Bakura always woke up before Ryou, if only for a little while, and then crashed again later. Yet while he was awake or maybe it was while he was sleeping he had sensed something was wrong about where he was. He across the bed (strangely the bed didn't seem like the one he'd been in the night before) and low and behold there was Kaiba. He personally hated him and preferred women, but since his hikari was happy he'd go with it for now. However that isn't the relevance of this particular morning's discoveries, he heard Seto mumble Joey's name lovingly, this stirred his anger because if this guy was going to keep Ryou, he had to be totally faithful and nothing less. Bakura retreated to the soul rooms and entered Ryou's without knocking, of course, he was a thief, knocking wasn't in his policy. But he made a startling discovery there too.

Now, it wasn't like Ryou to not sleep peacefully at all, but the small smile on his lips and the way he was curled into his pillow was suspicious. So he leaned in closer and peered into his hikari's dreams. Bakura backed out almost immediately, flushing at the scene that had lain before him, the pharaoh's guard, Tani, although Bakura called her Kitten personally, it had always made her mad and he liked the spark in her eyes, that molten gold had been an addiction, but the fact he hadn't shared any of this with his little Ryou, and all the contrasts between the two everything from their aura to their skin and all the various sounds, plus the sheets were sliding off rapidly. Bakura retained everything of that one glimpse he'd seen, regaining composure he grinned wickedly, he was going to tease his hikari mercilessly for this one and to think Ryou thought that he wasn't even interested the female populace. He left as quietly as he'd entered and crashed in his room, falling back into the dream he'd forgotten.

Seto Kaiba woke up as per normal, left the bed, and went to shower. While showering he realized how sore he was, getting out and wrapped in a towel he glanced at his bed partner, Ryou. Somehow it didn't feel right, he was the seme, he rarely let Ryou on top and only at times when he felt that Ryou was insecure in their relationship or was crying. It usually fixed their problems, sad that their relationship was mostly based on sex, he dressed and left the room to the kitchen for coffee to clear his head of the weird dreams he had that involved that mutt face Joey. If he cared to compare that unwilling partnership it'd be like that anime show Inuyasha between the half demon and that wolf-demon Koga with Yugi as Kagome being their only link to calm acquaintance ship. These thoughts of course were before he'd consumed his precious draught of life, coffee.

He then pushed his adulterous thoughts away to he far corner of his mind and reverted into his cold business self, while waiting for everyone else to get up. All that dancing that everyone else had done the night before was probably why he'd been grumpy today. Well, that and the fact he'd listened to that Tani girl and all her strange hints about his past, they had both been drinking a little bit and she just started talking about how she'd never pick out that Ryou, who looked an awful lot like Thief King Bakura, wound up with me. Who, she told me, had been High Priest, named Seth. I told her I knew about some of that crap with that girl named Kisara.

She looked at me sadly, and said "You know that's why you were never comfortable with another woman again, you'd only take men to bed after that."

I didn't care to respond to that but to what she said next, I did, "Let's see, you slept with a lot of anonymous people, but you also slept with Atem, who was your cousin by the way, and that Joey's former incarnation and don't worry, you and I hated each other. You thought I was a bad influence on Atem, plus you said that I had too much power seeping in my veins, that I wasn't human. You're probably the second most intuitive person to realize that, besides 'Kura of course."

I was a little stunned but then I said, "Why would I sleep with either of those two? And how the hell, if you were Atem's bodyguard, know Bakura? Wasn't me sleeping with Atem technically incest?"

I shuddered a little bit thinking of how that would be like me sleeping with Mokuba. She then said, " Well considering in Ancient Egypt that brothers and sisters of the Royal Blood were often married? You sleeping with Atem was not that odd, although it made me a little mad and I let Joey's incarnation guard you two, plus you were lonely. So I went on patrol and that's how I met Bakura, of course his stupid nickname for me, just got me really ticked and that was he wound up on the floor the first time, but any way that isn't really important, now is it?"

This confession of course led to me ask " So were you unfaithful to the pharaoh?" she looked at me with colder eyes than mine and said " Why, yes, I was, but then again, so were you." She glanced at Ryou with something of longing in her eyes. I had to ask "So what was his nickname for you? And did I get any creepy nicknames?"

She stared at me like I was speaking in tongues and then blushed a little while murmuring, "It was kitten, and no you didn't have any strange names to my knowledge but I never stuck around for that stuff anyway."

I had a questioning look on my face and she snorted and said "You have to ask your boyfriend why he named me I have no clue."

Our conversation ended there as the others came back from dancing for a bit, I decided not to tell anyone about her confession because it was rather insightful about her and myself but that doesn't mean it won't ever come up in the presence of Yugi or Ryou especially if their in the same room, I'd love to see their reaction. Kami-sama, I love coffee.

Elsewhere

Tani woke up feeling like she'd been fucked so senselessly it was ridiculous and she couldn't move enough to get up with Ra that morning. " All I can remember is what happened at that club, they all dance like idiots, but at least there alluring idiots," speaking to her reflection in the mirror, "and I look like I haven't slept all night either! Bast I'm completely sore but I have no clue as to why… Ugh… well better go talk to Yugi, that is, if he isn't too busy with that person he left with last night, this morning, hehehehe."

She took a shower; felt a bit better, got dressed and left toYugi's house.

-at Yugi's house-

Yugi didn't really want to get up, feeling as if he'd chased someone all night, though he was pretty sure he hadn't, but was disturbed by movement in his bed! Looked around to see what it was and out popped a small Black kitten with a white mask on her eyes and the Egyptian symbol of Fertility on her chest.

"AAAAAAH! What are you doing here little cat?"

'Let me talk to the cat Yugi…'

'Umm… okay sure Yami, go right ahead…'mumbling something like 'it's too early for this' as he left for his soul room.

Yugi transformed into Yami and he spoke to the kitten, " Bast what a surprise what are you doing here? I thought you were busy this time of year, especially with the Nile flowing, and it being breeding season amongst the animals and such…" the kitten curled up in his lap, stretched and thought to him

'Prrrrecisely. That is why I am here littleAtem. Did you forget that you lovely little guard was not human or did you never figure that out? She is the daughter of Isis and because of that she is tied to the Nile. Meaning that at the moment she very fertile because of 'the Nile flowing' as you so put it, little god. And there is a problem, something happened last night that was not as it should be. What you are living today and remembering of last night did not happen even little Laela (Lay-la)(1) does not know what mischief has been caused. She may very well be with child, not that it can be helped, and although there are now technologies that could take the child or children but I highly doubt she will wish to go through with such a thing.'

Yami spoke, " What do you mean Taniya is maybe pregnant, nothing happened last night!" the kitten looked at Yami with a disbelieving look on it's face,

'Little god, did I not already tell you that last night as you know it now did not happen? And I will be staying with you, to make sure everything goes smoothly, although since I know the players, that may not be possible.'

The doorbell rang downstairs, even Yami knew that it was Tani downstairs, it had become a morning ritual for her to show up and have breakfast with them. It was nice since Solomon Mouto was dead and the house was empty aside from the two of them (Yami and Yugi). The kitten leapt up off of Yami and let him get ready to go downstairs,

Yugi thought 'What a great way to start the morning with absolute certainty that last night was all a lie and we all had so much fun last night, even Seto! I guess we're doing the real rendition of that Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.'

When he opened the door Tani smiled for a moment then suddenly and wobbly collapsed in Yugi's (Yami's) arms. "Sorry," she said, " I don't seem to have any strength today, must be because all of you tired me out last night… Can I sit down somewhere?"

Yami guided her to the couch where she sunk into it with a sigh and fell dead asleep. Yami shook his head and sighed "Guess breakfast is off the menu for her today… So Bast want something?"

the kitten was pawing at a bag of scallops

"I don't want to know how you opened the fridge and is Tani okay?" Bast replied while licking a paw,

' I am not going to educate on how having sex all night tires the body and mind, young one, I was fairly certain you already knew from past experience…hmmm? She will be fine with sleep, but she'll probably be grouchy.'

What will happen next? Do any of you want to find out? Please answer through a review! And do you like how the story is going at the moment? …. TELL ME, I'M DESPERATE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!