"Jiichan what are you talking about?" Yugi demanded to know as he questioned his grandfather but the elderly man ignored his grandson and continued to glare at Yami.

"Your name is Mutou isn't it?"

Yami nodded his head. "My father is Japanese but I've never been here before. I was born in Egypt but my parents moved to America when I was young."

"Hmph; just as I thought; this is my idiot son's fault."

"But my father is dead!" Yugi protested.

"And mine is alive!"

"Anzu be a dear and watch the shop for a while," Sugoroku said with a tired sigh; the old man then disappeared through a door at the back of the room.

"Come on," Yugi said to Yami and the famous actor followed him through the door, wondering what was going on. To Yami's surprise he found himself in the hallway of a home. It was then Yami realized that the Mutous lived in a house attached to the game shop.

"Do you know what this is about?" Yami asked while he and Yugi walked down the hall.

"No clue," the smaller male replied with a shake of his head. "My father, Jiichan's son, died before I was born."

Yugi led Yami to the kitchen, knowing that was where his grandfather would be waiting for them. Sure enough when they entered the room they found Sugoroku seated at the kitchen table.

Wordlessly, Yugi and Yami also sat down at the table, the latter making sure that he was seated nowhere near the elderly man.

"Jiichan you owe us both an explanation and Atemu an apology."

"I will not apologize," Sugoroku darkly replied. "But I will explain. For your sake only Yugi."

Yugi and Yami shared a look, both knowing that was the best they would be getting out of the old man for the time being. Silently they waited for him to begin.

"It began 26 years ago years ago when my son married Sakura, Yugi's mother. After two blissful years of marriage, Syaoran had to travel to Egypt for a few weeks to do some research. When the allotted time was up he returned home to collect his items and file for divorce. Sakura was like a daughter to me so I allowed her to continue living here while Syaoran returned to Egypt, allowing his lawyer to finish the divorcing procedure. A month later Sakura found out she was pregnant; we both decided it was best if Syaoran never knew."

Yami hung his head; he never knew. Suddenly his head snapped up in surprise. "Wait! That means you're my brother! And that we're the same age!"

"Wow," Yugi said, clearly in shock. Slowly he looked over at Yami. "When is your birthday?"

"June 4th."

"Me too!"

"Figures," Sugoroku grumbled.

Yugi eyed his grandfather. "That still doesn't give you a right to be mean to Atemu. He had nothing to do with this."

"He's the reason you grew up without a father, Yugi! He's the reason why I lost my son!"

An awkward silence fell across the kitchen until Yami finally spoke again.

"I don't know everything that happened but I do know my father. If he had known about you, Yugi, he would have wanted to be in your life. He was deeply hurt by what happened here and would freak if he knew I was in this country."

"Sakura was hurt more!"

"You can't help whom you fall in love with," Yami argued with a shake of his head. "And I know my father loves my mother. I'm sure he feels sorry for what he did to this Sakura person but if he didn't love her why should he have stayed married to her?"

"As much as it pains me…I agree," said Yugi. "I love my mother and know she had to have been devastated but I don't think we should blame Atemu."

"Yugi…"

"He's your grandson too!"

Yami watched as realization dawned across the old man's face. Apparently that never occurred to Sugoroku.

"I need to get back to work," the elderly man quietly murmured as he stood and walked out of the kitchen.

"This is so weird," Anzu commented to the two Mutous. After Sugoroku took back over for her in the game shop she had joined Yugi and Yami where they had moved to the living room to get to know each other better.

"So what do you do?" Yugi asked. They were sitting next to each other on the couch while Anzu was kneeling on the floor in front of them. "School?"

"No, I never cared much for school," Yami replied with a shake of his head knowing that Yugi of all people deserved the truth. "I'm an actor."

"Ahh…" Yugi said with a smile on his face and a knowing nod of his head. "So you're a waiter."

"What?"

"That's what I heard!" Yugi protested with a laugh. "Everyone who lives in LA and says they're an actor is a waiter because they can't get any acting jobs!"

Yami couldn't help himself as he burst out laughing. He already liked Yugi.

"…And that was how my joyful afternoon went," Yami said with a small sigh; tiredly he rested his head against Seto's shoulder.

Currently they were seated next to each other in a fancy restaurant, eating, and Yami was filling Seto in on what happened.

"I'm sorry you had to go through that," Seto said while feeding Yami some sushi. "Do they know you're some big shot actor?"

"I don't think so. I used my real name but told Yugi I was an actor; he didn't believe me."

Yami was fed another piece of sushi. "His loss."

"Mmm…"

"Come on; let's go back to my place."

A bright smile crossed Yami's face and he was instantly wide-awake again. "That's the best thing I've heard all day."

"Where's Mokuba?" Yami asked, standing by the front door as he slipped off his shoes and jacket.

"At a friend's house. There's some big party tonight and he'll be spending the night."

"Good."

Standing on his tiptoes, Yami wrapped his arms around Seto's neck and pressed their lips together for a sensational kiss. Yami would never tire of kissing the sexy brunet.

As they deepened the kiss, Yami allowed himself to be lifted and carried up the stairs to Seto's bedroom.

For the rest of the week Yami divided his time between Seto and the Mutou family. He even met Sakura, Yugi's mother, and was delighted to find she was a kind woman who didn't feel the way Sugoroku felt. In fact she was helping in trying to convince the eldest Mutou to forgive his son, which Yami was grateful for.

"It's not fair," Yami grumbled one afternoon while he and Yugi sat in the latter's room, playing chess.

"What's not fair?" Yugi asked while one of his knights was captured. "You're winning."

"I meant about what happened," the actor explained and then sighed. "I should have a grandfather who doesn't hate me. I should have grown up here, with you. Instead my father took me to the US where I grew up wishing for siblings, not knowing I had a brother."

"To be fair, Father didn't know…"

"True."

In fact their father still didn't know. The day after Yami first visited the game shop he had called his father and simply said 'Jiichan says hello' in a bitter voice. Since then his father left plenty of voicemail messages but Yami wasn't ready to talk to him.

"I just wish I could have grown up here with you and Seto."

"Speaking of Kaiba, how are you two doing?" Yugi excitedly asked; it hadn't taken him long to find out about his brother and the CEO. Yami didn't care though as Yugi still didn't believe he was an actor. "It's hard to believe that it's such a small world that you and Kaiba-kun hooked up!"

"I've fallen for him," Yami replied with happy sigh before frowning. "But I don't know what will happen when its time for me to go home."

"There's a simple solution to that…stay here! You said you wished you could have lived here with us."

"I don't know…"

Yami pondered the option. Most of his movies were filmed in foreign countries anyway and he could certainly afford to keep his home in LA to use when he was there for business. But that would also mean leaving his family and friends. Plus there was the problem that Yami didn't know how serious Seto was willing to take things; the brilliant brunet might only be interested in a casual fling, Yami just didn't know.

"Think about it," Yugi begged, looking at Yami with his big violet eyes.

"We'll see."

"Look it's her! It's really her!" Drool dripped from Jounouchi's mouth and four heads turned to look where the shaggy haired blond was pointing at a sexy blonde woman.

"Who? Mai?" Yami asked. He had been hanging out with Yugi, Anzu and their two friends, Jounouchi and Honda, at a mall downtown when the blond began having convulsions.

"You know her!" All heads snapped around to look at Yami.

Kujaku Mai was a famous actress and it didn't surprise Yami that Jounouchi was so in love with her. Yami had met her through Malik at a party in LA when she had been there for a while promoting an English movie she made. Instantly they had hit it off as Mai reminded him a female version of his friend.

"Yeah…" Yami replied and then laughed at their shocked faces. "Come on; let's go talk to her!"

Grabbing Jounouchi's wrist, the American began dragging the shaggy haired blond across the plaza. Quickly the others hurried after them.

"Atemu! No!" Jou protested but Yami ignored him. "We can't bother someone like her!

Not wanting to attract further attention to the star, Yami walked up right behind her and tapped her shoulder. "Mai?" he asked and the pretty blonde turned around with a scowl on her face. The others watched in amazement as the scowl turned into a bright grin.

"Yami!" she happily cried throwing her arms around the actor's neck and giving him a tight hug. "Oh wow! It's great seeing you again!"

"It's been too long Mai," Yami agreed, matching her grin.

"What are you doing here? Are you filming something?"

"No I finished filming a few weeks ago in Australia and am now on vacation where I ended up finding some family I never knew I had." Reaching behind himself, Yami grabbed Yugi and tugged him forward. "This is my brother, Yugi, and these are his friends, Anzu, Jounouchi and Honda."

"It's nice to meet you all," she politely said before turning her attention back to Yami. "So where's Malik? He owes me a rematch."

The last time Mai had visited them in LA she got in a contest with Malik to see who could get the most phone numbers but when Mai found out that the only reason Malik won was because he was collecting female numbers along with males she declared him a cheater and had been demanding a rematch ever since.

"Breaking hearts back home," Yami replied with a laugh. "I snuck here without him knowing."

"Ha! Smart move!"

"You're Mai!" Jou finally managed to gasp. He was still drooling, trying not to get the slobber on her skimpy dress.

Mai laughed at him. "You're like a little puppy with all the drool!"

"That's our Jou," Anzu added, joining in with the laughter.

"Autograph!" Jounouchi begged; unaware that he was being laughed at.

"I'll send Yami some things to give to you," she replied with a wink. Digging through her purse, Mai handed Yami a slip of paper. "Give me a call tonight; we should get together for lunch one day before you leave."

With a wave, Mai wandered off through the thick crowd and Jou finally fainted.

"You know Mai!" Yugi said in amazement while Anzu and Honda tried reviving the shaggy haired blond.

Yami couldn't help it as a smirk crossed his face. "I told you I was an actor."

"Wow! Look at him!"

"Look at that redhead! She's a fox!"

"Meh, she's no Mai."

Yami laughed to himself as walked into the Mutous' living room that afternoon where the gang was gathered around the TV watching one of his movies. Ever since the other day when they had met Mai, all four of them had eagerly wanted to see all the films he created.

"Oh hey Atemu…Yami…Umm…" Yugi stammered upon hearing his brother's laughter.

"Call me whatever you want," the famous actor replied with a wave of his hand as he sat down on the couch, handing the gift bag he was carrying to Jou who was seated on the floor in front of the couch. "Mai wanted me to give this to you." The two stars had met for lunch that day where Mai had given him the gift to pass onto Jou.

Jou tore the paper out of the bag and pulled out a framed autographed picture of the actress which read 'To Puppy…it was nice meeting you. I'm glad you didn't slobber all over my dress…Love Mai'.

"Mai!" Jounouchi happily cried, clutching the picture.

"Someone's in love…" Honda teased as he pounced on his friend.

"Are they always like this?" Yami asked, looking at Yugi.

"For as long as I've known them."

"I'm definitely not used to it." The only males that Yami was extremely close to were Malik, whose idea of wrestling involved the bedroom, and Mahaado who would rather bore someone he didn't like to death.

"You'll get used to it quickly," Yugi laughed.

Down on the floor, Jounouchi's leg kicked the gift bag as he and Honda continued to fight spilling the rest of the contents that the actress had placed in it. A pair of silk black bra and panties tumbled out of the bag, stopping the fight.

Immediately Jou got a nosebleed.

"How was work today?" Yami asked as he met Seto at the front door; standing on his tiptoes he quickly kissed the brunet's lips. Although Yami still had his suite at the hotel, Seto had given him a set of keys and the American actor would often be waiting at the Kaiba Mansion for Seto to come home.

"Long and aggravating." Wrapping his arms around Yami's waist, the sexy CEO drew the crimson-eyed male in for another, deeper kiss.

"Mmm…I bet it just got better now…"

"Definitely," Seto agreed, pulling back a little so he could look down into Yami exotic eyes. "Where's Mokuba?"

"Out on a date."

The brunet's expression darkened. "He's not allowed to date."

"But Mokuba not being here means we have the entire place to ourselves…"

"Hn. Maybe him going out on a date isn't so bad."

Yami grinned. "I knew you'd see it my way."

Instead of replying, Seto kissed him again.

"Jiichan…"

"Don't call me that."

Both Yugi and Yami rolled their eyes at Sugoroku. They were in the game shop with Anzu, Jou and Honda as Yami wanted to buy some things and have them shipped home but the elderly man was being difficult as usual.

"Jiichan I was wonder if you had any more of these cards," Yami said holding up a pack of some collectable card game.

"I'll look in the back," Sugoroku grumbled. A sale was a sale after all.

As the elderly man disappeared into the back room, Yami contently watched as the others gossiped to each other. His Japanese was improving thanks to daily lessons from both Seto and Yugi; it was nice not having to remind his new friends to speak in English.

"Yami!" a voice suddenly squealed.

Before Yami could even look to see who called his name strong arms were flung around his neck, squeezing him tightly.

"Can't…breathe…" he managed to gasp, mentally kicking himself. He should have known that someone would eventually recognize him. He had felt safe in Japan though and had lowered his guard.

"Get off of him!" Yami heard Yugi yell and in his vision he saw Jou and Honda trying to pry the arms off of him.

"No! He's my friend!" an all too familiar voice protested as the arms around Yami's neck tightened out of fear that the actor would escape his grasp.

Now knowing who it was, Yami wiggled a hand between their bodies and began tickling the person's belly until the arms released him. "Malik!" he yelled, spinning around to face his friend. "What are you trying to do? Kill me! And why are you here anyway?"

"I'm sorry, it's just that I haven't seen you in so long!" Yami sighed as he looked at the pitiful lavender eyes. It was true; it had been months since they had been together since Yami had expected to be home weeks ago.

"Alright you're forgiven but why are you here?"

"Well…I had been planning on visiting Li and the other's in Beijing…" Malik began and Yami rolled his eyes at the mention of the Chinese tourists the blond had befriended after they had been robbed while on a vacation in LA. "But changed plans at the last minute when you decided to come here."

"That still doesn't explain how you found me…"

A bright smile crossed Malik's face. "Mai. I'm staying with her."

"Mai…" Jou happily sighed in the background and everyone ignored him.

"Figures," Yami grumbled before turning his attention to the others who had staring at both Yami and Malik the entire time. "Everyone this is Malik. Malik these are Yugi, Anzu, Honda and the love struck one is Jounouchi."

"Hello!" Malik cheerfully said as he waved at them, while they continued to stare, unsure of how to react to the blond.

For some reason, Yami knew his vacation just got a bit more interesting.