Chapter Two: Reunion

Spencer slowly opened his eyes. He sat up in his bed and stretched up towards the sky, letting out a rather loud yawn. As he flipped his legs over the side of his bed and slipped his feet into his light blue slippers, he heard the sound of a bunch of doors banging coming from up and down the hallway.

Puzzled, Spencer stood up and walked over to the bedroom door. Upon peering out into the hallway, he discovered that Joey, Tristan, Téa, and Bakura were opening various doors along the hallway, peering into the rooms beyond them, and slamming the doors shut once more in worry and frustration. Kaiba leaned against the hallway wall and watched their antics with a bored look on his face.

"Um, what are you guys doing?" Spencer called out to them.

Joey slammed another door shut and replied, "We can't find Yug anywhere! He wasn't in his room, he wasn't anywhere downstairs…it's like he just vanished inta thin air!"

"This is a huge mansion, Wheeler," Kaiba said, rolling his eyes. "He could be anywhere inside of it."

"Yeah, well, we might know exactly where 'anywhere' is if you'd actually help us!" Joey snapped at him.

"Humph!" was Kaiba's only reply.

"Have you checked the outside yet?" Spencer asked, pulling his bedroom door shut behind him. "He might have just taken an early morning walk or something."

"We haven't gotten dere yet," Joey replied.

"We thought we should check all over the inside first, since it's so huge," Téa added before she peered inside another room.

"I'll go look; I could just fly around out there and spot him easily." Spencer dashed over to the stairs and slid down on the banister to the lower floor. He walked over to the door and opened it.

He stopped cold when he saw a still pajama-clad Yugi coming up the gold brick walkway leading to his house, carrying somebody in his arms. "Yug!" he cried out, dashing out towards him. "Where've you been; your friends are worried about-" He froze in mid-sentence.

Upon nearing Yugi, he'd seen that the child he was carrying looked almost exactly like him and wore a familiar T-shirt with light green sleeves and blue jeans. On a strong around his neck was a charm which looked like the staff of the Dark Magician Girl.

Spencer stared down at the child. Yugi smiled up at him and said, "Look what I found, Spencer."

He couldn't respond. Slowly, he used his sensing powers on the child in Yugi's arms.

The child had power. Power which was most definitely familiar to Spencer.

"Yugi, how…how did you…" he sputtered out.

At that moment, Yuri stirred and slowly opened his eyes. He looked over at his father and murmured, "Dad?"

Spencer slowly reached out his arms and took Yuri in them. He lifted Yuri up to a sitting position and gazed down into his son's tired eyes. "Yuri…" he murmured, his eyes filling up with tears.

The others had stepped downstairs and out the door when they heard Spencer call out Yugi's name; now they stood a little bit out on the walkway and stared in shock at the reunion between Spencer and his child.

"How de heck did Yugi do dat?" Joey cried.

"Incredible…" Téa breathed out.

Yuri's eyes opened wide as he looked up at his father. "Dad?" He looked around the place. "How'd I get here?"

"My little hijo…" Spencer murmured, letting his tears flow. "Where have you been?"

"Uh, out in Kingrah, as far as I know," Yuri replied, confused and a bit baffled by his father's overwhelming emotion.

Spencer blinked. "Yuri, do you know how long you've been gone?"

"Nnnoooo…" Yuri replied. "It's just been one night…hasn't it?"

Spencer stared at his son. "Yuri," he said gently, "you've been gone 5,492 years."

"WHAT?!" he cried out.

"Shh, calm down, little guy; it's unbelievable, I know," Spencer said, gently patting him on the back. "But you're here now, and that's all that matters." He pulled his son into a hug. "You'll never disappear completely from my life again."

"Wonderful…" Yuri muttered sarcastically.

Spencer could just barely hear his son's tone; he looked down at him and murmured, "Yuri, is something wrong?"

"No, Dad, nothing's wrong…" Yuri said, not daring to gaze into his father's eyes.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" a feminine voice suddenly cried.

The teens looked up to see Susiros floating down onto the ground. She still wore her red cloak, but she'd pulled her hair into two pigtails and changed her clothing to a white spaghetti strap shirt with a red cherry on its front, a red mini-skirt, and white knee-high boots.

Spencer clutched his child closer to his chest and snarled, "What the frick does she want?"

Yugi, on the other hand, panicked a little. Oh, no…she must want Yuri…He looked back and saw that Yuri's eyes gazed with glee at the blue-haired girl. And something tells me she won't have too hard of a time getting him…