I feel a little bad that this one is so short. Like your height? WHO YOU CALLING SO SHORT SHE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO LIVE INSIDE A GRAIN OF RICE?! Sapphire, stop copying Edward Elric. Boo, your no fun.

Enjoy!

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Arc I: Revelations

Chapter Six

Confrontation

'What the hell are they doing here?!' Mālik thought to himself, eyes widening in fear and panic. No one was supposed to know that the younger Hikari's were at the hospital. They had been so careful, not to let anyone – the press, the SVG and Yakuza – know they were here. How could they have forgotten them?

"Mālik? What are you doing here?" Marik asked again, confusion lacing his slightly deeper voice. Psychotic crimson-lavender eyes calm and curios; eyes that Mālik had once been in love with – eyes he was still in love with. Mālik bristled. How dare he! How dare they! Asking what he of all people why he was here! He – they had no right! Mālik opened his mouth to snap out a – most likely scathing – remark, when a large, calloused hand settled onto his thin, but muscled shoulder.

The platinum blonde tilted his head slightly and looked up at his brother's, tight, stern face; and suppressed a shiver. Damn, that man can be scary when he wanted to be.

"Mālik, go back to the room" Rashid informed him through clenched teeth; his entire posture stiff, as if he was getting ready for a fight.

'Although,' Mālik thought bitterly, 'if you think about it, he probably isexpecting some type of blood shed.' Risking a quick glance at his sister (who was glaring at the group of teens like they were something disgusting on the bottom of her shoes, her barely suppressed magic crackling ominously around her) and nodded his head stiffly, pursing his lips together. No need to do something stupid…again.

Mālik shot a glare worthy of Anubis himself at his ex-Yami, before turning sharply on his heel, walking quickly back to his brother's room.

Once he was out of sight, Rashid and Ishizu turned to the others, who were staring at them in confusion.

"As neither I nor my husband wish to create a scene, allow us to escort you outside," Ishizu said softly, her eyes, which had narrowed when she had first laid eyes on the teens, glowing faintly as her magic made itself known.

The Yami's – still confused as hell about the entire situation – nodded their head's slowly before turning and walking into the hospital parking lot. Ishizu quickly took the lead, her husband faithfully by her side, and led the eight teens to the small park outside of the hospital.

"What the hell do you think is wrong with her?" Marik whispered to the others, confusion lacing his voice. Joey shrugged.

"I ain't got a damn clue." Joey replied. "All I want ta know is if Yūg' an Ry are okay."

The others nodded their heads in agreement, looking warily as the angry Egyptian couple led them to a secluded spot in the park. Ishizu spun around, her black hair fanning out behind her, gray-blue eyes flashing in anger.

"I am going to ask this once, and only once. I expect you to answer me immediately. Do. You. Understand?" Ishizu hissed. The others stared at her in shock, nodding numbly.

"Good." Ishizu said, crossing her arms over her chest. Her voice turned icy with her next words. "What in the name of Ra are you doing here?"

Everyone stared at the Egyptian women in shock and confusion.

"What do you mean 'what are we doing here'? Why the hell wouldn't be here?" Akefia demanded, temper rising. His lover and friends weren't far behind.

Ishizu's eyes narrowed. "You know damn well what I mean. Why are you here?" Akefia's eye twitched in annoyance. Besides him, Marik placed a hand on Akefia's shoulder.

"We're here because we saw Mālik and Yūgi get hit by a van," Marik said, teeth clenched.

"And why do you care?" Rashid snapped. "You haven't bothered to visit them before, why now?" The others glanced at each other, before turning back to the angry couple.

"We care 'cause we're Yūg's and Ry's frie-" Joey started, but was cut off by Ishizu's bitter laugh.

"Friends? You think you're their friends?" Ishizu asked, disbelief and anger making her voice venomous. "You are no friends of theirs. You lost right to that title the day you began to ignore them!" Ishizu spat.

"We never ignored them!" Yami shouted, angry that she would even dare think that he would ignore his Hikari. Besides him, Marik and Akefia tensed, fury rolling off of them in rolls.

"Oh? Really? Then tell me, when was the last time you spent time with them? Talked to them? Saw them at the game shop?" Rashid asked eyes narrowed. The others opened their mouths to reply, but stopped.

When was the last time they had all just hung out?

Ishizu scoffed. "I will tell you. The last time you had even spoken to them was one year, eight months, three days, and seventeen hours ago." Ishizu said her voice low. "The last time you had hung out was at Burger World, was when you-"she gestured to the group, "-all started dating. After that day, you began to ignore them. You left them alone."

Ishizu turned a glare on all of them, causing them to take a step back in fear and shock.

"And do you know what happens when you begin to ignore a Hikari? Do you know what happens when you let a Childe of Innocence, Purity, and Love be alone in a world that wishes to Taint them? Do you know what happens to those who are made completely of the Gentle Light when their Gentle Darkness leaves them? Do you know what happens to the incarnations of the Seven Heavenly Virtues when you abandon them?" Ishizu demanded, her voice rising with each question. Rashid placed a tanned comforting hand on his wife's shoulder.

The Egyptian women took a deep, calming breath as the others turned to look at each other. Yami, Akefia, Marik, and Seto had looks of panic, fear, and horror on their faces. They knew what would happen to a Hikari if their left alone.

"They die." Ishizu said, her voice deadly calm. "Their soul slowly begins to deteriorate until there is nothing left but the husk of the body. Hikari's are those of Purity. They hold within themselves the good of the Light. And those who hold the Destructive Light and Dark seek them out like moths to a flame. That is why a Yami is created. A Yami, Dark, Kkwy, Yin they are the beings created to hold within them the Gentle Darkness to protect the Gentle Light from the Destructive Light and Dark. They balance each other out, as Darkness can not exist without Light, and Light cannot exist without Darkness. When one abandons the other, they will die."

The others were stunned. They hadn't really abandoned the younger teens, right? Desperately, Yami glanced at his fellow Darkness', panic and fear in his eyes as he tried to pull up at least one memory of spending time with his Light.

He couldn't find any.

Akefia and Marik were in a similar state. They couldn't remember when the last time they had seen their innocent, and not-so innocent, Lights.

Ishizu turned and looked at the brunet girl who was standing behind Yami, inwardly yelling curses at the insufferable women who went by the name of Ishizu.

"And you." Ishizu's voice was low, deadly. Everyone within a ten meter radius shivered at those two innocent words. Those two little innocent words could have been dunked in poison by the way the Egyptian women said them. Téa gulped, paling slightly at the woman's murderous aura.

"You, who were supposed to be Yūgi's best friend since grade school, and in turn Ryou and Mālik's friend, sent threatening notes to them. You, who were supposed to be the friendship girl, tormented and belittled them so much, that Mālik, Ryou and Yūgi all moved away from their Darkness'." Ishizu said. "You threatened them everyday; you called them whores, liars, freaks, and so many other things. You belittled them and they still did not want me to come after you."

During Ishizu's speech, Téa grew paler and paler, stumbling back as not only Ishizu and Rashid glared daggers at the teenager, but her 'boyfriend' and his friends turned to glare at her. Téa gulped, her mind scrambling for a reasonable excuse.

"I did no such thing!" the teen cried. Even to her own ears, her voice sounded weak and pathetic. Inwardly she cursed. This wasn't supposed to happen! Her plan had been perfect. Seduce Yami, sleep with him, maybe get pregnant to get him to 'do the right thing', marry, and live happily ever after with the man she was obsessed – loved, she corrected herself absently – with! She had gotten rid of the brat Yūgi easily. Stupid bastard was so easy to hurt. She had seduced Yami and slept with him. Granted, she hadn't gotten pregnant, but she didn't really want a brat to begin with. Damn that stupid bastard! She knew she shouldn't have taken as long as she had with that Akasaki kid, but damn it, he was pretty good in bed.

"You did what?" Akefia hissed, his eyes flashing. No one tormented his Light, except maybe for him. Besides him, Yami and Marik's eyes were flashing furiously. Téa gulped.

"I d-did nothing! S-she's lying!" Téa cried, pointing an accusing finger at Ishizu, who growled low in her throat. The Egyptian women looked ready to pounce on the shaking teenager, her eyes flashing as her magical aura crackled around her.

"Do not accuse me of lying! You are the liar! You have hurt those of Pure! I can kill you where you stand, and you dare accuse me of lying! By the Gods, if you so much as open your mouth again, I will make you suffer everything that my brothers have suffered because of you and their Darkness!" With each word Ishizu said, bursts of her magic leapt forward, damaging a few of the Sakura Trees that surrounded them.

Téa took a step back, fear dancing in her eyes. She knew what magic could do when it got out of control.

"Ishizu." Rashid's calm voice echoed around the clearing, snapping everyone out of their reprieve.

"Do not waste your breath on them." Ishizu leaned into her husbands strong arms and closed her eyes as she fought to regain control over her magic. After a few tense moments, the Egyptian women opened her eyes, her body sagging against her husband's chest.

"I want you all gone. I want you to leave and not come back to the hospital. Especially you, Gardner. You have hurt my brothers in so many ways you do not deserve to be here. You have hurt my brothers even worse then their Darkness' have!" Ishizu said her eyes tired and heavy with anger. With Rashid in tow, Ishizu left the group of teens alone.

Téa sputtered in anger, before standing up straight and grabbed Yami's arm. "Fine then, we'll leave! My Yamikins and I don't need this!" With that, Téa tried to pull Yami away, her face set into an angry scowl. The five thousand year old ex-Pharaoh yanked his arm out from Téa's grip, disgust marring his face.

"Yamikins, what are you doing?" Téa asked, batting her eyes in what she no doubt thought was sexy.

"Two things. One, do not call me that. Two, I refuse to continue this sick game of yours." Yami snapped, his eyes blazing. Téa gulped, a wave of sudden apprehension and fear washing over her. Involuntarily, the brunet took a single step back.

"W-what are y-you talking about?" Téa asked shakily. Yami growled, eyes flashing.

"I am stopping this...this sick, twisted game that you have played. I stayed with you as I did not wish for Yūgi to know I cared for him in a way that is usually meant for lovers, for I care about him to much to ruin our friendship. I stayed with you because I wished to protect him from the ridicule that this era would give him for his sexual preferences." Here, the Egyptian teenager shook his head, disgust and self loathing evident on his face. "Though it seems that by staying with you, I have hurt him in a way no Kkwy (Darkness) should." Yami's deep baritone voice was thick with hatred and anger. Téa's eyes widened in fear and resentment, then disbelief.

"Y-Yamikins-"

"Did he not just tell you not to call him that, wisix kaddaab (filthy liar)?" Akefia's voice was hard and cold, a slight unhinged undertone tainting his words. Téa glanced wildly around, visible wilting at the harsh glares on their faces.

"B-but…"

"No buts, kalb (bitch). Get the fuck away from him. Away from all of us, as it's about time that Pharaoh stopped listening to a safala wisix kaddaab (uncivilized filthy liar) ." Marik snapped.

"I regret that I have not done this sooner, bint garbuu3a (jumping rat/jerboa)" Yami spoke, his voice cold.

Téa stared at her boyfriend – ex-boyfriend – in shock. "Y-you c-can't b-break up w-with me! I-I'll t-tell everyone a-about-"

"Then speak, wisix! I would rather have everyone know that I like Yūgi then to not be around my little Light, like I have been doing for these past eleven months!" Yami cried, tears of frustration, pain, and anger in his amethyst-crimson eyes. The tri-colored teen took in a deep breath and ran a lightly tanned hand through his long, shoulder length hair. His eyes closed, before they snapped open, hard and steely. Suddenly, Téa was reminded that this teen – no, this man, was once a Pharaoh of Egypt. "Yaatak dahya taxdak, kaddaab. Yaatak Darba fi 'albak, garbuu3a (I hope disaster takes you, liar. I hope that you drop dead, Jerboa). I pray to the Gods that you seek guidance from them for the actions you have taken, as we will do. For if you do not, then there shall be no helping thee. Now, fair thee well, fašx kaddaab (lying whore)."

Téa's eyes were wide by the time the ex-Pharaoh finished speaking. While she did not know what she had said to her in his language, she knew that it was insulting. Her mouth was agape, reminding those present of a fish, before it snapped closed, and her eyes narrowed. "You'll regret this," she hissed, before she spun and angrily stopped away.

All was silent as the group of teens stared after Téa, anger, sadness, and self-loathing in their eyes. Akefia placed a hand on his friend and fellow Darkness' shoulder.

"We have a lot to make up for, do we not, Haraamiyya (Thief)?" Yami asked quietly, eyes now tired and weary.

Akefia nodded. "Aha. A hell of a lot to make up."

Yami glanced up at the white, five story hospital where his Hikari, his Light, his Other half lay, injured; maybe dying.

'I swear, my Little Light, that I shall make it up to you. I shall fix what I have destroyed, and mayhaps you will still be my friend.'

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