A knock on the door. Yami walked to answer it. Kaiba was on the other side of it, arms crossed. Yami stood to the side, and Kaiba walked in. He sat on the couch, and Yami stood next to him.

"So, Yugi, what did you want me for?", Kaiba asked.

"I'll show you," Yami answered. "And, my name is Yami."

Yami walked into a side room. It looked like a nursery, with wallpaper that was sky blue and had perfectly white clouds on it. There was a bed that looked like a carriage, navy blue, surrounded by curtains of the same color. There was a mobile over it, and every item on the mobile looked like a Millennium Item. There were a few baby toys in the corners of the room, and wooden blocks were scattered on the floor.

"Step around the blocks," Yami whispered. "And be very, very quiet."

Kaiba did as he was told, stepping around every block that was anywhere in his path. When he got next to Yami, they were both standing in front of the bed. Yami looked at Kaiba, a glazed look in the eye.

"What? What's going on?", he asked, furious at Yami.

"This," Yami said.

He pulled a rope, and the curtains surrounding the bed opened. Inside the bed, laying down, asleep, was a baby. He was dressed in a lavender-colored one-piece, scrunched up in a tiny ball. He was sucking on his thumb, and he appeared serene.

His skin was pale, and Kaiba was given permission to inspect him manually, so he was aware that his skin was soft. The thing that scared him the most was the hair. It was mostly black, with a magenta outline and a spiky blond fringe, shaped like a half-star.

"Is that Yugi?", Kaiba asked.

Yami nodded. "But, you're Yugi!", Kaiba shouted.

Yami seemed furious. " I'm Yami! That," he said, pointing to the baby in the crib, "is Yugi! Let me explain. Bakura and Marik came over one night, around a month ago, wanting my Millennium Puzzle. I had had enough of them, so I harnessed enough Millennium Magic to create an energy blast. But, they did the same thing, and the two incoming energy blasts were about to hit me. Yugi jumped in front to save me, and got hit by the magic. He came out alive, but..."

Yami looked back at the sleeping Yugi, who was now in the form of a baby that had to be no older than two months. Kaiba looked at him, too. "Will he be like that forever?"

"Well, it's been almost a month since this happened," Yami said. "I'm good at keeping secrets. You think he would've aged a little bit, but he hasn't. I think, if we don't reverse the effect, he'll be a two-month-old forever. Then, he can't fulfill his destiny, and I'll be stuck here, taking care of him for the rest of eternity."

"What about Téa, or Yugi's mother or grandfather? Do they know?", Kaiba asked.

"They think I'm Yugi," Yami answered, "and I can leave Yugi alone for a few hours, just not more than two or three. He sleeps for about that long, so he won't get upset or anything. Except Téa. She thinks that Yugi's been giving control to me quite a bit, or at least, that's what I've told her. So far, other than Marik, Bakura, and I, you're the only person who knows about Yugi's condition."

Kaiba stared at Yami with wide eyes, then switched to a normal gaze and looked at Yugi. Yugi took his thumb out of his mouth, smacked his lips, and looked around the crib. He opened his eyes, and started squalling. Yami picked him up, and swaddled him in his arms. He was humming a nursery rhyme, one that Kaiba knew, but couldn't place. Kaiba noticed that Yugi started to quiet down as he heard Yami's voice, knowing that he was safe in his arms.

Yugi was now cooing, and smiling. He was gripping his hands around Yami's fingers (his hands were really tiny), and laughing a little. Yami smiled, and carried him off. "Come on, Kaiba," he said.

Kaiba followed Yami into the living room. Yami sat in a rocking chair next to the couch, where Kaiba sat. Kaiba watched in amazement as Yami held the baby Yugi in his arms and rocked the chair. The expression on Kaiba's face showed his amazement, but the fact that he felt that it both looked and sounded awkward, he kept inside and to himself.

"So, do you know any ways to reverse the effects?", Kaiba asked.

Yami stopped humming, and looked over at Kaiba. "No, but I was thinking, if Millennium Magic caused it, maybe it can reverse it. Anyway, I didn't call you over just to show you what happened to Aibou, here..."

"What in the world does 'Aibou' mean?", Kaiba interrupted.

"I think it's Japanese for 'gay'," a voice answered.

"Partner! It means Partner! Sorry," Yami said, barely noticing Yugi teething on his fingers. "That's Marik. I managed to get him here. He won't tell me Bakura's location, and he doesn't know how to reverse the Millennium Magic spell. So, as punishment for doing this to Aibou, he's doing quite a few cleaning jobs. He's also taking care of Yugi in my absence."

Yugi started crying again. Yami, without even telling Kaiba where he was going or what he was doing, dropped Yugi into Kaiba's arms and ran off. Kaiba felt like yelling after Yami, but he stayed quiet.

Kaiba looked down at Yugi, who was looking at him. Yugi let a smile appear on his face, and Kaiba scowled. Yugi took a few seconds to realize what had happened, and started crying.

"Pacifier! It's on the coffee table!", Yami shouted.

Kaiba reached out in front of him, and grabbed the small pacifier off of the coffee table. He stared at it for a few seconds, confused as to why even a baby would want it. He heard baby Yugi's little cries as sounding like a two-month-old's way of saying 'give me that'. Kaiba understood, and put the pacifier in baby Yugi's mouth.

Yugi started closing his eyes, but Yami came in, and his eyes widened. Yami took the pacifier out of his mouth, making baby Yugi feel confused at first. Yami put the nipple of a bottle into baby Yugi's mouth, and shoved the rest into Kaiba's hand.

"Just feed him," Yami said. "You're going to need to learn."

"Wait, what?!", Kaiba asked, seemingly furious.

"Until I can change him back to normal, I'm going to need someone to help me take care of him," Yami said, "I couldn't get help from Joey, Tristan, Tea, Ryou, Grandpa, or Mother, because that would make life hard. I would get asked quite a few questions about how he got like this, and then, someone might play the anger card.

"If I talked to much of anyone else, they would get suspicious, or something. You, you would do anything... if there was something I had that you wanted. And, I know I do."

Yami pulled a card out of his pocket. Only the back of the card was visible, but Yami flipped it to reveal the image on the front. He was holding the Slifer the Sky Dragon card- an Egyptian God card- in his hand.

"I'll give this to you, if you help me take care of Yugi and return him to normal. But, you can only have the card when he's returned to normal. I'm not giving it to you until then."

He stuffed the card back into his pocket. "Now, this is all an option. You can leave, and tell everyone at school tomorrow that Yugi's been turned into a baby by Millennium Magic. Some might think you're crazy, and some might think you're delusional, but it's all up to you. Still, remember, if you decide not to help me, I can keep this Egyptian God card for myself.

"It's up to you, Kaiba. What do you choose?"

Kaiba looked at Yami, then at baby Yugi in his lap. He picked up Yugi, and threw him into Yami's arms. As Yugi went flying through the air, he started crying, and cried even harder as Yami caught him. Kaiba stood up and walked to the door.

"How about this," he suggested. "Give me one night, and I'll come back tomorrow."

Without even giving Yami time to answer his question, he turned the silver doorknob, and walked right out the door.

Kaiba lay awake in bed that night, wondering whether or not he should help Yami with baby Yugi. There were both good things and bad things about it, some made the desicion harder, some made it easier. If he did help, he would get an Egyptian God card... and that was it. If not, he wouldn't get that card, and if he decided to tell Yugi's friends, they might think he was a nut case.

Mokuba walked in, holding a tray in his hands. He set the items on the side table. "One glass of water, your medicine, nighttime reading. Anything else, Seto?", he asked.

Kaiba sat up, and Mokuba saw the bandages wrapped around his torso. "Other than a shirt?", he asked, half-joking, half-not.

Kaiba smirked. "I need a little advice, Mokuba," Kaiba said, lying down again. "I was asked earlier today to do something, but I'm torn on whether or not to do it. If I decide to do this, I get a rare Duel Monsters card. If not, that card still belongs to the person who has it now, and I'm given an additional option.

"I know a secret that they want me to keep. They told me, that if I decided not to take the job, that I could tell his friends that secret. Of course, some of them might think I'm a psychopath, that secret is so strange. I'm not sure how long I'll have to do this little task, it's not set in stone. Still, I'm not sure whether or not to do the job. What do you think, Mokuba?"

He smiled. "Well, if that card was a Blue-Eyes, maybe. If that card was an Egyptian God card, definitely. Of course, it would depend on what the job was. If I was, let's say, doing..."

After hearing what Mokuba had to say about the Egyptian God card, Kaiba didn't need to hear Mokuba anymore. He fell asleep while Mokuba was in the middle of his statement, and didn't even hear the words Mokuba was saying while he was awake. Kaiba was going to return to Yami's house tomorrow; he was determined to get that Egyptian God card.

He didn't need anything else. He wanted to beat Yami in a duel, and getting the Slifer the Sky Dragon card would put him one step closer to that. The only thing that made him accept that job was the card, and if there wasn't even a slim chance that Yami wasn't going to offer up his God card as part of the deal, Kaiba wouldn't even have showed up. He was halfway to getting what he wanted, he just needed to complete Step 2.

And he would do that tomorrow.

What do you think might be a possible cure for Yugi's "condition"? In the next chapter, should someone visit Yugi's house in Chapter 2, and Kaiba have to hide baby Yugi? If someone is to come over, who should it be? What do you think happened to Kaiba to cause all of those bandages on his torso? If you watch YGOTAS, what joke did I borrow for this chapter? Put all of your answers in the comments below.

Also, Millennium Magic was an idea that I've had for years. The power in a Millennium Item comes from Millennium Magic. No magic means no power coming from the Item. The Puzzle has the most Millennium Magic, as it is the strongest Millennium Item, and that explains power levels with the Millennium Items.

* YGOTAS stands for Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series.