Here's the next chapter.

I meant to mention this last chapter, but I forgot. Here are the ages for everyone.

Serenity, Mokuba- 20

Yugi, Heba, Joey, Ryou, Malik- 24

Yami, Bakura- 25

Atemu, Marik- 26

Seto- 27

Valon- 31

Mai- 34

Just a note. In this chapter and for the rest of the story, when I say that Yugi is reading, I mean he's reading brail where they use their fingers to read. Just so no one gets confused.

Enjoy!


Chapter 2- Meeting

The following day, Yugi and Heba went back to the Game Shop in order to get in the inventory in.

"Heba, why am I here?" Yugi asked as he sat down on the stool behind the counter before Heba had the chance to tell him to.

"Because I don't want you to stay in the house by yourself, and since Grandpa doesn't get here for another two weeks, you have to stay with me." Heba answered.

Yugi raised an eyebrow. "And what about when I start my job?" Yugi asked.

"That's different." Heba said.

"Not really." Yugi muttered.

Heba glared at his brother even if Yugi couldn't see it. Yugi could frustrate Heba at times even though Heba knew that he caused it half the time with the way he was sp overprotective, but Heba couldn't help that he worried about Yugi all the time.

It wasn't long before the truck arrived with all the inventory for the store.

"Yugi, stay put while I take care of it." Heba said.

"Yes, Dad." Yugi said in a mocking tone.

Heba rolled his eyes before he walked out of the store to deal with all of the inventory that had just arrived.

Not one to sit around and be bored, Yugi took out the books that he would need for the classes he would teach and started to read them.

The men from the delivery company brought the boxes in one by one.

Yugi could hear them, but he chose to ignore them in favor of what he was reading.

It wasn't long before everything was in, and Heba and Yugi were alone again.

"Get everything?" Yugi asked.

"Yes, I did. Now, I just have to get it all set up." Heba said.

"You know that you could always call Mai and ask her to come here and help you out. She is off today." Yugi said.

"No. I don't want to take up Mai's free time. Besides, I can handle this." Heba said as he started to open the boxes one by one.

Yugi then went back to his books while Heba set out to get everything in the store set up.


"Remind me again why we agreed to go to this?" Atemu asked as he put his work in his briefcase.

Atemu and Yami had decided to quit work after lunch since they were going to meet Joey's friends with them.

"Because they asked us to. Besides, Seto pretty much begged us to come." Yami said.

"Yeah. Why did he do that?" Atemu asked.

Yami shrugged. "Beats me. I'm guessing that Seto just wants us to be there to suffer through this like he's going to have to." Yami said.

"If that was the case, then he would have had Bakura and Marik to suffer with him." Atemu said.

"And Mokuba." Yami said.

"Yeah. And Mokuba. I don't get it." Atemu said.

"There's not telling with Seto, but I know that Joey wanted us to meet those two, so he probably got Seto to get us to go. Besides, it's not like it's going to kill us to go and meet them." Yami said.

"I suppose not." Atemu said as he closed and locked his briefcase. Atemu picked up his briefcase. "Come on. Let's get going." Atemu said.

The two brothers then left the office building.


After spending a few hours at the shop, Yugi and Heba returned home.

"All right. Let's get you into the living room and then I'll get everything ready for when Joey, Serenity, Ryou, and Malik get here." Heba said.

"Heba, I don't need you to show me the way to the living room. I'll be fine. Just don't forget that more than those four are coming." Yugi said.

"I know, Yugi. Get in the living room." Yugi said.

Yugi nodded and headed down the hall to the living room.

Heba watched Yugi until Yugi went into the living room before he went into the kitchen to make the snacks for when their guests arrive.

"You didn't have to watch me until I got into the living room, Heba! I can make it into the living room on my own!" Yugi yelled.

Heba jumped. "Yugi! How do you always know when I watch you?" Heba asked.

"I've told you before. I can hear you when you start walking, and you hardly ever start walking until you knew I was where I said I was going to go." Yugi responded.

Heba sighed. "I just worry. We're in a new house, so I didn't know if you knew how to get to the living room without hurting yourself." Heba said.

"Stop worrying about it, Heba. I'm fine. I learn things fast. Don't forget that I bet you and Valon that I would learn the house in two days." Yugi said.

"Yeah. We'll see if that happens." Heba said, not believing that Yugi could learn the house in that short of a time span.

Yugi laughed. "We'll see indeed." Yugi said.


"Are we ready to go?" Serenity asked.

"Yeah. Come on! Let's get going!" Joey said.

Seto, Mokuba, Yami, and Atemu walked into the foyer to find that Serenity and Joey were ready to go.

"Take it easy. Their house isn't going anywhere." Seto said.

"Neither are they." Atemu added.

"Come on. We haven't seen Yugi and Heba in six years. I really want to see them again." Joey said.

"Let's go before your dog has an accident, Seto." Yami said.

"Yami! I am not a dog!" Joey shouted.

"According to Seto, you are." Yami answered.

"Seto, you had to start with the dog thing, didn't you?" Joey asked.

Seto shrugged. "Not my fault other people caught on to it." Seto said.

"I really hate that nickname." Joey muttered.

"You didn't seem to mind it last night." Seto said.

Joey turned bright red. "THAT'S DIFFERENT! AND DON'T SAY THAT IN FRONT OF SERENITY!" Joey shouted.

Serenity rolled her eyes. "Please, Joey. I'm not a virgin anymore.' Serenity said.

"I don't want to hear that, either!" Joey said.

The group couldn't help but start laughing.

"Besides," Mokuba said, wrapping an arm around Serenity's waist, "we can hear you two at night."

Seto and Joey turned red.

"Okay. Before Seto and Joey die of embarrassment, let's get going." Atemu said.

The group headed out to Seto's limo, which they all piled in.

Joey told the driver the address where they were to go, and the driver headed there.

It wasn't long before they arrived at the house.

Bakura, Ryou, Marik, and Malik had just arrived as well.

The limo driver pulled into the driveway.

The group got out.

"Just drive around in town. I'll call you when it's time to come back and get us." Seto told the driver.

"Yes, sir, Mr. Kaiba." the driver said before leaving.

"Did you guys just get here?" Serenity asked.

"Yeah. We were about to ring the bell." Ryou answered.

"Well, let's go!" Joey said, heading for the front door.

"He's real excited about seeing these two again." Yami said.

"Well, Joey and Yugi were best friends. He's real excited to see him again, and Heba." Malik said.

The group followed Joey, who had already rung to doorbell.

Yugi opened the door.

Before Yugi knew what was happening, Joey had grabbed Yugi into a tight hug. "Yug! It's great to see you again!" Joey exclaimed, lifting Yugi off the ground.

Yugi winced at how tight Joey was hugging him. "Joey! I see that you haven't changed a bit." Yugi said.

"Nope." Joey said.

"Joey, could you put my brother down?" Heba asked.

Joey looked to see Heba and grinned. "Sorry, Heb." Joey said as he finally sat Yugi back down on his feet.

"Hi, Yugi!" Serenity said excitedly, throwing her arms around Yugi.

"Hi, Serenity. You've certainly grown." Yugi said.

"Yep. I was fourteen the last time you saw me." Serenity said.

"So I noticed." Yugi said.

"Nice to see you again, Heba." Ryou said, going forward and hugging Heba.

"Hey, Ryou." Heba said, hugging Ryou back.

"Nice to see you again." Malik said, wrapping an arm around Heba's neck and ruffling Heba's hair.

"Malik! Stop that!" Heba said.

"Why?" Malik asked.

Yugi laughed. "He always did hate it when you did that to him." Yugi said.

Atemu, Yami, Seto, Mokuba, Marik, and Bakura felt a little left out at this, and Seto, Marik, Bakura, and Mokuba all felt a little jealous at seeing their lovers hugging the two.

"Oh! I'm sorry. We forgot about your friends." Heba said.

"Well, let's go in the living room and talk." Yugi said.

The group went into the living room, and they all sat down.

"Well, this is my boyfriend, Seto Kaiba." Joey said, gesturing to Seto.

"It's nice to meet you." Heba said.

"Likewise." Seto said.

"This is Marik Ishtal. He's my boyfriend." Malik said.

"Hey." Marik said.

"This is my boyfriend, Bakura Mao." Ryou said.

"Glad to meet you." Bakura said.

"This is my boyfriend, Mokuba Kaiba. He's Seto's younger brother." Serenity said.

"Glad to meet you." Mokuba said.

Heba then noticed that Yami and Atemu had been left out. "If you don't me asking, who are you?" Heba asked.

"My name is Atemu Sennen." Atemu answered.

"And I'm Yami Sennen." Yami added.

"Brothers?" Yugi asked.

"Yeah." Yami said.

"Well, it's good to meet you both." Yugi said.

"Um, Heba?" Joey said.

"Yeah?" Heba said, looking at his friend.

"What do you have to eat?" Joey asked.

"Joey!" Seto exclaimed.

"What?" Joey asked, looking at him.

"You don't come to someone's house and ask for food." Seto admonished.

"Don't worry about it, Mr. Kaiba. We grew up with Joey, so we know that he eats everyone out of house and home." Yugi said.

"Yugi, I don't eat a person out of-" Joey stopped at the looks on everyone's face. "Okay. Maybe I do." Joey said.

"Joey, Grandpa would have to stock the kitchen full before you got there, and almost all of it would be gone by the time you left." Heba said.

"Yeah, well, I can't help that I stay hungry all the time." Joey said.

"Yeah. Right.' Yami said.

"In any case, I did think to make some snacks. Just because we were gone for six years doesn't mean that I forgot about Joey's appetite. That's one thing that I know won't change." Heba said, standing up.

"I'll help you. Heba." Yugi said, standing up as well.

The two brothers left the room.

"Rude much." Bakura muttered.

Ryou looked over at Bakura. "What are you talking about? Yugi and Heba have been good hosts." Ryou said.

"I mean, that ones didn't look at anyone. He's not paying attention at all." Bakura said.

"Yeah. He just doesn't seem to be looking at anyone." Marik agreed.

Ryou then whacked Bakura in the back of the head.

"Ow!" Bakura exclaimed. "What was that for?" Bakura demanded, glaring at Ryou.

"Be more respectful!" Ryou hissed.

"Why? It seems like he's the one that is disrespectful." Marik said.

"You shouldn't make judgments when you don't know the situation." Serenity said.

Footsteps signaled that they should be quiet.

Yugi walked into the room carrying a tray with a pot of tea and cups. "I hope everyone likes tea." Yugi said, setting it down on the table.

"That's fine, Mr. Mutou." Atemu said.

"Please. Just call me Yugi." Yugi said. He straightened up and said, "Who hit who and for what reason?"

"How did you-" Bakura started.

"I did. I have my own reasons. He was being a little insulting." Ryou said, glaring at Bakura.

Yugi sighed. "Ryou, did it have to do with me?" Yugi asked.

"Well, um-" Ryou started.

"I'll take that as a yes. You did tell them, right?" Yugi asked.

Joey scratched the back of his head. "Well, not exactly." Joey said.

"Why not?" Yugi asked as he sat down.

"We didn't know if you would want us to tell them." Serenity said.

"Since when has Yugi been embarrassed about this?" Heba asked as he entered the room with a tray-full of sandwiches.

"Food!" Joey shouted, starting forward.

Malik and Seto both grabbed Joey by the arm and pulled him back down.

"Puppy, you can settle down. You'll get some in a minute. No need in barreling him over." Seto said.

Heba smirked. "Puppy?" Heba asked.

Joey blushed. "Don't ask." Joey said.

"I don't think that we want to know." Yugi said.

"Okay. So, what's going on with you?" Bakura asked, looking at Yugi.

"Bakura!" Ryou growled.

"What? I want to know." Bakura said.

Yugi shook his head. "It's okay, Ryou. It's not that big of a deal. I'm blind." Yugi said.

This shocked them all.

"You're blind?" Mokuba asked.

"Yes. I was born blind, so it's nothing new to me." Yugi said.

'That certainly explains it.' Yami thought.

"I don't get it. How can you move on your own in the house if you're blind?" Mokuba asked.

"Mokuba." Seto said warningly.

"It's okay. We keep all the furniture and stuff in the same place so once I learn where everything is, I can move around without any problem at all." Yugi said.

"All right. Now that everyone knows, we can move on." Heba said as he set the tray of sandwiches on the table along with the tea.

Joey was the first one to grab one of the small plates and get himself a sandwich.

It wasn't a surprise to anyone that Joey was the first one to get food.

Everyone slowly got a sandwich while Heba poured the tea for everyone.

"Yugi, we know that you guys came back to Domino because you got a job out here. What was the job?" Ryou asked.

"I applied for a teach position at the Domino Deaf and Blind School, and I was offered the job, so I accepted it." Yugi answered.

"That's great! I'm sure that you'll be great at that." Joey said.

"Thanks." Yugi said.

"So, that's why you're reopening the Game Shop." Serenity said.

"Exactly. I need something to do, so I decided to reopen it." Heba said.

"I'm sure Grandpa was happy to hear that." Malik said.

"Well, he'll most likely end up helping Heba out in the shop a lot." Yugi said as he took a sip of his tea.

"I thought he was in a retirement community." Joey said.

"He does, but he can't stand it, and we all know it. Yugi and I asked Grandpa to come and live with us. That's why I have no doubt that he is going to want to help me out in the Game Shop." Heba said.

"Well, that shop was his pride and joy. I can understand why he's going to want to help out around the shop." Yugi said.

"How old is your grandfather?" Atemu asked.

"Grandpa's actually in his seventies, but you wouldn't know it. He's in really good health for a man his age. Even the doctors say so. They're surprised he's as healthy as he is, but Grandpa's always been one that took care of himself, and he still does." Heba said.

"It sounds like he's one the lives life to fullest." Yami said.

"Oh, he does. Believe me." Yugi said.

"If you don't mind me asking, where do all of you work?" Heba asked.

"I'm the CEO of KaibaCorp." Seto answered. He had an air of arrogance when he said that.

Joey just shrugged.

"I'm the CEO of Sennen Incorporated." Atemu said. Unlike Seto, he didn't have any arrogance to the words at all.

"I work at Sennen Incorporated, too. I just work as an accountant. I was never one for running a big business." Yami said.

"I work as a security officer at KaibaCorp." Bakura said.

"I work for a software company designing new software." Marik said.

"I'm in college now, but I'll help Seto run the company once I graduate." Mokuba said.

"Sounds like you all have good jobs." Yugi said.

"We like them." Bakura said.

"I hope we'll be hang out again. We've missed having you guys around." Joey said.

"I'm sure we will, Joey. If I know you, you'll make time for something like that." Heba said.

"Yeah. He always was good that." Ryou agreed.

The phone then rang.

"I'll get that." Yugi said and got up before Heba could say anything.

"No offense, but I don't see how he manages being blind and finding his way around all the time." Atemu said.

"Well, Yugi's been blind his whole life, and he's adapted well. He can learn where everything is, and we just can't move anything, which I don't except in my room." Heba said.

"He's learned it well if he can find the phone already." Seto remarked.

"Yeah, and I think that Valon and I just lost the bet." Heba said.

"What bet?" Ryou asked.

"Well, Valon and I were betting on how long it would take Yugi to learn the new house." Heba said.

"That just seems wring." Yami said.

"Well, we joke around with it all the time. It doesn't bother Yugi, especially since he got in on it." Heba said.

"Who bet what?" Joey asked.

"Well, Valon bet that Yugi would learn the house in a week. I said five days, and Yugi said two days. The way it looks, Yugi's going to win that bet." Heba said.

Malik started laughing. "Heba, I would never bet against Yugi when it comes to his blindness. Yugi always wins those bets." Malik said.

"I know. You would have thought that I would have learned that by now." Heba said.

A moment later, Yugi walked back into the living room.

"Who was that?" Heba asked.

"Grandpa. He's going to be here at the end of the week." Yugi said.

"He is?" Heba asked.

Yugi nodded.

"I thought he wouldn't be here until next week." Malik said.

"Well, he really wanted to get out of the retirement community, and he was able to get everything done early. His train will be arriving at nine." Yugi said.

"Okay." Heba said.

Joey glanced at his watch. "Well, we've been here for an hour, so we need to be going." Joey said.

"We were glad that you came, and it was nice to meet all of you." Yugi said.

"Thanks for having us." Atemu said.

"Any time." Heba said.

The group headed to the door.

"We might come by on Saturday to see Grandpa." Joey said.

"Sure thing, Joey. Just make it the afternoon. Give Grandpa some time to get settled in." Heba said.

"No problem." Joey said.

The group said their goodbyes and left.

"They were all nice." Yugi said.

"Yeah. They took your blindness better than most people do." Heba admitted.

"Well, I was glad to meet them. They are all important in our friends' lives, so we need to get along with them. Who knows? We might find that they are as good as friends as the ones we already have." Yugi stated.

"Yugi, how is it that you always look at this from an optimistic viewpoint?" Heba asked.

"I don't know. I just always do. It's better to have an optimistic viewpoint than a pessimistic one." Yugi said.

"You've always believed that." Heba said.

"And I always will." Yugi said.


Atemu was rather worried about his brother. Yami had been quiet since they had gotten back from meeting Yugi and Heba, and Yami being quiet was very rare. "Yami, are you okay?" Atemu asked, looking at his brother.

Yami was sitting on the couch with a far-off look in his eyes.

Atemu sighed. "Yami!" Atemu nearly shouted.

Yami jumped. He turned to face Atemu and said, "What?"

"What's your deal? You have been quiet since we left." Atemu said.

"Oh. It's nothing." Yami said.

Atemu raised an eyebrow. "Yami, you are never quiet. You always have something to say, but you have been quiet for almost two hours. What's going on?" Atemu asked.

"It's nothing, Atemu. I promise." Yami said, standing up.

"Yami, I know that something is bugging you, and I'd like to know what it is." Atemu said.

Yami knew that Atemu wouldn't let it go until he finally told him what was going on. Yami sighed and sat back down. "I haven't been able to think about Yugi." Yami said.

"Yugi? Why have you been thinking about him?" Atemu asked.

"I don't know." Yami said.

"Yes, you do, Yami. Out with it." Atemu said sternly.

Yami looked up at his brother. "Atemu, I think that I like him." Yami said.

"Yami, you just met him." Atemu said, shocked.

"I know. I know. I just met him, and I don't know much about him, but there's just something about him that makes me like him." Yami said.

"Like what?" Atemu asked.

"He's cute for one. I'm also amazed at how well he takes his blindness." Yami said.

"That I agree on. Yugi's very strong to accept his blindness the way he has. Of course, the fact that he has had to live with it his whole life is probably why he adjusted so well to it. He's ever known anything else." Atemu said.

"Maybe, but it doesn't change the fact that I like him." Yami said.

"Well, go out with him." Atemu said.

Yami blinked. "You don't mind?" Yami asked.

"Yami, why the hell would I mind? I don't care that you date guys. I may date girls, but I'm bisexual." Atemu said.

"I don't mean that." Yami said.

"Please, Yami. You know I don't give a damn about the social class difference. So they're not rich. That doesn't matter. As long as he doesn't take advantage of you, I honestly don't care." Atemu said.

"You don't?" Yami asked.

"Nope." Atemu said.

Yami smiled. "Thanks." Yami said.

"No problem." Atemu said.

"I think I might go back and see him to ask him out." Yami said.

"Do that. I'd rather you not be lovesick." Atemu said.

Yami glared at him. "I do not get lovesick." Yami said.

"You would." Atemu said.


"Heba, you've been rather quiet since Joey and the others left. What's on your mind?" Yugi asked.

"I don't know. That Yami Sennen guy just got a little under my skin." Heba said.

"Why?" Yugi asked.

"He kept watching you." Heba answered.

"Heba, most people who have never met a blind person before will do that." Yugi said.

"Yugi, that wasn't it. He looked like he was interested in you." Heba said.

"Heba, stop worrying about it. So he has an interest in me. What's the big deal?" Yugi asked.

"I just don't want you to get hurt." Heba said.

"Heba, let things happen in their own time. You can't stop everything." Yugi said as he sat down at the kitchen table.

Heba was watching the dishes that they had used. "I know, Yugi." Heba said. 'You just don't know Yami's reputation.' Heba thought.

Heba had heard a lot about Yami. He knew that Yami always had a different date with him all the time in the news. He was never with one person long. Heba had a bad feeling that if Yami were to try and get Yugi, Yugi would only end up hurt in the end, and the last thing that he wanted was for his brother to get hurt.

"Heba, you're still worrying." Yugi said.

"Yugi, I just don't want you to get hurt if this guy does have that much of an interest in you." Heba said.

"Heba, let it go. Things will happen in their own time." Yugi said before he stood up and left the room.

'I promised myself a long time ago that I wouldn't let anything happen to you, Yugi, and I intend to keep that promise. I'm not letting a guy like Yami Sennen near you. I may need Mai's help with this one.' Heba thought.

Heba had every intention of making sure that Yami never got the chance to hurt Yugi.


Hope you liked it. I know Heba doesn't seem to worried about Yami, but that's going to change.

Next: Heba and Mai try to stop Yami from asking Yugi out.

R&R.