A World Of Hurt

Yugi had sat beside his lover and at some point had fallen asleep against him. It had been agreed that Joey would tell Yugi’s grandfather that his grandson had been found. They would leave it to Akira to inform the police as well. They also agreed that when informing any of the others that they were to keep it quiet. Yugi didn’t need the press learning that he was back until he was fully recovered. Kaiba would have preferred that they never knew, but Yugi could not remain locked up forever. That just left what to do about Yami. They let that lay for now.

Kaiba gently awoke Yugi so he could say goodbye to Joey, then carried him up to their room and put him to bed, regaining himself seemed to have tired him. But Kaiba was not worried, Yugi had actually told him that he loved him and he had said the same. He curled around the smaller body content that he was not going to lose him to Yami.

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A week later and Yugi was almost back to himself completely. Joey, Tristan and Duke had visited, the other two pleased to see him again. Then Akira arrived. Kaiba was not pleased to see him, and he knew why he had come.

“I want to see him, Seto,” said Yugi after Akira had left.

He could easily see that Kaiba was very uncomfortable with that. He moved over to his lover. “Seto, haven’t I said that I love you enough. I am not about to leave you. Yami abandoned me and because of that all those… horrible things happened to me. But I need to forgive him, I need to face him and tell him that I don’t love him anymore.”

“You don’t?”

“No I don’t. I love you. You promised not to hurt me and I believe you.”

Seto leaned down and kissed him, “I’ll tell Akira to bring him over tomorrow. We’ll see him together, okay?”

“Sure Seto. Can we go upstairs now? I want you, I want you bad.”

Kaiba smiled, “Anything you want you can have.”

Yugi grabbed him by the hand and led him upstairs to their bed. Clothes were discarded along the way until they fell into the bed naked and laughing. Mouths and hands were everywhere, touching, feeling, licking, sucking, until Kaiba pushed Yugi onto his back and slowed him down. Then he began to butterfly kiss his small love all over from head to foot. Yugi moaning softly to each touch, caressing Kaiba’s arms then anywhere he could reach. A kiss on the tip of his erection had him arching up, wanting more, but Kaiba continued to move upwards until their mouths met and their tongues duelled. In between all this their cocks met and again Yugi cried out arching his back.

“Seto, want you inside me now!”

“Ssh, I’ll be there.” He said reaching for the tube of lube kept under their pillows, “Gotta get you ready first.”

“Ready now!”

“No, I will not hurt you. Slow down, we’ve got the rest of lives to do this over and over again. We don’t have to rush it.”

Yugi was lifting and spreading his legs, “Just do it.”

Kaiba laughed into another deep kiss while his fingers ghosted over Yugi’s entrance, circling, teasing, until finally pushing inside to stretch and lubricate. They continued to consume each other’s mouths as Kaiba kept inserting fingers, stretching the other’s body to accommodate him without any pain.

Kaiba pulled back and moved his body into position between Yugi’s legs, helping to rest them over his shoulders as he guided his entrance into Yugi.

Yugi gasped as Kaiba pushed inside in one quick stroke, his hands smoothing over Kaiba’s chest to pull at his nipples. Kaiba pulled back then pushed back in as Yugi squeezed him, moaning with each thrust.

“Harder Seto, harder,” he begged.

Kaiba took a firmer hold of his hips and did exactly that, getting higher cries from his lover, especially when he finally found his prostate and Yugi screamed out his ecstasy.

“Love you! Love you! Love you… forever.”

Kaiba pushed himself harder ever willing to please his small one. To cherish him with his body and give him all of his heart. He came at the same time Yugi did, their cries joining in a happy chorus of completion. Once the aftershocks settled in both of them Kaiba lay down on his love, without releasing himself, to kiss him gently on the lips.

“From the first time I lay with you I felt something different, so strong. Maybe I didn’t see it then, but I know it now. We were meant to be together, Yugi. You own my soul.”

He didn’t feel the jolt that ran through Yugi with those words, and Yugi’s eyes fell upon the necklace that Kaiba wore around his neck. The necklace in the shape of a small pyramid that he had given his lover. The necklace that had a much bigger cousin.

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Yugi was nervous. Yami was coming to the house and he was getting a little afraid of what he had to tell him.

Although he knew he loved Kaiba very much, he also knew that there was something missing inside himself. There was something that had not returned with his memory. The thing he had lost long ago when it had all begun. And it was that which scared him the most, because he knew he did not want to leave Kaiba. He had been the happiest he had ever been since he recovered his memories and discovered that Kaiba returned the love he had. He had reunited with his friends, and seen his aged grandfather, seeming to bring back his spark too.

And now was the time to confront Yami. The person he had once shared his body with in a different way than he did with Kaiba. Yugi had carried Yami’s soul within his own, until a spell separated them. He had felt a wrench then, had felt an equal wrench the day Yami had taken the puzzle from him. Now he was scared to face him, but he knew he had to do so.

“You’re afraid, aren’t you my little one?” asked Kaiba taking his hand in his own.

Yugi nodded.

“We can end this –“

“No, I need to see him. I need to set things straight with us. I loved him once, Seto. I loved him as much as I love you now. He broke my heart even if he didn’t know it at the time. He broke my spirit and I lost myself in the hurt of it all. I don’t want to live in a world of hurt anymore.”

“But you are not hurting anymore, are you?”

“There’s one little ache left to deal with, then I will be free.”

Kaiba smiled, “That’s all I’ve wanted for you from the beginning of this.”

“I know.”

“He’s in the living room, are you ready?”

“Yes.”

They walked downstairs together, Yugi held tightly to Seto’s hand. Then there he was his back to them as they entered the room.

Yami turned, he had the puzzle around his neck, he had seen Yugi briefly the last time he had been there and saw his hair was down, but didn’t realise they were the same height now.

“Yugi.”

Yugi squeezed Seto’s hand and let it go moving a little closer on his own.

“Gods, Yugi I’m so sorry that what I did three years ago put you through hell. I never meant for that to happen. I wanted you to be free and instead I put you into a prison so bad that you suffered so much.” His eyes strayed to Kaiba standing back, “I am glad you have found happiness again and I only hope you can forgive me.”

Yugi’s eyes never left Yami’s, even when they moved to take in Kaiba and plead with them both. “I loved you.”

His eyes returned to Yugi’s “I know that now. I didn’t see it then, or I didn’t want to. I’m sorry that I will miss that, you were the best part of me. You and Kaiba kept me from getting too full of myself. I let you go first, then I let him go too. I let myself become blind to anything other than what was important to me. I let those that hung on to me tell me what I wanted to hear, what they wanted me to hear. If Joey hadn’t confronted me, I would never have known about you, and you would have been lost to all of us. Lost to Kaiba, and to me.”

A tear strayed into Yugi’s eyes. “But I’m not lost now. Kaiba found me, Joey restored me, and you… I forgive you, Yami. I have to because I still love you, not as much as the love I have for Seto, but it’s there all the same. We shared so much that’s why it hurt so bad when you abandoned me, because that is exactly what you did. Perhaps you abandoned the best part of yourself like you said. We are bound in ways I can’t explain. I want to be free of all the pain I have carried these past three years and only you can free me of that. I need you to accept that I will not leave Kaiba unless he sends me away, and I don’t think that he will because I know he needs me too. The pair of you are very much alike; you can both be arrogant bastards when you want to be.” Two faces looked shocked at that. “And you’ve both been so self centered that you haven’t seen the good things that are right in front of you. One day I’ll beat both of you in a duel, and then you’ll both see that it is not the only thing in this life that means anything.”

He turned so that he could see them both, he put a hand out to Kaiba, and he moved to take it, then he put the other out to Yami and it was taken. To Kaiba he said, “You said I own your soul, but you have to understand that he owns half of mine and that cannot be changed. I realised the other night that there was something missing in me. I lost it the day he turned from me. He broke my heart and it is not fully healed. I’m sorry Seto, but even you cannot do that. Only he can do that. I won’t leave you, but I need him too. And if you looked into your heart again, you’d see that you need him too.”

The other two were already looking into each other’s eyes. Yugi though his tears looking into both of their eyes, back and forth holding his breath, waiting. Then the hands that did not hold Yugi’s clasped together.

A few moments later and the trio were hugging each other, the taller leaning down to put his head between the other two, kissing both faces.

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Yugi laid between the two bodies in Kaiba’s king sized bed, glad that it was big enough for the three of them. He was content and very sated. Yami had taken him for the first time after they had both worked on their host. He had everything he had ever wanted now. And if he had anything to do with it, it would be forever.

He cuddled closer to his twin loves as he felt a tickling on his head, he put a hand up to his head, only to find that his hair had spiked up to its original style. He saw the slight gleam on the Millennium puzzle that sat close to his head on the pillow between him and Yami. He smiled knowing that all was right in his world now, that everything was back the way it was supposed to be. Now all he had to do was get into practice again. He still had two duels to win.

“I’m free.”

THE END