Here's a story with Yuki. Please enjoy and review.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh

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Love at Last

Chapter 1: The Boy

In the country of Egypt, there was a proud and happy kingdom. The one who ruled that kingdom was the great Pharaoh Atem, or Yami, and at his side, his queen, Yukika, or Yuki.

Pharaoh Atem had tri-color hair, crimson eyes, tan skin, and a well-built body. He was ruling after his father. He ruled well with kindness to all from noble to slave.

Queen Yukika had midnight blue hair, blue eyes, pale skin, and an hour glass figure. She came from a different land. In fact, she wasn't royalty until she married Atem, who loves her dearly. She loves her husband just as much.

Together, they ruled Egypt with fairness. They only wanted happiness for everyone.

One day, in the throne room, Pharaoh Atem and Queen Yukika were talking and laughing with each other while waiting to do their duties as the rulers. The priests, Seto, Bakura, Marik, Mahaad, and Isis, were smiling, watching the two lovebirds. One of them named Dair looked annoyed, not really happy about how the Pharaoh ruled.

"Pharaoh!" Tristan and Duke, co-captains of the guard, shouted as they rushed in with an injured boy.

"Forgive us for the intrusion, my pharaoh and my queen, but we found a boy, a slave, who was beaten by his master and was abandoned. We couldn't leave him," Duke said.

The queen gasped and turned to her husband. He nodded to her. Yukika got up and ran up to them to see the boy.

The boy was just a child, about six years old. He was unconscious. He had the same hair as the Pharaoh but had pale skin. His eyes were close, so she couldn't see the child's eyes. If she didn't know better, she could've thought he was their child. What sadden her were the wounds of cuts, bruises and whip markings all over him.

"Fools, you shouldn't waste the pharaoh's time with a useless slave! Return him to his master!" Dair yelled. Queen Yukika looked at him with fear, then she faced to Atem. The young ruler knew the look on his wife's face.

"No," the king refused, "The child will stay with us. He will be our new personal servant. If his master comes looking for him, we'll pay him for the child. Isis, take him to the healing rooms and help him."

Atem knew that the queen already made a spot in her heart for the boy. Seeing the slave child from afar but still well, he was starting to feel the same.

"Yes, my Pharaoh," Isis said. She gently took the child, but he stirred a little and tensed up, not seeing exactly what was going on.

"It's all right now. You're going to be okay," the queen whispered in his ear. The boy relaxed. He didn't know the voice, but he was glad that it wasn't his master. Isis took him away to get better.

Yukika ran into Atem's arms. "Thank you, Yami," she whispered.

"Anything for you, Yuki," he whispered back.

The truth was Yukika was once a slave herself. She was beaten and whipped a lot for silly reasons. She even had the most cruelest master in the whole world for five years.

When he got ready to sell her at age fifteen, she was sold to the Pharaoh, a teenager then, to serve. By that time, Yukika got frighten easily and didn't want to feel anymore pain. When she became the Pharaoh's personal servant, she was very scared.

As time went by, she got better. Atem never punished her for foolish things, and because she was a good servant, he had no reason to. He protected her from those who wished her to be harmed. She, who had learned to protect her master with fighting skills and pressure points, protected him too as much as she could when he was in danger. He treated her like a friend. They fell in love, but they never told each other for they knew that as Pharaoh, Atem had to marry a princess.

It all changed when there was an attack at the palace. Atem was in danger. A warrior was about to pierce him with a sword, but Yukika took it for him. She was badly injured yet survived.

For weeks, she was unconscious, fading by the day. Atem was too busy with his duties to see her. He wanted to see her badly though. All priests wanted him to see her too. They liked her as well. All but Dair. When Isis reported that Yukika was at the edge of death, Atem abandon what he was doing and ran to see her at once. At the sound of his voice, she finally reacted and began to recover. Atem and the priests knew that she should be rewarded for saving the Pharaoh's life and risking her own.

Yukika refused the thought of it. She was just happy that Atem was okay. That's why she threw herself in harm's way for him. She loved him that much to die in his place.

Now everyone in the palace knew that Atem and Yukika were in love but respected the law. Isis found Yukika's family tree and found that she was a distant descendant of a royal family in her land. Her ancestor, who was a cousin or a sister to the heir, was kidnapped. So that led all the way to Yukika who was born into slavery and sold over seas. She was qualified as a princess. Happily, she told the news to Atem, Yukika, and the priests.

Overjoyed, Atem admit his feelings and she did the same. Yukika was then in courtship with the pharaoh and no longer a servant. He started to call her 'Yuki' and she called him 'Yami'. Their love grew everyday. They married at age twenty.

Even though Yukika mostly recover from the horrors as a servant, she was still touching about the subject of servants and slaves being mistreated. The scars on her back faded a great deal but still were visible. Atem took them as a reminder to make sure she is never harmed and always loved.

Though that boy was young, it appeared to the queen that he got worse treatment than she had. It hurt her to think of such cruelty to anyone, let alone a child.

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"I ordered for the small room to be ready for the boy, but when they finish treating him, they can put him on our bed. The room should be very comfortable and warm for him. I hope it will be good enough," Atem rambling to Yukika. She couldn't help but giggle whenever he did this.

"Yami, it's fine. You're doing all you can do for the child. From the looks of him, he probably just needs a lot of love," she said. He sighed.

"You sure know a lot about these things. I wouldn't know the first thing for a child who was that hurt," he said.

"Yami, you know that love was helped me. I stopped shaking when I felt something was wrong, stopped fearing that it would lead to punishment, and stopping worrying that I would do something in the future to feel pain. It was your love that saved me. Love can save that child," Yukika explained. She knew that it will take even more love to save him though.

The couple reached their room to the slave child on their bed as excepted. They approached it to see that he was bandaged and sleeping peacefully.

"You know, when he wakes up seeing the pharaoh and queen, he might not react well," Atem said.

"That's why we have to go easy on him," she said.

Suddenly, the child slowly woke-up, revealing that he had beautiful amethyst eyes that was look so pure and innocent that shocked them. He was confuse that he was on something so soft. He looked up to see he was in a fancy room. What shocked him the most was that the pharaoh and the queen was there. He was scared now.

"Hello," Yukika said kindly, "Our guards found you and brought you to us. We would like you to become our personal servant. Don't worry. No harm will come to you, sweetie."

"You can call me 'Yami' and you can call my wife 'Yuki'. Those are our nicknames and we won't mind if you use them," Atem added. He had already talked about this with the priest. Given that he was just a kid, it was a good idea.

"T-T-Thank you, your highness," the child said, unsure of really calling the rulers those names.

"What is your name, little one?" Yukika asked.

"Y-Yugi... my queen," the boy answered and was surprised when she giggled a little bit.

"That's a cute name. It kinda rhythms with 'Yuki'," she answered. Atem chuckled at her, then turned to the child.

"Well, Yugi, from now on, you will be our personal servant. Welcome."

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Preview: Yugi is starting up as the pharaoh and the queen's servant. He's scared, but he wants to trust them. Will he be able to?