Summary:
This story is about single mothers and their babies with the father coming back one day to claim back their child. The story goes that the Ryou finds out he is pregnant with Akefia's child. During the mist of his discovery he finds out that Jonouchi, Yugi, and Marik are pregnant as well. They decide that they will raise their children together and never let the fathers in. But a few years later Akefia, Mariku, Atem, and Seth want to be a part of their children's lives. Will the Hikari's let the fathers come back to their lives or will they completely reject them?

A/N:
Hello! There has been some changes to the story. If you originally read this back from 2015-2020 from the Prolouge to Chapter 4, you would remember that the four "mothers" were female. This has been changed as well as a few grammar/spellings. In chapter 5's author notes I go a little more on why they were changed but if you're new to reading this then welcome! Hope you enjoy!

"Speaking."
'Thinking'
Memories/Flashback

Prologue:

Month: December 1987

"What?! No that's impossible!" Ryou Heart said. Ryou is a white-haired teenage boy with pale white skin and big emerald eyes. He is currently at the hospital sitting down on the bed.
"Would you like me to show you Heart-san?" The doctor asked.
"N-no I believe you b-but...how long have I been..." He couldn't say the words.
"Around three to four weeks." The doctor said. "Heart-san are you planning to keep the baby or will yo-"
"No! I'm keeping my child! I wouldn't be able to do that." He whispered out the last part as he hugged his stomach.
"I see. Then I would like to make some appointments with you to discuss this and check up for you and the baby." The doctor said.
After settling their next appointment Ryou walked out of the hospital and walked to his home.
"W-why did I have to do it? Why did I let him do it?! How am I going to tell him?!" He mutters to himself as he wasn't paying attention to where he was going and ended up walking to Marik's house. Marik is a tall tan teenage boy with sandy blond hair and lavender eyes. 'If anyone could help me it's Marik. She can help me out.' Ryou knocked at Marik's door only to find it to be open. He got a bit worried as Marik never left the door open. He walked into the dark home slowly and closes the door behind him.
"H-hello? Marik? Are you here?" Ryou said out loud as he walks to the light switch to turn it on. When he did he almost screamed. The whole living room was trashed and so was the kitchen. In panic Ryou almost missed the sobs coming from the bathroom.
"Marik!" Ryou quickly walked to the bathroom to see Marik crying next to the toilet.
"Marik what's wrong?" Ryou asked as he goes on his knees and hugged Marik.
"R-Ry I'm so disgusted with myself." The tan boy cried in the pale skin boy's arms.
"Why?" He hugged Marik, noticing that there's a bit of vomit on the toilet.
"I've been pregnant for two months and I haven't told anyone until I told Mariku today." He said through his tears. "And he laughed saying that that was I get for being a whore and a slut. He laughed and said it was my problem not his. He didn't care if I kept my baby or not." He sobbed. "It's obvious that we are over but I just don't know what to do. I can't abort my baby but I don't know how to raise a child. How could I be so stupid?" He cried harder in Ryou's arms.
"I'm so sorry Marik." He hugged his friend with a few tears coming from his eyes. "You didn't deserve that."
"I just can't believe he would leave me. I actually thought he loved me. I thought he would care!"
"You don't need him. If he can't be responsible then he isn't worth your tears. He just missed the girl who would have made him happy." He took his friends face in his palms and cleaned his tears. "You shouldn't be disgusted of yourself. You aren't the monster here. Your the good one. Your actually keeping your baby and taking responsibility."
"Ry...thank you." He hugged his friend as Ryou pets his hair. "Ha looks like I over reacted didn't I." He said with a small smile as he saw some stuff thrown in the hall way.
"If I were you, I'd probably do the same." He smiles softly at him.
"Yeah oh why did you stop by today? Usually you call before you come over." He said with small sniffled as they got up. Marik flushed the toilet and they walked to the living room.
"Oh umm well..." Ryou couldn't say it. He couldn't worry Marik more than he already is but he needed someone too.
"Ry? What's wrong?" Marik asked looking into his eyes trying to figure it out.
"I-it's nothing." He held his stomach unconsciously, "I-I umm well uh..." he was never good at lying so he had no clue on what to say.
"Ryou...are you pregnant too?" He asked as he had a feeling that that was the case since he would also wrap his arms around his stomach in a protective way or when he had a stomach ache so he didn't know which Ryou was doing.
Tears fall from Ryou's eyes as his hair covers them. "Yes." He whispered.
"Oh Ryou," he hugged his friend, "how long?"
"Around three to four weeks."
"Are you telling Akefia? Wait that bastard shouldn't get to know!" He yelled a bit.
"Maybe your right. I don't even know how he will react if I just show up and tell him. He made it clear he didn't want to see me." He sighs.
"Hey we are gonna get through this together okay." Marik held Ryou's hand and smiled.
"It's going to be hard you know." He smiled.
"But we'll make it through. If you don't mind though Ryou. I want to tell Ishizu and Rishid about our pregnancy's. They might be a bit mad at first but I know they'll help." Marik said with a reassuring smile.
"I-I wouldn't want to burden them. About me that is."
"Nonsense your family Ry." He hugged him. "Family sticks together."
"Family sticks together." He hugged back.
After they called Ishizu and Rishid, who were mad at first and gave them both a lot of lectures, who supported them and said that they would catch the next flight to Domino since they were in Egypt, they started to clean up Marik's place.
"Hey Ry have you talked to Jonouchi or Yugi lately?" Marik asked.
"No well I've talked to Yugi on the phone a few times and has told me he was fine and so was Jonouchi but I haven't seen them."
"It's weird you know. They both suddenly stop going to school."
"Jonouchi stopped first though remember. He left like three or four months ago I think. Then Yugi left after." He sighed.
"You know what I say we go ask them. I mean we're their friends too so they should tell us what's going on."
"I know but we don't know if their home."
"Well where have you been calling Yugi."
"Well I call the shop sometimes and he's usually there sometime Jonouchi is too."
"Then let's go to the Kame!" Marik said with enthusiasm as he held Ryou's hand and practically ran out of the house.

At the Kame Game Shop, Yugi, a tri-colored star shaped hair teenage boy with amethyst eyes, sat on the couch rubbing his slightly big tummy.
"Jonouchi the show is about to start!" Yugi screamed a bit with a smile.
"I'm coming!" Jonouchi yelled back as he wobbled in with a whole mess of snacks. Jonouchi is a blond haired teenage boy with honey brown eyes.
Yugi had a sweat drop in his forehead as he watched his friend sit next to him with the snacks.
"Didn't you go a bit over board?" He asked cutely.
"Nope. It all looked too good to not eat." He smiled as he opens one of the snacks and snacks on it.
Yugi smiled as he grabbed some chips. Yes he knew they were unhealthy but they smelled good. They watched tv as they ate the snacks.
"Hey Jonouchi."
"Yeah? What's up Yug'?"
"When are we going to tell Ryou and Marik? Ryou's been asking a lot and Marik has been sending me a lot of text."
"I don't know. I want to tell them but how will they react?" Jonouchi rubbed his big belly.
"Yeah but I still think we should tell them. We haven't really been spending time with them either since we left school." He sighs.
"Alright how about we call them in a bit like after this little guy stops kicking." He smiled as he felt his baby kick. Yugi touched his friends tummy as he too wanted to feel the baby kick.
"I swear he's going to do something with kicking." Yugi giggled.
"Yeah. Me kicking his ass if he misbehaves when he's older." He laughed.
"Or maybe he'll do it to someone he doesn't like."
"Most likely." They laughed not noticing two figures walking into the living.
"Your both pregnant!" Ryou and Marik screamed out. They were not expecting that.
Yugi and Jonouchi screamed in fear as they just noticed the other two.
They look at each other waiting for someone to speak until Ryou walked up to both of them and hugged them tight with Marik following right after. The two hugged back as they all started to cry.
"W-why didn't you guys tell us?" Ryou sobbed.
"We thought you would judge us or leave us." Yugi sobbed as well.
"We would never do that. You know that." Marik sobbed.
"We were afraid. When we told the fathers they they" Jonouchi cried, making Yugi cry more.
"What did they do?" Ryou asked.
"Seth wanted to pay me for silence and to make sure that I would stay out of his life." Jonouchi said through her cries.
"Atem wanted me to abort my baby and practically dragged me to one until I manage to get away." Yugi cried more.
"That's horrible." Ryou and Marik hugged them trying to comfort them.
"Don't worry we will always stay together." Marik told them, wiping their tears.
"We will never abandon you guys." Ryou kissed them both on the head.
Yugi and Jonouchi smiled at them as they all cry together.
After a good cry they all watched tv and talked about school, until Jonouchi brought out the beef jerky.
"Oh Ra is that meat!" Marik covered his nose.
"Yeah." Jonouchi said softly.
"Oh Ra I'm going to throw up." Marik ran out of the living room and into the bathroom to throw up.
"Ehh why is he throwing up?! Is he okay?!" Yugi asked with worry.
"Oh we are pregnant too. The smell of jerky must of made him nauseous." Ryou said calmly.
One...Two...Three.
"You guys are pregnant too!" The two screamed as Ryou scratched his head.
"Oh umm well you see Ummm." Ryou tried to explain when they heard a flush and Marik coming back.
"Is the jerky gone?" He asked weakly.
"Yeah it's gone." Jonouchi hid it.
"I'm guessing Ryou told you the news." Marik sat down.
"Yeah but not everything." Yugi said calmly.
"Well I'm sure you two already know who the fathers are." Marik sighed.
"Akefia and Mariku. Do they know? Have you guys told them?" Jonouchi asked as he ate some more snacks.
"I told Mariku today...he took it well..." Tears formed.
Marik explained what happen and in the end Yugi was crying again and Jonouchi looked like he was going to kill someone.
"That bastard! He should die!" Jonouchi yelled out but then his baby kicked hard as he held his belly. "Oww okay okay he won't die! He'll just suffer." He spoke to his baby.
"What about Akefia though Ryou? I mean I know that he did that but have you told him." Yugi asked.
"I barely found out today that I'm pregnant. He doesn't want to know anything about me anyways. He made it clear that night." Tears fell off slowly as he smiled at them.
"Then don't tell him." Jonouchi said.
"Yeah don't. Trust us, it's best he doesn't know." Marik said.
"But what if he wants to take responsibility guys?" Yugi looked at them.
"This is Akefia we are talking about. Mariku and him are alike. If Mariku laughed at me imagine how Akefia will react to Ry." Marik countered.
"He right Yug'" Jonouchi agreed.
"You're right." Yugi said as he passed them some snacks.
"It's fine if he doesn't know. I will love this baby no matter what. My baby will never need a father for I will be both." Ryou hugged his tummy. "My baby will need you guys though as I would need your babies as well."
"Yeah we are all together." Marik smiled.
"We don't need them when we have each other." Jonouchi grinned.
"Always and forever. We are a family." Yugi smiled as they all laugh and spent the rest of the day together.