A trouble arose with the Legendary Heroes Arc-- it became too long and kinda took its own form, not to mention brought its own issues to light. So, due to its length, I will be posting it as a seperate side story, since it can stand alone from WMHH, TC. Because there is not much in this Arc that is of interest, so all I did was make the original beginning I had for that first chapter this interlude and the rest will be posted later. This beginning introduces both Battle City and Atemu to the world.

So enjoy this little interlude.

INTERLUDE: ENTER SATOU YAMI

With the end of Duelist Kingdom in the last week of November came the publicity that followed, luckily Kaiba had extended a line of protection to his long time friend and things had finally returned to normal in January. Anzu continued to cause troubles for Yugi, but was generally ignored since her ranting and raving had gotten on the nerves of everyone in their class and outside of class and she gave up. Jonouchi had began to work at the Shop, causing Grandpa to do a little dance at the fact he had a new employee, and found that he rather liked his new part-time job and stayed on even after he was told he had paid back everything in two weeks. He had stayed on because the money he had paid for the rest of his sister's operation, which took up all but sixty thousand seeing their mother and her family already had the rest of the money, and now he was earning the extra cash to get her something nice once she recovered and to prepare for college.

It was only with Kaiba Seto that things had been rough for. With the end of Duelist Kingdom, and the return of his soul, he had found that there was a plot within the old board of KaibaCorp, the Big Five as the media and such called them, to throw him out and take over. Pegasus failed, but Kaiba did not let them know because he did not have enough information to publicly destroy them. He played ignorant for months, splitting his time between creating a virtual reality game and dragging Yugi with him to teach her about computers and what he wanted her to do for him.

Now it was nearing the end of March and before anyone knew it was the beginning of the Spring Vacation, to be particular it was the first Saturday and first day of break, and the sun was already up. Atemu, in his physical form, ignored the sun in favor of hugging Yugi closer, like she was a teddy bear, with his back to the window. "When did we agree to this?" Yugi grumbled as he laughed.

"When you gave up kicking me out of bed because I stayed against the wall." He muttered, getting comfortable again as she was silent. The kicking of Atemu out of her bed had lasted till the beginning of February, when Grandpa got curious about why he did not hear a the traditional 'thump' that had been adopted as his early morning wake-up call since Yugi returned. Unfortunately for them that was the same morning that he had walked in on them, in the middle of an odd wrestling match about who would stay in the bed and who would not. All he had seen was the aftermath, which was Atemu smugly sitting on Yugi's back as she was preparing to roll over and send him off the side. Luckily, Yugi had taken many pictures of Atemu being chased around the living area above the shop by her angry Grandpa welding a large umbrella, for future laughs. By lunch, they had told the older man the entire story of the Millennium Puzzle and Grandpa, in his oddly cheerful fashion, had accepted everything and had gone as far as declaring them to be formally betrothed, seeing Atemu had shared Yugi's bed and he wanted to continue seeing his Granddaughter. That followed with some of his own things— clothes, shoes, some jewelry, some knickknacks, and such— bought with some of the money Yugi had won.

"Why was that again?" she asked while turning to face him with a sleepy frown as he grinned at the cute picture, bringing his right hand up to run his fingertips over her cheekbone with a smile of his own.

"When we agreed on the rings." He answered as his hand came to rest on the back of her neck and he continued to stare at her. The rings in question were just simple gold bands with puzzle pieces engraved on them and rested around their ring fingers, since she forced him to wear one to show that they were both committed.

"Don't think you are going to have an easy time since Grandpa said that he did not mind so long as you stayed a gentlemen, Atemu, and I am not that easy." She muttered turning her face into her pillow, declaring the discussion done, as he chuckled.

"I wouldn't expect it any other way." Was his final statement as they laid in silence for a while longer, enjoying the rare lazy morning and the fact that no one was shouting for help or the shouting that usually came from Kaiba and Jonouchi's soon-to-be lover's spats.

"Yugi! Seto is here and wants to speak with you!" Grandpa shouted in warning as she groaned and sat up as he rolled away from her, stealing all the sheets.

"Lazy." She muttered and set about getting her clothes and heading to the bathroom.

Kaiba knew that something in the Motou Household had changed, beside the blonde that worked part-time and gave him new reason to drop by. He entered the living area of the shop just as Yugi entered in a pair of faded flare blue jeans and a gray tank top that had a black spider web across half of the front, putting her hair up in her typical bun. "What brings you here on this should-be lazy morning?" she asked, eyes glancing at the clock on their VCR where the numbers red 9:30 in red.

"A few business matters." He stated as she motioned for him to sit down, meaning he took the closest end of the couch as she headed towards the other end, but he stopped her. "You should get the laptop I gave you, the most important of the matters I have already sent to you." With that he sat down as Yugi got back to her feet and made her way back to her room, returning with a black leather shoulder bag.

"What's so important that it could not wait till a decent hour?" she muttered as he took the case and laid it across his lap, unzipping it. Yugi sat down as he handed her a dark blue laptop that had the KaibaCorp symbol on the cover and was the rest was black, the adapter followed as he got up to move the one table and plug it in as she opened the top and pressed the power button. He sat back down, situating the black adapter on the floor, and plugged said adapter in to the back of the computer as Yugi shifted so the object was resting on her knees.

"I am going to be personally testing out a portion of a virtual reality game that I helped to design, so it was easier to drag you out of bed." Kaiba stated as the main screen came up, followed by several screens that showed the stuff he had sent her. "I sent the basics of the game section I am having tested, the set-up for players, and such." He stated pointing to one as she double-clicked on the gray bar and stared at the 'pod' drawing for a moment.

"Pod people?" she asked as he glared at her, but kept his temper in check.

"Everything is there, so read through that because if anything happens you will be responsible for either getting me out or caring for Mokuba and taking over the corporation." He added as she sat ramrod straight and slowly turned her head to stare at him, face frozen in shock.

"What?" she got out in a voice that was a bit high pitched as he sat back, left arm across the back of the couch and the right on the arm of the couch with his head tilted back.

"I had my lawyers put that into my will and such after Duelist Kingdom, since you are pretty much the sister I never had but appreciated none the less." Kaiba stated in an odd tone, one that made Yugi feel very uneasy. "I realized that after the failed date."

"I hope you have some good business friends if that day comes, because I am not business oriented." She muttered and turned back to the screen and clicked on something else. "Battle City. Is this the distraction, beside what you have with Jonouchi, that you have been nursing to blossom?" He blushed a bit, but still watched as she started to skim over the text. "You got everything to begin this?"

"Yes." He stated as she sat back, hands resting on the computer's keyboard as she stared at a drawing of the in-progress duel disk. "All the government red tape is already done with, the lists compiled, the disk drawn in that file is already in its final stages and I want you to help me test them over the course of the next two weeks." Yugi looked rather shocked at how much he had been working on.

"And?" she pressed as he smirked.

"I want to participate in my own tournament, that is a conflict of interests. Therefore I want you to run Battle City, with the backing of KaibaCorp, since you do not have that conflict of interests." Kaiba told her as she glared at him, tapping her fingers lightly over random keys. "We are rivals in the public eye, you show me no mercy."

"Kaiba…"

"I also know you do not like to duel for personal gain." He added as her facial expression looked pained.

"Kaiba…"

"I have allotted you a small budget and pay for doing this, since you will be using your own time." He continued as if she was not trying to figure out what was better— running away screaming or hitting him with the laptop.

"Kai…"

"I also already put you down to do so." Was Kaiba's final comment as he was already on his feet and out the door as she sat the laptop down and made to follow, but ended up standing in the middle of the living room.

"In that case, I'm going back to the safety of my bed." She muttered pushing the top of the laptop down till it clicked shut, than she picked it up and carefully crouched down to shove it under the couch, and than made her way back to her bedroom, where Atemu was still sprawled out in her bed. She slipped into bed, ignoring the fact she was still wearing her jeans.

The rest of the day had gone rather well. Yugi had crawled back out of bed by eleven and was followed by a well rested Atemu, who donned a pair of black jeans with an open white dress shirt that showed off his tanned chest rather well with his usually spiky hair pulled back in a stolen hair band. At that point she had gone down into the game shop to help Jonouchi and Grandpa while he lounged on the couch for the rest of the afternoon, reading a book he had snatched from Yugi's collection titled "Sahara" by Clive Cussler. It had been agreed upon by all parties that Atemu would help out in the shop during the weekdays, while both of Grandpa's helpers were at school, and if anyone asked he had graduated early from school in Egypt and that was all there was. It worked out pretty well.

Around five he watched as Yugi entered the living room, toeing off her worn flip-flops and than leaning against the wall with a worn look. He marked the page he had been on as she shook her head. "Would you like to join Katsuya-san and I for a movie night?" she asked as Atemu quirked an eyebrow in surprise, mostly because it was the first time she had invited him to join one of their movie nights and this weekend would be the fourth time they had gotten together for something of the sort.

"I would love to, my Hikari." Atemu replied with a smile as she nodded and slowly made her way through the living room and into the kitchen to prepare for the movie they were about to watch. "Rough day?" he asked as she moved things around in the kitchen.

"The kiddies that wanted specific cards, or a duel, or something. Jonouchi is about the same, but I think he is scared of the small fan following he gathered from being in second." She answered as the door into the living room opened again and the blonde boy slipped in and removed his shoes, not noticing that he was not alone in the room. This was the first time Atemu could truly observe the boy, since every other time he was tainted by his raging emotions from being released and regaining his power.

Jonouchi had forgone the school uniform he wore during Duelist Kingdom and was wearing a pair of faded, wide leg blue jeans that had torn knees and seen better days with a faded black shirt that had a rather disturbing image in white on the front with 'Dir en Grey' at the top. He thought that the shirt did not fit the person, but did not comment since he did not know who or what 'Dir en Grey' was. His blonde hair was not combed to the front and into his eyes, but was down in a wind blown style that made him look like he had just got in a fight with a storm and won.

"Hey Yugi, any idea what we're watchin'?" Jonouchi asked out loud and with a yawn, hand coming up to cover his mouth but he froze when he seen that he was not alone. An uneasy silence settled over the room, only broken by the rapid popping of something from the kitchen and the sound of ice being put into glasses. "Um, you do know that there is a half naked guy in your living room… right?" that came out a bit weak as Atemu laughed at his worried and confused expression.

"Don't mind him, he doesn't bite… unless provoked." She shouted from the kitchen as Atemu grinned in response to that, baring white teeth as the blonde gulped and moved to sit in Grandpa's recliner, away from the teen on the couch. "You can try to take him home if you want." That got Jonouchi to shiver as Atemu's grin widened a bit.

"That's alright, he's deffinately not my type." He replied and awkwardly sat straight up as the popping continued.

"What is your type, Katsuya-san?" Atemu asked, emphasizing the honorific as the teen shivered and looked away with a slight blush.

"Yugi, the movie?" he called out in a strangled voice and stared at the other teen.

"I'm partial to Indiana Jones tonight. What say you?" she answered as Jonouchi finally relaxed a bit, the topic of conversation averted but he still did not feel safe with looking away from Atemu.

"Sounds fine to me, never pass up a chance to watch a Harrison Ford movie and watching a Bond flick would be a bit boring now." He remarked and got up again, this time quickly crossing to the small entertainment center and crouching down in front of it to search for said DVD. "Next time Advent Children." That got a laugh as she entered the living room, balancing a medium sized tray that had three glasses of iced tea on it with a medium sized, blue plastic bowl in the center on her left palm and a matching bowl in her right hand.

"Maybe, but any more if I listen to 'One Winged Angel' I imagine him and wonder about my sanity." With that she sat the tray on the floor in front of the couch and than sat down as Jonouchi put the DVD in and retreated to the safety of the recliner, only after stealing a glass of tea and the bowl of popcorn she had been holding.

"And who would this 'him' be? Cause, I don't know him well enough to call him 'Aspiring Sephiroth' or any of the clones." Jonouchi dryly stated as he grabbed the remote from the table by the recliner as Yugi grabbed the last bowl of popcorn and offered some to a curious Atemu.

"Well…" she started to say as Atemu took the bowl from her and sat it on the ground, which was okay but he than grabbed her wrist and pulled her over to him so that she was sitting in his lap blushing. The movie started, but Jonouchi's jaw dropped and his eyes also looked ready to bug out.

"I am Satou Yami, Yugi's fiancee." He stated in a perfectly calm and collected voice as the remote hit the floor.

"Holy hell." The blonde stated sitting back, staring at them as the opening of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade started. "When did you get engaged?" he asked looking over the couple, noticing that Yugi was still blushing and looked a bit unsure of herself while he was grinning.

"The contract between our families came into effect about a month ago, but we have known each other for a few years." Atemu, now Yami, smoothly answered as he kissed her cheek, after which prompted Yugi to shift so that she was lying across his lap like a cat.

"Things are gonna get interestin' now, considerin' you look like the imaginary guy Mazaki is obsessed with. The one she seen in her freaky dream on Pegasus's island." Jonouchi remarked as he shrugged and turned his attention to the movie. "Does Kaiba know?"

"Not yet." Yugi answered this time as the blonde was now snickering. "Careful, Jonouchi, you'll be present for that because I am going to use you as a human shield or sacrifice."

"Damn." He muttered with a pout as Yami shook his head, repressing the urge to laugh.