Chapter 6 Escape to Egypt:
Flashback in Atem's pov:
Yugi trained himself to the max to become almost fully dependant on diapers, he told me he isn't capable of feeling when he needs to pee anymore at all and sometimes even doesn't realises when he is pooping, he simply says he has a bad case of gas but in fact he is backing breads, but as soon as those breads are cooling down and starts to feel the irritation, he demands a change like last week.
As a wedding gift and late birthday present for both me and Yugi, Seto and Joey gifted us with the wheelchair the both of us were drooling over a few weeks back, there was only one in the store and when I went to buy it, it was gone. It's a wheelchair like a real two in one baby stroller. Perfect for all kind of weather changes and rough but also sandy and wet environments thanks to the wheels, the chair can used as car seat which also will be useful in the plane, simply one click is enough to take the wheels off. For our convenience we simply call it his stroller.
After our conversation, Yugi started to read himself into the stages from new-born till three months olds, he also studied movies around babies in the first three months for the best results and started to act like them and forgetting for a moment he enjoyed the six-month age the most. Calling me daddy and dada with different sounds and using different sounds trained me to react to what he wanted and satisfy him.
Our wedding was short but simple, with all four together say yes and sign the wedding forms, a little drink with the priest before he goes his way and we go to bed to sleep, stupidly Seto had forgotten to give the drug to forget this day to the priest and he went to a bar where he started drinking that evening, he is a drunk talker and told to the wrong person what he had done that day. A police officer knocked on Seto's door that very same night, and luckily Seto managed to send him away telling him to only return with a warrant before he was allowed to enter the mansion.
Seto pulled us out of bed and I dragged Yugi with a heavy sleep laden head to the bathroom to dye his hair completely black, with pain in my heart I saw his blond bangs and purple trim disappear And I saw in his eyes he also hated he fact he needed to change his hair colour to completely raven black. When he was waiting till the dye could be washed out, I fixed my hair in a braid that could stay putt for at least a few days.
Seto and Joey were packing all our final stuff we wanted to take along to Egypt, making sure there was never any evidence that we spend a year in the mansion. Seto drugged his crew and even Mokuba to make sure they would forget us.
He and Joey would also take a drug but it would be one in which they could tell we were only there for the wedding and then took off again. Yugi was terrified but I reassured him it would at least take over 48 hours for them to get a warrant and by then we are safe and sound in Egypt.
Before we would step inside the chopper Seto gave me brown contacts and Yugi baby blue contacts which he careful slipped in his eyes, I hated not to see his own eyes but I knew it had to be done, Seto also explained me they were good for at least 48 hours and we don't have to take them out when we are asleep.
To make it believable I had helped Yugi in a one-sie without foots but placed his foots in socks and placed his foots in soft slipper-shoes in the form of a Kuribo, I also braided his hair in the same way like mine so I didn't need to brush him in the plane and to prevent our unusual haircut would destroy our cover. When we landed on the airport Yugi was in his roll of being a-two-months-old who can only do small movements. He gurgles and babbles in an unknown baby language and in his acting like he didn't have a care in the world besides the fact he was grumpy for the rough awakening nearly six hours ago.
I remembered myself to think constantly his name was Hikari and mine was Samir now until we would be safe and sound home in Egypt.
I explained the security about Hikari's 'disability' and the fact he needed his own chair to sit comfortable with his ruined back, I also needed to show his medical records and after I explained the formula's I carried with me are special designed with his meds mixed in it because Hikari wasn't able to swallow pills and solid food anymore and needles would throw him in a serious state of panic, we finally were allowed to go aboard.
Before take-off and still in the chopper Hikari and I discussed who would take the window seat, and he told me I needed to take it, because he flies for the first time and the idea of flying scares him, and our rough wakening nearly 6 hours ago only stresses him out even more.
It was a good thing I took the window seat because also I am tense and feel myself suddenly pale up when I look out the window only seconds before we would take off. But I manage to relax when the reason why goes to a different plane, I hope Hikari didn't notice it. Our plane starts to drive and goes into the air. I look at Hikari with relieved eyes, but his eyes tell me he will want to know later why I paled up, that kid is too good in noticing things. I silently agree and get a barely notable nod and he squeals loudly in glee when the plane goes in the air. Some people who saw the security helping me getting Hikari settled and heard us talking about him, are laughing before they are cut off from the first-class travel.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking, welcome to air 70, we are currently underway to Cairo Egypt a flight that will take us over 20 hours with a short landing within 10 hours to fuel the plane again, we leave it up to you if you wanted to stay seethed that one hour or you leave, if you leave please remember to be back on within an hour because we don't give refunds. I do need to inform you we have a little baby and an adult disabled person on board in the first class, please be patient when they start to cry or scream, it's their first time flying, and it can be a scary experience for them. Thank you for flying with air 70." The pilot says and the plane goes into the air.
"WEEEEEE, Daddy, dada, daddy. Weeeeeeeee." Yugi simply squeals and cooed probably happy about the fact we are safe and making me smile about the fact he tries to make the best out of it. And fair enough I already explained Hikari they would probably announce that a disabled person was on board. He stays his baby roll.
When the pilot told during refuelling we where allowed to stay on board, we made a silent agreement we will stay on the plane to make sure we won't miss it, the stewardess comes to write down who will stay and with our meal order, I tell her we will stay since it takes to much of an effort to move Hikari, also I order one meal only for myself.
A woman with brown hair and gentle blue eyes asks if she may join us because she is alone and obviously hoped I was a good company.
I look towards Hikari because he still has a hatred and fear towards woman he doesn't trust, but with him keeping gurgling, cooing, and babbling in his baby language and pushing his thumb in him mouth and even offer it to me while silently observing her. "Such a beautiful boy and then disabled, what a shame, was he always like this?" The female named Anzu asked me while stroking his hair after we introduced ourselves. I see Hikari enjoys the feel of the strokes and a gentle but forced smile towards her shines on his face. He allows it, but she must not push his buttons, or he will throw a fit is his face telling me.
"A shame indeed, if that drunk driver didn't wreck my parents' car, they would be still alive, and he is still the healthy husband of mine." I say while offering her a seat and see Anzu's eyes widen.
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't realise you was married--"
"We still are hell can freeze and still I would refuse to divorce him." I interrupt her realising she doesn't get the hint. "Although he can't walk talk and sit without support anymore, he and I still have our special time together, I know and see my sweet and loving husband is still there."
"Daaadaaadaaaadaaaaa. Daddyyyy." To emphasis Yugi calls out to me reaching to my face and pulling my hair gently to pull him close. He presses his head against mine and sighs contently. "Daddy."
"Yes, you are my only baby and I never let you go my love." I say and give him a sweet gentle and loving kiss.
"He sure loves you; I can see the love in both of your eyes. Are you both gay or is one of you bisexual?" uh… is she hinting on a threesome now? I think and see Yugi's eyes also widen in shock.
"We both are very gay and only for each other, we known each other since he was a new-born, and when I saw him for the first time, I fell in love with him."
In a different corner of the first class the baby starts to babble but in a shouting way, Hikari decides to play along and babbles and shouts back just as loudly, it makes the mother coming to us with the little one when she realises the two want to babble together and I'm not able to walk towards her with Hikari.
The two are babbling together and I see Hikari is observing the baby closely to how he/she acts, they babble, coo and squealing against each other and having like two baby's fun like twin baby's towards each other. It makes me, Anzu and Tea as the mother is called, laugh. And I swear seeing them like that, I do have a feeling Hikari truly understands what baby is saying.
We are underway for a few hours now I chat with the ladies and the kids are having their own fun together when Hikari starts to fuss and call out for daddy, I recognise that sound, he needs to bake some breads, I look to my watch his diaper probably is full by now, and I wouldn't say no to a good bathroom use myself. I excuse the both of us towards the ladies unstraps Hikari from his chair and lift him on my back happy he still is very light, taking our backpack with supply's for Hikari and me and carry him to the special needed toilet, Tea who just changed little Honda is putting the used diaper in a bag, I offer her to hand them to me so I can throw them away, she gratefully takes use of my offer.
Before I can close the bathroom-door Anzu has followed us and asks if she may look with how I change him.
"I'm sorry, but he may have the mind of a baby, he still realises when I am not the one looking at his naked body and is going to make a fuss about it." Ra, I wished she went back to the seat, I need to go and I feel Hikari also needs to go he is squeezing his legs hard in my sides.
"DaDA!" Hikari squeals tugging gently but noticeable at my hair probably hoping I realise I needs to shut the door already and help him out.
I understand his need also gets really high. "Sorry Anzu, but I have need and wish not to be looked at by any other than Hikari." I say closing the door and locking it. Hikari slides of my back but is no longer able to hold the breads, he crouches down, and I hear it comes out. "Sorry baby-boy." I say softly, unbuckling my pants and taking a seat on the toilet and using it myself.
There we are, he crouched down and I on the toilet both doing our business not saying anything but concentrating on emptying our intestinal track and man does it feel good.
When Hikari is ready (I always needs longer time then him) he walks around in circles a bit, to give his legs a stretch and when I am ready and cleaned myself, I flush the toilet and help him out of his one-sie and lay him down on the changing table hoping the thing can hold his weight, but when I see it can hold until above 60 kilos I'm glad, Hikari needs 25 more kilo for that, I do tell him however to lay as still as possible because I don't trust the quality of this changing table that much.
"Why did you pale up shortly before taking off?" Hikari asks softly.
"Police cars came onto the airway, luckily they went to a different airplane, but still, I nearly shit my pants." I say wiping his bum clean and look for leftover stool because that easily irritates him getting a diaper rash quickly if I don't.
"Man, this is hard, I enjoy squealing with Honda, but I miss the adult conversation. And Anzu doesn't seem to get the picture." Hikari says softly being careful not to raise his voice.
"I understand talking with a baby is hard as a grown man, but you are doing amazing, we can talk here baby-boy. And about Anzu Don't worry, if she touches me in any inappropriate way, I will tell her to go back to her own seat." I see him doubting, but I say. "Hey, my love only is for you, like I said, I am very gay and only for you. You are my first and only baby-boy."
"I know, but still, I'm a fugitive Atem, we can never return, never visit your parents and my dad's graves."
"Baby-boy, it was their wish was to return home, and I for filled that wish, when we are in Egypt I will try and see if we can get your father also to Egypt. And if we want to go on vacation there are plenty of other places we can go to where you are not wanted."
"Okay." Hikari says softly and I see he is beyond exhausted.
"You look tired, I think you need a nap, how about I ask the stewardess to warm your bottle and I give you your honey milk?" I ask him sweetly while strapping the clean diaper around his rump.
"I would like that. But my sleepy milk please, I'm not hungry yet." He whispers back just as sweetly. Seto and I both designed two milk formulas with honey in it, it is actual formula milk but with a few adaptions to it, and according to Hikari it doesn't look and taste as yummy as the real deal, but for now it will do.
To make sure if he didn't leak, I always take a close look to the one-sie, if I see it's still clean and if he didn't sweat, he can still wear it, but his diaper had leaked so I take out two one-sies for him to pick. "With or without foots?" he picks the foots-onesie and with a smile I help him in it, he zips the front close while I am placing the used one-sie and socks in a plastic bag and his slippers in our backpack.
"Atem, can I sit in your lap? I miss you." he asks me when I pull him on my back, I gently nod and carry him back to our seat were Anzu is awaiting us, she squeals when she sees the one-sie I dressed Hikari in and helps me holding him while I turn to sit and take him in my lap, Tea went back to her own corner for a little bit so Honda can get his bottle and nap.
Hikari snuggles against me and sticks his thumb in his mouth. A stewardess is called over and she goes warm his bottle. When she returns, I throw in the formula milk and after good shaking it I put the nipple in his mouth holding it in place while he suckles it completely, contently, and slowly empty.
While feeding him Anzu asks indeed over the strange looking formula, but while drinking I see Hikari's eyes grow heavy and he falls asleep, knowing in about 16 hours we are save and he is a free man again. For now, I choose not to answer her yet not to disturb my Baby-boy I simply place a finger in front of my mouth, while holding him in my lap gently patting his bum, I'm also dozing a bit when dinner arrives. During that time, we also land to refuel the plane. People who have decided to eat at the airport restaurant leave the plane, but with Hikari asleep I stay, with Tea and Anzu keeping me company. The ladies asked if I was okay when they kept sitting with us and since it's only us five in first class (the kids included) I agreed.
With the help from Anzu, I manage to place Hikari in his chair and strap him up, deciding to let him sleep until I'm done eating before asking to warm a new bottle water for his dinner formula.
When I'm ready with my Dinner I gently wake Hikari, he gets another bottle with formula but this one is different because it gives Yugi a feeling of being full. Satisfied he lays in my lap me holding the bottle and he suckle the bottle empty and starts cooing and babbling again. Anzu helps Tea and her baby move over to sit with us, and Anzu a great help as she is helps me with placing Hikari back in his chair for take-off.
After take-off the ladies and I are talking with each other, baby Honda and Hikari babble in their baby language with each other. Tea asks the steward for a few blankets and to spray them out on the floor, then she lays Honda on the floor on his stomach telling it is good when a baby feels a hard underground, because always laying in the baby chair isn't good for a long period of time, I pounder for a bit but when I see Hikari is also eager for a stretch I take him out his chair and place him on his back.
Tea is right it obviously feels good to him, I see Hikari doing little stretch movements, the chair is nice to sit in for a long period of time, but this long probably is a real killer for his back right now.
Little Honda suddenly rolls to his back and without thinking Hikari follows his example, they now lay on their back babbling with each other necks craned faces towards each other. "Look they turned over." Anzu suddenly coos and I realise, Hikari made a mistake, according to the books three/four months olds start rolling over, Shit.
"Oh, Honda is fast with everything he does, and he is only two months old. And he does it for a month already, when he was a week old, he managed to lift his head already." Tea says totally not impressed.
"Yeah, I know what you mean, I see Hikari often observe when looking tv and then he suddenly does the same as one of his… uh…. Call it for a better word in his in-mind-age-mates? Although he didn't meet a real baby since his accident with my parents." I say and hope I didn't say anything stupid right now.
Tea says. "Then this was to suspect because Honda turned to his back first. How old is Hikari in mind?" Oof saved.
"According to the doctors between new-born and three months. New-born because of the small movements he makes, and three because he is very clever and obviously eager to learn, because he can't do it anymore it often frustrates him and starting a real tantrum then."
"Can he talk as well?" Tea asks.
"No, the only real word he says is dada or daddy, and that am I in his world." As if he heard me, he indeed calls dada and daddy a few times making us all laugh.
"Is there any way of recovering?"
"I know there is a specialist in Egypt who can do those kind-of-back-surgery's but still the change is slim he will recover, and he still has the mind of a baby who can't talk."
Honda and Hikari turned a few more times together when Honda start to fuss, we realise he is tired and it is nighttime, Tea changes him on the floor handing me his diaper, then she allows herself to dress is comfy clothes for the night leaving Honda with a bottle in Anzu's care who already changed herself. When Tea returned, I lift Hikari of the floor with her help and take him to the bathroom for a change.
It's hard to say we will land in 9 or 8 hours; the refuelling already had happened when it was dinnertime and after dinner and we were in the air again they laid on the floor babbling with each other. "Sorry, I didn't realise that I shouldn't have turned with Honda." he says softly apologising.
"It's okay, but try to do only rolling over, don't go crawling around tomorrow if I place you on the floor with Honda? Now I could easy cover it but crawling while you meant to have a destroyed back isn't easy to explain, okay?" I say giving him a kiss to calm him down and show him I'm not mad. He nods, I allow him to walk a bit more while I dress myself in a sweatpants and sweatshirt, thinking I probably won't redress after we wake.
I pull Hikari on my back and carry him back to our seats asking for a bottle warm water. With him contently suckling the milk with honey bottle empty his eyes grow heavy again. I doubt he feels how I place him in his chair with Tea's help who is still awake while Anzu already is asleep and how I buckle and cover him up with a blanket.
Next morning only three more hours to go, I text Yami when we will arrive and that I need his help with Hikari because I didn't sleep well. My back is stiff as a board and I almost feel like crying because I'm over exhausted and do not redress myself, for now I simply don't care how I walk around.
Hikari still is fast asleep, that worries me, but I try not to show it, I do need to change him however and even then, he doesn't wake, he doesn't have a fever, so I hope there is nothing serious going on with him. When I return to our seats, Anzu, Tea, and Honda are awake and I spent the last couple of hours chatting with them even with me feeding little Honda.
"Hey Samir, what was with that formula you gave Hikari yesterday?" Anzu asks me again now she sees Yugi isn't waking up.
"The formula in the green pots is, like baby formula designed to give a disabled person a feeling of being satisfied like with a good meal, in the blue pots are a formula also designed for disabled people basically it's ordinary cow milk in powder form, but this one is designed to add the meds in it." I explain, showing the difference between the pots.
"For what does he needs the meds and why mixing it with the formula?"
"Those are his pain meds, Hikari can't swallow pills anymore, as I told yesterday, he can't even chew his food so I needed to blend everything and he is very picky when it comes to food, they offered me to teach me inject the medicine in his bloodstream, but he is terrified of needles and will throw a serious fit."
"But doesn't it take the taste from the milk away?"
"Sssh don't tell Hikari, but I found in a store that sold crushed honey candy, it's an excellent mask to destroy the nasty taste from his pills. When I was preparing the formula for in the plane, I also mixed the honey candy with it." I say with a wink and a finger covering my mouth.
"Do they have the formula in Egypt?"
"No, I bought it only for in the plane, at home I use normal milk, this was easier that way, I always need to crush his pills and when I take it along in a bottle with real milk the milk gets sour and nasty even with the added honey and making him sick. The formula is simply for traveling, he normally eats blended food but because I don't trust the way they blend it I'd rather do it this way knowing he still gets the nutrition's he needs and when I'm in Egypt I prepare his food myself again."
"Does he always sleep this long?" Tea asks.
"Yeah, he is most active around noon, even before the accident he liked to sleep in, if I wake him now, we have a very moody Hikari." I laugh casually my worries away.
"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for flying with air 70, we all hope you had a nice flight and welcome to Egypt Cairo. Please putt your seat belts on until we are safely landed and again thank you for choosing air 70."
I wait till everybody has left the plane also because they promised to give me help with Yugi, while waiting I try waking him, Yugi has trouble of waking up, and gently I pull him on my back I also take our backpack, the security guy takes Yugi's chair and together we walk out, in Arabic I explain the man about Yugi, he said he knows me and when I took a closer look, I saw it was Arum. He tells me he works for SC now and Yami ordered him to guide us safely out the plane. His wife also works in the Sennen mansion.
When we are outside, he tells me to look for my brother and he will make sure our suitcases and the rest of Yugi's stroller come to the mansion safe and sound. With the chair on a card the backpack in the chair and Yugi on my back I walk to the exit when I see my brother.
He walks over but instead of taking the card he walks around me, I hear him softly whisper "Hello Yugi, welcome in Egypt." to Yugi and feel him stiffen up but soon he relaxes again when he realises it's Yami, "How about I carry you, Atem looks like he can't hold you much longer." Yugi nods and Yami lifts him from my back.
"Whoa Atem do you feed him? I swear Heba is a real back breaker compared to him!"
"Of-course I feed my hubby, he is an active little guy not lazy as you two are." I respond with an obvious tired voice.
"Oww still a mean biter when you're moody. I hope he is a sweet daddy for you little guy." Yami says looking towards Yugi who only nods, Yami has taken him bridal style in his arms, and carries Yugi to his car, I place his chair on the side behind the driver, I strap Yugi in. but he gets moody because he's obviously sick of the chair, don't get me wrong, he and I absolutely love it but for now? I understand he needs a different way of sitting right now but we need to keep up the act until we are in the clear, I am too tired to explain him that.
With no place next to Yugi because of the other baby-chair, I step next to Yami who drives. "So Heba is?" I ask.
"When Heba feels to piss pants, he is toddler but most of the times he is baby. And with you two?"
I reach my arm to the back and lay my hand it on Yugi's knee. "Yugi is fully in the baby, it depends on his mood if he wants to be between three or nine months his favourite age however is six months, we lived with an adult toddler for a little while and Yugi tried that also but with the spanking that toddler got, he quickly made up his mind."
"Joey was simply a very energetic toddler." Yugi responds with his most moody voice; he is defiantly not pleased at the moment. "My back is killing me can we please pull over and get me out of this thing or do I really have to stay put until we are there?" He says really frustrated now.
Yami and I both nod, Yami drives the car to the side and as soon as he stands still, we get out I help Yugi out the chair and Yami taking the chair and place it in the trunk. Now there is space I take my seat next to Yugi, holding him close. Yami starts driving again and after a while he says we are almost there. And as promised we drive up on a driveway not much longer, the gate closes and about a hundred meters further, I see home the place I only visited when I was on vacation, my heart flutters in pure joy and happiness.
"I don't know how you feel about it, but Heba likes to do gender switch sometimes, but he only is girl when he is in his toddler mood." He says looking in his mirror towards Yugi.
"I'm okay with it but if he does then please stay away from me, I'm sorry, I don't like girls in general." Yugi says softly but also sternly.
"Yugi has very bad experiences with his little sister, it went to the point he started to hate and fear girls in general and she and his mom are probably the main reason why he wants to be a baby." I explain to Yami when I see his confused face.
"That's good to know, Yugi if there is something you feel uncomfortable with, I want you to be honest with me and Heba, we are willing to adapt to your needs, but we need to know what are go's and no-go's for you." After a curt nod we get out the car. "Heba not today, boy, boy!" I hear Yami shout and dashing feet like someone is running away from us, when I look up, I turn Yugi away because Heba just came outside with a pink dress.
I wait till Yami pushed Heba back inside and then I guide Yugi gently inside. "Come on baby-boy, let's get inside, settled in our room and then you can let them out." I say softly getting more and more trouble keeping my own emotions in check.
"I know you wanted to greet them like this, but there are some issues which don't allow you to act like this when he is around, Atem told me a bit, and they will explain it as soon as they are settled and have rested, please baby-love, change your clothes?" I hear Yami say and that must have done it, Yugi's eyes fill with tears and for the first time since years starts to cry loudly, letting himself drop to the floor, all the tensions he had the past two days maybe even the past years are coming out and in a very heavy way.
I try to calm him down but with myself this exhausted, and my own emotions making a riot, I'm not strong enough, my tears also start to stream, and in a blur, I see Yami gently pulling me free from Yugi and Heba who must have made a mad-change has cradled Yugi bridal style in his arms and taken him to a room. I allow Yami to guide me away to my rooms for when I stay during my holidays, he is rubbing my back and whispering soothing words in my ear allowing me to sob freely.
He opens a door and helps me getting undressed and while I'm still crying, he holds me close until he guides me to the bed and gently pushes me in the matrass, slowly I calm down and allow exhaustion guiding me to dreamland. "Yugi." I whisper.
"When you wake up, he will be next to you, I promise, go to sleep Atem." I hear him whisper softly and then gentle hands covering me up, gently stroke my hair and face.
When I finally wake up Yugi lies as promised next to me asleep, the braid removed from his hair and changed in a new one-sie, for the first time since very long I see he is at ease. I smell he needs a change so when I want to take the blanket off to change him, Heba already walks in. "Stay down, you were out for a full day and probably need a little bit before you start to carry him around, I have made sure he was changed when you where asleep, took out those contacts by the both of you and removed the braid in his hair because it started to look like a bird nest, when I brought him here mom was taking out your braid." He whispers lifting Yugi carefully toddler style from the bed into the bath-chamber, when he returns Yugi is still asleep and I feel a bit more awake, I'm in need of strong coffee.
Heba tugs Yugi back in and takes my hand. "Come, let him sleep he obviously still needs it." he whispers softly and gently pulls me out the bedroom. He hands me an sweatpants and we walk down where I am greeted this time properly with the others, I apologize for what happened the other day but they reassure me it's okay.
Flashback 1 ends:
"Oh, honey you need to putt the surprise for Yugi in it also." Malika says.
"Atem can me again?" I ask in my baby voice and look towards Atem.
"Sure baby-boy. But this will be the last flashback guys." Atem says with a smile.
Flashback 2:
I wake up in a bed, unfamiliar to me, my head is pounding, and I vaguely remember blurs of what happened when we entered the mansion, let alone to know what day it is.
"Last time he cried like that he was three years old and upset with his mother because she brought again a male with her to his school. They needed to call mom because his own mother didn't know how to calm him."
"Atem he was overly exhausted, and from what you told me yesterday he has bottled up so many things, he needed the crying and the sleep badly, even if we were able to change him and he continued sleeping like he did. It's a sign he needed it desperately." A voice I don't know but strangely sounds familiar to me, explains to Atem.
"But he slept in the plane for hours, he was barely awake for three hours how can he still be sleeping after two days?" I hear Atem's worried voice.
"Atem if he truly has a terrible past, and he had barely a year to recover, damn with your hasty flee half a week ago it's not strange he acted the way he did. Then he comes here and learns I can't do the gender switch because he is terrified of and hates girls, not only the lives of you two is thrown in a windmill, mine is too, and I already discussed it with Yami, I will give him time, I only will play toddler when he is not around, and with him living here now as baby, maybe I can drop the toddler act and make mom happy because she doesn't have to clean my mess anymore. What is important now is that Yugi needs time to recover properly. I will call friends of mine, they helped me a great deal with my problems when they figured what was wrong with me, and I'm sure they can help Yugi also." The strange but familiar voice tries to explain.
"Thank you Heba. But please, only if Yugi wants it. The councillor he had in Japan when we were at Seto's wanted him to quit his baby act, it came till the point he stopped eating and he needed for another week a nutrition bag and being baby that's what is making him really happy." Atem says while I see the door opening. "I promised him he can drop the baby act when he is satisfied being baby but am not sure if he gets out of the diapers again, he became almost fully dependent on them."
"Malik and Ryou sure as hell aren't like that, they support to do things we are happy with. They are baby themselves and that's what makes them amazing councillors, but they are baby's because they had a much worse case them me and they can't feel when they need to go. They only once needed to force stop someone with his unorthodox way of living because he was killing himself with his stunts, that guy didn't listen and his final unsuccessful stunt had cost him his life." The voice which name is Heba says.
I push myself up in sitting motion in the bed and look around, there is a huge closet against the wall big enough to store mine and Atem's clothes and still we have space left, two of the doors are made like a mirror, the room is painted in a soft blue colour, next to the bed at both sides a small nightstand both provided with a digital clock with a red display I only don't see a night light, I look to where the voices coming from and see next to a door Atem and Heba having their arm wrapped around each other in a hug.
They see me sitting up and Atem is with me in a flash. "Hey baby-boy, how do you feel?"
"My head hurts and I think I'm hallucinating."
"What makes you think you are hallucinating?" Atem says with a laugh in his voice.
"I see a second me, only with a darker skin a blue trim and blue eyes or are those the contacts? Did they melt in my eyes? do I still have my own colour?" I start to freak out.
Both men look confuse the other man looks in the mirror and they start laughing. "You are not hallucinating baby-boy, because I see him also. That's Heba he is Yami's boyfriend. And the one who sang you to sleep a few days ago. Heba took the liberty to carefully remove those darn things out, I can assure you they didn't melt in your eyes, also your eyes are still amethyst with blue sparkles."
"Then only my head hurts, I think I need a painkiller." I say feeling myself calm down again.
"How about I bath and redress you, we go to the nursery and meet Yami and Heba properly, I am sure they have some painkillers for you if you still need them by then." Atem says and pressing his lips against my neck. I see Heba retreat and leaving me and Atem alone so we can talk for a bit.
"Otay." Is my response and Atem lifts my arms around his neck hoisting me on his left hip he tells me to putt my legs around his hips, then he carries me toddler style to the bathroom, I like this way of being carried it allows me to lay my head in his neck even better. When we enter the bathroom I see a toilet stall, so when we have visitors and they need to go have privacy when I'm getting a fresh diaper, and not far from it a huge changing table obviously designed to change adults, a curtain rail around it for privacy matters and a curtain tugged against the wall.
Then you have a giant bathtub, big enough to bath with four people at once in the middle of the room, tucked in a corner there is a huge shower cabin, the colours are a warm sandy colour and has a relaxing effect. Atem helps me out my one-sie, I don't really feel for a bath so we take a shower together, after he lays me on the table which goes up with a remote Atem holds in his hand. "That's handy." I say when I feel it go up.
"It sure is, saves my back when I need to help you or Heba who is much heavier than you, all changing tables in this mansion are adjustable in height so you can climb up yourself and the one changing you can adjust it to his preferred height. Hey do you know they made from the studio in this wing a nursery for the babies? Maybe an idea for Seto so Joey can dirt only one place in the mansion." He says and I agree, with Joey freely peeing his pants it started to stink badly there.
"Is the nursery in this wing?" I ask Atem and he nods.
"Yes, it's the smallest apartment actually too small to be called an apartment but more like a studio, it does have its own bathroom and one single bedroom, I believe they turned that room to the baby-supply room." Atem says.
"Listen baby-boy, I explained them a bit about your past but not everything, it's up to you to tell them, but you must realise, for them to know what is for you a go and no go, you need to tell them. And since I now live here Yami asked me if I want to work with him in the Sennen Corporation as his right hand, basically the same job I did with Seto only under the name Sennen now, I agreed but only if you allow Heba or when they are over here his friends to change you. And I will start my job when we both are fully settled within a month or so."
"What do they know about my baby act?"
"They know you are a baby that probably will never become a toddler or fully adult again, they realise you are 24/7 in the diapers for real and you don't feel at all when you need to pee."
"And they?"
"Heba is more in the baby then the toddler act, and because he is also a toddler, he does not wear diapers all the time, he sometimes has due to illness no feeling of his bladder and then accidently pees his pants when he was simply adult so to prevent that when they have a business party Heba carries a diaper then no matter his mood. Yami is like me a daddy" Atem explains me.
"And you?"
"Me? I'm happy being just your daddy."
"What kind of a baby/toddler is Heba? And Yami as daddy?"
"From what I have seen Heba is one like we were as kids, sweet and caring, sometimes a little roughhousing and naughty, but he and Yami are in total not Seto and Joey."
"That's good." I say realising what Heba needs to offer up only for me.
"You still don't feel well huh?" Atem says and straps the diaper close.
"Heba stops his gender switch because of me? They need to throw their life to the side for me, and of what, me hating and fearing girls!" Atem gently pulls me in a siting motion and takes me in a hug, I cuddle myself in his arms and drinking in the words he is going to tell me to calm me down.
"Baby-boy, they understand you had a terrible past, they understand what happened, and they want to give you help, someone to talk to and does not force you to leave your happy place. They know you only for a short while, but you already wrapped them around your fingers completely. What Heba did pulling you out my arms and carrying you to their apartment, when he had putt me to bed Yami found him rooking you in that chair and singing to you until you calmed down and fell asleep, Yami never has seen him doing that so gentle, caring and loveable, he almost swore he saw a strong connection there."
"Why did he take me away from you?"
"Because I was just like you overly tired, when Heba took care of you, Yami pulled me into our apartment and took care of me until I was asleep, they both believe we have had a lot on our plate, especially the moment we needed to flee away from Japan so suddenly, that took a huge strain on the both of us, and although we didn't show it in the plane it came out here full force.
They figured we needed a little time without the other to allow us to cry without showing the weakness towards each other and upsetting the other only more by doing so, when Heba and you were in the other room I also broke down. when I was calmed down Yami helped me to bed promising me when I wake up you would lay next to me, Heba told me he already had changed you and removed those darn contacts, they both tugged us in and gave us the time to sleep and recover from our hasty flee. I slept for about 24 hours you 48."
"Heba saw me?"
"You better get used to it baby-boy, I told you before Egyptians don't mind if we see each other naked Heba and Yami are no difference and from what I have heard, when Malik and Marik stay over you need to get used to the fact, they often throw the other out their apartment butt naked. There will come a day even Yami does change you. But they won't go further then only changing baby-boy, even their friends do only change each other, and if they do and you don't feel comfortable tell them no, don't they stop, seek for me and I putt them to their place."
With Atem calming me down I feel allot better, the headache is still there but sustained a bit. "Come Baby-boy, I have a special surprise for you. I show you the rest of the apartment after that." Atem says with a mischievous glint in his eyes. taking my hand and when we come downstairs, Yami stands ready with painkillers and a glass of water, I look sceptical towards the glass, Yami realises his mistake and quickly goes for a baby bottle, when I have taken the painkillers I look around but I don't feel for a tour just yet.
In the elevator I see names instead of numbers, so that will indicate where the others live, Malika and someone called Diya live on the first floor that I find strange since mama is dead, then you have Yami's and Heba's on the second floor, Atem and I live on the third floor, Bakura and Ryou stay on the fourth floor, then you have Malik and Marik on the fifth floor. And the sixth floor says nursery, Yami guides us to the door in the small hallway and opens the door.
The first thing I see is Heba sitting in an enormous playpen, a pacifier in his mouth he wears a simple, jeans and a white t-shirt with Baby's rock written on it, he plays with a Kuribo obvious to the world.
I look around in the nursery the walls are painted with lots of different kind of blues, and purples. There is a corner with toys specially made for adult baby's, one area is created for changing, four blue baskets standing on a rack and are labelled with a name and three of them are filed with clean diapers and spare-clothes, on one of the baskets stands my name only it's still empty. "We will fill that soon enough for you sweetheart." I hear a female voice say I didn't hear in a very long time... I turn to the last corner and in a rooking chair sits mama Malika Sennen a plush in her hand obviously sewing it together with the woman I learn to know as Diya and Heba's mother.
Mama stands, opens her arms ready to welcome me, I pull myself free from Atem and with a mad dash I ran into her arms hugging her for dear life, I missed her so much and I thought she was gone. Tears fill my eyes and I press myself against her. "My, my with this reaction I would almost think they told you I didn't survive that accident." She chuckles and nuzzles my hair. "I missed you sweetheart.
"I told him there was only one survivor, he never asked me who the survivor was so for the surprise I never told him. Sorry mom." Atem says closing in on us.
"But papa?"
"He didn't survive sweetheart, and sadly the flight towards here took a toll on me and didn't allow me to return, otherwise I would return with Atem and make sure you where save even before they could take you away from Atem again."
"I missed you mama. I really, really missed you." I sob in her chest.
When I calmed down and I'm properly introduced to Diya, Heba had enough, he demanded my attention with obvious "uh, uh, uh!" sounds and reaching out to me. I look and can tell he is around six months, yes! my favourite age, I drop to my knees crawl to the pen and start to call out reaching my arms demanding to be let inside.
"Daddy, DADAAAAA!"
Yami chuckles and walks over. "Demanding are we huh?" he says lifting me in the pen, Heba immediately hands me the Kuribo, and we start to play together and talk in our baby language. Heba offers me his pacifier, but I deny and suckle my thumb. I tried a few pacifiers at Seto's but simply don't like them. "He knows in what age Heba is just by looking?"
"Yami you of all people must know Yugi was very observant even when he was a new-born, in the plane there was a-two-months-old who already could roll over, that almost blew our cover until the mother of the baby told me her son is early with what he is doing. I told Yugi was as adult a very observant male already even when he was an infant, he learns by looking, if he thinks he can he tries. That was a close save because the ladies didn't seem to mind." Atem explains.
"How could he roll over in the plane?"
"First class traveling. The hallway was big enough for them to lay down, it seemed to do Yugi good to stretch his back."
"And when he needed a change?" Mama asks clearly interested.
"I paid extra for the use of the special needs toilet, when he needed a change, I took the liberty to use that toilet and he walked around for a bit to stretch his legs, if I was ready, I changed him, Tea didn't make use of that bathroom and changed Honda while Anzu, Yugi, and I could see him, I told her to hand me his diapers so I could throw them away, she was very happy with my offer."
While mama Yami and Atem having small talk about the flight Heba and I are having fun together, crawling behind each other, babbling together in our baby language, and playing with the toys in the pen, enjoying our bottles with orange jus in between with a cookie and when it's lunchtime how the elder men feeding us in the highchairs. And at some moment when we are in the playpen again Heba decides to hug me, it's the kind of hug I never got from Sun, the kind of hug I always cradled for, the kind of hug she never gave me. It makes me realise that a tear slips my eye, Heba notices it and wipes my cheek dry.
"Talk about it, it will help." He whispers in my ear, I nod, maybe he is right, maybe it will take off the strain on my head because the painkillers don't seem to work right now, I want to talk, I want to explain why I hate girls, and I don't know how, but Heba gives me some sort of a familiar feeling, and although I know them only a few hours, I trust Heba, Yami and their mom's enough to let them in my past. The both of us crawl to a point in the pen and Heba open the door, he jumps out and next he helps me out, hand in hand we walk to Atem and Yami, he crawls in Yami's lap I in Atem's.
I look to Atem, hoping my eyes tell him I want to speak, and that I need his help. He nods I take a deep breath and start talking.
Flashback 2 ends:
"And that's how it happened." I conclude the story.
"And what do you want to do now sweetheart?"
"I want to rediscover me, I want to become Yugi who Yugi wants to be with my beloved husband and family to support me, but I also want to find peace around daddy, I want to know what the cause of his death was, because since boarding school that is really bugging me. it's like I'm missing some puzzle pieces and the only way to complete that puzzle is by knowing why he died."
"Yugi if we know the name of your father, the date of birth and date of death than we have a possibility to find him, we can dig him up and arrange they do a second autopsy on his corpse, we also can see if Vivian still wants the grave rights, and if she doesn't, we will let them fly him over." Yami says.
"But Yami, the only thing we know is that his name was Solomon Muto and that he was Egyptian, the date of birth and death are still a mystery for us. Vivian only told us one day 'He passed away a few days ago' and on the gravestone there only was his name." Mama says.
"But will a photo help? When dad died, I found one picture of his father on the attic before I sold the house for mom, I kept it safe and when I found that puzzle safe for Yugi created it on the puzzle." Atem suggests.
"Hmm I think Bakura and Marik can do that if the picture is clear enough."
I raise my hand just like I did in school and feel all eyes falling on me. "Who are Bakura and Marik, and what are you talking about?" I ask my question.
"Marik and Bakura are professional hackers, they are close friends of mine and also work for SC, sometimes I hire them out to KC when Seto needs help when he realises, he can't do it himself." Yami explains. "But don't tell Seto, it will knack his ego." We all snicker to that, everybody knows Seto is a proud male and doesn't amid easily when he needs help.
"And their boyfriends are also baby's, Malik and Ryou are therapists also in contract for SC I would recommend you to talk with them Yugi, I promise if you feel comfortable in your baby, they allow you. They are amazing. I always had pressure because my father took off on the day after I was born. It made me confused till the point I didn't know if I wanted to be a boy or a girl anymore, and even seriously considered a sex change at some point. They helped me rediscover myself and now I'm only girl if I am in my toddler mood, but that's not often. And before that they helped me a great deal when I got sick and needed to wear diapers." Heba says.
"Still, I hate and fear girls, there are few women I can barely trust enough in my life bu—"
"And if I show you, I'm a nice girl, if I take it slow like... start with a simple hairband? And only when you are ready for it."
"I don't know." I sigh.
"Heba, Yugi had allot on his plate, and with what Sun did to him… I'm afraid he maybe will never lose the fear and hatred towards them, he only sees spoiled rotten to the core brats in them and runs away screaming till almost filling his pants. He gets sick when he even thinks about the female lower parts, I tell you when we are watching porn woman can't be in them. They are a serious phobia to him."
"It's okay Yugi, if I feel toddler, I play in our wing so I don't bother you or make sure you aren't around. But talk with Ryou and Malik, okay?" Heba tells me. "And why do you even watch porn? What's the idea of that?"
"I think about it." I say still unsure about the therapist thing.
"That's a good idea to think about it. And not that it really is your business Heba, but we watch porn as interest of trying new things during our intimacy. How about I hand Yami the photo, so he can ask Marik and Bakura as soon as he sees them, and then we all go catch some zzz's?" Atem says gently taking me in his arms and pulling me close. I know what he wants, and I agree. After we entered our apartment and Atem hands Yami the box with the picture The Sennen's and Heba walk out.
Atem now takes the time to show me around in our apartment and I must say it's huge, we have six bedrooms the three biggest ones with their own bathroom, one of the smaller rooms, Atem already has claimed as his study, and dubbed the other small bedroom my study since I want to study, he tells me I can furniture the room as I please. In the third small bedroom, he has stored my baby stuff, my stroller, a few boxes with diapers, and boxes with the clothes he bought me when I just moved in with him.
The kitchen looks nice, the table is big enough for six, but four chairs are placed around them, they also placed two of the same highchairs at the table, he tells me Heba made the chairs himself for each room, he is fixing two more highchairs for us. When I look confused Atem explains me that we have four adult babies at this side of the mansion when Ryou and Malik are here.
Tired but not ready for sleep yet we climb in bed and have some loving private time together.
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