Author: YkkGrl
Disclaimer: Kazuki Takahashi owns the original Yu-Gi-Oh plot, characters, settings, etc. I only own Maiko.
A/N: Once again, I have already chose a participant for each character from Yu-Gi-Oh. If anybody had bothered to read the author notes (A/N), they would know that most of the characters have been chosen a mate. Also, please submit an actual review even if you're trying to be a 'mommy'. Thank you.
Chapter 3
Maiko: Joey and Mai's Daughter (Part 3)
Joey was nervously looking around at all of Maiko's friends and their mothers, he couldn't believe he had gotten himself in this mess. Sure he was glad that Maiko wanted him to stay, but around all these women and no man in sight except him? What exactly were they going to do during this birthday party? Play with dolls?
He felt Maiko let go of his head, he tried to call for her. But she was already running towards her bestfriend, who was holding an issue of their favorite shoujo manga. (shoujo manga: Japanese comic especially for girls) He wanted to be close to Maiko like how a child wants to be near his mom when he's scared. Mai, what have you gotten me into? Joey thought, as he walked over to the snack table. There were mostly just little kiddy snacks like cookies, muffins, cupcakes, candy and juice. Which was fine with Joey, since he was hungry enough to eat a horse.
"All right, everybody now that all the guests are here. Let's all play some games!" Sakura's mom announced.
All the mothers sweetly said "Yay!" along with their cute little daughters. Joey was the only one, who was busy piling his paper plate with sweets and junkfood to hear the announcement. Maiko pulled on his pantleg and whispered to him that she wanted him to join them. He slowly put down his plate of food and let Maiko drag him to the center of the living room. Every mother and daughter were already sitting in a circle, now they were patiently waiting for Maiko and Joey to be seated.
Joey could see that some of the little girls were giggling and pointing at him, while their mothers scolded them but couldn't help chuckling themselves. Maiko didn't seem to notice herself, she just sat down next to Sakura. Joey reluctantly plopped down besides the smiling Maiko.
"Okay, now the first game we're going to play is beauty pageant!" Sakura said.
The little girls around Joey, including the little blonde cheered loudly while the mothers started to get up. They were going to go through their purse to find some make-up so they could dress their daughters' face up. Joey kept looking back and forth to every mother producing different shades of lipstick, eyeshadow, blush, powder and other make-up items from their bags.
Crap! I didn't know we were going to need make-up! Then again, I didn't even know I was going to stay here. Gotta think of something fast!
Joey tried to find a way out of this dilemma, peering at every woman in the room. Where was Mai's purse when you needed it? Hmm...Now if I were make-up, where would I be at this moment?
"Excuse me, Maiko-chan's dad." someone said, pulling at his pantleg.
Joey looked down to see the birthday girl herself, she held a make-up kit out to him. "I thought you can use this for Maiko-chan." she said, smiling.
Joey smiled back and thanked her, gratefully taking the pink colored make-up kit. Then he raced back to Maiko, who was watching as her friends were getting makeovers. Once she saw him, she said," Daddy, I want to be pretty as mommy. Can you make me as pretty as she is?"
Joey nodded, smiling gently as he began to open the mini-make-up kit. There were small lipsticks of pink and red, reddish and light pink with glitter blush, purple eyeshadow, peach white powder in the make-up kit. The make-up kit only consisted of play make-up but it was good enough for Joey. In truth, he didn't want to put gobs of real make-up on her face. He already thought that she was pretty enough without it.
But since she was little and didn't understand much things, he figured that he would just let her put on pretend make-up just this once. However, when she grows up, she's forbidden to put on make-up.
Putting on make-up wasn't exactly Joey's forte, so he was pretty confused as to put what on where. He knew that the little stick things are lipstick but what are the glittery stuff for? He watched the other women and sweatdropped. He couldn't believe how calm they were doing this kind of thing. I should've watched Mai whenever she put on make-up.
"All right, I'll do the best I can. Hopefully, it'll come out better." he said, huffing up his chest.
For the next thirty minutes, he attempted to dress up his daughter's face. Unfortunately, it wasn't successful at all. Much to Joey's relief, the other mothers offered to help fix her face. Maiko didn't see how her daddy's attempt looked like. Lucky for her, she never did. The mothers would, also , never want to show her how she looked like before they fixed her. There would also never be a description of it because it's so horrible.
Now that all the make-up fiasco was over with. It was time for the girls to choose a pretty dress and decorate their hair, then the pageant would start. Joey didn't bother trying to find a dress for Maiko; the one she had on was good enough. However, Joey decided to try to do something with her hair again. He stole some decoration ribbons from the staircases and tried to think of something to do with them.
"Maiko would probably look better with purple ribbons, instead of the green ones." Joey said, carefully deciding which ribbons matched Maiko's light blue dress.
With Maiko's back turned away, he started to tie the purple ribbon around a lock of hair, then another. "There! I'm finished!" Joey proclaimed, smiling triumphly to his achievement.
He could finally style hair now! He tapped Maiko on the shoulder, so he could show her how she looked like with a mirror he held in his hand. When she turned around, he saw that her cheeks were redder than the blush and she was holding onto her stomach. There were chocolate stains on her little fingers and they could also been seen around her mouth. She had been sneaking brownies, chocolate chip cookies and other chocolate snacks. Now she had a terrible stomachache. She felt like she had to throw up.
"I don't feel good, daddy," she moaned, hiccupping at the same time.
He smacked his forehead. Oh, great. She just had to pick up my habit of eating too much. Quickly, he picked her up and told Sakura's mother what was happening. He told her that they had to leave. She told him that she hoped that Maiko would be okay and some instructions on how to cure a stomachache.
Worried, Joey drove all the way home with Maiko moaning miserably. When they got home, he saw that Mai was still out with Anzu and the others. He changed Maiko out of her dress and into comfortable pajamas. He followed the instructions that Sakura's mom gave him, which was to put her into bed and rub her stomache with some kind of ointment. It smelled but it was working because Maiko wasn't hurting so much anymore.
As she was drifting off to sleep, Maiko touched his cheek and whispered," I love you, daddy....."
Joey smiled and stayed by her bedside and fell asleep himself. He also told her that he loved his only daughter.
When Mai came home two hours later, she saw Joey and Maiko sleeping. She smiled, put a blanket over Joey and kissed both Maiko and Joey on the forehead.
A/N: Finally! Finished Maiko: Joey and Mai's daughter chapters. Next is going to be Ayame: Ryou and Kiyoshi's daughter. hehe I bet she's already forgotten about this fic but one can't predict. What did you think of this chapter? Good? Bad? Could've been better?
