Yugi looked thoughtful for a second, “You know I kind of remember that now you mention it.”

“Good thing too,” Bakura looked over at him, “because I was with Ryou and Malik after that and I have no clue what happened.”

“I still don’t remember,” Yami looked over to Yugi, “is it starting to fall into place now?”

Yugi nodded, “We discussed the effects of alcohol I think… yes that was it.  Joey and Tristan joined us and were hardly able to stand so we went and sat behind one of the chairs under the window and we talked about how it was funny that when people were drunk they couldn’t stand properly,” he thought for a moment, “after that… I’m pretty sure someone asked who it was we all had crushes on.  Joey was certain that Bakura had a crush on Ryou and visa versa.”

He looked up at Bakura with a sheepish grin, “I suppose he was right, unless you two were just too drunk to know better last night?”

“No,” Bakura shook his head his cheeks colouring, “as I said, I stayed relatively sober for the entire night so I knew well what I was doing, it’s just, well Ryou was so drunk that I was worried to leave him on his own.”

“Sure,” Ryou looked at his nails with interest, “blame it all on the yami, its not like I woke with you lying against my chest or anything is it now?”

Bakura coloured further, “Well, we did not come here to discuss what we got up to last night I don’t believe.”

“No we didn’t,” Tea giggled, “but it sure is interesting isn’t it?”

Yami waved a hand saving Bakura from further embarrassment; “Do you remember anything that happened after that?  I mean we must have gone home at some point or else we wouldn’t have woken up in bed.”

“Oh, yes there’s more,” Yugi looked up as someone entered the room.  It was Tristan, looking very groggy his hair dishevelled and his eyes red.

“What you all doing here?” he asked looking round, “I don’t remember inviting you to my house.”

Bakura chuckled, “You’re in my house Tristan,” he waved a hand round to accentuate his point, “and you’re here because you didn’t think you’d make it home well last night after the amount you drank.”

Tea nodded and Tristan looked round again as if to make sure they weren’t lying to him then shrugged and sat on the floor, his back against the arm of one of the chairs.

“Now I remember talking for quite some time,” Yugi continued, “I don’t know about what exactly, it all just seems to phase together at that point.  I probably wouldn’t even remember if it had been a normal night.  Anyway, that doesn’t matter, yes we did go home at some point, I think it must have been about four AM by the time we left.”

“I don’t remember how or why we decided we were going home, but I do remember asking Seto if I could use his cell phone to call a taxi and him saying no and then giving it to me anyway.”

“I don’t remember making the call but I do remember that Joey decided Yami’s lap was a pillow and wouldn’t get up when the taxi came.”

“Oh I remember that too,” Tea chuckled, “he’d put his head in Yami’s lap and refused to move saying we were only saying it was Yami’s lap so that we could steal his pillow and we weren’t going to have it.”

“Yeah,” Yugi laughed and nodded, “it took about four of us to prise him off too.  Well then I know we went home and upstairs to bed, I think we both walked into the same room, we must have or we wouldn’t have been in the same bed, but why we stayed there I’m not sure.”

“Maybe it wasn’t intentional,” Bakura thought aloud, “if you both followed each other into the same room maybe you just got in bed and went to sleep, maybe you didn’t do anything at all and you just went to sleep.  I mean you were both drunk and tired so perhaps you just went to sleep and didn’t realise you were both there until the morning.”

Yami shook his head, “I’m pretty sure it was more than that, at least I think it was.”

“But if you don’t know anything, if you can’t remember how would you know it was more than that?” Yugi looked over to him with large inquisitive violet eyes; “Bakura’s reasoning sounds perfectly logical to me.”

“Yes it does,” Yami agreed, “and I don’t know what happened hence why I haven’t told you, but I get this feeling that there was much more to it than that.”

“Because,” Yugi accused, “you weren’t drunk at all were you?  At least not that drunk and you remember everything that went on, don’t you Yami?”

“Hu?” Tea looked over at Yami wonderingly, “is that true Yami?”

“Well I…” he looked down at the floor and scuffed his toe against the carpet, “I guess it is really.  I didn’t get all that drunk I knew most of the things that went on, I just needed my memory refreshing as to some parts of it, the parts were I was fairly drunk.”

“Well then why didn’t you say so?” Taya looked confused, “if you knew what went on all this time why have us sit and go through it step by step to try to figure out what happened?  Why not just say exactly what it was that you did and be done with it?”

“Well I wanted the rest of the pieces filling in for me to make sure that I had my facts right, after all what I know may not have been the truth, I could have dreamt it, I was drunk after all, perhaps not paralytic like the rest of you but I was drunk.”

“So what really happened?” Tea sat forward in her seat, “if more than just that happened what did you do?”

“Oh we didn’t do anything, just slept, but what I meant was that we didn’t just stay in the same room because we happened to walk in there, sure I did walk into the wrong room at first but that was to make sure that Yugi got to his bed safely, I didn’t have any intention to staying in there for the night.  Well when I went to leave Yugi grabbed my arm and said he wanted me to stay, I asked if he meant until he was in bed but he said no he wanted me to stay in the room for the night.  Well I didn’t want to upset him after all there’s absolutely no harm in us sharing a bed, we did share a body for a long time.  So I stayed in his room for the night.  And that’s the whole truth nothing more happened between us and we just slept for the rest of the night,” Yami stopped for a second to think it over, “Wait.  If you knew that I wasn’t so drunk when we got home and that I would know then you must remember yourself. And if that’s all that did happen, and I know it is, then how did you get that bruise?”

Everyone turned to look at Yugi, “Oh I remember the whole night,” he smiled sweetly, “you see when I disappeared for those half hours I was taking a walk to sober back up again and I didn’t drink all that much in the first place, I just acted drunk because the atmosphere got to me.”

“Then why…?” Yami looked confused.

“I wanted you to admit what happened last night because I wanted to see your thoughts on it without me having to ask to get them out of you, if I had just asked outright you would have just said what you thought I wanted to hear.”

“My thoughts,” Yami pondered for a moment, “well it was nice.  Nice to share something again, although I like having my own body and not having to burden you with myself all the time I miss you.”

“Exactly,” Yugi nodded, “and that’s why I did it.  I miss having you around all the time, even though you always are around and we hardly do anything apart I still miss the intimacy of sharing the same body, the same mind.”

“You two sound like us,” Ryou cut in, “that’s the exact reason that we started a relationship,” he chuckled as Bakura coloured, “we may not have been the best of friends when we did share the same body but now that we don’t we miss one another, so we decided to always be together.  Frankly I’m surprised it took the two of you this long, after all you were much closer than we were originally.”

“Oh we’re not…” Yami protested, thinking Ryou had caught the wrong end of the stick.

“You’re not?” Ryou looked over at Yugi, “well then you should really think about changing your mind, I’ve seen the way the squirt looks at you.”

Yugi blushed fiercely but nodded his ascent anyway.

“You would?  You want to?” Yami’s cheeks were tinged with a slight colour themselves; “well then why didn’t you just say so?”

“Well I didn’t know if you felt the same way, so I thought that maybe if I did all this I could finally find out, only it comes down to me asking you outright anyway because you’re so unyielding with your thoughts and such a mystery that even I can’t fathom you.”

“Well of course I will,” Yami leant over and brushed a finger down Yugi’s cheek smiling, “of course I’ll be yours, I always was after all, I just thought you already knew that.”

Yugi smiled and tilted his head, putting his hand to the back of Yami’s neck and pulling him forward.  Their lips met gently and they savoured their first kiss, the others looking on in awe and wondering exactly why it had taken them so long to realise it.

‘No matter,’ Tea thought, ‘it’s sorted now.  On to Joey and Tristan I guess.’

After a few moments Yami pulled back and looked Yugi straight in the eyes, “Just one more think,” he inquired.

“Mmm?” Yugi looked like he didn’t care right now so long as they didn’t have to stop for too long.

“You never did say where you got that bruise from, I know it wasn’t me.”

Yugi coloured, “Well, actually, I… erm, I got it from Mai… she cornered me leaving to go out to sober up when we were at Bakura’s and asked where I was going, so I said I needed some air and she said that I looked rather tasty and bit me… it was already there so I thought I’d use it, I don’t know what came over her really.”

“That sounds like Mai to me, hahaha,” Yami smiled at him and bent back down again.

Owari xxx