Getting You Back

*Thank Yous*

tati-
Thank you^^! I would love to keep going!

OwaranaimonoAite-
I can’t tell you the ending! It would ruin the story!^^
You are just going to have to keep reading and find out.
Thanks!

G’ma Jloran-
^^Your best friend?! Wow. Well, tell ‘em my heart goes out to them^^
Thanks for reading!

sexxie_twisted_angel-
Well you just keep on huggin and loven! I’m glad you like!
Thanks for reading!

Thank you everyone!

Chapter 5: Bare and Empty

Yami walked up to the window and watched Yugi walk down the driveway and out to the street.

‘Where is he going?’ thought Yami. ‘What does he mean ‘I’ve moved on’? Moved on to what? Does he no longer love me? Is it true? Perhaps…’ he thought.

Perhaps Yami could use the link to reach into his hikari’s mind and read his thoughts to find where exactly he was going. See what he meant.

He closed his eyes. He concentrated hard. Yami hadn’t tried this in so long that it didn’t surprise him…too much, anyway…that the link was no longer useable. In fact, it was completely severed. By Yugi, no doubt.

Yami sighed and turned to his friends.
“What di mea mean that he has ‘moved on’? Has he found…a new…”

“No…” said Joey. “At least…not that I know of.”

“Come to think of it,” said Ryou, “Yugi has been gone a lot the past couple of days. I think he’s been going to see that new friend of his.”
Ryou gasped.

“You don’t think…” said Mai.

“Damn!” Joey cursed. “Why didn’t I see this before?!”

“What?” asked Yami looking from one friend to another.
“What?!”

Joey sighed. “Yug met this new guy…Ramrik I think was his name. Ever since then, he’s been hanging around this guy all the time. Like all day, everyday. That’s probably where he went last night and where he’s going tonight.”

“And when did this start?” asked Yami with a low growl.

“It was when you called,” said Malik. “Yeah, that’s about right. The night you called, Yugi came home and said that he had met that Ramrik Senamoto guy.”

“And this Ramrik…what is he like?” asked Yami.

“We don’t know,” said Duke. “We haven’t been able to meet him yet.”

Yami looked out the window again.
“Do any of you know Yugi’s plans for tomorrow?”

Everyone shook there heads.

Yami was silent for a long while.
“I’m going to follow him.”

“What?” said Bakura.

“I’m going to find this Ramrik and see how Yugi…feels about him.”
**

Yugi was walking down the road slowly. He was in no rush to get to his new home and sit. He wanted to move around. So he took his time.

Unbeknownst to him, a young man was stalking him.
Yami, at the moment, was in an ally, his body turned so he could see down the street at his wondering aibou. It had taken a while but Yami had eventually found his target.

Yugi was now so far that he could no longer be seen by Yami’s eyes. So Yami darted from his ‘hiding place’ and bolted down the street until he thought he was close enough where he ducked into some bushes. His eyes stayed on the boy making his way to his ‘home-away-from-home’.

A rustling sound made it to Yami’s ears. He stopped moving entirely and again heard the nose…he wasn’t alone.

Yami swiftly and silently moved toward the sound. He could now sense that someone else was near by. Very near by.
His knee brushed past something solid. He spun around and grabbed the intruder by the neck and pushed it against the hard surface directly behind the bushes…when he heard a yelp. A yelp he recognized right away.

“Joey?”

He laughed nervously. “He he. Hey, Yami. What’s hagin’?”

“Joey, I said I was going alone.”

“Yeah, but I thought…”

“Shush!”
Yami covered Joey’s mouth.

“Hello?” Yugi called out. “Is anyone there?”

Yami and Joey stayed as still as they could possibly manage.
Yugi shrugged and proceeded walking.

Yami removed his hand.

“What are you doing here?” he whispered.

“I thought you could use someone to watch your back. Ya know, like back up.”

Yami sighed. “Who else is with you?”

“No one.”

“You sure?”

“Honest.”

“Alright. Just stay close and be quite.”

“Gotcha!” Joey gave Yami the thumbs up sign.

Yami nodded and pd hid his head from the bushes. The coast was clear so he signaled and they both jolted from the shrubbery and ran down the street after Yugi.
**

Yugi had gotten back to the house easily enough without noticing his followers. He entered as Yami and Joey ran to the window and gazed in.

Ramrik had made himself a bowl of ice-cream and as Yugi came in, made one for him as well.

“So how’d it go?” he asked as he handed Yugi his bowl.

Yami and Joey could somewhat understand what they were saying. Some sentences, they only heard a few words but it was enough to understand what point they were trying to get across to each other.

“Well, alright considering what could have happened.” Yugi sighed. “Yami just…he doesn’t want to let go, I can tell you that much. It’s going to be tough.”

Yami cast his eyes downward slightly but again reverted his attention to the two inside.

Ramrik wa ove over, sat next to him and placed an arm over Yugi’s shoulders.

Yami growled.

“Hey, it’s gonna be okay.”

“Tch, yeah. Once I rip your throat out, I’ll be okay,” Yami mumbled.

“I don’t know. It’s just…I don’t know what to think. Should I be grateful that he’s returned and take him back?...”

“Yes, Yes!” said Yami.

“Or should I just let it…‘us’ stay at rest?”

“No, no, no!”

“What ever your heart decides is the path you should follow.”

“Oh, come on! Yugi’s not stupid enough to buy that cheesy, tack-filled…”

“Wow. That’s really poetic.”

Ramrik smiled at the younger.

Yami’s mouth dropped.

“Just remember what I said before. I’m always here when you need me.”

Yugi smiled. “Thanks.”

Ramrik leaned over and hugged Yugi.

Yami snarled. “Why the dirty, little, piece of…”

“Uh, Yami? Pal?” said Joey. “Maybe it’s all just some kinda misunderstanding, ya know? I think you might wanna calm down a…”

Yami spun his head around and glared.

“Um, never mind.”

Yami turned his head back around to watch his koi…and almost yelled out in absolute disgust at the scene before him.
**

The door to the Kame Game Shop burst open and slammed closed as a rage filled Yami stomped through the store, to the house in the back and out of sight.

Then Joey came in.
“Yami, wait up!”

“Joey, what happened?” asked Tristan.

Joey sighed.
“Our worst fears have come to the light.”

Ryou’s mouth gapped.
“You…you don’t mean that…”

“Yep. Yugi’s found himself another...”

There was a crash of pots and pans from the kitchen as Yami threw a tantrum and cursed in Ancient Egyptian.

Bakura raced over to Ryou and blocked his ears.

“Do you mind?!! My hikari does not need to be hearing such things!!”

“It’s not like he can understand it anyway,” said Marik who was rotating his little finger in his right ear.

Then Yami charged up the stairs and into a random room and slammed the door.

Malik looked at the ceiling.
“Poor Yami.”
**

Up in the room, Yami was pacing back and forth still cursing Ramrik Senamoto for ever being born, the gods for just being there, and himself for leaving in the first place.

He punched the wall which knocked a small knick-knack off of a shelf and onto a small chest’s lock, breaking it. The lid was spring activated and burst open.
Yami stopped pacing to look down at the contents. He saw a drawing of three people: one with wrinkles, a mustache and a bandanna; one with spiked tri-colored hair, violet eyes and a little short; and another with spiked, tri-colored hair, crimson eyes and quite tall. Behind them were an Exodia, Dark Magician, and Dark Magician Girl dueling monsters.
It was drawn well with much color and imagination.

Yami looked back down to see a Daagicagician doll. He remembered when he had bought the stuffed toy for Yugi for Valentines Day. At the time, it held a rose in one hand and a card in the other saying in large, red letters: ‘Be Mine’. That was when Yami had confessed to Yugi that he had loved him.

Behind the doll was a box with the words ‘Extra Fragile’ written in Sharpie pen.
Yami picked it up and looked inside. There was a large stack of pictures which Yami took in his hand and shifted through.
The first was one of many that had been taken at a dance club the night after his and Yugi’s confessions. They had spent the whole night with each other dancing, talking, kissing.
The next was of him and Yugi at the park under their favorite tree where they had carved their initials next to ‘Forever and Always’.
After that was a picture of him and Yugi on the swings together. They both looked so happy just to be in each other’s company.
The one after was one with Yugi, his face covered in icing from the cake that Yami had baked him for their ‘Party for No Good Reason’. Everyone had come to celebrate. Yami was behind Yugi licking off the icing covering his koi’s face.

Yami ed ted the box and put it and the drawing back in the chest and closed the lid.
He stood and looked around to see for the first time that he was in Yugi’s room. He turned all the way around to get a full look at the area. The once cheerful room covered in posters and pictures and happinwas was now depressing and bare with almost nothing on the walls. No splashes of outrageous coloring like it use to be. Just…emptiness.

Was this how Yugi felt when Yami had left? Bare and empty?

That was how Yami felt the past few years and now more that ever.

He walked over to the bed and laid down cuddling the Dark Magician doll close to his chest and inhaling his sweet aibou’s scent as his tears lulled him to sleep.
**

Meanwhile, back at Ramrik’s house, if the Pharaoh had stayed but a minute longer, he would have seen that his thoughts were misguided.

Ramrik had clasped Yugi in a tight hug. He then let up slightly and looked into the boy’s eyes.
He moved a few stray pieces of golden bang from the round face.

Ramrik leaned a little closer, his lips parting slightly. Lust filled his eyes…but what the boy didn’t realize was that there was just a bit too much lust in the eyes of his kisser.

Yugi obeyed and let the older man press his lips against his own. Ramrik closed his eyes in bliss.
Yugi felt a tongue slide across his bottom lip. He hesitated but eventually opened this cavity as he felt the wet muscle slip into his mouth. It didn’t taste like Yami’s: sweet yet like exotic spices. This tasted like stale candy that had been dipped in lemon juice and chicken feed. But he didn’t resist.
It wasn’t until He felt a hand travel up the inside of his shirt up to his well toned chest muscles that it was crossing the line.

Yugi gasped and pulled away wide eyed.

“Is…something the matter?” asked Ramrik.

Yugi just stared.
“Ummm………Uh, no…it…it just…”

“Did I do something wrong?”

“No! No, it’s just…it’s a little too fast…yeah, that’s it.”
No that wasn’t it. It didn't feel right. But Yugi wasn’t the type to come out and, ‘N, ‘No you freak! You taste horrible!’

“Oh. Sorry.l hal have to remember that.” Ramrik smiled.

Yugi couldn’t help but sympathize. Ramrik was so sweet and caring and was willing to take things down a notch just for him. It was like he was the perfect guy…maybe a little…to perfect?
‘No. That’s not possible. Someone can’t be too perfect.’ Yugi thought to himself.

“Well, I’m going to bed.” Yugi stood up and started walking toward the hall.

“Okay. See you in the morning. How do omelets sound?”

“Just fine,” Yugi smiled.

He walked to his room, changed and pulled the sheever ver himself in bed.

Was he really doing this? Was he starting a relationship with Ramrik? Did he really love him? Could he trust someone else with his brittle heart again?

He just didn’t know.


Ramrik sat in the living room thinking about what had just occurred.

‘I’m starting to get impatient,’ he thought clenching his fists. ‘Just a few more days…just give it a few more days.’