Coalescence

31) Pre-Test Loving

Summary: Yugi's friends get an unusual invitation; Yami meets with Seto before the test of the new Duel Disk. LEMON!

Anzu was putting away her books in her locker when a note stuck into the vent fell onto the floor. Curious, she picked it up and opened it. It read: "Anzu - meet us at Kaiba Corp HQ at 6 pm - VERY IMPORTANT - only you, me, H, J, and K will be there. Don't tell anyone else! - Yugi"

Glancing down the hallway, she spotted Ryuuji Otogi walking toward the door, an arm draped around the shoulders of the shorter Ryou Bakura. [Heh, now I'll get some answers, hopefully! And those two won't even notice...]

Honda slid to a stop at her locker just then. "Oi, Anzu, did you get...?" He brandished a note, then sighed when she waved hers. "Good. So did Jou. I hope they're going to tell us what the big pow-wow was all about this morning."

Jounouchi popped up abruptly. "OI, MINNA!" Then he subsided, seeing their notes. "Good, he got the word out. Well, see everyone then! And remember, our little secret!" He made as if to dash off.

"Wait, Jounouchi!" Honda grabbed his friend around the neck, hauling him back. "So WHAT is going on? Can't you tell us something?"

The blond shrugged off the other's arm. "Nope, not for me to tell! Um, you might want to eat a light dinner..."

"WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?" Honda screeched at him.

Holding his ear, Jounouchi made a face back at him. "Oi, no yelling! I just mean it could be an exciting... or at least interesting... evening! You know, so exciting you might throw up or something..."

"Jounouchi-kun..." Anzu muttered threateningly.

"Ja ne!" Jounouchi called brightly and made a dash for it.


Yugi arrived at Kaiba Corporation Headquarters at 5 pm, feeling more relaxed than he'd expected, and certainly worlds more relaxed than the last time he'd been here. One of Seto's underlings met him and impassively escorted him to his boss's office, leaving him outside the door with a smooth little bow.

Watching the man disappear down the hallway, Yugi had a quick moment to speak to his dark half. /Let me know when you meet up with the others, okay, Yami?/ he asked, glancing up at the shadowy spirit image of his other self. /We can merge back then. I'm really looking forward to seeing the test of the Duel Disk!/

Yami smiled down fondly at his little light. //Of course, aibou. And thank you very much for allowing me to have this little bit of time with Seto.//

Yugi winked up at him with one of his patented adorable looks. /Sure, I don't mind!/ Then he added, suddenly feeling bold, /After all, I shouldn't mind if what you're doing makes my body feel very good, should I?/

Yami blinked at his little partner, then laughed heartily. The sound was deep and rich... and Yugi really liked hearing the spirit laugh like that. //So, you've noticed, ne?//

/Er.../ Yugi had felt unusually... rested and somehow more full of energy than usual that morning. Though he didn't want to think about it much, he figured that Yami and Seto had had a lot of sex - oral or manual, he supposed - last evening. Yugi himself had only masturbated once months ago before finishing the Puzzle, but he never forgot how it made him feel. Despite that, he really hadn't felt inclined to do it again.

//I'm glad you felt good, little one,// Yami added, sending a wave of warm tenderness. //Talk to you in about an hour...//

/Sure thing,/ Yugi replied, then bowed his head as the energies of the Puzzle swept through him, sending his own spirit to his soul room as Yami took over his body, the taller manifestation transforming him.

Yami took a deep breath. //Arigato, aibou,// he murmured as he sensed his hikari's awareness departing. There was a flicker of a response, then nothing. He knocked on the door.

Seto had felt a tingling that he was now recognizing as his rudimentary awareness of Yami, and so was poised to open the door when the other was ready. He opened it to reveal his lover... and he couldn't help but rake his gaze over him head to toe before he could even speak.

Yami looked decidedly delectable, wearing a tight, deep blue, long sleeve top that seemed to be made out of something slinky, tucked into equally tight black pants with his usual two belts, and a black buckled leather band around his right arm. Over the blue top he wore a shorter version of the black vest he'd worn on their date. "Mmmm," Seto murmured, sliding his hands down over the shorter teenager's shoulders, "you look good enough to eat, Yami-love."

"And look at yourself," Yami fairly gasped, having the same reaction to his lover's new outfit. Seto was head to toe in black, dark blue buckled straps in pairs on both arms and on his legs, with a long, sleeveless white coat over it all that looked like something out of a science fiction movie, bearing his trademark high collar. The impression he gave as the coat billowed out around him was of massive white wings... very like his Blue Eyes White Dragon! "Your new battle costume, I'm guessing? It's very hot!"

"Glad you like it... and me," Seto smirked, tipping up the other's face to his with a finger to his chin. "And, yes, this is for the tournament. Why be the tournament's producer if I can't look flashy, ne?"

"So you are participating?" Yami glanced up into his blue eyes, melting into his possessive touch, subtly leaning forward against him.

"I have a team to manage the tournament without my involvement, and Mokuba will take on the role as chief arbiter and supervisor," Seto explained, his long fingers roaming lightly over Yami's face, fondling him. "I won't even know where the finals are taking place, though the new satellite tracking system will enable me to be informed of every duel going on. I'll explain later. There's something I'd rather do more right now..."

Yami grasped onto the free strap ends of his lover's arm bands, pulling himself up against the long, lean body all the more. "What's that?" he asked, his voice already gone husky.

"Loving you," Seto murmured, his own voice dropping deeper as he swept Yami up into his arms, one hand splayed over his ass to lift him up. As Yami reciprocated by linking his arms behind Seto's neck, the Kaiba Corporation CEO claimed his mouth in a near-bruising kiss, renewing their characteristic duel of tongues.

In moments, multiple belts had hit the floor, and Seto carried Yami to the couch in the office where he knelt over him after laying him down. "I wish we had more time," the CEO rasped as he caressed his little lover, palming the already-hard bulge in the other's pants. "But I do want to talk to you before the others arrive. Even so..."

Yami was teasing open Seto's pants, smirking up at him. "Even so, we want to make good use of the time..." He pulled the slinky black pants down a little, enough to free his lover's erection. "Mmmm, want this..."

"Yami," Seto breathed, then uttered, "*Kami-sama*!" as slender fingers folded around his length. "I want..." A particularly deft stroke short-circuited his brain and he stopped speaking.

"Yes?" Yami encouraged him, adding spit into his hand to ease his handling. "You were saying?"

"Yami!" Seto groaned, then he gulped and discovered his mind again. "I want to do that 69 again... like on our date. That was so hot..."

"We can do that," Yami agreed readily with a gleam in his violet eyes. Hastily he unzipped and peeled down his own tight pants, groaning as he got his own hardness freed. "Need it... fuck, Seto, I need it!"

Quickly they adjusted positions, Seto leaning back against the arm of the couch with Yami this time poised over him, reversed. Scooting down a little, the taller man positioned his lover's groin above him, grasping his hips to hold him in place. Meanwhile Yami braced himself, his arms to either side of Seto's hips as he took the weeping length into his mouth and began to suck.

Now Seto's brain was short-circuited for real, and he barely had enough presence of mind to reciprocate, feeding his lover's cock into his own mouth and throat. For several long minutes they yielded to their mutual hunger, literally feeding upon one another, tongues employed in a different sort of dance.

[He's incredible at this...] Seto's lust-soaked mind managed to come up with the thought briefly.

[He's learned fast... fuck!] Yami's mind similarly was able to form a momentary coherent thought before losing it altogether again as their climaxes approached.

All too soon they spilled over into each other's throats, each drinking deep of the other. Gasping, each was breathing hard as they finished and Seto drew his lover around again to rest in his arms. A moment later, though still catching his breath, Yami surged up to kiss him hard, almost frantically.

[Soon... but not soon enough,] the ancient spirit thought, his mind grasping on what was planned ahead for them. [When I'm separate from Yugi... oh, Ra, on that day! Then Seto and I will be free to Bond, too...]

A moment later, Seto was pulling out of the kiss gently, his hands holding Yami's face as he looked into his lover's eyes. "Maju... what was that just now? You seemed a bit... desperate..."

Yami could not return the gaze, glancing somewhere over Seto's shoulder. "I am... desperate to fulfill what awaits us," he whispered a bit roughly. He closed his eyes, savoring the taste of the mingled essence of both himself and his lover in his mouth. "Ryu... I feel myself truly coming alive. Somehow I know that when Dark Manifestation is activated, it will be as if I am resurrected... for real. Not just magically. My body will be as real as Yugi's, and susceptible to everything Yugi's is. It will be as if my original life and body is returned to me so that I may finish out my original existence as a living being... and not merely a captured spirit. I don't know how I know this, Ryu... Seto. I just feel it."

Seto merely nodded, understanding instinctively that Yami understood every bit as well as he did that none of this made sense, that it didn't seem possible that such magic could really exist. To most of the world, this would be a miracle, and clearly of divine influence. [Maybe it is anyway... maybe Tutmeryamun truly was a being blessed by some supernatural force... be it the gods of Egypt or whomever. The power is real. The *magic*... is real.]

But there was one question he had to ask. "Yami-chan... don't you feel alive now? With Yugi's body?"

Yami glanced up, frustration in his eyes. "Yes... and no. Gods, you make me feel alive, Ryu-chan, you know that! But this body... it's Yugi's... and despite the manifestation I presently bear, it still feels like Yugi's body. When Dark Manifestation activates, my body will be *mine*... and will feel like mine." He took a deep breath. "I think I was a bit taller than this. Not much. It just seems like it. I believe I will look pretty much the same, though. Yugi and I have talked about this a little. I think I was about eighteen when... when I was sealed in the Puzzle."

Seto caught the hesitation. "Did you... die?"

Frowning, Yami shook his head. "I... don't know. Trulydon'don't. I can't see how I could have if I'm here, though my original body must have... physically, I mean. Of course I do not remember the sealing, nor know the method by which that was done. I suppose my soul was extracted and my body died because it had no soul. But I can't be sure of even that." n hen he shook his head, frustrated with the huge void that was his memory.

Seto wrapped one long arm around his lover, holding him closer while he caressed Yami's cheek with his thumb. "I know the path ahead of you now seems difficult, but you have me to help support you... and of course Yugi and his friends." He pressed a kiss against the jagged blond tendrils that cascaded down one side of the other's face. "And we have the new cards. I can't help but think that somehow they're going to make a huge difference."

"As do I," Yami admitted, sighing. "I sense that the Bonds were not originally part of the Millennium Magic, or else they were not able to be realized back in ancient times. Though Isis told us these were from the future, I also can't help but think that they were originally from the past, borgoorgotten... and probably never used. Somehow perhaps one or more of the Millennium Items conspired to bring them to this time."

"You make it sound like the Items have minds of their own," Seto teased him gently.

"No, they do not," Yami continued reflectively. "Perhaps I should rephrase that. I think perhaps the gods themselves have so conspired."

Seto shook his head. "If there truly is a god, then I think it must be the Hand of Fate," he replied. "Anyway, we can speculate all we want. The fact of the matter is that the cards are here and we're going to use them."

"Yes, we are..." Yami murmured, still wondering about the gods. [The God Cards... powers of the God Set... Osiris... Ra... Egyptian gods... but there are so many more gods. Isis was Osiris's sister... and sister to Set as well...] When Yugi had studied ancient history in school, this was one topic in which Yami had had keen interest. It all seemed so familiar... yet strange. [Because I should *remember*... damn it! There's something eluding me yet about those...]

"Maju?" Seto whispered, sensing that Yami was thinking hard, and probably frustrated again about his memory. "Maju, we'll build new memories together," he murmured in a low, hushed voice. "You and Yugi will have your bond and be together forever... then you will be able to separate from him... then at last you and I will form our own bond! Just think of it! Nothing will stand against us!"

Yami lifted his head abruptly to look him in the eye. "How do you know that? How do you know the Bonds will stand against the powers of the other God cards?"

Seto stared back, aghast at the seeming fear in his lover's demeanor. "Yami, you're not thinking straight. If we had no possibility of these Bonds, what did you think was going to stand against the God cards then? Just Obelisk? And even so, how did you think we were going to win those away from the Rare Hunters? By dueling... using our own substantial skills and our carefully crafted decks! Yes, I have Obelisk, but I believe in your power, Yami! We are the 'Shin no Duelist', the True Duelists, and we will endure!"

As he spoke, Seto's voice grew stronger and more firm, until finally Yami heard the voice of his chief rival again. [We will fight again,] he realized, taking a deep breath as the other released him. [But it will be a battle not for superiority, but for shared honor. And perhaps even... like in the virtual reality game, Duel Monsters Quest, we will fight side by side...]

"Yes, we will endure," Yami replied quietly, sitting against the back of the couch, though his legs were still draped over Seto's. "You're right, of course. We both have a strong karma in the dueling arena... and instincts for gaming that are matchless. But I have to still say this, Seto. We have no idea how the Bonds will affect our dueling. We have only the faith that they will make the difference against the Rare Hunters."

Seto picked up one of Yami's hands and pressed the knuckles to his lips, which curved into a smile. "Then let us believe together... for the sake of our Yugi... and all we hold dear. Tomorrow night - you and Yugi will be Bonded."

"Seto," Yami breathed with a rush of sudden emotion, and went back into his arms, holding him hard. "Oh, yes..."


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