. Just before the first previews, the black-haired girl and Mokuba came in - only to find there wasn't a seat left save for the one next to Yami and Yugi.

"Wait a moment," the pharoah said with a mischievous smirk. "I have an idea."

"What are - hey!" Yugi let out a yelp as Yami scooped him up and sat back down by the wall - with the surprised hikari in his lap. "Yami---"

"Yes, koi?" Yami smiled at him and he blushed.

"Too cute," the black-haired girl chuckled, then looked at Mokuba. "You sit on the end. You always have to pee about thirty times during any given movie." Considering he had a huge Hulk collectible bucket of popcorn and what looked like a two-gallon collectible Hulk bucket of soda----

"Ewww. Don't tell me they're going to get all kissy. That's so gross," he said, sitting down. "I hate it when people get kissy. It makes me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry---"

"You're not going to like me after I "accidently" spill this down the front of your shorts," she replied, taking a smuggled-in bottle of vanilla Coke out of her purse. She looked apologetically at the others. "The theater only has Pepsi stuff, and I hate Pepsi."

Yami smiled. Yugi cuddled closer against his darker half as the lights dimmed and Yami kissed him tenderly.

"Mommy, where's the Hulk?" inquired a small voice from behind.

~*~

"Mommy, what are they doing? Where's the Hulk?" the same small voice asked again. Onscreen, David Banner had dragged his wife into another room to talk to her while four-year-old Bruce watched, wide-eyed, listening to the rising voices. Yugi shivered, huddling against Yami. The scene reminded him of something in a dream, or a nightmare -- something that, like the adult Bruce Banner, he thought he should remember, but didn't -- or didn't want to.

Yami's arms tightened around him, comfortingly. //What's wrong, chibi tenshi?//

/Nothing, I --- I don't know--/

Yami kissed the top of his head. //Shhh. I'm here, little one.//

"Mommy, where's the Hulk?"

~*~

"You're making me angry---" Bruce Banner warned onscreen.

"YOU WOULDN'T LIKE ME WHEN I'M ANGRY!!!!!!" most of the ter ter chorused.

Yugi squeaked with surprise, then giggled despite himself as the obnoxious character that had been annoying Banner was suddenly flung through a picture window.

"Mommy! Look! There's the Hulk!!"

//I must admit, he deserved that, koi// Yami chuckled mentally. //I wonder if that's how your friends saw me before?//

Yugi kissed his Yami softly on the mouth. /No. You're way cuter than he is./ He wasn't sure, but he could have sworn the pharaoh blushed.

~*~

"That was not a bad movie, koibito," Yami was saying later, at Burgerpalooza. Tea had long ago quit her job there for something more "upscale," so they figured it was safe. Yami doubted the bitch would come back here.

Yugi nodded, shyly looking up at Yami. "It was really good." He was starting to get really nervous. He expected Yami was going to want to -- well, sleep with him -- that night, and he didn't have the slightest idea what to do or how. He was still very much a virgin - he'd never even tried bringing himself off, for fear of Yami walking in on him. But he wanted to -- nervous though he was, he longed to be in Yami's arms, to feel the dark spirit's body pressed against his -- he had no idea what it would be like when Yami took him, but he still shivered at the thought.

Yami smiled, watching Yugi nibble on a french fry. His little one was so innocent - the sort of innocence he wouldn't necessarily lose when he lost his virginity. Yami intended to take care of that very soon - but he'd need a little time to set the proper mood and scene. No quick one in the back seat of a car for his koibito - even if they'd had a car. No, what he had in mind would most likely take all night. He reached over the table to gently cup his hand against his little hikari's cheek, then leaned over and kissed him softly.

Yugi blushed. "Yami-----"

The pharaoh smiled. "I can't help it. I love you, koibito."

Yugi looked shy. "I love you, too."

~*~

"Hey, it stopped raining!" Yugi exclaimed as they left.

"About time," the pharaoh grumbled. "Baka rain."

"I heard last night that out of all the weekends this year, we've only had five days total whe it didn't rain or snow at least one day," Yugi said.

"That many?" Yami deadpanned as Mokuba and the black haired girl came out behind them.

"Cool!" Mokuba exclaimed when he realized it wasn't raining. "Jada, put the top down! Please?!"

"Heck no," she said. "It can't be more than fifty degrees out here. And it's likely to start raining again any minute----" She broke off as a familiar red Camaro roared into the lot. "Shit fuck piss----" she muttered under her breath.

"What?" Mokuba said.

Yami looked around at her. "What is it?"

"That's my now-ex-boyfriend," she replied. "He dumped me at the dance last night. Turns out he's been shagging that Gardnier skank behind my back."

It was far too late to make a getaway. Tea had just pranced out of the car. "Well, look who's here," she cooed. "The little loser's out with his Yami because he can't get a real date."

"Shut up, Tea. Maybe I'm with Yami because I want to be," Yugi shot back.

"Tea, give it a break, will you?" Darryl said, getting out of the car, ignoring Jada entirely.

"Awwww, poor little crybaby. Can't get a real date so he made his Yami take him out so he could play pretend---" Tea mocked, leaning over to get in Yugi's face. "Poor little loser-boy---"

That was when Yugi slapped her - not especially hard, but enough to make her jump back with a yell. "Hey!! What was that all about?"

Jada looked annoyed. "How come you get to hit her and I don't?"

"I told you to leave it alone---" Darryl said, sounding annoyed. "What's your problem, anyway? You act like I'm some kind of fucking trophy!"

"I do not--" she snuffled dismally.

"You do too!"

Yami laughed. "Shall we leave them to their argument, aibou?"

"Just a minute---" Yugi pulled Yami down and kissed him. "Just in case anyone thinks we're not really together," he said sheepishly when it broke.

Mokuba, meanwhile, was pretending to gag into the nearest wastebasket. At least, Jada thought he was pretending. "Not that one, squirt. That's recycling," she said.