Chapter 10 (I DO NOT OWN YUGIOH)

Yugi shifted in his sleep rolling over into the warmth of Atem's chest, causing Atem to hum pleasantly and wrap his arm around Yugi's waist pulling him harder against him. Yugi groaned annoyed at the movement that was waking him up from his peaceful sleep, Atem laughed deeply and nuzzled his nose in his hair completely waking Yugi from his sleep.

"Not nice." Yugi mumbled before curling in further to Atem's warm board chest.

Atem laughed, "But it is time to wake up none the less, we have an important meeting to attend." Yugi moaned again and peered up at him with one of those beautiful amethyst eyes, Atem could just drown in there cool deaths. Yugi shifted again this time so he was lying across Atem's chest, as he wrapped his arms around his neck and just laid there.

"What is it Yugi?"

"How did you know that I was planning on going after the hunters?" he finally said.

"I've always known you would, a demons very nature wouldn't allow them to be kept down like they had you for very long, it was only a matter of what would set you off." Atem's eyes softened a bit, "I only wish it didn't haft to be something as awful as what it had been." Yugi looked away as the image of Jerry's crumpled and bloody body ran threw his mind.

"I wish it didn't haft to come to that either. Truthfully I hate fighting, I would rather live my life in peace, but I can't knowing that people like Ash are out there." Yugi said and Atem watched the determined look that came into the other boys face, he smiled Yugi was a truly pure soul. He placed a finger under Yugi's chin and brought it to face him before he leaned down and kissed his partner lovingly.

"I love you." Atem said before he could stop himself he didn't regret those words, he watched Yugi's face become bright red with embarrassment before looking away. Atem was aware he wasn't going to hear those words from Yugi anytime soon but it didn't change his feelings at all. "Come on, we shouldn't keep the others waiting." Atem said abruptly and got out of bed to dress, leaving a very stunned Yugi behind.

Yugi sat there covered in the blankets still, those three words Atem had said to him with such passionate eyes, bouncing around in his head and the seen replaying over and over. Atem loved him, but how, as far as Yugi could tell there wasn't anything special about him. He wasn't particularly strong even for a daemon, he had childlike features. Yugi didn't understand it, but he knew those words thrilled his heart to know end, so he decided to stop worrying about the why and how, Atem must have a good reason for his feelings and he was content to let that be.

Yugi located the box that had his clothes in it and pulled out a dark blue shirt that had long sleeves with buckles wrapping around his arms, he pulled it on with a pair of dark jeans and his belt then followed out the tent after Atem. Atem had waited for him and when he appeared gave him a small smile before leading them through the maze of tents, Yugi looked around trying to remember which house belonged to which people, he was about to ask Atem a question when he noticed several scratched going across Atem's bicep and remembered what happened last night, making him blush.

Atem noticed Yugi's sudden blush and looked him questioningly, which made Yugi blush more and look at the ground.

"S-sorry about your arm." Yugi mumbled in embarrassment, which caused Atem to look at his arm stupidly before he remembered that Yugi had left some very noticeable marks on it, and brought to his mind the feeling of having Yugi trace his tongue along the wounds he had made, which caused a pleasant shiver throughout his body and a slight reaction in Atem's lower regain. Hoping to make his reactions to his memories go unnoticed he decided to tease Yugi a bit.

"Don't worry they don't hurt, but you should feel honored, not everybody gets to taste my blood." He whispered the last part seductively into Yugi's ear causing the younger to shudder at its hidden meanings. Yugi couldn't help but think 'good, then I can have all of you to myself.' which made a small devious smile to appear on Yugi's lips. Causing Atem to become puzzled, that wasn't the reaction he had been expecting.

"Yugi?" he asked, and Yugi's smile got a little wider.

"It's nothing, just some privet thoughts." Yugi said, knowing very well that Atem had been trying to get an embarrassed reaction from him, well two can play at that game, he thought before saying the next part quietly so only Atem could hear. "Some that are only meant to be heard in bed." Before walking ahead leaving a very stunned and a little more than slightly aroused Atem behind, before he smiled deviously and followed after Yugi. He was defiantly going to make Yugi spill those thoughts later, he would make sure of that, and if Yugi refused he had his ways.

Atem stood outside a larger tent that he used for his meetings among his ranks, he had met them hear yesterday to discuss things after Yugi had returned. "Are you ready Yugi?" Yugi nodded in replay, Atem held one of the entrance flaps open and gestured for Yugi to enter in first. Yugi swallowed a bit nervous but squared his shoulders and entered the dimly lit tent. He stopped shortly inside to see several people already there gathered around a darkly polished woodened table. Atem entered in after him and laid a hand on his shoulder than lead him over to the two empty seats around the table.

"My king, you have arrived." One of the people around the table said, as they sat down. Taking a closer look Yugi cold see that this guy was another cat demon, his hair was brown and he had piercing blue eyes along with ragged and battled scared jet black ears and tail.

"Yes, Seto we are here, and I do believe that it is time for introductions. Yugi this is Seto my cousin and one of my ranked officers, he's also Mokuba's brother." Yugi looked back at the tall cat demon, were they really brothers Yugi questioned, they were nothing alike. "Over there is my childhood friend Mahad." Atem's voice brought Yugi back to what they were saying and he quietly listened and tried to memories all of the officers names.

"I believe you all know why we are here, to put a stop to us being hunter like nothing more than animals." Atem stated and there were replies and of agreement all around them. "We may always need to hide our true sleeves in the shadows, but it's time that we stopped fearing that we cannot even walk on the surface without looking over our shoulders in fear. That's why we should be thankful we have Yugi, he comes to us with extensive knowledge of the hunters weapons and there base."

"Yes, we should be thankful, with this information we can annulated them all." Seto said and he was greeted with varying degrees of agreement, but Yugi wasn't so sure about his idea.

"Wait," Yugi spoke up hesitantly, when they all looked at him he almost said never mind but with a gentle nudge form Atem Yugi continued. "I-it's true that there are hunters that the world would be better off without, but not every hunter is unreasonable." Yugi said and an image of Ryou flashed in his mind.

"What are you saying that is absurd." Seto said, "They tried to kill us, to completely destroy our race, how can you defend them when they have done things to you and threatened your grandfather."

Yugi gripped his arm, what Seto was saying was getting more support than what he was saying; he had to make them see that not all of the hunters were evil. He took a deep breath to steady himself before speaking again. "They are not all bad, they are misguided." He pulled down his sleeve and showed his arm to the others. "It's true they have in a way tortured me, and threatened my grandfather but it's not what you think. Most of the things that were done against me were caused by a single and powerful man. The others follow because they know no difference, they were taught that we were evil creatures with no feelings, and they have nothing that could contradict them, add to that the person leading them is a man that wants to kill us all no matter what.

"When I was marked, I passed out and when I woke up I overheard some of the other hunters that were mad at what had happened to me, they had known that the magic in there marks wouldn't work against me and tried to stop it. But because of a single man that out ranked them, they had to do as ordered. I know that it may not be all of them that could be saved but if we don't at least give the ones that could be saved a chance. Then we would only be proving them right, that we are creatures with no feeling that they should fear and destroy. We would be fixing nothing, only causing a war that has been going on for far too long to become even worse." Yugi said finally, what he had said had begun to really get the others attention.

Atem looked proudly at Yugi, even though he had more than enough right to condemn everybody even associated with the hunters he hadn't. He had spared them, like someone with a truly pure heart would.