Everyone I am extremely sorry for the long update on this fic, but I had five tests on Wednesday and they all were huge.  Everybody enjoy the chappie.

Disclaimer:  I do not own Yugioh which is not a surprise.  Do you think my hair would be gray from studying for those test if I did.  Hell I wouldn't even be in college.

As I stated in the first chappie Ryou is out of character, but I think that the others are out of character this chapter.  Don't worry though they will return to their nomal selves next chappie.

"Come on Seto, get up.  We're going to be late.  Haddie made breakfast."  It was early Sunday morning and Mokuba Kaiba was in his older brother's room trying to wake him up for breakfast.  Seto ignored his younger brother and turned on his side to go back to sleep, but Mokuba being the persistent child that he was, pulled one of the pillows from underneath Seto's head and began to hit him with it.  Thwack.

"Stop Mokuba."      

"Get up then."  Thwack.

"Mokuba!"

"You better get up."  Thwack.

"Mokuba if…" Seto was interrupted by one last hard swing of his bed pillow as it connected with his head.  Grabbing his head Seto yelled at his younger brother.  "Mokuba, the damn paperweight knots weren't enough!  Now you have to fucking beat me to death with a pillow!"

"Big brother you shouldn't use that language."

"I say what I want to say, you just don't say the shit that I say."

"Fine, I won't say the shit that you say."  Mokuba smiled up at Seto and sprinted through the bedroom door as Seto pondered what his little brother had said.  It took a while for it to register in Seto's head before he ran out of the room screaming,

"Bring your little ass back here

Anyone else who didn't have Haddie to make breakfast, (everyone else in the group) depended on another to make their breakfast.  This lucky person happened to be Ryou, who didn't actually know that he had been nominated for the job, so it was traditional for everyone to go to Ryou's apartment a least once a week for breakfast.

"Yami come on, leave the game alone."

"But I haven't beat the game yet."  Yami's voice droned. It was Sunday morning in the Moutou house and Yami had stayed up the past few nights trying to beat Tetris.

"Yami do you want to eat?  We're going over to Ryou's place.  Isn't that great."

"Don't…need…food.  Must… beat… game."

"Yami it's not that damn serious now come on."  Yugi yelled throwing his Yami's clothes to him.  "Now get dressed."   

"But I want to play the game."

"If you don't put those damn clothes on and put that game away..."

"Must… beat… game.  Can… I…"

"And no you can't take it with you."

"Must… beat… game."  Yami refused to move, staring at the falling pieces in a daze, and Yugi sighed knowing that it would be useless to argue with the game crazed yami.

"Fine, you can put it in your soulroom, but you have to eat when we get to Ryou's."  Yami instantly disappeared along with the gaming console and Yugi walked out the door toward Ryou's apartment.

"I want the sweet circles with the liquid sugar on top of them."

"Pancakes Marik."

"Yeah those things.  And the crunchy stuff that you pour milk into."

"Cereal."The hikari and yami had been walking for close to forty-five minutes, Marik describing breakfast food and Malik giving him the real name, and considering that they lived ten minutes away from Ryou, they were either walking very slowly or Marik was playing with the road kill again and Malik had to go back to get him when he played to long. (It kind of sucks that the second option is the correct one).  Marik had stopped each time he saw the carcass of an animal that some type of vehicle had run over and ran to play with it using his 'poking stick'. 

"Look aibou this one is fresh."  Marik said bending down to at some unrecognizable animal with his stick.

"I really don't want to see the insides of… would you stop poking at that and come on!"

"But it's cool."

"Dammit Marik stop fucking poking at it.  Give me the damn stick and bring your crazy ass on, so we eat."  Malik took the stick, putting it in one of the grocery bags he was carrying and called Marik, who followed behind pouting.

Ryou's doorbell rung its little jingle as the fair haired hikari moved closer to his yami.  Ryou lay in his bed snuggled up to his yami , the blanket pulled up to their chins because of the AC.  The doorbell rung again and Ryou opened his eyes, only to have them met with his alarm clock reading eight-thirty in the morning.

"Who the hell is ringing my doorbell at eight in the morning."  Ryou rolled out of the bed, nearly falling, and walked down the stairs to the door.

"All I know is that somebody had better be dying or dead or I am going to kill them myself."  Ryou said to himself as he opened the door to reveal the faces of his friends, which a second later he slammed in their faces.  Ryou could hear Marik yell about the door hitting him in the face and he yelled from inside of the apartment,

"You shouldn't stick it in someone's doorway, you don't know what they might do.  That's your new lesson for today."  Ryou turned to walk back upstairs when he heard his front door open and Yugi poke his head inside the crack.

"Ryou…"

"Did I tell you to open my door?"

"No, but…"

"People die that way."

"But we're hungry and we know you are cooking breakfast so we thought that we might come over."  Yugi said in a rush as Ryou walked toward the door.

"Who said that?  I am not a damn chef and you guys never buy any food to replace my food that you eat up."  Malik burst into the room holding up four bags of groceries.

"We did this time, so can you cook for us."  Ryou stomped his foot on the ground hoping that he would be able to use the excuse that the group never brought food as a reason not to cook, but found out that he always happened to get screwed over some way, so he invited them in.

"Come on in and put the stuff in the kitchen.  Damn."

"Master Pegasus do you have everything?"

"Yes Croquet."

"I'll add some snacks just in case you get hungry one night, and your toothbrush…" Croquet continued to name off a list of things that he thought Pegasus would need at the farm.

"Mother I am pretty sure I will be fine. I mean how hard could it be to stay on a farm for two weeks."

"For you extremely hard and stop calling me Mother.  I am looking out for you."  Pegasus sneered at the older man and continued to eat his breakfast.

"Anything else?"  Pegasus said as he noticed that Croquet had stopped rambling on about the list of things he would need.

"You should not stay in the sun to long, wear a hat, don't eat with anything that is not sterilized, don't get dirty…"

"Why don't you just say don't have fun then."

"Don't have fun."  Pegasus rolled his eyes and smirked as he muttered,

"Yes Mother."   

Ryou and the gang were waiting for Seto to arrive, or was it more like running through the apartment and yelling about things they had forgotten. (Uh the second option again)

"Ryou do you have my striped shirt?"

"No Marik does."

"Marik where is my gold arm band?"

"I left it at home."

"Yami would you leave that damn game alone and help me get everything ready."

"But I'm on another level."

"Pause it."  Yes, that was the situation at Ryou's place up until Seto rang the doorbell.

"Are you guys ready?"  Everyone stood at the door with plastered smiles on their faces, as if they had been ready all morning.

"Sure.  See we're all packed and ready to go."

"Yeah… come on we have a long drive ahead of us."

It was Sunday afternoon and Seto and the rest of the crew pulled up to the Grierson farm.  As everyone got out of the limo Mokuba yelled,

"See you guys smell that fresh air."  Mokuba took a deep breath and exhaled, while the others took deep breaths and coughed.

"This air smells like shit."  Malik said putting his hand over his face, trying desperately to keep the fumes out.

"That would seem logical Malik considering that you are standing next to a big pile of it.  Dumbass" Yugi rolled his eyes and shook his head, showing how truly disappointed he was in Malik's brainpower.  Malik looked beside himself and gave Yugi the middle finger as he moved away from the pile of feces.  The group stood outside a large iron gate and waited for the owners of the farm to meet them.  After a few minutes of standing in the hot sun, wiping trickles of sweat from their bodies, and bearing the stench, Seto and the crew could see two middle aged people walking slowly down a dirt road leading from a large house in the background.  When the man and woman reached the gate everyone gave them forced smiles and shook hands with the couple.

"Well hey there Mokuba.  Happy ta see ya again."  The man smiled and ruffled the young boy's hair affectionately, as he looked up at his older sibling.  "Thank ya Mister Kaiba for puttin' aside ya big schedule ta help us out down here.  We really need it bad.  And thanks ta the rest of ya too."  Everyone nodded and Mokuba yelled,

"See I told you that they would all come Jed."  Jed looked through the group and his face frowned a little.

"Well we seem to be one person short.  And I had the work divided all evenly too.  I'll just have ta give ya boys a little extra."

"No the other person should be here shortly.  He said that he would come."

"You can't trust snakes."  Seto said under his breath.  Mokuba looked up at his brother and frowned, while the others looked at Seto with a confused expression.

"He said he was…" Mokuba was cut off as a white limousine, lifting dust into the air, parked beside his brother's limo.

"See I told you he would come."  Mokuba ran to the limo and opened the door, pulling a young man with white hair out of the vehicle.  Pegasus nearly fell as Mokuba pulled him by the wrist from the backseat and into the hot air outside.  When Mokuba returned to the group, he was pulling a semi casually dressed Pegasus behind him and Croquet was following behind. 

"Master Pegasus do you have everything?"

"I'm fine Croquet.  Really."

"If there is anything else that you need, you can call me."

"Okay Croquet."

"And remember wear protection when out in the sun.  Kimo is taking your bags to the house and… "

"Got it Croquet."

"Are you sure…?"

"I am fine."  Pegasus said as he pushed Croquet back into the limo and closed the door.  Pegasus turned to walk away and he heard the door open again.

"You make sure you call me if anything happens."

"Okay Croquet."  Max yelled as he walked back to the group blushing.

"Guess Croquet doesn't want his baby to grow up."  Seto joked, as Pegasus blushed even harder.

"He is just looking out for me."

"He's worse than a mother."

Everyone, besides Seto, looked at Pegasus in shock, not because of the display they were witness too, (okay so maybe that was part of it) but also because he was there in the first place.  As Pegasus stood behind Mokuba, he could hear the others whisper quietly among themselves, before Mokuba yelled out,

"Here's the last person Jed."  Jed looked Pegasus over and smiled, noticing how well dressed the man was for farm work.

"You goin' ta church boy."  Pegasus could hear the others snicker as the man looked him over again.

"Excuse me?"

"We only wear britches like that when we goin' ta church."

"Britches?  What…?" 

"They're pants you idiot."  Seto whispered to Pegasus and turned back to face Jed.

Pegasus blushed a little and stared at the ground feeling awkward around the others. "Last time I checked they were called slacks and these were the most casual I could find."  Pegasus said quietly and continued to stare at the ground.

"Don't worry sonny, I'll lend you something of mine."  Pegasus grimaced at the thought of what he would be wearing for the next two weeks.  The man was dressed in dirty, denim overalls, with a matching cap that read 'Donkeys Have Nice Asses' over his sweaty, greasy hair and he wore dark boots that looked like he had become accustomed to stepping in manure piles.  'Damn, there go my Armani shoes.  And I hope that hat isn't literal'

"See Pegsy people are being nice to you already."  Pegasus smiled tightly at Mokuba and offered his hand to Jed, Jed shaking it heartily. 

"Boy you got a weak handshake.  Goin' have ta toughen ya up a bit."  Pegasus pulled his hand free from Jed's vice grip, realigning his fingers so they looked like fingers, instead of a deformed claw, and placed it in his pocket.  Jed walked back to the gate and grabbed his wife, by the hand.

"This here is Martha.  She the best cook down here in these parts.  Everybody love her barbeque."  Martha smiled and shook hands with everyone.  She was a short, stout woman, with brown eyes and her hair pulled back in a bun.  She wore a blue dress with a white spotted apron and on her feet were a pair of brown loafers.

"Don't mind my husband he always brags about me.  But now I got ta finish my baking, so I gotta get back to the house.  It's nice meetin' ya" Martha patted her husband on the back and nodded to everyone else, as she turned to go back to the house.

"Well come on so you can see the place."  Everyone followed Jed through the gate and they began the tour.

It was around seven that afternoon when everyone had finally been able to return to the main house.  Jed had explained everything from the feeding and caring of the animals, to the farm care and using the equipment.  Being that Jed's explanations took so long, everyone had sweated off at least ten pounds in the course of the day and lost a few brain cells courtesy of the sun.  The yamis had actually become so bored that Bakura and Marik were sharing Bakura's soulroom; playing paddy cake and singing childhood rhymes and Yami was in his soulroom yelling at the Tetris game.

"Why won't you let me fucking win… you piece of shit."  Yami threw a temper tantrum and threw the game controller down, sitting on his knees with his arms crossed pouting.  "Stupid game."  The game controller hit the system and the game restarted from level one.  "Aww damn."  Oddly enough, these events might have been the reasons Ryou was yelling at himself all day and Yugi was laughing, but that is only a guess. The group was happy when Jed said that they would be returning to the main house, but the happiness soon faded as they entered the hot, humid house.

"Why is it so hot?  Where's the AC?"

"This place doesn't have any air conditioning, you have to use fans Ryou."

"But it's so hot."  

"You'll get used to it after awhile, all that cold air can get ya sick."

"Damn, I want to get sick then."  Jed smiled at Malik, who was blowing on his body to cool off, and patted him on the back.

"I like you.  You're straight forward."

"I'm from Egypt, but damn, this heat is ridiculous."

"Might as well be in Hell.  All this heat would put the devil to shame."  Yugi said quietly.  Yami was not able to agree because he was now on level one hundred twelve and that was a long way from level four hundred sixteen.

"What did ya say sonny?"

"Oh, nothing."  While the conversation of the AC was going on, Pegasus stood by himself in the corner of the room, his hair pulled back and fanning himself with his hand.  'I must have been delirious to agree to this.  Everyone here has something against me.  Maybe if I call Croquet…' Pegasus was rudely interrupted from his thoughts as his head was pushed back against the wall.

"Come on, I'm stuck rooming with you."  Pegasus listened to the voice and slowly his sight cleared to reveal Seto Kaiba.

"What…?"

"I said come on, we have to put our things in our room.  While you were day dreaming we chose sleeping partners."

"You chose me."

"No, no one wanted you and I was the last person to choose, so I'm stuck with you."  Pegasus walked toward a room absently until he heard Seto yell loud enough for him to hear, but low enough so that Jed and Martha couldn't hear in the kitchen.

"I'm not Croquet.  You can carry your own shit.  And don't expect for your stay here to go smoothly.  I intend to make it a living hell."  With that said, Seto walked swiftly past Pegasus and pushed Pegasus' bags into his arms.  Seeing Seto walk up the stairs and slam the door, he sighed knowing that this was going to be a long two weeks.

During dinner, which everyone poked at with their fork, (guess Martha isn't as good of a cook as Jed portrayed her to be) Jed explained a few things about the house. 

"The bathroom is outside in the backyard.  When you have ta go that's where it'll have ta be.  There ain't no toilets in the house."

"You mean we have to go outside in the middle of the night to use the bathroom."  Yugi said, the question was rhetorical.

"That's right sonny."

"Could something happen out there?"

"Well I suppose if ya had to use the bathroom, then you would do ya business."

"That's not exactly what I meant."

"Naw, I mean a few steers have kicked the outhouse down a few times, but nothing more than that."  Malik dropped his fork at the sound of that and leaned in to talk to Ryou. 

"What the fuck?  'A few steers have kicked…'" Malik mimicked Jed quietly. "He acts like that's a normal fucking occurrence in these parts?" 

"So you are saying that some big cow can kick it down while I'm peeing."

"That's right Ryou.  They jump the fence sometimes."  Pegasus heard Ryou whisper 'fucking cows' and something about a slaughterhouse as he continued to poke at the unknown substance that Jed and Martha called beef stew.  Ryou didn't know what they called beef stew, but he had never eaten beef stew that was gray with spaghetti in it.  'Best cook in this parts my ass.  What the hell kind of imagination does she have.' 

"Another thing is that you all will have to be up at five in the morning.  Martha will usually be up and will ring the bell, so you need to get your sleep or you goin' do poorly in your work.  I guess that's it.  I explained everything.  Oh tomorrow you'll be doing your first day's work and you'll get to meet some special helpers.  They come in handy for herding the sheep.  Other than that I hope you enjoy your experience here at the farm."

When everyone finished dinner (Jed and Martha), or snuck and threw it away (everyone else), they all retired to the bedrooms, tired from the tour earlier.  As Seto went toward his room, he saw Malik and Yugi going to their room. Yugi was dragging and stepping on the sheets they were supposed to be making their bed with, while Malik stood on a corner of the sheets ever so often, making the shorter boy fall.

"Stop Malik."

"I'm not doing anything."

"Stop lying…  Oww.  Dammit stop."  Malik laughed as Yugi picked himself up from the floor and stuck his tongue out at him.  Seto smirked as the two walked inside the room and shut the door.  Seto turned his attention away from the closed door and focused on finding his little brother.  Seto could see Ryou carrying Mokuba on his shoulders, Mokuba holding the sheets, and both were singing some absurd song as they walked down the hall to their room. 

"Oh McDonald had a farm e-I-e-I-o, and on that farm…" Bump.  Thud.  The bump was Mokuba's head as it hit the top of the doorframe, which Ryou forgot to duck for, and the thud was him landing after falling from Ryou's shoulders.  Ryou immediately turned around to see if Mokuba was alright.   

"Ow, shit."

"Didn't I tell you to watch your fucking language Mokuba?"  Seto said, walking up just in time to hear his little brother curse.  

"Sorry, but it hurts."

"That still doesn't give you reason to curse."  Ryou sighed and looked at the hopeless situation of Seto reprimanding Mokuba on his language, considering that Seto cursed more than the average person did. Ryou rubbed his head and he and Mokuba left Seto and entered their room, while Seto turned to go to his.

Alright people I know this chapter was boring, but the next chapter starts the good stuff.  And the two special helpers happen to be dogs, but the problem will occur when we find out that one of our workers is deathly afraid of them.  So look for the next chapter. 

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