Alostblackcat: Don't cry! *Pout* I know the crappiness of this story makes me wanna cry too but don't you cry!

Dragonblade: Well Of COURSE I wrote more! It would be so boring and plus I got some ideas in it! ^ ^ You should be happy though, not many know about the secret I'm about to through in Jou's life! ^ ^ And Seto's too! And I've twisted Yugi's life by adding Yami his memories! ^ ^ Ops! I've said WAY too much! ^ ^ Hope to hear from you!

NekoJounouchiAKAJams: *Hugs Jou* It's ok Jou Jou! Don't cry! Please! You're gonna make ME cry! Oh and Jams, don't worry Trish is going to be in here! Personally I think they meet a while later. Like ten years! ^ ^ But they're going to meet don't worry! ^ ^ SETO! That wasn't nice! You're not supposed to say that aloud! ^ ^

Chapter 3~ Yugi Mutou~*~*~*

A small child was curded on an empty bed with plush fluffy pillows all around him. The small critter twitched as it cracked his eyes open, only to see identical dark purple eyes above him.

His mother just finished washing little Yugi's bed and his nursery. His father was on his way home from work.

Kaede, Yugi's mother, peered down at her son from her side and brushed his unusual yellow bangs and pulled them behind his ear to mix with little wisps of black hair.

Kaede smiled sweetly when Yugi pulled his thumb into his mouth and wrapped his other fingers around her index. She wiggled her finger lose and gently picked up the quiet little rug rat.

"Tadaima! Kaede? Is our son up yet? Daddy's home." The ever-cheerful Ken Sakamoutou walked through his new house that he worked hard to get for his growing family. He stopped at the master bedroom's doorway and leaned against it with a content sigh and smirk.

His strange little wife just looked up, from playing with their son by making faces, with a smile and stood up from the bed, carrying their son to his father.

"Ken-kun, you're home. Yugi-chan just got up from his long nap." She said softly. She made a little face at Yugi and he giggled as he plopped his head against his mother to hide from her.

Ken chuckled and carefully lifted Yugi from Kaede and held him, holding his head and rubbed their noses together.

"Ken dear, I need to do the dishes- do want something to eat before I start? Oh and you need to water the sunflowers out front, I haven't gotten around to it dear."

Ken smiled as he carried Yugi out of the bedroom, pulling off his tie as he went. "Please dear, I'm going to put Yugi in his pen, alright?" He said over his shoulder.

"Yes, dear." Kaede walked down the stairs to start dinner.

Ken cocked his head at his son. Yugi simply looked up with beautiful big purple eyes. Just like his mothers. Just think- her mother hated him in high school. Him, the smart guy in a corner and her, a popular Goth.

Ken smiled shaking his head and went down stairs after taking of his jacket and shirt, let only in a wife beater and work pants.

He cautiously placed Yugi down in the pen half filled with puzzles and stuffed animals.

Yugi looked around and then stood up only to waddle over to land on a giant panda.

Ken smiled as he walked outside and to the side to get the hose. He grabbed it and tugged it along. Ken's blond hair already sticking to his forehead and his red-like eyes glowed in the sunlight.

Inside Kaede was running around the kitchen making rice with veggie stew. She was finishing cutting up a few thing when she heard a loud sound from outside.

She gasped backing away as she ran outside, her long black hair flowing behind her.

When she threw open the door, she ran out the door in search of her husband but didn't need to go far.

She stumbled back and screamed horrified at the sight in front of her as she landed backwards from tripping on the steps.

Her screams were ear-piercing as she stared and cried into her hands as tear pored from her deep dark purple eyes.

There, on the pathway to the sidewalk, was her husband. His red eyes looking right through her, almost as if to her very soul, glazed over with blood trails coming from the whole in the side of his head, it seemed as if his eyes were crying blood as Kaede's eyes were upon him.

Yugi blinked as he stared at the wall of the crib as he listened to the cries of his mother trying to get help. He didn't understand what was happening. He just wanted mommy to stop crying.

Unknown to him was that his father was killed in an act of hatred. Hatred that an American married an Asian, hatred that he had a child with her, a life with her.

Kaede just stared at the body of her love as the water from the garden over flowed and crossed the pathway, snaking its way near his body. Blood dripped from the golden petals of the sunflowers that were across from the crime. All of this happened in broad daylight.

When Eriko was being expected in six months.



In a matter of a month Kaede moved out of the house, to forget the memories and to protect herself and Yugi, and into her father's home.

She never stopped crying. She cried when she looked upon the face of Yugi and only could see her husband even though Yugi looked mostly like her. When she looked at her father memories as to why she was with him came to her and she would cry harder.

For a month that's all she would do, cry.

She sighed heavily as she closed the mirror to the medication cabinet and looked at herself. She then looked down at the bottles in her hands, anti- depressants.

It's been five years. Five years without her husband to hold her, five years of watching Yugi grow up. Today was his first day in elementary. Yugi was in the first grade and was now six.

She had Yugi's last name be her maiden name to ease the pain of saying Yugi's name thought or spoken about.

She dragged her feet across the carpet of the top of the game shop, where they were living in.

She frowned as she sat down heavily on the sofa in the living room. She placed the bottles on the coffee table and reached for the remote.

Grandpa was out with his little friends but she didn't know when he'd be back.

She flipped through the channels and settled on the news. After a while there was a story on a triple homicide. As far as everyone knew they, being a mom, dad and their little one-year-old girl were killed for being black.

She clicked off the television and leaned forward and picked up her journal. It held her thoughts, feelings and works of poetry and other things. It was a black hard cover that had only two words written in neat writing.

'Maple Leaf.'

That's what her name meant.

She opened it with another sigh. She flipped through it unit she got to her dead unborn baby girl. She had too much grief that even the baby died.

She decided long ago with her husband that her name would be Eriko. It meant 'Child with a collar.' It was a strange name but that's what they wanted, unique names for their children.

She wrote all about everything in her life in this little book. She turn to the last page, the very last page of her life. She picked up a pen and began to write the last thing she'll ever get to write.

"Every maple leaf must fall sometime, either from the harsh wind of life or the pull of gravity that is reality. I love you Yugi. I'll watch over you if I'm allowed. Eriko, I love you too, I'll see you soon. Love Kaede Sakamoutou."

She placed the book down and gently laid the pen across it. She did as she promised herself. Live long enough to fill the book, at least for the sake of Yugi know what had happened.



Yugi walked in with his hands juggling his first folder for school. He sulked his way to a corner by the front door and placed his head into it as he sighed and slipped his feet out of his shoes.

He dropped his folder in the process and the paper inside of it spilled across the floor. Yugi pouted as he began to clean up his mess.

When he finished cleaning his mess he walked to the kitchen to get a snack. There was a folded note on the table.

"Yugi- I'll be home soon- here's your snack. Love, Grandpa."

Yugi smiled as he picked up his cookies and went to the fridge. He found a cup all ready pored and waiting for him to drink.

He walked over to the other side of the counter and set his snack on the floor as he turned to pull out his stool.

Once he pulled it out he plopped on it and ate.

About ten minutes later Yugi set out to see if Mommy was up.

He found her lying on the couch to what he thought she was sleeping.

Then he looked at the table. There were empty bottles of medication, a houseplant on the corner and a book with a pen on top.

"Mommy?" Yugi touched Kaede to wake her but she didn't wake up.

Kaede was cold to the touch. Yugi shook her shoulder. He shook harder and harder and with every other minute his voice rose louder and louder trying to wait his mother.

"Mommy!"

Yugi was now hyperventilating as he started to hit his mother to try to wake her.

She never woke up.

Grandpa found Yugi whispering loving nonsense with his mother's head in his lap, rocking her gently, kissing her forehead, and crying heavily over his now dead mother.

Grandpa walked quietly up to little Yugi and pat and rubbed his back as he tried to ease Yugi away from is dead daughter.

Yugi's breath hitched and his grip tightened on his mother. Yugi whined his protest and started to kick and scream saying he was trying to wake Mommy.

"Yugi- you need to let go of her, son. She's gone, she's not going to wake." Grandpa tried to convince Yugi to let go.

"No! Mommy's sleeping! I need to wake her! I love her! She's ok!" Yugi squirmed harder, trying to have grandpa to give up and let him wake mommy.

"She's gone and she's not coming back!" Grandpa rushed.

Yugi's turned sharply and hit his grandpa, over and over on the chest, screaming that he was lying. Then all of a sudden clasped in his arms, hugging him as if he were to disappear too.

Grandpa wrapped his arms around him and cooed softly saying everything is going to be all right. Slowly he pulled the sobbing Yugi away from his daughter and cradled him in he lap until finally Yugi fell asleep exhausted.



Little Yugi didn't understand. He stared blankly at the floor from his seat. He hadn't moved for a while.

Yugi hasn't talked to anyone for more than a few words at a time. He was just trying to grasp it all.

His grandpa took the book and said that he would give it to him when he grew up.

He was now at the funeral. Not that many people were there, not many even cared.

He grandpa came from behind him and hugged him, turned him around. "It's okay, my boy. It's all going to be okay. Don't you worry."

Yugi sobbed into his grandfather's chest and wrapped his arms around him, holding him tight as if he was scared that he would lose him too.

Grandpa pulled back and looked Yugi into his eyes. "Let's go home now." Yugi just nodded mutely and grabbed his hand, holding it.

When they got home Yugi's grandfather steered him into his room, placing him on his bed.

Yugi sighed as his grandpa started to pull out his pajamas for him. "Are you hungry son?"

Yugi shook his head negatively.

Grandpa shook his head sadly. "Then go and wash up for bed, your pajamas are waiting."

Yugi slid off his bed slowly and dragged himself to his bathroom.

When he came back washed up, grandpa wasn't there anymore. His pajamas were waiting like he promised but there was something on his pillow.

Yugi eyed it suspiciously as he slipped into his pajamas.

He climbed into bed and looked at the golden box, there was a note on top. Yugi picked it up and read it.

"To get your mind off of things and for you to remember me by- Grandpa."

Yugi looked at the box again. It was a beautiful Egyptian box but Yugi didn't know that, just that it was pretty. Finally he opened the beautiful box- there were puzzle pieces in it.

He smiled as he touched the edge of the box as he admired it.

Slowly he carefully picked up a piece.

Yugi inhaled as he stared in awe at the hypnotizing eye on its shining surface.

This was special- this piece goes on last...



Well chapter 3 is done... Only a lot and some odd to go! Whew! I hope you guys like this and I hope you guys get bored enough to read the whole thing! ^ ^ Or just wait till it's all up and read by character! Whatever turns you on.

Oh and I want to make a huge announcement! I wish to thank my lovely and intelligent friend Dragonblade for helping me SO much in my stories! Love you girl! ^ ^

Oh and I wish to thank all of you for being so patient! I REALLY appreciate it! Thank you all.

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Ja ne and thank you for your time!

~*~Katsuki~*~