A/N: The final chapter you guys!

The ride home was dense and uncomfortable for Jonouchi and Yugi. Yugi tried to put on a happy face so no one would know, but everyone could feel the tension between the two. Miho, Shizuka, Honda, and Ryou joked around and tried to lighten the mood. Anzu joined them. Jonouchi tried to next, but his eyes kept glancing over to Yugi. He had a fake smile that rang hollow in his eyes. One by one, everyone was dropped off at their homes. Jonouchi and Yugi were the only ones left.

Quiet. The most uncomfortable quiet.

"Driver, please, can you let me off here?" Yugi choked out. Jonouchi didn't know what to say. The driver pulled over and Yugi hoped out.

"I'm gonna get outta here too," said Jonouchi. He scooted his way towards the door and got out.

"Don't follow me!" Yugi yelled behind him.

Jonouchi jaunted a bit to catch up with Yugi. Yugi was speed walking. Eyes set firmly on the sidewalk ahead of him, managing to skip the cracks. Jonouchi opened his mouth a few times before he finally said, "Yugi I-I didn't... didn't mean for-" He felt the knot in his throat strangle his every word.

Yugi turned around to star at Jonouchi dead in his eyes. "Didn't mean for what?" Yugi shouted, his arms wide. His expression of exaggerated shock quickly fell into a dark an morose place. "For her to kiss you? Fall in love? Live happily mother-fucking after?" Jonouchi saw a droplet of spit fly from Yugi's mouth.

Jonouchi stared in stunned silence. He searched for the words to express himself, redeem himself but he just couldn't find them. The pit in his stomach grew. His vision of Yugi blurred as the tears started to spill over. Light wind, cooled where the tears had slid down his face.

"Well did you?"

"No!" Jonouchi yelled. He felt his throat constrict itself once more. He felt as if he couldn't breathe for minutes after he said that word, though it was probably only seconds. "No... never," he croaked.

Yugi turned from Jonouchi, unable to bare the sight of his once good friend any longer. The betrayal, the blindness, it was all too much.

Jonouchi took a few guilted steps forward to stand in Yugi's field of prescience. He reached out his hand tentatively to touch Yugi on the shoulder but before his hand could touch down, it was smacked away.

"Yugi, I'm sorry about Anzu. I promise I wont-"

"You don't even know what this is about do you?"

Jonouchi thought for a moment thinking carefully about what more that kiss could have meant. He placed his fingers on his temples and started rubbing them in small soothing circles. He took a deep breath, then brought his hands back down.

"I... leaned? Or was it?" Jonouchi walked in front of Yugi and bent down slightly to look him straight in the eyes. "Was it? Was... it... you know?"

"God Jonouchi! No! She had that last year." Yugi huffed, "Jeez, you really are clueless..." Yugi walked passed Jonouchi then picked up his pace down the street.

Clueless? Jonouchi stood confused. What was there to get? He had kissed the girl of his best buddy's dreams and if he lost his friend... if he lost his friend it seemed like a logical reason why. He wished he had never agreed to be Anzu's date. Everything was so complicated now. It was all his fault.

Something snapped into Jonouchi's head that told him- Don't let Yugi walk out of your life.

As he ran he could feel is stomach fly. His lungs were so hard to fill. Feet pounded the pavement. Knees weak. Mind numb but rushing at the same time.

Jonouchi raced in front of Yugi. Jonouchi stopped and reached out his hands gripping Yugi's shoulders in desperation. His eyes were wild."Yugi! I am sorry! This is all my fault... but... you-you're my best friend... please, please..." Jonouchi collapsed to his knees and buried himself in other boy's chest. His face pouring down tears. His heart ached.

Yugi lifted up Jonouchi's chin. "You really don't know?" Yugi had thought he had been obvious all these years.

Jonouchi shook his head. "No, I don't. You gotta tell me! Don't... don't just walk out of my life... Too many people done me like that." He got up to his feet.

Yugi turned away. "I don't think you want to here this, Jonouchi."

"No, I do. Tell me! We are best buddies. Best buddies're there for each other and hear one another out."

"I don't want to be your best buddy," Yugi said, coldly.

"What?" Jonouchi feared the worst. "You don't want to be my friend no more? Yugi, buddy, we can get through this! Remember Yu-Jyo!"

"That's not what I mean. Over the years... really, from the moment you returned that piece of the puzzle... I-I" Yugi cracked and began to cry. Jonouchi could see him wiping away his tears furiously. Jonouchi just listened to him cry. He didn't know what to do. Boys don't cry. And when they did, there was a reason, but the reason could be fixed with the help of his friends. Boys never cry long. Crying doesn't solve anything and that is what men are like. Then he realized for the first time, he was crying too. Was this the end?

The wind blew over aching ears. A few cars zoomed by on the mostly quiet street. "I'm in love with you."

Jonouchi blinked a few times trying to process what was just confessed to him. "I love you as my friend." He said this half knowing what Yugi actually meant but not fully able to accept it. He wished he meant as friends.

"No, not like that... like... I love-love you Jonouchi."

Silence.

"I tried to confess to you that day on the dock, when your mind was possessed. When you came to, when you... when you came back because of those three little words, I thought deep down inside..."

"That I loved you too? And like that?"

"Yes."

"Yugi... I am going to need to think..."

"Thought you would... " Yugi's bitter tone stung.

Yugi continued to go towards the game shop. Jonouchi turned and headed home. His feet scuffed the pavement. A million things raced through his mind. Nothing he could pinpoint. Thought that nothing could ruin their friendship. The friendship shattered. Putting the pieces back and was it worth it?

This may be the end.

A/N: Hopefully that was angsty enough for you angst fans! I feel good that I was able to complete this. Thank you guys so much for the support. Please review!