A/N: Hello, hello! I still don't have a puter of my own, but I've been typing stories out as I'm able at the library and such. So updates will still be soradic, but hopefully not /this/ soradic... My finger has healed quite nicely (even the doctor was impressed!), so that's no longer a concern; and thank you for yours.

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Atimu returned to find his aibou figeting in his chair while her played a board game with his grandfather. No doubt the old man wouldn't be able to sleep with the news his grandson had just given him.

Said grandson made a beeline for his lover as soon as he saw him. "Thanks, Atimu!" he said happily, carrying the bag off to the kitchen to find a cup.

"I understand you saved Yuugi from a rather dreadful situation," Solomon spoke.

"He saved himself," the vampire stated, not looking away from the adorable sight of his other half happily drinking away a few feet off.

"That's not what he says."

"I assisted him minutely. He did all the work."

"Ha ha! If you say so!"

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Morning came rather quickly for the trio. Yuugi, now quite groggy, stuck an arm out on the other side of the curtains closing off the room. He retracted it immediately.

It was burning. As in, a tiny flame had started, which quickly extinguished itself. "That hurt," the teen admitted, a few tears in his eyes.

"I told you that you didn't need to do that," his grandfather reminded him.

"I didn't want to leave any room for doubt."

"Are you satisfied, then, Aibou?"

He nodded.

"Well then, I have a bit of business to attend to. I'm afraid you'll have to wait here."

"Aww," the other pouted.

"You're able to go outside in the day?" Solomon asked.

"Preferably with sunglasses," Atimu replied. "But yes, I have been this way for a few millenia. I've grown quite stong against our normal weaknesses."

"I see."

"I'll return as soon as I can, Aibou."

"You better! And bring something to eat!"

"Aibou, we really need to discuss this appetite of yous." He said it jokingly, but the shorter knew just how serious he was. "Get some sleep."

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"Ah, Atimu. So good of you to come to my office and not my bedroom."

"You two love the added excitement."

"You're starting to frazzle my mutt."

"How is Jou faring?"

"He only wished to tell his little sister what was going on, and did. Even felt the need to prove it this morning."

"Hn. As did Yuugi to his grandfather."

"Well, they're really two of a kind."

"I could have told you that."

"But you didn't."

"We are not having this conversation."

"Then what conversation are we having?"

"We have on our hands two newly-turned, however smart, young men. They've probably already realized what needs to come next.

"I don't know about Yuugi, but the mutt's so far into routine he started getting ready for school this morning."

"Mm," Atimu said dismissively, still in his own thoughts. "We should probably figure out what to do about that."

"About what?"

"For a technological genius, you sure are dumb. People are going to notice they're missing."

"I suppose so. They could just be 'missing' a few days, find thier bodies in the woods or some isolated place, and we retrieve them from the morgue before anything happens to them. Humans are so vile with corpses these days."

"Oh, yes," the red-eyed vampre agreed with a smirk. "Whatever happened to the days when they just removed thier guts, stuffed them in jars, and tightly wrapped the rest of your body?"

"That, at least, they'd have a better chance of surviving."

"As newborns? Barely, if at all."

"As you say," Seth replied smugly, causing the other to roll his eyes.

"Anyhow, it's too dangerous to leave them alone in a morgue."

"One of us will have to be with them at all times."

"And by 'one of us,' you mean me."

"Of course. I have a business to run, and you're practised with all that mind crap."

"Also known as telepathy."

"Point is, you can make them think they already did the autopsy."

"I suppose that makes sense... We'll relay it to Yuugi and Jou tonight."

"They are going to /love/ this."

"Yes, but they have little choice."

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"We have to WHAT?!" the two new creatures of the night chorused together in Yuugi's room.

"It's not that bad," Seth informed them.

"We can't see our friends anymore?" Yuugi asked.

"Now, we never said that, Aibou," Atimu told him. "You'll just have to lay low for a while, especially if you chose to remain here. You can see your friends if you wish to explain your situation, however, you will have to do so carefully."

"Anythin' we can do about this morgue thing?" Jou asked.

"If you wish to simply go missing, that is possible as well. This way puts more strain on you, yes, but less on others to have a body, a funeral, so officals are not forever looking for it. The athorities as well will not think ill of anyone if they have an ironclad reason for your 'deaths.'"

"Meanin' they won't bring anyone in for a murder that didn't happen."

"Correct."

"No autopsies, right?"

"Correct. A corener's mind will be no trouble for me to invade. I can simply readjust his, and any others needed, memories so he thinks he's already taken all the steps needed for your burials."

"Are we actually getting buried?" Yuugi asked softly.

"Best case senario-no," the blue-eyed vampire cut in. "However, should something happen and our farce go too far, Atimu and I would have little trouble getting you out."

"Good to know," the blonde stated.

"Yuugi," Atimu said. "Please don't feel so worried."

"I'm sorry," the other replied. "I know you're doing this for us, but I can't help but feel something's gonna go wrong."

"I will protect you with everything I am, Aibou, have no worry. And remember the god's prediction."

Yuugi smiled, most of the doubt within him abated. "I remember."

Seth's eyes rolled. "Get a room."

Atimu smiled mischieviously. "You're in it."

"Hn. Come on, Mutt."

"See ya later, guys!"

Yuugi laughed as the two left, turning serious as he looked back at his lover. "Atimu... is there... something wrong with me?"

"As far as I'm concerned, Aibou, you're perfection. I assume you're referring to your appetite, though."

"Yeah."

"I've been thinking about it myself-"

"I know."

"Cheeky. Best case senario: Your body just needs assurance it will get nurishment as needed, which it has, and will settle down."

"Worst case? Oh, you don't know-er, sorry."

"Quite all right, Aibou. And you are right, I don't know. Your situation is unique, but know this: I will never leave you."

"I know," Yuugi said happily, snuggling into the other's embrace.

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