A few things on this one: Yes, it has two original characters in it, but they have MINOR ROLES. The main point of this story is the struggle Yugi has between the loyalty he has to his family and the loyalty he has to Atem. So, don't get too attached to my characters. They appear briefly and are here to form the story. Okay, try it out and see. They don't appear in this chapter, but will in the next. This is the prologue.
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Yugi felt pure bliss as his lover's tongue invade his mouth. The kiss was absolutely mind blowing! Former Pharaoh Atem really knew how to please his lovers very well. It made sense, seeing as how the older had over 5,000 years worth of experience. Yugi usually felt inferior when thinking about this. He felt that he was not satisfying his dark lover enough as he was used to in the ancient past. But when asked, Atem always replied that Yugi was the best he had ever had. That statement always made all of the boy's insecurities instantly fade.
Hands began roaming the smaller body as Atem covered Yugi's small, slim body with his own. Somehow, the boy had ended up lying down on his bed. A thought entered the young one's mind. He had something that he had to tell his dark, and he had to tell him now before lust mad him forget. So, very reluctantly, Yugi pulled his mouth away, but his lover's lips followed the line of his jaw and began sucking on his neck.
"Mm, I have something to tell you …" However, Atem face followed Yugi's as he then plunged his tongue back into this light's mouth.
"Later …" The dark managed to say before he pulled Yugi's face back to where he could get better access to his lips. The light was contempt to just forget about his announcement and continue to let Atem dominate him, but it was too important and the announcement was nagging at him in the back of his mind, taking all the joy out of this particular make-out session. He pulled his mouth away again when Atem began to unbutton his shirt.
"I'm serious; there's something I really need to tell you." Atem's tongue moved to Yugi's neck again as the smaller began to speak, but quickly withdrew it when the ugly tone of seriousness covered that lovely voice. He sighed and leaned back against his bed, still practically hovering over his light.
"Fine. So what is so important that it had to interrupt our fun?" Atem's right hand trailed up and down Yugi's left arm. The boy smiled. He liked it when Atem gently massaged a random part of his body unconsciously.
The message he was about to give his dark was a hard one. At least it was to him. Earlier, Yugi's mother had a long talk with him and the end result was a rather unpleasant in Yugi's eyes. The talk had nothing to do with his relationship with Atem. In fact, she and Yugi's grandfather, Solomon, were happy that Yugi was happy. His mother's side of the family was very open and accepting. Yugi loved that about his family. However, all was not peaceful on his side of the fence. Yugi took Atem's hand and stroked it, hoping that it would sooth the other.
"Yami, you know that I love you; nothing or no one can ever make me stop." The look in Atem's eyes was one of panic. He had used this beginning before. Yugi immediately knew that his dark was misunderstanding what he was saying.
"You're breaking up with me …" His voice held so much sadness that even though it was not true, it broke Yugi's heart to hear it.
"What? No! I just told you that I love you!" Relief was written all over the dark's face.
"Well, if you're not using that line as a break-up line, then what are you using it for?" Atem folded his arms. "Because I---" Yugi placed a finger over Atem's lip and chuckled lightly.
"If you would let me finish, you'd find out." Atem drew the finger into his mouth and sucked on it. He was trying to break the tension of the conversation. The smaller was about to yank his finger away when he thought it might be better if his lover had something to distract him when he heard the news. "My dad and my sister are coming to visit …" Atem looked at Yugi and halted the suckling of the small digit in his mouth. After a moment of silence and a wide-eyed stare, Yugi urged Atem to speak.
"That's it?" Yugi was taken aback. Quite the unexpected response.
"What do you mean 'that's it?'"
"Well Yugi, the way you were acting, it made it sound as if it were something life threatening." Atem said with a smile. Yugi looked at the blanket on his lover's bed.
"Maybe not life threatening, but it's still a challenge." The dark lifted the boy's chin with his finger so that those beautiful purple gems the little one called eyes were staring into his own.
"Why do you say that, Love?" The boy sighed and instantly crawled into Atem's arms, which happily always welcomed him.
"You don't know my dad; he's very … to put it lightly, traditional." Atem understood now. Yugi was afraid of what his father would say about their relationship.
"I'm sure he's not that bad." Yugi's response was a sudden snort.
"The man has never accepted me for the way I am. My whole life, he has tried to shape me into the son that he always wanted."
"What do you mean?" Atem's hand caressed Yugi's arm yet again.
"He never understood that I didn't like baseball, yet he signed me up for little league when I was seven. I always liked swimming; it was the only sport I was good at, but he said that 'normal boys don't swim'; and then bought me a football when I asked for a crayon set."
"Wow, sounds like a hard head." Yugi nodded.
"And I bet he's influenced Yoko to think exactly like him, too." Yugi stated more to himself than to Atem.
"Who's Yoko?" The dark asked with a raised brow. Yugi looked at his lover. He must not have heard Yugi say that his sister was coming as well.
"She's my twin sister." Atem's confused brow was joined by its mate.
"You have a twin?!" Yugi rolled his eyes.
"Do you know anything about me at all?!" Amazingly, the two of them used to share a body and a mind, but Atem had no idea that Yugi had a twin sister.
"Well, besides your mother, there really are no females in this house." Yugi smiled. Seeing this, Atem soothed his light. "And besides, how is the lighter half of my soul a twin?" Yugi shrugged.
"I don't know. I guess that an extra egg was fertilized in my mom's womb and it just happened." Yugi said. Atem soothed his light as much as he could.
"So why do you believe that your father has influenced your sister?" Yugi's eyes held a saddened feature to them. He looked like he all he wanted to do was bawl his eyes out.
"Our family is basically divided. My dad usually favored Yoko over me, claiming that she was his 'perfect little princess'. My mom's easy-going nature usually helped me deal with that. She kinda favored me over Yoko because Yoko usually always argues with her." Atem listened intently, rubbing Yugi's shoulders as he spoke. "Our parents aren't divorced, but when Dad got transferred, it kinda gave them an excuse to separate … and us too…"
"I don't understand, Yugi. You have never given a care about what people think of our relationship; so what makes this situation so special?" Yugi leaned into Atem a little more.
"Yoko was my first and only friend when I was growing up. We were closer than close; in fact, we basically had our own world, complete with language!" Atem chuckled.
"Twins do that."
"Yeah, but Yoko's opinion means a lot to me because she's a major person in my life … or, at least she was." Atem nodded in understanding. It was natural for twins to be close and maybe even depend on each on each other. From Yugi's description, it sounded as if Yugi and Yoko suffered the same fate that their friend, Joey and his sister, Serenity, had suffered: being unexpectedly ripped away from each other.
"And your father?" The dark asked. He saw Yugi cringe at the mention of his father.
"Why else? He's my dad, we're family." Yugi said. He sighed and sank into Atem's bed. "I wish he was like your dad." That statement was a bit surprising to Atem.
"My father? Why?" The light laughed lightly to himself.
"I met your dad, remember? When you refused the Afterlife and wanted to stay with me. He appeared and gave us his blessing. He seemed to happily accept our love." Atem thought about that. Yes, his father was an honorable, proud man and accepted Atem's decision so that he could be happy. Yugi and their friends had seen and heard Aknonkanon tell Atem how proud he was of his son, and that he loved him and wished him the best.
"I guess you have a point." The dark joined his light by lying down on the bed. Noticing that Yugi was still in sad thoughts, he decided to ease the tension. "Yugi, you don't have to worry," he gave the little one a soft kiss on the lips; "everything will be alright." Yugi smiled.
"I hope so." With that, the couple returned to making out, deciding not to worry about things until that time came.
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That night, Yugi's mother, Ashita, made a delicious dinner. She was always one to cook a full dinner on Sunday evenings. The woman brought the last part of the dinner, the garlic potatoes, out of the oven.
"Here they are, nice and warm." Ashita stated with a smile as she placed a spoonful on everyone's plate.
"Thanks, Mom." Yugi said. Garlic mashed potatoes was always one of his favorite dishes. Ashita smiled. She knew that her baby boy was growing up, but there was no reason she could not get in a few more moments of mothering while he was still a minor.
"Everything is delicious, Mrs. Moto." Atem said. He had never had potatoes like this back in Egypt; they were either raw or cooked whole. He preferred the potatoes to this time rather than that.
"Why, thank you, Atem, Dear." Atem's cheeks turned almost as red as his eyes. He found it weird that she had accepted the entire truth so well and had taken to him just as well. For a while, there were a few moments of silence before Ashita broke it.
"Yugi, I'm going to need you to move your clothes into Atem's room." Yugi stopped in mid-bite and looked at his mother. She continued eating as if nothing was wrong.
"Okay, uh … why do you need that?"
"Because your sister will be using your room during her stay here." All of a sudden, Yugi began choking on the potatoes in his mouth. Atem grabbed Yugi's drink and offered it to him as the younger gulped it down. After a long exhale, followed by an inhale, Yugi spoke.
"What?! My room?! But Why?!" He screamed as he slammed the silverware in his hands down on the dining table. "You can't do that, Mom!" The red-headed woman shrugged.
"I'm sorry, Dear, but there's nowhere else for her to sleep." Yugi sat back down in his chair, but he was far from finished.
"But why my room?"
"I would have thought you would like sharing a room with Atem for a month." Ashita said, turning to Atem and smiling. Both boys knew she was kidding, but still, it was a little unnerving.
"Mom, you can't just kick me out of my own room and automatically assume that I want to bunk with him!" Yugi said, pointing his thumb to his lover. The former Pharaoh, who remained silent decided to speak up for himself. Ususally he did not get between Yugi and his mother, but this was different.
"I feel I should take offence to that, Yugi." Yugi placed his hand on his lover's thigh and gave it a gentle squeeze to let him know that his previous statement did not mean how it sounded. Ashita glared at her son for using such a tone with her.
"Yugioh Hikari Moto," Yugi cringed at his mother for addressing him by his full name; she usually only did that when she was really pissed off, "you are going to let your sister sleep in y our room while she is here, and that is final! IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?!" The boy lowered his head in defeat, he knew better than to contradict his mother when she was angry enough to use full names.
"…Yes'm…" He replied very softly.
"Good. Now, clean your plate and then go start picking things out and move them to the basement."
"Ashita, they won't be here for another week." Grandpa Solomon stated.
"Oh, I know, Dad, but I just want to clean that room before they get here."
"Uh, mom, where's Dad gonna sleep?" Ashita gave her son a look that seemed say 'isn't that obvious?'.
"Why, with me, of course." Yugi's response was a sigh. Apparently, his mother did not remember why his father and Yoko had left in the first place. It seemed that she already had everything worked out.
That that was beside the point. His real worry was that he did not think that it was a good idea to have Atem and him sleep in the same room. It was not that he did not want to; it was just that he knew how much Atem could not keep his hands off of Yugi for too long. Either the two of them would end up having sex every night or Atem would get on Yugi's nerves trying to have sex every night. Yugi liked his sleep, but Atem was one of those people who did not care if he had to get up early and had no sleep as long as he had fun. Either way, Yugi was screwed … with no pun intended.
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End of Chapter
Preview of Next Chapter: Yugi's father, Toshio and sister, Yoko, come to town and meet Atem for the first time. Toshio is not happy with having a "stranger" in his house.
