Chapter 2
A/N:
Me: Some of you may not know or may know or figured out that I live in the U.S. and most know, have heard, have celebrated Thanksgiving. Yes put the pieces together.
Youta: This part of the story takes place at Thanksgiving day. Why? Because we can.
Me: I'm pretty sure mostly every one has heard of it but celebrate I know most don't and that's okay too.
Etsuko: Haha well that too but don't worry there will be hints, chapters, flashbacks/memories, and omakes of the four children growing up.
Me: Exactly so yes there will probably be a chapter or etc about cleaning the children.
Youta: So deal with it.
Etsuko: now that's not nice to say.
Youta: ...Deal with it... Oh and there will be a few surprises in here
Me: and ignore him. Please review and favorite.
Etsuko: Ely doesn't own the characters only the story.
Me: Caio Caio!
6 years later ~1995
It's Thanksgiving day in the lives of the mothers. They were going to have a feast and get together at Ryou's house as it is her turn to host. Ryou and Yugi are finishing the sweeties and goodies while Jonouchi and Marik are finishing the main dishes. Yes all four of them are cooking.
The four of their oldest children however are all playing in the living room while the two babies are in their play pen in the living room as it was too cold to go outside.
"Haha and the brave Prince hits the evil villain on the head!" Malik says as he hits Bakura on his head with a pillow. Malik is the second tallest out of the four and is very silly. He has tan skin like his mother and his blond sandy colored hair is like his mothers too but the style was exactly like the man he is suppose to call father. Malik had asked before who was his father but every time he did his mother looked at him with a bit of sadness in her eyes. She told him that his father was once the love of her life but he did something she couldn't forgive. He never asked again once his mommy found her boyfriend, Shadi. When he was four his baby brother, Shada, was born and his mommy and boyfriend got married and now he has his new daddy and baby brother! Shada looks like Shadi in every way but Shada has Marik's lavender eyes.
"Owwww that hurt!" Bakura yells with little tears coming out of his dark emerald eyes. Bakura is the second shortest out of the four. He has pale skin like his mother and short silver-white hair that reaches up to his shoulders. He wanted to grow his hair like his mother so his hair didn't look like the bastard that never loved him. Bakura also asked his mother about his father but her answers were always different. To that he was a good man to he never loved anyone but himself from stories that she would tell him to "lessen the pain" he guessed. It didn't matter to him anymore though. The man made his mother cry almost every night until she got with her boyfriend. And because of that Bakura approved of the man his mother is dating. "Mommy! Malik is being mean!" He cries and runs to his mother and hugs her legs.
"Wahh I didn't mean it!" Malik then starts to cry as he ran after Bakura. He didn't like being in trouble with his aunts, mother, uncles or grandpa.
"What happen this time?" Ryou smiles a little as she bends to their level.
"He hit me!" Bakura points at Malik.
"It was with a pillow! It shouldn't hurt!" Malik cries.
"What have I told you about hitting people Malik?" Marik sighs as she turns to her son.
"Don't." He responds.
"Exactly now say sorry." Marik urges as she goes back to cooking.
"I'm sorry Bakura." Malik kicks his feet back and forth.
"Go on Bakura and forgive him." Ryou urges as well.
"Okay but no more pillow!" Bakura pouts as Malik hugs him. The two smile and run back to the living room to play with the other two.
"So much mischief." Yugi smiles as they continue to work.
"But it's fun." Jonouchi laughs as they're almost finished.
Back in the living room
"Haha Seto is a big teddy!" Yami shouts out as he laughs at Seto for having bear ears on. Yami is the smallest of them all even though he's not the youngest. He looks like his mother except for having different eye and hair color which is purple. Also little lighting bolts go up his star shaped hair. Yami never really asked about his father. He simply didn't need too as his great grandpa is there with them so in some sense he had a father figure. He may have wondered but he never asked as he feared his mother would get really sad and maybe mad at him. Besides his mother was going to marry her boyfriend, Dartz, soon so he was going to have a father. He also has a baby brother name Mahado. He has teal eyes but long purple hair that is styled a bit like Dartz but Mahado smiles a lot like his mother. Also his mommy said that he and Mahado are going to have a new baby brother or sister soon so he's happy that was going to have a bigger family.
Currently Shada and Mahado are playing with each other with their toys.
"I am not a bear I'm a dragon." Seto says with a pout. Seto is the tallest of the four. He is the spitting image of his father except he has the same skin as his mother. His mother made sure that his hair didn't grow to long though so he wouldn't look more like his father. He asked only once and his mother started to cry a bit. He didn't like that at all and he never asked again. Yet he didn't mind because he didn't even like the man. Now his mommy is married to his new dad, Valon. They just got married in June and Seto approved of course. His mom is happy and so is he.
Seto throws a pillow at Yami and smirks. "I win!"
"No fair!" Yami pouted as he threw it back at Seto but ended up hitting the wall as the pillow some how bounced off and hit Malik.
Shada and Mahado giggle since they saw Malik get hit.
"Hey! What did I do?" Malik yells as throws the pillow at Yami.
"Don't throw it at me! Throw it at Seto he started it." Yami catches the pillow.
The two babies laugh again believing there was a show being put on for them.
"Now boys no fighting in the living room." Jonouchi shouts from the kitchen.
"Yes Mom/Auntie." All four say as they look at the giggling babies.
"Hey no laughing at us." Malik pouts as he walks over and pokes Shada's cheek.
"Yeah or else you won't get your toys." Bakura says as he snatches Mahado's teddy who in turn looked like he was about to cry.
"Give that back." Yami snatches it back and gives it to his little brother who smiles with glee. They all smile at the babies who start to play with each other again.
"Hey we still need too finish our present for our mom's." Seto says.
"Oh that's right come on its in the game room." Bakura says as they all run upstairs to the game room.
"Now what do you think our children are doing?" Yugi giggles as they hear the kids go upstairs.
"More mischief I tell you!" Marik exclaims.
"Probably. In any case Yugi have you and Dartz decided on the date for the wedding?" Jonouchi asks with a smirk as Yugi blushes.
"Ahh well we were thinking of it being a spring wedding." Yugi says.
"That sounds wonderful Yugi!" Ryou smiles brightly.
"Yeah but when is it is still a surprise." Yugi winks at them.
"Aww come on tell us!" Jonouchi and Marik whine a bit.
"Nope." Yugi giggles and with that said they all finish the food and deserts.
Just then they hear a knock. Ryou smiles and takes off her apron and walks to the door.
"Who is it?" She asks.
"It's us." A woman's voice says and Ryou recognize it. She opens the door to reveal Ishizu, Rishid holding Isis, Ishizu and Rishid baby, and Jii-chan.
Isis is the spitting image of Ishizu but has Rishid's eyes. They had gotten married a year before Isis was born and they've been happy. Besides Marik being Isis actual aunt, the other three mothers treat Isis like their niece just like the Ishizu and Rishid treat all the children like their own nephews.
"Hello come in!" Ryou smiles as she hugs them all and let's them in.
"Mmm something smells good." Jii-chan says as the three mothers come to greet the four guest.
"We just finished cooking." Yugi says with a smile.
"I see and where are my great grandchildren?" Jii-chan asks. Yes he considers all of the kids as his great grandchildren. Just like he accepts the mothers and fathers like grandchildren.
"Shada and Mahado are in the living room while the Malik, Bakura, Yami, and Seto are up stairs. Do you want me to get them?" Marik says as she picks up Isis.
"I'll get them." Jii-chan says as he walks up the stairs.
"Ahh here we bought some wine for later." Rishid says as he shows them the wine.
"Wow thank you!" Ryou smiles as Rishid hands the wine to Ryou to put away. They all head to the living room to talk for a while and put Isis with her two cousins.
Solomon (Jii-chan) walks to the game room and peaks inside to see the kids with paper and glitter and other art supplies.
"Oh and what are you boys doing?" Solomon walks in making the boys stiff for a second as they turn too see it was only their great grandfather.
"Jii-chan!" The four boys shout as they run up to hug thie great grandfather.
"What are you doing here?" Bakura ask with a huge smile.
"I came to see what you four are up too." The old man responds.
"It's a secret!" Yami smiles as he puts one finger to his lip.
"Ohh you can tell your Jii-chan what it is." Solomon says as the four boys look at each other and nod.
"We're making a turkey picture for our mom's! Look!" Malik says as he point to the weirdly shaped turkey's.
"Did you four make it yourselves?" He asks.
"Yes!" They smile.
"Well I think it's great. You should show it to your mothers. Oh your Aunt Ishizu, Uncle Rishid and baby cousin Isis are here. Go on and say hi to them." Solomon says as he pats each of them on the head and heads back down stairs.
"Let go show them!" Seto smiles as he picks up the turkey pictures.
"Yeah!" The other three say as they run down the stairs. Once they get down they go to the living room and smile.
"We made something!" They say.
"Oh and what did you make?" Yugi asks as she picks up Mahado .
"Look!" Yami and the rest get their turkey pictures and hold it out for all of them to see.
"Wow so pretty." Ryou smiles as they all comment on the children's pictures.
"We want to put them on the table!" Bakura says with a smile as he gives his picture to his mom.
"Hmm alright but what do you say before you get what you want Bakura?" Ryou smiles.
"Can we please put them on the table?" Bakura smiles as Ryou nods as she and the other mothers put the turkey's on the table.
As they do that the door rings.
"I got it!" Bakura smiles and runs to the door. He forgot that he couldn't reach the nob just yet. Ryou sees this and she goes over to her son and picks him up a bit so he can reach.
Bakura laughs as he thought he grew a bit as he opens the door and sees Zigfried.
"Zigfried!" Bakura smiles as his mother let's go and he hugs the older man.
"Hello Bakura." Zigfried smiles and picks up Bakura with a bag in his hand. "Hello Ryou." He kisses her.
"Hello Zigfried." Ryou smiles as she kisses back.
"Eww." Bakura says as the two grown ups laugh.
"I brought chocolate for you and your cousins Bakura." Zigfried holds up the bag.
"Yeah! Chocolate!" He reaches for them but Ryou beat him to it.
"Oh no you don't. You can eat candy later after you eat." Ryou smiles as Bakura pouts.
"But I want chocolate!" He says as Zigfried just laughs.
"Later baby okay." Ryou kisses Bakura's head and walks to the kitchen to put the chocolate away.
"And that is why I have these since I knew your mother would do that." He shows Bakura some chocolates in a little bag. "But shush about them okay."
"Yeah! I love you! Thank you!" Bakura smiles as he grabs the chocolates and jumps out of the purple haired mans arms and runs to the other children.
"Aww isn't that sweet." Another mans voice says.
Zigfried turns around to see three other men there.
The one who spoke is Shadi. He is tan and is bald but he's really tall and has blue eyes.
The one on his left is Dartz. He's a tall man with long teal hair and a teal and yellow eye.
The last one is a man Valon. He is tall but shorter than the rest with spiked up brown hair and brown eyes.
"Hmm you guys made it." Zigfried greets them as they walk to the living room.
"Yeah we made it!" Valon says as the people in the living room look up to see the new comers.
"Valon! Your here!" Jonouchi smiles as she stands up and walks to her husband. They kiss and hug as Seto runs up to Valon, his now father, to smile and give him a high five.
"Of course I'd be here. I have to be with my beautiful wife and cute son." Valon smiles.
"Shadi baby." Marik smiles while Shada giggles in his mothers arms as Malik runs up to the man as he picks him up. Shadi kisses Marik and then Malik and Shada on the head.
"Marik baby." Shadi smiles as Malik plays with Shadi's shirt.
"Honey." Yugi smiles while Mahado looks at him mom as Dartz kisses his fiancé and ruffles Yami's hair and kisses Mahado on the head. Yami smiles as he hugs Dartz's leg who picks him up so he can hug him
"Hello love." Dartz smiles as he hugs Yami.
Right then and there everything was perfect. That is the perfect family.
Thanksgiving Dinner
"This is so good!" Marik comments as they all eat.
On the left side of the table it's Rishid, Marik holding Shada, Shadi with Malik on his lap, Zigfried with Bakura on his lap, and Ryou. On the right its Ishizu holding Isis, Solomon, Yugi holding Mahado, Dartz with Yami on his lap, Valon with Seto in his lap, and Jonouchi.
"Of course vegetarian turkey is always good." Shadi agrees as he feeds Malik some vegetarian turkey. (A/N: Im not sure if it actually exist but for the sake of the story it does)
"Yes you and Jonouchi made it very well." Rishid says. Since the Ishtar's and Shadi are all vegetarian they had to make a few adjustments here and there but they manage of course as they would always do it for their family.
"Man we couldn't have done it without Ishizu's recipe." Jonouchi smiles as she tries to feed Seto some carrots but he refuses.
"I don't want any." Seto pouts. "They're for bunnies."
"Seto I've told you many times that not only bunnies eat carrots." Jonouchi sighs.
"Here let me have a bite. I know carrots make me big and strong." Valon says as he leans to bite the carrot.
"I want to be big and strong!" Seto says. "Mommy I want carrots!"
"There we go." Valon says as Jonocuhi smiles and feeds Seto some carrots.
"Say Ahhh Bakura." Ryou holds a spoon half full of mash potatoes and gravy.
"Ahhh." Bakura opens wide as he eats what his mother feeds him.
"Aren't you going to feed me Ry?" Zigfried chuckles as Ryou blushes.
"You can feed yourself. Bakura need to eat." She smiles.
"Then I'll feed you." Zigfried smiles as he lifts up a spoon full of corn.
"Papa can I have some of your drink?" Yami asks Dartz as he just smiles since he loves it when Yami calls him papa. It means he would be right in the family.
"I'm sorry little one but this is a grown up drink." Dartz says as he lifts the glass of wine up.
"But I'm a grown up! I can count to ten!" Yami pouts.
"Here drink some of mine." Yugi smiles as she passes her drink to Yami so he can drink it.
"Yay!" Yami drinks a bit and smiles. "Yummy!"
"Yugi?! Why would you give him wine!" Dartz whisper screams.
"It's Apple Cider love." Yugi giggle as she found the face Dartz made funny.
Dartz pouted a bit but then kisses Yugi.
"Can Mahado have some too?" Yami asks as his parents laugh while Mahado giggles.
"I want more!" Malik says as he gobbles down the vegetarian turkey.
"Malik slow down or you'll get a stomach ache." Marik says as she feeds him slowly.
"But I want more!" Malik pouts.
"But if you eat too much you won't be able to eat dessert. Don't you want dessert?" Shadi says as Malik's eyes shine.
"I want dessert! Can I have some now? Pwease!" Malik smile and jumps on Shadi's lap.
"Wait till everyone is finished Malik." Marik smiles as Malik gets some turkey and looks at Shada.
"You look hungry Shada here." Malik tries to feed Shada some turkey.
"Oh no Malik you have to make it smaller since his teeth are still growing." Shadi says as he helps Malik feed Shada.
A while after they started to eat dessert when Ryou looks in the refrigerator to bring out the milk.
"Oh no we are going to run out of milk soon." Ryou sighs as she takes out the milk.
"Want me to get more?" Zigfried asks.
"No I'll get it." Ryou smiles as she goes and gets her coat.
"I want to go!" Bakura runs after his mother.
"But don't you want to eat dessert?" Ryou looks at her son as she knew her baby loved desserts.
"But I want to eat them with mommy. So if I'm not here I won't eat them and then we can eat them together with Zigfried!" Bakura says as pouts.
"Oh okay go on and get your coat." Ryou smiles as she put on her white coat and gets her shoes. Bakura runs to his room and grabs his black coat and shoes. He runs back to his mother who helps him put on his coat and shoes.
"How about we all go?" Zigfried waited at the door with his purple coat and black shoes on.
"Yay! Family trip!" Bakura smiles as Ryou just nods and smiles.
"We'll be back in a bit!" She yells out a bit as they walk out of the house.
"Be safe! And come back quick!" Yûgi shouts as they all start to serve the rest of the family.
"Oh such a nice night to be out right honey." Miho says as she carries her blond daughter Mai and walks with Akefia.
"Yeah I guess." Akefia just responds. The three are walking to the store to buy some chocolate for them. During the six years they've been together, Miho kept asking him when they were getting married. Finally after enough whining Akefia said they would get married soon. Now they are planning it still. Akeifa had thoughts about Mai though. He truly believes that she isn't her daughter. The little girl never liked him either way. He asked Seth to look into it and apparently he was also looking at the rest.
He sometimes wondered, when he was alone, about Ryou and her child. He didn't have the right to see them but he still wondered.
It doesn't matter they're gone and I can't be in their lives. Akefia thinks as they get to the market.
"Akefia go get some milk while we get the chocolate." Miho says as she and Mai go to the chocolate section. Miho has gotten bossier too. Akeifa knew she just wanted him for the money and stuff but sometimes he swears that he would kick them out one day.
"Yeah yeah." Akefia walks to where the milk was but he stopped when he saw three figures.
"Milk!" Bakura shouts a bit as he runs in the grocery store with Ryou and Zigfried close behind.
"Baby don't run!" Ryou says as she smiles.
"Oh let him. He's just a kid." Zigfried laughs as Ryou smiles at him. They all walk to the milk section where Bakura was jumping up and down.
"Can I carry the milk can I?!" Bakura asks as Ryou smiles.
"Oh baby it's too heavy for you." Ryou grabs the milk.
"But I'm a big boy! You said so!" Bakura pouts.
"Oh alright here." Ryou grabs two milk bottles and gives them to her son.
"Ya!" Bakura smiles as Zigfried laughs.
"Come on big boy lets go take the milk home." Zigfried says as he grabs another milk and they walk together.
Akefia's eyes widen when he saw the little boy. "My son." He whispers to himself. He felt a pain in his heart seeing Ryou and HIS son with that man. He remembered him from the day Ryou gave birth. The little family starts walking his direction as he gets an idea. He walks up to them pretending not to see them as he bumps into Ryou.
Ryou actually didn't see who she bumped into.
"Oh I am so sorry." Ryou says apologizing but then she gets a good look at the person she bumped into. "A-Akefia?"
"Yo." Akefia says with no emotion. "I see your doing well."
"Yes I am." She says as Bakura looks at the new man.
"Who's that mommy?" Bakura asks as Ryou's eyes widen a bit. She remembered the deal and she had made sure that Akefia would never be in her son's life.
"He used to go to school with me my baby." Ryou says hoping Bakura wouldn't ask anymore questions.
Akefia frowned a bit at Ryou's comment. Yes it's true they went to school together but he actually thought that maybe Ryou would say she had a crush on him. Or maybe even reveal that he is the father.
"Ohh." Bakura says as he looks at Zigfried who looked a bit angry.
"Well we must go." Zigfried says as he picks up Bakura, who smiles.
"Ahh yeah. See you soon Ryou." Akefia says as he walks pass them to get to the milk.
Ryou shivered at that but she and her family walked to the cash register to pay for the food. She had to act like nothing happen for the sake of her son and her happiness.
Back home
"What?!" Jonouchi, Marik, and Yugi almost scream.
"Look I don't know if he meant it but I have a feeling they're going to come back." Ryou sighs. The three mothers are in the kitchen washing the dishes while everyone else is in the living room. Mahado is currently in the arms of Solomon while Shada is in the arms of Rashid.
"No they can't. They signed the forms. We have a deal." Marik says as she scrubs the plate.
"Maybe he just said that to scare you." Yugi says but she too was drying a bit hard.
"Yeah. But I saw the way he looked at Bakura. I didn't like it." Ryou sighed as she washes the cup in her hand.
"Well if he tries anything we can always get a restraining order." Jonouchi says as she puts a bowl in the cupboards.
"Yeah don't worry Ry." Marik smiles as they all finish the dishes and go to the living room.
After a while Solomon, Dartz, Yugi, Yami and a sleeping Mahado had to go home. Then Valon, Jonouchi, and Seto left for their home. And finally Rishid, Ishizhu, a sleeping Isis, Shadi, Marik and a sleepy Malik and Shada left for their home.
"Bye Bakura!" Malik shouts as he waves from his mothers arms.
"Bye Malik!" Bakura waves from the doorstep as Ryou and Zigfried are right behind Bakura.
"Come on my little baby lets put you to bed." Ryou says as she picks up her son as Zigfried closes the door.
"But I'm not tired." Bakura yawns and rubs his eyes.
"Want a bed time story?" Ryou suggests.
"Yeah!" Bakura smiles. "Zigfried too!"
"Yes me too." Zigfried ruffles Bakura's hair as they walk upstairs to the child's bed room.
After Bakura changes, brushes his teeth and uses the toilet, he gets into bed with his mother on his right side and his mothers boyfriend on the left.
"Now we have three books here. The Jungle Book, Peter Pan, and Robin Hood. Which one do you want us to read to you?" Ryou ask her son who ponders.
"Robin Hood!" Bakura waves his hands in the air as the two adults laugh.
"Okay here I'll start. Once upon a time..." Zigfried and Ryou started to read to Bakura as he fell asleep in the middle of the story.
"Goodnight my little angel." Ryou kisses Bakura's head and tucks him in nice and good as Zigfried kisses Bakura's head as well.
The whole day all the way to night was perfect.
Preview
"I think these colors are fine."
"Ehh no way! The music has to be right."
"I think we should have different types of food."
"I do."