Small Troubles
Co-authoressed by:
High Crystal Guardian
and
Wingleader Sora Jade
WSJ: *snicker* Mwaha. KAZE ME LOVE! *glomp*
Kaze: v_v;
HCG: Aww, Kaze, you have a fan! Isn't that what you said you wanted?
Kaze: I didn't quite mean it like this...*grimace*
HCG: Whatever. Onto the fic!
Disclaimer: We don't own YGO. The Negative Realm and most of its occupants belong to HCG. However, Damon and Horus are WSJ's from her fic "The Falcon".
Note: If Kawari, Damon, Saguru, and Kaeru seem a bit OOC, remember that they're little kids. ^^ Little kids are always argumentative brats. :p
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Our story begins in a dark room, where one small computer screen offers the only light. Someone is snoring, and we realize that it is Kaze. It seems that the leader of the Opposition had tried to stay up and work all night again, for the fourth time this week. It was now 3AM and the Blue Eyes had fallen asleep at his desk with his head on his laptop keyboard. The laptop was now typing and endless line of 'Z's from where Kaze's head rested on it. Rather appropriate, really.
Two doors down the hall, in what could possibly be termed the Opposition headquarters' recreation room, Kawari and Kaeru were asleep on the couch, leaning up against each other. Damon was on the floor, leaning back against the couch and snoring almost as loud as Kaze. Saguru was curled up in a ball with his head pillowed on Kawari's feet, his thumb in his mouth for an unknown reason. The four agents had been watching a movie of some sort, and had all fallen asleep. The TV had since changed into the typical staticy snow storm, and cast eerie light on their faces.
In the shadows in the corner, two beings looked at each other and slowly began to smile. If there had been more light, you might have seen that both were very decidedly female, although one was slightly taller then the other. One was holding an ink pen and yellow legal pad in her hands in what didn't seem to be a casual way.
But that isn't important. What is important is that these two beings looked at the Opposition agents for a moment and snickered. The taller one, holding the notepad, wrote something down and then they vanished. But after they'd left, something had Changed...
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Something in the darkness near Kaze's comatose body moved. A very small figure stepped into the flickering circle of light cast by the laptop screen.
"Kaze?" the figure asked, tugging lightly on Kaze's blue coat. The Blue Eyes' only response was another snore. "Kaze!" the little person said louder, stepping closer to Kaze. The meager light revealed it to be a little boy of no older then four years. The glow of the laptop glinted from one bright green eye.
Seeing still no response, the little boy screwed up his face and screamed "KAZE!!!"
Kaze's eyes snapped open and he rolled off his chair, landing in an ungraceful heap on the floor. The little boy couldn't help but giggle at the wild look in Kaze's eyes or the fact that there were little red squares all over his face from where it had been smushed into the keyboard. Kaze froze at the sound of the giggle, not being able to see who had made it. "Who's there?"
He felt another tug on his coat and jerked around to look at one green eye and a massive scar that was familiar, but smaller then the last time he'd seen it. "What the... hell?" Getting back to his feet, Kaze flipped on the light switch, illuminating the whole of his bedroom. It was really rather messy, with discarded clothes on the floor and a gun disassembled and in the process of being cleaned spread out across his bed, which hadn't been slept in in about two weeks.
Turning, Kaze stared down at the little one-eyed, black-haired falconer who was hugging his leg. "Damon?"
"Kaze," the former 17-year-old wailed, hugging Kaze's leg a bit tighter. "Sa'gu was teasin' Ka'wi but then Ka'wi started cryin' so Kay'u hit Sa'gu and now Sa'gu's cryin' too and Kay'u said to come get you!"
"..." Kaze frowned a little as he tried to make sense of things. This... kid was Damon, there wasn't any doubt of it. He could tell. Whether it was some memory of Seth's or just his own intuition he didn't know, but this kid definitely wasn't an imposter. But what was he talking about? Sa'gu, Ka'wi, and Kay'u? Names of some sort?
In a daze, Kaze let himself be led by the hand by a chibi version of one of his most trusted agents. Jeez, what a dream. Grimly Kaze promised himself no more all-nighters. Well, he amended, at least no more then three a week.
Damon led Kaze toward the lounge, and even before they got there Kaze could tell that something was going on. He could hear what sounded like a little kid crying. Involuntarily he tensed up, his mind flashing automatically back to when Mokuba was a kid...
Kaze shook his head sharply to clear it as Damon stood on tip-toe to reach the button that would open the door. The door slid back on silent tracks, and Kaze stared in semi-horror at the scene before him.
"Sa'gu, Kay'u, and Ka'wi..." the Blue Eyes muttered, groaning slightly. "Oh terrific..."
Kawari, who looked to be the youngest of the four at about three years, was curled up in the corner of the room and crying. A five-year-old Kaeru was crouched down next to him, petting his hair and trying to comfort him. Saguru, who looked about four, was standing in the opposite corner with his arms crossed, sniffling and glaring at Kaeru. The little blond was the first to see Kaze.
"Kaze!" He squealed, running over and almost knocking Kaze over with his flying-tackle-hug. "Kaze, teww Kay'u to be nice to me!"
"I dun' have to!" Kaeru said, sticking out his tongue at the blond. "He was bein' mean to Kar'wi." Being a little older, Kaeru was able to pronounce things slightly better then the other two.
"Yeah," Kawari said with a sniffle, peeking out from behind Kaeru and speaking up for the first time. "He tol' me to put away Gin Hewwi,"
"He coul' poke my eye out!" Saguru protested, still glomped firmly onto Kaze. "I dun' wanna end up like Damo'."
Damon, who was hanging off Kaze's other leg, sniffled a little. "Sa'gu, that's mean!"
"Gaah..." Kaze felt his bad leg starting to go weak from all the glomping on, so he hobbled over to
the couch and plopped down, staring in disbelief at the four chibis in front of him. "How the hell did this happen?"
Interestingly, it was Kawari who spoke up. Still sniffling just a little, he came out from behind Kaeru, dragging Gin Hebi behind him. Kaze sweatdropped a little as he saw that the dirk was now almost longer then its master. "We dunno," Kawari said, shaking his hair out of his eyes impatiently. "We was jus' sweepin', and den we woke up, and we like dis!" He looked up at Kaze with round eyes. "Wha' if it's da Han' of Swadow?"
Kaze felt a shiver go up his spine as he realized that this was no dream, and that his four best agents were now children. Young children at that. Good grief, now what?!
"Dun' wowwy Kar'wi," Kaeru said, patting his hikari on the shoulder. "Kaze wiww find some way to fix it!"
Damon and Saguru nodded solemnly, and Kawari cheered up a little. Suddenly Saguru looked uncomfortable and looked up at Kaze with big, round doe's eyes that reminded Kaze a little bit of Serenity. "Kaze?"
"Yes?" Kaze asked tiredly. He could already feel a migraine coming on, and Saguru's next words were not going to help it any.
"I gotta go potty..."
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WSJ: *evil laughter*
Kaze: *sweatdrop* The hell?
HCG: *gleefully* Oh, it's gonna be so fun to torture you, Kaze...*imitates WSJ's evil laughter*
Kaze: ¬_¬;; Oh, goody...
God bless minna-san!