Kaiba hadn't scowled this much in months. He couldn't remember the last time he'd felt nervous about something. He hadn't felt nervous when he'd overthrown Gozaburo and taken control of KaibaCorp, or when he was dueling Pegasus for Mokuba's soul, or even when he was dueling Dartz for control of his company. It was the morning of his wedding, and his nervousness was playing out as irritability.
"Damn tie," he muttered to himself as he took off his tie and restarted the process of tying it properly. He'd been tying ties every day for over half of his life now, so why was it so bloody difficult to manage his tie this morning? Yugi chuckled to himself as he tied his own tie, amused by Kaiba's crabbiness more than anything else. When Seto had finally taken care of his own tie, he knelt down to help Mokuba with his.
"I don't understand weddings," the groom continued to mutter, much to his best man's amusement. "They don't make any sense. I still don't know why we bothered with a ceremony. It's tedious and unnecessary." Mokuba smirked, but said nothing.
"Because every little girl dreams of having a fairytale wedding, and even if they don't get the fairytale part, they still want a lovely wedding. It's the only day in their life that they can legitimately act like a princess." Yugi spoke with too much confidence in his words, and it bothered Seto.
"And how do you know all that?" Seto snapped as he straightened his brother's tie, dissatisfied with its angle no matter how perfect it was.
"I had Téa explain it to me," he answered, glancing over at Seto with amusement dancing in his eyes. When Seto finally gave up on trying to fix whatever he imagined was wrong with Mokuba's tie, he stood up, and Yugi started fastening the white rose bud in Seto's buttonhole.
"Weddings are stupid," Kaiba growled.
"You're just nervous," Yugi patronized, feeling incredibly smug that he had the opportunity to see his long-time rival feeling so jittery and vulnerable.
"Why the bloody hell would I be nervous?" Kaiba started to fidget with his cuff-links, and Yugi rested his hands on Kaiba's shoulders, making his friend look up at him in slight surprise. For a split second, his eyes betrayed his nerves before his mask of arrogant confidence snapped back into place.
"Exactly. You have no reason to be nervous, because everything is going to go smoothly. If she stayed with you this long, there's no reason she'd leave you now." He grinned at Kaiba mischievously as the groom glowered at his best man.
Life had never been better. Seto snuggled down with Akira under the sheets, closing his eyes as he inhaled the floral scent drifting off of her hair. This was good. He didn't understand how he had survived for so long without her in his life.