Chapter 21- Seth and Jou's Wedding
"You want to go ahead and have your wedding to Jou, Seth?" Aknankanon asked.
"Yes. I do. I have been with him for as long as Atemu has been with Heba, and in all honesty, I wanted to marry Jou when I first saw him, but at the time, I couldn't. I'd like to now." Seth explained.
"If that is what you wish, then I will not stop you. The wedding will be a month from now. I will let the council and other priests know, although I am certain that everyone will know when Jou finds out." Aknankanon said.
Seth blinked. "What do you mean?" Seth asked.
"Seth, I am may be old, but I am not stupid. Jou cannot keep a secret to save his life, especially when it is something that makes him excited. The moment that Jou learns that your wedding will be in one month, he will be telling everyone that he comes across." Aknankanon explained.
"I see you noticed." Seth said.
"That is a trait about Jou that becomes apparent within a few days of knowing him." Aknankanon answered.
"Yes. It is. If you will excuse me, Pharaoh, I believe that I will go tell Jou of this now." Seth said before he laughed.
Aknankanon shook his head as he walked into his room.
"Something wrong, Aknankanon?" Amara asked, noticing that her husband was shaking his head.
"No. Nothing is wrong. There will just be another wedding next month." Aknankanon answered.
"Another wedding? Whose?" Amara asked.
"Seth asked me if he could go ahead and have his wedding to Jou. I believe that he wants to get married as soon as possible." Aknankanon answered, sitting down on the bed beside his wife.
"Then the entire palace will know by breakfast time that Jou and Seth will be getting married." Amara said.
Aknankanon chuckled. "Seth was surprised that I had noticed Jou's inability to keep a secret." Aknankanon said.
"That is something that a person notices right away along with Jou's tendency to speak his mind and say what he thinks about an issue, regardless of who is around when he says it." Amara said.
"Yes. The perfect match for Seth since Seth liked to argue and Jou's perfect for that." Aknankanon said.
Amara laughed. "Indeed he is." Amara agreed.
"WE'RE GETTING MARRIED NEXT MONTH!" Jou shouted.
Seth winced at the volume that Jou's voice had risen to. "Yes, puppy. We are." Seth said.
"All right! I can't wait. I have to tell Yuugi, Heba, Ryou, and Malik now." Jou said, getting up and heading for the door.
Seth grabbed Jou by his arm and pulled him back. "Puppy, it's late, and I am sure that your cousins do not want to be disturbed at this time. Besides, as loud as you yelled, I am sure that at least half the palace knows by now." Seth said.
Jou pouted. "I really wanted to tell them, Seth." Jou whined.
"I know, puppy, but it can wait until the morning unless they come by here." Seth said.
As if on cue, there was a knock at the door.
"If that is your cousins, I swear that I am going to become a fortuneteller." Seth muttered as he walked to the door.
Seth opened the door and, sure enough, Yuugi, Ryou, Malik, and Heba were at the door along with Atemu, Yami, Bakura, and Marik.
Jou suddenly burst out laughing.
"Shut up, puppy!" Seth snapped.
The group at the door looked at each other, completely confused.
"What's going on?" Atemu asked.
"Nothing." Seth growled.
"From the way that Jou's laughing and your acting, I'd say that something is amiss. Care to include us into what has Jou laughing so hard?" Yami asked.
Jou's laughter started to subside and he said, "I think that your father might be losing one of his priests, Yami."
"Why?" Yami asked, still confused.
"Because he said that if my cousins were at the door, he was going to become a fortuneteller." Jou said before he started killing himself laughing again.
"Seth, what in the name of Ra possessed you to say something like that, in front of Jou, no less, who you know would be telling everyone that you said that, and definitely will now that you were right?" Atemu asked.
Seth glared. "He wanted to tell his cousins the news, and I told him to wait. I also said that he could tell them tonight if they came here." Seth explained.
"And we, of course, were the ones who came to the door." Yuugi said.
Seth growled. He glanced at Jou and said, "Stop laughing, Jou! It's not funny in the least."
"It is to me. I guess you have to leave the priesthood and become a fortuneteller." Jou said, still giggling.
"Jou, there is no way that I am going to leave the priesthood." Seth told him.
"Anyway, can we get on topic here?" Bakura asked gruffly. As much as he liked seeing Seth tormented, he really wanted to get to the point of why they were there in the first place.
"We heard Jou yelling." Heba said.
Seth glared at Jou. "I'm sure that the entire palace knows now thanks to you." Seth said.
"Why does that matter? They would have known before breakfast tomorrow considering Jou would be talking about it non-stop." Marik stated.
This time, it was Jou that glared. "I would not." Jou retorted.
"Yes you would!" everyone in the room said.
Jou jumped.
"Geez. You don't have to yell." Jou muttered.
"Anyway, we're all real happy for you." Yuugi said.
"Yeah. We were actually wondering when you planned to get married." Ryou added.
"Couldn't that have waited until tomorrow?" Seth asked.
"Seth!" Jou scolded.
"What?" Seth asked, not intimidated by Jou's glare.
"Seth's never liked this kind of attention." Atemu said.
"Shut up, Atemu!" Seth snapped.
"Why? It's the truth." Atemu retorted.
"What has the council said?" Yami asked.
"I don't know. I caught the Pharaoh as he was heading to his chambers. I imagine that he will wait and tell the council tomorrow." Seth said.
The following day, Aknankanon called a meeting of the council.
"Pharaoh, is there something wrong?" Omar asked, noticing that the priests were not there as they usually were.
"No. I was letting you know that my priest and nephew Seth came to me to ask that he and Jou be married soon. I agreed, and they will be married next month." Aknankanon said.
"I see. Will we need to plan this wedding as well?" Omar asked.
"No. Seth had chosen to forgo letting us plan the wedding. He and Jou will be doing the majority of planning the wedding on his own although I have told him that a certain amount of formality will need to be shown, so I will be working with them on those plans." Aknankanon said.
"Can we assume that Priest Seth still wishes to have as small of a wedding as possible?' another councilman asked.
"Yes. He does not want something too fancy. You will be well-informed of the wedding plans as they are made." Aknankanon said.
"Very well, my pharaoh." Omar said.
"Absolutely not, Jou!" Seth shouted.
"Why not, Seth?" Jou whined.
"I said that I wanted a small wedding." Seth retorted.
"It's not like I'm asking much." Jou said in his defense.
"Much? Jou, we might as well have as fancy of a wedding as Atemu and Heba had." Seth muttered.
Jou's eyes suddenly lit up.
Seth noticed this and paled. "Not on your life, Jou! We are not having a wedding like theirs." Seth said.
"Why not, Seth?" Jou asked.
"I do not like those big solemnities like that. You know that." Seth answered.
Jou pouted, then got a devilish idea. 'Oh, I know how to get him to do what I want.' Jou thought with an evil smirk.
Seth was busy writing some things down about the food that would be served afterwards.
"Seth." Jou said sweetly.
Seth sighed, irritated. "What?" Seth asked, looking up. He froze.
Jou had widened his eyes so that they were twice their size, and he looked like a puppy that had been kicked. He also looked like he might start cry. "Seth, can we please have a big wedding?" Jou asked in a voice that made him sound pitiful.
"Um, well, Seth, you know that I, um-" Seth was struggling. 'He looks too damn cute like that!' Seth yelled in his head.
"Pleaaase, Seth. If you love me, you will do this for me." Jou said in that same voice.
Seth let out a frustrated sigh, defeated. "Fine, Jou. We can have a big wedding." Seth said.
"With all that goes with it?" Jou asked.
"Yes." Seth said grudgingly.
"All right!" Jou shouted, jumping up and running from the room.
Seth glared after his lover even though Jou couldn't see it. 'He owes me so much for this.' Seth thought.
Yuugi and Heba were playing a card game while Yami and Atemu were talking about something else.
"How long before you think Jou convinces Seth to let him have a big wedding?" Atemu asked.
"I'd give it a few days." Yami said.
"I would say a week at least." Atemu retorted.
"I say before the end of the day." Heba said.
"I'd say within an hour." Yuugi put in.
"You two don't know Seth as well as we do." Yami told them.
Yuugi and Heba looked at them and smirked.
"You don't know Jou." Heba said.
"How about a little wager?" Yami asked.
"Like what?' Yuugi asked.
"Hmm. How about whoever is right has to do whatever the winner says for a week." Yami said.
"Are we doing this as teams or individuals?" Heba asked.
"Teams." Atemu answered.
"In that case, I'll stick with Yuugi, and we'll go with her answer." Heba said.
"All right. Yami and I will go together, and we'll go with his answer." Atemu said.
A moment later, the door flung open.
"Yuugi! Heba! I did it! Seth agreed to a big wedding!" Jou exclaimed.
Heba smirked at Yami and Atemu, whose jaws were scrapping the floor.
"That's great news, Jou. How did you manage to convince him of it?" Yuugi asked. She didn't particularly care about the wager.
"Well, I used that trick of yours. The one you use to get what you want." Jou said.
"What look?" Yuugi asked.
"That's your look!" Seth exclaimed from the door.
Everyone turned to look at Seth.
"Yuugi, I'm going to kill you!" Seth said, glaring.
"Seth, I don't even know what Jou's talking about." Yuugi said.
"You know. The one you pulled that always had everyone doing what you asked." Jou said.
"Sorry. I don't know what you are talking about, Jou." Yuugi said.
"Oh! You mean the one that made her look like an injured puppy and she looked like she would cry and sounded weak and pathetic when she talked so that anyone who looked at her caved in!" Heba exclaimed.
Jou nodded, smirking.
"That one!" Yuugi exclaimed.
"I reiterate that I'm going to kill you." Seth growled.
"Seth." Yami said warningly.
Yuugi turned to her cousin. "Jou, I have not used that look since I was eight years old! I don't know that I could even do it now!" Yuugi exclaimed.
Jou shrugged. "It worked." Jou said.
"You haven't done that since you were eight?" Seth asked.
Yuugi nodded. "When I was little girl, I would pull that look to get out of trouble. Trouble that Jou and Heba along with Malik usually got us into in the first place." Yuugi said, glaring at her brother and cousin.
The two grinned guiltily.
"Come on, Seth. Father's been trying to get you to have a big wedding. If you were just a priest, it wouldn't have mattered. You could have had a small wedding like Isis and Mahado, but you're also Father's nephew, therefore a member of the Royal family, so he wants you to have a formal wedding." Atemu said.
"Well, he got his wish." Seth muttered, leaving the room.
"Bye. We've got a big wedding to plan." Jou said before leaving the room.
Atemu got up and shut the door. "Well, that was rather interesting." Atemu said.
"You realize that you lost the bet." Heba said.
Yami and Atemu had hoped that they had forgotten.
"I guess you have to do what we say now." Heba said.
"Well, I guess you're over me, Atemu. Yuugi can have Yami." Heba said.
Yami and Atemu looked at each other, wondering what they would have them do.
"Heba." Yuugi said.
"Yeah." Heba said, looking up.
Yuugi lay down her cards and said, "I win."
"Damn it!" Heba cursed.
"Come on. I think you've lost enough for one day." Atemu said.
"Yeah. We'll see you two later." Heba agreed.
The two left the room.
"Um, Yuugi." Yami said.
"Yes." Yuugi said, looking at him.
"About this bet." Yami said.
"Don't worry, Yami. I don't care about that bet. I probably won't have you do anything unless I'm in a playful mood." Yuugi said. She thought and said, "In fact, I think I'm in one now."
Yami gulped. "What do you want?" Yami asked.
Yuugi motioned for him to come over to her.
Yami did as he was told and sat down on the bed beside her.
Yuugi leaned up and whispered in his ear, "I want you to kiss me."
Yami happily obliged.
The day before Seth and Jou's wedding had come, and the guests were gathering in the ballroom.
Seth glared at Jou. "I still can't believe that I let you talk me into this." Seth growled.
Jou smiled. "Well, I wanted this, and I knew that you wouldn't be able to resist." Jou said.
Aknankanon and Amara shook their heads, wondering how Jou had managed to convince Seth to go along with this.
Atemu and Heba snickered at Seth's situation.
Yami smirked, and Yuugi just shook her head.
"Let's go." Aknankanon said.
The four couples walked into the ballroom where they saw that all the guests had stopped to watch them.
Once Aknankanon and Amara were at the throne, Aknankanon turned and said, "I want to thank you all for coming to witness the marriage of my nephew. Please. Enjoy this ball in their honor."
The ball started, and Jou had quickly pulled Seth out onto the dance floor.
"I don't know why you like dancing so much." Seth muttered.
"I just do, and you'll never admit it, but you like it, too." Jou said.
Seth smirked. "As long as I have my blonde puppy, then yes, I do." Seth said.
Jou blushed. "Knock it off, Seth." Jou said.
Yami and Atemu watched them.
"Jou has Seth so whipped." Atemu said.
Yami turned to look at his brother. "And Heba doesn't have you whipped?" Yami asked, raising an eyebrow.
"And Yuugi doesn't have you whipped?" Atemu shot back.
"Okay. I think we have established that we're all whipped." Yami said.
Before long, Heba and Yuugi had gotten Yami and Atemu out onto the dance floor.
When the ball ended, Jou ended up staying in Yuugi's room with her, and Seth would stay with Yami.
The time for the wedding had come.
Seth was waiting patiently at the alter with Mahado, who would perform the ceremony.
"Nervous?" Mahado asked.
"Anxious." Seth replied.
Mahado nodded in understanding.
The music started, and Jou appeared walking down to where Seth was. Both turned to face Mahado, who started.
"We are gathered here in the sight of Ra to bring High Priest Seth and Jou together." Mahado said. He turned to Seth and said, "Seth, do you take Jou as your husband to have and to hold, in sickness and in health until death parts you.?"
"I do." Seth answered.
"And Jou, do you take Seth as your husband to have and to hold, in sickness and in health until death parts you?" Mahado asked.
"I do." Jou answered.
"Then by the power granted to me by Ra. Seth, you may kiss your husband." Mahado said.
The last sentence was not needed since Seth was already kissing Jou.
Aknankanon stood and said, "Everyone, please join us in the banquet hall to celebrate their marriage."
Everyone went to the banquet hall where there was a party.
Jou made a beeline for the table of food.
Seth approached him and said, "Jou, what did we talk about?"
"What? I'm hungry." Jou said.
"You're always hungry." Seth muttered.
Before Jou could eat too much, Seth dragged him off to mingle with the guests.
"Well, I'm surprised he got Jou away that easily." Atemu said, seeing Seth drag him off.
"Jou will be back their. Trust me." Heba said.
Jou and Seth had talked to a number of the guests who were congratulating them in their marriage.
"Seth, can I please eat something now?" Jou asked in a whine.
Seth sighed. "Fine. Just don't go overboard on me." Seth said.
Jou's eyes lit up. "Thanks." Jou said, kissing Seth on the cheek before he walked off.
"Why do I give into him?" Seth muttered.
"Because like Yami and I, you are whipped." Atemu said.
Seth glared at his cousin. "I am not." Seth said.
"Then why did you agree to this big wedding?" Yami asked.
Seth growled. "Fine. I'm whipped." Seth said.
"We all are." Yami said as they watched Yuugi, Heba, and Jou at the food table.
After the banquet, Seth and Jou returned to their room to find that the room was lit in a romantic glow by candles, there were blue silk sheets on the bed, and petals were on the bed.
"Wow. I guess the guys did what we did to Atemu and Heba." Jou said.
Seth looked at the note on the bed. "Yep." Seth said.
"Well, I guess that I will be thanking them for this." Jou said.
Seth smirked. "Later." Seth said.
"Seth?" Jou asked questioningly.
"You can thank them later. You're mind for now." Seth said.
Before Jou could react, Seth captured Jou's lips in a kiss which started a long night of passion.
Thers's chapter 21. I hope you liked it.
I know I said the focus would go back to Yami and Yuugi, but I decided that I would put some Isis/Mahado in here. The next chapter will probably focus on them although I'll probably stick some Yami/Yuugi in there anyway. Hope you don't mind.
R&R.