Yuki: YAY!!!

Anika: CROSS SOUL 2!

Yuki: As said in the first Cross Soul that I typed, Cross Souls 2, 3, and 4 have not been translated into English (or as far as I've seen).

Anika: If anyone can find them, my hikari and I would be ever so grateful.

In the Sennen Puzzle...

Mou hitori no Yugi sat on a throne in his Soul Room, the cold stone his only company.

'I did something that cannot be forgiven...' he thought, recalling his forcibly making love to his hikari. 'Aibou...' The spirit sat, self loathing the only thing on his mind. He felt the air in his Room shift its energy about slightly.

"What do you want," he asked, "Black Magician?"

Said magician genuflected in front of his master. "Master, I only mean to provide comfort-"

"You cannot comfort me, my friend. I hurt my hikari far too much to deserve comfort... or life..." The magician gasped.

"Master, please-"

"We only wish to make you happy again, Master." Black Magician Girl appeared, a nervous smile on her face.

"I told you not to come here!" The male magician was worried that the Spirit of the Puzzle would get angry. The Master was very dangerous and anyone smart enough would avoid his wrath.

"I got really nervous!"

"There is no use in trying to make me happy again... it's useless." The spirit uncrossed his legs and recrossed them, the one that was on the floor now crossing over the other leg.

"Please, Master, don't be like that."

"Master, let us help you fix this problem."

"That's enough!" Mou hitori no Yugi willed away his magicians and was once again left alone to his thoughts. '... Aibou... I hurt you. I never wanted to hurt you in such a way...'

In the real world outside of the puzzle, Mutou Yugi was looking at the moon. He sat at his desk, his card deck standing alone near the edge and a few cards in front of him.

"It's so quiet... I have no idea why." Yugi lifted his head off of his propped up arms where it had been resting. 'Mou hitori no... boku isn't speaking to me.'

"I'll just have to think of a way to talk to him, ne?" Yugi felt something shift in the air, something magical.

"Mou hitori no boku..." He hadn't seen his other half in quite a while and had tried not to worry about him, but Yugi was getting worried.

The spirit was silent and was oblivious to his magicians' actions.

"Master..." Black Magician said sadly as he and Magician Girl watched him from the Shadow realm, worrying.

"Maybe..." thought Black Magician Girl. "Maybe there is someway to help the Master at least smile again..."

'She just cannot listen...' thought the male magician as his girl apprentice started to float away with an idea. "Just be careful."

"Don't worry, Teacher." The female magician opened up a portal to the real world. "I am just getting some help from the outside." 'I will help Master... with the help of the Little Master...' She floated away into the light.

As the portal closed, Black Magician smiled, admiring her effort. 'The Master hasn't smiled in so long. It's almost as it was before that night...' He remembered his Master's behavior before that night of passion he had shared with their Little Master, Yugi. The spirit had been so distant, so alone, so... hopeless.

'The only thing that can help him is remembering that Little Master shared his feelings and cared for him that night as Master had loved him.'

"........" He shook his head, erasing the memory of the order he was given as Yugi had been leaving the Soul Room that night. "I just hope that my student can get help from Yugi in time."

"Thank you, Oka-san," Yugi exclaimed.

"Of course, Yugi, just don't spill your hot chocolate like last time."

"That was an accident. I would never spill your hot chocolate on purpose." His mother blushed, embarrassed by her son's sincere compliment.

'It's that good?'

"I wonder what Mou Hitori no Boku is doing... Why doesn't he want to talk?" The moon didn't answer his questions, just like every night before. He sighed, not noticing the card on top of his deck lifting up slightly.

Black Magician Girl crawled out, tired from using some magic and having to struggle out from under the card that was bigger than her. Yugi spotted her and followed her movements.

'How am I going to ask for help?' She thought, sitting on the card deck. 'I could just tell him, but the Master would be ever so mad.' Suddenly, a mug of something warm and sweet smelling caught her attention.

"Ah! It's really warm!" Black Magician Girl cried out. Yugi, taking some pity on her, gently plucked her out from his hot chocolate, holding her eye level to him.

"Black Magician Girl, don't get in trouble..." he said.

'Oops...' she thought.

"I'm a bit busy with my deck right now."

'No, don't be busy! I have to help my other Master and only you can help him!' Black Magician Girl was worried. Suddenly, she devised a quick plan. "Little Master, can I have something from that drink? It tastes so sweet and yummy."

'This has to work!' she thought, as she chewed on a mini marshmallow. "Little Master, what are you doing?"

"I'm looking at an annoying little magician." Yugi smiled as the girl began to throw a fit.

"I bet I'm bigger in this world's interpretation." Black Magician Girl remembered her teacher telling her that they and the other monsters existed in cards.

"Actually," Yugi said, lifting the top card on his deck up to show the mini magician. "This is your card right here." The card explained Black Magician Girl's special ability of gaining 500 attack points if Black Magician was in the card cemetary. "You are extremely powerful in the game. I bet you can do magic if you're in this world, too."

"Little Master!" the girl cried, remembering her task. "The Master in the puzzle needs your help!" She didn't reveal his problem... Maybe the Master wouldn't be so mad.

"Mou hitori no Boku needs my help?" His other half needed him? Why? Didn't he tell Yugi if they were equal soul halves?

"Please, Little Master! Help him!"

Yugi nodded and grabbed the Sennen Puzzle in his hands, cradling the cold metal. 'Take me to my Soul Room!'

Yugi felt somewhat drained when he appeared in the hallway between his and his other half's rooms. "Why..."

"It's probably because you haven't been here in such a long time." The Black Magician Girl now stood close to him at her full height, a bit taller than he was.

"I thought Mou Hitori no Boku didn't want me in here..." Sadness accompanied the thought, alerting the female magician.

"Oh no, Little Master!" What could she say, what could she say that would not mention that night. "The Master always enjoys seeing you here. He likes being with you and talking to you." She knew that Master liked Yugi more than that, but now was not a good time to mention that.

"...Why hasn't he come to talk to me?"

"I don't really know, Little Master. I am not allowed to bring up the matter. The Master gets rather annoyed when anyone talks about his troubles." That was true.

"You are speaking too much again, my apprentice." A male voice came from behind him.

"Black Magician?" Yugi gazed at his favorite Duel Monsters character.

"Little Master, you shouldn't be here."

"Why shouldn't I be-" The magician cut him off. "The Master does not wish to see you right now."

"Why not!" Yugi was getting frustrated. The magician girl says his other half needs help, yet her teacher wouldn't let him.

"I am sorry, Little Master, but the Master does not wish to speak to you, or anyone, at this time. He is... upset." If only that was the appropriate word for the ancient King's turmoil in his heart.

'Why is Mou hitori no Boku upset?' Yugi was getting frightened. Was his other half trying to disconnect from Yugi? He wouldn't let him. He didn't want Yami to leave."Black Magician, I want to help Mou Hitori no Boku. Please."

The magician conceded. "All right."

"Do you know what is wrong with Mou Hitori no Boku?"

"... I do not know." A little white lie.

"Please... If you can tell me what I did wrong, I'll try to fix this problem." He remembered all the times that his other half saved him from bullies, Kaiba's Death-T, and Bakura Ryo's other half. Yugi wanted to thank him, but not with words. "I want to see Mou Hitori no Boku happy."

"I won't listen if you tell me that I can't help my other half, Magician." Yugi stood in front of his yami's soul room door, a smile on his face and determination in his eyes.

"Of course, Little Master."

'Maybe... Just maybe, the Master will smile again.'

'The Little Master is going to help Master. Huh?' While she had been daydreaming, Yugi and her teacher had already gone inside the room, leaving her to quickly follow them.

"Mou Hitori no Boku, where are you?" Yugi ran through the soul room, stone floor cold against his bare feet. As he ran, the two dark mages floated beside him, eagerly looking for their Master. 'I have to help him. I owe him that much.' "Where are you, Mou Hitori no-"

"Magician..." The Black Magician pointed a short distance ahead of them. "There."

There stood Yami no Yugi, wearing all leather. He wore a buckled vest, nice pants, black shoes, and a leather choker.

'How many times... have I dreamt... that you would come back?'

'To imagine your skin against mine, to hear your moans...'

'I want to feel you from the inside. I treasure these feelings... and love.'

'Aibou?!'

"Mou hitori no Ore." Yami snapped out of his musings to see his light half, his... his treasured friend, running to him.

"Mou Hitori no Boku!!!"

"I've been looking for you!" Yugi ran into the other boy's arms, happy to feel safe and warm again.

"I missed you so much. I want to talk to you again." Yami's arms wrapped around him, cradling him...

"... ..." ...yet he said nothing. The pair stood there, on their knees, for a few moments until Yami held the other out at arms' length. How did the child get here?

"So... You want to talk... to me."

"Yes, I do. "The Black Magicians also said you needed help..."

'... Black Magician?' The former monarch stood suddenly, looking behind him into the darkness of his room. "Black Magician, you told him!"Anger, that emotion filled him, gaining fatality. "I told you-"

"Forgive me, Master." The magician said, appearing before him. "We only wanted to help..."

'I do not want help...' "Magician! I told you I don't need help!" Yugi seemed to be forgotten, but was reminded of his own existence by the Black Magician Girl, who came flying towards the three males.

"Master, I brought the Little Master here..." She was saddened, yet dutiful as she felt Master's anger rise.

"And you shall be punished for disobeying." The Eye of Horus appeared on the spirit's head, his shadow powers eager to punish.

"No! Mou Hitori no Boku, Yami!" Yugi's voice did not reach the other. "Please stop!"

A flash of light...

...

Silence...

...

...

...

"...No."

"Aibou." Mou Hitori no Yugi caressed his other half's face, ashamed as he saw the damage that he had caused him. Yugi looked tired, pained.

"Don't punish her..." Yugi whispered, poorly hidden agony in his voice.

"...I'm sorry." The spirit cradled his hikari's head with his left hand ever so gently, treading his fingers through his hair. The other arm was wrapped around Yugi's back, holding him to the spirit. "I didn't-"

"Why... don't-" Yami's eyes opened his eyes, amazed, yet not, at the fact that Yugi still had some strength after the shadow attack.

"Please speak to me, Yami... especially if you're troubled."

"Mou Hitori no Ore."

"I just want you to be happy, and I want to help..."

'Aibou, it's almost as if you remember...'

"If I can't help, Mou Hitori no Boku, tell me why and I won't... I'll never bother you about it again."

"..." "...Why do you try to help, even if I push you away?" He still cradled the boy to him, not wanting to let him go, but hoping that he was still able to hear him. "I don't want to affect your life. It is your body, your mind."

"But I like sharing them with you. Even if it is my body, why do you stop yourself from being with me?"

"....."

"All I want is your happiness. I want to see you smile again."

"...Aibou, why-" Yugi lifted up his arms against Yami's chest, his hidden tears finally overflowing and making their way down his cheeks. The spirit held his hikari out only a few inches from his torso and was about to ask what was wrong when-

"I love you. Mou Hitori no... Boku..."

"... It worked."

"Yes, it did..."

"I love you, too, hikari..." '-You hold me again. As if you never want me to disappear, as though you do truly love me...'

"Black Magician, Magician Girl..." "Thank you... for this... second chance."

"Do not... cry anymore, Aibou." Yami held out the boy at arm's distance, placing his hand to curve as he held Yugi's chin.

The tears were still pouring from his eyes, until Yugi felt something tender and smooth clean them away. He opened his eyes to see his other half licking his tears away.

Mou Hitori no Yugi enjoyed tasting those salty tears that came from those enchanting amethyst, almost as much as the beautiful blush that spread across alabaster cheeks and the embarrassed tears. "I don't like seeing you cry, little one... I don't want to make or see you cry. Ever."

"Will a kiss make you happy?"

"Yes." Yugi began to close his eyes ever so slowly as he brushed his hand across Yami's cheek. He wrapped his arms around the other's torso. Yami cradled Yugi head lovingly and placed his hand on the other's cheek just as their lips touched. Electricity coursed through both boys as their lips were firmly meshed against each other. Their eyes were closed to, perhaps, enhance the sensation.

The sensation felt new to Yugi; For the other, it was another dose of heroin for his addicted heart.

Yuki: Finally finished typing this up. Actually hard to type because there is OBVIOUSLY no English translation.

Anika: Hooray!

Yuki: BE READY FOR LEMON NEXT CHAPPIE!!!