Chapter 11- Proposition

Yugi starred at Yami and Atemu, not able to believe what he had just heard his husband say. He had never thought that he would ever hear Yami say something like that under any circumstances.

Yami and Atemu quickly scrambled to get onto their feet, but ended up tripping over each other and falling back to the floor in another heap.

"This isn't working out so well." Atemu stated.

"Not the time, Atemu." Yami said.

Finally, Yami and Atemu managed to untangle themselves and get onto their feet.

By this time, Yugi had gone from shocked silent to boiling angry as he misinterpreted what Yami had really meant.

"Yugi, look. I can explain." Yami said.

"Explain? I would love to see you try to explain this one to me, Yami." Yugi said in a rather calm, controlled voice.

Atemu relaxed, thinking that Yugi really wasn't that angry at them and that this would be easily explained.

Yami, however, knew Yugi very well, and he knew that when Yugi had heard something that sounded so wrong like that and he spoke in that calm of a voice, it usually meant that he was stark-raving mad. "Yugi, listen." Yami started.

"Listen? You want me to listen after what you just said?!" Yugi exclaimed.

Yami winced.

"Yugi, clam down." Atemu said, not understanding.

"Calm down?! After what you two were plotting, you want me to calm down?!" Yugi shouted.

'Please be quiet, Atemu. Please be quiet.' Yami thought anxiously, knowing that Atemu had never had to deal with Yugi losing his temper.

"Yes, I want you to calm down. We need to talk about this." Atemu said.

"I think that I heard everything I need to hear." Yugi said.

"Yugi, please. Just give us a chance to explain. I can promise you that things are not nearly as bad as I made it sound." Yami said.

"Yami, you don't even know how bad it sounded, so I can assure that I don't know if things could possibly be any worse than what you said." Yugi said.

Yami gulped, hoping that he didn't say the wrong thing by what he was about to ask. "Um, Yugi. What do you think I meant by that statement?" Yami asked.

Atemu frowned. 'Why is Yami so jumpy?' Atemu asked himself.

"Well, from my standpoint, Yami, it sounded like you were making me out to be some kind of whore who just has children for anyone who wants one!" Yugi snapped angrily.

Yami jumped at the volume of his voice, and Atemu winced at the harshness of his tone.

'This is bad. Bad, bad, bad.' Yami thought.

'Oh, shit! He really misinterpreted this. He has the completely wrong idea.' Atemu thought frantically, seeing that they were actually in a lot of hot water at the moment.

"Yugi, I didn't mean that any way, shape, or form. You know me better than that." Yami said quickly.

"Really. I believe you just said 'Yugi, will you have sex with Atemu and have the heir for him?' What does that sound like to you?!" Yugi snapped.

"It did sound kind of bad." Atemu admitted.

"Not helping." Yami hissed.

"Well, it did sound of kind of bad and worse than things actually are." Atemu said.

"Really not helping keep me alive." Yami said.

Yugi glared at the two men. "Just what kind of scheme are you two hatching?" Yugi demanded.

"Yugi, please. If you'll just sit down and listen to us, we'll tell you everything." Yami said.

"At the moment, you're both treading on rather thin ice with me. And I'm not sure that there is a way you can explain what you meant." Yugi said.

"Ra, help me." Yami said.

"Yugi, please. Just give us the chance to explain." Atemu said.

Yugi, knowing that he wasn't any closer to understanding what Yami meant, finally decided that he needed to at least listen to what the two had to say to him. He also knew that he was letting his anger get the best of him. Yugi took a deep breath before he said, "Fine. I'll listen to what you two have to say to me." Yugi said.

Yami breathed a sigh of relief. 'At least he's trying to calm himself down.' Yami thought.

Yugi walked over and sat down in a chair while Yami and Atemu sat down on the edge of their bed, facing him.

"Okay. First off, I am really sorry for how that sounded. Believe me. I would have never said it to you like that." Yami said.

"Yami, get to the point." Yugi said.

"Okay. During the council meeting today, the council told Atemu that they thought that it was time for him to have the heir. They know that Atemu doesn't like to think of women in a sexual way, so they suggested an alternative." Yami said.

"The council came up with the idea, Yugi. They knew that you could have children because you had Mayella with Yami. They suggested that we ask you, and see if you would be willing to bear the child for me." Atemu said.

Yugi looked at each man before he said, "Who suggested that I be the one to have the child?"

"The council did, actually. They knew you could. It was just a matter of whether of not you want to." Atemu said.

"So, I'm not being forced to do this." Yugi said.

"NO!" Yami and Atemu exclaimed, shocked at the notion.

Yugi jumped.

"Yugi, I would not force something like this on anyone. It's purely your choice." Atemu said.

"Then why did you say it the way you did, Yami?" Yugi asked.

"Yugi, I didn't have a clue that you were in the room. We were just discussing how we could bring the subject up to you. We knew that it was going to be a kind of touchy subject given how serious it was. We weren't having much luck, and I just said that as a way of telling Atemu that that was not a way to tell you that." Yami assured him.

"And the council is okay with this?" Yugi asked.

"Well, since the council were the ones that brought up the idea, I'd say that they were okay with it." Atemu said.

"Okay. I sure didn't expect this." Yugi said.

"Join the club. We were both as shocked as you are." Yami said.

"Okay. Out of curiosity, how do you two feel about this?" Yugi asked.

"I'm sleeping with both of you anyway, so I really don't care." Yami said.

"Okay. We both know that, Yami. You don't have to keep saying it." Atemu said.

"Well, since you both know I don't care, I'm going to let you two discuss this alone. Bye." Yami said and left the room too quickly for the two to argue.

"He's a dead man for that one." Yugi said.

"I thought that you understood why he said what he did." Atemu said.

"I'm referring to running out like that." Yugi replied.

"Oh. Yeah. I can understand that one." Atemu said. He smirked and said, "I'll be getting him, too."

Yugi sighed and turned back to Atemu. "Since the other one has decided to run out on us, I suppose I need to ask how you feel about this." Yugi said.

Atemu sighed. "Yugi, in all honesty, it's a much better alternative to my having to bed a woman from the harem." Atemu said, not looking at Yugi.

Yugi watched Atemu, and he knew that Atemu wasn't being completely honest with him. He stood up and walked over to Atemu. "Atemu." Yugi said.

Atemu looked up and jumped back slightly when he saw that Yugi's face was only inches from his. "Y-Yugi, wh-what is it?' Atemu asked, taken slightly off guard.

"I want to know what you think of me." Yugi said.

"Um, what do you mean?" Atemu asked.

"Atemu, you wouldn't even consider asking me to have the heir because of Yami unless there was something more to it, and I would like to know what it is." Yugi said.

Atemu gulped lightly. "Well, um, I know that you're a good person, Yugi, and I know that you wouldn't try to use the fact that you were the one that had the child to try and gain access to the throne like some people would." Atemu said.

Yugi rolled his eyes before he jumped on Atemu, knocking him onto his back.

Atemu let out a yelp of surprise as he was knocked flat on his back on the bed.

Yugi held Atemu down by placing his hands over Atemu's wrists. He was also straddling Atemu's waist.

Atemu blushed lightly at this rather sexual position. "Um, Yugi, what are you doing?" Atemu asked.

"Atemu, do you realize that you're as easy to read as Yami is?" Yugi asked.

"What do you mean?' Atemu asked.

"Atemu, I've known for a while that you have some feelings for me that go deeper than me being your personal servant or your friend, and I know for a fact that it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that we both are married to Yami." Yugi said.

Atemu gulped. "You know then?" Atemu asked.

"Yes. Granted, I don't know how deep those feelings are, but I do know you have them." Yugi said.

Atemu sighed. "I guess there's no reason to drag this out then. Yugi, the truth of the matter is-" Atemu stopped. He then said, "Yugi, could you possibly let me up to talk about this?"

"All right, but I'll hurt you if you try to bolt like Yami did." Yugi said.

"I won't." Atemu assured him.

Yugi then got off of Atemu and sat down on the bed.

"Yugi, the truth is that I have fallen in love with you. At first, it was just a crush, but now, I know that it's love because I know that I love you as much as I love Yami." Atemu said.

"And you're not just saying this." Yugi said just to make sure.

"No. I'm not. That's why I was so willing to accept the idea of having the heir with you. If it was with a woman, there would be no chance that it would be out of love. This way, it would be. Besides, I've always wanted a child, and this way, it doesn't have to be with someone that I don't love." Atemu said.

"Well, your reason makes a lot of sense." Yugi said.

"I know that it's a selfish reason, Yugi, and I am really sorry about this." Atemu said.

"Atemu, it's not selfish. You've pretty much admitted that you love me, and that's not selfish." Yugi said.

"And asking you to have my child so that I don't have to bed a woman isn't?" Atemu asked.

"Maybe just a little." Yugi admitted.

"So, does this mean that you'll do it?" Atemu asked.

Yugi tapped his chin thoughtfully before he said, "No."

Atemu's hope plummeted, and he knew that he was going to have to do what he had been dreading his whole life. "I understand." Atemu said, trying to hide how much it upset him. He looked away from Yugi.

Yugi put a hand under Atemu's chin and lifted Atemu's face to look at him. "Atemu, I'm not saying no to having your child. I'm just saying not at the moment." Yugi said.

Atemu blinked in confusion. "I don't understand." Atemu said.

Yugi smiled at him. "Atemu, if you really love me like you say you do, then I'm asking that you court me properly first." Yugi said.

"So, you want to do this as courting, then marriage, and then a child." Atemu said, getting where Yugi was heading.

"I would prefer it that way." Yugi answered.

"Well, it's understandable, and I don't think that the council would have a problem with it." Atemu said.

"Good. Now, I have to kill Yami for skipping out on us the way he did." Yugi said.

Atemu laughed. He then realized something. "Yugi, I told you how I feel about you. How do you feel about me?" Atemu asked.

Yugi smiled. "Read my lips." Yugi said. He leaned forward and kissed Atemu.

Atemu was startled by this, but he quickly got over that. He wrapped his arms around Yugi and pulled Yugi closer. Atemu then ran his tongue over Yugi's bottom lip, and Yugi opened his mouth. Atemu happily slipped his tongue into Yugi's mouth and started to roam around the inside of Yugi's mouth. Yugi let out a moan at this as he fell into the kiss. Atemu stroked every inch of Yugi's mouth before he finally broke the kiss.

The two panted from the lack of air.

"I assume that you feel the same way." Atemu said,

"Yeah. I do." Yugi replied.

Atemu then pulled Yugi into another kiss.

The two were so lost in the kiss that they didn't hear the door open.

"Is this what you do when I'm not around?"

Atemu broke the kiss, and the two looked to see that Yami had returned.

"So, the chicken returns to the battlefield." Yugi said.

"Oh, knock it off. You two needed to talk." Yami said.

"You ran scared, and you know it." Atemu said.

"Okay. I ran scared. So sue me." Yami said.

"I can't. Everything you own, I gave you." Atemu said.

"So, what did you two decide?" Yami asked.

"Well, I did agree to have the heir, just not right away." Yugi said.

"Let me guess. Courting, marriage, and then child." Yami said.

"Yep." Atemu said.

"I figured as much." Yami said.

"Well, I'd rather is be that way as Atemu and I are in love with each other." Yugi said.

"Well, I'm just glad that this all worked out." Yami said.

"I suppose so." Yugi said. He got off the bed and headed for his room. "By the way, Yami." Yugi said, turning back to him.

"What?" Yami asked.

"You and I won't be making love again until after Atemu and I are married." Yugi said.

"What?! Why?!" Yami exclaimed.

Yugi smirked. "Because I can't risk getting pregnant by you alone before then." Yugi said. With an innocent smile, Yugi went into his room.

Yami's jaw dropped.

Atemu burst out laughing.

"Shut up, Atemu!" Yami snapped.

Atemu's laughter only heightened as he fell back on the bed.

Yami growled.

"Yami, that was rather funny. Your expression was priceless." Atemu said.

"How would you feel if you were cut off?" Yami asked.

"Yami, I don't have to worry about it because you're the one that could do that, and I know that you won't." Atemu said.

Yami groaned. "I walked into this one." Yami said.

"You have to admit that it's a good idea. I get why Yugi doesn't want to chance it." Atemu said.

Yami sat down on the bed. "Yeah. I get it. This is going to be painful." Yami said.

"Well, at least you won't be going back and forth between us now." Atemu said, wrapping his arms around Yami.

"I know. It'll be a lot better." Yami said. He smiled and said, "You know, I was kind of hoping that you two would end up falling for each other, and I'm glad that it happened."

"So am I." Atemu said.

"What will the council say about this?" Yami asked.

"I don't know. I'm sure that they'll be pleased since Yugi has agreed to have the baby in the end. It just won't be right now." Atemu said.

"Well, at least you won't have to bed a woman." Yami said.

"I know. I did want to have children, and I'm glad that I can have them through love now." Atemu said.


Yugi smiled as he leaned against the door. 'I spent so much time agonizing over the fact that I had fallen in love with Atemu when there was no need to. He's fallen for me.' Yugi thought.

Yugi walked over to his bed and sat down. 'I think that I'm going to be rather happy now. I'll have the two men that I love in my life, and I'll end up having children with both of them.' Yugi thought.

There was a knock on the door.

Yugi stood up and walked over to answer it.

"Hi, Yugi." Serenity said.

"Hi, Serenity. Hey there, Mayella." Yugi said, taking his daughter from her.

"I thought that I would bring her back." Serenity said.

"Thanks." Yugi said.

Serenity smiled and then rushed off.

Yugi smiled knowingly. 'I don't think she wanted Mayella around for what she and Mokuba have planned.' Yugi thought. He walked back in the room. "Well, I guess we should see what the other two are doing." Yugi said.

Yugi walked into Yami and Atemu's room to find them kissing. "At is already?" Yugi asked.

The two jumped and looked at him.

"Oh. Hi." Atemu said.

"Hey, Mayella." Yami said, taking Mayella from Yugi.

"Yugi, I was thinking that since I will be courting you now that you don't need to act as my personal servant now." Atemu said.

"But-" Yugi started.

"No buts. There's no reason now." Atemu said firmly.

"All right. I guess there's no reason to argue the point now." Yugi agreed.

"I'll tell the council tomorrow about all of this." Atemu said.


~The Following Day~

Atemu had gone to his meeting with the council. He had told Yugi and Yami not to worry about coming because there was no need for them to be there for that since he was just telling them what they had decided to do.

Once Atemu was sitting on the throne, the meeting began.

"Pharaoh, have you and Prince Yami given any thought to our suggestion about the heir?" Omar asked.

"Yes. We have given it a lot of thought, and we discussed it with Yugi. Yugi has agreed to have the heir," Atemu said.

"That is good." Shimon said.

"However, there is one little snag." Atemu said.

"What?" Seth asked, wondering what could have gone wrong.

"Yugi and I have found ourselves drawn to each other, and we decided that I would court him and marry before having the heir." Atemu said.

"You have?" Omar asked.

"Yes. The heir won't be born right away, but there will be one." Atemu said.

"Pharaoh, that is satisfactory to us." Omar said.

The rest of the council nodded in agreement.

The meeting continued.


Seth, Mariku, and Akefia walked with Atemu down the hall.

"You and Yugi?" Seth asked.

"Yes, Seth. Since we felt the same way about each other, I figured that this would be a good idea. We'll still have the heir. It just will be later." Atemu said.

"So, is he good?" Akefia asked. He ducked as Atemu made a swing at him.

"I don't act as fast as you do, Akefia, and I wouldn't' tell you in any case!" Atemu snapped.

"Calm down." Mariku said.

"Well, at least there's no concern where the harem is concerned." Seth said.

"I'm thankful that I don't have to go there." Atemu said.

"I'm sure that you can't wait to start making a baby." Akefia said.

"No comment." Atemu growled before walking off.

"You might want to watch it before he does something to make you life miserable." Seth said.

"Like what?" Akefia asked.

"Like have you so busy that you don't see either of your husbands, which means that you don't get any sex for a while." Seth replied.

"He'd never think of that." Mariku said.

"I would, and I would suggest it to him." Seth said.

"I hate you." Akefia said.

"I know." Seth replied.


Atemu entered his chambers to find that Yami and Yugi were in there with Mayella.

"how was the meeting?" Yami asked.

"Fine. The council is okay with the wait since there will be a child later." Atemu said.

"We know, and I appreciate you being willing to wait." Yugi said.

"Well, it'll be worth it." Atemu said.

The three were rather glad that things were looking up for them.


Hope you liked it. It took me a little while, but I finally got this chapter to where I liked it.

Next: Probably some courting. I'll probably have Ryou having his kids, too.

The poll will end tomorrow, so vote if you haven't.

R&R.