This chapter is mostly Heba and Yuugi telling each other about thier lives in the last five years. Sorry. Just a bit of information.
Chapter 4- Reconnection
"Heba, you never mentioned to me that you had such a beautiful sister." Atemu said.
"Well, I haven't seen her in five years. She's changed a lot, but she was very beautiful back then, too. In fact, she's even more beautiful now than she was back then." Heba said.
"I can understand why she has so many suitors. She is a very beautiful girl." Atemu said.
Heba glared playfully. "I thought that I was the one that you thought was beautiful." Heba said, turning away, feigning anger.
Atemu smirked and wrapped his arms around Heba from behind. He leaned down and started to kiss Heba on the neck.
Heba had to bite his lip to keep a moan form escaping.
"You are the most beautiful person that I have ever seen, Heba. You know that. I'm afraid that even though you have a beautiful sister, her beauty pales in comparison to yours in my eyes." Atemu said.
Heba shivered as Atemu's hot breath ghosted over his ear. "You are such a charmer, Atemu." Heba said. He couldn't stop the moan from escaping as Atemu went back to kissing Heba on the neck.
Atemu started to lead Heba to the bed with not-so-innocent intentions.
"Atemu, no!" Heba said firmly, managing to get out of Atemu's grasp.
"Why not?' Atemu asked, pouting slightly.
Heba started laughing.
Atemu blinked. "What do you find so funny?" Atemu asked.
"You. You just look so cute when you pout." Heba said.
"I do not." Atemu snapped. He hated it when Heba called him cute.
"Yes, you are." Heba said.
Atemu growled, but quickly pulled Heba into a heated kiss.
Heba squeaked as Atemu forced his way into Heba's mouth. Heba let out a moan as Atemu roamed around the inside of his mouth.
Atemu started to maneuver Heba over toward the bed when Heba stopped him.
"Atemu, I said no." Heba said, rather breathless from the kiss.
"Why not, Heba?" Atemu asked.
"I came here to see my sister, and I haven't seen her except for a few moments. I would like to spend a little time with her considering we're only here for two weeks before we have to go back to the palace. I would like to spend some time with her before then." Heba said.
"Oh, all right." Atemu agreed.
"Don't worry. I have a feeling that Yami and the others will be rather bored as well, so I suggest that you all stay together. I'm sure that grandfather wouldn't mind if you explored." Heba said.
"All right. Have fun with your sister." Atemu said.
"I will." Heba said. He kissed Atemu chastely on the lips before leaving the room.
Atemu shook his head. "Heba doesn't realize that he has complete control of me. Of course, I'll never tell him that." Atemu said.
Yuugi sat in her room reading a book. She had figured that Heba and the others would want time to rest, so she decided that she would stay there and read for a while.
A knock on her door ended that plan.
Yuugi set the book down and went to her door. She was surprised to see Heba outside. "Heba, what are you doing here?" Yuugi asked, surprised.
"Well, I came here with the intention of spending some time with my sister. Am I not welcome here now?" Heba asked.
Yuugi rolled her eyes. "Heba, you know that you are. I just thought that you would want to rest after your journey here." Yuugi said.
"I'm fine. I wanted to talk to you some, though." Heba said.
"All right. Come on in." Yuugi said. She stepped aside and allowed her brother to walk into the room.
Heba looked around. He saw her wardrobe, a vanity with several brushes and make up, and a couch along with a table and a few chairs. Yuugi's bed was nearly as big as the bed he and Atemu had back at the palace.
"What are you thinking, Brother?" Yuugi asked.
"How much this room has changed." Heba replied.
Yuugi laughed. "Heba, I have gotten older. I'm not as immature as I was then." Yuugi said.
"I guess so." Heba agreed.
"I'm sure that your room at the palace is not as your room here was." Yuugi said.
"Well, um, I actually share a room with Atemu." Heba said.
"Yes. I think that I would like to know how you ended up with the Prince of Egypt." Yuugi said, sitting down on her bed.
Heba sat down on the bed as well. "You know that after Father disowned me and Jou that we had no money and no title. We were basically commoners. We were captured by some of the palace guards and made slaves at the palace." Heba said.
"That must have been awful." Yuugi said.
"Not really. It wasn't that bad. We both did our duties, had food, and had a place to sleep. Of course, the instant that Seth laid eyes on Jou, he wanted him." Heba said.
Yuugi laughed. "Jou wasn't happy at the start." Yuugi said.
"Nope. He and Seth would get into these feisty arguments. It was the talk of the palace for a while. I cannot name all of the insults that they threw at each other. Anyway, it was because of one of those arguments that I ended up meeting Atemu. He and Yami had come to find Seth during one of the arguments. People had learned not to try and break Seth and Jou apart when they were arguing because who ever did usually ended up getting hurt. Anyway, I was trying to get away from them so that I could do my work. Seth actually punched me in the cheek without meaning to. I was sent crashing into Atemu." Heba said.
"Oh, no. Was he mad?" Yuugi asked.
"Atemu. Yes, bit not at me. It was Seth he was angry at. I guess that's when Seth and Jou started to tame their arguments." Heba said.
"What happened with you and Prince Atemu?" Yuugi asked.
"Well, I was going to apologize, but he wouldn't let me. He told me that Seth was the one who owed the apology considering I got hit. It wasn't anything, but a bruise, actually, but it still pissed him off. I was already friends with Mana, a magician in training, and she's the reason that Atemu started seeing more of me. At least, that's what I thought. I found out later that it was because Atemu had fallen in love with me. After awhile, Atemu took me in as his personal slave. That was just to be closer to me. Truthfully, I had fallen for him, too, but couldn't admit it. I mean, I was just a slave at the time. I didn't think that I had a chance with him." Heba said.
"I'm sure that there's an interesting tale behind how you got together." Yuugi said.
"Well, Jou, Seth, Mana, Anzu, and Honda got sick and tired of our tiptoeing around each other, so they started to put us in awkward situations that would force us to admit that we were in love with each other. Every attempt didn't work. In the end, it was my nearly getting killed by an assassin who mistook me for Atemu that ended in out telling each other. He was so scared that I was going to die that he ended up telling me. I recovered and that was that. Until the next problem arose." Heba said.
Yuugi looked at him curiously as she rested back against a pillow. "What was that?" Yuugi asked.
"All the women that were vying for Atemu's affections." Heba said.
"Translation being all the women that wanted to be queen." Yuugi said.
"Right. It grew irritating, especially when they started threatening my life. Of course, the few that actually took actions against me were punished. Technically, I was still Atemu's slave, so no one had the right to do anything to me except for Atemu. Some started to give up. Others were persistent, but never tried to harm because of what happened to the few that had. The real problem came when the council said that Atemu had to marry within a year's time. He didn't want to marry a women because he knew that if he did, she could have me killed. I thought about just leaving the palace, but Atemu wouldn't let me. He didn't want to give me up anymore than I wanted to give him up." Heba said.
"What did the pharaoh think?" Yuugi asked softly.
"Both Pharaoh Aknankanon and Queen Amara wanted me and Atemu to be together, but couldn't help what the council had decreed." Heba said.
"That was when Prince Yami solved those problems for you." Yuugi stated.
"Yeah. Yami volunteered to take the throne so that Atemu and I could be together. Atemu hadn't wanted Yami to do that just so that we could be together, but Yami assured him that it was okay. So, it was announced that Yami was the new heir to the throne, and that Atemu and I would be married." Heba said.
"I know. That's how I found out where you were." Yuugi said.
"What about you? What happened after Jou and I were ostracized?" Heba asked.
"Well, Father was raving mad for several weeks. After that, he focused a great deal on me. He wanted to be the perfect wife material. He had planned for years t present me to the Crown Prince. You know that power and status meant everything to him, so he thought that he would get that through me. He had different tutors come in to teach me everything that I would need to know. If he wasn't satisfied with one, then he would fire that one and hire a new one. I hated it. All I became was a cash cow to that man. He didn't care about me. All he wanted was the money and increase in status. Truthfully, I ceased to be seen as his daughter. All he saw me as was a way to get more power." Yuugi said.
"Bastard." Heba said under his breath.
"I know. Those were my thoughts, too, as well as Malik and Ryou. About a year and a half ago, Ryou and Malik got into relationships with Bakura and Marik. Grandfather and I knew, and we both covered for them so that they could see them. We manages, miraculously, to prevent Father from finding out. He always knew everything that went on in the house, so I'll never know how he never found out. He was going to the palace to speak to the Pharaoh about my marrying his son. At the time, it would have been Atemu." Yuugi said.
"That wouldn't have gone over real well, especially if he had either found out that I was there or saw me there." Heba said.
"Did they know everything by that time?" Yuugi asked.
Heba smiled. "Yuugi, Atemu and I have been an official couple for almost three years." Heba explained.
"Okay. So, they did. Father never made it there. He was killed in a raider attack." Yuugi said. She let out a depressed sigh and said, "I would like to feel remorse, but I don't. He mistreated every member of this family, which makes me rather glad that he's gone."
"I know. You couldn't have contacted me otherwise." Heba said.
"Yeah. Grandfather took over then. He immediately told Ryou and Malik that they were free to marry Bakura and Marik, which all took place within a month's time. Bakura and Marik lived her ever since. They have sorta adopted me as a little sister and protect me from every suitor that comes near me." Yuugi said.
"I'm glad. From the looks of it, you need it." Heba said.
"I won't deny that there have been several suitors that tried to force themselves on me. Of course, the second Bakura or Marik saw it, they were threatening their lives. A few times, fights broke out, which the suitor usually started. I think that Drake would have fought, too, had it not been for the fact that there was royalty there." Yuugi said.
"Well, if he had done anything to you, I know that Atemu and Yami wouldn't have hesitated to have him arrested." Heba said.
"Because you asked them to?" Yuugi assumed.
"No, because they can't stand it when that happens. They hate seeing someone force themselves on another. They have had it don to them, and they don't like when it happens to other people, especially women who usually can't fight off an attacker." Heba said.
"I see. It sounds like they are protective of their people." Yuugi said.
"They are." Heba said.
"That's good. It means that when Prince Yami becomes Pharaoh, he will be a good king to the people." Yuugi said.
"Yes, he will." Heba agreed.
Mana was walking around the gardens while Atemu, Yami, Seth, Anzu, Honda, Eternias, and Yuesei sat around the gardens.
"It would have been nice if Heba had mentioned that his sister was his twin." Seth grumbled.
Atemu rolled his eyes. "Seth, it's not that big of a deal." Atemu said.
"Yeah, but it still would have been nice to know." Seth said.
"You know, Heba and his sister look a great deal like each other. There are very few noticeable differences between them." Eternias said.
"She's a rather beautiful girl." Honda said.
"Honda!" Anzu growled.
"What? I'm just stating a fact." Honda said, cringing at his angry girlfriend.
"He's right. Lady Yuugi is a very beautiful girl. I am certain that she would make a fine wife for any man." Eternias said.
"Maybe, but the question is why does the man want to marry her?" Ryou said as he, Heba, Malik, Ryou, and Marik approached them.
"What do you mean?" Mana asked, who had joined them.
Malik sighed. "Some of the men that come here are only after one, two, or possibly three of the following reasons: power, wealth, lust. That's all that most of them want." Malik explained.
"So, the men either want the title, the money, or her body." Yami said.
"It's sad, but true." Ryou said.
"Yuugi told me that several men have forced themselves on her." Heba said.
"I wish that I had been here for that." Yami said.
"Why's that?" Marik asked.
"Sp that I could have killed him." Yami said.
"There's no need. Between Bakura and Marik, they have it covered. They don't let anyone hurt her for any reason." Malik said.
"Lady Yuugi will find it hard to find someone that will not just look at her beauty. Not many women are as beautiful as she is." Yuesei said.
"Well, Yuugi would argue that point." Ryou said.
"Speaking of Lady Yuugi, where is she?" Atemu asked.
"Dealing with another would-be suitor." Marik growled.
"Then where's Bakura?" Seth asked.
Marik smirked and said, "Seeing if he needs to commit murder."
A few moments later, Bakura and Yuugi appeared.
"What happened?" Ryou asked.
"Oh, he's going home with a broken jaw." Bakura said.
"Why did you do that?" Yami asked.
"I didn't." Bakura replied.
"Yuugi, you did that?" Heba asked, rather surprised. He had never thought that his sister would be one to be violent.
"Yes, I did. I did not appreciate the man trying to feel me up." Yuugi said.
"When did you learn to fight, though?" Jou asked.
"Marik and Bakura thought that I would need it if they weren't around. Bakura was close by, but I beat him to the punch." Yuugi said.
"Literally." Bakura said, smirking.
"Well, the man deserved it for trying that." Yuugi said.
"Yes, he did." Atemu said. He smirked and said, "Just wish that I could have seen that. I don't think that he's like being seen being hit like that by a woman. No offense to anyone here."
"I don't take any. It might be a bit unorthodox, but I would rather be able to be able to defend myself than be harmed." Yuugi said.
"I would have done the same thing." Anzu said.
"So would I." Mana agreed.
Yami looked at Yuugi. 'She's a rather modest girl. She willing to defend herself. I wonder what she is really like.' Yami thought.
"Dinner should be ready soon. We may as well go on to the dining room." Yuugi said.
Jou's stomach growled then.
Seth groaned. "Damn it, Jou!" Seth shouted.
"What? Can I help it that I'm hungry?" Jou asked.
"You're always hungry!" everyone shouted.
Yuugi shook her head. "Come with us." she said.
Yuugi, Ryou, Malik, Marik, and Bakura led them to the dining room.
Yami had decided that he would try to get to know Yuugi while they were there, hoping that she would not be like the other women at the palace.
I didn't want Yuugi to be a damsel-in-distress type, so she can defend herself.
Yuugi and Yami get to know each other a little in the next chapter. Sorry, but they start off as friends in this.
R&R.