Chapter 3: Will and babysitting

No way, what he was seeing couldn't be true... could it? Stealing a glance into the room again, his eyes once again grew wide in shock.

"You're it!"

"Ow! You hurt me!"

"You're a bully... but I'm a better bully!"

"Wanna bet!"

"Ow! WAA!"

Will looked at the five-year-olds in the main part of the apartment. Yugi was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed, hand over his arm with his eyes slightly tear filled. He was looking up at Yami, who had his arms folded and his back to a crying Bakura who was holding his eye.

"I'm more stronger than you!" A little Joey said stepping up to Yami and smirking. Marik just sat on the floor beside Ryou, both of them looking confused.

Yami looked at Joey for a minute then waved his little hand in Joey's face, looking away. "No com-peti-tion." He said, struggling to say 'competition'.

Joey growled and punched Yami in the arm, knocking him to the ground.

"Hey! What was da for!" Yami yelled as he sat up, looking up with slightly watery eyes.

"I am TOO a com- ... a com-.. a strongerer person!" Joey yelled, folding his arms and looking away.

"Oh ya!" Yami yelled, getting to his feet and glaring at Joey, who was slightly taller then he was.

"YA!" Joey yelled, trying to be louder then Yami.

Marik and Bakura looked at each other and grinned. At the same time, they both punched the air with their fists. "Fight! Fight! Fight!" They chanted. Ryou and Yugi looked a little worried at this. They didn't want to get stuck in the middle of this!

Will hesitated for a second, but a second was to long. Joey and Yami suddenly began fighting each other, swinging punches and kicks at each other. "Hey you two break it up!" Will called walking in the door.

All the five-year-olds seemed to freeze, all of them suddenly looked over at Will. Will was confused, but they suddenly all yelled in unison before taking off into different rooms.

Will took off after them, but they seemed to move in a different time zone. By the time he had reached the living room, they seemed to have forgotten about him and were jumping around the room, knocking things over and, in general, causing chaos. "Jess' going to go crazy when she see's this place..." Will thought. He knew he had to do something. He sighed and entered the room; which was now in such a mess you could barely see the floor.

"Marik drop that! ... Joey, Yami, stop fighting! Yugi please stop crying... Yami Marik, Bakura, stop laughing at him!" Will was nearly tripping over himself as he tried to control what was happening at different sides of the room. He was no longer tied down; they'd voted against eating him, not that they would have anyway.

Marik was running around the room with a golf club in his hand. He was laughing and swinging it everywhere, knocking things over. Yami and Joey had gotten into another fight on who was the best 'Indian' and when Yugi had been knocked off one of the chairs he was bouncing on, Bakura and Yami Marik had fallen to the floor laughing, causing Yugi to cry more.

He decided to sort out Joey and Yami first; they were ready to kill each other. He ran over and grabbed the back of each of their shirts, pulling them away from each other. They kicked and punched him, but they weren't as strong as they claimed to be. Now what?

Yugi dried his eyes and looked up in confusion. That Will guy looked really mad about something. He suddenly got hit in the back of the head and was knocked over.

"Whoops! Sorry!" Marik threw the golf club down and went over to Yugi. "You ok?"

Yugi sat up and held his head, tears brimming in his eyes. "Ya I'm ok..." He answered in a whisper, clenching his teeth to suppress the pain.

Yami Marik and Bakura looked over at Joey and Yami, who Will was now having trouble holding back. Grinning they ran over and tackled Will down, causing him to lose grip on the other two and fall flat on his face.

Yami and Joey looked at Will, then at each other. The grinned the through their hands in the air happily. "Doggie pile!" They exclaimed, jumping into the heap on top of Will. "Will da underdowg, Will da underdowg!" They all chanted.

Will groaned and looked up, but he couldn't move. Marik and Yugi walked over in front of him, Marik bending down and looking at him, and then he smiled up at the others, jumping and knocking Bakura over, causing them both to laugh.

Yugi seemed to be the only one with a little pity. He looked around and spotted something on the kitchen table. "Hey guys!" He called, catching their attention. He pointed to a bowl of sweets in the kitchen. "Candy!"

It was as if Christmas had come early. They all ran into the kitchen, completely forgetting that Will and Yugi even existed.

Will sat up and sighed. This was more then he bargained for when he'd agreed to visit his cousin.

Once Yugi saw Will was ok, he turned and ran into the kitchen after the others. "Great..." Will thought. " a battle for sugar is going to start any-"

"MINE!"

Will's thoughts were cut off as he heard Bakura yell.

"No... MINE!" Yami's voice followed.

"Mine!"

"Minemine!"

"Miney mine mine!"

Will listened with amusement, kid's conversations and arguments were funny sometimes... until...

"Ow! Why you-"

"Ow! you mean!"

"Hey, whacha hit me for!" can Joey's voice.

"It was a acci- ow! Jerk!"

"Joey why'd you hurt me!"

"He pushed me Marik, it's he's fault!"

Will looked in and saw Bakura, Marik, Joey and Yami fighting, while Anzu, Mai, Yugi and Ryou sat quietly eating their chocolate. They didn't escape though, once Yami Marik grabbed their chocolate they were in on the fight as well.

"That's it... I can't take it..." He shut he eyes and lowered his head. "Shut up!" He yelled in frustration, and was surprised to find that silence followed. Looking up, he groaned. They were all looking at him with watery eyes; he knew what was coming next...

Will had to block his ears as they all seemed to start crying in unison. "I'm sorry!" He repeated this, but they still didn't seem to hear him. "I'll do whatever you want just be quiet!" he yelled without thinking.

All the five-year-olds froze and looked at each other, then grinned, looking back at Will. "Anything huh?"

"Oh Crap..."

"Chocolate bars!"

"Sugar canes!"

"Cookies!"

"Headache pills..." Will mumbled, holding his head as the kids through piles of sweets into a shopping trolley. He'd made one of the biggest mistakes a person could make... and now they knew what he was afraid of.

Crying five-year-olds.

"Don't you have candy at home? What do you want all this for?" Will asked as he took out some money and placed it on the counter.

"There's lots at home, but we's need-ed-ed more!" Yami say, smiling. Being the self-proclaimed leader had caused him to grow a little cockier, and now he thought he owned the place.

Will groaned as he picked up the bags. The group of kids were walking in front of him, singing 'Row, row, row your boat' completely off tune.

Half way back to Jess' apartment the group encountered a parade that was going down the street. They stopped and watched for a bit. The kiddies stared in awe as the floats went by. Suddenly clowns began running around making fools out of themselves. A clown popped up unexpectedly infront of the group and scared the hell out of the kids who started to run away, Will caught them however before they could go to far.

"Hey! What's the matter with you?"

"Will?" Yami looked up at Will, who's expression softened slightly when he saw how scared Yami was. "What's the matter Yami?" Will asked, sitting down on a bench again and sitting Yami beside him. Bakura sat on his right, the opposite side to Yami.

Ryou and Marik showed up as Yami stuttered an explanation of what had happened. Will was trying to calm him down, but before he knew it Yami was crying again. What came next was a bit of a shock. Yami hugged him, crying into him. Uneasily, he hugged him back, and frowned when Yami spoke up. "I want my mommy..."

"Me too..."

Will looked over at Bakura, slightly shocked that's he'd admitted it. "Me too..." Ryou and Marik chorused. Joey was silent, but then nodded. "Me too..."

"Oh great..." Will thought, looking around at them. "Look, your parents aren't around right now." They all looked up at him, shocked. "Bad move. Bad move!" He yelled at himself mentally. "They... had to go away for a little while and... I'm supposed watch you while they're gone." He said, making it up on the spot.

All of them looked at each other then smiled. "Okey dokey!" The all yelled in unison, voice back to there normal hyper selves.

Will smiled and sighed. "That was close, too close."

The group exited the elevator and began walking towards Jess' apartment. Will was praying to Ra, God, Santa Clause and The Easter bunny that Jess had finished what she was doing and was ready to change them back. He couldn't stand them like this. Normally he would've killed or severely hurt them if they'd done what they'd done to him today in their adult forms, however in this form they were protected as Jess would utterly obliterate anyone who hurt children, annoying sugar high brats or not.