Chapter Nine.

The sun had risen and yami woke startling himself at the stop to the nightmare look around the hospital room trying to calm his breathing. 'oh Ra…. This needs to stop I can't fear her anymore instead I need to act my age and live my life for yugi and the others. Oh crap marik and Seth are going to strangle me… and now that the shocks warn off…. I better start working on preparing myself to tell them… I said her terms to the deal …. Thus I'll tell them my own terms. Then I'll tell them when and why I made the deal.' Yami thought leaning back into the pillows listening to the first sounds of life.

An hour later his grandfather arrived saying that the others were waiting at home for his return saying it was lucky he woke on a Friday mean they had two whole days together before they could go to school together.

The second he walked into the the house area of the game story he was attacked but not by anyone he had expected. Mokuba Kiaba sat on top of his chest sobbing and punching yami, who also began crying and apologising to the boy who had the temperament of a Labrador puppy. Jiisans helped them up and walked them into the expanded lounge attracted to the kitchen.

"BOYS TIME TO GET UP."

With jiisans shout followed several banging noises as bakura and marik try to sabotage the others attempts to get down stairs for food.

"morning gramps." The boys coursed sitting down at the dining table, their younger lovers following with cameras laughing hard at yugi and Seth in the kitchen came out with the first batch of pancakes with Akefia and seto still cooking more.

"every morning I swear they become more dangerous and more hilarious am I right ryou?" malik chuckled sitting down.

"duh Fred… oh man hey yami mokie come over." Ryou called over.

"its pancakes yugi and Seth made them." Mokuba said pulling him to the table.

"why? I mean ii thought you lot would want an explanation or be mad…." Yami signed.

"we do cousin however as you must have forgotten today is your birthday so finally we are trying to celebrate it." Seth said with a small smile as joey fell down the stairs.

"YAM'! happy bday pal. Just don't think we're letting you out of explain dats for tamorra got it?" he said grabbing yami in a head lock noggie. "Now let's eat."

After all the pancakes were eaten Solomon had them all come into the lounge room so they could hand over the presents before yami explained afterwards the elderly man planned to take them around town so all the boys could see and navigate their way home to school and where the best parks and arcades where in comparison to the best food stores.

"with that agreement… we both had two conditions each. It was when mokie got sick she told me after chaining me to a bed that she was just going to let him die from ammonia from trying to leave… I started begging… I had long knew by then that I was going to die but I wasn't going to let you lot come to hell with me… so I bargained for a deal she would have twenty rule I had to obey or I else and vice versa. My punishment was for as you saw… hers was for me to run away or kill myself making her lose her 'toy'."

"what where your terms?" seto asked recalling he time mokie had gone to the oasis alone and got caught in a storm he managed to get home only to become sick to the point they near thought they would lose him then yami vanished for a few nights then he came back grim faced with her draped over his shoulders with medicine.

"one- never to physically touch my friends. Two- never let them know of this deal. Three- to uses me to vent her emotions rather then you guys. Four- ensure their health is kept always have enough food and heat to keep them alive. Five- only this body of mine can be used for Your sexual desires. Six- you can make my friends do anything but die or harm each other. Seven- let them live together never separated or punished in any matter. Eight- they are my persisted let them only see the light of day not my embodied night. Nine- allow them to hear reasons for my injuries so they don't rebel. Ten- I will never let them leave unless it is to benefit their health. Twelve- I will submit as a sacrifice rather than harming them come to me. Thirteen- I will never fight or run away even if they leave I won't, the only freedom I shall ever have is death. Fourteen- you will not mock or belittle me or my friends be respectfully or I will struggle. Fifteen- I will never disobey you. Sixteen- my body is only for your use I will never allow the others to touch me, I will not let them near me in anyway pushing them out of my heart. Seventeen- I will tell you every move my friends make against you and stop them if you learn of their actions then it is my fault not theirs. Eighteen- on my 19th birthday you will tell which ever friend you have chosen as my replacement they can create their own agreement with you. I won't let you wait till I'm gone let them know their fate. Nineteen- after they know my terms will continue till my death if I don't die naturally then I shall let you kill me on my 21st birthday. twenty- I will not try to break this contract with you I will let you see your marks ; never hide or try to kill myself in any way that can be considered 'painless'." Yami said trying not to look at them his eye shut with a blindfold over his empty eye socket the glass eye stored away not needing to be used around the house.

"who was…" Akefia said out loud as Seth and yugi moved to hold on to yami's shacking form.

"mokie. That's why I insisted that we get him out."

There was a few moments of semi silence broken by yamis small sobs. Once he had calmed down mokuba hugged him then handed over the first gift that they had bought after talking to yugi's and the Kiaba only living relative.

"here yami open min first." Mokie said trying to now focus fully on their new freedom and safety by celebrating both that and the birth of their courageous and kind hearted friend.

Yami nodded before opening the brightly coloured parcel nearly crying out again when he actually saw the gift. a new duel disk that his brothers had been working on to sell they were set to hit stores in a month.

"ours next, I recall you wear something like it as a kid." Malik said pulling out a flipping parcel containing synthetic leather pants, tank top and leather wrist and neck cuffs. Identical to the ones yami wore when he was 5 yrs. old. Yami ran upstairs with the clothes quickly pulling off the hospital clothes for the comfy tight fake leather ones coming back down and hugging the two.

"Oi down. That hurts." Marik laughed faking.

"ok Yam's I got you something to ya know." Joey said pushing a small package into yamis hands.

Quickly opening it he found another long lost item… his father's arm bracelet a heirloom from ancient Egypt the lupus lazuli snake weaving around his arm as if built solely for him the head encrypted with hieroglyphs for the nameless pharaoh the arm band being the only survivor of the pharaohs name. yamis name sake 'atemu'. Gently caressing the snakes head then carefully pressing down on the snakes eyes making it stick its tongue out a small iron dagger a true treasure of its time.

"that's a pharaohs band how did you come across it?" jiisans said.

"mom bought it for dad… my real one it was in Malik's family's position they were descend from tomb keepers of the nameless pharaohs tomb Malik's family saw mother pregnant with me and handed it over saying they were born thus the nameless and the priests lineage making me the pharaoh come back… dad said he would wear it till it would stay on me… I thought iit was gone…"

"mother named me after the priest her twin named atemu after the pharaoh it was the name on his armband and the only thing they found of the pharaoh after a battle with the darkness of a dragon made zorc. Actually we all were named so, Akefia bakura was the name of a thief king who zorc betrayed and tricked into reviving him. Yami seto and I got you separate gifts this is mine." Seth said smiling handing over a larger box.

Opening it to find a mobile phone with a wide screen so he could flash the scream to the teachers to see rather than speaking.

"I already talked to our teachers they said it would be fine they know they cant stop people texting in class but you don't have much of a choice." Seth said hugging his cousin briefly before moving back so his twin can hand over his gift.

"as always one gets you something new the other gets something old." He said handing out a slightly larger gift in comparison to the sleek black phone.

The gift was his old deck quickly shuffling his beloved cards smiling at their feel sensing them as if they were living noticing a few extras.

"ok ok so I added some stuff your deck was too small ok." Seto said rolling his eyes.

"our turn." Ryou chirped happily pulling out two large items.

" ryou couldn't decide who had the better gift out of the two of us so in went both." Bakura said looking out the window.

Smiling he knelt down to open the first of the two boxes the first filled with items for the cats, the second one filled with a small seed of the change of heart tree they seen it before the tree's continued like their mother but was normal exported into the main tree.

"there beautiful. Thanks." Yami typed on the phone putting another gift into practice.

"I've got another gift before yugi hands you his one yami my boy." Jiisans said

"I was an aetiologist before having father and yugi's mother. I found theses at onstage while researching the nameless pharaohs tomb. Twin puzzles I found from yugi that you inherited your fathers and I've already handed over its twin to yugi the cord snapped when we were moving them from Egypt but I believe these chains should keep then around your necks." The old man said first handing over the chains beforehand a smaller gift as well. "this was another thing I had given your father but he left it or rather it fell off after visiting one afternoon."

Tilting his head slightly he pulled off the wrapping paper nearly jumping at the sight tears leaping into his eyes. His father looked everywhere for the small yinyang phone charm.

"it was here? Ha I told him hell I told all of you I didn't steal it." Bakura said gently overcoming his shock first.

"dad looked everywhere for it… he never stopped and swore when we asked why." Yami explained gently putting it on the phone.

"well in light of the other presents my seems kindda weak…." Yugi said grinning sadly.

"nope no matter what I'm sure I'd love it." Yami smiled truthfully.

Yugi shyly pulled out the gift a school back pack, pencil case, text books, folder, lunchbox. Each bearing kuriboh with dark magician. "I got similar ones for the others blue eyes white dragon for seto blue eyes ultimate dragon for Seth, red eyed black dragon for joey… each based around you fave cards…" he explained.

"we love them I was being to wonder how we could really start school without text books now we can really study." Seth said as joey glommed yugi squealing out thankyous loud enough for both himself and yami.

"thanks you yugi. Thank you so much." Yami wrote up on the display screen.

"nah its fine. Besides were all in this together right?"

"yeah… Together forever or not at all." Yami looked over at the others who said out loud yamis text.

After they helped yami put away the gifts the plant now sitting in the window still of his bed room the cats stuff including collars put on their secondary siblings (you can't call a cat that smart pets after all). They left showing yami how the mall, park and arcade were in a 10 walking distance to both home and school. After learn that they got the last touches on school supplies so yami can join the others at school on the upcoming Monday. While they were doing that they told him about the teachers and the classes they signed him up for – ancient history, art, English, modern history. They couldn't decide what else to put him down for so they said he could decide.