Here's the next chapter. Sorry that it's a little short. Next chapter should be longer.
Bold Type= Japanese
Regular Type= Egyptian
Chapter 9- Strained Relationships
The entire Egyptian court was stunned to silence at the declaration that Heba had just made.
Aknaudin was the first to regain enough sense to answer Heba. "What do you mean that Yugi's your brother? You're the only Prince of Japan." Aknaudin said matter-of-factly.
That was definitely the wrong thing to say to Heba at the moment.
"Don't try to tell me what I do and do not know! I know damn well that I have a twin brother, and I know without a doubt that this is my brother!" Heba shouted.
"Heba, please calm down." Yugi said, knowing what a violent temper could have.
Heba didn't listen.
"Heba, what are you talking about? What brother?" Atemu asked, not knowing that Heba had a brother.
Heba's eyes darkened. "You know damn well what brother I'm talking about, Atemu! My twin brother that was kidnapped from Japan ten years ago! I told you all this! How could you do this to me? How the hell could you have my brother working in this palace?" Heba shouted.
Everyone was surprised by the amount of venom that were present in Heba's words, and Atemu visibly flinched at the words, having never heard his fiancé speak to him in such a way.
"Heba, please." Yugi said again.
"What the hell kind of peace arrangement are you looking for, Pharaoh?! The marriage arrangement between Heba and Prince Atemu was supposed to bring peace between Egypt and Japan, but you stab our entire country in the back by not telling us that he was here! You've had a member of the Japanese royal family as one of your servants, or is he a slave?" Jou demanded, rage present in his eyes.
"This is unbelievable. All the times that we come here, and you never even bothered to tell us that he was alive!" Malik shouted.
Even the normally calm Ryou was angry. "This is outrageous! All of you people decided to keep something as big as this from us! You've mistreated a member of our family, and you're accusing us of lying to you about it! This has to be the biggest lie that anyone has ever said!" Ryou yelled.
"I don't think that they're lying about Yugi being a relative of theirs." Marik said quietly.
"We are so screwed." Seth said.
"Guys, please, stop this." Yugi pleaded. He wished that he had known that Heba was the one that Atemu was engaged to. He would have been prepared for this had he known, but he didn't as no one had ever told him what country Atemu's fiancé was from or what his name was.
Unfortunately, none of them wanted to listen to Yugi as caught up in their anger as they were.
'Damn it! I knew that there was a reason that Yugi seemed familiar to me the first time that I met him. I should have known that he's Sugoroku's other grandson. The one that went missing.' Aknankanon mentally cursed himself, realizing how stupid he had been. He knew that he alone was to blame as no one save for himself had ever met Yugi.
"Heba, listen to me. We didn't know that Yugi was your brother." Atemu said, hoping to reason him with.
"Don't give me that shit! He looks exactly like me! That alone should have told you that there was a familial relationship to me! What the hell were you thinking not telling me this?! You said that you loved me, but to have my brother working as a slave, a servant, or whatever the hell the role was that he played for you people was, it's clear that you never meant that!" Heba shouted.
"Damn it, Marik! I never thought that you would sink as low as to not tell me that my younger cousin was here in your palace. You're nothing but a liar and a fake!" Malik growled.
"I knew that you never gave a damn about many people, Seth, but I thought that you would at least tell me my cousin was alive! Do you have any idea what we have gone through, not knowing if he was alive or dead?!" Jou yelled.
"You don't realize what you've done, Bakura?! You could have ended our suffering if you would have just told us that Yugi was alive, but you never even told us that! I can't believe you!" Ryou screamed.
The words that they were saying were cutting much deeper than any of them thought that they would.
Atemu, Seth, Bakura, and Marik were hurt by the words, but even more hurt that their fiancés thought that they had something to do with this.
Aknankanon knew that they were treading on thin ice considering everything that they had learned, but he couldn't have them talking like that. "Enough! This is isn't helping!" Aknankanon shouted.
Heba, however, wasn't about to let the Pharaoh intimidate them. "It's not going to help your case, Pharaoh. My grandfather isn't going to happy when he learns that Yugi has been here all this time!" Heba said in what was clearly a threat.
A soft, purple glow had started to surround Heba.
Only Atemu knew what that meant, and he knew that it wasn't a good thing.
"What is that?" Aknaudin asked.
"It's Heba's magic." Atemu told them.
Every member of the Egyptian court knew that Japanese magic was much different than Egyptian magic, and they were not sure that they could stop him.
Yugi had had enough of this. "HEBA!" Yugi shouted.
This certainly caught Heba's attention.
In fact, it caught everyone's attention.
Heba turned to look at his brother and saw that Yugi looked really angry, and he also had a soft, purple slow around, signaling this his magic, too, was surfacing.
Heba, Jou, Malik, and Ryou all gulped at this. They knew that when Yugi was angry, you don't cross him, and he looked downright pissed.
"I have had it with all this pointless arguments and misinformed accusations! The Pharaoh is right. All this arguing is not helping this!" Yugi shouted.
"But Yugi-" Jou started.
"Jou, I swear that if you say one more word, I am putting that silencing spell on you and leave it on you for a month! Do you understand!" Yugi shouted.
All four jumped ay Yugi's shout. They knew that he was serious.
"Heba, get your magic under control. Honestly. I thought that you would have learned to keep your magic under control even when angry by now." Yugi said/
Heba merely grinned. "Well, you know that I was never good at control." Heba said.
Yugi narrowed his eyes. "But you always were good at jumping to unfounded conclusions."Yugi said.
It was then that Yugi sensed it.
Yugi whirled around and held out his hands, and as he did, three arrows froze in midair.
"What in the name of Ra!" Aknankanon exclaimed.
Yugi looked up. "Heba." Yugi said.
Heba threw his arm out, and three men were thrown to the ground. Rather hard.
Yugi turned to Heba. "Did you ever even try to learn how to control how much power you use?" Yugi asked.
"No. Not really." Heba replied.
"Guards!" Aknankanon shouted.
Five guards instantly ran into the room.
Aknankanon pointed to the men on the floor and said, "Arrest them for attacking us."
The guards instantly grabbed the three men and dragged them out of the throne room.
Yugi knew that there was no way that he could talk to Heba and the others with all of the others in the room. They were way too angry.
Atemu started to go toward Heba, but Yami grabbed his arm, effectively stopping him.
"Atemu, that's not a good idea. Heba's pretty angry, and I don't think that he's going to want to talk to any of us right now." Yami said.
"He's right. Right now, I don't think they're going to want to listen to anything that any of us have to say right now." Aknankanon agreed.
Yugi looked at them and said, "Pharaoh, is there somewhere that I can talk to them alone?"
"Of course. You can use the meeting room. Mahado, show them." Aknankanon said.
"We know the way." Heba said.
Yugi didn't want another argument to start, so he grabbed Heba by the wrist and said, "Let's go."
The five left the throne room.
Aknankanon turned to Yami, Atemu, Seth, Marik, and Bakura and said, "Please tell me that none of you knew that Yugi was the Prince of Japan."
"Father, not one of us knew. I assure you of that." Atemu said.
"Did Yugi never mention it?" Amara asked.
"No, Mother. He never even alluded to the fact." Yami said.
Aknankanon sighed as he rubbed his forehead. "All I know is that Yugi is, apparently, Heba's missing brother, and we have just gotten ourselves in a load of trouble." Aknankanon said.
"What can they do?" Atemu asked.
"Given that Yugi is a Prince of Japan and was working as first a slave and then a servant in the palace, Sugoroku could declare war on us if he wants. That will be considered an act against Japan." Aknankanon said.
Bakura gulped. "Do you mean that the engagements could be broken, too?" Bakura asked.
"Yes. If they want, they can do that. I'm afraid that Yugi being Heba's missing brother is going to bring a great deal of trouble now." Aknankanon said.
"Brother, did you know about Yugi?" Aknankanon asked.
"I saw Yugi when he was five years old. I never went back to Japan until Heba was ten. By then, Yugi had gone missing. I felt that Yugi was familiar, but I didn't know why, and I didn't really think on it further." Aknankanon said.
"We are in a great deal of trouble now." Atemu said.
"Yes, we are. I don't know how we're going to solve this one." Aknankanon said.
Heba led his family into the meeting room, and the door was shut behind them.
"I cannot believe that they did this to us! They had no right to lie to us like this!" Jou exclaimed.
"I know. I didn't think that this would have happened to us." Malik said.
"To think that they all said that they loved us. That was a complete and total lie." Heba said.
"I think that we're going to have to forget them." Ryou said.
"Guys, wait. Before you start planning to break the engagements, I think that you should listen to what I have to say." Yugi said.
"Yugi, you have been working in the Egyptian palace. The Pharaoh knew who you were, and he still let this happen. You don't need to defend them." Heba said.
"Heba, shut up and listen to me. There is a lot that I need to say, and you need to hear it before you go jumping down their throats." Yugi said.
"Fine. We'll listen. But that doesn't necessarily mean that we'll change how we feel about them just because we know the truth." Heba said.
"Just listen. They didn't ever knew who I was. Any of them. The didn't know." Yugi said.
"Yugi, you're in Egypt. This is their fault." Heba declared.
"No, it's not. Heba, someone kidnapped me from the palace when we were ten. I don't know who, but I do know I was kidnapped. I wound up in Egypt. A child thief found me as a captive and saved me. I couldn't speak or understand Egyptian at the time, so there was no way to communicate that I was a Prince of Japan. I had no way no do that." Yugi said.
"But you've been in the Japanese palace." Jou protested.
Yugi sighed. "Jou, I have only been in the palace a little over eight months. Atemu returned to Egypt about a month and a half after I got there. They never knew who I was. I never told them." Yugi said.
"Why didn't you tell them?" Heba asked.
"Heba, I didn't think that they would believe me. I decided just to deal with it. Look. I dealt with what happened to me, and I adjusted. The truth is that it took a lot to readjust to life in a palace, even if I was a servant. Don't ruin your relationships with Atemu, Seth, Marik, and Bakura because of this. I know that you love them, so don't lose that." Yugi said.
The four looked at each other, thinking about what happened in the throne room.
Heba looked back and said, "I guess we did go a little overboard."
Yugi smiled at them. "It's okay. We need to let them know this, though." He sighed before adding, "I'm going to have to explain things to them, too. I don't think that Yami is going to happy that I didn't tell him."
"Why is it just Yami you're worried about?"Malik asked.
"Well-" Yugi trailed off.
Something clicked in Heba's mind. "Yugi, are you Yami's personal servant, the one that he's in a relationship with?" Heba asked.
Yugi nodded.
"I'm killing him! Seth and the others told us that he was sleeping with this servant!" Jou shouted.
"Guys." Yugi said.
"I can't believe this. He's a dead man." Malik said.
"Guys." Yugi said again.
"I can't believe that he raped my brother." Heba growled.
"Listen! I had sex with Yami because I wanted to, and quite honestly, I will probably have se x with him again." Yugi said loudly.
All four jumped.
"Do you mean to say that you love him?" Heba asked.
Yugi's eyes narrowed on them. "Yes, I do. I didn't sleep with him until we had been together several months. It was willing. For both of us." Yugi said.
"Okay. I think that we have a lot that we have to apologize for." Heba said.
Yugi smiled.
IN the next instant, the wall blasted in, and all five were throne back and knocked to the ground.
They were all unconscious.
The explosion was heard in the throne room.
"What was that?!" Amara exclaimed.
Everyone ran from the throne room and found that the outside wall had been blown in.
"Heba!" Atemu exclaimed.
"Jou!" Seth shouted.
"Ryou!" Bakura screamed.
"Malik!" Marik yelled.
All four ran over to where their fiancés were on the ground.
Yami scanned the room and said, "Yugi's missing!"
"Not again!" Heba exclaimed, sitting up and rubbing his head.
Jou looked angry. "When I get my hands on the person that did this, I swear that I am going to kill them!" Jou shouted.
"What do you mean again?" Seth asked.
"Before the wall exploded, Yugi told us that he had been kidnapped and brought to Egypt ten years ago when he went missing. It's happened again." Heba said.
Aknankanon tensed. "The only reason that a person would bring him to Egypt is if the kidnapper was from Egypt." Aknankanon said.
"We have to find him." Heba said.
"We will. How we do that is the question." Karim said.
Yugi slowly came to and could hear voices.
"Why didn't you just kill him?!" a female voice shrieked.
"We had to bring him here. We would have been caught otherwise." a male said.
"Then let's kill him now." the female said.
Yugi stood and said, "No, you won't."
"Like you can do anything, bastard! I would already be with my Atemu if it wasn't for you!" the girl shouted.
Yugi's eyes darkened. "He's engaged, and you don't know who you're messing with." Yugi said.
A soft, purple glow started to surround Yugi.
The five people in the room grew scared.
"What are you?" the noble asked.
"I am a very pissed off Prince of Japan." Yugi said. He narrowed his eyes and said, "One that doesn't appreciate what you've done to Egypt and Japan."
All five wondered what they had gotten themselves into.
Hope you liked it.
Next chapter has the others coming to help Yugi. Yugi gives out some revenge, too.
R&R.