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Summary: follow up to 'Nothing to live for' years have passed and Ushio hell bent on revenge on Joey is due for release. How will he take his revenge?
Chapter 1
Ushio sat in his prison cell thinking. Fifteen years had passed since he had been sent back here due to Joey telling the screws what had happened to him and who had beat him up. When he got out of here he was going to get his own back on him for that. He would make him suffer.
Joey was the partner of Seto Kaiba and his contacts had told him that they were very happy together. Well he would just see to it that his happiness wouldn't last.
Ushio had spent a lot of time dreaming up what he would do when he got out. He knew Joey would know about it. That asshole Kaiba had his fingers in so many pies that he would be bound to find out. He hoped that they were stupid enough to think that it would all be water under the bridge and that nothing would happen. Kaiba would probably step up security just in case but no matter there was plenty of ways revenge could be taken without even having to go near them.
Joey sat having breakfast with Seto and watching their fifteen-year-old adopted daughter Ruia eat her breakfast. They had made the decision to adopt her after much discussion on the matter. Seto had been concerned about not having enough time to spend with a child but Joey had said it would be okay and they could give plenty of love to whomever they had. Seto had finally agreed and two years later, they had been blessed with a five-year-old daughter called Ruia.
Joey watched her tuck into her breakfast happily. There were not many kids in Domino city that could say they had two dads or were heirs to a billion yen fortune. Ruia considered herself lucky every day of her life and was not stuck up because of it.
Neither Seto nor Joey had told her about Joey's past and when Yami and Yugi came to visit, which was often, no one talked about it.
Yami and Yugi had a very happy life in Egypt. They had put the past well and truly behind them and enjoyed each day as it came. They had thought about adoption themselves but they were so happy with just the two of them that they never really went ahead with it.
"Seto wants us to join him for Ruia's sixteenth birthday." Yugi said one morning when they received a guilt edged invitation from her proud parents.
"Call Seto and tell him we will be glad to come." Yami smiled.
Yugi grinned and went to call Seto to tell him that they would be more than happy to join them for the party and stay for a few days afterwards.
Ushio walked out through the prison door and into freedom for the first time in twenty-two years. He sniffed the fresh air that was so different to that of the prison yard even though it was outside.
He walked down the roads directly to his closest friend's apartment. He had said he could stay with him until he found his own place and it was there that Ushio was heading to.
"Hey Ushio! So they finally let you out huh?" Bakura said when he opened the door.
"Yeah, I really need a drink right now." Ushio said stepping through the door as Bakura held it open for him.
He went through to the sitting room and Bakura poured him a stiff drink. He downed it and was handed another one.
He lit a cigarette and drew the smoke in slowly and pleasurably.
"That's better." He said when he had finished it.
"So tell me, you said you had something in mind." Bakura said. He had mentioned about it to him last time he had visited but had given him no details.
"Yes I am going to get my revenge on Kaiba's little partner for putting me back in that place. I could have been out years ago if it wasn't for him."
"Go for it, I would do the same." Bakura encouraged him. "How are you going to do that?"
"Well I am willing to bet that 'daddy' hasn't told her anything about his past life." Ushio said with an evil grin. "And what would she say if she knew what uncle Yami had done to uncle Yugi?"
"Oh I like it. Mess with her head and reap the results." Bakura said with an evil smile.
"Well they will know by now I am out so I'll bide my time for a while and see what happens." Ushio said. He would need time to find out when the girl would be on her own and he could talk to her or make sure she found out just what had gone on all those years ago. Oh he was going to mess with her head all right and who would be there to help her cope? Well her good friend Ushio would provide her with a listening and understanding ear of course!
Feeling pleased with his plan, he spent the rest of the night talking to Bakura before falling into bed with him and Bakura showing him exactly what good friends did for each other.
"He's out Seto, he's free." Joey said over breakfast the following day. Ruia had gone to school and they were on their own. She always insisted on taking the bus these days not wanting to appear a show off by going in her father's limousine. Seto always insisted on having someone walk to the bus stop with her though and she didn't seem to mind that wanting to keep her dad happy. She had very good friends whom she met on the bus and she had pyjama parties quite a lot especially during school holidays and in return she worked hard at her studies to make her parents proud of her. After all Seto often told her that one day she would be running the company and needed to be prepared. He swore however never to put her through what Gozoboro had put him through when he was Ruia's age. He remembered all too well what it had been like and there was no way he was going to make his own daughter suffer like that.
"Try not to worry about it too much puppy." Seto said trying to reassure his partner. "Ushio would not dare to try anything now, he would be sent right back to prison and besides, it was fifteen years ago now I'm sure he had other things to think about now."
"Maybe you're right." Joey sighed wishing he could be as sure as Seto seemed to be.
"I know I'm right." Seto said ruffling Joey's hair affectionately and Joey smiled.
"Okay." He said.
Preparations were well under way for Ruia's sixteenth birthday party and as it grew closer she became more and more excited. She bounced round the house with boundless energy making her parents shake their heads and smile.
The party was a great success. Ruia was overjoyed to see her uncles and danced with both of them. She looked stunning in her floor length midnight blue cocktail dress that was covered with tiny hand sewn sequins that covered it from head to toe. She truly was beautiful and Yami said so to Seto later on when she was dancing with other people.
"You must be really proud of her Seto."
"I am, she is beautiful and also has top grades at school. She will do well when it is time for her to run Kaiba Corps."
"Yes I believe she will." Yami said and watched as Yugi danced with a few of Ruia's friends. "Excuse me but I think I will go and rescue my Aibou from death by teenager." He said grinning and Seto laughed.
"See you later." He chuckled as Yami went on his 'rescue' mission.
"May I have this dance?" he said breaking up Yugi and the teenager who had grabbed him.
Taking Yugi in his arms they danced their way through the next three songs before returning to where Seto was still standing but now Joey was with him too.
"Mission accomplished." Yami chuckled.
"Thanks Yami, I think she had a bit of a thing for me." Yugi said blushing slightly. He was after all in his early fourties now but to look at him he still looked in his twenties. They all did except Yami whose alcohol abuse when he had been younger was taking its toll on him. Yugi told him constantly not to worry but Yami sometimes thought that Yugi could probably do better than him. They had been together for so many years now though that Yugi couldn't possibly imagine life without Yami.
The party came to an end sometime around midnight and parents arrived to pick their children up. Eventually the mansion was empty except for the staff clearing up and the hosts.
"Well I think we'll retire to bed." Yami said nuzzling Yugi's neck meaningfully and the others grinned.
"Well your room is far enough away from ours so I don't think you'll keep us awake." Seto said and winked.
Yugi giggled and he and Yami went off to the room.
"I'm tired too." Ruia said and she looked it being hardly able to keep her eyes open.
"Come on." Seto said. "You're not too old to be carried young lady."
She held out her arms to him and he scooped her into his arms winking at Joey as he did so and mouthing to him that he should wait in their room.
After seeing Ruia was okay in her room, Seto returned to his own room and got ready for bed.
"It was a great party Seto." Jou said from the bed and Seto had to agree with him.
"I think Ruia had fun." He said and got into bed where he was welcomed by warm arm snaking round him and drawing him into a kiss.
"I love you pup."
"Love you too my dragon."
Ruia was ready for bed when she caught sight of an envelope on her bed. She picked it up and frowned. She didn't recognize the handwriting. Curiosity got the better of her and she opened the fairly fat envelope and spilled its contents on the bed.
It was a bunch of newspaper clippings and judging by their discoloured appearance, they were old ones.
Slowly she began to read…
TBC…