Ya'll spoke too soon, and Guest just give me this one chapter to clear that little bit of confusion up. Now, ahem, I don't want to hear any complaints about how I ended this chapter because this is 25 pages long. Oh, who am I kidding? I'm going to receive tons of complaints. I do not own Yugioh or The End by Lemony Snicket, enjoy! [YUGI, YAMI, and ATEM]

Chapter 7

"Yugi, where are we going?" Sakura asked as they passed the outer most crown of trees.

"Home." He answered uneasily.

"Well, you're headed the wrong way." She said.

"No I'm not." He said as he pulled up outside the Stone Palace and unbuckled his seat belt.

"Yes you did, the game shop is that way, as far from here as you can get." Sakura said pointing behind her.

"No, Sakura, this is my home now." Yugi said as gently as he could.

"What?" she asked in disbelief.

"You wanna come in?" Yugi asked.

"Do I want to come in to a vampire coven that wants me dead? No, I don't think so." Sakura said in her hunter voice.

"Okay, I'll see you then. But just remember Sakura, I love you, and mi casa, su casa." Yugi said kissing her on the cheek before getting out and heading in.

"Yugi!" she yelled behind him. He turned back to face her.

"You don't have to do this!" she said desperation in her voice.

"Do what?" Yugi asked confused.

"Give in to their every need, whim, and way." Sakura said.

"Believe me Sakura, I don't." Yugi said laughing at her before passing through the doors and inside the Palace.

Yugi picked up his pace as he ran through the hallways, anxious to get back to his mates. He felt as if he hadn't seen them in ages, even though it hadn't even been six hours since he had last seen them. Vampires and humans alike jumped out of his way as he rushed towards his room. Yugi ran up the stairs and threw open his bedroom door. He pounced on his mates, who were sitting on the bed making out.

"Ack, Yugi, what the heck?" Atem asked from underneath him.

"Mmmm, my mates, mine." Yugi said rubbing his head against Yami's cheek.

"Yes, we're yours, but why did you attack us?" Atem asked.

"I've missed you." Yugi said simply before forcefully kissing Atem.

"Wow, this dress is ruined." Yami commented looking down at it.

Is it? That's too bad.

"Can we eat now?" Yami asked albeit impatiently.

Get me some soup, and my blood is all yours.

She didn't feed you?

She tried, but two bites into my burger and she started to re-tell…stories, and I lost my appetite pretty quickly.

What kind of stories?

Stories.

They were vampire killing stories weren't they?

You really want me to answer that?

No, that answer is enough, thank you.

Okay.

Yugi pulled away from Atem so he could breathe. He laid his head against Atem's chest, as he ran his hands through his hair. He was very comfortable.

"Okay, I have the soup!" Yami said coming into the room and setting it down on the desk.

"Alright, as agreed my blood is free for drinking." Yugi said sitting up.

Atem smirked and sat up, as Yami pulled Yugi closer to him. He bit him and began to drink the life giving fluid. He pulled out and cleaned him up sealing the marks in the process. Atem pulled him over to him, and bit into him as well, drinking his share of the life giving fluid. Sakura's words flashed through his mind briefly.

"That is completely irresponsible!"

He just shook it off mentally. What did she know? They had been doing this for months, and he had never come close to losing a crazily dangerous amount of blood. Sure there had been that one time that they had taken too much, but they had rectified it with that icky blood replacer gummy thing. If they didn't know that they were doing, they wouldn't be taking such a risk. Would they?

"Yugi."

He'd never thought of it before, but was he the first human they had tried this double feeding thing on? No, they couldn't be, they seemed to have too much practice doing it. But then again, they had never mentioned previous food sources. So it was a possibility. What if he was the first? Oh, that was a very scary thought, that they had tried this out on him, and discovered it to work.

"Yugi!"

But it did work. It did, and nothing had ever gone wrong with it before, so why was he freaking out now? Maybe…because he had never thought of it before. What other things had they tried out on him and was probably their first time doing so? Well, bedsides that drug, because they had practically spelled out for him in BIG BOLD LETTERING that he was the first human to be receiving it from them. Oh, and the date thing, that was a first for them too, considering they took him to an all vampire restaurant. That had been very scary.

YUGI!

"Huh, what?" He asked jumping.

"Oh good, we finally got your attention. Eat, we'll explain." Yami said pushing the bowl of soup towards him.

"Explain what?" Yugi asked confused picking up the spoon.

"Wow, just eat, Beautiful." Atem said ruffling his hair.

"No, you are not the first human we are trying this on. The first three we accidently killed. The fourth one, we almost did, and had to end up ending his life, because Isis said there was no way he was ever going to wake up from the coma we put him in. The fifth one, we were very careful with. By the sixth one we had gotten the hang of it." Yami explained.

"So, what number am I?" Yugi asked.

"1,125." Atem said.

"Wow, that's a lot of humans." Yugi said.

"Yeah, our last one lived until they were in their fifties, and then they wanted to be transformed." Atem explained.

"How long do you go in between humans?" Yugi asked.

"Until one or both of us are tired of bagged blood." Yami said shrugging.

"Oh and how long does that take?" Yugi asked.

"It ranges from six months to a year." Atem said.

"So curious today, how come?" Yami asked.

"I don't know. I just am." Yugi said shrugging and pushing his empty bowl away. He lay down, almost immediately falling asleep.

[Time skip]

Yugi had a weird dream that night. It wasn't a nightmare, but he didn't think it was his dream either. It seemed more like a memory, a memory that wasn't his.

"So if we never mention it, he'll never know?" Yami asked Isis as she hovered by the bed he was sleeping in. No not sleeping, it looked more like he was passed out. He was much too tense to be sleeping.

"But what caused it?" Atem asked.

"Trauma, I'm not sure what happened or what you guys did, but he had to feel large amounts of trauma for this side effect to take action."Isis explained pulling some papers out of bag on the floor.

"What's that?" Yami asked.

"Records on this more painful and dangerous side effect. It says here that the humans claimed that the vampires were torturing them, killing them. Like they were clawing through their minds searching for something. One human even asked what they wanted to know, they would just tell them, if they would just stop trying to kill them. They would tell them anything they wanted to know." Isis explained reading off the papers.

"Just tell us how we handle this." Atem said putting his face in his hand.

"You've never met." Isis said lowering the papers.

"What?" Yami asked.

"When he wakes up, it will be your first meeting. Act as if nothing is wrong, and he will never know." Isis said sternly.

"He said he'd been bitten before." Atem said taking the hand way from his face. He turned to face the bed, and Yugi turned to look at it too. He had relaxed against it, like he was sleeping now.

"That's possible. It would certainly give reason to why he seemed to hate you guys." Isis reasoned gently looking at the bed as well. She reached down and gently brushed his bangs aside.

"Seemed to?" Yami asked raising an eyebrow.

"It wasn't real hate Yami, but you might not have been able to feel that in your rage. It's stopped, he's asleep. Don't ask him what he remembers, you'll only confuse him." Isis said picking up her bag and moving away from the bed.

"Isis, how much did it erase?" Atem asked.

"Um, hold on." She said walking back to the bed and placing her left hand on his forehead. It glowed a hot pink color briefly, before fading away.

"Around five hours so from the time Yami took him out of his trance and on, he doesn't remember a thing of any of it." Isis said solemnly before walking out.

Yami.

"What are we going to do, Atem?" Yami asked wrapping his arms around himself.

"We'll do exactly as Isis says, and act like this is our first meeting." Atem said wrapping his arms around him and pulling him close.

Yami, wake up!

"Do you think we should wake him now?" Yami asked looking up at him slightly.

"No, let him sleep. After the feeding and what he just went through, he's bound to be even more exhausted." Atem said holding him closer and placing a kiss on his forehead.

"Okay." Yami nodded wrapping his own arms around his mate and watching Yugi on the bed.

Yami!

"Do you think he'll be nicer when he wakes up?" Yami asked.

"I have no idea, I guess we'll see." Atem said following Yami's eyes to look at him too.

"Let's make the most of this new leaf yeah?" Yami asked looking up at him.

YAMI! WAKE UP!

The dream vanished just like that. Like a bubble being popped by a finger, the dream vanished. Yugi felt Yami shoot up next to him, he opened his eyes, the world a blurry vision of color. He slowly sat up, still being tired from the feeding.

"Whose memory was that that I was just dreaming just now?" Yugi asked rubbing his eyes and yawning.

"Technically it was both of ours." Atem said sighing.

"Kay." He said before hitting the pillows and falling asleep again.

Think he'll remember it in the morning?

Let's hope not.

[Time skip]

Yugi woke up and rubbed at his eyes, yawning, and stretching. He looked to either side of him and noticed the absence of his mates. He could easily ask them where they were through the mind link, but instead he looked around for a note of where they went. Those things always entertained him to no end. Looking around and not finding one, he pouted and began to search for them.

They weren't anywhere. They weren't even prowling the garden. Feeling more than a little abandoned, Yugi washed himself and changed out of the dress. He put on his too cute to eat shirt, along with some dark blue boot cut jeans, briefs, and collar. He grabbed The End by Lemony Snicket off the shelf and left his room.

Yugi meandered his way through the Palace trying to find them, before finally hearing their voices near the entrance. Theirs weren't the only ones though. He also heard Sakura's Master too. Yugi hovered around the corner as he eavesdropped on their conversation.

"I don't care! He's our mate and her little brother. He can be both." Atem's voice thundered.

"No he may not! He must decide now whether he still considers himself to be human or your precious pet." Master sneered.

"Listen here you ridiculous scum of a human being, Yugi will never make that choice. He will never choose between the two of us." Yami said angrily. It made Yugi wonder how long this conversation had been going on for.

"Then you need to push him in the right direction." Master demanded.

"And what direction would that be?" Atem asked.

"Why towards his sister of course." Master said like it was obvious.

"Does she know you're here?" Yugi asked coming around the corner and making his presence known.

"That's not the point." He snarled.

"Yes it is. You're making decisions for my sister, that I'm not sure my sister wants you to." Yugi said walking to stand in between Yami and Atem, holding his book close to his chest.

"She's just a girl, what does she know?" Master sneered.

"A girl? That's funny I could have sworn my sister was 24, which would make her a woman, would it not?" Yugi asked handing his book off to Atem, who just took it without question.

"Well, she's making childish decisions. As are you, what's this that I hear that you don't want to follow in her footsteps anymore?" Master asked crossing his arms.

"Well, don't you think that career path has a gotten a little complicated for me?" Yugi asked jerking his thumbs at his vampires.

"Not at all." he said making Yugi's jaw drop.

"You're unbelievable! I tell you I've got it handled and you butt your nose where it doesn't belong anyway?!" Sakura shrieked coming up the steps towards the four of them.

"I knew you wouldn't make the right decision though. So I had to come and make it for you." Master said producing a blade and dragging it lightly up Yugi's neck to rest just below his chin. Yami and Atem didn't even have time to react before Sakura was on him.

"Get that away from his throat right now." she hissed in his ear one of her own blades pressed against Master's throat, drawing a drop of blood. He dropped the blade, and Yugi quickly kicked it away.

"Are you okay, Yugi?" she asked looked around him. Yugi nodded.

"Did he hurt you?" she asked. Yugi shook his head.

"Okay, if you had drawn even a drop of blood from him I would have slit your throat." Sakura threatened with venom in her tone.

Told you she'd kill herself before she'd hurt me.

We see.

"So what are you going to do to them?" Master asked nodding at his vampires. Yugi grabbed their hands and held onto them.

"Nothing, unlike you they have an excuse of which they can draw my brothers blood. But I swear, if I had been here, I would cut you before you could have touched him." Sakura said glaring.

"We have no doubts about it, Maria." Atem said with obvious dislike in his voice. Yugi stomped on his foot for being rude.

"Ow!" he complained.

"We're all family here; you can call me Sakura, or Ms. Mutou, your choice." Sakura said smirking.

"Would you mind taking your dagger away from my throat?" Master asked.

"Are you going to threaten my brother again, David?" she asked. Oh yeah, that was what his chosen name was.

Chosen?

Well, yeah, they all choose a Bible name to go by. I wonder what Mira's going to choose?

"No." he said.

"Good, because next time I won't save you from them." Sakura said nodding to Atem and Yami while taking her dagger away from his throat.

"What's that supposed to mean?" David asked.

"Did you see their faces? They looked like they were going to rip you to shreds." Sakura said sheathing her dagger.

"Excellent, my death would have started a war." David said his eyes lighting up with glee.

"No it wouldn't of, because they would have had reasonable cause to end your life. I spent all night researching the dos and don'ts when dealing with a family member who's in a mated relationship. By the way if you ever hear me say 'I'm gonna kill you, Yugi' you should know it's in a very sisterly loving way." Sakura said sitting down on the steps.

"How can a phrase like that be sisterly and loving?" Yami asked in confusion.

"It's a human thing." Yugi said laughing releasing their hands and sitting by his sister giving her a hug.

"Hey Yugi, when does school start?" Sakura said returning the hug.

"Two days from today." Yugi said sighing.

"Do they go?" Sakura asked jerking her thumb back at them.

"Uh huh, and this year, we're all gonna be Seniors!" Yugi said excitedly.

"How were your grades last year?" Sakura asked.

"Straight A's of course." Yugi said.

"That's my brother." Sakura said hugging him.

"What the hell? What happened to the bitchy attitude you were sporting yesterday, and the day before." Atem asked.

"You didn't tell them did you?" Sakura asked pulling away from him.

"No, they were really hungry." Yugi said looking down.

"Alright, I have a forced bipolar attitude, we all do. As long as we are around two or more of our…breed, I guess you could call it, or have our earpieces in; we are complete assholes and bitches to vampires. Many of us are actually friends with a few choice vampires, David here included. Unfortunately because of our jobs though, we have to keep up a hateful front. So if I'm mean to you one minute and then trying to be nice the next, that's why." Sakura explained turning to them.

"What did they tell you you have to do?" Yugi asked.

"Break the three of you up." She said in a whisper.

"And if you don't?" Yugi asked already afraid of the answer.

"They'll send me away, permanently." She whispered tears layering her eyes.

"Then we should make the most of our time together." Yugi said softly wrapping his arms around her.

"What?!" she asked angered pushing him away.

"I said-." Yugi started.

"I heard what you said, I just can't believe you said it!" she yelled.

"Well, what do you want me to say?" Yugi asked confused.

"It's too late for that. I see now the truth, I was going to give up my career for you, but you won't even give up them for me. One way or another Yugi, I will separate the three of you, even if it's through sheer force of will." Sakura said getting into her Mustang and peeling away.

"NO! SAKURA!" Yugi screamed dropping to his knees. What had just happened? Did he just lose his sister, or was this a horrible nightmare? Yugi pinched himself, nope wasn't a nightmare. He wished it was though, and then his heart wouldn't hurt so much.

"Oh my, I didn't think she'd actually do it." David said from behind him.

"Do what?" Atem asked.

"Turn on her baby brother. She loves him more than anything, and she told the council that his happiness mattered more to her than hers did. That if he was happy with you two, then she'd rather no longer kill vampires, than rip apart that happiness. But it seems as if she's changed her mind." David said shaking his head.

"She hates me, because she thinks I chose them over her." Yugi whispered getting up and starting to walk after his sisters tire tracks.

"No Yugi, your sister still loves you, this is all just very new to her. It's new to all of us." David said rushing after him and pulling him into a hug. Yugi squirmed in the embrace. He didn't like it, it wasn't Yami, and it wasn't Atem. He was pulled by the arm out of David's and into Yami's.

"Shh, shh, it's alright." Yami consoled rubbing his back.

"He's never done that before." David said confused.

"Sorry, it's a new mate thing. He won't be comfortable being held by someone who isn't family, us, or a very close friend for several months." Atem explained as Yugi clung to Yami.

"He has a hard time being out of our presence for more than 36 hours. He starts to have withdrawals, I guess you could say." Yami explained further.

Yugi cringed, remembering the 36 hours separation period. He had just about attacked Atem and Yami with ridiculous amounts of affection when he saw them again. At first they had pushed him away thinking it was a side effect of a certain drug. However, at his tears and strong emotions of rejection, they pulled him back and gave into his need for physical attention. He hadn't been able to even move the next day.

"Is that normal?" David asked concerned.

"Very, Yami here, didn't let me out of his sight for months. Wherever I went you could always find Yami two steps behind." Atem said chuckling at the memory that was forming in his head. Yugi saw a brief image of Atem in a skirt walking down a hallway, and Yami in a similar outfit hiding around a large pot following him.

"It wasn't a skirt, Yugi." Atem said closing his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Yes, they were shentis, very fashionable in that time." Yami said.

"Or do you not recall wearing one yourself?" Atem asked looking down at him. Yugi blushed hiding his face in Yami's chest.

"Here take your book and go read, the grownups need to talk." Atem said handing it to him before pushing him in the direction of the garden.

"What am I?" Yugi asked offended.

"A child, you are 17 correct?" Yami asked.

"Yes." Yugi said begrudgingly.

"Alright, now run along now." Atem said giving him another push.

"With your tones you'd think I was eight or ten." Yugi commented annoyed as he walked off.

Yugi walked into the garden, and immediately found himself pinned against a wall, a hand over his mouth. Two unfamiliar vampires were looming over him. They fingered his collar, before releasing him and walking off. Yugi sighed in relief, so this collar thing really did work, and here he thought it had just been a myth. Yugi walked through the garden getting grabbed at least a dozen more times, and being released just as many as soon as they recognized the collar.

Yugi made his way to the woods, and weaved in and out of them towards the beach. We walked down the path and froze. There were more vampires down here than there were in the garden. Oh, he hoped Atem and Yami would forgive him for what he was about to do.

Forgive you for what?

You'll discover it, promise.

Yugi walked past the vampires trying not to make eye contact with any of them as he made his way across the sandy beach. It didn't seem to matter as he was grabbed and let go several times. Being unable to take it anymore, he ran, unfortunately getting a lot of vampires following him too. He jumped up onto the rocks, and into Akeifa's woods. He heard a bunch of the vampires stopping, and cussing at having lost him.

Yugi breathed heavily against the tree he was leaning up against. He looked back towards the beach to see the vampires that had chased him pacing on the edge of the border. He sighed, and slid down the trunk still breathing heavily from his run.

"Yugi?" Yugi looked over towards the voice to see Akeifa approaching him.

"Hi, Akeifa." Yugi said getting up.

"What are you doing here?" he asked stopping in front of him.

"Hiding." Yugi said pointing to the pacing vampires.

"Why didn't you just call your vampires?" he asked glaring at the vampires on his border.

"Because none of them were technically hurting me. They just kept grabbing me, and then letting me go as soon as they recognized this." Yugi said fingering his collar himself.

"How's it going with Sakura?" Akeifa asked.

"Horrible! I think I just lost my sister. She says she's going to rip the three of us apart." Yugi said breaking down and falling to his knees.

"Sakura may be a lot of things, but heartless isn't one of them." Akeifa said bending down and rubbing his back. He didn't try to hold him; he had discovered three weeks after Yugi became their mate that unlike Ryou, he wasn't able to hold him.

"It was my fault, I upset her." Yugi said bowing his head as more tears fell down his face.

"She'll come around, Yugi. Everyone does eventually with those two." Akeifa said still rubbing his back.

"You sure?" Yugi asked sniffing and looking up at him.

"Yeah, I mean they may not be my favorite people but I'm at least civil with them when I have to be." Akeifa said grinning.

"So you think Sakura will be civil with them when she has to be?" Yugi asked.

"Yeah, once she gets to know them, I believe she will be." Akeifa said winking at something over his shoulder. Yugi looked over to see the vampires gone, only to have been replaced by his.

"Thanks Akeifa!" Yugi said giving him a quick hug before releasing him, his mating instincts screaming in protest to the contact.

"Um, anytime." The shocked werewolf said as he went running into Atem's and Yami's open arms.

"Thanks werewolf!" Yami shouted as Akeifa started to make his retreat.

"Whatever vampire." Akeifa said raising a hand in response.

"So much for civility, come on you." Atem said grabbing his hand and starting to pull him towards the rocks.

"I thought Atem told you to stay out of the garden?" Yami asked as he jumped down the rocks and onto the sand.

"No, that was my fault; I pushed him in that direction without even thinking about it." Atem said picking him up and tossing him into Yami's arms.

"I see." Yami said catching him and placing him on his feet.

"So tell us, how many times were you grabbed and released?" Atem asked landing down beside him.

"I lost count." Yugi mumbled kicking at the sand with his barefoot.

"Oh my, that just won't do at all." Yami said shaking his head.

"We're sorry about this Yugi, but we're going to have to confine you to the Palace for a while." Atem said tilting his head up.

"What? Why?" Yugi asked.

"It's only until our guests leave, and then you'll be free to roam the grounds as much as you like." Yami said. Yugi pouted before turning on his heel and marching off, making his sentiments on the situation known.

"Baka visiting vampires! This is my home; I should be able to wander wherever I want to! I shouldn't have to stay in the Palace where I'm safer! I'm tired of being in the safer situation, I like to have adventures! Them vampires need to leave!" Yugi shouted to the high heavens.

Good to know he's taking this so well.

Absolutely, wouldn't expect anything less of our very understanding human.

People are staring at him.

Uh huh, let's just pick him up and run for it.

Works for me.

No!

Yugi started to run not making it very far as he was scooped up into Yami's arms. Yugi crossed his arms and pouted. Atem and Yami just laughed at him and carried him back; placing him on his feet once they were safely in the walls.

"Do I really have to stay in the Palace?" Yugi asked sighing.

"Yes, you really do." Atem said leaning his forehead against Yugi's.

"When do the visitors leave?" Yugi asked.

"In less than two weeks." Yami said.

"Do I have to play host?" Yugi asked.

"No, it would be nice, but no, you don't have to." Atem said.

"As long as no one tries to drink from me, I'll be a good host to our visitors." Yugi conceded.

"Thank you." Yami said before taking Atem's hand and starting to walk away.

"Wait, where are you going?" Yugi asked.

"Meetings." Yami responded looking at him.

"I don't like meetings." Yugi said pouting.

"We know." Atem said.

"Can I come with?" Yugi asked.

"NO!" they both shouted like the very idea scared them.

"We're sorry, we didn't mean to yell, but no, it isn't safe." Atem said releasing his hand and walking back over to Yugi.

"I promise to be good. I'll keep my mouth shut, my thoughts to myself, and do everything you ask of me." Yugi wagered.

"He reminds me of you." Atem said sighing looking back Yami.

"I don't recall me ever looking so adorable begging you to take me with you." Yami said back looking away.

"My Lords, there you are, the meeting is already beginning." A female said coming down the hallway.

"Please Atem?" Yugi begged. He sighed before taking his hand and squeezing it.

"Alright, but I don't want to hear one peep out of you unless I say it's okay." Atem said sternly.

"Not one peep." Yugi agreed nodding.

"What time is it?" Yami asked as he took Yugi's other hand.

"11:32 am my Lords." The woman supplied looking at Yugi curiously.

"I'll go let Eliza know, and then meet you in the throne room." Yami said releasing Yugi's hand.

"Alright, hurry back." Atem said grabbing him and kissing him before letting him go. Yami made his way down an adjacent hallway before disappearing around the corner.

"My Lord, aren't you going to send your human on his way?" the woman asked confused as they approached the throne room.

"No, today he's staying with us." Atem said.

"Very well." she said opening the door to the throne room and making her way inside.

"Remember, not one word." Atem reminded.

Yugi nodded, before Atem pulled him inside. Yugi wrapped his arms around Atem's; there were foreign vampires in here too. Kami, they were everywhere.

"Sit." Atem told him a smirk in his voice.

Yugi sat in the throne. He looked around at all the vampires staring openly at him. What surprised him though was that not all of them were vampires. There was one other human in the room besides him, a young girl. He smiled and waved at her. She just ducked head looking down at her feet. Her vampire looked at her and nudged her. She looked up briefly enough to wave back nervously before looking back at her shoes. Atem looked back at him frowning, before shrugging and looking back at all the vampires.

"I hereby call this meeting into order." Atem said motioning for Mahad to begin.

"Wait where's the Queen?" a female vampire asked.

"He's running an errand." Atem said picking Yugi up and sitting down before sitting him in his lap.

"Well, shouldn't we wait for him?" a male asked.

"Fine, it makes no difference to me." Atem said.

"Why'd you bring the Prince?" Marik asked.

"He's nervous being around all these unfamiliar vampires." Atem responded.

"Why should he be? We don't bite what's not ours." A different female vampire said.

"Regardless, I myself and my other mate feel more at ease just being able to keep him in our sights." Atem said brushing it off.

"I know how you feel. I found several vampires crowding around my human, it made me very anxious. So I brought her along, this is Camilia Gyser." The female vampire sitting next to the human girl said.

"Yugi Mutou." Atem said pointing at him.

"Oh my God! The King of Games, that Yugi Mutou!?" Camilia asked practically shrieking with glee. Yugi smiled and nodded, trying so hard not to laugh at her giddiness.

"Oh wow, I am such a big fan! I mean I was giddy when I learned that I as attending the same high school this year as you, but knowing that you're a blood bag like me?! Omg, we have so much in common!" she said all smiles. Yugi put a hand over his mouth trying really hard not to laugh.

"Camilia!" the vampire reprimanded.

"What? Oh, I'm sorry Elizabeth; I guess I let my excitement run away with me again." She said biting her lip and ducking her head.

"It's alright, I'm used to it, but I believe I specifically told you to keep your thoughts to yourself, as most vampires aren't so free with their food sources." Elizabeth said shaking her head. Most of the vampires were laughing behind their hands, but a few were scowling at the human. Yugi frowned looking down at Atem, who raised his eyebrows, saying what? He pointed at the scowling vampires.

"There's nothing I can do." Atem said shaking his head. Yugi sighed and leaned back into him, as Yami walked into the room.

"Oh good, we can start." Mahad said shuffling his papers.

"You haven't started yet?" Yami asked sitting on the armrest of the chair.

"They wanted to wait for you." Atem explained.

"Oh, well that was nice of them." Yami said.

"First order of business, the group of hunters in our area. Has anyone discovered how long they are planning on staying for?" Mahad asked. Yugi's hand shot up, he knew the answer to that. Yugi saw Mahad look past him at Atem, and then back at him.

"Yes, Yugi?" Mahad asked grinning.

"A year." Yugi said.

"Thank you." Mahad said looking back at the group before him.

"I say we run them out of town." A female said.

"No we need to kill the lot, starting with that fiend Maria." A male said. A hand clamped over his mouth as he opened it to voice his opinion on that one.

Not a word.

"If any one of you so much as lays a finger on Maria, you'll have us to deal with." Atem said sliding Yugi off his lap and standing up, before pushing him back into the throne.

"That goes for the rest of the Hunters in the area as well." Yami said standing as well.

"We discovered this morning that every hunter that you saw at the Gala has some form of family here in Domino. Every single one of them has been wronged by a vampire in some way, so they will be staying close to their homes while here. Their families are their first priorities, but I have no doubt that if you go at them teeth barred, we will have a war on our hands. The Hunters are to be left alone, is that understood?" Atem asked using his scary voice. Even Yugi found himself nodding with the vampires, and he wasn't even scared of that voice, most of the time.

"Are you sure you're not doing this because that Maria brat is your human mate's sister?" a male vampire asked. Atem sighed, and looked back at Yugi before looking at the vampire again.

"Yes, Ronald, I'm sure the reason for it is to not start a war." Atem said.

"But him being the brother of that Maria girl helps." He persisted.

"No it doesn't, it actually makes things worse." Yami said angrily.

"Yami!" Atem reprimanded.

"Just saying." Yami said raising his hands defensively.

"Enough, Mahad." Atem said trying to move things along.

"Right, well after we were all good and drunk, we threw some ideas around about how we could possibly try to get along with these Hunters, and they are as follows: a cocktail party, a social, a party, a hanging, a shooting, fencing, a book club, vampire and food source therapy sessions, and a riot. How drunk were we?" Mahad named off before rubbing his hand across his forehead in slight frustration.

"Well, the ideas for a hanging, shooting, fencing, vampire and food source therapy sessions, and riot are out. Which leaves us with a cocktail party, regular party, social, and book club as our options." Yami said sighing.

How about an intermingling?

What?

You know, you sit down around a table and discuss your problems over dinner or lunch or something. Try to see each other's point of views.

I don't think that's going to work, Yugi.

Probably, but the only one out of your list of options that they'll go for is the book club. As long as they'll be able to provide the food, of course.

"Camilia." Atem said. Her head shot up, and looked at him.

"If you were given the option to join a vampire in a party or a book club which would you prefer?" he asked.

"Uh, the book club." She answered uneasily.

"Why?" Atem asked.

What are you doing?

Hush.

"Um, because with a book club only so many people can join, but at a party anyone can show up. I'm not comfortable around vampires I don't know." Camilia said fiddling with her hands.

"Thank you." Atem said turning away.

"What was the point of that?" Yami hissed.

"Mahad, how many Hunters were there at the Gala?" Atem asked ignoring him.

"Um, there were eight." Mahad said looking just as confused as Yami sounded.

"So we'll need eight vampires from this group to join as well." Atem said looking at them all.

"Camilia and I will join." Elizabeth said.

"He said vampires not humans, but I'll be happy to take care of your human while you go to these meetings." A male vampire sneered before openly leering at Camilia. She shrunk into Elizabeth, hiding her face in her side.

"That's fine, you'll count as one." Atem said. Yugi noticed Elizabeth sighing in relief. Yugi reached up and tickled Yami's side, making his hand shoot up as he leaned away from the touch.

"Okay, Yami." Atem said not having seen what had happened, just Yami's hand go up.

You're going to pay for that, Yugi.

What did he do?

He tickled me, making me raise my hand.

Well, we needed volunteers anyway, so thank you Beautiful.

You're welcome.

Traitor.

I'll make it up to you later.

Yugi muffled his laughter in his hands. After their Queen volunteered, six others did easily. Then the conversation moved on to blood banks drying out. Yugi frowned unaware that this was such a problem, but apparently it was. He guess he had just assumed that most vampires had a human, but it seemed most drank from blood bags.

"Why not have humans that are already food sources donate a pint of blood a month." One of the vampires suggested looking at Yugi whilst licking their lips.

"That's an excellent idea!" another said looking at Camilia.

"No it's not!" Seth interrupted.

"Why not, you're sucking on two." Another shot at him.

"Yes, my humans could spare a pint of blood, that is true, but not all can. Some need all the blood they have, if they gave anymore away, either their vampire would starve for that week, or they would die, depending on how careless the vampire is." Seth said shooting a fearful look at Yugi.

"So? They'd just get another human." A male vampire said casually. It was the casualness that scared Yugi though, like a human life didn't matter. He opened his mouth to say something, only to find a hand covering it again.

Not a word.

He doesn't care.

We know which is why he has been banned from drinking from humans for the rest of his life. He knows if he takes even one more, he will immediately be put on our execution lists. He has killed five humans by his lack of respect for their lives.

What about the new law?

The last life he took was back in 1784, I think it's safe to say he's been following our rules.

You'd think he'd care more.

Yes, but he doesn't.

Yami slowly removed his hand from his mouth. When it became clear that he wasn't going to say anything, he stood up, and took his place beside Atem. The argument was still going on, and this time it looked as if Atem was just waiting it out. After an hour of listening to argument after argument, Yugi suggested something quietly to Atem.

What about a blood drive?

Sorry, a what?

It's like a food drive, but instead of giving food, you give blood. Though I guess you could call it a vampire food drive.

Interesting, how does it work?

Well, you make posters for it, and humans just show up to donate blood. Of course you need to provide non spiked snacks, and drinks, and you can only take a pint, nothing more.

Hmmm, well let's see.

"How about a blood drive?" Atem asked quietly and was somehow still heard over all the arguing. The chatter ceased as everyone turned to look at him.

"That's actually a really good idea, because then we would have a group of humans who are willing to give their blood instead of forcing a group who aren't." Marik said thoughtfully.

"The group would probably be bigger too." Seth reasoned.

"Yeah, but who's going to give their blood up to vampires?" Elizabeth asked. Yugi raised his hand, getting a few chuckles out of the vampires. At least until Atem noticed, and then they were muffling their laughter in their hands.

"Put your hand down, you're not donating." Atem said grabbing his hand and forcing it back down.

Just trying to be helpful.

"If we work it through the human Hospital, they'll never be the wiser." Isis said. Atem nodded, a small smile forming on his face.

Good idea, Yugi.

Thanks.

"All in favor of the blood drive?" Mahad asked. Surprisingly, everyone raised their hands.

"Excellent." Mahad said writing it down.

"Perhaps when I return to my country I can suggest zis blood drive too." A foreign female vampire said.

"Yes, it is a good idea." Another said.

"Right next, human rebellions." Mahad said glancing at Yugi, whose eyebrows were furrowed in confusion at him.

"Not more of those." Yami groaned rubbing his temples.

"Zey have been happening more and more in Russia." A male vampire spoke up. Atem sighed, before looking over at him.

"What's going on?" he asked wearily.

"Zey are burning our homes, killing our children, and it matters not how often we fight back, we are always ze ones to blame for starting ze fights, when zey are ze ones to zrow ze first torch. We need help." He said desperately.

"And whether any of you wants to believe zis or not, ze Hunters at the Gala, zey helped fight off ze humans. Zey helped to rebuild our homes. Zey could not bring back our children, but zey helped where zey could. Zey even got rid of our main source of pain, zose ruddy rogues, which were stealing ze human's children out of zeir beds. Ze same human children we were getting blamed for taking. Zey do help, even if most do not see it zat way." The female next to him said through her tears.

"But we had our best vampires after them. We did not need the Hunters help!" a male vampire said.

"Yes, but zey drank the night away, and slept during ze day. Zey did nothing, nothing to help, and zen became angry when Maria, did ze job for zem. She tracked down ze vampires in a day and killed zem in another. Saving six human children in ze process." The Russian male sneered.

"Why wasn't that in the papers?" Atem asked his eyes narrowed.

"Because how would zat look? Human children dying left and right, but Hunter helps vampire where vampires do not? Oh, yes zat is a lovely title, no?" the Russian female asked sarcastically.

"They only put what we wanted to hear." Atem said rubbing his forehead.

"Yes." The Russian male answered.

"Maybe that's what we need to do. Get our newspapers to print the truth, no matter how ugly it is." Yami said folding his arms.

"Or maybe hire the Hunters for our own needs, I mean they're awful good at what they do." Atem said rubbing his temples.

Or maybe everyone needs a break. We've all been cooped up in this room too long.

Yeah.

"I'm calling a ten minute recess, be back here by then." Atem said. There was a murmur of appreciation before one by one the vampires left.

"I think you should go too, Yugi." Atem said turning to him and leaning against the table. It gave Yugi a strange sense of déjà vu.

"I don't want to, and I've been helpful." Yugi said feeling like he was pleading his case with a judge.

"He has been helpful; he turned two three hour arguments into thirty minutes, and an hour." Yami said nodding. Atem sighed and shook his head.

"I don't care, I want you gone." He said pointing to the door.

Yugi looked directly into his eyes to see if he could find any hesitation, there wasn't any. Looking down at his feet, he got up and walked out. As soon as he was clear of the doors he ran to his room. He was half way there when he realized he had forgotten his book, but he didn't want to go back for it either. These meetings always brought the worst of him out, that's why Yugi didn't like them. It wasn't because they cut into his time with his mates, though he'd be lying if he said that it didn't have anything to do with his disliking for them. No, it was mainly because it brought out this cold regal side of Atem, which had Yugi avoiding him when he was like that.

Yugi burst into his room, plucked Koneko off her jungle gym, and sat with her on the bed, holding her close. She didn't even fight him, she just purred, to show that she at least loved him, or more that she felt loved. Yugi smiled and laid down, allowing Koneko to curl up on his chest.

He petted her absent mindedly, as he thought about what he could have done wrong. He had just suggested that they take a break, he had agreed, so why did he suddenly send him away? Maybe because he had tried to speak up twice. But if that was the case, why hadn't he sent him away when he had tried it the first time? Why wait until they had a break to send him away? Unless, there had been something on the agenda that Atem didn't want Yugi to know about. In which case, he had never intended to let him stay for the whole meeting from the very beginning. Why not say so then, why tell him to just get out?

Yugi shook his head; he was running himself around in circles. Heck, he didn't even know if he was the reason for being sent out. In any case there was no sense in worrying over something that he wasn't even sure if it was his fault to begin with. Maybe it was because he had volunteered his blood? He was just trying to be helpful.

Yugi plucked Koneko off his chest and put her on Atem's pillow, where she rolled around and then curled up and fell asleep. He watched her for a few minutes before opening the door and closing it behind him. He walked up the stairs to the watch tower, where he sat on the low part of the wall, and looked out at the garden. Sure he could do this from his balcony, but he wanted a higher view today.

Yugi leaned his head against the stone, as he idly watched the vampires below him. They were able to enjoy the wonders of the garden, but him? He was stuck in the stuffy Palace with only his kitten and books for comfort. He'd take his mates, but they were always busy with meetings or something else. Some vampire that wanted to discuss something with them privately, without the human around. Being a mate was worse than being a food source.

Ouch, that thought hurts.

Get out of my head.

Yugi, we have our duties. We can't always be spending time with you.

I know, I know, I just don't know how to control my constant need for you guys yet.

We know. Oh Ra, do we know, but do you think you can handle a few more hours without us?

I guess…

Yugi, where are you?

In the watch tower.

What part?

What do you mean?

Get down.

Which way?

You know very well which way. Back up off of that ledge.

How do you know I'm on a ledge? You aren't even in that group of vampires looking up at me curiously.

Down! Get down right now!

Thank the spoil sport for me, why don't you. I loathe snitches.

Are you down?

Yeah, I'm down.

Yugi walked back down the stairs, and into his bedroom. He jumped onto the bed startlingly Koneko. She looked at him clearly surprised at the sudden bounce of the bed.

"Sorry, girl." He said laughing while petting her head. She just leaned up into the touch, rubbing her head against his hand, which caused him to laugh even more.

He flopped down onto the pillows and tried to think of a way to keep himself occupied. He could go to the library, or the arcade, or one of his friend's place. Or he could try to interpret that dream he had last night. Oh, he liked that last one.

Yugi sat up. Okay, he had been in the white room, and he had been on the bed out cold. Atem, Yami, and Isis had been there. They had been discussing the side effect of the water. Clearly it had just happened, he wish he could have seen how it happened, maybe then he could describe how it went wrong. But at the same time he really didn't want to know. He didn't want to see himself completely broken, because he imagined that that was how he looked. Don't mention it and he'll never know she said, well Yami had screwed that one over. He had a feeling he had almost mentioned it at Olive Garden too, but Atem was quicker that time, and cut him off. Ugh, why was he even thinking about this horrible subject? Yugi got off the bed and moved towards the doors. He opened them and started to make his way down the stairs.

"I know that that tower is around here somewhere." A voice said nearby making him freeze.

"Yeah, as soon as we find it, we'll find the Prince. Just a few drops of his blood and no one will ever be the wiser." Another responded.

"Yeah, did you smell him? It was like the most delicious scent I have ever smelt on the face of this Earth, I want what they've got." A third voice said.

Yugi sucked in a quiet breath, and made his way back up the stairs. He opened his door and closed it. He grabbed Koneko off of Atem's pillow, and retreated to the Canary Yellow room. He went into their closet and shut the door. He knew this wouldn't hide him forever but it would in time for one of his mates to get here.

Yami, there are foreign vampires nearby, and they talked about taking my blood. Koneko and I are hiding in yours and Atem's closet, please hurry.

We're coming, Yugi.

No, I don't want to disturb the meeting.

You're more important.

But the meeting.

How many voices did you hear?

Three, but there might have been more.

We're coming.

"Yes! This is it; find him before he alerts his mates!" a fourth voice ordered.

RUN!

"They have a cat, no a kitten." The third voice said.

"Oh, kittens are good eating, very tender." The first voice said. Yugi clutched his kitten to his chest. For her part, she didn't even growl at him in protest, so she must have known something was wrong too.

They're going to eat Koneko!

"Ra, where is he?" the fourth voice said.

"What about this room?" the second voice asked.

Closer! Closer, they're getting closer!

"Well, this is nice, two rooms in one. Rip it apart." The first voice ordered.

Dead! Dead! So dead!

No you're not.

Whatever you may hear, just stay in the closet, Yugi.

It was his only warning before he heard shrieks of anger, and painful and fearful cries. There were sounds of furniture moving, and cloth tearing? Or was that limbs? No, no, it was cloth, cloth, he was hearing cloth tear. Yugi huddled up into a ball, as Koneko purred softly, trying calm her owner. She couldn't though, he needed them, he needed his mates. He heard thumps, and the pitter patter of feet, before a sound of pursuit giving chase. It was quiet, the quiet being louder than all the noise that had just taken place. He wanted to look out of the closet door to see what had happened, but at the same time he didn't want to see what was out there. He was scared that he would find either Atem's or Yami's body out there. He heard footsteps again, quiet and unrushed making their way back towards him. The closet door clicked open, letting a ray of light in to fall directly on him. A shadowy figure stood in the doorway.


A reader asked me to put a line under where the chapter ends so they no longer thought that Yugi was talking when really I am, so I said sure! Why not? Okay, I forgot to answer some questions for chapter five while I was blinded by all those reviews. So, I am answering them now. Sakura, is Sakura's birth name. Maria, is her Hunter name, like an alias. No, I will not turn Yugi, it would ruin my entire plot. I'd love to tell you how, but spoilers! And besides the one up top there were no questions for chapter six that I already haven't covered with this one chapter. On that note, thank you to everyone who are/have following/favorited this story. Also thanks to everyone who reviewed Guest and User alike. Please review. Midnight ;p