Seth groaned as he opened his wary sleep deprived eyes, looking up at the ceiling through cloudy vision. Last night had been hard for him to deal with since Seto's focus was obviously somewhere or on someone else. Since the CEO hadn't fully understood how to close off their link, Seth had been forced to deal with the onslaught of feelings, visions, and undeniable lust that flooded him till he could take no more and closed off the annoying link on his side. But that didn't help the fact that he then had to deal with his own body and emotions.

Truly, he was happy for Atemu but that didn't mean he didn't feel jealous or even envious towards his future self. The only one he had ever allowed into his heart was and will always be warmed by another. There was a pain in his heart that he hadn't felt in since he was beside the former Pharaoh on the day his love had to seal himself inside that damned puzzle.

Turning his head to the side, he gazed out the open window, noticing the sun was set high in the azure colored sky. It had been late when they had arrived back at the Kaiba Mansion and so it was only right that all of them had slept in. And with an uncharacteristic sigh, Seth closed his eyes and pictured Atemu's body curled up lovingly next to his. Glistening copper colored skin reflecting the sun's rays as they shown down on them. He could almost feel the small teen's heart beat against his own.

Limbs twisted around one another in a desperate need to gain more contact. The unmistakable scent of Atemu lingering in the air, heated breath tickling his own skin, and beautiful ruby colored eyes looking at him and only him.

Seth growled as he felt his body responding to the vivid images. He had to quit torturing himself like this. Atemu was no longer his, was no longer a part of his time. His beautiful desert flower belonged to another him, in another life, in another country.

Rolling out of bed, he stood up and walked over to the window. Arms crossed over his bare chest, he looked out onto the endless green land before him. He had to admit, this Japan was beautiful. So many colors, sights and sounds filled his desert-bred body making him want to stay and explore it as much as possible. There was so much to learn here; so much he could use to make his kingdom more powerful and wealthy. But he knew he could not stay.

His home was three thousand years in the past, in a place that nothing more than tourist attraction now. Egypt's future had already been decided for him and he wasn't about to go against the will of the Gods.

Opening up his side of the link, he carefully checked to see what his other self was up to, and was slightly happy to find that Seto was still asleep. Searching through the memories of the paler version of himself, he chuckled when he found references of having to take a cold shower when Seto's body had a mind of its own.

Well if it worked for him, it would work for Seth too.

Mokuba sat on the couch; not really paying any attention to the show that was currently on the big screen TV that had replaced the one that Atemu had blown up weeks before. A sly knowing grin graced his face as he thought about the fact that it was after three o'clock in the afternoon and his brother still hadn't gotten out of bed.

It made him happy to know that him and Atemu where currently sharing the same bed. The ancient Pharaoh was someone who seem to make his brother act more like a normal teenager, something no one, not event himself, had been able to do. And for that he was truly grateful to Atemu.

If someone that was over three thousand years old was able to make Seto happy, who was he to complain?

Sighing, he gave up on the TV and reached in front of him and grabbed a hard-backed book from the coffee table and flipped to the page that he had dog-eared earlier. Content, he relaxed further into the sofa, mind totally engrossed in the spellbinding pages before him.

He was so lost in the contents that he didn't realize he was being watched until a large shadow fell across his book. Glancing up, he started to smile only for slate-gray eyes to widen in confusion and panic.

"You're not my brother!" Mokuba gripped the hard cover of the book tightly, making his knuckles turn white.

Cool blue eyes looked him up and down. "So, you must be my other's younger brother. Mokuba, if I've read the memories right."

Quickly, the younger Kaiba scampered off the couch to stand behind it. "What are you doing back! Yami got rid of you in Duelist Kingdom!"

Seth stared at the now narrowed eyes of Mokuba, clearly confused on what the other was talking about. He was just about to search Seto's memories when something hard hit him upside his head. Stunned, Seth grabbed the aching area and glanced down to see the book Mokuba had been holding. "What the hell was that for!"

"I won't let you try to take over Kaiba Corp! I don't know how you got out of where ever the Pharaoh sent you but I'll make sure you don't harm Seto!"

Seth blinked at Mokuba's angered face only to turn around when the young kid ran off into the kitchen area. Confused and pissed, he went to follow the raven-haired boy only to see him running back at him with something round and black with the handle gripped tightly in both hands.

"Ow! Damn it kid! Stop!" Seth shouted while trying to fend off the rather dangerous looking object that the demon child kept hitting him with.

"Get out Fake Kaiba! I swear if Pegasus had anything to do with this I'll kill him too!"

"I said…OW…..what the hell are you…. Would you cut that out!" Finally having enough with trying not to hurt his other's brother, Seth grabbed the evil black weapon and pinned Mokuba's arms to his side. Unfortunately, this gave the younger Kaiba brother a perfect chance to kick him right in the balls.

"SETO!" Mokuba screamed at the top of his lungs as the 'Fake Kaiba' dropped him in order to deal with more immediate problems. Taking off and up the stairs, Mokuba continued to scream; "SETO, ATEMU!"

Atemu was warm when he woke up. Comfortably, wonderfully warm. With a contented sigh he snuggled backwards into the warmth, not bothering to think about it. Ten minutes later his eyes snapped open again. There was an annoying sound somewhere, a bit like the bread cutter Seto had down in his kitchen. Concentrating hard Atemu tried to force his brain to make a connection between warmth and a bread cutter but couldn't come up with any plausible explanation, except that the two of them were counterproductive. That wonderful body heat was trying to convince him to go back to sleep whereas the strange sound made it impossible. Wait…body heat? Oh. Ohhh! Now he remembered, Seto of course. He smiled. Then he frowned because he had to start to think all anew. Seto…bread cutter…Seto….bread cutter…Seto….

"Chhhhhh"

Atemu actually jumped when the noise suddenly increased and turned around. And finally it clicked. Seto Kaiba was snoring. Seto. Kaiba. Was. Snoring!

A fascinated smirk spread all over Atemu's face, and he had to bite his tongue to keep the giggles from erupting. The great Seto Kaiba! Snoring! This could provide so much fun as a reason to tease his lover. It wasn't like the snoring was very bad, but still. Uhm. Well. He didn't actually want to piss the other off again so he decided he wouldn't mention it right now. They still had to sort out a little time travel problem.

Carefully, Atemu leaned down, poking Seto a bit to see if the snoring would stop. It did indeed and the satisfied ex-pharaoh lowered his face to kiss his lover gently on the lips. "Good morning", he whispered when he saw the other's eyes opening.

Suddenly there were screams and shouts down in the kitchen, and strange thumping sounds. In less than a second Seto was up, on his feet and already running down into the kitchen. Naked.

Atemu sat there open-mouthed, until he heard a scream, "SETO, ATEMU!"

Grabbing Seto's trench coat and his own bathrobe he raced after the blue-eyed boy worry and fear suddenly turning around like a carousel in his head.

"HELP!"

The second scream made Atemu stop. This wasn't Mokuba's voice, it was….it was Seth's! Oh Ra, what could have happened to the both of them? Storming round the last corner, he finally saw for himself and his mouth fell open. There was his loyal priest, hiding under the kitchen table while trying to fend off a black and red blur, that was swinging a …a frying pan?

Atemu did a double take. Then he dropped both trench coat and bath robe and shouted, "Mokuba, stop!"

The attacker froze in the middle of lifting his arm and stared at his naked brother and…well, almost-brother-in-law. Suddenly Seto started to snicker like crazy. He really tried to hide it, Atemu noticed, pressing his hand to his mouth, most likely biting the inside of his cheek, but it was still clearly noticeable. Seto was laughing.

His brother though was less than amused. "I'm trying to save you here," he screamed, "and all you do is laugh! Look at him, it's your evil other from Duelist Kingdom!"

"Mokuba", Atemu sighed, placing his hands on his temples. "This is a misunderstanding. Put the frying pan away and let me explain" He rubbed the skin trying to make his beginning headache go away. A second later still no one had moved.

"What is it now?", he cried, exasperated, when he noticed everyone looking at him.

"Nothing, just the modern world's problem with nudity", Seth spoke up from under the table, looking unsure at the still raised frying pan in Mokuba's hand.

"Oh", Atemu said with a sigh and picked up the bathrobe, throwing the trench coat at Seto. "I figured we'd need these sooner or later. Alright, Mokuba, this is Seth, the former High Priest and now Pharaoh of Egypt." The current pharaoh of Egypt snorted and crept out from under the table, glaring at Seto when he started to laugh again.

"Uhmm…", Atemu continued unsure, "and this is Mokuba, Seto's brother, and he's a really nice kid. I have no idea why he did that right now" He gave Mokuba a strange look, but couldn't be angry when he noticed the smaller boy's obvious shock and embarrassment.

"But I do", Seto said and walked up to his brother. "Mokuba, listen, I appreciate that you felt responsible for our safety. I would have expected nothing less of you. But some things have happened in the past day you have to know about. We all have to do quite a lot of talking, so I suggest we get ourselves something to eat, maybe at some restaurant to show our guest around and use that time for explanations."

"Great idea, brother!", Mokuba smiled, "I'm very hungry" Then, for a long moment, he warily eyed Seth. Finally he held out his hand for the other to take. "Sorry for attacking you. I didn't mean to do any harm"

There was a strange fondness in Seth's eyes as he looked at his future self's brother. Seto of course noticed and growled in jealous fury, muttering under his breath, "Don't you dare…"

Atemu quickly grabbed Seto's hand to prevent him from doing something rash and destroying the momentary peace. Seth smiled and took Mokuba's hand. "It's alright, nhy sAw" (little guard)

Seth tried his best not to pay any attention to Atemu and Seto as they sat cuddled together at the table of the restaurant that Mokuba had chosen. It was hard just to sit back and do nothing when his inner mind kept telling him that he had Atemu first, that they had loved either other first. With every kiss, every sweet loving word that was spoken, every gentle touch, Seth wanted nothing more than to rip his Pharaoh away and lay claim to him once more.

And the little devil beside him seemed to sense what was going through his head and tried his best to keep his attention. Even though it wasn't working, he mentally thanked him for it. He didn't blame Atemu; he knew that his cousin wanted to put any doubt in his other's mind that he didn't want Seth. And from the looks of it he was doing a good job. Seto seemed totally content, well as content as he could be with Seth still staying with them.

Explanations to the younger Kaiba had gone better than he had expected. The little imp was highly adaptable it seemed. Idly he wondered what had gone on in the Kaiba brother's life that made them they way they were. Oh, he knew he could easily find out but delving into Seto's mind, pull apart the memories, but he had sensed that some things were way to private for there was a rather well placed shield around those events. So he let Kaiba have his secrets, he had quite a few of his own.

"Seth."

The former High Priest turned azure colored eyes, with a raised brow, to look at his cousin.

"I have a favor to ask of you."

"Ask away, if it is in my power, I'll do it."

Atemu sent a grateful smile, as Seto growled, tightening his hold on the small teen. "I wish for you to teach Seto how to control the rod fully, during what little time you have here. Now that it is in his possession, he needs to know it's full potential."

Seth furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. Just what was Atemu getting at? He knew very well that the former Pharaoh knew how to control and use all the Sennen Items, it had been part of his training when he was a prince. So why didn't he just train Seto?

Atemu watched the confusion wash, unnoticed by most, across his face. Hiding his knowing smile of amusement behind his drink, his crimson eyes narrowed slightly, waiting to see if Seth would voice his confusion.

As Pharaoh, he had been taught all the powers of the items, and had been shown how to use each of them. It was like stepping-stones. He first learned the weakest Item then went through them one by one till he finished with the most powerful one, his own Sennen Puzzle.

He could have easily taught his boyfriend the ways of the Rod, but that would defeat his purpose. His plan was simple. If he could get the two of them alone, then hopefully they could work out their differences. Seth put on a good façade in front of them, but one could not spend as much time with Seth as he had, love him as he had, without getting to know him in ways that other's could only dream about.

While Seto openly voiced his opinion about his ancient look-a-like, there was still some uncertainty there that Atemu wasn't even sure if Seto knew himself. While he knew that the two might never be on friendly terms with each other, he hoped at least they could be neutral.

"But…" Seth stopped as he noticed crimson eyes narrowing slightly. With a small bow of his head he began again. "If that is what you wish, then I will teach him all that I can."

"Thank you cousin."

Seto narrowed his eyes. It was not lost to him that Seth had started to say some thing else before he changed his mind. What was it that he was hiding? He growled, pissed that he couldn't read Seth like Seth could read his mind. What the hell was going on?

"Wow Niisama! You're going to learn how to use magic!"

Seto couldn't help but smile at the enthusiasm in Mokuba's voice. "I guess."

Wide, excited slate-gray eyes turned to look at Seth. "What kind of things are you going to teach him?"

"Well," he started, looking over to Seto to see him looking back at him with a bit of curiosity. "I use it mostly to seal Ka into tablets, but there are other uses for it. I can use it to call upon other Ka that have been sealed, it can be used to go into peoples minds, it's a weapon since it has a deadly sharp blade hidden inside, I can invoke the Realm with it, well I could until Atemu locked the Shadow Realm away."

"The realm is no longer sealed in this time, Seth." Atemu butted in. "I'm not sure why or how, since I have lost my memories of the past few years I was joined with Yugi."

"You lost your memories?"

Atemu nodded his head. "Yes, when I 'awoke' in this time, I was reverted back to my ancient self. I had to learn who everyone was again, the language, customs, things that I was told that I knew when I was with Yugi."

Frowning, Seth searched his mind, trying to find explanation. "I'm not sure why that happened, I thought it would just give you a body, a new chance at life."

"Don't worry about it cousin," he said as he waved it off and looked at Seto with a smile on his face. "I had a great teacher myself, and enjoyed my lessons." Tilting his head up, he gave Seto a quick kiss on his lips.

"I'll see what I can do about restoring your memories Pharaoh."

"I told you, I'm no longer your Pharaoh since you now hold that title."

Atemu didn't miss the strange look Seth gave him when he mentioned his title. He furrowed his brow for a moment. Was there something that Seth hadn't told him? Some worry of his, some problem back in Egypt? He would have to ask the other later. But now wasn't the time, since their food arrived and everyone was quickly distracted.

Seth found all the new kinds of food very interesting. He had never tasted food like this, and he enjoyed it a lot. At first he had been hesitant about choosing something unknown to him, but Mokuba had assured him that pizza was great and he would love it, so he had tried one. On top of what looked like ordinary flat bread there was cheese, very different from the one they had had in Egypt, some red sauce he couldn't identify and lots of other ingredients, decoratively thrown on top of that. Skeptically, he eyed the foreign dish, but when he saw Atemu taking a bite of Seto's pizza, he just shook his head and watched Mokuba closely to find out how to eat it.

Oh! That tasted good! They should try something like that in Egypt! Greedily, Seth ate the rest of the pizza, Seto watching him with an amused expression, wondering if they would blame him should history books tomorrow contain a note about the Egyptians being the ones who invented pizza.

"Mokuba, you should go to bed now".

The younger Kaiba looked up from where he was sitting on the floor, showing Seth Duel Monsters cards and explaining them to the stunned Egyptian.

"Oh, Seto, that's not fair, I'm old enough to stay up a bit longer."

Seto shook his head, "I'm afraid you're not, Mokie, you have school tomorrow. But be assured, I won't stay up very long either. I need to sort some things out in the company tomorrow, they have been doing things pretty much without me during the last months and not everything went well, as I expected. There are no major problems, but I need to make some sort of appearance there to remind them who pays them…."

Atemu winked at Seth and walked over to him quietly, whispering, "This is how he always gets when he talks about his company. Up to this day though I couldn't find out what all of this is about. Mokuba keeps telling me he is always surprised how I can keep his brother away from his work for so long. But you were the same back in Egypt, so I shouldn't have been surprised"

Seth grinned. "That is true, I enjoy my work a lot, and Seto does too, obviously."

Meanwhile Mokuba had tried the puppy dog eyes on his brother, who was obviously used to that already and only raised his eyebrow.

"Look, little brother, we'll make a deal. You get one of Atemu's chocolate cookies - "Hey!", the former pharaoh cried - and then you go to sleep."

Mokuba tilted his head, contemplating the idea. At last he agreed. "Alright, but I get the cookie now and not tomorrow when I will have forgotten about it."

"You will get it now," Seto assured him. "Follow me and you'll get it."

"I wouldn't have thought the little one would fall for that kind of bribe…", Seth murmured.

Atemu laughed. "Oh, he's a lot cleverer than you think. I guess he has something on his mind he wants to talk about to Seto and was just waiting for an opportunity like that."

"Seto?", Mokuba began when they were in the kitchen, away from the other two.

"What is it, Mokie?"

"Why are you still so angry with him?" his little brother wanted to know.

Calmly, Seto took out the cookie jar, and opened it, finding Mokuba's favorite and handing it to him. "With Seth? He annoys me."

"But why, Seto? It's not that I'm worried about him, he doesn't look like the type to get depressive when you glare at him….I'm worried about you. When someone annoys you, you get so angry it scares me sometimes. I don't want to see that anger on your face again; I hate it when you're angry. It reminds me of back then…when you never had a reason to laugh, when you always looked angry. You have Atemu now, and he makes you laugh. And Seth won't take him away from you, he wouldn't do that. He likes Atemu so much he sees how happy he is with you. So, please, Seto, stop being angry with him."

Seto sighed. "It's not that easy, Mokuba. But if it bothers you so much I'll try to be nice and not glare at him so much." He ruffled his brother's black hair.

"And now go to sleep, it's really late."

Mokuba grinned. "Thanks for the cookie Atemu!", he shouted into the living room, then dashed out of the door when he heard his brother's boyfriend growl at the loss of the chocolate delicacy.

Shaking his head, Seto smiled at the door, then took out three more cookies, two for him and Atemu and one to try the 'go-to-bed-bribe' on Seth.

Dragon: Aww poor Atemu lost his precious cookie!

Desidera: But he gets Seto so I think its only fair.

Dragon: True, I'm sure Seto tastes just as good.

Atemu: nods head vigorously