Chapter 4- Truths
"Jaden, what do you need to tell us?" Yami asked.
Before Jaden could answer, Seto's phone rang.
"Who would be calling you this late at night?" Jou asked.
Seto looked at the phone and said, "Leo." He answered it and said, "Yes, Leo."
"Seto, could you explain to me why I just found you have gone to Osaka?" Leo asked.
"Leo, a few things came up, and we needed to come here. It was real important, and I'm sorry that I didn't we didn't tell you. We left in a bit of a rush." Seto said.
"Yes, I know that. Now tell me why you left without warning to go to Osaka." Leo said.
"Leo, I received a phone call that told me Yuugi was in a hospital in Osaka." Seto said.
"He what?!" Leo shouted so loud that Seto had to hold the phone away from his ear.
"Yuugi was shot and in the hospital here." Seto said.
"Who the hell shot him and why?" Leo demanded.
"No one knows yet." Seto replied.
"Yuesei and I will be flying out first thing in the morning, Seto." Leo said.
"Okay. Someone will meet you there. Just let us know what time you'll arrive." Seto said.
"All right. Bye." Leo said.
"Bye." Seto said and shut the phone.
"On his way or coming in the morning?" Yami asked.
"Morning. One of us will have to meet him there." Seto replied.
"Is Leo your cousin?" Jaden asked.
"Yes. Seto's, Leo's, and my father were all brothers." Yami explained.
"Yeah. I remember Dad talking about him. He said that Leo was a wise and perceptive man, and that he's married to someone just as perceptive." Jaden said.
"Yuesei is just like him in several ways, but Leo does have a temper, and Yuesei is usually the one who keeps him in control." Seto said.
"Jaden, you said that you said something that you needed to tell us. Is this something that can wait until morning?" Ryou asked.
"It could, but it's something that you all need to know, and I think it's going to be the first time that any of you hear about this." Jaden said.
"If you think that it's that important, then go ahead and tell us and make it quick." Bakura said.
Ryou whacked Bakura in the head and said, "Bakura, be nice!"
"Dad wasn't kidding when he said Bakura was someone you had to get used to." Jaden said.
"What do you mean?" Bakura demanded.
"Dad just said that you seemed a little cold and angry all the time, and that your personality is one that you have to get used to." Jaden said.
"Well, he was right about that. Bakura's attitude does take a little getting used to." Yami said.
"Jaden, could you get on with it?" Seto asked.
"Well, first I think that you should know Uncle Heba and Uncle Atemu lied to you. There's some things they really didn't want any of you to know." Jaden said.
"Why?" Malik asked.
"I think they were afraid of what you would do if you knew, and that you would do something that would only end up hurting Dad." Jaden said.
"Jaden, my marriage with Yuugi may have fallen apart, but I would never do anything to hurt him for any reason." Yami said.
"I hope you still feel that way after I tell you everything. First, one of you should look at this." Jaden said, holding out a piece of paper.
Since Seto was the closest one to him, he took the paper and looked at it. "It's Sunni's birth certificate." Seto said.
"Why does that matter?" Jou asked.
Seto's eyes widened. "Heba said that Sunni was is child." Seto said.
"He did." Marik said.
"According to this, Yuugi is Sunni's father." Seto said.
There was a stunned silence that followed.
"Sunni is Yuugi's kid?" Jou asked.
Seto nodded.
"Why did Heba say that Sunni was his child then?" Ryou asked.
"Hold on. Sunni's four, right?" Bakura asked.
Jaden nodded.
"Then, Yuugi cheated on me?" yami asked. He had never believed that something like that would happen.
"No, Yami. Yuugi didn't." Seto said.
"Then that would mean that Sunni's Yami's kid, too." Marik said.
"That's the point. Sunni is you son, Yami." Seto said.
"What?!" Yami exclaimed.
"Then why the hell didn't Yuugi tell him?" Bakura demanded.
"That bastard! He never even told Yami." Marik said angrily.
There was a whistle, and everyone looked at Seto.
"Jaden, why didn't Yuugi tell him?" Seto said.
"He did, or tried to. I don't think you ever got this or wrote the other." Jaden said, holding up two other pieces of paper.
"What are those, Jaden?" Yami asked.
"A letter my dad wrote to you telling you that he was pregnant, and the other one was your response." Jaden said.
"I never got a letter from Yuugi after he left." Yami said.
"I know, but maybe you should read them. All of you should." Jaden said.
Yami took the letters from Jaden, and everyone else gathered around Yami so that they could read the letters.
The first letter read:
Yami,
I know how badly tings ended between us, and I want you to know that I do still
love you and I always will, but I couldn't take the rumors and the whispers about
you and Vivian Wong anymore. That's why I left. I'm living with My brother in Osaka
wow, and I have a job at Osaka General Hospital. I adopted an eleven-year-old boy named
Jaden. Yami, I found out recently that I am pregnant, and I know they you are the father. Yami,
I don't know how you'll take this news, but I thought that you had a right to know that you do have
a child. You can reach me at brother's home for now. I want you to be part of our child's life, even if
there can't be anything between us. I love you, yami. I don't want you to forget that.
Love,
Yuugi
Yami didn't know what to think.
Yuugi had written him and told him about not only Sunni, but Jaden, too. He even had given him the phone number to Heba's home and his address if Yami wanted to contact him.
"I don't believe it. Yuugi really did write Yami." Marik said.
"Yeah. The date indicates that it was written about a month and a half after Yuugi left." Seto added.
"Dad found out while he was adopting me. He really wanted you to be a part of Sunni's life, but he thought you didn't love him, and that you didn't want to be a part of Sunni's life." Jaden said.
"But why did he think that? It wasn't true. If I had known, I would have been down here with him. I would have wanted to work things out with him." Yami said.
"You wanted that in the first place." Bakura said.
"Dad thought that's what you would have done, too. Read the second letter, It'll explain everything else." Jaden said.
Yami put the first letter down and started to read the second letter.
The second letter read:
I don't give a damn about you or that stupid, child, Yuugi. I never loved you, and I regret
The fact that I ever married you. I'd rather you got rid of that child because I want nothing
To do with that child. I have no desire to ever see you or that bastards of a child again. Don't
Ever contact me again. I am going to start a new life with Vivian now that you are out of my life, so
Leave me and my soon-to-be wife alone. I'll have you arrested and that child killed if you ever contact me again. Don't even write or call me, bastard.
I never want to see you or that child a day of my life. Stay out of my life so that I can get on with my life without you disrupting.
Yami
No one could believe what they had just read.
"Who the hell wrote that pack of lies?! Yami would never have turned his back on Yuugi or his son!" Jou shouted.
Yami looked at Jaden. "Is-is this letter the reason why I never heard from Yuugi again?" Yami asked.
Jaden nodded.
"Dad was worried you would make good on the threat, and even though he suspected that you didn't wrote this letter, he just couldn't take the risk that that was how you really felt, so he decided to do what you ask and never contacted you again, no matter how much he wanted to." Jaden said.
"Jaden, I know things may have ended badly between them, but Yami would not have turned his back on Yuugi when he was having his child. In fact, Yami probably would have begged Yuugi to come back so that they could be a family." Seto said.
Jaden smiled. "Dad never really wanted leave, but all of the rumors and whispers behind his back just because too much for him, and he couldn't take it anymore. Dad left because he was slowly losing his sanity over what was going on. Dad left for his own well-being. Dad just needed to get away form all the whispering and looks people would give him when they'd see him." Jaden said.
"I never wrote this. I never even saw the letter that Yuugi wrote me. Someone else wrote this letter." Yami said.
"Dad suspected that, but he wasn't willing to take the risk, especially after Vivian Wong came here." Jaden said.
"She came here?" Yami asked.
Jaden nodded.
"What happened?" Ryou asked.
~Flashback~
There was a knock on the door.
Yuugi went and answered it and found Vivian Wong on the doorstep. Yuugi's eyes narrowed, and he said, "What do you want, Miss Wong?"
:Stay away from yami, you bastard. He's mine." Vivian hissed.
"I haven't seen Yami since I left. I have no intention of going to see him." Yuugi said.
"I know about that abomination of a child you have. You have an abortion now!" Vivian ordered.
"This is my child, and I will not do what you say, bitch. Go away." Yuugi said.
"You are not having my Yami's child!" Vivian shouted.
"Yami known and wants nothing to do with him, so get out. Go back and let all the men between your legs, slut. Let them shove themselves into you and let one of them get you pregnant and screw up your life, but stay out of mine. I'm having my child, and you can't stop me, bitch." Yuugi said.
"How dare you!" Vivian shouted, raising a hand to slap him.
A hand grabbed hers, and Vivian looked to see Atemu.
"If you don't get out of here, I will call the police and have you arrested for trespassing. Yuugi has not intention of going back to my brother. Get out or I will call the police, and I know that the chief of police will happily do it for me because he is my friend." Atemu said.
"You don't have the right-" Vivian started.
"You are on Yuugi's property and won't leave. That is trespassing. Now leave or I'll call the police." Atemu said.
Vivian turned and stalked off but turned back and said, "Contact Yami again, and I'll kill you and that damn child of yours myself!" With that, she stalked off.
Yuugi leaned against the doorframe. "I'm sick of this. I want her out of my life." Yuugi said.
"I'll get a restraining order. She can't come near you without going to jail." Atemu said.
Yuugi nodded. "Thanks, Atemu." Yuugi said.
~End Flashback~
"After that, Dad didn't hear from Vivian Wong ever again, and he never did try to contact you again. He assumed that you were happy with Vivian." Jaden said.
Yami growled. "That slut is getting on my last nerves! She destroyed my marriage and then threatens my child!" Yami said angrily.
"I'm willing to bet that Vivian intercepted the letter and wrote that letter back." Seto said.
"Oh, that woman's going to pay!" Bakura shouted.
"So, you were never with Vivian?" Jaden asked.
Yami shook his head. "Jaden, I had never stayed in a relationship longer than a few weeks before I met Yuugi. I never liked Vivian, and I never dated her. She became obsessed with me, and she tried to break Yuugi and me apart when we were dating and when we were engaged. She finally did break up our marriage by spreading lies constantly that we were sleeping together. I never wanted the marriage to end, but I guess Yuugi had had enough of all that. There was never anything between me and Vivian, but she's tried to get with me four the last four years. I finally had a restraining order put on her." Yami said.
"Dad's restraining order is still in effect, and Dad's is for him, me, and Sunni." Jaden said.
"Yuugi was prepared." Jou said.
"Dad wasn't taking any chances." Jaden said.
"Sunni seems to be a good kid." Ryou said.
"He is. He gets into trouble like all kids do, though." Jaden said.
"Does Sunni even know about me?" Yami asked.
"That you specifically are his dad, no, but Dad does tell him about you." Jaden said.
"He does?" the group asked.
Jaden nodded. "Sunni's always asked about his daddy, and Dad would tell him." Jaden said.
"What would he say?" Malik asked, curious.
"He never said anything bad. I really don't know specifically what Dad would tell him, but Sunni's always wanted to meet you." Jaden said.
"Then we should tell Sunni that Yami is his dad." Bakura said.
Yami thought about everything that had been said and said, "no."
"No?!" Bakura, Marik, Seto, Jou, Malik, and Ryou said.
"Yami, don't want Sunni to know you?" Jaden asked.
"Of course I do, Jaden. I'd like nothing more, but I need to think of Sunni right now. Yuugi's the only parental figure that Sunni's ever known. I think that it would be better for Sunni to hear that I'm also his father from Yuugi. We'll wait." yami said.
Jaden nodded. "Dad was right about you, Yami." Jaden said.
"What do you mean?" Yami asked.
"Dad said that you were a good man, and I know that he's right." Jaden said.
Yami smiled, glad that Yuugi didn't hate him.
Seto's eyes widened in sudden realization. "It was you!" Seto exclaimed.
Everyone jumped.
"What are you talking about, Seto?" Jou asked.
"It was you, Jaden. You called me at home and told me that Yuugi was in the hospital. You called us here." Seto said.
Jaden grinned guilty. "Yeah. It was me." Jaden said.
"Why did you call us?" Yami asked.
"Because I knew that Dad wanted you here. Dad's been wanted to see you again, and it's gotten worse lately. Over the last few weeks, Dad's been agonizing silently over whether or not he should call you." Jaden said.
"He wanted to?" yami asked.
Jaden nodded. "I called because I know that it's what Dad really wanted. I'm sorry for not telling you who I was, Mr. Kaiba, but I really didn't think that you'd believe me if I told you who I was at the time." Jaden said.
"No. I wouldn't have." Seto agreed.
"Jaden, when we were in the car, you said that you were surprised Yuugi still adopted you when he found about. Did you mean when he found he was pregnant?" Ryou asked.
Jaden nodded. "Dad had already started the adoption process when He found out." Jaden said.
~Flashback~
"Jaden, there's something that I want to talk to you about?" Yuugi said, sitting with Jaden in Jaden's room at the foster care center.
"What's that, Yuugi?" Jaden asked.
"Well, you know how some men can have children?" Yuugi asked.
Jaden nodded.
"I just found out that I'm pregnant." Yuugi said.
Jaden's face fell. "Oh. Congratulations. I guess you don't want to adopt me now." Jaden said, disappointed. He had thought that he would get adopted finally.
Yuugi chuckled a little. "Actually, Jaden, I was planning on still adopting you. I was just going to make sure you would be okay with just having a little brother or sister in about eight months." Yuugi said.
Jaden's eyes looked hopeful. "Does that mean that you still want to adopt me?" Jaden asked.
Yuugi nodded. "It's up to you, Jaen. If you think that you can handle having a sibling, then I would love to adopt you." Yuugi said.
"Yes!" Jaden exclaimed, jumping into Yuugi's arms and hugging him tightly.
Yuugi laughed. "I'll take that as a yes." Yuugi said.
Jaden nodded. "Does this mean that you're my dad now?" Jaden asked.
"As soon as the adoption is finalized, yes." Yuugi said.
"Then, can I start calling you Dad?" Jaden asked.
"If you want to." Yuugi said.
"Thanks, Dad." Jaden said.
~End Flashback~
Jaden smiled. "I really thought that Dad would stop the adoption process after he found out, but he adopted me anyway, and I know that he considers me as much his son as Sunni." Jaden said.
"Yuugi's always had a big heart. It doesn't surprise that me that he did that. Once he makes a commitment to do something, he sees it through." Yami said.
"Dad spends as much time with me as he does with Sunni. He makes time for us and for us to spend together, just the three of us. He's a really incredible man." Jaden said.
"He always has been." Yami agreed.
They heard the door open and a moment later, "Jaden! What the hell ere you thinking?!
Everyone looked to see an obviously mad Heba and Atemu in the doorway to the living room.
I know. ANother cliffhanger, but that seemed like a good place to stop.
You'll see what Heba and Atemu do next chapter.
Leo and Yuesei may not come into it until Chapter 5.