A/N So Bakura was very out of character last chapter, and most likely the next several. But remeber he has a bit of a problem with a voice in the back of his head telling him right from wrong. Sorry about that. I finally got the majority of this ff planed out.

Demons and Baby Sitting

After at least thirty minutes of Bakura and Matt arguing over the best way to nail up a few boards Lilly and Serena had pushed the two boys out of their way and ten minutes later the boards were up and they'd headed back to house. Ryou had to admitt he was impressed with the way his yami had handled himself the last few weeks. Even if he had managed to set his computer in lab to curse everytime it was woke up, or when he had ended up the third day with detention because to told the gym teacher if he wanted him to run that the out of shape used to be high school foot ball player should run first. Only not so kindly. The squables between Lilly and Bakura were irritaiting but he could stand those. The two got along better than anyone could belive. But at this very moment he was sitting on the floor next to Serena's bed. She had quickly become one of his closest friends and had with out much hinting figured out a lot of what was going on. But as the youngest she had explained that it was her job.

"Who drew those?" he asked indacating the drawings all over the wall opposite him. They were amazing to say the least. The center and largest was a pair of peircing blue eyes and above it were the words 'Get lost in his eyes, but you'll never be in his life.'

"Lilly drew them. It's a bunch of Seto Kaiba and Mokuba. It's sort of funny I think. Would you like to see others?" Serena asked. They'd been talking for hours about nothing impaticular.

"Sure. If Lilly won't mind."

"Naw. Even if she does what she gonna do?" Serena asked a smirk teasing the corners of her kool aid stained lips. Serena hopped out of her bed and flung up the blankets on the bed under the pictures and dug around under it. She let out a triumphant shout as she crawled back out with a brown leather bag. She un-zipped it and extracted several hundred drawings. Serena then crawled back over and flopped down next to Ryou. Her hair had finally gone back to it's normal chocolate brown color and when she wasn't wearing contacts her eyes were a sky blue. Serena thumbed through the drawings before she showed them to Ryou. "This one is Matt with Emma. Emma is one of the toddlers at church. Ohhh and this is the Kaiba brothers dueling someone. I don't remeber his name she saw the picture on the internet printed it off and drew it. I know I should know his name. He's got tri-colored hair."

The first picture was definatly Matt at his most maternal. He held the toddler an arms length away and had an idiotic look on his face. Nothing was colored just shaded. The second picture was obviously Seto Kaiba and the nameless boy he was dueling was none other than Yugi. Around them were several people he knew. Tristian, Tea, Joey, and Mokuba stood by watching the duel. But before Serena had the chance to show him the next drawing the door flew open and in stomped Lilly.

"I'll kill him. I'll beat him unconsious smear him in blood and hang him up in the woods at dusk. I'll break off his useless arms and beat him over the head with it." she ranted as she dropped on to her bed kicking off her slippers and dragging her feet around untill her socks too came off.

"Who ya gonna kill this time?"

"Mathew. He just called. Appereantly he forgot to tell me he can't help me tommorrow so now I've got untill 7 AM to find a replacment or I face ten screaming toddlers alone." she continued. Ryou watched silently not sure what to do. Technically he shouldn't of been in the girls bed room and by no means should the door have been shut. Lilly forced herself up on her knees and stared at the drawing on the wall. "Kaiba wouldn't stand for this. What would he do?" Lilly asked spinning around. She drew another breath ready to start another line of ranting when she spotted him.

I'm dead. She's going to hang me out there with Matt in a minute...

"You let me.......Alexandra Serena I'm going to strangle you. Wait a minute. He shouldn't be here. I can just tell Ma and you'll be worse off than anything I could do to you." a devious grin darkened her features. Her sharp green eyes analyzing the situation. Serena chose this moment to speak up.

"Lillian Anne Halse. Your not going to tell Mom. You can't tell Mom or I'll tell her what happened to her good hoe."

"Don't take that tone with me........Oh NO you swore you wouldn't tell anyone about the hoe." Lilly gasp. Ryou was quiet taken back by the way the two were now yelling at eachother in an obvious attempt to out black mail the other sibbling. Lilly was down for now but her wheels were turning. Her eye's unfourtunatly fell on Ryou before the wheels got to full gear.

"Lils?" Serena finally asked trying to break her sister's consentration.

"Bakura said the other day he don't belive in all the God stuff Mom is always shoving down our throats. Alls I'd have to do is.......It would work too......He's out by the pond..... Thanks for your help my little friends." Lilly said jumping up and leaving the room.

This isn't good. I'm really dead once Yami Bakura finds out.

He towered above her. The dagger poised in his hand. All she could do was wait for him to strike. He reaked of beer. He always did. She'd begged him to stop. Begged him to forget her. She was his illigetamint child and after her village along with the one person he really loved was burned to the ground. Now she was just another pawn in his game for power. His wife had mysterioiusly come up missing several years before. But she knew what had happened it was why her mother never dared to fight against the man. He was part of the royal court. A sick, power crazy, drunken man and he'd never stop untill he got what he wanted.

"Daddy, please don't. I'll do it. I'll do whatever it is you want just don't cut me." she begged her father.

She bore the marks on his anger across her lower back and stomache. The only friend she'd ever had had persumably died in the villiage. At least as far as anyone else knew. She'd seen him across the Nile. He'd done what he'd always been so close to doing. He'd become a grave robber.

"You say that don't you? You swear to me now that you'll do anything I wish. Ahhh but I know better than that Weni. You lie to me. You'll pay." he sneered. Weni had been his wife. She had finally gotten sick of his abusive behaviour that night. She fought him back he killed her for it. The dagger was brought down closer to her flesh. She could now feel the heat from the seering hot blade. Her father moved her clothing to reveal the inside of her left thigh. He then jabbed the knife in his daughters flesh and ripped it down. She screamed out in pain.

Lilly woke up in a cold sweat. She hated that dream. No it was a nightmare. When she was younger she'd had dreams of this man he was always clean shaven and sweet. He'd bring her gifts and her mother in the dreams was deep in love with him. However the older she got the worse the dreams got. The worst one wasn't this one. It was the one where her villiage burnt to the ground at the hand of no other than the phararoh. Her best friend was a white haired boy who only had his own abusive father for family. The two had become fast friends and Lilly could recall hundreds of dreams where the two would walk around their village talking. But when the village burnt down killing both their families the boy had fled swearing he'd come back for her. Lilly couldn't shake the dream as she found her black dress pants. On the inside of her left leg she did have a scar that would match the one of the girl she became in her dreams. Only hers was a result of trying to climb a chain link fence and getting caught. Lilly searched through her half of the closet settling in for a powder blue sweater before coming her hair back into a braid. She loved the fact that in a few months time she would have missed enough of the sun that her hair would darken to an almost black color. She dug around under her bed and found a pair of dress boots that came up to her knees. Pulling on her boots she let her mind wander to what she was going to do with the children today.

For years Lilly and Matt had run a day care for some of the toddlers while their parents were in church the older kids were in Sunday school and Father had long since decided that as long as the two went the the nursing homes and read or played games with the elderly that they were doing God's work without needing the Sunday morning speaches promting them to. But this weekend Matt had backed out. Leaving her with very few choices. Chris would have willingly helped but his mother refused to let him. Afraid he'd end up hurting one of the little kids. Serena didn't like babies and the idea of asking Justin was well....stupid. So she asked Bakura. Well more like she called him a coward and wasn't very clear on all the details of the job. So of course he agreed and she might have lied a little too. But that didn't matter. Once she was dressed and ready to go she went to wake up Bakura.

"Kura.....Bakura come on get up we've got to leave soon." she said flipping on the light and moving in the room to shake the older boy awake.

"I really wish you'd just go back to your corner of hell and stay there." he growled sleeply.

"Now stop that and get up. Oh and don't wear that little necklace of yours. Someone might get hurt on it." she instructed before leaving the boy.

Lilly made her way down stairs and poured a bowl of frosted flakes and let Gretchen out who caming padding behind her when she left her bed room. As she ate she waited on Bakura to make his appearance.

For a boy he sure takes forever to get ready. Even Justin is faster than this and he uses half a freakin' bottle of gel.

She'd already washed her bowl out and let Gretz back in when he fumbled down stairs. He was dressed in a pair of blue jeans and a grey t-shirt. It didn't really matter if your dressed up to get spit-up on but every week Lilly dressed up. It was the only time she bothered making sure she looked decent unless it was a holiday or they were going out for someones birthday.

The sun had risen when they pulled in to the parking lot of the little church. A few cars were already here she figured this to be Father, the day's alter boy, and the organ player, Mrs. Whyte. Lilly quickly led Bakrua into the building and down the hall to the right to one of the small rooms. This one unlike all the others was painted bright colors, with boxes full of toys of every shape and size, fire trucks littered the floor, while tucked against one wall were three play pens, and a changing table.

"Why are we in a nursery?" Bakura asked.

Okay he's dense but he's also my only chance for help today.

"We've gotta watch some toddlers for a little while. Then we'll have the rest the day to do whatever." Lilly said matter of factly opening the blinds and turning on the lights. Bakura stood dumbfounded in the door way. "Would you like to come in?" she asked. At that moment two little girls about three or four and a two year old little boy came running in the room.

"WIWWY!!" they screamed racing to her wrapping their arms around her legs.

"Hey kiddles. Where's Uncle Lou?" she asked squating down to their height.

"He in da butt." the oldest girl, Mary answered.

"Where?"

"Da butt."

"I don't know what your talking about Mary."

"Math says it's da butt. You know day keeps Jebus's body in dares." Mary explained impatiently.

"Oh okay. Well, you stay here with my friend Bakura. I'll be right back okay?" Lilly asked. The three toddlers nodded turning to grin evilly at Bakura the moment Lilly's back was turned. "Bakura, I'm going to go find Fa"

"Me?" a sandy haired man who looked to be about 25 or so walked in. She knew him as Father Lou or Uncle Lou when the little ones were around. He had adopted his sister's children after her and her husband were killed in a car crash two years ago.

"Yeah." she said unable to stop the smile that spread across her face. So what if she had a small crush on the priest not like anything could happen.

"What you need my little flower?" he teased.

"Matt had to go to the nursing home. His adopted grandmother is dying and she wanted him to be there in the end. So, I was out of help and brought him along." she said pointing to Bakura.

"He looks safe enough. Besides it's just mine that will be here the whole time. He the boy your mom 'ordered' from Japan or whatever?" Lilly nodded before adding on to his conclusion.

"He is the older of two brothers we got for this year. I don't know his first name Ma never told us. He goes by his last name Bakura and his little brother is Ryou. You've probably seen them with Ma and Dad the last few weeks."

"Wiwwy pway wif us. Lwo will talks all day." Annet, the middle of the three toddlers whined. Lilly laughed and pluck the small child off the ground and positioned her on her hip.

"And what if Wiwwy don't wanna pway wif you?" she questioned poking the girl in the stomache making her giggle.

"Well, it was nice meeting you Mr. Bakura, Lil I'll see you after the first mass. Behave you three or Lilly won't come back next week."

"Why?" asked the wided Mary.

"Because I won't letter I'll keep her all for myself and not let you play with her." Father Lou said squating down to his niece.

"Why?" she asked. She was at that most annoying stage where no matter what you say she asks why.

"Because you were bad." he said a twinkle in his blue eyes.

"Why?"

"I don't know. Maybe you were posessed." he answered with the most obsured answer he could think of.

"Why?" she asked yet again. With a shrug Lou stood up.

"I've got to go before Miss Ann thinks it's Monday again and leaves. I still don't see how her doctor can say she's mentally all there."

"She don't go." Lilly answered him before he was all the way out the door.

"How do you know that?"

"She hasn't seen the doctor in years. He's evil or something. Tried to put her on mood stablizers a while back." Lou just nodded before leaving. Lilly turned to Bakura the small child on her hip wrapping her tiny chubby arms around Lilly's neck. "That was Father Lou. Nice man, moved to town five or six years ago. Not that untill I guess three years ago he was around much." She then saw the most astonishing thing.

While Lilly was chatting with the strange man who only wore black with a single white colar, the little boy had crawled over to him. After the little thing's tugging on his pants became to annoying to ignore he sat down on the floor to see what he wanted.

"Hi." he said in the smallest, softest, voice Bakura had ever heard.

"Hello." Bakura said shocking himself when he managed not to sound gruff or scary.

He is kinda cute. But someone has got to teach him to speak up.

"I's Luke, whos you?" he asked.

"I'm Bakrua." the little boy giggled at his name. Which was agitating but still sweet.

"Wanna pway?" Luke asked him plopping down next to a pile of legos.

"What do you do?" Bakura asked. He had never played with these strange looking blocks and they did look rather intresting with all the bright colors and a few had faces on them. Though all the faces were fat and rather comical.

"Ya stacks um." Luke answered, pushing a few of the blocks to him and taking some for himself.

"Well, that's the first he's ever started a conversation with anyone. I can never get anything out of him." Lilly said. Bakura looked up to see Mary peeping between Lilly's legs and the other girl he had not name for kissing Lilly's cheek babbling to fast or to babyish for him to understand.

"Wiwwy, Let's pway wif da dollies." Mary suggested.

Lilly told the girl to take her sister and start playing that she'd be over in a minute. Then explained the importance of the sign in sheet and told him the reasons to put a kid in time out. Which seemed like everything. Fighting, name calling. not sharing......the list continues on for a long while. But he tuned most of it out and just nodded. He was busy trying to show Luke how to build a pyramid putting the most grubby of the faced legos inside. Before to long there were thirteen toddlers in the room. Mary, Annet, Luke, Mark, John, Paul, Paula, Thomas, Anna, Anne Marie, Kate, Athena (which looked alot like the horse on the ranch), and the last was Rebecca. They were all snot nosed little monsters who seemed to speak a lanuage all there own. But Lilly seemed to be one of the privledged few who understood everyword that was said. Before long he had the five boys around him. They were all building 'great' structures out of the billions of legos then running Tonka trucks into them.

"Baka, why's your hairs all white?" Paul who was about the oldest and Paula's twin asked.

"Stupid, it's cause he's old. Like Papaw." John answered.

"I don't know Paul, it just is." he answered. No matter how many times he explained his name wasn't Baka they didn't get it.

"Bakura, I've got to take Kate to the bathroom." Lilly said coming over. A small red head absolutly covered in freckles at her heels staring at him as if he were the freak show at a circus.

"Your leaving me with all of them?" he asked stunned.

"The girls are playing with Barbies, they might need help changing her clothes Ken will be coming with the limo in a few minutes they are going to a ball." Lilly explained pointing to the Tonka dumpster truck that was apperantly the limo and then to a large purple ball under the changing table that was 'the ball'. "And you've got the boys under control here. I'll only be gone a minute." she said.

"Wiw I wealy gotta go." cried the red head. Lilly didn't say anything else just picked up the child and walked off.

For about four minutes everything was well and fine. But then 'the ball' was attacked by a huricane of Tonka trucks, Hotwheels, and legos. The attack was led of course by John and Bakura didn't see the harm in a small rampage. He soon saw the error in this thought. Suddenly hundreds of doll clothes and even the doll themselves were thrown back. One of the girls, Athena he thought, grabbed a toy sword from the closest toy box and 'stabbed' Paul, John, and Mark. All three boys lay on the ground holding their wounds tounge hanging from the sides of their mouthes. It was the oddest war he'd ever seen and he was enjoying it helping the few living boys take captives by putting them in play pens when he was taken at sword point.

After how many million years have I escaped being caught and a toddler catches me? I can't go anywhere either she's got a sword. WHAT AM I THINKING IT'S PLASTIC?!?!?!

He wondered as he was lined against a wall next to Luke. The two sat and watched as the little warrior girl went and slaughtered their last standing man. Thomas took his punishment with dignity too. He stood up straight and took the stab under his arm. Then three of the four boys lay on the ground along with the discarded toys. Bakura had a hard time keeping a straight face when the Annet and Athena came over with their demands.

"Sets um fwee....Days duns nuttin' wong." Athena commanded. Annet just nodded next to her. Both girls then saw the hesitation and their bottom lips began to quiver and their eyes got rounder and started to water.

"Pweaz" they choursed. Before Bakura had a chance to give in Lilly came back. She stood in the door way for a long moment before laughing.

"What have we got here? A little miss Joan of Arc?" she asked Athena.

"Who?" the little brunet asked.

"Don't worry about it. Come on everyone I'm God and I say we are all alive again and I restore peace to the lands. Now hurry up lets clean up before your parents come."

It didn't take long for them all to get the room put back in order. Right on time the parents came in and checked their kids out. Though there were plenty of other kids that day none were as fun to watch as the first batch.