My original story! As said in the Poll.

'Dear Yami'

Summery: "Yugi disappeared six months ago, a month after Yami and Teá became engaged. Teá's cheating and the stress of losing Yugi drives them apart, leaving Yami to try and find his aibou. When Ryou calls from England -out of the blue- telling Yami and Grandpa that Yugi's been involved in a serious accident, will the reason why he left come out? Will a certain Dairy help?"

Yugi: This story sounds a little depressing.

Amme: Yes, it is a bit. Because it contiants lots of heartbreak and lots of sad dairy entries. This is the first chapter of it, I'm hoping to get this up so that I can move on with other projects. I'll warn everyone now; It's NOT going to be a very long story, about 4-6 chapters or their about.

Yami: Why am I paired with Teá? *turning green*

Amme: I'm sorry Yami. But it's needed, and it's never in present tense. It's all in the past and it's not like you did anything specail with her.

Yami: GOOD!

Yugi: *hugging Yami* Amme-chan doesn't own Yugioh, please enjoy and give her feedback, it's her first original in a while, just let her know her story creating skills aren't rusty. ;)

Enjoy!

December 3rd.

Yami gazed out of the window in the lounge, watching the white ice angel feathers falling from the heavens. The air was cold outside and contrastingly warm and cosy inside, outside the wind made delicate patterns in the snow scattered air.

Domino was blanketed in a layer of snow, it was deep enough to sled in and too deep to wear normal shoes, everyone wore wellingtons; to keep their feet dry. Yami sighed as he stared out of the window, the snow reminded him of that time…

Yami was laying asleep and warm in his bed, the morning was quiet and just perfect. He had no work, no immediate chores and no reason to stop him from dozing in his bed all day. But, clearly, someone else had other ideas.

Yugi burst into his room with a happy, excited face. "Yami! Yami wake up!" he laughed, shaking his Darkness awake when he saw the lump under the covers.

Yami woke up and blinked at Yugi as he tried to understand why Yugi was here. "Aibou?" he groaned sleepily "What is it?" he rubbed at his eyes and sat up, feeling his blankets pool around his waist. As much as he loved to see Yugi childish and happy, it was just too early for the man to be asking him to wake.

Yugi smiled and pulled at his hand "It's been snowing! Look outside!" he ran to the window and pulled back the curtains.

Yami winced as his tired eyes were assaulted with the sharp light of day, somehow it seemed even brighter than normal! Like someone was shining a large light into his room. Yami covered his face with an arm. "What?" he asked as Yugi pulled him to his feet.

Yugi giggled, a happy childish sound that made Yami smile too, Yugi pointed "Look!"

Yami looked out of the window and gasped! The world was white! There was white feathers falling from the sky and the blanket over the city was smooth and flawless; because no one had stood in the blank canvas yet.

Yugi opened the window and stuck his hand out into the freezing air. When Yugi caught a snowflake he laughed and Yami felt compelled to do the same. His tanned hand melted each snowflake that he had touched, but the magical moment was wonderful; and it was even better because he had shared it with Yugi.

Yami left his memory and sadly lowered his eyes to his breakfast. It was his day off, one of the last before the Christmas holiday, he'd agreed to go shopping with Joey, Seto and Mokuba. Joey had told them that Serenity and Tristan would meet them later in the day.

Tristan wanted to propose to his girlfriend. Yami smiled and got up to stretch. It would be a long day, he washed up his plate and went upstairs to change into something warmer than his track suit pyjama bottoms.

As Yami reached the top of the stairs he paused. Even though he didn't want to, his eyes travelled to Yugi's door. Yami silently walked up to the dark wood and a hand rose to sculpt the middle of the wood.

The door was nothing more than a door, but it was dusty, the hinges hadn't squeaked in months, the handle was shining brass without fingerprints yet, was also dull with lack of use. Yami's hand curled into a gentle fist. This door always felt cold to him, an empty draft came from this door; he hadn't been inside it for weeks. At first the door would never be closed, as if it was waiting for something to come along and fill the emptiness.

But Solomon and Yami eventually realised that this door wasn't going to be walked through by him again. So they had reluctantly shut it, there was a silent mutual agreement as they walked away from the simple yet painful act of closing this door; that it wouldn't be opened by either one of them.

Yami leaned his forehead against it and sighed through his nose, his crimson eyes closed. There was an emptiness and quiet in house, it wasn't normal, yet had been here for months. Yami moved along with a final caress to the dark wood.

The man changed into warm trousers and pulled on a vest, long sleeved top and a jumper. He hated the cold, being Egyptian born the cold wasn't something he was accustomed to. Yami brushed his hair and cleaned his teeth before going back downstairs and greeting the elderly man who was his Grandpa as much as the group's.

"Good Morning," he said as he pulled his coat out of the cupboard.

Solomon smiled "Good Morning Yami, did you sleep well?" the old man was just getting his shop ready for opening for the day.

Yami nodded as he found his wellingtons. "There they are! Oh, yes I slept okay, and yourself?" he pulled on a boot with a bit of difficulty as he had several pairs of socks on.

Solomon chuckled at his silly dance. "As well as an old man can sleep I suppose. You heading out?" Yami nodded and pulled on his other boot. The silver haired man hesitated before reaching out and holding Yami's arm, Yami looked at the man in surprise. Solomon cleared his throat "If you see Joseph and the Kaibas… please ask if they have any news" he said firmly, but Yami saw the worry and miss in his eyes.

Yami nodded and hugged the elderly man before saying "I will, I'll ask when I see them. Take care of yourself, I'll be back before the shop closes"

Solomon messed Yami's hair affectionately "You'd better be, run along now"

Yami saluted and headed for the door "Yes sir!" and left, chuckling to himself at how silly he had sounded.

The walk to the mall was longer than normal because some parts of the journey were wading through deep snow. Yami constantly grumbled at the cold, and unintentionally brought forth another memory.

Yami ploughed through the snow, grumbling and cursing as his shoes filled with snow. Yugi giggled next to him, happy and warm in his snow boots. "Cheer up Yami, it's the holidays!" he chirped like a robin.

Yami frowned "My feet are soaked. It's too cold"

Yugi paused and looked at him worriedly "I told you to wear your boots… I know! We can swap shoes at the store, then you'll be dryer" he suggested.

Yami chuckled at Yugi's selflessness "Thanks aibou, but I think that I'll just suffer for my mistake, there's no need for you to catch a cold too"

Yugi nodded, then pulled Yam into the park; they were the first ones there so the blanket of white was undisturbed and breathtaking. Yugi ran into the middle and lay down to make snow angels.

Yami chuckled and leaned over Yugi's form with a wicked grin "Are you sure you're twenty aibou?" he asked, Yugi could be so childish sometimes. But it was Yugi, and it was cute, it kept his life lively.

Yugi smiled and sat up, a sprinkling of snowflakes in his gravity defying hair and over the back of his coat. "It's the holidays," he repeated from earlier "You're allowed to be a silly as you want when it's Christmas!" he shouted and threw snow into the air gleefully.

Yami smiled and forgot about his wet socks and stayed with Yugi, making snow angels and getting into snowball fights with other teens and children all day. Just before they left they looked back at the park, there wasn't a single undisturbed bit of snow. Yami had sighed before saying "I guess that is the only downside to snow; it's only pretty when you're apart from it."

"Yami!"

The said man jumped out of his daydream to see Mokuba running up to him. Yami opened his arms as he anticipated a hug with a wide smile. The younger Kaiba partly launched himself at Yami, all the while giggling happily "I haven't seen you in ages! How've you been?" Mokuba asked, stepping to walk beside Yami.

Yami shrugged "I've been alright, not liking the cold weather but, what can you do?" he wasn't a god, he couldn't change the weather, and if he did he'd upset lots of children who loved the snow. "And how have you been?"

Mokuba pulled his hat down further over his head and pulled his matching scarf up. "I've been ill recently; I got a cold when I stayed outside too long. Seto told me to not breathe in the cold air or get my feet wet today, or he'll lock me up till Christmas" the boy pouted.

Yami laughed as they finally closed the distance to the patiently waiting pair.

Seto nodded at Yami distantly. But Seto was never one for friendly hugs or pleasant greetings, Yami wasn't offended by the cold hello. However, his boyfriend, Joey, was the opposite of that. Joey was warm, fiery, friendly and cheerful. Yami found Joey's welcome even happier than Mokuba's.

"Yami!" Joey hugged Yami tightly, even lifted his weight off of the floor for a moment. "Man, it's been so long! How've you been?" the excited blond asked as he set Yami back on his feet, keeping a hold of his elbow while he found his balance on the ice.

Yami smiled "I've been fine Joey, it's just a little quieter in the house and nosier in the shop" the Christmas shoppers were really living up that area of the house.

Joey nodded and looked at his watch "Well… it's only eleven, we've got a nice walk to the mall, Serenity's going to be so happy" he said excitedly. The thought of his little sister getting married had made him both happy and sad, but it seemed that happy was winning for the moment.

Yami chuckled and the four boys started to trek through the slippery snow. Yami glanced at the two taller boys a few times, wanting to ask them but not sure how. Mokuba saw Yami's glances and pulled on Yami's sleeve to get his attention. "He says; hello, he misses you and he's sending you something for Christmas" he murmured. Mokuba's blue eyes were understanding but also a little sad.

Yami blinked before sighing deeply and fighting tears "Thank you." he whispered. Mokuba squeezed his hand and kept holding it as they walked.

That was one of the good points about Mokuba; he was very sensitive to the emotions of others, someone might think that a gift like that was creepy, but it just meant that he was a great listener; he was wise beyond his eyes yet playful under his actual age too. It was that gift, understanding people and being sensitive to emotions, that made him such a great speaker; no wonder Seto had Mokuba open some of his events; the boy could energise a bored crowd, what the older Kaiba lacked in social skills the younger had tripled.

Seto heard their exchange and glared at Yami, his eyes were screaming icy accusations. Joey elbowed him in the ribs, lightly, and shook his head; it wouldn't do any good to start an argument that would break their promise to him.

Seto closed his eyes in agreement and Joey smiled in relief. "So… Yami, I was thinking; I've been practicing a lot at Kaibaland and I think I'm ready to take you on and win!" he said with his goofy smile.

Seto scoffed under his breath while Yami smiled "Are you challenging me?" he asked the golden eyed blond, a hint of a laugh under his voice.

Joey nodded "You bet I am!" he laughed like a maniac and said "I'm going to become the King of Games at last!"

"Please!" Seto said "There's no way you'll be able to do that! If you could beat one of the title holder's I should have crushed them ages ago!" he concluded.

Joey growled "Shut up! I just wanted to try and have some fun; sorry if fun isn't in your golden edged dictionary!"

"That's a big word puppy, are you sure you know what it means?"

"Will you quit with the dog jokes!"

Mokuba pulled Yami's shoulder down so he could whisper in his ear "An extra large hot chocolate with sprinkles says they'll be making out in two minuets." The two laughed quietly and Yami nodded before making his bet;

"And one minuet says you owe me two hot chocolates"

Mokuba giggled and they began their countdowns. It was a minuet and a half when the brunette and the blond had their arms around each other tightly with their mouths pressed together. Yami and Mokuba decided just to get one for themselves as their bet was a draw.

"Yami? Mokie?" a surprised voice called out to them.

The two boys looked across the road and gasped when they saw Mai, standing with her arms full of shopping bags. She gestured for her taxi to wait for her, slipping in a roll of cash through his window, before dumping all save one of her bags in the taxi and running to meet the group.

Mai had wrapped up warmly, her prize money let her have such stylish clothing, red with green stitching and light brown ruffs of real fur. She stopped before the two boys and smiled at them "Long time no see!"

Mokuba smiled widely and let the taller woman hug him. "Hello Mai, merry Christmas!" he said sweetly.

Mai ruffled his hair, mindful of his hat, before hugging Yami too. "Good to see you too, Yami."

"Likewise," the crimson eyed man said, Mai stepped back and Yami laughed "You look well, I haven't seen you since summer"

Mai nodded with a frown "Yes… it's been so long, we should meet up for Christmas or new year. If rich boy throws a party make sure I know about it." she whispered to Mokuba, who laughed.

Yami rubbed his cold, gloved hands together "What are you doing for the holidays?" he asked her.

Mai sighed "Not that much really. Mother and Father have asked if I want to come to their meal, but it's always the same, so I'm not sure if I'll go. But there's an opening for an 'elf from Santa' at the children's home, I've applied to go and help out as a volunteer." she smiled, her rosy cheeks and blond hair made her look rather elf like already.

Yami chuckled "Well I'm sure they'll be excited to meet you, if any of them are duellists."

Mai smirked "I should think so." she rummaged in her bag "It's a good thing I saw you, or I don't know when I would have got these to you" she brought out some little boxes wrapped in cheerful paper "I hope you like them, I had them especially made" she winked.

Mokuba took Joey's and Seto's too, because they were still busy. "Thank you very much Mai! We're just going to do our shopping, so sorry we can't give you anything now." he explained, blushing with a little bit of shame for not being able to give anything back.

Mai shrugged "Don't worry about it, who knew I'd run into you… Yami?" she was holding another box, as if she wasn't sure what to do with it "Have you heard from Yugi at all?" Yami's cheerful face at once fell to the floor and a sad, slightly pained, one replaced it. Mai winced and quickly spoke on "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to bring up any bad memories. I'll just have to hold onto it until I see him myself!"

Yami didn't really hear her.

The topic of Yugi had always been some sort of taboo in the group nowadays. Just about six months ago Yugi had disappeared. There had been no warnings and no goodbyes, save for a note found later, and they hadn't seen him since.

The only ones who had contact with Yugi was the Kaiba household; who only told Yami and the rest of them that he was safe and well, but they had promised not to tell anyone where he was. Yami and Grandpa sometimes received letters, with no return address, from Yugi for special events like birthdays and Halloween.

The only thing Yami had found out about Yugi's whereabouts was from the stamps; because he didn't recognise them he concluded that Yugi was abroad somewhere.

Mokuba took Yugi's present and said "I'll make sure he gets it, it'll be nice if you had a letter to go with it too…" he advised.

Mai agreed after a moment of thought and took Yugi's present back before saying "I'll give it to you when I've got a letter written. I've got to go; I think I'm irritating the taxi driver. Merry Christmas!"

Yami smiled tensely "Merry Christmas, see you soon!"

Mai laughed as she got into her taxi and drove off.

Later that day Serenity and Tristan walked into Burger World, smiling like the world was better than amazing. Joey waved them over and as soon as they sat down he grabbed his sisters left hand and saw the pretty pearl ring on her fourth finger.

Joey whistled "Wow, that must have cost a pretty penny." he smiled at his brunette sister.

Serenity blushed as the gang told her 'congratulations' with hugs and small teases. Tristan was grinning like a fool as he sat down. Yami nodded at him "Good on you." he said.

Tristan smiled "Thanks, I hope that I can make her happy."

Yami nodded, he saw how the two interacted and watched each other; they were what the other wanted. "You will, you already are." he assured the spiky haired man. Tristan blushed and held his fiancée's hand again.

Yami smiled at the gesture, then slightly wider as they leaned onto each other, he looked away to give them brief privacy. Yami's smile fell a little when he thought of his own disastrous relationship; his cheating fiancée: Teá.

Their relationship had been a solid one, or so he had thought. When he had refused the afterlife and decided to stay and live out the reminder of his mortal years here in Domino, the entire gang, even icy Seto Kaiba, had been very happy. Even if he shared a body with Yugi, the former Pharaoh had become such a large part of the group, they were all so happy he had decided to stay.

Yami had Yugi's memories of education and Seto forged his identity papers (he was Yami Atem Sennen officially) the CEO- with a little persuasion from his younger brother- had given Yami a job at Kaiba corp.

Yami had a very good artistic streak, as Yugi did, and so he designed products. Cards, duel disks, merchandises and even made a few other games that Kaiba corp. could sell. A few were based off games in ancient Egypt. It paid quite well once his ideas took life and began to sell.

Yugi and Teá often stopped by. Yugi stopped by to say hello in-between his shifts in his Grandpa's shop- which was amazingly popular as the co holders of the title 'King of games' worked there- and Teá stopped by as favours to Yugi. It started when Yami forgot his lunch or his coat on a rainy day. Yugi'd call up Teá and ask her to take something as they were still good friends.

People all around Yami kept asking if he was dating Teá when she kept coming to see him, even though Yugi cam by more often Teá caught people's attention. Yami told them no and his colleges told him to 'grab her' while she was single. They told him lots of times that to let someone as pretty, loyal and overall perfect as her was both a waste and a personal failure.

Yami had been given these images all his modern life; a man and woman were meant to be together if they had strong feelings. He did feel something; his colleges told him that it was love. Because he'd been told this so much, those images and ideals were everywhere, he'd felt compelled to follow that ideal.

So he had started dating her. Their dating was good, they spent time together and shared memories, went to places, and had a good relationship. They had dated for weeks, and Yami had proposed to her at one of Kaiba's charity balls.

The night was beautiful, the air was rich with flowers and wine and music. It was the perfect place to propose. Teá had been asked in front of the entire gang, she had shouted yes at once and everyone had told them how glad they were for him.

But Joey, Seto and Mokuba were a little reluctant. Yami guessed that they didn't like that he used their ball for his proposal. Their good wishes were true, but he had sensed that there was something there. Yugi had been crying, Yami was a little worried, but Yugi just said "I'm happy for you."

Yet Yugi had been cruel too. Three weeks later he had told Yami that Teá was being unfaithful, Yami was hurt that Yugi would ever think of Teá like that.

Teá had said that Yugi was lying, that he didn't want Yami to get married and leave his life.

Yami and Teá had been engaged for a month… when Yugi vanished. Yami was so upset when he found the note. He had felt; worried, betrayed, abandoned, sad, slightly angry but most of all confused and hurt. The note had told him that Seto, Mokuba and Joey knew where he was.

Yami and Grandpa had confronted the three and had begged them to tell them where Yugi was. But the three boys had refused, saying time and again that it was Yugi's choice and that they had promised to not tell. They said that if they had word from Yugi they'd tell them immediately.

Yami had been depressed and had quickly called up Ishizu in Egypt, thinking that Yugi would have gone there as they visited quite often. But the Ishtars were as clueless as those in Domino. Mai had asked her many contacts; Valon had the old Doma- now the Doma Riders- get together and search as well. But they hadn't found a trace of him anywhere.

As the weeks went on, Yami got more and more upset. Teá complained that he cared more for Yugi than he did for her; he assured her that he did love her and that she was the most important. She had hurt him by saying "Prove it" and demanding that he had to have sex with her.

Yami had been raised in a culture were physical love was special and a mutual understanding. He was shocked that she used such a harsh tone to describe the sacred act. He knew that there was no way she'd ever understand, so told her that he wasn't ready for that step.

But he didn't give up his search. At every tournament he would search the crowds and ask for Yugi, every time there was nothing.

If that wasn't bad enough, when he came by Teá's apartment early one day, he'd found her having sex with Duke Devlin. Yami had angrily broken off their engagement, so hurt that the woman he had trusted had betrayed him, later he would look back and realise that he didn't love her; love and trust were different things. The modern media had brainwashed him to follow the ideals and fit in, and now he had paid for it.

He had felt guilt later when he realised that Yugi had been telling the truth, he had cried and wished to be able to turn back time and take back the words he had said.

Duke had guiltily stopped by the next day and told him that he honestly didn't know that she was engaged; she had told him that she would get money off Yami and then they'd run off and live together. He had said goodbye, saying he was going to the States to set up Dungun Dice over there as well, and he said that Teá was now with nothing. They had agreed that she was a little slut who didn't deserve any comfort.

Yami had eventually given up searching for Yugi, he had realised as everyone else had; that the reason that Yugi wasn't being found was because he didn't want to be found.

Yami came back to the present as his meal was put before him. He smiled at Tristan and Serenity. He knew that they'd never betray each other, they were what each other wanted.

Yami sighed and looked out of the window, the angel feathers were still falling. Yugi were are you? Yami longingly asked the sky. He sighed, he had hoped to spend his first Christmas with Yugi, but it seemed that fate had other plans. Grandpa was equally worried and saddened, but they couldn't do anything until Yugi wished to be found.

Yami smiled at Joey's jokes and made bets with Mokuba that they often tied on and had a very good time, yet, he knew that there was a hole in his being that only Yugi could fill. Yami found a wishbone in his turkey portion, Mokuba explained that they held each side with their smallest fingers and pulled.

"When it snaps the one with the biggest part of the bone gets to make a wish, that's why it's called a wish bone." The black haired boy explained with a grin.

Yami nodded and held one end of it, he offered the other holding to Mokuba "Want to try your luck?" he asked.

Mokuba nodded and pulled. With a clear snap the bone broke. Yami had gotten the largest bit. Mokuba nodded proudly "Now make a wish." He said firmly.

Yami turned the bone over and over between his fingers, then smiled. I wish for Yugi to return to us. He indicated his head at the bone, an odd little tradition, but little did he know that his wish would soon be realised…

Just not in the way he expected it to be.

Amme: There we have it! The first chapter!
Now before you all start screaming and yelling at me; I'll explain why Yami got with Teá in the first place: Everywhere you look you see ideals and they're 'drilled' into your own life, you get inflenced by them; that's why girls nowerdays think that it's attractive to be extreemly skinny and look like a supermodle and why boys think that being smart makes them geeks.

Yami: Really?

Amme: Yes, it's called Properganda (we all see this everywhere! Movies, books, drawings, posters, advertisments, tv; you name it! You even hear about it from friends!) You saw the ideal of a man and woman being in love and dating and getting married and living happily ever after. After seeing that and hearing that from literaly everything aroung you, you felt the need for socail acceptance and so followed these ideals.

Yugi: Is that true?

Amme: Yeah, if you look at Nazi Germany; Hilters propaganda infulenced the country into going to war, giving him power through votes, makeng the jewish "the enemy". It really is a real thing. (That's my Psychology and History knowledge playing into this *wink*)

Yami: Wow, so I wasn't really in love with her?

Amme: No, as explained above; you were just seeing this image so many times you believed it to be true. But, luckily, you realised how evil she was and left her.

Yami: *smirking* good.

Yugi: *cuddling* please leave a review!