Well, I have no intention of answering your questions about Sakura, just letting you know. I'm also putting a note on the bottom that you can look at if you want, you don't have to though.
Yugi: in other words, you should seriously look at it.
Hey! Get out of here! I do not own Yugioh or Alive by Meatloaf, enjoy! [YUGI, YAMI and ATEM]
Chapter 4
If you make one wrong move with the gun to your head
You'd better walk the line or you'll be left for dead
I'm a runaway train on a broken track
I'm a ticker on a bomb that you can't turn back
This time, that's right
I got away with it all and I'm still alive
Let the end of the world come tumbling down
I'll be the last man standing on the ground
As long as hot blood rushes through my veins
I'm still alive
Yugi balked as he shot out of bed and grabbed his cell phone off his desk. Flipping it open he shushed Sakura, as he put on some pants, and threw on a baggy shirt before taking the phone call elsewhere. He didn't at all miss the groggy and confused looks from Atem and Yami as he left the room. He made his way down the secret staircase and into the garden.
"Yes, Sakura, I swear I'm fine." Yugi consoled as he put up a one way glass against his mates.
"No, I actually plan to be the first one to welcome you home." Yugi said.
"Yes, I'm aware that you're going to the Vampire Gala." Yugi said confused as to why she was mentioning it to him again. Like he could forget, he was going to, and in a dress no less.
"Oh, did Mira tell you that?" Yugi asked with less enthusiasm.
"She didn't mention anything else did she?" Yugi asked nervously.
"And I shall, just as soon as you arrive!" Yugi said with faux cheerfulness.
"Cause I really don't want to explain it over the phone." Yugi mumbled into the receiver. He looked up feeling eyes on him, to see Atem watching him from the balcony.
"Cause it's not a phone like conversation to have. It's one of those kinds that you definitely want to have in person." Yugi said looking away from Atem.
"Onee-chan, can we please not do this? I'll explain when you get here, I promise. Besides, you're not the only one I'm going to have to explain myself to." Yugi said glancing up at Atem to see that Yami had joined him in staring down at him.
"Yes, I'm talking about my vampires." Yugi sighed out.
"Ah right, the vampires, the vampires." Yugi corrected himself.
"No I meant the vampires." Yugi said assuredly.
"It was just a slip of tongue, that's all." Yugi said glancing up at the balcony to see only Yami up there. Oh, that gave him a really bad feeling.
"Look, Onee-chan, I will talk with you at the Gala, I swear. I have to go though; one of the vampires is on their way down here. I love you, bye." Yugi said quickly hanging up and turning his phone off in case she tried calling him back. He locked his phone as well, for good measure.
Yugi looked towards the secret staircase, before running towards the dueling arena that Atem and Yami had given him for his birthday. He climbed up onto it, lying on the edge of it. He put his hands over his face, breathing in and out deeply, trying to calm his racing heart. He was going to kill Mira. How dare she tell his sister, no, hint to his sister that something else was going on besides him being a food source to two vampires? How dare she?
"Yugi?"
His eyes snapped open, as he slowly lowered his hands from his face. Atem was standing in one of the duelist boxes, looking over at him. He averted his eyes from the vampire, choosing instead to look up at the cloudy sky that was reflecting his mood perfectly.
"I'll come back up soon, I promise. I just need some time alone." Yugi said as convincingly as he could.
"Yugi, why are you so worried?" Atem asked.
"There's a lot to be worried about Atem, more than you can possibly know." Yugi said.
"Yugi, I promise, we'll accept your sister exactly as she is." Atem said.
"Don't make promises you have no possible way of knowing if you can keep." Yugi said wearily hopping off of the dueling arena.
"How about a duel then, to cheer you up?" Atem proposed.
"No." Yugi responded starting to walk away.
"Did the King of Games just say no?" Atem asked hopping off the dueling arena himself.
"I just want to be alone, is that too much to ask for?" Yugi asked turning to him.
"Well, the last time you said you wanted to be alone, you climbed into bed with us." Atem stated.
"I assure you, this time is different. I'm not embarrassed, I'm as you said worried. I just need a few minutes to get my thoughts in order." Yugi said shoving his hands into his jeans pockets and continuing to walk away from him.
"Well do you mind doing this walking and thinking in the Palace?" Atem asked.
"Why?" Yugi asked wondering at the strange request. He was always able to do his walking and thinking in the garden, so why did Atem want him to do it in the Palace?
"Because vampires from all over the world have been arriving since yesterday, and if they find a human wandering the gardens without a vampire escort, they will attack it. However, it is a standing rule that all humans in the Palace aren't to be touched, whether they have a collar on or not, they are not to be touched." Atem explained.
"Alright, I'll go do my thinking in the Palace." Yugi said earning a sigh of relief out of Atem.
As they were walking back, they passed several different vampires that Yugi had never seen before in the Palace. Their eyes all zeroed in on him, looking at him with lust and want, some even licking their lips. Yugi shrunk back into Atem, who merely placed a hand on his shoulder. If Yugi recalled from what they told him that meant mine. The vampires turned away, and went back to what they were doing before his scent crossed their paths.
As soon as they were in the Palace, Atem released him, and Yugi went walking off in a random direction. There were even more unfamiliar vampires inside, but many he still knew from around the Palace. Some said hello to him as he passed, and he greeted them in return. Many of the unfamiliar vampires watched him with want, until a familiar vampire greeted him as 'Hello Prince'. They were quick to turn away after that. His title preceded him.
Yugi wandered around the first floor until he came across the throne room. Yugi walked up to the head of the table and sat in Atem's elaborately carved chair. He still remembered the last time he had sat here. Atem had been pissed, but really how was he to know that some random vampires were going to be late to the meeting? He traced the patterns in the armrest with his finger.
"Oh, here you are. I was told to find you and bring you breakfast." A cheerful voice said from the doorway. Yugi looked up.
"Oh, hey Eliza." Yugi said as she set the tray down in front of him. It looked like he was having an egg burrito with bacon and cheddar cheese in it, an orange, an apple, and milk.
"Excited for tonight?" she asked sitting down.
"Sort of." Yugi said picking up the burrito.
"Worried about Sakura?" Eliza asked. His burrito froze in his mouth just as he wrapped his lips around it, as he stared at Eliza his eyes widening.
"I went to school with her. We were in the same year. She never could stop talking about her precious baby brother." Eliza explained. Yugi took a bite nodding. He chewed and swallowed his food.
"That does sound like her. Let me guess she showed everyone a picture of me too?" Yugi asked as he took another bite of his burrito.
"Oh one? Your sister? No, she had a little album of you growing up." Eliza teased.
"You know that actually wouldn't surprise me if she actually did do something like that." Yugi said honestly.
"Well, I have a big feast to help prepare for tonight. You eat your food, and return the tray when you're done. When you show back up in the kitchen, I'll give you your next set of directions, which I was told to give you." Eliza said getting up and moving towards the door.
"Eliza, did you know what my sister wanted to do for a living?" he asked quickly before she could leave. She paused at the door and looked back at him.
"Yes."
"How do you think they'll take it?" he asked worry etched into every syllable of his voice.
"I think they'll be angry at first, but they'll understand why you hid it from them once they've calmed down." She responded honestly.
"And Sakura, how do you think she'll take it?" Yugi asked with even more worry in his voice than before.
"I believe that Sakura will try to break the three of you apart, and she will use any method short of killing you." Eliza responded just as honestly as before.
"That's what I'm afraid of." He said sighing and hanging his head.
"Yugi?" she called softly. He looked back up at her.
"It's all going to be okay, just give everyone some time to adjust, and I'm sure that even Sakura will come around." She said gently a light warmth in her eyes.
"Yeah, you're right, thank you." Yugi said nodding and smiling at her.
She smiled back, before leaving. A few minutes later a group of vampires walked into the room, being led around by another vampire. Yugi continued to eat, watching them as they had yet to notice him.
"And over here we have-The Prince. Uh, our King and Queen's human mate. What are you doing down here?" he asked seeming frazzled.
"Eating and thinking." He said honestly.
"Oh, but why here?" He asked.
"It's where I ended up, do continue with the tour." Yugi said picking up his apple and biting into it. He had long since gotten over his aversion to being watched while eating, considering Atem and Yami did it all the time.
"Of course, right. As I was saying over here we have where we hold meetings. The Prince is sitting in the spot that our King, Queen, or sometimes even both sit during meetings. They only ever both stand when there is a heated debate or someone else is occupying the chair." The tour guide said his eyes falling on Yugi as they lit up with amusement.
"You're on the Council, aren't you?" Yugi asked in a deadpanned voice.
"Yes, I am. Paul Hillcock, pleasure to meet you Prince." He said offering up his hand.
"Likewise." Yugi said shaking it.
"What's your name human?" one of the foreign male vampires asked with an American accent.
"You can call me Prince, Human, Little One, I'm afraid that Beautiful has been taken, or the King and Queen's human mate, but that last one is kind of a mouthful." Yugi said grinning and taking another bite out of his apple.
"Well, ze vampires here have obviously trained him well." a woman said with a French accent.
"What do you mean, trained me well?" Yugi asked confused.
"Trained you to keep your name a secret." She said.
"Oh, no, no, no, Vampires 101 taught me that." Yugi said while Paul was making cut signals with his hand by waving it across his throat. Yugi frowned.
"What is zis Vampires 101?" she asked confused. Paul was mouthing the word LIE at him.
"Ah, it is a class here that the King and Queen teach for humans to be able to better protect ourselves against your hypnotic and mind control tricks." Yugi said straight up lying and praying that this didn't come back to haunt him later. With his luck though, it probably would.
"Why would ze King and Queen do zat?" She asked.
"It does seem odd." The American male said.
"You know to better establish a trust bond with us humans. I mean think about it. The more we trust you, the less likely we are to fight you when you want to eat." Yugi said explaining his lie and making it seem more realistic.
"But if we just control your minds, than you won't be fighting us at all." he said.
"Okay, but then we live the rest of our lives out as a slave. Or say you release us from the captivity of our own minds, we are that much less likely to trust you or any one of your species. We will be wary of you and distrustful. And say another vampire comes along to take the human that you abandoned as their food source. They will have to work twice as hard to get that human to trust them, because of what you did." Yugi explained further using his own personal experiences as a helpful provider.
"You make it sound easy, to abandon a human I mean." Another male American said.
"It is if the vampire dies." Yugi whispered looking away and grabbing his orange, starting to peel it.
"Did your first vampire die on you? I do not see how zis is possible. Takes quite a lot to kill a vampire." The French woman said.
"Yugi Mutou." One of the Americans said.
"What?" the French woman asked.
"There are only two known humans to have ever survived their vampires, and still remain human. One is Yugi Mutou, the other is Sandra Malco. Do you think maybe later we can sit down and discuss your horrible experience with Sarugaki? I'd love to get a human's perspective from it." The vampire said suddenly looking like a child on Christmas morning.
"Uh, no." Yugi said giving him a look like he was crazy. He guzzled down his glass of milk.
"Why not?" he asked looking crestfallen.
"Like you said, it was a horrible experience." Yugi said placing his orange on the tray and getting up and leaving.
"Way to go, you scared the delicious scented human off. I was getting a high just from smelling him." a younger sounding Britain said.
"I didn't mean to." The American said.
Yugi smiled as he walked away towards the kitchens. He walked in to see it busier than ever. He set his tray down on the table and took his orange off of it and waited for someone to notice him. He had nearly finished his orange by the time someone noticed him. When they had, they went to fetch Eliza.
"Alright, ready for your next task?" she asked wiping a stray hair away from her face getting a flour streak on her forehead.
"Hit me with it." Yugi said grinning.
"Back up to your room, where a group of humans are waiting to get you ready for tonight." Eliza said.
"It's going to take all day?" Yugi asked.
"That's the way they made it sound." Eliza responded nodding.
"Well, I'm off to be tortured, I'll see you later, if I survive." Yugi said with his head down walking out of the kitchen.
"I'm sure he'll survive a little make up and perfume. My human hates the Vampire Galas as well." one the vampire cooks said.
"I think most male humans do." Another said back.
Yugi groaned as he started to make his way back upstairs. He passed more tour guides, and the vampires leading the groups around pointed him out. Yugi had to wander outside the staircase for his room for a full five minutes before there weren't any foreign vampires lurking around. Then he went up the steps. He opened the door to his room, and nearly ran back out. It had been transformed into a salon.
"Girls he's here draw a bath up!" one of the girls that were playing with Koneko said getting up from the floor.
"First thing to do Yugi is to get you a nice hot bath." She said grabbing his hand and leading him into the bathroom.
He was stripped and shoved into the water. They poured a bucket of water over his head, and then got to work scrubbing his hair with a wonderful smelling shampoo. While one was working on his hair, two others were scrubbing his body clean. The one that was washing his hair tipped his head back and rinsed out the shampoo. Then she put a conditioner in his hair working it in until his hair had soaked nearly all of it up. She rinsed that out too, and he was shoved under the water to rinse the suds off of his body. They dragged him out and dried him off.
They handed him a pair of briefs which he quickly put on to cover himself. They then led him out to a chair that they had set up and shoved him into it. They pulled out a bunch of brushes and started to paint his face with makeup. When they were done, they held up a mirror and he had the urge to remind them that he was a guy, not a girl. Because a girl is definitely what he looked like. They had put blush, foundation, pressed powder, lipstick, eye shadow, mascara, and eye liner on him. He didn't care if they highlighted his features. It certainly wasn't in a way he wanted them to be highlighted in.
I'm gonna kill my mates.
Why?
Because I look like a girl.
It's only one night Yugi, you'll survive. Oh, why do our foreign guests keep asking us about the Vampire 101 classes we provide and teach personally here at the Palace?
I have no idea, try asking Paul Hillcock.
Okay, how do they know your name?
Baka American vampire.
Which one?
I don't know. I didn't take names. Oh hell no, I am not wearing that.
Yugi was staring at the dress that they had just pulled out of the closet. It had to be the most girlish thing he had ever seen in the form of a dress, and he'd seen some pretty girly dresses. It was a light shade of violet, it shimmered when it was moved, it had white roses sown into the hem, it had off the shoulder sleeves like Belle from Beauty and the Beast only wider, as well as a full skirt. He was not putting it on. No one could make him!
Put the dress on Yugi.
No.
Come on, you wouldn't want to ruin all the hard work those ladies put in to making it, now would you?
Yugi frowned, knowing he had been beat with those words. And slumped, allowing the girls to pull him out of the chair and slip the dress over his head. They pulled a full length mirror out and had him stand in front of it. They cheered at their success of how the dress really complimented his skin tones, and brought out the color of his eyes better. Next they put a silver necklace around his neck with a small amethyst gem hanging at the base of his throat. Well, he couldn't deny that it didn't look good sitting there. He found his hand in the mirror rising up to touch it softly before dropping his hand.
What looks good, Yugi?
Nothing.
They slipped the two inch silver sandals on his feet, and then had him spin around for them. He sighed before doing so. They were giddy with joy at how well he looked. Yugi walked over to his closet and put some silver arm bands on, before coming back out. The girls frowned, before turning and having a short conversation. Yugi felt as if he was on a trial of some sorts. When they turned back, they were all smiles.
"Okay, we'll allow you to create a little of your own flare to our creation." One of the girls said.
"It's probably the only way we're going to get you out that door anyway." Another said jerking her thumb at it.
"But for now, hide in here, they can't see you yet." The third said shoving him into the Canary Yellow room.
The door was shut only to be opened another second later as Koneko was put into the room, and then the door was shut again. Yugi laughed at her very disgruntled look. Yugi kicked off his shoes and bent down to pick her up. He hopped onto the bed, and held her as he scratched behind her ears. Koneko fell asleep on his lap, so he put her on Atem's pillow. Even though he hadn't slept on it since before they had become mates, his scent must linger stronger than Yugi thought. Koneko woke up, and rolled around on the pillow before falling back asleep. Yugi laughed at his kitten's behavior. It was just so amusing at the best of times.
He petted her sleeping form before climbing off the bed. They had a balcony too, so Yugi took this time to investigate their view. His was over the garden, and theirs it looked like it was over the garden too, only they had a better visual of the whole garden. It was a wonder why they used his balcony to look down into the garden.
Coming in from the balcony he investigated their closet. It had more leather in it than his favorite store Black Dreams and Wicked Nightmares. Yugi wondered how much the girls would freak out if he took off his dress to try on some of his mates clothes. He especially wanted to try on this dark blood red leather shirt, with those short black leather shorts, with those low heeled boots.
Yugi get out of our closet.
What are you even doing snooping in our room?
I was shoved in here and told to hide.
Well, get out.
Whose are these? Yugi had started rifling through their drawers and came across the cutest boxers with teddy bears on them.
Get out of our room!
Oh look, these ones have hearts on them. How come you guys never wear these? They're adorable.
Get out of our drawers! Do we go snooping through your closets and underwear drawers?
Yes.
Well…Atem you tell him why he should get out.
Why? When you're doing such a wonderful job?
So here's who I think these boxers belong to. Am I right? Yugi sent them mental pictures of Atem in the teddy bears, and Yami in the hearts.
…
I'm right aren't I? Ooo, what's this? A diary perhaps?
I think he found the list.
A list? A list of what?
Yugi opened the book to find that it was a list of him. Sure, they had mentioned their list of him before, but he had thought it was just a mental thing. You know, a mental list. But no, they had gone to new realms of creepy and kept a literal list of him ranging from adorable to annoying. True to their word running away really was at the bottom of the five page list, and puppy dog eyes of doom made the first spot. Sleeping made second, and pouting came in third. Yugi shook his head, before going to sit on the bed and reading through the list. Some of the things on it surprised him, as he had never thought of them before. Like how he looked very happy when he was talking with his friends. Or he looked elated when he was running. A sort of free look on his face. They had discovered that he bit his bottom lip a lot when he was studying, which apparently they found cute. It was a more than a list really; it was like a scientist's journal. They had studied him. What was strange was that he didn't find that creepy. He found them actually having a list about him creepy, just not the fact that they apparently watched him a lot when he wasn't looking, creepy.
Yugi sighed closing the book and laying his head down on Yami's pillow. He grabbed Koneko and held her close to him and the journal. He petted Koneko's head until she purred, eventually falling asleep again. Yugi joined her in her nap, the journal and Koneko both tucked under his arm.
[Time skip]
"Yugi, Beautiful, time to get up." Atem said softly. Koneko growled in his ear, making him open his eyes.
Atem and Yami both were standing over him in matching tuxedos, which looked like the same ones from their date. Oh, how he wished he could wear one too. Yami held out a hand to him, and Yugi found it to be gloved, his coat had tails too. What year was this? The 1940's?
"Yugi, stop focusing on our outfits and take Yami's hand." Atem said closing his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose. He was wearing gloves too.
Yugi did as told and grasped Yami's hand allowing himself to pulled off the bed. Atem bent down and put the sandals on again. Once they were on, they had him take an arm each, and lead him out of the rooms. He wobbled between them, unsteady on his feet, as they made their way through the empty halls. When they reached the ballroom, there were two vampires standing there waiting to open the doors for them.
Be brave, Yugi.
Are you guys and my friends going to be here throughout the night?
Yes.
Then I think I can manage a small sample of courage just by knowing that.
Atem nodded at the vampires and they opened the doors. Atem and Yami led him into the ballroom. They stood for a moment at the top of the stairs and Yugi did a quick check for Sakura. He didn't see her anywhere; so he had a few more hours of oblivious happiness. He would make sure to make the most of them.
Yugi: i demand that you go back and edit that dress right now, as in take me out of it!
Okay, I can do that.
Yugi: thank you.
And put lace, frills, bows, and ribbons on it!
Yugi: [stares at Author in horror before responding in a high squeaky voice] on second thought, that dress, love it!
I thought you might. Anyway, I got a job. Which means starting next week Monday, I won't be updating as much anymore. Ha ha, Thank you to everyone who are/have following/favorited this story. Also, thanks to everyone who reviewed Guest and User alike. Please review! Midnight ;p