Sadistic-neko: Hi to all of you out there that have been eagerly awaiting this creation. I would like to apologize for taking so long to put this up. You see, I working and school just started so I didn't have much time these past few weeks. I also wanted to reread Animalistic Love since I could remember a damn thing that happened at the begging of the 138 page story.
Bakura: You mean to tell me that the random nonsense that you wrote last story was 138 pages long?
Sadistic-neko: Yep, it sure was. I don't think that this chapter was all that good, but I couldn't think of any other way to start it, so it'll have to do. I promise that the other chapters will be better since I already have them all planned out in my noggin. Well, enough with this drabble! I do not Yu-Gi-Oh and I hope that you enjoy this story and that it meets your expectations! Please Review and tell me what you think!
Little Surprises
Jou POV
I was sitting in the limo with my mate, Seto, the yamis, Yami, Bakura and Marik, and the hikaris, Yugi, Ryou and Malik. We were on our way to a meeting that we were all looking forward to and dreading. My little sister, Shizuka and our friend, Kujaku Mai were coming to visit us and I was ecstatic. Unfortunately, they were no the only ones. Mizaki Anzu was going to be with them.
"Puppy?" I heard next to me. Turning, I met the blue gaze of my brunette mate, Seto. "Is something wrong?"
I shook my head and he gave me a skeptical look. In an instant I was in his arm, sitting on his lap. He had my chin cupped in his hand and was forcing me to look him straight in the eye. I hadn't even noticed him move.
"Puppy," he said sternly, his voice holding a light growl. "Don't lie to me. It bothers me when you're worried about something. You know that you can talk to me."
I nuzzled my nose into his neck, letting a small whimper out, trying to convey that I was sorry for worrying him. He was my alpha after all. As the dominate one in our relationship in regards to both our human feelings and our overpowering wolf instincts, he always was overprotective and such a worrywart. I sighed as he buried his nose in my hair and took a deep sniff.
"I'm just excited to be seeing my little sister again. It's been too long." That was only a partial truth and, if his reprimanding growl was anything to go by, he knew. I sighed again. "Fine. I don't want to see Anzu. She was such a bitch to Honda and Otougi last time we saw her. I don't care if she doesn't approve of all of us gay, but I really don't want to put up with her bitching when I see my sis. Honestly, you'd think that after all of the friendship speeches she's given that she would be able to practice what she preaches and deal with the fact that we are how we are and be happy for us."
"True. From what you've told me I would've been a better friend to you guys when I was trying to kill you." He adjusted me so that I was sitting sideways instead in his lap instead of straddling his thighs. "You shouldn't let her say anything. I can go with you if you want."
"No," I said pinching him lightly. "You and the yamis have to stay. We wouldn't want to give my poor little sister and Mai heart attacks."
"Man," he chuckled and wrapped his arms around me. He gave a full hearted smile, something that he would normally never do in front of the others. "It would be fun though. Can't you just imagine their faces?"
"Seto," I said, pretending to be dissatisfied with him. "It's not nice to pick on others like that."
"I know, I know." I smiled as he laughed. I sobered up pretty quickly though. As soon as the smile formed, the car stopped and I felt my heart pound and blood go cold. Outside I could see Honda and Otougi waiting.
"Well," Yugi chirped. "Their plane should be landing any minute. We should get going."
The other two hikaris and I nodded and we dragged ourselves out of the limo. Our friends smiled and waved at us and began leading us to where the plane would be coming in.
We all waited at the terminal anxiously. All of our eyes where glued to the incoming flying vehicle. I swore that my heart skipped a beat when they finally stepped through. As soon as I laid eyes on her, I jumped my sister, engulfing her in a bone crushing hug.
"Nii-san," she said through fits of laughter. "It's good to see you too, but I have to breathe."
"I know," I said, giving her one last squeeze before I let go and we began following the others to pick up their luggage. "How have you been?"
"I've been well." Her smile fell a little bit. "Hey, nii-san, have you talked to kaa-san lately?"
"No." I tilted my head in confusion. "A lots been going on and I haven't gotten around to it. Is something wrong?"
"I'm not sure. About two months ago she was reading the paper and, after she read it, she seemed upset. She's been acting weird whenever I've mentioned you and she didn't really seem to want me to come visit you." I sighed and slumped my shoulders.
"She must have found out about Seto and me then." I was said to know that the relationship that my mate and I had upset her, but, I was wanted to stay with him more than I wanted her approval. As much as I wanted to patch things up with her ever since I noticed how much I was taking my parents still being alive, unlike Seto and Mokie's, the years that we hadn't been on good terms and her abandoning me and taking my sister from me were had to overlook.
"What about Seto and you?" I snapped my gaze to her innocent and confused look in shock. How could she not know? There was no way that kaa-san could have kept it from her completely. Then again, she was homeschooled and kaa-san always went hell bat on her whenever she tried to watch tv, so her exposure to the media was pretty limited.
"I'll tell you when we get home okay?" She was staying at the mansion with the pups, Seto and me, so figured that it would be safest to wait until then. Mai was going to some weird convention thing and would be staying at the hotel and Anzu was visiting some relatives.
A little while later, after we got all of the luggage, we went out to where the limo was waiting for us. The girls just stood there dumbfounded, staring at the vehicle emblazoned prominently with the Kaiba Corp. logo. I was a little worried though since Anzu looked severely pissed.
"What the hell is Kaiba doing here!" she all but screamed. Everyone, including the one that didn't have genetically enhanced hearing, covered their ears and we all sent apologetic looks to everyone that was near.
"He offered to give us a ride in the limo since nothing else would have had enough room." Man did I wish that we could just drop her off and get this over with. She glared at me and it didn't faze me the least bit. I lived with and was dating a guy that could almost literally burn a hole in someone's head or freeze their blood in their veins for heaven's sake.
"Since when does Kaiba of all people offer to do anything for us? He's a total ass and you all know it!" It was then that I decided to pull a page out of my mate's book and glared at her with all of the hatred that I summon within me.
"How dare you say something like that?" I yelled. "You don't know him! He's changed since you were last here! He's a hell of a better friend than you are, that's for sure."
"So it's true," she said coldly, a disgusted look adorning her face. "You have become his bitch. I didn't want to believe it when I first heard it, but I guess that they were right. Here I thought that was at least a little bit of you that held proper civility and morals. I bet he's paying you too."
I heard the ferocious growls and snarls seconds before the door slammed open and furious shadow magic users stormed out looking ready to commit mass homicide. The shadows began to warp around them only slightly, itching to do so much more. Only someone that was familiar with their powers would be able to notice. Anzu, as much of a bitch as she was, was one such person.
"W-what?" I took great pleasure seeing her squirm under the heated glares. "Yami? Bakura? Marik? What are you guys doing here?"
"How dare you?" Seto snarled, grabbing Anzu by the collar of her shirt and lifting her up off of the ground. "He's your friend damn it! I don't give a damn about all of the shit you spew, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to let you stand there and insult my puppy!"
"Y-Yugi!" she cried out. "Y-Yami! Somebody help me!"
Everyone just watched as Seto dragged the bitch to a corner and threw her to it. The yamis weren't too far behind him with her bags in tow. They were thrown to her side just as she looked up. I almost hurled as she dared to send pleading looks to the hikaris who proceeded to send her the most venomous looks they could with their wide innocent looking eyes.
"You should leave now," Yugi said, doing his best to mimic Seto's evil monotone. "Just go. You're not welcomed at the game shop either. If you're going to be like this, I don't ever want to see you again. If you show up before us, I will not stop Yami or the others from punishing you. After what you said, you would deserve every bit of it."
Not even bothering to see how she would answer, we all just turned around and got into the limo. Once sure that everyone that we wanted in was present, Seto slammed the door shut and told the driver to head towards everyone's houses and drop them off.
As soon as the elongated car began to move, Yugi burst into tears. I couldn't blame him. Out of all of our friends, Anzu was the one that he had known the longest. When Honda and I were being total dicks to him and bullying him, she was the one that bitched at us until we stopped. I just knew that it hurt like hell for him to disown her like that, but he knew that it was necessary. If he hadn't, then she would have made our lives a living hell and just hurt us over and over again.
I was worried for the poor guy. Even his own mate was having a hard time comforting him. As worried as I was though, there was something that needed my attention much more, and that was my fuming mate. Knowing that his head was about to explode, I turned in my seat to face him and threw my arms around him, burying my nose into his chest. I felt him deflate tiredly before he wrapped his arms around me too. My initial action was just as much an effort to get the comfort that I knew he would give me as it was to calm him.
I didn't care if people didn't approve of Seto and me. To us, the fact that we were happy for once and that we had the pups, Mokie and Noah, was all that mattered. That fact that it was her that said those cruel words was what really hurt. After all that we had been through battling evil monsters and spirits, learning to coupe with the fact that were two Yugis, being sent to other worlds and everything else, there was no way that it wouldn't hurt.
Taking deep breath to compose myself, I gave Seto one last squeeze and sat up to lock gazes with a very confused looking Shizuka. It seemed like kaa-san did a good job of keeping her in the dark. Mai, on the hand, looked extremely impressed. It was obvious that she already knew but didn't tell since I would probably want to let my sister know myself.
"Nii-san? What was that about?" she asked both concerned and baffled. I sighed and tightened my grip on the hand that Seto offered and looked up at my sister, hoping that this one would turn out better.
"Seto and I are dating. Anzu hates homosexuals and so she flipped out when she figured out that the news and rumors were true." I focused my eyes on hers as I spoke, searching for any hint of disgust. To my great relief, I found none. Instead the orbs that were the only feature we really shared lit up with happiness, though the confusion still stayed to a degree.
"Really," she squealed, making everyone else in the car, excluding Mai, cover their ears and groan. It only took a second for her to realize something was wrong and her voice turned concerned. "What's wrong guys?"
"We have very sensitive ears and that pitch was a particularly painful one." I gritted my teeth and tried to sound like I wasn't in nearly as much as I was. "You see, some evil scientist kidnapped all of us a couple of months ago and put animal DNA in us and it heightened our senses."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Seto and I are wolves. Yami and Yugi are lions, Marik and Malik are panthers and Bakura and Ryou are white tigers."
"Oh, okay then." She made it sound like it was completely normal, then again, she had caught a glimpse of what our lives had been like and, to us, it pretty much was. "How is it that the yamis are back and why do they have their own bodies."
"They made a deal with the lord of the dead and, since they completed their end of it by saving the world from the guy that did this to us, they get to stay in this life and have their own bodies. Oh, just so you know, all of the hikaris are dating their yamis."
She nodded looked around, surprised to find that almost everyone had disappeared during my explanation and that we were stopping in front of the hotel that Mai was going to be staying at. She pouted a bit as Mai opened the door and swung her legs out. I nearly had a heat attack when she turned around and gave my sis a peck on the cheek.
"See you around love. We have to set up a date whenever I have some free time. Bye!" I stared out the window with my eyes wide and jaw on the floor. As soon as I was capable of coherent thought, I turned to my sis probably looking like some kind of blubbering moron.
"S-Shizuka, is there something that you have failed to tell me?" There was a moment of silence before realization dawned on her.
"Sorry about that," she said, rubbing the back of her head in a habit that she picked up from me when we were younger. "With everything that was going on we must have forgotten to tell you that we were together."
"Oh well," I said, just happy that she was with someone that I knew I could trust. A humorous thought popped into head and I sighed dramatically. "I would say something about the age difference but, considering that man I'm dating is old as dirt, I'm not one to talk."
"How many times do I have to tell you that I'm not old?" Seto asked, only slightly disgruntled, but more amused than anything.
"That mummy of yours resting somewhere in the Valley of the Kings says otherwise." I chuckled as he ruffled my hair and the mansion came into view.
"My age is just another part of my allure. It's one of the many reasons that you love me." I smiled, knowing that he wouldn't be acting near this jubilant if he wasn't comfortable around my younger sibling whom was still in the car.
"Of course," I said, giving him a quick peck on the cheek before jumping out of the car and dragging Shizuka to meet the other pups.
