Valkyria : Hey everyone! Just like I promised! An update on the 28th of October, a couple of days before Halloween no doubt.

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Current Song : Whisper of the Crystal by Go Shiina

Of Gods and Guardians : Atem, leader of Asgard and the Aesir is all-knowing and powerful and loved by all that fall under his rule, especially Yuugi, a lowly servant who is lucky enough to walk the golden halls of Valhalla. He catches Atem's eye when he accidentally unlocks the seal to one of the Four Treasures of Asgard. Can he prove to Atem that he is more than an useful guardian mage in the making?

Irresistible- After the death of his husband, Seto Kaiba, Yuugi Motou wants nothing to do with polite society so he returns home with his brother-in-law, Mokuba, and plans to lives with his grandfather for the remainder of his days, but when Countess Tea Gardener, his best friend, invites him to a summer party for three weeks it is there that he meets the famous Duke Atemu Faenor with whom he has a short-term affair with. He returns home wishing to forget those horrible weeks, but what happens when the Duke arrives at his door? -slight mentions of Mpreg-

Forbidden Dance - Yuugi Motou had no trouble staring at his boss, Atemu Ishigami, from afar. After all, what chance did he have with the man? But, when he falls into bed with Atemu during a company party. He finds out that Atemu is very attracted to him and began to pursue him relentlessly. Can they be together with friends, media and exes in the way?

Wheels of Fate - Yuugi Motou, Prince of the Kingdom of Angelus, wanted nothing more than the eight year war with the Tenebrae Empire to come to an end. His wish is granted, but it is at the cost of his own freedom when he is given to the Shadow Knight, Atem Faenor, who also turns out the Emperor of Tenebrae himself. Can Yuugi convince the Emperor to return him home to his beloved Kingdom?

Shining Light - Atem enjoyed his life as a simple mercenary, working with best friends Jounouchi Katsuya and Otogi Ryuuji, but his simple life drastically changes when he meets Yuugi Motou one day on his way back from a simple escort mission. He soon realizes that Yuugi is known as the "Holy Angel of Light." the title bestowed by Gods to whom represent the very embodiment of the element. To make matters worse, Yuugi is being chased by Celestial Alliance, three major nations, one of which Atem is from. Will Atem help Yuugi or throw him to the mercy of the Celestial Alliance?

"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted." - Helen Rowland

Chapter Fourteen : Twist and Turns.

Yuugi couldn't keep the smug grin from his lips as he looked at the number at the corner of the screen. He was definitely going to win this little bet.

"I didn't know you were this rusty, Atemu."

He only received a grunt from his opponent and the sudden increase of fire. Yuugi chuckled and resumed making head shots of several zombies coming their way.

Yuugi couldn't contain his happiness when Atemu confessed to him earlier that this night was the most fun that he had in a long time.

He planned to tell Atemu when their date was over that he wanted more days like this to happen. He knew that it was foolish but he couldn't help but feel a small lingering of love towards the older man.

Jou would grin like a fool he heard that little confession coming from him all of people. He had originally planned to spend the remainder of his life as a librarian and then as the owner of the his grandfather's game shop when he passed away.

But, Atemu had thrown a wrench into his comfortable plans, and he wouldn't deny that he welcomed Atemu's disturbance wholeheartedly.

He jumped when he felt fingers caress his side suddenly. He pulled Atemu's hands away and kept firing at the zombies.

"Don't you dare," Yuugi threatened half-heartedly, keeping his eyes on the screen.

"I didn't do anything," Atemu replied innocently, pulling his hand away.

"You're trying to tickle me." Yuugi took a step to the side and hopefully out of Atemu's reach. "You know that I'm ticklish there."

"Now why would I want to do that?" Atemu purred darkly. "Have you ever considered that I just want to touch you?"

"No," Yuugi deadpanned, pausing the game to give Atemu a flat look. "You just want to tickle me so you can win the game."

Atemu placed his hand against his heart and gave him a mock-hurt look. "I would never do such a thing! It is against my moral code."

"Moral code?" Yuugi sounded scandalized and amused at once. "You're the one who initiated this bet to get a kiss from me."

"And you're the one who wanted a strip dance from me," Atemu countered smoothly. "Tell me which one of is the more dirty one?"

Flushed and at a sudden loss for words, Yuugi stuck out his tongue and turned to start the game up again. He was more than determined to win this match.

He wanted his strip dance.

"Do you want to get married?"

As Jou expected, Seto instantly stopped what was he was doing and pinned him down with a confused stare.

"Do I want to what?"

"Get married," Jou repeated, sitting up from the couch to stare at his boyfriend who was sitting frozen at his desk.

Seto's blue eyes flashed with suspicion. "This is sudden, Jounouchi, have you been watching wedding shows with Anzu-san or something?"

Jou blushed a deep red. "Seto!" he stood from the couch and made his way to his lover's desk. "It's just a simple question that's all."

Seto snorted. "It's not a simple question, Jou, a simple question would be what I would want for dinner tonight and if I want to have sex after."

"Do you or don't you?"

Seto leaned back against his chair. "I think about it sometimes, but you seemed happy enough with what we have so I left the matter alone."

Jou sucked in a sharp breath at the blunt confession. He had no idea that Seto was actually thinking about getting married.

It seemed Mokuba wasn't joking around after all.

"Why are you asking this anyway?"

"Oh, it's nothing!" Jou let out a nervous laugh that was more of a squeak. "I was just curious that's all."

"Jounouchi."

"Really!" Jou waved his hands in a surrendering gesture. "I just wanted to know how you felt about this whole marriage thing."

Seto stared at him for a moment before letting a dark smirk pull at his lips. "Okay." he reached forward and clasped his hands over Jou's. "I hope I sated your curiosity then."

"Yeah, you did,"

"Do you want to get married?"

Jou shrugged his shoulder and gave Seto a helpless look. "I wouldn't mind if we did one day."

"Then we will, but only if you're absolutely ready to," Seto released his hands and leaned back against his chair to stare at him fully. "I do hope you understand that marriage is totally different than being lovers…?"

"Of course I do!" Jou pressed down how deeply offended he felt when Seto said that. "I know that marriage is different than what we totally have right now."

"I'm glad that you do," Seto glanced meaningfully down at his laptop. "Is there anything that you wanted to discuss?"

"No," Jou gently pulled his hands out of his lover's and stepped back. "That's it." he made his towards the door before stopping at the last second and turning to look over his shoulder. "by the way: what do you want for dinner tonight?"

Seto kept his eyes on the screen and had to yet notice his growing grin. "It doesn't matter, anything is fine."

"Okay, and sex after, right?"

Seto's head snapped up just in time to see Jou throwing him a wicked grin as the door to his office closed.

"Damn puppy,"

He had every intention of marrying Jou when the time arrived, and when he did, he had every intention of giving Jou at least some control over Kaiba Corp just as the same as Mokuba.

He wanted to make sure that the both of them and whatever children he and Jou adopted or Mokuba had would be well taken care of.

Speaking of Mokuba, Seto thought with a scowl. He's definitely has damn explaining to do, the damned brat.

Ryou loved Bakura with every single fiber of his being, he loved his smile -whenever he did smile which wasn't that much- his laugh, his reddish brown eyes and he definitely loved the deep tan skin and muscles.

But one thing that he absolutely detested, was the fact that Bakura was so damn silent when he came home!

"I'm sorry!" Bakura gracefully ducked to evade another in coming pillow coming his way. "You should be used to this by now you know!"

Ryou clenched his robe tighter and threw another pillow towards his lover, he knew that he wasn't going to hit the man, but it sure as hell made him feel better.

"It doesn't matter if I'm used to it or not!" Ryou picked up another pillow, for once thankful that they had bought so many, and threw it towards Bakura's head. "You should at least have the decency to announce you're here and not try and sneak into the shower with me you pervert!"

"I thought you liked shower sex," Bakura murmured, staring at the opening of his robe. "I know I do after a long trip.."

Ryou blush furiously and pulled his robe closer. "You're sleeping on the couch for your little stunt."

Much to Ryou's amusement, Bakura looked scandalized at the thought of sleeping anywhere else other than his than their big, soft bed.

"I'm not sleeping on the couch," Bakura muttered. "I was on a long ass flight and I want to sleep on that expensive bed with the expensive silk sheets and your nice, soft body next to me."

"It won't be that bad, Bakura," Ryou teased, he gave his lover a wicked grin. "You've slept in much worse places than a couch. Do you remember Alaska?"

"I don't like to remember Alaska, Ryou," Bakura deadpanned. "It wasn't a happy time for me and I have repressed that memory."

"You told me that the mission went pretty well," Ryou crossed his arms over his chest. "There's nothing memory repressing about it except…-"

"Not another word, little one," Bakura drawled darkly. "And you veering off the subject."

"Apologies."

"You don't sound like it." Bakura muttered, he stretched and gave Ryou a leer. "Can we go to bed now?"

"Yeah," Ryou nodded his head towards the couch. "there's plenty of pillows and you know where the blankets are."

"You know what I meant, Ryou." Bakura began making his way towards the bedroom. "Come, I want to sleep."

"I thought you wanted sex," Ryou teased gently. "It's been a while for us, you know."

"Indeed it has," Bakura groaned at the thought. "but, I am tired and we have a lot to discuss in the morning."

"About what?"

"Retirement and marriage."

"Bakura…-"

"In the morning," Bakura turned to him and gave him a smile that took the breath out of his moment. "Come, let's go to bed for now, yeah?"

"Y-Yes…"

Ryou watched Bakura disappear into the dark hallway in confusion. He never thought he would hear those words come out of his lover's mouth. The thought of Bakura finally settling down and suggesting marriage should've have made him the happiest man in the world, but instead it just made him feel like he was the worst person on the planet.

He wasn't looking forward to that talk in the morning.

Yuugi dropped the controller in shock and point blank ignored the smug grin that he knew Atemu was wearing.

He didn't know how it happened, one moment he was practically shaking in glee at the thought of winning, and the next moment he was so behind that he had to blink to make sure that the numbers on the screen were real.

"I-I.."

"I guess I'm not that rusty after all," Atemu drawled from next to him. "I do believe you owe me something, Yuugi."

"One kiss, right?"

"One kiss,"

Yuugi leaned forward and placed his hands on Atemu's muscled chest, he shivered when he felt the older man wrap his arms around his waist and pull him closer.

"Ready?" Atemu breathed against his lips.

"Ready," Yuugi breathed back, he leaned closer and placed a simple chaste kiss against Atemu's full lips before pulling back and out of Atemu's arms.

"What..? Huh..?"

"You said a kiss," Yuugi chuckled heartily. "You didn't say what kind of kiss, Atemu."

Atemu pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed lightly. "I'll have to remember that next time."

"Make sure that you do,"

Both men spent a good chunk of time putting away both systems along with the games and the empty wrappers that once contained food.

"This was an excellent idea, Yuugi." Atemu praised. "I haven't had so much fun in ages."

Yuugi clicked the television on the late night news. "Your very welcome, Atemu. I'm glad that you had such a good time. I know that you're probably used to extravagant dinners and everything."

Atemu snorted bitterly. "I am unfortunately, my mother made sure that I didn't miss a single dinner party that she hosted."

Yuugi made a sympathetic at the back of his throat. "That must've sucked, you're childhood was stifling wasn't it?"

"Horrible, suffocating, and downright depressing."

"I'm sorry."

"You have nothing to apologize for, little one." Atemu murmured. "You can't help what's already come and pass."

Yuugi wiped down the coffee table in silence, he hoped that Atemu's teenage years were better than his childhood, but he had bad feeling that they probably only a bit better.

"Are you busy tomorrow evening?"

"Besides the shoot that we're having tomorrow morning, no, I managed to get the entire day off."

Yuugi sighed silently before pressing on bravely. "M-My grandfather wants us to come over to dinner tomorrow night. Can you come?"

"Grandpa Motou wants to meet me does he?"

"I'm afraid he does, and he was pretty firm about it." Yuugi gave Atemu an apologetic smile. "Will you come? For me?"

"I would love to meet the man that raised you, Yuugi," Atemu patted him on the shoulder. "It will be no trouble at all."

Yuugi's shoulders sunk in relief. "Thank you so much, Atemu! I really appreciate this."

"It's no problem at all."

With everything squared away, Yuugi offered Atemu to stay the night, which Atemu gladly accepted since he was too tired to drive home and they would have to meet each other again in the morning anyway.

After a quick breakfast the next morning, both of them set out to Atemu's penthouse on the other side of town.

"I already have everything set up and we even have costumes this time."

"What kind of costumes?"

Atemu lead him up to his studio and Yuugi released a sharp breath at the sight. Instead of Halloween set up Atemu had last time, this one was of Ancient Egypt.

The walls were of dark beige colors with hieroglyphics painted on them, there was a large off white blanket on the floor to cover the original black carpet.

There were also black, unlit torches placed around the Grecian couch placed in the middle.

"Do you like it? It's simple, but I figured you didn't want it to be too extravagant."

"It's wonderful, Atemu," Yuugi breathed happily. "This is beautiful, where are the costumes?"

Atemu pushed Yuugi towards the costumes were hanging on the wall on hangars. "Go ahead and get dressed, and I'll bring the jewelry and make-up."

When Atemu went back downstairs, Yuugi moved towards the outfit and grabbed off the hangar gently. It was a simple shendyt that was black with gold trim and a sleeveless light tunic of the same colors. He quickly pulled off his sweater and jeans and slipped into the costume.

He was happy to see that it was smug fit, he reached down and tugged the shendyt down. It reached above his knees and he was always conscious about his skinny legs.

"Are you decent, Yuugi?"

"Yes!"

Yuugi felt his cheeks heat up and his knees grow weak when he saw Atemu walk back up the stairs in costume.

Atemu had dressed himself in a white shendyt with a crimson sash in the middle, his muscled arms were adorned with gold armbands with rubies in the center.

What made Yuugi's knees weak was the fact that Atemu had no shirt on showing off the light six pack and trim waist.

Atemu's kohl rimmed crimson eyes met his and Yuugi felt his cheeks go hotter -he didn't think that was possible-

"How do I look?" Atemu spun around once. "Like a genuine pharaoh?"

"Y-You…" Yuugi coughed nervously. "You look great! I didn't know you were doing the shoot with me."

Atemu shrugged and Yuugi couldn't help but be drawn to the naked, broad shoulders. He didn't think he was going to survive this shoot without fainting or making a fool of himself.

"I thought it would be fun." Atemu set the box of jewelry and make up down on the floor. "Let's get this on, shall we?"

Yuugi made his way to Atemu and sat on the floor in front of him, he curiously peaked into the box and spotted different arm and leg bands along with rings and necklaces.

"Here," Atemu gently grabbed his arm and slid on the armband on his left and then his right. "Is that enough? Or do you want the legs as well?"

"No," Yuugi poked at the cool metal curiously. "It's fine, this looks pretty real."

Atemu smiled and decided not to mention that the jewelry that they were wearing was indeed real and cost thousands of yen, but what the little one didn't know certainly wasn't going to kill him.

Atemu quickly applied the kohl to his eyes, making sure not to poke him in the eye as he did. He pulled back and smiled at the sight.

"Just like a Prince," Atemu praised quietly. "Go sit on the couch and we can get started."

Once his camera was set up probably and timed to make shots, Atemu made his way over to Yuugi and pulled the smaller man into his arms. He chuckled quietly when the enchanting spread across those pale cheeks.

"Smile," Atemu whispered, turning to the camera just as it went off.

They managed to change positions before each shot which amazed Yuugi seeing as how it was twenty seconds in between. Yuugi promised himself that he would never let Jou or Ryou see half of these shots because most of them were absolutely scandalous with the costumes they were wearing.

It was twenty minutes later before Atemu finally stood up and said that they were finished. Yuugi stood from the couch and pulled down his shendyt to hide his blush.

"Did you have fun?" Atemu asked, staring at his legs with a wicked grin, they were the best set of legs he had seen besides Mai's own curvy ones.

"Yeah, it was fun, I really enjoyed it."

Yuugi didn't want to mention that he was very close to fainting with some of the positions Atemu proposed. He felt that he had embarrassed himself enough for now.

This day was going to be dream fodder for weeks to come.

"I'm glad that you did," Atemu ruffled his hair with a teasing grin. "Now, let's get out of these clothes and you can tell me what to expect at dinner tonight."

Yuugi gently brushed Atemu's hand away. "Nothing is going to prepare you for tonight, Atemu. Take my word on that."

A/N : I hoped that you guys enjoyed this chapter, which was probably longer than usual eh? Anywho, make sure to vote in your reviews and have a good weekend

Current Ending Song : The Merry-Go-Round of Life by Joe Hisaishi - Howl's Moving Castle