There was a nearly audible hum of excitement in the air as the teenagers prepared to make their selections for their partners in the contest rounds. Devlin was smirking as he handed out pieces of paper and pens.

"There's a couple of rules we have to follow. First, everyone has to choose three partners for each round, and you can't choose the same person twice. Secondly, if you choose someone in the same round they choose you, it's up to the two of you whether you combine your turns or take them separately."

Malik giggled. "So if I choose Marik for the third round, and he chooses me, does that mean we can sixty-nine?"

Devlin waited until the laughter had eased off before replying. "Yeah, but you can do that anyway. There's no limit to what you can do in your turn, except that you're not allowed to hurt your partner or make them uncomfortable. That includes humiliation." He glanced at Joey, his eyes gleaming with mirth. "Sorry, guess I won't be able to take you doggy style after all."

"I think I'll live. Which is more than you would have done if you'd tried it." Joey glared back.

Yugi spoke up, effortlessly breaking up the glaring match in the process. "You know, it doesn't seem like a very fair way of doing this. Our just choosing who we want to partner in each round, I mean."

Yami looked down at his hikari in surprise. "How so, Yugi?"

"Well... suppose we all chose the same person for the same round? That wouldn't be very fair to them because they wouldn't get to participate in the other rounds except when it was their turn." Everyone looked thoughtful at that.

"Don't worry Yugi, I don't mind if everyone chooses me to have sex with. There's plenty of me to go around!" Duke smirked. Everyone else groaned.

"Taylor... Can you do something with that egotist you call a boyfriend?" Kaiba scowled. "I'd like to have a bit of peace and quiet while I consider this."

Tristan grinned. "Oh sure, I can do lots of things with him. But somehow, I don't think you'd get all that much peace and quiet if I did them."

Amidst the snickers, a voice piped up. "Devlin's a screamer?" Malik looked intrigued. "I would never have guessed."

Tristan shrugged. "You name it, he does it. Screaming, yelling, whimpering, moaning, groaning, pleading, howling, cry-mmph" He was interrupted by Devlin's hand covering his mouth.

"I think they get the picture." Devlin's cheeks were suspiciously rosy.

"Remind me to never get a hotel room next door to you two," Bakura muttered, causing Marik to laugh so hard he fell off the bed.

Kaiba glared at everyone and stood up. Joey snagged his lover's trouser-leg before he could get away. "Where ya going?"

"To work this out somewhere I can actually hear myself think." Kaiba's cold gaze softened as he looked down at the blonde. "You coming with me, pup?"

Joey was considering it when Ryou's soft voice broke in, catching everyone's attention with his unexpected words. "Could you stay please, Kaiba?"

"Why?" Kaiba eyed the white-haired teen in mild surprise. Ryou was so shy he hardly ever said a word.

Ryou looked down at tightly clasped hands, his cheeks flushed. "Because... I think Yugi's right about it being unfair if we simply write down the names we want. There has to be a better way of doing it and you're the best out of all of us when it comes to logical problems like this."

Kaiba irritated look eased and he nodded abruptly before sitting down again. "You talked me into it."

"My host could talk an Eskimo into buying ice." Bakura smiled proudly at Ryou, who blushed even more at the rare praise from his yami.

Marik frowned. "So does this mean we don't get to pick who we want to have sex with?"

Malik nudged him. "What are you worried about? You want to have sex with everyone so it won't matter who you end up with for that round."

"Oh yeah!" Marik grinned at the reminder. Everyone else groaned, except for Yami. He glared.

"You are not having sex with my hikari!"

Bakura glanced at Yugi, did a double-take and smirked at Yami. "You really should check with your hikari before saying something like that."

Yami stared at his pouting other self in shock. "You... You want to have sex with Marik?" Yugi's blush confirmed it.

Marik smiled happily. "All right! I get some Yugi action!" He wriggled happily. "Hey Yugi! Just say when and where!"

Yugi's cheeks were as red as a hikari's cheeks could get as he looked anxiously up at his yami. "I... It would be nice to have a bit of a... change... sometimes. I love you Yami, and I love making love to you, but..." His large eyes grew wistful.

"But sometimes you wonder what it would be like to have sex just for fun, without the deep emotional bond of making love to someone who is the other half of your soul." The soft voice held a note of yearning.

Everyone in the room gazed at Ryou in complete shock. Except for Yugi. "Exactly." He smiled. "I had a feeling you'd understand."

Ryou's cheeks had become tinged in delicate rose. "I think any hikari, or someone who is very much in love with their partner, would." One by one, the other boys nodded. Some more reluctantly than others.

With the change of mood in the room, the teenagers looked down at their pieces of paper and considered their choices far more seriously than they had before.

"I still don't see why we can't just write down our choices." Marik frowned. "What else can we do?"

"We can discuss it and work out the most appropriate solution like responsible and mature..." Kaiba paused at the snickers and sighed. Marik was poking his tongue out and rolling his eyes. "We can discuss it."

"We could also gain an advantage in the contest by putting more care into our choices." Yami's words earned him the attention of everyone in the room but he ignored them, continuing to gaze at the ceiling as he mused out loud. "If we spread our choices more evenly, then not only will we each get an equal share of the... enjoyment... however we will also be able to offer our host a more diverse show than the other groups. If they choose the easiest answer, then they will no doubt end up with some members doing more than others, thus increasing the chance of boring our host."

Yami finally shifted his attention, looking over at Devlin. "You suggested earlier that we should remember the purpose of this competition. Our host wishes to be entertained. The same scenes repeated over and over again, even with different participants, will not achieve that goal."

A slow smile spread over Devlin's face. "Damn, you're good!" He turned to the others.

"So, are we agreed? We work this out properly and increase our chances of winning, all right?" At the chorus of agreement, he grinned and turned his attention to Kaiba. "Can you keep track of it all? Ryou's right, this calls for logic and tactics." Kaiba sighed but nodded.

A wicked gleam hinted at the scheme in Devlin's devious mind before he said it. "Great! With you and Yami working on this together, we should have no trouble winning this contest!"

Over Marik and Malik's cheers, Yami and Kaiba traded a stunned look.

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Once Yami and Kaiba got over the shock of having to work together, they attacked the planning with all the unrelenting ruthlessness of going into a major Duel Monsters tournament.

After an hour of discussion, everyone agreed that all rivalries, dislikes, jealousies and other private matters would be set aside for the duration of the contest. They would simply be ten teenagers eager to embrace whatever sexual situation they found themselves in.

It took another ten minutes for a unanimous agreement that they would not choose the same partners for the same round, meaning that they would effectively double their chances of gaining points. It also meant that they would each get to play with twice as many of the others as they otherwise would have.

They also agreed unanimously, although Devlin and Bakura both looked rather disappointed, that Marik and Malik's suggestion of a group orgy was not necessary to seal either of these deals.

Once all the preliminaries were sorted out, the real work began.

The afternoon hours flew past in a whirl of discussion, laughter, argument and more blushing than a group of nuns stopping to ask for directions at a nudist colony. By the end of the day, they had a rough draft of their plan. Enough that they had a fair idea of who they would be partnering in each round.

At 1am in the morning, most of the group went off to their rooms to get some rest. Yami and Kaiba were still sorting out 'a few minor details', so Yugi and Joey went off to Yugi and Yami's room to duel until their lovers had finished.

At 3am in the morning, Yami and Kaiba were politely but firmly kicked out by Devlin and Tristan, who were tired of having their sex interrupted by someone asking a question about the rules. After a moment, the door opened again and Yami neatly caught the rulebook Devlin threw to him. He and Kaiba glanced at each other, nodded and headed for Joey and Kaiba's room, to put the finishing touches on their grand plan.

When the two teenagers hadn't reappeared by noon the following day, Yugi and Joey went to look for them.

"Aww... ain't they sweet? I don't think I've ever seen Kaiba so peaceful... 'Cept once when I caught him curled up in a chair in his library with a romance novel on his chest." Joey smiled as he gazed on the sleeping form of his lover, curled up where he'd fallen asleep, on the bed beside his nemesis.

Yugi forced himself not to giggle out loud. Seeing his other self lying sprawled on his back with one arm thrown across Seto Kaiba's waist and the other still clutching the pen he'd fallen asleep while using was very cute, but that wasn't what made him want to laugh. Joey's whisper had tickled his ear. He grabbed hold of his friend's hand and tugged. "Come on," he said very softly, so as not to wake the sleeping boys, "Let's let them sleep. We can pick up where we left off last night."

Joey smirked. "Which thing? The duel you beat the pants off me in or what we started after you got my pants off?" Yugi giggled and his smirk widened. "Oh good."

@-->-->----

Yami and Kaiba rejoined the others, still blinking sleep from their eyes and shaking fog from their minds, late that afternoon. They had just enough time to go over their finished plan with the others before the cruiseship docked at the large pier on one side of a small island.

As they joined the other passengers on the pier, a tall thin man in faded cut-off jeans, the world's loudest Hawaiian shirt, a pair of sandals and a broad-brimmed straw hat came forward to meet them all. He beamed at them all and threw out his arms in a welcoming gesture.

"Welcome to Pleasure Island!"

continued

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