Hey everyone! I hope you guys are liking this story since it will come to an end soon. I don't know when, but I will let you know! So anyways, Yugi and his friends learned about the Temple of Horus, which you remembered from my other story 'Yugioh: The Balance of Light & Darkness', and they must travel to Edfu to talk to Horus so they can speak with Hu & Sia who will let them speak with Heh. While they wait for the pharaoh's decision, Joey and Mokuba had a heartfelt conversation together. I hope that moment brought warmth to all of you.

Now, I was able to get an idea for this chapter thanks to my friend YugiAtemYami so big shout out to her! Hope you all enjoy this chapter!

"1... 2... 3... Pull!"

Malik, Ryou, and Yugi continued to pull with all their strength, but Joey still couldn't get out of there. Apparently, Joey got stuck inside a narrow tunnel inside the walls while hiding from Seth, and he was able to fit inside. However, he couldn't crawl out of the tunnel and only his legs were sticking out. Luckily, his friends spotted him when they were hiding from their counterparts and trying to pull him out of the narrow tunnel.

"Gah! That feels painful!" Joey cried out.

"We're not gonna ask how a tunnel is there in the first place," Malik huffed and continued to pull on his right leg while Ryou pulled on his left leg and Yugi is pulling on both legs. "But seriously, why hide in that tunnel!?"

"The vase was too small, and it's the closest hiding spot I could find!" Joey exclaimed. "Luckily, he didn't see me in here!"

"You should've just hid in the shadows!"

"I couldn't think through while avoiding him! He's angry that I called him a duck!"

"You called Priest Seth a duck?" Yugi asked in disbelief.

"I called him wack, but he thought I said quack so now he believes he is a crazy duck… which he is!"

Ryou sighs. "Besides that, we'll need to use something smooth to slide you out of there like soap, cream, or anything to get you out of that tunnel."

"I know honey exists in this era. We can use it to smoothly slide him out of that tunnel," Malik responded.

"I can ask one of the servants if they have any in the kitchen," Yugi suggested.

"Okay, but be quick and do not get caught. Also, don't let anyone know why you need it. Just make up a lie or something."

"Got it!"

As Yugi left to find a servant or someone who works in the kitchen, Malik and Ryou continued to think of ideas on how they can get Joey out of there with no risk of injury. As for Joey, he is groaning in boredom while stuck in the tunnel. Then, an idea appeared in his head to help him pass the time. "Old MacDonald had a farm! Ee I ee I o!"

Thanking the servant for leading him to the kitchen, the servant smiled and nodded her head before leaving as Yugi entered the kitchen doors. He couldn't describe what the kitchen looked like, but knew everything is ancient and people use traditional mud stoves for cooking instead of electric stoves. He noticed some cooks were in here, along with someone else who reminded him of Malik's sister.

"Priestess Isis?"

Isis turned her head and was surprised. "Yugi? What brings you to the kitchen?"

Feeling her gaze, he fiddled with his fingers while remembering what Malik told him. "D-Does the kitchen have any honey? I-I just need a small amount of it."

"Honey? Are you hungry?"

Yugi shook his head. "M-My friend Malik wanted to try the honey. He has a bit of a sweet tooth."

"His tooth is sweet?"

"It means that he really likes eating sweet treats."

"I see," she spun around and briefly told the person near her. "Get a small bowl of honey for our guest."

"Yes, priestess," a tall man who could be the chef bowed and quickly got to work. A few minutes later, he gave her a wooden bowl. "Here it is, priestess."

"Good," she picked up the bowl and handed it to Yugi. "Here you go. One small bowl of fresh honey."

Seeing the glistening amber liquid, Yugi thanked them both and quickly left the kitchen, amusing Isis since he thanked the chef and learned he thanked a servant earlier. Now she knows why her pharaoh harbors feelings for their guest. His beauty did not captivate the pharaoh, but his kindness towards everyone.

Yugi was able to arrive back to the others without being seen and showed the bowl to Malik. "I got it! Also, I ran into Priestess Isis in the kitchen but she took my lie of you wanting to eat the honey and gave me some!"

"Excellent," Malik said. "Now we gotta slather the honey onto Joey."

Yugi, Ryou, and Malik got to work on slathering honey on Joey, who felt something cold and sticky on him. He heard their conversation and figured they were using something to get him out of there. However, it felt weird and he'll need to take a bath after he gets out to get rid of the sticky feeling on him.

As they finished putting the honey their friend, they started pulling on his legs again as hard as they could. After a few more tugs, they could see his body moving and they kept on pulling until Joey is fully out of the narrow tunnel. High-fiving each other, they went over to Joey and inspected him for any bruises or injury.

Joey waved them off. "Relax, you guys. I'm okay. I just need a bath to get rid of the honey on me."

"I'm just glad you didn't get bitten or anything while stuck in that tunnel," Ryou breathed a sigh of relief.

Yugi picked up the wooden bowl. "There's still a little bit of honey in here. Anyone want to taste it?"

Before anyone could answer, they heard someone screaming out their name loudly out of nowhere, causing them to jump in fright. Unfortunately, Yugi accidentally threw the bowl up in the air and it moved upside down, causing some of the honey to land on him and his friends. As the wooden bowl clattered on the ground, the boys sighed at the honey covering them while Mana apologized for scaring them.

"You called Seth cray-cray and then said he was wack?" Yugi looked at his friend in disbelief.

"I sure did," Joey replied while rubbing his bare arms with the bath water.

Malik snorted, leaning against the edge of the wall while feeling the water warm his entire skin. "I told Heru he is fucked up in the head and that his hair looked like a lion's mane. He thought I was referring to him as a powerful lion, and proceeded to eat my face."

Ryou winced, squeezing the water out of his hair. "That would explain your swollen lips."

"You got it," he placed his elbows behind him. "What about you? You have hickeys and bite-marks all over you."

Ryou could feel his entire body heating up, and it isn't coming from the water. "B-Besides calling him a bloody cobra, I accidentally called him a sex god."

"Not good at all. That means he bedded you, right?" Joey questioned.

Ryou nodded, still blushing. "Sadly, its true."

Yugi looked at his friend with pity. "I know how you feel. I tried to get Atem to tell me on whether or not he'll let us go to the Temple of Horus, but would say he is still thinking about it. I tried to force it out of him, but he still wouldn't budge. So I tried to seduce him-

"Wait!" Joey placed his hand up, his eyes widened in shock. "You actually tried to seduce him again!?"

Yugi turned red, and slowly nodded. "I thought I could start with kissing him, and lead him to the bed so I could be in control while he submits to it. I was gonna make him think I'm trying to bed him, which worked for a little while. I even touched him, and he started to beg me to let him take control."

Malik wolf-whistled. "Good job! You became dominant towards him!"

"Sadly, it didn't last long as he snapped out of that haze and stopped me. He knew I was trying to get an answer out of him, and told me my seduction won't work on him. It can only work if I wore something alluring for him, which will never happen!" Yugi pouted. "So I called him a horny pharaoh who dreamt of getting kidnapped by cats, and he laughed at me. I then told him his butt is too big, and he stopped laughing while looking at me with a weird expression on his face. I had to get out of there quick before he could do or say something to me."

Joey laughed. "You made fun of his butt!? That's hilarious!"

Ryou also laughed. "A-Agreed! He'll definitely be wondering if his bottom is big or not."

Malik chuckled. "Next time, you should tell him that he needs therapy for being attracted to cats and cute things."

"I'll keep that in mind, though he does have a nice butt," Yugi mumbled, but then gasped and covered his mouth while blushing.

Joey stopped laughing and looked at him. "Did you just say what I think you just said?"

Ryou blinked. "I heard him mumble it. He complimented on the pharaoh's bottom."

"Now I'm starting to believe the pharaoh is trying to brainwash Yugi," Malik replied.

Yugi ruffled his hair in astonishment. "W-Why did I even say that?! And not only that, why won't he leave my mind!?"

"Probably because he made you crave for him by touching your sensitive parts," Joey pointed out.

"Which is also another form of seduction," Malik added.

Ryou looked at the ceiling. "Besides the pharaoh seducing Yugi, do you think he'll let us be able to go to the Temple of Horus?"

"We'll probably have to ask Mana for help in convincing Atem to let us go there," Yugi answered. "She'll also make sure they won't do any funny business with us."

"You mean the crazy duck and the other two?" Joey mentioned.

"They would be the psycho and the cobra," Malik responded.

"Those terms can work," Ryou said.

Yugi nodded. "I still can't believe we called them sex gods."

"Because of that, we boosted their ego," Joey commented. "So we're doomed."

"They're also addicted to us just like how we're addicted to them. Its like they're trying to make us crave for them a lot, almost like a drug," Malik ran his fingers through his hair.

"I don't know if its unhealthy or not, but they can also be sweet sometimes," Ryou's cheeks turned pink. "Akefia loved hugging me since I was soft and smelled nice. I reminded him of a small lamb."

Yugi placed his fingertips on his lips, his cheeks turning red. "My lips still tingle whenever Atem kisses me. Last night, he went slow with me on the love-making so I can feel his gentleness." He rubbed his right arm. "He made my heart fell in love with him. It's causing a war between both my heart and my mind."

Joey gazed at his friends with a surprised expression. "Are all of you falling head over heels for them!?"

"Guilty as charged," Malik answered while lightly blushing.

Joey looked at them for a few minutes, and then groaned. "Since we're all confessing here, I admit that I gained a crush on Seth. He and I are overprotective of our younger siblings, and we're both stubborn. However, I have self-control while he doesn't."

"So its official, we all fell in love with our Egyptian counterparts," Ryou responded.

"Yeah, but the sad part is that its forbidden. We're from the future, and they're from the past. We cannot intervene in certain events that will happen in this era or the future could alter," Malik frowned, folding his arms over his chest. "Heru and the others mustn't know much about our future either. It can cause a mass panic in the kingdom, and no one else outside the palace must know where we came from."

"They also must be reincarnated into the next life. Priest Siamun must be reborn as Solomon Mutou for Yugi to be born, Priest Karim and Priestess Isis must be reborn as Odion and Ishizu so they can exist with Malik, and the others will also be reborn again with different names," Ryou listed from his fingers.

"If there's a chance Atem, Seth, Akefia, and Heru are reincarnated in the future, they'll probably be living in Egypt or somewhere else," Yugi said.

Joey scratched the side of his hair. "This is way too confusing. First we wanted to go back home, but now we don't know if we should leave or stay."

"It would be nice to stay here, but our loved ones are worried for us. Plus, we agreed to finish school first," Malik pointed out.

"Tristan and the others will also worry when they don't see us in Domino City. They'll be coming back from their visit to America soon," Ryou added.

"We also gotta finish our homework," Yugi finished.

Joey groaned in frustration. "I still hate homework!"

Malik swung his legs back and forth, lying on the huge bed on his stomach while reading a papyrus. After he and his friends were done bathing and had their clothes cleaned, a couple of the servants told them the pharaoh and priest wanted their lovers immediately, so they escorted Yugi and Joey to them. Ryou and him were able to find a room filled with scrolls and papyrus, so they decided to read to pass the time while waiting for their friends.

Then, one of the priests, known as Shada, spotted them and asked if the papyrus interested them. He even gave them a brief history on the origins of Khemet, along with the previous pharaoh Aknamkanon, who is Atem's father. They learned a little bit on Atem's mother, who is queen Akila. Malik is surprised to hear that Atem took the throne a year ago due to his father's recent death from an illness. Though he still couldn't figure out why he suddenly became the nameless pharaoh in which he and the other tomb-keepers are unable to figure out until now.

After that recent lesson, Ryou felt a little tired and decided to go back to his room to take a nap. Malik got permission to take the papyrus with him to his room so he can continue to read it. Now that he has some information about Atem, he'll figure out a way to remember his name and no longer call him the nameless pharaoh.

As he continued to read the papyrus, he felt a weight on the bed next to him and something lying on his back. Luckily, he kept his black tank top on or he would've felt his hair tickling his back. "Long meeting, Heru?"

He heard small grumbling, along with a loud yawn. "Not just long, but boring. They wouldn't let me leave until I tell them every bit of information on how we won the battle against the enemy. Those fools should've written it all down, but they didn't and only nodded their heads." Heru scoffed at the memory. "I still don't get why they even became scribes if they won't write down anything I say!?"

"Probably because you remind them of a fierce lion due to your hair and that you're an assassin who can kill them easily," Malik answered, his eyes scanning the papyrus.

Heru chuckled, and kissed his head. "You are very funny, my pretty. Not just hilarious, but smart and courageous."

"Thank you. I'm glad you realized how intelligent I am."

"Anything to see you smile~"

Malik chuckled, as his lips stretched into a small smile. "I remembered earlier that you and others discussed with the pharaoh on our trip towards the Temple of Horus. Is he still thinking it over?"

Heru nodded, and lied on his stomach next to him. "He is. The pharaoh is going through the pros and cons on whether or not it is a good idea to go to Edfu. He understands that all of you miss your loved ones, but all of us here in the palace will miss you 4 dearly."

"It won't be forever. Once the pocket-watch is fixed, we'll test it again to make sure it won't break when we visit this era again," Malik bit his lip. "You don't want us to leave, and I understand. The others and I are still deciding on whether or not it's a good idea to stay here and be with you all forever. But sadly, we can't do that since our friends and family are wondering where we are."

"Hmm…"

"Thinking about something?"

"I can convince the pharaoh to let us go to Edfu."

"R-Really!?" Malik sat up and looked at him. "You can do that!?"

Heru smirked and also sat up. "Only if you do one thing for us."

"Which is?"

"Marry us."

"… Are you feeling okay?"

"I'm not sick, my pretty. I am serious about it."

Malik shook his head. "Heru, I'm still in school and this is way too fast. Are you sure you want to marry me?"

"I am sure, Malik. There's no one I want to marry except you."

"B-But marriage? This is a big deal. Can't we do something else besides marriage that will convince the pharaoh to let us go to Edfu?"

"The 4 of you can bear us an heir~"

"Okay, now you're obviously sick!"

"Just think it over, my pretty~ I'm sure you'll like those offers~"

"I'll have to talk it over with my friends. They deserve the right to know."

"Go ahead and take your time."

"Also, men can't get pregnant!"

"Its possible when you get the blessings from the gods~"

"You and the others are not only insane, but possessive."

"Thank you~"

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