Separation
Chapter 6 The Morning After
Notes: Mokuba: Breakfast! Yum! Just wait until you taste it!
What will you eat, chocolate frosted sugar bombs?
Mokuba: What are those?
Forget it. But trust me, this is where Mokuba's more adorable side comes out.
Yugi: I'm just glad he hasn't read Calvin and Hobbes. Could you imagine if there really were chocolate frosted sugar bombs?
Mokuba: Maybe I can make some!
Everyone: NO!
Joey: (applauding his own performance) ENCORE! ENCORE! I want more!
Seto: (facefault) You still haven't had enough?
Joey: Nope.
Well, I suppose I could do another makeout scene, to make up for not doing a sex scene before!
~Tea~
Mai and I crept into the mansion the next morning to fix breakfast for the boys. We had agreed to meet there the next morning, and so here we were. We entered the kitchen to find it not empty.
Mokuba was rummaging through the cupboards. He emerged from the enormous cabinet with a box of Fruit Loops under each arm, a can of whipped cream in his hand, and several pixie sticks dangling from the side of his mouth. "Yum! Hi Tea! Hello Mai! Come to join us for breakfast?"
"You um, could say that." Mai answered.
Mokuba spat the pixie sticks onto the kitchen island. "Great! I'll get out extra bowls." He stacked the boxes of Fruit Loops on top of each other and the whipped cream on top of that.
"Um... Mokuba, are you supposed to be eating that?" I asked nervously.
"Oh, its not for me, its for Seto and Joey! They're still asleep, I heard weird noises from their room late last night, and they're still asleep, whatever they were doing. So I thought they could use something to wake them up." Mokuba answered
"Weird noises?" Mai asked, "What kind of weird noises?"
Mokuba shrugged. "They were moaning and calling each other's names a lot. Other'n that, I don't know really how to describe it."
Mai and I looked at each other. "You don't think they were..." I began.
Mai hushed me and pointed at Mokuba. "Not our problem." She mouthed.
I nodded. "Actually Mokuba, we came here to make breakfast, so you don't need to make just cereal."
"Yeay!" Mokuba exclaimed, glomping me happily. "You're so cool Tea!" Mokuba grinned, looking up at me happily. He let go.
Mai and I began to collect bowls and equipment from the cabinets and hooks above the kitchen island. "Whatcha gonna make?" Mokuba asked, watching.
"A bunch of things, do you have any bacon or sausage?" I asked.
Mokuba rushed to get them. "Can I help?"
"I suppose." Mai said, getting eggs, milk, vanilla and sugar out of the refrigerator and cupboards. "Lets see, pancakes, waffles, biscuits, cinnamon buns, molasses and sugar cookies for later, since the dough will need to chill a bit, bacon and sausage."
We scattered to get equipment and ingredients.
~an hour and a half later~
The cookie dough was chilling, and the biscuits and cinnamon buns were baking. Mai was frying bacon and sausage and making home fries, all in the same pan. Tristan and Otogi knocked lightly. Mokuba let them in. "Wow, you three made all of THIS?" Tristan demanded.
"Yeah. If you wait for about thirty minutes, we'll have enough for everyone to have a little of everything." Mai said, preoccupied.
"We found Mokuba about to make fruit loops with whipped cream and pixie sticks." I explained.
"And that was the point where I felt obliged to intervene." Mai explained. "So I'm making everything that my mom ever made for breakfast, plus cookies for snacking later on, because the dough needs to chill."
"Yeah, I don't think he needs more sugar." Tristan agreed, looking over to where Mokuba was currently on his fifth pixie stick.
"Done!" Mai exclaimed, happily heaping bacon, sausage, pancakes, waffles, and home fries onto enough plates for all of us.
I pulled the cinnamon buns and biscuits out of the oven, and piled them on top of the other food, just one of each. Between us, we put together trays for the invalids upstairs. I then gathered up a tray each for Yami and Yugi and carried them upstairs.
~Yami~
I heard somebody coming. Silently, I pulled Yugi closer, as if to protect him from the outside world. I wondered absently why I was suddenly being so protective. It was probably the stress of being separated from my little Hikari. I smoothed his hair back from his face. I slipped into his mind. Yugi hadn't completely recovered from last night it seems. He still felt the pain in his dreams, felt naked and exposed.
I slipped gently into his dreams. Yes, Yugi was having a nightmare that all the duelists he had ever beaten would come back and hurt him. How horrible. //Aibou...// I said gently. //Aibou?//
//YAMI-KUN!// Yugi wailed.
//You're only dreaming Aibou. Wake up! I smell breakfast!//
Yugi's eyes slowly fluttered open. There was a gentle knock on the door.
"Come in." I called softly, pulling the blankets up to cover my drowsy hikari.
Tea came in, balancing two trays. "I hope you're hungry, Mai went on a cooking spree."
She set them down on the bed. "Seto had really weird orange juice, its pink but it tastes alright, I checked." Tea grinned. "It was labeled blood orange juice. Mokuba said it wasn't really made with blood, but the oranges were red."
"Wow." Yugi exclaimed when he saw everything Mai had made.
"I don't think I'll be able to eat all of this!" I exclaimed. Which is true, normally, I don't have to eat. I'll do so to be polite, but I don't need it.
Right on cue, my stomach began to growl. So did Yugi's. It was funny! Our stomachs were growling in unison!
"I hope you guys are alright." Tea said worriedly. "Marik and Ryou got the worst of it, Seto seems to think its because they've been bonded with their spirits longer."
I nodded. "It might be. I don't know everything about my existence. It was incredible though. I felt like a wounded animal."
"It was like I'd been robbed of everything." Yugi said softly. He shivered, leaning against me. "I felt naked, exposed, vulnerable. I think Yami's arms around my shoulders was the only thing that kept me from going insane last night."
"Seto compared it to losing a limb and not being able to do what you wanted to because of it." Tea said, looking shyly at the floor.
"Seto knows a lot about human nature." I acknowledged.
"By the way Yami, what are the two of you doing naked in bed?" Tea asked, arching an eye brow in inquiry.
Yugi sweatdropped. I turned to him. //Aibou, its your call.//
Yugi shivered. //If I can't trust Tea, then who can I trust?//
//If that's what you want. I think we've been caught with our hands in the cookie jar.// I said with a mental sigh.
I told her.
"SAY FUCKING WHAAAT?" Tea demanded.
Yugi winced. "Um... well... it did seem to help a bit." He said shyly. I wrapped an arm around his waist, willing my aibou strength.
"And I looked different in life." I told Tea. "So its not exactly narsci... narsco..." I stumbled over the word.
"Narcssiphilia." Tea supplied. "No, I suppose it wouldn't be."
"I knew you wouldn't care." Yugi said dejectedly.
"NO!" Tea protested. "Its not that...It's just.... sudden. I really don't have a problem with you being gay. I don't! Just be really, really careful who you tell, okay? Promise me you won't leak it at school!"
Yugi brightened. "I promise Tea."
I wrapped my arms around my aibou's waist. "Hmmm..." I said softly, burying my face in his hair. "This stuff smells good Tea. We'll come downstairs later, but if you don't hurry, I think Joey and Tristan will eat it all."
"Okay." Tea nodded with a smile.
~Seto~
The smell of food woke me up. Wait a minute, Mokuba's not allowed to use the stove until he's fourteen! I opened my eyes in time to see the sunrise illuminating Joey's face. Oh gods. He's absolutely beautiful when he's sleeping. I buried my face in his hair, pulling Joey closer to me and attempted to go back to sleep.
I was rudely interrupted when something small, soft and fuzzy jumped onto the bed. Somebody shouted in my ear. "ONIIIIIIISSAAAAANNNNN!"
Giggling, Mokuba jumped off the bed. I found twisted tissues in my nose and ears, and my hair was covered in whipped cream. "MOKUBA YOU LITTLE RAT!" I shouted, sitting straight up in bed.
"Huh?" Joey found his hair covered in whipped cream and the same sticky substance making a smiley face on his back.
"MOKUBA GET OUT!" I shrieked, yanking the tissues out of my nose and ears. "I know you find this absolutely hilarious but since we have guests can you at least give us some privacy!"
"What's that?" Mokuba asked, with fake innocence.
"Never mind." I rolled my eyes. "Go on! We'll shower and meet you downstairs."
Mokuba bounced out of the room, happy to have accomplished his mischief. Joey blinked. "Uhhh..."
I grinned, coming up behind him and licking at the whipped cream. "Hmmm..." I murmured, as my lips moved downward. I dug my finger tips into Joey's hips for balance. "Let me get that off for you." I smirked.
Joey shivered in pleasure. "That feels soooo good."
"I'll bet Mokuba's standing outside and listening to you say that right now." I chuckled.
We laughed. It felt good to laugh. Then I turned back to licking the whipped cream off. Joey held still, eyes closed, while I did it. But the gentle shivers that ran through him as I did showed that he liked it. I tried to make the experience, a little more... sensuous than normal. My hands slid up Joey's thighs, then across the waistband of his boxers, and down his thighs again, brushing against the suspicious hard lump in his boxers.
Joey moaned as I worked my way back up his back, licking and sucking at the skin. Gently, ever so gently, I slipped his boxers off and grinned. "Race ya' to the shower!"
Joey jumped and bolted after me. "Hey Seto that's not fair! Wait for me!"
Joey tripped over the edge of the bathtub and landed smack on top of me. After my eyes uncrossed I pulled the shower curtain across the tub and reached out with one hand to turn on the water.
Joey shook the stars out of his eyes. "Hey, nice tub, I'll bet you can fit two in here."
"We'll find out later." I smirked. "You wash my back I'll wash yours?"
"Deal!" Joey grinned.
From his smirk I knew we'd be doing a lot more than just washing each other's backs.
~Tea~
"Gods I wish I had Yugi's courage." I told Mai as I brought our breakfast out onto the patio behind the house. "If somebody were to... to confront me about us... I wouldn't have admitted it."
Mai wrapped her arms around my waist. "Come and eat." She said tenderly. "No use feeding the fowl to starve the cook."
I leaned into the touch for comfort. "I was just... so scared... I don't want my parents to find out what we've been doing."
Mai smiled tenderly down at me. "And they won't."
"I hope Bakura and Ryou wake up soon. Marik and Ishtar should too." I said worriedly.
Mai sat down and cut a good-sized bite of her pancakes. "That will happen when it happens. Remember that there's really nothing that you can do about that."
I nodded, breaking off a piece of cinnamon bun. "I know, it's just very stressful. I keep expecting that thief to stab us in the back."
Mai shrugged. "As they say in Egypt, its God's will. Only its more of a chance thing."
I nodded. "That doesn't keep me from worrying." I answered. "You would to if it were a brother or somebody."
"I suppose." Mai offered me a strawberry from her fingers. I chuckled, nipping it from her hand, then licking off the extra juices. It was a gesture of affection from her, and Mai ran the fingers on her other hand tenderly through my hair. "You may not have a Millennium Item, but you're still my aibou."
Gods she's gorgeous, and so gentle. That is the Mai that I love so much. She may seem to be intense, maybe a bit ditsy at times, or act like one tough, big-busted broad. But deep down, her moods are much more intense. She's gentler, more tender than she seems. Mai is more vulnerable than people take her for. The act of being tough is more of a front. Considering some of the perverts that pass for professional duelists, I don't really blame her.
I shiver as her touch slips like a ghost down my cheek and the sensitive part of the back of my neck. Mai smiled at me, leaning her forehead against mine. "It will all work out, you'll see."
I really hope that she's right.
Chapter 6 The Morning After
Notes: Mokuba: Breakfast! Yum! Just wait until you taste it!
What will you eat, chocolate frosted sugar bombs?
Mokuba: What are those?
Forget it. But trust me, this is where Mokuba's more adorable side comes out.
Yugi: I'm just glad he hasn't read Calvin and Hobbes. Could you imagine if there really were chocolate frosted sugar bombs?
Mokuba: Maybe I can make some!
Everyone: NO!
Joey: (applauding his own performance) ENCORE! ENCORE! I want more!
Seto: (facefault) You still haven't had enough?
Joey: Nope.
Well, I suppose I could do another makeout scene, to make up for not doing a sex scene before!
~Tea~
Mai and I crept into the mansion the next morning to fix breakfast for the boys. We had agreed to meet there the next morning, and so here we were. We entered the kitchen to find it not empty.
Mokuba was rummaging through the cupboards. He emerged from the enormous cabinet with a box of Fruit Loops under each arm, a can of whipped cream in his hand, and several pixie sticks dangling from the side of his mouth. "Yum! Hi Tea! Hello Mai! Come to join us for breakfast?"
"You um, could say that." Mai answered.
Mokuba spat the pixie sticks onto the kitchen island. "Great! I'll get out extra bowls." He stacked the boxes of Fruit Loops on top of each other and the whipped cream on top of that.
"Um... Mokuba, are you supposed to be eating that?" I asked nervously.
"Oh, its not for me, its for Seto and Joey! They're still asleep, I heard weird noises from their room late last night, and they're still asleep, whatever they were doing. So I thought they could use something to wake them up." Mokuba answered
"Weird noises?" Mai asked, "What kind of weird noises?"
Mokuba shrugged. "They were moaning and calling each other's names a lot. Other'n that, I don't know really how to describe it."
Mai and I looked at each other. "You don't think they were..." I began.
Mai hushed me and pointed at Mokuba. "Not our problem." She mouthed.
I nodded. "Actually Mokuba, we came here to make breakfast, so you don't need to make just cereal."
"Yeay!" Mokuba exclaimed, glomping me happily. "You're so cool Tea!" Mokuba grinned, looking up at me happily. He let go.
Mai and I began to collect bowls and equipment from the cabinets and hooks above the kitchen island. "Whatcha gonna make?" Mokuba asked, watching.
"A bunch of things, do you have any bacon or sausage?" I asked.
Mokuba rushed to get them. "Can I help?"
"I suppose." Mai said, getting eggs, milk, vanilla and sugar out of the refrigerator and cupboards. "Lets see, pancakes, waffles, biscuits, cinnamon buns, molasses and sugar cookies for later, since the dough will need to chill a bit, bacon and sausage."
We scattered to get equipment and ingredients.
~an hour and a half later~
The cookie dough was chilling, and the biscuits and cinnamon buns were baking. Mai was frying bacon and sausage and making home fries, all in the same pan. Tristan and Otogi knocked lightly. Mokuba let them in. "Wow, you three made all of THIS?" Tristan demanded.
"Yeah. If you wait for about thirty minutes, we'll have enough for everyone to have a little of everything." Mai said, preoccupied.
"We found Mokuba about to make fruit loops with whipped cream and pixie sticks." I explained.
"And that was the point where I felt obliged to intervene." Mai explained. "So I'm making everything that my mom ever made for breakfast, plus cookies for snacking later on, because the dough needs to chill."
"Yeah, I don't think he needs more sugar." Tristan agreed, looking over to where Mokuba was currently on his fifth pixie stick.
"Done!" Mai exclaimed, happily heaping bacon, sausage, pancakes, waffles, and home fries onto enough plates for all of us.
I pulled the cinnamon buns and biscuits out of the oven, and piled them on top of the other food, just one of each. Between us, we put together trays for the invalids upstairs. I then gathered up a tray each for Yami and Yugi and carried them upstairs.
~Yami~
I heard somebody coming. Silently, I pulled Yugi closer, as if to protect him from the outside world. I wondered absently why I was suddenly being so protective. It was probably the stress of being separated from my little Hikari. I smoothed his hair back from his face. I slipped into his mind. Yugi hadn't completely recovered from last night it seems. He still felt the pain in his dreams, felt naked and exposed.
I slipped gently into his dreams. Yes, Yugi was having a nightmare that all the duelists he had ever beaten would come back and hurt him. How horrible. //Aibou...// I said gently. //Aibou?//
//YAMI-KUN!// Yugi wailed.
//You're only dreaming Aibou. Wake up! I smell breakfast!//
Yugi's eyes slowly fluttered open. There was a gentle knock on the door.
"Come in." I called softly, pulling the blankets up to cover my drowsy hikari.
Tea came in, balancing two trays. "I hope you're hungry, Mai went on a cooking spree."
She set them down on the bed. "Seto had really weird orange juice, its pink but it tastes alright, I checked." Tea grinned. "It was labeled blood orange juice. Mokuba said it wasn't really made with blood, but the oranges were red."
"Wow." Yugi exclaimed when he saw everything Mai had made.
"I don't think I'll be able to eat all of this!" I exclaimed. Which is true, normally, I don't have to eat. I'll do so to be polite, but I don't need it.
Right on cue, my stomach began to growl. So did Yugi's. It was funny! Our stomachs were growling in unison!
"I hope you guys are alright." Tea said worriedly. "Marik and Ryou got the worst of it, Seto seems to think its because they've been bonded with their spirits longer."
I nodded. "It might be. I don't know everything about my existence. It was incredible though. I felt like a wounded animal."
"It was like I'd been robbed of everything." Yugi said softly. He shivered, leaning against me. "I felt naked, exposed, vulnerable. I think Yami's arms around my shoulders was the only thing that kept me from going insane last night."
"Seto compared it to losing a limb and not being able to do what you wanted to because of it." Tea said, looking shyly at the floor.
"Seto knows a lot about human nature." I acknowledged.
"By the way Yami, what are the two of you doing naked in bed?" Tea asked, arching an eye brow in inquiry.
Yugi sweatdropped. I turned to him. //Aibou, its your call.//
Yugi shivered. //If I can't trust Tea, then who can I trust?//
//If that's what you want. I think we've been caught with our hands in the cookie jar.// I said with a mental sigh.
I told her.
"SAY FUCKING WHAAAT?" Tea demanded.
Yugi winced. "Um... well... it did seem to help a bit." He said shyly. I wrapped an arm around his waist, willing my aibou strength.
"And I looked different in life." I told Tea. "So its not exactly narsci... narsco..." I stumbled over the word.
"Narcssiphilia." Tea supplied. "No, I suppose it wouldn't be."
"I knew you wouldn't care." Yugi said dejectedly.
"NO!" Tea protested. "Its not that...It's just.... sudden. I really don't have a problem with you being gay. I don't! Just be really, really careful who you tell, okay? Promise me you won't leak it at school!"
Yugi brightened. "I promise Tea."
I wrapped my arms around my aibou's waist. "Hmmm..." I said softly, burying my face in his hair. "This stuff smells good Tea. We'll come downstairs later, but if you don't hurry, I think Joey and Tristan will eat it all."
"Okay." Tea nodded with a smile.
~Seto~
The smell of food woke me up. Wait a minute, Mokuba's not allowed to use the stove until he's fourteen! I opened my eyes in time to see the sunrise illuminating Joey's face. Oh gods. He's absolutely beautiful when he's sleeping. I buried my face in his hair, pulling Joey closer to me and attempted to go back to sleep.
I was rudely interrupted when something small, soft and fuzzy jumped onto the bed. Somebody shouted in my ear. "ONIIIIIIISSAAAAANNNNN!"
Giggling, Mokuba jumped off the bed. I found twisted tissues in my nose and ears, and my hair was covered in whipped cream. "MOKUBA YOU LITTLE RAT!" I shouted, sitting straight up in bed.
"Huh?" Joey found his hair covered in whipped cream and the same sticky substance making a smiley face on his back.
"MOKUBA GET OUT!" I shrieked, yanking the tissues out of my nose and ears. "I know you find this absolutely hilarious but since we have guests can you at least give us some privacy!"
"What's that?" Mokuba asked, with fake innocence.
"Never mind." I rolled my eyes. "Go on! We'll shower and meet you downstairs."
Mokuba bounced out of the room, happy to have accomplished his mischief. Joey blinked. "Uhhh..."
I grinned, coming up behind him and licking at the whipped cream. "Hmmm..." I murmured, as my lips moved downward. I dug my finger tips into Joey's hips for balance. "Let me get that off for you." I smirked.
Joey shivered in pleasure. "That feels soooo good."
"I'll bet Mokuba's standing outside and listening to you say that right now." I chuckled.
We laughed. It felt good to laugh. Then I turned back to licking the whipped cream off. Joey held still, eyes closed, while I did it. But the gentle shivers that ran through him as I did showed that he liked it. I tried to make the experience, a little more... sensuous than normal. My hands slid up Joey's thighs, then across the waistband of his boxers, and down his thighs again, brushing against the suspicious hard lump in his boxers.
Joey moaned as I worked my way back up his back, licking and sucking at the skin. Gently, ever so gently, I slipped his boxers off and grinned. "Race ya' to the shower!"
Joey jumped and bolted after me. "Hey Seto that's not fair! Wait for me!"
Joey tripped over the edge of the bathtub and landed smack on top of me. After my eyes uncrossed I pulled the shower curtain across the tub and reached out with one hand to turn on the water.
Joey shook the stars out of his eyes. "Hey, nice tub, I'll bet you can fit two in here."
"We'll find out later." I smirked. "You wash my back I'll wash yours?"
"Deal!" Joey grinned.
From his smirk I knew we'd be doing a lot more than just washing each other's backs.
~Tea~
"Gods I wish I had Yugi's courage." I told Mai as I brought our breakfast out onto the patio behind the house. "If somebody were to... to confront me about us... I wouldn't have admitted it."
Mai wrapped her arms around my waist. "Come and eat." She said tenderly. "No use feeding the fowl to starve the cook."
I leaned into the touch for comfort. "I was just... so scared... I don't want my parents to find out what we've been doing."
Mai smiled tenderly down at me. "And they won't."
"I hope Bakura and Ryou wake up soon. Marik and Ishtar should too." I said worriedly.
Mai sat down and cut a good-sized bite of her pancakes. "That will happen when it happens. Remember that there's really nothing that you can do about that."
I nodded, breaking off a piece of cinnamon bun. "I know, it's just very stressful. I keep expecting that thief to stab us in the back."
Mai shrugged. "As they say in Egypt, its God's will. Only its more of a chance thing."
I nodded. "That doesn't keep me from worrying." I answered. "You would to if it were a brother or somebody."
"I suppose." Mai offered me a strawberry from her fingers. I chuckled, nipping it from her hand, then licking off the extra juices. It was a gesture of affection from her, and Mai ran the fingers on her other hand tenderly through my hair. "You may not have a Millennium Item, but you're still my aibou."
Gods she's gorgeous, and so gentle. That is the Mai that I love so much. She may seem to be intense, maybe a bit ditsy at times, or act like one tough, big-busted broad. But deep down, her moods are much more intense. She's gentler, more tender than she seems. Mai is more vulnerable than people take her for. The act of being tough is more of a front. Considering some of the perverts that pass for professional duelists, I don't really blame her.
I shiver as her touch slips like a ghost down my cheek and the sensitive part of the back of my neck. Mai smiled at me, leaning her forehead against mine. "It will all work out, you'll see."
I really hope that she's right.