Iteria: Gomen, I didn't mean for this to be late, but school started and already I have tons of homework. That and I didn't have access to my computer until now. You guys enjoy the fic, while I do homework *grumbles and gets to work*
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Bakura finally caught his breath. Yami turned around and opened his mouth to speak to Ryou and Yugi, but found they weren't there. Looking around, he noticed that Malik too was gone. The two yamis went on a frantic search throughout the house. Well, Yami was fanatically searching and Bakura was casually strolling through the house. But in any event they were both trying to locate the missing children.
"Did you find them?" Yami asked.
"No." Bakura said completely calm.
"How can you be so calm?!" Yami yelled, "Our lights are missing and three-years-old!"
Bakura shrugged. "They're not missing, just outside," he motioned toward the door, which was wide-open, "In Ryou's boring-nothing-ever-happens neighborhood, what's the worst that could happen?" Yami rushed out the door.
"Yugi!" He shouted.
"Shh Yam-Yam! We're playing hide and seek." Yugi said from behind a tree.
At first Yami was relieved, and then confusion crossed his face. A three-year-old shouldn't be able to form a sentence that advanced.
Bakura finally walked outside. "See no harm done." He said, the words sounding odd as they escaped his mouth. He was actually being pleasant and to Yami of all people…er…spirits
Yami for the most part hadn't listened. He was busy trying to convince himself that he was not crazy. "Bakura," Yami said purposely avoiding "Tomb robber", "Did Isis say anything else about the spell besides that it wears off in twenty-four hours."
"No." Bakura said and then he remembered something…
FLASHBACK
"Pay attention." Isis said sternly. Bakura grumbled. "You have brought this upon yourself." She said addressing Bakura as if he were a child, "Now you WILL take care of Ryou and my brother and they WILL be unharmed when I get back from my convention in Egypt, or ELSE!" she threatened and yet somehow refrained from raising her voice.
"Or else what?" Bakura grumbled
"Need I remind you that I am a part of the Ishtar Clan?" Isis said dangerously, " The spell will wear off in twenty-four hours. Tomorrow Malik, Yugi, and Ryou should hit ages five, eight, eleven, and fourteen during the coarse of tomorrow before they return to normal. Keep in mind that they will take on the personalities they had when they were that age, so advise the pharaoh to keep his distance from Malik when he hits his teens." With that Isis stepped into her car, and then gave Bakura one last look before driving off.
END FLASHBACK
Bakura then informed Yami of the rest of the effects of the spell, and yet neglected to tell him about Isis's little warning, but to be fair he had mention the personality stuff. Yami seemed relieved to know that he wasn't seeing things. He didn't even insult Bakura.
"Ryou, Yugi, and Malik! Come here now!" Bakura bellowed. The now five-year-olds did as they were told. (Although they keep their distance from Bakura) "Stay here I'll be right back." Bakura said in a normal tone of voice, leaving everyone including Yami to wonder what he was up to.
"Yam-Yam?" Yugi said pulling Yami's arm.
"Yes Yugi, and please call me Yami." He said.
"Okay Yam-Yam." He said, "What is Baku-chan doing?"
"I don't know." Yami said exasperated.
Bakura soon returned with a bag. "Do you know what's in this bag?" Bakura taunted, dangling the bag over their heads. The three children shook their heads. "This," he opened the bag, "Is candy." he said showing the children a piece he had taken out of the bag. Yami cocked an eyebrow. What was Bakura thinking?
"Candy…" Yugi, and Ryou's eyes lit up at the sight of the papered sugar, Malik's face, however; held a look of confusion.
"Candy?" he questioned.
"You really never had a childhood, did you Ishtar?" Bakura muttered. Even he as a child had had something akin to today's sweets. "Malik, candy is a treat that children get from time to time." Bakura said trying his best to describe exactly what candy was.
"Can we have a piece, Baku-chan?" Ryou asked while Malik was still puzzling over what candy was.
"You can have the whole bag," Yugi and Ryou lunged for the bag only to miss it and fall to the ground, "Ah. Ah." Bakura waved his finger, " First we're going to play a game." Bakura said smiling warmly, only it came out as an evil grin.
The word "game" was a cause for alarm for Yami. Any game that involved Bakura couldn't be good. He grabbed Bakura and pulled him into the house, which given the two's height and weight difference was a pretty impressive feat.
"Just what type of "game" exactly are you going to play with three five-year-olds?" he said.
"Give me some credit Pharaoh." Bakura scoffed, "I'm not going to play a shadow game with children. Just a competition for candy." Bakura walked back towards the door. Yami followed, still suspicious.
Bakura reached the door and was greeted, by three eager children. Apparently Ryou and Yugi had taken some time to explain the wonders of candy as Malik's eyes were transfixed on Bakura's bag.
Yugi was the first to speak, "What game do we have to play Baku-chan?" he said energetically.
"We're going to have a little wrestling competition." Bakura stated.
"Wrestling?" Ryou and Yugi said questioningly.
"Wrestling is a competition in which in the goal is keep your opponent on the ground for ten seconds or push them out bounds," Malik knowingly, although how he knew was a mystery in itself.
After Bakura recovered from his initial shock, he informed Malik that he was indeed correct. But of coarse this game was completely unacceptable to Yami. He never liked to see Yugi in a situation in which there was any possibility that he might be hurt. He voiced his disapproval immediately.
Bakura, who was prepared for everything, was also prepared for this. The pharaoh was not going to ruin his fun. "Well you heard Yam-Yam," Bakura said in a mock-disappointed voice, "No one can have any candy or play my very fun game."
A series of groans escaped the children's mouths along with a couple of "Meanie." and "No fair". Yami refused to rebuke his decision unfortunately for Yami; soon he wouldn't have a choice.
Malik, being the boldest of the three was the first to go on the attack, doing an impressive pout followed by a temper-tantrum. Ryou, who really was a temperate child, opted for puppy dog eyes instead. Yugi did him one better and along with the puppy dog eyes he also kept repeating the word "Please" in a sugary sweet voice. Yami's will power weakening, but he was barely hanging on, that is, until Malik gave up the temper-tantrum and outdid both Ryou and Yugi. Malik did the always-feared watery-puppy dog eyes complete with sugary sweet repetitions of the word "Please". (Those of you who have never seen a pic of ten-year-old Malik. it can be found at _website_here_ KAWAII!) Needless to Yami folded like a piece of paper soon afterward.
Bakura cackled as he walked past Yami with Ryou, Malik, and Yugi following behind.
**
Outside in Ryou's backyard, the lawn was perfectly cut and green. Everything about the backyard was perfect, well, except for the shallow circular ditch that Bakura had obviously dug when he had gone inside as impossible as it seemed. To the side of the circular ditch, which was to serve as the ring, were two chairs. Yami took a look a seat and childishly looked on over the entire scene.
"Okay" Bakura said as though he were an announcer, "Yugi and Ryou will start us off." Ryou and Yugi stepped uncertainly into the "ring". "Now remember the rules." Bakura said taking a seat in the lawn chair next to Yami, "The first person to push the other out of the ring or gets the other to stay on the ground for ten seconds gets to go against Malik and the winner of that round gets this." Bakura raised up the bag of candy and in an instant Ryou and Yugi started the match.
Bakura face held the biggest smile since… Well ever. He didn't know what he liked more, the fact that Ryou was beating Yugi and in fact would win in two seconds by his watch or Yami's horrified face as he watched his light.
"Ryou wins." Bakura announced. Ryou got off Yugi who was more or less unharmed although he did have some severe grass stains on his clothes. Bakura felt something well up inside of him. Was this… Yes, he was actually proud of Ryou. He almost hugged Ryou, but he caught himself before he started and announced the next match while Yami fondled over Yugi.
The match between Malik and Ryou was so incredible short that if you blinked you missed it. Malik expertly clipped and tossed Ryou out of ring. Bakura could only stare bug-eyed, while Yami thanked Ra that that wasn't Yugi. Amazingly enough Ryou was no for the wear if you didn't count that he was a little out of breath for a bit
Bakura still shocked handed Malik the bag of candy. Yami then immediately dragged him off, probably to argue about Bakura's little contest, not that this bother any of the kindergartners. Ryou and Yugi were currently begging for candy, while Malik was slowly but surely breaking.
Eventually Malik cracked and split his candy with Ryou and Yugi who instantly started ravaging the sweets. Malik only placed one piece in his mouth after he saw that Yugi and Ryou weren't dying a slow and horrible death. Malik's eyes lit up, similar to Ryou and Yugi's a while back, and then he began stuffing the candy into his face as fast as he could get the paper off.
**
Bakura and Yami walked back within earshot of the three kindergartners, both of them looking thoroughly peeved.
"Yam-Yam!"
"Baku-chan!"
Yami and Bakura were glomped by their respective lights.
Malik was bouncing around yard shouting random things in a language that no one understood. He ran towards Ryou and Yugi who had gotten off their yamis.
"Play!" They shouted at once dragging the Yamis towards the house.
**
Yami fell out on the floor; the carpet was amazingly comfortable. He never wanted to play another game again. Yugi, Ryou, and Malik had he and Bakura play over two dozen games within a one-hour period.
"Shh!" Bakura said in response noise, "Don't wake the little monsters up, especially that light of yours."
"You're one to talk. Ryou is far worst than Yugi. You can't even control him." Yami said.
"Oh and you think you can do better?" Bakura challenged and Yami was never one to pass up a challenge.
"With all the problems you created for the boy, he definitely be better off with me as his guardian than he ever was with you." Yami scoffed.
"Oh and you did such a wonderful job with Yugi. He only has fifteen or so mental scars." Bakura said haughtily.
Both Yami got up from their sitting positions and glared at each other face to face. "Then it's a done deal." Bakura said lowly. Somehow the glaring had resulted into a contract of some kind. (A/N: sadly enough I've actually seen something like this take place)
"Yes, but it's no fun if there's not a prize." Yami said taking on his usual demeanor and trademark smirk.
Bakura thought for a minute, and then came up with a solution. "Winner waits on the loser hand and foot for a week."
"Deal." Yami said and although it was common to shake hands, the two disliked each other too much for that, and so the ritual was broken that time.
"We both deal with Malik and the one who handle's the other's light better wins." Bakura said going over the rules.
Yami simply smiled or rather smirked knowing at Bakura who did the same.
"He has no idea what he's agreed to." They both thought.
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Iteria: That's all people. I just want to say that I love all of ya'll that reviewed and liked my story. Could you please that again? Pretty please. Also for all of you who like action, read Deathdealer by Ash the wanderer. It's good trust me. Well I'm out. I still have plenty of home work to finish.
"Did you find them?" Yami asked.
"No." Bakura said completely calm.
"How can you be so calm?!" Yami yelled, "Our lights are missing and three-years-old!"
Bakura shrugged. "They're not missing, just outside," he motioned toward the door, which was wide-open, "In Ryou's boring-nothing-ever-happens neighborhood, what's the worst that could happen?" Yami rushed out the door.
"Yugi!" He shouted.
"Shh Yam-Yam! We're playing hide and seek." Yugi said from behind a tree.
At first Yami was relieved, and then confusion crossed his face. A three-year-old shouldn't be able to form a sentence that advanced.
Bakura finally walked outside. "See no harm done." He said, the words sounding odd as they escaped his mouth. He was actually being pleasant and to Yami of all people…er…spirits
Yami for the most part hadn't listened. He was busy trying to convince himself that he was not crazy. "Bakura," Yami said purposely avoiding "Tomb robber", "Did Isis say anything else about the spell besides that it wears off in twenty-four hours."
"No." Bakura said and then he remembered something…
"Pay attention." Isis said sternly. Bakura grumbled. "You have brought this upon yourself." She said addressing Bakura as if he were a child, "Now you WILL take care of Ryou and my brother and they WILL be unharmed when I get back from my convention in Egypt, or ELSE!" she threatened and yet somehow refrained from raising her voice.
"Or else what?" Bakura grumbled
"Need I remind you that I am a part of the Ishtar Clan?" Isis said dangerously, " The spell will wear off in twenty-four hours. Tomorrow Malik, Yugi, and Ryou should hit ages five, eight, eleven, and fourteen during the coarse of tomorrow before they return to normal. Keep in mind that they will take on the personalities they had when they were that age, so advise the pharaoh to keep his distance from Malik when he hits his teens." With that Isis stepped into her car, and then gave Bakura one last look before driving off.
Bakura then informed Yami of the rest of the effects of the spell, and yet neglected to tell him about Isis's little warning, but to be fair he had mention the personality stuff. Yami seemed relieved to know that he wasn't seeing things. He didn't even insult Bakura.
"Ryou, Yugi, and Malik! Come here now!" Bakura bellowed. The now five-year-olds did as they were told. (Although they keep their distance from Bakura) "Stay here I'll be right back." Bakura said in a normal tone of voice, leaving everyone including Yami to wonder what he was up to.
"Yam-Yam?" Yugi said pulling Yami's arm.
"Yes Yugi, and please call me Yami." He said.
"Okay Yam-Yam." He said, "What is Baku-chan doing?"
"I don't know." Yami said exasperated.
Bakura soon returned with a bag. "Do you know what's in this bag?" Bakura taunted, dangling the bag over their heads. The three children shook their heads. "This," he opened the bag, "Is candy." he said showing the children a piece he had taken out of the bag. Yami cocked an eyebrow. What was Bakura thinking?
"Candy…" Yugi, and Ryou's eyes lit up at the sight of the papered sugar, Malik's face, however; held a look of confusion.
"Candy?" he questioned.
"You really never had a childhood, did you Ishtar?" Bakura muttered. Even he as a child had had something akin to today's sweets. "Malik, candy is a treat that children get from time to time." Bakura said trying his best to describe exactly what candy was.
"Can we have a piece, Baku-chan?" Ryou asked while Malik was still puzzling over what candy was.
"You can have the whole bag," Yugi and Ryou lunged for the bag only to miss it and fall to the ground, "Ah. Ah." Bakura waved his finger, " First we're going to play a game." Bakura said smiling warmly, only it came out as an evil grin.
The word "game" was a cause for alarm for Yami. Any game that involved Bakura couldn't be good. He grabbed Bakura and pulled him into the house, which given the two's height and weight difference was a pretty impressive feat.
"Just what type of "game" exactly are you going to play with three five-year-olds?" he said.
"Give me some credit Pharaoh." Bakura scoffed, "I'm not going to play a shadow game with children. Just a competition for candy." Bakura walked back towards the door. Yami followed, still suspicious.
Bakura reached the door and was greeted, by three eager children. Apparently Ryou and Yugi had taken some time to explain the wonders of candy as Malik's eyes were transfixed on Bakura's bag.
Yugi was the first to speak, "What game do we have to play Baku-chan?" he said energetically.
"We're going to have a little wrestling competition." Bakura stated.
"Wrestling?" Ryou and Yugi said questioningly.
"Wrestling is a competition in which in the goal is keep your opponent on the ground for ten seconds or push them out bounds," Malik knowingly, although how he knew was a mystery in itself.
After Bakura recovered from his initial shock, he informed Malik that he was indeed correct. But of coarse this game was completely unacceptable to Yami. He never liked to see Yugi in a situation in which there was any possibility that he might be hurt. He voiced his disapproval immediately.
Bakura, who was prepared for everything, was also prepared for this. The pharaoh was not going to ruin his fun. "Well you heard Yam-Yam," Bakura said in a mock-disappointed voice, "No one can have any candy or play my very fun game."
A series of groans escaped the children's mouths along with a couple of "Meanie." and "No fair". Yami refused to rebuke his decision unfortunately for Yami; soon he wouldn't have a choice.
Malik, being the boldest of the three was the first to go on the attack, doing an impressive pout followed by a temper-tantrum. Ryou, who really was a temperate child, opted for puppy dog eyes instead. Yugi did him one better and along with the puppy dog eyes he also kept repeating the word "Please" in a sugary sweet voice. Yami's will power weakening, but he was barely hanging on, that is, until Malik gave up the temper-tantrum and outdid both Ryou and Yugi. Malik did the always-feared watery-puppy dog eyes complete with sugary sweet repetitions of the word "Please". (Those of you who have never seen a pic of ten-year-old Malik. it can be found at _website_here_ KAWAII!) Needless to Yami folded like a piece of paper soon afterward.
Bakura cackled as he walked past Yami with Ryou, Malik, and Yugi following behind.
**
Outside in Ryou's backyard, the lawn was perfectly cut and green. Everything about the backyard was perfect, well, except for the shallow circular ditch that Bakura had obviously dug when he had gone inside as impossible as it seemed. To the side of the circular ditch, which was to serve as the ring, were two chairs. Yami took a look a seat and childishly looked on over the entire scene.
"Okay" Bakura said as though he were an announcer, "Yugi and Ryou will start us off." Ryou and Yugi stepped uncertainly into the "ring". "Now remember the rules." Bakura said taking a seat in the lawn chair next to Yami, "The first person to push the other out of the ring or gets the other to stay on the ground for ten seconds gets to go against Malik and the winner of that round gets this." Bakura raised up the bag of candy and in an instant Ryou and Yugi started the match.
Bakura face held the biggest smile since… Well ever. He didn't know what he liked more, the fact that Ryou was beating Yugi and in fact would win in two seconds by his watch or Yami's horrified face as he watched his light.
"Ryou wins." Bakura announced. Ryou got off Yugi who was more or less unharmed although he did have some severe grass stains on his clothes. Bakura felt something well up inside of him. Was this… Yes, he was actually proud of Ryou. He almost hugged Ryou, but he caught himself before he started and announced the next match while Yami fondled over Yugi.
The match between Malik and Ryou was so incredible short that if you blinked you missed it. Malik expertly clipped and tossed Ryou out of ring. Bakura could only stare bug-eyed, while Yami thanked Ra that that wasn't Yugi. Amazingly enough Ryou was no for the wear if you didn't count that he was a little out of breath for a bit
Bakura still shocked handed Malik the bag of candy. Yami then immediately dragged him off, probably to argue about Bakura's little contest, not that this bother any of the kindergartners. Ryou and Yugi were currently begging for candy, while Malik was slowly but surely breaking.
Eventually Malik cracked and split his candy with Ryou and Yugi who instantly started ravaging the sweets. Malik only placed one piece in his mouth after he saw that Yugi and Ryou weren't dying a slow and horrible death. Malik's eyes lit up, similar to Ryou and Yugi's a while back, and then he began stuffing the candy into his face as fast as he could get the paper off.
**
Bakura and Yami walked back within earshot of the three kindergartners, both of them looking thoroughly peeved.
"Yam-Yam!"
"Baku-chan!"
Yami and Bakura were glomped by their respective lights.
Malik was bouncing around yard shouting random things in a language that no one understood. He ran towards Ryou and Yugi who had gotten off their yamis.
"Play!" They shouted at once dragging the Yamis towards the house.
**
Yami fell out on the floor; the carpet was amazingly comfortable. He never wanted to play another game again. Yugi, Ryou, and Malik had he and Bakura play over two dozen games within a one-hour period.
"Shh!" Bakura said in response noise, "Don't wake the little monsters up, especially that light of yours."
"You're one to talk. Ryou is far worst than Yugi. You can't even control him." Yami said.
"Oh and you think you can do better?" Bakura challenged and Yami was never one to pass up a challenge.
"With all the problems you created for the boy, he definitely be better off with me as his guardian than he ever was with you." Yami scoffed.
"Oh and you did such a wonderful job with Yugi. He only has fifteen or so mental scars." Bakura said haughtily.
Both Yami got up from their sitting positions and glared at each other face to face. "Then it's a done deal." Bakura said lowly. Somehow the glaring had resulted into a contract of some kind. (A/N: sadly enough I've actually seen something like this take place)
"Yes, but it's no fun if there's not a prize." Yami said taking on his usual demeanor and trademark smirk.
Bakura thought for a minute, and then came up with a solution. "Winner waits on the loser hand and foot for a week."
"Deal." Yami said and although it was common to shake hands, the two disliked each other too much for that, and so the ritual was broken that time.
"We both deal with Malik and the one who handle's the other's light better wins." Bakura said going over the rules.
Yami simply smiled or rather smirked knowing at Bakura who did the same.
"He has no idea what he's agreed to." They both thought.