Chapter 13- Slip Ups

There was stunned silence followed by Heba's outburst.

Heba, realizing what he had just let slip, slapped a hand over his mouth and his expression clearly said 'Oh, shit! What did I do?!'

"H-he what?" Yami said, unable to believe what Heba had just said.

"Yugi was in love with Yami? Then why did he leave?" Joey asked.

"Surely you are not so stupid that you can't figure that out, Joey?" Heba said.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Joey demanded.

"You all thought that Yami and Tea were together because of that rumor, did you not?" Heba asked.

"Well, yes." Tristan said.

"What do you think Yugi thought?" Heba asked.

"Oh no! Yugi must have heard those rumors and believed them!" Kyla exclaimed.

"Yes, which is why he chose not to do anything, but he couldn't stand living there, so he moved in with Seto." Heba said.

"Why didn't Yugi ever say anything to him though?" Tea asked.

"Because he was scared. Yugi was afraid that if he told Yami the truth, and Yami didn't feel the same way, Yugi was afraid that he would ruin their friendship and that Yami might hate him for it." Heba said.

"I could never hate him!" Yami exclaimed.

"That's what Yugi thought, not what I thought. Honestly, I knew you wouldn't hate him even if you didn't love him, which you, of course, do." Heba said.

"You knew that?!" Atemu exclaimed.

"From how Yugi would tell me you acted, I knew that you cared too much about him to hate him, and when I saw you at the hospital yesterday, I could see too clearly that you had to love him, so yes, I knew." Heba said.

"Did you being in love with Yugi have anything to do with what Tea was helping you with, Yami?" Leo asked.

"I was trying to convince him to tell Yugi, but Yami was being stubborn and wouldn't do it." Tea said.

"Why the heel not?!" Marik demanded.

"Because I was scared that Yugi would hate me if he knew I loved him. I had no idea that Yugi felt that way about me. If I'd known-" Yami trailed off.

"Yugi was in love with him all this time?" Seto asked.

"You didn't know?" Heba countered.

"No. I thought that he just didn't want them it know that he has the ability to have children like women." Seto said.

Once more, the room became silent.

"He what?!" Grandpa exclaimed.

Heba glared at Seto. "Seto, that's exactly what I didn't want them to know!" Heba nearly shouted.

Every person in the room flinched at Heba's glare.

"Heba, calm down." Seto said.

"Calm down! Do you know how mad Yugi is going to be?!" Heba exclaimed.

Leo let out a loud whistle, which had everyone looking at hi.

"Heba, could you explain this situation to everyone?" Leo asked.

"Hold on. Did you know?" Atemu asked.

"Yes. Seto told me at the mansion yesterday before I left with the paramedics to take Yugi to the hospital. He told me in case it might affect how we treated Yugi." Leo explained.

"Heba, explain this." Grandpa said.

Heba sighed. "Seto, you'd better start." Heba said.

Seto nodded. "When you all started ignoring him, Mokuba would bring Yugi to the mansion to play. It helped ease some of the loneliness he felt. I noticed he didn't seem to be very well in health. I went to the Game Shop to talk to him and we had a bit of an argument regarding how all of you treated him. He wound up having trouble breathing so I took him to the hospital. Dr. Zing told us he seems to have the same reproductive organs that a woman does, meaning that he can have children. I called in Dr. Conrad, who specializes in things like this, and he started Yugi on a hormone regiment to help him." Seto said.

"He called me and told me. Naturally, I was very shocked." Heba said.

"Why the bloody hell didn't he tell us that?!" Bakura shouted.

"Because he was afraid all of you would react badly if you found out that he could have children. He was afraid that you would think he was a freak or something." Heba said.

"Okay. I admit that this is very weird, but I don't think he's a freak. I mean, it's not exactly common, but it's still Yugi. It's not like it changes who he is." Joey said.

"It's not as uncommon as you think it is. In fact, there are men who have been able to have children throughout history." Ishizu said.

"Well, I'm glad you all have no problem with it." Heba said, sitting down in the armchair.

"Why?" Atemu asked.

"I can, too." Heba said.

"You can?" Seto asked.

Heba nodded. "I found out a few days ago. I planned to talk to Yugi about it." Heba said.

"Man. This has been one crazy conversation." Tristan said.

"What about the rest of you? What do you think?" Heba asked.

"Like Joey said, it doesn't change who he is. It's still Yugi. None of us would have thought any differently of him for it." Tea said.

Everyone else nodded in agreement.

"Well, the only way those two can get pregnant is if they have relationships with men." Seto said.

"We're both gay, Seto. Trust me. It could happen." Heba said.

"Finally. It came out." Marik said.

"A little too late." Malik said.

All eyes turned to Malik.

"What do you mean?" Yami asked.

"I think you'd better show them, Ishizu." Atemu said.

"Show us what?" Sayora asked.

"I think you'd better come to the museum. I'll explain there." Ishizu said.

"But Yugi-" Yami started.

"He's fine, Yami. I called Dave this morning, and he told me that Yugi's the same as he was last night." Leo said.

"You all go to the museum. I think that I'll go on to the hospital." Grandpa said.

The group nodded.

Grandpa walked into Yugi's hospital room to find a nurse in there.

"Oh, hello." the nurse said.

"Hello. How is my grandson?" Grandpa asked.

"He's the same as he was yesterday, Mr. Moto." the nurse said.

"Thank you." Grandpa said.

The nurse nodded and gave him a sympathetic smile before walking out of the room.

Grandpa sat down in the chair besides Yugi's bed and watched his grandson. Reaching forward, Grandpa brushed some hair out of Yugi's face. "Oh, Yugi. You need to wake up, my boy. Too many people want you around. You and Yami have a lot that you need to talk about. I had no idea you were in love with him, but he does need you, Yugi. More than anyone will ever know. And I want to talk to you about this having children thing. You need to talk to me about this. I will not lose you. I will not lose you." Grandpa said. He took Yugi's hand in his own and gave the hand a squeeze. "None of us are going to lose you." Grandpa said.

"Okay, Ishizu. Why the hell did you bring us here?" Joey demanded.

"To show you this." Ishizu said, looking up at the stone tablet she had shown Atemu before.

Everyone looked, and Yami, Bakura, Leo, and Heba, all of whom could read ancient Egyptian, gasped.

"Does this say what I think it says?" Bakura asked.

"Yes, it does." Ishizu said.

"Okay. Some of us cannot read this thing." Tristan said.

"It says, 'Without light, there is no darkness, and without darkness, there is no might'." Marik said.

"What this means is that light and dark coexist, sometimes harmoniously and sometimes violently. This also refers to light and dark in people. You all know that Yami and Yugi, Marik and Malik, and Ryou and Bakura are all light and dark of each other." Ishizu said.

"I don't get it." Sayora said.

"This means that light and dark need each other to survive. When Yami started to ignore Yugi, light was taken from darkness, darkness was taken from light, and both could feel the effects. It was a loneliness that nothing else could replace. That was the beginning." Odion said.

"When this kind of separation occurs, something will happen to endanger the light's life to get the darkness to see what they have done." Ishizu said.

"Two years ago, Malik and I went through this whole same thing." Marik said.

"I was caught in a sandstorm, and no one knew where I was. I wound up in the hospital for a few weeks. It took them two to know I wouldn't die." Malik said.

"That's all the wake up call I needed." Marik said.

"The fire at the apartment Bakura and I lived in a year and a half ago. I was caught in it." Ryou said.

"That was used to get Bakura's attention, and it obviously worked." Ishizu said.

"Yes. He nearly died. I barely got there in time to save him." Bakura said.

"This tornado and Yugi getting hurt. It was to get my attention." Yami said.

"But he had already realized it when the tornado hit." Tea said.

"That wasn't the point. It took the tornado to get him to worry about Yugi on a level of his safety, not anger at him leaving." Ishizu said.

"I didn't realize it could be so serious." Leo said.

"Light and dark means that they are a part of each other. They're supposed to be together in the deepest of meanings." Ishizu said.

"What does that mean?" Yami asked.

Marik couldn't take anymore and hit Yami in the back of his head with the Millennium Rod.

"OW!" Yami shouted, clutching the back of his head. "What the hell was that for, Marik?! Have you lost your damn mind?!" Yami yelled.

"No, but you're the idiot who can't see what's right in front of you! That," Marik siad, pointing at the stone tablet, "Means that you and Yugi are supposed to stay together forever just like Bakura is with Ryou and I am with Malik. You and Yugi are meant to be lovers for Ra's sake!" Marik bellowed.

Yami was stunned to silence.

"You have got to be kidding." Joey said.

"No, he's not." Atemu said.

Everyone turned to look at Atemu.

"People who are two halves of the same whole has been around since my time. Believe me when I say that what that tablet says is true. That tablet was made during my reign. I had it designed and placed in my husband's tomb even before his death." Atemu said.

"So, Marik's serious since we says that Yugi and Yami are meant to be together." Yuesei ventured,

"Yes. It's part of the reason why they were so hurt when they lost their closeness." Atemu said.

"I never realized that it could endanger their lives like that." Kyla said.

"I didn't know, either." Yami said.

Tea looked around and noticed something. "Hey. Where'd Heba go?" Tea asked.

"That's odd." Odion said.

"Why don't all of you go to the hospital? I'll find him." Ishizu said.

"All right, Ishizu." Seto said.

Ishizu walked off.

"Well, all of you go to the hospital. I have work to do." Seto said.

"Can't tear yourself away, can't you?" Joey said.

"For your information, I'm going to see how reconstruction on my mansion is doing. My company is fine." Seto snapped before leaving.

"Geez. You'd think he actually was human the way he's been acting lately." Tristan said.

"Should we go?" Kyla asked.

"I can't. My parents are wanting us to get out of town for a few days. I have to go." Tea said.

"Yeah. My parents want me to help out with cleaning up our yard. You said you'd help, too." Tristan said.

"Yeah, yah. I know. Bye, guys." Joey said as the three left.

"We should go." Odion said.

"Yeah. Let's get going." Kyla said.

"Where did Atemu go?" Leo asked.

"He must have gone looking for Heba, too." Yuesei said.

"He'll meet up with us at the hospital. Let's go." Yami said.

In the end, only Yami and Leo went to the hospital.

The others volunteered to go to the Game Shop and see what could be salvaged.

Heba walked down the hall of the museum. He wasn't sure where he was going, but something seemed to be drawing him down the hall. Heba walked into a room that was obviously not open to the public yet. 'This must be a new exhibit. Ishizu may have brought it with her when she came here.' Heba thought. He looked at the exhibit.

There statues and tablets that all seemed to depict the exact same thing. Since Heba could read ancient Egypt, he could the read the story.

It was about how twp princes were forced to marry in order to join Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom.

'That's me.' Heba thought looking at one of the people in the carving. Heba looked at the other and thought, 'That's Yami, no, wait, it's Atemu.' Heba thought.

"Interesting, isn't it?"

Heba turned to find Ishizu behind him.

"Two princes married to join a kingdom was not uncommon. Heba and Atemu were only children, and it was the only way. Thankfully, they fell in love even before they were married." Ishizu said.

Heba looked back at the tablet. "You know, don't you?" Heba asked.

"I had my suspicions when I first met you in Egypt. You confirmed them when you were drawn here. You are the reincarnation of Heba from the past." Ishizu said.

"I was married to Atemu. The same one here." Heba said.

"Yes." Ishizu said.

"Does that change who I ma, though?" Heba asked.

"No, it doesn't."

Ishizu and Atemu looked to see Atemu.

"Just because you remember the past does not mean that you are not still you. You are still Heba Moto, and it doesn't change the life you have lived here." Atemu said.

"Heba, do you remember the past?" Ishizu asked.

"Enough to know who I was, but they are just bits and pieces and not even whole memories." Heba said.

"This started when Yugi went to Egypt, didn't it?" Atemu asked.

"Yes, it did." Heba said.

"You'll remember everything in time." Ishizu said.

Heba turned to them. "Please don't take this the wrong way, but right now, I don't give a dam about a past life. My brother is in a coma. He's all that matters right now." Heba said.

Atemu smiled. "I would have been surprises if you hadn't said that. I agree, so let's go to the hospital." Atemu said.

Heba nodded, and the three left.

Leo and Yami walked into Yugi's hospital room.

"Hey, Grandpa." Leo said.

"Leo. Yami. I'm glad to see you." grandpa said.

"How is he?" Yami asked.

"The same." Grandpa replied.

"My shift starts in a few minutes. I'll come by and see him when I can." Leo said before walking out.

"Where is everyone else at?" Grandpa asked.

"Tea, Joey, and Tristan has some things they needed to do, and the others went to the Game Shop to see what could be salvaged." Yami said.

"Oh. I had better go help them." Grandpa said.

"You don't have to." Yami said.

"I know, but I want to." Grandpa replied before standing. "You know, Yugi would want you here."

"I know that now." Yami said.

Grandpa smiled. "Yugi will be fine. I'm sure of that." Grandpa said. He left the room.

Yami sighed and sat down in the chair beside Yugi. He reached out and took Yugi's hand in his own. "Yugi, you have to wake up. You cannot leave me." Yami said. He reached out and gently stroked Yugi's face. Yami let the silent tears fall down his face.

Several hours later found Yami still alone with Yugi, still holding his Light's hand.

"Please wake up, Yugi. I hate seeing you like this. It's not who you are. You're a bright, active, cheerful person. I want that person back. I want you back. I want you to be a part of my life. I-I love you, Yugi. Please don't leave me." Yami said. He closed his eyes and buried his face in the bed sheets.

"Yami?"

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