"So let me get this straight," Isis began. Currently she was seated at the kitchen table with McGuire in her arms. Opposite her sat Marik and Malik, both who were looking nervously. "The Pharaoh let McGuire out because he's an idiot?"
"Yup!" Marik replied throwing her a grin.
"For some reason I don't exactly believe you," Isis dryly told them.
"Would we lie?" Malik asked her, trying to look innocent.
"I'm beginning to wonder if you two can ever tell the truth," Isis grumbled but she left it at that. She then stood up and walked in the living room where their guests and Rishid were all seated. Malik and Marik followed her and Malik took a fussy Marzuq from Rishid, Marzuq didn't know what to make of all the new people around. Malik then sat down sideways on Marik's lap who had forcefully kicked Jounouchi out of a chair. Jounouchi was now on the floor with the majority of the people in the room.
"Can I hold him Malik?" Yugi begged, who was once again back in control, while holding out his arms towards Marzuq. Marzuq took one look at Yugi before burying his face into Malik's shirt.
"You did a great job holding Little Ryou," Bakura replied with a smirk, while he petted the small, lopped eared bunny in his lap.
"That's an attack bunny!" Yugi fearfully cried while Bakura snickered at him.
"So what are you guys all doing here?" Malik asked.
"Vacation!" Jounouchi happily replied. "A real vacation for once!"
"We have a house rented near here," Honda explained. "We'll be staying there for two weeks. We were going to invite Ryou to stay with us but things are kind of complicated now."
"It's okay, I'll rather stay here, if it's all right," Ryou softly replied, while shooting a small look at Bakura who seemed uninterested in the entire conversation. Little did they know, Bakura was paying very close attention to everything his hikari was doing.
"You're welcomed here any time," Isis told him. "As all you are."
"Thank you Isis," Ryou shyly replied.
"I guess it's time for our own surprise," Malik said with a small grin. "In a few months for Marzuq's birthday we're going to be heading to Domino to visit everyone."
"Hey, that's great!" Jounouchi replied. "I know Shizuka wanted to come with us but couldn't."
"Otogi also wanted to see the little guy," Honda added.
"Heh, you're quite popular Marzuq!" Malik said to his son, raising him up over his head so that Malik was looking up at him and Marzuq was looking down at his mother. Marzuq squealed delightfully at this and tried to grab hold of Malik's hair.
"Can I try holding him?" Anzu asked causing Malik to give her a startled look. Malik brought Marzuq back down to his chest and gave Marik a quick look but Marik was acting like he couldn't care less.
"Yeah I guess," Malik finally replied in a quiet voice before handing Marzuq over to Anzu who was sitting on the couch that was next to the chair Malik was in. Immediately Marzuq began to shake with fear and started to whimper.
"Shhh . . ." Anzu whispered trying to comfort him and to everyone's surprise Marzuq started to calm down. After a few minutes Marzuq started giggling as Anzu played with him causing Malik to close his eyes in an attempt to block out the sound of Marzuq's giggled. Finally Malik could not take anymore.
"That's enough!" he snapped, standing up, breaking into everyone else's quiet conversations. He then grabbed Marzuq back and hurried up the stairs with him, while the others stared after him in shock. After a few silent moments Marik stood and followed his hikari. Marik found him in their room, sitting on the middle of their bed and holding Marzuq in his lap. Marik could see that there were tears streaming down Malik's face.
Debating whether to show is his weakness and comfort his hikari or to ignore the problem and let Malik be. After mulling over his options, Marik walked over and sat down behind Malik and wrapped an arm around his waist so that he could pull Malik's back tight against his chest. "You are Marzuq only mother," he gently told Malik.
"I know," Malik softly replied as he continued to tightly Marzuq.
"Want me to kill her?" Marik seriously offered.
"Pharaoh," Malik grunted, reminding Marik that he couldn't do anything with Yami around.
"I can make it look like an accident."
"Don't risk it."
"Fine," Marik replied with a small pout. He had been looking forward to killing someone again.
"Is everything all right?" a small voice asked from the doorway and both of them knew it was Anzu.
"I'm fine," Malik sniffed as he buried his face in Marzuq's hair.
"Get out," Marik growled but Anzu was not going to be intimidated by him.
"Malik, I'm sorry if I did anything wrong," she told him. "We're going to head over to the rented house now and I wanted to apologize before we left."
"Leave!" Marik growled again and this time Anzu decided to follow his advice.
"You're scaring him with your yelling," Malik softly said referring to Marzuq, who was confused beyond belief and his heart was racing due to the fact his mother was clutching him so tightly.
"Are you sure it isn't your death grip on him?" Marik asked as he attempted to loosen Malik's hold on their son, but was unsuccessful. "What's wrong with you anyway? I told you that you're his mother!"
"It hurt!" Malik replied. "Seeing Marzuq with Anzu reminded me that they would always have a bond that I can never have. You and him are similarly linked as well."
"You're being stupid!" Marik told him.
"Am I?" challenged Malik. "She carried him for nine months! Her DNA is in him!"
"Look at him!" Marik demanded and Malik looked down into the frightened eyes of Marzuq. "Who does he look like? Who does he remind everyone of?"
"You."
"Bullshit."
"We look identical and you were in my body at the time! Of course Marzuq would look like me!"
"Exactly! Your body! That means you are just as much a part of Marzuq as that thing who was in here disturbing us a few minutes ago!"
"I guess," Malik muttered and Marik hugged him tighter.
"I know!" Both of them then fell into silence as they were lost in their thoughts until there was a knock on their door.
"Who is it?!" Marik demanded figuring it was one of Malik's friends again even though Anzu said they were leaving.
"I'd advise you not to use that attitude with me," Isis said as she pushed open the door and walked inside. "Rishid told me to tell you that dinner is almost ready."
"I'm not hungry," Malik replied and Marik had to restrain himself from whacking Malik on the back of his head.
"You're eating!" he insisted, deciding that hitting Malik probably was not a good idea at the moment. Malik sighed in defeat and Marik knew he had won that battle.
"What's wrong?" Isis asked her younger brother as she walked over and sat next to them on the bed. "Why did you run out so quickly with Marzuq?"
"Nothing's wrong," Malik mumbled as he continued to clutch his son. Isis was unconvinced but she let the matter rest, as she knew that Malik was in good hands.
"Why don't you let me take Marzuq?" she suggested, holding open her arms. "I'll take him downstairs to feed him while Rishid finishes cooking up our own dinner. That way you two can spend some time alone that doesn't involve screwing each other like bunnies."
"No," Malik softly replied with a small shake of his head. "I'll take him down myself in a few minutes to feed him."
"All right," Isis replied with a frown on her face. She then stood up and exited the room, leaving the psychotic blondes and Marzuq alone again.
"Why did you do that?" Marik complained. "We could have had some fun with the brat gone!"
"My son is not a brat!" Malik yelled back at Marik.
"Ha! See! He's your son! You admitted it! Now please cheer up!"
"Okay, you've made your points," Malik replied as a small smile spread across his face. "Plus it was really cute and sweet the way you followed me to try and cheer me up. Someone's going soft!"
"No!" Marik protested. "I'm not soft! I'm going out to cause some damage tonight to prove it to you!"
"Can I go as well?" Malik cheerfully asked and Marik gave him a confused look. "Hey, being a responsible adult is boring. We can invite Bakura as well, I'm sure he'll be up to it. Ryou will come as well if we tell him it's a double date."
"Who are you and what have you done with my Malik?" Marik suspiciously asked.
"I did run my own criminal organization and try to kill the Pharaoh," Malik reminded him as he started to tickle Marzuq who started giggling. "I'm not exactly the saint I've had to be lately because first Isis would have kill me if I anything wrong and then Marzuq came along so I've had to be a good role model for him."
"What about the Pharaoh?" Marik asked. "He'll be running around the city remember?"
"He'll never believe that Ryou or I would allow you and Bakura to run amuck around the city unsupervised!"
Marik thought it over for a few minutes before a smile appeared upon his lips. "You know I think it just might work," he said with a grin as Malik turned his head around and passionately kissed him.
"Lets get something to eat, then feed Marzuq," Malik suggested. "We'll then rope Rishid and Isis into babysitting for the night."
With a nod of his head, Marik stood and helped Malik to his feet. Malik then carried Marzuq down the stairs with Marik following close behind.
A/N: Kind of a serious chapter but don't worry the fun and fluff returns in the next chapter. This chapter was mainly used to set up for the next chapter, because it had been too long since I updated. The next chapter will also be up faster as well because I won't be taking anymore trips. Thank you all for the Reviews!
the copper araibian - Thanks for the review. I honestly have never thought about a sequel to pirates but I could try to come up with something after I finish some of the stories that I'm currently working on.
SetoGirl - LOL! There will be lots of Ryou/Bakura in the next chapter!
not the usual baka - thanks! Bakura is way to hot to be real! Lucky Ryou! grumblegrumble
Deranged Kai - Can't blame Ryou for wanting Bakura. pantpant
Kira-Kura - You said it, like father, like son! And I don't think anyone would blame Ryou if he raped Bakura during the night. lol
Destiny - Another of Bob's relative might show up later. Nah, Anzu will not be a villian in this. Although she's no where near my favourite character, I'm getting tired of seeing her as a villian all the time.
Dark Magician Girl/Hikaru - Wouldn't you believe whatever two sexy, psychotic blondes told you? Oh and Marik gets to do more cute things with Marzuq in upcoming chapters.
Ril - That's all you need to know to get you through life, 'blame everything on the Pharaoh'.
Angela - PIXIE STIXS! MY FAVORITE! coughcough er . . . I mean . . thank you so much! Yep, there will be Bakura/Ryou in this story. There's going to be a lot in the next chapter. Sure I can email you when I update but I update late at night so I may not remember until the next day. If you sign up with fanfiction.net however (you don't have to be an author) you can sign up for Author Alerts that will automatically send you an email when a certain author you have listed updates. That and Favourite Stories, I find are very useful as sometimes it's hard to keep track when stories you are reading are updated.
Violet Dust - Thank you for the review.
v son sayian - Yami will eventually get his own body as well and there will be some Yami/Yugi. I'm not sure how far I will be going with Anzu yet but she isn't going to be a villian in this story in fact I don't really have plans on using her much as a character. As for other things that are going to happen, the double date is in the next chapter, then after that will be a chapter of the entire gang in Egypt before I send everyone home to Domino. Not long after that the Ishtars will head off to Domino for some more fun.
cwthewolf - there will be plenty of updates in the future.
Tenshi no Haru-Kaze - Lots of updates are coming for this story since it's so fun to write.
Shinigami - Someone actually used glue! lol The only reason I said glue was because I figured it was safe (kids eat glue all the time and never get sick but I agree that Marzuq is too young). Yami gets his own body in a few chapters, which makes Yugi very happy! I wasn't going to have Seto in the story but he's been growing on me too much lately not to have him in it, so I just have to figure out where I can introduce him.
Remy2004 - Thank you!
Junsui-san - Thank you. Since you asked for it, Marik gets to be cruel in the next chapter. XP