Monteague took Yugi back to the mansion, flying quickly to the front and snapping his wings away; Yugi stayed in his arms as long as she needed, hugging him tightly.
"I guess I'll see you tomorrow, or tonight, or when ever Pira's eggs hatch," Yugi said hugging him a little tighter before she let go.
"Remember, you can always come to me if you need me," he told her before turning and flapping away. Yugi turned to the door and unlocked it, walking in
"Yami?" she called going up the stairs towards their bedroom.
"Yugi!" Yami cried from down stairs, he jumped up and over the railing to Yugi, gathering her in a tight hug; making Yugi cough and pull away slightly.
"So what did you find out?" Yami asked quietly coming closer and resting his forehead on hers.
"Uhhhh, I'll tell you later," she replied, losing all courage at the look in those red eyes.
"What did you do while I was gone?" she asked quickly.
"Er, I was trying to snatch Ryou off the library ceiling, now why can't you tell me what you were doing?" Yami asked again, backing away a bit and just letting his arms rest around her petite waist.
"I'm just not ready to tell," Yugi said leaning up and kissing him lightly before pulling away.
"Where is everyone else?" she asked.
"Jou's still in the library, Seto's in his room doing gods only know what, and the Ishtars are still sleeping in their room," Yami replied confused, why was his love avoiding the subject of where she went. Yugi pulled away from him and went back down stairs walking instead of jumping the railing like he had. Yugi went to find Jou and he was right where Yami said he was, jumping franticly trying to reach Ryou's long drooping tail as the smaller fledgeling clung to the ceiling, moving about and sticking his tongue out at him.
"Hi, Jou," Yugi said as the blond vampire hopped quickly past her.
"Oh, hello Yugi, where were you this morning?" he asked hopping back to her and forgetting about Ryou.
"Can I ask you something?" she asked him looking up slightly to look at him.
"Yeah, sure you can ask me anything Yugi," he told her; Yugi looked behind her checking for Yami.
"How do you think Yami would feel about a baby?" she asked looking down and shuffling her feet a bit.
"I don't think he would mind a baby, why do you ask?" he asked looking suspiciously at her,
"You haven't got anything do you?" he asked grinning wide.
"You can keep a secret right?" Yugi asked looking up at him,
"You do!" Jou said loudly grinning even wider.
"Yes, now please don't tell Yami yet, I don't know what he'll say if he knows I told you first, I'm scared he won't want it," Yugi told him shushing him.
"You do what?" asked a younger voice behind her, she turned to see Ryou hanging from the wall over the doorway.
"R-Ryou, oh, um I'm- I'm pregnant," she stuttered out, watching as the fledgeling delicately turned himself over so he was standing like a gargoyle on top of the doorway.
"You're pregnant? Who's the father? Yami's too much of a pansy around women to actually get one pregnant," he said hopping down in front of her.
"Yami is the father, it happened that one time," Yugi said miffed at the way Ryou had asked. Ryou leaned forward, looking her over, he got even closer and hugged her pressing his ear to her stomach. Yugi stiffened slightly when he did this, but relaxed when he hummed, hugging her slightly tighter.
"There's a baby in there," he said getting up on his feet; he let go of Yugi smiling.
"I told you, I'm pregnant," she said quietly walking around him and looking back.
"Now please, don't tell Yami you know first," she said walking off towards her bedroom; her courage returning after her encounter with Ryou and Jou. She arrived to the sight of Yami sitting alone on their bed,
"Yami? what's the matter," she asked coming closer she drew her husband into a hug.
"You don't want to be near me anymore," he replied, leaning into the hug and resting his head on her shoulder.
"What's this then?" Yugi said smiling softly at him,
"Then why are you avoiding me, you lied this morning about not feeling well, you flinched when I walked into the bathroom, and you don't want me to come with you to Monteague's, and you won't tell me why!" Yami said hugging her tighter to his body almost in a protective hug.
"Why won't you tell me?" he asked almost to the point of tears.
"Yami, I just don't know what you would think about it, I don't want you to go away," Yugi told him kissing him on the neck.
"Yugi I won't leave you, please tell me what's wrong," he said rubbing her back gently. This was it, it was now or never, Yugi finally worked up enough pluck and spoke.
"Yami, what would you think about a baby?" she asked clinging to Yami like he was about to push her away. His eyes widened at the question,
"I love children, I raised my heir much as I dislike the way he was conceived, I have had three kids in my lifetime, all of them before I was a vampire and had a fear of women, all of them I raised with the help of Seto," Yami told her; Yugi looked up at him looking guilty.
"Yugi, no," Yami said smiling.
"Yes, Yami, that's where I was this morning; Monteague was taking me to see if I was," Yugi admitted.
"Yami I'm pregnant," she said outright.
"You're pregnant, you're going to have a baby!" Yami cried picking Yugi up, smiling happily, he lifted her up till his face was even with her belly.
"I love you!" he told her, looking up into her face before kissing her stomach; there was no outside evidence yet, but the little tiny embryo was there.
"Yami-hee-hee," Yugi said giggling slightly as he let her slide back down his body.
"I love you!" he said again, holding her flush against his body.
"My baby is going to have a baby," he said kissing her on the forehead.
"You aren't going to leave me or want me to get an abortion?" she asked leaning forward slightly and kissing him low on the throat.
"No, that thought would never cross my mind, ever, you are the love of my life and soon you'll have a baby, why would I want to stop it?" Yami asked nuzzling the top of her head affectionately.
"I was scared..." Yugi started, cuddling.
"There is no need to be," Yami cooed to her, picking her up again, only this time Yugi's legs instinctively wrapped around his waist as Yami lifted her.
"My love, are you okay?" Yami asked again looking up into her eyes.
"Yami, I'm just tired and my chest is sore, that's all, you've seen pregnancies before... would you mind sleeping with me on the couch," Yugi asked yawning slightly and changing the subject.
"I would love it Yugi," Yami replied carrying her out of the room; he went straight to the living room and he sat Yugi down, climbing behind her.
"Comfy?" he whispered as he felt her relaxing into him.
"Yes," she responded, curling up against his stomach; Yami wrapped his arms around her and carefully began to rub her stomach.
"Shh, just go to sleep, I'm right here if you need me, just please don't scare me like you were, tell me if something's wrong or hurting," Yami whispered to her, giving her a slow rub down to relax, and she was gone; Yugi fell asleep quickly, tired enough to start snoring, just like her husband, making him smile. Jou walked into the room with Ryou, talking to him loudly, not realizing the pair were there. Yugi opened a bloodshot and tired eye, and Yami watched the violet iris of her eye slide to the corner of her eyelid, towards where Jou and Ryou were talking.
"Unnn, Yami, make them shut up," Yugi mumbled hiding her head. Yami leaned up to where his head was barely above the back of the couch.
"Would you two mind shutting up?" he said, slipping back down next to his wife and cuddling again. The two others looked at each other and then back at the couch, before coming closer and looking over the back.
"Ohhh," they both said seeing Yugi asleep on Yami's chest.
"She's tired and pregnant, now shut up and let her sleep," Yami hissed up at them holding onto his wife protectively.
"We'll be quiet," Ryou said pulling Jou off with him they left the pair.
"Yami didn't seem too upset," Ryou whispered to him, crouching a little more than normal, for some reason his back had been hurting for the past few months, he'd been good to hide it, but recently it had been hurting worse.
"He wasn't upset at all, he was happy as a cat in a garden of catnip," Jou replied noticing Ryou's walking position.
"What's wrong with you?" he asked going up the stairs. Ryou stayed at the bottom, shifting on his long feet and stretching his back out before squeaking and losing his balance ending up bracing himself on the third stair up.
"If you must know, my back is killing me and no amount of blood and alcohol is making it go away," Ryou said very slowly toe-to-palming his way up the stairs, grimacing with every sway of his hips. Jou came back to him kneeling down next to the paining fledgeling who just continued to climb slowly, refusing any help.
"Maybe you slipped a disk," he said moving along with him.
"My body can heal itself then," Ryou said finally fed up with the constant pangs he was gaining from trying to walk this way, and stopping sitting on a step with his tail drooped lazily behind him.
"It isn't healing this though," Jou said crouching right next to him.
"And I'm telling you, my back can heal itself," he said pushing his body down.
"I can do it myself, I don't need a doctor," he growled springing forward up the stairs, clearing the rest of them, but he hit the floor and practically face planted right into the carpet.
"You do too need help," Jou told him as he jumped to help him. Ryou sat up and grimaced again, Jou helped him up straightening out his back for him.
"Now come on let Seto take a look at you," he said as Ryou clenched his teeth, letting out a sound equivalent to a loud 'OWWW!'
"That's it, I don't care what you say you are going to let Seto look at you," Jou said picking him up completely, tail and all, and heading towards their bedroom, Ryou grumbling in protest. Jou got to their room and knocked, poking his head in; Seto was sitting at a desk polishing a knife, with many others of different sizes in front of him.
"What is it Jou?" he asked putting it down.
"I just want you to look at Ryou for me," Jou said setting the small fledgeling on the bed.
"Why?" Seto sighed standing up.
"He's complaining his back is hurting him and he can't even get up the stairs," Jou replied casually.
"Like hell I'm not complaining, my back'll take care of itself," Ryou responded.
"Oh shut up," Seto said looking down at his back, nothing on the outside.
"So where are you hit?" he asked Ryou remained silent and Seto gave up, he began to feel over his back pressing with his palm into the fledgeling's back until the little one gasped and drew away.
"Lumbago, possible slipped disc," he said pushing harder and feeling deep with his finger tips. Ryou was squirming to get away as Seto continued to push at his back.
"Would you at least sit still?" he asked pushing the fledgeling down, Jou finally stepped up and put his weight on Ryou's shoulders pinning him down; Seto shut his eyes and began to look through Ryou's skin at what might be injured, but there wasn't anything, he looked all the way up the spine and around it.
"I don't know what the hell you did, but there is nothing damaged in or around you back," Seto said frustrated, as Ryou finally pushed himself up on all fours again.
"I told you I didn't need your help," he said crawling off the bed and wincing as his back was bent.
"Now leave me the hell alone," he said walking, with a slight limp to his legs, out of the room. The fledgeling made his way down the stairs and went to the door to the Ishtar's den, he hit the intercom button to their den.
"Lo?" came back a tired voice of Marik,
"Yeah, it's Ryou, do you mind coming up and getting me?" he asked.
"I don't mind," Marik replied before the intercom clicked off. Ryou sat and waited patiently for him until the carved door was nudged open and Mairk's head popped out
"What do you need help for?" he asked.
"My back is hurt and I wanted to come down with you guys so Jou and Seto will leave me alone," Ryou told him getting up, grimacing in pain.
"Oh, all right get on my back, I'll take you down," Marik said swinging his body around for the fledgeling. Ryou climbed on, grunting a bit trying to settle the most comfortably.
"What did you do to your back?" the smaller brother asked carrying him as he went down the stairs.
"I don't know, it's just been getting worse since my dad died, (Bakura)" Ryou replied lying as relaxed as much as possible on his back.
"Seto just looked at it and could find anything wrong," he added.
"Well maybe we've got an oil down here in our storage that can help," Marik said reaching the end of the stairs. Their den was much more cleaned up than when Yugi had been there. The furniture was straightened up, and the pillows were picked up, so was everything else, the books and the papers in general were stacked on their shelves as well. Malik lay in a hazed pile on their couch, the larger brother had obviously been doing vary suggestive things to himself by the way he was positioned on their specially made couch, he was on his back, with his head laying to the side on his elongated neck, his front paws lay across his chest and draped off the side of the couch and his hips and hind legs lay draped slightly over the arm of the couch.
"Having a bit of fun have you Malik?" Ryou cried humorously from his reclined position on Marik's back. Malik's lavender eyes opened and slid to focus on him.
"Yeas ai wash," he said trying to do an imitation of a pompous English voice but failing and slurring his words.
"Malik? Do we have any good hot rubbing oils left?" Marik asked shaking his head at his brother as he rolled off the couch to right himself.
"I think we do, if we do they're in the bedroom," he said, walking past him the pair opened their mouths and twined their tongues together in a dragon's form of a kiss.
"Love you too," Marik purred letting go as he remembered the load on his back. Marik walked off through the curtain to their room,
"Get off and lay down on the floor," Marik told him the smaller fledgeling climbed of his back slowly.
"You're really in pain aren't you?" Marik said stepping over him as he lay out on the floor.
"Yes I am," Ryou replied, gritting his teeth as he sprawled out with his feet behind him.
"How long have you been hiding this again?" he asked again, rising up onto his hind legs to reach a shelf with a couple different colored fluids in them.
"About four months," the little one replied watching him out of the corner of his eye.
"You don't mind if I use a scented oil do you?" he asked as though he hadn't asked another question before.
"I don't give a damn," Ryou said finally fed up with the smaller Ishtar and losing his patience. Marik selected one, picking it delicately off the shelf with a single claw; he knelt behind Ryou and poured some of the light blue liquid onto his paws. He didn't change though, he stayed a large dragon, Marik put his paws down on Ryou, resting his thumbs between his shoulder blades and rubbing in to him.
"Now relax, I've done this to Malik many times," Marik told him rubbing into him, making the little one below him pop and crackle slightly as joints popped.
"Oooh that feels good," Ryou moaned as the oil heated on his skin.
"You're so full of knots, it a wonder you could walk at all," Marik commented, switching is hands position on is back, so that the smooth hard round scales of his knuckles pressed into his back. He pressed a little lower and kneaded the small fledgeling's skin with his knuckles,
"Oooooh," Ryou moaned out, his cheek pressing into the cool stone floor as his body was heated by the oil.
"Feels good, huh?" Marik said hearing the animalistic sounds Ryou was making.
"Now you know why Malik and I were put down here," he said continuing the heated massage.
"H-how'd that h-happed?" Ryou stuttered out.
"Well way, way, back when we were alot younger, homosexuality was very frowned upon, we are bisexual and we gave massages for livings, of course we were in human form, well one day we closed up shop and decided to experiment a bit with the ways we could use our massaging oils; well one of our half wit clients didn't read the closed sign and came in..."
"Let me guess, they caught you guys in mid love," Ryou said grinning,
"Bingo, she went home and told her husband about two identical monsters making love in the Ishtar house hold, before we knew what was going on there was a mob around us before, Malik got out from under me and swatted a few of them away, but they tied us up and took us to a shaman, he used some sort of voodoo on us and our human forms were revealed, they had him take out the organs inside our bodies that give us the fuel to breath fire," he stopped the massage momentarily to lift his thin laid neck scales to reveal a long large scar covered by them before he returned to working the kinks out of the fledgeling's back.
"Well that's why we only emit the sparks and soot, its part of what it takes to light the fire, they took us and they threw us down here into exile, along with all our possessions and some food, a couple goats, two chickens, and a berry plant, and sealed off the cave. Well time passed and the cave got covered over, the village died out and we were trapped in here until Yami and Seto dug us out when they were planning out their basement." Marik finished, rubbing Ryou over like a new born kitten.
"Would you like me to go further," Marik said smiling as Ryou continued to moan and groan, arching towards his clawed hands.
"Yes I'd love it," Ryou said his entire back felt the best he'd hever felt in years. Marik continued on, putting a little more oil on his blunted claws,
"Your back still hurts right?" he asked stroking down the center of his back with the back of a large black claw.
"No not now," Ryou replied totally relaxed.
"Maybe we should do this again tomorrow," Marik told him stopping in mid stroke.
"Why'd you stop?" he asked looking over his shoulder slightly.
"Because you look like you're halfway down the path to wanting to have sex with your masoos," Marik replied picking Ryou up of the floor onto his feet.
"How's that feel?" he asked.
"Better, much better, but it'll probably be back by tomorrow," Ryou said stretching.
"Wonderful, come back tomorrow and let me work you over again, and the pain should be gone by the end of the week if we keep doing that," Marik said happily, this was his profession and he was glad to help.
"I'll do that," Ryou said eagerly.
"I'll just go back up stairs and sleep, Yami and Yugi are both being peaceful enough in the living room,"
"Why's that?" Marik asked curiously, he'd never really known the two to sleep in the middle of the day.
"Oh, yes, you didn't hear, Yugi is pregnant and really tired right now, and Yami's resting with her," Ryou said smiling.
"She is? That's great! How did Yami take it?" Marik asked grinning wide
"He loves it, he's walking on cloud nine practically, she was letting him sleep with her with out pushing him away," Ryou replied stretching out again like a cat.
"That is wonderful, I'll have to go up and congratulate them later when they wake up," Marik said.
"Do you need help going back up?" he asked getting that small sly glint in his eye.
"No I should be fine," Ryou replied waddling towards the curtain between that room and the next. He walked past Malik who was flipping through an old book that resembled a manual of some sort, and went up the long stairs that connected them to the house. Ryou finally got to the living room and his back was giving off a very small ache; he hit the chair Seto usually claimed as his own and curled up in it like a big cat, seeing Yugi and Yami curled together and slightly envying them.
notes: the toe-to-palm thing is a way Ryou walks it's wher he puts one hand on a step and brings the corresponding foot up to meet the back of his palm and push himself up the stairs. now I shall begin skipping weeks because I can't do every day of Yugi's pregnancy. oh and if you haven't noticed yet I'm slowly going over each character's past.
Gruzzee: awww! Yami's not mad yay!
Cazi: and do I detect some jealousy from Ryou?
Gruzzee: yes, yes I do, can't help it though the poor thing is surrounded by lovers and he doesn't have one himself.
Cazi: yeah a guy needs some loving every once in a while, now all you readers out there please R&R and come back for more.
