Disclaimer: I don't own it but if I did Yami's ass would be mine phwoarrrr!
Chapter 6
Everyone slept much easier that night Ruia and Morii included. The four adults were the first down to breakfast in the morning and were eating and chatting when Ruia joined them.
"Morning." She muttered her hair all over the place and looking rough. Seto sniffed the air as she walked past.
"Have you been smoking?" he asked her. He did not like the habit particularly as it was bad for health but if his daughter had started because of Ushio he would have to be understanding and help her. Ruia looked sheepish, she had had one out of the bedroom window and didn't think they would smell it.
"Uh yeah I have, sorry dad he gave me some." She said. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay, we'll work it out. If you have only been smoking for three days you should be able to give it up easily."
"Yeah I won't smoke anymore dad." She promised helping herself to toast and butter.
Morii made an appearance then.
"Is it okay if I get something to eat?"
"Sure it is." Seto said. "We want you to think of this house as your home for now."
"You really mean that?" Morii asked her face lighting up in joy.
"Yes." Joey said smiling at her.
"Wow thanks." She said. She couldn't believe her luck. Her uncle had told her awful stories about them but she didn't believe anything he said anymore.
"The doctor wants to come back and see you today Morii." Joey said.
"Oh? Did he say why?"
"No he just said he needed to speak to you when you were feeling more alive."
"Okay no problem, I'm not planning on going anywhere anyway."
"He'll be here this morning I think." Seto said. "Are you okay for clothes?"
"It's okay dad I think we're the same size I can lend her some of mine." Ruia spoke up also wanting to help. She didn't blame Morii at all for what happened. It was all Ushio.
"Morii did you know that Ushio was arrested along with Bakura?"
Morii's face paled.
"Bakura was arrested too?" she said. Ruia frowned; she looked shaken by that news. Surely she should be happy about it? Didn't it mean she would be safe now?
"Excuse me please." Morii said and almost ran out of the room. Yugi thought he saw tears in her eyes.
"I'll go and find out what's wrong." He said getting up and leaving them all wondering what was wrong.
He walked to Morii's room and knocked. He could hear her crying on the other side.
"Morii?" he said but there was no answer. He tried the doorknob and the door opened. He stepped through and closed it behind him.
She was lying on the bed sobbing as if her heart would break. Yugi walked over and sat next to her. He brushed the stray strands of long blonde hair out of her eyes.
"Morii, what's the matter?"
She said nothing instead she sat up and wrapped her arms round his neck. He hugged her back and stroked her head while she cried.
"Why? She said finally, he wasn't bad, he was always good to me in spite of what he made me do sometimes."
"What did he make you do?" Yugi asked softly.
"Just stuff to please him you know?"
Yugi swallowed feeling sick and wondered just how long this had been happening to her.
"You poor child." He soothed wondering if the police had found out who her father was yet.
"Morii, you need to tell us who your father is at some point. I think Seto and Joey want you to stay here but they can't do that without your father's permission."
"Yugi, Bakura is my father."
The others were all downstairs waiting for Yugi to come back when Seto's cell phone rang.
"Hello? Speaking, I see well thank you for informing us, does she have any other living relatives? Right well she can remain here with us for as long as is necessary, thank you, goodbye."
"Who was it?" Joey asked curious though he guessed from the way that Seto was talking that it was about Morii.
"The police, they found Ushio and Bakura dead in their cells this morning."
"How?" Yami asked.
"They didn't say, just wanted to let us know the latest and to ask us if it was okay for Morii to stay here for the time being."
Yugi chose that moment to return. He looked at everyone's shocked faces.
"What happened?" Seto told him and Yugi gasped.
"Morii is going to be devastated." He said.
"Why would anyone be devastated over Ushio?" Ruia said glad that he was dead and couldn't hurt her or her family any more.
"Not him, Bakura!" Yugi said thinking that although he had done some pretty horrible things to her, she had still loved her father after all he was all she had in the world. Until now anyway.
"Why Bakura? I thought he was just the lodger." Yami said surprised.
"Not just the lodger, he was her father."
"Oh Kami, no wonder she was upset about the arrest." Ruia said thinking that if she were in the same situation, she would feel the same. "Shall I tell her?"
"Maybe you should." Yugi said. "She's going to need a friend to rely on now."
Ruia nodded and left the room to break the news to Morii.
"What should we do about her?" Joey asked.
"Well would you agree to apply to be her legal guardians?" Seto asked his partner. Joey looked thoughtful for a moment and then nodded.
"Sure, she can be a sister for Ruia." He said smiling.
"I'll get onto that then." Seto said glad that Joey didn't seem to hold a grudge against the kid. Their past experiences had taught both of them that holding grudges was bad anyway.
Ruia knocked on Morii's door and entered. Morii was sitting in front of the mirror brushing her hair. Her eyes were red and puffy and Ruia's heart went out to her.
"Hey Morii," she began not really knowing where to start.
"Hey." The other said still brushing her hair.
"Come and sit here." Ruia said patting a space beside her on the chaise longue that was in the room where she had decided to sit down. "I have something important to tell you."
Morii left her hair and went to sit next to Ruia.
"What is it?"
"Dad had a call from the police a few minutes ago. Yugi told us that Bakura is your father yes?" Morii nodded. "Well I'm sorry to say this but him and Ushio were…well…they…" She stopped unable to say the words.
"They're dead aren't they?" Morii said and began to cry again when Ruia nodded.
"T…They always s…said they would c…commit suicide i…if they were banged up in t…the nick again." She wept.
"They did? Is that why you were so upset when you heard they were arrested?"
"Yes but I wasn't upset about Ushio, I hope he burns in hell but I loved my dad in spite of what he did."
"What did he do?" Ruia wanted to know.
"He used to make me do things on camera as well as stuff to him to please him. I really didn't know it was bad, he was all I knew after mum died when I was two."
"Oh Kami Morii, how long did it go on for?"
"I can't remember when it started, he would touch me and tell me he was showing me his love and I had to show him back. I loved him Ruia and now he's gone." She said as tears ran down her pretty face.
"Morii, he shouldn't have done those things to you, it was evil."
"But he loved me."
Ruia said no more but in her own mind she couldn't understand how a person could do that to his own daughter. It was sick.
They were disturbed by a knock on the door.
"C…Come in." Ruia said and the door opened to reveal Seto with the doctor behind him.
"Is it okay if the doctor talks to you Morii?" he asked.
"Okay."
Ruia gave her another hug before leaving the room with her dad.
"She's going to need someone to talk to, she thinks all of that stuff her dad did to her was okay, that he was just showing his love to her. I mean for kami's sake! He had her doing stuff on a camera!"
Seto was sickened by the thought of a father making his own daughter do that but he would do all he could to help her through it.
"He was sick in the head." Seto said. "Listen how would you like Morii to be your sister? Joey and I are going to apply to be her legal guardians."
"Oh that's great dad." Ruia beamed. "I'm sure she will be pleased to stay here among people she knows."
"That's what we thought." Seto said as they got back to the kitchen.
The doctor sat next to Morii on the bed.
"There is something I need to inform you of." He said gravely. All sorts of things ran through Morii's mind but the actual new was not something she expected.
"You're pregnant."
It took a full minute for the words to sink in and when they did she reeled in shock.
"Pregnant? How long?"
"Six weeks. Do you know the father?"
"Yes." She said knowing immediately who it was. "Do I have to tell you who it is?"
"No you don't but considering your young age you should consider a termination."
"Thank you doctor, I…I'll think about it. I'd like to be alone now was there anything else?"
"No that was everything, do you want me to inform Mr Kaiba?"
"No I'll tell them."
"Okay." The doctor said and got up to leave.
Morii sat and thought for a long time. Pregnant. The word went round and round in her head. She was going to have a baby and her father was its father. What was she going to do? She had always dreamed for being a mother and her dream was coming true. She made her decision. She would keep it and never mention whom the father was.
She made her way downstairs to where Seto and the others were waiting for her.
"Is everything okay?" Ruia asked when she entered the room.
"Well it is and it isn't." Morii said and sat down on a chair. Everyone waited expectantly but like Morii, they never expected to hear what she said.
"I'm going to have a baby."
Everyone sat in shocked silence.
"I want to keep it." She continued, "I always wanted to be a mother, ever since I can remember."
Ruia went and gave her a hug.
"We can raise your baby together." She said thinking it would be great to have a little one in the house.
"What do you mean?" Morii asked. She had thought that she wouldn't be staying here on a permanent basis.
"Dad wants to apply for legal guardianship which means you will be my sister." Ruia said happily.
"Really? Mr Kaiba I don't know what to say. After everything I did you want me to stay here?"
"Yes, there shouldn't be a problem though we will have to go through all the legalities like we did when we adopted Ruia. Legal guardianship is slightly different though and should be done with fairly quickly. Do you know who your baby's father is?"
Morii had been dreading that question.
"Yes I know but don't worry he won't be coming round here causing trouble."
"Can you be sure of that?"
"Positive." She assured him.
"Okay I'll take your word for it." Seto said and let the matter drop. All four adults suspected that Bakura was the father but chose to keep it to themselves. A baby from such a close relative could be seriously deformed but they would cross that bridge when they came to it.
Time passed, the funerals of Ushio and Bakura had taken place and they had been cremated and buried. Morii had chosen not to go. Her sessions with the counselor had taught her that what her father had done was very wrong and she hated him now. She saw him for the sick minded man that he truly was and wanted to forget him. Besides she had new life growing inside of her and living at the mansion with Seto and Joey was making her very happy. Yami and Yugi had returned to Egypt having been there much longer than they had originally intended but they all kept in close touch. Seirei often came round having recovered from her sickness. Morii never admitted that it was she who had made her sick thinking it best not to mention it and Seirei seemed none the worse for her illness.
Then Ruia started being sick every day.
"I don't know what's up with me dad." She complained one morning when she had been sick five times in a row. "I can't seem to keep anything down."
"I'll get the doctor to look at you." Seto said worriedly whipping out his cell phone and making the call.
While Seto, Joey and Morii waited in the sitting room, the doctor was examining Ruia.
"You missed your period?"
"Yes I was supposed to come on last week." Ruia said remembering that final client in the brothel and getting an awful sinking feeling.
The doctor took a pregnancy test from his bag.
"You know how to do this?"
"Yes." Ruia said feeling very nervous indeed. What if it was positive? She took the test wand from the doctor and went into her adjacent bathroom.
She returned two minutes later and handed it to the doctor.
Three agonizing minutes went by while the doctor watched the window in the wand.
"These tests are ninety nine percent accurate." He said. "It's positive."
"Oh Kami." Ruia whispered. Now what? They had accepted Morii's pregnancy but she was their own daughter would they accept this?
"I will say the same to you as I said to Morii, due to your age you should consider a termination."
"No, I already know I want to keep it." Ruia said feeling a growing sense of love for the unborn baby.
"Well if you change your mind call me and it can be arranged." The doctor said. "Otherwise I will see you for your twelve week scan."
"Thank you doctor." Ruia said shaking his hand. He left and Ruia swallowing a nervous lump in her throat, went to tell her parents the news. There would not be one but two pairs of tiny feet running round.
TBC…
By the way I have no idea if doctors use those home pregnancy kits but it suited this story to say that this one did. They are almost 100 accurate anyway so why not?
I think the next chappie will be the epilogue where everything is wrapped up and I will try and post it later on today
