Alright, I'm updating early because I won't have time to tomorrow, err today. Cause tomorrow is today, because of the time, and I'm just going to stop talking now. I'm starting to confuse myself. Right, I do not own Yugioh or Sweet dreams by Emily Browning, enjoy! [YUGI, YAMI, and ATEM]
Chapter 23
Should we wake him now?
No, we should let him sleep some more.
Yugi and Atem were making out as Yugi kept glancing at Yami's sleeping form. Asking, what felt like to Atem every few seconds, if they should wake him up. Yugi had gotten up at five, and by coincidence had woken up Atem who was too light of a sleeper anyway.
Yugi had tried leaving the room, after throwing on some pants, to go get breakfast for himself, but it seemed that he had damaged their trust for him as Atem grabbed him and put him back in the bed. He went and got Yugi breakfast, coming back with it and setting it in his lap. Yugi had been tracing Yami's sleeping face lightly with his finger, but the vampire had barely twitched, not even opening an eye. Yugi frowned and went to shake him awake but Atem had caught his hand and turned him towards his food, where he was easily distracted by the steamy entrée.
After he was done, Atem drew him into a make out session, with Yugi glancing at Yami every so often and asking Atem if they should wake him. Yugi was watching the clock behind Atem and asking every five minutes. Since the vampire had yet to catch onto his strategy, he didn't see a problem with keeping it up.
How about now? Can we wake him now?
NO YUGI!
"Ugh, why are you yelling? I thought we agreed that we weren't going to yell unless it was serious anymore. No more petty fights, Atem." Yami complained rubbing his eyes and yawning as he sat up.
"Yami! You're awake! You know you had me very worried when you didn't wake up earlier when I was tracing your face in your sleep." Yugi said launching himself from under Atem to into Yami's lap and wrapping his arms around him.
"Hmm, and what time was this?" Yami asked looking down at him through bleary and tired eyes.
"5:02 am!" Yugi said cheerfully.
"Why are you getting him up so early?" Yami complained.
"I didn't, he woke up on his own, but now that you're up, I'm going to go back to sleep." Atem said lying down.
"Oh no you don't, you're staying up with him, not me. I was rudely awoken by someone yelling." Yami said lying back down and unconsciously pulling Yugi down with him, his head smacking into his chin.
"You would have been up even earlier if I had allowed him to shake you awake." Atem pointed out as Yugi rubbed his head.
"Whatever, you're staying up with him." Yami said as he closed his eyes.
"No you are." Atem argued as his eyes slid closed. He didn't receive a response as Yami had already fallen back asleep. Yugi sat up and looked over at Atem to see him sleeping too. Sliding off of Yami's grip and out of the bed, Yugi tiptoed over to the bedroom door. He put his hand on the handle, and glanced back over his shoulder at Atem and Yami. They were still asleep; biting his lip he opened the door and snuck outside. If he stayed to the Palace grounds, he figured he wouldn't get in too much trouble for this. Besides, there had to be some rooms in the place that he hadn't discovered yet.
[Time skip]
The door slammed shut behind him. Yugi gasped and spun around to find the door didn't have a handle on the inside. He frowned, what was the point of having a door without a handle? Looking around at the room he was in, since he figured he was going to be stuck in here for awhile, he discovered it be rather dingy. There was dirty old straw on the ground, a mattress on the floor, a thin blanket that looked as if it wouldn't even keep a babe warm, and chains connected to the wall above the mattress. It made Yugi wonder if this was a torture chamber. Oh no, he was in a torture chamber!
Yugi, where are you?
I'm in your torture chamber!
We don't have a torture chamber.
You can't lie to me when I'm in it, oh intelligent one!
Fine, describe this torture chamber to us then.
Well, first off its disgusting looking, that was my first clue. Second there are: chains connected to a wall above a dirty mattress with the thinnest blanket that I've ever seen coated with dirt, blood, and dust on it, and the straw in this place has to be at least a century old. And don't even get me started on the smell.
Oh, you found the prison cell.
Don't worry Yugi, we'll bust you out.
Prison cell, ha! He knew a torture chamber when he saw one, and this one was definitely it. Yugi paced the small space that was smaller than his bathroom. He heard them before he saw them and rushed to the door waving a hand out so they could see him. They stopped outside the door and looked in on him.
"You know Yugi, we were talking on our way down here and we have half a mind to leave you in there for the rest of the day and night. You know, since you weren't supposed to leave the room in the first place?" Atem commented casually.
"No, you don't want to do that." Yugi said suddenly getting nervous and standing onto his tippy toes so he could grab onto the doors barred window.
"And why not?" Yami asked raising an eyebrow.
"Because it's tradition that we go haunted housing every year on Halloween. You wouldn't want to break tradition, would you?" Yugi asked springing his puppy dog eyes on them. They balked slightly, before opening the door.
"Yay!" Yugi said jumping off the door and going around it to hug his mates outside of the torture chamber.
"Prison cell, it's a prison cell, Yugi." Atem complained.
"Maybe we should just rename it as a torture chamber." Yami said.
"No." Atem said firmly.
"Come on, we need to get to Malik's so we can make our costumes perfect." Yugi said breaking out of the hug and running to the edge of the stairs.
"You got us costumes?" Yami asked in a surprised voice.
"Yeah, custom made." Yugi said grinning at him and Atem. They stopped walking towards him as they visibly slumped.
"Why do I suddenly have a bad feeling about this?" Atem asked.
"Oh good, it can join mine." Yami said.
Yugi watched as Atem threw an arm around Yami's shoulders and whispered something in his ear. Yami smiled as he smacked Atem in the gut. Atem said something else and Yami pushed him away grinning. Feeling like he was looking in on something that was secret, Yugi bit his lip and headed upstairs.
Yugi waited at the top of the stairs for them, and they appeared moments later. He grinned brightly before leading the way back to the bedroom so he could grab some money, and then they left for Malik's. Yugi was skipping the entire way there, much to the amusement of his mates.
[Time skip]
"No, no we aren't wearing those." Atem protested to the two identical costumes that Yugi held up.
"But, I had them made special for you guys." Yugi said lowering them, his grin slowly falling off his face.
"Yugi, those costumes are embarrassing." Yami said as gently as he could.
"But…I picked them out specifically for you two. I mean I think you look sexy dressed as them." Yugi said in earnest looking down at the costumes.
"We aren't wearing them, and not even P.D.E. is going to change our minds on this." Atem said firmly.
"Fine, then wear your birthday suits, you look sexy in those too." Yugi said throwing the costumes down at their feet and walking out of the room. He saw Yami mouth 'birthday suits' at Atem. He just shrugged, the term baffling him too.
"So?" Ryou asked giddily.
"They're going to cost me a fortune tonight." Yugi said sadly.
Jou, Ryou, and Malik turned their eyes on their Seme's and just stared at them. By the way that they were fidgeting they weren't immune to the looks they were receiving. Finally one by one they got up and headed back to Malik's bedroom. Yugi heard laughing and then arguing.
"Have you seen those costumes?!" Atem yelled.
"Have you seen ours?" Akeifa yelled back.
"It's one time a year, now put it on or we will put it on for you." Marik threatened.
"I'd like to see you try." Yami goaded.
"Okay." Bakura said. Yugi heard what sounded like lots of struggling after that. A few minutes later they came out back out, towing Atem and Yami behind them in their costumes. Yugi grinned brightly, happy that they were wearing them. Akeifa and Marik forced them down into separate chairs, and Yugi set about putting face paint on each of them.
"It's perfect." Yugi said grinning at a scowling Yami.
"Okay, now let's go get ready!" Malik said grabbing his hand, and the four of them went back to Malik's bedroom to change into their costumes. The Seme's waited patiently out in the living room. They came out looking all bad ass. Jou had on grey wash skinny jeans, a loose belt draped around his hips with a dagger in it, combat boots, and a white shirt with the sleeves ripped off. Ryou had on white short shorts, fake swords attached to his back, knee high white boots and a white shirt with black buckles down the middle. Malik had on red leather pants, a fake gun strapped to his back, combat boots, and a brown shirt that was ripped and had fake blood dripped on it. Last was Yugi, he had on tight black leather pants, two belts with a fake gun on one side, and a square gadget on the other, he had on black low heeled boots, and a shirt that said I'll murder you for free on the back, and was ripped down the middle in the front, exposing nothing but smooth pale skin.
"Why do they get to dress like that, and we have to dress like this?" Yami asked pointing to the general population of Semes.
"They still won't tell us why, but we think its revenge. For all the times we forced them into dresses, and role playing in the bedroom." Akeifa said explaining.
"Once a year they are allowed to dress us up however they wish and we can't complain about it." Kaiba added.
"Okay, since we're all ready, let's go to the first haunted house." Jou said heading out Ryou, Malik, and Yugi following him. The Semes sighed before getting up and following them.
[Time skip]
"OKAY! REMEMBER TO GET INTO THIS HAUNTED HOUSE, YOU HAVE TO TELL US WHAT YOU'RE DRESSED AS!" A pre-programmed voice continued to day over the intercom every five minutes.
"Remember, you're sexy and ya know it." Yugi said trying to cheer his mates up. They were glowering at him as they moved up in line again. Their group was next.
"Hey, it's the mixed species group again! So what are you dressed up as this year?" the guy at the front asked.
"I'm a house wife." Akeifa said fixing his apron. He was wearing a long light brown dress, a white apron, and light brown flats.
"I'm Mother Nature, and this is Earth." Bakura said patting his round belly. Bakura was draped in green cloth with a crown of faux vines on his head; his stomach was a picture of half of the globe.
"And how far along is Earth?" the guy asked.
"Six months." Bakura responded.
"Oh, congratulations." He said.
"Thank you." Bakura responded.
"And you?" he said turning to Ryou.
"I'm a vampire hunter." Ryou said.
"Okay, but I don't think they dress like that." He said lifting the rope and letting them in.
"I'm the Dark Magician." Mahad said before he could ask.
"You're new." He commented but lifted the rope anyway for him.
"I'm apparently a ballerina." Seth said fixing his pink tutu.
"I'm a princess." Kaiba said fixing his tiara. He had on a blue sparkly ball gown, with gloves and glass slippers included. In truth he was Cinderella, but it seemed Kaiba was going to die before he admitted to it.
"I'm a vampire hunter." Jou said.
"Again, I don't think they dress like that." He chose, wisely, not to comment on the other two outfits as he let them in.
"I've been told that I'm dressed up as Wonder Woman. Punishment I imagine since I got a kick out of my boyfriend being dressed up as one when he was acting like he was five." Marik said as he twirled his magical lasso.
"I'm a vampire hunter." Malik said grinning. Marik was dead on with his statement, but Malik was never going to admit to it.
"You make a good Wonder Woman." The guy said as he lifted the rope choosing not to say anything about the hunter outfit.
"Shut up." Marik said as he entered with Malik.
"No really! That wig looks good on you!" he shouted after them. Still laughing he turned to Yami, Atem, and Yugi where he had to clap a hand over his mouth as he looked like he wanted to burst out laughing.
"So, uh, what are you dressed up as?" he asked grinning broadly. Yami and Atem said nothing choosing instead to glare at the man.
"Come on, you can't enter unless you tell me." he said his grin getting bigger, if that was even possible.
"I'm a sexy bunny." Atem growled out.
"As am I." Yami also growled out. They were both dressed as the bunny from his dreams, the one from Legally Blonde. To Yugi, they looked even sexier now than they did in his dreams. To everyone else, they were something to mock and laugh at.
"I'm a vampire hunter!" Yugi said excitedly as he stuck his head in between them.
"What a surprise." He said sarcastically as he lifted the rope slightly before lowering it.
"Let me guess, only he thinks you're sexy." The guy said.
"Let us in." Atem hissed at him. He lifted the rope quickly, allowing them to join the rest of their group.
"Okay, so how did you find us again, Mahad?" Atem asked picking up their conversation from outside.
"Oh, I found this costume in my closet as well as a time and place to be attached to it." Mahad said gesturing to his outfit with his staff. Everyone looked at Yugi, because it had even been a surprise to Jou, Ryou, and Malik when he had shown up.
"What? He never comes on any adventures with us, so I thought maybe he would like to join us on this one." Yugi said pouting and looking away from them.
"Thank you for the surprise invite, Yugi." Mahad said graciously.
"You're welcome." Yugi said grinning and placing his hands behind his back.
"How come he gets to dress in a male costume?" Yami asked. Yugi bit his lip and didn't answer.
"I'm telling you, its revenge." Akeifa said.
"A form of revenge we've learned to accept. We receive no compensation, or sex for dressing up like this, we're just expected to dress up how they want, end of discussion." Bakura said.
"The consequences for not doing so are…severe." Kaiba said.
"Yeah? What are they?" Atem asked.
"Being kicked out of the bedroom until we're forgiven." Kaiba said bluntly. Atem and Yami's jaws dropped as they turned to look at Yugi. He was wearing a look that could only be described as smug. Not that he would, he had spent enough time sleeping without them this month alone. They didn't need to know that though.
"In other words, stop complaining because no one cares for our misfortune." Yami translated.
"You got it." Marik said. The door suddenly opened, and they all moved into the haunted house.
[Time skip]
Yugi laughed eating some cotton candy as Atem fixed his bunny ears. They were headed to their sixth haunted house of the night. Atem and Yami were less annoyed with their costumes, but Yugi figured by the end of the night they will have forgotten all about being upset with him anyway. At least he hoped they would be.
"No Jou!" Yugi cried as he held his cotton candy away from him.
"Oh come on, buddy, just one piece!" Jou said trying to snag some again.
"No, you've already finished yours!" Yugi said dodging around Atem who nearly tripped on him. Yami steadied him before he could fall though and get his costume all dirty.
"Hey Yugi, I was thinking of what we could dress them up as next year." Malik said pushing Jou away as he stole some of Yugi's cotton candy.
"Hey! And we're all going to be on opposite sides of the world next year, as we attend college." Yugi complained holding the candy away from him.
"So? That doesn't mean we can't share photos on the internet." Malik said grinning in devilish way, that Yugi joined in on few a millisecond. Jou had stolen some candy, so he put it back over by Malik who stole some, leaving him no choice but to clutch it in front of him and ask for help on the situation.
"Atem!" Yugi whined.
"Guys, leave his candy alone." Atem said lazily pulling Yugi in front of him.
"But he needs help eating it." Jou said.
"No he doesn't you silly werewolf." Atem said placing a hand on his head.
"Yes, he does, I can feel it." Jou said trying to get Atem's hand off of him.
"Seth! Control your wolf would you?" Yami called out to the brunette talking to his look alike brunette ahead. They glanced back, before shrugging and going back to their conversation.
"Ha! All gone! Now you can't steal anymore!" Yugi said waving around the stick. Atem took his hand off of Jou's head, and without the support that he had been leaning on he started to fall. Yugi quickly grabbed him before he could hit the ground though.
"I got you." Yugi said.
"Thanks buddy." Jou replied standing back upright.
"There it is!" Ryou shouted from ahead.
"Yay!" the rest of the Ukes shouted and ran after Ryou, who was in the lead, to the next haunted house. Yami and Atem came to a stop by all the other Semes.
"Anyone starting to get a feeling that that candy was a bad idea?" Marik asked.
"Yes." They all responded.
"But they would have continued whining if we hadn't given it to them." Yami pointed out.
"And it is after all Halloween." Bakura said.
"We'll probably have to tear Malik's room apart when we get back. I won't be surprised if they have at least a dozen bags of hidden candy in there again." Seto said.
"I sure hope not, the morning after was nightmare. Chocolate faces, Ukes bouncing off the walls, even Sarugaki suggested we get a leash to attach to them so they didn't get more than 15 feet in front of us." Akeifa groaned.
"And that was when he was acting like a decent guy, too." Bakura said as they watched their Ukes turn around and motion for them to hurry up.
"I say we just take Malik's bedroom this year." Marik said.
"Deal." The rest responded and used their unnatural speed to catch up with them.
[Time skip]
They were in line for the last haunted house, number twenty, and it was supposed to be the best one too. Right now their fellow classmates were trying to lure them away from their Semes. Poor Yugi had the Lang twins. One on one side, and the other on the other side. They kept whispering song lyrics in his ear too. The trouble was, they were only singing a few words of the song, and not exactly in the right order either. It probably would have been more enticing too, if they were males, but they weren't so…Yugi was less inclined to follow them out of an exit.
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused
That was it, that was all they were singing, over and over again. In breathy little moans right in Yugi's ears. And because they were on both sides of him, he couldn't lean away from one without leaning into the other. Yugi was in a very compromised situation, not that his mates were doing any better. Atem and Yami had paid the extra twenty at the door without knowing what it was for first. As it was they had two females draped over them like…like drapes. Twenty extra at the door meant that the actresses and actors could touch you in the house.
"Your plan isn't going to work, so you might as well abandon ship." Yugi told them as they continued their song, their hands not touching him, but he could feel the ghost of their warmth hovering around his chest area.
"Pretty light." Ryou said gaining Yugi's attention. Ryou started to walk after a pretty purple ball of light straight into darkness. It reminded slightly of that movie Finding Nemo by Disney.
"Uh, Akeifa." Yugi called out to the male.
"Hmm." he responded leaning away from the female that was trying to entice him.
"You're about to lose somethin'." Yugi said pointing at Ryou who was nearly swallowed by the darkness now.
"Hmm? NO!" he asked concerned looking around before jumping into action after their Uke. Yugi heard a muttered curse in the darkness as Ryou was dragged back into the group by Akeifa.
"But it was so pretty." Ryou said.
"I know." Akeifa said patting his head.
"But we have a feast, a table pouring with food, here in the darkness." The voice sounded like a snake's and it was directed at Jou. Jou was practically drooling as he took a step forward. Seth quickly grabbed one arm and Seto the other.
"A buffet you won't ever be kicked out of." The voice continued. Jou started to drag Seth and Seto with him as he followed the voice. Marik and Mahad helped by grabbing them and helping to pull Jou back.
"Can you smell the food?" they asked.
"Yeah! I-I want it! I want it!" Jou huffed like a dog as he started to pull the one werewolf and three vampires forward again. The rest of the supernatural's, except Akeifa, jumped forward to help. He was still restraining Ryou from following the pretty purple light, which was back and hovering in front of him.
Wow, they did research this year. They know that Ryou will walk off after pretty lights, preferably purple, Jou has a thing for food, I like songs that are dark but are sung sexily in my ears, and you should let Marik know that he's about to lose Malik to a one hundred dollar bill.
Malik was jumping away from the group going after a hundred dollar bill that was leading him astray. Marik's head snapped up and broke away from the pile that was trying to prevent Jou from wandering off after false pretenses, to tackle Malik to the ground grabbing the money in the process of the hook it was hanging from. There was a gasp from the darkness as the little silver hook quickly disappeared.
"Here." Marik said handing him the crumpled bill.
"Yes!" Malik cheered jumping up and down.
"Now come on, and stay with Yugi, since he seems to have the most self control out of all of you." Marik said dragging him back to stand by Yugi, before going to help the others with Jou. Unfortunately this wasn't such a good idea, because Yugi's enticers had changed to two well built men, with very sweet voices.
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused
They motioned with a single pointer finger for him to follow them. And Yugi being such a weak willed Uke, for a nice bod, couldn't help but obey as he followed them away from Malik. Malik was snickering into his hand as he called attention to his Semes the same way Yugi had called attention to his.
"Ateeeem." Malik called.
"What?" he asked looking up at him.
"Oh nothing, just that." He said pointing to Yugi like it was no big deal who was following what looked like two body builders into the enveloping darkness.
"Shit!" he said breaking away from the group restraining Jou and grabbing Yugi before he could vanish with them. They muttered their own curses at being foiled in their plans.
"Yes! We're out!" Akeifa cried opening the exit door.
"I hate that haunted house." Bakura complained.
"Yeah, but our Ukes love it, so we go every year!" Seto complained through gritted teeth as he helped drag Jou through the open door and out into the cool night air.
"But I'm a weak willed Uke." Yugi said looking down at his feet. Atem snorted.
"Right, and I'm not dressed up as a pink bunny that has stolen most of my pride tonight." Atem said.
"Okay, we have one last stop to make before we head home!" Ryou said holding his pretty purple light. Akeifa must have grabbed it for him.
All the Semes except for Mahad, Atem, Yami, and Seth groaned at that. They started to trudge after their Ukes looking as if they wanted the ground to swallow them up. It put an ominous feeling to start hanging around the four who didn't know what was going on, clinging to them like a cloak in the winter.
[Time skip]
Click.
"Come on boys! Look happy!" the cameraman said as he snapped another picture of them looking less than pleased.
"The sooner you two smile, the sooner we can get our last picture and get out of here." Kaiba growled at Atem and Yami.
"We're taking another one after this?" Seth asked his fake smile slipping off his face.
"Yes, the last one is where our Ukes are sitting at our feet, where they belong, grinning like mad. Then we're free to go back to Malik's and shed these costumes." Akeifa growled out.
"Fine. The sooner we get out of here the better." Yami hissed. Atem and Yami put on fake happy smiles.
"Come on you can do better than that boys! Think of something that makes you happy!" the cameraman encouraged. The smiles slipped off of all the Semes faces and then came back on, their eyes darkening slightly. Yugi had a sudden image in his mind of being tied down and tortured with pleasure. He backed away a good distance from where his mates were. Their happy thoughts scared him a little bit.
"I said I wanted to see happy smiles, not sadistic ones." The cameraman said taking a picture anyway.
Click.
"Come on boys, think happy!" the cameraman encouraged again. They huffed and put on their best happy smiles.
"I'll suppose that'll have to do." He said snapping the picture of strained happy smiles.
Click.
"Alright, let's get the rest of you back in the mix!" the cameraman said as he waved over the Ukes. They scrambled into position sitting at their respective Seme's feet.
Click.
"Alright, you're done! See Sandra at the front for the pictures that you want." The cameraman said as he ushered them out and new group in.
The Semes sat against the wall as their Ukes decided on which pictures they wanted. They were having a heated debate about whether or not they should get the sadistic smiling one. From what they could hear they finally came to a conclusion and got it, saying something about using it for a slideshow. They made a few more selections, pooled their money together, and walked away with six pictures, but enough copies of them so there was one for each of them. It had cost them a total $85, but it was worth it.
"Back to Malik's!" Yugi shouted holding the envelope of pictures running out of the photo shop the rest of the Ukes following suit. The Semes sighed and walked after them, it wasn't like they couldn't keep up if they really wanted to anyway.
[Time skip]
"Because we thought you guys would like the living room better." Akeifa said standing in the doorway of Malik's room.
"But that's where we have our-!" Yugi started to protest before Jou quickly slapped a hand over his mouth. All of them looked fearfully at the Semes hoping they hadn't caught on to what Yugi was about to say.
"Yeah, you're definitely not getting this room now. We've seen Yugi on a sugar rush; it's not something we'd like to repeat." Yami said shutting the door in their faces. They whined, pouted, and begged through the closed door. The Semes didn't budge, so they walked away all drooped and defeated like. Too bad the door wasn't still open, and then the Semes would have seen the small little smiles they were wearing.
"Perfectly played and executed." Malik said.
"Get the candy." Jou said. They all went off into separate little areas and came back with five bags of candy each. We're not talking those small bags you get when you know there is only like a handful of kids living in your neighborhood. No, we're talking about the mega big bags that are for neighborhoods filled with kids, like five to each household. And they had twenty of them, filled with assorted candy, and their Semes were completely unaware of it as they were currently searching trough Malik's room for their stash.
"Let Halloween really begin my friends." Ryou said as he ripped open the first bag.
"And may the most hyperactive win!" Yugi said grinning.
[Monday morning]
"Get down!" Yami ordered as Yugi scaled Kaiba tower with some rock climbing gear that he had found only Kami knew where.
"Make! Me!" Yugi said back down to him.
Ryou was running through the halls after pushing every button on the elevator and shoving Akeifa and Bakura inside.
Jou was making a mess of Kaiba's office. Using his important documents like confetti and throwing them out of the windows. He was also answering all of Kaiba's emails for him, since he was feeling so helpful. Kaiba was still trying to get into his office after Jou felt the need to change the password to get into it.
Malik was hiding on top of some very high shelves as Marik and Mahad were looking for him. He was playing hide-and-seek, something he neglected to tell his Seme and his Seme's friend. Malik watched in fascination as they continued to get more and more frustrated in trying to find him and coming up unsuccessful.
You're probably wondering how they came to be at Kaiba's work place though. Well, the answer to that is simple. They escaped, and this flashback will show you how.
"It's quiet." Seth said his ear at the door.
"After all that noise, quiet isn't good." Akeifa said opening the door.
They all walked out into the living room feeling their jaws drop. 20 bags of candy were strewn haphazardly across the room, and thousands of wrappers littered the floor. What made them slightly fear for the welfare of Domino though was the open door leading to the outside world. They walked outside catching a glimpse of their Ukes turning the corner in nothing but their pants, and since their shirts weren't anywhere in the mess behind them, it made them shudder to think where they had disappeared to.
"Their condition is worse than last year, we are so screwed." Kaiba said as he jumped over the railing to land on the ground, fourfloorsdown.
"Are you guys coming? Or do you want them to get so far ahead of us that we're going to have to use the police force to track them down?" Kaiba asked. They all jumped down next to him landing in crouches before the eight of them ran after their fleeing Ukes.
They thought they had had them trapped when they had cornered them in an alleyway next to some tall building. Unfortunately, that tall building happened to be Kaiba Corp, and the alley just happened to have a door opened behind them at that exact moment by some poor unsuspecting janitor. They rushed inside, as their Semes dropped to their knees screaming 'NOOOOOOOO' to the high heavens. This gave the Ukes a five minute head start to start creating chaos in the building.
"Yugi! Don't make me come up there after you! You will not like the consequences if I do!" Atem shouted up to him. Yugi just shook his little tushy at him, which seemed to anger Atem even more as he slammed his fist into one of Kaiba's windows, shattering it into a million pieces.
"Nice." Yami commented shoving his hands into his pockets.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk." they heard from above them. They looked up to see Yugi wagging his finger at them.
"Shouldn't let your anger run away with you Temmy." Yugi called down to him.
"That's it!" Atem said jumping onto the glass only to slide back down as he couldn't get a grip on the smooth as silk glass. That didn't stop him from trying a few more times though as Yugi watched in amusement for a second before getting bored and continuing to climb higher up Kaiba Corp.
"I can't get a grip." Atem complained as he slid down for the sixth time grappling at the glass windows.
"Maybe we should find a different way up?" Yami suggested.
"Fine." Atem grumbled looking up at Yugi who was standing on top of the building now.
"I'm King of Kaiba Corp." he was screaming to the world.
By the time they got up to the roof of the building, Yugi was nowhere in sight. So approaching the edge carefully, because even a fall like this would kill them, they looked over the edge to Yugi skipping away down the street, Malik running in the opposite direction, and Jou and Ryou just leaving Kaiba Corp and going their separate ways as well. Atem and Yami were flabbergasted as to how they had accomplished to get away, all of them, when they were sure they had them cornered.
"If my heart was still beating regularly, it would be going into cardiac arrest right now." Yami commented from next to him.
"Come on, let's round up the others!" Atem said as they headed back down into the building.
Yugi skipped down the sidewalk and saw, much to his pleasure, a candy store selling half priced Halloween goodies. He bought, what appeared to the guy at the counter, to be half of the shop. But hey it was business, he wasn't complaining. Yugi ran into Malik, who ran into Jou, and they managed to round up Ryou. Sneaking off to their park, they devoured the goodies Yugi had bought. Refueled with energy, they took off at amazing speeds just as their Semes had managed to catch up with them again.
"Next year…we put leashes…on them." Akeifa said.
"Take Bakura to my house…it's the closest…all this running…can't be good for the unborn pups." Kaiba said handing him a key.
"Good idea…come on honey…let's get you rested." Akeifa said changing into a large beige wolf and having Bakura climb onto him.
"Let me know when you guys find Ryou." Bakura said in an exhausted tone.
"Don't worry, we'll bring him to you." Atem growled. He was very peeved, as he and everyone else started to track the three humans and one werewolf, again. They headed back into Domino, how unfortunate for them that the four sugar highs didn't go that way.
Yugi ran through the halls of the Palace as he and his friends evaded the hands of the many vampires that tried to catch them. It was the bright idea of Eliza that was finally able to trap them though. She put up signs she knew four sugar high people wouldn't be able to resist. CANDY STASH THIS WAY, with a nice little arrow and everything. It brought them screeching to a halt and following the signs only too willingly. They followed them all the way to a closed door that made them really giddy and opened it, rushing inside. The door slammed shut behind them and was locked from the outside. It was a windowless and one door room, and it didn't have any sweets in it, much to the disappointment of the four sugar high people currently trapped in the room. However, it did have a desk, books, and other little gadgets laying about the area. The four sugar highs were only too willing to investigate the new room.
"Good, phase one is complete, now we just have to get in contact with the King and Queen, and tell them that we locked them in the Queen's Study." A voice said from the other side of the door.
"I'll call them right now." Eliza said.
The Ukes were inside looking at the titles of the books, going through drawers, and pressing buttons. Lots of buttons. Yugi was about to press a little black button when Ryou said something about finding a photo album. Now, if there was one thing none of them could resist it was a photo album. They all lay down on their bellies and flipped through it. And that is how their Semes found them, completely calmed down looking and laughing at the pictures of Yami and Atem in their younger thousand years.
"But I haven't finished pressing all the buttons yet!" Yugi complained as Atem carried him out.
"Good, you don't need to push all the buttons." Atem said as Yami stayed behind to fix up his Study which had been torn apart and reset all the buttons Yugi had pushed.
"Yes I do!" he whined.
"No, you really don't." Atem argued.
"But I want to." He whined.
"Yes I know, I got that, but you don't have a need to push all of them." Atem said sternly.
"Yes, I dooooo!" Yugi complained trying to twist out of Atem's arms so he hoisted him over his shoulder instead.
"No you doooooon't." Atem mocked as he opened their bedroom door. Getting out some rope, he made some sailor knots as he tied one end around Yugi and the other around the bed post. Sighing, he flopped onto the bed as Yugi scurried around the room, clearly only having calmed down for a few brief moments to look at that lovely photo album of his and Yami's.
"Atem, I'm tired." Yami said coming into the room and glancing at Yugi before falling onto the bed next to him.
"We could take a nap together." Atem suggested.
"What if he gets loose?" Yami asked.
"I used complicated sailor knots, he's not getting loose." Atem said wrapping his arms around him as he fell asleep.
"You best hope not." Yami said falling asleep in his arms. Yugi watched them for a second before going outside onto the balcony, and jumping over again. He bounced right back up though, it seemed that they had fixed the trampoline. He no longer hit his head on it.
[Time skip]
After two hours of jumping Yugi was starting to get tired, and wanted off his new trampoline, he just didn't know how to get off of it. Every time he got close to the balcony, the trampoline would bounce him back out towards open air. So Yugi started to make loud sounds of glee hoping to wake his mates, so he could get off this ride.
Atem and Yami woke up to sounds of glee from Yugi. After blinking their eyes a bit and searching the room for him, they found him, jumping up and down outside, occasionally throwing a flip in there too. It took their minds a few minutes longer to process what it was Yugi was jumping on, once they had, Yami grabbed the rope to pull him back in, but Atem stopped him.
"No, no, he's wearing himself out, let him." Atem whispered, which Yugi seemed to hear as he whipped his head in their direction. He reached out for them as he jumped closer to the balcony, only to be shoved out again. Yugi whined slightly, tears springing to his eyes, his look reading, screaming, that he needed help back into the room. Yami re-grabbed the rope, and timing it just right, pulled Yugi back into the room.
"Awww, how long have you been out there?" Yami coddled getting a disbelief look from Atem.
"Two hours." Yugi said coming over on shaky legs to lie on top of Atem.
"Oh no, I'm still mad at you." Atem said shoving him off.
"But its Halloween, you're supposed to dress up and get into trouble." Yugi pouted sitting on his knees and looking at him.
"I don't care." Atem said turning his head away.
"How about a little compensation?" Yugi whispered in his ear.
"I'm listening." Atem said smirking as he turned his head back to him.
"Alright, but you both have to close your eyes, or it won't work. And they have to stay closed too." Yugi said pressing Yami down into a laying position.
"Alright." Yami said getting more comfortable.
"Oh, I have a better idea actually, so I know you won't cheat." Yugi said climbing over Yami. He went into his closet, and into his special drawer. He took out two blindfolds, and two pairs of handcuffs. Going back into the room, he tied the blindfolds on them and handcuffed them to the headboard bars. Then Yugi breathed deeply in and out a couple of times, before closing his own eyes. They thought he meant sex, well, he really meant something else. Searching through his memories, he pulled up one of when he was seven.
"Yugi, baby, come here, let me help you with that." His Momma said holding out her arms to him with a kind smile. Her eyes were a soft cherry tree brown color; her ebony hair fell to her waist and was tipped in crimson with some blonde bangs framing her face. He glanced around quickly, and saw a shocked Yami and Atem standing on the outskirts of the small yard. Smiling he continued the memory without any more delays.
"No, I can do it Mommy!" Yugi said as he bit his lip and concentrated on buckling his shoes.
"Alright, my little game master." Sarah said.
"Mom! Mom! Daddy's home! Daddy's Home! Can we go? Please can we can we go?" Sakura asked running across the yard. She was no more than 13 years old.
"Now, Sakura, you know I have to ask your Father first." Sarah scolded lightly as she wrapped her arms around her daughter. He heard Atem and Yami gasp slightly, and knew that they were amazed at how much Sakura looked like their Mother. She had the soft features that their Mother had been graced with, along with the crimson tips of her hair, and a light air around her that demanded respect. Sakura was almost the spitting image of her now.
"Tell me what Mrs. Mutou?" Takeshi asked wrapping his arms around his wife and kissing her. This earned an eww, from Yugi and aww, from Sakura. Takeshi had slick backed black hair, sharp blue eyes, and a black mustache that crinkled when he smiled.
"Only that the kids have informed me that we have 80 degrees weather this weekend Mr. Mutou, and they have been reminding me all day of your promise." Sarah said.
"And have they been keeping up their end of the bargain?" Takeshi asked his wife.
"Of course, they've been perfect angels as they helped me with the housework today." Sarah said batting her long eyelashes at him.
"What housework? We have maids to do housework; I sure hope you didn't chip a nail." Takeshi teased his wife examining her hands.
"Oh Mr. Mutou, you and your teasing are going to get you into trouble." Sarah teased back.
"As long as you're the one dishing out the punishment, I have no complaints to that." Takeshi said kissing her hands. Sarah broke her hands free and playfully hit him on the shoulder.
"So, can we Daddy? Can we go?" Sakura asked pulling on his jacket.
"Yes, my precious blossom, we can go." Takeshi said grinning, his black mustache crinkling slightly. Yugi and Sakura cheered as they grabbed hands and spun around the yard, happy that they were going. Their parents watched them, laughing at their exuberant behavior. And the scene shifted, rushing around them, until Yugi pulled it to a stop, when they had reached their destination.
Sarah was lounging in a two piece on the patio overlooking the beach with Takeshi feeding her cherries. Sakura and Yugi were down on the beach playing in the sand close to the water, but not too close that they would be swept away with the tide. Takeshi was looking down on them every now and again, to make sure they were still safe.
"Yugi baby! Sakura darling! Time to come in now!" Sarah called as she put on a see through peach colored wrap.
"Awww, but Momma, do we have to?" Yugi asked looking up at her.
"Yes, baby, the tide is coming in. You don't want to be swept away do you?" She asked smiling.
"No, Momma!" Yugi said shaking his head.
"Then it's time to come in now, and bring your sister!" she called again.
"Okay, Momma!" Yugi said running over to Sakura and grabbing her hand. They shared a few words before she smiled and showed him something. Yugi laughed, his cheerful sounds echoing across the beach, before they ran up to the beach house together.
Their Mother was waiting by the front doors for them. Arms open wide, a loving smile on her face, a kind look in her eyes. She had changed out of her bikini into a nice summer dress with a flower pattern. A belt was around her waist, showing off her curves even more. Her children ran into her open arms, hugging their Mother, showing her as much love as she had bestowed upon them.
"What's for dinner, Momma?" Yugi asked.
"Your Father's specialty, roasted lamb stuffed with all your favorite veggies." Sarah said as she took their hands and led them into the dining room.
"Now Mrs. Mutou, the children aren't dressed for dinner, they're dressed for play." Takeshi scolded.
"But we have no one to impress here Mr. Mutou, so let them eat in their play clothes." Sarah said smiling.
"If that is your wish, Sarah?" Takeshi asked as he placed the food on the table.
"It is, Takeshi." Sarah said.
"Then I will give in, just this once." Takeshi said winking at his children. They laughed, and sat at the table as their Father put perfect serving sizes on each of their plates. Takeshi looked across the table at his wife with such love in his eyes, you would think she was the only person in the room. Sarah looked at her plate, away from the intense stare, blushing like a school girl with a crush.
Sakura and Yugi were talking animatedly to their parents about their day at the beach. They weren't really listening, but they nodded at the proper intervals of silence. After they ate, they all sat by the fire were they roasted marshmallows and made s'mores. After their hands were cleaned of their sticky treat, they sat down by the fire again, and listened to Sarah read a story. It was called Pride and Prejudice. Yugi hadn't understood the fundamentals of the book when he was younger, but now that he was older, he understood them perfectly. He mostly just sat listening to his Mother's even tones, until the pattern of them lulled him into an easy sleep.
"Yugi, Yugi, get up. Come and see, Mommy and Daddy, come and see." Sakura whispered shaking him. Yugi took her hand and climbed out of bed, he had on teddy bear pajamas with teddy bear slippers to match. With his hair a little askew, and rubbing his eyes, he was a picture portrait of cute as he followed his sister. Apparently Atem and Yami agreed, because he could hear them coo behind him.
"Look, look." Sakura said pointing down to the beach through the bars of the patio railing. There was a faint sound of music trickling out from inside the house. Sarah and Takeshi Mutou were dancing to it barefoot on the beach. His Mother's face was that of pure joy as their Father dipped her, her hair cascading over the slightly wet sand. She said something to him and he laughed as he pulled her back up. The rich sound echoed over the beach, with the tinkling of little bells, being the sound of his Mother's laughter soon joining in. Their Father pointed at them, and Yugi and Sakura gasped, they'd been spotted, caught in their spying. Sarah turned to see what Takeshi was pointing at, and she let out a shout of laughter while shaking her head at her children as they scrambled back into the house.
Sakura and Yugi mimicked their parents and started dancing too, trying to copy their parents' graceful moves. They ended up falling a lot, and eventually getting tired and laying down on the couch, whispering secrets to one another. That was how their parents found them, snuggled under one blanket together half asleep. They picked them up and put them in their respective beds. Kissing them goodnight, and wishing them sweet dreams.
"They grow up so fast, Takeshi." Sarah whispered watching them fall asleep.
"Yeah, it's hard to believe he's already in school, and her Junior high. Before we know it our little Sakura blossom will be off to college and then finding some stud to run off with. And Yugi, our little game master, he'll be in high school trying to avoid being bitten by a vampire or claimed by a werewolf." Takeshi said sighing.
"You tease me, darling." Sarah said leaning into him.
"No, it's fact. We're raising them to be kind to all, and that kind of scent will attract many." Takeshi sighed.
"Well, let's just hope it doesn't attract the wrong sort of supernatural's to them, let's hope they attract the good kind with their hearts of gold. Come darling, it's been an exhausting day; let us take rest from it." Sarah said pulling their door closed.
"Well, bed was what I had in mind, but rest wasn't part of it." Takeshi said cheekily.
"Oh really, Mr. Mutou, do tell me more." Sarah responded seductively.
"Well, if you'll just follow me this way Mrs. Mutou, I'll be more than happy to show you what I mean." Takeshi said as his voice faded off. Yugi smiled as he fell asleep, life was perfect, and it was always going to stay that way. As his vision went black with sleep, he pulled out of his memories and opened his eyes.
Yugi just about collapsed onto the bedspread. He hadn't been aware of how much energy that stole from you to do something like that. As it was he was having hard time keeping his eyes open, as he undid their handcuffs. They could probably undo them themselves, but he didn't want them to break them either. As soon as they were undone, he collapsed on the bedspread, his face hitting the pillow.
"You okay, Yugi?" Yami asked rubbing his back as he removed his blindfold.
"I will be. That takes so much energy, how do you guys keep it up?" Yugi asked in heavy gasping breathes.
"We use our magic, but I suppose it took a substitute for you, since you don't have any." Atem said gently tossing his blindfold onto the ground.
"Thank you for sharing that with us though." Atem said kissing his cheek.
"What happened to Sakura, Yugi? Why is she so cold to our kind? If your Mother was raising her to be kind, what happened? What changed?" Yami asked.
"Her other best friend, Marchelle Gracy, her's and Mira's, was attacked by a rogue vampire and left bleeding in an alleyway. By the time she was found it was too late to save her, she'd lost nearly all of her blood. So the doctors gave her parents a choice, put her on life support were she would remain forever in a coma or let her go. They let her go; they didn't want to see her suffer. That same year, Sakura's heart grew cold, as did Mira's, and they made a pact to become Vampire Hunters. A triple threat to your kind. You probably thought Sakura hated rogues because of Sarugaki, that added to it, but it's a much deeper hatred than he could have produced." Yugi explained with a heavy heart and sigh, looking up at his amethyst canopy.
"Before that, Sakura wanted to be a doctor, Mira wanted to be a scientist, and Marchelle wanted to be a veterinarian. It's amazing how one little event can change an entire future." Yugi continued on almost absent mindedly.
"Do you consider Atem and I to be one little event?" Yami asked.
"No, I consider your decision to kidnap me to be that one little event that changed my life forever. You and Atem are much too…colossal to be considered little." Yugi said after searching through his brain for a semi-fitting word.
"And how exactly are we colossal?" Atem asked.
"Um, you are a big part of my life, um very…maybe colossal was a bad word to use. Um, you're very…influential, yes, you have a lot of influence in my life now." Yugi said trying and half failing to explain his choice of word.
"Hmm, Yugi, how do you feel about kids?" Atem asked straight out of the blue.
"Whoa, what?" Yugi asked surprised and slightly scared of whatever it was he was getting at at the same time.
"You heard me." Atem persisted.
"Well, I want them sure, but not right now, I'm still in high school. I mean later in life, we can adopt and all, but Atem I'm too young for kids." Yugi said embarrassed and earnestly.
"Okay, it was just a question." Atem said leaning in toward him. Yugi pulled away from the incoming kiss, looking at Atem with pure suspicion in his eyes.
"Every question has a reason behind it, what's yours?" Yugi asked.
"Simple curiosity." Atem said moving in to kiss him again. Yugi dodged it by placing his face into the pillow.
"Hey! Why are you avoiding my affection?" Atem asked.
"You didn't like the costumes and had to be forced into them. No affection for you." Yugi complained into the pillow.
"You're punishing us?" Yami asked in disbelief. Yugi nodded once.
"Oh really?" Atem asked attacking his sides with moving fingers. Yugi shrieked with laughter as he bunched up trying to move away from the hands that were tickling him mercilessly.
"Stop! Stop!" Yugi cried out.
"Nu-uh, not until I get my kiss." Atem said.
"No! You complained too much!" Yugi cried finally working out from under those fingers and onto the bedroom floor with a resounding thump.
"You okay, Yugi?" Yami asked leaning over the side of the bed.
"Yeah." He said rubbing his behind.
"Good, because I want my kiss since Atem is never going to get his." Yami said reaching out for him. Yugi tried to quickly scramble away but Yami was faster and had pulled him into his lap, holding him there, like a cat who didn't want to be held.
"No." Yugi said pushing at Yami as he kissed his neck.
"Oh yes, I insist." Yami said grinning and trying to kiss his lips again. Yugi pushed his head away as he tried to get loose again.
"You're never getting free, so stop wasting your energy." Yami said in his ear. So Yugi jammed his fist down where he knew it would hurt Yami most. He missed of course, he had terrible aim, but he released Yugi instantly to grab a hold of his supposedly throbbing crotch, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, as he took in deep breaths of air.
"Yami, are you okay?" Atem asked placing a hand on his shoulder.
Yugi knew it wouldn't take Yami long to figure out that Yugi hadn't actually hit anything. Still, his intentions had been cruel, so he looked around the room frantically, before fleeing the scene of his non-heartless crime.
I'm going to bed, maybe I'll actually get some real dreamless sleep tonight. Doubt it, but it's worth praying for. Thanks to everyone who have/are favorited/following this story. Also, thanks to everyone who reviewed Guest and user alike. Please review. Midnight ;p