Yugi: Nothing here.
So how many stories do you think we'll end up going through?
Malik: Not sure, why?
Because I'm working on something hilarious for YinYang Insanity.
Mokuba: So that's why you were laughing so hard moments ago.
Yuppers!
Ryou: Darn! Kuriboh just boggarted the map.
Actually, I think that was Sangan. He's Kuriboh's evil cousin.
Yugi: PhantomBrat's right. They do look almost alike from the back.
Malik: Well this story's a bust.
Mokuba: Want to help PhantomBrat with YinYang Insanity and see if her yami's hiding there?
Ryou: Alright.
Yugi: Sure!
Malik: Awesome! I get to read the insanity before anyone else does!
Sounds good to me.
Yugi woke up and looked around the room while his dad was sleeping. He saw a picture and wanted to see who it was. But it was up so high and not easy to get to. He was found staring at the frame when Yami finally woke up.
"Daddy, what's that," Yugi asked pointing at the frame.
Yami followed his gaze and saw his light's picture. "He was a dear friend of mine. We were like brothers and I was adopted and became his brother after a while. His name was Yugi."
"Just like me," Yugi giggled. "Where is he?"
Yami fought back the tears that were threatening to form, "He's gone, Yugi. He had to leave a long time ago."
He felt Yugi's little hands on his knee, "It's ok to cry Daddy. I'm right here."
Before Yami could collect himself the doorbell rang. He considered ignoring it when a familiar and annoying voice spoke up. "We know you're there Pharaoh, so open up!"
Yami groaned and scooped Yugi up and turned on the TV before depositing him on the couch. "Alright already, just lay off the doorbell!" He opened the door and saw the Thief and the Psycho, "What brings you here," Yami asked them.
Bakura spoke, "We wanted to see how you and the runt are."
"He's been dead for five years," Yami snapped as his eyes narrowed. "Why come now?"
"If your light is anything like ours then he's bound to come back into your life any day now," Marik pointed out. "Ours did, but they're little kids."
"Daddy, the man on the TV said a bad word," Yugi's voice said from behind him. "His mommy should know."
Bakura shoved Yami aside and looked into the kitchen. "Hello there Little One, what's your name," Bakura asked, scaring the boy.
Yugi ran for Yami's side, "He's scary Daddy. Make him go away like you did the bad dream!" Yugi had also seen Marik, who was standing beside Bakura.
"You're safe Yugi," Yami cooed to the hysteric boy. "Bakura and Marik aren't going to hurt you. If they do, I'll take care of them."
Bakura barked out a laugh, "So your light died too? Well, he looks sickeningly adorable. What did you name him?"
"Yugi Hikari Mutou," Yami replied with a clipped tone.
Marik's and Bakura's eyes widened upon hearing the little boy's name. Marik found his voice first, "We gave our lights the same middle names."
"Speaking of them, where are they," Yami questioned the former spirits.
Bakura paled and ran towards the car. He returned with two little boys that looked like him and Marik. "Hiya, I'm Malik," Marik's copy stated seeing Yami. "He's Ryou. We're five." Malik spotted Yugi trying to hide behind Yami's leg, "We no bite…much."
Ryou looked at Yugi, "Hewo."
That was enough to coax Yugi out from behind Yami's leg. "H-h-hi there, I-i-i-I'm Yugi."
Yami invited the four inside, "Yugi why don't you show Ryou and Malik to your play area and show them your toys."
Yugi nodded and led the two to his corner of the living room.
Marik sat at the table and looked at Yami, "I didn't want to say this in front of the kids but Ishizu said that she found the reason our lights died the way they did. The Gods came to her in a dream a while back and said that Zorc was the one responsible for their demise. Ra told her that they would try to see what they could do to return them to us, but they could only do so much since Zorc took their souls captive."
"I don't know how to put this, but I think Yugi remembers some of what we went through," Yami said after Marik paused. "He's had a nightmare of the Battle City finals and our Duel. He described the part where the Shadows were eating him away."
"Ryou had a similar incident, but his was of the MonsterWorld incident," Bakura admitted.
Marik shook his head, "Malik saw the same thing as Yugi, but from our side of the field. He wouldn't stop shaking after he woke up."
They heard a crash in the living room and bell-like giggles coming from Yugi's play area. Yami was still concerned about his son and ran to check on him. Yugi was building towers of blocks and laughing when they collapsed. He, Ryou, and Malik were trying to build taller towers each time they fell down. "Daddy got me a puzzle book. Wanna play with it," Yugi asked his new friends.
Ryou and Malik nodded as Yugi tugged the oversized book out of his toy bin. He opened it to a random page and the three boys began prying the pieces out of the book. Yami headed back to the kitchen. "Still the same overprotective Pharaoh," Bakura taunted. "Can't stand the thought of your little light getting hurt? Neither can we now that they're back."
"So how did you find Ryou and Malik," Yami asked as he sat down.
Bakura shrugged, "I got bored and took a walk. I wasn't paying much attention to where I was going and found myself in front of the local orphanage. I saw Ryou sitting apart from the other kids, watching them play. He was filthy, but I knew that it was him since I could feel his presence drawing me like before. I walked in and filled out the forms. I walked out with him and went through all the legal stuff just to make him mine."
"Malik was living in the streets when Ishizu and I found him," Marik admitted. "I was just minding my own business when this little thief stole my false wallet. I chased him into a dead-end alley and got my wallet back. But the kid was so filthy and nothing but skin and bones. I took him home and got him washed and fed. According to Ishizu, he looked like Malik did at four or five."
Bakura looked at Yami, "So how did you find your hikari?"
"He nearly drowned when I found him. I brought him here and cleaned him up before I realized that he looked like Yugi," Yami admitted. "I called Seto for help since he knows the loopholes in the legal system and was able to adopt him the next day."
They talked for a while before realizing that they hadn't heard a sound from the boys. Bakura got up to check on them. He saw that the three boys had built a low wall with Yugi's blocks and had pulled the cushions of the couch. They had fallen asleep in the middle of their fort using the cushions as makeshift mattresses. Marik and Yami had followed him and saw the boys napping. Yami grabbed the camera from its hiding place and took a few pictures. "Make sure I get a copy of that," Bakura whispered. Marik nodded in agreement.
Yami smirked, "I will. I'm going to get this enlarged and frame it for Grandpa."
Yugi woke up at the same time as his new friends and they took the wall of blocks down. Malik and Ryou ran over to their 'dads' and climbed into their laps. Yugi copied them and climbed onto Yami's lap. Yami looked down at his hikari reborn, "Did you have a nice nap?"
Yugi nodded, "No bad dreams."
Ryou and Malik nodded in agreement, causing Yami to wonder. "Marik, Bakura, how well do your boys sleep," he asked.
"If Ryou doesn't have a wall of stuffed animals around him, he has nightmares," Bakura stated. "I tried to move him from the center of the circle and he struggles in his sleep until I put him back."
Marik nodded, "Malik can't sleep unless he's got anything he can grab around him like a barrier. Ishizu noticed it and told me to leave it be."
Yami thought back to the other day when Tea had carried him to his room after their long day of shopping. He had only been asleep for half an hour after she left before he woke up screaming. But whenever he had a ring or barrier around him he slept a bit better. "Marik, is Ishizu busy?"
Yami: I thought you said that they were here.
Marik: I said 'I thought I heard them here'.
Bakura: You're going deaf in your old age, Pharaoh.
Yami: You call me old in any way, shape, or form, and I'll make you regret it.
Bakura: Whatever.
Marik: Aren't you both, like, the same age? So if Bakura calls you 'old' then isn't he also calling himself 'old'?
Bakura: Stuff it psycho.
Marik: Make me, loser.
Yami: Both of you SHUT YOUR TRAPS! You're giving me a migraine.
Seto: I'll set my dragons on them for you for a price.
Yami: Just upload the next chapter to 'Broken' and I'll not tell PhantomBrat of your insulting her writing.
Marik: Oooooh, Seto insulted PhantomBrat's writing. That's a punishable offense.
Bakura: You don't ever insult PhantomBrat's stories when you're a part of them.
Seto: I merely pointed out that she's twisted for making me out to be Yugi's cousin in 'Broken'. I applaud her creativeness.
Yami: *smirks* Did you know that she might actually find a way to take over your company. Legally.
Seto: NEVER! She wouldn't be able to handle it.
Yami: Actually, she's more likely to follow you with a clipboard and point out what you're doing wrong as an employer.
Seto: XX
Marik: OMR! YOU KILLED KAIBA!
Bakura: FINALLY! Welcome to the Dark Side, oh Great and Powerful Pharaoh.
Yami: He just fainted is all. And NO I won't eat those questionable looking cookies. I don't know where they've been and they're oatmeal raisin cookies!
