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Chapter 7
Ten minutes later Seto was still trying to bring Yami back to reality, but it wasn't working and he was beginning to get desperate. His mind quickly raced through possible solutions: I could smack him...no I don't want to hurt him, besides Atemu would murder me for hitting his brother. I could go and get Atemu and have him help, but that would mean leaving Yami alone...not to mention proving that I can't look after Yami myself so that ones out...Argh, what am I going to do?
And then Seto remembered what Atemu had 'told' him that first day in those notes: I have sex with my brother when the flashbacks get too bad. Seto's eyes widened I can't do that...but maybe...I could...
Seto sighed as he glanced down at Yami. He needed to do something and sadly, this was looking like the only option he had left, and if that didn't work then he'd go and get Atemu and have him do something.
Seto lightly cupped Yami's face with his hand, all the while trying to force himself to ignore how soft Yami's skin was and how good it felt to hold Yami's face like that...how kissable his lips looked.
Seto shook his head before he took a deep breath and leaned down, lightly brushing his lips against Yami's.
Seto immediately felt Yami stiffen at the contact so he made to pull away, only to stop when Yami wrapped his arms around Seto's neck and pulled him closer, kissing him back. Seto's eyes widened in shock, though he saw that Yami's eyes had closed.
You need to stop, you can't take advantage of him like this. Seto thought to himself. But, he couldn't help it, Yami's lips felt so good against his own that he found himself against his will -and better judgement- kissing Yami back a bit more passionately, his tongue flicking out in the hopes of deepening the kiss, which surprisingly Yami allowed.
Seto traced his tongue around in Yami's mouth relishing in the taste, both boys moaning at the feelings this kiss was causing them. However, soon the need for air became apparent and the two broke apart.
Seto pulled back a few inchs while both boys sat gasping for breath. Yami was the first to break the silence, "Thank's Atemu, I really needed that." Yami said, opening his eyes only to freeze when he saw it wasn't his brother sitting there.
Yami paled, "S-S-Seto, I-I I uh..." Yami stuttered, his face going from pale to scarlet in seconds.
Seto sighed and said, "Yami, I'm sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable...I just couldn't get you out of it any other way."
Yami nodded before he closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths. He then got to his feet and put his gym clothes back into his locker.
Seto looked at him for a second and Yami said, "I don't think I'm going to gym today, I'd like to go home."
Seto sighed but nodded and said, "Alright, I'll take you back to your brother and he can call Aknamkanon to have someone come and pick you two up."
Yami nodded before he turned his back so he was facing the wall. Seto frowned and said, "Yami, what are you..."
"Change where I can't see you or when I'm not looking. That's what triggered it, watching you take your clothes off." Yami said softly though internally he was kicking himself, way to go freak, now Seto definitely won't want anything to do with you. He was trying to help you and you just HAD to try and make out with him. Talk about ruining your friendship.
"Oh, okay." Seto said before he quickly stripped and pulled back on his school uniform. Once he was dressed again he lightly rested his hand on Yami's shoulder, which made him jump, and said, "I'm changed now, so I can take you to your brother."
Yami nodded and turned back to face Seto, looking up at him briefly before he walked past Seto and out of the locker room. Seto sighed before he quickly followed.
Scene Change -With Atemu while Yami and Seto were in Gym-
Atemu walked into his Ancient History class and took a seat in the back of the classroom. He was really worried about his brother and pissed that the school wouldn't let them have the same classes so he could keep an eye on him.
He was surprised when the short lookalike from homeroom came to stand in front of his desk and was looking at him expectingly.
Atemu glared at him for a second before he snapped, "What the hell do you want?"
Yugi shrugged before he sat down in the desk next to Atemu's, "Just to talk, that's all."
Atemu rolled his eyes, "Well, I don't want to talk to you." He spat.
Yugi looked at him for a few seconds before he said, "You know you don't have to act all tough. Right now your brother isn't here for you to protect and its not like I'm going to hurt you so you can stop trying to push me away. I'm not a threat."
Atemu glared at Yugi and asked, "What are you, some sort of shrink?"
Yugi shook his head, "No, I'm not. I just want to try and get to know you...and maybe help you. So, I looked through some of my grandfather's old books on behavioral patterns shown by children who have been abused. So, I understand that your attitude is just your way of trying to protect you and your brother."
"You don't know jack shit about me so don't talk like you know anything." Atemu hissed.
Yugi sighed, "I know I don't know anything about you, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't like to." Yugi said slowly.
Atemu glared at him, however before he could say anything the teacher walked in so he turned his attention onto him.
Yugi sighed again but he too turned his attention onto the class. He really wanted Atemu to let him in but sadly it wasn't looking like he was going to no matter what Yugi said.
The teacher glanced over his class briefly before he said, "Today I've decided to split you into groups of two that will work on a project together. I've already decided how we're going to do this. Rows two and four, look to your left. That's your partner."
Atemu groaned. Great now I'm stuck working with the annoying nosy lookalike. Just what I wanted.
"You will be doing a paper and presentation on a topic that you select together dealing with the Ancient Egyptians since thats the unit we're going to be starting. By the end of class today I expect you to be able to tell me what topic you decided on." The teacher said before he took a seat at his desk.
Yugi turned back to Atemu and said, "So, any idea what you want to do for our project?"
Atemu looked at Yugi for a second before he said, "I'd prefer it if we did our project on Ammut."
Yugi blinked before he slowly said, "Okay, can I ask why?"
Atemu thought about why he was so interested in the ancient goddess, inadvertingly going back to the day he had first come across the name in his very worn book on Ancient Egyptian Deities.
-Flashback-
Fourteen year old Atemu laid back on his bed in the orphanage excitedly flipping through a book he'd gotten that day. A local charity had done a book drive and donated all the books they collected to their orphanage, they'd dropped the books off earlier that day.
Atemu and Yami had excitedly searched through the secondhand books just like several of the other orphans had. At the bottom of the second box they'd been picking through Atemu had come across a book on Ancient Egyptian mythology.
He had pulled the book out in order to get a better look at it. He knew pratically nothing about the ancient Egyptians other than they built the pyramids, made their dead into mummies, and called their kings Pharaohs.
The cover was a bit strange the largest image depicted was a large bird with a sun on its head, the bird was wearing the sun almost like it was a hat of some kind. The bird was sitting on the title of the book and in much smaller scales off to the sides, in almost a border around the large bird were various human-animal hybrids.
Yami had looked over his brother's shoulder to see what he'd grabbed and asked, "What'd you find Até?"
Atemu shrugged, "Don't know, but it looks kind of cool."
He had decided to keep the book and since he and his brother both had grabbed their one allotted book they headed back to their room.
Once he had flipped through the book he decided to just read it, Yami was already excitedly reading a copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone that was literally falling apart at the seams that he'd grabbed. He had always wanted to read those books but they had never been able to get a copy so Yami was very excited.
Ammut: Also known as the devourer of souls. She is made up of the head of a crocodile, the body of a lioness and the hindquarters of a hippo. She waits during the weighing of the heart and if the deceased fails to pass the test because of evil deeds they committed in their lifetime than ammut devourers them. She was never worshipped in Ancient Egypt.
Atemu paused in his reading and looked at the picture depicting the goddess. She was certainly interesting. He looked back over the text and his eyes widened when he realized that she was believed to punish those who did evil when they were alive.
He glanced over at his brother who was still excitedly reading Harry Potter before looking back at his book. Ammut. Hopefully you will be waiting for my and Yami's parents and our evil foster parents when they pass on.
-End Flashback-
Atemu sighed but chose not to answer Yugi's question and instead said, "Are we going to do that or do you have another idea for our project?"
Yugi looked at Atemu for a moment before he decided that maybe it'd be a good idea to let Atemu be the one to decide what they did, obviously he had a reason for wanting that to be their topic. He opened his mouth to say so however, he paused when the door opened.
Atemu's head snapped up to look at the door before quickly getting to his feet when he saw Kaiba.
The teacher frowned and got up and headed to the door, "Mr. Sennen, go back to your seat and do your work."
"No." Atemu said before he walked out the door to where Kaiba was standing, he opened his mouth to ask what was going on, only to stop when he spotted his brother. He quickly walked over to Yami and asked, "What happened?"
Yami looked up at his brother and said, "Até, can we just go home?"
Atemu nodded before he pulled out his cellphone and began to dial. It was then that his Ancient History teacher joined them in the hallway, "Mr. Senenn get back in class right now. Mr. Kaiba, what is it you needed?" The teacher said.
Kaiba looked at the teacher and said, "I came here to talk to Atemu about something important. He is going to be going home now and you are going to excuse him."
The teacher looked at Kaiba for a second before he sighed and headed back into his classroom.
By this time Atemu had snapped his cellphone shut and said, "Aknamkanon said that a car will be by to pick us up in ten minutes, though he wanted to know why we didn't stay for the whole day again..." He trailed off and glanced questioningly at Seto and Yami, silently hoping that one of them would tell him what had happened.
Yami just shook his head and said, "Can we just go home?"
Atemu nodded and began to head down the hall. He noticed that Yami was clinging to him a bit more than he usually does, so he knew that something had happened, he also could see concern and a tinge of what he guessed was guilt in Kaiba's eyes.
Once the three had made it outside Atemu lightly pulled his brothers arms off of him and said, "Yami, I'm going to go and talk to Kaiba for a few minutes, okay?"
Yami nodded.
Atemu walked a little ways away from his brother and Kaiba followed him. Once they were far enough away Atemu asked, "What the hell happened Kaiba?"
Seto sighed, "Yami had a flashback."
Atemu's eyes widened in realization, his eyes immediately drifting back over to his brother, before returning to Seto, "How bad?" Atemu asked.
Seto sighed again, "It took me more then ten minutes to get him to snap out of it. He seems fine now, but well...I think I may have majorly screwed up."
"What did you do?"Atemu asked.
"I kissed him." Seto said.
Atemu's eyes widened, "You did what?" He hissed.
"I kissed him, it was what snapped him out of it. He kissed me back, but when we broke apart he had said 'thank you Atemu' and then he opened his eyes and realized it was me who kissed him and not you and he freaked." Seto said.
Atemu glared at Seto while he took a deep breath, his hands clenched into fists. His first instinct was the punch him, especially since he had SEEN the way Kaiba looked at Yami and despite the fact that he had said he only did it to help snap Yami out of a flashback he couldn't help but think he did have other motives behind the kiss. However, with Yami standing not to far away he didn't think he could do it...besides, he still didn't have Yami's side of what happened.
However, he was saved from having to decide when the car Aknamkanon had sent to pick them up pulled up the curb. Yami climbed in immediately. Atemu sighed and turned and headed towards the car, "I'll talk to Yami about it. If Yami tells me that anything else happens I'll beat the shit out of you." Atemu said before he climbed into the car and closed the door without waiting for a response.
Not that Kaiba had replied to his threat anyway.
Atemu settled comfortably into the backseat next to his brother and the car pulled away from the curb.
Once they had been on the road Atemu turned to his brother and wrapped his arms around him pulling close.
Yami happily snuggled up close to him and for the rest of the ride back to the Sennen's mansion they just sat together in silence. Atemu really wanted to ask Yami about what had happened but he didn't feel that he should right yet, so instead he decided to wait until they got home.
A few minutes later the car came to a stop outside the mansion and the two boys climbed out before Yami practically ran inside. Atemu quickly climbed out and raced after his brother. Yami always scared him when he got like this.
And for some reason he felt that this was worse than just a normal flashback.
Atemu ran up to his room just in time to hear their bedroom door slam shut. Atemu quickly opened the door before closing it again. He frowned when he saw his brother lying face down on his bed crying.
Atemu slowly walked over to the bed before he carefully sat down beside Yami and lightly rested a hand on his brother's back.
When Yami didn't respond Atemu laid down and wrapped his arms around his brother and lifted Yami slightly so he was partially lying on Atemu's chest instead of on the bed.
"Shh, Yami. It's alright. You're here with me now and you're safe, no one can hurt you and I promise no one ever will again." Atemu soothed.
Yami lifted his head up and looked up into his brother's concerned eyes and Atemu could plainly see the fear was still there. That despite what Kaiba had said Yami still wasn't clear from the flashback he'd had. He might not still be SEEING it again but he was still hearing the words, still feeling it.
Atemu sighed before he leaned down and pressed his lips to Yami's. Yami after hardly any hesitation pressed his lips back against Atemu's.
Atemu rolled so that his brother was lying beneath him, Yami's hands buried in his hair.
Once the kiss broke Atemu looked deep into Yami's eyes and asked, "Do you need me to?" He didn't need to specify what since they both knew.
Yami closed his eyes in shame before he slowly nodded his head. He hated asking stuff like this of his brother but he needed it. He needed Atemu's gentle touch to erase the rough, uncaring feeling of their foster father. He needed to be told that he wasn't just a slut or a whore. He loved his brother, he really did but he only loved him as his brother, just as Atemu only saw him as his baby brother who he wanted desperately to help.
Atemu lightly cupped his brothers face before he leaned forward and pressed his lips to Yami's cheek just below his eye.
Yami slid his eyes open to meet his brother's gaze before he removed his lips from Yami's face and whispered, "You know I love you, right Yami?"
Yami nodded, yes he knew Atemu loved him.
"You know that I'm not disgusted by you, right?" Atem asked while he peppered Yami's face with kisses which made Yami giggle against his will.
Yami nodded, "Yes I know you aren't disgusted by me."
Atemu stopped kissing Yami and looked straight into his brother's eyes and said firmly but tenderly, "Then stop thinking that I think your a horrible person because you want me to help you. You know that I would do anything for you Yami. And since this helps you you know I will do this without any hesitation."
Yami looked up at Atemu and said, "But you don't like it."
Atemu sighed, "You're right Yami, I don't. But the reason I don't like it has nothing to do with you. I don't like it because it reminds me of how the reason you need this is because I failed you. I shows me that you're still hurting badly and I don't like feeling like that. I don't like knowing I let you down." Atemu said.
Yami smiled at Atemu and said, "You didn't let me down Até, you never did."
Atemu sighed again, "I should have gone with you to gym and made sure you were alright." Atemu said.
Yami shook his head before he leaned forward and pressed his lips to Atemu's to shut him up. The kiss was brief, lasting only for a few seconds before Yami pulled away, "Atemu me having a flashback was not your fault so don't blame yourself for that. You needed to go to class and I am not mad at you for that."
Atemu looked at Yami and lightly traced his hand along his brother's jaw. "Do you want me to Yami?"
Yami sighed, "Can we try and see if I'm okay if you don't?" Yami whispered.
Atemu smiled and rolled off Yami and istead laid down beside him, "If you want to try again to not do that then you know I'll support you in that Yami." Atemu said.
Yami rested his head on his brother's chest while Atemu kept his arms wrapped around Yami, for several minutes the two just laid together in silence. However, after several minutes Atemu spoke up, "Will you tell me what happened in the locker room?" Atemu asked.
Yami tensed slighlty before he slowly nodded. He may not want to talk about it but he knew that he needed to.
"Seto and I had gone to the locker room and Seto told me I could have the locker next to his and after I had pulled the clothes out of my locker I turned to ask Seto where I could go change, only I didn't get to." Yami said.
Atemu frowned slightly before asking, "Why not Yami? Why didn't you get to ask?"
"Because I saw that Seto had taken off his shirt and was taking off his pants. I froze...and the next thing I know I'm back in the bathroom at the Kesir's and Mr. Kesir walks in and locks the door." Yami said.
Atemu tightened his arms around his brother, his hands soothly rubbing Yami's back as Yami again began to cry.
A part of Atemu wanted Yami to tell him every detail of what he'd seen, what he'd been through so he'd know exactly how badly he'd failed his brother two years ago. But the other, much wiser part of Atemu, recognized that would only be making his brother go through more pain by making him recount what had happend.
"Then, I snap out of it when I thought it was you kissing me. But, I opened my eyes and it was Seto." Yami said.
"Did Seto kissing you upset you?" Atemu asked.
Yami sighed and turned so he buried his face into Atemu's chest and mumbled something that Atemu couldn't make out.
Atemu reached down and lifted Yami's head up so he was once again able to look his brother in the eye, "What did you say Yami? I couldn't understand you."
Yami sighed before he mumbled, "I freaked him out."
Atemu frowned slightly and asked, "What do you mean by that Yami?"
Yami blushed and said, "I thought it was you so I sort of kissed back and let him deepen the kiss. God, who knows what he thinks of me."
Atemu chuckled a bit which made Yami glare at him and mumbled, "It's not funny Atemu."
Atemu forced himself to stop laughing and said, "Yes, Yami it is. First of all you didn't freak him out."
Yami frowned, "How could you possibly know if I freaked him out or not Atemu, last I checked you weren't there."
Atemu sighed, "Well, when I talked to him about what had happened before we left today he thought that he had freaked YOU out. Honestly, I thought he had tried something so I almost hauled off and slugged him. But I'm glad to hear that wasn't the case." Atemu said.
"But Atemu, I was practically making out with him." Yami said.
Atemu shook his head and said, "He still likes you Yami, no matter if I like it or not Seto Kaiba still likes you. You kissing him like you did probably made his day, not scared him away."
Yami blushed again burying his face back against his brother's chest, "Atemmmuuu." He whined.
Atemu chuckled again. However, it was then that something Atemu had said clicked in Yami's mind and he looked up at his brother and asked, "What do you mean Seto likes me?"
Atemu sighed, "As much as I hate to admit it Yami, you aren't the only one with a crush. It seems that Seto has a crush on you as well. Not that I'd ever let him try anything but I can tell by the way he looks at you when you aren't, and he thinks I'm not, looking."
Yami just shook his head and rested his head back on his brother. He didn't believe Atemu when he said that Seto had a crush on him. Why would Seto Kaiba, the CEO of Kaiba Corporation like me? I'm nothing compared to him. He can do a thousand times better than me. No matter what Atemu says I'm still used, damaged goods to messed up that no one would ever want them. Least of all Seto Kaiba.
A/N: Thank you for reading, please review.
