LefthandedFreak: Wow everyone!! I'm super happy that at least two people are enjoying my story!
Kaiba: Instead of the usual zero?
LefthandedFreak: (pushes button, causing the floor to open right underneath…. The coach) Damnit! I knew I should have watched where that trap door was.
Kaiba: You're surprisingly lame
LefthandedFreak: At least I don't have a dragon fetish, twig boy.
Kaiba: What is it with you and my weight?
Joey: (runs in) Hey guys what's- AHHHHH!!!! (falls into whole)
LefthandedFreak:…. Oops…. Ummm… . . ….. on to the reviews!!
Dragonlady222 – hmmm (suddenly thinks of Yugioh the Abridged series at the mention about the cook)
Flashback
Joey: It depends? Will there be food?
Kaiba: Oh they'll be food all right! So much food that you'll be stuffed.
Joey: was that supposed to be a threat?
Kaiba: I can't even remember anymore.
end flashback
LefthandedFreak: (cackles at the thought) I'm sorry I just keep thinking of that every time I read your comment. But all in all seriousness, yea I enjoy all four names together too, so its here to stay. Actually the cook isn't avoiding Yugi… but she does- mph!!
Kaiba: (covers her mouth) I'll stuff you if you tell.
LefthandedFreak: Awww …next comment!
Arisa Akita – You think I have literary awesomeness!!! (Squees in joy)
Kaiba: What are you blind? …. And possibly deaf?
LefthandedFreak: Yea I thought about Papa too but the only one I could really feel deserved it was Kaiba and father seemed too stiff for everyone else.
That and I don't like the word 'Papa' it irks me… but it did cross my mind.
I also added the bathroom scene last too, it wasn't in the original chapter, and I'm really glad I did. (Giggles) Yami and his sex drive.
Yami: Pretty good isn't it?
LefthandedFreak: hotness!!
Bakura: Try and catch me you pathetic mortal!!
LefthandedFreak: (pushes another trap button and sends story crashing on top of them, Joey miraculously on top of it.) OWWIE!!
Joey: Enjoy people!
Note: Due to the pain in my back, I might not write as much or explain things within great detail. I'm sorry; I just can't concentrate past the pain. I don't own anything, especially the Abridged Series.
Kaiba: You'd think she'd worry about the original.
LefthandedFreak: Enjoy!!
The house was louder than usual. Many of the servants were running up and down the stairs, carrying more material for Akira's room, as a few others ran about finishing the rest of the chores, trying to complete this task before dinner.
Kaiba was still gazing avidly into the old guestroom as he barked orders every now and then, just to make sure the idiots had understood. Joey and Yami stood next to him, having showed up a little while ago with a look that told Kaiba that they had done more than just fix Yami's cuts, and the two were a little more uneasy as they watched the transformation from bland, forgotten space to light and cutesy kids room.
Mostly, it was Kaiba's angry shouts that made them uneasy, not the fact that the servants were actually completing there task on time.
"What are you idiots doing with the bed?!" Kaiba bellowed as a couple of men, who were trying to angle the mattress a certain way, suddenly jumped about ten feet in the air.
Maybe eleven seeing as this is Kaiba we're talking about.
The auburn haired youth paid no attention to this and continued to rant. "Move the bed across from the balcony and put that mirror in between the balcony doors." The men nodded their obedience and quickly lifted the bed, moving it across the room as Kaiba glared down at them.
Yami noted it was a pretty nice looking room, Kaiba having obviously let up a bit on the 'no pink' rule and it could easily be identified as a child's room.
The walls were casted in shimmering colors of pink, yellow, and purple fading into each other to make a sunset, butterfly and dragonfly stencils peeking up from different areas of the walls. One of the maids, despite Kaiba's slight annoyance, had even managed to hang a few pictures of unicorns frolicking about up.
The bed posts were a pale ivory color, the drapes hanging down from the beds banister a light yellow, colliding pretty well with the visibly pink sheets through the veil. The furniture in the room were also white, some having stencils added to them to match with the walls, as the last few maids and footmen finished clearing up any signs of a fast fixer upper.
All in all Yami was very impressed by the new interior.
Joey was also amazed by the rooms look.
"Thank God"
"What?" Kaiba noted Joey's smug smile.
"It's not covered in dragons"
Kaiba growled.
Akira had continued to drag Yugi about, despite the fact that there original intention was to get to her new room and see how it was coming along. However, the little green eyed girl had different ideas, and quickly presumed her quest through the house with her mother's hand tight in her own.
"It's like a giant maze!!!" Akira exclaimed as she peered into yet another room that was hardly ever used, the darkness rudely interrupted by the cascading light from the hall, as Yugi smiled down at her.
"You could say that. I wouldn't stray too far to say that you probably could get lost in here." He ruffled Akira's hair she stepped a little bit into the room.
"You'll find me if I ever get lost, won't you mommy?" Her green eyes pierced Yugi like an arrow as she turned her head to face him. Reaching forward, Yugi bent own and pulled Akira into a tight hug against his chest.
"Yes Akira, I'll always find you" Akira's eyes lit up as she hugged Yugi back, wrapping her arms around his neck and hanging onto him as he stood up. Hugging her close, Yugi shut the door with one of his hands, stepping back into the lighted hallway.
With his back to the door, the tri color haired youth carried the little girl; her eyes peeking out to watch were they were going. She was silent as they walked for awhile down the hall before-
"What's in there?" She pointed to a huge set of double doors, causing Yugi to stop in his tracks and look at the door. He had seen these doors several times before, usually passing them from game room that the others and him had created for there love of cards and video games, but he had yet to actually look inside it yet.
"Probably just an extra bedroom" he noted.
"Open it" Akira exclaimed, leaning across Yugi's arms and reaching for the doorknob. Smiling, he let her swing the door open and look inside the room.
A huge cathedral ceiling caught their eyes, the walls filled with rows and rows of nothing but books on majestic bookcases, a ladder with wheels up a few of the aisles to reach the ones at the top. The walls were covered in majestic artwork, mostly seen on the outside of extravagant museums, floor to ceiling windows against the opposite wall which proclaimed how dark it was outside.
Akira ohed as she flicked on the light switch and stared at the giant works of literature, Yugi a little awed as well, seeing as he had never been in Kaiba's library. If he had ever wanted a book, he had just asked Kaiba for it or went out and bought one. It hadn't occurred to him, since he had never seen Kaiba go in this particular room, that they had even held such an extensive collection.
Akira slid down Yugi's chest and ran about the room, staring at the heavy volumes.
"What are these?" She picked up a book and opened it up, staring at the words inside.
"They're called books." Yugi jumped as Kaiba walked in the room, addressing their daughter's question. "That one in particular is called "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare"
Akira eyed the book. "Hamlet?... What's it about?"
Kaiba smiled and walked over, taking it from her hands gently. "If you'd like, I could try and read it to you some time."
"What does read mean?" Akira blinked looking up at Kaiba.
"It's talking with ink. Instead of speaking, like we're doing know, I would write down what I wanted to say and you would read it." Kaiba opened the book to a random page."Like this," he pointed at one of the sentences, Akira watching as his finger slid under the words. "'The three witches appeared before him.' That's what these words", he said sliding his finger back and forth under what he had just read, "mean. Every word has a written counterpart."
Akira stared at the book for a second before grabbing the pages and flipping them."All of these words?"
Kaiba nodded as she held the book over her head.
"That's a lot!" she pointed out as she turned to her father, the book dangling in her fingers.
Kaiba smiled and took the book from her, replacing it on the shelf.
"If you'd like I could teach you how to read." Akira's eyes widened.
"Really?"
"Of course." Kaiba stated as Akira hugged him around the middle.
Yugi smiled at the open affection before actually addressing Kaiba.
"I didn't even know this room existed"
"Surprising what you find if you actually look" Kaiba stood up and took Akira's hand.
"How'd the room turn out?" Yugi pouted a bit at the blue eyes sarcasm.
After what seemed like a moment of thought, Kaiba nodded a little in approval, as though he were tasting a wine and deciding if the year was good.
"It came out alright. You can see it… after dinner" Akira cheered and ran around Kaiba's legs giggling, before she ran out the door.
"Food!!" Kaiba watched her amused.
"Well it's easy to see at least one of the attributes she was programmed with come through"
Yugi looked at Kaiba. "Oh? And what was that?"
Kaiba gave Yugi a smirk, "Joey's personality"
"FOOD!!" Joey ran past Yami as the pharaoh made his way down the stairs, looking as though he hadn't eaten in a week.
Which, as Yami reminded himself, Joey probably hadn't been eating too well ever since he started mopping about a few weeks ago. Of course, with a painful growl from his stomach, he probably hadn't been eating too well himself. Starving hadn't been a very good idea.
Then again, standing in the middle of the staircase isn't such a good idea either if you don't want to get hit.
"TOU-SAN!!!"
Akira leaped from the top of the staircase and onto Yami's back, who caught himself in time to prevent from careening down the stairs like Kaiba had done with the toy train of doom. Glancing back, he saw the young girl smiling at him, clinging to his arms as he regained his balance.
"Akira!" The young girl's hair whipped around, adding insult to injury and smacking Yami painfully in the face, as she looked up the staircase at Kaiba.
"Yes Father?" Kaiba approached, Yugi lagging behind as he watched the dark haired man stare down at her.
"Don't do that again! You could have seriously hurt Yami" Akira's eyes widened as she looked down at Yami.
"I didn't mean to.."
"Well you almost did" Akira's face softened as she slipped off of Yami's back, her eyes to the ground.
"Yes Father… I'm sorry Tou-san". If anything made Yami feel like someone had ripped out his heart, rolled it in sand, and then stomped on it..
… it was the look Akira was giving him right now. He recognized the look as something Yugi did when he was hurt, and just seeing her with those sad eyes, though no tears graced the bottom like his faithful partners usually did, it still made him wish to be buried alive.
Maybe with flesh eating bugs as company.
Yami reached forward and touched her shoulder. "It's alright. I know you wouldn't really hurt me"
"Mean it?" Akira asked, her eyes still fixed in a sad gesture.
Yea, definitely flesh eating bugs.
"Of course I do" Yami smiled, bending down so as to be face to face with her as he smiled.
With a small cheer of happiness, Akira turned, waking Yami in the face with her hair again, before running down to the dining room.
"Oh, the pain!" Yami moaned as he grasped his cheek, Yugi chuckling as he went pass.
"I think she has it out for you" Kaiba smirked as he watched Yami rub his already soar cheek from earlier.
"You probably programmed to kill her Tou-san or something like that" Yami mumbled as he looked down the staircase.
Humphing, Kaiba walked by Yami, reaching down and grabbing Yami's hand, pulling the pharaoh with surprise down the stairs with him.
"Why would I want to kill the one I loved?"
Yami smiled, gripping Kaiba's hand tight as they made their way into the dining room.
Dinner had been a real treat.
Akira sat between Joey and Yugi, and tried almost everything, except for a few items that Joey hadn't eaten. It was also a real blast trying to teach her how to use a fork, seeing as she kept holding it upside down and kept trying to scoop the food with the less than nothing handle.
After a quick explanation of which way the fork went, with more near death experiences courtesy of Yami, who just happened to be sitting almost straight across from Akira, dinner had passed with a different feeling of togetherness spreading throughout the family.
To Joey, it was like Akira had always been there, ever since the four had gotten together. To him, she wasn't a computer system but a real little girl that the family had given birth to in a sense.
She was quickly becoming one of the many reasons he lived, as she was extremely attached to each of the four men, and her constant hugs and wide eyes were beyond cute.
He could already see the traits of each of them through the girl. Her determination to learn seemed to be something of Kaiba's, since he was always off trying to make something new, her cuteness and love seemed to be a Yugi thing, her joy for running about and acting like the only one important seemed to be more of his trait, and, yet he hadn't noticed anything too pronounced about Yami in her, though he had a feeling that if she ever learned how to play duel monsters, she would be just as great as the pharaoh.
Then again, she did have four great duelists for parents.
After dinner was over, they decided to sit around the living room for a bit, Kaiba having a fire started to lighten the room up a bit, as Yami laid his head down on Yugi's lap. Akira sat in Joey's lap, playing with his fingers.
"What are you doing?" Joey watched as she spread his fingers in and out, tracing them about.
"You have big hands" She noted as she placed her palm against Joey's.
"Well, of course it would seem that way. But when you get older, your hands won't be so small"
Kaiba glanced up from the fire and looked at Joey, who seemed a bit aware suddenly that Akira, as real as she seemed, would never be able to grow up in body at least.
Oblivious to the sudden attraction of stares, even Yami and Yugi had looked at her at Joey's words; the young girl stifled a yawn behind her hand and smiled up at Joey.
"I think it's bedtime for someone", Kaiba announced as he stood up, causing the other three to jump as he reached forward and picked up Akira.
"But I don't want to go to bed" Akira mumbled as she rubbed her eyes. "I want to stay up with you Father"
Kaiba didn't seem to care what she wanted to do, however, and placed her over his shoulder.
"You need to rest if you want to be fully awake tomorrow." Akira seemed a bit agitated but she slowly laid her head onto Kaiba's shoulder. Trudging out of the room, the other three quickly followed the two up the stairs and to the new bedroom.
The room was blinding compared to its earlier grey color, as Kaiba walked in, Yugi running forward and turning down the cover, before Kaiba set Akira down.
Joey smiled and bent down, running his fingers through her hair to take out a few tangles as Yami searched through her drawers for a night shirt.
Helping her dress, sine Kaiba thought Yami had tried and failed miserably at the task earlier that day, Kaiba carried her dirty clothes to a hamper by the door as Joey picked her up and placed her in bed, Yugi covering her up.
"Good night Tou-san"
"Goodnight Akira" Yami smiled.
"Goodnight Mommy"
"Night, night" Yugi was still a little off about the 'mother thing'
"Goodnight Father"
"Sleep well' Kaiba nodded from beside Joey.
"Goodnight Daddy" Akira smiled as she leaned forward, kissing Joey's cheek.
A slight numbing feeling filled the pit of Joey's stomach before he returned the kiss.
"Goodnight, love"
Akira snuggled under her blankets as the four men finished bidding her goodnight, slowly falling asleep.
"Could this day get any better" Joey sighed as they closed her bedroom door, leaning against the wall in the hallway.
Kaiba smirked and leaned dangerously close to the blonde, as Yugi an Yami exchanged a look.
"Shut up and kiss me Mutt"
The dark wasn't scary. It wasn't supposed to be. What's in it that we can't see is what really frightens us. Curtains flew with the cool air of the night, the side windows springing open as green eyes stared into the mirror, bare feet cold against the floor, her reflection cold and placid in the dark room.
As she stared, the reflection moved and pressed hands against the glass, red eyes clashing with green. The girl in the mirror smiled, red droplets flooding down her chin as she stared from the cold glass.
"Who are you?" Akira stared at the mirror, her eyes slightly fearful with the sight.
Something was wrong and she didn't know why, but she felt uneasy now that she was alone in the dark.
The girls' in the glass mouth moved, aching to speak, but nothing more than red thick liquid flooded down her mouth, before the red eyes glowed.
"Revenge…. I want my revenge…."
LefthandedFreak: OHHHH CRAZINESS!!
Kaiba: What the hell?
LefthandedFreak: Yea, I know, I'm awesome.
Yami: What's going on?!
Yugi: I want to know!!
LefthandedFreak; Well you can-
All four: YEA!
LefthandedFreak: - in a couple of chapters.
All four: XO
LefthandedFreak: Read and Review!!