(Surprise gift fic for my friend DragonLady222. The majority of this fic is Prideshipping. There will be little hints here and there of Puzzleshipping. If I get gutsy I may do a bit of Flareshipping. Yes, that means that the main characters are Yuugi, Yami, and Seto. Enjoy. :D Please read and review.

Just to skip the utter confusion- Yuugi is Mr. Howell and his aliases first name is never mentioned. When in the building there is no Yuugi, first or last name.)

Yuugi was walking up the short stretch of the Kaiba mansion driveway. What was supposed to be an hour trip home had turned into a three-hour affair. Had he known this previous he would have stayed at the office and worked. Exhausted, he sighed.

"Yuugi?" Seto questioned, even though he knew the answer. As he rolled down the window, the limo came to a stop. He was not expecting to find him out for a walk when he had mentioned just hours previous about going home because he was tired. "Couldn't sleep?" He asked out of concern.

Yuugi with a slight sway come to stop, "Haven't been home yet." Impaired by the suit, he did his best to stretch the length of himself. "The tire of the bus blew so I decided to stop for lunch. Apparently, I took a nap afterwards because I missed the replacement bus. Therefore, I had to wait for forever for another to come along." He yawned. "So here I am just making it home."

"It's ridiculous you'd spend so much time in transit. Get in," Seto said as he opened the door. He vaguely remembered Yuugi saying he did not want to arrive at work at the same time in the same vehicle but that had nothing to do with getting a ride down the driveway.

"You're not going to give me an option are you," Yuugi sighed as he got into the limo. He sat down but did not make himself comfortable since it was just a short distance. "It is only ridiculous to you because you've never had to do it. To the normal folks it is just every day routine."

"I don't know how you can consider yourself normal. You were once the 'King of Games'," Seto's eyes narrowed as he smirked mischievously, "and, currently you are employed for a very impressive and lucrative company and are one of the top paid programmers in Japan."

Yuugi leaned back and stared up at the ceiling of the limo. After a few moments of silence, he sighed in defeat, "I may not be as normal as some but I am not as extreme as others." He finally opened his eyes, looked back at Seto, and said, "No matter what I accomplish or how far I run, I am and always will be in your shadows. As long as you are constantly in someone else's shadow, you are normal. With that said I'm normal enough and plenty capable of daily routine and public transportation."

Before Seto could comment on Yuugi's view of what made a person normal, the door was being opened for them. He knew it was not a long distance from the gate to the front door but it felt a lot shorter today. He grumbled at the interruption, all further conversation halted. He knew that once out the limo there would be no continuing this as Yuugi would run off to his room and lock himself up until he absolutely had to come out.

Yuugi silently thanked Rah for the ability to escape from being under the microscope. Now he just had to make it inside and head straight for his room, avoiding Yami in the process. Lately, the normal moments with Yami were awkward enough but it would be even more awkward at this moment because Yami did not know Mr. Howell. He really did not want to get into it with his dark, or cause trouble for Seto.

"Welcome home Seto," Yami, unaware of Yuugi, eagerly threw his arms around Seto's shoulders and kissed him gently on the lips. "There's a surprise for you in the living room!" He was grinning ear from ear; it was obvious that he was having a hard time containing the secret.

Seto raised a brow as he returned the kiss. Knowing that Yuugi was right behind him he made a simple gesture of love and caressed Yami's cheek. "It's something big isn't it," finding Yami's childishness adorable he chuckled.

Mokuba, home for spring break, stepped in the hall. He had heard the 'commotion' in the hall and decided that waiting in the living room was not worth it and it was just as good to surprise his brother this way. From his position, he noticed Yuugi/Mr. Howell. "Appears that Yami and I aren't the only ones with a surprise," he laughed. "What brings you out of the office?" Knowing that Mr. Howell was a very private person, he could not help but tease.

Yuugi in the back of his mind was now cursing his luck and questioning Rah. "What a pickle were in," trying to be as cheery as Mr. Howell would have been at work, he chuckled. He rubbed the back of his head, as he looked everywhere but at the people in the room.

"He's not really a surprise," Seto rolled his eyes. "I brought him here so that he could pick out a car from my garage. I'll transfer ownership and make it a company vehicle." Knowing that Yuugi would not take something free, he worded it as such that it would come across as a 'loner vehicle. His excuse of giving Yuugi a car was not entirely a lie; there was some truth to it. He knew Yuugi's secret but no one else did and it was the other's place to reveal it when he felt the time was right. "He's kind enough to come back to work the least I can do is offer him a way there so that he could avoid hours on a bus."

Yuugi was still having a hard time wrapping his mind around how different of a person Seto was in private compared to public. He inwardly sighed as he placed a hand on Seto's shoulder. "I appreciate your generosity," he said in reference to keeping his secret. "But, I think this is one secret that shouldn't be kept. I trust these two to keep it between us," he smiled as he pulled the wig off and shook his head a little. "By the way, welcome home Mokuba," he said nonchalantly as if nothing was amiss.

The gesture only truly phased Mokuba. After his mouth flapped open and closed a few times, he started laughing, "Who would have ever guessed? Mr. Howell the head honcho of Kaiba Corporations programming department was none other than Yuugi Mutou."

Yuugi did not have time to join in Mokuba's laughter that seemed to be affecting Seto. He did not have to see his darks face to feel his emotions plummet, "Yami don't get her knickers in a twist, Seto just found out today." With that said, he headed towards the stairs.

Yami had already told Mokuba that Yuugi was staying with them but not why so he was not surprised at all that Yuugi was heading upstairs. After all if Yuugi/Mr. Howell had been out on a medical leave of absence and had only just returned he was no doubt exhausted.

Seto's laughter was short lived. He glanced from Yuugi's retreating form to Yami and sighed. 'Damn all the jealousy,' he thought to himself. He wanted everyone to get along but instead it was starting to feel like there was some war between Yami and Yuugi when it came to him. It felt silly considering that to Yuugi it was war between Yami and himself when it came to Yuugi.

"I'll go after him," Yami sighed. He knew Seto had set this all up to benefit him in the end but he was finding it hard to adjust. Why it was hard he was not sure because after all he had shared a body with him for years. Perhaps it was the fact that he now knew just how much Yuugi loved him, how much he had given him and in return, he had offered nothing.

Seto nodded his head. "Good to have you home, even if it is just for a minor break from school," before the mood could get any thicker, he pulled Mokuba into a hug. "Let them sort it out and then we'll go out to dinner."