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Puzzleshipping Fluff 2/7

Vanilla Scented

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The night air was cold. It was around midnight, and seeing as it was a winter night, almost nobody was around. There were a few late-night shoppers and random teens roaming around the illuminated streets, but apart from that - the streets would seem practically empty.

It was around this time that a certain teen started to have a dream.

In this dream, he was frantically running from something. He couldn't tell what, though. It was completely impossible to distinguish, even if someone had amazing eyesight, to them it would look like a blur had just passed by their minds.

All that the teen knew, was that it was a dark, purple mass. Nothing purple had ever scared him in his life before, ever. And yet, this one, gigantic mass of a thing, was able to scare him to his very core. It wasn't like anything he had ever seen that shined the bright colour - lord, no. The beast gave off a hungry energy, and at a glance anyone could tell that it was absolutely starving; craving to what the boy could only assume to be human flesh, or human souls.

A shiver was sent down the boys spine outside of his dream as some of the cool, night air escaped from the open window and onto his skin. That exact same shiver was sent down his spine in his dream, but for a different reason - the monster was right behind him.

Its jaws were open wide, as if wanting to swallow the boy whole. He slowly turned around, his eyes growing wide in fear as it suddenly swallowed him.

And then he woke up.

The boy immediately sat up, panting and shaking. His hair and clothes drenched with sweat; his palms shaking; his body refusing to answer his command - he was scared.

An adjustment in the covers beside him finally made his body obey him, as he turned his head to look.

A sleepy murmur came from the shift, "Yami...?"

The teen suddenly relaxed. His panting almost ceased intirely, and his constant shaking was stopped. He let himself smile a little before lying back down and letting the person he knew so well turn beside him, so that they were now face to face.

"Are you okay...?"

"I'm fine, Yugi," Was the cool, gentle reply. It was as if the dream never happened.

The other smiled, making the boy smile wider. He was calmer now, knowing that nothing like that was ever going to actually appear in real life and do something to harm him, or his other half for that matter.

"Are you sure?" The other boy was filled with concern, "You screamed a little in your sleep."

"It was just a silly old nightmare," The teen rolled on his side and hugged the one beside him, "I'm okay, really."

His other just smiled, nodding slowly before falling back into the sleep Yami had so rudely kept him from. He sighed, holding the other boy close to him, the vanilla scent never ceasing to dull his senses; relaxing every inch of his body.

He kissed the others forehead, "Goodnight..." He murmured.

Despite the random nightmare, Yami thought it wouldn't be the last time he would be having it. But he knew that even if he did have that dream again, he only needed to remind himself of that vanilla scent to calm him down.