Sennen Bakery

chapter 5

"you'd be happy like me and cared for no matter what you have done. trust me Marik was traumatized for abuse when his father carved words into his back and killed his older sister and adopted brother he retaliated and killed him in vengeance. Maraku took him in and gained his trust. Bakura was a child when his family was killed in a bombing and then taken into an underground slaver's ring when he was a teen where Akifa worked as an undercover agent and busted the case wide open. Atem says I was also abused mentally until he came and got me away from my foster parents. I don't take kindly to shouting or negative emotions Atem says I shut down and forget the entire encounter but subconsciously I remember and have nightmares. all three took us in and have been fixing us since though I seem to be becoming a burden to them." Yami explained wanting to get this aching in his heart out of his chest before it harmed him even more. Yugi listened but he looked sad. "I can't stay." he said. "I'm not...I did worse."

"what could you have done then slaughter a thousand people with a sword?" Yami asked remembering Akifa braging to Atem about how he killed so many people in one place. "I killed my family with an ax." Yami tilted his head to the side slightly before he smiled grabbing Yugi and dragging him to the weapons room where all of Akifa's tools were locked behind thick glass from old Egyptian to modern styles. Yugi sighed and took his hand back. "I did it because...I wanted to." Why? He came from a snobby, rich family who wanted him to follow in his father's banking business and marry who they picked out. "I wasn't abused." Yugi concluded. "I wanted too and spent 2 years in a hospital for it. I should have gone to prison but my grandpa said I was insane. I wasn't. I knew what I was doing." Yami was about to speak only for the door to open and Atem to come inside with a try of snacks and two glasses one orange the other a light blue color. "sorry am interrupting something?"

"No." Yugi said. "I just...admitted to Yami I'm a cold-blooded killer and suffers from mental problems. Also, I'm pregnant with the baby of a man who r*** me and who came along on this trip to manipulate me into staying with him. Nothing much." Yugi sniffled. Yami looked to Atem and saw a slight frown on his face before setting the tray down and comforting Yugi calming his down 'I think I just go now.' Yami moved out of the way and slipped out of the room heading to an old bathroom on the other side of the mansion crying silent tears curled up in the corner. Opening the supposed to be locked cabinet Yami took out a very sharp pocket knife and sliced it down his arm forming letters then a word repeating it on his other arm tears falling down his face at the now marred blood covered skin smiling through the pain at the four words on his arms IMPURE WORTHLESS BURDEN UNWANTED. He wanted to put a fifth but there was no more room unless he wrote on his chest using the mirror but he had lost feeling in his arms and had dropped the knife more than once cutting up his legs in the process. "Now i'm just like what Mai says I am." Yami murmured falling asleep.

Yami woke up bandaged and connected to a drip. The bag of medicine hanging on an IV stand. He looked around and saw both Yugi and Atem whose red eyes looked even redder from crying. "Yami!" he cried rushing to his side. "Why? Why would you do that?! I had...Yugi had just agreed to stay with us forever when Bakura rushed in and told me!" Yami's eyes were huge. Atem had been... worried he'd die. And Yugi had agreed to... "Is it me?" Yugi asked. "Listen, I do want to stay but you seem to give me strange looks when Atem talks to me. Like you're jealous or... hate me. I won't stay if you don't want me to, Yami. I wanted you to love and accept me despite my past as well." Yami bit his lip before he started to explain "I woke to shouts outside the room some months ago after the incident an argument between Mai and you. At first I thought nothing of it until I heard Mai say 'Why are you keeping that worthless bitch in your bed Atem.' I then knew it was about me and where I would be staying if a new member was accepted into the family. I was happy at first because we would get another little brother or sister, until Mai talked about me staying with her while you moved out of Domino, permanently, she kept referring me as impure and a burden. I eventually thought that was why everyone was making it a point to avoid being near me and why you were angry all the time." Yami said his voice lowering after every word and his gaze focused on the white sheets. "I want you and Yugi." Atem said. "Mai meant nothing to me. I have been planning to obtain her recipes for your medicine and be rid of her. If I plan to leave Domino, I planned to take you as well. Yami, do you not like Yugi? If not...he's also agreed to be sent away safely." he could never harm Yugi. "I'd hoped you'd love each other and we'd be a family." Atem said. Yugi nodded at all this. "I like Yugi, a lot."

"Could you...love me one day?" Yugi asked disappointed. "isn't that what it means?" Yami replied childishly with confusion spread across his face usually when he watched TV when someone said that it meant they loved them. Atem let them talk a bit and went to find one of his brothers. He found Maraku and Marik. Perfect. "Go to Mai's, find her spells and recipes. She's no longer welcome in this family."

Atem sighed once again rubbing the bridge of his nose to stop the forming headache that was coming but glade Mai was finally out of their lives. She being only a temporary member for her potions and spells having already seen she wanted Yami since the day he arrived as nothing more than a temporary fling and bed warmer while acting as her servant for the rest of his mortal life had he not laid claim on Yami before she had a chance to get him alone. Entering the room Yami was being kept in Atem stopped short eyes wide at seeing Yami in a deep passionate kiss with Yugi who was in control slowly pushing Yami back down to the bed. "I leave for five minutes and you already wanting to get in his pants Yugi?" Yugi looked up. "I thought...I thought..." Yami held him tight. Atem chuckled. Something was behind his back. Something he'd grabbed before coming back. He'd heard what Yugi had told Yami earlier and pulled it out. A beautiful doll dressed as a bride and a necklace around its neck with two bands. Silver and gold. "For...me?" Yugi asked emotionally. "Isn't that the doll you were making the past few nights as a surprise for something special?" Yami asked having seen the patterns for the doll and the same ones use when Akifa and Maraku proposed to Bakura and Marik in pictures in an old photo album.

Atem smiled. "Do you approve?" he asked. Yami smiled. Yugi happily said yes and took the doll for them to admire. Atem took Yami's bandages off to reveal... smooth, perfect skin. "Never again." he warned. Yami promised happy to have his family. That afternoon, however, things took a horrible turn.

Yami was napping in the den while Atem showed Yugi how their bakery worked. He'd asked Yugi what he thought of his friends. "I have you. That's all I need." he'd replied. Yami wanted to nap before the storm appeared. He felt a hand on his thigh and smiled. "Atem?" he giggled as the hand brushed a ticklish area. Yami turned his head to look who was touching him to see a green eyed and drunk boy holding a clear bag with a white limp inside of it on his arm and a soaking cloth in his hand, said cloth was pressed to Yami's mouth and nose giving a sweet smell before everything turned black.