This chapter dedicated to Alliance THE because he and his yami came up with a great long list of 'Yami's first time' scenarios. This should be good for about 14 more chapters hehe and I'm having great fun writing them!
Chapter 3 Yami's first time – gardening
Yugi and Yami had gone ice skating a few times since that first time and now Yami was quite good at it and they both had a great time. Yami was able to skate round quite fast now and he was feeling very chuffed with himself.
"Aibou do you fancy going ice skating again today?" Yami asked his light as they ate breakfast.
"Oh Yami I'm sorry I can't today I promised I'd go and pick up some items from a friend of Jii-chan's who lives out of town. Do you want to come?"
Yami thought about it, he had really wanted to go skating today but on the other hand he didn't fancy a trip out of town.
"I think I'll stay here aibou, I'll watch TV or something."
"Okay Yami if you're sure."
"I'm sure." He said beginning to look forwards to a day lounging around looking for programs on Egypt to watch.
Half an hour later Yugi left the house on his errand and Yami got himself a cold drink and settled down on the sofa to watch TV. He flicked through the channels getting frustrated with the lack of anything to watch.
"Nothing…nothing…nothing…geeze nine hundred channels and nothing to watch!" Yami huffed in annoyance and then nearly jumped out of his skin when a voice came to him loudly.
"What do you think you are doing boy?"
"Yargh!" cried Yami leaping off the sofa in fright. "Jii-chan you scared me!"
"Good, you can't laze around here all day. The garden wants tidying up a bit and the grass wants cutting. I also have to go out and I expect you to have made some progress when I get back."
"But Jii-chan…" He didn't finish as Jii-chan wasn't interested in Yami's excuses.
"No buts you have to live here and eat food and use heating same and Yugi and me." He said "Now go tidy up the garden." And shooed Yami out of the door.
Yami stood outside the back door and looked round the garden. There was a lawned area with some flowerbeds. Unlike a lot of japanese gardens, theirs had quite a lot of plants and such in it. Yami looked at the grass
"How does Jii-chan cut this?" he thought to himself for a moment before vanishing into the kitchen and reappearing with a pair of scissors.
"Now grass lets get you trimmed." He said snipping the scissors in his hand.
Half an hour later…
"Phew this is hard work." Yami said rubbing the sweat off his brow. He looked at his handiwork. He had snipped about a foot square of lawn. "How does Jii-chan do it I wonder? There must be another easier way."
Yami had always been either out with Yugi or watching TV when jii-chan mowed the lawn so he had no idea what was used to cut it.
"Why bother keeping grass anyway?" Yami wondered. "If it grows all the time and has to keep being cut wouldn't it be better with no grass at all?"
Mind made up he started to send the expanse of green growing stuff to the shadow realm.
In no time at all, Yami had cleared all the grass away and was left with very tidy looking brown soil.
"At least soil doesn't grow." He muttered and turned his attention to the flowerbeds, determined to get them looking as good as the lawn did.
"Okay I've heard Jii-chan talking about 'Those pesky weeds' I wonder what they look like?" Yami wondered and went over to one of the flowerbeds. "And what does he use? Oh well I guess they'll have to join the grass in the shadow realm." Yami grinned to himself as he imagined the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl suddenly having grass to cut and weeds to pull. Then he wondered if plants would even grow in the shadow realm. He shrugged 'Oh well they can enjoy it for a while anyway.'
He approached the first bed and looked at the plants. There were some grass like plants and so Yami made them vanish first. There were quite a lot of these and the bed looked considerably emptier when he had finished. Feeling very pleased with himself, Yami tackled the very dead looking plants next. Away they also went emptying the bed even more. Now what he was left with were some plants that had very pretty flowers on them and seemed to be flourishing in the soil. He left these and went onto the next bed. Round the whole garden he went clearing the beds and leaving the very pretty flowers.
When this was accomplished, Yami noticed that the ground was very dry and although he didn't know much about gardening, he did know things needed water to grow. He went to the shed and peered into the gloom. On the floor there was a watering can.
He grabbed it and went into the kitchen where he filled it with water and watered all the plants he had saved. Feeling very pleased with his handiwork, he went back into the house and got himself another cold drink before settling down in front of the TV and resumed flicking through the channels again.
"Nothing…nothing…nothing…geeze not again." He muttered to himself. He continued to flick through the channels until he settled on a music station that he liked.
Yugi returned home happy that his errand had taken less time than he had expected.
"I wonder what Yami has been up to?" He thought as he went to the fridge to get a drink. It was then that he saw the garden…
"YAMI!" He yelled as his jaw hit the floor.
Yami who had been asleep in the sitting room, leapt off the sofa when Yugi yelled at him.
"Whoa..wha..wha..huh?" he mumbled trying to come to. He was suddenly wide awake when a tri-color haired roaring beast came into the room with steam coming out of it's ears. Yami blinked dumbly.
"Yugi?" He said looking at the 'beast' in fear
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE YAMI?"
"What do you mean aibou?" Yami said genuinely having no idea what Yugi was on about.
"Don't you 'aibou' me Yami! The garden is ruined and I know you had something to do with it! Jii-chan is going to hit the roof when he sees it!"
Yami thought that Yugi hitting the roof was bad enough and there was no way he wanted to face the wrath of Jii-chan.
"Yugi I am so sorry." He apologised "I thought I was tidying the garden up and I didn't see the point of grass as it has to be cut all the time and the soil looks so much nicer on it's own."
"Yes but Yami, weeds grow on the soil and look bad and when it rains that nice soil becomes mud which is horrible."
"What have I done?" Yami said feeling really awful.
"And while we're on the subject of weeds Yami you do know you sent all the plants away and kept the weeds?"
"But the ones I left were flourishing and the rest were either grass or dead."
"Yami. They were not dead, they were perennial plants. Certain months of the year they die off and then grow again from the base and the grasses were plants too. Weeds do flourish and take over the good plants choking them."
Yami hung his head and suddenly Yugi giggled.
"I can't believe you watered the weeds." He laughed "Oh Yami what am I going to do with you?" Yami realised he was forgiven and because Yugi's laugh was so infectious, he also began to smile and then giggle before finally laughing.
They laughed for a good ten minutes before Yugi got serious again.
"Yami, we're going to have to do something about the garden before Jii-chan gets home or you are going to be in serious trouble."
"But what can we do aibou?"
"Well if we can get some gravel and new plants, we might be able to make it look quite good."
Ring ring ring ring!
Yugi went to get the phone and returned a few minutes later.
"That was Jii-chan, he'll be home tomorrow as the friend he went to visit has asked him to stay which is great because it gives us enough time to sort out that garden."
"Thanks Aibou." Said Yami feeling a bit better and very glad that Jii-chan wouldn't be home till tomorrow. "Where do we get the stuff we need?"
"From the garden center." Yugi said and pulled out his car keys (AN: Yugi learned to drive recently, Yami hasn't dared to learn yet – that'll be a future chapter for this) "Let's go."
Yugi drove them both down to the garden center and they wondered round choosing gravel and various plants. Yami recognised the grasses he had sent to the shadow realm and felt bad again.
"Aibou I'm so sorry about all this." He said and Yugi giggled.
"It's alright really, actually I think it's quite funny now but I don't think Jii-chan will see the funny side if we don't do something about it so lets get on and get home."
They finished their shopping and took their purchases home. As soon as they got home they took everything round to the back and assessed the situation.
"Well we should totally clear the whole garden." Yugi said "Yami will you get rid of the weeds you saved?"
Yami turned red and nodded sending the weeds to the shadow realm. Yugi began to unravel the weeds suppressing membrane and they laid it out.
They both worked hard and at the end of the day they had spread out the gravel that they had bought.
Exhausted they went to bed ready to carry on the following morning.
By lunch time the following day, they had completed the garden and stood back to admire their handiwork.
"Looks really good Yami." Yugi said smiling at his dark. "Perhaps you sending everything to the shadow realm wasn't such a bad idea as I think the garden looks better like this. Hope Jii-chan likes it." He finished.
"Hope I like what?" came a voice from behind them and Jii-chan came into view.
"Jii-chan!" Yugi exclaimed "We've been busy doing the garden. Um do you like it?"
Jii-chan prowled round the garden while Yami bit his lip in nervousness. The elder Motou finished his inspection and turned to face the two designers. His face broke into a huge smile.
"I love it!" he said and the two teens cheered glad that they wern't in trouble. "Come on you've both worked hard, I'll take you out for burgers."
"Woo hoo!" they both cheered again and grabbed their coats.
"Where do you want to go?" Jii-chan asked.
"Burger World!" They both chorused.
Owari – for the gardening episode anyway! Look out for 'Yami's first time – cooking' coming soon!
Dark Magician & Dark Magician Girl (wiping their brows): Geeze Yami why did you have to introduce weeds to the shadow realm? They multiply!
Yami: I'm so sorry!
DM & DMG: you better be! You can come do the weeding here.
Yami: Nooooo!
Yugi: Aww don't worry Yami I'll help you.
Yami: Thanks Aibou! hugs him tight you're the best.
Yami Seirei: heh you two are so cute.
YamiKITG: think I'm gonna be sick…..I don't do cute. Yami you'tr supposed to be a yami, y'know dark and evil!
Yugi: Not anymore, he's an angel right Yami?
Yami: Yup! (Sprouts wings and a halo and starts flying around in a white gown playing a harp.)
Yami Seirei & YamiKITG: BLERGH!
Yami Seirei: Too cute even for me!
Yami (Gown etc vanishes with a little 'pop' noise) Ahem sorry girls (Pecks both on their cheeks) x x
Yami Seirei & YamiKITG (Melts into large puddle on the floor) Glub glub.
Yugi: Hey you're mine Yami!
Yami: Ahem sorry Aibou (Pecks him on cheek)
Yugi: Yayyy! Anyway folks, Yami Seirei will continue this series when she has solidified again
Yami Seirei:……