MMMG: And here is chapter 10! Posting this chapter has once again had me 'finish' this story.
Joey: Say what?
Seto: As said back in chapter 4, this is only a work on progress when the author has three or more songs that she wishes to write a story to.
MMMG: I may continue this again, or I may not. So as of right now, (01-15-2013), Song Shot is now on a Temporary Finish, or permanent finish, I don't know.
Bakura: Who cares?
Ryou: Be nice. MMMG does not own Yugioh, Sue Thomas FBEYE (TV Series), or Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfied. Enjoy!
Unwritten
Yugi Mouto couldn't stop the grin that was on his face as he entered the Federal Bureau of Investigation building. Today was the day he started his new job at the FBI.
"That's the greatest law enforcement agency we've had in years Hikari." Yugi said to the female silver dog at his side, who barked back once in response. "Never in a million years did I think that I would work for the FBI."
Why does Yugi even have a dog? Good question. Hikari is Yugi's service dog. Yugi isn't blind, no. Hikari is Yugi's hearing dog.
Yugi is deaf. Went deaf at age five thanks to his abusive parents, but he could read lips and knew how to talk thanks to some really good teachers.
I am unwritten
Can't read my mind
I'm undefined
After informing the front help who he was, Yugi got his official FBI worker badge, even Hikari got her own, along with the pair being fingerprinted, or paw printed in Hikari's case. Yugi very quickly found out that his new job wasn't as cracked up as he thought it would be.
"You are in the 'Special Project' program of the FBI." Kanekura, Yugi's instructor said as he filled Yugi in on the job details. "The Bureau receives over 22,000 sets of fingerprints every day, and no two are alike."
Yugi stifled his yawn and Hikari lay down in boredom. Kanekura didn't notice as he droned on and on.
"Now, it is your job to examine each finger print, identify it, classify it, and then route it for filling." Kanekura rambled as the interpreter in the room translated what he said while he turned to the projector screen to explain the different types of fingerprints. "Now, what you see here is a central pocket loop…"
I'm just beginning
The pen's in my hand
Ending unplanned
Yugi was never so happy to leave his new job and go home. Today had been so boring! And that's what he got to look forward to every single day for the rest of his life! Or until he changed jobs.
"Oh, 'Special Projects', what a joke!" Yugi sighed as he looked down to Hikari. "That's just a fancy term for where they put people with disabilities. Now I know why I got the job. Everyone wants me. Until they find out I'm deaf."
Yugi sighed as his thoughts turned to his grandfather. The man had raised him, along with making sure Yugi had learned to read lips and speak properly. He was full of fire, and still spouted it out every time someone spoke badly of Yugi.
"Grandpa wouldn't settle for 'Special Projects'." Yugi realized as he got his TV dinner meal ready, along with Hikari's. "Neither will I. Why does your food look better than mine?"
Hikari simply barked.
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
The next day, and using the building directory, Yugi was quickly able to discover which level and room he needed to go to. Marching into the room, Yugi discovered there was only one person there, a man who looked like him, save some differences.
'Could he be a brother I never knew about?' Yugi thought as he stopped dead in his tracks, the little speech he had prepared running away from his brain.
"Can I help you?" the man asked when he glanced up from his desk.
"Is this the Personnel Office?" Yugi asked, deciding to play it safe.
"No, they got moved up to the fifth floor a week ago." the crimson eyed man replied. "We got moved here from sixth. We're part of the surveillance team."
"Sorry to have bothered you." Yugi replied and whistled for Hikari as they left. "Well, that could have ended worse. Especially if I had given my little speech. Now I don't have to worry about feeling like an idiot."
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
At lunch, Hikari got Yugi's attention. The crimson eyed man that Yugi had met in the old personnel offices was standing next to him.
"Is this seat taken?" the man asked.
"No." Yugi replied as he shook his head. "Have a seat."
"Thanks." the man nodded and sat down. "I don't think we were introduced last time. I'm Atemu Sennen, but I preferred to be called by my middle name, Yami."
"Yugi Mouto." Yugi replied. "No nicknames as of yet."
"My curiosity is getting the better of me." Yami smiled as he looked to Hikari. "We don't get very many dogs up here."
"Hikari is a hearing dog, kind of like a seeing eye dog." Yugi explained, immediately fearing the impending down turn of the conversation. "I'm deaf."
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
"Then how do you know what…" Yami asked in mild confusion.
"I read lips." Yugi explained.
"I had no idea." Yami blinked in shock.
"Many people don't." Yugi giggled at his expression.
"I think you being able to read lips is interesting." Yami replied. "So you can look around the room and tell what everyone is saying?"
"Pretty much." Yugi nodded.
"Okay, tell me what that guy outside is saying." Yami pointed.
Yugi looked to see a tall brown hair man with piercing blue eyes sitting with a woman who also had brown hair but gentle blue eyes. After a few seconds, Yugi turned back.
"I can't repeat that." Yugi shook his head. "But I will tell you this. They have plans this weekend. I may not get out much, but I know an indecent proposal when I see one."
"Oh man, my cousin is really branching out not." Yami chuckled.
"Cousin?" Yugi gasped.
"And co-worker, who I know is happily uninvolved." Yami chuckled.
"I wouldn't have guessed that since he's taking her to Miami this weekend." Yugi agreed.
"You're good. He just asked for Friday off." Yami replied.
Yugi blushed and quickly returned his attention to his salad.
Oh, oh
I break tradition
Sometimes my tries
Are outside the lines
The next day, Yami met Yugi in the fingerprinting room. Yugi immediately agreed to leave the room with him.
"Hikari is getting buried in all of the paperwork." Yugi explained as they walked down the hall and into the office area.
"Have a seat." Yami chuckled as he gestured to a desk.
"Hey Marik, it looks like my cousin has a new friend." Seto said to a spiky white blond haired man with tanned skin.
"Not at all bad looking." Marik replied. "But I'm more interested in my Malik."
"Okay everyone, this is Yugi Mouto." Yami called everyone's attention "Before anyone asks, no. We are not related, we've already checked."
"There goes the 'Separated at Birth' theory." Marik sighed in disappointment, getting some chuckles.
"I've asked Mr. Mouto to join us today because he possesses a very unique ability, and for those of you who don't know, Yugi is deaf." Yami said and began to introduce them. "This is Marik, Seto, Bakura…"
"Hey shrimp." Bakura, spikey white hair and lightly tanned skin nodded, earning an elbow in the ribs from another white haired man.
"Ryou is the one who just elbowed his husband." Yami continued as Ryou nodded a greeting. "Malik is over there."
"Yo." Malik, platinum blond hair that lay flat greeted.
"And we are still missing…" Yami glanced around.
"Sorry I'm late!" a blond hair man came running in.
"Joey?" Yugi asked, and the blond looked up as everyone else looked at him in surprise.
We've been conditioned
To not make mistakes
But I can't live that way, no
"Hey Yugi!" Joey grinned and strode forward to give his friend a hug. "Haven't heard from you in two months."
"Maybe it has something to do with the fact that every time I try your cell phone I get a 'This phone is disconnected' message." Yugi signed.
"Oops." Joey scratched his head before signing back. "I forgot, my phone got ruined by lake water. You chase all sorts of bad guys everywhere on my job. But why are you here?"
'I'm in fingerprinting.' Yugi made a face. 'The 'Special Projects' section.'
'Ouch.' Joey agreed.
"Guessing by your interaction, you two know each other?" Yami asked.
"We went to high school together." Joey explained, talking and signing.
"Back to the subject…" Seto let hang with a glare.
"Right." Yami nodded. "Yugi, how about you tell everyone how you communicate?"
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
"Just fine, thank you." Yugi replied, provoking chuckles. "What I think he is referring to is, I read lips. I can sign to, as just demonstrated with Joey."
"Didn't know the mutt was intelligent enough for that." Seto whispered to himself.
"I would appreciate it if you didn't call my friend names, Seto." Yugi replied with a glare of his own. "Joey is more intelligent than you think."
"As you can see he is very good." Yami said at the sight of Seto's dropped jaw. "Even from some distances, I can attest to that. Gave me a demo at lunch yesterday."
"And this is Hikari." Yugi added, giving his dog a pat on the head. "She functions as my ears if I need her to."
"I think we can use him in surveillance." Yami explained. "As you have just seen, he's good. And Yugi has agreed to try and tell us what's on the Pegasus surveillance tape. He's never seen it before."
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
The film started and Yugi watched with attention.
"The guy on the left said, 'Don't you trust me'?" Yugi said as he watched. "And the guy on the right said something about, 'Nothing bigger than 20s. That's the way my boss likes it'. Left guy said, 'Tell him he can have whatever he wants'."
"Okay." Yami motioned for Ryou to stop the film. "Can you give us the whole conversation these guys are having?"
"Can you slow it down and blow it up?" Yugi asked.
Yami nodded to Ryou. Ryou clicked at his computer and zoomed in on one man's mouth, and then slowed the film down.
"You guys are good." Yugi nodded. "I think I can get it."
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
To the years where your book begins
That night, Yami stopped by Yugi's apartment to tell him that Yugi's fingerprinting career might be over. He was working to get Yugi transferred to his team, but his boss, Dartz, needed more proof. Yugi needed to transcribe at tape that Yami had brought over by morning.
When Yugi brought it in near word for word the next day, he was informed that it had been a test, a recording done by some fellow agents. The reason why is that they needed his testimony in court that afternoon to see if they could get some bad guys scrambling.
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
To the years where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
Even thought he was tried to be proven as an unreliable witness, Yugi quickly turned things around by offering the defending lawyer some Pepto-Bismol for his upset stomach because of this spicy Italian lunch. The man was so embarrassed he demanded to have a 10 minute recess right then and there.
But Yugi had done his work, the defendant was scared. And demanded a plea bargain. Due to that, Dartz had officially assigned Yugi to the surveillance task force.
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Despite a couple of downs on the case, they bagged the bag guys. After, Yugi went through Quantico, an FBI training facility in Virginia, and was officially moved from fingerprinting to surveillance.
And despite some rough parts with the team members themselves, they all became a close knit family and worked on many cases over the course of four years.
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
To the years where your book begins
Seto had dumped the brunette he had been talking with at lunch and finally asked Joey out on a date. But Yugi kept tap dancing around Yami and vice versa. The final straw came when working on a terrorist case.
The terrorist succeeded in blowing up a bomb at a mall, which had been evacuated. The man was caught, but Yami wasn't able to completely get out in time. He survived, but lost half of his lower left arm, and was paralyzed from the waist down. Yami would never be able to physically catch criminals again, but he would be able to keep signing with the advanced prosthetic hand he received.
Ryou, Malik, Joey, even Seto had been pressing Yugi to ask Yami out, or Yami to ask Yugi out. Visiting Yami in the hospital, and after making sure the man wasn't doped up on any of his meds, Yugi asked Yami if they could go on a date after he got out.
Yami replied with a kiss. If wasn't a yes, Yugi didn't know what was.
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
To the years where your book begins
So Yami and Yugi began to date, Yami returned to work, but he would stay in the surveillance van with Yugi instead of being out running down the bad guys. Although a couple of times, the two were to pose as getting coffee or having dinner together to watch the suspects.
After six months of dating, Yami proposed to Yugi, who immediately said yes. In words, and in signs. They married a year later on May 26th, the day they first met.
The rest is still unwritten
Yugi smiled as he came home one day. He had just had his yearly physical and had some good news.
Yami and Yugi had remodeled their homes so Yami could cook, something the man loved to do. And if Yugi's nose was right, they were having lasagna and garlic bread for dinner.
"Welcome home." Yami said once he saw Yugi.
"Good to be home." Yugi replied and kissed Yami's cheek. "I have some good news."
"Really?" Yami looked up.
"After dinner." Yugi replied as he went to go take a shower.
"He really knows how to torture me." Yami sighed with a glance at Hikari, who lay down with a huff. "That makes the two of us."
The rest is still unwritten
After dinner, Yugi and Yami curled up on the couch together.
"I believe you told me you have news." Yami signed to his husband.
"I did?" Yugi signed back. "I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about."
"Really?" Yami smirked and began to mercilessly tickle the younger.
"Okay! Okay!" Yugi laughed. "I'll tell you, you big meanie."
"I wouldn't be so mean if you had just told me in the first place." Yami replied.
"Point." Yugi admitted. "Anyway, you know I just had my yearly physical done. The doctor found something that will change our lives."
"Is it cancer?" Yami asked, fear crossing his face.
"No." Yugi giggled. "I told you before dinner it was good news."
"Oh." Yami cleared his throat. "Continue."
"Well, it looks like we're going to be using maternity leave in about five to six months." Yugi said, and smiled as the dots connected in Yami's head. "I'm three months pregnant."
"Well, that was defiantly worth the torturous dinner wait you put me through." Yami smiled and gave Yugi a kiss.
The rest is still unwritten
Six months later, Yugi gave birth to a healthy baby boy they named Atem. A year later, he gave birth to a girl they called Mana.
As Yugi held his new baby girl in his arms and looked at his husband holding his one year old son, Yugi smiled. He hadn't known that this is what his life would have given him when he first left his domino home, but he wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
This was his life, and what would happen next was still… unwritten.
MMMG: This story was inspired by a real woman named Susan (Sue) Thomas. She actually did work for the FBI and she really is deaf and reads lips. Oh Ra, I love stories like this.
Yugi: Does this mean we will see 'Tangled' soon?
MMMG: Yes. I finished Song Shots, and that means I can start my next story! No idea when it will be posted though. Just keep your eyes peeled in the R. Bakura x Yami Bakura section.
Yami: Please review while we try to get MMMG to start typing more chapters.