Shisha Saisei no Kokoro

English Translation: Resurrection of Heart Chapter 4

By: DM-san aka DMG

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Disclaimer: I do not claim any ownership of Yu-Gi-Oh. This story is based on characters
and situations created and owned by Kazuki Takahashi's Yu-Gi-Oh! and various
publishers including but not limited to Shonen Weekly/Monthly Jump/V-Jump. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. The plot and certain characters however are under my ownership.

Author's Note: Since the manga ended, most of us know his name now; it's Atemu (Atem). Although from the beginning of this chapter I gave him a totally random name. I'm sticking to Atemu for the rest of the story. If you would like to read the scanlations of the manga, please visit ) and REVIEW ME, GODAMNIT!

Yugi knocked on the door softly a few times. Becoming a little anxious, he knocked harder. Just as he gave up hope and began heading down the staircase, a voice came from within the apartment.

"Aibou?" Atemu asked, sheepishly rubbing his eyes and yawning, sleep quickly leaving him once he knew who was at the door. Yugi turned around, and turned back again quickly with eyes wide open.

Bemused, Atemu began to question the boy. "Hmm? Is there something-"

"Yes! Yes!" Yugi cut off his words with his eyes still wide open after receiving a 'morning view'. "Oh my...I see everything!" Atemu looked down at himself, swiftly closing his robe.

"Gomen nasai, it's been a...hard night." He sighed. "It's okay you can turn around now." Yugi reluctantly faced him, forcing a smile on his face, although they both knew it was fake.

"So...yeah." Unable to find the words, he filled the moment with unnecessary ones.

Atemu sighed, leaning against the wall with arms crossed overlapping each other. "Hangovers – they never come out well."

Yugi nervously laughed.

"Is there something you want? I would like to get some more sleep before school starts."

Yugi scratched his neck, "Yes...um...um..."

"Well?" Atemu was getting slightly irritated, though the feeling faded when he looked at his partner's nervous posture.

"Do you have feelings for me?" Yugi blurted out.

Atemu stood there hesitating as the young one stared at the floor wandering his eyes around.

"I...do. Is...that too much for you? I do understand if you lov-" Yugi looked straight into his eyes, cutting off his words. "Anzu..." he trailed off.

"I-I haven't told her about this...or that yet."

"Oh, I see."

"I feel weird. It's all that I'm telling you. I mean, you are a good friend and all but I-"

Spontaneously, Atemu asked, "Would you like to go out with me tonight?"

The young boy's face changed from nervousness to shock. "W-what?"

"I said, would you like to go out with me tonight?"

"I-I..."

"Strictly as friends. We can go get burgers, play duel monsters, whatever you want, just as friends. Okay?"

"Oh, okay, sure." Atemu could not help but notice the relief that had crept into the other's voice.

"Good then, we'll meet at the square at seven. Is that good for you?"

Yugi smiled. "Yes, I'll meet you there!"

"Good. You better head off to school. The period starts in a half an hour."

"Hai." Yugi turned and ran to the staircase. Atemu made sure to close his door before jumping in glee. "Yes!"

•••

Yugi arrived at school only slightly later than usual. Glancing around, he noticed Jounouchi and Honda off to the side in a private conversation. The two boys smirked at him once they saw him approach. "Ohayo gozaimasu {1}, Yugi-kun. You lucky dog, was it good?" Jounouchi asked slyly. Yugi gave him a doubtful look.

"We didn't do it."

"She rejected you?"

"No, I had other things...in mind."

"What? What the hell were you thinking? Oh man, that was your last chance dude."

Yugi stared at him with disgust. "Not everything is about sex."

"Sorry man."

Yugi sighed, taking out his school materials blankly. Jounouchi considered something about Yugi and turned to look at Honda to see if he was thinking the same.

"Yugi...are you cheating on Anzu?" Jounouchi asked in a serious tone. "Was that situation about you?" Instantly, his friend tensed up, hesitating to answer. He and Honda let out identical sighs.

"This is not like you," Honda said, disappointed.

"It's a hard to explain...but I wasn't the one to make the move. He – I mean, she – kissed me. It was wrong, but I can't help the fact she won't forgive me." The two nodded.

"It's up to you man." Jounouchi shrugged casually.

The bell rang just as Anzu settled into her seat. Yugi gave her a weak smile just as she returned one to him.

•••

Atemu looked at the clock on this wall ticking every second. Today, he decided to skip school in favor of getting more sleep. He was feeling too lazy to take a shower but freshened up anyway to go to work.

The Egyptian was anticipating his date at seven most of all, even if it was only friendly one. He missed the things he and Yugi had used to do, which consisted basically spend every moment together. Perhaps this was a good chance for them to become friends again.

Of course, he wanted Yugi to be happy. He would never think of destroying the blooming relationship his aibou had with Anzu. But he could not stop the selfish part of him that wanted Yugi all to himself. After all he did share a body with him for quite a while. Atemu doubted anyone knew the boy as well as he did.

Getting up from his bed, he decided to go to work early, hoping to be released sooner than his usual dismissal. He knew for a fact that Kaiba would not be there to insult him. With the big fiasco with the Duel Monsters holograms in Europe, the president had to take the trip to the continent to fix the problem. Perhaps, this day would be different from the rest of the other unfortunate days... weeks... that he usually had.

He brushed his teeth and looked into mirror, normally never caring to look at his reflection. Atemu believed vanity was one of the worst things in a man's personality. However, he needed to study himself. People always complained that he never laughed or smiled. A smirk was his signature countenance.

In deep thought, he looked into the mirror and smiled. For most people it was unusual to practice smiles. His appeared force; he tried to relax and naturally smiled. He was not completely satisfied, but grinned. He felt like an idiot, but perhaps it would be a benefit when dealing with others.

•••

It was lunch break and everyday Anzu would walk over to Yugi give him a kiss on the cheek here or there. Explicit public displays of affection during school would mean a big fine to the parents and punishment for the students. Conversely, kisses on the cheek were acceptable. Besides, the girls used this method on the boys, and even other girls.

Today was different. Anzu did not walk over to Yugi to kiss him, or even to talk to him. She stayed in her seat eating from her bento {2}. Inside, Anzu wanted to do the usual routine but after the incident, she was embarrassed.

Jounouchi and Honda were eyeing each other. Yugi was confused, looking at them for several minutes before giving up. It was as if they could communicate telepathically and had decided to use this ability against him. Breaking eye contact, Honda rummaged through his lunch and pulled out an orange. He studied it for a moment before throwing it at Yugi's head.

Irritably, Yugi rubbed his head and turned, mumbling, "What the fuck was that for?"

Honda and Jounouchi pointed to the brunette whispering, "Go apologize!"

"This not a good time." He returned to his lunch, focusing intently on it and nothing else.

Jounouchi threw his rice crackers at Yugi, earning him an evil look.

"It's now or never," the blonde said to him.

"Fine, fine." He hesitated a few seconds before getting up, trying to think of words to say to her. However, as his friends apparently thought he was too slow, he found an empty lunch box sailed towards his head.

"Stop throwing things at me!" Yugi returned a semi-loud whisper to them. In a huff, he turned on the two and moved towards Anzu.

"Hey, Anzu." He smiled weakly at her. "I'm sorry about yesterday night." She stared at him before looking down in disappointment. He kissed her cheek and stroked her soft face. "I guess I wasn't ready as I thought. You looked wonderful last night, and you're a great cook, but you have to understand I didn't want to make love to you because... I didn't want to destroy your life. What would happen if I got you pregnant?"

She looked at him, glaring discontentedly. "Yugi, I had birth control pills. Nothing would have happened."

"They don't always work-"

"I really wanted to be with you last night... and now I'm embarrassed. I did so much for you and... I wanted nothing, not even a present. I just wanted you!" Anzu's shout seemed to attract the attention of the rest of the students. A fine layer of red appeared on Yugi's cheeks.

"Let's go outside and talk about this..." Yugi helped her out of her seat and lead her outside. Light tears began to fall from her eyes. "Anzu..."

"Don't 'Anzu' me. I loved you for so long...I couldn't wait any longer!" She shouted at him and completely broke down crying. Yugi turned his head to the side, holding his own tears back. He was completely speechless after not realizing the depth and strength of his girlfriend's feelings towards him.

In the past, when Atemu was part of him, she never showed that kind of emotions to him at all. To the call of life and death in the virtual world, Anzu was not calling for him but the Pharaoh. Once Yugi and Atemu separated, Anzu was ecstatic. However, after chasing for Atemu for two years, she had given up. Only then had she showed a grain of interest in Yugi.

"Anzu..." Yugi said dryly. She bawled a little louder. "I think..." He didn't have the words to express what had been going in his life. Yugi wanted to confess it all but doing so might crush her heart even more and he could not bring himself to hurt her like that.

Searching in his pocket, he found a tissue and handed it to her. Once she calmed down, he searched for an answer within those swollen eyes of hers. There was no use telling her what had happened. He sighed in discontent.

"Gomen," he said as he left her outside just as the next period bell rang.

•••

"Mokuba-san, may I have a word with you?" Atemu bowed to him.

"Is there something wrong?"

"No, but I wanted permission to leave early today."

"I'm not supposed to let you, however you finished the last duel disk error early and did arrive to work early before I came back from school." He stood there with a closed fist except for his index finger and thumb, which were under his chin. "Okay, you may leave early, but don't miss any of your hours next time.

"I promise I won't. Thank you again." Atemu left the room promptly. After making a quick right through the corridors of the building, he dashed into his office, to gather his belongings, hoping to catch the next bus. As he ran out of the building in the direction of the next bus stop, he loosened his tie and unbuttoned the first two buttons of his dress shirt. Two blocks later, he reached his destination just in time as the last few people stepped onto the bus.

Once inside, he saw two familiar faces sitting next to each other. Bakura Ryou and Malik Ishtar were speaking in conspiratorial whispers and giggling like schoolgirls. Malik noticed the past Pharaoh coming in exhausted from his run, and elbowed the other man. Both made eye contact, drawing Atemu to them.

"Well, well, well, look what the Pharaoh rolled in. All dressed up in his 'grown up' clothes and looking very tired after a hard day's work. Aw, mon pauvre petit chou {3}." He smirked as Ryou held back a giggle and blushed in the Pharaoh's presence.

Atemu held onto a pole as the bus began to accelerate. "It's my duty as a Pharaoh to work strenuously for the people. Of course I do not see you serving my needs, Malik."

The silvered haired boy avoided eye contact with Malik, knowing he would do something drastic and bitch about it later. Malik merely glared at Atemu. "What are you girls up to anyways?"

"Um, we're going to the Black Widow," Ryou responded, refusing to meet the Pharaoh's eyes.

"The Black Widow? What is that?"

"It's an adult store."

"Oh?"

Bakura blushed. "To pick up items...It's just more fun that way." He looked to the far side of the bus to avoid further embarrassment.

Atemu signaled the bus to stop with an amused smirk on his face. "Have fun shopping. Goodbye." He left the vehicle without directly saying goodbye to them.

"Kisama..." Malik grumbled under his breath.

•••

It was 6:30PM, exactly a half an hour before Atemu's 'date' with Yugi. Again he showered and shaved to look as presentable as possible. Entering his bedroom with a towel, he set out picking proper attire for the evening.

Surprisingly, Kaiba Corp's dress code changed while he worked there. Suddenly there were such things as 'casual weekdays', and the company even brought in a group of fashion experts to teach the employees to dress. Atemu chose casual black cotton pants and a multi-blue striped dress shirt for the night with a regular white T-shirt underneath his shirt. Hey, the meeting paid off, he thought.

It was time to leave the house to meet Yugi. The square wasn't very far from where he lived, but for Yugi it was a long walk. The Pharaoh had spent the entire day waiting for this.

Again his guilty conscious kicked in, filling his mind with all these crazy ideas until he almost walked into a poll and was forced to removed his thought from the 'what ifs' running through his head to navigating the streets. Once he reached the square, he finally realized that Yugi was already there for him.

Author's Notes: Why yes, it's been a while since I wrote. I never touched a piece of fanfiction for at least 6 months and since I have this wonderful fast going summer, I need to finish my stories and everything on my site. Yu-Gi-Oh! Has since been kind of dead for me. However, I'm still drawing on Deviant ART, and doing things on my website ). I'm probably going to finish this story before school starts. Gah, I have so many thoughts running in my head.

The whole fashion class thing: yes, some companies do that. I know my brother-in-law told us a story about that.

{1} Ohayo gozaimasu – Good morning

{2} bento – boxed lunch

{3} mon pauvre petit chou – French for 'my poor darling' [literally: my poor little cabbage]