I should have the next chapter of tece done by the end of this week. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to write it, I had a bit of writers block, but it's all better now. Okay, I do not own Yugioh, enjoy!

Chapter 10

"He was a what?" Yugi asked through his tears.

"A rogue vampire, it's the lowest class of vampire that there is. They love to instill fear and pain into their victims. Ra, all the signs were there that you'd been the previous food source of a rogue vampire. It's just been so long since we've come across one, that I guess even though the signals were blaring we were just turning a blind eye, because we didn't want to believe it. I feel like a bad pureblood." Atem explained and ranted at the same time.

"Me too. How did we not notice?" Yami agreed laying his head down onto Yugi's head.

"You didn't want to." Yugi said yawning.

"Oh, shoot, we need to get food into him." Atem said looking down at Yugi yawning.

"Ra, we're making a lot of mistakes today." Yami said letting Yugi go. With no support to hold him up, Yugi simply flopped down on the pillows on the bed, falling asleep almost instantly.

"Yugi, time to wake up. Come on you need to eat." Yami was muttering.

"Yugi, if you don't want to miss your class I suggest that you get up, now." Atem said a little louder.

Yugi moaned rubbing his eyes, he was so tired. Why were they even bothering him? It couldn't have been more than five minutes that he was asleep, could it? Struggling to fight his exhaustion Yugi attempted to sit up. He got perhaps a quarter of an inch off the bedspread before he was snuggling into them again trying to get to sleep.

"No, Yugi." Yami chuckled while complaining.

Yugi felt himself be lifted and placed against someone's chest. Next minute something small was pressed against his lips. The smell of it was horrible, making Yugi turn his head away from whatever it was that they were trying to force into his mouth.

"Yeah, we know it smells awful, but you need to eat it. Just open up, chew, and swallow quickly. It'll be gone before you know it." Atem whispered in his ear.

Yugi slit his eyes open a bit and looked for the offending object. In one of the vampires' hands, was a small gummy like object. Yugi unwilling opened his mouth for it. It was shoved in his mouth, and a hand was immediately clamped over his mouth as soon as it was in. Yugi knew why as the taste of it was ten times worse than the smell, and he had the urge to spit it out.

"Chew and swallow Yugi; chew and swallow." Atem urged.

Yugi scrunched up his face in distaste as he chewed the offending food twice and swallowed it regardless of whether it was well chewed or not. He just wanted that disgusting thing out of his mouth. The hand was taken off of his mouth and Yugi immediately stuck out his tongue as he tried to wipe the taste off with his hands. It wasn't working as well as he hoped though, and the two vampires were no help as they muffled their laughter at his actions.

"Here Yugi, eat this, it should help to get rid of the taste of the blood replacer. Normally we wouldn't have to give that to you, but since we had to run to the store to get some leeks, it was necessary." Atem explained through his laughter handing Yugi a bowl of vegetable soup.

Yugi put a spoonful of the food in his mouth and found it to be rather dull, like it didn't taste right or something. Yugi looked at it questioningly before lifting another spoonful and putting it in his mouth too. The soup tasted like a regular bowl of ordinary vegetable soup. It didn't seem to have any traces of the drug at all. Not that Yugi was complaining or anything, but still, it made him curious.

Looking away from the soup, over to Atem, he realized that it must be Yami who was holding him. Atem was leaning against the foot board with such casualness that Yugi was sure he would never be able to master it. Atem locked eyes with him and raised and elegant eyebrow as if to ask what?

"The soup." Yugi said pointing to it.

"What about it?" Atem asked.

"It's normal."

"And?"

"It's normal."

"I believe he thinks we forgot something, Atem." Yami said from behind him sounding like he was grinning.

"Didn't you?" Yugi asked turning in his lap slightly.

"No Yugi, if we give it to you all the time, you'll get sick." Atem explained closing his eyes and leaning his head back slightly to rest it against the foot board.

"How?" Yugi asked curious.

"Well, say like you're used to eating only raw meat. If you tried to eat some meat that was cooked, your body would reject it. It's the same with this drug. If we give it to you all the time, your body will become accustomed to it. If we had to leave you alone for a day to do something that you couldn't come along for and had to eat only regular human food, like that bowl of soup, your body would reject it. It wouldn't be used to it anymore. So we can't give the drug to you all the time, because we don't want your body rejecting normal human food. You becoming sick wouldn't be healthy for either of us. One you'd be unwell, and two we don't receive any food for the week, so no one wins. Understand?" Yami explained as best as he could.

"Yeah, I understand." Yugi said thinking that made sense. Yugi's stomach growled interrupting just then making Yugi pick up his spoon again to eat more of his soup.

It was silent; the only sounds were Yugi's spoon occasionally clinking against the glass bowl as he lifted another spoonful of soup into his mouth. As Yugi was finishing the soup he looked over to the clock and saw that it read 9:15 am. His eyes widened when he realized that he only had 15 minutes to get ready, as it took 30 to get across town to the community college.

"What's wrong with you two!?" Yugi shouted as set down the bowl and climbed off of Yami's lap. He vaulted off the bed, and stood on his feet for about two seconds before his legs gave way sending him sprawling to the floor. Yugi was surprised that he actually hit it and wasn't caught. Looking up he saw Atem and Yami looking down at him in curious wonder.

"I wouldn't move around too much, you did lose a lot of blood." Yami said blinking at him from on top of the bed.

"Who wants to help Yugi get to his room so he can get dressed?" Yugi asked from the floor still looking up at the two.

"You mean you don't want to go to class in your star patterned pajamas?" Atem asked in fake incredulity.

"No." Yugi responded slowly like he had just thought of something.

"What'cha thinking?" Yami asked noticing Yugi's expression.

"Which one of you perverts changed me last night?" Yugi asked looking at both of them in turn with very suspicious eyes.

"Ah, actually that title belongs to your Grandpa." Atem said looking away and climbing off the bed.

"Oh, okay then." Yugi shrugged.

"Wait, he can change you but we can't?" Yami asked in what sounded like an offended tone.

"Grandpa's family, you're not." Yugi said sternly and seriously looking him dead in the eye as Atem picked him up.

"Well you're just going to have to suffer through this morning, I'm afraid as your Grandpa is sleeping." Atem said carrying Yugi back to his room and placing him on his bed.

"So, what do you want to wear?" Yami asked excitedly.

"You'd think I was a doll." Yugi muttered as his wrists fell one crossed over the other in his lap.

"If you don't decide, I'm just going to decide for you." Yami said in a sing song voice. Yugi looked over at him standing by his closest and gave a look that said really?

"Okay, the black leather tank top, with the black leather pants, steel toed boots, and leather bracelets." Yugi ran off his favorite outfit for Yami as the articles were thrown onto his bed.

"Boxers or briefs?" Atem asked from over by Yugi's dresser holding up the two types of underwear. Yugi's head snapped over to him.

"The ones I have on are fine." Yugi said smiling in sickly sweet way.

"But you wore those yesterday." Atem said wrinkling his nose and lowering the articles of clothing slightly.

"And neither of you are going to see me nude." Yugi replied still smiling in that sickly sweet way.

"Fine." Atem pouted throwing the clothes back into his drawer and shutting it.

"But I will take some socks if you don't mind?" Yugi said trying not to laugh at Atem.

Atem opened his middle drawer and pulled out a pair of socks and then walked over to sit on his bed. Yami bounced onto his bed making Yugi fall over and his face to land in his pillow. Yugi glared at Yami as he was put back into a sitting position.

"Okay, we need to get you dressed." Yami said as he started to unbutton Yugi's shirt.

"Maybe I should have just gone in my pajamas." Yugi muttered tilting his head to look up at the skylight.

"And deny us the pleasure of seeing most of your body? That's not fair." Atem whispered in his ear. Yugi jumped and looked at him, when had he gotten so close? As Yugi was staring at Atem's darkening eyes, he felt fingers ghost over his chest. This made him gasp, shiver and attempt to pull away from the feather light touches all at the same time.

"Okay, we are getting Yugi dressed not feeling him up." Yugi cried out in what could only be described as a high pitched voice.

"You sure about that?" Atem asked moving closer and whispering huskily into his ear. Yugi vigorously nodded his head, no longer trusting his voice.

"I don't know about that." Yami whispered in a sultry voice making Yugi's eyes snap down to him.

"Huh?" Yugi asked dumbly looking into Yami's half hooded eyes.

"Feeling you up sounds much more…appealing." Yami whispered flicking Yugi's nipple with his tongue. Yugi let out a breathy moan.

"Almost." Yugi barely heard Atem whisper.

Then he felt a pair of rough wet lips attach themselves to the right side of his neck, and start a pattern of sucking and licking on the skin. Yugi unconsciously leaned his head back giving him more room to work. Atem followed his lips never once leaving Yugi's neck.

While Atem was busy with his neck, Yami decided to pay proper attention to his nipples. Taking a nipple into his mouth, he was careful to make sure he didn't use his fangs as he gently bit down on it, before licking it in a soothing motion. Yami then proceeded to suck on it until it was stiff. Glancing up at Yugi, he saw the reason for why he hadn't been moaning. Yugi had stuffed one of his knuckles into his mouth and had his teeth clamped around it. Easing the hand out of his mouth, he held it down as he paid respects to his other nipple. Taking it into his mouth and giving it a hard suck, Yugi let out a very loud moan.

Atem yanked his head away from Yugi's throat as he stared incredulously at the boy. Yugi seemed quite surprised with himself too as his eyes shot open. Atem looked down at Yami, to see him grinning in triumph, as he stared up at Yugi's flushed face. Yami continued sucking on the nipple, as Atem went to place his lips against Yugi's neck again.

"Ah-em."

Yami let go of Yugi's nipple and turned to face the door. Atem looked over from the crook of Yugi's neck. Yugi let his head flop forward to look at his Grandpa, his face holding a dazed expression. Both vampires were glaring at Yugi's Grandpa, he was interrupting their fun.

"Can we help you?" Atem asked coldly.

"Well judging by all these clothes scattered on his bed, I would assume you were meant to help him get dressed, not seduce him. Or whatever you would call what you were just doing." Grandpa said looking at the two sternly seeming to be unfazed by their glares.

"We would have gotten him dressed." Yami said.

"Eventually." Atem added grinning.

"Out!" Grandpa yelled jerking his thumb out into the hallway.

Both vampires moodily slunk off the bed and went out into the hallway. Grandpa shut the door behind them, and picked up the leather pants that had fallen on the floor. Helping Yugi out of his shirt, he helped him get the leather tank top on.

"You have terrible timing." Yugi grumbled to his Grandpa as he helped to pull off his pants.

"Why?" Grandpa asked as he paused in helping Yugi to get into the new pair of pants.

"I was enjoying that." Yugi whined earning him laughs from the hallway.

"Well I just thought that maybe you would want to get to class sometime today." Grandpa said nodding to the clock as Yugi buttoned and zipped up his pants. Yugi glanced at it and balked at the time.

"9:45! Uh, I have to go! I'm going to be late!" Yugi said scrambling to get his socks and shoes on. Yugi threw on his jacket and book bag and almost flew out of his bedroom door. Atem grabbed him around his waist before he could even take two steps past them however, and swung him up onto Yami's back.

"Chill, you're not going to be late." Yami said holding still long enough for Atem to get the collar back around Yugi's neck.

"It takes 30 minutes to get there and we only have 15!" Yugi cried in a stressed out tone.

"And we are vampires; let us show you how fast we can run." Atem said grasping Yugi's chin and forcing him to look at him.

"Uh, okay." Yugi said looking away from Atem's intensive stare.

Atem nodded at Yami, and the two took off. Ten minutes later found them outside the Community College. Yugi's grip was that of an iron's clamp around Yami's neck and waist, his face was slightly green, and he was using Yami's shoulder as a pillow.

"He really doesn't look good." Atem commented looking at Yugi who didn't look as if he was giving up his perch on Yami's back anytime soon.

"Do you think food will help?" Yami asked still trying to loosen his grip slightly. To him it felt like he was trying to bend tougher steel than he had ever come across. Yugi had claimed the day before that they had grips of steel, their grips were nothing compared to his.

"Probably." Atem commented absent mindedly still looking at Yugi's green tinged face.

"Then go get some." Yami ordered annoyed.

"Fine." Atem said slightly offended by his tone. Then again he wasn't the one with steel armed human being on his back either.

"Yugi do you think you can loosen your grip?" Yami asked gently. Yugi shook his head slightly.

"Please?" Yami asked.

Yugi looked up at him through partially opened eyes, and loosened his grip a fraction of an inch. That was all Yami needed really, as he swung Yugi around to his front, in an attempt to hold him in a bridal style hold. However, as soon as Yugi was against his chest, he re-clamped down on him. Yami sighed as he stumbled back onto a bench.

"You're not letting go, are you?" Yami asked looking down at him.

Yugi shook his head. He didn't know why they thought he was going to move. He felt super dizzy and the soup he had had earlier had almost come back up on more than one occasion in the trip over. Being swung around like a backpack just now hadn't exactly helped him either. So excuse him, if he was going to keep a firm grip on the only thing that felt as if it had never moved the entire trip over.

"Ah, he moved." Atem said suddenly at his side.

"Yeah, sort of. I managed to shift him from my back to my front, that's about it though." Yami said pushing some bangs away from Yugi's face.

"Here Yugi, eat this." Atem said holding out a granola bar to him. Yugi turned his head into Yami's chest instead, ignoring the food.

"Come on Yugi, it'll help you feel better." Yami urged trying not to laugh.

"No, I already feel sick." Yugi grumbled afraid to open his mouth any wider.

"Hurry up Seto, or we're going to be-. What did you do to him now?!" Jou's voice asked erupting behind him.

"What makes you think we're always at fault?" Atem asked offended.

"Well I don't know, maybe because you're-." Jou started.

"Seth?" Yami asked in confusion.

"What?" Jou asked in shock.

"This is where you've been hiding? You've been harassing a werewolf?" Yami continued like Jou hadn't even spoke.

"Two actually." A voice that sounded similar to Seto's but was just a hair colder said.

"There you are! How dare you steal my boyfriend!" Seto's voice shouted.

"We should probably go." Atem suggested.

"Yeah." Yami agreed standing up with Yugi still in his arms.

As Yugi was carried away by Yami like he was a small child, he saw over his shoulder two Seto's and one Jou. His jaw would have dropped if he wasn't so afraid that his soup would come out and all over Yami's back. After getting over the slight shock of what he was seeing, Yugi rested his head more comfortably on Yami's shoulder, hiding his face in the crook of his neck.

"So happy you could join us, um, who are you two?" Nakajo Sensei asked as soon as they stepped into the room.

"I'm Atem Kodai, and this is Yami Sennen." Atem said introducing them both.

"And I'm to assume that this is Mr. Mutou?" Nakajo Sensei asked.

"You're assumption would be correct." Yami said shifting him a bit so his face could be seen.

"Sit, and don't ever run with a human again. As High Lords you should know better." Nakajo Sensei scolded.

"Well we've never run with a human before so how were we supposed to know it was a bad idea?" Atem defended.

"Bah, sit!" Nakajo Sensei ordered.

"You look awful Marik." Yugi heard Yami mutter. Yugi looked up at Marik and saw the bags under his eyes. He smiled a little, so Malik was really punishing him after all. He nuzzled deeper into Yami's neck to hide his enjoyment and bad memory that flashed across his mind.

"You think you can deny me? We'll see about that!"

"Yugi?" Yami whispered in his ear cautiously.

Yugi just shook his head, telling him to drop it. Yugi could almost see him sharing an uneasy look with Atem. They were probably using that link of theirs to communicate right now about ways to get him to spill his past. Unhooking his arms and legs from around Yami he slipped off of his lap and shakily walked to the back row and sat in between Rebecca and Serenity. Anzu was sitting directly in front of him. Looking up towards the front, he saw both Atem and Yami raising an eyebrow at his new seating choice.

"Are they trying to get you talk about it, Yugi?" Rebecca was suddenly whispering in his ear. Yugi nodded his head.

"I'll tell them to back off. I doubt it's going to work, but I'll tell them anyway." Rebecca tried to assure him while rubbing his back.

"Mr. Mutou, and Miss. Hawkins, anything you care to share with the rest of us?" Nakajo Sensei asked.

"No Sensei." Rebecca said smiling.

Yugi went to shake his head, but felt something coming up instead. Bolting from the room Yugi made a dash for the bathroom. As he was leaving the classroom though, he heard the Sensei tell his vampires to take him home, but not to run. They didn't need him throwing up blood next.

By the time Atem and Yami found him in the bathroom he was laying on the floor by the sink, already done rinsing out his mouth and paying tribute to the porcelain throne. Atem sighed and scooped him up off the floor. As they were leaving they passed Seto, his look alike, and Jou.

"Now what did you do?" Jou asked.

"He got sick, Jou." Seto said covering his mouth and nose with his hand.

"Oh, you have the mental case." Seth said looking down at Yugi.

"You know him?" Yami asked surprised.

"I know his history." Seth said vaguely.

"Tell us, now." Atem demanded.

"No, he needs to tell you himself." Seth said moving past him.

"Seth, how do you know of Yugi's history?" Atem asked turning around.

"It's my job to keep track of the rogue vampires, remember?" Seth said like it was obvious. Yugi saw Atem glance down at him before asking Seth one more question that Yugi wished he hadn't.

"How bad was he?"

"He was a serial killer, and he's lucky to even be alive." Seth said pointing to Yugi whose eyes were enlarged by fear.

"Tell them I didn't mean it, Yugi!"

He knew they were staring at him, he could feel it. He hated those looks though, the ones that everyone gave him when they found out what Dilan Sarugaki was. The looks of shock and pity, shock that he was so unfortunate, and pity that he had to go through something that was obviously so traumatizing. He kept his eyes shut, not wanting to see those looks. No matter how many times they begged him to open them, he kept his eyes shut.

He heard Atem sigh and felt him start to walk again. Yugi felt the sun hit his face and Atem stop abruptly. Opening his eyes in curiosity, Yugi saw Akeifa walking towards them.

I'm not back to posting like normal yet, but I'm getting there. Just wanted to keep you guys updated. It's amazing how writing something new gets the juices flowing again. I won't be posting it for a while yet though. Right, 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