NOTE:
Ok. I know there are no lions at a petting zoo, but let's assume they are there
for our visual amusement rather than touching. Besides, It's funny when Anzu
sees them.
Petting Zoo with the Chibis
Aten sat on Marik's knees watching the cars pass by the limousine. With
excitement, he waved at the passing cars.
"Goodbye, car!" He giggled as the cars sped past him.
Aria fussed on Ryou's lap until Seto allowed her to sit on his. Aria sat on the
CEO's lap and spent the entire trip playing with his nose and molding his face
into funny contortions. Joey snickered at his lover's face contorting making
his lips pucker out when Aria pressed his cheeks in.
"Hey, she throws Cheerios at me and she plays with you?? That's not right."
"Unkie Seto look funny!"
Everyone couldn't help but laugh at Seto's lips puckered out and his cheeks
pressed to the front of his face. Seto pulled his head back and gave her a
bunch of kisses on the cheek.
"Seto kiss! He he he…Puppy want kiss?"
"Nah, kid, I'm fine."
"Puppy no fun. Unkie Seto fun!"
They arrived at the petting zoo which had just opened. They walked in and were
looking at the zoo map. Seto held Aria on his hip. Marik put Aten on his
shoulders. The white and blonde haired chibi held onto his father's forehead,
his tiny feet dangling over his shoulders. Marik grabbed Malik's hand and Ryou
helped Bakura out of the car.
"I donate to this place all the time. So, I get in for nothing."
Bakura snickered. "You donate to the petting zoo? Who thought you had a soft
spot for animals and babies? Geeze."
Marik nodded. "Yeah, what happened to you, Seto? You changed."
Joey sneaked next to Seto and grabbed his only free hand. "A little Puppy love
cured him, I guess."
"PUPPY????? DID I HEAR PUPPY???!!!" Into the park ran the idiot herself…I
mean….into the park ran Anzu. Anzu stopped in her tracks when she saw Aria.
Aria was dressed in a while dress, her white, spiky hair tied up in ponytails
on either side of her head. In her hands she held her pink bunny plushie that
she loved.
Seto could swear she heard Aria growl low in her throat when Anzu's jaw dropped
from seeing her. Marik coughed. Aten's legs clenched together and his fingers
dug into Marik's forehead. Aten began to whimper at her approach. "OH MY
GOOOOOOOODDDD!!!!!!!!!! THEY ARE SO CUTE! LET ME HUG THE CHIBIS!!!!!!!"
Ryou stood in front of Marik and Seto, the mother's growl matching that of her
daughter's. "Leave. My. Babies. Alone." Ryou's fist gripped tightly.
"Babies are like friendship! YEAH FRIENDSHIP!"
Everyone rolled their eyes. Aria tugged on Seto's shirt. "I wanna see the
horsies!"
"Horsies are like friendship! I want to ride them and pet them and show them
how much I love them!"
Aten saw a man holding a bunch of balloons in the shapes of elephants and
giraffes. "Daddy! Bawoon! Bawoon!"
Marik bought one for Aten and loosely tied it around Aten's wrist. Bakura
bought one for Aria and she bopped Seto on the head with it laughing.
Anzu decided to open her brainless mouth one more time. "Balloons are like
friendship because they are light and fluffy and they make people happy!" Anzu
went to pinch Aria's cheek and Aria bit down on it sinking her sharp teeth into
Anzu's finger drawing blood. Aria wiped her mouth after she let go of Anzu's
hand. She also licked her lips of the red liquid.
Bakura watched Aria lick the blood off of her hand. "See, Ryou? She is
definitely my kid! Who's got daddy's bloodlust?" Bakura learned never to put
anything in front of Aria's mouth. She would bite anything and anyone and her
teeth, despite her constant gnawing on the Dark Magician, were razor sharp.
Bakura instead rubbed her hair. She always seemed to like her spikey hair
rubbed.
They had to pass the big cats to get to the horses. The lions snarled as they
saw Anzu…and smelled the taste of her blood from Aria's bite. Anzu saw a lion.
"oooooooooooooooo……………..pretty kitty! I wuv the pretty kitties!" Like the moron
she is, she never thought that jumping into a lion enclosure with an open wound
was a bad idea. Anzu jumped into the lion's area and ran to hug the male lion
who was snarling and drooling at the sight of her. Marik and Bakura's eyes grew
wide as Anzu climbed the fence and ran with open arms to the pretty kitty who,
in her words, "was drooling because he was being friendly."
A pack of lions ran quickly to her and soon she was lost in a pile of snarling
lions. Joey, Seto, and Ryou watched scratching their heads. How dumb can she
be, they wondered.
"Clawing is …..ow…like friendship!….OW! Aww……they want to be friends with me!
PRETTY KITTIES!"
Aten watched the lions and Anzu's hand periodically emerging. Aten began to
whimper. "Daddy! I no wan see this! Pwease, daddy!"
Marik brought Aten into his arms and turned him away. A group of caretakers
entered the pit and they removed the pack of lions. Anzu was under the pack of
lions giggling covered in scratches and bleeding.
"Bleeding is a warm fuzzy feeling! It's like……FRIENDSHIP! YEAH! I love warm,
fuzzy feelings!" Anzu was helped to her feet.
"Are you sure you don't need a doctor?" one caretaker asked.
"If the bleeding stops, my warm fuzzy feeling will be gone! I love friendship!"
The caretaker rolled their eyes at the moron and Anzu jumped over the fence.
Joey looked at her all scratched up. "Are you sure you don't need a doctor?"
"No, bleeding is like friendship! Besides, I'm feeling so friendly with those
lions! Bye, fuzzy kitties! I had a good time playing!" The lions went nuts. The
snarled and bit and roared sending Aten into a clawing and screaming frenzy on
his father's shoulder.
"We're leaving, son. Shhh…..It's ok. Daddy's here."
Everyone looked at Anzu as she passes skipping. "Such a beautiful day for
friendship! What else can I make friends with?"
They passed the goats next. Marik showed Aten the goats and his crying stopped.
"I wanna feed them, daddy!" Aten cheered in his daddy's arms.
"I wanna feed them, too!" Aria said laughing at the goats eating from the other
children's hands.
Bakura and Marik bought some feed and gave some to Aria and Aten. They entered
the enclosure and a goat ran up to Aria. It immediately began to eat out of her
hand. The little girl giggled as another came up and began chewing on her
dress.
Aten took some feed and watched as Joey was kneeling down. Aten ran up to Joey
and dropped some pellets down Joey's pants. Joey thought it was an itch and
scratched his back making the feed go even lower in his pants. Aten laughed and
scurried away. Now Joey could feed the goats like him.
Aten walked up to a goat. "Hi! Are you hungie?" The goat ate right out of his
hand. Aten pet it's head and turned to Ryou. "Look, mommy! I'm feeding the
aminal!"
Ryou smiled and watched Aten pet the goat. Ryou wrapped his arm around Bakura.
"He's so….like you, Ryou," Bakura said.
"You think?"
Aten hugged the goat and turned his head to see another goat around Joey's
back. The goat put its head down the back of Joey's pants. Joey stood up and
screamed. The goat bit the back of Joey's pants.
"OW! There's nothing for you to eat back there!" Joey ran around the goat pen
holding his butt as the goat chased after him biting it incessantly.
Seto ran after Joey. "Hey! Only I can bite that!" Aria laughed at Seto chasing
after Joey.
Another goat came to the front of Joey's pants. "No! You are not eating
anything there!"
"That is also mine!" Seto growled.
Anzu was chasing Seto. "This is friendly!" A goat ran into Anzu hitting her in
the butt. Aten looked at the animal head-butting Anzu.
"This wittle goat is being friendly to me! First the lions, now the goats! This
petting zoo is so friendly!"
Aten saw the goats biting Joey and hitting Anzu. He released the goat and ran
to Ryou gripping at her leg. Ryou picked him up and Aten clutched onto him.
"Mommy, go help Puppy! Puppy no hurt!"
Aria watched Joey get bit and she laughed. She ran back to Bakura for more feed
and he gave her more. Seto pulled Joey out of the goat enclosure and Joey shook
his leg. Animal feed came out. "How did this get in here?"
Aten looked at Joey with teary eyes. "Puppy angwy?"
"No, Aten. Stupid feed."
Ryou called to Aria. "Aria, let's go, baby. Time to say goodbye. We're going to
the sheep."
Aria took Bakura's hand and waved goodbye to the goats.
Aten clutched his arms around Ryou as Anzu skipped like an idiot around them
saying how friendly the goats were being to Joey and her. Seto bought some
cotton candy to cheer Aten.
They sat on a bench. Ryou and Bakura shared some popcorn and some salty kisses.
Seto bought a hot dog for his Puppy. Aten shared the cotton candy with Malik,
Marik, and Aria. Aria took a handful of cotton candy and put some in Seto's
hair. Seto groaned and tried to pick the pink out of his hair.
"Cotton candy does not go in the hair, Aria."
Aria chuckled. "I wuv cotton candy!"
Anzu ran off to see the elephants and tell them how much she loved them. When
the group was done their snacks they went to the sheep. Aten ran his fingers
through the wool and nuzzled into it. Aria fed the sheep and giggled as she pet
it.
"They seem to be enjoying themselves, yami," Ryou said putting his head on
Bakura's shoulder. "I'm glad we could do this together."
"Me, too, koi. I love you, Ryou. I wanted to do this with our children. It
means a lot to me."
"I know it does, Bakura. Marik, can you watch the kids for a few minutes?"
Marik nodded as Malik rested against Marik. Bakura and Ryou went behind a tree
and they locked each other in a brutal, hasty kiss. Ryou put his hand under
Bakura's shirt caressing his yami's fevering skin. Bakura kissed down to Ryou's
neck lapping at it and grazing his teeth over the pale body pressed against the
tree.
"Ryou…gods I love you so much…."
"Yami…." Ryou panted with the motions of Bakura pressed against him. "We can't
do this here….I would love to, yami. I love you so much."
Bakura's hands moved to Ryou's stomach and prodded below the line of Ryou's
jeans. Ryou arched his back as Bakura giggled into Ryou's skin slowly turning
red.
"Yami…in a petting zoo?"
"Well, this gives a new definition to the meaning of 'petting zoo', doesn't
it?"
Bakura looked into the chocolate pools of his lover's eyes as he heard his
child laughing with the sheep. "Have I ever told you how beautiful your eyes
are, Ryou?"
Ryou blushed and kissed Bakura once quickly. "Ryou still taste like that popcorn.
Salty."
"That not all that is salty on me, Ryou," Bakura winked.
Ryou slapped Bakura on the chest. "Eww…..Yami! Way to go killing the mood."
Ryou pushed Bakura off of him. "We have to get back to the kids."
Marik had taken Aten and Aria to the ducks. Aria and Aten were laughing feeding
the ducks.
"Where did you go?"
"No where," Ryou said straightening out his shirt.
"In a petting zoo, Bakura? Not even Malik and I tried that! Hey! Wait….Malik,
we never did try that!"
Malik rolled his eyes. "I draw the line at petting zoos! Not where kids can see
us."
Anzu ran up to them bruised and her body will bleeding. "I showed the elephants
how friendly I am!"
Aten ran to Joey. Marik and Marik were too busy talking with Anzu telling her
how dumb she is. Ryou and Bakura were listening. Aten pulled on Joey's pants.
"Puppy? Puppy, hold me!"
Joey picked up Aten and Aten rested his head on Joey's shoulder. The child
nuzzled his head into Joey's shoulder and brought his thumb into his mouth
falling asleep on Joey's shoulder.
Aria ran to Seto and tugged on his pants. "I want up!" Seto picked up Aria and
she laid her head on Seto's shoulder.
"Ryou, I think we should get these guys home."
"But we didn't see the ponies yet," Aria whimpered.
"We'll come back later, sweetheart," Ryou said kissing her.
Aria fell asleep in Seto's arms.
"She won't remember what she missed," Seto said.
Anzu ran after them and beside the car driving home. "I DIDN'T HUG THE CHIBIS!"
