WARNING: SETO X JOEY LEMON! YAOI WARNING! TWO MEN MAKING LOVE! YUMMY!

RYOU X MARIK LEMON!!! TWO DIFFERENT MEN MAKING LOVE! HORRAY!

Kat: I died laughing reading your review! It was so funny! *falls over* Aten does get a million points for his dyslexic comment. And who doesn’t enjoy Otogi’s frilly pink apron?

Uke Kit and Uke Io: *hugs* Aku is still in Ryou’s ring that Bakura got him for Christmas, but it is at that pawn shop, remember? Mr. Gillam found it in the rubble of the burned down Ishtar home and sold it. It hasn’t been made into Aten’s silver Rod yet.

Mariku 182: SQUEE! *GLOMPS* What do I get for the dyslexic joke???? I thought it was so them!

Lady Elfskye: I know! What a little shit! Well, I couldn’t wait until he could say that. Nervous breakdown, hmm??? *tries to get evil ideas from loyal, wonderful reviewer*

Beysie: When Yami Aten does show, the men are in for a world of pain. Marik will be gloating all over the place when the time is right. ‘The fruit of my loins can beat the fruit of your loins any day of the week, Ishtar!’ Gotta love fatherly pride!

Shadow of Light: Anzu may spill that she found the kids, but won’t know where they are most likely. Small brain.

Anubiset: Always expect the unexpected. I didn’t see that coming either. It’s the characters that do this to me.

Valea: Gotta love chibi tickling moments. Aku enjoys playing with people’s minds. Yami Aten…well, you will see what he is capable of shortly. The kids will be rescued shortly.

Broken Time: Yami Aten? A good yami? No. Yami Aten is more vicious than Yami Aria.

I Is Me: Aww….I is Me is hugging a psychopathic killer….awwwwwww…*hugs both*

Clues

Joey opened the door to the bedroom he shared with Seto. Seto was sitting in bed reading the Stock Market charts. Beside him, the light illuminated his face, buried deep in concentration.

Seto looked up at his lover who entered the room. “Hi, Joey. What did you find?”

The blond sighed and lowered his head. “I didn’t see anything.” Joey walked quickly to the bathroom. He quickly brushed his teeth and swished Listerine in his mouth to hide the evidence of where he spent the majority of his night. He quickly shed his clothing to hide the scent of the Red Dragon Inn on his clothing.

Joey grabbed a washcloth and gave himself a quick rubdown to hide the scent of the Inn on his body.

He brushed his teeth and washed his mouth out again and flossed.

He turned off the bathroom light and slipped into bed with his lover. Seto put down his paper beside the bed. The naked CEO turned on his side to face his blond fiancé. “Joey, I’m sorry if I haven’t paid much attention to you.”

Joey looked into the sapphire eyes. “It’s been crazy around here, Seto. I understand.”

Seto took Joey’s hand and kissed it. “It’s no excuse not to spend time with you, Joey. I love you, puppy.”

The blond reached out and pulled Seto to come close to him. The couple engaged in a deep, desperate kiss. Seto’s hand rested on Joey’s shoulder and roamed down Joey’s side. His hand rested on Joey’s lower back and held the blond against him.

Joey touched Seto’s chest, letting his fingers glide against the warming skin. Seto moaned into the kiss, his hand roaming to Joey’s hips. He caressed the blond’s hip gently.

Seto left the kiss with Joey and kissed down the right side of Joey’s neck. The CEO licked up the blond’s pulsing vein and sucked on it lovingly.

Joey rolled on his back and pulled Seto on top of him. The CEO rested between the blond’s legs, settling himself in a comfortable area. He grinded his growing arousal against Joey’s body, letting Joey’s own arousal stimulate him.

Seto kissed around Joey’s neck and kissed the length of Joey’s collarbone. “Joey……”

Joey closed his eyes and arched his back as Seto’s delicate touch excited him. The blond reached between them and wrapped his hand around Seto’s length. Joey let his fingers glide over the stiffening flesh.

Seto’s eyes closed as he felt the blond touch him. “Baby….”

Joey smiled. “What is it, Seto?”

The CEO moaned and rested his head on Joey’s chest. The blond could feel Seto’s breathing quickening. Joey let out a moan of his own, feeling Seto’s body seep some of the first signs of release.

“I….I love you….J---Jo—Joey.”

Seto planted his lips on Joey’s lips as he shifted into the rhythmic strokes of his lover. The CEO’s kisses wandered down again, slipping himself free from Joey’s grasp.

Seto kissed down Joey’s body, dipping his tongue into Joey’s belly button. With feather-light kisses, Seto kissed lower to the dark curls surrounding Joey’s length.

Joey arched his back and whimpered as Seto’s moistened tongue touched the base of his erection. The slow tongue glided up the base of Joey’s length and finally dipped into the tiny crevice at the weeping head of his manhood.

The blond lay panting on the bed, his face turning red with passion, his body started to seep sweat.

“Do it, baby. Do it, Seto,” Joey pleaded with a high-pitched whimper.

Seto grinned. “Do what?......Oh….this?” Seto’s tongue circled the head of Joey’s manhood.

Joey’s fingers fisted the sheets. “No…not that…”

The CEO smiled. “Really? Hmm…I know you enjoy that immensely.”

The blond nodded. “I do.”

Seto licked his lips. “I know what my puppy wants.”

Joey arched his back, moaning as he felt Seto swallow around his erection. The moist heat and the slick walls of Kaiba’s inner cheek were unexpected. Seto liked to play in bed. Seto was the biggest tease whom he had ever encountered.

Joey’s fingers slowly touched Seto’s brown hair, stroking it gently. “I love you, Seto….very much.”

Seto deep-throated Joey and pulled back. “I know you do, pups. I love you, too, angel.”

Seto swallowed around Joey again as the blond struggled to get to the drawer beside him. He reached in and found some lubricant.

Joey had taken Seto’s hand and slicked up two of his lover’s digits. Joey laid back and closed his eyes. He gripped the sheets and forced himself to relax. In his mind, he kept repeating the same mantra he had for the past ten years. ‘This is Seto….not my father. This is Seto….Seto truly loves me and would never hurt me.’

“Ready, love?” Seto asked.

Joey nodded. “Sure am. Go on.”

Joey felt Seto slip a single digit slowly past his outer ring of muscle. His body gave in to the invading digit and allowed it to enter. Joey’s tunnel stretched as the digit slipped inside.

The CEO watched with concern as Joey’s body shuddered at the intrusion. “Just relax, baby. It’s okay.”

Joey nodded. “I know. It’s….been a while.”

Seto added another digit cautiously, feeling his own need twitch and dribble with desire.

The blond’s hips soon moved against the digits, forcing them deeper into the recesses of his body, and forcing Seto’s digits to brush against his prostate.

“Seto….gods…I need you.”

Seto removed his digits from Joey’s body and coated himself with the lubricant. He positioned himself at Joey’s entrance and slipped his throbbing sex into his lover’s body.

A deep moan escaped Joey’s throat as Seto penetrated him, filling him with his length.

Seto held onto Joey as the blond accustomed himself quickly to the familiar flesh.

Blue eyes and brown eyes met. Seto and Joey struggled to keep themselves motionless as their bodies pressed against each other.

“Seto…..I….I’m sorry.”

Seto shook his head. “Don’t be, puppy. I should not have neglected you like I have been. You didn’t deserve that.”

Joey sighed and stroked his lover’s cheek with his hand. “I should have talked to you, Seto. I was wrong to ignore you, too.”

Seto pressed his lips to Joey’s honey-sweet lips. “I promise never to do that again, Joseph. I love you.”

Joey kissed Seto’s forehead. “I love you, too, Seto Kaiba.”

The CEO slowly moved within his lover’s body, eliciting a louder moan with each deeper penetration. Seto put his hands on either side of Joey’s head and watched Joey’s facial expressions as he made love to him.

The blond’s hands raised and gripped Seto’s shoulders. “Seto….harder.”

Seto shifted and thrust himself deeper into Joey’s body. “Love, open your legs up more.”

Joey opened himself more to Seto, who made immediate contact with his prostate.

“Seto! Baby! Harder…..”

Seto kept his eye on Joey as he shoved himself into Joey harder, making harder contact with his prostate.

Seto felt his body starting to shake. His eyes closed as he felt an overwhelming urge to move harder into the blond. While he couldn’t see Joey with his eyes closed, he could hear the bed creaking, and the chorus of Joey’s angelic moans.

Joey thrust against Seto, moving just as desperately as his lover.

“Seto….please.”

“Joey….come for me, angel….please…I want to feel you come for me.”

Seto opened his passion-glazed eyes and heard the bed creak louder than it had ever creaked before. Joey was gripping onto his shoulders tightly. Joey’s moans were becoming louder and his breathing was becoming increasingly unsteady.

Joey could feel Seto’s hot breath quicken. The blond closed his eyes and his body shuddered. With a final scream, his release was spilled between them.

Seto continued to pound into Joey, striking his prostate until Seto’s body shuddered with his own orgasm.

The CEO moaned loudly as he filled the blond’s channel with his release. Joey’s eyes widened as he felt Seto’s essence flood into him. Joey held Seto against him. He had never known Seto to climax so violently….or this much.

The blond felt liquid trickle down his chest. “Seto? Seto?” Joey raised Seto’s head and saw the tears coming from Seto’s eyes. “Why…why are you crying?”

Seto buried his face in Joey’s chest and sobbed.

Joey held his fiancé against him, rubbing his back. “Seto, you are under a lot of pressure. It’s okay. We’re here together.”

“I’ve just been worried about Hayden, Aten, Robbie, KaibaCorp, my men are being attacked one by one…now I’ve got my brother who is going to be a father. Joey…..when will it end?”

Joey ran his fingers through Seto’s hair. “One day at a time, Seto. One day at a time.”

Seto lifted his head. “What….what if we never see Hayden again? Joey…..I love….I love Hayden.”

“So do I,” Joey whispered. “Let’s get some rest, Seto. I know we will find them. We can’t give up hope. We can’t give up faith. If we do, we can’t remain strong. And Jaimen needs us both to be strong, as hard as it may be.”

Seto nodded. “I don’t mean to cry, Joey. It’s just…..I have so much to handle!”

“I know, Seto.”

Seto removed himself from Joey and laid beside him. “My ankle hurts now. Great.” The brunet reached over and grabbed his painkillers. He took a pill with some water and pulled up the sheets.

Seto cuddled against Joey’s back and wrapped his arm around Joey.

The blond smiled. “Goodnight, Seto.”

“Goodnight, Joey,” the brunet said as he kissed Joey’s ear.

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Ryou made Aria a cup of hot chicken broth before putting her to bed. Ryou sat by her bedside, holding her hand. The mother watched his daughter slip into sleep from the hot liquids.

Bakura stepped into the room, his batwing spikes not as spiky. “How is she, Ryou?”

Ryou shrugged. “I don’t know what is wrong with her. I gave her some broth and figured that she’s better in her own bed.”

The yami kneeled beside his daughter’s bed. His long fingers slipped into his child’s spiky white hair.

“How could she come down with this so fast? It makes little sense.”

“I don’t know what is wrong. She was fine yesterday. It’s not like Aria to get sick.”

Bakura sighed. “Maybe Gabby gave her something when she came over. For all we know, Umi could have given her something.”

Ryou shook his head. “Look, yami, we can’t go around accusing our neighbors of making our daughter sick.”

Bakura narrowed his eyes. “Something made her sick.”

“I’ll take her to the doctor’s tomorrow, yami. I already talked to Zira. He told me keep her on fluids and if she spikes a fever of 104, take her to the hospital immediately.”

Bakura nodded. “Okay. I’m going out tonight. I will not be back until sunrise.”

“Where are you going?”

Bakura turned to his husband. “The Shadow Realm.”

“Why there?”

“Nobody has seen the loser pharaoh for three years. Aten is gone and nobody has found any trace of him except for the clothing that Seto found in that warehouse.”

Ryou shivered. “Don’t remind me. Marik told me about the bloody clothing.”

“Well, if I wanted to hide a child….or a body…where no one could find him, I would take him to the Shadow Realm.”

“But, if the Change of Heart had found him, she would appear and tell me about it.”

Bakura narrowed his eyes. “Ryou, there are some monsters that cannot be trusted. The Earthbound Spirit has been banished because of his treachery. He never told me Aten was in the Shadow Realm. I will send out my monsters and have them search for the boys.”

“It could take you forever to search the Shadow Realm!”

“It will take a long time, but I will return by sunrise.”

Bakura kissed his daughter’s cheek. “Goodnight, my baby girl. Daddy loves you.”

Bakura kissed Ryou’s cheek. “Pleasant dreams, my angel. I love you.”

The yami stepped back and his Ring glowed.

Bakura disappeared into the purple haze. The haze dissipated, leaving Ryou alone with Aria.

Ryou turned back to his daughter. “Go to sleep, baby girl. We’ll see how you feel in the morning.”

“Okay, mommy.”

Ryou kissed her forehead and gave her Change of Heart plushie she used to sleep with as a child. “You still have this?”

Aria smiled. “Of course I do. It’s one of my favorite plushies.”

Ryou tucked her under the sheets and brushed her spiky hair out of her eyes. “Goodnight, sweetheart.”

Ryou shut off the light and shut the door. He gave a heavy sigh and rubbed his aching forehead. He went to Umi and tucked him in.

“Ryou? Can we go see my daddy tomorrow? I miss him really bad.”

“Aww…I know you do, Umi. We’ll call in the morning and see how he’s doing. We can go see him if he’s awake.”

Umi sighed sadly. “Okay.”

“Your daddy is a strong guy, Umi. I’m sure he’ll pull through.”

Umi looked up at Ryou. “I miss the open sea. I’m not used to being away from it.”

“I know you do, Umi. In no time, you and your father will be out again.” Ryou smiled at Chibi Mako. “Think positively, Umi, and everything will be fine.”

The boy yawned. “Okay. I’ll try.”

Ryou kissed Umi’s cheek. “Goodnight, Umi.”

Ryou turned and touched the light switch. Ryou’s eyes wandered to Aten’s bookshelf where his toy monkeys were aligned. On the light switch to Aten’s room, happy monkeys were holding bananas and smiling.

‘I miss my boy.’

“Goodnight.”

Ryou turned off the light and shut the door. His head started to pound as he retreated to his room. He shut the door and sat on his bed. His hand touched the empty bed space beside him.

‘Bakura….’

The man reached over and grabbed the family portrait by his bedside. Aria could not stay still for that picture. Ryou held the infant, who insisted on tugging on her father’s left batwing spike. The seven day old Aten was asleep in his father’s arms sucking on the Millennium Rod and covering it with drool. An evil grin crossed Marik’s face, obviously proud that his son was following in his footsteps. Malik could barely stop laughing as he looked at Aten sucking on the Rod.

Ryou smiled. One happy family.

Ryou finally had a family of his own. His husband and two children were his family. He had come to consider the Ishtars to be part of his family. He loved both the yami and the hikari.

But now, Bakura and Marik were gone most nights. It was rare that both were home at any given time. Bakura was off searching now and it gave him much consolation to know that Marik was home.

Someone knocked on the door.

“Come on in.”

Marik entered the room and shut the door behind him. “Ryou?”

“Oh, hello, Marik. The kids are tucked in bed.”

“Why are you here alone?”

Ryou looked down. “I saw Aten’s monkeys. I…I just needed a moment alone, I guess.”

“Understandable,” the blond yami said as he turned around.

Marik turned the doorknob.

“Wait.”

The yami turned to see the white-haired man put down the portrait. Ryou stood up and walked to Marik.

“Marik? I….”

Marik’s amythyst eyes met with the brown teary eyes. Marik reached up and brushed his fingers across Ryou’s cheek.

“Marik, I don’t want to be alone. I…I need you.”

The blond yami dropped the Millennium Rod and grabbed Ryou’s arms. He pulled the white-haired man into a slow, deep, and passionate kiss. Ryou allowed the yami’s tongue to explore him slowly.

The yami’s fingers made quick work of Ryou’s shirt, unbuttoning it in record time. Marik placed his lips at the side of Ryou’s neck and sucked on the sweet flesh.

The yami suddenly felt a chill as he suddenly became aware that his shirt had been torn in half and was being pulled off of him by his anxious lover.

Marik shed his torn shirt and picked up Ryou, throwing him over his shoulder.

Ryou started to laugh. “It’s been a long time since you’ve thrown me over your shoulder! What are you, a caveman?”

Marik dropped Ryou on the bed. “Ugg….me want Ryou.”

Ryou sighed. “You are impossible, Marik Ishtar!”

Marik unbuttoned his jeans. “Hmm…I thought you were going to call me ‘sexy.’”

Ryou laughed as the yami disrobed. “Well, you are sexy….for a caveman.”

The yami let out a playful growl. “That’s it! Get over here!”

Marik reached down and finished disrobing a laughing Ryou.

The yami picked a naked Ryou up and put him completely on the bed so that his legs did not dangle over the side.

Marik crawled on top of Ryou and smiled down at his lover. The white angelic locks were spread over the pillows. The yami’s eyes caressed Ryou’s delicate body and facial features. Ryou had retained much of his feminine look. His neck and his skin looked delicate. His smile was gentle. His eyes sparkled brightly. Everything about Ryou was warm and gentle.

Ryou smiled up at him, curling a finger around a lock of spiky blond hair. He looked up at the amethyst eyes that hovered above him. The dark, warm Egyptian skin pressed against him. A mocha colored hand cupped his cheek. The once-insane yami leaned down and stopped short of Ryou’s lips.

“I love you, Ryou Bakura….with all of my heart.”

Marik pressed his lips to Ryou’s gently. His hands roamed along Ryou’s side, gliding over Ryou’s delicate frame. The yami was careful not to put too much weight on his lover as he pressed against Ryou. Ryou moaned as he felt Marik’s hand slip between them and take his arousal in his hand.

The white-haired man whimpered as Marik’s length brushed against his. Marik took both of their lengths in his hand and stroked them together.

Marik’s lips trailed down Ryou’s cheek and kissed Ryou’s ear. A warm, wet tongue trailed down the side of Ryou’s neck, tracing the pulsing vein.

Ryou arched his back as the yami’s tongue sent shivers up his spine. Marik released Ryou’s arousal and supported himself on both hands as he kissed down Ryou’s body.

Marik took a nipple between his lips and sucked gently on the budding flesh. Ryou panted and moaned as he felt Marik’s tongue lapping at the sensitive flesh.

The yami grinned as he watched the hikari’s face bathed in ecstasy. Marik left the nipple to kiss from the center of Ryou’s chest to his belly button. The yami kissed Ryou’s birth scar reverently. The yami froze, laying his cheek against the scar itself.

Ryou’s fingers sifted through the spiky blond hair, knowing why the yami had stopped.

“Where could he be?” Marik muttered.

Ryou sighed. “I do not know.”

“I thought about him today. I found myself wondering…..wondering….”

Ryou looked down at the yami. “What were you thinking?”

“I was….wondering what I was going to do if we didn’t get his medication to him in time.”

Ryou sat up and Marik kneeled in front of him. “Marik. We can’t think like that.”

“Don’t tell me it has never crossed your mind. I know it has.”

Ryou blinked. “Of course it has. But we can’t give up. My God, Marik, we can’t give up on him! He is our son! You and I…..we are his parents. Both of us have been busting our asses trying to get him back. We’re close.”

“I’m far from giving up on him, Ryou.”

Ryou leaned forward and kissed Marik. “So am I.”

The yami and Ryou kissed slowly as Ryou shifted over. Ryou pulled back and looked at Marik.

The hikari gently pushed Marik on his back.

Marik watched as Ryou hovered over him. Ryou looked down at Marik and kissed the yami softly. Ryou’s kisses traveled down Marik’s tan neck, stopping at a dark nipple. The hikari took the bud in his mouth and let his tongue playfully lap at the sensitive flesh.

Marik arched his back and moaned as Ryou’s tongue rubbed against the bud, sending shivers of pleasure throughout his body.

Ryou felt the yami’s arousal press against his inner thigh. The hikari rubbed himself against Marik, exciting his own erection.

The hikari kissed lower, making love to every inch of Marik’s skin with his lips, and peppering tiny kisses around the yami’s body. Marik’s breathing staggered as Ryou’s kisses trickled lower and lower….arriving closer and closer to his weeping, twitching organ.

The dark fingers slipped into the silky tresses of Ryou’s white hair.

Ryou eyes focused on the yami as his tongue touched the head of Marik’s manhood, cleaning a tiny bit of fluid from Marik’s sex.

“It’s been a long time since we’ve been together, Marik,” the hikari said, teasing Marik with his tongue.

“Yes….too….long.”

The hikari chuckled. “I’ve left you speechless!”

“Among many other things, Ryou…please.”

Ryou wrapped his hand around Marik’s length and stroked him. “You said ‘please.’ I’m impressed.”

Marik looked down at the hikari, smiling deviously. “You’re teasing me, aren’t you?”

Ryou snickered and traced the underside of Marik’s manhood lightly with his tongue, just softly enough so the yami could barely feel it, knowing the yami would beg for more. “Whatever gave you that idea, Marik?”

“Pain in my ass.”

Ryou released Marik’s length. “Is that a request?”

Marik looked up at Ryou, now hovering above him. “What?”

“Do you want me to take you, Marik?”

Marik’s jaw dropped at Ryou’s inquiry. He couldn’t recall a time when Ryou ever took him. He had taken Ryou on more than one occasion and in more than just one location. Ryou had ridden him and he enjoyed it. He enjoyed taking Ryou and Ryou had always enjoyed it in return. “You want to take me?”

Ryou’s fingers glided over Marik’s weeping length. “I would like to. We don’t have to, though, if you feel uncomfortable giving up control to me.”

Marik sat up and shook his head. “No. Ryou, it’s never about control when you and I make love. I don’t want it to be that way between us.” Marik took a deep breath and looked away from his lover.

“And….”

Ryou turned Marik’s face towards him. “Tell me what you are feeling, Marik.”

Marik’s purple eyes lowered. Marik was always unpredictable when it came to emotions. The yami had a hard time expressing his own desires. For Marik, when he couldn’t express what he wanted, it would turn into frustration. That frustration would, and could, turn into violence.

Ryou kept his gaze fixed on the yami’s face and could almost see the hesitation burning in Marik’s skull.

“What is it that Marik Ishtar needs right now?” Ryou asked.

Marik closed his eyes. He looked at his white-haired lover. “I need you, Ryou.”

The hikari pressed his lips to Marik’s as the yami fished in Bakura’s side drawer for

oil. Marik handed Ryou the oil.

The hikari kneeled between Marik’s legs and squeezed some onto the palm of his hand.

Ryou placed his oiled hands on Marik’s chest and let his hands slip, covering the Egyptian in a thin coat of oil. In the lamplight, Marik’s tan body glistened.

The yami closed his eyes and moaned under the light touch of the white-haired man. The British man smiled, enjoying the soft feeling of the yami’s warm and yielding mocha skin.

Ryou squeezed more onto his hand and allowed his hands to roam over Marik’s lower stomach.

Purple eyes opened and focused on the man hovering above him, the soft hands gliding further down.

Expert hands wrapped around his erection and stroked it with apple-scented hands.

“Ryou….”

The hikari laid beside the yami and engaged the yami in a soft, gentle, comforting kiss. Marik grunted as he felt a single finger slip into his tight passage. The yami’s body protested at first against the digit spreading his channel.

“Ryou….gods, baby….”

Ryou took the bottle and shifted higher. “Marik….I want you to touch me. Please?”

Marik searched the brown eyes. The white-haired boy smiled. The Egyptian took the bottle in his hands and squeezed some oil on his hand.

The Egyptian slipped a finger into Ryou’s entrance, carefully slipping himself into the warmth of Ryou’s body. A painful little whimper escaped Ryou as the invading digit climbed deeper into his body.

Marik moaned into Ryou’s mouth as he kissed his lover.

Marik groaned and another digit was added to his body. “Ryou….I love you. I’ve missed you so badly!”

“I know, baby. I love you, Marik. I need you so much, Marik!”

Marik added another digit to Ryou, making the white-haired man tense and shake. “Ryou? Are you okay?”

Ryou pressed his forehead against Marik’s, his skin covered with a sheer blanket of sweat. “Yes…be careful of….you know.”

Marik kissed Ryou’s cheek. “I know, angel. I promise to be careful.”

Marik’s head fell back on the pillow as his body bathed in the pleasurable sensations being caused by his lover’s motions inside his body.

The yami removed his digits and pulled Ryou on top of him. “Make love to me, baby.”

Ryou positioned himself at Marik’s entrance and nodded. Ryou closed his eyes tightly as he entered Marik’s body, stretching Marik’s inner walls with his hardness.

Marik gripped onto Ryou’s shoulders, his body burning, even with Ryou’s thorough preparation.

Ryou placed the yami’s legs over his shoulders to make penetration easier.

“Are you okay, Marik?”

Marik nodded. “Yeah. I’m okay. What about you?”

A shiver spread through Ryou’s body. “I’m fine.”

The yami took deep steady breaths as he felt his lover throb inside of him.

Ryou slowly moved, bringing moving himself in and out of Marik’s tight channel.

The two men locked eyes as they made love. Ryou buried himself deeper into Marik’s body. The yami arched his back, enjoying the feel of his lover above him.

Ryou buried himself inside of Marik and stopped, his body continuing to throb.

“Are you okay, Ryou?”

Ryou’s brown eyes met with the purple gems below him. “I don’t want to come so quickly, Marik.”

The yami grinned. “Is my little lover anxious?”

Ryou lowered his head and nodded.

Marik removed his legs from Ryou’s shoulders. “What is it, angel?”

“It’s been so long since we’ve been together.”

“I know, angel. I know.”

Ryou looked at the yami. “Marik? Do…do you love me?”

Marik smiled. “Of course I love you.”

“Even if I wasn’t your son’s mother. I mean, what if I didn’t have Aten. Would you still love me, even if I had never given birth to him?”

Marik held Ryou’s shoulder. “I would love you no matter what, Ryou. Yes, I would love you even if we didn’t have Aten in our lives.”

“So would I,” Ryou said with a smile.

Ryou slowly began to move inside Marik again.

Marik gripped onto Ryou’s shoulders, allowing Ryou to set the pace of their lovemaking.

The hikari hastened his pace, moving vigorously into Marik’s body.

Marik moaned as Ryou quickly slammed into his prostate. “Ryou! Please!”

Ryou leaned forward and placed his hands on either side of Marik’s body. With a whimper, he slammed into Marik, releasing into him.

The Egyptian yami’s eyes widened as he felt Ryou’s release spill into him.

“Ryou! Gods!” Marik groaned.

The Egyptian yami arched his back and pulled Ryou down to him. Marik’s orgasm wracked his body as he released between he and Ryou.

Ryou wrapped his arms around Marik’s arms. Marik held Ryou against him.

“My baby…..”

Ryou nuzzled his cheek into Marik’s chest. “I love you, Marik.”

“I know, love. I would love you even if we didn’t have Aten in our lives.”

Ryou closed his eyes. “I miss my boy.”

Marik nuzzled his cheek against Ryou’s soft hair, which was what Aten had inherited. “I miss my boy.”

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****Dream Sequence****

Seto’s POV

Joey and I were walking through the woods as we held hands. Joey had a smile on his face as we walked down the forest path covered with many colored leaves.

This forest looks familiar. I’ve been here before.

I turned my head to the right and saw a cabin. Outside, Aten was sitting naked by the door, his little body thin and naked. His body shivered in the cold wind.

“Aten!”

Joey followed me to find the twelve-year-old boy curled up in a fetal position by the door.

Joey removed his coat and put it around Aten’s skinny, sickly shoulders.

“Aten? Why are you out here alone?”

Aten blinked. “I never leave this place. I am always stuck here. I cannot leave here by myself.”

I took the boy’s hand. “Where are your mother and father? Ryou and Marik?”

Aten looked down sadly. “My mother and my father abandoned me. They told me they went to the big house outside of the woods.”

I narrowed my eyes. It was not like Marik and Ryou to be so sloppy about Aten. They knew this kid could not afford to be in the cold air, naked, and alone. Their kid was dying!

Aten followed us slowly as he held onto my hand. His eyes were cast to the ground.

Joey turned to me. “Marik better have a good explanation for deserting Aten like this!”

Joey was always close to Aten. Joey was protective of Aten and took the news of Aten’s fatal disease hard.

Not only did he hit the bottle, he crashed into the freaking thing at one hundred miles an hour.

We emerged from the woods and saw a large white building surrounded by a fence and a steel gate.

We approached it slowly. “Hello!”

Nobody answered us. Nobody was behind the gate. There were no guards. There was no one outside.

Aten looked up and pushed on the steel gate. “I know this place.” Aten opened the gate.

Joey and I followed the Egyptian boy inside. “This place is gigantic! How are we going to find Ryou and Marik here?”

Aten turned and looked up at us. “Hayden is here.”

Joey and I gasped. I kneeled down and took Aten’s shoulders in my hands. “Where is he, Aten? Where is our boy?”

Aten pointed behind him. “In his new home.”

Joey and I looked up. “Peaceful Harmony Hospital?”

We looked down. Aten was gone.

“Where’d he go?”

Joey shrugged. “For a kid with a failing heart, he sure can run fast!”

“We have to find him. Let’s see who is at the front desk.”

Joey and I stepped into the hospital. Nobody was at the front desk, despite our efforts to ring the front bell and my attempts to yell at the top of my lungs for assistance.

We entered the door to the hospital, which remained open.

“What hospital has no staff?” Joey asked as we walked through a row of rooms with glass walls and tables.

“’Visitation’ rooms,” I noted.

We heard an object slam against a wall up ahead. Deep snarls emanated from an open door.

“Marik? Bakura?” Only a yami had a deep growl like that.

Marik was in a straight jacket, knocking himself against the wall.

“Marik! How could you leave Aten outside naked in that wind?” Joey asked.

The blond yami turned to us, his canines sharpened. His eyes and his hair were wild.

“WHERE IS MY SON?! WHERE HAVE YOU ASSHOLES PUT MY SON?!”

Marik struggled with the straight jacket, knocking his head into the padded walls of the room.

“RA DAMN IT! WHERE IS MY BOY?!”

“I don’t know where Aten went, Marik. He was with us and then he left.”

Marik let out a wail of agony. “FIND HIM! SEARCH THE WEB OF THE CITY AND FIND HIM!”

The ‘web’ of the city? What the hell is he talking about?

“Marik, what web?”

“Cast your NET upon the water. That will give you a BEACON to follow! FIND MY BOY!”

Marik banged his head against the padded wall. The insane glare reappeared in his eye.

“FIND *bang* MY *bang* BOY! *bang bang bang*”

Joey and I heard the sound of a racecar down the hallway.

HAYDEN!

Joey and I ran out of the room and saw a race car at the end of the hallway. “Hayden?”
Joey and I ran after the car. The car lead us to a small room which was also padded.

Hayden was sitting in the room wearing a white suit.

“Hello. You finally came.”

I have never cried so hard as when I took that boy in my arms. I kissed him and caressed him.

My little Hayden!

Joey took him in his arms. My lover cried.

We were a family.

Then, Hayden vanished from Joey’s arms.

He looked at his empty arms. “What is going on here?”

This was not fun!

“HAYDEN!”

We ran out of the padded cell and found Aten painting a mural on the wall of the hospital. This wasn’t anything new. Aten painted murals at his camp and at the hospital on a regular basis. He was paid good money, all of which I placed in a private bank account for him which was to be given to him on the day of his marriage or when he turned 18.

That is….if he lived to be 18.

“Aten, where is Hayden?”

Aten picked up his red paint and his brush. “You have to look for him.”

Joey cried, “Please, Aten, where is he?”

“Search for the Desert Flower when you cast your NET for your answer.”

This was enough!

I grabbed Aten by the collar and held him up in the air. “Where is Hayden, you little bastard?! TELL ME OR I WILL BREAK YOU IN HALF!”

What came over me? I would never talk to Aten like that. Despite my threat, he did not look intimidated.

“Go to the lounge. My sister is watching a good movie.”

Joey clenched his fists. “We have no time for movies, Aten! We have to find Hayden!”

Aten grinned. “You will like this movie. I was in a movie like this once. My mommy was in this movie, too. But the movie was burned before anyone got a chance to see it.”

“What was the movie called?”

“Three’s Company.”

I narrowed my eyes. “Where is the lounge?”

Aten pointed to the left. “Go there.”

I took Joey’s hand and we walked to the lounge. Aria stood at the television putting a movie into a cassette case.

“Aria? Are you watching movies?”

Aria nodded. “Yes. Do you want to watch one? You have a choice: To The Lighthouse, To Kiss an Fallen Angel, or Bang, Bang?”

Joey looked at me uneasily. I have a bad feeling about this.”

Aria shrugged. “’To the Lighthouse’ is a good movie. ‘Bang, Bang’ is better. Let’s watch that.”

“Aria, where did you get these videos?”

“I downloaded them. They were from ‘Charlie’s Toy’ website.”

Aria put the movie into the player.

The movie started and Joey let out a scream.

Hayden was five years old and was slowly stripping for a man standing in front of him.

Aria turned to Seto. “You stay and watch this. My brother suffered this humiliation. I cannot watch.”

Aria left the room and I felt my heart sink. How could she watch this?!

All of the color drained from our faces. In the background, we saw a computer with a webcam recording different angles of the acts.

Hayden laid on his back on the bed. His face turned to the camera.

“Daddy….Mr. Kaiba…..please find me! GODS, PLEASE FIND ME!”

********End of Dream****

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The first rays of sunrise crept into the dark room where the two lovers slept. A purple haze filled the room, lowering the temperature of the room, and making the white-haired hikari shiver.

He opened his brown eyes and looked into the corner of the room. A lone figure was walking out of the haze with the White Magical Hat by his side.

Bakura turned to his monster. “Keep looking for the boys.”

The White Magical Hat bowed. “I know that the Winged Dragon of Ra had found the child of the Rod’s Spirit in the badlands of the Shadow Realm. I will have the dragons fly over and search.”

Bakura rubbed his bare arms as he stepped into the warmth of the room. “See that you leave no inch of the Shadow Realm unexplored.”

“Yes, Lord Bakura.”

The purple haze of the Shadow Realm dissipated, leaving Bakura shivering on his feet.

Ryou climbed out of bed and wrapped a blanket around his husband. “You didn’t find him.”

Bakura shook his head. “No. I have all of the duel monsters searching.”

Ryou nodded. “Okay. I know they’ll do their best.”

Marik turned over on his stomach and continued to snore loudly.

“Five thousand years and he still sounds like a motor when he sleeps.”

Ryou wrapped his bathrobe around himself. “Let’s let him sleep.”

Bakura kicked off his shoes and yawned. “I want to check on my daughter before I fall asleep.”

Ryou held Bakura’s hand. “Aria has a doctor’s appointment today at eleven.”

The yami stopped in the hallway. “You are not going by yourself. Have Joel take you.”

“I wouldn’t leave without someone, Bakura.”

“Good boy.”

From inside Malik’s room, more loud snoring was heard.

“Those two are made for each other. They’re so similar, it’s scary.”

Ryou slowly opened the door to Aria’s bedroom. The parents smiled as they saw Aria’s arm hang off of the bed. Aria was cuddling her Change of Heart plushie with her other arm.

Ryou and Bakura advanced on the bed and found her white spiky hair spread over the pillow.

The proud father put his arm around Ryou’s waist. “Poor chibi yami. She’s so cute when she sleeps.”

Ryou nodded. “By God, Bakura, she’s looking more like you each day!”

“She is, isn’t she?”

Ryou reached down and pulled the comforter higher to cover the sleeping child.

Bakura followed Ryou out of the room. “Anyone come here last night while I was gone?”

Ryou nodded. “Mad Dog stopped by.”

“Did he find anything?”

Ryou shook his head. “No, he didn’t find anything.”

Bakura sighed and rubbed his aching forehead. “Okay.”

The door opened downstairs and Ryou gripped onto Bakura.

“Joel? Who is it?”

“It’s Maxie, Bakura. She’s back.”

Ryou walked downstairs in his bathrobe. “Maxie! What did Seto want?”

Maxine removed her coat and hung it on the hanger by the door. “Seto was….unimpressed that Vinnie escaped me.”

Joel put on his jacket. “Well, I have to go check on the wife and go back to KaibaCorp. I hope the little princess gets better.”

“Something is wrong with Aria?”

Ryou nodded. “Yes. She may have a little fever.”

The invisible figure outside the window grinned. [So….Aria is sick…..and she needs a doctor. Perfect.]

Bakura crossed his arms. “Maxine, I don’t want Ryou and Aria out alone.”

Maxine held up her hand to stop him. “I will take them, Bakura. Don’t worry.”

The figure grinned. [Good. I can eliminate Maxine, Seto's expert thief, and Aria, the daughter of the Thief King. And I can kill Ryou off in the process.]

The figure walked over to Maxine’s car which was parked beside the Ishtar’s. The invisible man put his hands on the hoods of both cars. [Allow the cars to leave. When at the perfect distance, snap the brakes which protect those within! May these cars become vehicles of disaster and give their occupants a fiery grave!]

The figure removed his hands. [Goodbye, Ryou Bakura. Goodbye, Maxine Chang. And last….Goodbye, Aria Kanika Itemri….may your body burn so that I may be rid of you forever!]

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Marik chewed at his eggs hungrily as Aria staggered into the kitchen, dressed for her appointment. “Morning, Angel Pie. Feeling any better?”

Aria put her hot cheek against the refrigerator. “Juice…..”

Marik stood up. “Sit down, cutie. Apple? Grape?”

Aria sat on the kitchen chair. “Cranberry.”

The yami poured the child a glass and handed it to her.

“Thanks.”

The phone rang and Malik picked it up.

“Ishtar---“

[Marik! Marik! You have to come back to KaibaCorp!] the CEO pleaded.

“Hold on. Marik?”

Marik grabbed the phone from his hikari’s hand. “Marik Ishtar. What do you want?”

[Marik! You have to come back! We missed something! We didn’t search as well as I thought we should! I know what I was missing!]

“What did we miss?”

[I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before! My gods, I am so stupid! Get over here on the double!]

“Seto, tell me what---.”

The phone was hung up.

“Hello? Hello? Bastard hung up on me!”

Ryou emerged from the kitchen. “What did Seto say?”

“He said we missed something when we were searching yesterday. I had better go.”

Marik grabbed his keys and kissed Aria goodbye. “I hope you feel better, baby girl.”

Aria leaned against Marik. “Thank you, Daddy….”

Ryou watched as the little girl went limp against Marik, sleeping against his stomach.

The yami turned to Malik and Ryou. “Ryou….you’re daughter fell asleep on me.”

Bakura entered the room and watched his daughter sleep quietly against Marik. “Okay. Do we pound her into the floor now or wait until she is better?”

Ryou grabbed Aria from under the arms and pulled her back so Marik could leave. “Yami, I can’t carry her. Could you help me get her to the car?”

Bakura helped Ryou carry Aria to the living room where they put her coat on her. Maxine helped them carry the girl to her car.

Marik kissed Malik and his other two lovers and started Malik’s car.

Bakura kissed Ryou and put the Ring around Ryou’s neck. “Keep this with you. I’m going to sleep.”

Bakura crossed his arms in front of him and he disappeared.

Ryou could hear Bakura closing the door to his soulroom, always an indication that he did not want to be disturbed under any circumstances. He could feel Bakura’s exhaustion radiating off of him.

Malik ran out and kissed Ryou. “I’ll take care of the home.”

“Malik, open the door for nobody.”

“I won’t. I’m going to lock the door when you leave.”

Ryou kissed Malik and entered the front seat of the car.

Maxine checked her weapon and concealed it in her suit jacket.

The cars pulled out of the driveway, unaware of any danger.

Maxine followed Marik’s car down the block, which then made the right turn towards KaibaCorp. Maxine continued straight towards Zira’s office which resided two blocks away from KaibaCorp.

Marik continued towards the park when he saw a red light. Marik stepped on the brake.

The car did not stop.

“What the fuck?!”

The car accelerated towards the intersection as the car coasted down the hill.

“Fucking brakes! Work!”

Marik screamed as two kids were crossing the street. “RA DAMN IT! STOP!”

Marik turned the wheel sharply to avoid hitting the two children. The car collided with the stone wall which surrounded the playground. Metal crushed. Shrapnel flew. Marik’s head collided with the steering wheel.

Marik opened an eye. A trickle of blood came down his forehead. “Malik……”

BANG!

The car was engulfed in flames.

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Maxine stopped at red light. She looked in the rear-view mirror and saw Aria’s eyes half opened.

“Poor little kid. We’ll have her up and running in no time, Ryou.”

Ryou nodded. “I hope so. Aria’s never sick. The last time she was this sick is when she had chicken pox.”

Maxine chuckled. “How long do you think it took Seto to recover consciousness after Aria told her she had it on her vagina?”

Ryou laughed. “I don’t know. I think it was a good hour maybe.”

The light turned green.

Maxine stepped on the gas and she suddenly felt something crash into the back of the car.

Aria’s eyes shot wide open. “MOMMY!”

Ryou turned to look in the back window. “What was that?”

Maxine stepped on the gas. “Someone just hit the back of our car!” Maxine saw a weapon point into the back seat. “ARIA, PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN!”

Aria screamed and ducked as a bullet passed through the glass.

“Hold on, guys!” Maxine growled as she stepped on the gas.

The car kept pursuit, slamming into the back of Maxine’s car.

The little girl screamed again as another bullet shattered the glass.

Ryou put his head down. “Aria, keep your head down!”

“Mommy!”

Ryou reached back and held her hand. “It’s okay, baby!”

Aria’s Sennen Eye appeared on her forehead. ‘I feel a familiar presence.’ Aria’s hair twitched and her canines grew. “It’s HIM in that car!”

Maxine looked at the car behind her. The man wore a black mask that concealed his face and his hair.
”MAXINE! SLOW DOWN!” Ryou cried out as he lifted his head to look ahead.

Another intersection was approaching.

Maxine slammed her foot down on the brake, but it failed to work. “What the hell?! The brakes don’t work!”

“What?!”

Maxine’s jaw dropped as the car approached the intersection. “Aria! Ryou! Brace for impact!”

Maxine tried to avoid an oncoming car and slammed into the other car. The collision of metal and the sound of glass echoed through the intersection. Aria watched as Ryou’s body was violently thrown through the windshield……

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