Elemental Magick

By: Neko-chan

A/N: "Yes, 'Kasaan. I AM doing my homework. ... No, 'Kasaan, I am NOT lying to you..." Errr... Yeah. *sweatdrops* Anyway, enjoy the update! (It's been... how long again? ^_^;;)

WARNING: Will have SHOUNEN-AI! Why? I like shounen-ai, so: ;-p

DISCLAIMER: *to some random lawyer* You want to give me Yu-Gi-Oh!, ne? NE???

Random Lawyer: Ummm... No.

...well, damn. _

Chapter Five

Yuugi blinked, looked from his grandpa to Yami, and blinked again. "Ano... Ji-chan, this is Yami. Yami, this is my Ji-chan. I live with him and help run the Game Shop downstairs."

Ji-chan frowned once again and continued looking from one boy to the other. "Darkness...? Yuugi, why is your friend named Darkness? Yuugi--who _is_ this boy, exactly?"

The violet eyed boy sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. He could feel a headache coming and he had NO idea how to explain Yami's presence without lying to his grandfather. And it wasn't as if he _wanted_ to lie to his grandfather. But--and this was the sixty-four dollar question--HOW, exactly, could he explain Yami's presence without lying? Oh, yes--there came that headache. The pinching of the bridge of his nose intensified.

It was then that Yami solved Yuugi's problem... in his own little way. "Like Yuugi-sama said, Ji-san, I am Yami. Really and truly--and literally." He smirked at that and once again jumped into the air and crossed his legs, floating at least four feet above the floor.

Ji-chan noticed this, stared at Yami for one long moment (a _very_ long moment) and promptly passed out, falling to the floor in a boneless heap.

"YAMI!!!" Yuugi wailed, running over to his fallen grandfather and quickly checking to see if he was all right. Luckily for Yami, Ji-chan was unharmed. True, the grandfather would have a bump on the head come morning, but other than that--Ji-chan was unharmed and perfectly fine. (If you ignored the fact that he had passed out from shock, anyway...)

"Nani?" Yami asked in his best innocent voice, staring at Yuugi with wide ruby eyes. It would have been a perfectly good innocent act if not for the self-satisfied smirk gracing his lips and the dark emotion boiling within his half-lidded eyes. "Nani, Yuugi-sama?"

The small boy paused, then shot out: "Don't call me -sama, Yami." Once again, Yami's smirk just deepened marginally. "Anyway, what are we going to do with Ji-chan, Yami?! We can't move him because we might hurt him!"

Yami shrugged nonchalantly. "Just leave him. He'll be perfectly fine right there for at least a _little_ while. Besides..." At this, he trailed off. "Ne, is that chow mein I smell? I'm starving!" He quickly stepped over Yuugi and Ji-chan's prone figure and made his way downstairs to the kitchen... and to the food.

"YAMI!!!"

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The obscured figure was hidden within the tree branches--so well-hidden that no one, no matter how hard they looked, would be able to spot him. After all, it was part of his nature. Creeping and viscous, coming upon others so suddenly that they didn't realize what he was until it was too late. An Elemental superior in every way imaginable.

Or so he thought.

He smiled to himself as he watched the little sorcerer yell at Yami. It was really too bad that the little sorcerer hadn't realized what Yami truly was, either. But it didn't matter, anyway. The little sorcerer would die in several days' time. After all--HE would be the only Elemental not to be captured. And HE would be the only Elemental to defeat their only threat in over five hundred years.

Yuugi Mutou.

The figure cackled happily to itself and faded into the night.

A/N: Hai, hai, hai. An EXTREMELY short chapter... especially after this long of a wait. Gomen nasai, minna-san! But, to make it up to you, I WILL be updating this story (and most of my other chaptered fics) sometime this week, most likely on either Tuesday or Wednesday. 'Sides... I had writer's block on this particular fic. Sooo... Read, review, and see you later this week! ^_^