The door of the conference room was opened, "Thank you, very much." Dai announced as he and his wife Hina dragged out a depress, sorry, Joey out of the room.
Joey nervously laughed, "I'm berry sowwy..." He mumbled at his two angry parents.
"Joey...how was it?" Yugi asked walking toward his friend with Kaiba and Hiro following behind.
Joey chuckled rubbing the back of his head, "Oh man, I knew I should have studied harder..."
"Yami is next, right?" Yugi suddenly looked worry, "...I was wondering what it's like..."
"Ah, umm..." Joey scratched his head, he did not like the thought also, "It's hard to say..."
In the conference room...
"Um..." Kamako begins nervously looking at how Yami with a piss off face starring at the corner of the room and his father had on a silent stern face. This was really an awkward pair.
"Please proceed." Kenji said.
"Oh no, I'm getting nervous..." Kamako thought before she shook her head, "Oh, your wife isn't here...?" She questioned politely. Currently, Fumiko was in Serenity's room playing toys and making deals with Serenity and Mokuba.
"...I'm very sorry..." Kenji sighed as he explains the situation.
Kamako took out a book, "Well, let's begin...um, Yami's grade are excellent, and he has everyone's faith as student body president..." She begins to read what she wrote in the book.
At the school cafeteria...
"I'm sorry, Yugi..." Hiro cries wiping his eyes with his sleeves, "What if you can't marry Yami because of me...?"
Yugi slapped his forehead, "I...I've told you, that's something you and Yami came up with...I never said-"
Joey grinned, "Then you don't mind if Yami and Anzu get married?" He asked and Kaiba also looked curiously at him.
"Err..." Yugi's eyes lowered thinking about what Joey had said, "That...that would be..." An image formed in his mind of Anzu linking arms with Yami walking around from him. Yugi furiously shook his head to clear away the thoughts.
"He's worried." Both Joey and Kaiba thought with amusement.
Hiro suddenly gasped when he remember something, "Oh! That reminds me...!" He grabbed onto Yugi's shoulder excitedly, "Are you really the white crow...!" His eyes all brighten up.
"Err...umm...yeah..."
"THAT'S AMAZING! Show me your wings!" Hiro's face was full of admiration.
"WHAAT? No, no, no, I don't want to!" Hiro hid in a corner and cries, "...oh fine..." Yugi mumbled feeling annoyed with his dad, "Ready? They might not appear you know!" Yugi reminded but Hiro was already standing behind feeling super excited. Yugi closed his eyes as he concentrates to get his wings out. 'POOF' "Yay, they appeared!"
Hiro scratched his chin, "Err? What, which, where...?" He asked.
"Look, right here." Yugi indicated his small tiny white wings behind him.
"Eh...oh..."
Kaiba chuckled, "He can't fly, by the way."
"There're smaller than usual today..." Joey pointed out.
"Cause I didn't want to show them..." Yugi replied but Hiro's face lit up with admiration.
"No, they're wonderful! You really do have white wings!" Hiro grins, hugging Yugi and then he let out a sigh of relief, "I'm glad...maybe now you won't need to feel shame as Yami's bride..." But suddenly realisation strike through him, "Ah...except...because of me..." He suddenly dropped to the ground feeling disappointed,
Yugi rolled his eyes, "His mood swings are drastic..." He thought but finally decided to question his dad, "...so, what happened?"
"Eh?" Hiro blinked his eyes in confusion.
"What's because of you?"
Hiro looked nervously, "Um, yeah...well..."
"And just what is Yami's mother...?" Yugi spoke up, "She seems kind of twisted..." He stated and his mouth was clasped over by Hiro and Dai's hands that looked around the room to see if there were any eavesdroppers.
"Little boy, it's dangerous in this world to badmouth Fumiko-sama..." Dai whispered to Yugi.
"Wh...why?"
"Because the word of the priestess of the moonless night governs our fates..." Kaiba's mother, Reina spoke up with Takumi follow close behind her.
Takimu nodded his head, "The monster world may be wide and varied, but there aren't many with the power to see the future...her name is known even among us foreign monsters..."
Yugi's eyes widen, "She...she sees the future...!"
Hiro smiled, "She can foretell indicial destinies and natural disasters, and she actually helped countless people..." He explained and Yugi was amaze of her power, "...and because of that immense power..." Hiro closed his eyes, "From the time she was born, she's been kept in isolation and raised as the child of a god..."
"You must never marry that boy!" Yugi remembered Fumiko's words to Yami, "C...could she mean there's something bad in my future with Yami then...?" Yugi asked worriedly.
Dai shoot sly glances at Hiro, "Ah, I doubt it..." He grinned.
"It was probably just a jab at Hiro-kun..." Reina smiled while eating the ice-cream cup she had ordered.
Cold fears drained Yugi's face, "DAD, did you do something with another person's wife...?" He accused.
"N...No, I didn't...!" Hiro pouted, "Sheesh! Dai, Reina, you guys are mean! Fumiko was joking...she really loves Kenji...!"
"Who's...Kenji?" Yugi asked.
"He means Yami's father." Kaiba replied.
Yugi looked at his dad, "Speaking of which...Yami's father called you a traitor..."
Hiro's face sadden, "...Kenji hates human...so I don't think he can forgive me for marrying one..."
Joey nodded his head in understanding, "There are guys like that..."
"REALLLY!"' Yugi was shocked.
"Don't worry, many of the students here are pro-human." Kaiba reassured the boy who sighed in relief.
"B..but..." Yugi was still confused, why did Kenji cared if his dad marries a human or not, "If there's nothing between my dad and Yami's dad then why..."
"There is something..." Reina smiled softly, "The two of them were brothers."
Realisation suddenly dawned on Yugi when Yami's dad cried out about his dad ruining the name of the Atemu's family when they took him in when he was an orphanage. "...what's more..."Hiro closed his eyes thinking about the past, "The first one to find me all torn to shred in the mountains was Kenji." Everyone gasped in surprised including his two best friends who didn't know about it, "Yeah...I might have died if Kenji hadn't helped me then."'
The Atemu family is, among crow Tengu, the noble family of noble familes...so for them to take in a child on unknown pedigree...the people around them were quite opposed to it...but...
"Ah, it's all right. Fate meant for this to happen." Solomon explained, "Kenji is lonely after having to lose his mother so early on so...from today on, this boy will be your younger brother Take good care of him." Solomon smiled at his son.
"Yes, honoured father!" 10 years old Kenji grinned and turned toward the smaller boy, "If anyone teases you, tell me right away. I'll always protect you, Hiro."
Yugi hesitantly asked his next question, "Then...how did things turn out so badly...?"
"Well...it had started when we had gone home for summer vacation..."
"I'm going to Fumiko's temple, would you like to come? Not that you'll see her." Solomon asked the two boys who were busying eating watermelons.
"We should go back, Kenji...!" 15 years old Hiro cried out.
Kenj who was 18 grinned, "Why? You're the one who wants to see what the 'priestess of the madness' looks like right?" The boys were hiding up on top of the roofs peeking through the holes.
"I don't wanna see her. I bet she is really scary...!" Hiro shuttered shaking his head from side to side.
Kenji shush Hiro up when he heard noises from below, "Th...there she is!" Both boys looked through the holes to see a beautiful young girl wearing a light pink kimono sitting on the edge of the window playing with a doll.
Kenji, who had never paid notice to any girl before...fell in love...
"I...I LOVE YOU...!" Keni blurted out to Fumiko a few weeks later. Fumiko blinked her eyes in surprise of the sudden confession, "Would you go out with me...?" Kenji nervously asked with his face on fire.
"No" Fumiko bluntly answered and smiled, "Sorry, Fumiko only likes strong people."
Kenji was feeling dismay, "But...but I 'm already the strongest of my father's pupils..." He muttered.
"That's not good enough." Fumiko replied, "Um, I mean someone like..." Her eyes scanned around the forests,"...THAT BOY THERE!" She pointed at the shock Hiro who was hiding behind a tree.
"Eh...wh...what?" Hiro shuttered in confusion when he notices he had been caught and he couldn't hear their discussion.
"Hiro is...stronger than me...?" Kenji stood still feeling stunned.
Fumiko excitedly grabs onto Hiro's hands, "Wowee! You're really strong as Fumiko? Or stronger?" She squeaked with a nervous Hiro standing in front, "Ah, I can't read anything of your past or future either...that's pretty unusual... " Fumiko said with interest, "Who are you? Where are you from? Where are you going? You're fascinating! Go out with me!"
"I...I'm sorry..." Hiro bowed his head in deep apology, "I prefer mature women over baby-faced girls..."
Fumiko who was feeling disappointed begins to cry, shocking Hiro.
"...you...Hiro!" Kenji spoke up making Hiro tensed up.
"I...I'm sorry, Kenji." Black wings emerged from Hiro's back, "I didn't mean for this to-..." And he flew off.
"HIRO, WAIT...!" Kenji shouted out but Hiro was already long gone.
Muffling, crying noise was heard from Fumiko, "I knew it...nobody will be friends with Fumiko..." She wipes her eyes, "I'm going to be alone like this forever..." Kenji felt sorry for the girl and pulled her into his embraces.
"Hiro...why won't you take the Atemu name? We should build the fortune of this family together."
"Eh? But I'm an idiot...I'd just drag you down."
"...I'm sorry Kenji. I've fallen in love with a human girl...I'm sorry."
"Aww...I want to see Hiro-kun."
"How...could you...Hiro?"
"...so you see...I kept betraying the person I owe my life to..." Hiro explained to his son.
Yugi's face saddens when he heard the story, "I wonder if Yami knows about this...?" He wondered and sigh, "I kind of see why Yami's parents hate me..."
Italic writing is referring to the past xD
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