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Hunting Passion	By : atemuxyuugi Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 4892 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Hi my dear readers!
I am so, so, so, so sorry for being unable to hold the usual update time but unfortunatelly my betareader had a really busy weekend and I was unable to finish the chapter in time so she would have been able to correct it before she was gone. I want to thank Lee-Ann here for still working as fast as she could even what has been keeping her busy within these last days. And I myself try to be better for the next update this weekend. Please don't give up hope on my.
Anyway and now without further addo here is the next chapter! Please enjoy!
Title: Hunting Passion

Part: 14/?

Author: Usagi-Atemu-Tom [miakalikestamahome at hotmail dot com]

Warnings: future incest

Genre: Romance, Angst, Supernatural, AU

Pairings: Yami no Yuugi x Yuugi, Malik + Rishido

Criticism: Constructive criticism welcomed

Disclaimer: Nothing is mine, I don't make money from fanfiction.
Description: They came at midnight. He didn't know how they were able to intrude into his house, but somehow they succeeded. They were a male and a female. HE, was the leader, obviously. She seemed to be some kind of apprentice to him. Not that it really mattered. For they were both strong and deadly.
But when a young teen is able to run from the grasp of his captors, it is the start of a long game of hide and seek. He finds a new side to himself he would have never dreamed he had. And it helps him to keep the game to his advantage. But he knows the game will never end, at least not before his death. Because his hunter is a vampire.
Thanks to my betareader Lee-Ann for the usual quick work. ^^
Maezuke - preliminaries

Maezuke
The room he was in, Yuugi decided, was full of tension. Full of tension and full of people. But he did not mind. In fact, he exhilarated in both. Because the room he was currently waiting in was full of fellow duellists, all of them ready to fight.
This was his group for the first round, his first opponents, and already he recognised some faces. A few were from the small tournaments he had been able to enter, but some were from the bigger events he had only been able to watch on television or read about in magazines. He was absolutely looking forward to play against them all.
"All right, duellists", one of the helpers all of the sudden shouted. It was an older man in a suit with sunglasses. Yuugi recognised him as the referee who had performed this job during the last tournament Kaiba organised. At his first words, the whole room quietened down and every face turned to listen attentively to what the man had to say.
"I am Isono and I'll be one of the referees during the preliminaries", he explained to the crowd. "As this is no beginner tournament, I expect everyone to be aware of the rules, therefore I am only telling you the course of this tournament. As you can see, there is a door to my right. This door leads into the stadium and will open in a minute. At one part of the stadium is a platform. This is where all duellists will be called onto by none other than Kaiba Mokuba-sama.
"You'll go outside as soon as your name is called. You'll stay on the stage until all 244 participants have been called and checked onto stage. Then the young Kaiba-sama will announce the beginning of the tournament. The arena that is your battlefield is marked with the same number as the room you are currently staying in. The duels will be shown on the screen right above the main stage of this level and we'll battle the k. o. system. Whoever loses is out and will be asked to join the crowd. You're of course free to watch the remaining tournament and cheer on fellow duellists.
"To ensure the games will run through quick enough, each player starts with 2000 life points instead of four. The number will increase for everyone to 3000 if they reach the second stage and 4000 if they reach the finals. As soon as the first round is over, all duellists are required to take the lifts at the sides of the stadium and travel to the second floor. There you will see another screen that shows you which of the field numbers are fusing to a new one. For example, field 3 and field 7 might fuse together and become field 1. You'll be expected to go to the field according to plan then and battle in another k. o. system. This time the duels continue until sixteen duellists are left.
Since the number of arenas does not fit with the acquired number for the finals I suggest you always keep an eye on the screen because it will be announced there the moment sixteen participants are left. You'll then proceed to the finals in the third arena, where Kaiba-sama himself will explain the rules to you. And now get ready to go on stage."
He left through the door he had been talking about a moment before, leaving it wide open. Immediately all duellists in the room tried to get a place in front of that door to sneak a glance into the awaiting stadium behind. Yuugi was lucky.
He had been standing near the door anyway and was one of the first to reach the entrance. A deep look of awe on his face did the shifter take in the big inside of the stadium and the twenty duelling arenas. His hand found its way to his deck, gripping it even tighter when he watched Kaiba's younger brother Mokuba go onto stage.
The younger Kaiba looked the opposite from his brother, the small built teen noticed. Long, black hair, casual clothes and a big grin on his face made it obvious that this boy still knew how to laugh. However, with his sharp eyes the shifter was able to look closer and with a start Yuugi noticed that the young Kaiba had the same face as his older brother as well as far too mature looking eyes.
Yuugi however was unable to wonder about the young boy any further when Mokuba took the microphone and started to address the crowd. First the younger Kaiba explained the rules and course one more time for everyone to hear. As he was done, it was time for the duellists to enter the stage.
"And now to introduce the players! Ayoyama Marisa", Mokuba loudly announced as the name at the same time showed up on the big screen behind him. The young Kaiba started calling out the name of each player in alphabetic order. Yuugi watched curiously from the door he had been instructed to wait behind until he was called, as player after player stepped onto the platform. With over 200 duellists joining this was the biggest tournament he was ever allowed to play in and already recognising some of the names and faces within the other groups, he felt himself itching to start playing.
To his greatest surprise one of the familiar faces was that of Ishtar Malik who had really kept his promise and travelled to Japan to join the tournament as soon as it was announced. The Egyptian shifter even noted Yuugi at the edge of the many doors and the blonde grinned widely and waved. Finally, after Jounouchi, Katsuya and Kaiba, Seto among some other had been announced it was his turn to enter the stage.
When Mokuba called out "Mutou" he was already one step out of the door, but then to his surprise it was not his front name the young boy added. "Mutou, Atemu!"
And out onto stage stepped none other than his missing namesake. Yuugi was caught by surprise so much he nearly missed his own call, when Mokuba finally announced his name. A murmur went through the crowd when the dazed teen stepped on the stage. Not only were Atemu and him obviously looking a lot alike, Yuugi's name was also well known as the insider champion. As Malik pointed out long time ago in Egypt, Yuugi was well known among players, especially those from Duel Monsters for his exceptionally gaming skills.
If nothing else, Yuugi had been absolutely thankful that his performances in what his mother believed to be an exchange program, especially in the realm of languages, had impressed and contented her enough with his marks to finally grant him a bit more freedom to explore his love for games. This would be THE tournament to introduce himself to the world. And what an introduction it already was, now with Atemu awaiting him on stage with a wide smirk, their looks and share of the last name already causing assumptions and speculations to be exchanged between the crowd.
When Yuugi reached the vampire's side, after exchanging quick words and a clap on the back with Malik and introducing him to the vampire and Jounouchi, he blinded out the rest of the announced players and looked at the other Yuugi with a raised eyebrow.
"So, Mutou Atemu, huh?"
"Hey, it was yours and oto-chan's idea that I call myself 'Atemu' from now on, remember?" the vampire smirked. "And while a lot has changed, including my whole DNA structure, my memories of my little brother remain, even if I am still getting used to the fact that he looks old. Not that I am much younger, mind you, but I don't look or feel like it. Not to mention I introduced myself in your school like that, if you recall."
"Oh well, I guess you are right", Yuugi admitted. "But jii-chan and I never expected you to use that name in an event like this, where the whole world might be watching. And joining the tournament itself? Won't they realise with all the cameras and close-up views that you might look a bit too pale? Not to mention won't you fall asleep over the cards? It's bright daylight after all."
It was Atemu's turn to raise an eyebrow now.
"Yuugi, you DO remember that I always wore some make up to conceal my paleness whenever I approached you during day on our hunting, yes?" he asked dryly before he added in a more amused voice, "besides I have not seen you falling asleep over your cards when we played at night, you know? And let's not forget that back when I joined you at school I was perfectly awake as well."
Turning red, Yuugi remembered that his namesake had indeed been very awake when he accompanied him to school. Looking sheepishly at the other, Yuugi nodded his head.
"Uhm, I guess you are right", he stuttered before Malik came forward and interrupted their talk.
"Hey Yuugi, which group are you in?" the Egyptian wanted to know.
"Sixteen", the shifter answered before looking curiously at his foreign friend and Atemu. "And you guys?"
"I'm in group seven", Malik answered with a grin.
"Ten", the vampire added simply, smirking as Jounouchi told his own number as well. "Seems chances are high we'll only see each other in the finals.
"I wouldn't really mind when to play against", Yuugi replied, shrugging his shoulders with a smile. "But I guess duelling you in the finals will be more exciting with the special rule."
"Exactly", the Egyptian nodded. "I've never played this kind of game, it's rather interesting. Who will I end up as partner with?"
"Just hope it's not Kaiba, that one is no team player anyway", Jounouchi immediately sneered, glancing over at the CEO who had been staying near Mokuba since he entered the stage. Yuugi could not help but sigh in exasperation. In all honesty, he had the feeling the relationship between Kaiba and his blonde friend had taken a turn for the worse since that evening he was forced to duel the brunette for Jounouchi's dignity.
Before he could add his thoughts however, the crowd started cheering loudly and the group of friends realised it was time for the tournament to start.
"Duellists, please take your places at the arenas with the corrosponding number", Mokuba shouted over the noise of the crowd. "The Nakama-Tournament will start in five minutes!"
"All right", Jounouchi exclaimed, kneading his knuckles in excitement. "Let's kicks some asses so we see each other in the finals, shall we?"
"Sure, Jounouchi-kun", the shifter replied smiling and nodding. Atemu and Malik agreed as well. All four of them turned towards their respective arenas, waving goodbye for now.
And this was how the first round of the Nakama-Tournament started. Duel after Duel each group had two members whose names showed up on the screen together with the result of the each duel afterwards. And even with only two thousand lifepoints to battle, Yuugi soon realised that it took some time before his next duels. One look around the other arenas made him realise his friends noticed the same.
In the end Yuugi approached each of them and they decided to create a meeting point somewhere at the sidelines where they could comfortably watch and rejoin the duels when needed, yet still have a bit of privacy to discuss their duels and in Malik's case have a chance to get to know Jounouchi and Atemu. Which brought the latter to wonder about the casual, friendly way, the Egyptian behaved towards him.
"There's something I am curious about", Atemu addressed the young Egyptian, just after his latest duel, as they all stood together once more, watching the Champion of East Japan duelling a young girl, while at another arena two teens battled out their duel with Earth based Monsters.
"Mmmh?" Malik encouraged the vampire, though absentmindedly, because he just spotted Kaiba Seto starting a duel against an older looking girl who was sneering just as much as the CEO who seemed to obviously look down on her.
Glancing at the CEO's duel as well, Atemu continued speaking, eyes now fixed on the first monster Kaiba put onto the field with a bored look in his cold, blue eyes.
"You never seemed surprised to see me, even though you certainly know who or what I am. I wonder why?"
"Ah, that", Malik realised and started to snicker, glancing at Jounouchi. "I am taking Jounouchi-kun is aware of your secret, or you would not have mentioned it, yes?"
Now Yuugi and his best friend became attentive of course. Their eyes, that had been locked onto Kaiba's duel as well, darted between the two other men, both faces curious and confused.
"I've been at their home, sometime after you left, Yuugi", Atemu explained, sensing the confusion his namesake and the blonde felt. "I remember Malik standing beside that woman who told me you left."
"My sister Isis, yes", the blonde Egyptian confirmed with a smirk. "And her most annoying trait is the fact that she can foresee the future. She forewarned me, before I left to Japan, that I would meet you standing by Yuugi's side instead of being his hunter."
Tilting his head slightly to the side, the vampire considered the words before slightly smirking, intrigued.
"Interesting", he murmured while Yuugi grinned, shaking his head.
"I think I told you about Malik-kun's sister Isis", the shifter wondered to his blonde friend. Jounouchi nodded hesitantly.
"You said she was a bit mysterious", he recalled, looking questioningly at Malik. "And she's a... panter?"
"Mysterious is a nice description, really", Malik considered humoured. "I prefer to call her annoying because she has this habit to look at you with that all knowing smile and tells you in your face that she won't tell you anything she knows. I was surprised that you", he pointed his thumb carelessly over his side towards the vampire, "did not get annoyed with her attitude at all. Oh and by the way I am a tiger", the light blonde amusedly added as an afterthought at the gaping Jounouchi.
"Ah but I have always loved enigmas", Atemu grinned before putting a hand on Yuugi's shoulder and steering him in the middle of their small circle. "Yuugi here for example had been a great enigma. Why do you think I followed him around for one and a half years challenging myself to figure him out all on my own?"
Chocking at the affectionate tone the vampire used, not to mention the small, invisible strokes he had bestowed over his back where the other two teens could not see it, Yuugi turned to glare slightly at the entertained vampire, who grinned innocently back.
The shifter was about to open his mouth and protest when his namesake all of the sudden pointed towards the screen, smirk widening.
"I think that's your cue to return to the arena", he exclaimed with a chuckle and indeed, Yuugi's name was up on the screen together with his next opponent. Throwing a last dirty glare at the other, Yuugi turned around to meet his next match. To reach his own arena, the shifter had to cross the one where Kaiba was duelling and he walked by just in time to witness the unfriendly looking woman losing spectacularly to one of the CEO's lesser monsters.
As for his own match, the small built teen realised it would be the last one in this part of the stadium. His group had reduced to five duellists, and with the winner of this last battle there would be four winners for this area, just as had been prescribed for the first round.
His last opponent was a rather cocky looking teen who was nearly three heads taller than him. Yuugi was not sure if the difference in high gave him this confidence or if he had not watched the shifter's duels so far, however the other had nothing better to do than to taunt him and ridicule his skills. Yuugi was rather thankful that by now Jounouchi had left for his own duel, because he was sure, if the blonde had witnessed their introduction, he would have exploded for the smaller built teen's sake.
Yuugi however took the mocking in stride. It was not the first time someone ridiculed him, he had been struggling with worse until he befriended Jounouchi and Honda. Besides, he had faith in his skills and knowledge of the game and he trusted the deck he built with his own hands. In fact, already at the beginning he realised that this young man was nothing but hot air.
The shifter could not help but smirk, face safely hidden behind his cards as his opponent's monsters were crushed by his traps and monsters with special abilities. In the end, just to teach the boy a lesson, Yuugi finished him off with one of the monsters a lot of duellists saw as weak - Kuribo. However, unlike Kaiba, Yuugi did not do it to crush the young man, but to show him that this game was more than just brute strength and overconfidence.
If he had wanted to break his opponent's spirit, he would have played the god card he had been holding in his hands from the very beginning, yet refused to play. Of course no one knew that but him. Though as Yuugi jumped down from the platform after politely thanking the other for the game, the shifter spotted Atemu standing within the crowd of watching duellists, a wide smirk on his face.
Of course his namesake with his ever sharp eyes had seen it all, even 'Ra no Yokushinryuu' being kept on his hand. Sighing Yuugi joined the vampire and looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"What, have you played yours yet?" he the shifter asked dryly, already knowing the answer. Atemu's smirk only widened.
"Though so", Yuugi mumbled and after exchanging knowing looks both wandered over to where Jounouchi was fighting his final duel for this round.

The moment the tournament started and as the first round of duels were played, time seemed to flow by for Yuugi. Already, the first round was over and to his great joy not only had Atemu won all of his duels, but Jounouchi and Malik as well.
Grinning from ear to ear, Yuugi and his three friends stepped into one of the many elevators that would take the winners to the second floor of the stadium while the crowd had to cover the distance by foot.
At the second floor, there were only ten arenas left. Also, this time the duellists did not only have to rely on their skills and simply win. This time, if one was not already absolutely inferior to skill, time also was an important factor. The longer one needed for a duel, the more it was ensured that the winning duellist would qualify for the finals. Because the duellists were an uneven number towards the number of arenas, Mokuba announced that all duels would stop the moment only sixteen players were left. At that point the final phase of the tournament would begin.
The second floor also contained a stage though much small as the one of the first floor, because this time it was not required for all participants to be introduced to the crowd. Instead the duels started the moment Mokuba finished explaining the new rules. The screen this time showed the numbers of the twenty groups of the first floor and added two groups together each which merged the twenty into ten.
Yuugi was glad to realise that neither his friends nor Kaiba were together in a group. This meant chances were high he would met each opponent he really wanted to fight in the finals. If the small built teen was honest, while the duels so far had been fun, not one opponent had been a real challenge. Of course he still gave his best while staying kind, just as he always did with games, but he could not help but notice that most of the time he did not have to rely on the strong monsters of his deck.
Usually he was able to combine traps and magic cards so well that the slightly weaker monsters of his deck were enough to earn him his win. And had some of his opponents in the beginning scoffed and not taken him seriously, by now word of who he was and his skills had made the round through the qualified players.
In the second round no one underestimated Yuugi again. Quite opposite, they were playing at full strength from the beginning. This certainly turned out to be the round where the better players had survived. It was those who knew their skills and were able to read and guess the opponents moves as well. Yuugi started to have a slightly harder time than before and in the few breaks he had, where he could visit his duelling friends, he noticed that they needed to stay alert more than usual as well.
Still, game after game Yuugi, Jounouchi, Atemu, Malik and Kaiba won them all. The four of them did not even care about the time limit. In fact, the CEO was the first one to win his last round and qualify for the final, closely followed by Yuugi and Atemu.
And it was only while Yuugi watched the last turn of his vampire friend, where he attacked his helpless opponent with the Black Magician, that the shifter realised that not only did he not witness Atemu using his god card, but neither had Kaiba, just as he himself had not used the card, even though he had it in his hands and would have been able to play it more than once.
The shifter did not question the motives of his two fellow god card holders. He suspected the reasons for their motives were quite the same as his own. He simply did not wish to win a game by overpowering his opponent with a too powerful card. The use of a god should be saved for a duel against a fellow god card user.
With Atemu's win, the two of them walked over to cheer for Jounouchi and Malik, who were at their last rounds as well. Jounouchi was playing against a young man that used water monsters and for some turns the blonde had a hard time keeping up with some rather nasty attacks. However Yuugi's friend soon turned the tables after drawing the one card needed to destroy a combination of magic cards on his opponent's field. Weakening the water monsters fatally, the rest of the game was a piece of cake that the blonde easily won.
Malik did not do badly either. He had a rather strange deck, much different from the last one when Yuugi played against him. A lot of the Egyptian's monsters possessed special abilities which gave the opponent a hard time. With a rather nasty strategy, the blonde won his final game easily enough and qualified for the finals as well.
Cheering Yuugi and Jounouchi both clapped him on his back, while Atemu showed the Egyptian thumbs up. Grinning, Malik joined the group of friends to await the end of the current stage.

Half an hour later found Yuugi and the other fifteen duellists standing inside the third floor, which was open air, without a roof. The sun was shining inside onto a single duelling arena where the final games would be hold in one after another.
Mokuba was currently standing in the middle of the arena, a microphone at hand, big screen behind him and explained the new rules.
"Two teams will play against each other", the dark haired Kaiba told the listening duellists and crowd. "And while the duellists of the same team are not allowed to talk to each other about their cards or exchange strategies, the two players are still a team which means you should respect each other and you are free to help attacking your opponents or defend your partner against an enemy attack. Well and now with everything said, let's start the drawing of the teams!"
As all attention was focused on the screen in the duelling stadium, where the duellists were depicted together with their numbers, Jounouchi, Atemu, Yuugi and Malik used the chance to steal over to the rest of friends, Jounouchi's sister Shizuka and Yuugi's jii-chan, who had been standing right at the bottom of the stands and were eagerly waiting to voice their opinions of the tournament so far.
"Congratulations, you did it!" Anzu squealed in delight, which caused the shifter to blush, much to Atemu's amusement.
"Nii-san, you were great", Shizuka, the younger sister of Jounouchi praised, her smiling face glowing. Her brother grinned proudly and gave her thumbs up. It was obvious Jounouchi was glad she had come to cheer for him.
"Hey Yuugi, who's your friend over there?" Otogi wanted to know, looking curiously at Malik.
"Guys, this is Ishtar Malik, an Egyptian I met during my exchange program", the small built teen introduced while giving the dark skinned Egyptian a meaningful look, as he stressed the 'exchange program' in his wordings.
Malik of course was sharp enough to understand and he nodded with a small smirk before smiling at the friends he had been introduced to.
While pleasantries were exchanged, the sudden noise of excitement around the other spectators made the talking teens realise that the draw began. Out in the middle of the stage stood a large, oval doom of glass. Inside the glass was a miniature Blue Eyes White Dragon, surrounded by a lot of balls with numbers. Until that moment, the balls had been lying on the ground, but all of the sudden the machine inside the glass started up and wind began to blow inside the looking through cage. The balls flew around until one of it got just right into the mouth of the dragon.
The ball was swallowed and all of the sudden a number with the photography of the belonging duellist showed up.
"Oh, I think this is like lotto", Anzu realised, recognising the system.
"Hey Malik-kun, that's your number", Yuugi pointed towards the screen where a photo of Malik looked down onto the crowd.
"And the first member of team one is Ishtar Malik!" Mokuba announced through the microphone, followed by the crowds' cheers. The Egyptian smirked at his new friends before running up to stage. In the meantime the machine with the balls started once more, the wind picking up the helpless little balls until the next one vanished into the dragon's snout. Again a photograph and name showed up on the screen.
"And the first team has been chosen", the younger Kaiba brother spoke. The second duellist is Kujaku Mai. Together with Ishtar-san you'll be team one."
Yuugi and Atemu clapped together with all of their friends before glancing curiously back towards the stage where the lottery started once more. The second group consisted of no one they knew personally. The first one was Tsukino Bakura [1], a duellist Yuugi had met once at one of the smaller tournaments before the white haired teen vanished within the bigger events. They all had watched a few of his duels, knowing he owned a rather strong occultism deck.
The second duellist fitted surprisingly well to his new team-mate, though Bakura looked far from happy. A small teen, none of them ever knew, who preferred ghosts and spirit cards in his deck and was rather creepy looking himself.
The third group comprised of Bandith Keith, a well known Duel Monsters champion from the USA as well as a slightly shy looking brunette, though Yuugi saw her play once and knew she was nearly as dangerous as Kujaku Mai with her harpies deck, just not as confident.
When the drawing of the fourth group started, it was the one that became interesting once more because the first ball chosen was Jounouchi's. Grinning at his friends all of them eagerly stared at the glass doom, wondering which partner the blonde ended up with.
"Hey Jounouchi-kun, we might still become team-mates", Yuugi pointed out good naturally before a ball was sucked into the dragon's mouth.
When the result showed up on the screen, most of the friends' faces fell, eyes widening in surprise and shock at who was supposed to be Jounouchi's partner. Surprisingly enough it was the blonde's childhood friend, who found his voice back first.
"Hey, I know I said that it could be Jounouchi, ending up as Kaiba's partner, but I was joking", Yuugi heard Honda exclaim while some of the other's barely suppressed their snickers of amusement they could not help but feel even if they still sympathised with the unfortunate blonde. Jounouchi looked like someone had drenched him into very cold water, while the CEO, who had been standing nearby Mokuba, seemed more inclined to having swallowed a bunch of lemons.
The shock both duellists seemed to feel at the revelation of the other partner lasted for about thirty seconds before the angry scream of Jounouchi broke the silence.
"No fucking way!"
tbc...
[1] Right, I guess in the end the pun is just poor and no one can see it but I. *coughs* Anyway, anyone noticed that some people tend to describe the two parts of hair on Bakura as 'bunny ears'? Well and now think about the legend of the rabbit on the moon. "Tsuki no Bakura", which means "Bakura of the moon" if one translates it. Get my poor thinking? XD
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