Yugi checked his phone as he waited in the entry of the mansion, Set was buzzing around him then disappearing to pester Angel or Kaiba. Angel was just trailing behind his pacing father who had ignited the house a buzz again with fresh flower decorations that were being placed and food being prepared. "You know, Mom doesn't care!" Set giggled which garnered a glare from his younger brother, but Kaiba seemed to ignore him as he checked on the progress. "Yugi, how far are they away?" Kaiba asked quickly and finally acknowledged the other man, "Uh, they just arrived so-" Yugi stammered and Kaiba turned away, "Good the food isn't ready yet. I need go get the surprises bathed." He murmured to himself more than anyone. "I thought this was the surprise?" Angel asked as he grabbed his Dad's leg. Kaiba looked at him blankly, "What else is there?" Angel queered as he hugged Kaiba's leg and sat down on his foot. "Yeah! What's the other surprise?" Set started in and immediately clung to the other leg.
"Boys, we are not playing this game right now!" Kaiba growled sternly which took Yugi back but didn't phase the young boys. "Dad!" they shouted in unison, they gave each other a wicked smile and started to laugh. "What surprise!?" They began to chant as they squeezed Kaiba's legs. Kaiba tried to move but could only move the leg with Angel and drag Set as he attempted to hush them. "Hilda is napping! Don't wake-!" Kaiba snapped over the boys' laughter but stopped as Hilda had appeared at the top of the grand staircase. Her long hair frizzy, her night shirt wrinkled and with a stuffed blues white dragon doll clenched in one arm. "Princess, are you awake now?" Kaiba asked gently which was a tone Yugi had never heard from the man. The boys slowly let go of their father's legs and Kaiba glanced down at them with a frown before moving toward the stair case. Once his foot touched the first step tears appeared in Hilda's eyes and her pale cheeks grew flushed. "Princess-" Seto cooed as he took another step, but Hilda brought her doll up to her face and let out a scream before starting to cry. Kaiba darted up the stairs and grabbed her and holding her to his body as he sat on the top step and rocked her. "No, don't cry. Mama is coming home, Princess!" Seto talked to her as she buried her face in his shirt to wipe her face on it.
A knock came from the front door and Yugi turned around to let in Joey, Tristan, and Duke "What's goin' on-?" Joey began as he led the other two in, "Boys! Go to your rooms now!" Kaiba snapped and Set and Angel scurried away. "uh-" "At least having a family didn't turn him completely soft." Tristan chuckled until they spotted Kaiba a top the stairs with his young daughter leeched to him and rocking. "Now, Princess." He started softly and Hilda pulled her head away from his chest to reveal a soppy stain from tears and snot on his button up. "You want a snack?" Kaiba chuckled as the other men finally all got to witness a warm smile as he looked at his daughter. Hilda nodded and started to rub her eyes with a fist, but he grabbed her hand and pushed her face into his collar as his stood up. He went down the stairs and into the kitchen.
"I still don't know how to feel about this." Joey said with a tone of disgust, "It's kinda funny seeing that guy act like a nice guy." Duke added and Tristan and Yugi frowned at them, "It's a beautiful thing to see a father taking care of his children." Tristan scolded and yugi nodded, "I couldn't have said it better." Yugi laughed, "I've been around it for little bit now, Kaiba is a really good father. His kids are happy, and I think they changed him for the better. He hasn't seemed hateful at all anymore."
"Dad!" Angel shouted as he appeared from the hall way a top the stair case, "You got us kittens!?" "Angel! HUSH!" Set growled as he appeared behind him holding two small fuzz balls. Kaiba walked out of the kitchen looking annoyed, he crossed his arms and ran a hand through his neat hair which messed it up. "Boys, I specifically said go to YOUR ROOMS!" His voice boomed. Hilda had followed Kaiba out and had a couple cookies in her hands that she was eating but coughed when he scolded the boys. Kaiba's annoyed face changed to fear as he whipped around and checked on her, "Bring the them down here! You two are giving them baths, now!" Kaiba growled and the boys obeyed. Kaiba patted his daughter's back "You okay?" he asked softly, and she hummed and nodded, and he smirked, "Good." He replied and kissed her head before scooping her up again. "Yugi-uh…" Kaiba began but stopped as he saw the three new additions who where frozen in a state of shock. "Don't worry, we'll help the boys." Yugi chuckled and Kaiba gave a quick nod before he went up stairs with his daughter in his arms. "
"Hilda got cookies?" Angel asked as he saw the bag on the counter, "Can I have some?" he looked to Yugi, but Set answered, "No, we need to leave Dad alone now since we woke up Hilda." "He won't know!" "Angel, Set is right." Yugi backed up the older brother and Set gave him a bright smile. Joey and Tristan were distracted by the platers that sprawled the dinning table, but thankfully Duke and Yugi helped the boys with the kittens. "I never pegged Kaiba as a pet guy, but then again I never thought he'd have kids either." Duke sighed to Yugi, "I'm almost jealous of him now." Yugi admitted and Duke nodded in agreement, "Yeah, but they seem like a handful." Duke added and Yugi laughed, "They seem to keep him busy, but I've never seen him this happy with duel monsters."
The kittens were bathed, wrapped in hand towels, and Kaiba appeared again still carrying Hilda, who was now dressed, and hair was done in pigtails reminiscent to sailor moon. He sat her on the ground and had the boys sit in the bar stools while they held the wrapped kittens and combed their hair to his standard. "I think everything is finally read-" Kaiba sighed with relief. "BABIES!" a loud female voice called from the entry and everyone turned their attention to it, but the kids darted towards it.
"My babies!" Lucy laughed as she was bum rushed by Hilda and the boys trotted up with the kittens, "What's this?" she giggled as she scooped up her daughter. "Dad, got us kittens!" The boys cheered as they unwrapped the fuzzy kittens who mewed and squirmed. "Yeah?" Lucy giggled and looked at Seto as he smirked, "I didn't get you two anything. Those two are for your mother." He chuckled, "But, we already named them!" "Yeah, this one is Rocket and this one is Dragon!" The boys argued which caused both Lucy and Seto to laugh. "Where's Uncle Momo?" Angel asked as Set continued to argue with both of their parents. That was Mokuba's queue to enter with Tea and Anjuli while holding a small dog and two puppies. "Lucy!" Kaiba sighed loudly.
"Whoa, we just went from fish to five actual pets." Mokuba laughed as he spotted the kittens, "Puppies!" The boys howled with excitement as Tea and Anjuli sat them down. Lucy put Hilda down and walked to the living room to take a sofa cushion and bring it to the entry so Mokuba could lay down the small dog, who was much older with grey. Lucy and Mokuba squatted down next to it and petted it as its tail wagged with excitement. "This is Mama, those two are her puppies. I couldn't help it and we stopped at the shelter and-" Lucy began to explain but Kaiba walked closer to her "Lucy, I don't know why I put up with you!" He growled, but she stood up and gave a little hop and he caught her pulled her up to his face height. "Because, you're a stiff without me." Lucy teased before they kissed each other, Seto squeezed her closer. "Mom, the puppy is peeing." Angel called out as the puppy hiked it's leg on a floral arrangement.
Seto let go of Lucy and they switched into action, Lucy grabbed the other pup who was eating some flowers and Seto grabbed the one relieving itself and they both darted outside with the boys and kittens following. Mokuba grabbed the cushion with Mama and went outside as well with Hilda grabbing at his pant leg. Yugi and gang simply followed, but by the few seconds they were behind they were greeted with the boys rolling around in the grass with the two puppies and one kitten. Mokuba and Anjuli was sitting and holding hands while petting Mama who yapped with excitement. Hilda was seated near Lucy and Seto with a kitten in her lap as Lucy was in Seto's lap while teasing him and giggling. "I feel like we aren't in our world anymore." Tristan stated as Tea and Yugi took a seat on the porch steps. "I feel kinda sick." Joey sighed as he went back into the mansion and Duke raised a brow before following Joey.
"What's with you?" Duke asked Joey, "Man, It's just-" Joey growled before sighing, "Why does Moneybags get the happy ending?" they glanced around the overly decorated entry that Lucy didn't acknowledge before heading into the kitchen to sit at the table. "He use to just be a sour puss with money and that was bad enough, but now he's in love with children-" Joey grumbled, "Do you think finding Mai would magically make it better?" Duke asked directly which caught Joey off guard. "Tristan is gonna ask Serenity to marry him." Joey said quickly and Duke stiffened, "That has nothing to do with what I just asked you. It's been years Joey and you haven't moved on." Duke snapped before correcting himself and turned to leave.
"She's driving me crazy!" Kaiba snapped as he paced his office with Mokuba sitting on the couch flipping through channels, "Why don't you talk to her about it." Mokuba said simply and Kaiba threw his phone on the ground, "I can't-" "Why?" Mokuba looked at Seto who crossed his arms. "After everything we've been through you're afraid to ask her out." "It's not that, Mokuba. Every time I get everything right she changes it before I can ask her." Seto growled before digging his fingers into his hair, "That sounds like an excuse, Seto, you've done everything without every detail having 'to be right' I don't know what makes this different." Mokuba argued back. Seto pulled his hands out of his hair and picked up his phone before sitting on the couch next to his brother, "You're right. Thank you." "Wow, you are crazy." Mokuba teased as Seto called Lucy.
The two met in the café that was in the Kaiba Corp. building in Domino City "I thought you had meetings all day." Lucy said as she walked up to the table Seto was sitting at. He got up to pull out her chair, "I'm having a hard time concentrating today." He said quickly, but then she placed her warm hands on his and looked him in the eye without sitting down. "What's wrong? Do you need a break?" Lucy asked with concern and Seto swallowed. "I – uh – " Seto stammered for a second and he squeezed his eyes shut.
"What are we?" He asked and immediately regretted it because now his mind was cycling out of control because he had finally lost all the control he used as a safety net with everything else. "Aren't we together." Lucy answered and interrupting his internal off the rail train wreck. He opened his eyes and looked at her, she wasn't smiling so he still felt lost. "Are we not anymore?" Lucy continued, but in a shaky tone that he has only heard a few times before. "No." Seto whispered and she lefted her hands from his, "These last couple months were a dream. Thank you." Lucy whimpered before beginning to back away and then something in Seto's numbed brain clicked. "They've been the best six months, but I don't have a ring-" "what?" Lucy snapped now in a instant rage that wasn't unknown about her character. Seto treasured her fiery temper because it kept her completive, but with one arm she shoved him and the chair fell backwards and he went to one knee. "Lucy Starwind, marry me!" Seto said quickly as he investigated her glare, but she grabbed his face with both hands and vigorously shook it. "You are not funny! You're an ass, Seto Kaiba." Lucy giggled, but once she ceased the shaking he smirked, "I'm going take this as a yes." He retorted. "No." Lucy frowned, but he already knew the rouse she was mocking, "But, hell yes!"
"It peed on me." Seto laughed as Lucy inspected his disheveled appearance, "Good. It's a boy by the way." Lucy teased as she returned to watching their children play. "What are we really going to name them?" She asked as she leaned into his chest, "I like Rocket and Dragon." Seto smirked which caused her to giggle, "Fine. Boys! Come here!" Lucy called and they brought over the animals.
"You know, Rocket is a girl right?" Lucy began after inspecting the small grey kitten. "Why don't we name her Starship or Star?" Lucy offered after pointing out the grey kitten's white diamond marking on her nose and the boys agreed. Lucy inspected the grey tabby kitten, "This one can be Rocket, because he is Star's brother." "What about Dragon!" Angel argued and Lucy gave him a look that mothers are famous for. "The puppies are both boys, we can name one Dragon." She answered, and Angel scooped up the white puppy, it appeared to be a mutt that was predominately Shiba Inu. "Alright, his name is Dragon. What about his brother?" Lucy asked the boys and they thought for a moment as they played with the orange puppy. "Ryu!" Set laughed after a moment of thought, "Alright, all the animals are named now." Lucy laughed as Seto chuckled at his oldest for naming both dogs dragon.