Yami rode as fast as his young black stallion would go. Raghib had been his stead for several years and had been a gift from the king. He was a loyal, intelligent horse and a friend.

Travelling on rough roads was not a problem, especial that morning.

Yami was after Haga's blood.

It was a shame he couldn't have Haga's adopted father's blood too but Yugi had got that honour. He deserved it and Keith had deserved to die. Yugi should have killed Keith for himself instead of for a friend but he didn't and that was another thing Yami loved about him.

The assassin didn't stop riding through the night; the darkness gave him some camouflage which would produce an element of surprise since they wouldn't see him coming. The sunrise brought the need to rest for Raghib and Atemu in which time he took the opportunity to sharpen his swords. The stead grazed as Yami set up camp. The assassin slept through most of the day, his dreams filled with blood, shadows and revenge. Darkness was only a few hours away when he awoke so Yami saddled and mounted Raghib and rode on.

By midnight, Yami was at Haga's castle. The guards where stationed at every post, like the assassin had expected. He hid Raghib in the bushes. The shadows would keep him silent. Keeping out of sight, Yami paid one of the stable boys to put hay under Haga's window; his favourite get away root.

He pulled out two daggers from the attachments of his belt and snuck over to the walls of the castle. It was all too easy, really, climbing that wall with daggers. There were so many weak spots in the stone it was ridiculous. Yami started to get suspicious when there were no soldiers in his path on the wall. He kept down low, keeping to the shadows.

Making his way to Haga's chamber was easy, way too easy.

Yami saw why when he reached the little brute's room.

As soon as Yami opened the heavy wooden door, he knew Haga had been expecting him for there were several soldiers between Haga and the assassin. "Atemu, lovely to see you." Haga said behind his cluster of guards, his blue eyes fixed on Yami, wide with fear but he tried to hide that with a cocky smirk. "So, you came to kill me. I thought assassins were supposed to be unpredictable. You're loosing your touch. You have been ever since you started training that slut..."

Atemu made his move then, stabbing one of the soldiers with a dagger then, using the dying soldier's own sword, Yami sliced the second guard's throat then plunged his own sword into the third. The last two ran to meet Yami in the fight. Yami pulled his daggers out of the dead soldiers' while removing his own sword from a corpse, panicking; worried he wouldn't get the daggers fast enough. The first of the remaining guards managed to slice Yami's arm as he span around. The assassin thrust one jewelled dagger in the guard's heart and threw the sword at the very last. It drove into his skull like a hot knife in butter and he toppled to the ground, dead.

Looking up at Haga, Yami strode over to him with one dagger still in his hand. Haga looked around for an escape but there was none. Realizing this, he collapsed onto his knees and began to cry like a baby. Disgust flooded Atemu's mind.

"You have tortured, lied and destroyed lives and now you weep? I haven't words enough to describe what you and your father have done to Yugi." Yami hissed.

Haga started nodding, splattering tears everywhere, as mucus ran from his nose.

Carving the dagger into his neck, Yami watched as Haga gaped like a fish out of water, blood pouring from his neck. Blood soaked the assassin's boots and he shoved Haga's dying body away. Walking to the window, Atemu breathed in the hot sent of his victim's blood before he jumped out. Landing in the stack of hay the stable boy had lain down for Yami, he avoided breaking his neck.

He silently made his way to Raghib who had stayed where he had left him. Yami mounted his horse and made his way home.

Yami was greeted by the king when he arrived back at the castle. The king was not a bloodthirsty man so the assassin was surprised when Yugi's grandfather demanded to hear every single detail of Haga's death. Once he finished his report, he was led by a very unhappy Anzu to Yugi's bedroom. She left quickly.

Yugi perked up when he saw Yami and pounced. Atemu caught him and kissed him softly as he lifted the younger into his arms with an affection that only lovers could show. He lay him on the bed as they continued kissing for a long while, their hands trailing patterns on one another's bodies as they slowly undressed one another.

"It's done?" Yugi asked softly as Atemu kissed down the younger's neck.

"He's gone," Yami assured his beloved and soon their lips connected again. Yugi moaned as he felt his lover's hand wander up is robes, groping and rubbing at places that made Yugi squirm and moan beneath the elder. Skin met skin as clothing slid from the limbs that belonged to one another's bodies, their breathing coming out in pants as their groins pressed together. "I want you, Yugi..."

Yugi let out a whine that begged the elder to stop talking and just make love to him. "Atemu..." he mewled, his head lolling back beneath the elder's kisses that trailed along his neck. The prince's back arched as the assassin pushed himself into the younger of the two males. "Ah!" Yugi gasped and had to take a minute or so to get used to the length inside him.

After a while, Atemu began to move inside his lover as he let out a low moan and as Yugi let out several mewls of utter delight. They two rocked their hips, gradually building up the right speed for them to feel the ultimate pleasure without yet releasing. It wasn't until Yugi begged that Yami picked up the speed, slamming in hard enough to make the young prince scream. They finally orgasmed, trembling with pleasure, clinging to each other like a life-line and, to some degree, that's what they were to one another. Without Yugi there would be no Atemu and with no Atemu there would be no Yugi. They needed each other, one half of a whole and, here, right now, they were one.

Months passed. It was funny how much time could be erased by so few words and it was funny just how much happened in those words.

Within those months, Yugi settled into his role of the Prince of the kingdom and went back into lessons with Yami about kingship and strategy when Yami wasn't training the new Poison tester. Her name was Rebecca and she couldn't have been more than eight or nine but she was intelligent and a fast learner but her age meant that she wouldn't be testing any food until she was a few years older.

As for Atemu's and Yugi's relationship, the two became ever closer and eventually married much to the King's delight but much to Anzu's horror. So much so that she tried to kill Yugi but, of course, Yami got there first. Instead of hanging her, however, Atemu sent her to a brothel in one of the villages in the kingdom.

As the years rolled by, happiness remained constant with the couple.

One could even go as far as saying that they lived happily ever after but then everyone has their ups and downs and things that go stray.

But their love was ever lasting and, in the end, isn't that all that matters?

I know. Kinda short but yeah. I'll do better on another fic or something. I'm ending it there guys so I hope you enjoyed the mess that was this fanfic. I don't even remember what I wrote in most of these chapters.