Hello again dears! I hope you like my latest fic. I know I've been absent lately, but I'm back for a bit.

Any who, had a serious obsession with Yu-Gi-OH as a kid and I never thought to write out any fan fiction about it until now so here it is. Warning: Sexual content, and Gender bending. Read at your own discretion.

Monarch, Puppy, Tender, and Bronze shipping Galore darlings, do enjoy!

Anjie-Kun Out!

Chapter 1 :

The deserts of Egypt are vast, full of mystery and danger. Some wondering souls are too afraid to enter its relentless, endless, unknown world, while there are others who live in, and endure Ra's silent domain. As the sun rose slowly into the sky the shadows of the night scurried away with every inch of the golden rays extending through out the land. As it lifted higher into the sky, a group of people on horses ride in slowly. There were four of them. The one leading the group was a young man with silver-white hair that spiked up, light brown eyes, sun kissed skin, and a red cloak. "we're almost there" he spoke, "just another day." He was aware that the other three were bone tired as hell, and wanted to reach their destination soon. "UUUGH!- that's what you said three days ago! I'm starting to doubt your navigation skills Bakura. " whined one of the tired ladies . Her shaggy, dirty-blonde bangs were sticking to her forehead so she whipped it off with the sleeve of her brown cloak. "Piss off woman, I know exactly were I'm going, I just took us on the longest rout." He snickered. "ARRRGH! You ASS!" Yelled Jou.

She could swear that their so-called body guard was just taking them around in circles on purpose. It had been three days since they had set off from their village to venture to the Pharaoh's palace in Khemet. Yami [one of the travelers], had been invited by her grandfather, who is a member of the royal court, she was excited that she would finally be able to see him. It had been so long. She was seventeen now, and she felt it had been practically forever since she's been able to see her dear grandfather. In fact, it had been five years, since he visited her. Now she was going to visit him, and she couldn't wait. The trip was taking a little longer than expected though.

When Bakura said he knew the desert like the back of his hand, none of them thought, it meant he was going to lead them aimlessly through the scorching sands for days on end. Jou had her doubts, but Yami would never complain. She was just that trusting. She truly believed he'd get them there. It was a mystery why. He seemed completely the opposite of trust worthy.

Nevertheless, he steered them towards all the right land marks, and even protected the lady from getting bitten by dangerous snakes. Surely, it was enough to make her trust him.

"lady Yami, I'm sure your tired as well." said another one of the other girls. This one had almost spiky pure white hair, pale skin, brown eyes, and wore a spring green traveling cloak. She reached over into her satchel and pulled out a water pouch, offering it to the tri-color haired girl. She, wore and deep blue veil on her face with gold trim, and a matching traveling cloak. "don't worry Ryou, I'm fine really." she said, kindly rejecting the water. "are you sure, Yami? You're going to shrivel up like a raisin if you don't drink up." asked the taller girl riding up to the two. "I don't need it, but you sure do Jou, as I recall you ran out yesterday and you're sweating quite a lot."

Yami took the water pouch and handed it to her blonde friend. "huh? N-no, lady Yami I couldn't." the shorter girl just smiled, "I insist." her offer was so considerate and hard to resist, that Jou smiled as she took the pouch and drank. She tried not to drink too much. If Bakura was right about their destination being a day away, they had to conserve as much as possible for the next twenty-four hours. She took a few gulps: one big and several small. It was so hard to resist drinking more. Her mouth had been dry since yesterday afternoon. She had run out of water first, and Yami used up her own sharing it with Jou.

The liquid was so refreshing. It was pretty much lukewarm at this point, but compared to the blistering heat it was really cool. She savored as much as she needed for the moment, then gave the rest back to Ryou. "Ah, thank you my Lady." she breathed. Yami smiled, as everyone was riding ahead of her. She looked back and had found that the sun was nearly all the way in the sky. Everyone else in her entourage would be frustrated by the sun's unforgiving rays, but Yami smiled welcoming Ra's presents.

The Bazaar was buzzing. All over people were scattering around buying or selling items like fruit, fish, meat, bread, jewelry, pots, and pans. It was quite a lot to take in. There were so many people walking around, below while above there are women hanging their rugs, cloaks and unmentionables on clotheslines. The sky was clear, and the wind carried an assortment of delightful aromas through the air such as: spices, meats cooking on fire pits, and many different flowers. To anyone else who lived in the Pharaoh's kingdom, they would have considered this to be an average ordinary day. But to one girl in particular, it was an extraordinary day.

A young girl in a long light purple cloak with a gold chain across the front was wandering through the market, taking in everything she was seeing. Every stand was unique and had so many things. It was so exciting for her. It was her first time in a market, she had never seen any thing like it. She was amazed by everything. "WOW!- The surface world is incredible!" she mused to herself out loud.

"Malik!" called a female voice, making the girl gasp. She then relaxed, and sighed in annoyance, because the urgent call of her name, ruined her content.

Her sister's impertinence toward her reminded her of why she was really here. "there you are! You shouldn't have run off like that sister." Malik then held her head low, while pulling her hood off of her head revealing, her light blonde hair, and dark Egyptian skin. She had big light purple irises, kohl eyeliner, a gold triple-band choker and, gold ball earrings with gold feathers hang from them. The older girl looked at the saddened, distraught face of her younger sister, and sighed.

She had a great deal of sympathy toward Malik, but they had not come to the village to explore, unfortunately. They had a much greater purpose to fulfill. She leaned in and took the shorter girl by the shoulders, in conveyance, "Malik we have to continue on. You know why we've come-…" she was cut off by a loud grown, "I know, I know; 'to deliver the Pharaoh's secret to the next heir'." Malik recited bitterly as she pulled away from her sister. She knew she shouldn't be ungrateful, but she couldn't help it. All her life she was forced to live in the darkness, [literally]. Being a tomb keeper forbade her from ever leaving the Pharaoh's tomb, until the day came, when Prince Atem took the throne. Her father explained to her that 'whenever a new Pharaoh arises, after the predecessor has passed on to the next life, the current Tomb Keeper must bestow the Pharaoh's secret upon the new King…Malik, you must be the one to deliver the secret to the new Pharaoh, Atem.' that's what he told her, although the only thing she really heard was, 'you may go up to the surface for six days.'

She had been filled with uncontainable excitement ever since. The young Ishtar girl had spent her entire life hidden away underground forbidden, to ever see the surface world, and now she was being blessed with the chance she had always, wanted. "I just want to see as much of the upper world as possible before I have to go back to that cave." Ishizu scowled. "It is not a cave it is a tomb and you have been gifted, with the great honor of protecting it." Malik slumped her shoulders and threw her head up, eyes rolled back and groaning out of pure irritation. She then walked over to a create and sat down planting her face into her hands. She felt like Ishizu wasn't being very fair here. She just wanted to explore a little, was that too much to ask for?

The older girl sighed. It was pretty much all she could do at this point. She was going to make sure that their duty was fulfilled, because unlike Malik, Ishizu wasn't very comfortable on the surface. She felt like a fish out of water. Everything was so new and noisy, she didn't understand any of it. She was afraid, a place like this would be too dangerous for her younger sister. So she made up her mind that they would go straight to the Pharaoh's palace, deliver their message, then go home where it's safe. However, she also didn't want to let her personal feelings affect her sister's enthusiasm.

"…Malik, you will have plenty of time to explore. You're not expected to return for six days, so please focus on our task now, and worry about exploration later. Please?" Malik let her elder sister's words sink in, but she was still irritated. She mustered up her dignity and said, "fine, lets get it over with then." her tone was snappy and annoyed. She could care less about some 'Pharaoh's secret', but she wanted to get it done, for the sake of shutting up her sister, and her useless rants about her so called 'duty'.

She walked off through the market, swiftly, practically stomping away. Ishizu was left to power walk in order to keep up with Malik.

A little further away from the City the four travelers had finally reached their destination. "There it is. Khemet; the Pharaoh's main Kingdom." said Bakura as they all sat on their horses watching from the dunes. "Finally, Maybe we can get some food when we get there!" Cheered Jou. "Yes it is quite a relief that we made it." said Ryou. "I can't wait to see Grandfather! He's going to be so happy to see us again!" Yami said with a smile. "Well, What the hell are we waiting for then?" Said Jou as she pulled the reins making her horse rear up, "Last one there, is an ass's uncle!" then she rode off towards the village leaving a trail of dust in her wake. "Hey wait!" called Bakura as he rode off after her. Yami and Ryou then had their horses run after the duo as well.

They rode off, in full gallop chasing wind as dust flew wild from the race. Once they were at the entrance to the city, they all dismounted their horses and continued on, leaving the steeds at the stables, to be fed and watered. They would need to ride a further distance to reach the palace, but they needed the rest. In the meantime, the four wanted to enjoy the enchanted bazaar for a bit, maybe even get Jou her 'snack' while they were there. "WOW!" said Yami, her face filled with excitement. It was such a lovely grand city. Most of the places she's visited were, small and quant villages , but this was the largest city in all of Egypt. It stretched out about forty miles both ways and was complimented by the beautiful Nile river which flowed, flawlessly between the City and the Pharaoh's domain.

They were in the city's center buying some fruit and bread for Jou while Yami wanted to look around. "my lady, wait I will accompany you!" said Ryou. "Its okay Ryou I am not going far." with that she turned and walked off leaving the worried white-haired girl to watch.

Beyond the city, across the Nile lied the palace of the new Pharaoh Atem. Tonight his court would celebrate his new reign, therefore everything had to be perfect. A few servant girls were hanging some sashes above the entrance hall while an old Vizier over saw the progress [ or he was just looking at the girls' asses]. "Shiamon!" called the stern High Priest Seto. "please cease your gawking at the servants, and go check on Atem. He has not been seen since the council's gathering."

It was not like Atem to just disappear like this. It was causing Seto to worry greatly. "do not worry my friend, I'm sure Atem is fine." said the older man. "let the boy have some time away, he hasn't seen a moment of peace since the coronation." the high priest new this to be true. He worried for his dear cousin, but perhaps it would be best to leave him be for now. The priest sighed, "you're right. I guess I am just worried for him." said Seto. The older man chuckled, "Atem has a strong will. He will do right by his kingdom." he said putting a hand on Seto's shoulder.

The wind carried a gentle warmth through the air, on the balcony of the palace, Atem basked in the scented gust finding himself in full content. He really needed to get away from everything. His crowing as Pharaoh was a great honor, but all these celebrations were proving to be quite bothersome. For three days he had been graced by many nobles, Sultans, and kings looking to suck up to him. They all thought that because he was young it meant he was naïve, but they were dead wrong. For starters: Emperor Wong, and Lord Maziki were trying to present their daughters as suitors for betrothal, [they didn't think he'd figure that out], some of the other leaders just wanted more land to control.

This thought caused Atem to sigh. He was determined to lead with the same wisdom, and integrity as his father did, and nothing would ever deter him from it. Just as he was brooding, a caped figure came out to the balcony and leaned against the wall. The Pharaoh heard the person and turned to him. It was Atem's personal guard. "It's such a lovely day isn't it Pharaoh?" said the semi-tall tan skinned man about Atem's age. He had wild spiky blonde hair, crazed-filled dark violet eyes and a wild condescending smirk plastered on his face, with his gold cuff- covered arms crossed over his chest.

"What do you want Marik?" said Atem, groaning. He hated it when his friend would come out of nowhere just to annoy him. Apparently being a Pharaoh, didn't change much when it came to his friends. "Ah Atem, can I not come and see my dear friend." he said with a false hurt tone. He walked over next to the tri-color haired young man. "I heard you were offered a princess and Noble girl for a bride." Atem sighed. "Marik please, I do not wish to talk about this." Marik let out a burst of laughter. "HA!- my friend, don't be so modest. They were both quite lovely, and Lady Teana seems to really like you." Atem turned away and walked back into his room. "I find courting to be a waist of time. Those girls only want the title of Queen, besides I don't have time for things of that nature." he said as he continued through the door leaving the room.

"Oh Atem, you really must loosen up a little. Being Pharaoh may be an important role, but there are times where you should learn to enjoy what normality comes to you." Atem took the caped Egyptian's words to heart. Though he would never admit it, Atem was a little lonely now that his father had passed on. He had considered the idea of courting some of the girls but, he felt that he didn't have the time for it. Perhaps after the celebration.

"come, lets go. The party will start soon." said the excited guard. Atem closed his eyes and sighed. "very well." The two males' shoes echo throughout the stone hall as they make their way to the celebration hall.