IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!! - This is the Yu-Gi-Oh! Yaoi portion of the Shipping List in order. Be forewarned. Some "pairings" will not be fluffy and cute. But they will all, hopefully, be believable. Rating's will vary.
Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh! is the intellectual property of Kazuki Takahashi
Author's Notes: I love these guys. Touzokou is Thief Bakura. Some prefere to call him Akefa but the two words mean the same thing - thief. ...Good Ra. Every time I try to allign this to the left, it just resaves as centered! If I have to deal with it, so do you, I guess.
Rating: T (a light T)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Shipping List #13
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Archaishipping (Pharaoh Atem x Priest Set x Doroboo Bakura) - "New World"
"You didn't tell me it was him."
Seth heaved a sigh as he took his seat at the Kaiba's kitchen table. Touzokou's frown deepened.
"When you said you were already sleeping with someone you didn't tell me it was him." He pointed accusingly across the table at Atemu who stood next to the counter, coffee in hand.
"It didn't seem to matter to you last night who it was." Seth pointed out, taking a sip of his own coffee.
Touzokou fumed. "You knew it would matter." he growled.
Seth put his coffee down with a resounding THUNK, effectively drawing Touzokou's undivided attention. "Atemu's willing to move on from the past. Given our situation, I think that's the only option left to us. We are all that is left of our time in history. We can no longer return to the roles we once held. Atem is no longer a pharaoh, in this country he is only Atemu. I am no longer a high priest. I must face the reality that everything I have worked for is gone. And you need no longer struggle to survive. You have been given a name and a chance to start over that has never before been offered you. We understand each other. We can learn the ways of this new world together, take comfort from each other… Atemu suggested a threesome."
"But he…"
"He did nothing and you know it." Seth cut him off, reaching out to forcibly lower Touzokou's pointing finger. "He wants to make a life with you and me." he said, looking up at Touzokou.
Touzokou paused, looking back to Atemu who met his gaze over his coffee.
"He is but a man." Seth continued, adverting his gaze to his own coffee. "He's just a man."
"Touzokou…" Atemu finally spoke, drawing the former thief's shaken gaze. "It is not fair for you to forgive Seth and not me, when it was his father and my father who sinned against you. You held me responsible for my title alone. But that title is void now and I bear you no more ill will for the past. …Bear me none?"
Touzokou was clearly in shock. Let it go? How could he do that? It was true that he could do nothing about it, true that it wasn't strictly Atem's fault, true that he was not even a pharaoh now… but how could he justify loving the one person he'd sworn to hate? How could he justify last night? Touzokou growled to himself, clutching his head in anger. What was he doing?
"You're all I have to hate!" he shouted. "…Or I'll hate myself instead."
Touzokou didn't know when Atemu had approached him but he gently pulled his arms down, looking into his troubled eyes. "Hate and love are the same emotion." he said, smashing his mouth against Touzokou's in an open-mouthed kiss that burned the past to ashes.
"Indifference is the opposite of hate." Seth clarified, figuring that Atemu's remark would go over Touzokou's head.
Atemu pulled away and, out of instinct, Touzokou pulled him back. He wanted to tell himself it was instinct, as he plundered the former-pharaoh's mouth, but it might have been the way Atemu's tongue moved inside his mouth, or it might have been the way his small, lithe body pressed against his, the smoldering look in his eyes, his modern clothes, so different from those that had defined him as royalty, or maybe it was his own desire to move forward and seize a new, better life, that made him grip the back of Atemu's head and wrap his arm around Atemu's waist.
It may have been hate making him wish to conquer the Pharaoh in this way, or love making him want to open his eyes - acknowledge that he could not blame Atemu for the deeds of others. Whatever the reason, Touzokou clung to the body in his arms, clung to it as though he might somehow siphon life and fire and emotions from it; so that he might be reborn as Atemu and Seth had been, into a new world.
Post whatevers: Too short for my liking. This is one of those I could have written a huge multi-chapter thing for...but I'm not going to. Too many other things on the burners. Next up is Pegasus x Ryou. 21 reviews for this so far! I'm happy! Nyaa! As always, if you liked, please review. And all thanks to those who do. Ja!
