Immortal Love

Well...I know it has been a few...months.....okay a lot of months! But finally figured out what I wanted to do and where it was going. This is the end of it, and while it suggests a sequel, I have no intention within the next year. So hang onto your hats for the end of this and enjoy!

Chapter 8

As Atem left, he could see his counterpart exit his own room, slightly limping. Atem said nothing, grateful that all the rooms were sound proof as he did not want to hear the former thief, and certainly did not want anyone to have heard the sounds of their lovemaking.

"Good morning Akeifa, did you sleep well?" Atem asked, his lips curling in a pseudo smile, one that if you didn't know him, would take that he was serious, and not joking.

"About as well as you did. We have lights that have aversions to sleep." the former Thief King answered back, rubbing the back of his neck in the attempt of working out kinks with his love had caused.

When they came into the slightly medieval kitchen, they found Seto already in the kitchen with Katsuya firmly attached to his side. Seto was having a slight bit of trouble moving around but Katsuya did not appear to want to let him go.

"Katsu? Do you not think that it would be easier for Seto to cook if you let him go?" Atemu asked his son.

"No!!" was all the blond said as Seto looked back at him with a soft smile.

"He hasn't let me go since this morning when he woke. He slept the entire night." Seto said as he looked at his angel, signaling him that he needed to move. With that, they both moved over to the frying grill and with the bowl of substance in hand poured it into the grill. From their position it looked to be the makings of an omelet, until Seto began to scramble the eggs and other ingredients that were present. Katsuya then began to add herbs from the other bowl that Seto had prepared and the two of them seemed to work in sync creating breakfast for the six of them.

"Katsuya did you really sleep the entire night?" Atem asked surprised. Most mornings he would find his son already in the kitchen with breakfast prepared for them.

"Yes Father. I had a very restful sleep." Katsuya said from his position, still latched to his love's side and it did not look like he was going to be letting him go any time soon.

"That was of course after the Priest relieved you of your purity." Akeifa said under his breath, of which both Seto and Atem turned to him. Atem was smirking and Seto was blushing wildly

"Very good, I am so proud of you my son." Atemu said ignoring the Thief King and referring to the fact that he had managed to sleep the night through. Though he knew that Seto belonged to his son, it was still disturbing that only losing his virginity granted him a full nights rest.

"Your Highness, I didn't get a chance to ask last night, but I wanted to know. Who is that is after Katsu? And why?" Seto said as he began to prepare the food. He noticed that his best friends were not present and rather guessed why as the other two looked so sparkling. He assumed that while he was sleeping the others had been relieved of their virginities as well.

"We will discuss it when the food is ready. Yugi and Ryou are still resting" Atemu said as he came over to the Bodum Coffee press that had been installed. While a stove and oven had been installed, Atem had not allowed other modern amenities in the home as he wanted Katsu to be familiar with the old ways.

"Forgive me your highness, but we will discuss it now." Seto insisted. Even though his words were respectful, his tone was not.

"While I understand your need to protect your love, High Priest, your tone leaves a lot to be desired. I have been guardian and watcher all of his life, so I will discuss what I know when my wife is awake." Atemu said and at that, breezed out of the room, the topic to him was dropped.

To Akeifa and the High Priest they looked stunned.

"Yugi's....a....WHAT?!" Seto shouted slightly.

"You heard Father. Yugi is Father's soul mate and queen. I thought you knew that Dragon?" Katsuya said with two of the plates of food in hand, tilting his head slightly in a questioning mode.

"No...no I didn't know." Seto said slowly, trying to process the information.

"Don't worry Dragon. It doesn't change anything. We still serve Father and father." Katsuya said with a sparkling grin on his face that if it wasn't morning, would have lit up the sky.

"I should go wake up Ryou then." Akeifa said as he grabbed one of the cups of tea that Katsuya had made. The boy had always been intuitive about things, and knowing that the British boy would drink tea versus coffee like he did was heart-warming. It was one of things he loved about the boy.

Leaving the room with the tea he could hear the scrapping of the table chairs as the others sat down. Going back up the stairs he could hear the voices talking but they got silent as Akeifa got closer to the shared chambers they became silent. Entering the room, he could see his angel sprawled out on the bed. Ryou was currently hugging a pillow to him and the blanket that previously had hid his charms was now mostly off and he could make out the bare bottom of his beautiful Seme.

"Ryou...it's time to wake up." Akeifa whispered coming slowly over to him. As he stood over the boy, he could see his love starting to stir and awaken.



"Hmmm...five more minutes..." Ryou mumbled from his position on the bed. Akeifa smiled at him and nudged him slightly.

"No...or I will take you instead." Akeifa threatened and that woke the British boy awake, faster than anything else.

"Not happening." Ryou said sitting now up in the bed, his legs dangling down the edge of the highborn bed.

"I know that precious. I have always respected our agreement; though the thought of your tight ass has warmed me the last 5,000 years." Akeifa said huskily as Ryou blushed. Ryou had always been aware of his past life and understood the agreement. However he knew that in this life, it was not necessary and he too longed to feel his love inside him.

"Perhaps at another time beloved." Ryou said as he got up out of the bed and turned to his lover. Last night had been so amazing; the feeling of his strong willed love inside, tightening all around him had been glorious.

"The Pup gave you some tea. I wasn't sure if this is what you would want but he seemed to have." Akeifa said and Ryou focused on him, as he was still slightly bleary eyed.

"Oh, a spot of tea would be wonderful. Thank you." Ryou said and instinctively grabbed the tea from Akeifa and began to drink it, not even mindful that he was completely naked as the blanket covering him had fallen to the side and his legs were now over the edge of the bed.

"You are welcome my love. So tell me, are you ready to face the others downstairs?" Akeifa asked, still in a very good mood from their exercise the night before, and still feeling the afterglow of their loving.

"I suppose. Do you have something else that I could wear?" Ryou asked, remembering that his own clothing was soiled from the pleasures of the night before.

"I think so, but it would probably be better for you to wear some of the Pup's clothing. Remember I am larger then you and I do not want the others looking at what is mine." Akeifa said and saw his Seme smile.

"I love you too. Very well then, I shall wait here for you." Ryou said, in his soft yet crisp British voice.

"Thank you." Akeifa said and leaned down and kiss the small Brit's head. At that he began to head out but was stopped by the young voice.

"Do you think you might have some crumpets and honey?" Ryou asked and Akeifa smiled.

"I shall check for you." he said and then closed the door. Inside though, Ryou was thinking back on the last 12 hours of his life, and it was rather hard to believe. With that thought he saw that there was a small bathroom attached to the room, and inside he went in and saw the small toilet, sink and shower stall. Wanting to get cleaned up before his love returned he turned it on, and from the small shelving, grabbed two towels and started up the shower. He could see that there was no commercial shampoos and stuff, so checked for any soap. He didn't mind using soap in his hair, but was used to using the smell of coconuts as his body lotion. Finding one that smelled of heather and rosemary he smiled. It reminded him of home when he had first grown up in the Scottish highlands before moving to London where his father's work was. Finishing his cleanup he could see that some clothing had been laid out for him but his love was nowhere to be found. Thinking he must have already headed back downstairs he got dressed in the clothes provided by Akeifa and headed down the stairs as well.

As he came down the stairs, he could see that the blond boy was making something, while his boss and the man that everyone had been referring to as a King was seated in the main dining hall. His own lover was nowhere to be found, but he still emerged and sat down with the others.

"Welcome down Ryou." his boss said a tone in his voice that he had not ever heard before. He didn't know what to make of it. It wasn't exactly an angry tone, but not a jovial one either.

"Morning Boss. Is Yug' joining us?" he asked generally

"My little one is going to be indisposed for a while." Atemu said interrupting the British boy. This made him turn toward the sovereign and look at him. He did not have the robes that he had greeted them the night before, but now a gauzy version of a toga, almost like a form of pajamas. This did not hide much of his slim body. But he did not appear to be the slightest uncomfortable with showing his body as such.

As Ryou was checking him out, Akeifa came back into the room and saw Ryou. Coming over to him he nuzzled his hair, giving Ryou pause as he stopped his musings of the Pharaoh and concentrated on his own sovereign.

"Now that we are here Pharaoh, do you want to tell me why someone is after Katsuya?" Seto said, his eyes narrowing at the man.

"Very well. But it is a long story, some of which you may not be completely prepared for." Atemu said, his breath sighing at the end.

"I am not going anywhere."

"Very well. The story begins many centuries ago. Well before my time, but not of my father." Atemu said but Seto stopped him by saying "What does your father have to do with anything?"

At that Atemu smiled and said "My father is Ra. As in the sun god. He was before time began, and before the beings of now resided. He was there when they came. Beings from a doomed planet. There were not many of them, but one among them was a gleaming example of their perfection. My father remembered this being - calling him a man or woman just did not do as they were neither, but energy. Pure unadulterated energy. They did not exist as we do, but as an energy cloud. This being that attracted my father was the first form of Katsuya." Atemu said as Seto looked at him in shock.

"Are you trying to tell me that Katsuya is not human?" Seto said, though Ryou and Akeifa looked uncomfortable. And both not trying to look at Katsuya who was still in the kitchen doing the beginnings of lunch. It was his way.

"Yes, now he is, but that was not always so. The beings had approached my father and his people, known as the Gods of the Terra and asked for sanctuary. Father and the rest of the council granted it, and with that they had settled in the middle of the Atlantic. Things were peaceful for all. The beings stayed away from the populous that had just begun to emerge from their beings of Cro-Magnon to the beings that we are now. It had taken a great amount of time but the beings had begun to lose their forms of energy and had taken on that of what the Gods looked like...per se."

"What do you mean per se?" Seto said interrupting again

"I mean that with all that energy that they came from and then trying to contain it into a water based form was not the wisest of ideas for some of them. There is a good reason that people are warned to stay away from water during lightning storms. But with them, something else happened." Atemu said

"What happened your Highness?" Ryou asked, curious now with the story.

"One of them wanted control of their throne. Katsuya's first form was still present but weakened due to the confines of what he was. But he was still their king and leader. And his people loved him. But the entity wanted him dead so that he could take control. Their technology was even beyond Father and the others, but because of Katsuya's influence they were not worried about it. His own pure soul would not allow any kind of darkness to invade, so the Gods trusted this. They did not count on someone going mad from the electrical currents running through their bodies that the people now called Atlantians had formed." Atemu said and stopped as Katsuya came back in with tea for Ryou and Seto and hot chocolate for his father and teacher.

"Thank you pup. Go do your Kata’s and we will join you soon." Akeifa said and with that Katsuya bowed low to his teacher and walked out.

"That will keep him occupied for thirty minutes." he added as Atemu nodded.

"Why don't you want him knowing this?" Seto said, though the look on Ryou's face suggested that he was thinking the same thing.

"He already knows. It is part of his heritage. Which I was getting to. One thing at a time. To know where one comes from helps to know where one is going. Now where was I...?” Atemu said and Ryou piped up "You were saying someone wanted Katsuya's throne."

"Ah yes...so my father had found out about the threat, but by then it was too late. The coup had occurred and there was barely anything remaining of the being's soul. When my father arrived he found the traces, and was surprised to find that another was tied to it. He pulled on the string and it led to a soul still within the soul lake that had not been born yet. He could tell its destiny, so taking the sovereign's soul with him he returned to Egypt. Centuries past...too many to count for my father but in time, I was born to his human Queen and I was named Pharaoh as a child. When I became the age of ten, the being had recovered enough to be reborn and he was reborn into the being at the time called Nakia, meaning pure and faithful and was entrusted to the Goddess Isis.

By this time, nearly one hundred thousand years had passed and the beings known as Atlantians had either intermarried with the populous or just straight out died out. Except for one. The king of the Atlantians - the being that had given himself the name Dartz. By this time, he had shed his human skin and returned to energy, realizing that he could not die this way. At least not the way he believed." Atemu said pausing only to take a sip of the hot chocolate.

"So is it possible that he is still alive?" Ryou asked, seeing that his boss was about to ask the same thing.

"More then possible, he is. This is why I protected him as much as I could. But we are jumping to the end, and I have not told you the middle part. When he was born in Egypt, he was born with his full knowledge of what he was, and who he was. And that his soul mate was born and was near him. He was very impatient to be old enough to be with him, and often got into some serious mischief because of it. If he had his way, he would have been in my High Priest's bed as his mate at 3 years old." Atemu said with no hesitation and stared at Seto's shocked face.

"Are you trying to tell me that he wanted me as his lover that early?" Seto said, his voice cracking from shock, incredulation and downright wonderment.

"Yes, only I telling him that his body would not be able to handle your phallus is what stopped him. He saw the logic in it, and every six months would ask the question again. 'May I be his mate now?' I can tell you denying him constantly as a child was downright annoying. Until he was twelve. At that time, I did not have a choice any longer in denying him. He told me that if I denied him again, that he would take matters into his own hands and would rape my High Priest." Atemu said with Akeifa smiling.

"So I took him as my lover at twelve?" Seto said, no longer trying to deny what he once was. The events were too strange for him and considering Katsuya's aggressiveness that he showed with regards to their sex life, it had to be this way.

"More specifically, he took you as his. As soon as I issued the permission I found I had to avert my eyes as he attacked you....or more specifically a piece of your anatomy with more relish then I had ever seen. All I can say is he must have been soul starved. And my recollections was that you did not complain too much after the first three times. By the tenth time, he was finally satiated. You on the other hand had to be hospitalized for your safety. Afterwards, he did not abuse that much like that again." Atemu said without remorse as he remembered that he had been present the entire time. It was one of many memories that he wished he didn't have, but seeing the current happiness that his adopted son had made it almost seem worthwhile.

"So what happened?" Ryou asked, his own boss red-faced with those thoughts as well.

"I was never entirely sure of it myself, but somehow the being found out that Katsuya had been reincarnated and had been united with his soul mate. By this time, I too had found my Queen and we were expecting our first child, our son-" Atemu said but was interrupted by Seto.

"You said that Yugi was your queen. Did that mean that he was a girl then?" Seto demanded, but Atemu smiled.

"No, my Queen has never been female. My father granted him this gift when he wed us. The ability for him to procreate a child of Ra. This current incantation of him does not have it, but that does not say the same for your own mate my Priest." Atemu said as Ryou and Seto both looked at him in shock.

"Are you telling me that Katsuya can have children?" Seto croaked out, unbelieving again of what was spoken.

"Yes, he had gifted you with six children before his death. Three boys, three girls. All triplets. Ten months apart. They died with him, along with my Queen and our unborn child. The threat had discovered a gruesome weapon to use with their energy level and was able to decimate the villa that my beloved was entertaining his grandchildren, which is what he considered your children. They were all killed before Katsuya could defend them. This is one of the reasons for Akeifa. Shortly after their deaths, I went mad with grief. You on the other hand vowed to kill the man that had killed your family, and you nearly succeeded, but with doing so, it ended your life and left your soul in limbo. Your god Osiris, husband to your own husband's god, brought you home where I restored your soul, while it waited again for Katsuya." Atemu said

"So what happened?" Seto asked, more subdued now. He had never considered having children of his own, his own preference making it an impossibility but hearing that it had been overcome and he had been happy, made him sadder then he had ever been before.

"That I do not know. Considering the previous damage his soul had taken, I had expected it to be much longer, but it had been only 5,000 years." Atemu said

"Well, what matters now is that the menace is still out there, and it will know of the mating. It will come for him, now that he would be carrying again." Akeifa said as Seto turned in complete disbelief.

"Katsu is normal. There is nothing wrong with him." Seto said firm in his belief.

"No my priest. Katsu will never be normal. At least not the way we think of normal. He is from a race of androgynous beings of pure energy. That alone changes who he is. Katsu's awareness stems from his alien perceptions. He has only had two lives. The soul is still very fresh and new and remembers the nuances, if not the actions. He does not remember the times he snuck into your room to mate with you at five years of age. He does not remember the couplings that you two would do, and he does not remember his death or the reason for it. But he remembers the feelings, and used those to seek you out. His inability to sleep stemmed from this because of the restlessness of being without you. Because while I would not allow the two of you to couple until he could accept your own body, he has been in your bed, sleeping with you since he was born." Atemu revealed which the monarch was surprised when Seto did not react. He had been a plethora of emotions the entire time, but this did not surprise him.

"So my treasure slept with me, but obeyed your order to not couple with me, is this correct?" Seto asked, the tone insinuating that he was merely confirming, of which the Pharaoh nodded his head.

"What makes you think he obeyed it?" Seto asked, curious to find out the answer

"Firstly, he can not lie. It is impossible for him. The concept is foreign to him. As is any kind of subterfuge or any deception. When I explained to him how grown men would be larger then his own hands, he understood. I never treated Katsu as a child. Such things were beneath a creature like that. Even now we do not treat him as such. Nor should you in the future. He will not understand it, as last night's debacle gave rise to. He takes things literal and interprets them as such. But as for the monster that his enemy has become, I wish I knew. Father has kept me in the dark about much of it" Atemu said as he set back down his tea.

"So is that it? You don't know anything about what could be facing my treasure now?" Seto said, his voice betraying the anger he felt. His voice was still steady, but the traces of his feelings were broadcasting with in it, making all aware of how close he was to giving into his emotions.

"Yes and no. I know that something is facing him, but it is something that only he will be able to deal with. None of us are Atlantians. Only he is. And his child." Atemu said letting out that particular detail. One that Seto had momentarily forgotten about. But that brought it rushing back.

"He's carrying now? So soon?" Seto asked quietly.

"As I have been trying to tell you, he isn't really born. Not like you. Not like me. His physiology is different. When he was born he had the parts of a female and male at the same time. He has always possessed these parts. I changed that this time. I hid him from the monster. But he is still that being. One of the celestial bodies, whose purpose has been missing for one hundred and fifty thousand years. I doubt that he even knows it any longer, but if he did, he has never voiced this. But I do know this. He is the last of his race. If it is to survive, his body must produce. It is up to you to accept this, but do not pressure him." Atemu said to his audience that had been quiet and still.

"Father. I am not the last. My babies are here and they will help grow our people again." a voice said from behind the Pharaoh, surprising one and all.

"Katsu....?" Seto said slowly standing up and walking over to his lover of less then eight hours.

"Dragon, our babies are here. Our beautiful sons...our princes." Katsu said as he brought a trembling hand to his stomach and smiled up at him.

"They are going to be beautiful Dragon. Just like their papa." Katsuya said his face glowing brightly as the others looked on in wonderment.



End.....for now.