A/N: I was unable to complete my oneshot for Round 5, unfortunately. So, we are jumping ahead to Round 6 here. Hope you enjoy, and Happy Thanksgiving all!

Round 6: Night Ride Across Caucasus by Loreena McKennit

A Night in May

If Yugi embodied anything, it was Spring.

His eyes were like brisk sunrises in March and like clear skies in April. His lips were like freshly-bloomed roses, and his voice was as sweet as honey. His smile was like morning light, and his touch as gentle as butterflies.

And when night came that one day in late May, and the darkness descended around them, it hid with it all of Yugi's stunning qualities – but only from the rest of the world, because not even the darkness, as thick and velvety as it was, could ever mask Yugi's beauty from him.

The rolling hills around them were a plush, shadow green, the trees' silhouettes surrounding them from all sides, and the sea before them stretched on until it touched the night sky – one that was more shining than it was dark.

Yugi ran into the sea first, skin as white as the stars above them and eyes just as bright.

Yami was not far behind him.

"Yugi," he called out quietly, his voice rolling over the gentle waves.

Yugi turned to look at him over the dark water. "Yes?"

Yami opened his mouth to speak, but it seemed that the sea breeze that fluttered past him that very moment took his very breath with it as well. Yugi waited for him, his eyes patient and encouraging.

But even still, Yami could not find the strength he needed to continue. He had somehow lost all words in that vast expanse of black water.

But he supposed that's why he had Yugi - because the smaller man immediately found them for him.

"Do you love me?"

Yami should have been surprised by the question; caught off-guard, perhaps. But he wasn't. "More than I care to admit," Yami replied. "But only because to do so would mean that losing you would ruin me."

Yugi tilted his head at those words, considering them carefully. Then he moved his little hands forward, swimming towards Yami until he was floating effortlessly in front of him.

He took Yami's face in his hands then and let the elder's blond bangs brush over his fingertips. He met Yami's eyes, nearly nose to nose now. "You could never lose me," Yugi said, softly.

Yami exhaled at the warmth that radiated from Yugi's palms covering his cheeks - a pleasant contrast to the chill of the water he was halfway submerged in. "How can you know that for certain?" Yami asked him, voice still low.

Yugi's lips pulled into the tiniest of smiles. "Because you are my darkness," Yugi said, "and I can't shine without you, Yami. I can't exist without you."

Yami let the other's words sink in. It took him a moment but, after it passed, he finally understood what Yugi was telling him. "You…" Yami started quietly. "You love me, don't you?"

Yugi's smile widened. "More than I'd care to admit," he said.

Then, Yugi leaned forward and pressed his lips to Yami's... and it was that one night in late May that changed everything.