Chapter 15: Chapter 15
The air felt heavy around Yugi as he tried to swiftly walk faster and faster through the crowds. Passing by friendly and unfamiliar faces, watching people laugh and mingle away.
He felt his lungs heavier with each breathe he continued to take. He continued to feel weight being pulled down on his shoulders almost wanting to collapse to the floor.
The quicker he tried to escape the more he continued to pick up his paste and almost felt like he was now running away. His eyes began to turn into a reddish color, as he wanted to break down.
After what he felt like an eternity he had reached the end of the back of the yacht. Not many people was on this side of the boat as he walked to the edge of the deck.
The ocean waters behind them as it was almost like entire darkness from the outside. The cool calm breeze blowing his multi-colored hair to which he felt himself panting in breathes.
He did wish to sob, to weep as he felt insulted by those men today. How could he believe he could do this. How could he believe he could become someone of great succession.
He didn't have a masters degree, and it seemed to be an embarrassment to mention it. He leaned against the railing, feeling the waterworks try and cover his eyes. Slowly looking up at nothingness, as he blinked.
He closed his eyes and tried to remember a good time in his life. He couldn't afford to have red eyes now, as he wouldn't be home for who knows how long. Yugi continued to wonder about his friend Sam, and how he missed him.
Thoughts of loneliness and despair were clouding the male's mind. Feeling his eyelids close again as he wanted to be taken away from this yacht and into an unknown island.
Somewhere were no one could see him or reach him. A place of inner peace and a time of healing and comfort. He longed to belong in the social groups, but on the outside he seemed to always fumble.
He sighed and tried to relax his heart beat, not knowing a male standing in the distance observing him.
" I thought I'd find you here, yes? " a familiar seductive French tone would speak.
Immediately Yugi quickly turned around, and seeing his boss Mr. Sennen watching him from a small distance. Yugi quickly turned his face and wiped his cheeks a bit before sniffing.
Yugi didn't have the courage at this moment to form actual words, yet he did wish to ask why his boss had followed him. He didn't think his boss would give a damn about his issues or mental problems.
Mr. Sennen however could see that Yugi was in need of some reassurance. Though the male didn't say much between them from the beginning, he felt now perhaps was the best of times.
Yami eventually walked closer towards the male and looked out at the darkness himself while speaking aloud.
" I see you upset. I — figured you could use some company. " Yami would remark.
" ... I - .. I do not.... " Yugi mumbled a bit however loud enough through his sniffing and upset tone to make Yami hear him.
Yami however wouldn't be deterred from Yugi's tone nor his expression of wishful thinking. He simply smirked a bit and nodded.
" ... I know you upset, Mr. Mutou. You shouldn't put your emotions aside. Not even for stuck up old men. " Yami remarked.
Yugi didn't reply although he watched Yami carefully as Yami walked around a bit in the area and near the railing.
" ..... when I was you age I — " Yami would begin to speak before stopping a bit as his eyes lowered heavily. His purple hues soften, as Yugi watched in a side glance.
" ... years ago... I — I finished my master's degree in business and— did not go to my graduation physically. I — went into the vast countryside and made them mail my diploma to me. " Yaami remarked.
Yugi continued to listen to him, however his brain was confused in a way as towards why Yami would do that.
Yami could feel that Yugi didn't really comprehend and so in a way Yami explained a bit further.
" ... I do not like crowds. " Yami spoke.
Yugi blinked and glanced down briefly before meeting Yami's gaze before turning his eyes at the open sea. Yami staring at Yugi as he inched a bit closer towards him.
" My point. I make is that— fear is for the weak. However, when you take ahold of your own doubts— or in your case... shyness — you can change how people see you... " Yaami explained.
Yugi slowly glanced over at Yaami, as Yaami stood there confidently and his hands had never left the front of his body. Sitting there gracefully under his stomach both hands folded together.
" ... my shyness.... " Yugi repeated.
" Yes. " Yami told him.
" you and I both know you are soft. " Yami stated.
Yugi's orbs widened a bit and he slowly stood up straight again as he turned more his body towards Yaami to reply to his remark.
" .... I am not. " Yugi replied.
" you are too. " Yaami argued straight forward.
" am not. " Yugi argued again as he walked closer towards Yaami.
Yaami was never someone to back down — as he simply stepped closer towards Yugi directly into his face. Close to kiss Yugi if he so desired which made Yugi's heart race faster.
Yaami in a serious and direct tone however keeping his flamboyant voice as he couldn't change that, speaking back.
" are. too. " Yaami would state.
" If I so desired I could thump you in your eye and you'd run like a little girl. " Yaami would say more.
" I — " Yuugi said as his face went red as he was also appalled by Yaami's accusations.
" I — I most certainly would not! " Yugi would argue more.
" would you? " Yaami questioned.
" no! I would not! I — " Yugi said stumbling and fumbling his words again before breaking eye contact with Yaami.
Yaami smacked his lips briefly before he slowly took his left hand and held Yugi's chin up. For that brief interaction with his boss made Yugi get a heatwave.
His thighs and chest felt a warmth wash against him, and his face felt sweaty and heavy. His pupils dilating rapidly, faster that anything his heart pounded against his chest.
He felt a rush overtake him, and his mind went with a thousand and one thoughts time and time again. He felt like he could faint at any moment, simply because Yaami had touched his chin to make the male look at him again.
Their eye contact was deep and unbreakable right now. Yugi's soft caring and gentle grey eyes, being stared back at by a more attractive, intimating and narrow hard man like Yaami's.
The sexual tension Yugi felt was unmeasurable, and he felt Yaami hadn't noticed a thing. " ... do not look away Mr. Mutou. " Yaami would whisper.
" ... u.. huh... " Yugi would say half listening towards Yaami, as he was mesmerized by Yaami's facial features and his sexual tone of voice.
" poise. Integrity and power.... Yes? " Yaami told Yugi once more.
" ... of course... " Yugi whispered.
Yaami slowly removing his hand from Yugi's chin as he chuckled a bit seeing Yugi slumped over in his posture almost as if he wanted to float away smelling a delicious pie.
Yugi hadn't even realize how hypnotized he had looked as Yaami chuckled at how he was behaving. Yugi eventually blinked and felt his cheeks warm up from embarrassment.
" sorry ! I — was just — " Yugi said quickly blinking a bunch of times.
" thinking about pie? " Yaami chimed in quickly to say, as he put his hand against his soft full lips, to giggle softly.
Yugi didn't get the remark, in fact he was confused. " pie? " Yugi questioned briefly before he was going to say more. " I was thinking about y- ... " as he stopped.
Yami watched the male as the breeze kissed their skins feeling the wind blow their hair in different directions.
" ... yes. Pie. — I was thinking about pie. " Yugi stated.
Yaami looked down briefly to check his watch and looked back up at Yugi. " I must be going. I enjoyed our conversation, yes. We shall have to have one again at a later date.. "
Yugi watched as Yami turned heel and started to walk down the small steps of the dock and headed back in the opposite direction.
Yugi felt his lips twist in a knot, contemplating if he should speak on it now or he may never get another chance again. His words feeling like they were turning sour in his mouth.
He needed to have poise and confidence like his boss continued to speak about. Finally, he shouted towards Yaami before he was too ways away from ear shot.
" Why do you hate me!? " Yugi asked towards Yaami aloud.
Yaami stopped in his tracks, his last heel clicked from the hault. However he didn't turn around quickly, as he slowly turned sideways to see Yugi.
Yugi tossing his arms up in the air in a puzzle state and continued to speak. " I see the way you talk to me.... Treat me.... Why do you dislike me so? I — I'm trying! Aren't I? Why am I such a disappointment to you...? " Yugi asked Yaami directly.
In those last wrangles, Yaami orbs open a small tad hearing those familiar words. The male himself didn't open his mouth back to Yugi, as Yugi stood there awaiting a reply.
The gap between them was huge as Yaami hadn't plan on stepping back towards Yugi at all. Yaami felt those words echoed in his thoughts, before he inhaled deeply and exhaled.
" .... I do not hate you. " Yaami replied staring directly at Yugi. His confidence never wavered not even once.
" you just—— " Yaami said before catching himself briefly as Yugi continued to listen intensely.
" ... you remind me of— someone I know is all... I see the best in you. I do not wish for you to fail. You should keep trying Mr. Mutou. I'm sure one day you and I will see eye to eye on that matter. " Yaami would finish stating before he turn back around again and walked away.
Yugi staring as Yaami walking away continued to roll the last sentences from Yaami again and again in his mind. In a way Yuugi felt as though the someone Yaami was referring to was himself.
There was much Yugi didn't know about his boss, other than from him being an attractive man and succession found that he perhaps himself had a dark and twisted traumatic past.
One that Yaami himself didn't like to mention or remember, as it seemed the words of disappointment seem to hit a nerve of Yaami. Yugi was simply pondering and guessing at this point, but in truth he was much more curious now.
In the end however, he was once again left speechless by Yaami. Yugi slowly turned back around to stare out into the emptiness of the sea again. His mind turning into a knotted twist, before he would sigh and head back to the party.