Me: WEEEEE I'M BACK, YOU KNOW IT, I'M BACK, I'M GONNA SHOW IT!
Hehe....umm....on with story...
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Rivalry of the Heart
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Chapter Four
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Mariku sneered at them, "Pharaoh, give me the puzzle!"
"Not unless you win it fairly from me!" Yami growled. Mariku grinned, "Well, then, I will just have to then, won't I?"
Mariku's face then turned angry, "Or I could force you to give it to me."
With the power of the Sennen Rod he began to destroy things around him. In the center of the room was the large round ball that was Noa's brain. Things began to crash down around it.
"Seto! We have to save Noa's brain, it'll be destroyed!" Mokuba cried.
"Hurry back to the blimp and get my laptop and all it's wires, I have an idea," Seto said.
Mariku laughed, and shot a beam toward Mokuba. Mokuba jumped and ran faster.
Mariku laughed, cruelly.
~~~
Mokuba rushed inside the blimp and grabbed Seto's laptop and all the wiring that went with it and rushed back out to where the group was.
He handed his brother the laptop.
"Okay, cover me..." Seto took a leap, and grabbed some of the components that stuck out of the large ball. He climbed up and sat on top of it, hooking the wires of his laptop into it. Noa's face appeared on his laptop screen.
"What the hell are you doing?!" He yelped.
"Saving you. Now shut the fuck up," he began to type away on his laptop, and a bar appeared at the bottom of the screen, with the word 'Uploading' beneath it.
Noa's face disappeared.
Meanwhile, Mariku was running a muck. Katsuya had been hit by one of his attacks and sent into a wall. He shook his head clear of the dizziness, and stood, looking up at Seto, "Hurry up, ryu!"
Seto bit his lip and looked at the bar which was only at 50%
"Faster, you piece of shit, faster..."
60%
BOOM. That blast had been to close for Seto's comfort.
70%
BANG. Dammit, they were getting closer.
80%
BAM. That was _too_ close.
90%
CRASH. Seto barely dodged a falling screen, which bounced off the large electronic ball, barely scratching it.
100%
BOOOOOM! The ball was destroyed, just as Seto closed up his laptop, and began to fall. As the ground came closer, he shifted his body weight, so he landed on his back. As he landed, his head collided with the floor, and he was knocked unconscious.
Katsuya rushed toward him, "Seto!"
His fell to the floor, on his knees, and wrapped his arms around the brunette, pulling the upper half of his body from the floor, slightly.
"CEASE!"
Everything stopped, and everyone turned to Isis, who stood there.
Mariku growled and threw a blast at her. She jumped out of the way, landing on one knee, "Yuugi, you must get the Rod from him and to Seto, quickly."
"I don't understand," Yuugi asked.
"The Rod's rightful owner in Seto. If he obtains the Rod, Mariku's threat will vanish, and Seto will be able to free all those that Mariku has harmed," Isis replied.
Yuugi glanced back and forth, and as Mariku became distracted by Isis, Yuugi lunged and yanked the Rod out of his hands, landing in roll on the floor.
"Jou, catch!" Yuugi threw the Sennen Rod to him.
Mariku growled, "No!"
Katsuya caught it, and shook Seto, violently, "Wake up, ryu, wake up!"
Seto moaned, but did not awaken.
Mariku, now, hovered over Katsuya, "Give it back to me."
"No! Wake up, Seto, hurry!" Katsuya shook him again.
"Give it back now!" Mariku growled.
"NO!" Katsuya said.
Mariku was growing very impatient. He grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him up. Katsuya's grip on the Rod tightened.
Mariku grinned, "When I get the Rod back, you are the next of my victims to lose their soul."
"That...won't....happen..."
Seto was awake now, pushing himself up off the floor, and he took the Rod from Katsuya.
Mariku, for the first time since the group had met him, looked scared.
Seto looked at the Rod, then at Isis.
"You must believe in yourself as High Priest Seth, and in the Rod. That is the only way you can vanquish the evil which has taken hold of my brother's body," The woman said to him.
Seto nodded. After seeing two Yuugi's, he was really starting to believe in the ancient past stuff. He held the Rod up toward Mariku.
"Be gone, darkness, do not plague Malik Ishtar any longer," Seto whispered, and the Rod glowed. Mariku yelped, and seemed to be pulled from Malik's body and into the Rod.
Malik, eye's half lidded, blinked, then fell unconscious.
Seto, also, blinked, "It worked."
Isis nodded, "Come now, so you can free everyone from the shadow realm."
~~~
Inside the blimp, Seto hooked his laptop up to the main computers, so Mokuba or anyone else could talk to Noa.
"Seto! Wait..." Noa said.
"What?"
"Arigato...'nii-san." Noa replied.(AN okay, I'm not sure what to use here, because they are suppose to be the same age, so I'll just have Noa say 'nii- san because he LOOKS younger then Seto...go with it people, I'm not a Japanese wiz XD)
Seto smirked, "Douitashimashite(1)."
~~~
Seto hovered over Mai, and murmured something in Egyptian, which caught him by complete surprise.
Mai's purple eyes opened, and she looked up at them, "What...what happened?"
Now, Mai was also bisexual, but she had a very large crush on Katsuya, and no idea that he was dating Seto.
"Mai! You're alive!" Katsuya exclaimed, as he hugged the blonde woman.
Mai blushed, "Yeah...what...what happened?"
"You were sent to the Shadow Realm..." Katsuya said, as calmly, as he would have with someone who actually _knew_ what he was talking about.
"The....what?"
Isis bowed her head, "I will explain everything as soon as Rishid and Ryou have been restored."
"No! Isis-san, it isn't Ryou who needs to be restored. It's his yami," Yuugi gushed.
Isis nodded, "Yes, but Ryou is very weak without Bakura's presence inside him."
"Why?" Katsuya asked.
"Because Bakura has been a part of him for so long, that without him, he is weak and incomplete," Isis replied.
~~~
Rishid was restored, and Seto, Isis, and Katsuya traveled into Ryou's room.
Seto furrowed his brow, "Something's not right in this room..."
Isis glanced to Ryou's chest, "The Ring is missing!"
~~~
Anzu stood in Mai's room, quietly watching the blonde woman. She felt something in her bra that was unfamiliar. She pulled it out. It was Ryou's Ring. Why did she have it?
She walked to Ryou's room, and went inside, "Umm...I found this..."
Isis snatched it away from her and placed it atop Ryou's body.
Isis looked at Seto, and he nodded, murmuring the Egyptian words again, changing some of the words, so he was speaking of the darkness, and not the light.
Of course, he must have said something wrong, because, even though Ryou and Bakura were restored to each other, Bakura, like Yami, had his own body now.
Ryou sat up, blinking the bleariness out of his eyes. Of course, when he noticed he yami in the flesh, his eyes became wide and frightened.
"No...no..."He stood up, his strength fully returned, and edged toward the door.
Bakura smirked, "Scared, light."
"Please, no..." He yanked the door open, and bolted out. Bakura growled and chased him out.
"What did I say?" Seto murmured.
"You restore darkness to light, and then physically separated them," Isis replied, "Bakura isn't exactly caring toward Ryou. Not in the way Yami is to Yuugi. We must find them before Bakura kills Ryou."
"Doesn't he need Ryou to live?" Katsuya asked.
"Not now, that he has his own body," Isis retorted.
Katsuya and Seto bolted out.
~~~
Ryou tried to hide in a dark, unused room, but his yami soon found him, "Bakura, please...I'm sorry for everything...really I am...don't hurt me please..."
Bakura was smirking so wide, it scared Ryou.
Bakura leaned down, ready to strike, when something stopped him.
His light cowering was having a different effect then it usually did. He felt...guilty. What did his light have to be sorry for? He'd done nothing. No, Bakura was the one who should feel sorry. For hurting him.
"Why?" He asked.
"Wh-what?" Ryou asked in return.
"Why are you sorry? You've done nothing..." Bakura replied, staring at him, curiously.
"Because...because..." Ryou couldn't reply, and so he cowered more, afraid that his weak answer would earn him a beating from his darker half.
But no. Something much different was what Ryou earned. Bakura kissed him.
(AN, I'd just like to point out that the first REAL kiss in this story is Ryou and Bakura....does that seem strange to you? Four fucking chapters and the first real kiss doesn't even come from the main couple. Go figure...)
Ryou was shocked, but kissed him back nonetheless.
They broke apart, "Why...?"
"I don't know...I don't know why I did it or what I feel. But I don't want it to stop," Bakura leaned in to kiss him again. Ryou leaned away.
"Promise me something first..." Ryou murmured, hesitantly.
Bakura scowled slightly, but asked, "What?"
"Don't....don't hurt me anymore....pl-please..." Ryou's eyes were pleading. Bakura sighed, "All right."
"Promise."
"Ryou..."
"Promise!"
"All right, aibou, I promise."
Ryou stopped. Shock washed over him, "What...what did you call me?"
Bakura smirked again, "Aibou."
Ryou squealed, and threw his arms around Bakura, kissing him, softly.
~~~
When Seto and Katsuya found them, they didn't bother them. They just smiled and closed the door, quietly.
"Isis wants us to meet her in Yuugi's room. She has something to tell us," Seto said.
"Okay, I'll be there soon, I'm just gonna check on Mai."
~~~
Katsuya walked into Mai's room, and found Mai, sitting up in the bed she was in, and she smiled when he came in.
"Hey, Jou. Nice to see you."
"You too. We've all been worried."
She stood from the bed and made her way over to Katsuya, standing in front of him, "Have...you been worried, Jou?"
Katsuya blinked, "Um...yes...I told you we all ha—"
He didn't get to finish the sentence. She kissed him.
He pulled away, "Umm..."
"Sorry," She flushed.
"Mai, I have to tell you something..." Katsuya bit his lip, "I know you like me. I've known for a while..."
Mai scowled, "Oh yeah right, as if you arrogant jer—"
She was cut off as Katsuya put his hand up, "Let me finish. What I was _going_ to say is that, I don't feel the same."
"Wh-what? But you always acted like..."
"Like a brother to a sister, or a friend to another friend. Mai, I'm in love with Kaiba Seto..." Katsuya explained.
Mai's eyes became sad, "Oh..."
"I'm sorry, Mai...really I am..."
SLAP!
"You could have told me you insensitive prick!"
"Mai, I didn't want to hurt your—"
"—You already did!" She ran out.
~~~
Katsuya stepped into Yuugi's room, solemnly, Mai following, angrily. Katsuya currently had large red hand marks on each side of his face.
Seto looked at him, and then touched his cool knuckles to his cheek, "What happened?"
Katsuya winced, and pulled away from the fingers, "I told Mai about us..."
Seto looked over Katsuya's shoulder at Mai, who glared daggers at him. He rose a slim eyebrow, "Ah...I see..."
Ryou and Bakura were, also, there, now.
Isis nodded, "Yes, then it is time I told you about your pasts. It begins with the birth of the Pharaoh. _You_, Yami."
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Past
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Queen Neferetiri cried out as the baby was born.
"It's a boy!" The midwife exclaimed.
Neferetiri sighed, and, after the baby was swaddled, was able to hold him.
"I shall name him Aten, after the great god of creation," Nefertiri said.
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Almost 16 years later
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Pharaoh Amun was a great ruler. A mighty and powerful one. His High Priest, Seti, was one of the great priests who loomed in his palace.
Of course, their sons, Aten and Seth, did not get along.
They were always challenging the other to a shadow game.
And their birthdays were so close together, that on that day, which was a day before Seth's and two before Aten's, they were both presented with gifts.
A young ruler from the Upper Kingdoms of Egypt brought two rarities. Chained together, brought before the Pharaoh, the High Priest and their sons, were two people.
One, a young man, who resembled the young Prince so closely, that had he not been a gift to him, and he'd been found, he might be charged with blasphemy and treason against the royal family.
The other was a young female, with gorgeous blonde hair that spilled over her shoulders, and fiery coffee colored eyes, that shone, as they stared at the ground. These rarities names were Hathor and Yu'ug'.
(AN Hathor is Jou and yes I made him a girl. It's just I saw this picture of priest Seth holding what is rumored to be his dead wife. So I'm gonna incorporate that.)
"My lieges...I offer these gifts to you," The young ruler said, "Stand and greet your new masters."
The two stood, and looked up, and Seth got the first glimpse of the intense chocolate eyes, that were clouded over, and full of tears.
The chains were taken off and Aten and Seth's servants escorted the two gifts to the boy's bedchambers.
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Later that night, Seth was led into his bedchambers by an unfamiliar sound. The soft, unpleasant sound of sobbing.
He stepped in, quietly, "Hathor?"
The girl stopped, immediately, and looked to him, "Oh...my lord, I'm sorry, did my crying disturb you?"
"It caught my attention, yes, but did not disturb me," Seth replied.
Hathor stood, adorned in lace garbs, that were very much see-through. They were white, and line with golden silk. Around her wrists were golden cuffs that had a small dragon symbol chiseled on.
"Your servents put these on me..." She said, holding up her wrists.
Seth nodded, and went over to her, stroking her cheek, softly, "Hathor, do you believe in love at first sight?"
"No."
"Strange that you wouldn't. You are named after the goddess of love, are you not?"
"Yes, m'lord..."
"Seth."
"Yes...Seth..."
Seth may have been quite an asshole to most, but this girl intrigued him, and he felt he shoul be more civil to her.
He kissed her softly, edging her toward his bed. After all, this was what she'd been given to him for, wasn't it?
As his hands traveled her body, she yelped, and moved away slightly.
"What is it?" Seth asked.
"I'm scared," Hathor replied.
Seth nodded, "You'venever been bedded before, have you, little one?"
"I'm only 15 summers, Seth..."
Seth nodded, "Then I shall wait until you are ready, little puppy."
"What?" She asked, softly.
"You are scared, like a little puppy, so I shall address you as such," Seth replied.
Hathor laughed, "Is that an endearment, Seth?"
"Would you like it to be?"
"Yes, and would you mind if I called you my dragon?"
"Not at all." He kissed her again.
~~~
On his birthday, Hathor found the courage to give herself to him, fully. In the night, she lay awake, stroking his head, and as he slept, she murmured 'I love you' in his ear.
As it turned out, he was not asleep, and he replied the words back to her.
~~~
Months rolled on, and as Aten and Yu'ug' secretly shared love with one another, Seth and Hathor were married in secret.
And a few months after that, both Amun and Seti died, putting Aten and Seth in their place.
Aten was good as Pharaoh, as good as they come, but he was not pleased when he found out Seth had married his gift. It was forbidden for a higher being to marry a servant.
"Aten, you cannot do this! You are as much in love with Yu'ug' as I am with Hathor!" Seth argued.
"But I did not break our laws and marry him! I'm sorry, but this is the way it has to be!"
"Aten, no!"
A flash of light, and his beautiful Hathor was gone. Dead.
His mourning did not cease.
~~~
But during the night, a year after they had met, Seth picked her up from her tomb, unswaddled her from the mummification cloths, and carried her to the alter of Ra.
"Great Ra, please here me, your faithful servant and priest of your greatness. Please, bring my wife back to me!" Seth cried.
The great golden alter glowed, and Ra's voice boomed, "I am sorry, but it was the woman's time. I cannot do anything."
~~~
Another year passed before Seth confronted Aten. He fought a Shadow Game with his attendents, and soon with him. He lost.
And was executed, soon after. The Sennen Rod was lost, before it could be reclaimed by the Pharaoh, and only months after Seth's death, a seige on the palace commensed.
Aten was trapped inside his Sennen puzzle, and as his small lover, Yu'ug', fled to put it in a safer place, he was killed by a stray arrow.
Ryou, by the way, was an attendent of Aten's who fell in love with a wanted Tomb Robber, who got trapped in his own Sennen Ring. After Ryou heard of his lover's untimely demise, he commited suicide.
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Present Day
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"And that brings us up to date," Isis said, finishing her story. She stared at the people around her.
Katsuya was very pale, Yuugi was wide-eyed and Ryou was trembling.
On the other hand, Bakura was scowling, Yami was blinking, and Seto had an eyebrow raised.
Isis smiled, and folded her hands, softly, "I know that this is all a bit overwhelming, but all of you have...how did Yami put it....wholes in your head...blanks that need to be filled. And I have filled them."
Katsuya pursed his lips. He looked at Isis, "I only have one question...."
Isis nodded.
"I'M A GIRL?!"
Bakura began to snicker.
Isis sighed, "Technically, no...not in this life...but back then, you were..."
"Okay, so why am I a GUY now?"
"Because Seth was blasphemes towards Ra, because he would not bring you back to life, so he cursed Seth to, in another life, hate you, and you to be a male. Of course, after Aten relalized what hurt he'd caused by killing you and then Seth, he went back and used his puzzle to dull the curse, so to speak."
"Dull the curse?" Katsuya asked.
"Well, he could not fix you being a male...and he could not stop Seth from hating you completely, but he did make it to where he wouldn't continue to hate you. That is why Seto was cruel to you at first, but was only hiding his real feelings for you."
"Oh...okay..." Katsuya smiled.
Seto rolled his cobalt eyes, motioned Katsuya to stand up. The blonde did and Seto sat down. Katsuya opened his mouth to protest, but only managed to let out a small yelp, as he pulled down on the brunette's lap.
He sighed, "I can't believe this is almost over...soon we'll all have to go back to our regular lives...school...and..family..."
He shuddered.
Seto furrowed his brow, "What was that?"
"What?" Katsuya asked, suddenly realising what he'd done.
"That shudder? Do you not want to go home?"
"Well, sure, I wanna go back to Domino."
"That's not what I meant, Jounouchi Katsuya, and you know it," Seto replied.
Katsuya sighed. He knew he'd have to tell them sometime, and now was the better then any other chance he'd had to come out to Yuugi and tell him those bruises weren't from accidents or street fights.
"I'm scared of going home," Katsuya murmured, "My dad's a drunk. An abusive drunk."
All eyes swiveled his way.
"He gets drunk, then he plays the Katsuya is a punching bag game....I'm sorry, Yuug', but I been lyin' to ya. Those bruises weren't from gang fights. They were from my dad."
Seto growled. He was the best person to relate to Katsuya's situation. He, himself, had been beaten and pushed on countlesss times by Gozaburo. He would not let this man, who even dared make Katsuya call him father, hurt the blonde anymore.
"Live with me," Seto said.
"What?" Katsuya asked.
"Move in with me. Move away from your father," Seto replied, "Where you're safe."
"But, I'm not old enou—"
"I'll work out all of the details, even if I have to take your father to court. All I'm saying is, you need to get away from him, and I'm offering you sactuary...so to speak."
Katsuya's eyes glowed with affection, as he stared up at the brunette, "Seto...thank you...alright...I will..."
~~~
The night, Seto made sure the blimp was up, running, and on a course for home. As he sat and Katsuya sat in the quiet of his bedroom, he noticed that Katsuya had fallen asleep. He didn't want to move him in fear he'd wake him up, so he pealed his white duster(the coat! Duh!) off and put it over him. He kissed his forehead, softly.
"My silly little puppy..." He murmured.
He walked out, and into the main computer room, sitting down in the swivel chair, and propping his feet up on the keyboard, which he'd locked, previously.
"So, Noa, Mokuba was telling me about a body for you..." Seto said.
Noa was pacing the inside of the computer screen. He ceased, "He did?! I mean...yes...he was telling me you might be able to—"
"—Build one? Of course. That's simple."
Noa nodded, "I would appreciate it."
"I know you would..." Seto smirked, "But what is family for, ne?"
Noa grinned.
Seto yawned, "Ra be damned, I have not slept in ages...I think Katsuya had the right idea..."
"He's sleeping?" Noa asked. Seto nodded, taking off his Duel Disk, "To think this is all over..."
He placed it aside.
"I'll talk to you tomorrow, Noa..." He walked over, shutting the doors, and locking it with his access card. He returned to his room, and chuckled to find that Katsuya had woken up and moved into his bed, though still draped by his jacket.
Seto examined the boy for a moment, before gliding over to the bed, and slipping in with him. He pulled the boy against him, and the covers over both of them.
Things were finally starting to work out.
~~~
But back in Domino, someone was not very happy.
"I'll show that blonde punk. No one makes a monkey outta me..." The man said, as he threw a knife at a bullseye, hitting it. He laughed.
"I'm coming for you, Jounouchi..."
~~~
Me: GASP! Who is coming for Jounouchi?! I'll write a special Seto/Jou lemon for anyone who can guess right! So review and give me your guess! ^_^!
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Rivalry of the Heart
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Chapter Four
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Mariku sneered at them, "Pharaoh, give me the puzzle!"
"Not unless you win it fairly from me!" Yami growled. Mariku grinned, "Well, then, I will just have to then, won't I?"
Mariku's face then turned angry, "Or I could force you to give it to me."
With the power of the Sennen Rod he began to destroy things around him. In the center of the room was the large round ball that was Noa's brain. Things began to crash down around it.
"Seto! We have to save Noa's brain, it'll be destroyed!" Mokuba cried.
"Hurry back to the blimp and get my laptop and all it's wires, I have an idea," Seto said.
Mariku laughed, and shot a beam toward Mokuba. Mokuba jumped and ran faster.
Mariku laughed, cruelly.
~~~
Mokuba rushed inside the blimp and grabbed Seto's laptop and all the wiring that went with it and rushed back out to where the group was.
He handed his brother the laptop.
"Okay, cover me..." Seto took a leap, and grabbed some of the components that stuck out of the large ball. He climbed up and sat on top of it, hooking the wires of his laptop into it. Noa's face appeared on his laptop screen.
"What the hell are you doing?!" He yelped.
"Saving you. Now shut the fuck up," he began to type away on his laptop, and a bar appeared at the bottom of the screen, with the word 'Uploading' beneath it.
Noa's face disappeared.
Meanwhile, Mariku was running a muck. Katsuya had been hit by one of his attacks and sent into a wall. He shook his head clear of the dizziness, and stood, looking up at Seto, "Hurry up, ryu!"
Seto bit his lip and looked at the bar which was only at 50%
"Faster, you piece of shit, faster..."
60%
BOOM. That blast had been to close for Seto's comfort.
70%
BANG. Dammit, they were getting closer.
80%
BAM. That was _too_ close.
90%
CRASH. Seto barely dodged a falling screen, which bounced off the large electronic ball, barely scratching it.
100%
BOOOOOM! The ball was destroyed, just as Seto closed up his laptop, and began to fall. As the ground came closer, he shifted his body weight, so he landed on his back. As he landed, his head collided with the floor, and he was knocked unconscious.
Katsuya rushed toward him, "Seto!"
His fell to the floor, on his knees, and wrapped his arms around the brunette, pulling the upper half of his body from the floor, slightly.
"CEASE!"
Everything stopped, and everyone turned to Isis, who stood there.
Mariku growled and threw a blast at her. She jumped out of the way, landing on one knee, "Yuugi, you must get the Rod from him and to Seto, quickly."
"I don't understand," Yuugi asked.
"The Rod's rightful owner in Seto. If he obtains the Rod, Mariku's threat will vanish, and Seto will be able to free all those that Mariku has harmed," Isis replied.
Yuugi glanced back and forth, and as Mariku became distracted by Isis, Yuugi lunged and yanked the Rod out of his hands, landing in roll on the floor.
"Jou, catch!" Yuugi threw the Sennen Rod to him.
Mariku growled, "No!"
Katsuya caught it, and shook Seto, violently, "Wake up, ryu, wake up!"
Seto moaned, but did not awaken.
Mariku, now, hovered over Katsuya, "Give it back to me."
"No! Wake up, Seto, hurry!" Katsuya shook him again.
"Give it back now!" Mariku growled.
"NO!" Katsuya said.
Mariku was growing very impatient. He grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him up. Katsuya's grip on the Rod tightened.
Mariku grinned, "When I get the Rod back, you are the next of my victims to lose their soul."
"That...won't....happen..."
Seto was awake now, pushing himself up off the floor, and he took the Rod from Katsuya.
Mariku, for the first time since the group had met him, looked scared.
Seto looked at the Rod, then at Isis.
"You must believe in yourself as High Priest Seth, and in the Rod. That is the only way you can vanquish the evil which has taken hold of my brother's body," The woman said to him.
Seto nodded. After seeing two Yuugi's, he was really starting to believe in the ancient past stuff. He held the Rod up toward Mariku.
"Be gone, darkness, do not plague Malik Ishtar any longer," Seto whispered, and the Rod glowed. Mariku yelped, and seemed to be pulled from Malik's body and into the Rod.
Malik, eye's half lidded, blinked, then fell unconscious.
Seto, also, blinked, "It worked."
Isis nodded, "Come now, so you can free everyone from the shadow realm."
~~~
Inside the blimp, Seto hooked his laptop up to the main computers, so Mokuba or anyone else could talk to Noa.
"Seto! Wait..." Noa said.
"What?"
"Arigato...'nii-san." Noa replied.(AN okay, I'm not sure what to use here, because they are suppose to be the same age, so I'll just have Noa say 'nii- san because he LOOKS younger then Seto...go with it people, I'm not a Japanese wiz XD)
Seto smirked, "Douitashimashite(1)."
~~~
Seto hovered over Mai, and murmured something in Egyptian, which caught him by complete surprise.
Mai's purple eyes opened, and she looked up at them, "What...what happened?"
Now, Mai was also bisexual, but she had a very large crush on Katsuya, and no idea that he was dating Seto.
"Mai! You're alive!" Katsuya exclaimed, as he hugged the blonde woman.
Mai blushed, "Yeah...what...what happened?"
"You were sent to the Shadow Realm..." Katsuya said, as calmly, as he would have with someone who actually _knew_ what he was talking about.
"The....what?"
Isis bowed her head, "I will explain everything as soon as Rishid and Ryou have been restored."
"No! Isis-san, it isn't Ryou who needs to be restored. It's his yami," Yuugi gushed.
Isis nodded, "Yes, but Ryou is very weak without Bakura's presence inside him."
"Why?" Katsuya asked.
"Because Bakura has been a part of him for so long, that without him, he is weak and incomplete," Isis replied.
~~~
Rishid was restored, and Seto, Isis, and Katsuya traveled into Ryou's room.
Seto furrowed his brow, "Something's not right in this room..."
Isis glanced to Ryou's chest, "The Ring is missing!"
~~~
Anzu stood in Mai's room, quietly watching the blonde woman. She felt something in her bra that was unfamiliar. She pulled it out. It was Ryou's Ring. Why did she have it?
She walked to Ryou's room, and went inside, "Umm...I found this..."
Isis snatched it away from her and placed it atop Ryou's body.
Isis looked at Seto, and he nodded, murmuring the Egyptian words again, changing some of the words, so he was speaking of the darkness, and not the light.
Of course, he must have said something wrong, because, even though Ryou and Bakura were restored to each other, Bakura, like Yami, had his own body now.
Ryou sat up, blinking the bleariness out of his eyes. Of course, when he noticed he yami in the flesh, his eyes became wide and frightened.
"No...no..."He stood up, his strength fully returned, and edged toward the door.
Bakura smirked, "Scared, light."
"Please, no..." He yanked the door open, and bolted out. Bakura growled and chased him out.
"What did I say?" Seto murmured.
"You restore darkness to light, and then physically separated them," Isis replied, "Bakura isn't exactly caring toward Ryou. Not in the way Yami is to Yuugi. We must find them before Bakura kills Ryou."
"Doesn't he need Ryou to live?" Katsuya asked.
"Not now, that he has his own body," Isis retorted.
Katsuya and Seto bolted out.
~~~
Ryou tried to hide in a dark, unused room, but his yami soon found him, "Bakura, please...I'm sorry for everything...really I am...don't hurt me please..."
Bakura was smirking so wide, it scared Ryou.
Bakura leaned down, ready to strike, when something stopped him.
His light cowering was having a different effect then it usually did. He felt...guilty. What did his light have to be sorry for? He'd done nothing. No, Bakura was the one who should feel sorry. For hurting him.
"Why?" He asked.
"Wh-what?" Ryou asked in return.
"Why are you sorry? You've done nothing..." Bakura replied, staring at him, curiously.
"Because...because..." Ryou couldn't reply, and so he cowered more, afraid that his weak answer would earn him a beating from his darker half.
But no. Something much different was what Ryou earned. Bakura kissed him.
(AN, I'd just like to point out that the first REAL kiss in this story is Ryou and Bakura....does that seem strange to you? Four fucking chapters and the first real kiss doesn't even come from the main couple. Go figure...)
Ryou was shocked, but kissed him back nonetheless.
They broke apart, "Why...?"
"I don't know...I don't know why I did it or what I feel. But I don't want it to stop," Bakura leaned in to kiss him again. Ryou leaned away.
"Promise me something first..." Ryou murmured, hesitantly.
Bakura scowled slightly, but asked, "What?"
"Don't....don't hurt me anymore....pl-please..." Ryou's eyes were pleading. Bakura sighed, "All right."
"Promise."
"Ryou..."
"Promise!"
"All right, aibou, I promise."
Ryou stopped. Shock washed over him, "What...what did you call me?"
Bakura smirked again, "Aibou."
Ryou squealed, and threw his arms around Bakura, kissing him, softly.
~~~
When Seto and Katsuya found them, they didn't bother them. They just smiled and closed the door, quietly.
"Isis wants us to meet her in Yuugi's room. She has something to tell us," Seto said.
"Okay, I'll be there soon, I'm just gonna check on Mai."
~~~
Katsuya walked into Mai's room, and found Mai, sitting up in the bed she was in, and she smiled when he came in.
"Hey, Jou. Nice to see you."
"You too. We've all been worried."
She stood from the bed and made her way over to Katsuya, standing in front of him, "Have...you been worried, Jou?"
Katsuya blinked, "Um...yes...I told you we all ha—"
He didn't get to finish the sentence. She kissed him.
He pulled away, "Umm..."
"Sorry," She flushed.
"Mai, I have to tell you something..." Katsuya bit his lip, "I know you like me. I've known for a while..."
Mai scowled, "Oh yeah right, as if you arrogant jer—"
She was cut off as Katsuya put his hand up, "Let me finish. What I was _going_ to say is that, I don't feel the same."
"Wh-what? But you always acted like..."
"Like a brother to a sister, or a friend to another friend. Mai, I'm in love with Kaiba Seto..." Katsuya explained.
Mai's eyes became sad, "Oh..."
"I'm sorry, Mai...really I am..."
SLAP!
"You could have told me you insensitive prick!"
"Mai, I didn't want to hurt your—"
"—You already did!" She ran out.
~~~
Katsuya stepped into Yuugi's room, solemnly, Mai following, angrily. Katsuya currently had large red hand marks on each side of his face.
Seto looked at him, and then touched his cool knuckles to his cheek, "What happened?"
Katsuya winced, and pulled away from the fingers, "I told Mai about us..."
Seto looked over Katsuya's shoulder at Mai, who glared daggers at him. He rose a slim eyebrow, "Ah...I see..."
Ryou and Bakura were, also, there, now.
Isis nodded, "Yes, then it is time I told you about your pasts. It begins with the birth of the Pharaoh. _You_, Yami."
~~~
Past
~~~
Queen Neferetiri cried out as the baby was born.
"It's a boy!" The midwife exclaimed.
Neferetiri sighed, and, after the baby was swaddled, was able to hold him.
"I shall name him Aten, after the great god of creation," Nefertiri said.
~~~
Almost 16 years later
~~~
Pharaoh Amun was a great ruler. A mighty and powerful one. His High Priest, Seti, was one of the great priests who loomed in his palace.
Of course, their sons, Aten and Seth, did not get along.
They were always challenging the other to a shadow game.
And their birthdays were so close together, that on that day, which was a day before Seth's and two before Aten's, they were both presented with gifts.
A young ruler from the Upper Kingdoms of Egypt brought two rarities. Chained together, brought before the Pharaoh, the High Priest and their sons, were two people.
One, a young man, who resembled the young Prince so closely, that had he not been a gift to him, and he'd been found, he might be charged with blasphemy and treason against the royal family.
The other was a young female, with gorgeous blonde hair that spilled over her shoulders, and fiery coffee colored eyes, that shone, as they stared at the ground. These rarities names were Hathor and Yu'ug'.
(AN Hathor is Jou and yes I made him a girl. It's just I saw this picture of priest Seth holding what is rumored to be his dead wife. So I'm gonna incorporate that.)
"My lieges...I offer these gifts to you," The young ruler said, "Stand and greet your new masters."
The two stood, and looked up, and Seth got the first glimpse of the intense chocolate eyes, that were clouded over, and full of tears.
The chains were taken off and Aten and Seth's servants escorted the two gifts to the boy's bedchambers.
~~~
Later that night, Seth was led into his bedchambers by an unfamiliar sound. The soft, unpleasant sound of sobbing.
He stepped in, quietly, "Hathor?"
The girl stopped, immediately, and looked to him, "Oh...my lord, I'm sorry, did my crying disturb you?"
"It caught my attention, yes, but did not disturb me," Seth replied.
Hathor stood, adorned in lace garbs, that were very much see-through. They were white, and line with golden silk. Around her wrists were golden cuffs that had a small dragon symbol chiseled on.
"Your servents put these on me..." She said, holding up her wrists.
Seth nodded, and went over to her, stroking her cheek, softly, "Hathor, do you believe in love at first sight?"
"No."
"Strange that you wouldn't. You are named after the goddess of love, are you not?"
"Yes, m'lord..."
"Seth."
"Yes...Seth..."
Seth may have been quite an asshole to most, but this girl intrigued him, and he felt he shoul be more civil to her.
He kissed her softly, edging her toward his bed. After all, this was what she'd been given to him for, wasn't it?
As his hands traveled her body, she yelped, and moved away slightly.
"What is it?" Seth asked.
"I'm scared," Hathor replied.
Seth nodded, "You'venever been bedded before, have you, little one?"
"I'm only 15 summers, Seth..."
Seth nodded, "Then I shall wait until you are ready, little puppy."
"What?" She asked, softly.
"You are scared, like a little puppy, so I shall address you as such," Seth replied.
Hathor laughed, "Is that an endearment, Seth?"
"Would you like it to be?"
"Yes, and would you mind if I called you my dragon?"
"Not at all." He kissed her again.
~~~
On his birthday, Hathor found the courage to give herself to him, fully. In the night, she lay awake, stroking his head, and as he slept, she murmured 'I love you' in his ear.
As it turned out, he was not asleep, and he replied the words back to her.
~~~
Months rolled on, and as Aten and Yu'ug' secretly shared love with one another, Seth and Hathor were married in secret.
And a few months after that, both Amun and Seti died, putting Aten and Seth in their place.
Aten was good as Pharaoh, as good as they come, but he was not pleased when he found out Seth had married his gift. It was forbidden for a higher being to marry a servant.
"Aten, you cannot do this! You are as much in love with Yu'ug' as I am with Hathor!" Seth argued.
"But I did not break our laws and marry him! I'm sorry, but this is the way it has to be!"
"Aten, no!"
A flash of light, and his beautiful Hathor was gone. Dead.
His mourning did not cease.
~~~
But during the night, a year after they had met, Seth picked her up from her tomb, unswaddled her from the mummification cloths, and carried her to the alter of Ra.
"Great Ra, please here me, your faithful servant and priest of your greatness. Please, bring my wife back to me!" Seth cried.
The great golden alter glowed, and Ra's voice boomed, "I am sorry, but it was the woman's time. I cannot do anything."
~~~
Another year passed before Seth confronted Aten. He fought a Shadow Game with his attendents, and soon with him. He lost.
And was executed, soon after. The Sennen Rod was lost, before it could be reclaimed by the Pharaoh, and only months after Seth's death, a seige on the palace commensed.
Aten was trapped inside his Sennen puzzle, and as his small lover, Yu'ug', fled to put it in a safer place, he was killed by a stray arrow.
Ryou, by the way, was an attendent of Aten's who fell in love with a wanted Tomb Robber, who got trapped in his own Sennen Ring. After Ryou heard of his lover's untimely demise, he commited suicide.
~~~
Present Day
~~~
"And that brings us up to date," Isis said, finishing her story. She stared at the people around her.
Katsuya was very pale, Yuugi was wide-eyed and Ryou was trembling.
On the other hand, Bakura was scowling, Yami was blinking, and Seto had an eyebrow raised.
Isis smiled, and folded her hands, softly, "I know that this is all a bit overwhelming, but all of you have...how did Yami put it....wholes in your head...blanks that need to be filled. And I have filled them."
Katsuya pursed his lips. He looked at Isis, "I only have one question...."
Isis nodded.
"I'M A GIRL?!"
Bakura began to snicker.
Isis sighed, "Technically, no...not in this life...but back then, you were..."
"Okay, so why am I a GUY now?"
"Because Seth was blasphemes towards Ra, because he would not bring you back to life, so he cursed Seth to, in another life, hate you, and you to be a male. Of course, after Aten relalized what hurt he'd caused by killing you and then Seth, he went back and used his puzzle to dull the curse, so to speak."
"Dull the curse?" Katsuya asked.
"Well, he could not fix you being a male...and he could not stop Seth from hating you completely, but he did make it to where he wouldn't continue to hate you. That is why Seto was cruel to you at first, but was only hiding his real feelings for you."
"Oh...okay..." Katsuya smiled.
Seto rolled his cobalt eyes, motioned Katsuya to stand up. The blonde did and Seto sat down. Katsuya opened his mouth to protest, but only managed to let out a small yelp, as he pulled down on the brunette's lap.
He sighed, "I can't believe this is almost over...soon we'll all have to go back to our regular lives...school...and..family..."
He shuddered.
Seto furrowed his brow, "What was that?"
"What?" Katsuya asked, suddenly realising what he'd done.
"That shudder? Do you not want to go home?"
"Well, sure, I wanna go back to Domino."
"That's not what I meant, Jounouchi Katsuya, and you know it," Seto replied.
Katsuya sighed. He knew he'd have to tell them sometime, and now was the better then any other chance he'd had to come out to Yuugi and tell him those bruises weren't from accidents or street fights.
"I'm scared of going home," Katsuya murmured, "My dad's a drunk. An abusive drunk."
All eyes swiveled his way.
"He gets drunk, then he plays the Katsuya is a punching bag game....I'm sorry, Yuug', but I been lyin' to ya. Those bruises weren't from gang fights. They were from my dad."
Seto growled. He was the best person to relate to Katsuya's situation. He, himself, had been beaten and pushed on countlesss times by Gozaburo. He would not let this man, who even dared make Katsuya call him father, hurt the blonde anymore.
"Live with me," Seto said.
"What?" Katsuya asked.
"Move in with me. Move away from your father," Seto replied, "Where you're safe."
"But, I'm not old enou—"
"I'll work out all of the details, even if I have to take your father to court. All I'm saying is, you need to get away from him, and I'm offering you sactuary...so to speak."
Katsuya's eyes glowed with affection, as he stared up at the brunette, "Seto...thank you...alright...I will..."
~~~
The night, Seto made sure the blimp was up, running, and on a course for home. As he sat and Katsuya sat in the quiet of his bedroom, he noticed that Katsuya had fallen asleep. He didn't want to move him in fear he'd wake him up, so he pealed his white duster(the coat! Duh!) off and put it over him. He kissed his forehead, softly.
"My silly little puppy..." He murmured.
He walked out, and into the main computer room, sitting down in the swivel chair, and propping his feet up on the keyboard, which he'd locked, previously.
"So, Noa, Mokuba was telling me about a body for you..." Seto said.
Noa was pacing the inside of the computer screen. He ceased, "He did?! I mean...yes...he was telling me you might be able to—"
"—Build one? Of course. That's simple."
Noa nodded, "I would appreciate it."
"I know you would..." Seto smirked, "But what is family for, ne?"
Noa grinned.
Seto yawned, "Ra be damned, I have not slept in ages...I think Katsuya had the right idea..."
"He's sleeping?" Noa asked. Seto nodded, taking off his Duel Disk, "To think this is all over..."
He placed it aside.
"I'll talk to you tomorrow, Noa..." He walked over, shutting the doors, and locking it with his access card. He returned to his room, and chuckled to find that Katsuya had woken up and moved into his bed, though still draped by his jacket.
Seto examined the boy for a moment, before gliding over to the bed, and slipping in with him. He pulled the boy against him, and the covers over both of them.
Things were finally starting to work out.
~~~
But back in Domino, someone was not very happy.
"I'll show that blonde punk. No one makes a monkey outta me..." The man said, as he threw a knife at a bullseye, hitting it. He laughed.
"I'm coming for you, Jounouchi..."
~~~
Me: GASP! Who is coming for Jounouchi?! I'll write a special Seto/Jou lemon for anyone who can guess right! So review and give me your guess! ^_^!