Author's Note: Thanks to DJ Rodriguez, Me-Ik's my Yami, Depressed Pixie, Lady Jupiter, Anime-Ruthless v.1 and JPElles for reviewing, to DJ Rodriguez :Laughs: Sorry DJ not this time.
Chapter 6 – Revelation
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Location: Valentine House, Domino Japan Time: January 15 2005 9:34am
Mai lay in the arms of her boyfriend Yugi Motou, they were lying on a couch after Yugi had spent the night again, Mai was very quiet after what Yugi had said the previous night, he wanted to tell everyone that they were in love.
The reality of it was just sinking for her, she couldn't bear to look at Yugi right now, he had the most to lose, he could lose his family and friends telling them that he was in love with her and Mai knew she had to say something.
"Yugi, are you sure you want to go through with this?" Mai asked the concern clear in her voice.
"Very sure Mai." He answered firmly.
"But what if they can't stand the fact of you and me?" Mai asked sitting up turning around to look Yugi in the eyes.
"It will be ok Mai I'm sure." Yugi said reassuringly.
"But what if." Mai started to say, but at that moment Yugi kissed her cutting her off mid-sentence wrapping his arms around her.
As he broke the kiss he spoke, "It will be ok Mai, even if they hate you and me dating I don't care, we're together and nothing's going to change that unless we want it, and if it comes down to a choice between them and you, I'll choose you." He said to her, Mai's eyes started to tear up, never in her life had any man been that committed to her, she smiled as Yugi wiped the tears from her eyes smiling gently.
"So, when do you want to tell them?" She asked, Yugi thought for a moment.
"Today, I want them to know as soon as possible." Yugi answered getting up and picking up the cordless phone.
"Hey Mai you didn't go to the movies last Saturday?" Yugi asked out of pure curiosity, Mai arched a crafted eyebrow in confusion.
"No Yugi I didn't." She answered before asking, "Why?"
"Oh, um no reason, its just I went to the movies with Téa last Saturday and well." Yugi said blushing a vibrant red colour.
"And?" Mai asked trying to contain her laughter at how uncomfortable Yugi looked at that moment.
"She tried to kiss me." Yugi said and Mai stopped laughing staring straight into Yugi's eyes.
"SHE WHAT!" Mai exclaimed.
"But, but she didn't someone threw a cup of soda at her head, most of the soda got on me though." Yugi said again blushing.
Mai hid a smile she decided to have a little fun to burn off some steam, "Oh so you were out with your other girlfriend Yugi." Mai said putting on a heated tone and expression.
"Téa's not my girlfriend Mai you are." Yugi responded flatly.
"Don't you lie to me Yugi I thought I was special to you and now I learn that you're running around behind my back with Téa." Mai said still in an angry mood.
"NO WHAT I DIDN'T LIE I WOULD NEVER CHEAT ON YOU MAI I LOVE YOU!" Yugi exclaimed backing away from the approaching wrath of Mai, until she smiled collapsing into a warm hug Yugi sweat dropped and returned the hug.
"I really wish you wouldn't do that to me." Yugi grumbled Mai smiled, "But I enjoy seeing you worked up Yugi, you so look cute." Mai said letting him go.
Yugi grumbled and went to dial his home phone number, after waiting several rings in silence Yugi heard the phone picked up, "Motou residence." His Yami answered grouchily, Yugi grinned slightly.
"Hi Yami, late night with Bakura and Duke?" Yugi asked, lately since Yami and Bakura had gotten there own bodies they'd been exploring the modern world's 'night life' with Duke Devlin an expert in these things, which had lead to some very late nights for Yami recently.
"Please do not ask Abiou, I don't think I remember anything past the seventh hour of Ra's passage through the underworld." Yami commented through several groans.
"Ah Yami could you contact Joey, Seto, Ryou, Bakura and Rebecca and ask them to come round this afternoon around one?" Yugi asked.
"Are you not inviting Téa?" Yami asked curiously.
"Yeah but since she's not speaking to you I thought I would do it myself." Yugi said plainly deciding the truth would be better than making up an excuse even if it lead to a long explanation later.
"Very well Hikari, is something wrong?" Yami asked the grouchiness replaced by concern.
"Nothing's wrong Yami I've just got some things to explain to the gang." Yugi said smiling at Mai who gave him thumbs up.
"Very well abiou I will contact the others." Yami said before hanging up abruptly.
"I've really got to tell Yami to be more polite when hanging up." Yugi mused quietly to himself.
"What was that Yugi?" Mai asked relaxing lazily on the couch staring out a window at the pot holed grey sky, 'It's going to rain again this afternoon.' Mai thought.
"Oh it's nothing Mai." Yugi said dialling the number for Téa's.
"Hello Gardener Residence Téa speaking." Téa said wearily.
"Hi Téa its Yugi." Yugi said brightly.
"Hi Yugi." Téa said some energy returning in her voice.
"Are you ok Téa, you sound a little tired?" Yugi said slightly concerned.
"Oh I'm fine Yugi; I just, um went for a run." Téa said quickly to which Yugi raised an eyebrow.
"Téa I've never known you to go for a run." Yugi pointed out.
"Well this is a new thing with me." Téa snapped hotly, Yugi's eyebrow went higher.
"Well, ok, anyway I called because the gang's meeting at the Games Shop this afternoon around one pm can you make it?" Yugi asked.
"Of course Yugi." Téa said cheerfully.
"Great see you at one, bye Téa." Yugi said happily hanging up walking over to sit with Mai who reclined back to rest in Yugi's arms again.
"It's done." Yugi said quietly stroking Mai's soft blond hair.
"Yugi whatever happens I love you." Mai whispered.
"I know, and whatever happens in the end the only thing I care about is if you're at my side at the end of the day." He whispered back as they waited for one pm to arrive.
Location: Motou Residence, Domino Japan Time: January 15 2005 12:50pm
Yami looked around the lounge area, Téa dressed in a black sleeveless shirt that showed her stomach and a short red skirt with a black belt stood leaning against the farthest wall from Yami glaring at him.
Yami still didn't understand why she was so angry with him and he had tried to find out why as she arrived only to be thrown a glare that told Yami clearly not to push the point in case she had a knife in the purse that sat on the floor near her feet.
Yami glanced to Serenity and Joey both chatting quietly, Serenity was dressed in a white shirt with a black skirt, while Joey was dressed in his usual attire of a white shirt under a green jacket with blue jeans, every once and a while Serenity cast a glance towards Yami and blushed making Yami confused.
Bakura dressed in a black trench coat, a white shirt and blue jeans and Kaiba also dressed in a black trench coat with a grey SK symbol on the collar over a black shirt and black pants walked over to Yami who was dressed in a black leather shirt and black pants with a blue neck collar.
"Pharaoh what are we doing here?" Bakura demanded irritably.
"Yes Motou what are we doing here, I am very busy running a company I don't have time to be at your beck and call." Kaiba growled.
"Kaiba I am as much in the dark as you are, Yugi just said he wanted us all here at 1pm, he wanted to explain something to us." Yami said making Kaiba raise an eyebrow.
"This is unusual for Yugi." He observed.
"Fer once you and me are in agreement Kaiba, Yug's been acting strange for a couple of weeks." Joey said stretching out his arms on the back of the couch.
"Yeah I noticed that to, it's been since, since New Years." Téa agreed.
"So what's wrong with my Woogie?" Rebecca wined making everyone sweat drop.
"I thought geniuses were eccentric." Yami mumbled to Kaiba.
"Geniuses are eccentric Motou, that girl is just a lunatic." Kaiba mumbled back staring at the girl he was sure that Mokuba had a crush on she was dressed in a pair of green overalls and blue shirt.
As Kaiba said that Yugi entered, all eyes were drawn to him, he smiled demurely walking over to stand in front of the TV so he could see everyone in the room, "Hi guys, thanks for coming, I have something very important I want to share with you all, I've been wanting to share this with you for a while but I've just wanted to wait for the right time but first I have to bring someone in." Yugi said walking to the door to the back alley of the Games Shop.
Yugi opened it to reveal Mai, she was dressed in a white corset under a purple jacket and purple skirt, she hesitantly walked inside as tension grew palatable in the air several pairs of eyes glared at her all for there own particular reasons.
"What da heck is she doin here Yug?" Joey growled low glaring at Mai who flinched.
"She's a lot of what I want to tell all of you, I know a lot of you were unhappy that I was friends with Mai after the Orichalcos incident but I was anyway, well we've grown close, we've grown very close." Yugi said smiling at Mai holding her hand as Solomon Motou entered the room.
"I wanted you all here today so I could tell you that we've fallen in love, I'm in love with Mai." Yugi said.
"And I'm in love with Yugi." Mai added smiling.
The response was silent disbelief from most of the people in the room, Solomon smiled proud of his grandson, he was going to ignore what Yami had told him of Mai because he trusted his grandsons judgement and if he was willing to give his heart to Mai in Solomon Motou's opinion Mai must have been a very special girl.
Meanwhile the muscles in Kaiba's face worked furiously, he walked into another room as he burst out in laughter in a very strange moment of character, it wasn't that he was angered by Yugi's choice of partners it was that from his point of view, the rest of Yugi's friends looked as if they would have been less surprised if Yugi had announced he was in love with another man then Mai, and he found that extremely amusing for some reason.
Joey walked slowly over to Yugi placing both hands on Yugi's shoulders looking into his eyes, "Yug, tell me dis is a joke right, ya couldn't be in love with her seriously man dis is a really bad joke." Joey said gripping Yugi's shoulders tightly.
Yugi pulled Joey's hands off his shoulders his eyes getting an angry look in them, "This isn't a joke Joey I've never been more serious." Yugi said heatedly Mai placing a hand on his shoulder to keep him calm as Joey stood up glaring angrily at Mai.
Joey walked straight up to Mai grabbing her by the collar of her jacket, "Yer up to something I know ya are, yer still working for da Orichalcos freak aren't ya Mai, ya in cahoots with Valon or Raphael or whoever ya still tryin ta revive da Atlantean Gods and ya luring Yugi in ta help ya, AREN'T YA MAI!" Joey yelled, Yugi threw Joey to the floor with great force and anger.
"DON'T YOU DARE TALK TO MAI LIKE THAT JOEY!" Yugi yelled furious at his best friend.
"SHE'S UP TA SOMETHING YUG SHE'S NO GOOD SHE BETRAYED US FOR DEM ORICHALCOS FREAKS AND I BET SHE'S STILL WORKING FOR DEM!" Joey yelled.
Yugi would have retorted to his friends outburst but another cut in, "WOOGIE HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME, I THOUGHT WE WERE IN LOVE HOW COULD YOU BETRAY ME WITH HER!" Rebecca yelled into Yugi's face all attention in the room now drawn to the new exchange.
Yugi sweat dropped, "Rebecca please I don't want to hurt your feelings but we were never in love, I've never been in love with you, we're friends that's it." Yugi said trying to be gentle with letting her down.
"YOU BASTARD!" Rebecca screamed slapping Yugi extremely hard across the face before storming out passed Téa.
Téa had been standing in the exact same position during both blow ups content to glare at Mai hatefully for taking her crush, as Rebecca passed both girls thought the exact same thing, 'This isn't over Mai, Yugi's mine and you'll pay for taking him away from me.' They thought as Yugi gripped his cheek sighing.
'This is not going how I wanted it.'
Next – Date's, Mate's and Fates
Author's Note: The end of another chapter, just on one subject I get the feeling at least one of you was disappointed at the way Yugi and Mai 'got together' so early in the fic, I admit that I did feel it was a little fast however if I had been writing this as if Yugi and Mai were strangers and had just started dating I would have taken it a heck of a lot slower, Until Next Story, Cya.
