Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Don't Let Go ❯ Chapter 02: New Friends ( Chapter 3 )

Hey people, Here's the next chap of my fic!
Now I'm using both the card game and the shadow games in my fic but they're two completely different things. The card game is just for the peasants and for fun (higher placed people play it just for fun), nothing important. The shadow games can be played only by people who were taught how to do so like royalty and wielders of a Millennium Item.
Hope you all have fun with my next chap and R&R!

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New friends

 

Atemu awoke to someone banging on his door the next morning. Casting a look outside, he could see that Ra hadn't even risen completely. He got up in a cranky mood, and opened the door to see Seth in front of him.

“What is it?” Atemusnapped irritated.

“You might want to take a look in the throne room.” Seth said, unfazed by Atemu's mood, “Your father is appointing new servants and one of them looks awfully familiar.”

Atemu looked at his friend strangely, his anger slowly dying down. A new servant that looked familiar?

He quickly dressed himself, and followed Seth into the throne room. As soon as they had entered,Atemu saw what Seth had been talking about. One of the new servants had spiky tri-coloured hair and was wearing a dirty grey robe with a purple sash around his waits.

`Yuugi!' was the first thing that shot through Atemu's head, half of him being glad at seeing the other, the other half horrified.

He looked at the little angel in disbelief, and then looked at Seth again, “No way.” he whispered.

Seth just nodded, “It's him.”

“This can't be happening. If he recognizes us, we're doomed!” Atemu whispered, panic filling his eyes and voice. It was true that he wanted toannoyhis father and create chaos, but he didn't want to let him know he was doing it. This was so going to get him and Seth into trouble.

“Do you think he'll recognize us?” Atemu asked nervously.

“I don't think so, not by looks anyway. He didn't recognize us as the Prince and High Priest in the city.” Seth said, “But he might recognize us by voice.”

“So if we just don't speak for the rest of our lives we'll be safe? I guess our problem is solved then.” Atemu said sarcastically, giving his cousin a mild glare.

Seth rolled his eyes, “Would you stop joking!” he growled.

“Not until we have a good solution.” Atemu said, turning around, “I'm going back to my room so he won't recognize me.”

“And you're leaving me here!” Seth growled.

“Do what you want.” Atemu muttered as he walked towards his room, but as he was about to exit the throne room, he heard his father call out for him.

“Atemu, glad you're awake. Come over here and meet your new slave.” Aknunkanon said seemingly in a good mood for a change. It seemed the Pharaoh had gotten over the incident of yesterday quicker than Atemu had expected.

Atemu let out a sigh before turning around and walking towards his father, mentally praying that Yuugi wouldn't recognize him.

“Who is it?” he grumbled as he stopped next to his father.

Atemu'sheart stopped as he saw his father pointing at the one boy that could get him into trouble big time.

“Him.” Aknunkanon said, pointing at Yuugi.

Atemu saw Yuugi stare at him with wide shocked eyes, before quickly turning his gaze back to the ground, `Why? Why me?'

“You!”Atemu's father called to one of the other servants, “Show him where everything is and then bring him to my son's quarters!”

The servant quickly complied and led Yuugi out of the throne room, glad to be away from the Pharaoh and his moods.

“Can I go now?” Atemu growled, already turning to walk away.

“Yes, but make sure to be ready in a few hours, I want you with me in the meeting this time so don't even think about hiding again.” Aknunkanon said, a silent warning in his voice before turning his attention back to the servants.

Atemu smirked as he walked out of the throne room. He'd make sure to get out of the palace before the meeting started so he could avoid it as he always did.

He entered his room, and saw Seth sitting on his bed, “What didyour fatherwant?” Seth asked.

Atemu sighed, “He appointed my new servant.” he said, closing the door behind him.

Seth raised an eyebrow at the look of defeat in his friend's eyes, “Don't tell me that it's…” his voice trailed off at the thought, not wanting to even think about the option of Yuugi being Atemu's newest servant.

Atemu just nodded. “Yuugi.” he finished.

Seth groaned, “Great, just great.”

There was a knock on the door, and Atemu sighed, “That'll probably be him.” he opened the door to indeed reveal an at the groundstaring Yuugi.

“Come on in.” Atemu said, stepping aside so Yuugi could enter. He stared at the little one as Yuugi looked around the room with wide eyes, “Come on Seth, we better go so he can clean up.”

Seth nodded and followed Atemu out of the room, “So what now?” he asked when the two were safely in the hallway with the door to the prince's room closed.

“Well there's a meeting later on so I'm getting out of palace.”

Seth chuckled lightly, “Ever thought of attending the meetings instead of sneaking away every time?”

Atemu gave him a disgusted look, “Are you nuts? I'll have to do that enough as soon asbecomePharaoh so I'd like to skip out on it as long as I can.”

“So are you going to the city again?” Seth asked. You could see a bit of jealousy in his icy cerulean orbs, and hear it in the tone he used as he spoke.

Atemu nodded, ignoring the obviously jealousy and deciding not to tease his friend about it... too much, “Yeah and I'm leaving right now, have fun at the meeting.”

Seth glared mildly at the smirking Prince as Atemu walked towards the garden to change. He sighed as he went back to his own room to get ready for the meeting later that day.

Atemu quickly changed and walked to the town. Looking around for some fun, he didn't watch where he was going and bumped into someone.

Looking up to see who he had hit and to apologize, he saw a boy at about the same age as he was with thick blonde hair and honey brown eyes looking at him. He was wearing the same type robes as Yuugi with a dark blue sash around his waist. The robes were - like Yuugi's - extremely dirty and you could hardly imagine them ever being white.

“Sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going.” Atemu said smiling as he pulled the cap of the cloak over his head some more so the other wouldn't see the trademark tri-coloured hair.

“It's okay, I wasn't really payin' attention either. Da name's Jounouchi but call me Jou.” the blonde said as he held outhis hand.

Atemu took the hand and shook it, “I'm Yami, nice to meet you.”

“Likewise.” Jou said before a girl with brown hair reaching just above her shoulders with ocean blue eyes ran towards them and stopped next to Jou. She was also wearing a dirty robes, only hers seemed to have beenbrown at one point, though they looked black by now. She had a brown sash matching the colour of her hair around her waist, and you could see she had a slim body.

“There you are Jou, where'd you go?” she asked.

“Don't worry about me Teana! Man, you sound like my deceased mother.” Jou muttered, receiving a glare in reply.

Hearing a soft chuckle,Teana turned and looked at Atemu, “And who is this?”she asked.

“Dis Yami, we sorta bumped into each other `cause neither of us were payin' attention.” Jou said before turning to Atemu, “Dis a friend of mine, Teana.” Jou introduced Atemu and Teana to each other.

Atemu shook Teana's hand and smiled at her.

“I haven't seen you around here before. Are you new?” Teana asked.

“Not really, I've been around for a while but I don't get out much; I have too much to do at home.” Atemu replied.

“Well have you met anyone else?” Jou asked.

“Well, I met a boy named Yuugi yesterday, but I had to go home short after that so I didn't get to do anything with him.” Atemu said. Again the not so innocent ideas flashed through his head but he grudgingly pushed them aside, thinking it wouldn't be a good thing to start daydreaming in the middle of a conversation.

“So you know Yuugi? Hey wait a second, are you the guy that helped him get away from the guards yesterday?” Teana asked, eyes wide.

Atemu nodded shyly, “Yeah, it was nothing really.”

“Nothin'? Dat was amazin'! He told us you somehow blasted da guy holdin' him into a wall! I wish I could've seen dat.” Jou exclaimed.

Atemu shrugged, “He looked like he could use some help. Do you know him well?”

“Yeah, he's one of our best friends. We sort of form a group together.” Teana replied.

“So you wanna hang out wit' us? Yuugi'll come later `cause he had to go to da palace first. He somehow got dis crazy idea to go work dere. Who would want dat! I mean, da Pharaoh's a complete jerk!” Jou muttered.

Smirking at the fact that his new friend obviously didn't like his father, Atemu nodded, “That's what most people say about him. So what do you want to do?”

“We were headin' to da duellin' ground. Do ya duel?” Jou asked.

“Yeah.” Atemu said, “But I don't have my deck with me right now.”

“We can walk by your house to get it.” Teana offered.

“Nah, I'll watch you guys duel and bring it the next time.” Atemu said shaking his head.

Jou shrugged, “Whatever ya want. Come on.”

Atemu followed Jou and Teana, trying to remember the way so he could find it again later, until they stopped in front of a large building. As they entered, Atemu could hear other people duelling each other, and he looked around in amazement at what the so-called 'duel grounds' looked like, and how many teens and adults seemed to go there.

Seeing the look of awe on Atemu's face, Jou chuckled, “You okay?”

Nodding, Atemu looked around some more, “Yes, I just didn't expect this.”

Atemu spend the rest of the day in the building looking at people duelling both Jou and Teana. He had to admit that Jou was a good duellist, and although Teana was a lot worse, she was pretty decent as well. He made a mental note to bring his deck the next time so he could duel the blonde, as well as to drag Seth with him so he could see how Jou did against him.

After being therefor severalhours, he noticed Yuugi walking in. `Damn! How could I lose track of time so easily. I have to get out of here before he sees me.'

“Hey Yuug! Over here!” Jou called out.

`Too late.' Atemu mentally slapped himself before putting on a smile and hoping for the best. It wasn't like he didn't want to be around his little angel anyway.

Yuugi smiled as he walked towards them, but looked surprised as henoticed Atemu sitting at the same table as Jou and Teana, “Hey, what are you doing here?” he asked.

“What? Now I can't even hang around here?” Atemu pouted, faking to be hurt.

Yuugi held back his laugh - as well as a blush - at the sight of Atemu pouting, it looked really cute. The blush was proving impossible to get rid of though.

“I bumped into him on da way here, and we've been hangin' out.” Jou explained, “So how was your day?”

Yuugi shrugged, “I was appointed as the servant, or as the Pharaoh put it, the slave of Prince Atemu.”

Atemu mentally growled at the word 'slave'. He hated it when his father called the servants slaves.

“Woah! So ya get to be around da Prince huh? What's he like?” Jou asked curiously, "Is he like his father?"

Yuugi shrugged again, “He left together with the High Priest when I came into his room, and I didn't see him after that. I did however hear someone yelling furiously because apparently, the Prince had sneaked out again so he wouldn't have to attend a meeting with the Pharaoh and his advisors.”

Atemu grinned, “Really? How mad was the Pharaoh?” he asked, loving to hear about his father getting pissed off at him.

“Very mad from what I could hear. He was at the other side of the palace and I could still make out his words.” Yuugi said.

Atemu grinned even wider. He just loved pissing of his father.

“So you really didn't get a good look at the Prince?” Teana asked.

“Well when I was appointed he came in and I got a quick look at him.” Yuugi said, “It's really true what they say about him and me.”

“What do they say?” Atemu asked curiously.

“That we look alike.” Yuugi said, “Though if you ask me, he's the handsome and sexy version.” he added blushing bright crimson. Atemu quickly turned his head away to conceal his own blush that was quite obviously there. Yuugi thought he was sexy? Oh great, he was never going toget that blush of his face.

“So how is the duelling going?” Yuugi asked, trying to change the subject before his friends could start teasing him about what he had just said about the Prince. He saw Jou and Teana both smirking at him, but let it go for now.

“I've won all my matches today.” Jou grinned.

“I only won 5 out of 20.” Teana muttered.

“And what about you Yami? Do you duel?” Yuugi asked.

“Yeah, but I didn't bring my deck. I promise to bring both my deck and Seto the next time. He'll love being able to beat others since he just can't win against me. It really ticks him off.” Atemu smirked thinking of all the times he had beaten his best friend.

“So you're a good duellist?” Yuugi asked.

“Iguess so, yeah.” Atemu replied smiling, “But that's really up to you guys to decide when you duel me the next time.”

“Now ya're talking, I can't wait!” Jou said, punching hisfist up in the sky.

“Well I better get home before my father freaks even more then he's probably already doing right now.” Atemu said.

“Will you be here tomorrow?” Teana asked.

“I'll see what I can do. And if I can, I'll bring Seto with me.” Atemu said before getting up and leaving.

As he entered the palace - dressed in his royal attire of course - he could already hear his father's furious voice echoing through the palace halls. He winced as he heard all the swears and other things that his father was currently yelling at all the servants and guards. He silently tried to get to his room so he could avoid his father for the day, hoping that he would cool off a bit by tomorrow, but no such luck as he was caught by one of the guards and brought to the Pharaoh.

AsAtemu listened to his father yelling at him about responsibility, he could only think oftwo things: his new friends and how much fun he was going to have tomorrow. He barely even heard his father yelling at him, let alone actually understaning what the raging Pharaoh was saying, but snapped back to reality just in time to hear the last part of his father's speech.

“IF YOU DO THIS TO ME ONE MORE TIME I SWEAR I WILL CURSE YOU TO ANUBIS PERSONALLY! NOW GET OUT OF MY SIGHT AND GO TO YOUR ROOM!” Aknunkanon yelled.

Atemu just turned around and walked to his room. Like his father would ever back that threat up. He was used to getting threatened by his father, but sadly enough for the Pharaoh, Atemu also knew the other would never do anything to him.

Upon entering the room, he saw Seth lying on the royally loathed bed, “Had fun at the meeting?” he asked mockingly.

Seth looked at him with a grin on his face, “Actually, yeah. It was a lot of fun seeing your father yell at everyone and everything just because you weren't there. I think they could hear him at the other side of the palace.”

“They could.” Atemu said smirking and quickly told Seth what he had done that day, and what Yuugi had told him - leaving out the part where Yuugi had called him sexy of course.

“So you're going there again tomorrow?” Seth asked, “Even though your father would seriously get so mad that he would probably put a curse on you.”

Atemu smirked, “Like he could ever do that, I'm not afraid of him. Besides, I want to see how good Jou really is. And guess what? I'm dragging you with me to duel him.”

Seth hesitated. He wanted to go with Atemu of course - it sounded like a lot of fun - but what if the Pharaoh found out? They would both be in a lot of trouble.

Knowing that his curious and playful side would eventually win, he sighed and looked at Atamu again, “Fine, but if we get into trouble and your father kills us, I'll never speak to you again.”

Atemu smirked, “Even when you're dead you're going to hold a grudge against me, huh? Well we won't get caught so don't worry.”

Seth rolled his eyes, “I hope not. Well, see you in the morning; I'm going to bed.”

“Me too. Good night, Seth.” Atemu said as he let out a yawn.

“What time are we going?” Seth asked before he got up walked to the door where he waited.

“Let's say we leave around noon, right after lunch. Then my father will have seen us and it's not like he ever needs anything from us until dinner.” Atemu suggested.

“Okay, but just keep in mind that if he has something to do for me, I won't be able to stay that long.” Seth said. Atemu nodded as Seth left the room and went to his own chamber.

Atemuquickly changed and lay down in his bed, thinking of tomorrow. He glanced at his deck and smiled, `We're going tohave a lot of fun together tomorrow.' he though as he closed his eyes and fell asleep with a smile on his face; something that hadn't happened in a long time.

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Well that was it for this chap. Man, I've never written such long chaps... I think I might be posessed or something. Oh well, I like to be posessed in this case. Till next chap and R&R everybody!