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Why can't things go our way?
Yuugi awoke to something wet and cool being draped over him. He could feel his entire body sucking in the cold and he sighed contently. He'd been hot for way too long. "Yuugi?" a voice asked. The person was close to him, but Yuugi didn't want to open his eyes yet. For one; he was enjoying just lying here, and two; he was still trying to hold on to the dream he had just had – one including himself and Atemu actually – and opening your eyes always seemed to drive the dreams away.
"Yuugi?" the voice asked again, concern very much present in the deep silky voice. Yuugi sighed and slightly opened his eyes to see crimson orbs staring back at him. He just kept staring as the crimson eyes filled with relief at seeing Yuugi open his own eyes slightly. "Are you alright?" Yuugi was awake enough to recognize Atemu sitting right next to him now. He nodded slightly, but he immediately felt light-headed, making his world start spinning so he stopped and groaned.
Atemu saw Yuugi nod but then groan and close his eyes tightly. The sun stroke was obviously still there and affecting the younger boy. The concern returned to his eyes as he pulled Yuugi to him, hoping to soothe the boy a bit. He was glad Yuugi seemed to be recovering from the sun stroke though, because as he was pulled into Atemu's lap once again, he blushed and refused to meet Atemu's eyes, meaning he was fully conscious and knew what was going on around him – something that hadn't happened for the past four hours.
In the past four hours, Atemu had carried Yuugi around until he had found an oasis at long last. He had laid Yuugi down in the shadows before drenching his cloak and draping it over Yuugi's form to cool him off – something he had repeated a lot as the sun had dried the cloak too fast. Yuugi had sometimes seemed conscious but had spoken nothing but nonsense and incoherent sentences.
Atemu smiled and just held Yuugi even tighter to his chest, thankful that his little angel was recovering and adoring the blush on Yuugi's cheeks; it just made him look so cute, "Do you want some water?" he asked, grabbing a bottle full of water that he had placed next to Yuugi in the shades, hoping to keep it cool. Yuugi nodded and took the bottle as it was handed to him.
Yuugi quickly drank the water, only just having realizing how thirsty he actually was. After he was done, he felt a whole lot better and smiled at Atemu who put the bottle away again, "Thanks Atemu." He blushed as Atemu hugged him even closer, "You're welcome, Little One." A shiver ran down Yuugi's spine as Atemu's breath tickled his ear before leaning into the touch.
Atemu's smile widened as Yuugi relaxed in his arms and leaned into his chest. He slowly caressed Yuugi's cheek, wanting nothing else than to just bring Yuugi's face up and kiss him.
Yuugi looked up at Atemu, trying his best to beat down the deep blush on his face. He stared into those incredible crimson orbs and couldn't tear his gaze away from it.
Atemu just couldn't help himself anymore as he stared back into those big innocent, and not to mention, slightly clouded amethyst orbs. He slowly tilted Yuugi's chin a bit more and leaned down…
…to finally kiss the little angel he had wanted to kiss for so long now.
Yuugi's heart skipped a beat as he felt Atemu's lips press against his own. He was shocked, stunned and perplexed, but after he finally got over this shocked state, he wrapped his arms around the other's neck to pull him even closer and closed his eyes. Atemu's lips were soft and warm and tasted like the richest spices of all of Egypt. His hands entangled themselves in Atemu's soft hair and he moaned softly. Atemu nibbled on his bottom lip, begging for permission to enter and deepen the kiss even more. Yuugi parted his lips with a small gasp and felt Atemu's tongue sweep into his mouth.
Atemu moaned softly as he explored Yuugi's mouth, savouring the taste of his little angel. Letting one of his hands slip under Yuugi's robes, he pulled the other even closer, roaming Yuugi's back with his hand. Yuugi tasted like the finest nectar fit for kings alone. He wanted nothing more than to just stay like this and keep kissing his Little One – and go even further for that matter - but his need for oxygen made him pull away, panting slightly.
He stared into Yuugi's clouded eyes, slightly dazed himself, and caressed the other's cheek with his free hand lovingly – as the other was still resting under Yuugi's shirt, "I love you." he whispered softly.
Yuugi's heart started to beat even faster and he smiled as he heard Atemu say the words that he only heard the other say in his dreams. Snuggling against the others' chest, he whispers; "I love you too."
Atemu smiled at Yuugi lovingly and tilted his head upwards to kiss him again, more passionate this time. The little voice in Atemu's head caem back with full force, already whispereing for Atemu to go further. Atemu's mind was too clouded with pleasure to even notice what he was doing all to well as his hand began to pull Yuugi's shirt off. However, they broke apart at hearing someone clear their throat and looked up to see icy blue and honey brown eyes staring at them.
Seth stared at the map absentmindedly, glancing behind him from time to time to check on Jou. Every time he looked, he could also see the bruise that was starting to form onthe other'scheek and cursed his temper. He sighed, 'I really need to learn to control my temper.'
He looked back at the map to see they were still going to the oasis he had found. He had overlooked it when he first checked the map since it was only a small one and was barely seen on the piece of papyrus in his hands. When he was checking the map again, his eyes fell on it. He knew the Millennium Puzzle would somehow lead his cousin to the oasis – although he had no idea how.
Seeing they were still going the right way, he glanced back again. Jou was silently walking behind him, looking at the ground and obviously in though. Seth could sometimes see hurt flashing through his honey brown eyes. 'Am I supposed to apologize or something? No, he started it. I might not be the High Priest anymore at the moment, but that doesn't mean he can talk to me like that.' He shook his head and looked ahead of him determinedly.
Jou followed the tall brunette in front of him, glancing up sometimes to check if the other was still there, but mostly kept staring at the ground.
He still couldn't believe Seth had slapped him. He glanced up briefly to see Seth staring ahead of him determinedly, before glancing back. Their eyes met for a brief second before they both glanced away as fast as they could.
Jou looked at the ground sadly. He really didn't want to act like this around Seth but he had slapped him for nothing! They were only arguing, nothing all that serious. Jou knew that Seth hadn't really meant what he said about Yuugi but his own protective side of his friends had popped up. Well... he hoped Seth hadn't meant what he had said. He was still very much doubting the brunette's seemingly split personality. He let out a sigh, 'What am I supposed to do? He won't apologize, and I've got nothin' to apologize for! Maybe he really is as cold-hearted as he's being right now...'
They kept walking in silence, both pondering what they were supposed to do. Finding the silence too unbearable, Seth let out a sigh, slowed his pace until he was next to Jou, and swallowed his pride, "Jou?"
Jou looked up with a start, not expecting Seth to be right next to him, "Yeah?" he said. It sounded a bit too angry for his taste and he regretted the tone immediately when he looked into the other's icy blue eyes. They looked as emotionless as ever at first glance, but Jou saw past this and could see how much Seth was fighting with himself.
"I'm-" Seth swallowed; apologizing wasn't exactly something he did a lot. The only people he had ever apologized to were Atemu, his father, and the Pharaoh – though the latter had been only so his head wouldn't be chopped off, not because he was truly sorry for what he had done, "I'm sorry… for slapping you." he muttered softly, almost inaudible. He looked at the ground, not wanting to meet Jou's eyes.
Jou blinked in shock at what Seth had said but smiled. He hadn't really expected Seth to apologize – let alone this soon, "It's okay." he replied, smiling slightly. The other looked up and their eyes met again – longer this time – before Seth gave a small smile. Jou's heart skipped a beat at seeing the sincere smile – no matter how small – on Seth's face. He was glad his thoughts of Seth being cold-hearted and non-caring had been proven wrong -though the slightest bit of doubt remained in his mind, locked far away.
They fell into another silence – though a comfortable this time – as they both walked on and stared ahead. After another half an hour of walking, they could finally see the oasis lying ahead of them.
"Look! Dere it is." Jou exclaimed as he grabbed Seth's arm and dragged the other with him to the oasis.
As they got closer, Seth heard a soft moan coming from the other side of the rock they were facing. Jou and he exchanged questioning glances, before they walked around the rock to see Atemu and Yuugi kissing fierce and passionately. Atemu's hand was under Yuugi's robes and was slowly pulling the material off. Both boys' hair was tousled and their clothes messy.
Jou and Seth both stared in shock for a second before Seth cleared his throat to grab the attention of the two boys sitting against the rock. They broke apart and looked up at Seth and Jou with clouded and dazed looks in their eyes.
"Seth!" Atemu blinked in surprise at seeing his cousin staring at him. The other's expression changed into a smirk that just seemed to scream; 'I-told-you-so.'
Yuugi, still half dazed, blushed bright crimson and stared at the ground nervously, though not moving an inch out of the embrace he was in. he could feel Seth smirking at them and heard Jou snicker softly, trying his best not to burst into laughter.
"Well I see you haven't really been missing us." Seth smirked at the glare Atemu threw at him.
"Jealous?" Atemu's gaze flicked to Jou for a split-second before returning to Seth. He smirked as his cousin rolled his eyes and glared slightly. He glanced back at Yuugi to see his little angel staring at he ground with a huge blush on his face. He tilted Yuugi's face to meet his and planted a light kiss on Yuugi lips before lying him down on the ground to rest the last bits of sunstroke off. After making sure Yuugi was lying comfortable, he stood up, "So how did you find us?"
"I found this oasis on the map when I looked at it better." Seth answered, "It's not even all that far away from the temple."
"But we gotta find Teana first." Jou pointed out, "And we don't have a clue where she is."
Seth and Atemu let out a sigh. Jou had a very good point. They couldn't just leave Teana out there, but the desert was big and they had no idea where to start looking.
"We'll stay here for the night; we can't go anywhere as long as Yuugi is in this state anyway. Maybe Teana will find this place." Atemu said, knowing that the last part was almost impossible. Seth and Jou both agreed – they didn't have a better plan anyway. Besides, they were tired and could use the rest.
"They found each other quite quickly." Teana looked up at the cranky expression of her temporary Master, "Master Dakuso won't be happy with that. He had hoped that at least one of them would die." The man looked down at Teana with a hateful glare, "I guess it's time for you to go back in that case."
Wincing when her wrist was grabbed painfully, Teana was dragged to the black stallion of her Master. The man mounted the horse and roughly pulled her onto the beautiful beast as well, before the both of them rode into the desert.
Without any warning, the man pushed Teana off the horse without even slowing down the slightest bit. Teana fell to the ground painfully and stared at the dust cloud the man left in his wake.
'Bastard.' Teana glared at the retreating form with all her might but the man was soon out of sight. Teana looked around and saw that the oasis where Yuugi and the others were, wasnowhere in sight. Sighing, she just laid there, knowing that the man had pushed her off at this spot for a reason and that she had to stay put.
Night soon came as Ra disappeared under the horizon and cold took over the desert. Teana shivered fiercely, praying to every god that she would be found by one of her group or that Master Dakuso would pity her enough to help her somehow… neither happened.
With only her thin robes to keep her warm, she felt like every limb of her body was slowly freezing. It took another hour before darkness finally claimed her and she fell into unconsciousness.
A poke in her side and warmth was what greeted Teana when she woke up. She groaned as she was poked again, harder this time, followed by a firm shove. She woke up a bit more and could now make out voices arguing over something,
"Not so rough, Seth!"
"Oh shut up, Mutt. She has to wake up, doesn't she?"
"STOP CALLIN' ME MUTT!"
"Guys, stop arguing."
"Stay out of this Yuug. This is something between me and him!"
"Oh don't glare at me like that Atemu! I can't help it if the Mutt insulted your boyfriend!"
A groan snapped the attention of the small group back to the figure lying on the desert sand.
Teana slowly stirred and opened her eyes to see Jou, Yuugi, Seth and Atemu standing around her. Everyone – except for Seth of course – looked at her worriedly.
"Are you okay Teana?" Yuugi asked. He stretched out his hand for Teana to take and to help her get up.
Teana gladly took Yuugi's hand but winced as felt pain all over her body as she was helped up.
"Ugh, my body hurts all over." she groaned.
"What happened to ya when da sandstorm hit?" Jou asked curiously.
"My horse went ballistic and took off. I tried to call for help but you guys didn't hear me. I fell off my horse at some point and the sandstorm was raging so badly, it must've blown me ever further away from you guys." The man – of whom even Teana didn't know the name of – had made the excuse up and Teana just hoped the others would believe her.
Seth narrowed his eyes slightly on the girl in front of him. For some reason, he didn't believe what she had said. The sandstorm might've been blocking out a lot of sound, but he would've definitely heard a cry for help through it.
He glanced at the others to see the same doubt in his cousin's eyes, but Yuugi and Jou seemed to believe her completely. He decided to give her the benefit of the doubt for now – why would she lie to them after all?
"We're glad you're okay. We thought we'd never find you." Yuugi hugged his childhood friend tightly. He turned back and giggled softly at the slightly jealous expression on Atemu's face.
Teana was handed a bottle of water and she quickly drank some of the cool liquid. Her throat felt like a piece of parchment as she hadn't drunk anything since she and the man had left the small hidden oasis.
"So what happened to you guys?" Teana asked after she was done drinking and they had started walking again.
"Well, we got separated in da sandstorm. Seth and me got into a fight but he apologized." at this Seth glared at the blonde. Not everybody had to know that he had actually apologized, "After dat we found Atemu and Yuugi in an oasis." Jou smirked at the two said boys and Yuugi immediately went bright crimson, "They were sitting quite comfortably together."
Teana looked at Atemu and Yuugi questioningly. Atemu just smirked and pulled Yuugi close to him before turning the smaller teen around and kissing him.
Teana's mouth dropped to the ground in shock. It wasn't that she hadn't seen that the two liked each other, but she hadn't expected them to get together so fast.
"Oh stop it, Atemu. I think you made your point." Seth said; a slight hint of jealousy edged into his voice though nobody seemed to notice.
Atemu reluctantly pulled away, drawing a disapproving groan from Yuugi.
He threw a slight glare at his cousin as the other shoved him forward so they'd start walking again.
They walked on as Ra's heat pounded on them mercilessly, only slowly progressing since they no longer had any horses.
After hours and hours of walking, Seth finally noticed a large structure in the distance. Before he could even point the building out to the others, the sand beneath them shook and stirred slightly for a moment, before a large creature shot up from the ground.
The beast - as far as they could see it - was 20 feet tall and had a worm-like appearance. The thing didn't seem to have any eyes or a nose, but had a large muzzle filled with razor sharp pearly teeth. Its skin was a pinkish colour, though it wasn't the same pink everywhere on its body.
"What in Ra's name is that!" Seth yelled in shock as he saw the worm-like creature shooting out from the ground.
"I don't know and I don't feel like finding out either!" Atemu called back as he pulled a shocked and scared Yuugi behind him and summoned his shadow magic. He was very thankful that he hadn't used any of it in a while and that the power had been replenished for the most.
The creature let out a roar-like sound and charged at them, ready to sink its teeth into its prey.
The Puzzle around Atemu's neck flashed brightly before dimming down as Atemu quickly summoned his Dark Magician to fight the worm beast.
Seth gathered every ounce of shadow magic in his body and summoned his Blue Eyes White Dragon - though since he didn't posses a Millennium Item, it cost him a lot more energy.
Both magician and dragon materialized and blasted the worm to stop its attack on their masters and friends.
The worm was blasted against the ground, but got up without any visible damage. To be exact, the only thing the attacks had seemingly done was enrage the giant creature.
The Dark Magician and the Blue Eyes White Dragon kept attacking the beast, but it didn't seem to have that much effect on the creature. The pink skin seemed to serve as armour that neither monster could penetrate with their attacks.
"What now? Dey won't hold on for dat much longer." Jou said nervously as he watched the Dark Magician being thrown against the desert sand. He subconsiously backed away slightly to stand near Seth.
"We need to get to the temple. I think that building over there is it. If we can get there before our monsters are killed, we're safe." Seth said as he pointed at the structure he had seen before.
Everyone looked in the direction Seth was pointing and saw the building in the distance. They quickly nodded in agreement. Atemu glanced up at the two fighting monsters and prayed that they would hold on long enough for them to get there. If they would die before that, Seth and he would go with them.
They ran towards the building as fast as they could – though this wasn't very fast since they were running on sand. The attacks the monsters fired raised waves of sand and the worm beast was causing earthquakes as it moved. This all slowed the group of friends down, but they kept running.
When suddenly the noise behind them stopped, the group glanced back to see both magician and dragon in the air, looking around them, but there was no sign of the worm.
They stopped dead in their tracks as an earthquake shook the sand beneath them and the worm once again shot out of the earth right in front of them, only this time it didn't wait to attack. It charged at them as soon as it had left the sand, bearing his pearly teeth and intending to kill the intruders.
Well that was it. Ghehe, maybe it's a good thing I might not be around with an ending like this... Oh yeah, what did you think of the kiss people? My first real discriptive kiss! Well hopefully cya all Monday. R&R cuz you're all feeling sooooooo sorry for me and want to cheer me up!