A note to a reviewer:
High-Elf Swordsman wrote:
Uh...not a bad story but I have something to say:
THEY'RE JAPANESE! Therefore, they are most likely Buddhist or Shinto as only
about 2.5% are Christian. Sorry if I sound mean but next time, do a holiday
they'd actually celebrate.
To High Elf Swordsman:
I thank you for the review, and I do realize that most of the populace is, indeed, Buddhist or Shinto. In fact, not only do I have relatives who live in Osaka, but also I have intently studied the art and architecture of Japan. Please, if I could kindly point out to you:
So far, only one person in the entire cast has made any references to the Japanese, and that is when Yuugi said Oh, 'Kami-samma, what was he in for?' And referred to Bakura as 'Bakura-san.' If you failed to notice, Jou is an Elsarian. Seto is a Vulcan. Yami and Malik are Aldars, Bakura and Ryou, as they live in the U.S., are probably American, and it is thus far unspecified just what nationality Ishtar is from. Being as they are apart of the NASA administration, they will most likely follow the American calendar, and they will also take their yearly break during the winter. This story is not centered in Japan, nor is it filled with a 'Japanese' cast. It is an Alternate Universe. All of this I was aware of, took into account, and wrote on purpose.
Again, thank you for the criticism, though, and anyone is welcome to flame or criticize, but you'd better be able to back up what you claim. (Such as the spelling errors. I almost always get those, it's just one of my curses.)
And besides, it's not like this is going to be published, it's a f fan fiction. It's meant to be written for enjoyment and adapted so that other people can relate to it.
Thank you.
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Yuugi yawned that morning before he opened his eyes up, grumbling as he heard Jou screeching down the hall. "Seto, leave me alone! Ishtar, help!"
Uh, oh. If Jou was asking Ishtar for help, they had a serious problem on their hands. And so damned early in the morning, too.
Yuugi rolled over and saw Yami smiling in his sleep, purring contentedly. He couldn't help but smile, too. Admit it, you hard ass. You're starting to really like him.
Yuugi frowned at himself. Could he? Damn it, I can't help it! He's growing on me! I've always had a soft spot for cats, and it doesn't help that Yami only purrs whenever he's around only me! Why shouldn't I say he's mine?
Not to mention the fact that he was a damned good kisser…
But was there any kind of connection that Yuugi was going to be able to have?
Yami murmured in his sleep, pulling Yuugi closer to him. "Hmm…love you….Yuugi…snnnch," Yami began to purr again, still sound asleep.
Yuugi's heart melted. How could he not?
…There was never that many people who said they loved him, honestly and truly.
"Seto, damn it! Knock it off!" Ishtar bellowed from the living room.
Yami blinked his eyes open, looking at Yuugi sleepily. He smiled. "Me-en-eyet, na." He gave Yuugi a delicate kiss, cupping his face with infinite care.
Yuugi sighed into the kiss, surprising even himself. "Good morning, Yami," he said against his lips, pushing back again and giving Yami his own kiss.
Yami's hand trembled slightly, relishing the kiss as if his life depended upon it. It's like he sees me as the rarest treasure on earth…
Jou tumbled into their bedroom, ruining the moment entirely. "Yuugi! Seto's going absolutely bonkers! Ishtar can't get him to stop!"
'Jou! Get back here!"
Jou looked panicked as he heard Seto coming his way up the stairs.
"Well, get in the closet if you have to! It seemed to work yesterday morning!" Yuugi yelled back, sitting up in bed. He was highly disgruntled at the intrusion.
The moment Jou disappeared, Kaiba stopped in mid run from the hall, looking into Yuugi's room angrily. "Where is he," he ground out.
Yuugi was about to reply, but suddenly a large squeak sounded beside him, and he felt Yami ducking behind him for dear life. "Yami," Yuugi asked. The Aldar was shaking uncontrollably. He's acting like a chicken! He…oh no. He's going to be like this all day.
Seto began to advance, and Yuugi snarled. "You stay back! You'll probably scare him straight into the after life!"
"Where's Jou," he growled again.
"Not here."
Seto didn't believe him, and Yuugi knew it. The only thing was, he didn't know what he was going to do once the Vulcan actually found Jou.
Before Yuugi could even get out of bed, Seto dived into the closet, and the unmistakable sound of an Elsarian squeal could be heard.
Yuugi jumped up, grabbed the club that he brought with him on every trip from the corner of the room, and turned on the light in the closet.
His jaw nearly hit the floor. In fact, it would have, had it not had the jawbone connecting it to his face.
Jou was on the bottom, like he assumed would happen. Seto was on top, just like he expected to happen. But…if this was torture, it was the weakest form of torture possible.
Seto was lip-locked with Jou, and the poor Elsarian could not wrench himself free.
"Captain!" Yuugi shouted. "Captain, you'd better get your ass up here! You're not going to believe this!"
Yami squeaked again from the bed.
Two sets of feet pounded up the stairs, and suddenly both Ishtar and Malik came into view. "Don't tell me Jonouchi's dead," Ishtar stated.
Yuugi shook his head. "Oh, no. Far from it." He pointed towards the closet, and the two captains took a look.
Ishtar did the same thing that Yuugi had, and Malik looked surprised. "Oh, my!" He cried. "It looks like Yami's mating period threw Ensign Kaiba into his mating period! How fascinating! A chain reaction!"
Ishtar raised an eyebrow at Malik, ignoring the sounds of Jou suffocating. "Oh? And just what happens if this chain reaction affects you?"
Malik was silent for a moment. "I doubt that could happen, my mating period was just two years ago. It would be almost impossible for it to affect me."
"Uh, huh," Ishtar said.
"Guh! Captain! Help me! Please! You can't let him go through with this!" Jou had managed to get his mouth free, but now he was going to have a hickey larger than Yuugi's.
"You're right, we should help. Yuugi, get whatever you need from this room, and lock up the closet. We don't have any antidote, and we can't let our ship's mechanic kick the bucket just because he needed a screw."
Yuugi looked back to Yami who was shivering under the covers, and felt his heart wrench a little. The poor thing. Grabbing enough clothes for the both of them, he headed towards the shaking Aldar, ready to take a shower.
"You
can't do that!" Jou cried. "This is cruel and unusual punishment! This
planet bans such things!"
"Desperate times call for desperate measures," Ishtar replied.
Yuugi pulled Yami off the bed, holding the trembling mass close as he headed out the door and towards the shower.
"Yug," Jou pleaded.
Yuugi cast his friend a sympathetic look. "Good luck, pal."
They heard Jou's voice become muffled as they closed the door, no doubt covered up by Seto's mouth.
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Yuugi sat in the kitchen, hearing faint pounds from upstairs as he ate his eggs and toast. After every pound, Yami jumped, attempting to hide in Yuugi's side.
"Is he all right," Ishtar hazarded.
"He's fine," Yuugi replied. "He's just scared senseless today."
"Meyatuneh," Malik stated. "Hold him close today, Lieutenant. This is a critical day in his acceptance stages."
Yuugi gave a lazy solute.
"Captain," Malik started. "I do have a question about Humans."
"Fire away."
"How
often do humans have a mating period?"
Yuugi almost choked on his breakfast, and Ishtar laughed. "Well, women get
their menstrual cycle once a month, but it's not going to kill them if they
don't mate. Men don't have one."
"They
don't," Malik asked. "How would they
ever want to procreate?"
Again, Yuugi almost choked. "Captain Malik, they have done studies on men, and
it has been documented that they think about sex every 5.2 seconds of every
single day. They're ready to mate any time, any where."
Malik's face turned about ten different shades of red. "Good gracious! How is
your planet not even more overpopulated than it is?"
Ishtar frowned. "Because of the fact that women are as hard as hell to coerce into the bedroom."
"It's a balance," Yuugi piped up.
There was one final pound from above, and then all was silent.
"Pass me the milk," Yuugi asked. Malik shoved the container across the table, coming a few feet within Yami, who instantly cried out, attempting to hide behind Yuugi.
"Would anyone like to partake in a group movie time," Malik asked. "I noticed a strange one called Vulcan Cannibals on the shelf."
Yuugi smiled, and Ishtar laughed. "How about an old animated one I found, called Ice Age," Ishtar asked. "I'm sure that it's so old fashioned we're going to laugh our asses off all afternoon."
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Yuugi shifted warily in front of his bedroom door, quite afraid to proceed. Jou was without a doubt out of commission for the rest of the day, if not the next couple of days. The medic kit in his right hand felt unusually heavy as he held it next to his side. He was not looking forward to what was inside of his closet at the moment. And who says there aren't monsters in your closet when you're young? Seto Kaiba is monster enough for me.
Yuugi pushed the button, and the door slid open soundlessly, but Yami still jumped next to him, squeaking as he did so, and clung even tighter to Yuugi's side. The earthen Lieutenant almost toppled over for the…eight time?… that day. "Damn it Yami, it's just the door opening up! Quit being such a chicken!"
Yami looked up at him sadly, his lip trembling slightly.
Yuugi bit his lower lip. "I…didn't mean it, honest. I promise everything's okay."
Yami lowered his head almost obediently, shying his eyes away into Yuugi's sleeve. Yuugi felt really, really guilty, and hugged Yami close. The Aldar leaned into the touch like a little puppy, simply sucking up the attention as if his life depended on Yuugi's comfort. I need a reality check, Yuugi realized, gently giving the Aldar kisses on his forehead.
Resigned as his next task, Yuugi walked into his bedroom, and opened up the closet door.
The light was…still on, and there were two figures passed out on the floor.
"Jou," Yuugi tried. "Jou, are you all right?"
"……Guuuuuh." The Elsarian rolled his head off to the side, bleary blue eyes blinking owlishly up at Yuugi. "Yug," he tried.
"Yeah," Yuugi asked. "How are you?"
The blonde winced. "Pain…lots of pain." He pushed Seto off of him, revealing a body that was covered in bite marks and bruises. Yuugi winced. Not even Yami had gone as far as to bite him, they simply ran into a lot of things.
Bending down next to his friend, Yuugi opened up the kit and began to start cleaning the wounds. Jou hissed when the rubbing alcohol hit his damaged flesh, causing Yami to squeal and jump behind Yuugi again.
"Hey…thanks pal. These were starting to hurt."
Yuugi waved him off. "Don't worry about it. I think Yami and I will sleep in his room tonight. I believe the caretakers cleaned it up a while ago."
Jou sighed. "So I don't have to get up?"
Yuugi chuckled. "No, you don't have to get up. But you do have to roll over, just so I can check your back."
Jou grumbled, but complied anyway, rolling over and revealing a large abrasion. Yuugi grimaced. "Jou, this looks bad! What happened?"
Jou sighed. "Vulcans have very sharp nails."
Yuugi finished wiping the cuts down, and put gauze covering over it. "Well, it's almost dark, so everyone will be hitting bed shortly. I was just going to have some fudge before I went to bed myself. You won't see anyone until morning," Yuugi stated as Jou rolled back over. Kaiba was still snoring off to the side.
"Thanks again, Yug. I really, really appreciate this. My back does, too."
Yuugi nodded. "Just…be careful around Seto tomorrow. You may not have, but I've been around a just bonded Vulcan, and they're always crabby around everyone but their new bedmate."
Jou visibly winced. "Thanks for the heads-up. I'm going to need it." He was silent for a moment. "How do you know that Seto actually…bonded with me?"
Yuugi gave a wry smile. "Oh, that's simple. He wanted to kill you. That in itself is enough of an explanation."
Jou frowned. "Lucky me."
Yami cried out as he saw the opened medic kit next to him, and jumped around to the other side, shaking into Yuugi's embrace. "Yeah, lucky me too," Yuugi responded. He shrugged. "Ah, hell. I'm off to bed. See you in the morning, Ensign."
"In the morning," Jou yawned, rolling over on to his side. It was going to be a long night full of a hard, dead sleep.
Five down…seven to go.
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