Welcome to the first chapter of Are We Ready? Currently this is the slightly rewritten version of the original chapter of AWR with grammar, spelling and other mistakes I made were fixed (I hope)

Anyways the best part of the story: The Disclaimer!

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A gentle breeze went through the schoolyard of Domino High, where the students longed to escape the boring lesson that was currently coming out of the mouth of their teacher about math that many may never use again in their life.

Atem Muto sat as his desk, just staring at the teacher but not truly paying attention. His mind was on other things. He looked to the left of his desk, noticing his friend Joey Wheeler had his head down, with his dark dirty blonde hair covering his eyes. Luckily, for Joey, Mai was in front of him, preventing the teacher from noticing Joey sleeping in class. What he didn't understand was how the teacher didn't hear the snores coming from Joey. Atem noticed Tristan, the best bud of Joey, pulling out a black Sharpie from his pencil case, snickering quietly.

'That will be a disaster later,' Atem thought as a small smirk appeared on his face.

His eyes traveled to the right of him, where the love of his life sat while scribbling notes on the lesson. Her shoulder length, mahogany hair swayed gently with the breeze from the opened windows of the classroom. Tea's sapphire eyes were narrowed in concentration, catching important parts of the lesson. Tea looked to her right, her eyes locking onto Atem's amethyst ones.

Tea smiled at him, winking with her left eye before looking at the clock. She held up two fingers indicating that they only had two minutes before leaving for the entire day. Atem's cheeks flushed slightly at her wink, moving to get his books ready.

He and Tea had been dating since they were 15 years old after interference from certain pals of theirs who thought they should just hook up now. Even after three years of dating, Tea continued to amaze the young man.

Atem's 18th birthday was now coming up next month, much to his dismay. He just wanted it to be a quiet day but he heard that Joey, who was oblivious to Tristan drawing on him, was coming up with plans to celebrate his friend's birthday the "grown-up way".

"!" the school's bells rang out. People jumped out of their seats, the class now filled with excitement and chattering. Joey sat up, rubbing his eye, a place where Tristan didn't have enough time to draw on.

"I swear dat Mr. Ishinomori speeches get longer as the freaking day passes. Doesn't he know dat half the school says he has the sleeping class?" Joey yawned.

"Well hun, I think Mr. Ishinomori knows that half his class just sleeps. He probably rather just wait for his students to realize that slacking off will make you become a loser at math," Mai said, flipping her blond hair back as she laid her hands on her boyfriend's desk and her books now on top of his.

"Clearly you are proving his theory," murmured Tristan, snickering at Joey's face silently in his mind.

"What was that Tristan? Why don't you say that to my face like a real man?"

"I would but the way your face is now, I think I would end up laughing at you instead of being serious."

"What do you mean da state of my face?" Joey asked, his fist shaking in front of Tristan's face. Tristan was biting down on his lip, holding in all of his laughter from exploding.

"Here Joey," Tea said, handing Joey a blue compact mirror she kept in her desk. She stood next to Atem, who wrapped his arm around her waist. Atem pulled her close to him, laying his chin on top of her head. Tea smiled, snuggling into Atem's muscular chest.

Joey grabbed the compact mirror from Tea and looked at himself in the mirror. His mouth dropped, his veins popping out on his forehead.

"Tristan! I know this is your handiwork here bud!" Joey yelled, grabbing Mai's books quickly. Tristan ran out the door, laughing his head off. Joey was in hot pursuit after him; his threats were still being heard.

Mai slapped her forehead, sighing.

"I still don't know how I fell in love with that moron. I guess some questions won't be answered." Tea giggled at Mai.

"Well it could be worse. He could have found out that Kaiba went on a date with Serenity," Tea replied as the three of them left the classroom to head to their lockers to grab their shoes. Atem raised an eyebrow at the two girls who quickly grabbed their shoes out of their lockers to leave and get home.

"When did Kaiba and Serenity go out on a date?" Atem asked, curiously. "I never heard anything about them two going out on a date."

"Serenity told us when we had that slumber party. I didn't tell you cause the last time I told you about a slumber party, you were afraid to go to the mall with me," Tea said giggling at the memory. Atem rolled his eyes, grabbing Tea's hand as the three of them walked outside. They saw Joey still chasing Tristan in the schoolyard, yelling threats about finding the glitteriest pink markers and drawing on Tristan's face.

'I don't think those two will ever grow up,' Tea thought as she watched the two boys run back and forth, leaving dust behind them.

"If you guys quit, I'll buy you a burger!" Tea shouted to Tristan and Joey. Both immediately stopped running, frozen in place. Their eyes were sparkling as they thought of burgers, smiling.

Mai had a look of disgust on her face, shaking her head at the two baboons. Atem on the other hand was amused how quickly his friends' behaviors changed.

"You mention food and they stop. Does that work with all guys?" Mai asked, as she went over to Joey and wiped his face off. He was too busy dreaming about dancing with burgers in his little daydream. Tea smiled at her friend, shaking her head.

"Not with Atem. It just takes one kiss with him," Tea said, smiling at her boyfriend. Atem's eyebrow raised at his girlfriend's answer but he didn't dare to question it.

"Are we going to go now? I'm dying for a burger now," Joey asked, all happy as he grabbed Mai and started dragging her. Mai quickly smacked his head, before going on a rant about how a man shouldn't drag a woman. Atem glared at Tristan as he was about to grab his and Tea's arms. Tristan stepped back quickly, trying to hide from his friend's glare.

"Yes Joey. Quit being so impatient," Tea scolded as she rolled her eyes at his child like attitude.

People at Burger World were staring in amazement as they watched Joey and Tristan going through burgers like there was no tomorrow.

"This is humiliating," Tea whimpered, sinking lower into her seat next to Atem. Mai's eye was twitching slightly as she watched Joey and Tristan go through a burger in two minutes. She was tempted to sit at a different table, far away from Tristan and her boyfriend until she forgot that Joey would follow her like a lost puppy once she was gone.

"People are probably wondering why the King of Games is sitting with guys who can eat a deluxe meal in two minutes," Atem said, before grabbing a french fry and popping it into his mouth. He grabbed another french fry and offered it to Tea, who smiled at him before eating the french fry. Joey stopped eating and scrunched up his face a bit.

"Hey! I'm trying to eat here pal. I don't want to see you and Tea acting all couple like in front of me!" Joey exclaimed. All of the food he had in his mouth was now exposed to everyone.

Tea kicked his shin, her vein popping out on her forehead."Get some manners Joey. No one wants to see your chewed up food."

Joey bit down on his lower lip, holding in his screams as pain was surging through his leg. He would not cry in front of people, he was a man with pride that only cried for the important women in his life and sometimes friends.

"So Atem, when do you think your mom is going to have that baby?" Tristan asked, wiping his mouth so Tea wouldn't deliver her deadly kicks to his shin. He would never underestimate a dancer's ability to kick deadly again.

"Yeah Atem. When is your mom going to pop out dat muffin?" Joey asked also. Mai smacked the back of his head, while Tea sweat dropped. Joey was whimpering, his head hanging down in shame.

"It's not dat bad to say. It's more fun to say pop out dat muffin," Joey muttered quietly. Atem smiled, wondering how he ever ended up having good friends like this.

"She's due June 17th and today is June 2nd. So my mom has fifthteen more days left until we meet my new little brother," Atem said as Tea laid her head against his shoulder. She was careful to avoid one of the natural black with magenta tipped spikes of Atem's hair. She knew how much it hurt to be poked in the eye by one of these deadly things even if they were usually soft.

"I wonder if the little babe will have your hair Atem," said Mai, thinking about it. Everybody else besides Atem was wondering the same thing.

Would the baby have the same exact hair as Atem or would it have a normal hairstyle with just one hair color? Atem looked at all of his friends who were in deep thought especially Joey who had his fist pressed against his cheek.

"It doesn't matter. We should all hope for a healthy baby and delivery," Atem said, causing everybody to snap out of their thinking. They all nodded and smiled.

"Why don't we go visit her? I'm sure she misses da Joey!" exclaimed Joey before running out of the restaurant, Mai flung over his shoulder. The rest of them heard Mai yelling at Joey about putting her down since the school's uniform didn't exactly cover girls like herself in certain positions.

"It's true love with them two," Tea replied, laying down money for the bill. Atem grabbed her money and handed it back to her. He laid his money down on the table as he got out of the booth. Atem held out his hand to Tea who gladly took it.

"Is my princess ready to return home?" Atem asked, smirking. Tea giggled as she nodded. Her sapphire eyes were sparkling with love and happiness as she squeezed her lover's hand gently.

"Yes my king," Tea replied, leaving the restaurant with Atem's arm around her waist.

"Yuck," Tristan said, watching the couple before catching up with them.

"OH MRS. MUTO! YOU'RE FAVORITE JOEY IS HERE!" Joey yelled out as he and the rest of the gang entered Atem's living room. It was a small mansion according to Atem's father but to Joey and Tristan, not even Kaiba's ego was this large.

The room's walls were a midnight blue contrasting against the pale mahogany wood flooring. There was a black leather couch. Facing the black leather couch was a matching loveseat. Currently both were surrounded by baby shower gifts that still needed to go into the new baby's nursery. The white fireplace was far away from the couch and loveseat, not been in use since Christmas time. A gold gate covered the front of it, showing that the house was taking the measures to keep the baby safe already. A glass coffee table was in between the loveseat and couch, with a bouquet of white lisianthuses, blue hydrangea, baby's breath and green ferns, designed by Tea herself.

A cheery yet somewhat tired Mrs. Muto waddled in, her right hand placed on her protruding stomach.

"Hello Joey, Tristan and Mai. What brings you three here?" Mrs. Muto asked, smiling at the three. She headed towards the couch to sit at her favorite spot with all the pillows. Tea quickly ran over, helping Mrs. Muto sit down on the couch comfortably. Mrs. Muto was like a mother to Tea, more of a mother than her own was. Tea's parents were hardly there at home with her. They were always on a business trip, leaving her to live most of the time with Atem's family since she could ever remember.

"Thank you Tea," Mrs. Muto said happiness in her voice. Tea nodded her head as a reply, sitting in Atem's lap who had sat next to his mother.

"Oh we thought we would just pop in and say hello Mrs. Muto. It seems like forever since we last saw you. Maybe you should call the school and complain that they are giving us too much homework. It's taking away our free time," said Tristan, his eyes silently pleading. Mrs. Muto raised her eyebrow, before laughing.

"That's a silly request Tristan. No matter how much I would complain, the school wouldn't change their mind. They're very stubborn and I would know it considering all the times I would have to go up there to excuse Atem from school while he was earning the title King of Games."

Tristan's head dropped in defeat, muttering how their school didn't realize how many times the gang and himself were in life and death situations caused by dueling tournaments. Joey pat Tristan's back a little too hard, making Tristan fall forward hard into the floor, making a loud noise.

"Cheer up Tristan. It is our last year at dat school and you outta be not worryin' so much about homework when college is our future. School is da past and you're going to be a lawyer right? You already got dat scholarship so stop worrying so much," Joey said proudly. Tristan jumped back up, hugging Joey tightly.

"I know that the high school will be our past, but I want to get good grades so I can impress the ladies before we leave. Specifically I want to impress Serenity," Tristan chuckled, rubbing the back of his head. Joey wrapped his arm around Tristan's neck, dragging him into a different room. Mai just sighed again, following her boyfriend into the next room to stop Joey gaining a police record. Tea had a pissed off look on her face before sighing.

"They'll never learn will they?" asked Tea, fed up with the boys. Atem only smiled before kissing Tea's cheek. Mrs. Muto smiled at her son and the girl who she loved like a daughter. She had a feeling that Tea would become a member of the Muto family soon, despite the couple's young age.

"Hey mom, where's dad?" Atem asked, looking around for his father. His father, head of Muto Inc., a company he built up from scratch was successful now. Atem's father decided to start working at home when Atem's mother was 6 months pregnant.

"Oh I sent him off to get me more cherries and barbeque sauce. We ran out today and I wanted more of it. You know how your father is, you ask him something and he'll spend hours looking for the best," replied Mrs. Muto, smiling at her son. Atem merely nodded, sinking into the couch. They heard loud crashes come from the next room, with more yelling. Tea jumped due to the loud noise.

"I'll be right back Atem and mom," Tea said, an ominous aura of fury surrounding her as she marched towards the next room and shut the door. Atem heard the door lock and the crashing stop. Atem sweat dropped a little as he heard arguing over who started it and who broke whatever was broken.

"Atem, where's Mahad and his little girlfriend Mana. I haven't seen them with you and the others lately?" Mrs. Muto asked her son.

"They went on a trip to Egypt last week as an early anniversary celebration. They said next year that they probably wouldn't be able to do anything like that with Mana heading into college. Mahad tries to make time for her as much as he can even with his busy college life."

Mrs. Muto nodded, rubbing her belly slowly. She stopped, reaching for her son's hand to place it on her belly. Atem blushed slightly, his shoulders becoming stiff.

He didn't know why, but he always tightened up when his mother wanted to feel his little brother kicking. Yes, it was a miracle of life but he still felt uncomfortable touching her stomach, Tea teased him about it a lot. That wounded his pride even more.

"I know that next year you'll be helping out your father with the company while living with Grandpa, but I want you to promise me that you'll still be there for your little brother. Every little boy needs to have a big brother there with them, even little Mokuba who is becoming so independent still needs Seto's help. Promise me," Mrs. Muto whispered, tears sliding out of her eyes. Atem wiped the tears off his mother's cheek smiling. He pulled her into a hug, mindful of her belly.

"Mom I wouldn't dream of abandoning my family. You believed in me even after you weren't happy about me participating in all of the dueling tournaments thanks to Grandpa's encouragement. You were the mastermind behind my friends' plan to get me to admit my feelings to Tea, someone who means the world to me now. I already have several degrees for the business field thanks to you and father giving me a great head start. I'll be there for my brother so he will get more opportunities then I did." Atem murmured in his mother's hair. He felt his mother smiling before she pulled back wiping her eyes.

"It's these darn hormones that are making me act like this. Don't tell your father because I told him that I don't overreact at all," Mrs. Muto said before giggling slightly.

"Now if you could help me get off this couch, I need to get to the bathroom quickly." Atem stood up and offered his hand to his mother. She grabbed it quickly, pulling herself up and waddled quickly to the bathroom down the hall. He went into the kitchen to grab Dragon fruit vitamin water and came back into the living room. Tea came out, pulling Tristan and Joey by their ears. From the look of her usually happy face, Atem could tell that the boys must have said something that extremely pissed her off yet also blush at the same time. Mai was smirking at the boys' situation before looking at Atem, noticing his raised eyebrows.

"They asked Tea how you were in bed," Mai said, explaining the reason why the boys' ears currently had their ears being pulled. Atem, who was drinking some of his water, choked on it. He quickly looked at Tea who blushed more, averting her eyes. His shifted his gaze towards Joey and Tristan who were silently snickering.

"And how do you know that Tea and I ever did anything to that level?" Atem asked, his sharp eyes narrowing. Tristan and Joey gulped and looked at each other.

"Well we noticed last week dat Tea was walking kind of funny da day with a limp after you two's anniversary. Tristan and I just recently pieced da thing together," Joey replied, pressing his two pointer fingers at the same time. Tristan nodded the best he could, agreeing with Joey.

"It's none of your business what Atem and I did on our anniversary. We plan to keep it to ourselves and don't even DARE try to give us advice until we're in our 20s-30s. I will make sure you won't be able to try your advice for yourself," Tea warned as she let go of the boys' ears.

Joey and Tristan. Both stood up quickly and saluted her, smiling.

"YES MA'AM!" Joey and Tristan bellowed. Mrs. Muto came out, her head cocked to her left.

"It's getting dark outside kids; do you need me to call Aknamkanon so he can give you three a ride?"

Joey, who wrapped his arms around Mai, shook his head.

"We'll be fine Mrs. Muto. We'll call Atem and have him tell you we made it home safely. You just worry about the two you have here and the soon to be member of our gang," said Mai, smiling at the woman. Mrs. Muto nodded.

"Alright dears. Goodnight and I hope to see you soon."

Joey, Mai and Tristan all left the house as Mr. Muto came inside, carrying a grocery bag filled with cherries and barbeque sauce and a pizza box. Mrs. Muto's eyes sparkled as she glided, much to everyone's surprise, towards her husband and kissed him on the cheek. She yanked the bag out of his arms and hurried into the kitchen. Mr. Muto chuckled at his wife before looking at Tea and Atem.

"Good evening you two. How was school?" Mr. Muto asked before he headed into the kitchen with the pizza box.

"Boring as usual. I wish we could have class outside just once to feel the breeze without being locked up," Tea said as she grabbed a slice of the supreme pizza. Mr. Muto chuckled as he nodded.

"That is a shame. Maybe you kids would be able to think clearly with fresh air from the outside instead of being stuck inside," replied Mr. Muto. Tea stuck out her tongue at Atem who told her earlier that his father would think learning outside would be out of place. Mr. Muto wolfed down a few slices as Mrs. Muto was now eating her cherries dipped in barbeque. It was around 8:30pm and Mr. Muto pushed his plate away.

"We'll be retiring for the night kids. We were organizing all day the nursery until we decided just to give up. Goodnight and no funny business," Mr. Muto said as he led his wife up the stairs. Tea rolled her eyes before picking up their plates and heading to the sink. Atem stood behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist as he laid his chin on her shoulder.

"Movie night?" Atem asked, tightening his hold on Tea as she finished washing the last plate. She giggled and nodded. She turned around so she was staring into those amethyst eyes she oh so adored.

"I get to pick the movie though. Last time you let Joey and Tristan pick Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Mai and I fell asleep during it pretty quickly," Tea said, wagging her finger slightly at Atem.

"I thought it was funny," replied Atem as he and Tea headed to the family den where the big theatre like TV was located in. Tea looked through the cabinet with all of the DVDs and picked The Blind Side. Atem had grabbed a few blankets and sat on the couch. Tea quickly put in the movie adjusting the settings before scampering to Atem's opened arms. He covered them with the blankets, not too heavy or light. Tea snuggled into Atem's chest as Atem laid his chin on top of her head. As the movie started, Tea was falling asleep to Atem's calm heartbeat.

'It's like a lullaby,' Tea thought, sleepy. Atem soon joined her in the realm of sleep.

"ATEM! TEA! WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?" Mr. Muto yelled, jolting Tea and Atem wide-awake. Atem fell to the floor, taking the blankets with him. Tea sat up, rubbing her eyes. She looked at her watch and saw that it was only five in the morning. Tea held in her giggling as Mr. Muto, looking untidy and nervous, slammed the den's door wide open.

"Why are you guys in the den?" Mr. Muto asked, looking at the two teens. His slightly black graying hair was a completely disheveled mess.

"We watched a movie last night but fell asleep. Why are you yelling at 5 in the freaking morning?" Atem asked, clearly pissed about being woken up so early in the morning. He was never in a good mood after being woken up for no reason.

"Your mother's water broke!" Mr. Muto exclaimed, his hands moving frantically in the air. Tea and Atem were silent for a few moments until-

"WHAT?" They both shouted, rushing past Mr. Muto to find Mrs. Muto.

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