Forced Love (Puzzleshipping/ Yu-Gi-Oh/ Yami x Yugi)

Chapter 4

Normal POV

Dinner was almost silent. Yami tried to get Yugi to talk to him, but was ignored by his smaller lover. Yugi was trying to think of ways out of this, but could find none.

"Yami, Yugi follow us," Yami's father told the two boys. Yugi nodded his head slowly and continued to stare at the ground as he and Yami followed the king.

The four stopped inside a large room with a small bed, a bathroom, and a closet. "This is where you two will be staying for the next week. We will give you your meals through the cat flap," The queen told them quietly with a smile.

"See you next week," the king chirped before he closed the door. Yami and Yugi could hear the deep 'thunk' of the lock. 

Yugi stared at the door with a blank expression on his face, while Yami turned towards him. "Yugi," Yami asked, grabbing his hand. This caused the boy to flinch and swat away the prince's hand.

"Leave me alone!" Yugi snapped, storming over to the closet and sliding the doors open so that he could step inside and then slamming the closet shut. Yami let out a small sigh and walked over to the closet and opened it slowly. Yami saw Yugi's eyes were now dripping. He grabbed Yugi from the closet and with some struggled, managed to get the smaller one out of the closet.

"Yugi, I know that right now love is too much to ask for, but could we try to be friends," Yami requested, squeezing Yugi's hand. The smaller look-alike bit his lip and looked away. 

"Why? It's not like I have much of a choice. This is forced love, Yami. No matter what, I'm going to be stuck with you for the rest of my life. And the short time that I actually had feelings for you is long gone and I've forgotten what it feels like to love somebody genuinely. 

"I mean, I guess I should have known. This last year I was growing apart from grandpa. No wait, Mr. Solodude or whatever the heck his name was. I don't think I actually ever loved him. Yeah, he treated me well, but never like a son or anything like that. It's not fair that you-you get everything you want while I fight so hard for my own happiness," Yugi said, sobs wracking his small figure.

Yami POV

I stare at him for a moment before I lean down and kiss his soft lips. "Yugi, I'm sorry. I've had feelings for you for years and I wanted you badly, but I also wanted you to learn to love me on your own. I guess I never realized that you thought you were incapable of love," I whisper softly into his tri-colored hair.

"Yami, why were you a jerk to me when we were younger? I wanted to be your friend but you seemed set on messing with me," Yugi asks angrily.

"Yugi, when I was that age, I thought that that was the only way to grab your attention. I was just so stupid that I thought that if I were to do mean things to you, that you would pay attention to me, but it never lasted long. I regret it now. I truly do. I was just so stupid, forgive me Yugi."

Yugi stared at me with his perfect amethyst orbs and smiles his cute smile. "How about instead, we start over. Hi, my name's Yugi. What's yours," Yugi asks with a happy tone. Wow, he changed his mood really quickly.

"I'm Yami," I say holding out my hand. "Want to be friends?"

Yugi lets out a soft laugh. "We'll be much more than that," he mutters as he shakes my hand. 

"Yugi, don't be angry," I whisper, pulling him into my chest. Unlike before, he doesn't fight and goes almost willingly.

"I'm not angry at you Yami. I'm angry at your parents. I probably wouldn't have minded so much being betrothed to you if I'd known earlier. I know that sounds strange, but when I was younger, I thought that being betrothed would be amazing. I mean, not having to try to find a lover who could leave you at any given time. If I had known then, I probably wouldn't have minded it as much because I-I..." Yugi trails off. I try to make eye contact with him, but he darts his eyes away.

"What is it Yugi," I ask. He lets out a shaky sigh. "And don't tell me it's nothing."

"Fine. I wouldn't have minded it as much because I had a crush on you for that phase. I tried to ignore the feelings because I knew that it never would work or happen and then your friends started bullying me and you started ruining things that I spent hours upon and I realized that those feelings were pointless because you were just being yourself," Yugi admits.

Instead of feelings hurt, like most people would, I grab his chin and force him to make eye-contact with me. "Yugi, I understand. I was a jerk back then and you didn't deserve that. I'm sorry. And if I had known you had feelings for me, I would have held you tight, loved you, and never let go. I love you Yugi."

His eyes began to fill with tears. "Why are you telling me this," he asks, looking away. "You could just force me to anything right now because you are the prince and I'm already betrothed to you. Why aren't you forcing anything upon me like any regular person would do?"

I let out a snort. "Yugi, no regular person would do that. And as for why? Well that's simple. You are already going to have to give me forced love, I don't want to hurt you anymore," I tell him, brushing one of his blonde bangs out of his face. His face went a cute tint of red and I added, "And Yugi, by the way, you look super cute when you blush like that."

So yeah, I'm alive. Sorry. I was going through a tough time when I was writing the earlier chapters of this and I was worried that I would go back into that mind set if I worked on this but I didn't which is good so yeah. I finally finished this chapter! :D

Thank you for reading and I'll hopefully have another one out soon. :)