Chapter 18, how they came together:
Lying in the bed in the living room, the old man enjoys his two great grandchildren have fun with each other, smiling while seeing how the two play a game together happy they inherited his grandson's gaming pride.
Thinking back, he was happy when their most resent friend agreed to be a carry mother of their children six years ago, they had taken sperm from both Yugi as Atem, mixed them and planted the sperm into Mana.
The children have both inherited something from all three parents, Yami, their son have the handsome looks from Atem. Hikari their daughter has the beautiful looks from her mother, they both have the caring and gentle nature Yugi has, and they both have a mixture of both their fathers' eyes.
It was Yugi's fear that their kids also would inherit his autism and epilepsy, but seeing they caught his bastard of a father, they discovered the epilepsy isn't related to his fathers' genetics. The autism and epilepsy are simply a part of him. Their children luckily don't show this, but they do have food allergies.
"Grandpa? How did daddy and dad meet each other?" the little girl asks her great grandfather. The elder smiles since he adores the fact the little five-year-old girl enjoys his stories so much, sometimes till the chagrin to both his grandsons to which one he is his grandson in law, with his wild stories about his own younger years.
"Well, my child… it all happened one day when your daddy and I walked into a store because he was in need of a SOS tag." The old man remembers to that day 10 years ago.
Flashback:
The elder and younger male walk into the store and are greeted by a nice tan looking woman. "Welcome gentlemen, how can I help you today? Oh Solomon! What a nice surprise!"
"Amara, I agree the pleasure is all mine, how is Aknankanon dealing these days, still hunting mummies? I'm here with Yugi, my grandson…." Taking a deep sigh Yugi let's the two adults who seem to know each other very well talk while he goes looking for either a bracelet, or necklace that is not to obvious to the stamp he has pressed on top of the first one already. But in a way, he agrees, this will be for the best when it comes to save his life.
It happened two weeks ago.
Flashback:
Yugi was in class looking with a vacant look towards the surprise test Chono placed in front of them this morning, confident Yugi picked up his pen and started writing, only after a few answers to find his pen lying forgotten next to him and him not responding at all.
"Mister Muto! This is no time for resting! Pick up that pen and do what you must do!" miss Chono calls out to Yugi only to see the boy is not giving any form of a response. He just keeps looking in the distance.
His friends Ryou and Joey glance an eye towards their youngest friend and then towards each other, they Anzu and Honda all notice that Yugi is doing this allot lately, and he himself does not remember he did it as soon as he snaps out of his daze, he simply returns doing what he was doing before only being confused when the time does not match with his state of mind.
They look worriedly towards their little friend but as to not get Chono on their back, they continue their work keeping an eye on Yugi, yesterday they already talked with his guardian, Solomon Muto, Yugi's grandfather. He also noticed these dazed moments and was thinking to go with him to the doctor since it could be a part of the Autism he was diagnosed with when he was only five years old.
Miss Chono clearly angry that Yugi does not response to her, snatches the paper from his desk. "If you are here to ignore me then you are mistaken, to the principal's office!" she calls out but gets again not a single response from Yugi which is worrying his two friends even more. 'What is going on with him?' Joey and Ryou wonder and see how Chono loses her patience and slaps Yugi against his cheek and then takes his arm roughly and drags him from his desk.
After that happened everything goes crazy.
Yugi falls to the floor and starts to shake violently… as one man the two friends start to act Joey making sure their classmates are outside and ordering to call the school-nurse, while Ryou jumps over his desk towards Yugi and makes sure the boy does not hurt himself even more. He sees the wet patch forming on Yugi's pants and realises that if this comes out, poor Yugi will be the laughingstock even more then he already is with his small posture.
He takes off his jacket and as soon as Yugi stops shaking he places it over the boy's crotch. The school-nurse enters the room kicking Chono out who is screaming like a banshee about what a horrible child Yugi is and giving the two boys helping Yugi a headache in the proses with her screech, after a few seconds taking in she sees the youngest of the three starts to shake violently again.
After taking in the situation and recoiling mentally Yugi's medical history, she decides an ambulance will be more of use now than her so, she slips out her phone and makes the call. It's then Yugi stops shaking again and clearly is confused to why he is laying on the ground covered with the school jacked of one of his friends but stinking to urine all the same.
"Yes hello, I wish to have an ambulance at Domino high-school. A student passed out and it looked like he got a seizure he is by my knowing not familiar with. We are in classroom 12D…. Thank you." She says in the horn and when she swipes of the phone goes to see Yugi.
"What happened?" The boy only now seems to ask.
"Yug, you fell and got a seizure of some sort!" the blond bugs in but seemingly quiet and out of the ordinary since he is known a rumbustious kid and always somehow manages to let you know where he is.
"But I never had one before… what's that smell? Why am I so tired? Why does my head hurt?" he asks in a daze.
"We don't know Yugi, but we will figure it out, you fell pretty hard against your desk, let the nurse look at that wound at your head." The white-haired boy says softly helping the boy to sit up and supporting him from behind not caring his knees are in the urinary puddle the little tricoloured teen peed out during the seizure.
The nurse looks at the wound and asks questions more to Yugi's friends than at Yugi himself who still seems confused and in a daze. The boy clearly has a concussion.
The principle walks inside, takes in the sight in front of him, the smallest of the three boys half laying, half sitting in a puddle of what looks like urine. The white-haired boy with his knees in that same puddle, supporting the smallest from behind. And the blond who is using paper towels to clean the floor with the garbage bucket next to him.
Then the school-nurse who is cleaning a wound on the smallest head. "What happened?" he asks seeing the nurse look up.
"Go outside and make sure the paramedics come to the right room, and for crying out loud keep that banshee out!" Is all she snaps while keeping her attention on the three boys.
With a nod he turns wondering who she refers to as a banshee when said person sees him and indeed like a banshee screeches what a horrible and disgusting boy Muto is and that he needs to be expelled right away. He takes a sigh and sends her to his office to deal with later and orders a different student to bring the paramedics towards the right classroom.
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Yugi sees the huge scan he is placed into, it scares him, but he also knows he needs to do this in order to find out what happened to him. "Okay Yugi, close your eyes?" he hears through the speaker and does as tell. "Now open your left eye?" and he does so. It takes like this forever in where they order him to do things. But then suddenly he gasps for breath and then the doctors are looking to him and making sure he is alright.
Confused as he already feels by what happened a few days ago, he looks around. "Wasn't I in the scan?" he asks the doctor close to his face.
"Yes, but something happened, and we needed to pull you out. Take a rest son, we get you to your room now."
Hours pass and Yugi is bored inside his room, the laptop they provided him with is slower than his grandfather's store computer, so he can't watch his anime. His grandfather brought his tablet the other day, but forgot the cable to charge it, he isn't allowed to leave his room since it's late at night and he is supposed to be sleeping. He lets out a sigh.
"Why are they keeping me in the dark? What could have possibly happened with me that I need to stay a few days and undergo all these tests." He says softly and sighs again. "Maybe they tell me tomorrow." He says before making himself comfy and allowing sleep to creep in and take over.
Flashback ends:
"Yeah, it was a shock indeed, but I'm glad they cannot punish him for spacing out like he did since he now has a reason for it." I hear grandpa say making him return to the present. He still is talking with the lady.
"Did they do something to that horrible teacher?"
"From what I have heard she is under firm watch; all his classmates were shocked to see her act like the way she did. I even am to the point of suing her for hitting my grandchild, his cheek was thick for at least a week, I feared he lost at least one tooth because of this." Grandpa says while the lady is tying on the laptop in front of her.
"Ah there it is. Now let's see, with your insurance…. Then the bracelets are the one which cover the most they cover over 75% depending on the one you will pick out; those are also the most wanted item when you need a SOS tag. The necklaces no matter which one you pick will cover only 50%."
Yugi nods not pleased at all, the bracelets he saw look like they are fit for a woman, also he does not wish to show the world directly what his handicaps are. The lady must have seen his displeasure. "Hold on, I call my son, he probably will understand what is to your liking." She says with a smile and turns towards a backroom where he and grandpa see briefly a staircase. They hear how she calls out for the 'son' and then talking with a baritone voice that although it has that manly sound, still seems young. Then the door opens, and the lady and a young man walks inside the store behind her.
"Hello, how can I help you?" he asks when he spots Yugi, but the latter only see his eyes, they have this special colour a colour like no other, the shape is from the woman, but the colour, the woman has gentle blue eyes, but he has this burning crimson red. It's a colour like no others.
he hears grandpa explain to the young man what he needs. "Hmm, what about a band like mine?" he says rolls up his sleeve and shows grandpa. Yugi sees it's like his studded wristbands without the studs, but it has a zipper on it. There is a blank patch clearly for something to write on it. "When he has an attack, they can open the zipper and they see the plate with what is wrong with him and who to contact." The man explains.
"Hmm, and it fits with his sense of clothing style, but will he not lose the SOS plate when he forgets to close the zipper?"
"No." the kid says and takes the plate out, "as you can see there is a small lace attached to it. Fun thing my mother never says about this band, is that these gets covered 100% also when lost this one can be replaced free of charge, but these are mostly sold to people not wanting to lose their child, and to find them back, they are popular to them because they are soft around the wrist."
"Hmm, what do you say Yugi?" grandpa asks his grandson who wanders over making sure not to look at this kid, because damn he is hot.
The kid takes off the band and hands them to Yugi. "You are allowed to look to the plate, I'm not ashamed to show them why I have an SOS tag." He says and Yugi can hear the smile in his voice. The texture is soft, like a sweatband, black, only the patch is a bit lighter of colour, it's now Yugi can read what it says.
Please help me.
Look inside.
He takes the plate out and reads it.
Name: Atem Sennen.
Date of birth: 26-07-1979.
Medical: Allergic to fish, shell-animals and penicillin.
Contact info: Amara Sennen, 06 *.
All of this is added on the small plate, and Yugi looks towards the kid who is older by almost a year. "But you look so calm and collected about it?" he says.
"True, but when I start gasping for air because they did not inform me correctly at the place, I'm at, they know to call my mother when needed. She tells them what to do and when that does not work, she will order them to call an ambulance." He explains to Yugi. "Luckily it happened one time they needed to call her, I had my EpiPen forgotten at home and woke up in the hospital. It was my luck I had this band around my wrist."
"I don't know, this is all new for me." Yugi says and feels himself almost tearing up. "I don't want to have a stamp, and instead of one, I now have two." Yugi says bitterly.
"Well, you can see it this way, to have a stamp and make sure that or more stamps keep you down… or you make the best out of it and are happy you are not a boring perfect person, this way you at least have some adventures. I mean, think about all the wheelchair races you can hold in the hospital." He laughs making Yugi laugh along with him.
"True to that, but you can at least go to a disco and dance the night away." Yugi responses bitterly because although he is the king of games, he does enjoy dancing and singing.
"Epilepsy huh? There are meds to prevent you from having a seizure, and when it happens, they at least can help you out." Atem reasons with Yugi, making grandpa look amused since this kid who he saw last time when he was in diapers, has more influence on his grandson right now than he and the doctors had the past two weeks. "Also, there is a bar here in Domino that does not have strobe's, I'm willing to take you there if you are willing also. But I must warn you, it's a gay bar."
"That's… cool, I actually don't mind, I'm Bisexual, so I guess it's okay for me to go there?" Yugi asks him and he nods. "But you have to wait for another two years, I have heard of that bar, and from my understanding I'm at least two years to young, you need to be 19 for that."
"That will be no problem, the owner is a friend of mine, don't worry I get you in without any trouble, he does it with me all the time since I'm only 18, the only thing I need to promise him not to drink alcoholic drinks." He says with a smug grin on his face. "But before I take you there, what do you think of this?" he asks Yugi while gently taking his band back and shifting it around his wrist again."
"I… I think I like it, um, do you have them in colours also?"
"We have them in different colours." He says. "My advice is to have several so you can fit them with your choice of clothing, also when you lose one, you always have a different ready. I have mine in black, purple and green. Each bracelet has a tag added to it so when one is in the wash, I don't have to swich the tag also."
Yugi looks to his grandfather, and the elder holds up three fingers telling him three will be enough for now, Yugi smiles. Then he looks as Atem turns and walks to a cabinet, he opens them and looks towards Yugi. The latter walks over and sees the various colours they offer. They have pink, yellow, green, purple, blue, red, and black. "Mmm, I would like the black, blue, and" Yugi says and sees grandpa perk up because blank and blue are the most colours Yugi normally likes. "Red one." he finishes with a smile.
"Great, do you wish to see how we fix the tags?" Atem asks him and Yugi looks towards grandpa, he looks at the time and Yugi realises why, the elder hoped he could open the store before lunch. Atem must have seen his distress because he says. "The benefits of me making his tags are… he has them ready today, also if you feel better by it, I can take him home safely when we are finished."
The lady walks over to grandpa and whispers something in his ear, then grandpa laughs and waves to the two boys. "Have fun, and Yugi, I'm first contact."
"Duh." Yugi say with mock sarcasm making the elder laugh, and he walks out towards the car followed by Amara.
"I wonder how long it takes for them to hit off." Amara says amused. "Atem clearly had a little bit of discomfort when he saw your grandson."
"Did you see Yugi's ears, he has ogled some boys and girls blushing like a schoolgirl in love. But I never saw him getting this red." The elder says and gossips a bit more with Amara before she needs to go inside when someone walked inside, and grandpa starting his car and drive off towards home.
The two boys see Amara and Grandpa talk and laugh, looking with knowing looks towards the store. "They will gossip for a bit more, come on." Atem says and takes Yugi towards the back, Yugi looks around, there are different kind of machines each with their own purpose in order to fix not only SOS tags but also other different kind of tags. He guides Yugi to the computer standing there. "This computer we use to grave the words people wish to use on the tags." He explains and allows Yugi to sit next to him, he goes to a certain program and opens it. Then he shows Yugi the numerous writing styles they can use to write down. He allows Yugi to choose the one he like the most. He goes for the somewhat playful Comic sans writing seeing Atem has the same writing.
"Do you have people who make them also for non-medical reasons?"
Then he selects a different section. "Yes, we have military customers who need to fix a tag for when they going to war, and parents also make them for kids who like to wander off. Okay, what is important for people to know?"
"Um I don't know if it matters, but I have ASD. Epilepsy needs to be on it for sure. And my first contact is my grandfather."
"What forms of epilepsy are you familiar with?"
"Um, according to the doctor I have mostly abscesses and a few weeks I got a mmm, tonic-clonic?" Yugi says hesitantly having trouble with remembering the last one.
"Like falling, losing consciousness and shaking uncontrollable like losing all control over your muscles?" he asks, and Yugi fears he will drop him now since he just learned when having a tonic-clonic Yugi probably also will lose his bladder control.
"Yeah…" Yugi says and feels Atem slide his arm around his shoulder pulling Yugi close to him.
"Nothing to be ashamed off Little One." He says softly and presses the youngers head against his chest, Yugi always a boy who was drawn to the sound of a heartbeat, calms instantly by listening to the elder's heart. "Mmm, how about this?" Atem says and starts typing away showing Yugi what on the screen appears what he thinks is important to know.
Name: Yugi Muto.
Date of birth: 04-06-1980.
Medical: Epilepsy in the form of abscess, and tonic-clonic.
Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Contact info: Solomon Muto, 06 *.
"Why tell them what forms of epilepsy I have?"
"Sometimes when someone has a seizure the people who helped out are wondering what the symptoms are, they go look on the web and see many different forms of epilepsy confusing them even more, so in a way it's helping them cure their curiosity, and if an ambulance will be called, they can tell what they see and when they see on the tag tell them which forms you are familiar with."
'Makes sense.' The younger thinks. "I think this is good." He says when the elder is finished typing. "But why still add the autism?"
"What most people don't know is that Epilepsy often is a part of any form of autism. And this also is sort of a free card for when you are arrested and freak out over it, this explains to them what makes you panic and can act to it."
Yugi thinks back to when grandpa took Yugi in after his mother's accident, grandpa had a hard time to calm Yugi down and eventually after three weeks of dealing with a very upset Yugi he took the boy to the doctors. They started testing him and autism came out, grandpa went to follow a course to learn how to deal with situations like this and managed to create a happy and healthy Yugi.
Yugi sighs, he does not like this but, he can only agree, sometimes things are happening that he does not understand, and he needs to explain that he has autism to get a different kind of explanation to understand the concept. He nods towards Atem in agreement.
"Good," he says presses on the print button in the screen and adding a three into it. And behind them a machine comes to life. "While the printer is working on the tags, what do you want on front?" Atem asks Yugi, and he thinks about it. "We have to sew that on so when you wash it, it won't come off."
"Um, I don't know… I think I need a different front then you have, any suggestions?" Yugi ask him and he smiles sweetly towards Atem, Atem walks to a drawer and takes out a stencil, a marker, threat in different colours and a few needles. The stencil reads:
In
Case of
Emergency.
Written in the same playful Comic sans writing style he created the needs with on the metal plate.
He then takes the wrist bands Yugi had chosen. He places the right colours by the right band and places the stencil on the red one first, with the marker he draws the words on the red patch and since Yugi isn't one for sitting still a long period of time, he takes the blue thread and needle and waves it ready. "Why use the same colours as the band? Isn't that confusing?"
"No, the thread is easily to read by day, but when its dark they light up, mom pays extra for those, but they are worth the cash put into it when mostly the parents see it." Atem explains while he shows Yugi how to sew so the marker does not show anymore. Then he leaves Yugi to it while he does the red band and next the black one. As soon as he is ready, he goes and see how far the printer is while Yugi finishes up the blue band.
When that is ready, Yugi looks how Atem is placing the metal plate on a pressing machine. He waves Yugi over and shows him how he presses down the top and stamps out the plates. "If the process takes this short, then why let the people waiting?" Yugi asks him.
"It's because the people now a days are impatient, and we find it important to give the people a feeling we needed to work hard for it, also most people don't understand whenever it goes about a medical item, depending on the insurance company we sometimes need to wait till the insurance company pays us before we are allowed to start, and that takes time, most of the times you need to pay upfront and send a copy of the ticket towards the insurance company and they pay you back what they ensure you."
"How does that work?"
"Simple, like my mother explained to your grandfather, your grandfather needed to pay full amount of these bands, he sends the ticket to the insurance company, and they will pay him the money back depending on how much he gets from the insurance. We actually wish to have these payments before since often when something goes wrong, we have an order on the shelf for months without the people come and pick up their chosen item. When someone pays upfront, we have a three-day guarantee to finish it and for them to pick it up."
"But that's not fair! Why giving me an advantage?"
"Because my mom already saw it, and trust me, she never allowed it before, but I like you, like allot, you are a spice I have rarely seen in a kitchen, and I strongly believe you are the spice to mix with the spice I offer." He says.
"But…" Yugi says because even if he likes him, he is giving Yugi an unfair advantage, but he interrupts him.
"If my mother allows it, then it's okay, I'm pretty sure she and your grandfather were bringing us together." he smiles.
"I never dated before." Yugi whispers softly.
"Why can't I believe that? I knew who you are since I'm a follower of you mister King of Games." he says with a smirk, Yugi looks up confused and then he understands.
"Oh, you must refer to Rebecca and Vivian who were chasing me for a while. That never worked out, Vivian only chased me during Kaiba's tournament, she wanted me to be her slave, in more ways than only duel monsters, she challenged me giving me those terms if I lost, my term was she would leave me alone if I won, and I did. And Rebecca, I told her she is to young, and I don't want have trouble for that. She keeps calling me darling, but I feel nothing for her and she is too young for my liking."
"Age is nothing but a number."
"I know, but since I'm 18 in a year, and she's almost 13…." Yugi says and sees realisation hits Atem. "You get the picture there? I have enough stamps already with those two" Yugi says pointing to the random machines around them both.
"I do get the picture." Atem says softly but then his attitude changes. "So, since you are a single man, I can't hardly imagine your grandfather denies you of porn. I also am Bisexual tending towards men. What do you prefer most and why?" he asks Yugi boldly and he feels his face heating up. Atem stands, takes the wristband and the small metal plates, he starts to fix them inside the band and secure them, so they won't get lost.
A smirk crosses on Yugi's face together with a blush that can make a woman jealous, also because he has some form of Déjà vu right now. "Um… when I look to the female body, I see those round curves and imagine how soft their skin feels, their firm or soft breasts ready to be knead and sucked on by a manly hand and mouth, and their vagina's ready to suck your manhood whole." Yugi says and feels himself harden but ignores the uncomfortable feeling simply because Atem is shifting in his chair with discomfort in his eyes making Yugi take a form of pleasure out of it. Although Yugi is a shy kid and does not ogle his classmates openly like Honda and Joey do, he does watch a good porn when he needs release. "But when I look to the male body, I see the differences in penises, thick, thin, small, big, cut, uncut, thick hair, close to no hair. And I wonder how it would feel to be pounced to oblivion by such a wonderful dick and even am jealous of woman because they can feel it, I even think that is the reason why I tend to males more." Yugi say softly during the end. "And you?"
"Umm." Atem says with a face as red as his eyes. He could not imagine this kid would give such a perfect description to why he enjoys seeing a male or female body. It describes his reasons till perfection with a capital P. "same…" he says with a swallow and clears his throat. "So, you are living with your grandfather? Any reason why?" Atem asks desperate to change the subject and hoping to calm the tightness in his pants down.
"I, don't really know the details, but what I do know is that I'm a child born out of rape, and mom was against abortion, so she decided to give me up, only she grew fond of me the longer I was in her belly, a month before I was born, she told grandpa she wanted to keep me, grandpa had mom's crib still on the attic so all they need was boy things. Mom raised me alone first five years of my life. She… she died in a car accident when she came to pick me up from kindergarten. I… I saw it happening… I saw how a different car had hit hers… I saw how her car toppled over a few times before it landed in front of school… I saw…. I saw how vacant her eyes looked before they dragged me away from the car. I saw how the morgue car pulled up and how they took her out with the firemen, she was declared dead on the spot.
It was then grandpa took me in and I was behaving different than most kids. Testing told him about the ASD. It's not clear when the epilepsy showed, but a few weeks ago during class I apparently got my first tonic-clonic and I again got testing and scans to see what had happened."
"Any idea where it's coming from?"
"According to the doctor it can be a part of my autism, genetics also can play along, but that's hard to prove, if it truly is then it's probably bastards side, I got it from, grandpa told he never had seen this before at his side of the family."
"Do you wish to see him?"
"No, I was angry for a while that grandpa did not want me to get to know him, grandpa took out the box they received from the police. I saw the reports, and a tape was in there, I decided to watch it and saw how that bastard dragged my mother in that ally, I saw how he plunged into her, I saw the fear in her eyes. It was then I decided he is nothing but a mere sperm donor, fixing me in order to keep the Muto line going." I say with an angry smile because each time I tell this to someone, I feel dirty to be born out such an awful experience, luckily, I have learned that besides the fact I often hate myself for that, I know it was not my doing, a child never is to blame for their parent's mistakes.
Atem takes Yugi's hand and pulls the youth towards him. "That alone tells me what kind of a warrior you are." He whispers in Yugi's ear and allows him to cuddle himself against him.
"Can we take it slow?" Yugi asks while he listen to Atem's heart.
Yugi feel Atem's chest rumbling while he speaks. "of course, Little one." And a kiss is pressed against his head.
"What about your father?" the younger asks curious.
"My father took to archaeology, it's always a feast when he returns, and he finds it sad I can't follow his footsteps due to my allergy, but when an environment is rich to only sea animals, it's too big of a risk for me. I'm happy to help mom, making kids like you comfortable with accepting their disability, I follow a course in medical knowledge, not so much that I do anything with it, but more to learn how to help a person how to accept it, also mom is teaching me to manage this store. Father is happy I still try to do something I enjoy and make the best out of it."
"So that's why grandpa joked about the mummies when we walked in and he saw your mom, he doesn't go as much anymore as he did before he managed to go again when I was old enough to fend for myself a few weeks with a friend of him checking up on me every other day, and now he is slowing down because of his health. He mostly goes to the Egyptian digs."
"And you? What does the great KOG wants to do when he goes to college?"
"As Part time job I already work in grandpa's store, and I'm already applying to go for a course in game development and art. When I finish that I keep working in the game-shop while developing my own game."
"That's a wonderful career to look forwards to. Little One." Atem says softly. "Let's get you home before your grandfather chases me with a torch." He says sliding the blue band around Yugi's right wrist and handing him the other two.
They wave towards Atem's mother when they walk out hand in hand. "Why add my first contact if the hospital already knows who that is?"
"Because we get clients who change their number on regular base, they come to the store to fix the number, but forget to inform the hospital." He says leaving Yugi confused. "Lets say you get a tonic clonic attack… the hospital knows you have an SOS tag on you, when I'm a stranger and call for an ambulance, they can ask me to check for your SOS band, they ask for the contact number and see if it's the same last time they were informed with. They can contact your grandfather while the ambulance is on it's way to pick you up."
"You slid it around my right wrist, but you have it around your left, why is that?"
"Seeing your watch is around the band of your left wrist, I figured you are right-handed, and these bands are comfortable even when you write."
"So, you are a lefty?" Yugi asks with a chuckle, and Atem smiles back.
"I am. Mmm, make sure when you go out with your friends, they know to which wrist your band is on, it's easier for them, especially new friends to know who your first contact is."
"Thanks." Yugi says with gratitude, he feels allot better now Atem explained him patiently about the use of the SOS tag.
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Next day Yugi walks towards school, it is tthree weeks ago he got the attack and is now recovered enough from all the trauma and testing to resume his studies. First, he goes to the principal's office, he hopes the principle will give him a free card for carrying the band and his emergency medicines.
The school rules say there will be no special adding to the school uniform, no earrings, necklaces, bracelets or rings. Medicine if not directly necessary are to be given to the school-nurse otherwise you need to have a slip with you that allows you to always keep them with you.
With a deep sigh he knocks on the door and after a "enter." He opens the door and walks inside.
15 minutes later Yugi walks outside the room, one slip in hand that tells his teacher why he is late, and a laminated slip with the permission to carry his medicine but sadly not the band, a bit worried he makes a mental note to ask Atem how to fix this problem since they see the band as a bracelet.
Walking inside the classroom he needs to suppress a groan, Miss Chono stands in front of the classroom, and judging by the vain above her eye… she is pissed. He hands the slip to the woman and goes to his place waving towards Ryou and Anzu. They wave back and turn to their work. Miss Chono places a sheet on Yugi's desk and walks back to the front of the room. 'Great, first day back in school, and already a surprise test.' He thinks but takes out a pen and starts to work on the problems.
You can hear absolutely nothing, only the scratching from the pencils and the rustle of paper. Yugi takes a deep sigh and his head wrinkles when he faces a difficult problem, he cannot remember this subject and Chono's tests always will count on his end results. He does his best and when the bell rings he places his pen down and takes a deep sigh before packing his bag and preparing to walk out when he hears miss Chono call him.
He turns back to her. "Detention." She says and hands him the detention slip. "That is not allowed, and you know it!" she says her voice almost reaching the decibels from the banshee while pointing towards his wrist. He nods deciding it's not worth the energy to go against her and walks off to his next lesson.
'Great, now I also can call grandpa she held me back today.' He thinks when he sees Ryou and Anzu nearing him, he smiles, this week these two follow classes with him, he does not like the fact they get a different schedule every week, and he and multiple students already complained over it, but to no avail. "Welcome back Yugi, why didn't you tell me you would come today?" Anzu says wrapping him in a warm hug.
"I talked with grandpa late last night, I told him I had decided to return back today. But I do have a favour to ask. Next time when I'm sick at home, please send me the homework, I absolutely had no idea what the hell I was looking at."
"That would be useful indeed, sorry Yugi." Ryou says while wrapping his little friend also in a warm hug. "So, how are you?" he asks and looks his small friend over, the wound on his head looks nicely closed and healed well.
"I'm fine, have a slip to carry my meds with me at all times. Only not for this thing." He says showing his friends the black band around his wrist. They read the words on the patch and with a questioning look and with a reassuring nod from Yugi, Ryou opens the zipper and takes out the metal plate for them both to read.
"Ra Yugi, but this is important to know, why do they not allow it?" Anzu asks.
"Because it's an accessary, and if they allow me with it and deny others, they will get drama." Yugi says with a sigh. "I have no idea how to carry this with me so I'm gonna text my friend during lunch and ask for his advice."
"What friend?" Ryou asks and when he sees the blush covering his young friends face, he knows. "Ooh, you little bastard, when?"
"A few days ago, when grandpa and I knew what had happened with me and we went for this SOS band, the son of the owner and I talked and from one thing came another and… yeah, but we take it slow." Yugi says with a gentle smile on his face.
Anzu sees how happy Yugi looks and is truly happy for her little friend. She has a girlfriend herself since a few weeks but was afraid of telling them and to hurt his feelings. They however did speak a few weeks prior about their sexualities with each other. It separated them a few weeks from Honda who had trouble to know his friends all had something regarding homosexuality.
But they all talked with him and explained him that although, Ryou is fully gay, Yugi is Bisexual, Anzu is Pansexual, and Joey is polyamory. They see each other as siblings from another mother.
Honda returned to the group as a proclaimed straight man but curious mostly towards Joey's, Yugi's and Anzu's how their sexualities work. Anzu gave as reason that gender, colour, race never mattered, it was the heart who told you if you found the person you want to share your life with.
What shocked them all most was that Joey started dating not only Mai, but also Seto, and those two also took an obvious liking towards each other. They had made agreements to keep up with for as long as Joey still is studying, but the two already moved into the mansion.
Yugi gave them the same reason he had given to Atem leaving the whole group a blushing and uncomfortable mess mostly since they never though Yugi was such a perverted spirit. All men went to the bathrooms to take care of themselves and Anzu went to change in a dry panty since she knew the females are checked on their hygiene.
"- he invited me to go with him this weekend to a new bar in town. I said yes." Yugi says taking Anzu back to the real world.
"Is that wise? I have read tonic-clonic don't go well with strobes?" Ryou asks their little friend.
"Well, according to him, his friend who owns the place also has epilepsy, he wanted to make the place available for people like him… I would invite you guys, but since it's our first date…"
"No, Yugi that's okay, Tea and I have plans this weekend and I'm sure the guys also have something going on already. At least Joey does." Anzu says.
"Honda will probably chase Serenity." Ryou says making the three snickers in their hands because it's true, if Joey isn't around his little sister, Honda makes use out of that. The three look towards the board since their teacher walks inside and starts the lesson.
After a full day of following classes Yugi walks over to the detention classroom, he is a bit sad since he texted Atem during lunch, but the man hasn't responded to his text yet. with a sigh he walks inside the classroom and hands his detention slip to the teacher. She looks at it and asks Yugi to show the accused bracelet miss Chono is talking about. When Yugi lifts his arm and shows the band the woman clearly starts to fume.
"This is what you have detention for! For an item that can save your life! Go home Muto, this is ridicules." She says and shoos Yugi out. Not testing his luck, he quickly goes towards the exit from school in the hope he will catch his friends and he is lucky.
They all go to burger world and have fun there for a few hours before returning home. Ryou goes with Yugi to help the younger catch up on his schoolwork. and by the time Ryou goes home that night, Yugi is exhausted and ready for bed.
However, when he is cosy, his phone pings announcing a text message, allowing curiosity to take over he takes his phone and sees it's Atem. Still a bit disappointed in the man, he opens the text.
Atem: I'm sorry Little One, my phone died late last night, and I needed to buy a new one. And as a cherry on the ice-mountain, it was unusual busy at the shop. I bought my phone little over two hours ago, and just now it's finished installing all the apps.
Yugi who is a forgiving person, realises he did not give Atem a fair chance, assuming he fooled him right away. He smiles and starts to text back.
Yugi: that's okay, you can't assume everything goes the way it goes huh?
Atem: No your right, so how was school? Did they give you a slip for your band?
Yugi: They didn't, they explained to me even though it's a way to tell them who to call, it still counts as an accessary on top of the school uniform, I already have a detention slip for that one but the detention teacher kicked me out when she saw the band.
Atem: damn…. Mmm and what if you place the band in your pants pocket? In cases like this they cannot deny you of that.
Yugi: okay, I feel so stupid right now, why didn't I think of that?
Atem: sometimes a simple solution is the last thing a person thinks off. But when you do, make sure the band is in the right pocket. Also alert your friends it's there.
Yugi: why my right pocket?
Atem: if your friends know your right wrist is the one you have the band on, they may have the smart idea to look in your right pocket… see it as a mechanism activating their logic.
Yugi: Hmm, smart.
The two texted for hours before finally falling asleep and next morning Yugi needed to rush to make it at school on time.
Saturday:
Solomon walks down the hallway, he knows his grandson is preparing himself for when Atem arrives, when coming at Yugi's bedroom door he hears his grandson mutter. "This one? Or this one? Will this go with that?" the old man realises since Yugi isn't going out with his friends tonight, he is as nervous as hell. So as his caring and loving grandfather he knocks on the door. "Enter." Yugi calls out and grandpa walks into what looks like a clothing hurricane that he knew once was a room.
"My Yugi, I knew you had many clothes, but this is ridiculous!" the old man exclaims when he sees the chaos his grandson has made for just a simple date.
"But I have nothing that matches gramps!" the boy says, and his grandfather sees the kid is ready to blow off the date and sulk on the couch all day.
"You have enough to wear son, lets see." The man says and starts to toss clothes on the bed. Ordering Yugi to place those back in his closet. Eventually the elder has a black jeans and a white with red shirt in his hand. "How about this?" he asks and sees the boy lighten up. It always amazed him how his grandfather who does not seem to have anything else but his overalls, have such a great fashion style when it comes to his grandson. "And the red band to match with the shirt."
"Thanks grandpa!" the boy exclaims excitedly bouncing over and hugging his beloved grandfather. "But shoes?"
"You have your boots or your sneakers to chose from, which are comfortable to dance with?"
"Mmm, my sneakers, but do they match?"
"Only one way to find out son." The elder pats his grandson on the shoulder and allows Yugi to prepare. He wants to make himself comfortable in his armchair when he hears the doorbell ring. With a chuckle he goes open the door and sees Atem has arrived. "Hello, Yugi is not ready yet. care to come inside?" he says inviting the young man inside.
They both take place on the couch and grandpa clears his throat. "Seeing you are dating my grandson; I have some ground rules he needs to keep up with. 1: curfew is 12 on Friday and Saturday, Sunday till Thursday curfew is at 10. 2) he may have a perverted mind, no sex until he is at least 18! And 3) I may be old, but I'm fit enough to hunt you down if you ever dare to hurt him! Am I clear?"
"Y…yes sir!" Atem says with a big gulp. It's obvious to him the old man cares allot for his grandson. "I take care of him as he is the most precious doll in the world." He says nervously.
"Good, then I trust you will keep to these rules. Remember, I know how sex between to males work, I tried it myself before I settled down, so I know by the way a boy is limping when he was pounced to oblivion."
"Grandpa! TMI!" the younger shouts when he enters the living and sees Atem on the couch very uncomfortable about the old man's straightforwardness. He also had this talk when he realised his sexuality went a little wider than to just woman. That probably was the most embarrassing thing in his life, even more when his grandfather walked in on him masturbating one time. He now locks the door when he has that need.
While the younger is scolding his grandfather, Atem is looking towards the younger, and he must say, this outfit does him well, the red does not exactly suit him, but it is a great outfit to go out with.
Eventually he sees the younger waving him over and he stands. The two walk outside and sees the boy pounder at the shoe rack. Atem bends over and takes out the sneakers. "Although the boots are nice with this outfit, comfort is what you want when dancing Little One." He says while slipping his own sneakers on his feet.
It's then Yugi sees what the elder is wearing. Like Yugi he also has a black pants but it's leather, but his shirt is purple. Atem has his purple SOS band around his left wrist. "We match." He says without thinking. And Atem looks up. He nods when realisation hits him.
"The colour it the only thing not matching. Ready to go?" Atem asks and Yugi takes his jacket. Together they walk outside, and a sleek black motorcycle stands ready to take off. Atem walks towards it and takes a helmet tossing it towards Yugi. "See if that one fits?" he says and sees how Yugi slips the helmet on his head. "Yeah, this size will do, I need to make sure Marik knows."
"Marik? As in Malik's boyfriend?"
"You know Malik?"
"Duh, I battled against him in battle city, I met Marik during the finals. Last I heard they moved back to Egypt, but we kept in touch, sadly because it's not a cheap phone call we talk at least once a month. I missed this monthly call because of my hospital stay." Yugi says.
"Well, they moved here only a week before your hospital stay, Malik wanted to call you guys but because the moving and stuff, he forgot. We see him tonight." Atem says as he sits himself on his motorcycle, he reaches his hand out to Yugi and helps him slide on the bike, then he makes sure Yugi's arms are around Atem's waist. "Hold tight Little One." He says before starting the bike and slowly drive off.
Yugi is enjoying himself, without knowing it Ryou suddenly stood next to him in a protective embrace from Bakura who seemed to be Atem's friend, Malik and Marik soon also join them and where the three elder Egyptian men talk with each other, the three younger boys enjoying themselves on the dancefloor trying to coax the elder three to join them. It's when Yugi does a daring hip thrust into Ryou. Atem and Bakura bold towards the dancefloor and start to dance and have fun.
Thirza-1984, Thirza-1984, Thirza-1984, Thirza-1984, Thirza-1984, Thirza-1984, Thirza-1984.
"Bye babe, see you in a few days!" Yugi calls out towards his husband who waves him off from the bus.
Atem and Yugi became officially boyfriends after their third date, and Atem went on his knee on their one-year anniversary, Yugi said yes and half a year later they tied the knot. It wasn't their intention to marry this fast, but grandpa's health was taking a turn to the worst. After they got married the old man recovered and still is running around and sometimes gives Yugi a heart attack with is crazy ideas, but he loves the old man and hopes he is around for a long time.
Yugi jokes at least until he reaches the age off 111. Atem isn't that optimistic, but he jokes along with his younger hubby just to please him.
When the bus is gone Atem lets out a deep sigh, he is going to miss his Little One this week, but with the younger making his dream come true, he knows he needs to allow him to go to gamers conventions every now and then, luckily, he knows Yugi is not alone.
During his first college year, Yugi and Atem befriended a girl, Mana, she is aware of Yugi's epilepsy and even knows how to give him an emergency shot when needed, the three fell into a deep friendship close to the bond Yugi and his friends have, and he is grateful for that. When a convention is going on, they insist on being roomies so they can assure their partners they are well taken care off.
Yugi protects her when guys intent to have a good fuck with her, and she helps him when he feels off and even before himself, she knows if he is getting a seizure yes or no. It happened one time when they visited a gaming industry that showed them how games are made.
Actually. That's how the three befriended each other… it was in Yugi's first year of college, he went with the whole class, and they got a tour. In one of the rooms, they showed there were allot off flashes, Yugi got a seizure and she acted. She called an ambulance and found the SOS band around his wrist now with Atem's number onto the tag.
She went with him to the hospital and when Atem arrived she explained to him what had happened, and he was grateful for her help. She was curious about the band she saw around Yugi's wrist and now also around Atem's and asked him about it. He answered her until the doctor came and told them Yugi was fine, and they could take him home to rest.
Duke also a friend from Yugi's high-school years, found this girl interesting to say the least, and the two hitched off. She is pregnant from twins, and both Yugi as Atem are asked to be the godfather of one of their children.
After this she will become surrogate mother of their child.
Next year Yugi will graduate, and he already has a contract ready in KC while Atem mends the game-shop they now combined with the medial SOS tags so he could keep doing what he enjoys the most.
Shortly after they got married, Amara Sennen told Atem to take over the shop completely, she wanted to go with his father now he has a spouse to take care off. He asked her if she was okay to talk with Solomon to combine both stores. She was okay with it and Grandpa also agreed, and with both shops combined, they make good money and allowing grandpa to retire and enjoy his last years with his grandson, grandson in law, and in a few years, great grandchildren.
Flashback ends:
"And that my children are how your fathers did meet each other." The elder concludes his story and looking down seeing both his great grandchildren sprawled out and asleep on the pillows they both occupy. He smiles settles himself and allows himself also to drift off only to find his wife and daughter greeting him, with a smile he allows them to take him along.
The two men emerge from downstairs, they had heard the elder man tell the stories to the kids and allowed themselves to stay downstairs a little longer. When they came upstairs, they saw the three asleep. Atem walked over to the elder man to cover him properly while Yugi covered their kids up with a blanket. "Yugi, I think we need to call the morgue." The older male whispers with a sad hint in his voice.
Yugi walks over and when he sees his grandfather, he allows Atem to cuddle him close and cry softly. "This wasn't what we agreed on grandpa, we agreed on 111, not 90." Yugi whispers jokingly before lovingly kissing his grandfather's front head allowing his husband to wake the children and make the necessary phone calls.
End.
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