Next chapter. Hope the last one was to your liking. I think the ending was rushed in that chap, but eh xD. Enjoy!

Chapter 8 Lifeblood

"Prego?" Joey asked, fully pulling away and looking at Yugis' form. He had gained a few for sure, but he looked the same as the last day he had saw him.

"Well, you see Joey, I'm pregnant," Yugi said, smiling sweetly, eyes bright. "The father being Yami, of course," he added, glancing at the man in question and seeing the approval on his face. Seto finally sighed and passed a hand over his face.

"Guys. Shocking him 2 times in a row is going to make him fall into a coma or whatever, and then I'm going to kill you both," the annoyed brunette growled, walking over to his mate. When he reached him, he grasped his hand and pulled him away from Yugi.

"I think this has all been a big shocker for Joey," Yami commented with a smirk. He walked over to his own mate and wrapped his arms around him from behind, setting his chin on Yugis' shoulder. Yugi put a hand on Yamis', their hands covering his growing stomach.

The brunette rolled his eyes at his cousin, and pulled the blonde to his chest. They looked as if competing to see who the better couple was. Joey finally recovered and looked up at the man embracing him, his face clearly showing all the questions he had. Before the blonde could speak Seto voiced his excuse, "Don't ask me. I have no idea how it happened."

"Well," Joey began, looking over to Yami and Yugi. His mind was a little hazy with the recent events, but caught up to the moment. "How then?" he asked, directing his question at Yami. The darkly tanned man yawned and leaned his head against Yugis.

"You see, I had taken Yugi away after he finished high school," he began. The pair across the room looked at the man expectantly. "Yugi and I stayed together and after a while we wanted to have a little one. So I went in search of a method to make males bare children," he explained, beginning to rock side to side with Yugi. Seto hummed, remembering when Yami had vanished for 2 weeks, leaving Yugi here.

Joey didn't say anything, and only listened intently.

"In the end, I found an old book that the clan had. A close friend of mine had stolen it for me. In the book it explained vampire kind. But it wasn't one of those human written books. Those are full of lies and make believe shit they made up," Yami informed, making a face. The brunette tightened his hold on Joey when he heard 'clan' and the blonde had sucked in a shallow breath.

Yami saw the reactions and he smiled grimly. But he continued, "The book told of how vampires mated. It has very many possibilities." Yugi nodded along to the words. "Vampire with vampire, vampire with human, and vampire with werewolf," he listed.

"Skylar and Fervin," Seto said with a nod. Joey looked at him with a questioning look.

"Vampire and werewolf," Yami informed, letting Joey keep up. "Even werewolf and human is possible," he adds as a side note. Seto frowned and voiced a question.

"And the product of vampire and werewolf?"

"It said something along the lines of forbidden, but it also said that the baby would grow fast, and take more over which kind had the stronger blood," Yugi spoke. Joey and Seto looked to him in curiosity. "Werewolf would be that the child would not need to drink blood and would gain all the strengths of vampire and werewolf. Vampire is the same, but with the necessity of blood, along with paler skin."

"It's whoever wins the blood fight, so to speak. Their official name is "Hybrid Werevas", so says the book," Yami said. They heard a snort at the name.

"That's a pretty bad name they put for that," Seto commented. His cousin agreed, but shook his head.

"They're pretty strong though. But the mating of vampire and werewolf doesn't occur very often. So the population of them is low. Though, it's said in the overall laws of all kinds is that they can't be used as pure killers," Yami finished rather grimly. The brunette hummed, tightening his hold on Joey.

"Skylar and Fervin…They haven't…?" Joey asked unsteadily. He wanted to know as much as he could, but he was kind of afraid to know.

"As far as we know, they haven't had a child," Seto answered. His hands were rubbing up and down Joeys' back now.

"Moving on…We discovered how male and male vampire and human worked. If it's true mates then when they accept each other completely, mind, body and soul, the vampire mates' blood turns into Lifeblood," Setos' cousin finished. He stared straight at Seto, their eyes locked.

"Mind, body and soul…" the brunette repeated. Joey huddled closer to the vampire, thinking.

"Yes, and when the vampire mate draws his own blood, then it can be used to let someone consume. It didn't say what would happen if any being other than the human mate consumed it. But when the human mate consumes the blood, they're body changes. Still male in every aspect, except with female reproductive insides along with the male reproductive system. Also, they can't age, can no longer get sick and at some point they find a special ability they have."

"What?" Joey suddenly asked. He had followed, but now he was lost. Female reproduction parts inside a male? Special ability?

Yugi and Yami smiled at the reaction. "It's complicated to understand. Just understand it as the male having the ability to create eggs and bare the child in a fetus," Yugi summed up, a light blush crossing his cheeks. "And you have a special ability, just depending on you, really."

"Wow, wow, hold up," Seto waved his hands in the air in front of him. "You're telling me that Yugi has a, well no other way to say it, but, a uterus, but on the inside…and no vagina on the outside?"

"Uh, sure…?" Yami answered unsurely. Seto scratched his head, completely unaware of his red and nervous mate. Sighing, Yami searched for a better way to explain. "Look. Don't think too hard on it. You might hurt dat wittle bwain of chors, Seto," he ended up saying as if he was talking to a baby.

"Don't you start with me. You didn't send me that text, and I bet there are no cookies!" Seto defended, miffed. Joey hid his smile from his partner, laughing in his mind.

"There are cookies for you two in the kitchen, Seto," Yugi giggled, pushing Yamis' head playfully. "To think that cookies are the only human food you vampires like."

"They taste pretty damn good, aibou," Yami mumbled, nuzzling the younger mans neck. Yugi rolled his eyes and looked to Joey.

"I'll have to teach you how to bake cookies, Joey. They can't get enough of them." The blonde laughed and nodded in response. He wanted to learn what he could and make Seto happy.

"To those cookies then," Seto smiled, letting his mate go and leading the way to the kitchen.

"Wait, cousin."

"Huh?"

"There's news. Of the clan…"

Seto stopped. Turning to his cousin, he waited for more info. Yami separated himself from Yugi and popped his neck.

"Skylar came over and told me that the old clans moving. Close to us."

"No," Seto denied angrily. His body was ridged and stiff now. Joey could only stand next to the vampire and watch.

"I'm afraid so. Skylar said that we can't be for sure. It's against the rules to chase us. We aren't under complete red alert, but we have to be careful," Yami stated, walking over to his cousin. Seto growled deeply when Yami put a hand on his shoulder. "We have to protect."

"I know that, idiot," the brunette snarled. He looked over to his puppy, and saw wild deer in headlights eyes. Forcing himself to calm down, he stretched an arm to the blonde, waiting. Joey took his hand and Seto pulled him close. After a few seconds passed, Joey voiced his question.

"The old clan?"

"The White Dragon Clan. One of the ten main ones," Seto explained, his voice rough. The brunette squeezed the body in his arms.

"We used to be a part of the clan, but we separated from them. They called us traitors. We left because we found out their methods of feeding," Yami added, walking to the close by lamp. He fiddled with the shade.

"They fed and killed. The real way to do it is feed and erase. We have the capability to erase a recent memory. It only works on humans, but sometimes it doesn't erase completely," Seto continued, pulling away from Joey to study his face. "Thus, why they didn't like it. They hate the idea of letting more humans know about us than just mates."

"But…why would they want to chase you?" the blonde asked, being led to a nearby couch. They sat down and Seto laid his head on Joeys' lap.

"Because we're sons of the leading family…" Yami answered, sitting on a one seater chair. Yugi made his way over and sat on the arm of the chair, before his mate pulled him onto his lap.

"My father is the leader. Yamis' father is my fathers' brother. My uncle," Seto explained, closing his eyes as Joey began to pass his fingers through his brown hair.

"The rules are that when clan members are banned, they are called traitors, and when the clan happens to run into them, they're to be killed. The clan can't chase the traitors," Yami cleared. The blonde frowned at the info. Such cruel ways.

"And if those traitors happen to have mates…" Seto began, but trailed off, not wanting to say anymore. Opening his eyes, he met Joeys' gaze and opened his mouth, "The traitors' mate is taken as a slave. Serving the clan in any way they please." His eyes were full of endless fury and Joey almost flinched at the suddenness of it. Joey tried to hide his fear of encountering this clan, but Seto saw it and reached out a hand. Caressing his cheek, Seto smiled grimly. "We would never let that happen to either you or Yugi. Don't think we'll let either of you be taken."

"It's hard to kill vampires that have been alive since the beginning of the clans," Yami stated, laughing dryly. His arms were around Yugi, protectively.

"Whose older, you or Yami?" Joey asked suddenly, looking down at his vampire. Seto grinned.

"Me."

"Only by ten years, but I'm smarter," Yami retorted, making Seto snort. Yugi giggled at their ridiculousness.

"But both of you act like children," he concluded. At that, Joey had to agree. Fighting over cookies, really?

"Hey, we're adult vampire children," Yami smirked, kissing Yugis' cheek. "And we love your cookies."

"I just can't believe it took us this long to find our mates," Seto commented, staring at the ceiling. Yami nodded in agreement, also amazed. "But we have them now. I think we just missed them in their other lifetimes."

"Pfft, more like we were fucking around during their other lifetimes. We were still young, cousin," Yami replied. Seto shrugged, not agreeing or denying his cousin.

"Well. I think it's time. I'm hungry and my tummy wants food," Yugi concluded, jumping off Yamis' lap. He waved good-bye to the others and ran off to the kitchen, which was the room next to this one.

"Then I'm off too, 'til later," the tri-color haired vampire said, following his mate with a wave. Seto sighed and sat up, facing his mate.

"Joey…Don't let anything get to you. I'll always be here to protect you…"

The blonde took a deep breath and let it out slowly. With a nod, he leaned towards Seto and pecked his cheek. "I know, Seto. I believe you," he whispered, bringing up a hand to his cheek. He turned to the side, brushing their noses, and got closer to the brunette. Seto smiled and put a hand over the hand on his cheek, leaning on them.

"My mate is perfect," he murmured, kissing Joeys' palm. With a blush, the blonde leaned forward and made Seto turn to him. He put his lips to the brunettes, and slowly moved against them. Seto went along, putting his other hand to the blondes' thigh.

Joey opened up to the vampire and felt a tongue slide into his mouth. Seto explored a bit, tasting the Cheetos the blonde had eaten. Before leaning forward and making the blonde fall back on the couch he let out a quiet growl. He went down with him and continued their kiss, biting a lower lip. As he leaned over the smaller body beneath him he slid his hand up and down, eventually meeting skin when Joeys' short rode up.

The blonde suddenly pushed Seto away, his face red and eyes bright.

"Somewhere more private?" he asked, passing a hand over Setos clothed chest. The brunette quickly stood up and threw the blonde over his shoulder. Joey gasped at the sudden movement, but didn't argue. Instead he looked down and saw a nice view. The clothed ass of Seto Kaiba.

Before he could register is thoughts, he was thrown onto a bed with satin covers. He heard a door close and he opened his eyes to see Seto above him on the bed. "My bed, my rules, Puppy," the vampire whispered, not an inch from Joey. And Joey suddenly noticed that his shoes had been taken off. Surprise, surprise!