Alright, any other errors shall be fixed when I get home tonight from work. I do not own Yugioh, Snorgtees slogans, or that little script from Shrek, enjoy! [YUGI, YAMI, and ATEM]
Chapter 31
"Yes, I do mind actually." Yugi said back feeling a rising panic start to make itself known within him.
"Well, that's too bad. So these must be them, your boyfriends." Heba said back his eyes traveling to behind him.
"Don't you dare to even try." Yugi growled at him.
"When are you going to learn that people always like me better compared to shy little you?" Heba sneered.
"I don't know, we kind of like shy compared to over confidence." Yami responded as arms looped around his waist and pulled him back into a firm chest.
"Only because they're easy to control." Heba said rolling his eyes. Yugi shoved whomever's arms were around him off, and faced his cousin head on.
"No, they don't control me, I control them." Yugi spat at him.
"Beg your pardon?" Atem asked.
"And controlling them is simple. They don't listen to me, they don't get food. Or sex."
"Really? You have control over those two aspects in our life?" Yami asked.
"Wow, give the midget a prize." Heba sneered.
"You're only an inch taller than I am."
"But I'm still taller."
"You are to stay away from us on your little vacation time here, got it?"
"Nope! What are you afraid of, Yugi? That they might prefer a real man? As compared to you trying to be one?"
"How old are you?" Atem asked.
"No, I pretty sure they're quite happy with their choice of partner. I'm not a slut that sleeps around. I believe your parents referred to you as a man whore once, wasn't it?" Yugi threw out. Heba's jaw dropped at Yugi's choice of words.
"How dare you!" he said taking a step forward.
"Just keep in mind that if you hurt me, they kill you." Yugi said grinning and crossing his arms across his chest.
"Uh, that's not an exact, um, what's the word I'm looking for, um, not an exact…truthful statement. Yeah, let's go with that because I cannot think of the word." Yami said nervously.
"Still hiding behind the skirts of those stronger than you, huh, Yugi?"
"Not at all. When it comes to you, I have no problem laying you out flat." Yugi said drawing his arm back and making a fist.
"OKAY! You two clearly have family issues." Atem said picking Yugi up and pulling him away from his cousin.
"Put me down! I'm gonna teach him a lesson!" Yugi complained, beating Atem's arm with his fist. It probably didn't feel like anything more than a soft pat to the vampire though.
"Yeah, I don't think that's the best idea. Why don't you run along, Heba. It was nice to meet you by the way. I'm Atem, this is Yami, tell Sakura we have Mahad in custody." Atem said hoisting Yugi up and over his shoulder, and grabbing Yami's arm and dragging him off.
"Whatever." He said rolling his eyes and starting to walk off.
"Put me down! I demand to be put down!" Yugi ordered.
"Oh, and Yugi! The control you have over them is B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L, beautiful!" Heba shouted at him. Yugi screamed in aggravation. Heba snickered and walked around the corner.
"I hate him." Yugi groaned into Atem's back.
"Why?" Yami asked.
"I thought I already explained why."
"You sort of explained why."
"And that didn't bring you to any final conclusions?"
"Alright, as soon as we get you home, we are cheering you up." Atem said like it was final.
"Works for me." Yugi muttered.
"By the way, how exactly do you want us to remove this outfit? We could always play the pineapple stripping game." Yami suggested.
Yugi looked over at him from the corner of his eyes. He smiled, it was a small smile. His eyes held the same amusement from that morning. He licked his lips and chuckled slightly, but didn't answer Yami's question.
"What's so funny?" Yami asked in confusion.
"Oh, I'm sure you'll figure it out eventually." Yugi said his smile growing into a grin.
"What is so amusing?"
"It's a secret, for now."
"I don't like secrets."
"I know, but you're just going to have to live with them." Yugi said using a sympathy babying voice.
"Tell me!"
"Nope!"
"Yugi."
"Yami."
"We're home." Atem said throwing Yugi down onto the bed and attempting to climb on top of him. Yugi quickly rolled off the bed, and stood up.
"What's wrong, Yugi?" Yami asked walking towards him, reaching out for the buttons on his shirt. Yugi smacked a hand on his chest, stopping his approach.
"Oh no, only those who bought candy canes can are allowed to remove these clothes." Yugi said backing away from him.
"You said you weren't mad about that." Atem said in exasperation.
"And I'm not. Can you figure out why?" Yugi asked as he took of his elf shoes.
"Because you found a suitable punishment?"
"Exactly! Why should I be angry, when I can torture you with a strip tease?" Yugi said smiling with that same amount of amusement in his eyes that had been there on the way home.
"So cruel. You wear something so cute, and then don't even let us remove it for you." Yami complained.
"Cruel is in the eye of the beholder." Yugi responded taking off the tips on his ears.
"Well, we might as well lay back and enjoy. It's not every day you wiling take off your clothes for us." Atem said scooting over before grabbing Yami and pulling him down onto the bed.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Yami admitted getting more comfortable.
"Ready?"
"Proceed." They said together.
BANG!
"So this is your room." Heba said entering the room just as Yugi was about to undo the first button on his shirt.
"What do you think you're doing?" Yugi asked in harsh voice. Atem and Yami were just staring at him in disbelief.
"Oh, are you giving a strip tease? Well, okay, do continue." Heba said making himself comfortable in the middle of the bed between his mates. His mates just stared at the third occupant like he had grown a second head. Yugi made several noises, but couldn't get anything out. He dropped his hands, stomped into his closet and came back out in a different outfit.
"I'm going on a walk, get rid of him!" Yugi growled out as he stomped past.
"Well, he gives up easily. Now I can really have some fun with you two." Heba said flipping up on top of Atem. Yugi froze in the doorway, a crazed look coming into his eyes.
"Uh, that move wouldn't be wise, actually." Yami warned sliding off the bed to intercept Yugi who had taken a step towards them.
"Why not?"
"Because when you're a new mate, you're extremely territorial." Yami said glancing over at Yugi who took another step forwards.
"So you're saying that this other vampire is your property?"
"No, but Yugi might think that."
"Wha-OW!" Heba cut off his own words due to being grabbed by his hair and yanked off both Atem and the bed. He dragged him over to the door and threw him out into the stairwell.
"Get out of this palace and stay out of it!" Yugi screamed at him.
"When did you become so strong?" Heba asked rubbing the back of his head. Yugi gave him a look of great dislike before slamming the door in his face.
"Lock it." Yugi said pointing at the door.
"Okay, but is he-"
"Lock. It."
"Okay, Atem your lock is better than mine. Yours can't be duplicated." Yami said turning to the empty bed.
Click.
"Thank you." Yugi said watching as the door handle jiggled from the other side, but didn't open.
"So… are we still getting that strip tease?" Atem asked.
"No." Yugi said bluntly going into the other room and slamming the door.
"I don't like his cousin either." Yami said frowning.
"He's worse than Mutou Senior." Atem said shaking his head.
"Yugi, please come out." Yami said knocking on the door lightly.
"He always ruins ev-everything."
"Yugi, open this door." Atem said rattling the door handle.
Yugi sighed, leaning his head against the door he was sitting against. Tears flowed freely down his cheeks. Heba had always been mean, for as long as Yugi could remember. He couldn't remember a time that they had ever gotten along, that he had ever been nice. It had started when they were three. Yugi was taking a nap under the beach umbrella, and Heba came up kicking sand in his face. It had just gotten worse from there. From shoving him into pools, tearing his dueling cards in half, stealing any guy that had an interest in him away, for some reason Heba had always been a cruel person.
Yugi's eyes shut as he remembered as the times he had tried to be nice in the face of his cousin's cruelty. To introducing him to his friends, to including him in the games they played, sharing secrets with him, and offering assistance when he seemed to need help.
He was just shoved away, and treated like dirt in all of his attempts. So he had given up, and just started to ignore his cousin. This turned him into a meaner and crueler person. He took every insecurity Yugi had ever told him about, and shared them with the world on the internet. Kaiba had been able to take it down, but still, for three whole days they were up there for the world to see.
Now he just tried to fight Heba's fire with his own. But let's be realistic what fire did he really have? His parents raised him to be kind to everyone he met, no matter how many wrongs they did him. Kindness always wins out in the end, his Mother said. He wondered if she still thought that now?
Lips covered his, and he didn't even fight it, just melted into the comfort. Thumbs wiped at the tears falling from his eyes. He just sat there, not kissing back, just allowing them to kiss him, allowing Atem to kiss him.
There's more than one way to get into this room from the other one, Yugi.
He sighed, pulling away, leaning his forehead against his. Yugi heard a soft yelp, and a soft thump. He felt Atem shift slightly, before he let out a loose chuckle.
That was very graceful, Yami.
Shut up.
Yugi heard movement before he felt a presence sit down next to him. He heard Yami sigh, as a hand grasped one of his, the thumb rubbing circles into the back of his hand. The light touch comforting to him.
"What makes this spot so comfortable?" Yami asked.
"It's not." Yugi whispered.
"Oh."
"Nothing about this is comfortable anymore."
"What?" Atem asked shock heavy in his voice.
"I-I have a secret. Something I promised myself when I was healing in the hospital from Sarugaki's attempt on my life." Yugi said his eyes opening slowly.
"And that was?" Yami asked.
"I…I told myself that I…that I-"
"Shh, you don't have to tell us if you don't want to." Atem said scooping him up into his arms and into his lap.
"No, I-I do. I…I promised myself that I would never admit love for another person for as long as I lived. That way I would never be hurt again, you see? I would never be vulnerable…to that kind of pain ever again. But you're both making it so hard to k-keep that promise. I keep telling myself that I don't love you not yet, but I think I might…might already be at that point. It's admitting it to myself that's so hard. That's really stopping myself from saying those three little words. It's my own denial and fear that's making it so hard. And I'm sorry for that, you deserve so much better…so much better than what I can provide for you, have been providing for you." Yugi choked out his little speech in dry heavy sobs.
"Why are you telling us this?" Yami asked quietly.
"Because I'm trying to say them, I'm trying. I've known for awhile now that what I feel for you both is love, I just need to admit it to myself, before I can admit it to anyone else."
"Okay, Yugi, go to sleep." Atem said gently but firmly.
"No, I have a mountain pile of homework I need to do first." He said trying to climb out of Atem's lap. Atem's arms tightened around him like a steel cage, one Yugi found himself trapped in.
"No, you need to unwind and relax. You've been very stressed over the past couple of weeks, and now your cousin shows up early? I think you just went into overload." Atem said rocking him back and forth.
"No, I can handle it. I can handle him. I've been handling him since we were toddlers. So he'll be here for two and a half weeks instead of one and an a half, big deal. I'll handle it." Yugi said still trying to get out of Atem's arms, but he might as well as just have stayed still for all the energy he was wasting.
"How about this? Atem gives you a back massage and you relax for us for an hour?" Yami suggested.
"Hmmm, well I do like his back massages."
"Deal." Atem said and Yugi suddenly found himself face down in the bed.
"Wait, I didn't agree to-mmmmmmm."
"You didn't agree to what?" Atem asked nibbling carefully on his earlobe.
"Forget it, just continue with what you're doing." Yugi said waving it off.
The vampires laughed at him as Atem continued to massage every knot out of his neck and back. Yugi's tension lifted, as his muscles relaxed. He was close to sleep when he heard an angry yell from close by, Sakura's angry yell.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, HEBA!?"
"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I CARE THAT YOU WANTED TO SAY HI TO YUGI? AND SAYING HI? REALLY HOW DUMB DO YOU THINK I AM?"
Yugi scrambled off the bed and out from under Atem. He burst through the door and into his room, pressing his ear against the door. He smiled as he listened to Sakura chewing Heba out.
"…thought he would like to see me after not seeing me for five years." Heba said in a hurried tone.
"From past experiences of dealing with you two, near you will be the last place my baby brother will want to be."
"YOU'RE A COWARD, YUGI! CALLING IN YOUR SISTER TO DO YOUR DIRTY WORK!" there was a shuffle of feet, and a slight bang against the door.
"He didn't, his vampires did. You were distressing their mate, and they didn't like it. So they called me to come and collect you. Let's go, you have a lot of apologizing to do to Grandpa." Sakura whispered so quietly Yugi had to press himself against the door just to hear. There was a grumbled incoherent response and then the sounds of them both walking away.
"So…you guys still want that strip tease?" Yugi asked turning around to his mates grinning.
"Show us how dirty you can be." Yami whispered as he and Atem sat down on the bed.
"Okay, prepare yourselves." Yugi said slowly unbuttoning his vest.
[Time skip]
"Oh no, you just said you wanted a strip tease you never said wanted sex in addition to." Yugi said laughing as he ran down the steps in nothing but a long shirt that was two sizes too big for him and boxers.
"Get back here! You can't leave us like this!" Atem shouted after him as he heard scuffled movement followed by a loud thump. He winced looking back for a moment, wondering who had fallen, before shrugging and continuing on his way to the kitchens.
He laughed skipping down the hallways, waving at anyone he passed. He got a lot of strange looks, but he didn't care, Heba was gone and he didn't have to deal with him anymore…for today at least. Yugi turned the corner and stopped, Yami was leaning against the wall inspecting his nails at the end of it. He was wearing nothing but leather pants, his top half completely bare. Yugi frowned and looked behind him, looked at Yami, looked behind him and at Yami again. He sighed walking slowly up to him.
"Took you long enough." Yami said still inspecting his nails.
"I think I forgot something important." Yugi said in a morbid voice.
"What's that?"
"I'm dating vampires."
"How?" Yami asked confused.
"I have no idea." Yugi responded honestly.
"We bite you once a week, how could you possibly forget what we are?" Yami asked in disbelief.
"Why don't you help me remember after I get some food?" Yugi suggested walking towards the kitchens.
"Oh, no need, Atem's got it covered, and is waiting for us back in the room." Yami said hooking him around the waist.
"Why can't you guys just let me get my own food?"
"Cause that's no fun." He said biting his earlobe. Yugi winced as he pierced the skin.
"Oops, I'm sorry, Yugi." Yami said quickly licking it over. Yugi wiped off his ear on his sleeve. He didn't know why, but he found the whole licking the inside of the ear thing disgusting.
"Can we just go upstairs, I'm hungry." Yugi complained as his stomach growled.
"I'll bet, that was the longest strip tease I've ever witnessed." Yami said hoisting him over his shoulder.
"I can walk."
"So can I, only much faster."
"Wait-no!" Yugi yelled as he took off at a vampire pace. Next thing he knew he was looking at the color purple. It was a pretty color, but it would be prettier if it would stop spinning.
"Very nice, Yami, very nice. Come on, Yugi. Sit up, that's it, no, sit up."
A hand fit itself on the small of his back and tried lifting him up into a sitting position. That didn't feel as nice as laying down though, so he turned off of the hand and onto his side, lying back on the bed. The hand tried again, with the same results. He heard a groan of frustration before something on a fork was placed at his lips. He opened his mouth like a baby bird, but the morsel moved away, probably trying to get him to follow, but he didn't take the bait. He just closed his mouth looking sad.
"Alright, here, sit in my lap." Someone said as he was moved into that uncomfortable position again.
"I don't like this position." Yugi moaned his head flopping onto his chest.
"Well that's too bad, you need to eat, and in order to eat you need to be upright." They said back.
"Can't we just skip it tonight?"
"No, you're going to want the extra energy, trust me." Yugi now recognized that voice as Yami's.
"Really?"
"Yeah, really." he said before lips enclosed over his.
Yugi melted into the soft, gentle, coaxing touch. Oh, yeah, this was definitely Yami, he was after all the better kisser of the two. Yugi felt him smirk at that, before pulling away laughing loudly.
"I wouldn't be laughing, Yami. Atem is a thousand times better at sex." Yugi said looking to his right and seeing his usual tray of food sitting there. He climbed off of Yami's lap started to eat it in frenzy. Everyone had been really busy Tuesday so they had decided to hold dueling club today during lunch instead. As it was Yugi hadn't eaten anything as he had been too busy dueling some random kid who had challenged him to a duel.
"He should be. He's had a thousand years to practice every technique known to mankind. I think I'd be more worried if he wasn't better than me in that department." Yami replied back fiddling with the hem of the shirt he was wearing.
"Do you think I'm old, Yami?" Atem asked clearly offended.
"Very, but to Yugi you must be ancient."
"Well, I wouldn't say ancient."
"Thank you."
"The words I'd used to describe his age would be more along the lines of belonging in a museum." Yugi continued. Yami snorted into his hand as Yugi hid behind him attempting to avoid Atem's hands which were trying to tickle him.
"Come here." Atem said making another grab for him. He missed by a mile as Yugi dodged around Yami again.
"Wait, I thought I needed to eat." Yugi said grabbing a piece of sushi off the tray.
"Screw this food. We're moving on to the main exhibit of the night." Atem said flinging, literally flinging, the tray away from them. Yugi stared as it smashed against the opposite wall.
"You mean you?" Yami asked laughing. Atem stopped his mad grab for Yugi and turned on Yami instead.
"I…I liked this tray." Yugi said examining the tray which was now lying broken in half on the floor.
"Yugi, we have a hundred trays that look like that." Atem said looking over at him.
"Yeah, but this one was special, it brought me my food."
"We'll make it up to you." Yami assured him hooking an arm around his waist and pulling him closer to them.
"How?"
"With pleasure." Atem responded huskily.
Lips enclosed over his, slow, gentle, coaxing, Yami. Hands wandered down and slipped under his overlarge shirt. They pushed the shirt up revealing a pale smooth stomach. They rubbed it, massaged it, eliciting deep moans from him. They moved up further, pushing the shirt as they went. They tweaked and teased his nipples, making Yugi squirm and draw his mouth away from Yami's to let out hot and heavy gasps.
What's wrong, Yugi? I thought you liked my kissing?
N-not…fair.
What's not fair?
T-teasing!
You teased us for a good hour, I think you can handle a bit of teasing in return.
Noooo.
Yeeeees.
"Just suck it up, Yugi." Atem said kissing him.
"Mmmmm." Yugi moaned flipping them over.
"Interesting." Yami commented fingering his waist band.
Yami, no, not yet. Atem said grabbing his hands.
Why not? Yugi asked grinding his hips down into Atem's.
Oh, don't do that!
Do what? Oh, you mean this? Yugi asked grinding down into him again.
Yes, that!
Yes, do it. Okay. Yugi continued to grind against him. One could almost say he was dancing on top of Atem.
Uh…Yugi…stop.
You told me to do it. I'm doing it.
"No!" Atem said flipping them back over and jerking away breathing heavily.
"What's wrong, Atem? Can't take a little fire?" Yugi asked in a husky voice.
"Why are you being so naughty tonight? First with the strip tease, and now."
"You don't like it?" Yugi asked pouting slightly.
"Pah, I love it. Why can't you be like this all the time?" Atem asked attacking his throat.
"I don't have the confidence for it." Yugi said looking around his hair for Yami and coming up empty handed.
Yami?
Under you. Yami said a second after he touched Yugi's bare waist. Yugi jumped further up into Atem, making an odd noise of fright. Atem and Yami laughed at him, as Yami used the small space made to squeeze out from underneath him.
"That's got be…the funniest noise…you've ever made." Yami said through his laughter. Yugi retaliated by biting him hard on the collar bone.
"Ugh, what is it with you and biting?" Yami asked his laughter being cut short.
"It's the only way to get you guys to be quiet." Yugi said soothing the mark over with his tongue.
"Hmph, I can think of plenty less painful ways to shut us up."
"Show me one."
Yami obliged by slipping his lips over his and kissing him in a very aggressive way, pulling him away from Atem in the process. He just grunted, and pulled Yugi's shirt the rest of the way up and over his head. Forcing Yami to break contact for a few seconds, but he was back to his rough kissing in zero seconds flat.
Atem pressed his front side up to Yugi's backside. Moving his hands up and around his body to his nipples, he began to play with them, as separate hands moved down. Hooking behind his legs, they squeezed them gently, moving down further to cup the back of his knees and pull his legs so they entwined with Yami's. Yugi untangled his legs, and hooked them around Yami's waist instead. He then flipped them, unfortunately, off the bed.
WHUMP!
"Ow."
"Sorry." Yugi apologized. Atem was laughing above them. Yugi hmphed and leaned down, kissing Yami softly, spreading out on top of him, slipping one leg between his, and rubbing him with his knee. Yami moaned softly into his mouth, the sound arousing Yugi greatly.
"Now, even I'll admit that that is a pretty good show." Atem said from above them. Yugi felt one of Yami's arms move out from underneath him and reach up. Next second he was being flattened as something heavy fell on top of him.
"Owww." Atem moaned.
"I second that." Yugi groaned rubbing his lip. It felt slightly wetter than usual and Yugi could only assume he had busted it open when Atem fell on him.
"Let's move this party back up onto the bed." Atem said getting up and pulling Yugi with him.
"Only if you take me first." Yugi said twisting around in his arms and kissing him, slipping his bottom lip into his mouth.
Done. Yugi felt his tongue slip over his lip healing any cuts that might have been created there.
I was wondering if you might want to double up with us, Yugi?
Double up?
Yeah, you remember how that one goes, right?
Uh, isn't that the one here while Atem is taking me you take him?
Uh, yeah, but I was thinking that while Atem is taking you, you could be taking me?
No!
Why not?
Uh, because…you guys move too fast.
We'll go at your pace, promise. You set it, we'll follow.
I…I don't know.
Can we just try?
I, um…I don't…what if it doesn't work?
At least we tried, Dear.
I, um…okay.
Your pace, your rules.
M-my pace…isn't very fast.
Ha ha ha.
That's fine Beautiful, take your time. We want this to last all night.
Oh really?
Mmhmm.
Well, it can't. I have places to be tomorrow, remember?
Oh, yes, how could we forget the secret place you're going to tomorrow?
And Christmas shopping!
You shop for Christmas?
Err, Christmas presents. You give them to people you love and that are your friends.
Would we be in trouble if we didn't shop for these Christmas presents?
Worse than you are now.
I thought punishments weren't meant to be enjoyed?
You're right, they're not. I suppose we should all just head to the land of dreams now.
Uh! No!
I'm jesting, Yami, just jesting.
Enough talking, let's get down to business.
Yugi moaned loudly as he was hit with pleasure from both his front and back as Atem slammed into him, and Yami sat on him. He lay there, panting between the two, as they argued back and forth about something. Coming down from his slight high, Yugi caught little words of the conversation.
"Lovely…supposed to…could have…now what?" Atem asked.
"Thought…he…couldn't…problem?" Yami asked back.
"You guys are talking too fast. But more importantly, we need to somehow switch Yami down onto the bottom of the bed; otherwise, this double up thing isn't going to work." Yugi said squirming a bit between the two. He hadn't even felt them strip him, or seen them strip themselves. He really needed to pay better attention to what was around him, even while talking through the mind link.
"Okay, ready, Yugi?" Yami asked.
"For wha-whoa! Oh, head rush." Yugi said laying his head down on Yami's chest.
"Poor, human." Yami cooed patting his back.
"Baka vampires." He grumbled back.
"Okay, Yugi, you set the pace." Atem said rubbing circles into his hips.
"Can the room stop spinning first?" Yugi asked.
"So, delicate." Yami chuckled.
"That's what happens when you flip people over without warning. They become disoriented." Yugi complained.
"Oh, we gave you plenty of warning, you just weren't paying attention." Atem said back pulling out of him, and pulling him out of Yami.
"I thought you said I could set the pace?"
"Do you feel me slamming back into you?"
"Uh, no."
"Alright then."
"Okay, I'm going to start now." Yugi said moving back into Yami and feeling Atem move in behind him. They repeated the process, going slow.
[One minute later]
"It's not working!" Yugi wailed as he clung to Yami refusing to let him go.
"You barely even tried!" Atem complained still trying to pry him off of Yami.
"But I can tell that you want to go at a faster pace, and I can't match it."
"Its fine, Yugi, I'm fine going at your pace of fast."
"No you're not! Stop lying."
"Urrrrghhh."
"Just give it up, Lover, he's so not ready to double up with us yet. Not confident enough." Yami said casually, almost too casually.
"I am too. I am too confident enough." Yugi said looking up at him.
"Its okay, Yugi, we don't want to force you to do anything you're not comfortable with yet." Yami said running a hand through his hair.
"Move, Atem." Yugi said leaning back against him a hard look coming into his eyes.
"As you wish." Atem said moving out of him. Yugi started to move at a rapid pace in and out of Yami, Atem following the pace easily. It was only after Yugi had released, and Yami and Atem had switched positions on him, that he realized what Yami had done.
"I really hate reverse psychology." He grumbled into Atem's chest.
"Hmm, it worked though." Yami said his chin on his shoulder.
"I don't care if it worked, I still don't like it." Yugi said throwing him a look.
"Ready when you are." Yami said grinning like the Cheshire cat.
"Yeah, yeah." Yugi said bracing his rather shaky arms on either side of Atem's waist and sitting up as much as he could with Yami in him.
"Whoa! He said when you're ready, Yugi." Atem said grasping his hips before he could even move.
"I am ready." He grumbled swatting the hands away with some difficulty.
"You sure?" Atem asked looking at his shaky arms.
"Yes."
"Okay, if you're sure."
"Move, Yami."
"As the Prince commands." Yami said teasingly pulling out of him. Yugi started out slow before setting the same rapid pace he had set with Yami earlier. Yugi released and collapsed on top of Atem.
"Wanna go again?" Yami asked wiping some sweaty bangs off his forehead as he pulled out of him.
"No. I have places I need to be tomorrow and I'd much rather be able to walk to them, thank you." Yugi said as he pulled out of Atem and rolled over onto the bed.
"Or we could just carry you everywhere." Yami proposed.
"Noah, I'm shopping for your presents tomorrow. You can't come with. That's the thing about presents; they're supposed to be a surprise."
"Fine, fine, we'll stop bugging you about it." Atem said throwing up his hands in defeat.
"If you dare to follow me around tomorrow, I shall try to follow you two around on your two week trip." Yugi threatened his eyes narrowing.
"No, you won't. We'll make sure of that." Atem said not even missing a beat.
"Come on, I want it to be a surprise. Besides with Jou around and that one vampire following us, how much trouble could we possibly get into, uh, besides the norm?" Yugi asked exasperated.
"He has a point." Yami pointed.
"Fine, you can go." Atem conceded.
"I wasn't asking for your permission." Yugi said in frustration.
"You have it anyway." Atem said turning onto his side back facing Yugi. Yugi huffed before turning his back on Atem too. He pulled the covers they had kicked to the end off the bed earlier up over the three of them. Yami just shook his head sighing, before closing his eyes, and heading off to dream land. Yugi followed after, and Atem soon after him.
He scrubbed, and scrubbed and scrubbed at it. It didn't seem to make a difference though, if anything, the red mark upon the crystal just seemed to grow. He still scrubbed at it though, with the once white cloth he had found on the ground. It was now a deep red, almost black.
Atem and Yami stood on the other side of the crystal arms open, wide smiles, eyes full of love. The more he scrubbed at the crystal though, the bigger the mark grew, the more their smiles faded, the look of love slowly leaving their eyes. It grew and grew, until Yugi could only see them through a small peephole, and what he saw frightened him.
They shook their heads slowly, looking upon the ground, before looking at each other. Without even a glance in his direction, Atem wrapped and arm around Yami's waist, and Yami wrapped and arm around his shoulders. They started to walk away…away from him.
Yugi screamed throwing himself at the crystal wall before trying to run around it. A crystal wall slammed down in front of him. He tried going the other way, the same thing happened. He tried going around the walls the last way, by going backwards slightly, his back hit a wall behind him.
Yugi fell to his knees, he was trapped, completely trapped. That's when the worst of it started to happen, blood started to fill the crystal container he was in. He looked up, noticing that it wasn't falling from above him, but seeping off the walls. He screamed, pounding against the wall, watching as Atem and Yami continued walking on, as if they couldn't hear his cries for help. Didn't want to hear him crying out to them for help. He started to slam his shoulder against the wall hoping for it to form some kind of crack in the stone.
It did no good, it was up to his knees by the time he realized it was a hopeless cause. He was going to drown. Drown in his fear, mistakes…love. He was going to drown in his love for them. It was his entire fault really, just three simple words. Simple, but so difficult to say. He backed himself into a corner, and cried, just cried, letting it all go. Losing Honda as a friend, almost being killed by someone he thought he had loved, trying to take his life, being picked up by new vampires, practically losing his sister, October, trying again to take his life, and falling in love again.
He cried, shedding a tear for each event that had happened in his life over the past two years. With each tear he cried the pool that had already been rising around him rose faster, until he was breathing in the mixture of blood and salty tears. He was drowning, drowning, in fear and love. Why did those two things always go hand in hand with him?
"Yugi….Yugi, wake up! Come on, wake up, Yugi! That's it, wake up, that's it."
"W-what's going on?" Yugi asked his vision blurry as he opened his eyes.
"Ra, you were dug in like a tick." Yami complained.
"You stopped breathing for about a minute, that's what's going on." Atem said.
"Oh." Yugi looked away from them down to his hands.
"Do you want to talk about that dream you had?" Yami asked rubbing his back.
"No." Yugi said shaking his head a little.
"Okay."
"It's so simple." Yugi muttered.
"Huh?" Atem and Yami asked together.
"I guess that's why it seemed so complicated, why I was making it so complicated."
"Yugi, you're not making sense." Atem said hooking a finger under his chin and drawing his eyes up to his.
"I know. It's only just made sense to me."
"What has?"
"Everything." Yugi said unhooking hic chin and lying back down. He closed his eyes and was asleep before they could say another word.
"GUARDS! SEIZE HIM!" Yugi whipped around at Atem's voice. He spun in circles trying to see who it was the guards were seizing. He finally found it to be a sobbing Yami, who was thrown at Atem's feet, a knife clattering to the floor.
"Why'd you do it?" Atem asked calmly.
"H-he was g-g-going to k-k-kill you. I h-heard them t-t-talking about it." Yami sobbed.
Yugi took two steps closer to Yami to see there was blood on his hands and the knife. Yugi drew back, gasping, a hand covering his mouth. He looked around to an injured man with his leg being wrapped. Looking closer, Yugi could swear he had seen him before. A light clicked in his brain as one of the men leering at Yami in a different memory dream. A long time ago, a couple of months ago to be exact.
"Yami, I saw the glint of his knife as soon as he entered the room."
"Then why didn't you do anything!?"
"Silence slave! How dare you talk that way to your Pharaoh." One of the guards said smacking him across the throne room floor. Yugi looked over to Atem to see him curling his hand into a tight fist. He looked as if he wanted to rise and go comfort Yami, but he must have known better than to show favoritism, to show weakness. Atem didn't say a word he just nodded to two guards, and then to the one that had hit Yami. They moved as one restraining him, and forcing him to his knees.
"Take my servant back to my room, and teach this guard that he's not to touch what isn't his." Atem hissed out. Yugi watched as two guards tried helping Yami to his feet, but he remained as limp as a wilted flower. In the end they dragged him from the room. The guard they hoisted to his feet, and then started to force him from the room, kicking him on occasion when he didn't move fast enough.
"What are you going to do?" Isis asked as soon as Yami's feet disappeared.
"I don't know."
"He was just trying to protect you." Isis stressed.
"And in the process hurt the son of the Roman Empire." Atem said motioning towards the young man.
"Did you really see the knife?" Mahad asked.
"No, not until it was far too late. What was he thinking? He could have been hurt or worse, killed." Atem muttered staring at the young Roman.
"I believe the only thing on his mind was his Pharaoh."Isis said gently touching his shoulder.
"Go heal any injury he acquired from that scuffle." Atem said motioning her away.
"Yes, Pharaoh." She said bowing and leaving.
"Seth."
"Yes, Pharaoh?" He asked suddenly at his side.
"What do you two think I should do with them both?" Atem asked sitting back in his chair and looking for guidance.
"With Yami, no food for two days starting tomorrow." Mahad supplied.
"And the Roman?"
"Confine him to his rooms for the rest of his stay, and if he is to leave them, with a guarded escort of your best guards." Seth supplied.
"Very good." Atem said motioning over two of his finest men. He told them to take the young Roman to his room, and keep him there under heavy guard. They nodded and helped the Roman to his feet, and escorted him to his room.
Atem sighed before dismissing his council and getting up. He made his way back to his rooms, opening the door, he found them empty. Frowning, he checked Yami's room, it too was empty. The bathroom deserted. He flung open his doors in fury, he had told them to bring him back here.
"Where is he?" he asked of his guards outside his doors. They looked at each other, before looking past him into the room.
"Uh, we…put him on the bed." one said. Atem looked back at his bed, really looked at it. It was empty of its blankets and sheets. Linens just didn't disappear.
Looking around the room with a sharp eye, he saw where they had vanished to, around one of the bars of the banister on the balcony. Walking over and looking down, he saw that they create a nice little rope down into his private gardens.
"Find him." Atem said quietly looking at his guards. They sprung to attention and scampered off. Atem however, took Yami's way down into the garden. Looking around, it wasn't that hard for Atem to find which way it was that Yami had gone his scent was heavy on the wind. Pulling apart some bushes, he found him fast asleep on the ground, a few cuts on his arms, which meant he had been gone before Isis had shown up.
Sighing, Atem reached down and scooped him up, leaning down he healed the cuts on his arm with his tongue. Sitting down with him in his lap, Atem just held him close. He had been so scared when he saw Yami spring up in front of him like that, afraid that he would lose him.
"I'm a vampire, remember that, Yami? You scared me jumping in front of me like that. I would have simply pulled out the knife before knocking him unconscious by sending him flying across the room into the opposite wall. It'll take much more than a dagger the size of a pinky to kill me." Atem said quietly rocking Yami back and forth.
"What about one drenched in poison?" Yami asked opening his eyes.
"It still wouldn't have mattered. I need my blood to be my own for that to work and since it's not, poison has no effect on me."Atem said pushing back a stray bang.
"That's good. Am I still your servant? Or are you moving to a different part of the palace?" Yami asked quietly looking up at Atem just slightly below his eyes.
"Anyone who would jump in front of a knife for me has more than enough right to keep their position in my palace." Atem said leaning down to press a kiss against Yami's forehead, nose, cheeks, and last his lips. It was short though, so brief, Yami wouldn't have even had time to kiss Atem back before he pulled away.
"Can you do that again?" Yami asked.
"No, when you're older, we'll share a better kiss, promise."
"Okay, Pharaoh."
"It's Atem."
Yugi shot up to the sounds of his alarm going off. Today was the day! Yugi threw off his blankets, and climbed out of bed. It was when he was stretching that he realized that he hadn't had to climb over anyone to get out of bed. Turning back to the bed, he saw that it was empty.
Where'd you guys go?
…...
Hello?
…...
Atem? Yami?
…...
ARE YOU OKAY!?
Whoa! Hey, why are you yelling?
Oh, thank Kami.
What's wrong?
Nothing, you're fine, nothing's wrong.
Did you need something?
Where'd you guys go?
We had a meeting about the Christmas Eve ball. Keep in touch today, okay?
I will. Oh, and I'm not going to eat the drug today.
That's fine. Keep yourself safe.
I will, promise.
"Okay, now what to wear." Yugi said to himself wandering into his closet. He grabbed his 'come to the dark side we have cookies' shirt, a pair of loose cargo pants, and a hoodie that said 'dear algebra, stop asking us to find your X she's not coming back'. He threw on his tennis shoes, brushed his teeth and hair, and grabbed his winter coat before heading out. He ducked back into the room, he had almost forgot his wallet and phone. That wouldn't have been very good.
He went down to the meeting room, ducking inside he went to the front of the table and sat down in the throne. He waited to be noticed since they were busy pouring over something on the table.
"No, he needs to be placed on the opposite side of the room, as far from us as possible." Atem muttered sketching something in.
"Should we sit Sakura with him?" Mahad asked.
"Yes."
"And I'll sit next to her."
"No." Atem and Yami shot down together.
"Well, someone needs to keep an eye on her."
"Leave that to Yugi." Atem said falling back in his chair, only to jump right back up again as he had landed on Yugi.
"Ra! Yugi! You scared me!" Atem exclaimed whipping around.
"Okay." Yugi said laughing standing up. He pulled Atem down into a brief kiss before moving to Yami and doing the same.
"Aren't you supposed to be meeting Malik and the others soon?" Marik asked.
"Yeah, but I wanted to say goodbye properly before I left." Yugi said pulling away and turning to leave. He didn't even take a step before he was squished between his two mates in hug.
"A proper goodbye includes a hug too." Atem said.
"I'll have to remember that two weeks from now." Yugi said quietly.
"Can we get back to the important matter at hand please?" Seth asked in an annoyed voice.
"Yeah, alright." Yami said letting him go first followed by Atem.
"Bye, I'll see you guys later tonight!" Yugi said running out and towards his next destination.
[Time skip]
"So, this is it?" Yugi asked looking at the rather run down building.
"Yep, this is the place." Malik said confidently walking inside.
"You're sure?" Jou asked holding the door open for the rest of them.
"Yep, CHARLIE!" Malik shouted through the store.
CRASH! THUMP! Groan.
"What's the idea yelling through my store, huh?" a greasy haired man with a beer gut asked coming from upstairs.
"He's taking our blood." Jou asked.
"Yep!"
"I don't Malik, suddenly this idea doesn't seem so good anymore." Yugi said uneasily.
"Just sit down you scaredy cat." Malik said shoving him into a seat.
"Alright, here's how this works. You choose the chocolate while I take your blood. Then you eat this helping of broccoli and get the hell out of my shop before the hunger hits." He said throwing a book into Yugi's lap while tying off his arm and putting a needle into it. He shoved some broccoli in his direction before hooking up a tube to the needle, and a bag to that.
"Uh okay, but I need you to take two pints of my blood." Yugi said.
"Yeah, yeah, Malik already told me all about it."
"Okay." Yugi said looking down at the book and open it. He went to the page with the flavored sweet chocolate and chose pomegranate for Yami, and pineapple for Atem. By the time he was done, Charlie had taken two pints of his blood and was forcing he broccoli into his hands.
Yugi only thanked Kami that the people at IHOP had messes up and given them the drug, Ryou included, poor thing. He couldn't stop blurting out random words. Yugi ate the broccoli graciously, as he felt his strength waning. Losing a lot of blood did that to you. Yugi moved out of the chair and into another one as Jou was shoved into the chair next.
Yuuuuugiiiiiii.
Yeeeeeees?
Why do we feel so much exhaustion coming from you?
Shopping has a tendency to do that to you.
Liar.
It's one of your presents, I can't tell you.
How about a hint?
No.
Are you at least safe?
Of course, oh, and I took the drug today after all.
Thought you weren't going to?
I wasn't, but the people at IHOP gave it to us anyway, all of us. Tell Seth Jou needs the drug for dinner, and we're feeding Ryou tonight too.
But Seth says he doesn't know how to measure out the drug.
Uhhhh, then we have two guests tonight. Hey, why don't we just invite Malik over too and be done with it?
Sigh, whatever.
"Come on, Yugi. The broccoli works faster on the wolf than anyone else. Chocolate pigs! Malik says he'll meet us at Golden Corral." Ryou said.
"Alright, you sure you'll be fine, Malik?" Yugi asked.
"Yeah, I'll be fine." Malik said waving them off.
"Okay, come on, Jou." Yugi said.
Talk to you guys later.
Love you.
Yeah.
"Yugi?" Ryou called already at the door.
"Uh, coming." Yugi said shaking his head and walking after them.
[Time skip]
"AND STAY OUT!"
"Well, we're never going to be able to go there again." Yugi sighed.
"We'll have to tell Kaiba that, flying ballerinas, Golden Corral is no longer an option for the bottomless pit." Ryou said annoyance coming across his face.
"I really wish we knew what caused that side effect." Yugi said sighing.
"I know right?" Malik asked.
"Come on, we still have Christmas shopping to do." Jou complained.
"Hey at least we all ate our fill before we were thrown out, right?" Yugi asked swinging his arms around Jou's and Malik's neck.
"Always a bright side to things, isn't there, Yugi?" Ryou asked.
"If you look for it." Yugi said smiling.
"Let's go, I want to get back to the Stone palace before it gets dark and they come looking for us." Malik said ducking out from under Yugi's arm and whistling for a cab. They all piled into the back seat and headed off for the mall.
[Time skip]
"Go figure that we actually wouldn't get out before dark." Malik said shaking his head. They were all laden down with bags heavy with items that they had gotten for everyone they knew and loved. Yugi looked down at the bags that had Yami's and Atem's presents in them. He really hoped they liked them.
"Come on, let's go home." Yugi said before whistling for a cab. They piled in and headed for Ishizu's house and then Stone Palace.
By the time they reached it, it was going on 11:00 pm. Atem was standing in front flanked by Seth and Marik. They were in trouble, then again it wouldn't be a normal day out if they weren't.
"Do you have any idea as to what time it?" Atem asked in a very angry voice.
"Uh, late?" Ryou asked.
"Atem, I missed you!" Yugi said throwing himself at him.
"This doesn't get you out of trouble." Atem said not even bothering to return the hug.
"Eh, it was worth a shot." Yugi said shrugging.
"Did you guys already eat dinner?" Seth asked.
"Yeah, at the mall." Jou said nodding.
"Good, then we can go home." Seth said grabbing Jou and leading him away.
"Hey! I'm not a child! I can walk by myself." Jou complained as the two faded in darkness.
"Come Malik, I'm hungry." Marik said waving Malik over.
"Alright." Malik said walking over to him.
"I'll take you home, Ryou." Atem said walking down the steps.
"There's no need, I'll just take the cab we rode here home." Ryou said climbing in.
"Wait, wouldn't it just be easier to go across the beach?" Atem asked grabbing the door before he could close it.
"No, Atem!" Yugi shouted too late.
"I'm not wanted in the caves. I'm going home. Where I lived before I ever encountered those two bastards." Ryou said yanking the door out of Atem's grasp and shutting it. The cab driver drove off as soon as Ryou nodded to him.
"Ryou hasn't gone back since the last week of November. He won't tell us what happened, but it had to be something big if Ryou has trouble forgiving them for it." Yugi said quietly before climbing the last of the steps and into the warmth of the Palace.
Okay, I'm pretty sure it was last chapter that it was mentioned but someone was confused by the side effects. Don't worry, that explanation is coming, I'm going to explain it in deeper depth. So many impatient people for M-preg, it'll get here when it gets here. Patience, people, patience. I'm trying to answer all your questions in the story so they're easier to understand. Right then, I'd like to thank everyone who have/are favorited/following this story. I would also like to thank everyone who reviewed Guest and User alike. Please review. Midnight ;p