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Yami and Yugi quickly made their way through the palace corridors, their grandfather, King Solomon, had sent for them and judging by how out of breath the servant had been grandpa had made it clear that they needed to get their as fast as humanly possible. A matter of moments later Yami pushed open the door to the throne room and entered, Yugi right on his heels.
"Ah, Yami, Yugi glad you two came so quickly. I have something important I need to talk to you about, well mainly you Yami…but I wanted Yugi to be aware of this as well." Solomon said with a smile.
Yami frowned slightly in confusion, while Yugi asked, "And what is it you needed to tell us about Grandpa?"
Grandpa sighed, "Yami, well you're getting married." Grandpa said.
Yami just gaped at his grandfather in silence, his mind not able to comprehend what it was Grandpa had just said. Yugi actually burst out laughing.
"That's so funny Grandpa. Now, what did you really want to tell us about?" Yugi asked through his laughter. He and Yami were twin 16 year olds, Yami being the older of the two by about 10 minutes.
Grandpa frowned, "I'm serious about his. Yami is going to be marrying the prince of Astria by the end of the week. The wedding was originally planned to be on your 21st birthday but that was before his father, the former king, died. It has been decided that you should marry him before he ascends the throne." Solomon said, with a tone of voice that said I'm serious.
"I'm WHAT?" Yami shouted. There was no way; absolutely NO WAY he was marrying the prince of Astria. Astria was the most powerful kingdom on the planet. They could decimate the kingdom of Domino with a flick of their wrist. Their rulers were supposed to control an unbelievably powerful magic. Why on earth was grandpa marrying him off to an Astrian?
"Yes Yami, you are marrying the Prince of Astria." Solomon said, "The kingdom of Astria sent the message about the wedding date being moved up. The prince is expecting you tomorrow at 2 o'clock."
"Tomorrow? Grandpa you can't be serious. Isn't there anything you could do?" Yugi asked, absolutely horrified by the thought of being separated from his brother…and never being able to see him again.
"Well, I could always keep Yami here, thus breaking the peace treaty that we negotiated with Astria, which would result in war and our entire nation being decimated by the end of the week." Grandpa said, which made Yugi pale and Yami sigh in defeat.
"Very well Grandfather. I will go and pack my things." Yami said. Before he turned and left the throne room, Yugi following him.
Yami slowly began to pack all of his belongings while Yugi sat on the bed, watching him. "Yami, there has to be some way to get you out of this." Yugi said.
Yami glanced up at Yugi, "Yugi, I have to do this. Don't worry I'll be okay, and you'll become the next king of Domino." Yami said with a smile.
"But, you were always supposed to become the king, and I was just going to be your advisor. Remember we're a team Yami. I don't know what I'd do without you." Yugi said, tears forming in his eyes.
Yami set aside the tunic he had been packing and climbed up onto the bed beside his brother and pulled him into a hug, "Don't worry Yugi, you'll be fine I promise. And I will see you again one day. This isn't good-bye forever." Yami said.
"You promise?" Yugi asked, knowing that no one from his kingdom had ever traveled to Astria, and no one from Astria really came to Domino.
Yami smiled, "I promise. Even if I have to sneak out of the palace in the dead of night and walk all the way back to Domino." Yami said.
Yugi giggled, "Wouldn't you get caught?"
"Of course not. Because there isn't a force on this planet that can keep me from visiting my little brother. Those guards are no match for me and my determination." Yami said.
Yugi nodded and Yami got up and continued his packing.
"Umm, can I stay in here with you tonight Yami?" Yugi asked.
"Of course you can Yugi; you know your welcome here any time." Yami said.
Yami finished packing in relative silence before he laid down beside Yugi in bed, who immediately snuggled up beside Yami. "I'm going to really miss you big brother."
"I'll miss you too Little One." Yami whispered before he gave Yugi a light kiss on the forehead and the two drifted off to sleep.
Yami awoke early the next morning with butterflies in his stomach. I'm actually going to Astria today. I don't think anyone from my kingdom has ever been to Astria before. I wonder how I'm going to get there. I mean there's a magical barrier that surrounds the entire kingdom that keeps outsiders well out. Yami thought as he wandered downstairs after he shook Yugi awake, knowing that Yugi would want to spend as much time with Yami as possible.
The two made their way downstairs and into the throne room to see their grandfather talking to a tall brunet.
"Ah, there are my grandson's now." Solomon said when Yami and Yugi walked into the room.
The Brunet turned and locked cold blue eyes on the twins before asking, "And which of them is my Cousin's fiancé?"
"I am." Yami said.
"Then let us make haste, my cousin isn't known for his patience." The Brunet said.
Solomon nodded and the Brunet then strode briskly out of the room, Yugi, Yami and Solomon following in his wake.
"Grandpa, who is that?" Yugi asked in a whisper.
"A high priest of Astria and a member of the king's council, he was sent to bring Yami to Astria." Solomon responded.
"Oh, what's his name?" Yugi asked.
"I don't know." Solomon said, "Nor did I ask, I'm sure that Yami's fiancé will explain that particular custom to him."
Yami looked at his grandpa for a moment before he shrugged decided that he just didn't want to know. The man suddenly turned back around.
"Well, what are you waiting for boy? We've got to get moving or else my cousin'll have my head." The man said icily.
Yami walked up to the man with every intent of telling him exactly what he thought of being called 'boy', but before he even had a chance to open his mouth they were engulfed by a large purple cloud. What the hell? Yami thought, and after what to Yami seemed like an eternity, though in reality it was only a few minutes. And when the dark cloud disappeared Yami saw they were in front of a giant stone palace that made his grandfather's palace look like a peasants home. Needless to say, Yami was awestruck.
After Yami stood staring for a moment the Brunet seemed to have gotten fed up with him because he grabbed Yami by the wrist and began to drag him inside, grumbling under his breath.
A matter of moments later the Brunets pushed open a large, ornately decorated set of doors which exposed on extravagant throne room. Yami was dragged through the door and towards the raised dais upon which was seated a boy who looked almost exactly like Yami himself.
"It's about time you got here cousin. I was beginning to lose my patience." The boy on the throne said.
"I apologize my lord, Your fiancé and his family were dragging their feet the entire time. I was kept waiting 40 minutes before your fiancé even bothered to come downstairs…" the brunet began.
"That's quite enough of your excuses Seth. You are dismissed. I want all of you out of my sight…" the boy said and when everyone began to scatter he added, "Except you." Pointing straight at Yami.
Once everyone had left the room the boy stood up from the throne and walked up to Yami, wrapping his arms around Yami's waist pulling Yami flush against him. "It's a pleasure to finally meet you." The Prince said as he pressed his lips to Yami's cheek. "Now, what do you say we go somewhere else and get a bit better acquainted." The prince said.
Yami nodded, while trying to fight down a blush. Yami once again found himself surrounded by a purple cloud but this time by the time he had realized it was there it had already disappeared revealing a large extravagantly decorated room.
"Alright beautiful rose, would you mind telling me what your name is?" the Prince asked.
"My name's Yami what's your na…" Yami began only to stop when he remembered the odd conversation about names he'd heard his grandfather and Yugi have earlier today. However, his fiancé didn't seem to mind.
"Well Yami, it's nice to meet you. My name is Atemu." Atemu said with a smile, he began to chuckle when Yami starred back at him in shock. "Let me guess you weren't expecting me to tell you my name." Atemu said.
"Well, my grandfather said something about a custom of not telling people your names. But he said that you'd explain it to me." Yami said.
"Well that is true. You see in our culture your name is considered to be very important to you and so culturally you are not permitted to speak the name of a person who is of a higher social class than you, the only exception to that rule is spouses are permitted to use each others names…though it would be preferred that they only do so privately." Atemu explained.
"Oh, I get it, since I'm marrying you I'm allowed to use your name." Yami said.
Atemu smirked, "Yes only you are allowed to use my name, and I can't wait for you to cry it out in times of passion." Atemu paused to pull Yami closer to him, "Now, what do you say we get a bit more acquainted with one another, seeing as how we're to be married tomorrow at noon." Atemu said rather suggestively.
"That sounds nice, wait a minute Tomorrow!" Yami said as he quite suddenly pulled back.
"Yes Yami, tomorrow at noon I am going to take your hand in marriage and then," Atemu started as he pulled Yami closer to him which made Yami blush, "After our honeymoon I will complete the final portion of my coronation. My council agreed that I should officially be king by this time next week." Atemu said before he tilted Yami's head up so he was starring staring straight into Atemu's ruby eyes before he leaned forward slightly and pressed his lips to Yami's in a mind blowing kiss.
After a few minutes Atemu pulled away, smirking slightly at the dazed look on Yami's face. I can't wait until tomorrow. Atemu thought before kissing Yami a second time. Atemu then pulled away opting instead to nibble on Yami's ear before he moved down to Yami's throat.
"Nngh, Atemu we're not going too…" Yami began to say, but stop when Atemu nipped at sensitive part of Yami's neck before pulling away.
"No, beautiful rose, we're not going to do that tonight. That is for tomorrow night and probably every night after that." Atemu said.
"That's nice…wait a minute, what do you mean every night after that? Are you insane?" Yami asked.
"Exactly what I said Yami, you can't seriously expect me to leave someone as sexy as you alone while we share a bed at night. Besides, how else do you see us conceiving a child?" Atemu asked.
"Woah, woah, time out there, I don't see us conceiving a child at all. Maybe you missed this really really important fact, we're both GUYS." Yami said.
Atemu glanced at Yami for a moment before saying, "Yes, I am quite aware that we are both men, though I fail to see how that is even an issue."
Yami gaped at him, "Men are incapable of bearing children." Yami said.
Atemu chuckled, "I forget how small and uneducated your kingdom truly is Yami. Well, I can tell you that in THIS kingdom news of a man bearing a child is not uncommon. Such a practice became commonplace about 400 or 500 years ago. So, you can get pregnant…let me rephrase WILL get pregnant, in fact you will be most likely before the new year." Atemu said.
Yami gaped at Atemu, who smirked. After a few moments Yami managed to get his jaw picked up off the floor he yelled, "I'm going to WHAT?"
"Relax Yami, it's not something you need to be worrying about right now." Atemu said.
"I'D SURE AS HELL SAY IT'S SOMETHING THAT I NEED TO WORRY ABOUT!" Yami shouted.
"Yami, it's really not a big deal, we'll talk about this more later." Atemu said sharply.
"But…" Yami started.
"Later Yami, the subject is closed." Atemu snapped.
Yami glared at Atemu, or at least tried to before deciding to let the subject drop, for now. Yami then thought of something else, "Say Atemu, I just realized that when that priest came to get me, we left without him giving me any indication that we were leaving." Yami said.
"And your telling me this because why?" Atemu asked.
"Well, I wasn't really ready to leave then. All my bags I packed with my belongings were still in my room. I didn't even get to grab my stuff." Yami said.
Atemu sighed, "Well, I have some clothes that you could wear if that's what your worried about." Atemu said.
"I figured you would, but some of the stuff I packed I wanted to bring with me was important to me, like things my parents gave me before they died." Yami said, the look on his face clearly saying, please let me go and get them.
Atemu sighed Seth I'm going to kill you. Atemu thought before he said, "Alright, we'll go back to retrieve you things." But he added when he saw Yami cheer, "but that is all we will be doing there. We will be there 10 minutes tops. I don't want you go give me any problems when it comes time to leave."
Yami nodded, Atemu wrapped his arms firmly around Yami's waist and the two were enveloped in a cloud of purple smoke. When the smoke cleared Yami saw that they were outside his grandfather's palace.
"Well Yami, let's go and get your things so we can get back." Atemu said as he tugged Yami towards the door. I have a cousin to murder when we get back. Atemu thought.
"Okay, okay I'm coming Ate…" Yami began only to have Atemu swiftly cut him off.
"Yami, you will not address me by my name when we are not in private." Atemu said.
Yami sighed, this name thing was going to take some serious getting used to. "Then what would you have me call you?" Yami asked.
Atemu paused for a moment, "You can call me many things. Koi, Habibi, or Anata among them. You can choose which, however, if you don't wish to address me by those more intimate names than you may refer to me as Yugioh." Atemu said.
Yami shrugged.
The two made a beeline for the stairs. Yami and Atemu, walked into Yami's room and froze when they saw someone else was sitting, well lying down on Yami's bed.
Yami immediately ran over to the person, shaking him slightly.
"Leave-sniff- me alone grandpa. It's all your fault Yami's gone." Yugi said.
"Yugi, it's me." Yami said.
Yugi quickly sat up and immediately pulled Yami into a hug. "Yami! I'm so happy to see you again. I've missed you so much. Did the wedding get called off? Please tell me the wedding got called off." Yugi said.
Yami chuckled, "No Little One, the wedding did not get called off. I just came back to grab the stuff I packed last night which I left here this morning…and to tell you good-bye." Yami said.
"NO!" Yugi yelled squeezing Yami even tighter, which made Yami grunt in pain. "You can't leave Yami. I need you here. The Prince of Astria can find someone else to marry instead."
Yami sighed, "Yugi, Little One, you know that's not the way these things work. You know that in this case it HAS to be me." Yami said.
"But that's not fair, I don't want you to go. Can't you just tell him that you aren't attracted to guys that way and you would be really REALLY uncomfortable being married to him?"
"Yugi you know I can't do that." Yami said.
"Then how about you threaten to cheat on hi…" Yugi said.
"Yugi! That is enough. I know you don't like that I'm going to be getting married but you have to learn to accept that that is what's going to happen. And you know that your suggestions are full of crap anyway. You know I'm attracted to men and you know I'd rather gouge my heart out than cheat on someone since I consider that the highest form of dishonor. I am most certainly not going to threaten to cheat on him just because you want the wedding called off." Yami said.
Yugi opened his mouth to speak again, however he stopped when Atemu cleared his throat.
Yami and Yugi both looked up at Atemu who was standing there waiting for Yami. "Grab your stuff. We're leaving; we've already stayed for more than 10 minutes." Atemu said.
Yami sighed but nodded and slowly made to crawl off the bed. Yugi wouldn't let him go. "NO! I won't let you leave Yami." Yugi said.
"Little One, I promise I'll come and visit. Okay? I swear this isn't good-bye forever, this is only temporary." Yami said.
"Can't you stay just a little while longer?" Yugi asked.
Yami hardly had to glance at Atemu to know that the answer was no. "No, Yugi I can't but if you don't let me leave now I won't be able to come and visit you for a very VERY long time." Yami said.
Yugi sighed and rested his head on his brother's chest, his arms still firmly wrapped around Yami's torso. "I'm going to miss you Yami."
Yami chuckled, "I'll miss you too Yugi." Yami said giving his brother a light kiss on the forehead. Before he regretfully untangled Yugi's arms from around him and went and picked up his stuff.
While Yami was grabbing his stuff Yugi walked over to Atemu. "You're the one marrying my brother?" Yugi asked.
Atemu nodded, "I am."
Yugi nodded, and said, "Then understand this. You hurt my brother in anyway and I'll make you wish you'd never been born. Let this be a warning to you…" Yugi trailed off and kneed Atemu in the groin, which immediately made Atemu drop to his knees.
"Yugi! What in the world have you done?" Yami asked running over, shocked that his brother just kneed someone like that, let alone the ruler of a very powerful kingdom.
"Just warning your fiancé that he had better not hurt you." Yugi said.
Yami knelt next to Atemu to make sure that he was okay. Atemu looked at Yami and saw that he had his bags hanging from his shoulder. "You got your stuff?" Atemu gasped out, his voice laced with pain.
Yami nodded. Atemu then reached out and grabbed Yami's hand and the two were enveloped in a cloud of purple smoke leaving Yugi alone in Yami's room.
Once the smoke had cleared Yami could see that they were back in Atemu's room. Atemu slowly rose to his feet. Yami felt absolutely terrible.
"Atemu, I'm so so sorry that Yugi did that." Yami said.
"Don't worry about it Yami, I'm fine. Sore but fine." Atemu said.
Yami sighed but decided not to push the subject anymore. He glanced out the window and noticed that the sun had already set. Yami turned back to Atemu, "Well, it's getting late so I should probably be heading to my room." Yami said.
Atemu frowned. "What are you talking about Yami? This is your room." Atemu said.
Yami flushed in embarrassment, "Oh, I thought that this was your room…I didn't realize…"Yami said.
"But this is my room Yami, well OUR room I should say." Atemu said.
Yami just gaped at Atemu. After a few moments Atemu understood why Yami was so confused.
"Yami, despite the fact that we're not getting married until tomorrow we're still sharing a room and bed tonight, don't worry I'm not going to try anything." Atemu said. Besides, thanks to your brother I don't think I could do anything even if I wanted to.
Yami sighed, "Okay."
Yami and Atemu both changed and crawled into bed, though Yami insisted on changing in the bathing chambers since he absolutely refused to give Atemu a show. Once the two were in bed Atemu immediately pulled Yami close, which Yami did not expect.
Atemu smirked, "I may not try anything but I am going to hold you close." Atemu said.
Yami nodded, silently thanking the gods that it was dark and Atemu couldn't see the blush on his face.
A/N: this concludes the first chapter. Please review, I love getting feedback.