A/N: Okay, this short takes place in the future (so post series pretty much). I kind of wanted to do a little short of their adopted daughter anyway.
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. That goes to the respective owner. I only own my OC(s).
Take a Break:
(Yusei's POV)
He's still up? I thought when I sat up. I could barely recall hearing him muttering about going to check on Isabella when she started crying. It seems like Ren has been doing all of the work of raising her only to make sure I'm not stressed out any further. Now I see what he was talking about a few years back.
Of course, it added much more stress onto him especially since he usually had classes most mornings to go to. I kept my phone handy when I went to work since I was sure I was going to get a call that Ren had passed out during class sooner or later. It wasn't that I never helped take care of her. Ren gets up to check on her when she cries during the night.
I was about to get up when he came back, looking exhausted. "She's asleep. She just wanted to be walked around," he said. He fell face first onto our bed.
"I see. Ren, you do know I can get up to check on her, right?"
"No no, I can do it. You've got an important job and I don't yet." He lifted his head up a bit, resting his chin on his arms.
"You're going to wear yourself out, and honestly it's causing me more stress worrying if you're okay. I don't want you thinking you have to do all the work alone."
"..."
"Ren, you're doing exactly the same thing I did before the WRGP years back. You know, the thing you said you hated?"
"It's just...I don't want to screw up. Sure, I've interacted with my nieces and nephews from Chelsea, but she was always around when they were this little. I didn't babysit them until they were a few years older. I don't want to be a bad parent."
"Well, I don't want to be the parent that does nothing while their partner does all the work with their child. I'm her parent, too, so I should be helping to raise her."
"But your work-"
"-is important too but so is my family." I turned him over onto his back to face him. "I want to be able to spend as much time as I can with both of you, and that includes taking care of Isabel as well."
Ren's face looked like he was trying to think of a comeback but failed as he sighed. "Fine, okay. I guess I have been keeping you from helping raise her. I didn't want you to get stressed out."
"Hey, I handled you pretty well the last couple of years."
"Oh, ha ha. Very funny, Fudo."
"It's true, though. You were quite the handful when we started dating."
"I couldn't have been that bad."
"Need I remind you of the whole Micheal ordeal?"
"...that was different, he had it coming..."
"How about-"
"La la la, not listening."
I chuckled. "You haven't changed a bit."
"Hey now, I have so. I at least stopped trying to pick fights all of the time."
"True." I leaned down and kissed him. He returned it, but we had to pull away when noise started coming from the baby monitor.
"I'll get-"
"No, I'll check on her. You stay here and take a break."
"Okay, fine, but come get me if she gets too fussy."
"Fair enough."
A/N: Well, hope you liked this short oneshot. I wanted to do at least one concerning their (first) kid. I'll be posting up one more (hopefully) this month, but I want to get the next chapter of Elements of the Original Dragon out first.
