Chapter 3: The Messy Dinner and the Restless Night

A/N: Omigosh! I uploaded the wrong chapter 3! This is the REAL chapter 3! The chapter called A Trip to the Mall and a Creepy Pet Shop is supposed to be chapter 4!

Dinner Clean-up

Before and after the pizza arrived, it was total chaos. It started to rain down hard so it took the pizza delivery guy about an hour to arrive with our pizza. The kids were so impatient that some of them tackled him for the pizza. I tipped him $30 after some of his teeth fell out. Those chibis are going to pay for this later. I was going to have to devise a plan to get them. I wasn't so hungry anymore when I saw the mess they made while eating.

Most of them had smears of pizza sauce all over their clothes and face. Not to mention that they got some gooey cheese on the carpet. Now you see why I don't like kids? It's partly my fault anyway. I shouldn't have let them eat in the living room. The easiest mess I had to clean was the cheese stains on the carpet but cleaning up the kids was going to be hard. So this was how my parents felt when taking care of me.

"Okay, all of you are really messy. You're going to have to take a bath." I said sternly.

"But I don't wanna take a bath!" Jou protested.

"Me neither! I wanna play." Yugi said.

"Well, too bad. Because every one of you are going to take a bath." I said.

"Together?" Malik asked.

The girls glared at him.

"Hell no" I said calmly.

"The girls are going to take a bath first then the boys."

"YAY! I love taking baths!" Mai announced.

"Me too! Especially bubble baths!" Anzu said excitedly.

"That's great, Anzu." I said, sarcastically and pulling her to the bathroom along with the other girls.

"Can we have a bubble bath?" Isis asked, clasping both her hands in hope.

"Eheheh...sure. Kids sure get excited over stupid things." I said.

I looked behind me and saw Shizuka behind us, she was just standing there and looking a little angry.

"What's wrong, Shi-chan? Don't you want to get all nice and clean?" I asked in a sickeningly sweet tone.

"No" she muttered angrily.

"Don't tell me you're still angry at me for what happened this afternoon?"

"Hmph!" she huffed a little bit.

"What's wrong, Shi-chan?" Isis asked gently.

"I don't wanna go with Ruri-san! I don't like her anymore" she said.

"Why not? Did she do something to you?" Anzu asked, giving me an angry look.

"Well..." Shizuka now blushed but with embarrassment.

"What is it! Is it something horrible?" Mai suddenly shouted.

"Well, she kind of drop me in the big potty" she said shyly.

The three other girls didn't say a thing and had blank looks on their faces. Finally, Mai started to snicker and burst out laughing. The two others followed her example which didn't make Shizuka feel better. In fact, she was biting her lip and tears rolled down her cheeks. I felt sorry for her.

"Shut up. You're making her feel bad." I whispered to them.

They stopped immediately and noticed their little friend crying. They apologized and tried to calm her down but she kept crying. In desperation, I told her that if she stopped crying that I could buy her a doll or something. That didn't work though, but I was getting annoyed. So I carried her out to the living room so she could be with her brother.

12:00 AM

Everybody included me took their baths (shower for me). Now the kids were asleep but they protested at first since they had to sleep in the attic. I wouldn't let them sleep on my bed because I was afraid that most of them was going to have an 'accident.' Plus, there was not enough room for everybody. There was also the issue that I don't like sleep with people. (No perverted thoughts please) I didn't even like to sleep near my Mom when I was little.

I was sitting in bed and studying for my English test when somebody knocked on my bedroom door. I groaned, I didn't want to deal with any of them right now. So I turn put the English textbook on the floor and laid my head on the pillow and pretended to be asleep. I waited until the knocking subsided and it eventually did. Unfortunately, whoever knocked on my door also opened the door.

"Ruri-san..." I heard someone said in my ear, shaking my arm.

But I tried to ignore it hoping that he will go away and leave me alone. But whoever he is obviously did not take the hint. He had given up trying to wake me but for some reason I couldn't hear him leaving my room. Instead, he sighed and made shuffling noises with his feet and:

"Ruri-san, I wet my bed. Oh, please don't be mad!" Okay, that definitely got my attention.

"WHAT!" I bellowed and Yugi winced.

"I'm really sorry, Ruri-san! I couldn't help it! Please forgive me!" he said, starting to cry.

Oh, dear God. Not again. Another crybaby. I can't handle this.

"It's okay, Yugi-chan. Really, it is! Just stop crying. I won't be mad at you," I said, putting on a fake smile.

"Really?" he asked hopefully, looking at me.

"Really. Now let's just go to my brother's room to find some new clothes for you and then we'll clean up the mess you made, OK?" I said, getting up from bed.

"Okay, Ruri-san," he said, following me to my little brother's room.

3:00 AM

It was about 3:00 in the morning when I heard a loud knocking coming from the front door, so I groggily got up from bed. Due to the darkness of the living room, I stumbled out of bed and went downstairs. The volume of the knocking was increasing as soon as I neared the door. I was shocked to find a policeman outside holding the back of Bakura's shirt with one hand so that the white-haired yami was dangling in the air, Marik dangling from the other hand and Malik trying to sneak into the apartment without my noticing. But I put my hand out so that he knew that he was caught.

"Damn..." he muttered, showing a look of disappointment.

"What did they do, officer?" I asked, almost afraid to know and glaring at them.

"I found them vandalizing your neighbor's property and trying to set their dog on fire," he said, holding the struggling Bakura away from him.

"I was framed!" Malik yelled, trying to go to the attic now.

"How were you framed? I caught you holding the match!" the officer exclaimed.

"Please just shut up, Malik. You're making it worser on yourself," I said, holding him by the waist so he wouldn't try to escape.

"Malik?" the officer said, tears starting to form at the corner of his eyes.

"Uh...yeah?" I said, confused.

"I used to have a son named Malik. He was such a good boy..." he said, putting down the two destructive yami and wiping his tears.

"Uh, that's great. Well, thank you for bringing them home. But they should really be-" I said, starting to close the door but he stopped me.

"But he died! Then my wife left me!" he yelled, sobbing uncontrollably now.

"Man, how pathetic..." Marik muttered.

3:57 AM

"Okay, bye officer! I hope you feel better!" I said, closing the door.

I sighed and collapse on the couch, watching Bakura, Marik and Malik huddled together and snoring lightly on the blanket and pillow that was usually for me to nap on whenever I fall asleep watching TV. I glared at them but they were surprisingly cute when they were asleep. But I didn't think they were so cute anymore when I remembered when that policeman started to pour out his boring yet sad life story to me. That took 57 minutes!

5:00 AM

I groaned when I found Malik poking me with a chopstick (I left on the table the night before), I rubbed my sleepy eyes and looked sternly at him.

"What is it, Malik? Why are you up so early?" I asked him, seizing the chopstick.

"I don't feel so good, Ruri-san. My stomach hurts and I-" he started to say but...

"Malik, turn away! Don't puke on m-"

Too late...