Red & Blue, Black & White

Summary: REWRITE. Dragon AU! Seto Kaiba is the lieutenant of the Rafter of Domino Peak, living his days in frustration after the death of his father. Not only is he second-in-command to his lifelong rival, and the only caretaker to his hatchling brother, but his attitude towards his leader has 'earned' him solo patrol duty for the next month. On one of those patrols, he comes across an odd, aggressive black dragon who comes with his own set of baggage.

Pairings: Kaiba/Jounouchi, Yugi/Anzu, Honda/Otogi, Ryou/Marik(not Yami Marik), Yami/Yami Bakura, other minor shippings will be mentioned as the story goes

Rating: M

Chapter 10: Make a Wish

"Your brother is such a bleeding heart." Bakura muttered to his mate as he saw the Shadow Forest Dragons being lead around by Otogi around the human village of Domino Peak that they were currently in. Bakura say inside their den- house and was watching through the windows. In his arms he held one of his sons, Bakari. Bakari looked as much like him as his brother Atemu looked to Yami, except his skin was tan. Perhaps it wasn't too much of a surprise considering that he had passed Bakari's egg.

It was night, a few days after Jou agreed to have the Shadow Forest Rafter integrated by the Domino Peak dragons, although there was a lot of protesters, most of them were too weary of their diamondtooths wrath to protest too much. Most of the Shadow Forest dragons were still in their dragon forms, but they were being shown the in-and-outs of how villages worked and how they were supposed to function as humans to maintain one.

"He only wants to help people, dear heart." Yami said as he sat on the edge of the bed, holding their daughter Bastet and feeding her the human formula with some kind of cup with a funnel attached. "Yugi's always had everyone's best intentions in mind."

Atemu and Kamilah, the two babies that had Yami as their dame, were asleep in a cradle-basket on the table; those two were angels. Unfortunately, the two that Bakura had been the dame for proved to be absolute nightmares and almost never slept. Bakari wasn't even hungry, all he wanted to do was pick at Bakura's tunic and make noises as if to spite his exhausted father.

Huffing, Bakura plopped himself on the bed besides his mate "Those stubborn idiots can't be modernized, they'd sooner die of starvation just like they always do." Perturbed, he rested his head on Yami's shoulder as Bakari squealed at them. "They're not going to get better by being allied with Domino Peak - they're just going to make this Rafter worse."

The tricolour haired man shifted how he was holding Bastet so he could put on arm over his stubborn mate "Have some faith dear heart." He consoled, looking down at Bastet, whose eyes were finally droopy "I trust Yugi, and I trust Jounouchi, I believe the Rafter of the Shadow can change for the better."

"How can you say that? After everything they've done to you, to our children, especially Mana." Bakura scoffed "Not to mention, your brothers too kind, and Jounouchi's fucked up once who's to say he won't lost control a second time?"

"Yugi has a kind heart - a kinder one than I would have, I have too much pride for that." Yami admitted "I knew since he was young that he would make a better Diamondtooth than me."

"Anyone could be a better diamondtooth than you, you're a little bitch." Bakura muttered, Yami simply rolled his eyes "I'm serious, you couldn't even handle life with that rebellious scrum you used to run with. It didn't take much work on my part to get on top of you either." He nuzzled his neck playfully at the suggestive comment, but his mate simply shot his shoulder up to bump against him.

"I'm serious Bakura, Yugi may not have been the first born, but he was always meant to be the leader." Yami insisted "You just want to complain."

"Damn right I want to complain. The plains are stupid. The Domino Peak Diamondtooth is a runty bleeding heart. The Shadow Forest Diamondtooth is a dumbass mutt. And being human sucks." Bakura listed off the biggest points is his very long list of complains, and he had no shortage.

His mate chuckled softly, making the center of Bakura's chest twinge "At least we're more used to it than the rest of the Shadow Forest Rafter." He tilted his head a bit to kiss the taller mans temple, which in turn made Bakura blush; said healer mentally cursed the increased human capacity for emotional depth they just didn't have as dragons.

Being a healer, ever since he was a fledgling student to the previous healer, Bakura had to take human form every now and then because he had to interact with other healers or go to Society cities in order to get the medicine and medical supplies he couldn't get on his own in his own territories, not to mention healer and lorekeeper was pretty much the only roles where one was completely required to learn how to read and write, even in a backwoods Rafter like theirs.

"Being human isn't so bad." Yami told him, Bakura scoffed automatically at that.

"Are kidding me? We're so weak and soft and fucking slow. We can barely use our element, and we can't even fly." Seeing that Bakari was finally asleep, Bakura stood up and carefully strode over to the table, where he placed his infant son in the cradle basket with Atemu and Kamiliah.

"Being human has its own advantages." The tanned man said as he mate returned to the bed, still scooting up close to his side.

"Like what? Not having to eat an entire moose to survive? Having to wear blasted clothes?" Bakura snorted, crossing his now free arms.

"We get to feel things more." Yami reminded him - as dragons, their emotional complexity was simple. Survival was always their top priority, individual survival and the survival of their species. Hunting, eating, sleeping, fighting, and caring for offspring were really the things that mattered most to any given dragon. Even mating and forming a life-long bond with said mate was a survival strategy, as it increased the likelihood of survival. In their human form, their emotions were much more complex than that, deeper, more complicated. They felt all kinds of things they either didn't feel as a dragon or felt to a much lesser extent.

"I don't need to be a human to feel things," The white-haired healer muttered, resting his cheek against Yami's head "I've been pissed off since I angrilly peeped inside of my egg."

Yami laughed softly at that and nuzzled his shoulder, which once again caused the white-haired healers face to turn red against his will, and the embarrassment just served to make him even redder. Bloody human emotions. "It's amazing your mother dealt with you so well."

"She was a healer before me, we all have the most patience of any dragon." Bakura scoffed back.

"Oh, and what happened to you then?" The tricoloured haired man teased, making his mate bump his shoulder.

"Oh shut up - is Bastet asleep yet?" Bakura asked as he looked down to their daughter. The tanned baby had her eyes closed and besides her puckered lips still smacking together a bit, she appeared asleep. Yami nodded before he got off and carefully carried the baby over to lay with her siblings "About time."

"Don't be so impatient with them Bakura, it's not like any of us have had an easy time adjusting to being awake during the day and sleeping at night." Bakura didn't reply to that as he flopped onto the bed, resting his spiky white head on the pillow.

"I don't know if I'll ever get used to this whole, human thing..." Bakura muttered as his mate lay next to him.

"You'll get used to it, I believe in you." Yami leaned over and kissed his forehead - Bakura felt his entire face go hot at the gesture, and scowled knowing he was blushing again "You're awfully cute as a human, you know."

Bakura tried to shove him, but Yami held his shoulders down laughing softly "Oh shut up you mountain fucker."

"Hmmm," Yami hummed and smirked, looking down at Bakura with playful magenta eyes, the look made the inside of Bakura's stomach knot up "you want to be the mountain then?"

Bakura tilted his head in confusion.

"Urgh," Yami muttered at his mates obvious lack of knowledge to innuendo "do you want to make love?" Seeing the confused look still swimming in his mates brown eyes, Yami corrected himself "Do you want to have sex - to mate, I mean?"

"..." Bakura looked over to their cradle basket of babies "I think we have enough for this clutch." He answered, clueless.

"Human males can't get impregnated." Yami rolled his eyes; backwoods dragons...

"Then why even mate?" Bakura snorted, crossing his arms even as his mate straddled him.

"Want me to show you why?" Yami asked softly, gently stroking the long white hair of the former underbrush, seeing the mixture of confusion and reluctance, he added "I promise it feels good."

Bakura tightened his mouth into a thin line, but then sighed loudly; might as well, it's not like they were going to be falling asleep anytime soon with their internal clocks still adjusting to being awake during light hours. "Fine..." He agreed.

The tanned man tucked some of Bakura's hair behind his ears before leaning in to kiss him deeply, Bakura closed his eyes and returned it; thankfully, kissing was something he was a little more familiar with. He felt his body tingle as Yami pulled him up until he was half sitting up, leaning back against the pillow, before moving his hands to play with the cloth that was wrapped around Bakura's waist. The feeling of the article being messed with caused him to turn even more red.

He mentally cursed the fact that he was pale skinned just as much as he cursed the human tendency for modesty.

Bakura felt teeth nibble at his lip, and when his own lips parted something wet and warm pushed into his mouth - Yami's tongue. His eyes widened slightly at the new sensation. If he were watching rather than experiencing it he might consider it gross and vulgar but it was… actually pretty hot. On instinct, he wrapped his own tongue with his and lifted his arms up to wrap over his mates neck. His eyes closed as a warm cloud of emotion seemed to sweep over his entire body.

When air was needed, Yami pulled away, Bakura opened his suddenly heavily-lidded eyes open just enough to see there was a string of saliva between them. Seeing it made him feel embarrassed but, in a good way, in a way that made his skin feel hot and his loins tighten.

"You're a natural." Yami said as he moved his lips downwards to plant multitude of light kisses and nips to the healers neck.

"Oh shut uppp." Bakura groaned the tingly sensation that seemed to verberate from his neck all the way down to his crotch. They'd mated a fair few times as dragons in order to impregnate each other during mating season, and it felt good then, but this was something else. Perhaps there was something to this human sensitivity after all.

As Yami was kissing his neck on hand moved down to undo the loincloth around his mates waist, and once it was untied he tossed it to the floor; the feeling of exposure caused Bakura's whole body to suddenly tense up "Relax dear heart." Yami whispered into his ear, then began nibbling it making Bakura groan, and lifted his pale mates legs to wrap around his waist.

Almost hastily, Yami undid his own loincloth and set it aside, now both of them were now just in their drape-over tunics. "I'll top this time." Yami said, nuzzling his neck.

"Fine." Bakura answered, his voice coming out as somewhat of a huff.

Face still buried into the side of Bakura's neck, Yami began rocking his hips dryly against his, pushing their members between them, the friction shot bolts of pleasure through them as they both hardened. "Fuck." Bakura hissed, arms clinging over Yami's neck as if for dear life.

One hand drew away from Bakura's hip and reached up to roll a nipple between the thumb and index finger, making the pink numb harden. Bakura's exhaled heavily at the new sensations. "Did you do this often before you became my mate?" Bakura asked in a breathy, but teasing tone.

"We'll talk about it later." Yami chided, squeezing the nipple slightly hard in warning, making Bakura shift where he sat. He removed his hand from the nipple and reached back down to stroke both of their members at the same time, making Bakura moan loudly enough he had to muffle the sound into Yami's shoulder as not to wake up their nearby sleeping brood.

Yami hummed loudly as they hardened and grew under his steady strokes, and stopped when precum started leaking from both. He looked down to his hand and covered his fingers in the watery fluid "This'll sting a little." He told his mate as he leaned over to kiss him again, when Bakura kissed him back he scooted back a little bit and reached down, pressing a finger against the paler mans entrance. Bakura's body stiffened at the feeling, and Yami slid his tongue back into the others mouth to distract him a bit as he inserted the first finger in slowly. Once it was fully inserted he curled it a bit.

Bakura pulled away from the kiss and shakily breathed out "That's such a weird feeling..." He said, unwrapping his arms from Yami's neck as he lay back.

"Just try to relax." His shorter mate soothed, curling the finger again, making Bakura cringe. He thrusted it a few more times before adding another finger, he increased girth made the white-haired man audibly hiss. "Shhh." Yami comforted, pecking his lips quickly.

"U-Urghh this is so much simpler when we're dragons." Bakura cringed as a third finger was added. Mating as a dragon was as simple as just mounting.

"I know, but this is nice, I promise." As if to prove a point Yami changed the angle of his fingers as he thrusted them - they hit a gland inside that made Bakura's eyes dilate and a deep moan to escape him. "Thereee we go." Yami said with a cheeky grin that made Bakura want to slap him.

He continued thrusting his fingers until Bakura's inner walls relaxed to the intrusion, he removed his fingers and spat into the same hand, palming himself with the saliva, with his free hand and grabbed his mates hip to bring him closer, who wrapped his legs over his waist in return. He pressed the tip against his entrance, which caused Bakura to breathe in tightly in anticipation, before slowly pushing inside.

"Fuckkkk." Bakura groaned painfully at the foreign intrusion, tightening his legs over Yami's waist. He whimpered quietly when the other was fully inserted, his eyes now watery against his will. Yami stopped as he waited for Bakura to adjust, noticing his discomfort right away he capture his lips again in a deep kiss.

Bakura kissed back and closed his eyes, glad he had a distraction from the pain he was feeling. Sure, mating as a dragon wasn't comfortable, but it didn't hurt like this. Perhaps it was because human males couldn't give birth like dragons could.

His body slowly began to go slack as it adjusted to his mate, Bakura brought his arms back up, one arm hooking over Yami's again, but the other simply gripped his mates shoulder. "Ready?" Yami asked, just barely pulling from Bakura's lips.

Bakura simply nodded. Yami pulled back until he was half sheathed before pushing back in, hitting that spot inside that made Bakura moan. He continued to do so slowly, until he gained rhythm and momentum.

"Oh shit-" Bakura cursed as white started flashing behind his eyes, his grip on Yami's shoulder tightened until his nails were digging into the tan skin and he was drawing blood, not that Yami seemed to notice nor care. Pressure seemed to building in his stomach from his spot being hit multiple times, until his body was shaking with his release getting closer and closer.

"Y-you're tight." Yami grunted, and began stroking Bakura's member, clumsily at first but he quickly got in tune with his thrusts, which were becoming deeper and faster with his own impending release.

Close to being overwhelmed with his hypersensitivity, Bakura hid his face into the side of his mates neck "I-I'm close." He murmured against damp skin, clinging to Yami with all of his strength.

"I love you." Yami whispered back.

Such a simple statement that he's heard many times seemed to take on a whole new depth when combined with his new emotional state and the activity they were doing, it sent Bakura absolutely careening over the edge. "Yami-" with a gasp and a shout he came in his mates hand, his body went entirely rigid while he did so, and then paradoxically went slack immediately after, his mind in a fog that just barely registered his mates thrusts becoming harder and more desperate.

"Bakura!" Yami shouted as he followed his mate into release, coming deep inside of him. Bakura was too overwhelmed to do much besides twitch and groan quietly.

Yami panted heavily, sweat rolling down his temple. Bakura's legs had dropped from his waist and his arms were basically limp over him. He looked down at Bakura's expression and couldn't help a chuckle. He slowly removed himself and flopped next to Bakura on the bed, pulling the blanket over them to cover. "I told you." He whispered, kissing his mates cheek quickly, and stroking his hair while the other collected himself.

Awareness returned to the healer, who was still a bit swamped "...Whoa." He said simply, rolling onto his side to face Yami. His face was still red, but this time it was more of a haze across his cheeks rather than all-encompassing as it was earlier.

"Great, right?" Yami inquired, stroking Bakura's white hair.

"Yeah..." Bakura said, resting an arm over Yami's waist "It's so different… But it's, pretty bloody great."

Yami nodded in agreement, before yawning. "We can work on it together to make it even better over time, but, let's get some rest dear heart."

Bakura nodded without saying a word, and even as he closed his eyes his heart was still racing, the most powerful yet comforting mist of euphoria filling his chest. "I love you." He muttered to Yami as he drifted off, and again even though he'd told Yami this thousands of time the phrase just… felt so much stronger now.

"You guys hunt alone?"

"Sometimes in pairs, but mostly alone yeah. Why, how do you guys hunt?"

"In packs." Jou explained proudly to Otogi, making the blue eyes white dragon behind them roll his eyes.

Seto followed his orders to Yugi and indeed kept close to Jou's side, even though the black dragon in all of his power and authority was still a total jabberjay. He was oddly popular with those in the Domino Peak Rafter that he'd already interacted with. Even Yugi appeared to genuinely enjoy the younger diamondtooths company.

Ryou had seen him, and he gave Seto an odd look but said nothing. Seto still wasn't sure how he was going to explain himself to Ryou, but with the silver dragon hearing about what had gone down in the Shadow Forest Rafter finally, he would probably understand things better if his Lieutenant just told him the truth, but, Seto would cross that ravine when he came to it. For now, Jou and a few of his dragons were discussing hunting methods with some of the Domino Peak dragons who were still awake this late at night.

It had been discussed between Yugi and Jou that for this winter, the members of the Shadow Forest Rafter would take refuge in the human village for the winter, in exchange they would give materials needed to expand the village, and be taught how to build and maintain. Although, it looked like because of their nocturnal leanings, they would take most of these duties at night. Already, some of the adult Shadow Forest dragons were taking guard at night in place of Domino Peak dragons, and some of the older adult dragons were taking to help around with the farming since they weren't as up to fighting and hunting as their younger counterparts.

Transforming was a sore spot for most of the Shadow Forest Rafter, even the most open minded of them opted to start out just taking their intermediate forms for now and would start taking human form once they were a bit more comfortable… or until the very last second most likely. Most of them didn't even know how to transform and had to be magically assisted by Domino Peak dragons.

All of the Shadow Forest Rafter hatchlings were transformed into humans now since it was so late into the fall, which made their parents anxious as they could hardly recognize their children because they weren't used to seeing their hatchlings as babies yet, and didn't know what they themselves looked like as humans. The only dragon chick that remained in dragon form was Shizuka, who Jou absolutely refused to let out of his sight for any reason. She was currently standing between her sires talons, looking around excitedly but staying in place.

Jou also seemed to blatantly refuse to take anything other than dragon, having not even taken intermediate form once since the alliance was first suggested. Seto hadn't talked to Jou one-on-one since the alliance became a thing, because they were always in a group.

"Why hunt in a pack, we're the biggest predator there is." Otogi pointed out.

"Because wolves hunt in a pack." Jou answered simply, as if Otogi was familiar with the sacred connection to wolves that Darkstalkers insisted on.

"But, we're not wolves…?" Otogi tilted his head slightly in confusion.

Jou waved his tail a bit and his new Lieutenant sauntered up to his side, her blue eyes glittering in glee. "Miho, why not grab a few of our dragons and we'll show this lone wolf?" He asked her kindly, an edge of mischief in his tone. "Meet us at the plains about two leagues south of here?"

"Of course diamondtooth." The purple Lieutenant answered and pushed passed Otogi, rubbing her tail under the green dragons chin flirtatiously.

Otogi seemed flustered at this, which Jou was snickering at. At first, Seto thought that the black dragon had chosen his peer for a new Lieutenant because his options of who to trust were severely limited, but he could quickly see that Miho, although a bit ditzy, had a way with dragons that was hard to describe. Perhaps it was her natural beauty? Some kind of enhanced charisma? Whatever it was, she always seemed to catch the attention of other dragons, including straight females and gay males, and bend them to her will with very little convincing.

Otogi, even with his flirting ways, had nothing compared to her charm.

Jou bent his head down and on cue, Shizuka climbed on top of his head, squeaking excitedly.

"You're taking a hatchling with you on a hunt?" Otogi inquired before Seto could, Jou merely shrugged.

"We're just watching, Miho will lead the hunt." He raised his wings "Now, we should get to those plains for this hunt."

From atop one of the outcrops of Domino Mountain, Seto and Jou stood and watched as Miho got the dragons, including Otogi, organized into a 'pack', Shizuka was now resting between her sires wings, intent on playing with one of the many spikes that protruded from his back.

"What is the point of forming a pack?" Seto asked the red eyed dragons as they watched. Miho lead the group as they stalked a group of baffalo.

"Just watch." Jou said as he lowered himself down to lay on his belly, tucking his legs under him.

The group then began to separate, forming a circle around the buffalo group, they were far enough away that with the slope of the foothills that they were one, the buffalo couldn't see any of the dragons, from the circle Miho began approaching the buffalo; once one of the whooly creatures notices her it automatically made a loud noise alerting the rest of the group which stampeded into different directions in an attempt to elude her.

And while the buffalo escaped her, it did not elude the rest of of the group that had formed a circular barrier around the entire group - two dragons each jumped on a buffalo and one would grab it from the back to slow/hold it down while the other would bite the throat. And while some buffalo escaped just because of their sheer number compared to the dragons, they had still caught about five fully grown buffalo, which would go a long way for a human winter.

Seto blinked at the display of teamwork "I see… so this way, all of you catch something, and the prey is less likely to escape. But why pair off? We're a lot bigger than a buffalo."

"We don't have buffalo in the forest, we have moose and deer." Jou explained "Those things can and will gore you with their antlers, we attack two-on-one to reduce the chance of getting stabbed." Seto nodded in understand - his own father Gozaburo had died after getting gored by a buffalo he had been hunting.

Seto sat up, wrapping his tail over his talons and he shook away that thought. The past is in the past. He looked over to see Shizuka stumble off of Jou's back, but her sire managed to catch her with his wing tip and place her carefully on the ground unharmed "What happened to your last Lieutenant?" Seto asked; he saw Jou's expression immediately drop.

"She..." Jou began sorrowfully, he untucked his talons and stretched his front legs out to rest his head on top of them "She wasn't well after the incident with Hirutani. He maimed her, he took away her ability to fly. Now - we're forest dragons, we don't fly as much as you do, but… losing something like that, it's like gouging a dragons elemental core out." He explained, closing his eyes slightly in grief "And our entire clutch was killed except for Shizuka, so anytime Mai looked at her, she was reminded of the little ones that we lost. She was like Bakura I guess, she hated what Hirutani did to us, she hated what the Rafter allowed him to get away with, she felt like she had been humiliated and hurt to the point of no return. She didn't want to be my Lieutenant anymore, she… She didn't want to be a member of the Rafter of the Shadow Forest anymore."

Seto lay down on his belly as well, tucking his talons under him as he listened intently.

"She left. She said she was done… She kept saying over and over how pathetic she was and how sorry she was, and no matter what I said I couldn't sway her, she she just walked off and disappeared…" Jou opened his eyes again, and in the crimson depth there was a heavy layer of sadness "She wasn't my mate, Kaiba, but I loved her, and now our daughter may not ever truly know her." Shizuka chirped, and Jou draped his wing over her tiny body "She was my best friend, the only guidance I had when I became alpha. And now she's gone." His glittering teeth gnashed together in despair "I just… I just hope wherever she is..." He suddenly looked up to the great expanse of sky above them, where bright stars dotted the blanket of darkness that went on beyond where the eye could see. He was entranced almost, and Seto wondered if it was because he didn't get to see much of the sky while he lived in the forest under the trees "I just hope she's okay. I hope she finds the peace she needs… The peace she deserves." He continue to gaze at the starry sky.

A star fell.

To be continued…

Authors note: So the rating has been changed to M because of sex. So, some more lore - dragons are powerful, but their human sides has its own advantages. The ability to read, write, build and use tools. And while their strength, speed, durability and elemental usage is diminished greatly (obviously) their emotional intelligence and depth skyrockets. In their human form, dragons just experience so much emotionally. This is why they tend to fall in love faster when they're in human form. Now, dragons aren't apathetic or anything, it's just that their emotional depth is simplistic because they're more focused on survival. While they can fall in love, they're carnal desires are still entirely based on having babies. This is why most dragons don't have sex outside of mating season while in dragon form, because, well, only their human selves have sex for pleasure instead of procreation. Hope that makes sense?

Okay so, the children so far (reminder that for the most part, dragon chicks surnames come from their dame, as in the dragon who passed their egg, any dragon regardless of the gender can be a dame or a sire)

Ryou Bakura and Marik Ishtar

Son: Namu Bakura.

Daughters: Malika Bakura, Amane Ishtar.

Yami Motou and Yami Bakura

Sons: (1 deceased son), Tozokuo Motou, Atemu Motou, Bakari Bakura,

Daughters: (1 deceased daughter), Mana Bakura, Kamilah Motou, Bastet Bakura