Here's the next chapter.
Some people have had some questions, so this should answer some of them.
Enjoy!
Chapter 38- The Mother
Yugi was sitting in the living room of the Sennen mansion. He had a clipboard in his hand along with a few books that were around him.
Amara walked into the living room with Danny. "What are you up to, Yugi?" Amara asked.
"Well, since I'm under house arrest until further notice, I decided that I would make good use of my imprisonment and start planning the wedding." Yugi answered.
Amara laughed. "You're not under house arrest, Yugi." Amara said.
"I know, but with the way Yami acts, you'd think I was." Yugi said.
Amara sat down. "He's just worried about you, Yugi. You were attacked, and he just wants to make sure that you heal. You do need to rest after all that. Your doctor said that himself." Amara pointed out.
"I know, and as a doctor, I know that. I just hate the fact that Yami has to act like I'm going to go out and run a marathon. I know what I should and should not do." Yugi said.
"I know, but Atemu gets like that when he's worried. Don't worry. He'll lighten up before you know it." Amara said.
"I hope so." Yugi said as he looked back down at the list he had in his hand.
"What have you gotten done so far?" Amara asked.
"Not much. I mean, I have ideas as to what I want to do, but I think that I should make sure this is all okay with Yami." Yugi said.
Amara chuckled. "Yugi, I can assure you that Atemu won't care. He would rather you plan out everything." Amara said.
"Why?" Yugi asked.
"Because it would mean that he would have to plan it. Yami will just say whatever you want is fine and nod his head with whatever you say." Amara said.
"Meaning that Yami would be happy with just going to the courthouse." Yugi said.
"Exactly." Amara said.
"Well, he's not getting out of a wedding." Yugi said.
"No reason for him to. After all, this is the first time that you are getting married, so you should have the wedding that you want to have." Amara said.
"I suppose so." Yugi said.
"So, what have you gotten done?" Amara asked.
"Well, I have a couple of choices for the flowers, and I have someone in mind for the music. Of course, I'll have to wait until I can go and look at flower arrangements to make a definite decision." Yugi replied.
"Well, it's a good start at least." Amara said.
"Yeah." Yugi said.
"What day are you planning to get married?" Amara asked.
"That would be another thing that hasn't been decided. If Yami doesn't make a decision on any other detail of the wedding, he is going to help me decide the date." Yugi said.
Amara laughed. "That's the way to think." Amara agreed.
"Yami can be stubborn when he wants to be, but I'm not picking out every little detail of the wedding." Yugi said.
"There is one thing I want to know." Amara said.
"What's that?" Yugi asked, looking over at his future mother-in-law.
Amara smirked. "Are you planning to wear a white wedding dress?" Amara asked.
Yugi's jaw dropped at the question he had just been asked. "WHAT?!" Yugi exclaimed.
Amara grinned. "Come now, Yugi. It's a sensible question. Are you going to wear a white wedding dress?" Amara asked again.
"Why would you ask me a question like that?" Yugi asked.
"Well, you did wear a dress at Sophia's birthday party, so I assumed that you would wear one to your wedding." Amara said offhandedly.
"There is no way that I am wearing a dress to my wedding! I may have caved for Sophia's sake, but I am not going to wear a dress to our wedding." Yugi said.
"I'm sorry, Yugi, but I had to ask." Amara said, starting laugh.
"That is not funny on any level. Not to me anyway." Yugi said.
"What would you do if Yami Atemu asked you to wear one?" Amara asked.
"The first thing I would ask him was if he was out of his mind." Yugi answered.
Amara raised an eyebrow. "And what would be the second thing that you would ask him?" Amara asked.
"I'd ask him if he planned on us ever having sex again." Yugi answered.
Amara couldn't help it. She burst out into a hysterical fit of laughter. "Y-you'd s-say that?" Amara asked.
"Yes. I would. He would seriously be asking for it if he ever asked me to wear a wedding dress to our wedding, and I think he knows it." Yugi said.
"Well, I was just curious." Amara said.
"Well, Yami and I will both be wearing tuxes." Yugi said.
"That's fine, too." Amara said.
Danny was in the floor playing. He ended up going over to the couch and getting one of the books that Yugi had laying on the couch. Danny, put that back." Amara said.
Yugi looked over. "Oh. It's all right. That's just a book from one of the florists I was looking into. I've already looked through it." Yugi said.
"Oh. I didn't know." Amara said.
"Yeah. It's fine." Yugi assured her.
"So, what do you need help with?" Amara asked.
"Everything." Yugi answered.
Amara laughed. "All right. I'll help you out with this." Amara agreed. She got up and moved over to the couch to help Yugi plan the wedding.
Yami was working in his office.
There was a knock on his door.
Yami frowned. 'Who could that be?' Yami asked himself, wondering why his secretary hadn't buzzed him. "Come in!" Yami called.
The door opened, and Aknankanon walked into the room.
"Hi, Yami." Aknankanon said.
"Dad, what are you doing here?" Yami asked, rather surprised.
"I wanted to get out of the house." Aknankanon answered as he walked over and sat down in one of the chairs across from Yami.
Yami raised an eyebrow. "So, you came here?" Yami asked.
Aknankanon shrugged. "I figured that you wouldn't care." Aknankanon said.
"How did you know that I didn't have a meeting or anything?" Yami asked.
"I remembered you saying that you were just going to be doing a lot of paperwork today, so I knew that I wouldn't be bothering you that much." Aknankanon said.
"Yeah. I needed to catch up on some of this paperwork that I let get backed up." Yami said as he went back to his work.
"I don't think that anyone is going to fault you for falling behind in your work given the fact that your fiancé was in the hospital." Aknankanon said.
"I know. I'm just glad that Yugi's okay and that his stepfather isn't going to be getting on the way anymore." Yami said.
"I know what you mean." Aknankanon said.
"What is Yugi doing?" Yami asked.
"I have no idea. Knowing your mother, they are probably talking about who knows what." Aknankanon said.
"In other words, you came here to get away from them in case they started talking about something that you didn't want to have to listen to." Yami said.
"Exactly." Aknankanon said.
Yami laughed. "Well, I'm going to have to watch it now." Yami said.
"Why's that?" Aknankanon asked.
"My future husband getting along great with my mother cannot be a good thing." Yami said.
"Well, the husband plus the mother talking equals trouble. Remember that." Aknankanon said.
"I'll have to." Yami said.
"So, are you planning to stay here at the office all day, or are you going to go home earlier?" Aknankanon asked.
"I plan on just catching up on this paperwork and then heading home." Yami said.
"Well, I think I'll stick around so that I don't here something that I would be better off not hearing." Aknankanon said.
Yami then got back to his paperwork.
"I hate planning a wedding because there is so much to one." Yugi said.
"Well, you and Atemu could always hire a wedding planner, and they would take care of everything." Amara said.
"I know, but I'm going to be stuck here for the next few weeks, and I would much rather do this than have to sit around and do nothing." Yugi said.
"Agreed." Amara said.
"Besides, since you've been helping me, I think that it'll be a bit easier." Yugi said.
Amara smiled. "Always glad to help." Amara said.
The two continued to plan the wedding.
About an hour later, Henry walked into the room. "Excuse me, but there is a woman here who wishes to speak with Mr. Mutou." Henry said.
Yugi frowned. "I don't' know who that could be." Yugi said.
Amara looked over at Yugi. "Tea, maybe?" Amara asked.
"I don't think so. Tea would have called first and made sure that I was up to someone coming over." Yugi said.
"Shall I tell the guard to let her through?" Henry asked.
Amara looked over at Yugi. "What do you think?" Amara asked.
"Might as well see who it is and what she wants." Yugi agreed.
"Let her in." Amara said to Henry.
Henry nodded before he left.
"Are you sure you want to meet this woman, Yugi?" Amara asked.
"Well, I would hate for her to come all this way and not see me. Besides, there's no reason not to." Yugi replied.
"All right." Amara agreed. She gathered the wedding stuff and stacked it together neatly on the table.
It wasn't long before there was a knock on the front door.
Amara decided to get it and went to the door, opening it.
On the doorstep was a woman with black hair and dark green eyes. She was slim and was wearing a green pants suit. She looked to be an older woman.
Amara mentally frowned. 'I wonder how she knows Yugi.' Amara thought.
"Is Yugi here?" the woman asked.
"Yes. He is. Please come in." Amara said, stepping aside.
The woman walked into the house.
"Yugi is this way." Amara said. She led the woman into the living room.
Yugi had managed to get up despite the fact that his back was still hurting a lot. He turned, intending to give a polite greeting to who had come to see him, but froze.
Amara frowned at this. "Yugi, are you all right?" Amara asked.
Yugi didn't answer her. Instead, he frowned and said, "What are you doing here?"
Amara knew that Yugi knew who this woman was, and it was clear that Yugi wasn't that thrilled to see her.
"I have to right to come here and demand answers." the woman snapped angrily.
"Yugi, what is going on?" Amara asked, not liking the way the woman was acting.
"Amara, meet my mother, Cryslyn Aran." Yugi said.
Amara was surprised. She hadn't expected it to be Yugi's mother, but she was glad it was. It gave her a chance to demand some answers of her own.
"What do you think you were doing?! How could you let that happen to Bobby?!" Cryslyn demanded.
"Listen. I didn't do anything to him." Yugi said.
"The hell you didn't! You accused him of attacking you twice! How dare you lie about him?! It's your fault that my husband is dead!" Cryslyn said angrily.
"I did not lie. He did attack me several times, and there are people who will verify that." Yugi said.
"The hell he did! I know my husband! He would never hurt anyone!" Cryslyn said.
Yugi's eyes narrowed. He was starting to get angry. "That's a blatant lie, and you know it, Mother. You watched him beat me every day for two straight years. You saw the bruises. Hell, you saw him hit me on more than one occasion, and you never did anything about it, so don't go and tell me that he would never hurt anyone! I know firsthand that he would, and I know how he gets when he gets angry!" Yugi said.
"You didn't know him! You never gave him a chance!" Cryslyn said.
"I was more than willing to give him a chance. In fact, when you told me you were getting married, despite the fact that I didn't know him, I was willing to give him a chance because it was obvious that you were happy with him. I didn't even have a problem with him at first. My problem with him started when eh destroyed everything in the house that had belonged to Dad, that belonged to Dad, or would remind you of Dad. He tried to replace my father, and I wasn't about to let that happen." Yugi said.
"You should have just let him, and we would have been a happy family." Cryslyn said haughtily.
"Let him? The man tried to completely replace my father. No one would ever replace him. I might have seen him as a father figure at some point, but he pushed me and then abused me because he was angry that I would not call him Dad. That title was reserved for my real father, and that most certainly was not him." Yugi said.
"You still should have respected him." Cryslyn said.
"I would have, but he never showed an ounce of respect to me. I may have been ten when that happened, but I knew that you needed to show respect to earn it. All he did was try to destroy any memory of my father. He hated the fact that there was a man who had been in your life before him, and he wanted to erase any memory that you had of him. He never wanted me to see him as a father. He just wanted a reason to start beating me, and he found it." Yugi said.
"That's not true!" Cryslyn protested.
"You never tried to help. You always told me that it was my fault, and that I should stop causing problems by just calling him Dad. You never once cared about what he did to me." Yugi retorted.
"I did care! That's why I told you to stop being stubborn and just tell him what he wanted to hear." Cryslyn said.
Amara had had enough. "You did not care about him if you didn't do anything to try and help your own son when you new husband was abusing him every day." Amara said angrily.
Cryslyn finally turned to look at the woman who had let her into the house in the first place. "This is none of your concern!" Cryslyn snapped.
"It is my concern! Yugi is going to be getting married to my son, so I am concerned when it comes to my future son-in-law! I won't have you blaming him for your so-calked husband's death! Your husband made the decision to abuse Yugi! He made the decision to come here to Domino and attack Yugi in the first place! He's the one who chose to fire at police and get himself killed! Do not blame Yugi for something that he didn't do!" Amara said angrily.
Yugi looked between his mother and his future mother-in-law. 'I don't have a death wish, so I'd better just stay out of this.' Yugi thought, taking a step back.
"My husband did nothing wrong!" Cryslyn said angrily.
"No thing wrong?! He abused a ten-year-old boy for two years simply because he wouldn't call him his dad! He abused your son, and you let him do it! You made it out to be Yugi's fault when Yugi never did a damn thing wrong!" Amara snapped.
"He was the cause of the problems in the first place!" Cryslyn said.
"No! Your husband was the cause of the problems, and you only let the problems fester and grow! You let a man abuse your son! You let him beat him and insult him for years! You allowed him to mistreat Yugi, and you never lifted a finger to try and help him! You let it happen!" Amara said angrily.
"Don't you even try to judge me! You know nothing about me!" Cryslyn said.
"You're right. I don't know you personally, but I know enough about you to know that I can't stand you! No mother would want their won child to be abused and mistreated in the way you allowed your husband to abuse him! You never did anything! It's people like him that make me sick! Abusing a person weaker than themselves simply because they have the ability to is beyond wrong! You also make me sick! The kind of people that let them do what they want, and try to make the victim feel like it's their fault when they did nothing wrong!" Amara said.
"You don't know the situation!" Cryslyn said.
"I don't need to know the situation! Child abuse is just sick and wrong! No child should have to go through that!" Amara said.
"My husband was a good man!" Cryslyn protested.
"A good man? You have to be kidding." Yugi said.
Both women turned their attention to Yugi.
"What are you talking about?" Cryslyn snapped angrily.
"When I filed the first police report when Bobby attacked me, the police found out that he had several arrests for domestic violence. Unless you two ended up having a child together, I would say that you were the one he started abusing." Yugi said.
Cryslyn turned slightly pale. "That is a lie." Cryslyn protested.
"Yes, it is. I'm sure that hospital records would prove that." Yugi said.
"He just got angry at times." Cryslyn said.
"And I suppose he just got angry every day he hit and abused me. I suppose he was just angry every time he put you in the hospital." Yugi said.
Cryslyn glared at him.
"I don't care what you think, Mother. You don't mean anything to me anymore. You were scared of the scandal that would be caused to your precious husband, so you sign custody rights of me over to my grandfather. That was probably the only good thing you did for me since Dad died. Getting away from that man is the best thing that ever happened to me." Yugi said.
"You ungrateful brat!" Cryslyn snapped angrily.
"You must have been a good student since Bobby managed to teach you that. You chose your abusive husband over your own son. You made it pretty clear back when you gave up custody of me and when I came to see you after I graduated that you didn't want anything to do with me, and Bobby made the exact same thing clear then, too. I don't know why he came back." Yugi said.
"Because he needed money, and you owed it to him, to us!" Cryslyn said.
"Why? He came from a rich family." Yugi said.
"His family wouldn't give him anymore money. They thought he needed to stand on his own two feet. We needed extra money, and you owed us!" Cryslyn said.
"I don't owe you a damn thing. You were not a mother given the fact that you allowed him to do all that he did to me. The only reason he came was because he found out that I was engaged to Yami, and he knew from Yami's name that he was rich. He was looking for a handout because he thought I would give him one. I would never have taken advantage of Yami like that, but you never saw it like that." Yugi said.
Cryslyn glared angrily at Yugi.
"You can think what you want. You can say what you want. You can blame me for what happened to Bobby, but he brought all that on himself. He was a heartless man who cared for no one, but himself. Don't try to make me feel any sympathy for you or him. I'll never feel it." Yugi said.
Cryslyn glared at Yugi, even angrier than before.
"Just leave and get out of my life for good." Yugi said.
"You'll regret this one day!" Cryslyn hissed.
"I honestly don't think that I will feel anything." Yugi said.
Amara was tired of this. "Just leave. You have made it perfectly clear that you came here for no other reason than to yell at Yugi. You're not going to do that anymore." Amara said.
"You let me in!" Cryslyn growled.
"That's right, but had I know who you were and what you intended to do, I would not have let you in." Amara said.
Cryslyn was angry because she was still angry and didn't get the satisfaction that she wanted.
"You stopped being my mother the moment you let that man start abusing me. As far as I am concerned, you don't exist." Yugi said.
Cryslyn felt nothing at this statement.
"I suggest you get out and leave Yugi alone." Amara said.
"Fine! You will regret this one day, Yugi!" Cryslyn snapped angrily.
"No. I won't." Yugi replied.
Cryslyn turned and stormed out.
"Henry!" Amara called.
Henry walked into the room.
"Make sure she leaves. I don't want her to remain on the property." Amara said.
"Yes, ma'am." Henry said before he walked off.
Yugi sighed and sat down.
Amara walked over and sat down by Yugi. She put her arm around Yugi's shoulders and said, "Are you all right?"
"I just wish she had stayed out of my life as well. I stopped seeing her as a mother the first time she told me that I was the one at fault for Bobby beating me. I knew it wasn't true, and I could tell that she would never be on my side. Why she acted the way she did, I don't know. I'll never know. I honestly don't want to know." Yugi said.
Amara smiled sadly. "Yugi, in all honesty, she isn't worth it." Amara said.
"I know that." Yugi said. He leaned back. "The problem is that she is my mother, so it still bothers me on some level. Not like when I was a kid, but it still bothers me on some level." Yugi said.
"Well, you don't have to worry about that now, Yugi." Amara said.
Yugi looked over at her. "Meaning?" Yugi asked.
"Well, for starters, you won't have to worry about her anymore. Once Atemu hears about this, he'll make sure that she never gets near you again." Amara said.
"I get the feeling that there is a second thing that you are going to be telling me." Yugi said.
"Yes. I might not be your biological mother, but once you and Atemu are married, I'll be your mother-in-law." Amara said.
Yugi smiled. "Well, you've already treated me better than my own mother ever did, so I guess that's a good thing." Yugi said.
Amara laughed. "Yes. I suppose so." Amara agreed.
Yugi sighed. "You know, I think I'm going to go upstairs to take a nap. Once Yami hears about this, he's going to be yelling at the top of his lungs." Yugi said.
"I know." Amara said.
Yugi got up and headed upstairs.
Amara sighed. 'I hope that she'll stay away. Yugi doesn't need this right now.' Amara thought.
The front door opened and closed.
"Aknankanon." Amara said.
"Yes." Aknankanon said. He walked into the living room with Yami right behind him.
"Atemu, what are you doing home?" Amara asked.
"I just went to catch up on some paperwork. There wasn't much else that I needed to do." Yami answered.
"Oh." Amara said.
"Where's Yugi?" Yami asked.
"He went upstairs to take a nap." Amara answered.
"I think I'll go see him." Yami said. He then headed upstairs.
Aknankanon took one look at his wife and knew that something was wrong. "Amara, what's wrong?" Aknankanon asked.
Amara sighed and told her husband everything about what had happened.
Aknankanon's eyes narrowed. "I can't believe she acted like that." Aknankanon said.
"I know. I upset Yugi." Amara said.
"Well, we'll be hearing from Yami pretty soon." Aknankanon said.
"I know." Amara agreed.
Yami walked into his room and found Yugi sitting on the bed with his back to him. He smirked and snuck up behind Yugi. He then leaned down and pressed a kiss to Yugi's neck.
Yugi jumped and turned. "Yami, what are you doing home?" Yugi asked.
"What? Not happy to see me?" Yami asked.
"Of course I am, but you were at work." Yugi said.
"I know. I went in to catch up on all of my paperwork. Once I got done with that, I decided to come home." Yami said.
"You didn't have to come just so that you could come back to me." Yugi said.
"Most would have found that romantic." Yami said.
"Yes, but you need to keep your company running smoothly." Yugi said.
"Yugi, there is nothing to worry about." Yami assured him.
"You sure?" Yugi asked.
"Yes." Yami answered.
Yugi sighed. "Well, I guess I don't have to worry about being a lone then" Yugi said.
"Nope." Yami said.
"Have you talked to your mother?" Yugi asked.
"Not much. She told me you came up to take a nap. Are you tired?" Yami asked.
"You could say that. I had a rather unpleasant conversation earlier." Yugi said.
"With my mother?" Yami asked.
"No. With mine." Yugi said.
Yami was stunned before he growled. "What did she want?" Yami asked.
Yugi decided not to hide anything and told Yami everything that had happened.
"I can't believe her! How could she defend that bastard after everything that happened?! How could she be so stupid?!" Yami growled.
"Yami, calm down. If she's smart, she won't come back." Yugi said.
"She's better not!" Yami growled.
Yugi smiled. "Yami, she got it out, and I don't think she'll want to see me again." Yugi said.
"She's better hope I don't ever see her." Yami said.
"I don't think you could say anything that your mother didn't say. I have never seen her so angry." Yugi said.
"Trust me. It would have been worse if Dad or I had been here." Yami said.
"Well, there's no need for you to get upset." Yugi said.
Yami sat back down by Yugi. "I just don't like how she treated you. She had no choice." Yami said as he wrapped his arms around Yugi.
Yugi leaned his head against Yami. "You don't need to worry about anything, Yami. I'm fine." Yugi said.
Yami smiled. "I know." Yami said.
Yugi sighed. "I do need a nap, though." Yugi said.
"Well, I could always go and let you rest." Yami said.
"Or you could always take a nap with me." Yugi said.
"Hmm. That's my kind of idea." Yami said.
The two then lay down to take a nap together.
"Well, I knew that we would be hearing from Yami." Aknankanon said.
"I know what you mean. I knew he'd be angry when he found out." Amara said.
"Do you blame him given everything that happened?" Aknankanon asked.
"No. I knew he'd be upset, and he had a right to be. After all that Yugi had to go through, he doesn't need anything else." Aknankanon agreed.
Later, Yugi got a surprise visit from Darren Morgan.
"Darren, what are you doing here?" Yami asked.
"I hate having to make calls like this, but there's something that I need to talk to you about, Yugi." Darren said.
"Why?" Yugi asked.
"It's about your mother." Darren said.
"Good grief! What did she do? Demand you arrest Yugi for what happened to her husband?" Yami asked.
Darren looked surprised. "What are you talking about?" Darren asked.
Yugi told him about what had happened earlier.
"I see. Well, that's not the reason I came." Darren said.
"Then what's going on?" Yugi asked.
"I came to tell you that your mother was killed in a car accident earlier this afternoon." Darren said.
"She was?" Yugi said, startled.
Darren nodded. "You're the next of kin, so you're the one who had to be informed." Darren said.
"I understand. Thank you." Yugi said.
Darren nodded before he left.
"Are you okay?" Yami asked, putting an arm around Yugi.
"I guess so. She was my mother, so I'm a little upset. I haven't been close to her in the decade or close to it, so I'm not as upset as I should have been." Yugi said.
"Don't worry about it, Yugi. No one would blame you for that." Yami said.
A week later, Yugi had the funeral fro his mother. He felt that he should still do that since she was his mother.
However, Yugi left the funeral of his stepfather to his stepfather's family since he had no reason to want to give him a funeral.
"Are you doing okay, Yugi?" Yami asked after the funeral.
"I'm okay. She's my mother, so I will be a little upset, but she wasn't much of a mother to me. Your mother is more of one than she ever was." Yugi said.
"But you'll still miss her." Yami said.
"Yeah. I will. Maybe not like I miss my father, but I will miss her." Yugi agreed.
"I know." Yami said.
The two then headed back to the mansion.
Yami was glad because the entire mess with Yugi's parents was over.
Hope you liked it. I know that I could have had the mother causing trouble, but I didn't feel like adding more problems.
Next: A redo of the engagement party.
R&R.