Disclaimers: Don't own them. Don't Sue.
Warnings: This is shonen-ai so if that doesn't suit you well; I suggest you don't read this.
Also... /.../ -Yami to Hikari/... / Hikari to Yami. In this fic, the Yamis can materialize without taking over their hikari's body.
Accidentally In Love Epilogue: Together Forever 0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0
Seya stood on the balcony, silently watching the older ones in the room dancing the night away. He felt guilty with all the things he had done. If it weren't for him, that world where one Seya had to endure seventeen years without a dad like Jou and one Seto without his true love wouldn't have existed. But then again, if that didn't happened, who would go back to save his parents relationship? Maybe he would've not existed at the first place...
'I'm getting a headache...' Seya thought wearily. A cold glass appeared on his forehead to soothe his pain and the smiling face of Yuki Motou appeared beside him.
"Penny for your thoughts?" his best friend asked. Seya smiled before shaking his head. "Just thinking about my parents." At that Yuki nodded, urging him to go on.
"You know what, in the past three days I've realized that we should be proud of our parents. They've endured a lot of hardships just to be with each other. The world was cruel but they've faced it together. I'm glad that my parents had stood by each other and twenty years after, they're are still in love."
"I'm glad you've seen the beauty in front of you. The love your parents, my parents and our other friends' parents have will always be the most beautiful thing in the world."
"I'm sorry Yuki for being so stubborn before." Seya looked at Yuki, sincerity in his eyes. Yuki beamed him the famous Motou Smile before taking his hand.
"Come on! Let's dance!"
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A few weeks after...
"Hey Seya, you're drifting again." Yuki pinched Seya's arm to get his attention.
"Ouch! That hurt you know." Seya glared at Yuki but Yuki just continued writing his homework.
"If you're paying attention to your homework, I wouldn't have pinched you. Say, what are you thinking so much that it make you drift doing your homework in statistics, the subject you dubbed as 'the-only-thing-I'm-good-at-that's-why-I'll-work-hard?" Seya know Yuki wouldn't let the subject drop since he's giving him the 'eye'. He just shrugged and muttered something.
"I was wondering what's happening on the other Seya's World."
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At the other world...
Seto was relieved that Seya accepted Jou in their lives so easily. He didn't know but a small part of him feared the day his son and Jou would meet and not get along. He could not choose between of them so when Seya just stood infront of Jou and asked him if he could teach him how to cook the patented Jou applesauce like they were the best of friends, it was an understatement to say he's relieved...he's delighted.
But tonight was different...and he doesn't know how both of them would react.
They just finished dinner and now currently indulging themselves on Jou's chocolate cake. They're currently talking about Yugi and the others who are now couples. He glanced at Mokuba that just gave him the OK sign before putting his fork down.
"Gentlemen, I've got two announcements to make."
Jou and Seya looked at him, confusion on their faces while Mokuba just beamed at him. He took a deep breath before standing up and walked towards Jou. He kneeled in front of him and took out a velvet box.
"We've been together for two months now but I've waited so many years to ask this question. From the moment you said you're mine and that I'm yours, I knew that it's the sign I've been waiting for. The sign that said I'm ready to be with that person for the rest of my life...together forever. Jonouchi Katsuya, would you find it in your heart to marry me?"
Twin gasps were heard after he opened the box and revealed a simple silver band. To others it was a simple ring that doesn't mean anything but Jou knew better. It was the ring Yugi told him years before that Seto had got him before the winter festival. He had been waiting to have that ring for a very long time. And now, Seto was offering it to him a promise of a lifetime with him and his love.
Seto looked at Jou, hope in his eyes. When Jou nodded and he inserted the ring on his love's hand, that's the only time he dare look at his son.
"Seya I ho-" Seto was cut off by a blonde blur.
"Took you long enough. I've been waiting for you to pop that question from the first time you've introduced me to him." Seya said as he hugged his father. He looks at Jou, happiness evident on their faces.
"Welcome to the family Jou."
Seto smiled before offering his other arm that Jou took. Mokuba looked at them before launching himself.
"Group hug!"
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On the family room, Mokuba, Seya and Jou plan the upcoming wedding. They're currently arguing if they'll order a dozen of white roses or red roses.
"I say we should order the red roses." Mokuba insisted.
"No, we should order the white ones." Seya countered.
"How about we order both?" Jou stood in the middle of the fight, a grin on his face. Mokuba and Seya looked at each other before nodding.
"Now, onto the invitations." Before Jou could proceed, Seto interrupted them with a cough.
"Pup, would you mind if I stop this and continue with my announcements? I was distracted before so I'd like to take this opportunity now or I'll just keep this to myself again." Seto never looked so uncertain so the three of them quietly sat on the sofa as Jou motioned Seto to sat in the middle. Seto sat with Jou on his left and Seya on his right. Mokuba sat on the armrest beside Seya. He knew what was Seto's announcement and he feared Seya and Jou would hate his brother for that. He just hopes that they'll forgive him and accept it.
"This concerns Seya and Jou." he started. He tightened his hold on both person all the while holding Mokuba's hand for support.
"Twenty years ago, Kaiba Corp. started a research that's now one of Science's greatest breakthrough, the artificial womb. This helped childless couples and homosexual couples to have their own child without the help of a third party. All that was needed were their very own DNA. Three years after that, it was perfected. That was the time Jou made it big time in America."
"That was also the time most investors are nagging Niisama to marry and conceive an heir." Mokuba continued when Seto paused. Seto gave him a grateful look before continuing.
"With all of them trying to match make me with their daughters, I've decided to take Mokuba's advice." Seya looked at Mokuba who winked at him in return while Jou hold Seto possessively.
"You took a blonde girl and took her DNA for the artificial womb to conceive Seya. I've pretty much figured it out Ryu, ever since you told me that Seya was one of the first baby the artificial womb had conceived." Jou said, bitterness evident in his voice. Even though he knew he would never be Seya's parent by blood, a part of him hurts to know that the young blonde was never his son and he don't know why.
Seto smiled before ruffling Jou's hair. "You've pretty much got it pup but not quite. You see, there never was a blonde girl."
Jou looked at him at the eye. "Are you saying that it was not a girl but another guy!" Before he could rant some more, Seto took hold of Jou's hand and with eyes pleading to be heard out Jou relented and assumed his place on Seto's side, with a tighter grip while thinking the mantra 'Seto's mine. Whoever that blonde guy would not get Seya even if he's the biological parent. Seto's mine. This family is mine.'
Seto looked at his pup with a knowing eye. He knew what's going on through his pretty head and he want to clear that up. For weeks he had noticed this between his lover and son. He knew what Jou was feeling...he just doesn't know what IT was.
"Yes...a guy. And I love that guy with all my life for he had given me something very important..."the pain was evident on Jou's face now. 'Why is Seto doing this? If he love Seya's father so much, why did he asked me to marry him?'
"His heart. And now, I'm marrying that guy in about a month completing my family."
"How could yo-WHAT!" Jou's about to kick Seto's behind because he said that stupid guy gave him his heart but was stopped when Seto mentioned about marrying that guy in about a month.
He and Seto's wedding was next month...does that mean...
"You mean--" Seya cut off Jou.
"HE'S MY OTHER DAD!" Seto and Jou looked at their son whose face was currently buried in his hands.
"Seya...I..."Seto didn't expect Seya to do that. He thought that Seya would accept Jou wholeheartedly but now...
"How?" Seya asked, face still hidden.
"Yes Seto...how?" Jou looked at his lover then to his suppose son. 'This better not be a joke Seto...This better not be.'
"Remember the hair locks you've given to me? I took some DNA from it and merged it with mine." he turned to his son. "Seya, I know that keeping you from your other parent was not the best idea but I couldn't tell you that you were a product of a wishful thinking. I thought that even though I don't have Jou, I would have a son that is part him. You are the child I've wished to have when Jou and I got married. But with the circumstances back then, I couldn't have Jou but the experiment gave me the opportunity to have you. I hope you'll understand. Both of you...I'm sorry."
Jou looked at Seto. He knew he's suppose to be angry since Seto took his right to be Seya's parent but that would explain the feelings he had when he met Seya. Like a part of him love him like a parent would love their child. No, he's not angry but what with Seya?
"Seya please don't be angry. I know I've never been a parent to you but now that the truth was out, let me be one. You said it before, I'm part of the family. Let me be your other parent. Let me be your dad." Jou coaxed Seya while Seto just stared. He was glad that Jou accepted it.
"Angry? Who said I was angry?" Seya looked at them, mirth in his eyes. "I'm shocked but that's fine since it was the first time my father and I talked about my birth. Also, this gave me a relief."
"Relief?" Seto asked in confusion. He looked at Seya who's giggling and Mokuba who's chuckling.
"Did you know that ever since the two of you had been a couple, Seya's beating himself to death for just one question he had yet to ask you?" Mokuba, who had sat quietly in the whole ordeal, finally said.
"What? Do you have problems with us being together son?" Jou worriedly asked. He won't accept that Seya wouldn't want them together.
"I don't have any problems. Its just that..."
"Well, what is it?" Seto ask impatiently.
"Idontknowwhattocallhim." Seya blurted like Jou did when he's on the spotlight.
"What?" Seto and Jou asked.
"He said he doesn't know what to call Jou." Mokuba decided to save his nephew. "But now that you've unveiled that Jou's his other parent, I think 'DAD' would fit just fine, right?" he grinned at his brother who sighed in relief. They looked at Seya, a smile on his face.
"Yeah...Dad is just fine."
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"I bet he's fine. The Jou and Seto there are now together and I hope the other couples as well." Yuki answered Seya's question. His best friend looked at him, hope in his eyes.
"I hope Yuki that you're right."
"What are you saying? I'm always right!" Yuki beamed at him. "So, how are your parents?"
"They're fine. Father took some load off like he had promised but Dad still had to hide his laptop so he won't do work at home. They're currently at Kaiba Land for I decided to give them a day just the two of them." Seya started working on a problem as he answer Yuki.
"I see. And what about your uncle Mokuba?"
"Uncle?" this stopped Seya for a while. "I don't know..."
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A knock was heard on the Kame Game shop's door. Yami and Yugi looked at it, puzzled on who it might be.
"This better not be some work. Today's your day off." Yugi warned. Ever since they put up the millennium hotel, Yami had been very busy. Often times, he and Jou would tag team to get their husbands out of their office once in a while.
"I can't promise that it won't be but I promise I won't work today." Yami assured his aibou before going at the door. As he opened it, it revealed Mokuba holding a familiar box.
/Who was it/ Yugi asked through their mind-link.
/It's Mokuba. And I think I know why./
"Please come in." Yami said as he made way for Mokuba to enter.
"Thanks Yami." Yami led him towards the den where Yugi's currently sitting.
"Please have a seat, Mokuba." Yugi offered the sofa. Mokuba sat while Yami sat beside Yugi on the loveseat. "What can we do for you?"
"Someone told me you could help me with these." Mokuba placed the box on the coffee table. He opened it and revealed two identical rings. "I found them at the expedition on one of the tomb in Egypt. I couldn't make out the markings on the box but something tells me that these are important."
"Yes. These rings once belonged to a High Priest and his lover. The rings symbolize their eternal love for each other. The night they bonded their souls, the high priest forged these rings using his shadow powers and a vow that no matter what happens, he and his lover would never be parted. The rings are not just symbols, they're also made to make sure the lovers would be together in that lifetime and all the other lifetime after theirs." Yami explained.
"The high priest and his lover...are they Seto and Jou?" Mokuba asked.
"Technically, they were Seth and Jono but in this lifetime, yes, they are Seto and Jou." Yami looked at Yugi. /Aibou, please get the cloak I've put on the bottom drawer./
/You mean the one Isis gave a year ago? She said it was not ours to use./
/Yes. And we're not the one who'll be using it./ at that Yugi nodded and left.
"I see. So I should give this to them." Mokuba's about to stand but Yami stopped him.
"Not quite. You see, the priest didn't make this ring for them to have it. Rather, for its guardian to make sure him and his lover to be together forever."
"Guardian?"
"Yes, the one destined to travel through time just to make sure that the vow will be fulfilled." Yugi entered, carrying a cloak.
"What's that?" Mokuba asked distracted.
"This cloak was owned by the said ring guardian. It can stood against the power of time. The wearer of it could go through time portals and into different worlds." Yami explained as he handed the cloak to Mokuba.
"Huh?"
"Have I told you that the guardian was none other than the high priest's younger brother? But before that, let me tell you something about fate, free will and destinies."
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"Ryu, Thank you." Jou as they sat on the gondola. Kaiba Land's Ferris wheel was one of the highest in the world but that didn't scare him, he had his dragon on his side.
"That's nothing pup. Our son's right, I need to give time to my family. I work because of my love ones not because I love my work." Seto as he stared at the scene at the top of the ride.
"Seto-Ryu...are we old?" Jou stared at the stars. It is after dark and to watch the amusement park at night was one of the romantic scenes he had seen in his life.
"What are you saying?" Seto looked at his puppy that had a wistful look on his face.
"Seya's in high school. A few years more, he'll be in college. To have a son in college was like saying I'm a very,very,very old man."
"You're exaggerating. But yes, we are getting old but we're not that old. Besides, even if you're the oldest man in the world, you're still the pup I love."
"Promise?"
"Promise. Together forever." Just then, snow begun to fall.
"I have this silly dream on having my first kiss while the snow falls on me and my love." Jou grinned at his husband.
"I already fulfilled that dream years ago." Seto said.
"Yeah...but I had another dream." Jou said as he tried catching a snowflake.
"What is it?" Seto asked as he hugged his puppy.
"My love and I kissing on a gondola as the snow falls." Jou looked at Seto, eyes shining.
"Let me see if I could fulfill that one, shall we?" but Jou stopped him.
"Let me finish first. My love and I kissing on a gondola as the snow falls after the said love promised me another son." Seto looked at Jou who's not looking anywhere but him while he bit his lip. Seto hold his chin and made him face him.
He looked at Jou with a serious expression before grinning. "I've been waiting for you to wish that. And as your self-appointed genie, your wish is my kind."
Thus ending this story of wishes fulfilled, destinies known and love filled kisses.
OWARI
A/N: I'm finished! Its finally finished! confetti looks at the calendar and on my birthday too!( well technically its tomorrow since today is Oct.8) Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me! I'm so happy!
To all who reviewed, read and supported this fic, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You don't know how much your reviews and support mean to me. I'm really grateful! hugs everyone
Oh yeah, as promised...held out a tied up Seya you can do what you want to him but remember the condition, he gets back in one piece. I don't want some angry Seto, Jou or Yuki at my door, disturbing my peaceful life. throws Seya to the readers Have fun!
As I end this, I know I've started another one. Hopefully, you all will be there again. The next story I'll be starting would be AU again and a bit angsty but romantic too. It will be new for me and I don't know if I could pull it off. But I will try:D
On to the reviews( to all who reviewed, virtual Seto and Jou Kisskiss plushies for you)
clarity - Don't worry. Your one of the reasons I strived harder for this fic. I should be the one who should thank you. The rings are mention somewhere on the past chapters and the hooded man was revealed in this chap but like with Seya meeting with other Seya, I tried to give hints here and there. (see chapter 15, the time where Seya met the hooded man :D) Thank you for staying with me until the end. Thank you very much. :D
mechante fille- sorry for giving you a headache. I hope you liked the epilogue, I can't resist putting one last Jou/Seto moment there(It's suppose to end with the Yami and Mokie scene). Thank you very much. :D
Chiyoku Shibata- Yeah, I'm sad too but it must end for me to start a new one. Besides, I think Seto and Jou had enough of Seya torture. grins About writing the other Seya's world, I've been thinking about it and when you've mentioned it, it finalized my decision. Thank you very much. :D
... - Thank you. I was really scared if I could pull off that time paradox thing but thanks to all of you who gave me inspiration, I was able to finish this fic. Thank you very much. :D
FireieGurl- Thank you very much. :D
svakee2000- Thank you very much. Don't worry, it's fine if you don't like them, we are entitled to our choices and I respect you for that. Again, thank you. :D P.S. yes, you've got it right.
rubisora18117- Yes, I am and a pure one to boot. You're a Filipino too? Mother or Father side? Yes, you're right about the Mokie and the rings. Thank you very much and I hope you'll like the epilogue. :D
anaraz- really? I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to do that. Forgive me? Jou's puppy dog eyes Thank you very much for reviewing. :D
1x2 kaijou child- I know. That's the reason I've been so late on updating. This upcoming Monday will be my finals. I hope I'll pass them Goodluck on your studies too. If you're currently living in Manila, you could go to Comic quest for some manga and doujinshis but they're expensive. TT Thank you very much. :D