(A/N: I'd written a lot more than this, but as I saved this edit, the frigging page totally logged me out and I had to log in again, losing all the epicness I'd written up here.

WARNINGS: NO Yami and NO 'mini-me' this chapter. SO SORRY, folks. They'll come back next chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Sadly. Please enjoy!)

Chapter 6

The first time Yugi gets nervous about the idea of talking to his mother is when he's about to confess to her that he's gay and that he's in love with his best friend. Yugi's never nervous to talk to his mom—about anything at all. He tells her absolutely everything and she's always willing to listen to her baby boy. And even if Yugi doesn't tell her the whole thing, mother understands. She doesn't need too many words to put two and two together. She's a successful lawyer, after all.

His dad's away when he knocks at his parents' room. His mom's sitting on the bed, leaning back against the wall, her legs stretched in front of her (crossed at the ankles), reading something out of a couple of folders around her. Amelia Mutou looks up and smiles at her son. "Come in, dear!" she calls.

"Hey, Mom," he answers politely. The one thing he loves about his mom: she's never, ever, too busy to have a little chat with her only child. "What are you doing?"

"Oh, just doing some reading on this new case I've gotten myself into," she says, taking a small look at the paper in her left hand. With her right, Amelia pats the spot beside her, and Yugi approaches that same spot and sits next to his mother. "You can have my full attention if you want it, though." She shoots him one of those 'don't-worry-everything-will-be-perfectly-fine' smiles that always make her innocent clients sure that she's going to save them.

"Um, it's not absolutely necessary for you to stop focusing on what you're doing," Yugi says. But this is where he starts to get nervous. "I just need to, ah… m-make a confession."

His mom looks a bit more serious now. "Don't tell me you're going to legally need me, Yugi."

Well, at least this kind of tones down his nerves, and he manages to let out a small chuckle. "No, Mom, I haven't committed any crime. I don't need a lawyer."

Amelia goes back to her relaxed demeanor. "Very good! Then what is it, dear?"

"D-do you think we could wait until Dad comes home? I-I kinda need him to be here, too," Yugi stutters. His mother's starting to get slightly scared. What could be so important that Yugi needs both of them?

"Your father's not coming home until later, dear," Amelia responds as sweetly as she can. "Honey, is everything okay?"

"Yes, Mom, it's just—"

"Yugi," his mom interrupts him. Yugi knows that she knows something's bothering him. She regularly calls him with affectionate names like 'honey' or 'dear' or 'sweetie'—because that's just how she is—but when she calls him by his name, she means business. "What's wrong? If it's so important, why don't you tell me? I could talk to your father about it when he comes home."

"I-I'd really like him to be here—"

"Sweetie, if you've got troubles at school, it's okay—"

"What? No! No, it-it's not anything like that!" Yugi doesn't want to make a huge deal out of this, and he definitely doesn't want to trouble his mother. The one bad thing about her is that Yugi can't ever know when her patience will pop. She's so good at hiding her impatience that he never has the slightest idea of how long it'll last.

But he has a bad feeling that it's not going to last for much longer.

He knows he has to make a move soon or the bomb will be dropped on the top of his head.

When his mother starts talking again, Yugi knows it's his chance. "Dear, I honestly can't imagine what's so terribly important that you can't—"

"I'm gay."

The room goes eerily silent.

Yugi's eyes are snapped shut. He doesn't want to see whatever expression Amelia has now. He doesn't want to see the disgust, the shock, or the disappointment, because he feels like that's what his mother's face reflects even though he can't—doesn't want to—see it. The silence goes on for almost an eternity and his mother still hasn't said anything. Yugi doesn't even know what to think: is she going to kick him out? Is she going to tell him that he can be 'fixed', that this is just a phase, that everything will be okay once it's over? Is she just going to stop talking to him for the rest of his life?

After another good five minutes without Amelia uttering a word, Yugi opens his eyes and stares at her with fearful eyes. He's a little relieved when she doesn't seem to be disgusted or disappointed. Strangely, though, she doesn't seem to be… in shock. Heck, she doesn't seem to be surprised at all, and Yugi's more confused than he's ever been. Maybe she didn't hear his confession. Maybe he can pretend this never happened and make up some lame confession about something else.

But his mother nods at him, like she wants him to go on.

"I-I'm gay," he repeats in a tiny voice, afraid of the worst.

Amelia, again, nods. "Yes, dear."

"Mom," Yugi begins, a little angry that his mother's just making this harder for him. Does she want to make sure she heard right or something? "Mom, I'm gay."

To his frustration, his mom repeats the answer. "Yes, dear." When Yugi just looks at her, open-mouthed, she blinks as though she's realizing something hugely important. "Oh! Is that… that's your confession, sweetie?"

"Yes!" he does nothing but yell, throwing his arms into the air before lowering them to his head. "Wh-what else do you want me to say? I'm gay, Mom! Okay? I'm gay! It's not a phase I'm going through; I'm not going to get into any sort of medical treatment to see if I 'get better'! This is who I am!" And he tries to breathe through his nose, no matter how badly he wants to gasp because he feels like he's suffocating.

He never imagined coming out would be this hard.

"Honey," Amelia says, putting down the files she's been holding. "Did you think you'd get in trouble for that, that we would want to 'fix' you?"

"I-I…" Yugi's crying now. He's wiping his eyes with his hands in pure pent-up feelings. "I honestly d-didn't know what t-to think…" he mumbles under his breath.

"Oh, Yugi," his mom says, suddenly wrapping her arms around him. Yugi doesn't know where this is going, but he immediately embraces his mother back, burying his face into her chest and sobbing like a maniac, all and hiccups. "Dear, your father and I will both always love you," she whispers, rubbing his back soothingly. "We don't care if you're straight or gay or whatever. You're our son, and nothing—" Amelia cups her son's face in her hands and looks straight at his eyes—"nothing will make us stop loving you or love you any less than we do."

And that's when Yugi completely snaps. He starts by telling his mother how worried he was that she and his father wouldn't accept it, that they'd disown him or something a lot worse. Amelia doesn't say anything—she just listens and whispers sweet nothings into his ear, kissing his forehead. Then Aristos comes home, and he's slightly confused to find his son in such a state, but his wife and child explain the entire situation, to which he answers like Amelia: they will always love Yugi for who he is, not what he is. They confess that they aren't surprised—they had kind of guessed it a long time ago and were waiting for Yugi to trust them enough to tell them, for which they're both terribly grateful.

They're even less surprised when Yugi also confesses the object of his love is his best friend. Amelia says, "A mother knows, Yugi. From all the things you tell us about him, we would be surprised if it were someone else."

He's never been more relieved in his life. He thanks both his mother and father for being the most amazing parents in the entire world. Yugi's about to leave to his own room to keep working on a project he'd like to give Yami when he finally tells him his true feelings for the older boy, but Aristos calls him back into the room.

"I know we already discussed this when you were 12," he starts, "but I think we need to talk."

Yugi groans—loudly. He was sort of hoping they'd just skip this part. Hearing "the talk" when he was 12 about how he was going to start finding girls attractive (which never happened, anyway) and how he had to be careful was torture. When he realized he was gay, he thought that at least he didn't have to worry about getting a girl pregnant. But if that talk was such a punishment, he can't even start to wonder how horrible this "talk" will be.

He sits down on the edge of his parents' bed and listens to them, blushing as if he were again his 12-year-old self.

(A/N: Dang it. Yugi's got it coming hard. XD What did you think about it?)