Well I'm back guys to do more writing yay! I split up with my boyfriend who turned out to be a complete git. Anyway I decorated my flat and now I have finished so onto a new chapter!

Chapter 5

Yugi lay for a long time thinking. He was hurt by Yami not telling him he was a ghost and scared out of his wits by what Bakura had done but Yami had saved him. Yugi didn't know what to do. Tears ran down his face but at least he had stopped shaking. Yami watched from his perch on top of the wardrobe glad that Bakura had not come back again and angry with himself for Yugi finding out the way he did.

Yugi liked Yami but he didn't know if he could forgive him for keeping the truth from him. He thought he understood why. Yami knew he would be scared and upset that he was a ghost and that's why he didn't say anything. No wonder he had said he had lived here a long time. A very long time by all accounts!

Maybe Yami had been going to tell him, he had said he wanted to talk to him just before he went for his bath. Maybe if he hadn't been in such a hurry, Yami might have told him then but how was Yugi supposed to know it was that important?

"Yami?"

On his perch, Yami physically jumped and shot through the door materializing on the other side instantly.

"Yes Yugi?"

"Can we talk?"

"Sure. You want to unlock the door?"

"No come through it I mean closed doors are no barrier for you are they?"

Yami thought he detected a note of resentment in Yugi's voice, not that he could blame him of course he hadn't told him the truth.

"Okay." Yami assumed his ghost form and passed easily through the door.

Yugi watched in amazement as Yami's ghostly form moved through the solid oak door and re-materialized on the other side.

"Wow." Yugi breathed.

"Yugi…I…" Yami didn't know what to say.

"Yami were you going to tell me that you were a ghost?"

"Yes, I was going to tell you when you got back from town. I didn't want to scare you and I figured it could wait until after you had taken your bath but then Bakura interfered."

"Did my Grandpa know about you?"

"No I never showed myself to him and for some reason Bakura never did anything either. I think he was waiting for a pure soul like you to come along. He wants out but he can't unless someone takes his place."

"So he tried to kill me so I would take his place and he would be free."

"He's not all evil. He loves Ryou and wants both of them to be free. But I fear if that happens then he will wreak havoc in the world."

"Well that can't be allowed to happen." Yugi said determinedly.

"I don't know what to do." Yami said helplessly. "He can remain trapped here but as long as you are here he will make attempts on your life.

"But you'll protect me right?"

"I was almost too late this time." Yami said his fear plain in his voice.

"There must be something we can do."

"I don't know."

"Maybe there is something in that library that will help us?"

"Could be let's go and see." Yami said.

"Well well well ian't this cosy?" a voice said and Bakura appeared in the room.

"Get out!" Yami said a ball of energy already forming in his hand.

"I'm going but you better watch his back from now on Yami because I will not give up. I will be free of this stinking house!"

With a yell Yami threw the ball of energy at Bakura who vanished before it could hit him.

"Damn." He swore. No matter what he did, Bakura wasn't going to give up. The sooner they found a solution the better.

He looked down in surprise to find Yugi had scooted over to him and was clinging to him in fear.

"Please don't let him get me Yami." He said in a voice very much like a child. Yami stroked his hair soothingly.

"Don't worry Yugi I will protect you. I won't let him harm you."

""I forgive you for not telling me you were a ghost Yami, I understand why you didn't and I'm not scared of you. In fact I like you more than just as a friend." Yugi ventured hoping that he didn't seem too forwards and Yami had said he liked him.

"Oh Yugi really?" Yami drew him into his arms and held him close. "I have fallen for you and that's why I wanted to tell you as I was beginning to suspect you felt the same but I was so scared you would run away."

"I wouldn't have done that."

"Thank you." Yami said and turning towards Yugi, he placed a small kiss onto Yugi's lips.

Yugi responded and they kissed for a while. Yami could go on forever like that seeing as he didn't need to breathe but Yugi broke the kiss eventually his face flushed and panting slightly.

"It's strange you don't feel cold or what I imagined a ghost to feel like."

"In this form I am like an alive person but I don't need to breathe nor do I have a heartbeat. See?" Yami took Yugi's hand and placed it on his chest. There was nothing.

"Wow." Yugi breathed. It felt so strange to him. He was sitting talking to someone who had died years ago and had even kissed him but it had felt so right and he knew he wanted to stay with Yami always.

"I want to be with you forever." He whispered.

"It cannot be." Yami said sadly.

"Yes it can! I just need to die and then we can be together."

"No Yugi! Don't you see? That's exactly what Bakura needs in order to be free and besides if you kill yourself what is the guarantee you would remain in this house? You could pass over to the other side and then it will have been in vain."

"But if I die, Bakura will be free and I will be trapped here yes?"

"Yes I suppose but he cannot be allowed freedom he doesn't deserve it."

"What about Ryou?"

Yami sighed.

"I wish I knew what to do."

"How come you can assume a solid form and Bakura cannot? At least in the same way. You are more powerful than he is how come?"

"It's due to the power of the Millennium Puzzle."

"The what?" Yugi asked confused.

"The Millennium Puzzle. It's an ancient Egyptian artifact that seems to be connected to me in some way and allows me to do the things I can do."

"Show me?"

"Ah therin lies a problem. The Puzzle is hidden in the basement behind a wall and for some reason I cannot get to it though it helps me."

"Well maybe I can get to it." Yugi said.

"Well I guess we could try."

"You said it has great power? Maybe it can help us to get rid of Bakura and free Ryou and maybe even help us to get what we want."

"Come on then I'll show you the wall it's hidden behind." Yami said and the two of them left the room and made their way down to where the door to the basement lay.

Yugi unlocked it and switched the lights on which thankfully worked.

"This way." Yami said when they had descended the stairs. They made their way round to the old fireplace and Yami pointed to the back of it.

"I can't even touch it without intense pain." He said and Yugi looked surprised.

"Pain? I didn't think ghosts could feel like that."

"Neither did I! It was a shock to say the least. It must be the Puzzle's power, for some reason it doesn't want me to touch it."

"Well let me try." Yugi said and reached out his hand to touch the bricks at the back of the fireplace.

His fingers made contact and an incredibly warm and welcoming feeling enveloped him.

"I think it wants me to take it. I feel a warm feeling." He said in awe.

"Okay how are you going to do it?"

"I need something to batter the bricks with." Yugi said already looking round for something that would do.

"Will this work?" Yami asked holding up a crowbar.

"Perfect." Yugi said and took it.

He worked for a good hour prising the bricks away until he had made a substantial hole in the wall. He peered through and could see a golden box with the Egyptian eye of Horus carved on it.

Reaching in he took the box and felt the welcoming feeling intensify. He brought it out and held it up for Yami to see.

"It's not complete?" Yami asked not knowing that it had been broken up all those years before.

Yugi opened the box and they looked at the golden pieces of the broken puzzle. Yami backed away from it and his face contorted in pain.

"I cannot get close to it." He said sadly. I feel it's pain at being broken up and it's desire to be whole again."

"Maybe I should try and assemble it?"

"If it welcomes you then you must be the one to do it." Yami said and Yugi closed the box. Yami felt better but still could not go near it. Now he understood why he felt such intense pain whenever he went near where the Puzzle was hidden. It was in pain because it was broken up. Hopefully Yugi would be able to solve it and then maybe the Puzzle would help them gain what they wanted.

They left the cellar and made their way back up to Yugi's room where he got to work on solving the Millennium Puzzle.

Yami watched and hoped that Yugi would succeed.

TBC…