A/N: Weee! A new ficcie! This was originally going to be a better version of 'Bloodlust', but it just kinda took on a life of it's own. So 'Bloodlust' will remain the too-long short fic it is. For now. I just wrote it after reading a really good vampire novel and wanted to make Yuugi shine. He'll be doing a lot of shining in this one as well. Also, I decided to use a different version of Atem's name: Atimu. It's what the hieroglyphs actually spell, and I think it sounds more vampyric.

M RATINGS walk hand in hand with this one. I wanted to do a dark fic, and this will be a dark fic. Language, sex, both con and non-con, blood (it is a vamp fic, after all) violence and a psychopathic original character.

Ancient Egyptian used:

Neferu Ib- Beautiful idea, wish

Keni Mer- Strong born

Mery Mes- Beloved born

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He did not belong out in the daytime. He need not say it, his black leather-clad form screamed it. Not that anyone could say anything at the moment. Humans don't have the habit of looking at corporation rooftops unless someone's about to jump from them. His crimson eyes barely shifted under his sunglasses as someone landed beside him.

"What the hell are you supposed to be dressed as?" the newcomer asked.

"Tch. I don't see you for two centuries, and that's how you greet me?"

"You look like a fucking goth. Stripper," he added with a smirk.

"I prefer the term 'tortured soul,' and minus that last part. And you, in a suit? Just get out a business meeting?"

"Actually, yes. Then I thought I smelt someone familiar."

"Gee, thanks."

"Eternity has done nothing for your personality."

"I could throw that comment back at you."

"What are you doing in a city anyway?"

"I thought I smelt someone familiar.."

"Melinda, still? Haven't you killed her yet?!?!"

"That does helps pass the time. You have looking for your little lost puppy, I have screwing with her little head."

"Was looking for my little lost puppy. And what about Yutto?"

"I don't even know if it's in this life I'll see him again. Or half-life. Whatever you'd call this existence."

The blue-eyed man looked down from the roof to the sidewalk below. "Oh, yes. I've been wanting to talk to you anyhow."

"Regarding?"

"Look down."

A seductive smirk crossed the crimson-eyed man's face as he peered down. "Well, hello. I hoped it was you."

The CEO sighed. "Happy now?"

"Mutou-san! It is you!" a dark-skinned girl calls to the topic of their conversation, her long, auburn hair wafting behind her.

"Um… hello?" the teen said.

"I'm sorry, but I just saw you and… well… could I have your autograph?"

"Oh! Sure!"

"Autograph?" the black-clad vampire asked. "Is he famous?"

"One of the best duelists I've ever seen."

"That's something, coming from you."

"He keeps winning my tournaments. And is still shell-shocked whenever someone recognizes him."

"And now Melinda's targeted him."

"That was her? She looks different."

"You really need to learn to read auras."

Seto scoffed. "Pft. That nonsense?"

Atimu smiled, jumping down into the alleyway his quarry was shortcutting through.

"Hello, young one."

Yuugi spun around. The vampire waved his hand in front of the other's face, capturing him in a trance. "This is going to take much of my restraint," he said, catching the teen. "The scent of your blood alone…." He inhaled deeply at the other's neck.

"Hands off, Atimu. That one's mine," a familiar female stated.

"Over my dead body. Oh, wait…"

"You're not funny. Release your hold."

"I'm afraid I'm not in an obliging mood."

"Still so high and mighty. You're not a king anymore."

The other was paying her no mind, holding the teen close and tilting his head to the side.

"Don't you dare!"

The man only smirked before sinking his teeth into the human's neck. Just has he'd predicted, it took almost all of his willpower to pull away. "Euphoria," he mumbled, then looked at Melinda. "He's mine now."

"You bastard," she spat, then vanished.

"Was that supposed to offend me? She needs to work on her insults." He released his hold on Yuugi, promptly disappearing to a vantage point where he could watch the other before he saw him.

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"Grandpa! I'm going to be out on the roof, ok?"

"Did you finish your homework?"

"Yep!"

"All right, just come in at a decent hour, ok?"

"Yeah, ok." Yuugi opened the skylight in his room to climb outside on to the roof. He lay back, admiring the darkening evening sky.

Meanwhile, a crimson-eyed peeing tom was doing everything he could to contain himself. "If only feeding on him could sedate me," he thought. "But it does the exact opposite; I just want him more!!! I can't leave him alone anyhow, not with Melinda hovering around. Good thing I don't sleep very much anymore.'

Eventually, when the moon was bright in the sky, Yuugi climbed back into the house. 'Good. He's safe in there. From us both.' Still, he couldn't resist a peek inside the room. Landing soundlessly on the roof, he peered into the still-open window.

Yuugi had finished changing into his pajamas, and was curling into bed. Atimu tried to lean in further; his hand slipped - right through the window. 'That… shouldn't be possible…' Keeping as quiet as he could, he snuck the rest of the way through into the room. 'But… I shouldn't be allowed… have I been here before?' He looked over at the teen. "Or did you invite me in, young one?"

The teen's eyes opened. "Yuugi," he said. "My name is Yuugi. And if you were the one I saw before you disappeared, then yeah, I wanted you to come in."

"Yes," the vampire replied, not at all surprised the other had noticed him, the teen being the reincarnation of his love, one who'd had been a gifted sorcerer. "My name is Atimu."

"Atimu… I know you," Yuugi realized, sitting up.

"Do you?"

"Yeah… you're the one in my dreams."

"Your dreams?"

"Yeah, I call them that, but they've always felt more like memories from a long time ago. You called me by a different name then, though."

"Yutto."

The teen closed his eyes, as if drinking in the word. Suddenly, it was if the teen's room had melted away to a room from another time, one long past. "Yes… Please don't leave, Atimu."

The other smiled, sitting down next to him. "I could deny you nothing, partner."

"There's a lot of things I don't remember still."

"Since your memories are returning on your own, I almost feel I should not tell you."

"Please?"

He looked at the teen lovingly, stroking the other's hair. "You and I, we were lovers once. A long time ago, when I was still Pharaoh of Egypt."

"That's right!"

"Your little 'crush' caused quite the scandal."

"I never dreamed you'd take me up on it."

"I might have never found out about it if Seth hadn't found the whole situation so amusing."

"Oh yeah. That's why I don't like Seto."

"You recognize him fully now?"

"Yeah."

"Think of it this way. Had Seth not been joking so much, I may have never found out."

"I'd thought you were mad at me at first, being so quiet."

"Then I put your mind at ease."

"And caused my body to overexert itself."

"I didn't see you complaining."

There was a pause. "Atimu?"

"Yes?"

"What… happened to you? They said you had died, you and Seth both. You look alive to me."

The other ran his hand over his partner's cheek. Yuugi held it close to him. "You're so cold."

"That is my normal body temperature. I am a vampire, Yuugi, one of the undead. As is my cousin."

"Huh? Why…?"

"When the Shadows were sealed, it required a sacrifice for the effort given. All I wanted was to see you again. I had the 'audacity' to negotiate with the gods, and Seth offered himself as well, if there was some way half of each our souls could equal a whole. Ra scoffed, but consented giving us each this half-life. Feeding off another to live… the very idea was grotesque; but I could not allow the whole of myself to vanish forever and never see your face again. I was... selfish."

"The gods obviously didn't think so," the teen said, entwining his fingers with the other's. "We're together again, aren't we?"

"After much ado… Yes, partner, we are."

"But one thing. If you were still alive, why-"

"Part of our deal. I was to never see you again in that life, but once we were reunited, we would never be parted again."

Yuugi smiled, then his expression dimmed. "Does that mean… do I have to…"

"I will do nothing you do not want. And it is a decision you do not have make any time soon."

"So… are you and Seth the first?"

"No. There was already such a race in existence. And I, nor Seth to the best of my knowledge, have turned anyone. I have seen it and have no desire to put anyone through that. You least of all."

"Will… you tell me…?"

"If you want me to."

"I do."

"The body itself is under much strain, as it is dying. The person is under such pain for a few hours, and once that is complete, they will not recognize themselves for almost a day. All they know is their lust for blood. Ra was kind enough to ease that process for Seth and myself; we did not lose our sense of self in the slightest."

"That was kind of him."

"Yes. We are old enough now that the sun is not a burden to us, nor do we sleep very much. You, however..."

"I… actually don't feel much like sleeping," the teen said, a soft blush crossing his cheeks.

"Is that so? Well, I do hope your guardian isn't a light sleeper, because if memory serves me correctly-"

"He's not," Yuugi interrupted, turning even redder.

Atimu smiled. "Then I'm more than happy to oblige you." He leaned in, silently asking the other if he was certain. Yuugi closed the space swiftly, their lips meeting for the first time... in centuries. They caressed and undressed each other with care and devotion unknown to the world until now. The two entwined themselves in each other; kissing, licking, touching, grasping...

"A- Atimu," Yuugi moaned.

The vampire responded with words from a near-forgotten tongue, but well-known to them both. "My neferu ib,"

"Keni Mer," the other whispered.

Eyes locked, then thier mouths met once more.Atimu reached down and wrapped his hand around his lover's erection, dripping with precum. Yuugi gasped at the sudden contact.

"Atimu..."

"Partner..."

"I- If you keep that up..."

"Please," the vampire encouraged him. "Allow me that beautiful sight."

The teen's pelvis thrust hard against the other's hand, covering it and his abdomen in sticky warmth. Atimu laid soft kisses over the shorter's face and neck, allowing him to calm a bit before continuing.

Once the violet-eyed teen began returning his kisses and the vampire could feel him growing hard once more, he rubbed a cum-covered finger against the other's entrance.

"A- Atimu... Mery Mes..."

"As were you, partner. And always will be."

"Atimu..."

"Are you ready, partner?"

"More than."

The taller thrust inside him, kissing him as well to soften his cries. Neither spoke coherently again (in any language) until after their passions had reached their limit and both were gasping for the air around them.

Atimu stayed with Yuugi, even after the other had fallen asleep. It was true what he had said, the vampire hardly needed sleep anymore. But warm, happy and finally reunited with his other half, he found himself drifting between the veils of consciousness and unconsciousness more than a few times.