Yay, I'm updating like normal again. Okay, this chapter shows more character depth. I do not own Yugioh, enjoy! [JAPANESE]

Chapter 7

Yugi spent the rest of his last day with his family in their private gardens. He had given Mira and Malik the rest of the day off. He assumed that Malik went to go see his sister Ishizu in the healing chambers, and Mira to see her friend Penny in town. It would be the last time they saw them too.

The family lounged in the grass, and watched the sun move behind the cherry blossom trees. None of them really felt the need to speak; just spending time in one another's presence was enough. Still, when the sun started to set the family was one crying mass together. They were losing the most beloved Prince of Japan, and he would be greatly missed.

Emperor Solomon had one last conference with Pharaoh Akunumkanon, about private matters. Yugi went to find Mira in town accompanied by Kyle and Sir Seto. He wished Penny a happy life before he left with Mira riding the horse in front of him. Sir Seto couldn't help but feel that they were losing a proper Prince here. Still, Yugi had agreed to it, so there was nothing anyone could do.

Yugi went to fetch Malik next with Mira in tow. He had to leave for the docks soon, as their stuff had been transferred to the ship hours ago. He couldn't leave without Malik though, so he was headed to the healing chambers to get him.

Yugi was about to open the door, when Malik came walking out of it. Yugi nodded and placed a hand on his shoulder, before moving into the healing chambers to have a word with his sister. He found Ishizu shedding tears by one of the empty beds.

"Ishizu, I just want to let you know that I promise, on my life, I will make sure he is well taken care of," Yugi said making her look up startled.

"Oh, I know Yugi. He couldn't have asked for a better Master than you. Though, can you make sure he writes every once in awhile?" Ishizu said wiping away tears even though more just fell to take its place.

"Of course," Yugi said placing a hand on her shoulder before drawing her into a tight embrace.

"Go, you need to go. You don't want to be late for your ship," Ishizu said pulling out of the embrace.

Yugi nodded and headed out, taking one last look at her, he saw that she was crying again. Yugi had one last person to see, and it was the one woman he trusted as a family member, even if she wasn't, yet. Yugi couldn't find Rebecca anywhere in all of her usual spots. Stopping a guard he asked them if they had seen Lady Rebecca. The guard told them that they last saw her heading down to the docks. Yugi nodded and headed down himself.

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"I still don't understand why you have to be down here," Yami said to Rebecca.

"Well, I couldn't find Yugi, and I knew he would be coming down here, so I made my way down here too," Rebecca replied.

"Why did you need to find him?" Yami asked.

"How is that any of your concern?" Rebecca asked.

"Because he's my fiancé now, not yours," Yami said back a little haughtily.

"Like that makes a diff-" Rebecca started to say before she was cut off.

"Rebecca!" Yugi shouted running to pick her up and twirl her around, setting her back on the ground.

"What was that for?" Rebecca asked.

"It's the last time I'll be able to do it, so I figured I should," Yugi said back.

"Well, be careful you might just make your fiancé jealous," Rebecca said looking over at Yami.

"Of what?" Yugi asked blinking cutely.

"Do I have any reason to be jealous, Lady Rebecca?" Yami asked pulling Yugi into an embrace from behind, and resting his chin atop the younger's head.

"No, no you don't," Yugi responded stepping out of the embrace and pulling Rebecca aside.

"Thanks for being my friend instead of my consort, Rebecca," Yugi said quietly.

"You're welcome Yugi. I'm going to miss you, everyone is," Rebecca said looking down and letting the tears of sadness fall for the first time.

"You mean when they're not planning yours and my brother Otogi's wedding?" Yugi asked placing a gentle hand underneath her chin and lifting her head back up?

"Yugi!" Rebecca reprimanded. Yugi just chuckled at her response.

"I'm going to miss you friend, but I promise to try to make it back for your wedding," Yugi said giving the girl a hug. He looked over Rebecca's shoulder to see Yami looking away, but he seemed annoyed by something.

"My wedding won't be until after yours I'm told," Rebecca said looking at Yugi once the embrace was ended.

"Then I'll make a fact to attend. How easily do you think he gets jealous?" Yugi said smiling before looking slyly at Yami.

"About as easily as you blush I'd say," Rebecca said looking at him too. As if Yami could feel their eyes on him, he turned to look back in their direction.

"Goodbye Rebecca," Yugi said placing a kiss upon her cheek.

"So long my beloved Prince," Rebecca said back taking his hand and kissing it.

Yugi then marched his way onto the ship, making sure to grab Yami on the way. He could tell from Yami's posture that he didn't like the exchange between them, but that was just how he and Rebecca were. They could share touches that would be perceived as intimate to the normal eye, but meant nothing between the two of them. They were simply friendly gestures, it was how they greeted and parted one another, and it was simply that simple.

As soon as they were on the ship, Yami pulled Yugi aside. But Yugi didn't look at him at first, instead he made sure that Malik and Mira had gotten on the ship. Seeing them hovering a short distance away, Yugi turned back to Yami.

"Yugi, you're engaged to me. I don't want to see you sharing any more gestures like that with anyone else. That was embarrassing," Yami hissed at him.

"No, the only thing that's embarrassing here is your jealous attitude. That's how Rebecca and I are. We share gestures that appear intimate but are really just innocent ways of saying we understand what the other one wants. She didn't want to be engaged to me, and I to her. Rebecca has become one of my closest friends over the past two years, something I wouldn't expect you to understand," Yugi explained calmly.

"Still, I don't like it, and must ask you to refrain from doing it in the future," Yami said stiffly, almost like he thought it would be the end of the argument.

"Well, it isn't really your place to demand such a thing from me, now is it?" Yugi said straightening out his posture and looking at Yami with hooded and slightly angered eyes.

"Excuse me? I'm you're fiancé, when I tell you to do something, it's expected that you obey," Yami said also straightening out his own posture. He wasn't used to someone telling him off, well besides his Father, and he wasn't going to take it from the younger Prince now either.

"Then I guess the same could be said for you, no?" Yugi responded curtly, before moving past him and making his way to the stern of the ship.

Malik and Mira followed after him quickly. They figured he must have been put in a bad mood to be acting in a way that was unusual for him. It must be something that only Yami could do, because this was the second time he had gotten Yugi to act more like his station than the kind and caring person they all knew him to be. Malik and Mira hovered on the steps, until Yugi glanced behind and waved them forward.

"I don't understand him. One minute he seems to care and the next he's acting like a jealous fiend. I don't even know how to handle someone like that. He also brings the worst out of me; I don't particularly like that either," Yugi muttered to the two of them looking at his home sinking in the distance.

"He'll see what you're like in time Yugi, I'm sure of it," Malik said placing a hand upon his shoulder.

"Yes, but how long can I wait for that?" Yugi said looking down at his hands grasping the railing on the ship.

"A year, it's all you have," Mira said taking Malik's hand off of Yugi. They weren't in private, so motions of comfort were off limits currently.

"Will it be enough?" Yugi asked.

"We don't know, but hey, at least you know one of his good qualities already," Mira said back, smiling.

"Really? What's that?" Yugi asked confused.

"Kissing," Malik and Mira said together.

Yugi couldn't help the smile that graced his face as he reached behind himself and smacked them both upside the back of their heads. This only sent them into a fit of laughter, that Yugi was joining in on not too long after. These two knew him better than anyone, it would only be right that they knew how to cheer him up as well.

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"I just don't get it. I mean I asked him to not share gestures that would appear intimate with anyone else in the future, and he took offense to it," Yami said to his two friends Marik and Bakura as he stared at his fiancé and two companions down on the stern of the ship from the helm.

"Well, perhaps he's untrained in our customs of partnership yet?" Marik suggested looking at them as well.

"No, he's smart, I mean he caught on to every time that I've tried to seduce him so far," Yami said shaking his head and going back to staring at his fiancé.

"Quite a feat that, I mean with you being unobvious with it and all," Bakura said rolling his eyes.

"What do you think they're laughing about?" Yami asked motioning to the three laughing figures below.

"You?" Marik and Bakura answered at the same time. Yami sighed and looked away.

"Come on Yami, what do you know about him?" Marik asked trying to get his friend to think.

"Well, I know he's smart, easily offended, blushes a lot, cares for others, and is going to be a lot of work to woo," Yami responded back thinking of all he knew about him.

"What makes him easily offended, like what do you do? What does your voice sound like when you're talking to him to make him offended?" Bakura pushed.

"Well, I talk to him in the way I would a servant or one of my subjects," Yami answered back looking at his fiancé again.

"Yami, he isn't either one of those things. He's a Prince, and you future Husband and Royal Wife. He's going to expect to be talked to like an equal, not someone below you. You're both royal, so you're both used to getting your way all the time. It's something that the two of you will have to work on, but you need to apologize, Yami," Marik explained trying to get his friend to see what he was doing wrong.

"I think he could be a very easy consort, you're just making your relationship more strained than it has to be. So what makes him blush?" Bakura put in before grinning in a wolfish way. Yami smirked as he remembered all the things that had gotten Yugi to blush so far.

"Well, he blushes at comments of being made my Royal Wife but you saw that one at dinner. He also blushes at compliments, people walking in on me kissing him, and kissing in general really. It's quite cute; I'm really looking forward to seeing what else can make him blush," Yami said chuckling a little and turning away from his fiancé to look his two friends.

"Hmm, well you do have a year to find out, so it should be fun to see," Marik responded back carelessly.

"Sorry? A year?" Yami asked confused.

"Yes, a year, son. Surely you didn't think you would be married as soon as we got back? No, Japanese customs believe that a couple should be engaged at least a year before marriage, so the couple can get to know one another," Akunumkanon said coming up from below deck.

"A year? I have to wait a year to bed him?" Yami asked incredulously.

"Yes, and I expect you to wait that long too," Akunumkanon said sternly.

"But that's a year! A year without sex!" Yami persisted.

"Is that all you think I'll be good for, is sex?" a small voice asked from behind.

Yami whipped around to see Yugi standing there staring at him. He was waiting for an answer that much was obvious, but Yami didn't have one for him. He opened his mouth a couple of times to respond but closed it again just as quickly, when nothing came out. That seemed to be answer enough for him as he turned and walked back down the stairs.

The looks that Malik and Mira gave him as they followed him back down could only be described as anger and hate. He had upset their Master, and friend, so it was only to be expected. Still, they could have lessened the dirty looks a little bit.

"I wonder how he'll feel when he learns that you two are sharing a cabin for the duration of this trip?" Marik wondered out loud.

Yami growled as he bolted after his younger fiancé. He had to fix this, before Yugi actually believed that that was all Yami wanted from him. He would be even less willing to come to bed later in the night, than he was now. Yami caught up to Yugi as he was making his way below deck. Shoving his servants out of the way, Yami hoisted his fiancé up around the waist and carried him over to a nearby closet on the ship.

Placing him down on his feet, Yami lit a candle, and held it up so he could see Yugi better. Yugi wasn't looking at him, he wasn't even facing him, he had his back to the older male. Yami sighed as he lowered the candle.

"Yugi, please look at me," Yami almost begged.

"No," was Yugi's short response.

"Why?" Yami asked.

"I wouldn't want to tempt you. I thought you trying to seduce me was all part of your charm, but it seems your intentions were more devious than even I could imagine," Yugi said turning his head a little in Yami's direction, but that was it.

"No, seduction is part of my charm. I can be known to take it a little too far sometimes though. Yugi, I promise you right now, that if I ever do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, I will stop. All you have to do is say no or stop and my actions will cease immediately," Yami said in a forlorn voice. He really didn't want to make this promise, but he had already messed up once, and couldn't afford to make another mistake so early in the engagement. If this is what it took to fix things, he would do it.

"You promise?" Yugi asked unsure of what he had just heard.

"I promise," Yami repeated.

"Okay, I guess you're forgiven then. I actually only came up there to ask Pharaoh Akunumkanon where I, as well as Malik and Mira, were sleeping. We're all very tired, and would like to rest," Yugi said turning to face Yami.

"Well, let's go ask my Father then," Yami said opening the closet door to a glaring Malik and Mira. Even though he already knew, he didn't want to be the one to actually say it.

"That's enough you two," Yugi said sternly.

The two looked away, but the scowls were still very evident on their faces. Yami had a feeling it would take a lot more than a promise to even gain their trust. Though, he had a feeling that if he wanted Yugi to love him unconditionally, he would have to be on even grounds with his servants. No wonder Yugi had told him not to expect it to be a simple engagement. This Prince was going to make him work for his affection; there wasn't a doubt in his mind about that.

"I'm sleeping where?" Yugi's voice cut across his thoughts. Yami looked around him surprised that they were already on the helm again.

"I'm sorry young Prince, but we had to give your room to your servants, as they are personal, they are treated with more respect than normal servants are. So for the duration of the trip you shall be rooming with you fiancé, Prince Yami," Pharaoh Akunumkanon explained gently.

"Very well. You touch me in bed and I'm sleeping somewhere else," Yugi conceded before turning on Yami.

"Yes, ma'am!" Yami said quietly, unfortunately for him Yugi heard.

"I'm not your Royal Wife yet Yami," Yugi replied smiling before making his way below deck.

"Well, at least he has no qualms about being the Royal Wife," Marik said clapping Yami on the back.

"Indeed," Yami responded before following him down to their room.

See, we fix mistakes with promises. Anyway, thank you to everyone who are/have following/favorited this story. Also thanks to everyone who reviewed Guest and User alike. Please review, cause this story needs a bit of loving. Midnight ;p