Chapter 5- Reunion

Atemu and Yami walked into the meeting room to be met by a sight that they did not understand.

Joey, Ryou, and Malik were in the room talking and laughing with their other friends, but what was the strangest thing was the Malik was in Mariku's lap, Ryou was in Akefia's lap, and Joey was in Seth's lap. Bakura was leaning slightly on Akefia and slightly on Ryou. Seto was leaning slightly on Seth and slightly on Joey. Marik was leaning slightly on Mariku and slightly on Malik.

Atemu and Yami looked at each other in confusion.

"Did we miss something?" Yami asked.

"I think that we did, Yami." Atemu replied.

Seth noticed them and said, "Well, glad that you two finally decided to get up."

"What are we missing in this situation?" Atemu asked.

"What are you talking about? You two know why we are here unless you suddenly got amnesia during the night." Akefia said.

"We're talking about why are you all acting like you're all together." Yami said.

"That would be because we are." Mariku said.

"Come again?" Atemu asked.

Seto rolled his eyes. "We all have talked to them, and we found out that we all had feelings for each other seven years ago, and we alls till had those feelings." Seto said.

"So, all of you are together now?" Yami asked.

"Pretty much." Marik said.

"Okay. This might take a while." Atemu said.

"Come on. You two knew that we had feelings for them still, and we were lucky that they still felt the same. We're all going to be together now." Akefia said.

"Well, I guess that explains your behavior now." Yami said as he and Atemu sat down.

"Well, we are very happy now that we have them back. It was fairly simple." Bakura said.

Joey rolled his eyes. "Yeah. If you would have waited seven years ago, we all would have been together now." Joey said.

"Okay. We've admitted that we were a bunch of idiots when we decided to start sleeping with each other before telling you guys, but we resolved that." Bakura said.

"Yeah. We did." Malik agreed.

Yami and Atemu watched in amazement. They didn't think that this would happen.

"What about the fact that they are assassins?" Yami asked.

"Well, we were planning to leave the organization when this mess if over, and you guys are safe again." Malik said.

"Can you do that, though?" Atemu asked.

"We wouldn't be the first ones that did that, and we certainly won't be the last ones, either." Ryou said.

Yami smiled slightly. He was happy to see that his friends were happy now. 'It's not like I can ever have anything to do with Heba now. He's the reason that my parents are dead, and there is no way that I can forgive him for that.' Yami thought.

Atemu glanced over at his lover and saw that there was a sad look in Yami's eyes. He knew what Yami was thinking about. 'Damn it! I wish that neither one of us would have fallen for Heba. The fact that Heba was the one that killed Yami's parents made things worse. I really don't understand how Heba could kill innocent people like that.' Atemu thought. He really wanted to be able to confront Heba about what happened get out some of his anger.

"Fire." a girl said, walking up to him.

"What is it?" Fire asked.

"These just came in. They were marked to go to Leader." the girl said.

"Thanks. I'll give them to Ryou. He's the one that everything will go to until Leader returns." Fire said.

"Actually, these say that they can only be given to Leader. No one else is supposed to look at them until he does." the girl said.

Fire looked and saw that the instructions did say that. "In that case, I'll hold onto them until Leader returns." Fire said.

The girl nodded and walked off.

Fire looked at them. 'I wonder what this is. I don't know, but I'll find out when Leader wants me to know.' Fire thought.

Heba was waiting at the airport for the car to come. 'I hope that I'm doing the right thing.' Heba thought.

There were two people standing with him.

"Are you sure that we're safe here, Heba?" the woman asked.

"Yes. I'm sure. We'll be fine. One of my agents should be here soon." Heba answered.

"Were you serious about our son being there?" the man asked.

"I wouldn't lie about that. He is there." Heba assured them.

"I can't wait to see him. I've missed him so much." the woman said.

'I know that he's missed you, too. I know this won't make up for what I have done, but maybe it will help them in some way.' Heba thought.

Before long, a four-door Explorer drove up.

Heba recognized one of the assassins from his organization and motioned for the other two to get in.

The man and woman got in the back of the Explorer and Heba got in the front.

"Back to base." Heba told him.

"Yes, Leader." the other assassin said before heading back to the base.

"How do you guys deal with being here all the time? It is so boring." Seth said.

"Well, we do train for what we have to do a lot. We might not necessarily need it, but we do it anyway. Plus, we go to the firing range a lot." Ryou said.

"Firing range?" Bakura asked.

"Sure. We have to practice our shooting a lot." Ryou said.

"Yeah. We practice almost everyday." Malik said.

"Can we do something else? Waiting around all the time is driving me nuts." Akefia said.

"I suppose we can." Malik agreed.

"What are we going to do?" Yami asked.

"Who likes basketball?" Joey asked.

"You guys have a basketball court?" Marik asked.

"Sure. Even assassins need time to relax." Joey said.

They led the group down to where there was a professional basketball court.

"Wow. This looks like something that the NBA would use." Atemu said.

"Well, the point is to have a good sized court." Malik said. He walked over and picked up a basketball and started to bounce it. "So, who's in?" Malik asked.

"Well, there is a small problem." Seth said.

"What?" Akefia asked.

"There are eleven us, and we'll have two teams. It'll be uneven." Seth said.

"You guys play. I'll watch." Ryou said.

"We don't want you to feel left out." Bakura said.

"Bakura, I hated sports seven years ago, and I hate sports now. The only time I play is when an extra person is needed." Ryou said.

"And we are very grateful for that." Joey said.

"What do you mean?" Akefia growled.

"He means that I trip, bump, and fall into every person that tries to play. I'm a terrible player." Ryou said.

"He is. Both teams will be better off if he sits out." Malik said.

"So, we'd better figure out how we're going to be divided up." Atemu said.

After some arguing, it was decided that Joey, Atemu, Marik, Bakura, and Seto would be one team, and Yami, Seth, Malik, Akefia, Mariku would be the other team.

Ryou sat down on the sidelines and watched as the two teams started to play.

The Explorer arrived at the underground base and drive down into the base.

After arriving, Heba climbed out of the vehicle along with the man and woman that had come with him.

"Thanks for coming, Striker." Heba said to the one who had come and got him.

"Anytime, Leader." Striker said before walking off.

"What now, Heba?" the woman asked.

"Well, I'll take you to where your room will be, I'll also find him and let him see you." Heba said.

The woman smiled. "Thank you so much." the woman said,

"Anytime." Heba said.

Heba led them to where the rooms were. He walked to an empty one and said, "You can use this room while you stay here."

The two nodded and went into the room.

Heba headed toward his room.

"Leader, I just heard that you were back." Fire said.

"Yes, I did. What is it, Fire?" Heba asked.

"These came for you. The instructions were that you were to be the first one to look at them, so I didn't give them to Fox." Fire said.

Heba took them and looked to see what they were. "Oh, yes. I needed these." Heba said. He looked at Fire and said, "Anything else?"

"Yes. I have some reports on Vivian Wong's movements since you told us to keep any eye on her." Fire said, handing a few reports to him.

"Thanks you. Where are Fox, Tiger, and Mutt at?" Heba asked.

"I believe that they are at the basketball court with the people you saved. I think they were getting kind of restless, so they decided to go there to unwind." Fire said.

Heba nodded. "Go and tell them that I'm back." Heba said.

"Yes, sir." Fire said before he left.

Heba walked into the meeting room and found a file there. He looked at it and saw what it was. 'Well, I think I know what they know, and I know what they think.' Heba thought as he sat everything that Fire had given him down on the table.

In the end, Atemu, Marik, Bakura, Seto, and Joey were the ones that won the game.

"All right! We were the ones that won!" Joey said, pumping his fist in the air.

"Shut up, Mutt." Malik growled.

"Mutt?" Seth repeated.

"Malik! Knock it off!" Joey shot back.

"Why did he just call him a mutt?" Atemu asked.

"Because he didn't call him a mutt, Atemu. Mutt is Joey's code name for when he is in the field. Joey loathes the fact that that is his code name, so we sue it to tease him, or in Malik's case, he uses it when he loses to Joey in something." Ryou said.

"That makes sense now." Bakura said.

Fire then come in. "Sorry to interrupt." Fire said.

"Don't worry about it, Fire. What is it?" Ryou asked.

"Leader's back, and he wants you to go to the meeting room." Fire said.

"Sure thing. Go on." Ryou said.

Fire nodded and left.

"All right. He's got a thing or two that he needs to answer." Seth said, angry again.

"Okay. Don't rant to us. Tell him." Akefia said.

"With pleasure." Seth said, walking forward.

Ryou, Malik, and Joey all looked at each other. They didn't want to believe it, but they knew that they had every right to want to get answers and yell at Heba. They wanted to believe that what they found was just a misunderstanding, but they knew that Yami, of all people, wanted these answers, and they were not going to get in the way of them getting the answers.

Heba had looked through a lot of the things that Fire had given to him. 'Hmm. Looks like I know where to start looking for who Falcon is.' Heba thought.

The door opened, and Heba heard people walking in, but he didn't bother looking up.

"All right! We answers!" Seth growled.

"To what?" Heba asked, putting the folders down and looking at Seth.

"To what?! How about to the fact that you were the one that killed my aunt and uncle?!" Seth shouted.

Heba watched them for a moment. "What do you want to know?" Heba asked.

"Why the hell you did it?!" Akefia said.

"I was given an assignment. I carried it out." Heba said.

"So you killed two innocent people!" Atemu snapped.

"No." Heba said.

"They are dead, and you're going to say that?!" Mariku growled.

Heba had watched Yami's expressions and could easily see how this was hurting him. "I didn't kill them. That's not even why I was sent there." Heba said.

"You're going to deny this!" Marik yelled, motioning to the file.

"As I said, I wasn't sent there to kill them." Heba said.

"And why should we believe you?" Bakura demanded.

The door opened, and the two that had come in with Heba walked into the room.

"Why don't you ask them yourselves?" Heba asked.

"That is just sick and low! They are dead!" Seto shouted.

Yami felt like he was going to start crying again. He hated this and didn't understand why Yugi was denying this.

"You killed my aunt and uncle!" Seth said accusingly.

"Yami." the woman said.

Yami was the only one who heard the softly spoken word. He turned and his eyes widened in shock and relief. He couldn't believe it.

Standing in front of Yami was Aknankanon and Amara Akana, the two whom he thought had been killed when he was seventeen.

"Mom. Dad." Yami said, getting choked up.

Amara smiled at her son. "Yes, Yami. It's us." Amara said.

"Are you going to answer us?!" Mariku demanded.

"No. I'm not." Heba said.

"And why? This is killing Yami." Atemu said.

Heba barely listened to them now. He was watching Yami with his parents. "Why don't you ask Yami what he believe?" Heba asked.

"Mom! Dad!" Yami suddenly exclaimed, getting over his shock. He ran to mother and hugged her.

Everyone whirled around to see Yami hugging his mother and his father patting his back.

"It's good to see you again, Yami. You have no idea how much I have missed you." Amara said as tears started to fall.

Yami pulled away and looked at them. "I don't understand. I thought that you were dead." Yami said.

Heba watched them. 'I knew this was the right thing to do.' Heba thought.

"It's a long story, son." Aknankanon said.

Ryou, Malik, and Joey walked over to Heba.

"Are they the protectorates that you went to see?" Joey asked quietly.

"Yes." Heba answered.

"Well, I think that this is a great thing that you've done by getting them back together. They needed this." Ryou said.

Atemu, Seth, Seto, Bakura, Akefia, Marik, and Mariku were all stunned to see them standing there.

"I don't get it. We thought that you were dead." Seth said.

"I know you did." Amara said.

"You know, maybe we should wait for this explanation later, Heba. I think that Yami and his parents need some time alone." Malik said.

"I know that." Heba said.

"Um, guys." Ryou said.

Everyone looked at him.

"I think that we should all go. I think that Yami and his parents would like some time to get to each other again." Ryou said.

"I think so, too." Yami said.

Everyone left the room except for Heba and Atemu.

Atemu turned to Heba and said, "What did you do back then?"

"I wasn't sent to kill them. I was sent to protect them. Someone else put a hit on them. I just saved them." Heba said.

"You knew they were alive." Atemu said.

"I told Yami's parents that Yami could come with them and go into hiding as well, or they could let him believe that they were dead. They decided to let Yami believe that they were dead so that he could at least live a normal life." Heba said.

"Thank you for bringing them here." Atemu said.

"I didn't do it for you." Heba said before grabbing the files and leaving.

Atemu sighed. 'I guess he is still angry at us. I can't blame him, but at least he didn't kill Yami's parents.' Atemu thought.

"Mom. Dad. I don't get it. Everyone said that you were dead." Yami said.

"I know, Yami, and we are sorry about that. We just didn't want you to have to go into hiding with us." Amara said.

"Hiding? What are you talking about?" Yami asked.

"One question. Why were you all yelling at Heba?" Aknankanon asked.

"Well, Seto hacked into their computer system and found the file on you guys. We thought that he had been sent to kill you." Yami said as he sat on the bed with his mother and his father sat in a chair.

"No, Yami. Heba wasn't sent there to kill us. He was sent there to protect us." Amara said.

"What?" Yami said.

"Yami, someone put a hit on us. We don't know who, but Heba was sent by this organization to protect us back then. An assassin did try to kill us, but Heba killed that assassin and saved us." Aknankanon said.

"You mean, without Heba, you both would have been dead?" Yami asked.

"Yes." Amara said.

"But I was told that you were dead." Yami said.

"I know. We were given a choice. You could come into hiding with us, or you could think we were dead and let you live a normal life." Amara said.

"So, you me think you were dead." Yami said.

"We're sorry, Yami, but you're father and I agreed that it would be better for you this way." Amara said.

Yami nodded. "I'm just glad to have you guys back. You have no idea how much I've missed you guys." Yami said.

Amara hugged him. "I think we do, Yami." Amara said.

"Now, there is something that we need to talk to you about." Aknankanon asked.

"What?" Yami asked.

Amara then smacked Yami in the back of the head. "Ow! What was the for?" Yami asked.

"That was for cheating on Heba back then. How could you do something so wrong?" Amara asked.

"Oh. That." Yami said.

"Yes, that. Do you know how wrong that was? Heba never did anything to hurt you then. You hurt him deeply by what you did." Amara scolded.

"Indeed. We couldn't talk to you about that before, but we are having that discussion now." Aknankanon said.

"Mom. Dad. We don't need it. I have beaten myself up over this enough already. You don't know how sorry I am that I did that." Yami said.

"Why did you in the first place?" Aknankanon asked.

"I really don't know." Yami said.

"Yami." Amara said warningly.

"Okay. The truth is that I was in love with Atemu back then, and I am still in love with him. I was also in love with Heba." Yami said.

"Then you should have talked to Heba about it instead of doing what you did." Amara said.

"I know, Mom, and I am sorry for what I did. I've never gotten over the guilt." Yami said.

"We know, Yami, but you should at least apologize to Heba for what happened." Aknankanon said.

"I know." Yami said.

Heba had gone to the firing range and taken a gun. He loaded the gun and put on the protective ear wear to protect his ears. Heba then hit a button to activate the system.

Cardboard pop ups starts popping up everywhere. Some were of criminals. Some were civilians. It was similar to a police simulation for future police officers in training.

As each one popped up, Heba fired. Heba continued to fire at several of the pop ups until it was over.

The lights came on once the simulation was over.

Heba had hit every criminal with a kill shot, and he didn't kill even one civilian.

"You haven't lost your touch."

Heba turned to find Ryou standing there, smiling. "I never lose my touch, Ryou." Heba said. He reloaded and did the simulation over again, having the exact same results.

"Heba, why bother with these simulations? You are the best marksman in the organization." Ryou said.

"Ryou, one thing that I have always abided by is that there is always someone out there that is better than you. I practice to keep on my toes, so that when I do face that person that is better than me, I can put up a good fight at least." Heba said.

"Well, I guess that's a good reason." Ryou said.

Joey and Malik soon entered the room.

Heba noticed their looks. "What's going on?" Heba asked.

"Could we talk somewhere privately?" Malik asked.

"All right." Heba said.

The four returned to the meeting room.

"Look. Heba. A lot's happened while you've been gone." Ryou said.

"Like what?" Heba asked.

"Well, I talked to Bakura and Akefia, and they explained everything to me. Even though Bakura did technically cheat on me, I found out that Bakura loves me as much as he loves Akefia, and Akefia loves Bakura as much as he loves me. We're together now. All three of us, Heba." Ryou said.

"Seth, Seto, and I are together now, too." Joey added.

"The same thing with Marik, Mariku, and myself. We are in a relationship together." Malik said.

"Okay. Why are you telling me? Your personal lives are none of my business." Heba said.

"Heba, we want to leave the organization. Our lives aren't something that they want, and we want to be normal again." Ryou said.

"I see. You want me to okay it." Heba said.

"Well, we can't leave if you don't." Joey said.

Heba looked at them all. "Is this what you really want?" Heba asked.

"Yeah. It is." Ryou said.

Heba nodded. "Okay then." Heba said.

"Just like that?" Malik asked.

"Yes. All I ask is that you finish this mission." Heba said.

"Well, we can't exactly start normal lives until then." Malik said.

"Okay. Once this whole mess is over, you can all go and be with your lovers." Heba said.

They all smiled.

"Thanks, Heba." Ryou said.

"No problem." Heba replied.

"Heba, what's going on with Yami's parents? What's all this about?" Joey asked.

"I know that you want to know, and so does everyone else. I'm going to explain it all at once. I don't want to have to go through this a hundred and fifty times." Heba said.

"Understandable. Just answer this. Were you sent there to kill them?" Malik asked.

"No, Malik. I was sent there to protect them, not kill them." Heba said.

"What about Yami? Did you use him?" Joey asked.

Heba looked down at his hands. "No. That was unexpected." Heba said, fiddling with his hands.

"What do you mean?" Ryou asked.

Heba looked up. "I was never supposed to fall in love with him, but I did, and I have to let him go." Heba said before leaving.

Ryou, Malik, and Joey looked at each other.

"Man. I never thought that Heba would have a problem like this." Malik said.

"Yeah. He's really hurting because of this." Ryou agreed.

Atemu walked into his room to find Yami alone. "Hey. How did everything go?" Atemu asked.

"It went great. I have missed them so much. As much as it hurt to think they were dead, I am just so glad that they are here again." Yami said.

Atemu sat down by them. "I guess we all owe Heba an apology." Atemu said.

"Yeah. Me and you owe him more than one, though." Yami said.

Atemu wrapped his arms around Yami. "I know. You also owe him a thank you." Atemu said.

"For them being alive, I think so, too." Yami said.

"Well, the good thing is that your parents are alive and well." Atemu said.

"I know." Yami said.

Heba walked into his room. He sat down and started to look at the reports he was given again.

"I need to get these things organized so that I can know what I need to tell them tomorrow." Heba said.

Heba started to read over everything, ignoring the pain n his heart like he always did.

Hope you liked it. I hope this answered the questions about last chapter.

Next: Heba explains some things to everyone.

R&R.