SW: Alright. Here I am.

Malik: I hate this one.

SW: It's my favorite book!

Malik: I don't like my role in it.

Ryou: Why not? I like my role!

Malik: That's because you don't-

SW: OK! So this is based off one of my many favorites "Copper Sun" (with a few twists and turns, of course)

Enjoy!

A boy with tri-colored hair and amethyst eyes laughed and ran through the woods in his dark purple kimono, looking back to see one of his brothers struggling to make it through the branches behind him.

"Yugi! Get back here!" Yugi just laughed as Ryou called out to him and kept running.

Jogging to a stop when he could no longer hear his younger brother behind him or see his straight white hair through the branches, he looked around to see he had ended near a cherry tree orchard. There was a spitting noise and a cherry pit fell on Yugi's head. Looking up, he smiled when he saw the tan, lean body of his older brother Malik in a dark blue kimono sitting in the branches.

"Hello, Otouto-san. What are you doing here?" Malik swung his body and jumped to land right next to Yugi.

Grinning and holding his hands behind his back, Yugi avoided the question. "I could ask you the same thing."

Malik nodded and stood where Yugi had come out of the forest. "Running from Ryou again, I see." He held up a finger to stop Yugi from talking and with the other hand counted down from five, before sticking out a foot.

"Yugi-kun! You need to come back and-" Ryou walked out of the woods, and tripped right over Malik's waiting foot. Looking up from his hands and knees, Ryou pouted, "That wasn't necessary, Onii-san."

Malik cracked up laughing, bending over and letting his blonde hair fall in front of his lilac eyes. "Sure it was, if just to see your face." Ryou 'humph'ed and stood up, brushing off the white kimono the matched his hair and brought out his brown eyes. "C'mon Yugi, it's time to spin."

Yugi groaned, but started walking back to the village, carrying the handful of cherries he had picked when Malik had tripped Ryou. "But that's a girl job…Why can't we weave the kimonos?"

"Yugi…you know we aren't strong enough to be weavers, we wouldn't be able to work the loom. Plus our village is lucky to have the amount of silkworms that we do. The more people that help, the better." Yugi's younger, but more mature, brother joined him on his left side, breathing heavily and struggling to make his way through the forest.

"But what about musicians? Why can't we be musicians? I don't see a reason we can't be." He knew being a warrior was out of question, that job was for the strongest of men, like Malik.

"Yugi." Brushing back a blonde bang, Yugi looked up to Malik, who was walking on his right. "Enough."

Yugi grumbled but listened. "Yes, Onii-san."

They walked in silence, before Malik smirked. "Guess who I saw coming up the path to the village when I was up in the tree, Yugi?"

Yugi eyes went bright. "Atem!"

Malik laughed and watched as Yugi took off to the village. "That got him going." Glancing over and seeing Ryou struggle to take breaths, Malik asked, concerned, "Are you alright, Ryou?"

"Just…fine, Nii…san." Ryou sighed in relief as the village came into view.

"Ryou!" The boy looked up with a red face that got even redder when he saw who was walking toward him and his brother.

"He-Hello, Akefia-sama." The albino man was dressed in a loose tan kimono, but had taken off the sleeves so they hung at his waist and his chest was bare. He was covered in sweat and holding a wooden staff, tan from exercising all day in the sun. His t-shaped scar gleamed against the setting sun. "How are you today?"

Akefia grunted and jerked his head to Malik. "Shishou's gonna kill you for skippin' practice."

"Shit!" Malik took off, running down the road and up the hill that would lead to the temple.

Akefia snorted, rolled his purple eyes, and turned back to the still red-faced Ryou, "What's wrong with you?"

Ryou shrugged and started walking back to the village, beginning to be able to breathe right again. "Just got out of breath."

Akefia easily caught up with the boy, and started to walk beside him, holding the staff loosely at his side, "Don't you have…" He faltered as he forgot the name of the problem Ryou had, and the boy smiled.

"Asthma?" Ryou provided and watched as the man next to him nodded. "Yes, but it normally isn't much of a problem."

Akefia was just about to say something when Yugi came running up with a man who looked like him, so he settled for a growl instead. The man, with tan skin , crimson eyes, and spiked black hair and blonde bangs, rolled his eyes at Akefia. "Really, I didn't even do anything yet."

"But you might, Atem-dono." Atem just rolled his eyes again and wrapped an arm around Yugi's shoulders, much to the boy's delight.

"You're just jealous that my father engaged me to Yugi and yours refuses to do so with you and Ryou." Ryou blushed and Akefia scowled, "Yeah, right."

Atem shrugged and walked past the two albinos, pulling Yugi along with him, who was waving goodbye to his younger brother. "Whatever. I have news to bring to my father. I'll see you at the dojo tomorrow…so I can kick your butt again." By the time Atem had added that, he was too far gone for Akefia to reply.

Growling and crossing his arms, Akefia continued walking to the village, but after waiting a few moments to make sure there was enough distance between them and Yugi and Atem. Ryou walked next to Akefia and clasped his hands behind his back, turning to face the man next to him while still walking forward. "Don't you want to know what Atem-sama wants to tell Aknamkanon-sempai?"

Akefia shrugged. "Not particularly." There was a moment of silence as both continued walking, and they stopped at the fork in the road, one leading to the temple and dojo, the other to the village center. "Ryou?"
"Yes, Akefia-sama?"

"Just Akefia." The man crossed his arms and looked down the path he would take, causing his short, cropped white hair to fall over his scarred eye. "I'm not my father, I don't need all those titles."

Ryou blushed, "Oh…al-alright, A-Akefia."

Akefia barked out in laughter. "There, that's an improvement." He paused in thought, before staring at Ryou with an odd look in his eyes. "Would you mind…if I was-erm-engaged to you? That is…if my father arranged it with yours."

Ryou smiled brightly and shook his head. "Not at all, Akefia-san!"

The man nodded and started down the path to the dojo, looking back at Ryou with a smirk. "See you later, Ryou."

Ryou waved goodbye, and making sure Akefia was out of sight and hearing range, squealed loudly and raced off back to town, hoping Yugi would actually show up to the spinning session.

Yugi skipped lightly beside Atem, his heart happy and content. "So what news is there from Aknadin-sempai's village?"

Smiling at the boy next to him, Atem shrugged and jerked his head to the road that led to his uncle's village. "Ji-san just talked about the bronze-skinned strangers," Atem laughed, "the ones that have a tan not from the sun," he gestured to his own arms, "and about how they were going to pass through our village for trade."

Yugi stopped and smiled brightly, "We're getting guests? That means music!" Atem raised an eyebrow at the energetic attitude the boy had. "I have to go tell Jii-chan!" He turned to run back down the path they had taken, the one that would lead him straight through the village.

"Yugi!" The boy stopped and turned back around. "I know we should wait until the ceremony in a month, but…" Atem took a step forward and pressed his lips to Yugi's.

Yugi's eyes went wide, but he slowly started to respond, tilting his head and leaning into the kiss, making it more passionate. All too soon it ended and Yugi took a step back, looking into Atem's nervous eyes. Blinking past the shock and happiness clouding his brain, he asked, "Atem? Is something wrong? What is there that you aren't telling me?"

He shook his head, "Nothing…just…go tell the villagers to prepare for visitors."

"'Kay!" He took a daring step forward and pressed a short kiss on the man's lips. Turning around and waving behind him, he ran to the village. "Bye, Atem-chan!"

"Jii-chan! Jii-chan! Jii-chan!" Yugi burst through the door of his house, looking for his grandfather.

"What is it, my boy?" The old man walked out of the kitchen, where he had been giving orders to one of the servants, to greet his grandson.

"Atem says we're going to have visitors!"

"Oh really?" The man walked into the main room of the house and up to what looked like a closet.

"Yeah! So does that mean you'll tell a story?"

Yugi's grandfather nodded his head and opened the door, revealing a small room piled with instruments. Yugi jumped up and down in excitement. "With music?"

"Of course, my boy, what other kind of story is there?" His grandpa started to pull out wooden flutes, lyres, and drums.

Yugi cheered and ran outside. "I'm going to go tell the others!"

But by the time he got to the town center, the rumor had already spread. The women had put away their spools of silk and spinners and were moving to their kitchens, to prepare for the feast that they would eat that night. The small village was a busy blur of preparations, and Yugi grinned as he saw his brothers walk up to him.

"Hey, Nii-san! Did you hear the news?" Malik nodded his head and rubbed his backside.

"Yeah, right after Sensei whopped my ass for missing practice."

Ryou giggled and jumped up and down. "Guess what Yugi-kun!"

Yugi laughed and held Ryou's shoulder to keep him steady. "Don't overexert yourself, what?"

"Akefia-san asked if I'd like to be engaged with him!" Yugi squealed along with Ryou and wrapped him in a hug.

"That's great! Will he ask his father to make it official?"

Ryou gained a dreamy look in his eyes. "I really hope so." He sighed then squealed again. "Oh, it makes me so happy! I mean I'm not even really engaged with him but he showed interest, Yugi-kun! The most I've gotten ever by him!" The two squealed together.

Malik groaned and covered his ears. "Alright already, I get it. You're happy. Can you please stop alerting the dogs of your presence?" The two brothers looked at each other before cracking up laughing.

"I see them!" A sudden shout sent the village into a flurry, and as the sun started to go down, Yugi looked up and saw the large dust cloud in the distance that signaled the visitors' arrival.

SW: BTW Akefia was only REALLY respectful to the martial arts master because he respected the knowledge to fight well, in case you were gonna ask. And Ryou kept using honorifics because he's really polite.

Bakura: I'm not in it?

SW: Well, technically…oh shit…I just realized the role Akefia and Atem have…and what they have to do…AH! That's gonna have to change! Okay, if anyone else has read the book, did I portray it okay? If you haven't, did you think the first chapter was good?

Yami: Am I coming in?

SW: No spoilers!

Malik: *crosses arms* I can't believe you're going to let me-

REVIEW PLEASE!

P.S. If I confused you with all the honorifics (trust me it took me FOREVER) then go to this website it helped me a lot – tvtropes pm /UsefulNotes/Japanese Honorifics?from=Main. Japanese Honorifics (without the spaces of course)