I'd like to thank devotedtodreams, ONIX-21, dragonlady222, whiteinu1, blueberry and sun's and stars for taking time out of their life to review my story. I'm always grateful for your reviews. They always help.

I am so so so so sorry for not updating for so long! My mind went completely blank and to be honest, the whole story completely slipped my mind. Bad of me, I know. I've been swamped with school assignments and a some-what social life has come into the picture. Even worse huh? Yes yes, I know. Very bad of me. So in apology for not updating for so long, I'll try and make this longer then most.

Now, I debated many times how I should do this next chapter. I know the last one was Hunter's first birthday and I know I'd be skipping a lot of time if I went with what I wanted too, but I can't help myself. Don't kill me, but this chapter will skip about six years. So Hunter will be seven in this chapter. Just so you know. -ducks and covers in case anyone attacks-

And now, onto the story;


If anyone asked Jou to ever describe his son, Jou could only use one word. Genius. Most people looked at him strange, wondering how a seven year old could be described as a genius, but it was simple for Jou. It was the only word to describe Hunter with. Well, only word that wouldn't make Hunter squirm and yell at his father for. Still, most people didn't understand, but when he thought about it, who could? A seven year old doing math equations that most high schooler's had trouble with? It was impossible. Normally Jou would have agreed, when he himself could barley do a math equation, but not this time. Hunter was smarter then most.

Jou remembered that when Hunter was about three, he'd wandered into Kaiba's office at home and began to play around with all over Kaiba's paper work that he needed for a meeting the next day. When Kaiba had seen the mess, he'd been about three seconds away from snapping completely. Well, that was until Hunter had said 'corporate merging.' Of course it hadn't come out that way. It had sounded more like 'cor-er-at me-gn-g' but Kaiba had known straight away what he was trying to say. Jou could honestly say that he'd never see a priceless face such as Kaiba's before.

When Hunter was seven, he stumbled across Jou doing his college homework. Jou can't exactly remember what he was doing but it had something to do with numbers and it was practically killing him. He'd been at the point where he was going to go and get Kaiba to do it for him, as he normally did when it came to maths, but before he'd been able to stand, Hunter had crawled onto his lap and turned and looked at the piece of paper in front of his father. Jou knew that Hunter had a fetish for paper and if you moved it from his site when he saw it, it was war, so he left it there. That's when Hunter had picked up Jou's pen and written an answer to a maths equation that Jou had been working on. Of course Jou had trouble understanding the squiggles, but once he worked it out, he realised that Hunter was right. That was one hell of a blow to his ego, but at the same time, it sent his ego through the roof with pride. Kaiba hadn't believe him until he'd shown him proof.

Jou also had to admit, it was far from easy to raise a genius. Some days when he ran out of things to keep Hunter's mind at bay, he'd send him to work with Kaiba. Jou knew that Kaiba was busy, but he also knew that the work Kaiba did would always keep Hunter challenged. Well, for a little while now. Jou and Kaiba had discussed sending Hunter to a normal school, but in the end, found that it would probably be easier to home school him. Although it meant more work for both Jou and Kaiba, it also meant that Hunter would get the best possible education. He wouldn't be deprived of hanging around kids his age though, since Mokuba was around and had friends with kid siblings around Hunter's age, he got to also have a normal childhood. Well as normal as anyone with the last name as Kaiba could.

"Father! Papa! Are you home?"

"I'm in the study Hunter."

Jou could hear Hunter's feet padding towards the study at a faster rate then normal. Call him weird, but Hunter had a certain speed that he walked, unless something was wrong. Jou's brows furrowed as Hunter came into the study. Something was definately off. Hunter's body was slightly shaking. Nothing normally fazed Hunter, he was so much like Kaiba.

"What's wrong Hunter?"

"Father, is something wrong with this family?"

"What do you mean Hunter?"

"Everyone says that this family is weird and that I'm weird. They say this family's weird because I have two fathers and no mother and they say I'm weird because I'm too smart. Is that true father?"

Jou couldn't help but let out a small chuckle. He knew something like this would happen some day. It's not that it didn't upset him, but he'd gotten over what other people thought of him and Kaiba being together and having a son as smart as Hunter is. Jou simply pulled Hunter onto his lap and began to run his fingers through Hunter's hair.

"Of course you're not weird Hunter. There is no such thing as too smart. They are simply jealous because they want to be like you. And, you have to understand something Hunter. Not all family's have two dads. Some have two mums, others have a mum and a dad and some either have just a mum or a dad and in some cases, only a grand parent. Every family is different. So yes, you could say that this family is weird, but we could say the same to every other family."

"So I'm not abnormal or anything?"

"Of course not Hunt'. You could never be."

Jou gave his son a small smile and a gentle hug to try and reassure him. He knew that when Kaiba came home and if he got a whiff of this, he'd want to know everything and he'd want to know who said it. Jou knew what Kaiba was like when it came to someone giving his son stress. He could only shudder at the thought.

"Don't tell your papa about this okay? We don't want him to get mad or fret over you too much again, now do we?"

"Papa was scary last time. It made me worry."

"I know it did Hunt', but he was only worried about you and making sure that nothing would hurt you. He doesn't like to see you hurt in anyway. So promise me, we won't tell Papa about this?"

"Promise!"

Jou gave a small laugh as the small boy jumped off his lap and ran off to his room to play. As much as Jou hated to lie to Kaiba, he knew he had to about this. Although it was only something small, Jou knew that Kaiba would be very close to snapping and he hated it when Kaiba was close to snapping. It scared him at the same time.

"Definately not telling Kaiba. What he doesn't know, won't scare us."