*Sighs* Still haven't reached my wished-for number in reviews.

Bakura: Perhaps you should have threatened to not post anything on your birthday if you didn't get the number you wanted.

Ryou: She's not like that Kura. PhantomBrat's trying so hard to keep her promises despite having a rough beginning of the year.

Yugi: Why's that?

Too much going on to tell.

Ryou: Well, hope everyone enjoys this update.

Bakura, fed up with his parents' reactions, located Richard Bakura's phone number on the 'Missing' flyer and dialed, praying that it was still his number. The flyer had become a treasured piece of paper for the team and Bakura hoped that the document would bring further hope for Ryou. The number turned out to be correct. Bakura told the man that his missing son had been found and that he was in Domino City under his care. "I need to tell you that your son is my twin brother," Bakura admitted. "He was presumed dead when our parents couldn't find him after he was swept from our boat at the age of two. Aside from that point, Mr. Bakura, Ryou needs you here."

"Now that I know where he is, I'll be there in fifteen minutes. I want to see my son."

True to his word, Richard was at the Mansion fifteen minutes later. After his initial shock and assumption that Bakura was an older Ryou, Bakura led him to the greenhouse, "Ryou has a sanctuary in here. Let me see if he'll unlock it for us." Bakura tapped on the door gently, "Ryou, you can come out now. My parents aren't out here. Someone's here to see you."

"Who," Ryou's muffled voice questioned.

"Someone who's been looking for you for nearly eleven years," Richard answered. "Son, it's me, your father."

Ryou undid the bolt but left the chain on. A light brown eye looked out at them, "If I wasn't a Human, would you accept me?"

"You're my son," Richard stated. "I raised you as my own and knew you weren't a normal boy from day one. Human or not, I still love you. Please come out to see me, Ryou."

Ryou unlocked the door completely and stepped out. Richard took in his son's appearance, "You're just as I remembered you at sixteen. What happened?"

"We were kidnapped and used in an experiment by the Vampire Lord over ten years ago. He Turned the three of us, but deemed us as failures because we weren't the violent hunters he envisioned. Yugi, Malik, and I escaped and met up not long after that. The team found us and took us in. We were a new breed of vampires. Yugi's brother, Atem, gave us a classification. We're the only ones on our kind in existence." The Hikari rushed as his eyes teared up, afraid for his father's reaction.

Richard pulled Ryou into a tight hug, surprising the small male, "I'm so glad that you're still alive. What of your real parents?"

"They don't want me. They think we're playing a cruel joke on them," Ryou muttered.

Richard took Ryou by his good hand, "We'll make them see that you're not. I brought along your scrapbook that we made together from the time I found you to the time you went missing. We'll show them!"

Richard waited as Duke escorted Daryn and his wife to the conference room. "What is the meaning of this," Daryn demanded. "This boy has played this cruel joke long enough. Marylyn is too fragile to handle another false hope."

Richard glared at him, "My son does not pull jokes of any kind that hurt people in any way, shape, or form! I raised him to be a respectful young man. Ryou is a kind, caring, sensitive soul with respect for his elders!"

"Don't you dare mention our dead baby's name in my wife's presence!"

"Did my brother have any unique birthmarks," Bakura questioned his father, getting frustrated that his father was being thickheaded. "Like oh, say, a rose-shaped birthmark on his lower back? What about a set that if you played connect-the-dots made a star? Wasn't that on his ankle?" He turned to Ryou, "Proof please."

"Here? Now," Ryou pressed, nervous. "That would mean partially undressing in front of a woman." Bakura nodded and Ryou groaned. "I don't like this Kura."

"Just show them, Ryou."

Ryou sighed as he untucked his shirt and pulled it up while Bakura pulled the waistline of his jeans down enough to reveal the unique birthmark on his lower back next to his spine. "Proof number one," Bakura stated at Ryou's shoulders dropped in embarrassment. "Next."

The next set was revealed and Marylyn broke down crying, "My baby's come back. He wasn't dead after all!"

"Where have you been and why tell us now," Daryn asked. "Why is this man here?"

Ryou sighed, "He's my dad. He took me in and adopted me after he tried to find my real family. He raised me between here and England."

"Ryou kept me going after my wife passed away not long after we found him in the ocean. Darleen loved the boy as her own and insisted that we adopt him if we couldn't find his true family. She died weeks before the adoption was finalized," Richard added. "Ryou if you're up to it…"

"I suppose you heard of the discovery of Atem's?" Daryn nodded, so Ryou continued, "An extremely rare and unique Supernatural unlike any other?"

Daryn crossed his arms, "Yes."

"They're called," Ryou hesitated and continued, "we're called Hikaris. We're angelic-vampires. We were originally Human-Angel hybrids, but a little over ten years ago the Human status was replaced by the vampire side." Ryou looked at his birth parents, "We have never harmed a Human. The Angel blood kept us from being like the Others. We were, or should have been classified as Supernaturals since the first days of our lives."

"Who is this 'we'," Marylyn asked softly.

"Yugi Mutou, Malik Ishtar, and I; we grew up on the same street and are almost like brothers."

Daryn was stunned, "Balin and Ari's boys grew up with you? Where are they now?"

"Malik was the one who chewed you out and refused to respect you when you upset Ryou," Bakura smirked. "He hates when Ryou and Yugi are hurt. He protects them when we can't. As for Yugi, he's the one confined to the bed in the den."

"After all this time, they're finally with their brothers," Marylyn was relieved. She became aware of Ryou's sling, "What happened?"

Ryou sighed, "An Angel decided to find out who stole its blood and used it about twenty-seven years ago. To sum it up, we were one injury way from being sent on a one-way trip to the Arctic indefinitely. It's in custody, pending a fair trial. I broke my arm and dislocated my shoulder. We're just lucky that we had our ancestors present."

Before they could ask what Ryou meant by his last statement, Akefia entered the room with a tray for Ryou. "You need to eat, Young One," he said as he sat the tray in front of him. "Sit down and eat."

While Ryou picked at his pizza, Akefia looked at the parents of his bloodline. "This is Ancestor Akefia," Bakura stated. "Ancestor Akefia, these three are our parents; Daryn and Marylyn Parkerson and Richard Bakura."

"I am pleased that someone cared for Ryou and raised him to have good morals and to be a great cook," Akefia stated. He bowed to Richard, "You are a pure-hearted Human to have been able to raise him so well. I am grateful to you."

"Excuse me, but what are you," Daryn asked him.

Akefia turned to him, "I am the one who gave his life to protect an ancient kingdom, its people, and our bloodlines. Had I not done so, one of you would not have been born and your sons, who look like me, would not exist at all. I am Akefia, Pharaoh Atemu's trusted thief, friend, and adopted brother. As for what I am, I am what you fear most in the Supernatural world and consider a myth…a Daywalker. We are on the side of the Humans in this unearthly battle."

Yugi: WOW! More reunions!

Ryou: I can't believe that you had Bakura force me to show off my birthmarks in front of a lady!

Sorry, Ryou. But it was necessary to get them to listen to you two.

Ryou: Promise that you won't make me do that again?

Yup, I promise.