Hold On

Kkk12: Ghe, I’m not letting them admit anything yet, it’s way too fun to hear you and all the other reviewers screaming about it ^^ Anyway, have fun the latest Yami-and-Yuugi-not-getting-together chap!

Red Dragon of Egypt: MEOW!

Catti-dono: (A) Me? Naughty? NEVER! *tries to look very innocent*

Dragonlady222: Oh don’t worry, Yoru will suffer… eventually anyway. Have fun with the new chap!

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Yo people! Thanx a lot for all the great reviews and good luck with the newest cliffhanger! °innocent look° R&R!
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Secrets

Days passed by with Yuugi staying with Yami, as the older refused to let Yuugi live anywhere else. He simply said that Yuugi had lost everything he had, and didn’t have the money to buy it all again. No matter how Yuugi protested, Yami wouldn’t listen and insisted on Yuugi staying. After about a week the younger gave up, and simply let Yami have his way. Not only Yami was happy to have him around, but so was Kumiko. Yuugi had changed into something like a second brother to her, and she loved to play games with the both of them now.

Yami was happy for another reason of course. His life had always been lonely as Kumiko was much younger than he was, and she didn’t have any interest in some of the stuff Yami liked yet. Of course the fact that Yuugi slept in Yami’s room, in his bed, was a very big bonus as well. Yami used the excuse that he didn’t want Yuugi to be alone with Yoru around, but that was of course only half of the truth.

School had supplied Yuugi with new books and uniforms without any problem, and the director knew Yuugi was staying with Yami now. Sadly enough everyone else at school knew this little fact too and the rumors had only gotten worse. Atemu Yami taking someone in? There just had to be something wrong with the teen.

Another sad note was that Anzu knew about Yuugi staying over at Yami as well, and she had only gotten more determined to make the younger’s life a living hell. This only made Yami keep a closer eye on his crush, making sure not a bully could get to the other no matter what. This only added to the rumors of course, and Yuugi and Yami had been declared a couple even though both denied it.

Two weeks had gone by now and Yuugi and Yami were walking around Domino on Sunday, Kumiko close behind them. The two teens were talking about random stuff that had happened at school over the week – Yami complaining about all the rumors as Yuugi giggled at his antics – as Kumiko listened to them with a bright smile on her face, sometimes telling something of her own. The rumors hadn’t gone unnoticed by her, and unlike most thought she wasn’t actually as oblivious as she seemed. She could see the way her brother looked at Yuugi, and noticed every hidden glance Yuugi threw at Yami. Silently she wondered how long the two could keep denying a relationship they actually wanted to happen.

Well, if her brother and Yuugi weren’t going to do anything, she’d just have to help a bit ne?

“Ne, Mi-chan?” She watched as Yami turned his head to look at her, signaling that she had his attention, “can we go ice-skating?”

Yami blinked in surprise at the sudden question, and briefly wondered where it had come from, but just pushed it aside. He glanced over at Yuugi to see the other shrugging, before smiling brightly back at him.

“Well I guess we can go ice-skating,” he glanced at his watch to check the time, “if we go now we’ll have more than enough time.”

Kumiko cheered and hugged her brother, before looking over at Yuugi, cutely, cocking her head to the side, “You don’t mind, do you Yuugi-kun?”

Kumiko had long since stopped calling Yuugi ‘–san’, and started calling him ‘–kun’. Yuugi only found her more cute for it, and didn’t mind at all. “Of course not, Kumiko-chan. I love ice-skating.”

Kumiko’s eyes brightened even more and she cheered again, skipping ahead of them towards the building where the ice-rink was, all the way calling for the two teens behind her to go faster.

Yami and Yuugi both smiled at the girl, speeding up a little to keep up with the hyperactive pre-teen. “She really is too cute to deny anything, huh?” Yuugi chuckled as he heard Kumiko call out for them to speed up again, as the building was already in sight.

“Especially not when she uses those ‘puppy-dog’ eyes of hers,” Yami threw a mock glare in Yuugi’s direction, “though I believe you know that very well, huh Aibou?”

Over the two weeks Yami had started to call Yuugi ‘Aibou’, since they always worked together in projects. The first time he had used it, it had been totally unaware of the double meaning to the word, but after seeing Yuugi blush he thought about it, and now he used it on purpose. He loved the way Yuugi blushed every time he used the nickname.

And of course Yuugi blushed as usual, though Yami swore it was getting less. He’d have to think of a new way to make his little one blush then, now wouldn’t he?

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.” Yuugi looked away, trying his best to look as innocent as possible. It was just too bad it was failing him for once.

Yami just chuckled at the teen beside him, before looking in front of him as they entered the building with the ice-rink, Kumiko already bouncing up and down near the skate-rental booth. Both Yuugi and Yami came over to her and quickly rented the skates, before each taking one of her hands and stepping onto the ice.

Kumiko giggled as she glided over the ice while being held up by her brother and Yuugi. She almost slipped a couple of times, but was always tugged back to her feet before she could hit the ice. She smiled as she listened to her brother laughing as Yuugi almost fell, and giggled along with him as Yuugi was then thrown to the ice by a skater that had been careless.

Yuugi landed on the ice with a soft ‘thumb’ and pouted at the laughing couple. “It’s not funny!” he pouted even more as the laughter continued.

Yami smiled as he calmed down and held his hand out for Yuugi to take. Yuugi, still pouting, grasped the hand and Yami helped him up. Yuugi lost his balance again though and fell towards Yami with a small yelp, taking the other down with him as he went and landing in Yami’s arms.

“You really can’t stay away from me, can you?” Yami purred teasingly, the deep red blush immediately spreading on Yuugi’s cheeks making him smirk in amusement. “If you wanted a hug that badly…” he wrapped his arms around the other, making the blush deepen even more.

Kumiko giggled as she watched the scene, before skating off to give the two some privacy. She had after all done this so the two might open up a bit more to each other, and so what if she fell a couple of times?

Yuugi freed himself from Yami’s embrace as he stood up, not daring to look into the other’s eyes and trying his hardest to get rid of the blush tainting his cheeks. Yami just smirked even more as he got up as well, taking Yuugi’s hand and starting to skate around the rink again, “I guess I’ll just have to hold on to you; you never know when you might decide to fall again.”

Yuugi pouted cutely again, “I can’t help it if some people don’t watch where they’re skat-“ just at that moment, someone bumped into him again, making Yuugi slip again. He would’ve fallen to the ice again, had it not been for a pair of strong arms catching him and pulling him into a well-toned chest.

“Falling for me again?” Yami smirked as Yuugi balanced himself again, and quickly taking back a step, blushing madly again. “Seriously Yuugi, all you had to do was tell me how you felt.”

Yuugi’s blush deepened. He knew the other was just joking, but that didn’t make it any less suggestive to his ears. He tried to utter a comeback, only to stutter out complete nonsense as Yami chuckled and pulled him along again.

This was so not his day.

Seeing as Yami was still smirking, and his blush hadn’t left, Yuugi decided to change the subject… now he only needed something to change said subject with. Uhm… oh where was Kumiko when you needed a distraction?! ‘Wait… where is Kumiko-chan?’

Yuugi looked around confused at not seeing the young girl anywhere around. She couldn’t have gotten far; she had to be in the rink, right?

“Hey Yami-kun? Where’s Kumiko-chan?” Yami blinked at the question and looked around. He had to admit that he had almost forgotten about his little angel, and he mentally screamed at himself for doing so. Just because he was having fun with Yuugi didn’t mean he could just forget about Kumiko!

“I actually have no idea…” Yami scanned the mass of people skating on the ice, “maybe she went to rest or something?”

Both looked at each other unsurely, and skated around the rink again to make sure the girl wasn’t on the ice anymore. Kumiko was nowhere to be found, not a trace of her anywhere.

“Damnit!” Yami growled as he looked around frantically. How could he have let Kumiko out of his sight?! How could have let this happen?! How?!?!?!?!

“Don’t worry, Yami-kun. Maybe she just got tired and is waiting for us at the rental booth.” Yuugi offered, though his voice sounded unsure and unbelieving of his own words.

Yami sighed, “Well maybe.” He started to pull Yuugi along to the entrance gate of the rink so they could get off the ice. They quickly made their way over to the rental booth but Kumiko wasn’t there.

Both were panicking slightly now, and gave back the skates to replace them with normal shoes. They ran away from the rink, looking around the rest of the building to see if Kumiko hadn’t wandered off in curiosity. They checked the restaurant, the other ice-rink, random places that were unimportant, but still couldn’t find the young girl.

Yami was full-out panicking now, calling Kumiko’s name frantically as he ran through the large building aimlessly. Yuugi was right behind him, worry showing in his eyes for not only Kumiko, but for Yami as well.

Yami stopped at the exit of the building, glancing outside and wondering if Kumiko maybe wandered out there. He couldn’t understand why the girl would do that, but it was his only chance. He quickly took a few steps outside, but couldn’t find a trace of the girl he was looking for so desperately.

“She’s gone…” Yami’s eyes were wide, and tears were slowly gathering in the corners. Yuugi glanced up at him worriedly, before also looking around to make sure Yami hadn’t missed anything.

“She couldn’t have just vanished into thin air!” Yuugi rubbed his temple in frustration. Kumiko was a very curious and trusting girl. What if someone had taken her?!

A soft scream snapped them both out of their panicked thoughts, and they glanced at each other with wide eyes, before running in the direction where the scream had come from.

They ran back into the building and into the long hallway, following the screams that sounded more regular now, until they came to a door that they had thought to be locked the first time they were looking for Kumiko. Yami glared at his own stupidity since he hadn’t even checked if the door was really locked or not, before checking if he could open it. The door swung open to reveal a small secluded square right behind the building. In the center of the square were three man standing around Kumiko, who was laying on the ground with a fearful look in her eyes. She was shaking and tears were freely flowing from her eyes as she stared up at one of the men.

“Kumiko!” All three men turned around as they heard Yami shout only to be met with furiously blazing crimson eyes. Yami was beyond enraged, and these three were going to pay for taking Kumiko.

“Well, well, well, is this the brother you’ve been calling for the past few minutes?” a blonde spoke. Casting blue eyes over the duo at the door, “or is it the pipsqueak behind him?”

“Doesn’t really matter, boss,” the one standing left from the ‘boss’ chuckled, his features sporting an evil grin, “they saw us so they die.”

The third one just laughed as Yami’s eyes narrowed further, “Get away from my sister, you bastards,” he hissed as he came closer. He could feel Yuugi’s worried amethyst eyes on his back, but ignored them for now as he had better things to do.

“You wanna fight, punk?” the third asked, “Then come on.” He pulled a chain from his pants and smirked as he swirled them around in the air, daring Yami to come any closer.

Yami didn’t care though; he only cared about getting Kumiko away from these freaks. He swiftly ducked the lash of the chain as he came too close, before quickly shifting his weight and kicking the man’s legs out from under him.

The man fell to the ground with a yelp, as Yami quickly dodged a blow the second man threw at him. The man stumbled forward, tripping over his companion and falling to the ground as well. Yami kicked them as they lay there, making both groan in pain.

Yami wanted to turn around fast enough to see what the first man was doing, but was too late as he heard Yuugi cry out for him to watch out. A fist connected with his back only moments later and Yami stumbled forward as well, though he managed to avoid the fallen other bullies.

A kick to his side send him falling to the ground, but Yami caught his fall and quickly got up to dodge the next kick. He quickly countered with a kick of his own that made the first man stumble backwards, glaring at Yami as if that would make the pain in his stomach go away.

The other two had gotten up and were standing on either side of him. Both charged at him at the same time, and Yami barely managed to dodge the double attack. The two crashed into each other, though it had been a close call.

Yami punched the two to the ground again. One man at a time was bad enough; he didn’t need three all at once. The first one lashed out at him again, but Yami managed to dodge that punch too, only to trip to the ground as one of the other two stuck out his leg.

Yami fell to the ground with a ‘thud’ and rubbed his rear for a split-second, before opening it again to glare at the three men above him.

The sight that met him, however, was a bit different from what he had expected. The first man was holding a gun aimed straight at him, and the safety had already been removed. One pull on the trigger and he’d be dead.

Yami froze, staring at the gun in shock, until he heard Yuugi call out to them.

“Leave him alone!” Yuugi ran over, kneeling beside Yami and glaring as best he could at the threesome. The three just laughed.

“Do you really think any of you are getting away alive? I don’t think so!” the second one laughed insanely, as Yuugi paled as the gun was aimed at him.

What was he supposed to do now? Protect Yami? Get killed? That didn’t exactly sound like a very good plan to him, so he’d have to go at it from another direction.

“Any last words you two want to share?” The first man mocked, the gun taking a better aim at Yuugi since he was sitting in front of Yami partially. Yami grabbed Yuugi and pulled him to his chest, a low growl escaping his throat. Yuugi’s head was bowed, not revealing any of his emotions.

“Well then say goodbye!”

As the man pulled the trigger, Yami could suddenly see a golden aura surrounding them. His eyes widened as he saw Yuugi giving off a golden glow.

“I’m sorry… Yami-kun.” Yami’s eyes widened further as the light somehow stopped the bullets in mid-air, before the two small items fell to the ground harmlessly. The golden light dimmed again to reveal Yuugi, though he looked a lot different now.

Yuugi’s clothes had changed into long pure white robes decorated with golden designs Yami had never seen before. His body was surrounded by golden shimmering and swirling magic, just waiting to be used. As Yuugi slowly turned to check on him, Yami could see his amethyst eyes sparkling with an inner light, as a faint golden aura still surrounded him. The only thing missing in the picture were the angelic white feather wings, but Yami had a feeling that didn’t really matter.

“You… You’re… Yuu… Ang…` He couldn’t form a sensible sentence. He could only stutter and stare as Yuugi gave him sad smile, before getting out of Yami’s embrace and turning back to the equally shocked gang.

“You wanted to hurt Yami-kun and Kumiko-chan huh?” Yuugi glared - an actual pretty intimidating glare at that - and took a step towards the men. The three scrambled back fearfully, the first man firing the gun a few more times only to have the bullets be stopped by the golden shimmering magic swirling around Yuugi’s body again.

Yami scrambled towards the by now unconscious form of his sister, cradling her in his arms as he watched more bullets being fired uselessly. So this was what Yuugi had been keeping from him? The other was really an angel? But why hadn’t Yuugi told him? Had the other not trusted him enough for that?

Had Yuugi not seen him as a friend?

Yuugi’s magic surrounded the three gang members, and the three instantly fell to the ground unconscious. A few whimpers came from their lips, signalling that they were in some kind of pain, but no other sound came from them.

Yuugi’s magic faded away and his normal clothing appeared again. The boy slumped slightly, his eyes drooping a little to signal that he was tired. Yami supposed that using magic took its toll on you here on Earth. Yuugi approached the three gang members and kneeled down, muttering words Yami couldn’t understand under his breath as a brief golden aura surrounded the gang members, before fading away again.

Tired and unfocussed amethyst orbs opened again as Yuugi turned to face Yami. The look on the other’s face made him flinch visibly.

Shock and disbelief were still etched onto Yami’s features, though hurt and betrayal were also clearly visible. Yuugi’s heart tore apart at the look, but he was too tired to explain. He tried to get up, tried to get to Yami, but the use of his magic had completely worn him out. The world around him went black as he fell to the ground.

Unknown to all present on the square, two blue orbs followed all the action going on from a small window no one had seemed to notice. The already narrowed eyes narrowed further as Yami slowly got up with Kumiko still in his arms, and walked over to the unconscious Yuugi. They watched as Yami hesitantly took the smaller into his arms, before leaving to probably go home.

Yoru scowled at the discovery that the runt that had befriended his son was in reality an angel. It seemed Aknunkanon had been keeping information from him, as he was sure the demonic overlord had known this little fact.

Out of the shadows surrounding him appeared a demon, red eyes boring into Yoru’s. Yoru didn’t even flinch at the look, already being used to it.

“Tell your ruler I want to speak to him, and that I expect him to come to my office in two hours.” Yoru’s voice was strict, commanding, and didn’t leave any room for discussion. The demon wasn’t impressed though.

”And why do you think he’ll respond to such a demand, mortal?” The demon scowled, his voice showing his disgust for Yoru and the rest of humanity.

Yoru glared for a second, before turning around and starting to leave.

“Because if he doesn’t, he can kiss our deal goodbye, and he’ll have to get Yami on his own. I don’t care if he kills me.”

The demon watched Yoru leave, snarling and hissing at the insolent mortal. This man would die, be it now because he refused to keep up his end of the deal, or after the deal would be over because he had become useless to his Master.

The demon smirked at that thought, and faded into the shadows to go tell his ruler of the human’s demand, knowing his Master wouldn’t like to be ordered around by someone like Yoru.

________________________________________Okay, so you probably once again want to kill me…. But I think the angel thing didn’t really come as much of a surprise to all of you since I’ve been making it pretty much obvious the entire time without trying to hide it the slightest. Anyway, I’ll leave you all so you can all REVIEW!