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Chapter List
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Disclaimer - Nope, don't own them, and I'm not making any money off of this.
Author's Notes - *hides behind Sephiroth and makes him type*
Seph - *sigh* She's pretty sure a good number of you want to kill her at this point, which is why she's hiding. But, she promises that the sequel will help
things for those of you who were . . . upset that Yami is gone. She's already gotten a few chapters of the sequel done and will probably be posting the first
chapter of it on Sunday. So, please refrain from attemp her her death . . . because I really don't want to have to intercept blows while I'm trying to hammer
ideas out of that stubborn brain of hers.
Marik - HEY! What about me? You do the protecting, and I'll do the hammering.
Seph - Marik . . . you're here for eye candy, remember?
Marik - Like you're not?
DracOnyx - Oh for the love of . . . *sighs and takes over the keyboard as her muses get into an argument* Those two . . . geesh. Well, as Seph said, the
sequel will be much more pleasing for those of you who did not like this endiI'm I'm sorry . . . it just about killed me to have to do this, but in order to keep
it in the 'dark zone' for Acid, I had to leave Yami gone. So, here is the last chapter of 'Giving In'. The sequel is going to be called 'Going On', and I will
post the first chapter on Sunday.
If you would like to be notified of when I post chapters, please leave me your email, or email me.
My email is draconyx1 at hotmail.com. Talk to you later . . . and don't forget to review : )

Chapter 10 - Emptiness

Yugi glanced at the gold box on his desk, tears watering up in his eyes as he thought of the single piece that sat inside it's darkness. It was, ironically, the
piece with the Eye of Horus . . . the only piece that remained of the shattered Puzzle. The rest lay at the bottom of the ocean . . . untouchable, unreachable,
single glittering stars in the dark and cold water.
"Damn you, Yami," he whispered, his voice cracking as the tears and the memories choked him.
He had regained control of his body moments after Yami shattered the Puzzle, opening his eyes tme fme face to face with a crying Marik, who had been
hunched over his body as if it was the most precious and scary thing in the world. Before even acknowledging his return to the real world, he had felt for
the Puzzle . . . and had found it gone. It had been a while before he got the whole story . . . how Marik had lost control to Malik, how Yami had appeared
and released him . . . and how Yami had accepted his dark back into himself, only to remain in control long enough to shatter his soul bound item and seal
himself away where he could never be called into being again.
He had felt numb at first . . . his emotions like a distant bell ringing in his head. Somehow, he had known that Yami was going to shatter the Puzzle. He'd
known it, even as he refused to acknowledge it. It had only been when he'd reached for their link and found it gone that it had all hit him . . . Yami was gone
forever, and there was no way of getting him back.
He'd collapsed then, sobbing and hysterical until the doctor's had to sedate him.
That had been two months ago. Since then, life had returned to some semblance of normalcy . . . at least for everyone else. Joey and Tea had both regained
consciousness . . . they were still undergoing psychiatric treatment, but they were fine otherwise. They had even come to terms with all that had happened .
. . and each had forgiven Yami, knowing that there was really nothing to forgive. Yami hadn't been the one who did this to them . . . and yet, ultimately
Yami was the one to pay the dearest price.
"Still thinking about him?" Marik murmured, setting a plate of food down in front of him. Yugi looked at it disgustedly, but didn't refuse to eat. He had
learned the hard way that Marik was taking Yami's final command very seriously . . . especially after the first couple of times, when he'd forced Yugi to eat
in order to keep him from starving to death. "Yugi . . ."
"Don't say it!" he snapped, ins instantly regretted it. "I'm sorry, Marik. I know you're just trying to help . . . but I can't help it. I love him, Marik . . . I
love him, and now he's gone from me forever because he cannot accept that none of what happened was really his fault."
"You would never have convinced him otherwise, Yugi," the blonde murmured, settling on the bed nearby. Marik had become the single most important
person in his life . . . simply because Marik knew what it was like to lose the other half of yourself to darkness. He had lost contact with the outside world .
. . he no longer went to school, but rather had all his school work delivered to him. He had sealed himself into his room, throwing himself into darkness and
despair that only Marik was privy to. He knew he looked like hell . . . he'd lost weight on his already overly gaunt figure, and he'd grown even more pale
than Bakura. He couldn't help it . . . his heart was missing, and would never be returned to him.
The others had tried to reach him, but inevitably he had turned them away, unwilling to face happier times in their presence when the other half of his soul
was no longer there to share those memories with. He had even forsaken Duel Monsters . . . dueling now reminded him too much that he was alone in his
own body once again. His deck was sealed into the golden box along with the last piece of his beloved Puzzle, never to see light.
"I can't . . . I don't want to go on without him, but he's locked me into this life with his sacrifice," he whispered finally, letting the tears drip silently down
his face. "It would be a mockery . . . if I were to kill myself after everything he's done, and I can't do that to him. But I don't want to go on . . . what am I
going to do?" Marik sighed, shifting on the bed slightly so that he could look up into Yugi's face, laying upside down on the bed as he did so. His hair
dangling towards the floor made him look disturbingly like his dark other.
"Yugi . . . Yami wanted you to live your life, untainted by what happened. He sacrificed himself so that you could do so without worry . . . if nothing else,
regain what you had because it's what he wanted for you. He loved you . . . he told us that before he shattered the Puzzle." He reached out with one tanned
hand, poking Yugi lightly in the leg to get his attention. Yugi couldn't help but smile at his antics . . . a smile that was growing all too rare on the once
eternally cheerful young man. Marik was gratified to see it . . . he felt like a complete ass when he was acting so moronic, but if it got his charge to smile
more, so be it. He would deal with the blows to his ego later.
He was slowly coming to see what Yami had seen in the boy . . . and why Yami had sacrificed himself rather than see it twisted and darkened. Even after
everything that happened, Yugi still had an innocent radiance about him that made him irresistible . . . even though it was shrouded in darkness now.
Sighing, he relieved his head of the blood rushing to it, settling back into the pillows to study the small teenager, debating on whether or not to tell him that
his friends were downstairs . . . and that they had been coming to visit everyday, even though they never got to see him.
Finally, he decided enough was enough. He stood slowly, so as not to startle Yugi . . . and then grabbed him, lifting the too light teenager in his arms and
carrying him out the door.
"MARIK! Let me down, damn it . . . where are you taking me!?" Yugi said, struggling against the taller teenagers grip. In answer, Marik slung him over one
shoulder and carted him down the stairs. "So help me, if you don't let me go . . ." he growled . . . and then froze when Marik plopped him onto the couch,
face to face with the friends he had been trying to avoid.
"Hi Yug," Joey murmured. "Thanks Marik . . . hope he didn't give you too much trouble." The blonde shrugged, avoiding the death glare the Pharaoh's
small hikari was giving him.
"Other than a few bruises to my ribs from his knees, I'm fine," Marik murmured. He turned to Yugi. "I'm going to be sitting on the top of the stairs. Don't
try to return to your room. You need to talk to them . . . and I'm not going to let you sit in that bedroom and dwell on what you can't fix anymore. Yami
told me to watch after you . . . this is what he would have wanted." The blonde disappeared from his line of sight, forcing him to turn his attention back to
his gathered friends.
"We've been worried about you, Yugi," Tea murmured. She wore black . . . something that she had taken to doing after her return from the Shadow
Realm. She claimed it was for mourning . . . both for her lost innocence, and for the spirit who had trapped himself in darkness to free all of them from
danger forever. Her face was drawn and pale, her hair longer and held back in a pony tail away from her shadowed eyes. Yugi had to look away after a few
moments of silence . . . he knew Tea had loved Yami too, and it had nearly destroyed her when those dreams had been turned on her.
"You shouldn't be," he snapped irritably as the silence lengthened, making him uncomfortable. "I'm fine. My watch dog makes sure I eat and continue on
living, as much as I wish I wouldn't." He was sure to say it loudly enough for Marik to hear.
"Marik's only doing what he feels is right for you," Joey said, surprisingly coming to the blonde's defense. "You can't keep doing this to yourself, man.
Yami . . ."
"Don't you DARE speak his name to me!" Yugi snarled, standing up abruptly. "You don't know what it feels like!" He was startled when Bakura suddenly
slapped him. He collapsed back onto the couch, cradling his jaw in his hand as he stared up at the Tomb Robber in shock.
"He sacrificed himself for us too, you little brat!" Bakura hissed, chocolate eyes staring down into amethyst coldly. "We have every right to speak the
Pharaoh's name . . . more so than you do, at this point. At least we aren't letting his sacrifice go to waste . . . we're going on with our lives, not trying to
destroy ourselves through self-pity and stupidity!" Tears welled in Yugi's eyes as he continued. "Even I have to respect him now . . . he saved my ass as
much as he saved everyone else's. You aren't the only one suffering here . . . although you have the biggest portion, as he was your other. But this isn't
how you show him that you love him . . . you do that by doing as he wished and continuing to live!"
"I . . . I can't!" Yugi whispered, tears glistening in trails down his pale face as Bakura fell silent. "Don't you understand . . . he didn't have to do this! I
know he would have won . . . he didn't even give himself the chance!" He hugged himself, huddling into a ball on the couch. He nearly jumped when a
delicate hand reached out to run through his hair comfortingly.
"He did what he felt he had to do, Yug," Joey murmured, his own voice choked. "We can't let it destroy us . . . and it is destroying you. It's destroying
everything that he wanted to protect."
"Yugi . . ." Duke said softly from his other side, "Yami was fighting that darkness right up to the end. You could see it in his eyes. He didn't want to risk
losing . . . so he did the only thing he could to insure that you would be safe, that all of us would be safe. We'll never know if he could have won or not . . .
but he didn't want to risk it."
"I . . . I feel so empty inside without him . . ." Yugi said, his voice breaking. "It's like there is nothing left . . . I feel so alone!"
"But you're not alone," Serenity murmured, hugging her brother. "You just have to let us in." Yugi nodded slowly.
"I'll . . . I'll try guys. I'm sorry . . ."
"It's okay, Yugi. We understand," Joey said, hugging his small friend. "But we're here to help. Don't be mad at Marik . . . he's got a good heart, and he's
only doing what he thinks is best. He's been worried about you too."
"I know," Yugi said. "Yami's last charge to his family was that they protect me . . . that's why Ishizu let him stay in Domino, unaccompanied. I can't be
mad at him . . . at least not for very long. And . . . thank you. All of you."
The silence reigned in the room after that, wrapping soft tendrils of comfort around the battered souls as all of them relaxed after two long months of
darkness. It was time to move on . . . but none of them would ever forget.

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Yugi stared into the blue depths, his eyes shimmering with unshed tears as he finally faced his future with a grim determination. He stood in the place where
Yami had ended his existence, staring into the water below where he imagined he could catch the faint glimmer of gold, sparkling like scattered stars in the
blue depths.
"I love you Yami," he whispered into the wind, feeling Marik at his back, watching over him. "I'll try to do what you wanted . . . I'll try to carry on with my
life. I'll make you proud of me . . . and I hope, in whatever darkness you now dwell in, that you will know."
"I'm sure he will, Yugi," Marik murmured finally, his own gaze on the distant horizon, where the sun was just setting, bathing the world in a soft pastel
pallet of color.'s n's not dead . . .he simply sleeps, away from the pain and suffering that this world can cause. Maybe . . . maybe he is the lucky one.
He'll never know the trouble's we face . . . the trials we go through each day to continue on with our lives. We have to be happy for him . . . he's at peace
again."
Yugi nodded, never taking his eyes from the water below. Perhaps someday he would love again . . . but he knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that no
one would ever replace his yami in his heart. And that was fine with him . . . he would never forget his dark other, nor the things that they had shared in their
time together. The battles . . . the triumphs, the losses . . . it was all memories that he would treasure dearly for the rest of his life. Sighing, he turned to face
the setting sun, letting the fading warmth bathe his face . . . as his love for his yami bathed his battered heart.
"I will never forget," he whispered finally . . . a promise and ayerayer to the gods above. Turning, he walked slowly away . . . and back to the life that he still
had to live.
*FINI*

Author's Note - Don't kill me, Don't kill me, Don't kill me, Don't kill me . . . . *runs for cover* See you with the el iel in a few days.
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