Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Broken Dragon ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 5 )

Disclaimer: I don’t own Yu-Gi-Oh   A/N: Onto the next chapter!  Sorry for making you all wait!   Broken Dragon   Chapter 6   Jou        What the hell had Kaiba just said?  Did he just say the word…nah, he couldn’t have said it, and it wasn’t like him.  Did he seriously just say that word?  No way, I can’t…      “What did you just say?” I asked, wanting to make sure I heard it right.      “I love you.”  Damn, I guess I had.      “I don’t believe this,” I said as I stared at him.  He turned to face where he thought my voice was coming from and I found myself standing up and backing away.      “Jou…” His voice trailed off and he laughed sadly. “I didn’t want to say it like that.  It wasn’t how I was planning to say it.  I wanted it to be more…romantic or something.  I don’t think you believe that though.”  I came forward again and sat down on the bed.      “Why?” I asked. “How can you if you tease me and harass me at every possible opportunity and make my life a living hell whenever you can?”      Kaiba didn’t respond to me at first, he looked away and brought his hand up to his face.  The silence between us was uncomfortable for me and I wished he would respond. “Katsuya, I…I was scared,” he said. “There, I admit it.  I was scared of rejection.  I was scared how I’d be thought of if people found out I liked men, especially after I myself found out I liked you…and that turned into love for me.  After seeing how you guys accepted Yugi and Yami like that, I thought maybe I had a chance…but old habits are hard to break and I didn’t know what I was going to do.  Now…now I don’t have my sight anymore, I’m just weak and helpless and I’m going to have to depend on people more so than ever before.  Katsuya…”  His voice trailed off and silence fell between us again.   Yugi        Atemu and I were waiting on baited breath for the test results to come back to us about the children.  Atemu was more worried than I was I and he hadn’t let go of my hand since he’d been forced to sit on the table.  Squeezing his hand gently as we watched the doctor come back in he smiled faintly at me and we waited for the doctor to speak.      “Well, your results came back positive,” the doctor said. “I still don’t know how a male could become pregnant but I guess I’m going to have to accept it.  Your results are very positive and showing high enough levels so it’s quite possible Mr. Atemu you’re carrying twins.”      “Are they healthy?” I asked him.  The doctor wasn’t a bad guy, he actually accepted us as homosexuals quicker than I thought he would have, he didn’t seem to mind.  At the moment though, I just wanted to make sure nothing was going wrong.      “Extremely,” he said. “You won’t be able to see a fetus for some time from either of them but they are developing on the nine month schedule from what I can tell.  I can prescribe some nutritional supplements I want you, Mr. Atemu to take along and then as the birth nears I will have another supplement that you should take for about a month before the children are born.”  The doctor handed Atemu a script which he took and handed it to me, and I slipped it in my pocket.  Atemu still had a lot to learn about this world, including the world of drugs…not the bad kind, the kind like nutritional supplements and pain killers, antibiotics and the like, those kinds of drugs.  Come to think of it, I didn’t know all there was to know about that sort of thing either…maybe I should start studying.      “Thank you,” Atemu and I said in unison.  It was also pleasant to know he didn’t question our similar looks.  I think he figured it was better not to ask.  I wouldn’t know how to begin to explain it, so I was glad he didn’t ask.  He let us leave so I helped Atemu down and we headed out the door and out of the hospital to head home.      “Aibou, think about it…twins…” he trailed. “I don’t believe it myself really but…a family.  I never had one in Egypt and now I have more than I ever dreamed of…”      “I’ve never had a family either Atemu,” I said with a raised eyebrow. “It’s new to the both of us.”      “Yeah, but this is the first lifetime you’re living.  I’m on my second,” he said sadly and his head drooped.      “Don’t be so down Atemu,” I said. “Technically you could count this as your first lifetime because you never did finish in Egypt…”      “Yeah, but technically I did die and this is a new body.  Even Kana can’t give me my old body; it’d be like a mummy.  Wait…did she give me my old body, just restored it to how it used to be?”  Atemu made a face and looked at his body, pinching the inches of skin. “Did this used to be old…rotting skin…”  Great, he was thinking about things he really shouldn’t be concerned with.      “Atemu snap out of it,” I said. “Fine, let’s just say you’re in your second life, how’s that?”      He looked relieved. “That’s better.”  He placed his hand on his stomach. “Twins…I wonder if it’ll be a boy and a girl or a girl and a girl or a boy and a boy?”      “We know one will be a girl, remember?  One of the stipulations was to name one of the kids Kana…”  I let my voice trail off and Atemu sighed.      “It is a pretty name and all but I’d prefer a different name.  The price I pay for coming back to life,” he growled.      “Think of it this way, we get to name the other one whatever we want.  If it’s another girl, you can pick it.”  I smiled at him and he frowned. “What?”      “So if it’s a boy you pick the name?” Atemu asked.      “No, not like that at all Atemu, never mind,” I said. “We’ll both pick the name, how’s that?”      He didn’t respond for a moment just walked a little ways ahead of me and paused in his step. “You know Yugi, I think you’re handling this better than I am…but then again, you’re not pregnant…”      “What are you talking about love?” I asked, walking up to his side.  He grabbed onto me and pulled me into his embrace.  I felt slightly embarrassed this being in the middle of the street and all but it was okay.  He had become increasingly moody lately and I just had to take it as it came.  Maybe I was handling it better, but I would handle it most likely just like Yami was handling it right now, panicking and not understanding anything.  I really didn’t either though, come to think of it.      “You don’t have to go through what I’m going through,” he said. “I’d almost say you’re lucky.”     I gasped. “How can you say that Atemu?  You’re doing what men for centuries have never been able to do!  I love you now more than ever simply because you’re willing to do this!  I would love to be in your situation.”  In some ways I would, in some ways I wouldn’t.      “Kana could still do that you know,” Atemu said with a faint smile. “Then we’d both be pregnant and panicky.”  I smiled at that as well. “Yugi, you’re going to have to keep me sane throughout the pregnancy and even afterwards, like if I have to actually nurse and stuff.  Be my sanity love, will you?”      “Aren’t I already?” I asked and slipped my hand into his. “Come on, let’s go home.  We don’t want to miss dinner and you’re eating for three now.”  His laughter followed and I smiled again.  We’d be a wonderful family.   Jou        “Does this make us a couple now?” I asked, breaking the silence that had fallen between us.      “Say what?” Kaiba asked and I shifted on the bed so I was directly facing where he was sitting up, so I was looking at his front, kinda.      “You admitting you love me, does this make us a couple?” I asked.      “But you didn’t say anything about how you feel about me!” Kaiba said. “How the hell do you think that my admittance alone would make us a couple?  I’d love that of course but it isn’t a one way thing.”  I smiled and stuck out my tongue, feeling childish but loads better now that I knew.  He couldn’t see what I was doing anyways, not like it mattered.  Well, he couldn’t see, but he could feel.  I might as well show him how I felt rather than admit it.  I won’t tell him until we’ve at least had a date.  I scooted closer to him and cupped his face. “What are you doing Jou?”
     “Showing you how I feel.”  I whispered these words as I captured Seto’s lips in a small kiss, nothing to big, nothing to grand…yet.  I made sure he felt the small fire I was pouring into it before breaking away and smiling. “That makes us a couple then.  I gotta get going now, but if you want to go out sometime, I guess after graduation would be best, you should know my number…or at least where I live…”  I let his face go and stood up.  He looked in my general direction, his blind eyes widened in disbelief. “Say moneybags, I’ll still help you up to that podium, unless of course the principal says no or something like that.  Walking down that graduation carpet really that big of a deal to you?”      “Yes,” he said and I nodded, knowing once again he couldn’t see me. “It’s a big deal to me too Seto, don’t get me wrong on that.  Anyways, I’ll see you later.”  I left without saying another word although I made plenty of noise as I opened the door to tell him I was going.  “Goodbye.”  His voice followed me out into the hallway and I bumped into a small figure who had been just outside the door.      “OW!” he exclaimed and I looked down to see no one other than Mokuba.      “You were listening in?” I asked, narrowing an eyebrow at Mokuba’s now beaming face.      “Don’t worry about a think Jou, you’re first date together’ll be super romantic, no matter how much Seto’s worried about being blind.  The company can take care of itself for a while as Seto adjusts, so don’t worry about that either.  I can run it too a little you know if I have to,” Mokuba said. “It’s not like I’m completely oblivious to anything my brother does.”      “What’s this about a date?” I asked. “You little runt, you were planning on that!”      “Yep, and now that the plan for that is done, my date plans can be arranged.  Don’t you worry about a thing!”  He seemed a little to happy on that subject of getting Seto and I together.  I sighed…if I was with Seto that made Mokuba my brother or something then, right?  Argh, I’ve never been in a relationship before, what the hell was I going to do?   Yugi        I went to the fridge to get an icepack.  Atemu just had a bout of morning sickness this late at night and had bruised my arm as he had held it while…upchucking.  It hadn’t been a pretty thing to hear, I closed my eyes the moment he began to…use the toilet.  He said he wanted me there for support but I think he just wanted to hurt something that was made of flesh and since Grandpa was already in bed I was the only other soft thing around that he could grab.  As if he almost didn’t damage the porcelain the way he grabbed onto it with his other hand.  As if he didn’t damage the sink afterward as he was rinsing his mouth out.  As if he didn’t damage his pillow as he was trying to get it to be more comfortable when we tried to get to bed again.  I put the icepack on my arm and sat down in a kitchen chair with a sigh.  Atemu really had it rough.  All I could do was take this abuse.  I smiled though because even though it hurt, he didn’t mean it.  He was just getting used to it all.  First he had to get used to life here and then he had to deal with a pregnancy.  That was rough.  It was worth it though.  He was carrying our children and we were able to be together.  That was something I truly believed to be a miracle.  We belonged together, as Jou put it.  It put a smile on my face, we had eternity to be together and our life together had only just begun.      Then I let out another sigh as I remembered all the planning Anzu was doing for our wedding ceremony after graduation.  I shuddered as I thought of everything that could happen.   Atemu        Yugi’s not in the bed right now, I think it’s because I hurt him as I was giving a ‘Technicolor yawn’ as Jou and Honda always seem to put it.  They have a thousand words and word combinations to describe, puking, barfing and throwing up.  I have personally experienced all of them.  Tangoing with the toilet, Technicolor yawn, tossing your cookies, tossing your salad, melted ice cream, bad milk, stomach explosion, stomach eruption, things tasting better the second time around, river of bile, worse than the movies, bad stomach day, loosing your lunch, breakfast or dinner, no desert please, I just had second helpings, what doesn’t come out the other end comes up once again, oh Ra, I am so fricken tired.   TBC   A/N: Yes, I have heard all those terms used and will most likely add more.  Anyone got any suggestions and I’ll be sure to mention them.  Poor Atemu…he’s really got it bad, especially with Honda and Jou describing in such descriptive terms what he hates doing right about now. So, was it any good for the sixth chapter folks?  Sorry for the wait, I didn’t mean to!  CRIES.  Please review and I’ll try to get the next chapter up soon. And if this seems more rushed than the first story, don’t worry, there’s more here than just ‘hooking up’.  I still have a lot I’m planning, or at least hoping to do.  Whee!  I’ll see you all next chapter!