Birds of Prey: I apologize to you all my fellow readers for not updating my story often. I have been busy and tired as heck. I wrote this in one hour for fun, so if you like it or hate it review please. Pour your flames of improvement and praise. Thank you and now read and enjoy.

This chapter is devoted for to invisible girl, yami'sgal and MysticMaiden18! And any other faithful readers I didn't mention (sorry)!

Chapter 5: Old Friends

It has been only 5 days after Kenueal's short visit and life was continuing. Even though Yami, Yugi, Joey and Ryou took their pregnancies very seriously, the rest of the boys decided to ignore theirs and continued on their daily trends without change. Yugi and Yami had reading books on pregnancy and focused how they would break the news to Solomon Muto when returned from an arcgoloical dig in Egypt with his long time friend Arthur Hawkins.

But fortunately Solomon called that evening telling the boys he would be another 6 weeks before he came home. He and Arthur seemed to have found an underground tomb from earlier times. He apologized several times over the phone but by the excitement edging in his voice, the two boys he really didn't mean it. He just wanted to return to the desert to dig. Which Yami and Yugi appreciated very much so they had even longer to decide how to break the news to him.

It was after 2:00 a.m. in the morning when Yugi and Yami were still awake, turning and twisting unable to sleep. Yami had a strange feeling something was amidst, that a visitor would arrive very shortly.

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Knocked someone at the front door. Yami and Yugi sat up in their beds with shock.

KNOCK

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"Yami?" Yugi asked with his voice going edgy. "I don't know abiou. Let's go see how it is" Yami answered going downstairs with Yugi following closely behind.

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Yami hesitated before opening the front door "Ishizu!" Yugi exclaimed as Yami opened the door fully. "What are you doing here, and at this time at night!" Ishizu and Malik jumped a little at Yugi's outburst. "Shsss!" Ishizu whispered touching the teen's lips. "May we come in? It's not good to be in the open." Yugi and Yami nodded in agreement and stepped back, giving the siblings access to his home. "Of course" Yugi replied softly.

Once they were all inside, Yugi guided them to the family room were they sat and chatted. Yami was the first to break the silence. "So what brings you two to Domino? I thought you two had started a new life in Egypt" Ishizu sighed with a heavy heart and began tugging on her necklace unknowingly. Malik touched her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze of support, looking concerned at his sister.

Yami and Yugi exchanged nervous glances. They were secretly overjoyed with the sibling's surprised visit but worried what could be the cause of them come in the first place. "Is everything well?" Yami asked casually. Malik shook his head. "No pharaoh, it's far from good. We're all in grave danger. The children we're going to have must be protected even at our dispense."

"How did you know about the children?" Yami and Yugi chorused with shocked voices. "Don't tell me you two are pregnant too" Yami groaned. Malik and Ishizu nodded. "I'm not having all this evening sickness for nothing" Malik chuckled with a lighter heart as he gently rubbed his tight muscled midsection.

"Because of the pregnancies, that's the reason why we're here" Ishizu said suddenly getting everyone's attention. "Kenueal appeared to us to right before we were captured by the Dark Thorn."

"The Dark Thorn?" Yugi asked with a dreaded chill going up his spine. "Who are they? What do they want?"

"It's simple" Malik answered. "They are an underground group who want our children for their own wicked needs. You see---. Ahem, I and sis were not supposed to tell you but the children we're having are the reincarnated souls of the King and Queens of Earth over 60,000 years ago."

"Whoa" Yugi breathed. "Kenueal defiantly didn't tell us all that"

Yami scowled in thought. "Why these ancient rulers of Earth need to be reborn? Do they serve some sort of a destiny?"

"We don't know" Malik sighed as he laid back on the sofa. "I hope whatever we are bringing back into this world is good. There is rumor that goes it's possible these ancient rulers were awful and cruel who threaten to destroy the planet itself in order to rule life from other worlds"

"Hold on" Yami said, holding up his hand at hearing Malik's words. "I thought there were only three worlds. Our world—the human world, the duel monster realm; dominion of the beast and the evil shadow realm of lost souls. The three realms that exist along side each other in order to balance all."

"Correct sire" Ishizu agreed, not at all shocked by the Pharaoh's knowledge. "Then how can we expect there's even more?" Yami finished.

"Because there is" Malik said leaning forward, looking Atemu straight in his eyes. "I have no proof. But we all must open our eyes to realize. Thousands of worlds are surrounding us. Hundreds of thousands actually, we can't see them and may never cross over them. But we need them to balance to keep balance"

"Oh!" Yugi exclaimed. "I understand what you mean. It's like each world may never hardly connect with each other but we need each other in order to exist. If our world—the world of man, fail, for example they would be torn and unbalanced and eventually will disappear."

Malik smiled sadly. "I couldn't have placed it in any better way Yugi. Unfortunately that's how it works. If one fall, we all fall."

"And that's why I believe why our unborn children are so important" Isis whispered as she let her hood fall off her head. "That can bring peace, joy and balance to all worlds threw their power or they can be dictators and eventually destroy us all."

"They can be either way?" Yugi asked astonished. "Is that why so many people that Kenueal claimed are after us?"

"Yes, I believe that's the reason so" Ishizu agreed. "Some want their powers to be unstoppable; others want to slice them from our bellies and raise them as their own in order to fore fill what they want and the last of them are either fighting to keep destine ones safe wit there rightful parents or fighting to kill the destine ones fearing they may become evil"

"Oh my Ra" Yami whispered hoarsely. He now realized how dangerous this was, on all ends. "That's why Kenueal and the ones who are trying to help us are bringing us all together so we can be safe and they can watch over us" Malik explained, finishing after his sister's theory.

Yugi touched his stomach in remembrance of the little life he was carrying inside of him. 'How can an unborn baby be so powerful and dangerous at the same time?' he thought in wonderment. Yugi focused his eyes from his stomach to the people in the room. Everyone seemed concerned and looked locked into their own thoughts. It was late and him and Yami and to go to school so Yugi decided to break the silence.

"Anyhow" Yugi began cutting into the eerie silence. "It's wonderful to have both you Ishizu and Malik—even when it's under circumstances like this."

"And I returned the favor to you and Yami" Malik said with Ishizu nodding in agreement.

Yugi smiled to see everyone look less tense. "I wish I knew you two were coming cause I would have fixed the guest bedrooms a little better."

Malik released a laugh as he stood up gathering his and his sister's bags. "It's alright Yugi, in fact me and sis didn't know were coming until an hour ago. So no hurt feelings"

"Good" Yugi said with relief as he pointed to the downstairs' hallway. There are two rooms side by side so take a pick and I'll see you two in the afternoon after me and Yami come home from school."

"Okay" Malik said as he walked back to the guestrooms. "Good night Yugi, Yami. Coming Ishizu?"

"Coming now" Ishizu called walking after her brother. "Good night my pharaoh, good night Yugi, may your day be well tomorrow"

"Goodnight" Yami and Yugi chorused as the siblings when into each others bedrooms and shut the doors. Yugi stretched his arms high above his head and looked at a nearby clock on the wall. "Its 3:06, I'm defiantly getting back to bed, night Yami" said Yugi as he walked back upstairs to his room.

"Good night abiou" Yami sighed as he wandered around the living room in thought over an hour. This was just too much to absorb for him in minutes. The baby he was carrying could be evil or good. 'It all depends on the parent' Yami thought crossing his arms. 'Well, that's if the baby is alive to be born. Or what happens if someone tires to steal the baby before it's born?'

The very thought of someone or something cutting the baby out of him made him want to throw up. But what happen if he raises the baby, no problems and it whines up evil anyway? But what if the baby is killed before its born or after its birth? What if someone kidnaps the baby after birth and raise it as their own?

What if, what if, what if.

Yami groaned at the amount of stress he was feeling.

'This whole is situation is nothing but Enigma!' he thought bitterly as he went to his room to sleep. He knew if he laid down, he wouldn't sleep but for his health and the unborn child's he had to try. As he was getting back into bed he looked over at Yugi's bed to see him wide awake.

"Can't sleep brother?" He asked quietly.

"No" Yugi whispered and clutched the sleets in his hands tighter. "Um—Yami?"

"Yes?"

"Can we not go to school today? I'm too tired and Malik and Ishizu will need a tour around the house" Yugi said. He knew his excuses were weak but he just couldn't face the outside world.

Yami bit his lower lip understanding why but the word education still meant a lot to him. "Very well abiou. We will take a break and show Malik and Ishizu around tomorrow but we must go to school the day after tomorrow. Our children need a future. Good night abiou. Sleep well and late"

Yugi smiled and turned over, slightly more relaxed. "Thanks, good night bud" he said with one woe off this mind for tomorrow but a thousand and one of others.

Old Friends of BitterSweet Revenge--- TBC?