Chapter 1

"Children, breakfast" the woman called in a merry voice, her hands were holding a huge basket of laundry. As the woman's call echoed through the house, a huge stampede of children could be heard running down the stairs, eager to be one of the first to get fed. This untamed kind of noise, only brought a smile upon the woman's face. "Oh, Joey" the woman called over to one of the children settling in their seats at the table. He turned around, "Yes Sister Rosette?"

"Can you come and help me with this laundry for a second?" Sister Rosette asked innocently. Joey looked back at the table in hunger. He knew he would lose his seat and end up getting fed food last, which meant the food would be cold by then. "Well?" Sister Rosette asked, now with a bit of a temper. She gave a deadly glare. Joey quickly got up and ran to her, "Yes Sister, of course Sister" he said, quickly standing beside her. Everyone knew that you didn't want to make Sister Rosette angry. She wasn't one of those kindly old kinds of nuns, no way, she was a vicious animal, ready to pounce if you didn't head her every word.

"Thank you Joseph, now would you kindly help me carry this to the laundry room? I'm afraid I might just be getting to old for this these days" Sister Rosette said, and with the word, Joey noticed a saddened look on her face. But it quickly disappeared. "Well? Hurry it up already. I don't have all day," Sister Rosette said, as he jumped and quickly picked up the laundry basket and brought it to the laundry room as fast as he could. Sister Rosette gave a smirk.

"Morning…" came a quiet voice from the stairway. Sister Rosette turned around and saw that it was none other than Yugi, the smallest child in the whole house. She smiled at him, "Good morning Sunshine" she said happily, clapping her hands together, "And how did you sleep?"

"Ok…" Yugi mumbled, stepping onto the last step of the stairs. "Why the long face, my child?" Sister Rosette asked. "Seto locked me in the closet" Yugi replied, his mumbled now even more of a whisper. "SETO!" She screamed. All the children winced in fear, and soon all eyes were on Seto. "Yes Sister Rosette?" he asked politely.

"What have I told you about teasing Yugi?"

"Um… not to tease him?"

"Don't be a smarty pants with me, young man. Now you apologize to Yugi, and go think about what you did!" she yelled, pointing up the stairs. "Fine…" Seto grumbled, getting up from the table and stomping over to Yugi. Sister Rosette stood over him, her hands on her hips. "Well?"

Seto glared at Yugi in despite and, without even thinking, gave him a good punch to the face. The whole table of children had been watching, and gasp at Seto's action, giggling inside knowing he would really get it now. "That is IT young man!" Sister Rosette yelled, pulling him by the ear, "You are going to stay in the office with Alfred till you can show me you can be kind and polite to everyone else. I don't want another word from you!" Sister Rosette said, bringing him into the adopting office where Alfred looked up from his computer.

"Seto? Again? What did he do this time?"

"Punched little Yugi right across the face when I had told him to apologize for locking him in the closet!" Alfred shook his head and looked down at Seto, "Oh no… not again. Did you Seto?" Now Seto looked down in shame. "Yes…" he whispered. Sister Rosette pushed him down into a chair. "Now you are going to stay here until you can apologize to Yugi politely" she said, now turning to Alfred, "Alfred, now you know not to play with him or entertain him. This is Seto's punishment for acting rude, and you cannot support that. Got it?" Alfred simply nodded and went back to typing on the computer.

"Good" she said, and with that, she had left the room. "Man" Seto said, slamming his fist against the wall, "Why does she hate me so much?" Seto asked, looking up at Alfred. "She doesn't hate you" he said plainly, "If you didn't do those things as much, I'm sure she wouldn't be on your back."

"I can't help it, it's funny" Seto said, giving a chuckle. "It's not funny to torture someone who's smaller than you."

"Yes it is. The other kids think so."

"It doesn't matter what the other kids think because you're the one committing the crime. Would it be funny if you robbed a bank? Or killed someone? I don't think so." Seto thought about this, then shrugged in defeat. He crossed his arms, "Well, so what? I'm not hurting anyone, so what's so bad about it?"

"Your hurting Yugi."

"Well… no one cares about him."

"I do, Rosette does. So do Joey, Tea, Tristan, and all of his other friends." Seto turned his head in unhappiness. "Hmph." Alfred shook his head once more and looked back at the computer. Then after a few minutes or so, he looked back up.

Seto was looking down at the ground in sadness. His eyes were watery, and he looked as though he was about to cry. "Hey Seto…" Seto quickly looked up, wiping his eyes hoping he didn't know that he was about to cry.

"Wanna play a game?" Alfred asked, giving a smirk. A smile emerged on Seto's face as he jumped up. "Would I ever!"

"Ssssshhhhh! Your supposed to be punished, remember?" Alfred whispered. "Oh, right" Seto said, putting his hand over his mouth and sitting back down. Alfred got up and walked over to the board game closet. "What do you wanna play?" Alfred whispered as he opened the door. The whole closet was filled with all kinds of different board games, from head to toe. It was practically a kid's ultimate dream.

Seto pointed to the one that he wanted to play, not wanting to make a sound. "Chess? Again? Don't you want to play something else?" Seto shook his head. "Oh, alright…" Alfred gave up, taking it out carefully, making sure not to have anything fall out, then brought it to the ground in between him and Seto. "Now don't play any tricks on me, got it?"

"But cheating is the best way to win."

"Winning a game is when you put your heart and sole into something and doing it to the best of your abilities and coming out on top."

"But what about if you lose?"

"Well, losing might not be as good as winning, but every time you lose, you learn something. We all have our wins and our losses. This'll happen to you someday in your life when you're older." Seto rolled his eyes. "Let's just get on with the game already before Sister Rosette finds out."

-Outside of the orphanage-

"Alright kids, it's outside time. Everyone's gotta leave the house to go play" Sister Rosette called. Once again there was another echo of a stampede as tons of children ran down the stairs and out the door. "Hey Joey! Tristan! Wait up!" Tea called, as she ran down the stairs after them with Yugi behind, trying desperately to catch up. "Well hurry up! You guys are slow pokes!" Joey yelled, running out of the door without waiting. Tristan, however, stayed right where he was till Tea and Yugi had caught up. "Thanks Tristan" Tea said, running over to him.

Yugi was panting, "Yeah… thanks".

"No problem" Tristan said, walking out along side Tea and Yugi. Sister Rosette closed the screen door from which the children had ran through, then walked towards the office. "Alfred, its time for you to watch the kids."

"Alright then…" Alfred opened the door, Seto sat where he had when Rosette had left, except he was now asleep, or at least pretending to be. "Is the little guy free to go?" Alfred asked. Sister Rosette eyed her brother, then looked over at Seto. She shrugged. "Fine… but you better make sure he doesn't make any trouble or else he's stuck inside helping me clean."

Hey everybody! HiKari here with a brand new story! Ok, so this is probably my first AU, so please don't flame me too bad if you think it's horrible. The whole story idea came to me in a dream, so I'm sorry if it's really weird or whatever. Well, most AU are suppose to be, well, different. Anywayz…

Seto, won't you ever learn that cheaters never win? Well, except when you try to commit suicide during a duel… but anywayz. Hey, where's Mokuba in all this?

Yugi: And why do I always have to be the smallest one!

Kari: Because you are the smallest one anywayz, even in your own show.

Mokuba: Yeah, really dude. I'm taller than you, and I'm 11.

Yugi: Hey, hey, hey, you have no right to be jumping on me. Your brother friken HUGE!

Seto: He's got a point… for once. I mean, look at his grand father for goodness sake.

Yugi: Hey! Are you suppose to be punished for punching me!

Seto: Want me to punch you again and see what happens?

Yugi: GOODBYE! (runs away)

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