Salvation

Evil Pharaoh Atem: Sorry about the wait...writers block came back. you know with a bunch of stuff going on with graduation coming up, its kinda hard to focus on a story. Gomen!

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'Is someone there?' The area around Yugi was dark. He couldn't see anything in front of him at all, but he heard what sounded like sobing.

'whose there?' Was that his voice? or his mind? He couldn't move, but he didn't panic. he was just there. unable to move, or speak, or open his eyes. That is why it was dark. his eyes were closed. that had to be why he couldn't see anything. he tried to open his eyes, but nothing worked. did he forget how to open his eyes? or was this what it felt like to be completely paralyzed? Was he breathing? up, down, up, down, inhale, exhale. He was breathing. that was a relife. he wasn't dead. not
yet.

'what happened?' Again, nothing came out of his lips. was he cold? or hot? was this what dying felt like? who is sobing? they sounded young. A child?

"mommy, he came..." The child sobbed. The sound was muffled, maybe his hands were covering his face, catching his tears and keeping his face from going face first into the ground as his body gave into his sorrow.

'who came?' Yugi wondered in this nothingness he felt. He must have been laying down, because he felt something solid under his body, covering his entire body. so he wasn't in someone's arms being carried away. was he just laying there to die? was no one going to help him? why wasn't he panicing? shouldn't he be afraid of death?

"mommy, you were right. my angel came...my angel saved me...." The sobing continued. His angel.Yami. This was Yami's voice,the child from his dream last night. He was dreaming about that small boy once again? of his voice. The boy who had eyes like the half breed who invaded his village last night. Oh right, that boy WAS the half breed.

'Am I that angel?' yugi wondered, remember his dream from the night before. he had sprouted wings out of no where. Was that fates way of telling him that he would be tied to the half demons existance?

'why?' Yugi asked himself before he felt himself falling through something. As if what he was laying on was like a sheet of plastic that was now giving way from his weight. First his mid section caved in, leaving his legs and face merely feet away from each other. Once he was cleared of whatever he had been laying on, he felt himself falling limply into nothing.

'i wish...i could see..' he muttered as he tried everything in his power to open his eyes. after a moment of struggling with his heavy lids, his violet eyes peeked through, only to come across more darkness. more nothing. Yugi sighed in dissappointment. The only thing he could see was his arms flowing limply over him as he fell. he was glowing brightly, which is the only reason he could see himself at all. To his sides he saw his two wings from the night before.

'another dream...good..' he sighed contently as he continued to fall peacefully. He wasn't even afraid of his landing. At this rate he was slowly losing any hope of ever hitting the bottom. The long her fell the darker the area around him became. The darkness around him started to make the light, that seemed to be coming from himself, slowly dim. Perhaps this was dying. maybe he was really dying now. a small smirk came apon his lips as the idea came. That eternal peace. it was so alluring in his already lathargic state. this whole thing was so peaceful. if this is what dying was, he would welcome it gladly, and he closed his eyes to allow himself to fall deeper into the dark abyss. He just listened to the wind whistling past his ears as his speed seemed to increase, and he became more and more tired.

"I want to sleep..." Finally his lips moved, mumbled soft words that echoed in the space around him, knowing full well that the child who was crying before was long gone. Those haunting crimson eyes that had intrested him so much before were gone and he was alone.

"I'm not going to let you go!" What was that? Yugi's eyes shot open just as something grabed his hand. they were warm, or perhaps he was just ice cold. so cold that he was numb of all feeling. Yugi's boy jerked vertically now that the mystery hand had stopped him from falling farther.

"let me go...i want to fall..." He protested as he felt someone pull him up and Yugi gave out a whine of protest until he felt someones chest against him.

"i wont allow that..." The voice said softly as he held Yugi tightly against him. Yugi looked up to find the crimson eyes he became so obsessed with staring back at him. Yugi just stared at them for a moment, his own eyes becoming soft, warm tears weiling up at the sides. Those eyes saw deep into yugi, it was so invasive. Yugi wanted to hide everything from them, but those eyes wouldn't allow him to.

"yami...let me go..." Yugi winced when he felt Yami's hold on him tighten instead of loosen to let him fall peacefully into the darkness once more.

"I wont let you go..." He said as Yugi's eyes became overwhelmed by sleep.

'i can't...stay awake anymore...What is he..doing...to me...?'

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Large violet eyes opened once more, only to find those deep penetrating crimson eyes staring at him from the distance. A large smirk played on the half demon's lips as he realized Yugi was now awake, and that smirk made Yugi blush lightly as fear bubbled in his stomach.

"You didn't need to do that..." Yugi watched Yami mouth, but Yugi was so out of it, that Yami sounded so far away that his words were not understandable. He felt groggy and numb and shook his head with a moan to attempt to make that fog drift away.

"what did i do?" He asked as his eyes started to wonder around the room he was in. It was bright, sun coming through the windows. The room around him was made of light wood, oak. It had an oak dresser on the other side of the room that would have disappeared into the wall if it wasn't for the vase of lilac that lay on top of it. Yami was sitting in a dark wood rocking chair to the side of the dresser, rocking back and forth, relaxed. On the left of him was a glass sliding door that showed a bright garden in that back yard full of tulips, roses, and lilacs of various colors. This room was very comforting to Yugi and he sighed in contentment as the sun's warmth ran over Yugi's body. A warmth that just found its way to his body only a moment before. perhaps that ment that Yugi really was close to death. close enough to feel deaths cold chill on his skin.

"you took that arrow for me." Yami said as his hold on the rocking chair's armrest seemed to loosen. Yugi didn't realize that the others grip was so tightly on the wood. Was the other worried about him, and now relaxing now that Yugi was awake?

"don't people say 'thank you' when someone risks their life for you?" Yugi asked with a soft chuckle that almost didn't come out of his mouth. It was like his voice hadn't been used in so long. "how long was i asleep?" Yugi asked as he started to feel a throbing in his left arm. It ran from the tip of his fingers to his soulder, and into his chest area. He didn't dare to move in fear that the throbing would become full blown pain.

"Three days." Yami muttered as he stood and walked over to Yugi's bed, noting the wince yugi had given, and figured the pain was returning. He walked to the oak table to the left of yugi. Yugi hadn't noticed it in his primary survey of the room. he would have freaked out if he saw it. It had a needle with a small bottle of liquid on it. yugi tensed as he watched Yami stab the top of the bottle with the needle and extract the liquid into the needle.

"what are you doing?!" Yugi asked alarmed. Yami smirked as he pulled the needle free of the bottles top.

"painkillers." he said as he pinned Yugi's arm onto the bed. He felt Yugi's resistance and chuckled in amusment. The sight of the needle had brought Yugi out of his fog.

"cailm down, this wont hurt a bit. i promise. If i does you can hit me." He muttered as Yugi turned slightly in the bed, as best he could with Yami holding his arm down. He squeezed his eye lids shut as he waited for the impending pain of the needle entering his soft sensitive arm.

"There, all done." Yami said as Yugi opened his eyes in surprised. He looked over and saw Yami placing a bandage on the crease of his arm where the arm bent

"thats it?" Yugi asked surprised to find that amused smirk still on yami's lips. That just proved Yami's answer, and Yugi relaxed in defeat.

"You can take an arrow to the chest, but a little needle, you're terrified." Yami poked fun of him a little as he placed the needle and bottle back on the table.

"what happened in the village? where am i? Who are you really?" Yugi asked, having more question then he voiced, but those were the important ones he had at the moment. He saw Yami sigh and his smirk vanish.

"you should rest a bit, and we can talk later." He said as he started to walk briskly towards the sliding glass door with a speed that was almost inhuman. though, he wasn't completely human after all. Yugi sighed as he closed his eyes, the pain killers making that heavy fog in his mind come back. He soon surrendered to that fog as he drifted back to sleep. this time, he wasn't filled with dreams of the child with haunting crimson eyes. This was a medical sleep. the only thing that would follow him in sleep was blackness

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Ending theme: Devil Inside [Utada Hikaru]
Everybody wants me to be their angel
Everybody wants something they can cradle
They don't know I burn
They don't know I burn
They don't know I burn

[Chorus:]
Maybe there's a devil (or something like it) inside
Maybe there's a devil (or something like it) inside of me
Devil (or something like it) inside
Maybe there's a devil somewhere really deep inside me
Devil inside of me
Jealous angel deep inside me

You don't know cuz you're too busy reading labels
You're missing all the action underneath my table
I'm waiting for my turn
Waiting for my turn
Just waiting for my turn
Just waiting for my turn

[Chorus:]
Maybe there's a devil (or something like it) inside
Maybe there's a devil (or something like it) inside of me
Devil (or something like it) inside
Maybe there's a devil somewhere really deep inside me
Devil inside of me
Jealous angel deep inside me

Time to make it burn
This is how I burn

[Chorus:]
Maybe there's a devil (or something like it) inside
Maybe there's a devil (or something like it) inside of me
Devil (or something like it) inside
Maybe there's a devil somewhere really deep inside me
Devil inside of me
Jealous angel deep inside me