LefthandedFreak: Alright, So I lied about adding the other chapters yesterday.

Kaiba: Can anyone trust you anymore?

LefthandedFreak: (glares at Kaiba) However, I will try to add them all today and…. (Bobbles up and down on heels) TWO OF MY ORIGINAL READERS REVIEWED!!!!! (Squees)

Kaiba: You actually waited?

LefthandedFreak: Of course they did!!!

dragonLady222– Yea it has been awhile and I'm sorry for getting your hopes down (cries in shame) Hopefully no one was either…

Yami: THE PAIN!!!! IT BURNS!!!

LefthandedFreak: . …. Yea…..

Arisa Akita– Yea I am!!! hugs back I'm glad to be back too. Sorry if I let you down at all. I missed everyone soooo much so I just had to finish this… that and Bakura was threatening to take my bed away.

Bakura: ACID ROCKS!!! (dumps acid onto Josh's bed, causing it to melt)

LefthandedFreak: Riggghhhttt… I'm so glad you like it so much you have to read it twice!!

Kaiba: That or she hates it that much she's just trying to decide of its awful or burn your eyes out evil.

LefthandedFreak: (hits Kaiba with rubber mallet) Phooey!!

Anyways, sorry about all the misspelled words last time, I have Vista and for some odd reason it's just not as good as Windows XP. I'm actually thinking of writing them and complaining about it. Hopefully I can exchange this for a system I actually like.


The sun was up, reflecting the beautiful lush green land before them. Rolling hills, green trees, flowing streams, even cute and cuddly animals could be found at every turn.

That is if you were in the country.

Otherwise, Yami was cursing every available entity he could think of for making him endure so much pain. Akira was still clinging to Kaiba, peering over his shoulder at the rest of her family, smiling innocently as she watched Yugi trying to pull Yami's hand away from his bruise.

"Don't rub it, you'll just agitate it!" Yugi struggled to pull Yami's hand down to his side, which was progressively hard as he kept switching hands.

"It feels better when I rub it"

"I bet it does but this is one of the few things you shouldn't rub. Wait till we get home and we can properly medicate it."

"How do you medicate a bruise?" Yami yelled indignantly as both his arms were forced down by Yugi.

"Like this", Yami jumped in surprise as a pack of ice was applied to the side of his face by Joey, who had taken pity on Yami's pain, and Yugi's plight to hold Yami's arms down, and stopped by the nearest café' while the two had been bickering.

Yami looked slightly surprised by the ice, and the fact that it had been applied without him being aware had made him jump, but he took it from Joey's hand and held it close to the bruise none the less. "Thanks Joey", he looked at Yugi rather defeated, "Is this fine?"

"Its better than rubbing it", Yugi sided and went from grasping Yami's wrist to holding his hand. Akira stared at there hands for a moment before glancing over at Joey.

"Daddy?" Joey peeked a look up at Akira and smiled at her.

"Yes Akira?" A small hand stretched out from behind Kaiba's shoulder and reached out towards him.

"Could you hold my hand?" Joey stared at her hand for a moment before reaching forward and taking her fingers into his. He smiled as she laid her head down on Kaiba's shoulder, her small hand grasping his fingers gently. It felt nice to finally have there very own daughter. He also felt rather close to Kaiba.

Kaiba had obviously felt this too and stopped rather suddenly due to Joey's sudden position. He didn't mind being near him, he just hated people right behind him when walking. He felt like he was being followed.

Grasping Akira's sides gently, he tried to pull her off so she could continue the rest of the journey holding Joey's hand. Of course as little kids go, they can be fickle. Apparently, this went for robotic children as well.

"If you're going to hold Joey's hand, you need to let go Akira". Kaiba's voice was kind (AN: O.o) yet firm as he tried to pry the little girl off, who clung onto Kaiba without relent.

"I want you to hold me", Akira stated as she held on tight to her father. Kaiba glanced at her and sighed.

"I know but I don't like people walking dead straight behind me." Akira pulled back to look her father in the eyes.

"Is there something wrong about people being right behind you?"

"Yea he never USUALLY complains when someone's right BEHIND him", Yami laughed as Yugi buried his face in his hands. Akira looked at her Tou-san curiously

"What do you mean? Is there something wrong with Daddy?" Joey nudged Yami in the ribs, causing his laughter to stop with an 'ow'.

Rubbing his side, Yami looked up at Akira, smiling sheepishly, "No there's nothing wrong with Joey. I meant Seto doesn't usually mind us behind him when we're at home. Out in public, it makes him feel uncomfortable. Normally, people don't stand so close to others unless forced to, or being followed."

Akira's eyes lit up for a second as she listened to Yami speak, her eyes reconnecting with Joey before she reached over Kaiba's shoulder with both arms.

"Then you carry me Daddy, and I can hold Fathers hand" Joey smiled at how cute she looked, arms outstretched, Kaiba clearly affronted by the sudden change of weight. None the less, Kaiba bent his knees a bit so Joey could reach up and pull Akira over Kaiba's shoulders and into his arms.

She hugged Joey tight before wrapping her arms around his neck, burying her face into his shoulder. Akira reminded him of a little doll, the way she held onto him, and she was as cute as could be with her face buried into his shoulder. He startled slightly as he noticed Kaiba walk past him, not realizing what he was up to.

That was until he felt a sudden closeness to him and Akira's hands sneak out and reach behind Joey. Chancing a glance back, he saw Kaiba holding one of Akira's hands, a little agitated by being so close, and Yugi grasping the other. Yami decided to stride up beside Joey and grasp onto his shirt since Joey was preoccupied with holding Akira.

Joey smiled, the first real true smile he had for some weeks now, and continued on his way back home with his family.


"Who is she?"

"Did you adopt her?"

"Oh she's so cute!"

"What will Master Mokuba make of it?"

Coming home was a strange experience, most of the staff not expecting a child in the house for a couple of weeks, not to mention a new child, and had immediately started making there own decisions about the new arrival. However, they weren't allowed to sit and think about it for long before Kaiba sent half upstairs to help prepare the daughters room, and the others with befitting house duties. Akira seemed just as curious with the staff as they had showed with her appearance.

"Who are all these people Father?" she said, her feet finally planted on the ground, her arms wrapped around Yugi's waist, seeing as Joey decided to help Yami with the getting his cuts and bruises treated. Kaiba smiled down at her, watching as her bangs fell into her eyes.

"They work for me. They help make sure the house is clean and that I have a comfortable life. They're paid well enough after all so there's no need for them to complain." His comment made a few maids look a bit ruffled, but hey it's Seto Kaiba. He was made to be couth but mean.

"There's so many of them" she watched a couple of manservant's carrying a few paint buckets upstairs.

Yugi smiled down at her, "It may seem like it at first but you'll soon get used to them being here. They're all nice and very helpful" Akira smiled back at Yugi before letting him go and peering around at the main entrance hall.

"It seems funny" Yugi smiled as he watched Akira peering into a vase that sat on a pedestal. Kaiba glanced at him, also watching Akira's curiosity get the best of her.

"What does?"

"That we're back where Fate brought us together with our daughter now."

Kaiba stared at Yugi, a slight smile on his own face, as Akira left the vase alone and ran into the next room.

"Yea… I guess it is"


Joey was having a difficult time caring for Yami.

"Stop jerking away. How do you expect to get better if you keep pulling away?!" Again, Joey attempted and failed to rub some peroxide on Yami's cuts, due to the ex-pharaoh's constant twists and jerks of pain.

"That just makes it hurt more" Yami moaned as he blocked another one of Joey's attempts at treatment with a toothbrush as his only shield.

"Only for a bit!" Joey sighed as he tried to shield his face from the bristles of death, which were getting pretty close since Yami was swinging his arm around like crazy.

"That's too long for pain!!"

Joey ducked another wild aim of the toothbrush before slipping under Yami's arms and grasping his waist, causing Yami to jump in surprise. Before Yami could aim the toothbrush at Joey, the blonde had wrapped Yami into his arms and kissed him deeply.

It took a couple of minutes before Yami actually responded, a little dazed by the sudden change in the situation at hand, grasping Joey's shoulders and pulling him closer.

Joey's fingers slipped under Yami's shirt, a sweet purr passing from the Egyptians' lips, as the blonde's lips trailed down Yami's chin, licking and sucking the sweet ample skin of his neck, staying all to nicely on one of Yami's sensitive spots.

Yami moaned and grasped Joey's head, pulling him closer, toothbrush all but forgotten as it slipped to the floor with a clatter.

Followed by a searing pain in his face as Joey, the instant he heard the clatter, decided to apply the peroxide filled cotton ball to one of Yami's cuts.

"AHHHHHHH!!!!!"


Akira was nothing but a jumble of questions and cuteness. Everything she didn't understand she wanted an answer for.

Why does that bounce?

Can you eat this?

Why was this made like this?

"What's this?", Akira's fingers pointed for what seemed like the fiftieth time at the piano in the parlor (AN: I like that) as Yugi walked beside her.

"That's a piano. It's a musical instrument."

"What's a musical instrument?" Yugi smiled as she peered up at him.

"Come here", taking her hand, he steered her closer to the piano before he sat down, picking her up and placing her on his lap. "Go ahead and press down on it"

Akira stared down at the keys before reaching forward and placing a finger on one of the slots of painted wood. Pushing lightly, she jumped when a slightly high pitch sound whispered from within the black body.

"What was that?" She turned expectantly in Yugi's arms, and eyed the piano in slight wonderment.

"That was a musical note. Watch." Reaching forward, Yugi drummed on a few of the keys. "Right now they sound like a jumble, but when you put them together, you can make pretty music." With her eyes on his hands, Yugi drummed out a small cord from 'Mary had a little lamb' on the piano. "See?"

"It's pretty!" Akira banged her fingers on the keys as Yugi laughed at her sudden change of heart. "Can I learn to play like you?"

"Well, yea if you wanted to know a few kid's tunes. But maybe you should ask Seto about lessons. He might teach you." Akira smiled and hugged Yugi tightly.

"I love you mommy" Yugi started for a second before smiling. She had called him mommy. It was so cute!

Wait a minute…

Mommy?!


Kaiba, in the meantime, was upstairs barking orders for the new room. Not wanting her room to be somewhere far, he had placed it next to Mokuba's room, a few doors down the hall from their(AN: the guys) room, and was now making sure it was in a state for Akira to live in. It used to be just a guest room, with nothing really special about it and really no purpose to it since he never had guests. With its pale paint and plan interior however, it wouldn't suffice as it was for a little girl's room.

"I want this room ready by nightfall. Painted, dressed to the nine's, and her clothes hung in her closet." He barked at a few maintenance men as they ran about, pulling in paint clothes, and removing the furniture from the inside.

"Move that furniture to the storage room upstairs."

"Don't drip any paint on the carpet."

"Do something light and nice, but not too girly"

"Put some new curtains up"

"Anything else, sir?" One of the maintenance men was making a list for the rest to follow as they bustled about to follow Kaiba's beck and call.

"Yea… unload the furniture I ordered when it arrives." Being obscenely rich, it didn't take long for the furniture store to understand that when Seto Kaiba wanted that furniture at his house in ten minutes, it should be delivered in five. Watching with a look of dominance as the maintenance crew started to work, some debating on what would be a good idea for the walls, he could only wonder what had happened to Joey and Yami.


They of course were a little too busy cleaning each other up.

After Joey's little attack, Yami thought it was a good idea to try and throw a well placed kick at Joey.

Which he missed, kicked the bottle of peroxide, sending it flying into to air like a coke bottle with mentos inside, the antiseptic landing all over him and Joey, to which Yami had screamed in pain from the sudden burn in his cuts and bruises, after which he decided to punch Joey to voice his opinion on how much it really had hurt him.

Joey, despite having been hit pretty forcefully, took pity on the more than soaked in medicine mess that was Yami, and started the shower, shoving the pharaoh under it before Yami could decide to try and punch him again.

Yami froze as the water caught him right in the face. Shaking his head, he stopped and finally got a grasp of his surroundings, realizing that Joey hadn't shoved him in retort to the punch, but to get him under some water to rinse off the extra medicine.

Staring out from the flowing shower, he watched Joey grab a couple of towels and start moping up the mess on the floor. Watching him for a bit, Yami reached forward and grabbed a towel of his own, stooping from with the shower and helping soak up the mess.

Joey glanced up from his work and eyed Yami, who apparently seemed a lot more mature now that he was helping.

"What are you doing?"

"Helping" Yami simply stated as he kept wiping up the same spot.

"You're soaked. You'll just spread the mess." Joey noted as Yami kept wiping up the water that was dripping from his hair.

"The same applies to you" Yami noted Joey's soaked appearance since he too had also been hit full on by peroxide.

The awkward silence was hard to miss.

"I'm sorry for hitting you". Joey watched Yami's hand stop trying to wipe up the water from the shower that was now slowly dripping to the floor from Yami's hair.

"It's ok. You were just surprised."

"You sure?" Yami eyed Joey worried.

Joey smiled. "Yea I'm sure."

Yami's mood instantly changed as he grabbed Joey and pulled him into the shower. "Now help me out of these wet clothes and show me how to properly 'clean' myself", Yami laughed devilishly.

Joey could only moan in defeat.


Yugi was a bit surprised. For someone who was certainly attached to her parents, Akira had wasted no time in loosing Yugi and heading out on her own. Now he was just trying to find her.

Asking a few maids, who pointed out different area's a girl might go, he started his search throughout the house. Besides, Kaiba might rethink this whole thing if after the mall incident; they lost their daughter in the house.

This wasn't too hard to imagine seeing how big the place was.

"Excuse me, mam'?" A maid with short blonde hair stopped and looked at Yugi, the blue butterfly sheets from earlier draped in her arms.

"Yes master Yugi?" He fidgeted, still not used to being addressed as such.

"Have you seen where the little girl went?"

"Last I saw she went into the kitchen."

"Thank you" Yugi nodded at her before hurrying off to the kitchens. Hopefully, Akira hadn't decided to play with the knives.


"Well you are precious. May I ask who you are?" Akira peeked over the island in the kitchen and eyed the food that was being prepared for dinner that night

"I'm Akira Tomiko Munouchiba" the maid smiled curiously at her.

"Munouchiba?" Akira nodded happily as she watched the maid chopping a tomato. "I've never heard of that last name."

"It's my parents last name's combined." The maid nodded a smile on her lips.

"So you're here to stay then I take it?"

"Yes mam'" The maid started at the address.

"And you're well mannered too. Well, I welcome you Akira Tomiko." The maid nodded at the little girl as she climbed onto a stool to watch the lady finish preparing a salad.

"Why do you work here?" Akira laid her chin into her hands as she watched the knife with interest.

"Because I have a job to finish" The maid replied simply as she started up on a bell pepper "And when I'm finished with this I'll move onto another job." The look on Akira's face told her she might not have been asking why she had been working on the food.

"Within this house of course, my dear. Why I work for your father, Mr. Kaiba I take it, is because I need the money to help pay for my living expenses. Things cost money you know, and nothing is out of reach without a little hard work"

"You seem nice. And you're pretty too." Akira smiled up at the maid as the lady smiled back down at the little girls comment.

"Thank you. You do too."

"What's your name?" The little girl watched as the maid turned and went to the sink, turning it on as she began to wash her hands.

"My name?... It's… Aira… "The maid didn't look back at Akira as she spoke.

"Aira what?"

"I'm just Aira… no need to know my last name dear." The maid reached over and grabbed an apple, rinsing it under the facet. Turning, she smiled at Akira and slid the apple over to the little girl's hands.

"Here you are dear, a small snack before dinner. Come to the kitchen anytime you wish to talk. I'll always be here"

Akira took the apple but stared at Aira curiously.

"Don't you go home?"

"Me?" The maid shook her head with a small chuckle. "I don't have a home yet.."

"Akira! There you are!" Akira turned as she saw Yugi approaching, his face etched with relief. "Why did you come in here?... oh but of course, you were hungry" Yugi noted the apple in his daughters hands. "I guess you can have that before dinner."

Akira smiled as she bit into the fruit, chewing happily as Yugi picked her up.

"Let's get out of here before the cook comes in and finds you snooping about."

"The cook doesn't mind. She was the one who gave me the apple." As if to make sure she was correct, she turned towards the island. 'You don't mind do you Miss Aira…… Aira?"

Yugi raised a brow as he looked at the counters. They were completely empty expect for a knife stuck in the cutting board and a freshly finished salad.

"She probably went off to do something else… come let's see how your room is coming along" He smiled at Akira as he placed her on his shoulders, leading her out of the kitchen.

Akira glanced back in time to see Aira waving goodbye to the little girl.


LefthandedFreak: Whoa I would have written more but I actually think I pulled a nerve or something in my neck. It hurts to move it even the slightest!

Kaiba: (grabs her head a turns it to the right) Like now?

LefthandedFreak: O.O (screams in pain) MEANY!!! (kicks Kaiba where no man likes to feel pain)

Kaiba: XO

LefthandedFreak: Anyway, I know the American version of Joey's name, its Joey duh, but I decided to use his Japanese name when giving Akira a last name so….

Munouchiba

Mutou

Jonouchi

Kaiba

Yami I made take on Yugi's last name because I wasn't sure if he had one. I don't think so.

Bakura: That actually sounds worse than just picking one of the four to name her after.

LefthandedFreak: Ne. It's all up to the fans! Should she have one of the guy's last names, or all the names combined?

Josh, Figment Man: Read and Review.