center b A Little Broken Heart /center /b
Author's Notes: I do not own YuGiOh or any other things to relate to it. I do not know to true names of Yugi's parents, so I'm just making up some.
" No, no, NO!" protested a three and a half year old Yugi Mutou. " Me no sweepy!"
His grandfather sighed in frustration of his stubborn grandson. " Yugi, it's your bed time, and you were falling asleep just a few minutes ago."
The toddler shook his head, with his arms folded over his small chest. " No! Me not sweepy, Gwampa!" he declared.
Solomon had to come up with a different strategy. Oh, sure one would come up into his head when he was dueling, but babysitting a three year old! Not to mention that the child was stubborn, making it even harder.
" Yugi," he said gently, but firmly. " Your mom wanted you in bed by eight. It is 8:30, now."
Yugi gave no answer, but his glare softened when he heard 'mom wanted'. Solomon saw this and decided to take advantage of the opportunity to catch the boy off guard.
" I'll tell you what, Yugi," he said. " I will let you stay up thirty more minutes, but ONLY if you promise you will not fuss when it's your bed time."
The toddler's face lightened up. " Pwomise, Gwampa." He said as a small smile came upon his face. His angry glare was gone and his arms were no longer folded, but tiny hands were fiddling with the buttons on his nightclothes.
" W'at do now?" he asked.
" Well," Solomon said thoughtfully, " We could play a game."
A squeal of delight escaped at the very mention of 'game' and 'play'. His parents had warned Solomon of the all sort of mischief little Yugi would get into, but so far, he hadn't caught the child meddling in anything, yet.
" What game would you like to play?"
" Fin' Yugi!" the child exclaimed happily. Solomon chuckled as he took the child into his arms and placed him on the ground.
" Cwose 'our eyez, Gwampa." Yugi instructed, like Solomon didn't know how to play. It was just like hide n seek, only Yugi would get to hide the whole time. The child watched as his grandpa put his hands over his eyes. " Dood. Now, 'ou 'tay until I hid', otay? An' no peeking, Gwampa!"
" Okay," Solomon said while smiling. When he started counting, Yugi looked for place to hide. He could hide in the closet, but that's where the bad things were. He pulled his blanket off the bed and draped it over himself before dashing underneath the bed.
When Solomon uncovered his eyes, he saw no sign of his grandson, but had a feeling where he was hiding.
" Now where did he go?" he thought out loud. He walked over to the halfway opened closet, put his hand on the knob saying, " Could he be in the closet!" He opened the closet, but no sign of the boy was there. Behind him, Solomon heard giggling. He closed the closet door and slowly walked across the room towards the bed, saying, " Yugi, where are you? Come out, come out wherever you are."
There was more giggling from the bed and Solomon saw two small fingers sticking out from under the bed.
" Maybe he's disappeared," Solomon said, watching the edge of the bed. " He's not in the closet, he's not in his bed, so where is he?"
" I 'ere, Gwampa! I 'ere!" came a voice from under the bed.
" Where? I don't see you."
Solomon watched in amusement as a small figure crawled out from under the bed with a blue blanket covering him.
" See! I 'ere!" he cried flipping the blanket off his head.
" Now I can see you! I thought you had disappeared." His grandpa said with a laugh.
Yugi stretched his arms up towards him, saying, " Up, Gwampa! Pease."
Right when Solomon took the child into his arms, the phone rang from downstairs.
I Wonder who that could be, /I he thought.
With Yugi still in his arms, Solomon walked down the stairs towards the phone. He picked up the receiver and said, " Hello?"
" Mr. Mutou?"
" Yes," Yugi started fidgeting, so Solomon put his down, but watched him carefully.
" This is Domino City Hospital, I'm calling on behalf of a Zachary and Teresa Mutou." The female speaker paused, probably waiting to see if he'd say anything. Solomon's heart dropped at what he'd just heard. " I'm afraid they've been in an accident."
