Midnight: Hello to you all. :3 I'm back, this time with a new story. This story is dedicated to DarkAngel048 who requested a Seth and Joey! It's my first time doing this fic in Egypt, I hope it comes out okay. O.o
Wolf: We do hope you all will like this fic. It's going to be completed by Christmas. Yes we will post the other stories, but we will pay extra close attention to this one.
Psychotic: Wow, I'm impressed, you actually sounded like you knew what you were talking about. Lol j/k. this story is based in ancient Egypt.
Midnight: I don't know how it was back then, I hope everything will turn out ok. I own nothing. Enjoy, before they start at it….-sigh-
Warnings!: Anzu bashing and character death in a later chapter.
Money that Bought Happiness
Chapter1
"Joey Wheeler at your service." A blond young man said. His honey eyes looking at the man who had his wooden wagon that was dirty.
"Can you fix it up fast?" the fat man asked. He had been traveling, that's why his wagon was all dirty.
"Sure can do. It will take me just a sec." Joey pulled out an old towel and dropped it into the clean water. He began to wash the wheels to the wagon.
"Joey, I could go get more water," the eighteen year old young man looked up to see his sixteen year old brother.
"That will be great, thanks Ryou." Joey smiled and handed the now dirty water to his younger brother.
He watched as Ryou took the bucket and poured it on a nearby garden. Joey began to scrub the grime out of the wagon until it was all clean. He finished just as the fat guy came back from the pub.
"Nice, I like how you cleaned the wagon." The fat guy grabbed his pouch and gave two gold coins at Joey.
"What? This is what I get? Not even for a loaf of bread." Joey glared at the man.
"You're lucky I haven't given you one. Be happy it's at least something." The fat man laughed and began to leave.
"That's why you should go to school Ryou, I wish I had gone to school." Joey sighed. Their mother left them when he was only six and Ryou was four. Their father had been an alcoholic, not abusive, just a sad ass alcoholic who would drink and cry. He never once cared about his two sons. Since that moment on, Joey had begun to work in the streets to support both him and Ryou. Joey has been telling Ryou to go to school, he has been telling the white haired teen that it's important etc..
"At least it's two and not one," Ryou smiled. He looked up at his slightly taller brother. Ryou reminded Joey of their mother, petite, long white hair, doe eyes, pale skin. Joey had a slight tan skin, for being out in the sun, he's a natural light skin, not as pale as Ryou's, just light.
"Let's go, I'm sure you have homework." Joey said holding his towel and now empty bucket.
When they arrived home, Joey smelled alcohol in their small one bedroom house. Their house almost reminded others as a huge cardboard box, water easily dripped from the roof, and it was infested by cockroaches, and other insects. Whenever Joey brought money home, he would buy food then save a little more in case of an emergency. He wished that he could get out of this dump and take Ryou to a better home. Not even the king of thieves could rob them, they have nothing of value but for beautiful healthy plants. Ryou loves plants, he sells them to help out Joey.
"Damn, when will my stupid cousin die already," Anzu hissed. She has been saying that for a while.
Anzu's younger cousin has been dieing from a disease that nothing can cure her. Her cousin is filthy stinking rich, and she didn't have any other family apart from Anzu and her two sons. Anzu has always been faking kindness towards her younger cousin, Mana, so she could have everything. Mana's huge house, her money, cars, anything of value, even the jewelry Mana has.
"Mother," a twenty year old male entered the living room where Anzu was thinking.
"Yes Seth?" asked Anzu raising an eyebrow.
"I have returned from work, how is my aunt Mana?" Seth asked sitting down in the nice comfy couch.
"The doctor said anytime and she will die." Anzu faked tears in her blue eyes.
"I hope she survives, aunt Mana has always been so kind to us." a younger male came inside taking off is backpack.
"How was school my son?" Anzu hugged her younger son who is sixteen.
"It's good." Mokuba said.
Anzu was seething inside, she hoped Mana would hurry and die already. She didn't want her to be alive. She didn't show any of these emotions in front of her sons. She could easily manipulate them.
A woman with blond hair, and beautiful green eyes looked out the window with a sad face. She knew that her older cousin was greedy and wanted the money for herself. If Mana wasn't married or had any children then the money automatically goes to her older cousin. Mana didn't want that. She saw another blond man who was at least five years younger than her, washing a smaller wagon. An old lady paid him three gold coins, she saw the blond boy smile genuinely and helped her up her wagon. Mana would know what she has to do, before she dies.
"Alright, five gold coins for the day, just one more wagon and I'm going home." Joey smiled. The old lady has been so kind to him, he went to go pick up Ryou from where he normally stood.
Joey saw that Ryou was talking to a tan young male. He had long platinum blonde hair, with a tan shirt and black ripped pants. That same platinum blonde has been there with Ryou, since Ryou was paled skin, and not many paled skin lived in Egypt. Normally they would get kidnapped and be sold to the pharaoh as…Joey shook his head and kept walking.
"Joey, I sold four plants. They gave me two gold coins for each." Ryou smiled.
"That's great. Hey Malik." Joey smiled at the younger male. He was a year younger than Joey.
"Hey, I better go. I had fun taking care of Ryou, though people have been molesting Ryou. I gave them all a peiece of my mind." Malik winked and left to his home.
"I gave him two gold coins, he helped me sell one plant that an old man hesitated in buying it." Ryou took his other two plants and walked with Joey.
"Let's go get something to eat. What do you want?" Joey smiled.
"I want, some…" Ryou thought for a minute.
After they were done eating, Joey made sure that he still had extra money and saved it in a special small box that was under his nightstand. Joey brought food for his dad, but as usual, his father was out drinking with his friends. Joey sighed and fell asleep.
The next morning, Mana decided to walk out of her home in secret so no one would notice her. She put on a black veil to disguise her hair for a bit. Not many people had blonde hair, those who did, were easily married to others. Mana told her trusty servant girl who is nineteen to drive her around.
"Where to miss Mana?" asked another blond woman with amethyst eyes.
"Just around the city Mai. I need some fresh air." Mana said as she felt the wind blow through her face. She wasn't that weak to walk, she just got tired easily.
Mai made the horses to drive around the city, even to the poorest parts of it. She was poor, and Mana had saved her by making Mai as her personal maid.
Mana looked out the window missing the outside world. If she didn't have the sickness, then she would spend her days outside and play with the kids, or read a book. She sighed, her time was coming fast, she felt it deep inside her heart. She looked up in time to see the same blond man trying to clean the wagons.
"Go to that blond man, ask him if he could clean this wagon." Mana ordered.
"Alright, but this carriage isn't that dirty." Mai said. She swung the leash to the way where the young man just finished cleaning a wagon.
"Joey Wheeler at your service. You want me to clean the carriage?" asked Joey. He looked over the carriage and saw that it wasn't even that dirty. He felt silly in asking the question.
"Yes you can. My mistress asked me if you could clean it up." Mai said with a gentle smile.
"No problem." Joey said working on it. He didn't notice another woman coming out of the carriage until he saw a hand in front of him. He looked up to see a beautiful girl with long blond hair and emerald green eyes.
"Hello, my name is Mana." She held her hand up to him. He looked handsome. A bit on the skinny side, but he looked handsome.
"Joey Wheeler," he whipped his hands on his old ripped up tan pants, then he shook the smaller hand. Joey noticed she was a wealthy woman, her light green dress looked it. No one owned such fine fabric, and silks.
Joey finished quickly, he felt eyes on him. He looked up to see the blond woman looking at him. He smiled at her. She looked taken aback, then she smiled back. Joey poured the dirty water and held the bucket on his hand, and smiled.
"Well I'm done." Joey said.
"Thank you, it looks as if it just came today." Mana said pulling out a pouch from her dress pocket. She gave it all to Joey.
"No, I can't take that from you. It was nothing, really." Joey held both his hands in front of him.
"I insist. It was such a dirty old thing." Mana shoved the pouch full of gold coins into Joey's hands.
"Let me do something else, at least so I won't feel bad for taking this money." Joey felt bad for cleaning the not-so-dirty carriage.
"I have this other favor to ask you, but you must come with me." Mana said.
"Alright, if I won't feel so guilty in taking all your money." Joey opened the door and helped Mana up the carriage.
Joey looked at the carriage and felt dirty, the inside of the carriage had a red rug, and clean black seats. He looked at Mana, who nodded and held her hand up to help him get inside.
"So what do need help with?" asked Joey.
Mana took a long breath in and hailed it out. She looked up at Joey in the eyes. "Joey, I have an older cousin that is greedy and wants money for herself… she has two sons one is older than you probably, and the other one is only sixteen. she has been manipulating both her kids since they were young. A couple months ago I have been diagnose with a disease that is not curable, I will die soon. I don't want to leave all my money to Anzu, my older cousin, she will waste it on anything that is not even of importance. My ancestors have been working very hard to earn the wealth. I don't wan to give it to Anzu so the money could be finished fast." Mana said looking at Joey with sad eyes.
"So what do you want me to do?" Joey asked.
"I want you to marry me. If I am married, or have kids, then I can have them as heir. I will give you half of my money and half of the house, everything else will be yours, this carriage, the horses, everything, but the money, and house. I have to leave at least something to one of my other relatives. At least I could rest in peace if you marry me, the money will be in better hands." Mana said. She put both her hands on top of Joey's.
"I don't know, this is something big. Marriage, I never knew… can I think about it?" asked Joey.
"Of course, but we are going to get married in secret. You can tell anyone who you trust with your life, if you do decide to marry me. Mai will be at your house to pick you up, I trust her more than my own blood." Mana smiled.
"Alright, I will have my answer by tomorrow." Joey smiled back. Mana's smiles were contagious, she reminded him of his younger brother Ryou.
"Where do you want us to drop you off?" Mana asked after a while.
"Here, I live just over that market. I will be here tomorrow morning and tell you my answer. Thanks and bye." Joey got off and waved.
"Alright, bye." Mana waved. She knows deep in her heart that she chose the right person. "You heard him Mai," Mana smiled.
"Yes, I'll be here in the morning. Don't worry." Mai smiled and took Mana home.
"Where is she, she was suppose to be in bed, resting." Anzu growled. She will not let Mana out of her sight if it means to take care of the woman, then so be it, Anzu will take care of her.
"Where's who?" Seth walked up to his hysterical mother.
"Your aunt, she's sick. I hope she's alright. I don't want anything awful happen to her." Anzu faked worried in her voice.
"I have returned." Mana said walking inside her room.
"I was worried, why were you missing? Where did you go?" Anzu asked faking the worry in both her face and tone.
"I went for a walk, I needed some fresh air." Mana said not buying the worried in Anzu's voice.
"If you want to go somewhere you should take one of us, in case you start to feel bad." Seth said helping his aunt into the bed. Mana smiled at him.
"I will." Mana wasn't going to.
Mana was soon left alone. She stared out the window seeing if she could see Joey. She wasn't madly in love with him, no, he was something special. Mana took out a book from her nightstand and began to read.
"What?" Ryou put both his hands in his mouth.
"You heard me, this rich lady told me to marry her…" Joey began to tell Ryou about this morning. He trusted Ryou with his life, just like Ryou did with him. Ryou had told him that he was gay, and Joey somehow knew it, no male looked so feminine like him. Well Joey looked feminine as well, he was told around, his big honey brown eyes, slender body, and slightly long blonde hair that reached his shoulders gave it all away.
"Are you going to do it?" Ryou asked.
"I don't know. If I don't then…"
"All the money will go to that gold digger and her two sons." Ryou huffed and blew some air out making his snow white bangs fly up a little bit.
"I know, then I'm going to regret it." Joey sighed. If he did married Mana, she would die in peace. If he didn't then he would live with guilt and regret.
"If you want to. I will not let you marry someone you don't love." Ryou looked up to his older brother.
"I think…" Joey sighed.
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