As promised, here is Yuugi and Yami's wedding.
Chapter 31- The Royal Wedding
The sun shone down over Egypt as the morning of Yuugi and Yami's wedding came.
Egypt was in a hustle as they were all prepared for the wedding of their Crown Prince.
Everyone was excited.
A hand reached down and shook Heba. Heba groaned and rolled over to ret and get away from the hand.
"Heba, wake up." the female voice said.
"No. Too early." Heba mumbled as he pulled the covers over his head.
The covers were jerked away from Heba and the voice said, "Heba get up!"
"Atemu, I don't want to get up." Heba said.
"Heba, I am not your husband, now get up!" the voice said rather harshly.
Heba was being stubborn and just curled up.
Yuugi let out a frustrated sigh. She knew that her brother could be hard to get up in the morning, but this was ridiculous. "Heba, I swear that if you make my late for my wedding, I am going to kill you!" Yuugi said rather loudly.
That woke Heba up as he shot up and turned to look at his rather irate sister. "Yuugi what are you-" Heba started until he realized something. "Oh, crap! Today's your wedding!" Heba exclaimed.
"Yes, I am. Now get your ass out of bed right now." Yuugi said.
"Right." Heba said as he finally got out of bed. "What do we do first?" Heba asked.
"We eat breakfast first." Yuugi replied.
Heba noticed that there were two sets of food sit out on the table in the room. "Okay. I guess we eat and then you'll need to get ready, won't you?" Heba asked.
"Yes. Hasina, Anzu, and Isis will be here in about an hour to help me get ready, so we need to have eaten by the time that they get here." Yuugi said.
Heba nodded, and the twins sat down at the table to eat.
Yami had let the servants in to set the breakfast in the room before they left the room. Yami turned to look at his brother, who was still fast asleep. He let out a sigh and went to the bed, picking up a pillow and whacking Atemu in the head with it.
"Ow! Heba, what the hell?!" Atemu exclaimed.
Yami rolled his eyes. "Atemu, I am certainly not your husband. Now get your lazy ass out of bed." Yami said.
Atemu groaned. "Yami, it's a little too early. The wedding isn't for a few hours." Atemu said.
"Atemu, get up. We have to eat breakfast, and I have to get ready, and considering the fact that I am not allowed to leave this room until the wedding, I'd like you to make sure that everything is perfect." Yami said.
"I never thought that you would care so much about how perfect your wedding was, Yami." Atemu said as he finally got out of bed.
"I don't, but I know that Yuugi is looking forward to the wedding, so I'd like for it to be perfect for her sake." Yami replied.
"You do anything for her." Atemu said.
"Yes, I would." Yami replied.
Atemu and Yami finally sat down to eat.
After Atemu got finished eating, he left to go and make sure that everything was ready while Yami stayed in the room to get ready for his wedding.
Aknankanon was in the gardens where the wedding would take place. He was making sure that everything was ready for the wedding.
"Is everything ready for the wedding, Father?" Atemu asked as he approached his father.
"Yes, it is. What are you doing here, anyway?" Aknankanon asked his son.
"Yami wanted me to make sure that everything was perfect." Atemu answered.
"Hmm. Never thought that Yami would want everything to be perfect, even for his wedding." Aknanaknon stated.
"He doesn't. He knows that Yuugi is looking forward to all of this, so he wants everything to be perfect for her." Atemu explained.
"That makes more sense. Well, everything is ready. I have gone over every detail of this, and everything is set. All we have to do now is wait for the time for the wedding." Aknankanon answered.
"Yami will be glad to gear that. Speaking of whom, I'll go back and make sure that he's all right. You know that he hates being cooped inside all if the time." Atemu said.
Aknanaknon laughed. "Yes. Yami's never been one who likes to be trapped in all the time." Aknankanon said.
Atemu went to go back inside the palace to see how Yami was doing.
Heba walked out of Yuugi's bathing room, dressed for the wedding. "Yuugi, are you nervous?" Heba asked, noticing that his sister was fidgeting a little.
"A little." Yuugi admitted.
"You're not having second thought about getting married, are you?" Heba asked.
"No, Heba. Nothing like that. You know that I hate being the center of attention, Heba. That's the only thing that's bothering me at the moment." Yuugi replied.
"Okay. I'm just making sure that you're sure about this." Heba said.
"I am, Heba." Yuugi assured him.
There was a knock on the door.
Heba went to the door and opened it to find Hasina, Anzu, and Isis outside.
The three walked in, and Hasina said, "Are you ready, Yuugi?"
"Yes." Yuugi answered.
"Well, I'll be going. I'll see you before the wedding, Yuugi." Heba said.
"Okay, Heba." Yuugi agreed.
Heba left the room, leaving the four women alone.
"Okay. We need to get you ready." Anzu said.
With that, the three set to helping Yuugi get ready for her wedding.
Heba reached his room and found two of the princesses outside of his room.
"Do you think that Yami would leave that bitch for one of us?" one of the princesses asked.
"I'm sure of it. He doesn't need that witch. We could satisfy his needs more." the other replied.
"Get away from the door." Heba growled.
The two whirled around to face Heba.
"What the hell do you want?!" one of the princesses growled at him.
Heba narrowed his eyes. "I am married to Atemu, and that's my sister you're talking about." Heba said.
Both paled.
"MY sister is marrying the Prince, so I suggest that you leave." Heba said.
"We aren't leaving! We're guest here!" a princess snapped.
"And you're annoying me." Yami said.
All three looked to see that Yami was standing there.
"Hello, Prince Yami. We came to see you." one princess said, smiling sweetly.
"Get away from the door. I do not appreciate you speaking of my fiancé on such a way, and I am not leaving her for either one of you." Yami said.
"But why?" the other princess demanded angrily.
"This is my kingdom, therefore, I do no have to answer you, and I do not appreciate you thinking that you can order me around and tell who can satisfy me needs. Yuugi will do more for me than either of you can. Now, I suggest you go back to your rooms and resign yourselves to the fact that I am unavailable now." Yami said.
Neither princess seemed to be willing to leave.
"I suggest you leave, or perhaps you would rather my father come here and have the guards do it." Atemu said as he stepped up beside Heba.
The princesses saw that he was serious and left.
"This is getting damn annoying." Yami said as he went back into the room.
Heba and Atemu followed.
"Well, after you're married, they won't try anything considering the fact that they could be in even more trouble than before." Atemu said.
"That is something that I am praying will happen." Yami said.
Yami was wearing a pure white tunic shirt and also had on a kilt that was streaked in white, red, and purple. He wore the bracelets, armbands, and earrings that were for formal ceremonies only. He also was wearing the crown and a blood red cape.
"I'm glad to see that you are ready." Atemu said.
"I am ready for us to go ahead and get married. I wish that we were getting married right now." Yami said.
"It won't be long, Yami. Trust me on that." Heba said.
"What's Yuugi doing anyway?" Yami asked.
"Hasina, Anzu, and Isis are there helping her get ready for the wedding." Heba said.
"Is she excited?" Atemu asked.
"Yeah. I think that she's as ready to get married as Yami is. She's just a little nervous. You know that she hates having a lot of people watching her." Heba said.
Yami looked out from the balcony to see that the sun was shining. 'Well, it'll only be a few hours before we get married.' Yami thought.
Anzu, Hasina, and Isis had finished helping Yuugi get ready.
Yuugi looked at herself in the full length mirror. She was wearing a crimson dress. The sleeves came off her shoulders a little. The dress covered her feet. The hem of the press was done in a light pink. The lace that was intricately weaved into the dress in various patterns were done is a lighter red than the rest of the dress was done. She was wearing gold bracelets on her wrists and there was a gold armband on her right arm. She was wearing a necklace that Amara had given her which was a crimson jewel. She was also wearing the heavy gold earrings. She had the circlet on her head. She was wearing closed in shoes although they were hidden be her dress. Her hair was pulled back in a ponytail and then turned back up so the end of the ponytail was tied as well. Several strands of her hair were falling over her ears. There had been a light touch of make-up added to her lips and cheeks.
"Yuugi, you look absolutely stunning." Anzu told her.
Yuugi smiled. "Thank you, Anzu." Yuugi said.
"Yami is going to speechless when he sees you." Isis said.
Yuugi laughed a little. "Yami's been speechless at every ball I have attended with him." Yuugi said.
"Well, I believe that this will top all of the other dresses you have worn. He'll have trouble thinking clearly when he sees how beautiful you look." Hasina added.
"He already has that problem. It's one of the reasons that I beat him when we play cards or chess. He spends more time watching me than paying attention to what he does." Yuugi said.
"Well, I don't think that there is anyone that will be able to keep their eyes off of you when they see you." Anzu said.
"We all need to go and get ready for the wedding. I'll get Heba and send him back on here." Isis said.
"Of. I'll do that for you." Hasina said.
"It's fine. I have to pass his room to go to mine. It's no trouble for me to stop and tell him." Isis assured him.
The three women left the room.
Yuugi sat down on the bed.
It was a few moments before there was a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" Yuugi asked.
"It's me, Yuugi." Heba replied.
"Come on in." Yuugi said.
Heba opened the door and walked into the room, closing the door behind him. Heba starred stunned at how his sister looked. "Wow, Yuugi. You look absolutely gorgeous." Heba said.
Yuugi blushed a little. "Thanks, Heba." Yuugi said.
"Are you ready for this?" Heba asked.
"Yes. I am." Yuugi replied.
"I know that Yami is, too." Heba replied.
"Yami's been ready for us to get married since the day that he proposed to me, and I said yes." Yuugi answered.
"Yeah. Atemu was the exact same way." Heba agreed. He looked at his sister for a moment before he said, "Yuugi, you know that I love you, right?"
Yuugi smiled. "I know, Heba. I love you, too." Yuugi said.
"When I first got that letter from you back then, I never thought that when you met Yami, you would end up falling in love with him and be about to marry him." Heba said.
"Neither did I. Yami was someone that I could relate to. He understood how it felt to have someone want you for what you could give them, not for who you are. We started off as friends. I admit that I felt something for then friendship with him before you all left after those two weeks, but I wasn't going to make Yami think I was like the others. I wasn't. I was surprised when he told me how he felt about me. We decided that we would give it a try, and here we are." Yuugi said.
"I know that you are marrying a good man, and Bakura and Marik know that, too, even if they will never admit it." Heba said.
Yuugi smiled. "I know that I am, Heba." Yuugi said, taking his hands in hers. "Just like you are married to a good man, I know that I will be married to a good man, too." Yuugi told him.
"Well, you'll be a princess of Egypt in a little while and then, one day, you'll be queen." Heba said.
"Just because I'm queen doesn't mean that I will forget about you or the rest of my family. You're all stuck with having me around for the rest of your lives." Yuugi said.
"You know, I think that that is something that I can live with." Heba said.
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Yuugi called.
The door opened, and Bakura walked in.
"They're ready." Bakura told them.
Yuugi nodded.
"Well, this is it." Heba said.
"Yeah. I know." Yuugi said with a smile that told Heba Yuugi was ready for this step in her life.
Bakura left the room, soon followed by Heba and Yuugi, who left the room.
Yami stood at the alter where Mahado was since he was the one that would be officiating the ceremony. Yami ignored the looks that many of the princesses were giving him in hopes of stopping him from marrying Yuugi. 'It'll just be a few more minutes, and Yuugi and I will be getting married.' Yami thought.
"I think that Yami's beyond ready to get married." Jou muttered.
"Now what gave you that idea?" Seth retorted sarcastically.
"I wonder how Yuugi's doing." Ryou said, more to himself.
"She's fine." Bakura said as he sat beside his husband.
"I hope so." Marik said.
"We'll be starting soon." Malik said.
"Yeah. We will." Heba said as he sat down with them.
"Is she ready?" Ryou asked.
"Yeah. Just a little nervous." Heba replied.
Aknankanon looked over at the musician and nodded his head when he knew that Yuugi was ready.
The music started, signaling the start of the wedding.
Yami turned to look at the end of the aisle where Yuugi suddenly appeared. He was shocked by how beautiful she looked. 'Hot damn!' was the only thought going through Yami's mind.
Had Yami not been in such a shocked stupor, he would have felt a strong surge of jealousy if he had noticed that most of the men in attendance were also starring at Yuugi.
Yuugi blushed slightly at how people were starring at her, but she forgot all about that when she saw Yami. She started to walk down the aisle toward where Yami was standing with Mahado. When she reached them, she turned so that she was facing Yami.
"We are gathered here this morning in the sight of Ra to witness the union between The Crown Prince, Yami, and Lady Yuugi of the Mutou house." Mahado said. He turned to Yami and said, "Prince Yami, do you take Lady Yuugi to be your wife, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, until death parts you?" Mahado asked.
"I do." Yami answered.
Mahado turned to Yuugi and said, "Lady Yuugi, do you take Prince Yami as your husband, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, until death parts you?"
"I do." Yuugi answered.
"Then by the power granted to me by Ra, I pronounced you married. Prince Yami, you may kiss your wife." Mahado said.
Yami leaned down and kissed Yuugi on the lips.
There were cheers and clapping from some of the people there to witness the marriage.
Now, it was time for the second part to the wedding.
Aknankanon stood and approached the newly married couple. "There is one other thing that must be done this day." Aknankanon said.
Knowing her cue, Isis approached the alter with a crown on the pillow.
Aknankanon took the circlet from Yuugi's head. "Yuugi, with your marriage to my son, you now given the title of Princess of Egypt until the tome that Yami takes the throne." Aknankanon said. He took the other crown from the pillow that Isis had and said, "With this crown, you are now princess of Egypt." He placed the crowd on her head.
There were cheers and applause once more from the audience.
"Join us in the banquet hall to celebrate their union." Aknanaknon said.
With that, the guests started to file into the banquet hall.
"Well, we're married now." Yami said.
"Yes, and I couldn't be happier." Yuugi said.
"That's makes two of us." Yami replied.
Gagging noises were heard, and the two looked to see Bakura and Marik were making them.
Malik and Ryou whacked Bakura and Marik.
"Knock it off, Bakura!" Ryou scolded.
"You, too, Marik!" Malik added.
"Well, congratulations, you two." Atemu said.
"Thank you." Yami said.
"You'd better get in there before Father has a fit." Heba said.
"He's right." Yuugi agreed.
The group made their way inside of the palace to the banquet hall where the people were already celebrating.
Jou, unsurprisingly, made a beeline for the food.
Seth groaned and said, "Well, I had better go and stop Jou before he eats every scrap of food on the table and leave none for everyone else."
Yuugi giggled. "Seth, that wouldn't be anything new to me. Jou has always been like that, and there is nothing that is ever going to change that." Yuugi told him.
"Still, I would rather stop him so that everyone else has the chance to eat something." Seth said before he went off to stop his husband from eating everything.
It wasn't long before Yuugi and Yami were pulled into the crowds and people started coming up to congratulate them on their marriage.
"Congratulations, Prince Yami. I hope that you and your bride are happy together." the king of Minate said.
"I'm sure that we will be." Yami replied.
When some of the princesses came to congratulate them, it was clear that, like at the ball, the sentiments were fake.
This time, Yami wasn't bothered by the princesses fake congratulations.
"I see that they don't bother you now." Yuugi said.
"Nope." Yami answered with a smile.
"Care to share why?" Yuugi asked.
"Well, I know that nothing they do will matter now that I am married to someone as beautiful as you." Yami replied.
"Right. And their defeated looks had nothing to do with your satisfaction." Yuugi said.
"That might have played a small part in it." Yami replied with a smirk.
The morning banquet continued.
After the morning banquet was over, Yuugi and Yami were driven around the kingdom of Egypt by horse-drawn chariot for the people of Egypt to give their good wishes and high praises to the Crown Prince and his bride.
Once that was done, they returned to the palace for the evening banquet to celebrate the marriage of Yami and Yuugi.
"They certainly make a big deal about the Crown Prince getting married." Bakura said.
"Of course they do. Yami's the next Pharaoh, and Yuugi's the next Queen. It is a very big deal to celebrate their marriage." Atemu replied.
"Doesn't it bother you that a bigger deal is made of Yami's wedding than yours, Atemu?" Ryou asked.
"No." Atemu and Heba said at the same time.
"Atemu never liked the idea of being Pharaoh, much less the thought of having a wedding day like this," Seth said.
Atemu rolled his eyes. "I didn't want my wedding day to turn into some kind of show for people to come and see. I wanted it to be about me and Heba, and that's what I got. I was happy that Heba and I didn't have to go through all of this." Atemu answered.
"Yuugi probably really didn't want to have such a big deal to celebrate her wedding, but I know that she doesn't mind it too much." Heba said.
"Well, they should be getting back from being paraded around the kingdom pretty soon." Eternias said.
"I'm certain that the people of Egypt are happy with this marriage, though." Yuesei said.
Heba looked over at Bakura and said, "Bakura."
"What?" Bakura asked.
"You cannot kill Yami for sleeping with Yuugi now. They're married, so there's not much that you can do about it." Heba told him.
"Doesn't mean I have to like it." Bakura said.
"No. It doesn't mean you have to like it, but you do have to accept it." Atemu said.
Eternias chuckled. "I take it that they have threatened Yami before." Eternias said.
"Yes. Bakura was ready to kill him." Jou said.
"Well, not much that you can do about it now." Yuesei said.
"Yeah." Bakura said.
"We know." Marik added.
It wasn't long before the group returned to begin the evening banquet.
"You know, I like this." Jou said.
Yuugi looked at her cousin curiously. "Why's that? Because of all the food?" Yuugi asked.
"How did you know?" Jou asked.
"That's all you think about!" Yuugi, Heba, Malik, and Ryou said at the same time.
Jou pouted at what they had said.
"They're only saying the truth, puppy." Seth reminded him.
The musicians started to play again, and couples started to dance.
Yuugi and Yami also went out and started to dance together.
Yami noticed that a lot of the princesses were watching Yami in a defeated and longing way, and he couldn't help, but smirk.
"What's that smirk for?" Yuugi asked her new husband.
"Oh, nothing." Yami replied.
Yuugi raised an eyebrow. "Yami, what's going on?" Yuugi asked.
"I just can't help, but be happy about the defeated way the princesses are looking at me. It means that they have finally gotten the message that I am no longer available to them." Yami said.
"I told you that they would get the message after Ryou were married." Yuugi said.
"I know. I'm just glad of that." Yami answered.
Yuugi smiled. "Well, you're mine now." Yuugi said.
Yami smiled and said, "Yes, and you're mine, and you're going to know it tonight." Yami said.
Yuugi smiled and blushed at his words. "I take it that you're more than ready for tonight." Yuugi said.
"You could say that." Yami replied.
It wasn't long before Aknanaknon called them to go to the dining room so that they could eat the celebratory dinner.
Aknankanon and Amara sat at the head of the table as was customary for the Pharaoh and the Queen to do.
Atemu sat down beside his mother, and Heba sat down on the other side of Atemu. Ryou sat down beside Heba and Bakura was beside Ryou.
Eternias sat down beside Bakura and Yuesei sat down beside Eternias.
Karim sat down on the other side of Yuesei.
Yami sat down beside his father, and Yuugi sat down on the other side of Yami.
Jou sat down beside Yuugi, and Seth sat down on the other side of Jou.
Malik sat down beside Seth, and Marik was on the other side of Malik.
Mahado sat down beside Marik, and Isis sat on the other side of Mahado.
Shada sat down beside Isis.
Once all of the guests, priests, and council were seated, Aknankanon stood, which turned all attention from everyone at the Pharaoh.
"I would like to thank you all for coming here to celebrate with us the marriage of my son, the Crown Prince. This dinner is to honor this marriage. This is to them." Aknanaknon said as he raised his glass.
Everyone raised their glass to honor Yami and Yuugi.
After the toast, everyone started to eat.
"I believe that there is no one who is not happy about your marriage, Yami." Aknankanon said to his son.
"I don't think so, either. There was no one that wanted to oppose this marriage." Yami replied. 'Except for a few of the princesses, but that's for their own personal, jealous reason.' Yami thought.
Yuugi took a quick glance at her husband and knew what he was thinking. 'He's enjoying how these women feel a little too much, although I can understand why he does feel so satisfied with how they feel, though. The princesses and other ladies knew that he was taken, but they still tried to come onto him. At least he won't have to deal with that now because I wouldn't stand for it this time around.' Yuugi thought.
Dinner went in uneventfully, and it wasn't ling before everyone went back into the ballroom to continue with the celebration.
Jou, as always, went back to the food table.
"How can he still be hungry? He just ate dinner." Seth said.
"Seth, if you ever find the answer to that, be sure to let us know because we gave up trying to figure out the answer to that question a long time ago." Yuugi said.
Yuugi and Yami were eventually drawn back into the crowd where they were once more drowned with words of congratulations, some genuine, some said because it was customary and proper, and some fake. Neither really cared if the sentiments were genuine or not.
"I think that there are more people here at our wedding than Atemu and Heba's." Yuugi stated.
"I expected that to happen. My wedding would be more important to attend because I am the future pharaoh. You know that Egypt is the most powerful kingdom. They want to remain on our good side because they know that we can do much more for them than they can do for us." Yami said.
"So, they want to basically kiss your ass." Yuugi said.
"Pretty much, and I know that I'll get a lot more of that as time goes on." Yami said.
Yuugi smiled and gently pulled Yami out into the balcony where they were could be a little more alone than in the ballroom.
"You know, you don't need to worry about this before the time has come. You can wait and deal with that when the time comes. For now, you can enjoy your life, and not worry about what hasn't come yet." Yuugi told him.
Yami smiled at her. "You always seem to know what to say. What would I do without you?" Yami asked.
Yuugi smiled. "You probably have to marry a woman that you didn't love and have to deal with the fact that she would be someone who would use her position to make a lot of people miserable, you included." Yuugi answered.
"Thank you for reminding me why I love you. That's exactly why I do love you. You don't care about the position or the power. You just love me." Yami said.
"I don't need another reason to be with you." Yuugi replied.
"Good because that makes me and a lot of other people feel a lot better knowing that." Yami replied.
Yuugi smiled. "Well, I don't think that you have to worry about me taking advantage of the power and position unless it's to put someone in their place who tried to come onto you." Yuugi said.
"That is something that I would love to watch." Yami said.
Yuugi smirked. "Of course, after to night, I don't think that you'll want anyone else." Yuugi said.
Yami smirked back. "That is really something that I cannot wait for." Yami replied, and he kissed Yuugi.
That was the wedding between Yuugi and Yami. I hope that you liked it.
The next chapter is completely devoted to Yami and Yuugi's first night together.
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