To Want Love

P.S. I know it has been a lot of time since the last chapter was put out. But here it is the last story of To Want Love. I hope you all enjoy and well review. By the way there is Notes by Darth and me. Places read them and tell us what you would like us to do. A part two or new story? You pick. Enjoy and have fun reading this. And Thank you to all readers that have stay with us or review for us over from the start.


Chapter 27: A Start From The End

The bright light of sun fell over Yami’s face early in the morning, waking the demon up to a sunny day, that would soon be revealed to be glorious. Actually, that revelation came in the next moment when Yami remembered the events of the previous night and his eyes fell on his life mate, who was sleeping soundly next to him.

Yami was truly overjoyed with simply having his precious Yugi by his side, but he was in for something even more wonderful when his nose caught the scent his love was sending off. It took a moment for Yami to recognize it but when the demon did realize what had brought the change, he grinned like a mad man.

“Oh, Yugi…” Yami gasped out fondly and then began raining kisses all over his beloved’s face and neck, soon lowering his lips to the pale shoulders and chest.

“Ngh”, Yugi grunted sleepily as his hand came to Yami’s lower face, stopping the kisses and pushing the demon’s head away so that crimson eyes met half-lidded amethyst ones. “It’s too early, Yami.”

“It’s never too early to celebrate us becoming parents”, came out of Yami’s mouth the instant Yugi’s hand moved away. When Yugi merely glared at Yami in incomprehension, his half-awake mind clearly not catching on to what was being said, Yami decided to elaborate: “I mean to say that you’re pregnant, Yugi.”

A moment of silence passed, during which Yugi simply stared up at his mate, mouth gaping open in a manner that would have looked unflattering on any other person. But Yami merely found this endearing, as he did Yugi’s tearful squeak of: “Really?”

“Yes, really, beautiful mother of my children”, Yami murmured as he smiled gently down at the human, lowering his head to have his forehead meet Yugi’s. “We’re going to be parents.”

A shivering breath went in through Yugi’s lips as his eye lids lowered in time for his tears to fall down his cheeks. Yami caught each of them with gentle fingers, loving this sensitive being in front of him all the more.

By the time Yugi’s tears had subsided, the human had gotten over his shock and was now simply happy, his and Yami’s grins perfect mirror images of each other as they laid in each other’s arms. The two were planning on staying like that, enjoying each others company for the whole day, but their plans were crashed behind the door of their room, which was slammed open with enough force to have both of the occupants of the bed jumping in surprise.

It turned out that the interruption was from Jou, who looked absolutely frantic as he rushed into their room with Seto following in behind the blond. Both Yugi and Yami stared at the panting human the whole time it took for him to catch his breath before his voice rose to yell: “Yugi, Yugi, we have great news!” The blond lifted his hand at Yugi’s mate. “Hi Yami.” Then the blond’s demeanor changed back into barely contained glee as he cheered: “Yugi, Seto just told me that I’m pregnant! Can you believe it?”

Happy for his friend, Yugi’s voice rose to a high pitched note as he exclaimed: “You too? When did you find out?” Yugi scooted closer to Jou across the bed and Jou dropped to kneel down on the floor right next to the edge as he replied: “Just this morning, actually, but did you just say ‘too’?”

“Yes I did, Jou”, Yugi said with a wide smile and an eager nod. “I’m pregnant too.”

“That’s just too creepy”, Jou blurted out and started to chuckle and Yugi agreed. It was really a coincidence, especially since it took about a week after the sex for the fetus to start developing. Yugi had done a lot of reading on the matter since he had found out that he was expected to carry children so he was aware of such a fact. It was amazing to think that the day would be the same for Yugi and Jou both, though the days of the impregnating actually happening were probably different.

“Well, congratulations, Yugi, Yami”, the blond nodded to both of the males on the bed as he spoke and Yugi grabbed the blond head into an awkward hug while Yami’s smooth voice spoke: “Thank you, and congratulations.”

Yugi also mumbled his own congratulations into Jou’s honey-scented locks before the taller boy was rescued by the two demons both grabbing their mate into a backwards hug, clearly in the mood to cuddle after the happy news. As Yugi fell back against Yami, the boy glanced up to see Jou nuzzling his head underneath Seto’s chin, the usually stoic demon suddenly looking warmer than Yugi had ever seen him before.

“You know…” Jou spoke as his head suddenly shot up and his eyes met Yugi’s own once more. “We never did have that talk with the boy Bakura brought to the house.” The blond frowned suddenly. “What was his name again?”

“Ryou, Jou”, came Yugi’s answer.

“Right, Ryou”, Jou said with a nod of his head. “Anyways, What I meant to say is that we should probably go see him now before something comes up again. What do you say Yugi?” Joey looked back at Yugi for a moment.

Yugi looked over to Yami, the question in his eyes. It was a given that Yami could not resist Yugi, but the demon still stated his terms: “I will be coming along. I don't want either of you getting hurt by Bakura. More so because you are both pregnant and I know that there would be a corpse if either of the two of you were harmed and I don’t feel like explaining that to Bakura’s relatives.”

“Then it’s settled”, Yugi said with a nod. “But first we should probably rethink our outfits. I, for one, don’t think that birthday suits and pajamas are suitable for visits of any sort.” With that Yugi grabbed a robe that had been placed beside the bad and pulled it on, Yami following suite as Seto and Jou left the room to go back into their own.

After the four of them had managed to get themselves freshened up and decent, they left together to Bakura's room. They were waiting in front of the door, contemplating who should be the one to knock, when their hushed conversation was cut off by a cry of pain coming from inside the room. The sound had them all straining their ears to hear Bakura’s voice as the demon grumbled: “Stay put and pipe down. You can get up after I’m done with you.” That was all Yami and Seto needed to hear before they door was cracked open without as much as a knock and the two demons were half-way into the room when they froze in their tracks in shock.

It was certainly not what they had expected to find. Bakura and Ryou where both in the room and while Ryou did have a look of pain on his face, it was not because of any torture the boy might have been going through. That is, unless you were the type to consider getting your hair brushed out by Bakura a new form of torture.

Yami was the first one to break out of his shock and to say something, which was the rather snappy question: “Okay what is going on in here Bakura?”

Taking his time to answer, Bakura first put the brush down and then fully turned to all four of them. Only then did he say: “What does it look like to you, Yami? I’m brushing his hair out for him. It’s long, if you haven't noticed.” A hand was run through the white locks with something that seemed like affection. “Ryou needs help with it, otherwise it will look like a bird’s nest or something. At any matter, I’m almost done getting out all the knots, so whatever it is that you need can wait a moment longer.” With that Bakura picked up the brush again and went back to his previous task. When there was no further reaction from the group at the door, the demon paused again to ask: “You still have a problem? Or did you all think I was abusing him or something?” Sharp eyes glanced at the group. “Well I’m not and if that’s all you were interested in, then remove yourselves from my presence.”

“Actually, Yugi and Jou wanted to talk to Ryou for a little bit. We just came along to keep an eye on them, knowing your temper and all”, Yami explained to the white-haired demon. “But I must admit to being curious as to why Ryou does not seem to be frightened of you like Yugi was of me. I mean, you did kidnap him from his home.”

“I suppose that is something only I can answer”, came a soft voice that all but Bakura and Yami where surprise to hear. Every pair of eyes in the room fell on Ryou, who was still sitting in front of the mirror, but had turned around to face the rest of the room. “I admit that I was frightened when I first woke up, but not of Bakura. Well, at first he scared me, of course, and I was also unsure of where I was or what was going to happen to me. I didn't even know how I had ended up where I was, but somehow it all seemed better when I really got to meet Bakura for the first time.” The boy shot a shy look at the demon is question. “He didn’t say a word, but simply stared at me like I was the single most amazing thing in this world.” The human boy blushed at this part. “I… I’ve grown to like him and trust him. I don’t fear him at all anymore.”

“You feel safe in the same room with Bakura?” Seto repeated in an incredulous manner. “Are you even aware of the fact that he was the one who kidnapped you?”

“Yes”, Ryou replied with a nod of his head. “I remember seeing his face before I lost consciousness.” The boy’s gaze fell to the floor in an embarrassed manner. “I know that it seems weird for me to trust the person who kidnapped me from my home, but I do.” The human dared to lift his eyes up to the others again. “He’s been taking good care of me; he hasn’t allowed me to grow hungry and he draws me a warm bath every day to make sure that I get washed up every day.”

“It was only supposed to be that once when you were too scared to set foot out of bed to take care of yourself”, Bakura commented, the annoyed look on his face the only sign of the embarrassment the demon’s pride would not allow him to show. Yami could not help the smirk that came onto his face at that, but managed to fight back any audible laughter as the group made its way into the room and the star-haired demon sat himself down onto a chair with Yugi placing himself onto his lap. Seto and Jou, on the other hand, sat side by side in a loveseat with an arm around each other.

The calm atmosphere that had fallen after Ryou had explained the situation was broken when Malik and burst into the room. The sudden entrance caused Ryou to jump while Yami wondered at a sudden change: Malik was the one being chased while Marik was doing the chasing. And Marik did not seem to be angry, but rather worried. It was only to be expected with Malik’s condition. Marik clearly did not want their child getting hurt.

“Yugi, Jou, help!” Malik yelled as he hid behind the loveseat Jou and Seto were occupying. “Marik is trying to hug me to death!” Instantly after the call Seto and Yami leaped up from their seats, Yami taking longer to do so since he had to move Yugi out of the way first. Then the two demons proceeded to restrain Marik as Yami spoke sternly: “Now, someone had better explain to me what in the world is going on.” His crimson eyes fell on Marik. “This had better be good, Marik, or I will kill you myself.”

“Oh, please”, Marik huffed with a roll of his eyes. “Who would want to hug someone to death?” The demon gave a pointed look to his mate-to-be. “We were just playing around until Malik decided to cheat by running here.” Yami squeezed the arm in his grip to make sure the other was not lying and Marik grimaced as he hurriedly spoke to Malik: “Come on now, Malik. Tell the guys that we were just playing.”

“Is what he’s saying the truth, Malik?” Jou asked as he turned his head to look at the human, who had a smirk on his face, had had one ever since the words ‘playing around’ had been spoken. Malik nodded his head before speaking. “He’s telling the truth Yami, but hold on to him until I’ve gotten a head start.” With that the human rushed out the door and back into the hallway, Seto and Yami releasing his partner to run after Malik a moment later.

"I sure hope that Malik doesn't get hurt running around the house like that”, Yami commented after Marik had vanished. “If that happened, Marik would kill someone, then kill himself.” There was a snort from Seto as a response, followed by the brunet demon speaking out: “That was crude, Yami.” And even though the joke probably was just that bad, Yugi, Jou and Bakura all released some snickers at Marik’s homicidal tendencies.

“I suppose those two’s antics are another thing I need to get used to around here”, Ryou muttered thoughtfully before questioning, rather hesitantly: “By the way, is Malik..." Ryou left off before he could finish, though, apparently afraid of appearing rude for asking. But no one really minded the question and Yugi answered it very eagerly: “Yup, Malik is pregnant with Marik’s kid.”

“Ah, I suppose that sums it up then”, Ryou said with a thoughtful nod of his head. “And that’ll be the end of that discussion, I assume.”

“Well, there are a few details that you need to be aware of, since males getting pregnant is not something uncommon among demons”, Bakura spoke out, surprisingly turning out to be the person to continue on the topic. “As a matter of fact, if the two of us were to have sex, there is a possibility that I would impregnate you.” The demon shrugged. “But, I suppose that isn’t really a problem, considering that you have already agreed to become my mate.”

That was simply one too many surprises for Yami to take and the demon bellowed “WHAT?” loudly enough to be heard on the other end of the mansion, while Ryou, Yugi and Jou nearly fell off of their seats from shock. “How did you decide that in such a short amount of time?”

“Well, you see”, Ryou started as a blush tainted his cheeks once more. “After my first bath here, my hair was a mess. I usually have someone help me brush it since it’s too long for me to reach myself. I was wondering if I was going to have to just left my hair stay tangled and wet when Bakura came up behind me and started to brush my hair out for me without me even having to ask him to.” Ryou then smiled a wide and happy smile. “Since then Bakura has brushed my hair every morning and after every bath. So, I suppose that I just didn’t decide to stay with him over night. It happened over time, with those small acts of kindness.” It would actually make sense for the feelings to develop like that, since Bakura was not the type to use words to convince people of anything. The white-haired demon had always preferred acting out on his emotions. It was after Yami had come to this conclusion that Ryou finished: “At this point of time I don’t really care about Bakura kidnapping me. I’m happy now and I want to stay here. That is enough for the both of us.” That said, Ryou reached out a hand and grasped Bakura’s unresisting one into a gentle grip.

"Okay, that’s definitely a relief to hear”, Jou said with a friendly smile. “Yugi and I wanted to help you settle in here and let you know that being mated and pregnant is okay.” The blond released a bright laugh. “But I guess we really don't need to. But, now you know that there are other humans in the house in case you need someone to relate with you. You are welcome to come knocking on our doors if you need us." With that said, Jou and Seto rose from their seats and left the room, most likely heading back to their bedroom.

"Correct me if I misunderstood, but did the blondie just say that he and the shorty are pregnant?" Bakura questioned in a rough tone of voice.

"Don't call Yugi ‘shorty’. And yes, he did”, Yami started with a growl, crossing his arms defensively. “Do you have a problem with that Bakura?"

"Not really" was all Bakura said as he shrugged and then looked down at Ryou to see how his soon to be mate’s hair was looking.

"Well, I guess that is it then”, Yugi said as he stood up from his seat. The human turned to Yami before continuing: “Oh, Yami, we have to go say goodbye to you family and see them off. They will be departing soon so we’d better hurry.” He turned to the two albinos. “Bye Ryou, bye Bakura." Yugi then grabbed Yami’s arm and started leading his mate out of the room. Yami would have actually preferred if the both of them could just have gone back to their own room, but he knew that his mate was right. It would not do for him to not see his own family off and the same went for Marik, whose family was departing together with Yami’s own at ten o’clock, which it currently was, Yami noted as the clock on the wall struck the change of the hour.

Marik’s family disappeared through the door first, giving their best wishes to both couples, while Darth and Obana gave tearful goodbyes and hugs to Yami and Yugi. Ramon had offered his son a soft goodbye before departing with Yami’s mother, who was silent and apparently still shaken up by her own actions the previous evening. Only Mai seemed to have been unaffected by the gloomy atmosphere, and had attempted to tell Yugi one more embarrassing story about her cousin before she had to go. Darth and Obana easily took care of the situation by dragging the blonde through the door in mid-tale before she could get to the really embarrassing part. After the door closed after the last trio, Yami released a soft sigh of relief.

"Well, it is a reasonably nice way to end things", Yugi commented as he turned to Yami while Malik and Marik wandered back into the depths of the house.

"No, it is a wonderful way to start things”, Yami corrected as a wide grin spread on his face. “Because that is what this really is, Yugi, a beginning.” Slowly, Yugi returned the smile, though it was in a lot softer manner, as was true to the young human’s nature.

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“And Yami was right, for their lives as a family had only just begun. There was still a lot more to all of their lives that they still had not experienced, but certainly would”, Mr M finished, closing the book with a resounding thump and glancing up at his listeners.

Only the older children still remained in the room, for the younger ones’ ears were not meant to hear some things. They had been sent home as soon as Yugi had answered ‘yes’ to becoming Yami’s mate with the words ‘and they lived happily ever after’ to satisfy their need for closure, because every good story ended with those words.

“Is that it?” the eldest girl questioned and when Mr M nodded his head in response she continued: “We don’t even know if Jou got the girl he wanted. That can’t be the end.”

“Yeah”, agreed the boy sitting right beside the girl. “There has to be more!”

“Well, I didn’t say it was The End, now did I?” Mr M spoke in a soothing tone. “It’s an end.”

The girl released a disappointed sigh before grumbling: “Fine”, and rising from her seat. “Thanks for the story Mr M.” The other children echoed the girl’s words as they left the room and Mr M waved after them. The door slid shut behind them and the man released a chuckle before standing up and moving to sit in front of a desk where he grabbed a piece of paper and a pen. Then he began to write.

Dear Yugi

Thank you for your previous letter. There is no need to worry about me; I am not lonely at all. The children have been keeping me wonderful company and lately I have been entertaining them by relaying your story to them. They simply adored it. Perhaps they will have learned a thing or two about not judging people according to face value.

I am proud of you, Yugi. I hope to hear from you again soon.

Love,
Grandpa

P. S. Remember to send me pictures of my great grandkids.

A wide smile had spread on the old man’s wrinkled face as he wrote. He had already gathered a scrapbook full of pictures of Yugi’s new ‘husband’ and friends. Now he was looking forward to filling it with pictures of his precious grandson’s children. He could hardly wait.

THE END

Darth’s Notes: Here we are at an end of the story, but it doesn’t have to be the end, as Mr M already put it. If there are enough requests for it, KCRose is interested in writing a sequel and I will most likely continue as the beta, so the story will probably continue in a similar manner. Though the main characters will be changed.

KCRose's Notes: Darth is right the story doesn't have to be the end at all. I would love to do a sequel to the story with Dather as my co-writer. But I want to see the requests for it frist. And the main chatacters in mine are going to be changed but only for a new view on things.