Coming of Age
AN: There, I said I'd update and I did! Happy? Of course not... you'll read this and just demand more. I spoil you all. And how I love doing so. This chapter deals with just various prejudices and preferences... Oh, go look at my forum and matching C2! This is chapter eight and is titled, A Little Accident.
After enjoying the entertainment of Mokuba's futile explanations to the assembled guests, Seto informed them all perhaps they should continue in the effort of getting Bakura (still out like a light) to a bed. Mokuba, realizing that there was a better chance of Seto taking a vow of poverty than him being able to explain away this incident, agreed heartily. Seto promptly led the parade, which looked oddly like a rather motley funeral procession, up to the closest guest bedroom.
"Mokuba," Tea said, slipping back to the end of the line to converse with the birthday boy, "Where did Serenity and Mai go?"
With that comment Mokuba suddenly realized where they were going, who would be there, and what they'd be doing. But as he had this sudden revelation, Seto was opening the door of the guest room. In stunned silence he watched Tristan, Duke, and Joey march into the room with Bakura's limp body. There were two female screams, a loud thump, three male shouts of horror and disgust, and the three male exited the room in a frantic rush, slamming the door behind him.
"What-" Seto began, but Tristan cut him off.
"Mai and Serenity are in there... naked..."
"Mai's bonkin' my sis!" Joey cried indignantly. There was a gasp of horror from Yugi and Seto and Tea looked ready to swoon. Mokuba coughed slightly, and then, realizing they were all too involved with being mortified to notice, poked Seto in the ribs rather hard.
"Ow! Mokuba, what is it?" his brother demanded.
"They seem to be missing something." Mokuba said pointedly, nodding at Duke, looking oddly pale under his tan, Joey, in a towering rage, and Tristan, looking sick. Seto frowned and counted the present company. Then his eyes widened in realization.
"Guys! You dropped Bakura!" The other boys all looked at each other in even more consternation than before.
"We left a man behind with those... women!" Duke gasped.
"Oh, Bakura, how we mourn your loss." Joey intoned as Tristan started edging away from the door, from which were coming scrabbling sounds of two girls looking franticly for clothes.
"Don't be stupid, you have to go get him!" Seto said insistently.
"Are you crazy! I'm not going back in there!" Tristan cried. He tried to make a dash for it, but Yugi caught the back of his coat and held on tight.
"Tristan, you have to! That's what real friendship is!"
"Like hell it is!" Duke said, also trying to flee. Mokuba tackled him around the knees and Duke came crashing to the ground, pinning Mokuba to the floor beneath a tall, heavy, and attractive boy for the second time that evening. Tea sighed loudly.
"Oh, to be so lucky!" she said audibly.
Mokuba was flaming red, partly from Tea's comment and partly from Duke's whispered "If you wanted to get me on top of you, all you had to do was say so." At that most opportune time a voice came from behind the door to the guest bedroom Mokuba had previously deposited Serenity and Mai in.
"Okay, we're dressed. You can come get poor Bakura now." Mai's sharp voice said. The boys all warily watched the door handle turn and the fully clad form of Serenity emerge from the depths of the shadowy room.
"Um, we can't lift him, so would you please..."
Seto strode forward, grabbing Joey and dragging him into the room. Mokuba struggled out from under his burden of toned muscle and long limbs and trotted after them. Mai, scowling at the rest, who looked like there was not a price you could name to induce them to enter anyways, slammed the door behind him.
"Joey..." Serenity said, hiding her face. Mokuba trotted over to her and put an arm around her shoulders. Mai put a comforting hand on her other arm.
"We need to talk, Serenity." Joey said fiercely. "Why didn't you tell me that you're a- a- a lesbian?"
"I... I..." Serenity burst into full blown tears. Mai scowled again, stroking her young lover's hair.
"Look, is there that much difference between me and her talking a roll in the hay and you and him doing the same thing?" She asked, nodding at Seto while glaring at Joey.
"Yes! He has a dick!"
"Oh, shut up! We happened to get X chromosomes, so sue us! Screw who ever you want to, but don't expect your baby sister to magically grow a phallus and fall in love with men. Same goes for you, Kaiba." she snapped.
"I don't have a- oh." Seto said catching her meaningful glance at Mokuba.
"I'm a girl and a lesbian and that's that." Serenity said in a muffled voice. Her tear stained face peered up to see Joey's angry one, and with a wail she buried her face in Mai's bosom.
"Sorry, big brother." she whispered. Joey looked horrified. He knelt beside her and turned her face up.
"No, I'm sorry, that wasn't fair of me. It's perfectly fine for you to be fornicating with girls, honest. Just... lock the door next time."
"Ahem. Touching as this all is, can we get Bakura to an unoccupied bedroom? You ladies may continue your activities in private." Seto said with icy politeness. Mai gave him a mock curtsy and a smirk.
"Why, how chivalrous of you!" she said.
Joey and Seto hefted Bakura between them and exited. Mokuba hovered uncertainly. Mai looked annoyed.
"Mokuba, I like you and I know it's your birthday, but you can't watch."
Mokuba blushed hotly and mumbled a denial of any such desire and a quick apology for forgetting they were here. Both Mai and Serenity giggled.
"It was really quite funny, actually, once we were dressed again." Serenity confessed.
"Yeah, I'll bet." Mokuba smiled. "And Mai... thanks. For what you said."
"No problem." The blond girl ruffled his hair.
With that Mokuba scampered after the group, who seemed to be heading towards the best guest bedroom, located just down the hall from Seto and Mokuba's own bedrooms. Settling Bakura into the lush blankets, the group discussed what to do next.
"How 'bout twister?" Yugi said with a leer rather surprising on his normally innocent, cute face.
"I vote for hide and seek!" Joey said excitedly.
"Poker? Craps? Let's play something with dice." Duke suggested.
But with a touch of irony, it was Tea who found the next entertainment. She, while looking around the room, noticed something left behind by the previous occupant, a rather fat, ugly, stuffy business man. It was a swimsuit calendar.
"Hey, Kaiba, you have a pool, right?" she asked.
"'Course fancy-pants has a pool, don't ya? There was this one time me an' Yugi an' him went swimming an' we all ended up-" Joey said, slinging an arm around Seto.
"He, Yugi, and I." Seto corrected firmly. The two of them descended into a discussion about grammar for which the phrase 'battle of wits with an unarmed person' was created. The rest of the group waited patiently for them to finish.
"We haven't got suits, though." Tristan pointed out, over Joey's muttering about "don't care what Webster says, I can talk how I wanna..."
"No problem, we'll go skinny dipping!" Duke said happily. Everyone but Mokuba cheered at this, though Tea was less thrilled when she found out she was required to leave he panties and shirt on.
"But it's not fair..." she wined. The rest ignored her.
"Last one down to the pool is a rotten egg!" Tristan declared, and everyone but Tea and Mokuba took off. The two stared at each other.
"I don't know where the pool is." she said.
"I was just about to point out that neither do they, but I was apparently mistaken. Come on, I'll show you." said Mokuba, thinking about all his naked male guests splashing about in the pool. Looking down he decided he would need a cold shower before getting in the water.