• 1-Aspects Of Love
• 2-Insecurity, Part 2
• 3-Chapter
• 4-Chapter 4: You won't like Yugi When He's Angry

Warning: This fic contains yaoi. Yes, YAOI. This means boy lovin’ boy! If you don’t like that sort of thing, what in the 13 hells are you doing here?! Click the back button, quick!

A/N: Hi everyone! It’s me again, RyuArashi with a new story! I know, I know, what am I doing, writing a new story when I haven’t even finished the previous one! *blushes* I’m sorry! This bun bunny just took hold and refused to leave…..

To all those that have been following and reviewing 15 Minute Dreaming, I love you all…..thanks a lot! I’m even on some people’s favorite lists….*blushes again* I don’t think I’m that good, but please, keep on reading! I’ll finish that story soon, I promise….I’m actually planning a sequel, which I hope will continue the ups and downs of Yami and Yugi’s relationship and maybe develop more on another favorite couple of mine…..Anyway, here’s the new story!

This story will be alternating between Yami’s POV, and third person. I’ll indicate the changes with *****

/ / Yugi’s mindspeech

// // Yami’s mindspeech

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Aspects of Love


Chapter 1: Insecurity

Yami’s POV

I love him so much.

This isn’t the first or last time I will realize this. It’s just that he fascinates me in so many ways.

His strength, hidden behind gentleness and innocence. His beauty, which he doesn’t even realize. His innate goodness and kindness that allows him to forgive those that have hurt him. I doubt I have ever met or will ever meet anyone like him again.

He’s my sun, my moon, and my world. My whole life revolves around him, which I don’t mind. Not at all. He’s my reason of being. Without him, I will be forever lost in darkness.

Have you ever encountered darkness? True, unrelenting, darkness? It’s not the darkness that comes with the night. That darkness is natural. Living beings and things arle tle to still function, move around, and be alive in it. It is a darkness that will flee with the coming dawn. But the darkness my Hikari released me from….It is the darkness of eternity, that corrupts the soul, breaks and steals the mind. It is not a darkness that gives way to the approaching dawn. Tis the darkness that steals one’s identity and sanity. That is the darkness that my aibou released me from. For that reason alone, I am eternally his, body and soul. I will be his till the end of time or till he says he does not need me anymore. But if that should ever happen, I will find a way to cease to exist, for I cannot live without him.

As I sit under this sakura tree, on a warm Sunday afternoon, I observe my light running, playing, and laughing with our friends. Lately, we haven’t the opportunity to do so, and I am glad he is able to do it. He is a like a child, finding pleasure in the simplest things. He enjoys spending time with our friends, but treasures the few moments that we manage to grab for ourselves, which doesn’t happen very often. He invited me to join their play-it is unusual to see teenagers running around like children, throwing a ball to each other and playing catch, but I gently decline, wanting to spend the time observing my light instead. Seeing my aibou happy and laughing makes me happy, too.

It was one of those rare days that there were no duels to the death, no challengers, no one after our lives or the Puzzle. It was just a nice, beautiful day that made my light decide to call all our friends and just hang out. Later, we were all going to the movies, then dinner. I really didn’t care either way. I just wanted to spend time with Yugi.

He’s always bemoaning the fact that circumstances don’t allow us to spend much time together-he’s either at school, helping jii-chan with the store, doing homework or our friends are forever hanging around-but I don’t mind. The fact that I have him, am with him is enough. I also know his heart and soul, and that is enough for me.

Having tired himself out, my beloved light ran towards where I was sitting under the sakura tree, and flung himself down beside me, panting with exertion. My aibou, tired of being called and considered a shrimp, as been working out the past couple of months. His physique is slowly developing, muscles appearing in his arms, legs, thighs, chest-everywhere. It has increased his endurance and made him physically stronger. He’s even started taking karate lessons at a nearby dojo. Anything that helps my aibou learn to defend himself has my support, just in case I’m not there. Moreover, it makes him an even more delicious, sexy morsel, indeed.

Smiling a little at my silly thoughts, I draw him into my arms and cradle his beautiful head against my shoulder.

//Had a good time, aibou?//

Nodding happily in response to my question, my aibou closes his eyes tired tiredly.

/Un. Why didn’t you join us, Yami? I know how much you enjoy running…../

//I wanted to watch you, my light/

/Why? You see me everyday and night, anyway/

//Yes, that is true, but I rarely get to see you have fun with our friends….Besides, I enjoy watching you have fun, beloved. It makes me happy to see you happy.//

Opening his stunning amethyst eyes to look up at me, my hikari smiled, and hugged me tightly. He kissed me, saying into my mouth-

"Aishiteru (1) yo, Mi-chan."

My heart swelled until it felt as if it would burst at his declaration. My arms tighten around his body, pulling him closer to mine. He snuggles closer happily.

How I love this boy……

I lean down and whisper into his ear in reply. "I know, itoshii…and I love you more."

/Don’t ever leave me, Yami. I don’t think I could live without you…./ My light mumbles sleepily.

//Never, my love. You are my world, my reason for existence in this time….I would never, ever, willingly leave you.// I thouto mto myself, blocking that thought from my aibou.

One thing many fail to realize is that I am the embodiment of Darkness. I was forged within that darkness I despise so much. My powers, my very being, come from said darkness.True, my interaction with my light has dampened somewhat the hunger and bloodlust that seethe within me, but when occasion calls for it, I can be very malicious-even more than Bakura and Marik. Afterall, I was a Pharaoh, and held the power of life and death over my subjects. Realizing this, it’s not a feeling I revel in. I have a feeling my hikari realizes this, yet he has not said anything. All the more reason why I am totally, irrevocably in love with him. Sappy and sickening, I know, but I cannot help it. I don’t care. I don’t want to do anything about it. I love this feeling.

My hikari drifts off into a doze and I gaze into his face lovingly. Sooty black lashes make half-moon shapes on lightly tanned, exquisitely carved cheeks. Since it’s the height of summer, Yugi has been spending a lot of time in the sun. I think he’s currently going through a growth spurt, though it’s not apparent at first. His cheeks are beginning to thin out, and his legs are lengthening. I glance at his face again. His lips are gorgeous. Shaped like tiny rosebuds, they are pink, moist and plump. Delectable, really, and I’m unable to resist temptation. I kiss him lightly, but he doesn’t wake up. I smile to myself. His prancing around must have really taken a lot out of him.

We stayed like that, under the sakura tree. My beloved aibou sleeping, and I just holding him. I had my eyes closed, too, though I wasn’t sleeping. Not being mortal, I don’t need sleep as such, though I do need rest from time to time. Maintaining a physical form takes a lot of energy.

As I sat with my sleeping aibou cuddled in my lap, I feel someone step into our sun. Opening my eyes, frowning, I wondered whom the jerk was that was so rude as to intrude on our solitude. If this were back in Khemet, the person would be dead. Just letting your shadow touch the person of the living embodiment of Ra* on earth was a capital crime, and if you were lucky, you would be beheaded immediately. But then, this was not Khemet, and I’m sure my beloved would be very distressed if I sent the idiot to the Shadow Realm for daring to disturb our respite. My aibou is the embodiment of kindness and goodness. I am not. Once again, I curse the fact that I cannot indulge in my bloodlust….I look up. Oh. Kaiba.

Why am I not surprised?

He considers himself above Yugi’s friends, especially Jounouchi and Honda. But for some strange reason, my light seems to be fond of him, even with all he had put us through. When I asked my aibou why that was, and why in Ra’s name would he want to cultivate a friendship with someone like him, of all people- that needed very much to be smacked, my little one had laughed and replied,

"I feel sorry for him, Yami. He’s very lonely."

"Thoroughly through his own efforts, Aibou. He pushes people away with his lofty sense of superiority, conceit and bad attitude. Who wants to be friends with someone that makes you feel like a cockroach to be squashed?" I pointed out.

"True, but Mokuba wouldn’t love him so much if he was really that bad. Besides, I think he acts that way because he’s never had a chance to interact properly with people-or at least hasn’t been taught to. He probably doesn’t know how to go about it, either. He wouldn’t have enrolled in public school, otherwise." My light explained gently.

I laughed in reply, kissing his pert nose. "You’re so gentle, aibou. You see the good in everyone. You’d explain away the nastiness in Set, if you could."

"I’m sure he’s just misunderstood…." Yugi replied teasingly. I laughed again. "I don’t think Osiris** felt that way, though…." We both laughed. "You even see the good in me….."

Yugi smiled sweetly, kissing me gently. I returned the kiss enthusiastically.

"You can never be bad-not to me, at least. Even if you were, I’d still love you."

"Why?" I whispered. Gazing into his beautiful eyes, I was amazed at the total acceptance of me-his so-called darkside. I asked seriously, whispering, "Why, Yugi? Why would you love me still, even if I were evil?"

Shaking his head in amusement, my aibou replied, also whispering, "Silly, Mi-chan. When you love someone, you accept them, foibles and all. Besides, you are part of me….I could never hate part of myself. That would be hating who I am. And I can never do that. I can accept who I am, bad and all. I can only make sure that part of me doesn’t hurt people without reason….And you never do that…hurt people without reason, that is….."

Shaking my head to dispel the memories, I look up. Not wanting to be too rude, but all the same incredibly irritated, I raised an eyebrow and acknowledged him. As much as I didn’t want to.

"Oh, it’s you, Kaiba….What brings you to the park today?"

Looking down at us, Kaiba smirked at my irritated tone, as if he knew the cause of my annoyance. Knowing him, he probably did. No one I knew ever accused him of being an idiot. Which in itself is amazing. The King of Arrogance and Conceit normally didn’t take notice of anything. Unless it concerned Mokuba, of course. The jerk.

"Yami….what are you doing?"

"What does it look like I’m doing? Anyway, where’s Mokuba?" I retorted, looking around for his cute, hyperactive, has a big brother complex, badly needs a hair cut younger brother. I was also trying to get his attention away from my cute aibou.

"Glomping the mutt as usual."

I frowned at his amused, sneering tone…sounds like there was an issue there. I really don’t understand why Kaiba always insisted on insulting Jounouchi-kun.

Ever since Duelist Kingdom, Mokuba had taken to hanging around my light and his friends as much as he could. The young boy was especially enamoured of Jounouchi-kun and my light, the former for sacrificing himself to save Mokuba in the virtual world, and my aibou because he (we) kept our promise of bringing him and his beloved older brother back together again during the debacle in Duelist Kingdom and for the unhesitating help in the virtual world too. Yugi and his friends also paid attention to Mokuba. Granted, Kaiba loved his little sibling to death, but it was no secret that his work schedule prevented him from spending time with the boy.

Moving his piercing, cerulean eyes away from mine, he looked down hungrily at the previous bundle in arms. In response, I tighten my hold on my aibou, which made him whimper cutely in protest. I loosened my grasp on him, as I didn’t want him to awaken. I really didn’t like the covetous and hungry looks Kaiba was casting my aibou. I am extremely possessive and jealous of what belongs to me.

Kaiba Seto, my greatest rival….one of the few people who presents any kind of challenge to me, dueling or otherwise. Though I refuse to acknowledge it, he is also one of the few people that is a rival for my beloved aibou’s heart.

True, Yugi has already told me numerous times how much he loves me, but I can’t help it. I get jealous anytime anyone-man or woman, glances at my love. He laughs gently whenever I voice my displeasure at this. But my Light doesn’t realize how beautiful and desirable he is. Personally, I think Anzu is an idiot. Who wouldn’t want a sexy, diminutive beauty like Yugi? Sometimes, I feel like I want to devour him. And I do, too. Devour him, on a very regular basis that is….Anyway, If this were back in Khemet, I would have made it law that it was a crime other than myself (the Pharaoh) to gaze upon my aibou***.

Though my aibou wasn’t aware of it at first (or so I thought…as intelligent as my love is, he can be adorably clueless at times), I know the kind of feelings Kaiba has for my precious hikari. I can see it. What’s worse is that I recognize the hunger, lust, possessiveness, jealousy, tenderness and most of all, the love. It’s the same kind of look I have in my eyes whenever I stare at Yugi

Shaking my head in amusement, I lay Yugi gently down on the grass beside me and stood up, stretching my knit muscles and brushing the seat of my pants. I lean down to brush a kiss against my aibou’s cheek, which made him wrinkle his nose. I laughed at his antics. I stood up again, smirking at the expression on Kaiba’s facho who was still staring at my aibou, naked need in his blue eyes.

"You can stop staring so hard, Kaiba. He won’t wake up that way."

Kaiba turned away from the pretty picture my light made, turning to me, frowning at my amused tone.

"Hn. What do you mean by that silly statement, Yami? I’m free to stare at anyone I choose."

I raised an eyebrow at his aggrieved tone. "Walk with me, Kaiba. I need to talk to you, and it’ll be nice to have some company."

Kaiba folded his arms and stared down at me. "Hn. Why should I walk with the likes of you? In case you forgot, Yugi is still sleeping. I don’t want anything to happen to him while he’s vulnerable."

"I’ll have the others move here. Besides if anything happens, my aibou will definitely let me know. Come on, Kaiba. Let’s go."

TBC

A/N: Explanation time!!!

According to my research, Ancient Egyptians referred to their land as "Khemet."*

**The comment about the nastiness of Set refers to ancient Egyptian mythology…..Set was the brother of Osiris (the god of the Underworld, though he wasn’t then). Out of jealousy, Set kills Osiris, cuts his body apart and scatters the pieces in the Nile. Isis, their sister (also Osiris’ wife) finds out about this and goes to rescue her beloved husband’s remains, breathes life into and promptly gets pregnant with Horus…..there’s more to the story, of course, but I just wanted you guys to know the origin of Yami’s comment.

***The Pharaoh, in Ancient Egyptian times, was believed to be a god….They referred to him as the "Son of Ra", and revered him such….He pretty much got to do as he pleased. So him making it a law for anyone that gazed at the Pharaoh’s beloved concubine (or consort) was not unrealistic….