:Hey guys! Sorry again for the late update, my coughing won't go away and finals are a bitch! I hope you enjoy this chapter because I know I left you all on quite the cliffhanger!:
The right side of the area flashed crimson once the kiss started, as if it was on the flicker option for a party light. It continued, the lifepoints board copying its actions as the field around the players began to disappear slowly. Torches were swept away, the sand gathered up and dispersed into the air, the pyramids withdrew into the ground, and the sky slowly changed back into its clear blue. The sun shined down brightly on the two boys who were locked together.
His lips are so soft. That was the first thing that came to Atemu's mind when he pressed his own against Yugi's. He was so soft, so gentle, why would he expect anything different? He relished the feeling, trying to absorb the boy as he pushed harder onto him. His eyes were closed, and he didn't dare open them. He wanted to keep kissing until the end of time.
Atemu's heart was pounding and tightening, making his own mind become clouded, his body was reacting and sent a sharp shiver down his spine. Oh, how can a simple kiss do such a thing to him? He lowered his hands from Yugi's shoulders, trailing them down his sides, to grip onto his lower back and pull him, slowly, toward him, pressing their bodies together.
Yugi was warm against him, and he craved to make the teen his. Yugi was beautiful, he was intelligent, he was full of excitement, and he was his prince of the sun. It was a guarantee that he wanted him to be his from the very beginning, but no. This was the event to confirm it. The sparks that shot through him as soon as their lips had touched couldn't be anything but a sign from the gods themselves to tell him; Yes, you are correct. This young male is to be yours.
Atemu sighed into the kiss, knowing that he would run out of breath and that Yugi would snap out of it soon. But he had blocked that knowledge out, his emotions of anger and jealously and even the part of him that was telling him that Yugi was going to slap him again was pushed out. Yugi's lips were like a drug, it had made him think of nothing but him.
Nothing but his scent, nothing but his lips, nothing but his small and slender body. The prince was tempted to rest his hands on his interest's hips, but he didn't dare take it that far. No, no the boy might snap out of it completely if he did that. And once he did, Atemu knew that he too would come to his senses.
Yugi couldn't think straight right then. All he had seen and heard was a blur, and a moment later he had felt someone grab him and force him forward. He could barely feel the intensity of the kiss he was acquiring. It had started out gentle, he remembered as his head began to become less groggy, then it had morphed into something harsher, more needy, as if he was needed to survive.
Why was that? He could feel the warmth on his shoulders move down, gliding over his spine, sending a shock of an unknown feeling down his back, before they rested and didn't move again. Was he being held? He couldn't move, and he still couldn't think quite correctly.
He felt something, somewhat rough, on his lips. Was someone pressing a rag or a cloth to him? No, that was wrong, the thing on him was moving and making a strange noise. It sounded like a mixture of a moan and a hum, and he even heard a sigh. What was going on?
Yugi tried to move his arms, but the effects of Mind Crush were still effective, even after the game was over. How did he lose? What had been done to make him lose? He had done well, all he remembered was his Dark Magician leaning down and then getting destroyed...
Did Dark Magician come back and kiss him? Maybe that was what was happening...Maybe he won and his monster was giving him a kiss out of joy. That would be odd though, he had seen the monster lean down to him, but did it want to kiss him? It was weird, and besides that would mean he lost his first kiss to a fake hologram.
Yugi felt his mind finally awaken, his body allowing him to move his arms and legs. The first thing he did was take what was happening into thought. He was right when he was saying someone was kissing him. There was warm flesh against his mouth, there was no way in hell that this kind of feeling came from a rag.
The mouth was hot against his and was pressing with a sense of refusal, as if it didn't want to leave. It wanted to stay glued onto his, as if the two pairs of lips were meant to be and couldn't be apart. How weird...
He heard another sigh, the noise having a tone and sound to it. It sounded like a deep sigh with a slight moan in it. If he could just repeat the sound in his head, he could tell who was kissing him. He was slightly angry due to the fact that this was his first kiss, but if it was just some idiot that he didn't remember than he wouldn't take it as his first.
Yugi let out a muffled noise as he opened his eyes, when he had closed them he had no knowledge of, taking in the close view of a tanned face. The eyes of the face being closed, and the structure of it being so familiar that as soon as he saw it, his body began to flush bright red.
"Mmph!" Yugi sounded out, his face burning, his heart beginning to beat a million miles an hour. He knew the prince heard this, due to the royal opening his eyes for just a moment before shutting them again and trying to press them closer together. As if they could get any closer!
He rose his hands up in-between the two of them, pushing Atemu away with as much force as he could muster, sending the prince onto the ground with a thump, landing on his bottom.
Atemu let out a groan, suddenly being forced out of his dreamlike kiss. He moved his hand to his backside, rubbing some pain out of it as he clutched his eyes closed. He opened one of them, taking in the sight of Yugi standing in front of him with his hands on his mouth, covering them from his point of view. Why was he doing that? What-
Atemu felt reality crash down upon him, oh...Oh! He blushed harshly, his face turning even more red than Yugi's as he jerked himself up and placed a hand on his own lips. Did he just kiss him?! Did he just really force a kiss on his prince of the sun?! What was wrong with him?!
"I-I..." Atemu uttered out, his voice muffled by his hand. He watched as Yugi shook his head, his eyes beginning to tear up all of a sudden, before he withdrew his hands from his mouth and tore the duel disk off of his wrist and threw it onto the floor, breaking into a swift run as it landed.
"Yugi!" Atemu called out, raising the hand he had used to cover his mouth. His interest sprinted out, jamming his shoulder into the door of the bubble to run out of it.
Atemu followed, moving as fast as he could out of the area to follow him. He breathed heavily, refusing to stop running.
He needed to catch up to him.
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The other three pairs of duelists were walking with each other. After the groups had finished their fighting they had met up, wanting to spend time together with their new found set of friends. They smiled and laughed, making their way in the direction of where Atemu and Yugi was dueling.
"You beat Seto?" Malik asked excitedly, walking side by side with Bakura. Joey nodded quickly, next to him being said royal.
"Was it hard to do?" Mana questioned, smiling as she held hands with Anzu. "I hadn't fought him before."
Joey smiled brightly, crossing his arms and turning his smile into a smug grin.
"Of course not!" He laughed. "I'll have you know that I am one of the best Duel Monster duelists ever!" He kept laughing, making the royal next to him raise an eyebrow in question at him.
"I beat you the second time." Seto spoke, making Joey glare in his direction. This sent the others on a small laughing fit.
"You guys played twice?" Anzu giggled, looking between Joey and the royal adviser. The two were so close that you would think that they would be holding hands. She had to wonder how they weren't bumping into each other.
"Yeah." Joey mumbled. "I beat him the first time though!"
"Yugi beat you over thirty times." Bakura commented with a smirk, his hand firmly on Malik's wrist. He had grabbed it after leaving the dueling bubble, he couldn't help it. What if some strange gambler look alike came around and tried to grab him? He didn't want to kick anyone's ass, but he wasn't afraid to.
"And your point is?"
"My point being that you aren't very good at dueling." Joey stopped in mid-walk, glaring harshly at his friend. The group stopped, while Bakura released Malik and crossed his arms while standing in front of Joey.
"Oh yeah?!" He yelled. "Yugi beat you too, you know!"
"I beat him more times than you ever have."
"That's only because you use Zombies!"
"And you use whatever you can find."
"I do not!"
"You do too."
"I do not!"
"You do-"
A figure ran in-between them, the body being a blur as it zipped past the teens. All of them turned their head to the side, looking at the back of the running student. It was obvious who it was, no one else had that hairstyle other than the prince, and the royal wasn't even wearing the school academy uniform that day.
"Yugi?" Anzu called out in concern. This didn't stop the boy from running, he just kept on moving at the speed of light. Where was he going? And why was he running in the first place?
"Yugi!" Joey yelled, cupping a hand to the side of his mouth. "Where ya going buddy? Did you lose your duel or something?!" Bakura shot a glare at the blond, shaking his head in response.
Yugi wouldn't run just because he lost a duel, no matter how much he used to like it. He never ran away usually, he liked running, but he never ran without a reason. The last time he had seen him run was when the prince had stalked-
"Atemu?" Mana blinked in shock, turning her head the opposite direction to see a running royal coming to them. The prince looked to them, as if surprised to find them there and slowed his running down to a jog before stopping in front of them, leaning on his knees to catch his breath.
"H-Hey..." He breathed out, letting out gasps of air. "D-Did you see Yugi?" He stood up straight, watching as five out of the six teens nodded at him in response. He nodded back, taking the pose to run off again, only for his arm to be grabbed by a concerned princess.
"Are you okay?" Mana asked, her eyes spelling out the definition of worry.
Atemu let out a deep breath, looking over the others. They were all standing next to the person they liked and they looked happy that way. Oh how he envied that. If only Yugi would stand next to him like that. He probably would have if you didn't kiss him!
He cringed at his own thoughts, Yugi had kissed him on Valentine's Day! So he didn't think it would be that bad. Correction; You weren't thinking at all! That was true too...
"No." The prince admitted. "I'm not okay..."
Malik took a step toward his friend, placing a gentle hand on his shoulder and looking at him with sad eyes. Seto took a step forward as well, not placing a hand anywhere, but crossed his arms and looked at him with an intense, questioning gaze. Mana held his arm, staring at him. They were worried about him, how could they not worry? He was their friend, and to Mana, it was her brother.
"What's wrong?" Anzu asked, standing next to her other two friends now. They were worried too, the eight of them had become close friends during their short time. And even though only seven were there, they were certain that they could help with whatever was wrong.
"I messed up..." Atemu sighed and shook his head at his friends.
"I messed up big time..."
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Yugi shot through his dorm's door, rushing up the stairs with his head down. He came to his room, taking a brief stop to jam his hand into his pocket to fish out his card. He slid it fast, hearing the sound of the door unlocking before he threw himself toward the door, forcing it to close as soon as he entered.
He breathed heavily, leaning against the closed door with the key card held in his left hand. His eyes were lowered to the floor, his yellow bangs covering them as the two orbs widened even more as he breathed, his face was red, his heart was racing. Atemu, the royal prince, had kissed him.
Yugi threw the card onto the floor, knowing he would pick it up later, and ran his fingers through his spiked hair, feeling the strands go in-between the digits as he tried to massage the embarrassment away.
He was kissed. His very first kiss was taken by a royal, a royal! He had suspected that Atemu would try something (Since he was being so flirty that day) but he didn't know that he would kiss him!
Atemu's an idiot, you said it yourself that you would not count it as a kiss if it was just some idiot. But that's the problem! Yugi argued with himself, He didn't think of him as that much of an idiot anymore. He had had fun with the royal, he was enjoying his company and was glad to have the guy there.
Hell, he had even flirted with him a little bit and he only did that really with Bakura! But it gave the prince no right to kiss him! No right at all, who the hell does he think he is?! Just because someone is a royal gives no right to kiss someone out of the blue.
Yugi placed his arms around his stomach, holding himself tightly as he tried to calm himself. He slid slowly down to the floor, his legs stretching out in front of him as he sat there. He felt tears form in his eyes as he made his knees come up, allowing him to hold them inside.
Why was he crying? It was just a kiss. But it wasn't just a kiss. Kisses were supposed to be with someone special, and they were supposed to be done because you liked the person or even loved them. Why are you crying? He asked himself.
Atemu liked him, way more than anyone Yugi had ever known, and it was weird. The way the royal looked, the way the royal talked, the way the royal's lips felt...Yugi let out a loud groan, trying to shake away the thoughts in his head. There was no way in hell that he was even vaguely thinking about the guy! He had decided long ago that he would never fall for such a fool!
The prince was a friend, and would remain as a friend! He would become nothing else, no matter how much the royal desired it. Yugi would not tell himself he was feeling something, no matter what. He couldn't feel anything for him, he couldn't. If he did, he would lose the bet and have to move to Egypt. He wanted to stay here, to continue his education. If he lost this bet, he couldn't continue it and would be forced into royalty.
Yugi gulped, raising slowly to his feet and walking to the bunk beds across the room. He looked to Joey's bunk, narrowing his eyes as he felt tears glide down his cheeks. He was overreacting over a stupid kiss, he had to get over it...
Maybe some sleep would help...
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"So to put it in simple terms..." Bakura asked, crossing his arms and narrowing his eyes. "You fucked up."
Malik let out a small laugh at this, while everyone else stayed silent. Atemu was in the center of a circle with his friends. All of them were staring at him, giving looks of surprise, pity, worry... The royal allowed himself a small, sad smile.
"Yeah." He breathed out. "I guess I did." He lowered his eyes to the grass, moving a foot slightly to distract himself from the 6 pairs of orbs.
"I can't blame you though." Joey commented. "Jealously can be a bitch."
Seto and Bakura looked away at that, both of them thinking the exact same thing; Yes, Yes it can.
"But you actually kissed him?" Anzu questioned. Atemu nodded.
"On the lips?" Mana asked. Atemu nodded.
"For how long?" Malik rose an eyebrow. Atemu shrugged.
"He kissed Yugi, which frightened him and made him run off." Seto spoke. "And now you are, or were, attempting to chase him down to apologize." Atemu nodded.
"I think I know what's wrong then." Seto sighed, closing his eyes as he began to pinch the bridge of his nose together in moderate frustration. "You and Yugi have sexual tension, and you taking the first move shocked him and spooked him." He explained "Also what you might have done is take his first kiss. Another possibility is that he likes you back, which adds to the sexual tension, and had no idea on how to deal with the sudden feelings that came over him."
Atemu's eyes widened. What? First kiss...He felt a pang of guilt fill his body, as if it were a balloon in need of air. He had taken Yugi's first kiss! He rose a hand to his lips, placing a finger on them before he continued his thoughts. He took Yugi's first...
Despite how guilty he felt, he couldn't help but have to restrain the smirk that tried to appear on his face. He had Yugi's first kiss, and what about sexual tension? If he and little, beautiful Yugi had some then that meant that the boy obviously returned some of his feelings.
"So this is a good thing?" Joey blinked in surprise. Seto looked to his own interest, allowing only him to see a small smile take place.
"In a sense, yes." Seto turned his eyes back to Atemu. "From what I have heard and observed, this will help Atemu in the long run."
"Wait, that's right!" Mana suddenly smiled. "If Yugi ran away and-" She broke off, thinking. "Was his face red?"
"As red as my eyes." Atemu responded.
"Then yes!" Mana cheered. "Yugi likes you! He has to like you!"
"Or he was just flustered." Anzu argued. "After all it was his first kiss, from what I can remember."
"But if he does like Atemu." Mana let out a giggle. "Then he has a chance at getting Yugi to become his lover!"
"But Yugi won't even admit to getting a C on a test." Bakura grumbled. "Why would he admit that he has a crush on someone who he was set on hating for the entire month?"
"We could always give him a little push." Malik suggested, resting his elbow on his crossed arm. "But it would have to be something that Yugi couldn't run away from, no matter how hard he tried."
"Locking him in a room could work." Seto offered, surprising his friends with his input.
"Yugi could probably get out somehow." Joey argued, looking up at the sky to try to clear his mind.
"How so?"
"It's Yugi, he's one of the smartest people I've ever known."
"Wait..." Anzu breathed out, looking to Joey. She walked over to him, whispering in his ear. Joey's eyes widened at this, what she was saying was crazy. But if it would help, it could work.
"I don't see how we will get the teacher to agree with this, but..." Joey looked at everyone, smiling brightly. "We can try it." He looked to the frozen prince, taking a step toward him and placing his hands on his shoulders. "I have one question for you, and since I've heard you sing I think I already know the answer."
Atemu furrowed his eyebrows together in confusion. Were they trying to hook him up with Yugi? Were they going to try to help him win over the beautiful teen? Why? Did they just feel sorry for him, or did they know something he didn't?
"What is it?" Atemu dared to ask. Joey smirked, darting his eyes slightly to the side in confirmation from his friends. He took a deep breath, before he locked eyes with him and asked;
"Have you ever acted out The Red Nile?"
:Yugi, I know you're sad and shit, but you're kinda screwed. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Please review and sorry this chapter is so short, I need to get back in the swing of things soon and it's blahhh.: