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Chapter 3: The Boat

Free Drinks

Seto and Yugi sat off in the corner of the room, both sipping the glass of champagne which were being handed to everyone on the boat. Yugi had been watching Mokuba who was bouncing a little boy on his knee while he talked on the phone and drinking from his glass, he looked over the the brown haired man still wearing his dark glass.

"Wow the perfect little business man isn't he?" Seto made a sound that was like a grunt.

"Oh yeah, perfect everything mind you, he's the best in the world at life and me I suck." He said downing his glass and then grabbing another one off a tray. "He's got a beautiful wife who he loves and adores and a perfect kid. As where I have no kids and I fight with my wife all the time, the only thing we really do together is have sex." Yugi was distinctly reminded of his wife and how she told you everything wither you wanted to hear it or not. Though to be very honest he didn't really care about what he was talking about it was just the fact that after all these years they were back together, he hadn't even realized that he had missed Seto, but now that he thought about it he really had.

"Well I've got one kid but she's 14 years old." He said trying not to laugh at the look on Seto's face as Yugi grabbed another glass as well.

"14, that means she was born like a year after I last saw you!" Seto looked across the room to the group of people that Yugi had come with, the blond man and auburn haired woman were making what seemed like an army of fairly young children sit down at the table while a blond teenager and a brown haired woman watched drinking champagne, he figured she must be Yugi's wife, through her sheer shirt he could see her body was covered many tattoos and her brown eyes were made up with layers of gold eyeshadow that distinctly reminded him of his own wife. But who was she? There was something really familiar about all three adults that he couldn't quite place.

"Serenity Wheeler." Yugi said, down the last of that glass and grabbing them each another. Seto looked over to him.

"You banged that little cutesy thing that followed Wheeler around when she was like what?"
"16. Yeah and I turned her into that." The woman had lite another cigarette and was deliberately blowing smoke in the direction of the other family.

"Oh, its Gardener and Wheeler isn't it?" He asked realizing that it was really very obvious who Yugi would have with him since they didn't seem to ever not be at his side, though he didn't seem as pleased about it as when they were young. "What happened to loving and fucking cherishing them all the time?" He said trying and not succeeding to keep the smile off his face.

"We grew up, and they continued to be like that, and I would rather cut my throat out with dull sissors." Yugi said simply. "So what about you and Mokuba, you guys used to be clingy." Seto ran a hand through his hair irratably making it stick out in a weird way that Yugi knew he never would have aloud as a teenager, then again he never would have been drinking with Yugi on the floor either.

"Yeah I guess we were, but like you said we grew up, and he became me but better." He said. "Obviously I taught him well, since he is an amazing business man, and you taught him well to since hes insanely nice and perky all the time."

"And yet thats neither of us anymore. I guess I'm just cynical now." Yugi laughed. "But you would be to if you had to see Joey and Tea everyday to!" Seto started to laugh, something Yugi realized he had never really seen the other man do.

"You know I always envied you." Seto said downing yet another glass of champagne.

"No way, I envied you to." He laughed, "god I shouldn't drink this much what would my brother in law say?" Seto smiled.
"Oh don't worry its super amazing and great, have another." They clinked glasses and downed them quickly. To say the very least it least this will make the trip more fun, thought Yugi looking over at his friend.

The prefect family

Joey looked over the table again, there was one missing.

"Tea wheres Jason?" He asked as she tried to get baby Amy to eat the jar of food. Tea looked around nervously.

"Oh god, I don't see him, honey where did he go?" Oh no shes gonna freak out, Joey thought trying to remain level headed, the boy had been there minutes before he couldn't have gotten very far.

"Oh shit did you lose one, don't worry I'm sure you'll have another five later." Serenity said lighting a cigarette.

"Not now Serenity please! Don't worry sweetheart I'll go find him and be right back." He kissed Tea on the cheek and started off into the crowd. Most of the adults at the party seemed to be drinking and talking loudly, he ducked down low trying to see under there feet to the level a six year old would most likely be at.

"Lost something?" Joey looked up from the table he was searching under. The man had brown hair and was wearing a casual business suit, he looked concerned it probably does look strange that I'm crawling around like this, he thought.

"My son Jason, have you seen a kid wander past here?" He asked, he mans expression became more concerned.

"Do you want help, what does he look like." Joey smiled gratefully, at least someone here was helpful since he knew his best friend would never care to help, actually he had no idea where Yugi had disappeared to.

"Hes little, blond hair, blue eyes, wearing overalls." He said quickly looking under the next table.

"Okay I'll look on that side of the room." The man placed his glass down.

" Oh god your a lifesaver thanks."

"Anytime." The other man disappeared into the crowd, though Joey couldn't shake the feeling that he knew him, of course you feel like that these people are all duelists you probably just met him before.

"Jason!" He yelled now actually crawling on the floor as he looked under people's legs. "Oh sorry" he said as he bumped into one of the people at this table. The woman had long black hair and was wearing a red strapless dress.

"It's fine, are you looking for a little boy?" Joey's heart jumped.

"Yeah have you seen him?" She pointed a red fingernail towards the far end of the room,

"he walked away with a blond woman." She said,

"Do you think you can find him, if you want we can help?" The black haired man at the table asked, he was also familiar for some reason Joey felt like he was looking at a darker version of somebody he had known but couldn't place who.

"No I'll look that way thanks for your help." He stood up and pushed his way across the room. A thin woman with short blond in jeans and a white sweater was crouched on the floor with his son reading him a picture book. Joey stopped surprised to find him so calm, normally Jason hated people he didn't know very well.

"Jason where have you been?" He dropped to the floor close to the pair.

"I this your daddy?" She asked looking down at his son, Jason nodded. "He's shy, but he told me his name and said he was lost I figured that keeping him in one place would be better so that he wouldn't get farther away from his family, sorry if I scared you." She smiled at him. "What do you say kid you should go with your dad."

"Finish the book." Jason said happily. The woman looked at Joey, her violet eyes filled with question.
"Yeah thats fine go ahead, I'm just glad hes okay. Thanks."

"Oh its an instinct, I'm a teacher so I see a kid alone and wanna make sure its okay." Joey laughed, she would probably make an amazing teacher since she was so calm and sweet.

"Tea will be glad that you do, she probably a mess since I haven't come back and I'm sure Serenity isn't helping much." He said not really talking to her, but she had stopped speaking mid sentence.

"Who are they?" She asked kindly turning the page for Jason to continue to look at the pictures.

"My wife and my sister."

"You married Tea? Oh, I always figured that Yugi would, though I knew one of you would she was all over all of you. Why wouldn't Serenity be helping she was sweet when I knew her."
"Not so much anymore, ever since her and Yugi got married they both have entered the land of pessimism and ... Wait what do you mean when you knew her?"

"She hung out with me most of BattleCity, I think you were there, I'm insulted you don't remember me Joseph." She said with a smile.

"Mai?"

"The one and only, how have you been?" He threw his arms around her.

"I've missed you. Come get some coffee with me." They stood up and walked towards the cafe.

Sailors drink so they can sway like the boat

Ishizu stared at the row of glasses she had accumulated over the short amount of time they had been there. Already she was ready to shot Bakura for whining, and Marik for trying to fix everything! And now to add on to it all, Tristan had wandered off to help some man find his kid! Champagne was just not strong enough.

"Ishizu can Zara hang out with you while we go look around for a while, shes very reluctant to come."Odion said leaning past his wife to talk to her, of course she can what else would your pathetic sister be doing since she is to much a freak to have any kids of her own.

"I was just gonna grab some coffee do you wanna come?" She asked her niece.

"Sure I like hanging out with you Aunt Ishizu." Well at least someone does. She stood up and swung her arm over Zara's shoulder, though the girl was only thirteen she was almost her aunts height with long black hair and golden eyes. Ishizu straightened her black linen halter top dress which seemed to not want to stay on right, maybe that was cause she was already a little light headed and was swaggering back and forth while she walked, its okay everyone was since it was similar to the movement of the boat she reasoned.

"The coffee shop is upstairs Aunt Ishizu." Zara said laughing slightly as she began to realize just how trashed her aunt really was.

"Yeah but were not getting coffee, were making this party more fun." They stopped in front of the bar. "I'm a strawberry daiquiri, do want one kid?"

"What really?" Zara asked looking around as though making sure that her parents were no where near. "yeah sure." Ishizu kissed her niece on the cheek and walked to the bar.

Once they had their drinks in hand they headed to a table not far from the bar.

"You know that I'm not aloud to drink right?"

"Whatever, your parents are just being prudes, besides I need someone to get drunk with me, and you were a better choice then Bakura." She laughed.

"Oh shit sorry." A man's voice said as a weight hit hard into Ishizu from behind knocking her forward onto the table.

"NO more drinks for that man!" Another voice laughed.
"Shut up woman and get me a beer." The first voice said now falling with a thud to the floor.

"Yeah okay, but you sit here so you don't get hurt." A man fell into the chair next to Ishizu, she took in his unusual spike hair and violet eyes.

"Yugi?" She asked even through the alcoholic haze she could recognize him. He looked startled.

"How do you know me! Did they send you! Seto this chick knows me!" He said falling forward laughing. The other man came back over with two Coronas and flopped into the chair on Yugi's other side.

"Dude your the fucking king of games, everyone knows who you are plus don't worry its all super, amazing, fabulous and beautiful!" The man in the dark sunglasses said taking a swig of his beer.

"No I know you both, I was in BattleCity, remember me, Ishizu Ishtar." Seto stopped laughing, and took his sunglasses off, his blue eyes looked her over.

"Yeah..I do." He said then took another drink. Ishizu smiled and sipped her own glass, maybe this trip wouldn't be so bad.

Parenting for dummies

"Is it just me or do you feel like were in a roomful of slightly over grown teenagers." Alister said flicking cigarette ashes over the railing and watching it fall into the crashing waves below.

"They are a bit aren't they." Valon agreed clutching to the bar they were leaning against, he had never been a huge fan of boats and was beginning to remember why that was. He took another deep breath trying to make himself feel less nauseous.

"You okay?" She asked blowing out smoke forward, he nodded rolling his neck, maybe I should go inside watching the water move is definitely not helping he thought.

"Oh god I'm glad there are other smokers on here, I was beginning to think I was alone on here." A young woman had walked out to join them, her brown hair was up in chopsticks, but Valon's eyes fell to her chest where an intricate dragonfly was tattooed and clearly visible through her shirt. "Your husband likes my tattoo." She said with a laugh lighting a cigarette.

"Valon don't stare at her boobs."

"Sorry, I..."

"No I put there I was asking for that." He looked her over, mean as it seemed she this woman would not have seemed very out of place in every stripbar that he had ever entered, though to be honest she was a little to pretty. His eyes lingered past her to a young teen that was close by her, the kid was braiding and unbraiding her long blond hair. "I'm desperate to find anyone to talk to on this ship, my husband is getting trashed with some guy I don't know and my sister in law is freaking out cause her husband has been gone forever looking for there kid. I personally hope hes at least having fun, doesn't seem like he does very often anymore." She spoke quickly blowing smoke out of her mouth almost the whole time.

"I'm Esme, whats your name?" She asked walking away from her mother to the other girl who was sulking not far from the two adults she was talking to.

"Cordelia, do find this as horribly boring as me?" Esme nodded.

"At least your mom and dad don't seem to bad, mine aren't either."
"He's not my dad."
"Oh sorry."
"Its okay, lets go to the top deck I think theres somethings to do up there." Esme agreed.

"Mom were going somewhere later."

"Yeah come back at some point." Serenity said not even looking away from Alister who she was talking to. Valon stared at the two women, were they really going to let their children walk away by themselves like that?

"Aren't you going to ask them where they're going?" He asked Alister. She raised an eyebrow unconcernedly a gesture that he had received from her many times when they were younger.

"What you wanna follow her around all day, shes 15 I'm sure she'll be fine." And she turned back to the person she was talking to who had now gone on to her third cigarette while Alister was still on her first. Valon leaned against the pole now feeling to sick to look out at the water, he decided to just try and let it pass while half listening to the girls.

"Could I bum one off you." Alister looked over at the new woman who had just joined them. The brown haired woman handed a cigarette to the the blond woman with glasses.

"Smoker?"
"I quite four years ago, but today just might make me wanna start. My husband and sister in law are snapping cause my brother in law is sloppy drunk and making a fool of himself, this is not what i need today!" She smiled wearily.

"I'm Serenity Muto, by the way."

"Alister Cross," She said "and this is Valon Prince." The blond woman was looking them all over.

"Serenity, I feel like they talked about you a lot, but your married to Yugi?" She asked moving a piece of her hair that fallen out of the loose bun it was pulled into.

"Yeah I am, what about you whats your name?"

"Rebecca Kaiba." Alister coughed, looking over to her.

"Oh so you are who I though you were, your the doom biker that was after Seto right?" Alister nodded, "And the one that was after Mai." Valon nodded resentfully, what had he been thinking?

"Your a little young for the older Kaiba, though he is rich," Alister said throwing her cigarette butt over the side. Rebecca laughed.

"No I'm married to Mokuba, happily not to his brother, hes got a lot of issues shall we say." Yeah I don't think that quiet covers it, thought Alister.

"Valon are you sure your alright?" She asked taking hold of his shoulder. He shook his head.

"I really don't like boats, I always get sick on them." He said taking another deep breath which he let out shakily.

"Well its was nice meeting you two, I hope we get a chance to talk more, but I think I should go with him."

"Oh we understand, I'm sure I'll be seeing you our girls seem to like each other." Serenity said and turned back to Rebecca.

"Come on Val, we should go inside before you get sick out here." She wrapped an arm around his shoulders.

"Its okay, you can stay here."
"No I wanna come with you, I wanna make sure your alright." He nodded silently not sure how to respond to that, it had been a while since anyone had cared.

He lay his head against the wall miserably messaging his temple. Taking a breath before he heaved again.

"Your okay, here." She handed a glass of water to him from where she was laying the bathtub. The bathroom itself was bigger then Valon's living room at home all tiled with marble, god some people shouldn't have money.

"For the thousandth time you can go if you want, I can take care of myself."
"You've been saying that for a long time Val, I'm not leaving you here your one of my best friends and I know you would help me, so I'm just doing the same." Alister said as she braided her hair into two ponytails. Valon stared at the plastic cup of water wondering how to ask the question that had been eating at him since they had got onto the boat.

"Ali?" She looked from cleaning her glasses, he smiled she really did look the same when you could see her eyes.

"Yeah whats up?"
"I was wondering, well Cordelia's fifteen, that means that I still knew you when you were pregnant with her." He said quietly looking at his hands. When she didn't respond he felt bad for asking. "You know it doesn't matter we don't have to talk about it."

"You can figure who her dad is right?" He nodded, who else would it be they were all very close and well the only people that she would have interacted with at that time.

"Yeah does he know?" For some reason Valon could never imagine the Rafael that he knew abandoning any kind of responsibility, he took this moment to look up at Alister. She was staring at the opposite wall with a distant look that reminded him sadly of when she spoke about her younger brother.

"Kinda, I told him that I thought I might be, and he told me that there was no way that either of us was ready for that, so I figured if he didn't wanna be a dad, then I wouldn't bother him with it." She said, her voice had slipped into a blank and expressionless tone. He took her hand and squeezed it.

"Why didn't you tell me?" He asked propping himself up against the side of the bathtub, now that he could no longer see the water he was feeling a million times better. She raised an eyebrow at him.

"You would have wanted me to tell you?" She asked incredulously.

"Yeah Ali, of course your my friend I would have helped you, thats what friends are for right?" She smiled and squeezed his hand back.

"Right."