Natural Reality - Arc 1 - Chapter 5

It was another few weeks before Yami and Yugi were discharged from hospital. Seto had discovered that his rival’s home was destroyed and in a rare moment of kindness, repaired it to the way it looked before with extra rooms underground to make the whole place less cramped.

Yami was frustrated with the whole situation. He had not had a chance to talk to Yugi about his conversation with Heba and the moment they return home, Ryou and Malik take him to see Horakhty leaving him with Marik and Bakura.

“Did you just say Heba?” Bakura asked snapping Yami out of his thoughts. The three yami’s had been drinking when Yami murmured the name unexpectedly.

“I did?” Yami asked confused. One look to Marik confirmed that he had. With a sigh, Yami leaned back in his chair. “Heba spoke to me in the hospital while Yugi was asleep. He is… the complete opposite to my hikari.”

“Heba has… a lot of unresolved rage from when he was alive,” Bakura said carefully. “Yugi is his reborn self and I suppose that rage has filtered over to Yugi.”

“Unresolved rage?”

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“You have a darkness blocking your voice,” Horakhty said softly after assessing Yugi. “I need to remove your core in order to find out where this darkness is coming from.” She indicated to Yugi to lay on a small circular mattress that was covered with soft fleece blankets.

Remove my core? Yugi asked lying down. Won’t that hurt?

“Not to you,” she looked up at Malik and Ryou. “You had better get your yami’s to restrain and distract Yami while I do this. He is going to feel a lot of pain.”

Yugi’s eyes widened and was about to refuse her when she touched his chest, drawing a large orb of light out.

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‘Kura! Bakura fell off his seat as Ryou’s voice burst through his mind. A similar thump told him Marik had heard Malik as well. Yami looked at the two confused. Keep Yami busy.

Why?

Because Horakhty-sama is going to take Yugi’s core and it is going to hurt him! Yami clutched his chest, eyes widening in shock. He can’t come to Horakhty-sama’s domain without her permission!

How do you suppose we keep him busy? Bakura yelled as he jumped up at restrained one of Yami’s arms as Marik tried restraining the other.

I don’t know. Ryou cried. Bakura could sense he was afraid of what he was seeing before him. Just do what you normally do.

I’ll try. Bakura softened his tone. Will you be ok?

I think so…

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“This is strange,” Horakhty mused as she probed Yugi’s core. “There is no darkness in here. But he isn’t completely here as well. It seems that part of his core is missing.”

Ryou watched as Horakhty returned to the bed where Yugi’s body laid motionless. His eyes vacant and staring up at the ceiling as she probed his body with her power. Clucking her tongue disapprovingly, she waved her hand over Yugi’s eyes.

“Heba…” Horakhty said softly waiting until the light vacant eyes darkened to the rich purple. “You should be merged with Yugi’s reincarnated soul. Why are you still separate?”

“I was tainting him,” Heba replied sitting up. “My rage was turning him dark. I had to separate from him to protect his light as a hikari…” He paused and then looked at the orb of light which pulsed in an irritated manner. “He’s getting angry. But not at me…” He glanced at Ryou and Marik who immediately blushed.

Horakhty stared at the three hikari before focusing her attention solely on Ryou and Malik. “What is going on?”

“Our yami’s are distracting Yami…” Malik said carefully. “And Yami is participating…” Horakhty looked annoyed at his evasiveness.

“They are having a threesome,” Ryou blurted out before going really red. “I don’t know how it evolved into that but I think Yugi is mad at his darkness.”

Heba nodded and then smiled. “I think Yugi will be difficult to subdue once you return his orb to his body.” He looked at Horakhty with a sneaky smile. “But I do have a suggestion on how to subdue it.”

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Yami lay panting, his limbs entangled with Bakura’s and Marik’s. He knew that Yugi would be angry at his tryst with the other yami’s but he had lost himself to the lust of the other two. The tearing pain in his chest had died down and the lust had covered up the residual pain nicely.

Rolling over, he got up and pulled on some clothes. He turned to find the other two following suit. They were glad they had chosen that moment to get dressed as they suddenly found themselves sitting with their legs folded under them, their hands behind their backs, and held in place with golden chains.

Yami could see Yugi’s body lying on the mattress in front of them and beyond that was the other two hikari and an orb of light that pulsed angrily. Horakhty smiled at them in welcome.