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Summary: Ryou decides it is time for his yami to learn household appliances and other modern day technology. But when an accident happens, Yami Bakura, Marik, and Malik start to de-age. What could happen now?

1/26/05

(………) Yami thinking

/………/ Hikari thinking

'………' Normal thought

"………" Normal speech

(A/N:………) Author's Note

Chapter Twelve

They gathered the three de-aged boys together, and Yami was preparing himself for the shock he would deliver.

"Yami, remember, don't hurt them." Yugi reminded.

"Yeah, yeah." Yami said, waving his warning off.

"Let's get this over with." Bakura snapped. His hair still stuck up from the shock he had received not too long ago.

"Okay, here we go!" Yami shouted, and released the power he had held in check.

The two spirits and one mortal screamed in sudden pain, and Yami gasped.

It hadn't turned out the way they were supposed too.

Three three-year olds stared back at Yami as he gaped.

"Yami! You made it worse!" Yugi shouted, watching as Isis looked ready to faint as Malik and Marik took off again throughout the house, and Ryou cuddled the chibi Bakura to him.

Crashes rang out and Isis prayed fervently to Ra to spare her this plague and destroy her brothers right then and there.

Or at least restore them back to normal. Anything was better than this.

"My Pharaoh, take no offense, but I don't think I want you to try and 'cure' my brothers again." She said, very sternly, before running after her brothers and screaming in Egyptian.

Yami shuffled his feet, looking sheepish.

Ryou shook his head.

"We're going home." He said firmly, picking the little Bakura up and walking out the door.

"I was just trying to help!" Yami's protest echoed behind him.

Ryou sighed as he looked into his yami's deep, innocent brown eyes.

Bakura didn't seem to remember anything.

And the Duel Monsters were getting weary from being away from the Shadow Realm, and were now barely coming out at all.

What else could go wrong?

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The next morning, Ryou awoke to find a small Bakura cuddled up to him, the blue Scapegoat curled up beside the chibi.

Shocked at this abnormal behavior, it took Ryou a moment to remember that Bakura was now three years old and didn't remember anything he used to know.

Well, he seemed to remember them on a instinctive level. He knew Ryou, he knew his way around the house.

And when Yami, Yugi, and Joey came over to Ryou's house later that day, he reacted violently and went off to sulk.

Until he forgot why and came back, all smiles and giggles.

Yami and Yugi were on the couch, and Joey was on the floor with Bakura.

They were still so surprised at the little, happy, sweet chibi that was Bakura.

To think that the big, bad, evil, blood-thirsty, soul-stealing, Tomb Robber Bakura could be such a darling child.

Ryou was happy, that much was clear. Sure, he loved his yami when he was normal, but this little chibi needed him in a way that the normal Bakura would never would.

That, and he was so amazingly cute, with his wild white fluffy hair and large red-brown eyes that watched everything around him.

Ryou invited them all to lunch, and they accepted.

So while he was cooking, Joey began to play with Bakura.

He was hesitant about it at first, but soon was freely having fun.

Joey had raided Ryou's closet and found the game "Jenga". (A/N: Not mine. I did this with a little cousin during Christmas Break.)

They played by seeing how high they could stack the blocks.

Bakura stood up as tall as he could and placed another block on top, and giggled as it sway rather precariously back and forth.

Joey smiled, totally unable to believe the little yami's sudden sweetness.

Yami, though, was glaring at Bakura as if he expected him to suddenly to morph into his normal sadistic self and slaughter them all, or rob them blind.

But Joey and Bakura played nicely until lunch was ready.

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Unlike two other little horrors.

Three-year olds Marik and Malik were enjoying themselves greatly by running Isis and Rishid ragged.

Isis sighed and flopped down on the couch, admitting defeat.

She laid her head in her hands and cursed the spell that had made them de-age in the first place. How were they to fix this? Sure, it seemed shocking them made them age or de-age, but they could control on which way it went.

Shadi couldn't do it.

So what was going on?

Maybe they had to do something………all three had messed up relationships with their relatives………maybe they had to get along.

As Isis pondered this, she felt a soft weight on her leg.

She ignored it and went on with her deep thoughts.

The weight receeded, and she felt something climb up onto the couch next to her.

"Ithith?"

Sighing, Isis opened her eyes to look into those of Malik.

"Ithith, I'm tired." He said, yawning. He cuddled up against her and rested his head against her arm, easily falling asleep.

Isis felt her heart melt, and draped an arm around her little brother.

Marik, peeking around the wall, looked for his hikari, and saw him asleep with Isis.

Deciding he was tired too, he climbed up as well, and forced his way between Isis's other side and the couch.

Soon he was all curled up and happy, snoring away.

Isis blinked in surprise, then smiled.

She was happy too.

There was a flash of a camera, suddenly, and she snapped her eyes open to look at Rishid, who was grinning sheepishly.

She looked like a mess, with her hair out of place and her clothes rumpled, with two rather dirty chibi's on either side of her.

And Rishid had taken a picture.

He will so die.

But after the chibi's woke up.

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Bakura yawned, tired and weary. He climbed up onto the Lay-Z-boy chair and curled up, quite content.

Joey walked in, and, seeing the couch occupied by Yami and Ryou and Yugi, and the chair used by Bakura, shrugged and went over to the chair. He easily picked Bakura up, causing the chibi to growl slightly at being disturbed, but then he was next to a warm body and he forgave whoever it was, curling around and snuggling closer.

Joey grinned as he felt Bakura snuggle closer, and softly petted the yami's hair. He would not forget who this was, but while he was a chibi Joey actually liked him.

Ryou smiled too, glad to see his yami behaving.

He still wanted his Bakura back, though.

Yami, however, glared at the little chibi. He was going to do something, and Yami would catch him at it.

He couldn't think that Bakura could be anything other than evil.

And he'll find him out sooner or later.

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(End Chapter)

Sorry for the short chapter, but it's better than nothing!

Thanks to all reviewers! Until next time. I think I found some inspiration.