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Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh, neither does my aibou.

Notes:

/" "/ indicates either Yugi or Yami talking mentally to each other.

*~*~*~* indicates the end or start of a flashback

--- indicates a scene change and/or time passing

(" ") indicates thinking



Chapter Two

Yugi could not have been more shocked. He was so thankful that it was his other self, not him, that Kaiba was coming onto. His other self would easily shove Kaiba away and probably do a 'mind crush' on him or something where Yugi would've been too shocked to do anything.

After a moment though, Yugi realized that wasn't what was happening.

His other self was kissing Kaiba back... and not innocently either.

One hand in Kaiba's hair pulled him closer as their tongues rubbed against each other.

Yugi had always thought the two's obsession for each other had been a bit... odd, but he had NOT been expecting this. He could only watch, stunned, as they finally broke the kiss and Kaiba headed back to his room to finish preparing for the next duel. Yami watched him leave.

Yami turned to meet the dumbfounded look on his hikari's face with his normal, if not somehow forced now to hide some embarrassment, look of nonchalance.

"It's..." Yami cleared his throat, "...an ancient Egyptian thing," he said, as if that was a good enough explanation for suddenly making out with Kaiba.

Yugi wanted a better reason, but they were soon called to the next duel. The matter went on unsolved, due to Malik trying to kill and/or destroy pretty much everyone and everything that was around.

Had that been the only incident, it wouldn't have been such a big problem. Perhaps Yugi could've even let it go, but soon after Battle City, Kaiba had invited, or more like requested, Yami to come to his mansion.

They dueled using Kaiba's holographic system. As anyone could have predicted, Yami won.

Kaiba smirked, "I guess the only way to win against you is to threaten suicide."

Yami stayed silent.

"And if it was up to you, I would have died right then," Kaiba approached him.

Yami crossed his arms, "It sounds like you're searching for a reason to hate me."

Kaiba stopped.

"You're just confused," Yami closed the distance between them and lightly joined one hand with Kaiba's, "Our souls have been connected for a long time..."

Yugi didn't like the direction this was going in...

Kaiba and his other self were engaged in a passionate kiss, Yami's arms clinging to Kaiba's back; their bodies tightly held together. Yugi was finally about to interrupt them, when they stopped on their own.

"Seto..." That was the first time Yugi had heard his other self use Kaiba's first name... and he had no doubt it was not a good sign.

"This way," Kaiba turned and lead Yami out of the room and down the hall.

Again Yugi felt very uneasy and it didn't make him feel any better when he realized Kaiba was taking them into a bedroom.

Yugi wanted to say something. He really didn't want his body having sex with Kaiba, but he just got too embarrassed to say anything to his other self. As soon as they started taking off each others' clothes, Yugi immediately shut himself in his soul room.

He sat for a long time on the floor of his soul room, hugging his knees and his head swimming, trying to process what was going on.

---

Sometime later, the familiar voice called him, "Aibou..."

Yugi looked up, but had trouble meeting his other self's eyes. He could feel his face turn bright red.

"...sorry, aibou..."

Yugi just felt more embarrassed and directed his eyes to the floor.

"...it won't happen again..."

There was something about the way his other self said that... Yugi looked up at his yami, "Mou hitori no boku... you always help me out so much..." Yugi smiled, hoping it didn't' look forced, "...if it makes you happy, I don't mind."

"...aibou..." Yami smiled back.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

...of course, Yugi had been lying. Yami and Kaiba having sex bothered him... a lot. Yugi did love his other self deeply though, and he wanted him to be happy. Yami was not... a generally happy person, so if this was what it took, Yugi could bear hiding out in his soul room while they did... whatever. That was not something Yugi wanted to think too much about... in fact, he really didn't want to think about it all.

He looked up at Jounouchi as they walked home together after school, desperately wanting to tell Jounouchi the truth. He wasn't allowed to though. Yami had told him that both he and Kaiba wanted to keep their... recreation secret. The Big 5 had already done enough damage to Kaiba's company, it really didn't need a scandal on top of that.

"Yugi?"

"!" Yugi realized he must have been staring at Jounouchi for quite some time. He looked down, embarrassed.

"Yugi, how about we go out tomorrow?" Jounouchi smiled.

"Tomorrow?"

"Yeah, just you and me. It'll be, ya know, a date."

Yugi's face brightened at the prospect of spending the whole day with Jounouchi, "That'd be great!"

/"Aibou."/

/"Mm? Mou hitori no boku?"/

/"Tomorrow we have plans with Seto..."/

/"Oh..."/

Jounouchi was getting very enthusiastic already, "Awesome, so I'll-"

"Sorry, Jounouchi-kun, tomorrow's no good."

"Yugi? But you just said..."

Yugi looked down.

Jounouchi sighed, "What about the day after, then?"

"Mm, sure," he responded without any of his previous enthusiasm.

"Hey, Yugi.." Jounouchi put his hands on the sides of Yugi face and pecked him on the forehead.

"Ah, Jounouchi-kun?" Yugi blushed.

"You know you can trust me with anything, right? You can tell me if your having any problems."

"...is it that obvious?"

Jounouchi smiled knowingly. "You're no good at hiding your feelings. So what is it that you can't tell me?"

"...I'll tell you when we go out."

"Come on, you can't tell me now?"

"I'll tell you then, I promise," Yugi wound his arms around Jounouchi's waist and hugged him.

Jounouchi smiled and hugged back, "Alright then."

As Yugi entered the Kame Game Shop, his darker self interrupted hesitantly, /"Uh, aibou..."/

"I know, mou hitori no boku. But I have to tell him... It's only Jounouchi-kun, Kaiba-kun won't mind, right?"

Yami was doubtful, but he couldn't refuse Yugi, /"I'll talk to him."/



to be continued