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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart." - Helen Keller.
Chapter Thirteen : Families and Dates.
"Ishigami Atemu? Isn't that flashy photographer that's always on those fashion magazines?"
"Yes grandpa, that's him," Yuugi placed the board games in the correct place and turned back to his grandfather. "We've been talking for about a few weeks now."
"And you're just telling me now?" Sugoroku Motou looked slightly offended and hurt. "I'm disappointed…"
Yuugi chuckled at the puppy dog look his grandfather was sporting, something that he used on occasion for his advantage.
"I didn't want to tell you yet because I didn't know how it was going to go." Yuugi admitted honestly. "I don't want to bring anyone in our lives just have them leave months later."
He offered Atemu the chance to sleep over after dinner the other night, but man politely declined saying that he had to get up extremely early for a shoot, and that he didn't want to disturb him when he got up.
Yuugi had spent the remainder of the night twisting and turning in bed thinking about their conversation and the upcoming date.
Atemu insisted that he pick the location this time, seeing as he really didn't give Yuugi a choice last time, but the problem was that he had no idea where to go.
"Well," Sugoroku wiped down the counter. "I would like to meet him, you can bring him over for dinner on Saturday."
"We have a date on Saturday, Grandpa…-"
"Non-sense!" Yuugi shrank back when his grandfather gave him a stern look. "You will bring Atemu over on Saturday, I want to meet him."
"But Grandpa…-"
"No buts!"
Yuugi groaned and gently slapped his forehead, he hated it when his grandfather got his mind set on something. He could tell his grandpa that they had been waiting three long weeks for the date, but then he would be just making him feel guilty.
"Yuugi?"
"Can it be Sunday, Grandpa?" Yuugi walked over to the check out counter and grabbed his grandfather's aged hands in his. "I promise I'll bring him then."
Similar amethyst eyes narrowed before their owner sighed. "Very well, Sunday, and I want no excuses about something coming up at the last minute, you hear?"
"Yes, Grandpa!"
"Good, now you promised me that you finish this shift with me, sales are increasing because of the holidays…."
Yuugi watched with amusement as his grandfather rattled off what was needed and what they had too much of. He just hoped dinner on Sunday was going to pass without Grandpa interrogating Atemu about everything from his birth place to his favorite color.
Maybe if he knocked himself out he could miss the date and that Sunday dinner.
"Be good while I'm away,"
Honda rolled his eyes at the teasing tone in Otogi's voice. "L.A. is full of temptations and you're telling me to behave?"
"I have my urges under complete control." Otogi remarked dryly. "The full of curves of women or strong muscles of the men shall not tempt me."
Honda snorted at how solemn his friend sounded. "Put it that on paper and I'll believe you,"
To Honda's shock, Otogi pulled out a small slip paper and silently handed it to him. Honda gave his friend a curious look before reading what was on the paper.
To Hiroto Honda,
I, Ryuuji Otogi, shall not touch, kiss or have sexual intercourse with any man or women during my five month stay in Los Angeles, California. In return, I ask for two dates with Hiroto Honda if he is willing.
Sincerely,
Ryuuji Otogi.
Honda chuckled warmly at the paper and nodded his head. "Of course, you have to get something in return for five months of celibacy."
"I hope so," Otogi tapped the letter in his hands gently. "I don't want a case of blue balls for nothing."
"You know," Honda drawled with a smirk. "there are other ways to…-"
"Don't be a smartass, Honda." Otogi deadpanned, valiantly ignoring his friends light laughter.
"I'm sorry."
"Sure you are,"
Honda wrapped his arms around Otogi. "No really, I'm sorry, I shouldn't be laughing at you. I know it's going to be a long five months for you."
Otogi grumbled and returned the embrace. "Damn right, I should make it three dates."
"Okay," Honda murmured into Otogi's shoulder. "we can go on three dates if you want."
Otogi pulled back and gave his friend an incredulous stare. "You'll go on three dates with me? Seriously?"
"Seriously-"
All passengers of Flight 754 from Domino City, Japan to Los Angeles, California, please board.
Otogi gave Honda a weak grin as he pulled away and picked up his luggage. "I guess it's time for me to go."
Everything inside Honda was screaming at him to tell Otogi to stay here with him and not go to America, but he merely gave his friend a weak grin of his own.
"Yeah, I guess it is." Honda lowered his gaze to the floor of the airport. "You'll call once you land right?"
"Definitely."
Honda frowned thoughtfully when Otogi made no move to leave towards his plane. "Otogi? Are you okay.."
Otogi moved forward and pressed his mouth against Honda's for a second before quickly pulling away before his friend could react.
"I'll call when I land."
Honda helplessly watched as Otogi ran for his gate before he could say anything, he placed his fingers against his lips and shuddered when he realized that he could still feel the older man's soft, yet firm lips against his own.
Yeah, they would definitely have to talk when Otogi landed. The man had a lot to answer for after all.
Jou always thought that Mokuba was more aware to what was going around him than people gave him credit for.
Just because he was constantly studying and hanging out with his friends didn't mean he didn't know what was going on in his big brother's life.
The question the younger man just asked him was proof of that.
"Marriage? Did you just ask me when I was going to get hitched to your older brother?"
Mokuba Kaiba shrugged his shoulders and regarded his brother's lover calmly. "That's exactly what I asked."
"What's wrong with our relationship now?"
Mokuba picked at the chocolate chip cookies on his plate. "You two have been together for six years now, Jou. Don't you think it's time for you to get married?"
"People are together for twenty years and they still don't get married, Mokuba."
"You have a point, but you're not like that are you?" Mokuba's gray-blue eyes met his curiously. "You don't want to get married to my brother?"
"I didn't say that…-"
"Then why don't you?"
"It's not that easy, Mokuba." Jou dropped his eyes to the table. "I don't even know if Seto even wants to get married."
"Of course he does," Mokuba drawled with amusement. "I asked him myself."
Jou narrowed his eyes at Mokuba. "He did, did he?"
Jou knew that there were some things that Seto trusted Mokuba with and some things that he trusted him with more than Mokuba, but telling his little brother he wanted to get married when there was a hundred percent chance that Mokuba was going to spill his guts about it?
It would be a cold day in hell before Seto told anyone that he wanted to get married, he would handle the whole thing himself because it would be too important for anyone else to handle.
"Of course he did!" Mokuba shifted under Jou's gaze. "Why would I lie?"
"I don't know why would you lie about something like this?"
"If it was lie then it would be a good lie,"
Jou snorted and gave the younger man an amused look. "I didn't know there were good lies."
Mokuba flushed lightly. "They are called "lies for the better good.""
Jou stood from the table and ruffled Mokuba's hair. "Nice try buddy."
Mokuba practically deflated at that. "Is it wrong that I want you as my brother too?"
Jou gave Mokuba a confused look at the whispered statement. He wrapped an arm around Mokuba's shoulders.
"I thought we were already brothers, Mokuba. What makes you think we weren't?"
"We're brothers in a practical sense, Jou." Mokuba nudged Jou in the ribs lightly. "It'll be nice to be brothers-in-law."
"Don't you think that's a little selfish, Mokuba?" Jou asked. "just a little bit?"
"No," Mokuba replied without a hint of shame. "What's wrong with wanting something for your family? And something for myself wouldn't hurt either."
"You want me to marry Seto purely for the sake of you calling me your brother-in-law." Jou chuckled. "That's not selfish?"
"No," Mokuba repeated, rising from his chair. "and I'm going to make sure that the both of you get hitched by the middle of next year."
Jou blinked slowly and tilted his head to the left. "That's an awfully specific time of year…"
"Spring time is perfect for a wedding, Jou." Mokuba tossed him a grin as he left the kitchen. "the time of rebirth."
Jou rolled his eyes heaven ward as Mokuba walked away, until the younger man brought it up, marriage was the furthest thing from his mind. He enjoyed how his relationship with Seto was going; the last six years that they were together had passed with a blink of an eye.
He wondered if Seto did want to get married?
"Great," Jou breathed to himself. "This whole thing has got me paranoid, thanks a lot Mokuba…"
"I should have brought you something this time," Yuugi chuckled and took the bouquet of red and white roses from Atemu's hands.
Atemu grinned and stepped into his apartment, even wearing casual clothing Atemu managed to impress him wearing only a black cashmere sweater and designer jeans.
"I like spoiling you," Atemu said, bending down when Yuki came rushing towards him. "where are we going?"
"Nowhere,"
Atemu raised an eyebrow. "You've changed your mind?"
Yuugi chuckled and waved his hand towards the coffee table consisting of popcorn, soda cans, hamburgers and different types of candies.
"You've been working so hard for these last few weeks I thought you might enjoy a night in."
Atemu leaned over the couch curiously and gave a hum of sastifaction at what he saw, his lips pulled into a grin when he saw the Wii and Playstation Three.
"You're quite the gamer," Atemu gaze drifted from the systems and onto the small piles of video games sitting near them.
Yuugi blushed lightly at Atemu's statement. "I try to play as much as I can."
Atemu walked over and picked up the controller for the Wii. "I hope I'm not too rusty." he picked one of the games which was a shooter and waved it in Yuugi's direction. "I figured you'd be a rpg player."
"I am," Yuugi confirmed. "but I mostly play those alone."
Atemu nodded his head and shifted through the list while Yuugi made his way to the kitchen to place his second bouquet of floors into another vase, it was a good thing that one of the libraries regulars, Ayame-san, always gave him one for his birthday.
"How's Resident Evil, for a start?" Atemu asked.
"That's fine." Yuugi called back, taking a sniff of the roses. "You do know how to start everything up do you?"
Atemu chuckled and Yuugi heard him opening up the case of the game. "I'm not that out of the loop, Yuugi."
Yuugi grinned and placed the vase in the middle of the table before turning off all the lights. He made his way to Atemu and picked up the Wii controller.
"I sincerely hope not,"
Atemu flicked him on the arm as he quickly flickered through the gaming settings. "Why don't we make this more interesting?"
"What do you have in mind?"
Atemu glanced up at the ceiling in thought. "…if I get more kills then I get a kiss."
"and if I win?"
Atemu grinned and started equipping the weapons he would be using. "whatever you want."
Yuugi gave Atemu a sly grin as he thought of what he wanted. "A strip dance if I win and you wear whatever I want you to."
"Oh you've definitely got a deal." Atemu purred.
Yuugi blushed a dark red and quickly turned his attention to the game. He would try his hardest to win, but he had a feeling that Atemu competitive streak wasn't something to be played with.
A/N : Short chapter, but I hope you guys enjoyed it, and yes, they are still having the photo shoot don't worry about that! See you guys next Friday