Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Baby Love ❯ chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

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yamialex17 : I was a tad confused by your comments about the spoiler being incorrect.

Here's my take on the situation. - The bits of the story that are spoilers for the last episode are correct; but that is also the point where the story turns AU, so some things are different (since it would have been a very short story otherwise :p ). I'm very happy that you like the story so far though, and even happier that you told me so.

 

Nobodynow : Don't worry, you didn't bore me. I'm glad you're enjoying the story. If you read my author notes at the end, I've included an extra bit of explanation about the `once a month' updates thing.

 

Also many thanks to all the other people who are reading this.

 

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Pairing: AtemuxYugi

 

Warnings: This fic involves Yaoi (male x male relationships),

 

Mpreg (male pregnancy), and possibly other concepts not suitable for younger readers.

I accept no responsibility for anyone who is underage or hates Yaoi etc. and is still reading.

Rating - R

 

Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh. I am merely using the characters and situations, without permission, for the non-profit entertainment of myself, and hopefully others.

I also do not own “Knave : the collectible card game”. However, I do have permission to use it within this story.

 

Any references to “Bakura” during this story are referring to “Ryou Bakura”

 

 

Baby Love

Chapter 2

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A week had passed, and Yugi and Atemu had returned to Kaiba Corp. to collect the documents for Atemu's new identity.

Once they arrived, Kaiba handed them the documentation, and began to talk them through the details of Atemu's new name and history.

 

“As much as possible, I used the details that you gave me last week. Poor as they were! Your name is now Atemu Yami. I thought that the Japanese word for darkness would be an appropriate choice for your new family name. After all, you and those other spirit freaks always seemed so fond of playing those so-called `Games of Darkness'”

 

“You are the only child of Akunumkanon and Djedmaatesankh Yami. Your parents are both recently deceased, and were both Egyptian born naturalised citizens of Japan.”

 

“My people were eventually able to calculate your date of birth. Obviously, we just used the day and month and substituted an appropriate year. After all, no one is going to believe that you were born three thousand years ago.

 

“So your birthday's on the 4th of June,” read Yugi. “That's just two weeks before mine.” Yugi started to laugh. “Other me, with this date of birth, you're YOUNGER than me.”

 

Atemu smiled at his partner's amusement.

“Well, give or take three thousand years anyway,” he responded.

 

Seemingly ignoring the two, Kaiba continued.

“School records were obviously going to be a problem. Saying that you have just transferred from a particular school runs too many risks of people actually making enquiries at that school. To that end, you have been out of the country with your parents for the past two years, and were educated by various private tutors during that time.”

 

Since you will also need health insurance, I have arranged for you to be covered by a standard Kaiba corp. staff policy for one full year. My people will work with you to build up an accurate medical history for you. After that of course, you're on your own. You will be expected to find and finance your own health cover.”

 

“I have included a brief written life history for you. Memorise it.”

 

“Now, since I am a busy man, I would appreciate it if you would leave. I will contact you next week to make arrangements for our duel, as per your side of our agreement. After all, I do want to defeat the two of you as soon as possible.”

“We'll be looking forward to it Kaiba.”

“And thank you for doing all this for Atemu,” added Yugi as they left.

 

 

Atemu was muttering his fabricated history to himself as Yugi and Anzu pulled him along the road.

He and Yugi had done their own research in order to add extra details to it, and had even made up a few `memories' that Atemu could talk about if anyone ever asked him about his past. Nevertheless, he was still somewhat nervous. This was going to be the biggest test for his modern life story.

It was Atemu's first day of school.

 

They had successfully enrolled him at Domino high school the previous week.

After changing into indoor shoes at the entrance, Anzu bid the two farewell and carried on to the classroom, while Yugi escorted Atemu along to the school office.

 

“You'll be fine Other me,” he said comfortingly. “Everyone's nervous on their first day at a new school. No one's going to notice a thing.”

“The office will give you your timetable and introduce you to your teacher, who will take you to your class. I have to go now or I'll be late, but we'll all meet up with you at lunch. By the front entrance?” Atemu nodded agreement.

“I'll see you all at lunchtime then,” he said. Yugi started to leave, but turned back for a moment.

 

“Oh, and Atemu?”

“Yes?”

“No wearing your jacket as a cape.” He grinned. “After all, you don't want to be put on clean up duties as punishment for breaking the school dress code.”

Yugi hurried off, leaving a somewhat confused young pharaoh in his wake.

 

Yugi looked up as the teacher entered, then started as Atemu followed him in.

“No way,” he grinned. “This is great!”

“Class, we have a new student joining us today. Would you please introduce yourself and write your name on the board.”

“My name is Atemu Yami. Pleased to meet all of you.”

 

The lesson came to an end. Whilst the class waited for their next teacher to arrive, they all clustered around the new arrival.

“So, are you a relative of Yugi?” asked one of the students.

“No. I'm staying with Yugi and his family, but we're not related,” replied Atemu “The Mutous were kind enough to take me in when my parents died, since they were good friends of the family.”

At this tragic piece of news, everyone seemed to start talking at once.

“Your parents died?” “You're an orphan? That's so terrible” “How did your parents die?”

“Please, everyone,” Atemu said trying to quieten down his clamouring classmates. “Please, I really would rather not talk about my parents deaths at the moment.”

“Hey, at least give the poor guy a chance to grieve” put in Honda.

“Yeah, the whole thing hit him pretty hard you know,” added Jounouchi, continuing the pretence.

Fortunately, the teacher arrived at that point and the class settled down.

 

After school, they arrived back at the shop and had to relate the day's events to Yugi's Mother and Grandfather, who were relieved that things had actually gone okay.

“So, am I going to be receiving reports of you being top of the class from now on?” questioned Mrs. Mutou smiling.

“I doubt it,” chuckled Atemu. “You should understand, that virtually everything I know about modern history, mathematics, and life in general, I got as a result of sharing Yugi's memories,” he explained. “My grades at school are probably going to be very much the same as his.”

“Oh no, another underachiever,” groaned Nara. “What did I do to deserve this?”

“Of course since I'm living here, that does mean that Yugi and I can study together, and improve both our grades.” Atemu assured her.

“Study dates!” yelled Yugi grinning.

“Why am I not reassured?”

 

 

****

 

 

It was New Year. Atemu's first. The whole gang had made plans to meet up at the Shrine when they went with their families. Bakura wasn't able to be there since he was off spending New Year with his family, but had promised to phone each of them that evening.

 

As they reached the shrine, Yugi spotted a small blue teddy bear lying on the ground. Picking it up, he looked around him. Just a short way up the path to the shrine, there was a couple with a pushchair.

“I'll just be a moment,” said Yugi, as he ran ahead to where the other family was.

“Excuse me, is this your toy?” he asked.

“Oh, yes.” exclaimed the woman. “It must have fallen out of the pushchair. Thank you so much for finding it.” She dusted it off and tucked it into the chair next to the sleeping baby. “Taro would have been so upset to lose Teddy.”

Yugi looked at the baby and smiled. He thought that Taro looked very cute.

“Well, we wouldn't want you to be sad, would we” he said gently, crouching down by the pushchair. “How old is he?” Yugi once again addressed the parents, although his eyes never left the child.

“Nearly four month's old.” answered Taro's father proudly. “He's our very first child.”

As Yugi's family reached them, the couple thanked Yugi again, and carried on to the shrine.

 

They had met up with the others at the shrine. The large group then went to pray for a successful coming year. The five teens then left their families to talk, and went off to have a bit of fun.

As they went to have their fortunes told, Yugi glanced over to the family he had returned the teddy bear to. The baby appeared to have woken up, and was now being carried. He smiled, although there was a slightly sad quality to it.

 

After that, they laughed as Anzu dragged Atemu off to show him where to make wishes if he wanted them to come true. As he followed, Yugi wistfully looked over at where the Baby Taro was being fed a bottle on a bench by the shrine.

 

Yugi and Atemu sat on a bench. Their friends had gone to get some food, and the couple were waiting for them to return.

Atemu glanced over at Yugi. He was once again gazing at the young couple and baby, that they had met earlier. `Why is Yugi so interested in that family' wondered Atemu `He looks upset too. I wonder why?' He decided to ask.

“Is there something the matter Yugi?”

“What? No, nothing.”

“There must be something. You've been watching those people almost the whole time since we arrived”

Yugi looked across the square to where the aforementioned young family were walking towards the exit, and sighed.

 

“I suppose it just finally sank in. I'll never get to have that.”

“Never get to have what?” Atemu looked at Yugi, seeking further explanation.

“That.” he nodded his head over at the departing couple. “A child, a family of my own.”

“I never really thought about it, but I suppose I did always assume that one day I would have a child. And I'd get to take care of him as he grew, and I would teach him the joy of games and puzzles, just as Grandpa did with me.”

“But I'm never going to have that.” Yugi closed his eyes in an effort to stop the tears that were beginning to well up in his eyes.

Atemu drew Yugi closer. Holding the smaller duellist's head against his chest, he began to stroke his hair lovingly.

 

“I suppose that I also thought that I would eventually become a father,” mused Atemu. “As the ruler of the kingdom, it was even seen as my duty to produce an heir to carry on as pharaoh when I was gone.”

“I remember when I was small; my father would spend time with me, comfort me when I was upset or hurt, and guide and teach me in the way a pharaoh was supposed to act for when I succeeded him.”

“I suppose I did expect that I would also get the chance do the same for my children.”

“But with everything that happened, I never even had time to find a wife, let alone father a child.” He looked at Yugi thoughtfully.

 

“Yugi, do you have any regrets?”

“Regrets?”

“Yes. Do you regret doing any of this? Being with me?”

“I could never regret being with you. I love you.”

“You don't regret staying do you?”

“No. Although I do regret that neither of us can have the children that we thought we would.”

 

Yugi was quiet for a minute, just listening to his love's heartbeat.

 

“It's kind of funny really,” he began, “I don't think I was particularly gay growing up. I mean, I had a really huge crush on Anzu for so long, and I've never once been attracted to Jounouchi, Honda, or Bakura. But you were different. We were such good friends, and with the whole `sharing a body' thing, we were so much closer than most people could ever dream of being. I guess somewhere in that whole `saving the world' business,”

“Several times,” interjected Atemu.

“Several times,” smiled Yugi. “At some point, I guess, I stopped thinking of you as `just a friend', and started to fall in love with you.”

“Same here,” murmured Atemu, placing a gentle kiss on the top of Yugi's head. He had a thought.

 

“Isn't it possible that we could adopt a baby?”

“Not really,” came Yugi's reply. “You know as well as I do, that same sex couples aren't looked upon really favourably in society. We just don't fit the mould of what is expected. It's not going to be likely that we'll be allowed to adopt a baby, when there are plenty of normal average couples out there.”

“That's just stupid. You're kind, loving, and always thinking of others before yourself. Any child would be blessed to have you as a parent.” Yugi smiled at that.

“I wish society thought that way,” he whispered.

 

When the others arrived back, they found the two of them sharing a tender hug, as they attempted to come to terms with their dashed hopes and dreams.

 

 

****

 

 

Three years after Atemu gained his body; the gang were all still great friends.

Yugi and Atemu both worked two days a week at Kaiba corp. as games systems testers (amazingly, at Kaiba's request.), and of course worked at the Turtle Game shop the rest of the time, where they also still lived.

 

The game shop was doing very well, thanks mainly to the duelling reputations of its two employees.

Despite his duels against Kaiba becoming ever more challenging, Yugi had somehow managed to retain his title as `King of Games'.

Although, with the number of close calls that he and Atemu had both had (and even some draws), Yugi and Atemu knew that it was possibly just a matter of time before Kaiba did win against Yugi. Of course, that didn't mean that he would necessarily KEEP the regained title for long.

 

Anzu never did get enough money saved up to finance going to a dance school in New York. However, she didn't let that keep her from following her dream of becoming a dancer, and was able to get a place at the Domino City School of Dance.

 

Honda was working as a store clerk at a small supermarket in the centre of town. As he himself said, it wasn't as glamorous as other jobs but he was providing an essential service, since people always needed to buy food.

 

Bakura was perhaps doing the best of all. During his final few months at school, he had come up with an ingenuous new card game, which he had somehow managed to get Kaiba corp. to produce for him. `Knave' had become quite successful although it was nowhere near as popular as duel monsters yet. He was however living quite nicely off the royalties that he was making.

After school, Bakura had applied for, and actually passed the entrance exams for Tokyo University. Consequently, he spent most of his time away in Tokyo studying and attending lectures, although he wrote frequent letters to all his friends from school with whom he had shared such amazing adventures.

 

Jounouchi had actually managed to get a job where his tough guy attitude came in useful, and was working as a security guard at Domino museum. This did lead, however, to the group having many opportunities to tease him about his fears of all the possibly cursed artefacts at the museum.

 

The big change in the group however, was the fact that Yugi and Atemu had got married to each other. Just before they turned 19, they had wed in a nearly traditional Shinto ceremony, surrounded by just their family and their closest friends. They had had some problems trying to arrange a wedding, since none of them really seemed to cater for same sex couples. However, the priest at the local shrine had contacted them and said that he was truly impressed by the love and devotion that the two shared, and that he would be willing to rewrite certain parts of the wedding ceremony especially for them.

Atemu had taken Yugi's family name, and was now Atemu Mutou. The two had celebrated their first anniversary a couple of months earlier.

 

 

 

“What film are you all going to see?” asked Atemu. The two were getting ready for the next day. Yugi was going to the cinema with the gang, whilst Atemu would be staying behind to watch the shop.

“I don't know yet. We're going to see when we get there.”

“I wish I could go with you all.”

“Hey, you're the one who called heads on the coin toss.” Yugi smirked. “If you'd called tails, I'd be staying instead.

“I know,” sighed Atemu. “It's just a shame that Grandpa had to be away tomorrow.”

 

They entered their bedroom. The largest object in the room was their double bed, which, most surprisingly, was a wedding present from Nara Mutou.

Yugi remembered her words when she gave them the bed.

“As long as the two of you really have waited, you have my blessing.” Yugi couldn't help chuckling at that. With two parental figures, one of whom entered his room without knocking (on a regular basis), and one who had no hesitation about listening at doors, he and Atemu had very little choice but to wait.

 

Mind you, that didn't mean that they didn't experiment a little when they were alone in the house. He had smiled thinking about some of the less than innocent activities that had taken place on his old bed. It really didn't help that his mother had at that moment added

“Just try to keep the noise down.” He swore that the colour of Atemu's face, and probably his own, had matched his hair at that point.

 

As they prepared for bed, neither of the young men was aware that the next day would change their lives forever.

 

*****

 

Authors note.

 

Many thanks to Seers_atemu for beta reading this.

 

The card game `Knave' that I had Bakura inventing, is actually a real game, and is easily found online by typing “knave t c c g” into Google.

 

A few people have commented that they don't like my plans to update only once a month. Neither do I. However, this is the first thing I've ever written, and it did genuinely take me most of the month to write (then there's beta-ing, and editing etc.). I'm hoping to get a little faster with practice, but since I start up at Uni again this month, I will have lectures, assignments, working so I can buy those little luxuries (like food & electricity), and will have a lot less spare time. The once a month thing is to allow me to actually update this on a regular basis. And, as I said in chapter 1, If it goes well over a month without an update, feel free to start pestering me.

 

Flames WILL be ignored. However, comments, advice, and constructive criticism are all welcomed.