Seto picked Yugi and Yami up in the car almost as soon as they were out of the hospital, and they got in. On the way home, Yugi sat next to Yami in the back seat cuddled up to his side and absentmindedly kissing him on the neck, making Yami smile and purr contentedly. They finally reached home though and had to get out, but it was okay because they were home, they could go right back to cuddling on the couch. Unfortunately as soon as they stepped through the door Yugi was practically tackled by a pair of large tan dragons and before he knew it Yugi was being picked up high off the ground in a big scaly bear hug from Marik.
"Yugi I'm so glad you're all right," he cried holding Yugi.
"Marik, put him down," Yami commanded seeing a slight look of pain cross his features. Marik set the little one down smiling sheepishly,
"Are you okay? I didn't hurt you again?" he asked crouching low for him.
"I'm fine Marik," Yugi replied rubbing his chest a bit to sooth the tiny pain caused by the scales.
"So what happened? Are you all right? What was the hospital like?" Malik asked him in a tiny bit less hyper way, apparently the brothers had gotten into something and were sucking up to every one in the household.
"Really, you two, I'm fine, I just had to have a pacemaker put in," Yugi said moving away from the two to join Yami again. The two followed them until finally Yugi turned around,
"Guys! I'm fine, I just want to spend some time alone with Yami please!" he cried holding onto Yami's arm. Thankfully Marik and Malik got the message and slinked off, making Yugi sigh and lean against Yami.
"Are you feeling okay Yugi?" Yami asked softly rubbing his back.
"Yeah Yami, I just want to sit back and relax with you for a little bit, I'm still kind of tired," Yugi replied hugging Yami and pressing himself into him.
"Okay Yugi, how about the living room," he said leading the little vampire away.
"Thank you Yami," Yugi said sighing and shutting his eyes as Yami led him toward the living room. The two settled in on the couch, spooning into each other and cuddling; Yami nuzzled his face into the spot where his neck and shoulder met, he nibbled gently at the skin there making Yugi giggle and press himself into Yami.
"It's this kind of time I love the most with you, I wish we could just stay like this," Yugi said turning his head to look at Yami.
"I love this too Yugi, but you know Seto would come by and try to dust us off if we did," Yami said jokingly Yugi smiled.
"Yes, I guess you're right," Yugi said laying down on the pillow they were propped against.
"Still, it's nice to just sit here with the one person I love the most," Yugi said bringing Yami's arm around and holding it to his chest.
"What's this?" Yugi asked him feeling something on Yami's finger; he looked at it, there was a ring on it, no, two rings, two thin bands, one silver one gold, it was different, Yami had never worn rings before.
"What's what Yugi?" he said innocently.
"You're wearing rings, you've never done that before," Yugi replied looking suspiciously up at Yami.
"Oh, those? Well, there's a story behind these rings, want to hear?" he asked smiling.
"Yes," Yugi said Yami could see the curiosity written all over Yugi's face.
"Well a long time ago, there was a cold hearted monster and as cold as this monster was he still held the power of the sun, he was covered in gold and everyone came to worship his beauty even though he was a cruel cold ruler. Well one day a great dragon with the power of the moon heard of this monster and rose to fight, but when the monster saw the beauty of the silver dragon he fell in love, thus coining the term love at first sight, but the dragon did not know this, so she set himself to attack the sun monster when he was weakest, at sunset. But when she finally attacked the sun monster over powered her, even though he was at his weakest, and they formed a cycle. The dragon would arrive in the afternoon, bringing the moon to fight him, and in the morning the monster would rise and repeat the process. All the while the cold hearted ruler melted away to his love for the moon dragon until finally, centuries later, he lost to the dragon and was fatally wounded, but as he fell from the sky he finally confessed the love he had had for the dragon. The dragon in a rushed confession also proclaimed her love for the sun monster, chasing him day after day just to catch a glimpse of him during their fighting, and dove after him both plummeting down to earth and for the first time there was no moon to light the night sky," Yami looked down and the little one looked slightly worried.
"This is where these rings play in. On that first night of the new moon, both the dragons slept together in the warm sands they produced an egg in the one night and as morning came the sun monster took flight again, being regenerated by the sun, the moon dragon also fled for she also must guide the moon across the night sky on the other side of the world, this left the egg in the sands alone, a tribe of nomads traveling the dunes found the egg and took it with them thinking it would bring them a good blessing as an offering, and so they were on their way. When the sun monster returned from his duties, he noticed the egg gone and mourned with the moon dragon, but when he arose the next day he was angered and scorched the land with the sun's heat. By then the nomads had reached their destination and given the egg as an offering to the priests, they saw the egg and felt it was special, giving it to the prince, can you guess who the handsome, young, strong, prince was?" Yami asked rubbing Yugi's chest affectionately.
"You?" Yugi said looking up at himsmiling at the way Yami had described himself.
"Yes it was me," Yami said.
"I knew what it was though, and set it out in the sun, the sun monster saw me and came down from the sky for the first time to a human in centuries as the monster neared though the egg broke open and two baby dragons tumbled out, and, to make a very long story the sun monster, Apollo I think was his name, and the moon dragon, Horus, were grateful for rescuing the dragonets and made me two rings out of their own scales, a very very huge honor indeed, that is why one is silver and the other is gold, when they gave them to me, I vowed to them that one day these would be my wedding rings were I ever to be wed. So..." Yugi's eyes widened as he looked up at Yami.
"Yugi, will you marry me?" Yami asked the old fragile question that almost every human around him seemed to wish to kill reason for saying it with divorce. Yugi stared at him in shock at first but came to quickly, grinning.
"Yes, Yami, oh yes!" he cried throwing his arms around the older vampires neck. Yami separated himself from Yugi only long enough to slide the silver ring on his finger, he took Yugi's hands in his and kissed Yugi full on the lips, everything seemed right in the world, until the apocalypse happened... Jou walked into the room and saw Yami put the ring on Yugi's ring finger and he ran crying happily.
"Seto! Yami proposed!" to him making sure the entire household heard him; within minutes they were all gathered around the pair, hugging Yugi, smiling, and offering congratulations. Yami watched as Yugi was passed back and forth; until quite suddenly he stumbled back to Yami wrapping his arms around his neck, looking dizzy, he leaned up and kissed Yami good and hard on the lips making the older vampire sink into it immediately, his eyes rolling in pleasure. Yugi broke the kiss after a few seconds smiling.
"When are we going to have the ceremony?" he asked happy as ever, he had never imagined any one would love him enough to marry him.
"I was thinking around Christmas, what do you think?" Yami told him smiling at him.
"Three months? Christmas? Perfect," Yugi said snuggling back down with Yami sounding contented, the rest of the family scurried off to leave the newly engaged couple to sleep as Jou began to plot out the wedding plans with Seto.
"I thought they'd never leave us alone," Yami whispered to his little koi as he rolled over to bring Yugi with his back against the couch. Yami claimed Yugi's lips in a heated kiss before Yugi could respond; Yugi kissed back as Yami slid his tongue into his mouth the little one slid his hands under Yami's shirt feeling over his fiancé's muscular back. Yami moaned and pressed himself up against Yugi pushing him back even further against the couch cushions. Yugi broke away from the kiss panting, he so wanted this from Yami, but he didn't feel ready to do it again yet, Yugi looked up sweetly at Yami still tracing indescript patterns along his back.
"Yami I-I don't want to..." he tried to get out blushing, as he realized the corner he'd backed himself into. Yami's features softened and he laid back down next to Yugi with his legs still wrapped around his hips.
"I won't ever try to do anything to you that you don't want," Yami told him doing the same thing to Yugi as the little one was doing to him. The small vampire sighed relaxing completely under Yami's hands as he continued to run his hands over his smaller back,
"Yami that feels good," Yugi moaned lifting his head just enough to set his head on top of Yami's. Yami smirked as he listened to Yugi's heartbeat from the position they were in, the beating wasn't completely normal, but it was much much better and it was beating rapidly now as Yami stroked his back lightly almost tickling.
"I'm going to be married," Yugi purred dreamily, hugging Yami tightly.
"We're going to be married," Yami whispered back leaning up and placing a gentle kiss on his lips.
Suddenly Yugi felt the cushion behind him move and the small vampire looked up; there on the back of the couch, perched like a cat, was Ryou, blinking down at them, Yami noticed Yugi looking up and looked up as well, the look of love vanished from his face in an instant and if he had hackles they would have been rising of his back quickly just then, he still had a slightly loathsome feeling for Ryou.
"What are you doing?" he growled baring his fangs.
"I heard you proposed and I wanted to congratulate Yugi," Ryou said bending down with an articulate balance that he'd only seen a cat use, and bared his fangs to Yami too, before he reached down and hugged Yugi, whispering his congrats in the little vampires ear. Bringing himself back up to the back of the couch with his feet, using his tail to shake Yami's hand before he turned and hopped off the back of the couch and walked off on all fours.
"He's not that bad Yami," Yugi told his older lover sitting up slightly and kissing at Yami's neck again, nipping at the vein pulsing strong and hard underneath the skin, Yami moaned and wrapped his arms around Yugi again laying down with him.
"I know, it's just going to take me a while to get used to him living with us," Yami whispered back as they laid back against the couch, cuddling lovingly with his little fiance.
notes: okay I realized that in the reviews you guys had alot of questions about the entire pacemaker thing.
Atemu Yugi Lover34: I do not watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I never have here's an explanation though Yugi, Yami, Seto, and Jou are a special kind of vampire yes they can choose whether or not to eat and use their other organs but they do have a heart and it is their most vital organ if you remember Ryou getting stabbed back in chapter 16 he just about died. So if their hearts are damaged (punctured, weakened, etc.) it can prove fatal to them, as it was with Yugi, I hope that answered your question.
kkwyDragonflame: the pacemaker is a permanent one the spell Bakura cast on Yugi's heart is permanent, I'm sorry to say, but it won't be entirely bad now that he has it he won't hurt as much yes he'll still have to take pills but look on the bright side it's better than hurting him even more.
SaiyanKing Vegeta: I find it kind of strange that you love my story, and don't get me wrong, but if you like it so much then I just have to wonder why you knock the yaoi part of it this story contains some of my favorite pairings and not all of them are yaoi if you remember Isis and David are not yaoi course they are a minor couple but still...
Xxamber-drakinixX: a pacemaker is a small mechanical device that is put next to or near the heart and gives it very mild tiny shocks to get it working right.
fallen-angel-of-repression: I notice it's kind of wierd to set Malik and Marik up a brothers who love each other but if you really think about it the two of them were trapped by themselves in their cave for centuries without any female contact so well yeah they're sort of bi if you think about it because they were drooling over Isis
another note both the monsters in Yami's story are duel monsters Apollo was Ra's name in Japan and Horus is the new silver dragon looking card
Gruzzee: yay, Yugi, they're going to be married at Christmas time awwww!
Cazi: yeah and that means break time for Yugi, but don't think you're ending it there aibou, no, you have to tell us what happens in the three months between
Gruzzee: yeah I might Cazi now shut up you're ruining the mood and all you out there R&R and come back for more
P.S. this chapter was delayed due to the great Harry Potter book 6 which I absolutely loved and can't wait for the 7th, even though it had a sad ending that made me cry.