Alright. Firstly I'm sorry for the enormous time I spent in NOT updating anything but I'm trying to break that block now.

Story Name: È tempo di rotolare i dadi (It's time to roll the dice)
Story Summary: When Seto finally tires of reporters making up wild stories about his past and speculating on who his next girlfriend or boyfriend might be, he announces that he'll marry the first person who's able to find out about his past. Stupid thing to do, no? What happens when this news reaches Yami?
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! No material gain is being made from this fiction.
A/N- I'm assuming that most of them were 16 in the year 1996 and Kaiba was 18 then.

The year was 2003 and it was the coolest summer in a long time. This year, even during the hottest days of June, one could wear a jacket and not look weird. The gang had grown up and all gone their own ways. Jounouchi had discovered a gift for cooking and at age 23 wassaving up for his own restaurant while working as Head-Chef in one of the biggest hotels in Los Angelos, otherwise he was still the same kind and loyal goofball.

Honda had surprisingly enough, gone in for software technology and was working for someone else's company while courting Shizuka, he was happy as he was with his modest tastes more than fulfilled by his job.

Yugi had taken over his Grandpa's store some years back when he finally got too old to stand around and serve customers. Through careful investments he had also started up a successful chain of stores in the surrounding cities. Ryou had taken after his father and was currently in Mesopotamia at a dig and his other half went everywhere with him and was nowadays fiercely protective of him.

Yami no Yugi himself (going under Yami Mutou ever since the fateful day when he had used the Millennium Items' power to get his own body) had done his GCSE and then gone in for management and was doing very well indeed which wasn't so odd when you realized he had been managing a whole kingdom at quite a young age and had been brought up to it. Currently, he was taking a well-earned two-week vacation and had come to visit his other half. Anzu had done what she had always wanted to and after finishing her studies in a NY dancing school had done an immensely popular series of stage shows and was now doing ballet shows and was also thinking of taking up an offer for a TV show.

The real surprise was Malik and Marik who had, under their sister's sponsorship opened up an amusement park which was popular enough to rival Disneyland, thankfully not in Domino itself or else Kaiba would have bought them out for sure. Mokuba was following in his brother's footsteps though only academically, he still remained the only person to force Seto away from his laptop and live to tell the tale. All of which was very nice but still didn't explain why Yami was looking at the Sunday morning special newspaper with eyes that would have put a cricket ball to shame.

Nor why there appeared to be coffee all over the table where he was sitting. Regurgitated coffee no less. But maybe reading the article he was staring at would help?

Seto Kaiba, voted Number 1 for the third time as the Most Eligible Bachelor in Femina magazine, has now declared publicly that he will marry the first woman (or in this case person) to actually find out everything about his past.

When questioned about this decision, he said that he was tired of everyone speculating about where he came from so he thought this would be the best way to solve everything since he himself did not have the time.

Mr. Kaiba has come out of the closet only …

But Yami had stopped reading, right at that moment the only thought in his head was, 'Has he gone completely mad! He could end up being married to his maid, or a fat woman with three children and thirty Pekingese!' He tried to stop himself, really he did. I mean, how funny was it when someone went crazy right in front of your eyes? Unless it was your arch-rival of course-Yami started laughing helplessly at theweb of idiocyhis'acquaintance' hadmanaged to get himself into.

'Well, as Jou would say, he made the cake, now he gotta eat it. It's nothing to do with me. Though I suppose I could call up Mokuba and ask him whether I should reserve a bed at the local asylum.' Smirking he poured out another cupful of coffee when the phone rang. Groaning grumpily he walked to cordless, since his grandpa was sleeping and Yugi had gone off to work.

"Moshi moshi?" he said, uh…make it snapped into the receiver.
"Yami, it's me," came a rather hyperactive voice. Yami immediately cooled down, it would be a very hard-hearted person who could stay mad at the boy that voice belonged to.
"So I see, Mokuba. How are you?" He walked back to the table with a rag, and started wiping off the coffee.
"Where are you right now?" Mokuba asked insistently
"I'm on holiday in Domino. Is something wrong?" he replied and threw the rag into the dustbin.
"Yes!" the boy nearly yelled, "Yami, I need your help!"
"As in how? What's the matter?" he askedsipping some ofthe coffee to steady himself, this was a bit too much at seven o' clock on a Sunday morning.
"I need you to marry my brother." So much so for cleaning the table.
"Mokuba! Is this a joke?" he demanded, still spluttering.
"No, I really need your help! I can't explain here, meet me at the café besides the karaoke bar in fifteen minutes, alright?" The voice really sounded urgent now.
"Yes but…why can't you tell me now?"
"Because the telephone might be tapped silly!" With this Mokuba rang off.

Yami gaped down at the beeping telephone in his hand and wondered whether they had any aspirin in the house. This was a lot too much for seven o' clock on a Sunday morning.

Half an hour later, he was not feeling any better, "Mokuba, apart from everything else, why would your brother consent to marrying me? We were never on friendly terms." Yami was extremely glad to see his coffee and Mokuba's eclair arriving.

"Well, no," he hesitated then pleadingly he said, "But I know that he really did respect you then whatever he says, and after you when to college and got your degree an' all…he was very impressed that you could do so well. That's whyI asked you instead of Anzu or Jou or someone off the streets who could be bought."

"But what about all those times he said he didn't even believe I existed?" Yami asked, suddenly curious. He knew better than to question Mokuba's knowledge of his brother but he still wasn't really convinced.

Mokuba rolled his eyes, "C'mon, he had to say something to save his pride. My big brother is the best big brother in the world but even he makes mistakes!"

"Quite a few of them, actually," muttered Yami, fighting the urge to lay his head down on the table and simply go to sleep

"Hey! Don't say that about my brother!" Mokuba yelled

"But it's true, I mean that is what this convo' thingy was about, right? The latest mistake your brother made," protested Yami

"Convo' thingy," repeated Mokuba, blinking twice slowly, "You've definitely been hanging around Jou too long, Yami, it shows," then he shook it off and tried to make the puppy-eyes he had been famous for when he was younger, "please Yami…at least think about it, you'll only have to stay married to him for a couple of weeks. I mean, you can divorce the very next day if you guys want to, but or else I'll be stuck with a gold-digging adventuress for a sister-in-law."

"Adventuress," repeated Yami, slightly dazed at theseemingly innocent man's wide vocabulary.

"Yeah, or a brainless harlot!" Mokuba exclaimed throwing his arms up and resting back on his seat sulkily only to jump up a moment later and turn up the puppy eyes again, complete with the shine that meant that he was holding back tears at a very great cost to himself…something like that anyway, Yami wasn't going to try analyzing it.

He shook his head and started drinking his coffee and was going to try making up some excuse, any excuse,when he spathis coffeeback out for the third time in an hour.

"Mokuba, I thought I'd see you here.I'm finished with all my work for today, I thought we…What are you doing here?" Yes, Seto Kaiba had arrived. Oh, joy. Yami's head hit the table with a bang.

I hope everyone liked, I know it's pretty short but it is only the first chapter….all my other chapters are far longer usually.