This chapter is dedicated to Candy.
Yugi: So three new characters are being introduced, right?
Yeah, but I don't own them. However, I can sympathize with one of them. (Hint: His baby brother practically towers over the poor guy.) Being oldest AND having my baby sister and brothers being taller stinks! I have to look up to them from my 5-4 height isn't fun.
Kaiba: I see nothing wrong with that. You're 2 inches taller than Yugi.
Try growing up with people thinking your younger siblings are older and that you're the youngest. It still happens! Everyone that meets me thinks I'm like 16! HEY WORLD, I'M OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK AND GAMBLE FOR RA'S SAKE! (but I don't drink and I buy scratchers for the thrill of getting carded.)
Bakura: I don't thing the ones you meant that rant for could hear you.
Stuff it moron. I wasn't speaking to you. I'll sic my monsters on you again.
Mokuba: When are you going to update 'Broken'?
Um, I guess whenever this little segment ends and I can figure out the next chapter for it. Before I forget sorry for not updating my other stories. I lost my pre-written copies and am trying to remember their general outlines. I'll update them as soon as I can.
?: So how are we being introduced?
You'll see. By the way, beware of flying Duffel bags Yugi.
Yugi: Huh? What do you-*skims story*-Oh. Stop snickering Bakura. Yami? HELP!
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Yugi was sleeping peacefully on the couch in the living room under the cover that Atem had placed over him the night before. Atem had tried to reclaim his sweater, but even in his sleep, Yugi wouldn't give. He was awakened when someone carelessly tossed their duffel bag on him. He sat up, rubbing his eyes, "'Ami, what time is it? 'M still sleepy."
Atem heard his brother and ran into the room to see the boys that he told Yugi about, "Why'd you toss that on him? He was sleeping, idiot!"
"I didn't know that the kid was even there! Bobby, why's there a kid here?"
"Atem was just about to tell me, ya idjit," Atem's dad scolded the man. "Now pick up that bag and put it away." He looked to the semi-conscious boy, "There's breakfast on the table. Atem said that you'd be hungry when you woke up."
Yugi nodded and headed to the indicated room, the four men not far behind him. As they sat at the table, Bobby looked at his adopted son, "So, why did you bring a kid here?" Before Atem could answer, he turned to Yugi, "Remove your hood at the table, boy."
Yugi, startled so bad that he nearly choked on his toast, gulped, and reluctantly pulled the hood from his head earning gasps of shock from the three men. "The kid looks like Atem," the third, unidentified man stated, "only younger."
Atem sighed, "I found my brother and grandfather recently."
Bobby looked at Yugi, "Well, I'll be. Balin's boys were reunited after all. Solomon never thought that you boys would ever see each other after I adopted Atem."
"Yami found me and my best friends, Ryou and Malik, living on the streets just last year," Yugi replied. "They took us in and reunited me with Grandpa. We had been kidnapped, taken to a different city, escaped from our kidnappers, and lived on the streets hiding from them."
"So how old are you kid," the one identified earlier as Dean questioned him.
Yugi glanced at his brother who nodded, giving him the go ahead to tell them his real age, "Twenty-six."
Dean scoffed, "You look sixteen, kid."
"His aging was slowed at sixteen due to in part to something that happened to him and two others as infants," Atem stated. "Dad? Care to elaborate or should I? Grandfather gave us the basics of a certain secret that was kept for our whole lives. But Seto was the one who discovered the medical records that were so well hidden that they were supposedly lost."
Bobby sighed and set his coffee on the table, "It'll take a bit to tell, but I'll try. Everything started nearly twenty-seven years ago. Your parents and their four friends had been expecting, never realizing that they were in for a surprise..."
~*~*~*~Flashback~*~*~*~
Three friends returned from an 'outing' as fast as they could when they heard that their wives had given birth. It was a nearly a week and a half before they reached Domino City.
"Congratulations Mr. Parkerson, Mr. Mutou, and Mr. Ishtar. You three each have a set of twin boys," a doctor announced.
Daryn* Parkerson noticed the doctor's hesitation, "There's a 'but' in there, isn't there?"
"The younger halves of each set has taken ill and we can't identify the cause. We had to isolate them from their brothers for the time being. The eldest ones are being monitored to be on the safe side."
Balin^* Mutou was concerned, "Can we still see our sons? All of them?"
The doctor led the concerned fathers to the isolated part of the nursery. There, the men were shocked to see their youngest sons in incubators and so still. Only the faint motion of their tiny chests indicated that they were alive. Ari*^ Ishtar looked at the tiny bundle carrying his surname, "I can't take this, my friends. I'm going to see if I can do something to save our sons' lives."
Balin paled, "Don't tell me that you're planning on locating a Crossroads Demon, Ari! You can't do that! Those deals are always one-sided!"
"Then tell me what to do, Balin! I don't want to lose either boy, mine, yours, or Daryn's," Ari snapped, trying not to break down in tears.
Daryn placed a firm, but gentle hand on his friend's shoulder, "We just need to leave, clear our heads and then come back to check on our families."
When the three friends returned they heard screaming and were met with panicked people running from the area that housed their children. Ari, Balin, and Daryn ran to the nursery and saw a dark form in the isolation room, standing over Balin's little boy. The infant was screaming at the top of his tiny lungs, likely terrified at the evil presence. What shocked the men was that all three ill infants were wailing in terror. The men rushed into the room, ignoring all hospital protocol, to save their boys.
It turned out that the victim, a nursing student, had been possessed by a demon intent on kidnapping the sick boys. They had incapacitated the demon and recited the exorcism ritual, saving the babies. The doctor came in shortly after and told the friends that about half an hour before the attack, he and his staff managed to give the boys a blood transfusion. "I don't know where the blood came from, but it was from a universal donor and the boys seem to be doing better. If they continue to improve, we may be able to place them with their older brothers."
When Balin entered his wife's room, she was in tears. "What's wrong, Marie?"
"We didn't plan for twins and can't afford to care for them both, especially with the possible medical bills for Yugi."
"Yugi?"
Marie nodded, "Our youngest baby. I named him in honor of your love of games, and your father requested it. I wanted to name our oldest Yami, in order to give little Yugi a reason not to fear the dark."
"That is a good idea," Balin smiled. "But if we had to give one of our sons up, I'd rather give him to a friend that I know would take care of him."
Marie nodded, "Bobby and his wife, a nurse here, are looking to adopt and if anything, I know they'd take care of our boy."
"We adopted the oldest, but changed his name when we did. I wanted to tell you before, but never got the chance with everything that had happened," Bobby stated. "Your parents were killed by someone or something and Yugi was sent to live with your grandfather. I felt that if I told you, you'd hate me for not giving you my last name. I gave you the last name of a friend of your mom's from Japan to protect you from whatever had targeted your brother."
Atem reached for his dad, "I would never blame you. You took care of me and kept me safe. You even taught me how to Hunt. You raised me as best you could."
"So where'd the 'donated' blood come from," Dean questioned.
"John Winchester and I got the drop on an angel and took some of its blood the moment I found out about the three sets of twins and the younger halves being sick. I had read that Angel blood has healing properties and will not react to the recipient adversely," Bobby stated.
Dean snorted, "I'd say otherwise. The kid looks like he was affected."
"Um, Yami, is there somewhere we can talk in private? I need to, uh," Yugi was at a
loss as to what to say without raising suspicions of his 'condition'.
Atem nodded, "My old room. Grab your cooler and I'll show you where it is." He noticed the looks of confusion on the three males' faces, "Yugi has a medical condition and hates to take the required treatment for it in front of any but the team."
Yugi grabbed his personal cooler and followed Atem to his room. "Thank you Yami. I was getting nervous about Drinking in front of them. I really needed it," Yugi stated as Atem handed him a small cup with enough blood to get him through a couple days.
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Shai returned to the Hunters' mansion and waited until night fell. He slid through the shadows towards the mansion to begin planning out his attack. He watched as the various members of the group entered and left the room he was observing. The three tanned men looked vaguely familiar to him, but Shai shook off the thought. His master said that he had saved him from slavery and Shai felt that he owed his master for it.
The shadowy creature grew impatient as his chosen target had not made his appearance. But he waited, hoping that someone would say where he was generally located. Hours later, Shai's patience paid off when one of the younger boys asked where the boy and his Hunter went. He smirked as he slid away from the building and towards his destination, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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Yugi was happily eating the hamburger and salad dinner that Bobby and Dean's brother, now known as Sam, had made. The burgers were mostly medium-rare, but Yugi asked for his to be cooked a bit longer. Atem couldn't stop laughing as Bobby and Sam slipped a habanero pepper onto Dean's burger. Yugi was at a loss as he didn't know of the near-constant prank wars. All he saw was the man reaching for the pitcher of lemonade after biting into the raw pepper hiding in his burger.
After Dean managed to quell the burn in his mouth, Atem decided to drop a few hints, "Say, Dad, I've got to warn you about something."
"Go ahead," Bobby stated as he took a drink from his beer bottle.
"Bakura and Marik are coming in a few days and they're bringing Yugi's friends."
"As long as those two don't blow up my basement again, they'll be fine."
"Thank you Dad. By the way, I've got a few hypothetical questions for you."
"Go ahead," Bobby stated.
"Have you ever heard of a vampiric angel, or angelic vampire?"
"Not possible, the Angel blood would immediately kill the vamp."
Dean was curious as to why Atem was asking these questions, "What are you getting at?"
"Have you guys heard of a recent discovery of mine," Atem smirked. "A very rare Supernatural called a Hikari Vampire?"
Sam nearly choked on his drink, "What?"
"There are only three in existence and they are a Vampire-Angel hybrid," Atem stated. "I'm still researching them at the moment, but when my report is completed, I may allow for you to read some of my observations before I submit the files to the Council." He didn't want his brother's and his friends' secret revealed until the two brothers and his dad had complete trust in Yugi and the other two Hikari Vampires.
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*DarynUnisex. A variant spelling of Darren(q.v.), probably of Scottish origin, meaning "fighter." Usage: America, Australia, Canada. {Ryou and Bakura's father}
^*Balin~brother of Balan; an herb having the power to restore the dead to life. (Arthurian) {Yami and Yugi's dad}
*^Ari~Guardian (Egyptian) {Ishizu, Marik, and Malik's father, Odion's adoptive dad}
Names used from
Bakura: Looks like you gave me a pretty decent father with a good name.
Ishizu: What a fitting name for our father as he was a Tomb-keeper. I appreciate that you kept his name Egyptian.
*Grins* I couldn't find any names for your dad, so I found one online and just couldn't resist a glimmer into your origins in the series.
Odion: It is a good idea.
Yami: Why did we get a parent with an Arthurian name?
Blame Merlin and wanting to watch the last season since I missed most of the episodes.
Yugi: I liked the name she picked out for our 'dad'.
*Hands Yugi a candy bar* Thanks Yugi. Wanna Duel?
Yugi: Sure. Which deck are you using and when?
Your starter deck and when you want.
Yugi: YAY!
Yami: What about me?
Um...Duel winner?
Yami: Alright. But don't forget to fix that one chapter with Akefia's backstory. You know the one where we were mere infants.
I'll have to reread the story and look for that one chapter when I have the time. So until then, Yugi and I will have our game and then you can Duel winner.
Yami: Deal.
*Hands Yami and Yugi a couple more candy bars.*
Yami: ^.^
Yugi: Until Next time...^.^