Chapter 9

Dangerousgirl: SURPRISE! I decided that since I got so many reviews for the last chapter I would update now with Chapter 9. Obviously by the title you can guess what's going to happen… Yami's big reveal to Marik as well as his return!

I want to thank all of my reviewers

Shadows of Chaos61, Mic1211, Will's girl: you guys pretty much said the same thing so I would like to thank you all at the same time, and here's Marik's reaction!

Pysche: You'll find out what Mokuba said to Joey in this chapter, including Seto's first response to Joey's confession.

Ninqe: I have to agree, Yami is HOT!

Storm Dragon Girl: Thank you! I take pride in being evil! I saw your album and those pictures with Seto and Yami are CUTE! I especially liked the one with Seto carrying Yami.

Okay that's all I have to say, so on with the fic.

Disclaimer: Don't own

"Marik." Marik turned to where he heard the feeble call, "I'm in here." He answered, he saw Odion drag himself in, "What happened to you Odion?"

Odion collapsed in a chair, he looked at Marik and said "Rabid fangirls, did this to me."

"Uh, no offense or anything Odion, but you're don't exactly have the right image to have fangirls." Marik said smirking.

Odion shook his head, "Who said I had fangirls? They were Yami's."

Marik raised an eyebrow. "Yami's?" he asked skeptically.

"I swear, it was for Yami," Odion said "We were just coming back from the beauty salon, and I swear we only walked a few feet, when all of a sudden, a swarm of girls came up behind Yami, and started touching him, when Yami asked if he could help them, they screamed marry me, and glomped him, then it was a free for all as all the girls dog piled Yami, they were screaming, snarling, kicking, scratching, pulling each other's hair out. I mean even I was cringing, then I heard Yami calling for help, so I managed to dig around those girls and pull Yami out, but when I was pulling Yami out the fangirls started using their dirty tactics on me! So that's why I look so beat up."

"But where's Yami?" Marik asked.

"After I pulled him out, I told him to run," Odion answered "We started to run, but then the fangirls started to chase us, or him I should say, I guess that's why Yami started to run faster than he had ever run before, even with the dogs. I lost track of him after some turns, the last I heard of him he screamed that he'll meet me at the institution. So here I am."

"Great." Marik said "So what does he look like?"

Odion smiled broadly "I'm not telling, you have to see it for yourself." Odion got up and started to walk toward the stairs.

"Hey, where are you going?" Marik called out "Aren't you going to meet Yami?"

"Are you kidding me?" Odion said not bothering to turn around "I need to tend to these wounds, and go to the doctor to make sure those girls didn't have rabies." Odion walked up the stairs and disappeared.

"I guess I'll meet with Yami." Marik said to himself, he pushed himself from the table and started to walk to the front of the institution. "I wonder what Yami looks like?" Marik mused as walked out of the door at the front of the institution. "He must look pretty good, if he already has fangirls, I mean none of our other participants had fangirls…"

Marik was too absorbed in his thoughts about Yami, that he didn't notice the figure that came flying at him until it was too late.

WHAM!

The figure collided with Marik, sending both of them sprawling to the floor.

"Ow" Marik winced, closing his eyes in pain, as he touched the back of his head with his hand.

"Oh, I'm so sorry." Came a familiar voice

"No, that's all right," Marik said "Odion told me you were being chased by fangirls, Ya…mi" Marik opened his eyes, and looked at Yami, or so he thought.

The guy that was on top of him couldn't have been Yami, the guy was too perfect. He had soft looking hair that was flowing beautifully with the breeze, white teeth that was emphasized even more by his perfect tanned skin, and sharp crimson eyes that bore into his own.

Marik blushed realizing that he had mistaken the guy with Yami. "Sorry," he muttered "I thought you were someone else."

"What are you talking about Marik?" The guy said "Did you hit your head and forget about me?"

Marik snapped his head to the guy's voice, and he realized that it really was Yami!

"Y..Yami?!" Marik said, his eyes widening.

"Ah, I see you haven't forgotten me." Yami said smirking ruefully

Marik stared.

"Uh, I guess I should get off you." Yami said, realizing that he was still on top of Marik

"You don't have to if you don't want to." Marik blurted out, then quickly smacking his hand over his mouth, embarrassed that he actually said those words.

Yami raised an eyebrow at Marik, and smirked "It's not that I want to get off, but I want to make sure those girls can't find me."

"Ah." Marik said weakly "No wonder he already got fangirls, DAMN he's gorgeous!" Marik was actually grateful that Yami got off him, or else Yami would find out how much Marik felt about him. "Thank God I'm wearing baggy jeans!"

Yami grabbed Marik's hand and helped him get up with one tug of his hand. Marik lost his balance a little since he was unused to someone helping him up with just one tug. He stumbled into Yami, Yami quickly put his arms around Marik to keep him from knocking them both down,they were both still, as Marik was mentally screaming in his head, "Oh my God! I have to step away, but my body won't listen to me, I mean I'm pressed up against Yami, and he has his arms around me! I mean it feels so good to be against his leather outfit…..SHIT! Is he actually wearing leather?!"

Marik quickly took a small step away from Yami, in order to get a better look at Yami's body. "What do you think?" Yami asked, as Marik continued to stare at his body.

Marik cleared his throat a couple of times before he was able to croak out "It suits you very well."

Yami gave a sigh of relief "That's good, I was thinking that this outfit wasn't good, but by what it sounded like with Odion, it was either these clothes or nothing at all."

"That wouldn't have been bad either." Marik blushed as he covered his mouth again, embarrassed that he was still saying these things.

Yami gave a short laugh, "From your reaction, I have no doubt, but personally I don't think I would be here if I had nothing on, seeing as how those fangirls were determined to capture me with this outfit on already, with no clothes it only would have fueled their determination."

Marik nodded weakly "Well, how about we go inside." Marik said gesturing towards the door

"Sure." Yami said slinging an arm across Marik's shoulders. Marik stiffened as Yami's body was close to him, "Oh, God help me, if he doesn't stop doing these things, I might just take him here and NOW!"

Yami was perfectly aware what his actions were doing to Marik, he smirked thoughtfully "I just want to thank you Marik." Marik looked at him in surprise. "For what?"

"For helping me with everything." Yami said looking at Marik seriously, Marik looked away blushing, "It was nothing," he muttered "You stuck with the program, and you were bound to look like this."

"That's not true." Yami said, he put two fingers underneath Marik's chin and tilted his head toward him. "If you had not encouraged me, when you gave me my first defense lesson I know I wouldn't have lasted all these months, it was because of you that I am the way I am now. Thank you."

"Yami I…" Marik started to speak, when Yami swooped in and captured his lips. Marik's eyes widened, but then they slowly closed, they started to passionately make out, oblivious, to everything else, even to clicking noise.

"HEE HEE." Odion cackled as he took picture after picture of the couple making out. "This is so cute, OW! Stupid doctor watch what your doing!"

"I'm sorry, but you have so many bites and scratches that it's difficult." A doctor replied as he was tending to Odion's wounds. "I'm afraid that some of those girls had rabies, so you'll have to go to the hospital for awhile."

"How long?" Odion asked, continuing to take pictures.

"A few months." The doctor said, cringing

Odion stopped taking pictures, and turned to him. "A few months?!" he yelled "In a few months, Yami will be gone!"

The doctor quivered but said "I'm sorry but if you don't want to end up a rabid man, you'll have to be in the hospital for a few months."

"Fine!" Odion yelled as he turned back to continue taking pictures.

The doctor breathed a sigh of relief.

Yami and Marik both separated from each other to get a breath of air. They smiled at each other, thinking the exact same thing, "The next few months are going to be very interesting."

Five months later…

"Hey Marik!" Yami called as he walked from his closet to the open suitcases on his bed.

"Yes?" Marik answered popping his head in the room.

"Question," Yami said "Where are the clothes I had when I first came here?"

"Oh, those" Marik said "Odion had them taken and burned."

"WHAT?!" Yami said looking at Marik in horror

"Don't worry," Marik said, tossing Yami a picture, "I managed to save your picture, before he could have it burned."

Yami breathed a sigh of relief, as he caught Seto's picture, "Thanks." He stuck the photo in his pocket before continuing to pack.

There was silence in the room, as Marik stayed by the door with a sad look to his face, "Do you have to go?" he whispered softly, not looking at Yami

Yami stopped at mid-walk to his closet, his eyes softened as they looked at the lonely figure at the door. "I have to," He replied just as softly.

"Why?" Marik asked, still not looking at Yami

"Because Domino is my home," Yami said, not voicing the real reason why he wanted to go back.

"I see," Marik said as he pushed away from the door frame, "Well, I'll just let you finish packing." He walked out of the room.

Yami bit his lip, before running after Marik, he caught up with him and wrapped his arms from behind, they both stood there for a long time, before Yami whispered "Come with me."

Marik's eyes shot up and he looked at Yami behind him. "What?" He asked, thinking he heard wrong.

"Come with me." Yami repeated, "You can live with me and my Grandpa, and we can stay together."

"But what about…" Marik's voice trailed off, not wanting to finish his question, it was no doubt to Yami that Marik was asking about Seto.

"It'll be okay," Yami said, he kissed Marik softly "I promise."

Marik continued to stare at Yami, unsure of what to say.

Yami smiled, and asked again "Come with me?"

Marik stared a little while longer, then he smiled, "Yes."

"WAAAAHHHHHH, MY LITTLE BROTHER IS GOING TO LEAVE ME ALONE!!!"

Both Yami and Marik jumped at the sudden yelling, they turned back to see Odion standing behind them screaming.

"Odion," Marik said "When did you get out of the hospital?"

"DON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT!" Odion screamed "YOU'RE GOING TO BE LEAVING ME ALL ALONE!"

"IT WON'T BE BAD ODION!" Marik tried to yell over Odion's screaming "WITH ME GONE, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING YOU WANT TO THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROGRAM!" at these words Odion's screaming stopped abruptly

"Okay!" Odion said smiling, Marik and Yami sweatdropped

"So, Yami" Odion said putting an arm around Yami's shoulders, "What have you and my brother been doing while I was in the hospital? You didn't do the nasty did you?"

Yami and Marik blushed hotly, as they both answered Odion, "NO, IT HASN'T GONE THAT FAR!" "YOU SHOULDN'T BE ASKING THOSE THINGS BIG BROTHER!"

Odion laughed insanely "Just yanking your chains. Are you almost packed Yami?"

Yami nodded, "Almost, just need to take everything out of the closet and I'm finished."

Odion nodded, "Well you better go and finish then." He let go of Yami, and watched as he kissed Marik softly before heading back in his room.

"So, Marik" Odion said turning to Marik, once Yami disappeared.

"What?" Marik asked, looking at Odion.

"What have you guys been doing while I was gone?" Odion asked, smiling.

Marik shrugged "The same thing we have been doing, except minus your daily torturing."

"I see," Odion said "but you've also been doing extra things right?"

Marik blushed, "I don't know what you're talking about."

Odion laughed "I get it, but anyways how did Yami react when he first looked into the mirror."

Marik smiled, recalling the memory "Actually, he thought I gave him a trick mirror, and refused to believe that it was his reflection, so me and him went out into town, with a disguise of course, and looked into nearly every mirror, in town before he finally realized that it was indeed his reflection."

Odion laughed "Let me guess, when he realized that, he hugged you and you guys ended up making out in front of everybody."

Marik blushed even harder, confirming Odion's statement

"Well, I wish you happiness brother," Odion said

"Thank you." Marik said "I have to go pack and see if I can get an extra plane ticket."

"No need" Odion said, whipping out a ticket and handing it to Marik

Marik looked at the ticket in surprise "How did you…"

Odion shook his head and said "I had a feeling this would happen so I purchased the ticket in advance."

Marik looked gratefully at his brother "Thank you" he said as he hugged his brother.

"Your welcome," Odion said "Now go and pack so I can cry alone."

Marik smiled before he took off for his room.

Early next morning…

"HEE HEE" Odion softly cackled as he slithered into Yami's room "Here's something to remember me by Yami." He slowly got on top of Yami, and started to reach down to cover Yami's mouth and nose, but before his hands reached Yami's face, Yami's hands shot up and grabbed Odion's wrist, before flipping Odion off his bed, "Yawn, and a good morning to you too, Odion." Yami said rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

Odion looked up from the floor, "No fair Yami! You shouldn't be awake!"

Yami rolled his eyes, "You forgot to change your morning waking habits, so I had adjusting to you waking me up."

Odion pouted and started to mutter words that Yami couldn't hear.

"Hey, Yami" Marik said stepping into the room "You ready?"
Yami nodded, "Just let me get dressed and we'll be on our way to the airport."

Marik smiled and said "Come on Odion, it's your fault Yami got used to you." Marik grabbed the back of Odion's shirt and dragged him out of the room.

A couple of hours later, all three of them were getting out of the van in front of the airports doors.

Marik was busy talking with an employee about where their gate was and where to check in to notice Odion pulling Yami to the side.

"Okay, Yami" Odion said "I'm glad that you guys are together, but I swear if you ever, EVER hurt Marik, I will hunt you down to the ends of the earth, and when I catch you, I will break every single bone in your body, before I slice off your balls and make you do yourself before you die, and trust me they will never find your body, do you understand me?!"

Yami stood pale, looking at the ominous Odion "Y..yes." Yami managed to stutter out.

Odion smiled quickly "Good, you better get going, it's a four hour flight back to Japan, so you better buy a book before you leave, have fun!"
Odion scuttled away to give his brother one more hug, and exchange farewells before he hopped in the van an sped away.

Yami shook his head as he walked over to Marik, "What did my brother say to you?" Marik asked as they both walked to their gate, "Oh, just something about how well he can hunt." Yami said smiling nervously.

Marik raised his eyebrow at that statement, and was about to say something before he was interrupted by the intercom, saying that it was now time to board their plane. They both looked at each other, and grabbed their carry-on's before walking to the plane. There they settled into their seats and waited for takeoff. Marik smiled at Yami before opening a book and started reading, Yami amused himself by looking out the window and thinking "I wonder what Seto is doing right now?" Yami mused before closing his eyes and drifted asleep.

Indeed what is Seto doing? Let's see…

"NO!" Seto yelled as he turned away from the two pairs eyes that were giving him the puppy look, that's right TWO!

"Oh, come on love." Joey said as he continued to look at Seto with his version of puppy eyes. Seto's eye twitched at the word love.

"Your puppy eyes are not working," Seto said as he started to type on his laptop.

"Oh, come on big brother" Mokuba whined, turning his puppy eyes to 100

"I said, no." Seto muttered trying hard to keep his eyes on the screen, but Mokuba and Joey knew he was faltering.

"What's wrong with having just one little party?" Joey asked.

Seto turned and gave him a cold look, "Plenty," he answered "One: from what you guys described, it's not a little party, two: somebody is bound to break something, three: you want it today, which leads to four: you two have been planning this for awhile and probably already sent the invitations, without asking me, so I'm saying no just to spite you."

Mokuba sighed, realizing that it was going to take more than puppy eyes to convince his brother on this, so he decided to resort to blackmail. "Oh, big brother…" Mokuba sang out, Seto flinched and looked at Mokuba suspiciously, he wasn't sure if he liked the look in his brother's eyes. "Maybe I should just let everything out in the open, since you don't want this party." Mokuba said grinning evilly. Seto groaned, nope he definitely did not like the look in his brother's eyes. Joey looked at each other in wonder, Seto closed his eyes and knew exactly what Mokuba was talking about, it was telling Wheeler about the tape recorder, which Seto definitely did not want out in the open. Seto had to endured the last five months having to be Joey's boyfriend, and letting the mutt into his home, instead of setting his rabid relatives on him, and Mokuba was taking delight in Seto's suffering. To be honest Seto thought that Joey would never say or ask anything like that again, since the first time Joey confessed.

Flashback

"Well, um that is, well because it's just that I really don't hate you Seto." Joey said "In fact I really like you, and I'm just wondering if you feel the same way."

Seto stared at the phone in horror before he put back in his ear and said to Joey "Listen mutt, I can say this clearly and in language that even you can understand, NO. I. DO. NOT. FEEL. THE. SAME. WAY. And I never will, so do yourself a favor and NEVER ask me that again." Those were the last words that Seto said before he hanged up.

End flashback

To be honest Seto thought the mutt would never call again, but sure enough the next day at the same time, the mutt calls but doesn't ask the same thing again.

Mokuba laughed evilly inside as he watched Seto's struggling with himself. "Not only does Seto now have a boyfriend, but I have something that I can black mail him with, MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…. Good thing I perfected my laugh. I never thought that my plan would come out so well, and I owe it to the tape recorder and my phone call to Joey, even though that took some convincing."

Flashback

Mokuba grinned as he re winded the tape recorder, then he picked up the phone and dialed, the phone rang a couple of times, before it picked up "Wheeler residence, this is Joey" a voice said. "Joey," Mokuba said "It's Mokuba." "Oh, hey Mokuba,"Joey said, surprise obvious in his voice, "Uh, why are you calling me?"

Mokuba smirked "You like my brother right?" "Uh, yeah I do." Joey answered "But he told me that he doesn't feel the same way."
Mokuba smirked again then said "Well, I know that he has feeling for you too."

"Really?" Joey said, happiness in his voice "He does?"

"Really," Mokuba said, then he thought 'Can you say, revulsion, hatred, spitefulness, contempt? But you don't need to know that'

"But I thought he hated me." Joey said, confused

"No, he doesn't hate you," Mokuba reassured him "Your phone calls wore him down, and he started to have feelings for you, he just didn't want to show it."
"I don't know," Joey said unconvinced.

Mokuba frowned, he thought it would be easier to convince Joey "Just call at the regular time that you call and ask the same things, then at the end ask him to be your boyfriend, and he'll say yes."
"Are you sure?" Joey asked uncertainly

"Yes." Mokuba said firmly "But don't tell him I told you, he didn't want me to tell you."
"Okay," Joey finally said after a pause "I'll do it."

End Flashback

"Fine," was what broke Mokuba out of his thoughts, he looked at his brother who had gone back to typing with a scowl on his face and at Joey who was leaping into the air, cheering.

Mokuba broke into a smile and hugged his brother "Thank you, Seto"

"Hn" was the only reply he got, before Joey grabbed his arm and dragged him out of the room so they can tell the staff to start the decorations.

"So you sent those invitations, Mokuba." Joey asked as they watched the huge mansion was slowly transformed into something that look like what you would see in a club.

"Yup, with the plus one invitations, so there'll be even more people coming," Mokuba said, then he remembered "Hey, I noticed this one invitation that had the name Yami on it, and it sounded familiar."

"Yeah, Seto probably mentioned him to you or something," Joey said, with a glint in his eye "Yami is my favorite punching bag so I thought we can have some fun with him before school starts in a week, but I don't if he still lives here because I haven't seen him in more than a year, but I can always try."

"Yami," Mokuba muttered, then he remembered,

Flashback

"Really?" Mokuba asked "That's hardly unlike you to do that." "Well, I couldn't help but stop him because the kid was so pitiful." "So I guess you don't know who it is." Mokuba said. "No, I know who it is." Kaiba said "I've always noticed him."

"Then what's his name?"
"Yami."
End Flashback

Mokuba remembered that conversation because he had looked at his brother when he said

that name and saw a weird look on his brother's face before Seto went back to his cold self and went to his study.

"Hmm" Mokuba said thoughtfully

Meanwhile…

"Excuse me, pardon me" Solomon said as he pushed through the flood of people that was getting off the plane that his grandson and his friend were on.

"Yami!" Solomon called out looking everywhere, occasionally jumping up and down in hopes of catching a glimpse of his grandson.

He continued to look around and pushed through a particular couple before he heard "Grandpa!" Solomon looked around excitedly, "Yami? Where are you?"
"Behind you." Came the reply

Solomon turned around but didn't see anybody who resembled his grandson, he pushed past the couple again "Where?"
"Behind you" came the reply again

Solomon frowned as he looked behind him, but still didn't see anybody "I don't see you." He called out.

"Up here."

Solomon looked right up to the couple… and continued to look up until his eyes reached the ceiling "Yami? You're in heaven?"

Solomon heard a sigh, and felt his head being jerked down, and looked into crimson eyes "Right here Grandpa," the young man said, letting go of Solomon's head, the guy next to him was laughing softly.

"Yami?" Solomon said as he took in his grandson's form.

"The one and only." Yami said proudly, holding his head high.

"OH MY GOD!" Solomon said excitedly "I didn't recognize you, you look absolutely great, no better than great, you look perfect, and this must be your friend that you were talking about."
Solomon started to talk excitedly at Yami, about what's been happening while he was gone while they were retrieving their check in bags.

However, he stopped talking when he saw Yami and Marik exchange kisses, then he asked "Yami? Is this your boyfriend?"
Yami blushed and looked down "Yes," he whispered.

"Then that must mean…" Solomon said, Yami cringed waiting for his reaction

"That you broke up with Tea!"
Yami did an anime fall, while Marik looked at Yami confused, "What is he talking about?" Marik asked as Yami got up "I'll tell you later," Yami muttered.

"Well, I'm glad you broke up with her because she is really rude, she came into the shop awhile ago with a bunch of her friends." Solomon continued

"Oh, really?" Yami asked interestedly

"Yes, and they were talking really loudly and gossiping." Solomon said

"What were they saying?" Yami asked

"Well, at the time this blond guy that resembled a dog…" Solomon answered

Yami thought "Must be Joey"

"Was talking about how he's going out with somebody," Solomon said "Some guy, with the name Zet Kiba or something."
Yami's stomach lurched at the familiar name, he licked his lips slowly "Was the guy's name Seto Kaiba?" dreading the answer.

"Yeah!" Solomon said "That's right Seto Kaiba, that accent was what threw me off, but yeah, that's the one."
Marik looked at Yami worriedly "Yami?" He whispered "Are you all right?" Yami turned and gave him the saddest look he had ever seen on a human being, "Yes, I'm fine Marik." Yami answered hollowly

"Oh, by the way," Solomon said oblivious to Yami's despair "You got an invitation to Seto Kaiba's party that's tonight." He pulled out an invitation and held it up to Yami.

Yami's face perked up a bit, and took the invitation from his grandfather, he and Marik looked at each expectedly, and at the same time evil smiles came to their faces, "What do you think Marik?" Yami asked "Are you up for a party?"
Marik smiled, happy that Yami was a little happier "More than ever, Yami, let's show him exactly what he missed out one."

Dangerousgirl: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA If you guys want the next chapter up quick then you'll have to review, and depending on how many I get, depends on how fast I put up the next chapter!

Marik: And I get to do something special for Yami, right?"

Dangerousgirl: Yup, but I have to get reviews

Marik: Greedy, anyways please review so you can have the next chapter soon.