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Seraph	By : jessara40k Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1892 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-Seraph
- 2-2
- 3-3
- 4-4
- 5-5
- 6-6
- 7-7
- 8-8
- 9-9
- 10-10
- 11-11
- 12-12
- 13-13
- 14-14
- 15-note
- 2
- 3
- 4
Warning:
Tendershipping with Ryou seme

This
is AU, seriously so

I�d
like some more reviews from anyone reading this. Flames will be ignored.

:blah: = hikari to yami telepathy

-blah- = yami to hikari telepathy

Yami
knew that he�d been worrying his aibou by refusing to contact him after the
lunchtime revelations, but he had to find out how much accuracy there
was in what Ryou - no, Seraph, he couldn�t think of the hikari as sweet
innocent Ryou anymore, had been saying. And he�d found at least some supporting
evidence within an hour of exploring the Millennium Puzzle in the way he
perhaps should have a long time ago. In any serious conflict between himself
and Yugi the Puzzle would support Yugi, he�d never realised it because he never
had fought with his hikari, never had a reason to.

Ra,
it had never even occurred to him that he�d have a hikari one day before
Yugi assembled the Puzzle, so he�d certainly had no reason to search for how
they�d interact. He knew he�d changed since the day Yugi had assembled the
Puzzle, but he�d always assumed it had been a natural change, now Seraph
and...Shadow; if he couldn�t think of that assassin as Ryou he certainly
couldn�t think of the...victim who�d come to school today as Bakura; had
made him doubt that.

But...Yugi
had been so shocked at the implication of Shadow�s words, even if he had been
forced to take over because Yami couldn�t handle the idea. Another
reason to feel guilty, for ever letting the thief�s
insinuations affect him so much that he was surprised at his hikari�s defence
of him. Yami was usually the one who got angry in
defence of their friends...even if it sometimes felt like they were more Yugi�s
friends, and they just saw him as an extension of Yugi...but he knew
that Yugi had it in him to defend those he cared about.

:Mou hitori no boku, please, please, come out and talk
to me.: There was so much pain
in Yugi�s mind...

�I�m
sorry aibou.� He didn�t get a chance to say anything else, Yugi hugged him
desperately.

�Don�t
say that! You haven�t done anything wrong. I was just so...worried!� He was
almost crying, not quite, but almost. �Ryou said such awful things and they
hurt you so much, didn�t they?�

�I...it
was just all so...weird. Shadow coming to school - with
his own body - wearing lipstick and decked out in jewellery, including a slave
collar. Then Seraph demolishes six thugs in what couldn�t be more than a
minute. I couldn�t do that, Bakura couldn�t do that, and I always made
sure I faced him in games, with magic, because I couldn�t match him any other
way. And then, what they said...I had to find out how much was true aibou.
That�s why you couldn�t contact me. You understand don�t you?�

�Yes.
You�re...okay now though? You know that they were lying now...right?� Yugi
pushed away so they were sitting with a few inches between them, he was
obviously afraid of crowding Yami, and he felt ashamed of letting his fears
show so obviously. �And why are you using those names?�

�That�s
just it, aibou. They weren�t lying, not entirely.� Yami kept his voice gentle, he didn�t want to upset his hikari. �I was exploring
the Puzzle this afternoon, in a way I never thought to before. And it will
aid you against me if we ever have a serious conflict. And I used to be almost
as bad as Bakura was when it came to hurting people - even if my reasons were
different. You didn�t like how far I�d go to protect you, but when you called
me from the Puzzle all I was certain of was that I had to protect you.� Yami
laughed bitterly at that. �Not that I always did a very good job of it, aibou,
you�ve been dragged into trouble because of me so many times...�

�It�s
not your fault. I got into trouble without you before, until you came along I
was being bullied, you know that, I�d probably be bullied again if you
left.� Was that supposed to make Yami feel better? �You�ve made my life so much
better. I�d never blame you for anything.�

�If
you say so, but aibou, it�s bad for you to be dependent on me like that. I should
try to teach you to defend yourself without Shadow Magic - because you can
use that. Seraph asked whose fashion sense the collar was, and it�s something
you picked up from me, isn�t it? Like the rest of your fashion sense now. And I
don�t think I would have wanted to wear a collar before I died, do you?�

--0--

Yugi
hated seeing his strong, confident yami so uncertain and so nervous. He
couldn�t believe how badly a few words from those two psychos had affected him
- well, a few words, and an afternoon spent brooding over those words. He
desperately tried to think of something to make his yami feel better, and he
latched onto what Yami had said about when he emerged from the Millennium
Puzzle. �Yami, I think, if you�re meant to protect me, the way the Puzzle
reacts if we�re in conflict is because of that, it protects me if I�m in danger
from you, that�s all. Ryou just wants it to mean that Bakura�s his
slave, and he tortured him until he believed it. Not that the tomb robber
doesn�t deserve it.� He muttered the last sentence under his breath, still
angry at how the other spirit just accepted the way Ryou treated him, but Yami
still caught it.

�I�m
not so sure Shadow did deserve it, aibou. He declared that he was evil,
but...his behaviour screams victim now. I�m beginning to wonder if he tried to
make us hate him so we wouldn�t try to rescue him from his abuser. If he was
eight years old when Seraph gave him his own body was there any way he could
have survived on his own?�

�No...I
guess not, but...� Yugi wasn�t sure why Yami was suddenly worried about Bakura,
the spirit didn�t act like a victim from what he�d seen, more like he was the
hottest thing in the school and he knew it. �When he first met Ryou, he was
seven years old, and Bakura was an adult in his soul room, but he still
attacked Ryou. A decent man wouldn�t do that.

�And
Bakura seems to be really happy with Ryou now. He was all over him all through
lunch, and you saw how protective Ryou was, and what he did for Bakura.�

�I...�
Yugi could see that Yami wanted to keep on arguing, but then he seemed to
change his mind suddenly, no longer meeting Yugi�s eyes. �You�re right, aibou.
Shadow is obviously happy belonging to Seraph. I...it�s just, on the TV I
remember seeing a program talk about Stockholm Syndrome?�

�I
guess I know what you mean.� Even if he couldn�t imagine Yami no Bakura
being so badly damaged that he�d fall in love with his abuser, but if it made
Yami feel better to talk about this... �But I can�t imagine Ryou abusing
anyone.�

�Neither
can I. But I can quite easily see Seraph
tearing someone apart and then remaking them into whatever he wanted.
Ryou...Ryou doesn�t exist aibou, he�s just someone
Seraph invented to give Shadow a chance at putting his people to rest.� Yami
really didn�t seem happy talking about this, he wouldn�t have expected that
sort of concern for his enemy, Yugi sometimes cared about his enemies that way,
but Yami never had before. And he still didn�t get why Yami was insisting on
calling Bakura by the name Shadow. Yami�d explained about why he wouldn�t call
Ryou by any name but Seraph, but not about Bakura.

�Is
this about what Ryou wants to do to Bakura�s scar?� It was the only thing that
he�d thought was worrying about the way Ryou treated his �Consort�, but he
hadn�t realised that Yami�d noticed that.

�His scar?� Obviously not.
�What about it?�

�It
doesn�t matter. What did you see that I didn�t notice?�

Yami
wasn�t really listening to him, Yugi knew that
he was looking through his recent memories. He shrugged mentally, it wasn�t as
if he wanted to see anything personal, he was used to Yami sleeping while he
was at school, and checking later for anything important.

�Seraph
wanted to cut Shadow�s face up again?� There was a look of horror on his face,
it was sickening, but Bakura seemed happy with it, and it wasn�t anything like
as bad as some of the things Yami�d done to protect him. �And he said he didn�t
mind. Aibou, was it just me, or did it seem to you like they were skimming over
things, making them out to not be as bad as they were when they were telling us
about their history?�

�I
didn�t really want to know how Ryou taught Bakura his place, but wouldn�t he
have reacted more if it had been that bad?� Yami shut his eyes for a moment at
that, then he finally looked back up at Yugi, and
smiled.

�If
you�re sure he�s okay then I won�t argue with you. But could you watch him in
the future?�

�Sure.�
There was something wrong with the way Yami�d agreed with him, but he couldn�t
quite say what. Yugi dismissed the thought and tried to think of something to
cheer him up. �There�s supposed to be some new games at the arcade since last
time - want to go and check them out?�

�That
sounds like fun, aibou, yes please. Do you want to invite the rest of your
friends?�

�No, just the two of us, ne?�

--0--

Bakura
stretched slowly, provocatively, he knew. It wasn�t his place to initiate sex,
but he needed reassurance from Seraph, since he was convinced that
there�d be some sort of effort to separate them soon, if not today. He didn�t
know why he thought that, it wasn�t rational, but...

�You
do realise you�re just making more laundry for yourself, right?� Seraph
sounded amused as he ran a hand over Bakura�s lower ribs.

�I
can do the sheets from this and yesterday together, along with anything else
that can go in, start the machine up before we leave and hang them out when we
get back, if you�ll permit it.� Seraph had stripped and remade the bed
yesterday while he was in the bath Seraph had decided he needed after being
taken, he usually did on those occasions when he decided Bakura needed
pampering. �You...don�t mind buying lunch today?� He usually prepared their
bentos the night before, but last night that hadn�t been an option. He�d have
time to do Western style sandwiches if he got up now, but not if Seraph took
him.

�A
choice between buying lunch and not getting inside you isn�t really that hard
to make, my pet.� And then he took Bakura�s nipple into his mouth, sucking at
it as he cleaned him inside and began to prepare him. Under the circumstances
it was easy to relax and Seraph took him swiftly, taking him in hand as well.

�Are
those drugs still affecting you Shadow?� Seraph was playing with his hair as he
led Bakura towards the shower, his other arm wrapped around his waist.

�Yes.�
He flushed, thinking of his wanton behaviour, but knowing that Seraph had
enjoyed it - and besides, his master didn�t care about the aphrodisiacs.
�They�re still weakening me, Seraph-sama.�

Seraph
didn�t reply, just twisting their hair up and pinning it out of the way before
pulling him into the shower, and washing him carefully. Bakura returned the
favour, leaning against his master a lot of the time. It was nice to have an
excuse to do that and to feel Seraph supporting him.

�Stay
in there for a bit.� Seraph got out first and Bakura watched as he dried
himself off before turning the shower off and holding a new towel out for him.
�Now you can get out.� He stepped directly into the towel, luxuriating
in the feeling of his hikari�s hands on his body, drying him as if he was some
precious ornament.

�Go
prepare some miso soup, I�ll change the bed.�

�Yes
Seraph-sama.� Bakura pulled on his red yukata and hurried to obey. He�d just
finished preparing their breakfast when he heard the thud of Seraph dropping
the laundry basket in the attached room and barely kept himself from jumping.
Seraph was dressed now, in deep brown leather pants and vest, a dark red silk
shirt beneath the vest and a weighted belt at his waist he looked like the
killer he was instead of the innocent he�d been playing.

He
dished out the miso and they ate together quietly, then once Seraph had nodded
permission he began to sort through the laundry. He hadn�t expected Seraph to
come up behind him and begin brushing through his hair, but then he�d never had
hair this long before, so it had to be a new kink of his master�s. Kink
probably wasn�t the right word, but it was the best he could think of. He made
to stand after finishing sorting through the laundry, but Seraph pushed him
back down to his knees.

�Just
stay there until I�ve finished braiding your hair.� His response was almost
automatic.

�Yes
Seraph-sama.� When that was over with he went back to the bedroom to get dressed,
Seraph had laid out an outfit almost identical to the previous day�s, except that the silk jumper was dark purple, not dark
red, and there was no jewellery.

He
set his bag ready by the door for when Seraph�s friends came along - assuming that
they did - and went to set up the washing machine. Not that
Seraph couldn�t, but as far as he was concerned that was one of Bakura�s
duties as his Consort, doing the household chores unless Seraph decided to help
in some way. On the other hand Bakura knew that money would never be a
problem for him, not with the fees Seraph commanded, and his generosity in
allowing Bakura access to his money. Seraph already paid for a maid service to
clean the house from top to bottom once a week, and
he�d offered to have more than just the leather sent out for cleaning.

When
his friends arrived, looking surprisingly comfortable to be walking to school
beside him, Seraph scooped him up in his arms as soon as the door was locked.
Bakura�s arms automatically went around his neck, and he tried to hide his
blushes by burying his face against Seraph�s chest.

--0--

�I�m
not that helpless, Seraph-sama.� Yugi could barely hear Bakura�s protest,
muffled by Ryou�s chest, over his own laughter. The yami looked almost like one
of the damsels in distress the more Western TV shows sometimes included, swept
up in his hikari�s arms, his own arms around Ryou�s neck.

�I
know that Shadow,� Ryou spoke teasingly, �but I can�t exactly travel using that
�roofhopping� thing they did on that anime you thought was fact based with Yugi
and the gang along, can I? And carrying you like this does make for a bit of a
balance exercise.�

- �Roofhopping�, aibou?-

:There�s an anime about crazy martial artists.
I�m sure you�ve seen it with me - Ranma Saotome, the guy who-:

-changes
sex when he�s hit with water, oh, now I remember, but I usually spend the time
you watch TV in my soul room, either resting or working out duelling strategies.-
There was a hint of apology in his yami�s mental voice, there shouldn�t have
been but, after yesterday...

:Well, most of the martial artists on that show don�t
use the streets, they get about by climbing over the roofs of the houses and
buildings around them. They call it roofhopping.:

-Thank
you for explaining aibou.- That wasn�t out of
character at least, Yami was always polite to Yugi, polite and caring.

�You
thought one of those martial arts anime was accurate?� Yugi didn�t even
try to hide his mixed incredulity and laughter.

�Well,
Seraph can do the same thing, he could even when he was seven, I saw him use that sort of method to get to more than one of
his targets from an unexpected angle. And so can most of the Adepts of The Children
of the Eldest, Fairest and Fallen. And I used to use the rooftops a lot back in
Egypt, even if it was in a
different way. So it didn�t seem so strange to me.� Bakura had stopped trying
to hide his face against Ryou�s chest by now, and had twisted to look directly
at Yugi.

�Can
you roofhop, Bakura?� Yugi couldn�t imagine doing anything like that and
he didn�t want to. It sounded as dangerous as a Shadow Game, even if in a small
part of his mind he thought it sounded thrilling. Bakura glanced up at Seraph
before he answered, almost as if he wanted permission to speak, and Yugi
thought he could sense a small, swiftly repressed flare of anger from Yami on
seeing that. But that didn�t make sense, why would Yami try to hide his anger
from him?

�Yes,
just about any Adept above delta standard level can, and I�m a gamma standard
Adept Consort. The few who can�t roofhop use magic of some type far more
extensively than Seraph approves of.�

�The
trouble with using the more elaborate sorts of magic is that it takes a lot
more thought and concentration than just plain fighting, or the more minor
things, like using it to boost physical abilities. It�s a lot harder to turn
into reflex, even if Shadow has damn near managed that with sealing
souls into objects.� Bakura looked as if that offhand praise was worth more
than getting his hands on all of the Millennium Items. �Trouble with that is
that a lot of magic won�t work right during testing,
only the stuff that causes physical damage really works right.�

�Oh.�
Yugi hadn�t thought about anything like that.

-He�s
right aibou. When I was punishing people who�d threatened or hurt you I always
set what I intended to do up well ahead of time.- Yami sounded a bit guilty, he
usually did when he was talking about those times.

�Seraph-sama,
can I at least walk the last block to school by myself?� Yugi could just
imagine what the local bullies would do with that sort of ammunition, he�d been
their victim often enough until Yami came along, and since Bakura couldn�t
defend himself at the moment...

�No.
I�m making a statement. I�ll see you at school, okay Yugi?� Then Ryou just
jumped on top of the nearest building, taking his agreement as granted. Yugi wanted
to see the fireworks, and he began to run the
last block, getting there just in time to see Ryou jump effortlessly off the
roof of the school, to land just inside the gates, Bakura still in his arms.

He
was disappointed...and from the look on his face so was Ryou. Everyone was too
intimidated by how he�d arrived to say anything - at least while he was there.
As soon as he was out of earshot the speculation started.

--0--

Ryou
felt some regret and guilt as he settled Shadow down at the desk beside his.
After being carried to school like some helpless maiden it was going to be damn
near impossible for him to get anyone to respect him for himself. Not that it
was ever going to be easy for Shadow to convince the rougher side of the school
that he was a capable fighter in his own right after how easily those idiots
had manhandled him yesterday. And he hadn�t even got an excuse to fight someone
out of it. But at least after seeing him jump down from the roof of the school
so easily people might pay attention to what he�d done to the idiots.
Still, it would take a few more examples like that before the lesson sunk in,
and people realised what sort of thing harming his property would bring.

Shadow
looked up at him, head tilted to one side, smiling, his
eyes half closed in remembered pleasure. �You know, I�d almost forgotten how
enjoyable that was, Seraph-sama. I didn�t want to risk trying to travel that
way by myself while you were limited, after all, you�d made it clear I wasn�t
good enough to try without someone there to compensate for any mistakes I might
make.� Because just a year ago Shadow would have been lucky
to survive delta standard testing. That had been as much in Ryou�s mind
as anything else when he�d decided on how they�d spend this year.

�Would
you like me to take you home over the rooftops then?� He gently stroked
Shadow�s scarred cheek as he spoke.

�I-if
Yugi isn�t going to walk with us, or you can find a
way to bring him as well. It wouldn�t be fair to make him walk home alone,
Seraph-sama.�

�Very well. And once these drugs wear off you can
roofhop yourself.� He couldn�t say anything more, since their first lesson was
starting.

He
resisted the urge to touch his Consort during the lessons until P.E. - with the
drugs in him Shadow wouldn�t be able to help responding, and he wasn�t
going to let his classmates look at his lover when aroused, especially not
since he got so embarrassed about people seeing him. He tried to distract
himself by focusing purely on his schoolwork, but since he could do the work
half asleep - or with a voice in his head talking about something else, and had
in the past, that wasn�t particularly effective.

Shadow
wasn�t really happy about undressing in the changing rooms at all, Ryou could
tell that, even if no one else would be able to, but he knew that he had to,
and made sure to do it as quickly and efficiently as he could. As a result they
were among the first two out into the gym. Hitaka-san was unhappy about
something, Ryou just hoped that didn�t mean that he was going to make this
class unpleasant as a result. He�d been looking forward to actually being able
to use his full abilities in class for once.

�Apparently
some of you need lessons in how to defend yourselves. You will pair up as
follows.� He paired the girls up first, never with the �weakest� boys as their
aggressor, or the least athletic, but not with the strongest either, then he moved on to pairing up the most �vulnerable� boys
with the rest. �Mutou as defender with Katsuya as aggressor,
Bakura as defender with Hiroto as aggressor, Hiei as defender with Goto as
aggressor.�

�No way.� Hitaka-san looked surprised when Ryou
spoke up, but Goto was one of the thugs who thought he was an easy target, and
there was no way he was going to let him have a free shot at Shadow.

-Seraph-sama, please, if I�m permitted to use my own methods--

:You won�t be.: Ryou cut Shadow off quickly.

�Am
I to understand you wish to refuse to participate?�

�No,
but Bakura is ill. I won�t allow you to pair him up with that goon for this. He
can work with Honda, I�ll deal with Goto.� Ryou smiled up at the
teacher. �I�m a lot more dangerous than I look, if you
want me to I can do that silly smashing bricks thing later.�

�I�ll
hold you to that. Go ahead.� While he continued listing off the pairs Ryou led
Shadow over to his friend.

�Take
care of him, we don�t really need this, but at the moment he doesn�t have the
muscle to deal with anyone who won�t let him throw them. I wish
Hitaka-san had held off on this for a couple of weeks, but since this is likely
to be at least a two or three week course it isn�t too bad.�

He
saw Honda smile sympathetically at Shadow, who was blushing nearly as red as
his eyes, and determinedly studying the ground, as he went looking for Goto,
and he realised that this would help Yugi and his friends see his Consort
differently as well. When the lesson actually started he just lost himself in
the pleasure of being allowed to throw the much bigger boy around.

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