This fic is dedicated to my Hikari, Reana1 on this site, go check her out! *nudge-nudge-violent-shove*
That done and over with, this is my baby fic… came to me while I was happily singing in the shower *sweat drops* So, yah. I decided to make a story with plot! *gasp* So, read and review!
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Warnings: Yaoi and language, and I think that's all in this chapter… oh! And beware the fluff and angst!
Ultimate Betrayal
Chapter One
Jounouchi and Yuugi sat on opposite ends of the couch, and not out of dislike for each other, either. Rather, it was because they liked each other so much that they were forced to sit as far away from each other as possible while still managing to sit on the only piece of furniture in the room. Honda and Bakura's strict orders.
Jounouchi yawned and tried to keep himself interested in the movie, which was particularly hard when his life story was more horrific than the number one movie at the top of the charts.
"Hand check[1]!" Honda hollered as a scene that was considerably mushy came up on the screen, all the men in the room lifting their hands into the air as quickly as possible. When four pairs of hands were up, the brunette nodded and all hands dropped.
Despite what it looked like, the hand check was not a game. It was something Honda had come up with to make sure that no groping or fondling was active while the rest of them, he especially, sat unawares in the darkened room while the movie played.
Jounouchi sighed, putting his hands back into his lap after the rather annoying hand check. Bakura edged away from him, seeming to think that the blonde was attracted to him and would take advantage of the situation despite the frequent and irregular hand checks. Jounouchi couldn't blame him, as the albino was a fairly good looking specimen, making the blonde wonder why the guy didn't have a boyfriend - or, at the very least, a girlfriend, yet. Jounouchi sighed and shifted so that his body was even further away from the edgy albino, trying to keep focused on the movie, a rather old one with poor special effects and all. When it came out, 'The Mummy Returns' had been one of the hottest movies of the millennia. Then technology had taken a leap, skip and a bound and left the poor former high-tech movies as old news.
Jounouchi glanced over to see Yuugi blanked out, a sure sign that the spirit of his Sennen Puzzle was complaining about something or other about the movie.
//But aibou[2], this is all wrong,// Yami no Yuugi criticized. //Where are the Yami no Games[3]? Where are the Monsters?//
Yuugi mentally rolled his eyes, about ready to give up watching the movie and maybe even enjoying it with the once-pharaoh finding fault in absolutely every little thing, from how the gods appeared to the cut of the clothing. /How many times do I have to tell you? It's a _movie_ and nothing more, made for entertainment purposes only,/ He patiently - or maybe not so patiently, explained with his teeth clenched. In all honesty, the voice in his head could really grate his nerves some days. /Meaning that it's not supposed to be true. Besides, not everyone is privileged enough to have a living, breathing pharaoh constantly chatting away in the back of their heads throughout every single thing their vessel's[4] happen to see that may or may not be incorrect./
Yami caught the sarcasm but couldn't help commenting. //I'm not living nor breathing,// He pointed out, where as Yuugi muttered something like 'luckily for you'. //I am quite dead and that being said, I have no reason to breath now, do I?//
Yuugi groaned and slammed up mental barriers on the spirit, successfully blocking out all mental conversations and, thank Kami[5], certain three thousand year dead pharaoh's whom seemed to think that they were superior to everyone in that they were always right and their vessel's were always wrong and even when they, meaning the vessel's, were right they were to be ignored as if they had never said anything at all.
Having blocked out the spirit, Yuugi found that the movie was over and everyone else was up and stretching. Inwardly cursing Yami, he also got up and stretched. Over the last five years he had grown, much to his own relief, and was now about the same height as he should have been back in high school. Meaning that, instead of looking like he was ten or so, he was a healthy five foot five and looked to be sixteen maturity-wise[6]. Which was utter hell when it came to job-hunting. He was still shorter than everyone else in the room, but not so short that he would ever be mistaken for their little brother or, as once had happened in a rather embarrassing moment at the movie theatre, their son, again.
Jounouchi sent his koiboito[7] a grin and sidled towards Yuugi, trying hard not to catch the ever-watchful eyes of the other two men in the room. Failing miserably, of course.
"And just where do you think you're going?" Honda demanded, pushing the blonde back onto the couch. He moved his body so that he was between Jounouchi and Yuugi, blocking the couple's view of each other. He sent a look towards Bakura that said a thousand things before he returned his hazel eyes to their former glaring contest with the blonde on the couch. "I will have no contact between the two of you while you are in my house."
Yuugi cleared his throat and smiled at the brunette when Honda turned to look at the shorter man. "Honda," He started in such a tone that the tallest of the men in the room winced. "Jounouchi and I respect your decision to have no gay relationships in your house, but splitting us up completely is not the answer."
Jounouchi nodded vigorously, getting up from the couch and stretching once again, his shirt hiking up to give his koi[8] and, coincidentally of course, everyone else in the room a good view of his muscular stomach. "If I had my way, there would be no straight relationships allowed in our apartment," He added, knowing Yuugi fully agreed in that their apartment was not to be used for Honda and Anzu's late night make-out sessions. "Make no mistake, we're both happy that you finally hooked up with Anzu, but the noises you make while kissing - if you can even call it that, is enough to even make me with my stomach of steel feel about to hurl."
The brunette's mouth opened and closed comically but no sound came out, making it look as though he was kissing a ghost. Jounouchi and Yuugi shared a triumphant look before the blonde crossed the room and wrapped an arm around his short koi.
Ryou shook his head at the trio's antics before he grabbed his
movie. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to call it a night."
The other three men in the room turned to look at the quiet-mannered albino. "Of course," Yuugi spoke up, knowing that Bakura's own tomb robbing spirit was probably nagging at him to leave so he could go plunder some drunks pockets. "Thanks for letting us watch the movie."
Ryou nodded and grabbed his coat, slipping it and his shoes on. Exchanging final farewells with his only friends, he hunkered down into his jacket against the cold blast of air that swept into the room with the opening of the door and stepped out into the night. Yuugi thought he saw, though it could have been a trick of the light, glinting red eyes that meant the spirit of the Ring was on the loose.
"I think that me and Yuug are going to call it a night as well," Jounouchi spoke, nearly melting in his koiboito's embrace as Yuugi's rather skilled hands caressed his back and shoulders.
Honda nodded and clapped the two on the back. "Glad you could come over," He said warmly. "Always nice to know your friends haven't forgotten you."
The couple laughed, separating for a short duration to pull on their jackets and shoes. "Thanks again for inviting us over," Yuugi said gratefully. "We definitely have to do this more often."
Honda agreed, pulling the two into a warm, brotherly hug. "Anytime, man."
With a look between the mischievous lovers, Yuugi and Jounouchi delivered a double whammy. "See you later!" Jounouchi called over his shoulder as he and Yuugi stole through the door and out into the night, leaving the stunned brunette standing in the doorway even after the door closed and the couple were long gone. Raising his hands to his cheeks, the realization that his two best friends had just kissed him sunk in. Correction, his two best _guy_ friends.
"Thanks a whole lot you two!" He called out to the departed koiboito's, dismissing the fact that they couldn't hear him. "Now I have to get a new face!" Growling under his breath about what he was going to do to Jounouchi and Yuugi, he stalked to the bathroom to wash his face.
And shave. And scrub it raw. And boil it. And kill his two best friends. Though he would wait until later to do the latter. If Anzu ever found out what the two trickster's had done to him...
He would be dumped quicker than you could say 'gay'.
~*~*~*~*~
Jounouchi and Yuugi were still chuckling even after they were home and settled down on the couch. "Did you see his face?" Jounouchi asked gleefully. "He looked like we socked him one!"
Yuugi laughed and flung one of his arms around his blonde koiboito's shoulder and snuggled his face into Jounouchi's muscular chest. "If you look at it from his point of view, we may as well have." He laughed quietly. "Poor Anzu, wonder how she'll react if she ever caught wind of her boyfriend being a bisexual?"
Jounouchi chuckled and wrapped his arms around his slim lover, content for the time being. "Probably the same way she reacted when you turned her down and admitted you were gay," He supplied. Yuugi winced and the couple started to laugh, the room filled with their laughter and their love for each other.
They sat in a comfortable silence for a few minutes when Jounouchi spoke. "Hey Yuug," He began, looking into his lovers warm amethyst gaze. "I have something I need to do before it gets much later."
The shorter man looked up at the blonde and sighed. "It can't wait?"
Jounouchi smiled and caught Yuugi's lips in a passionate kiss that ignited the fire of love in the younger mans heart. When they parted for much needed air, Yuugi looked as though, should Jounouchi tell him to drink a vial of poison, he would respond with 'How much and what kind?'.
"No, I would like to get it done tonight."
Yuugi sighed again and gave his koi a soft kiss before allowing the blonde to get up. "Try to get back before it gets too late?" He pleaded.
Jounouchi waved a hand in acknowledgement. "Yeah, yeah," He conceded. "Honestly, Yuug, you act like a mother of six stuck at home with the screaming brats with nothing better to do than fine tune those maternal instincts."
The blonde's koiboito grinned and gave Jounouchi the friendly middle finger. "Just remember that the bed is mine and I willingly let you share it with me," He threatened. Jounouchi grinned and gave Yuugi one last kiss good-bye before heading out the door.
~*~*~*~*~
Yuugi crawled into bed three hours after Jounouchi had left the apartment, unable to stop worrying about the brash blonde with his quick temper and sharp tongue. Despite the reassuring words Yami spoke through their link the young man couldn't help but picture situation after situation that his koi could have gotten himself into.
The spirit of the Puzzle materialized beside his aibou, wrapping comforting arms around Yuugi and murmuring comforting words into his reincarnations ear. Yuugi smiled gratefully at him and the pharaoh gave a small smile back in spite of himself. No matter the circumstances, the spirit could always find a smile for his beloved light. Yami leaned down on his aibou and gave him a kiss on his forehead to soothe his worried other.
"I'm being childish, aren't I?" Yuugi asked the spirit, turning his back on the once-pharaoh so that Yami could curl his semi-transparent though quite solid body around Yuugi in a protective and comforting security blanket.
Yami smiled slightly into Yuugi's hair. "I don't think that worrying for a loved one could be considered childish, but some of the scenarios you are coming up with are very much so," Yami chided gently. "Do you honestly think that a crocodile is going to crawl out of the sewers and drag Jounouchi to his watery grave?"
Yuugi grinned sheepishly. Despite his being a grown man, he couldn't help the pictures and scenes that flashed through his mind. A rosy blush spread across his cheeks as his other described the scenario running through his mind at the moment to a T. "He probably just got sidetracked and had to stay the night over at Honda's or the like," Yuugi agreed, his violet eyes drooping heavily as sleep, encouraged by stress, threatened to overwhelm him.
Yami sent a positive wave of emotions through his and Yuugi's link, causing his other to yawn in content and allow his eyes to drift shut. When Yuugi's breathing levelled out, signalling the arrival of sleep, Yami kissed his little light lightly on the lips before returning to the Puzzle with a warm flash of light from the item. Yuugi groaned in his sleep and rolled over.
Worries put aside, though not completely forgotten, the two look-alikes fell into a deep slumber.
~*~*~*~*~
Soft lips pressed against Yuugi's own, successfully rousing the startled man, though pleasantly so. Honey brown eyes looked back into his own amethyst ones, and the older of the two lovers gave a warm smile to his short koiboito.
"About time you woke up," The blonde murmured, capturing Yuugi's lips in another passionate kiss. "I was about ready to give you up for the dead," Jounouchi teased, ruffling Yuugi's multi-colored hair gently.
Yuugi grinned and wrapped both arms around his lovers neck‚pulling him down in yet another kiss, this one full of his delight and love for the blonde. A sudden ringing broke apart their kiss and Yuugi found himself alone in his bedroom, the sun shining directly on his face.
Sighing in disappointment, Yuugi rolled over to find that Jounouchi hadn't returned home yet. The digital clock beside his bed announced that it was time for him to get up anyway. Mumbling incoherently, he sat up and fell out of bed when the phone gave another tortured cry, the same that had jerked him out of his peaceful dream. Hitting the floor with a muffled thump, he swore loudly and untangled himself from the blankets.
Dashing out of the bedroom, he tripped on something or other on the floor and was deftly caught by a pair of strong arms. Smiling appreciatively at the once-pharaoh, Yuugi disentangled himself from his other and grabbed the phone, stopping its tortured cries mid-shriek.
"Moshi-moshi[9], Jounouchi and Mutuo[10] residence," He greeted the caller, twirling the phone cord lazily between his fingers.
Yami looked at his aibou, who was standing in front of the window that allowed warm sunlight to stream into the room. The suns rays hit Yuugi full on, making his skin glow and surrounding him in a soft nimbus of light. With Yuugi wearing only a pair of black boxers, the once-pharaoh could, and did, envy the blonde who had claimed his little lights heart.
Sighing deeply, he wrapped his arms around Yuugi, nuzzling his face into his others neck. Noticing how Yuugi flinched away from his touch and how his muscles were tying themselves in knots, Yami backed off.
Yuugi listened to the voice in the phone, his mind refusing to believe what he was hearing. He turned to look at Yami, seeing the surprise in his others eyes but not registering it, a chill settling deep within his heart.
Yami took one look at Yuugi's face and immediately became worried. His aibou's face was pale and beaded with sweat, his eyes wide and his mouth slack with shock and disbelief. Concerned, he tried to open the link between them and was surprised when he met a well-guarded barrier that sent him flying back. "Aibou?"
Yuugi just continued to stare straight ahead, not hearing anything nor registering anything except for the voice on the phone. Quite suddenly, he sank to his knees and the phone dropped out of his hands, clattering noisily on the floor. Even when Yami embraced Yuugi, he did nothing but stare straight ahead and through his other even though the spirit was now quite opaque.
Without any warning, Yuugi keened and threw himself at the once-pharaoh, wrapping his arms around Yami's neck, tears streaming freely down his face.
Yami frowned worriedly at his light. "Shhh," He soothed. "What's wrong?"
Yuugi stopped crying and leaned back far enough so that he could look Yami in the face, though his gaze stayed directed at the floor. He glanced at the phone like it was a poisonous snake before he shuddered and managed to speak, albeit barely. "That was Yami no Malik," He said shakily, every word obviously a strain on him to get out. "He wants us to come to Egypt immediately to face him."
Yami snorted softly. "Now why would we do such a thing?" He asked pointedly.
Yuugi finally raised his eyes to Yami, and in them the spirit saw such hopelessness and despair that he winced and leaned away from his other. "We have no choice in the matter," He said firmly, eyes welling with tears again. "He has Jounouchi and says that if we're not in Cairo by sunset three days from now, he'll kill him."
~*~*~*~*~
[1] This is an actual thing that happened on a French trip I missed out on... the teacher had to take along a dating boy and girl and so of course they insisted on sitting together. Well, every once in a while- the kids never knew when the next one was going to be- the teacher would call for a 'hand check' to make sure all hands were not anywhere they shouldn't have been. Well, one time the teacher called for it and I guess the guy had just been reaching between the seat and the back (where the seat-belts come from) to grab something or other (I think it was a chocolate bar or something) and he, of course, being the idiotic male he is, called out "Hang on a sec!"... Enough said, no?
[2]Aibou- 'Partner' in Japanese, used mainly by Yami no Yuugi as a title to Yuugi. Yami, as far as I know, never called Yuugi by his name.
[3]Yami no Games- The Shadow Games. If I were to do a full Japanese translation, it would be Yami no Yuugi, but that's what I'm calling Yami in this story (well, sometimes) so therefore the Shadow games will be referred to as the Yami no Games.
[4]Vessel- this is what the bearers of the items are to the spirits of the Sennen Items. In Japanese they are called Yadonushi, or landlords, by the spirits of the items. (I have also heard them [the spirits] call their vessels 'omote', and if anyone knows what that means, please be so kind as to inform me.) It is mainly Yami no Bakura that uses this on Ryou Bakura, but Yuugi is rather sarcastic at the moment and so is thinking that way when Yami is being Pharaonic (Aka: Moronic... bad pun! .-. *Runs from groaning reviewers/readers* My bad!) about the movie.
[5]Kami- also Kami-sama. Translates into 'God'. Marik likes to think that this title applies to him (As well as Ore-sama, more on that in later chapters), but don't tell him I think otherwise! ~.-.^
[6] In my story, it is five years after Battle City; making the gang around the age of about twenty-one... you grasp the concept?
[7] koiboito- basically translates into 'lover'
[8] koi- I'm not too sure on this one, but I think it is basically the shortening of koiboito and translates into 'love' (as in a person referring to another person)
[9] Moshi-moshi- how you answer the phone in Japan... basically hello
[10]Remember that in Japan they introduce everyone by their last names first so 'Jounouchi' is actually Katsuya's last name while Katsuya is his first. Ya dig?
Well, there's Chapter 1, below is Chappie 2 trailer, and below that is the purple button. 'Nough said. Criticism, compliments, flames, whatever; review.
---Jasper
Chapter Two Trailer:
On the second day, the cops showed up. Yuugi's face paled but quickly filled up with relief when he found out that he was not the cause for their visit, though his face paled for the second time in not even ten minutes when he found out the real reason of the visit.
"There were a number of brutal murders over in Babylon last night, and all of them have had three notes pinned to the bodies in various places addressed to your room number. If you would have a look at them, we would be extremely grateful," A thin man with grey eyes asked Yuugi.
Yuugi agreed cautiously, his eyes widening at the sheer amount of notes that fell out of the bag that the cops partner had with him. "Each body had three notes?" He asked in mingled disgust and disbelief.
The other cop, also thin, though with livelier blue eyes, nodded. "Yep, so you can just imagine how much we want to catch this guy."
Yuugi idly thought that he probably could imagine twenty times more how much they wanted to catch the killer, because, even though he wasn't one hundred percent sure about it, he was after the same guy - though for a very different reason.
Looking at the notes, he found that, besides his address, there was only one word on each.
/Sweet Kami, he killed someone for every third word, mou hitori no boku,/ Yuugi told Yami in repulsed awe. /Just to deliver us a message./
Yami nodded, his words as sharp as knives. //He wasn't kidding around when he said he would kill Jounouchi, aibou,// He reminded his light. //Twenty dead bodies is nothing to him.//
Yuugi nodded, though to the cops it looked as if to himself. He glanced at the notes before looking pointedly at the men. "Do you think you could come back tonight, so that I have some time to look over these and see if I can decipher them?"
The cops excused themselves for a few minutes, no doubt to discuss if they could trust the battered, bruised, and tired man with the only evidence they had of the killer. They came back, the younger of the two looking rather put out. "You have until nine tonight," He complied. "Good luck. You are the only hope we have."