Author's Note: Sorry for the wait! But here's a reward for all the reviews and being patient.
Bathrooms were universal no matter what time they were in or where they were located. There was a place for bathing, Marik's was a shower stall with a glass sliding door and tiled in muted flesh tones. There was a place to wash your hands and place for towels. Marik's was a stand alone sink with sandy colored cabinets full of fluffy towels and cleaning agents. And then there was the toilet.
Raven immediately went toward the commode and began pulling down her pants and training panties even before Bakura had entered. With a little help from her babysitter she was up on the can and all set to potty. She went a tiny bit, grabbing a large handful of toilet paper and then wiped herself. Next, the little girl wiggled off, pulled up her training panties and pants then flushed the toilet.
"I a big girl." Raven told Bakura proudly as she went toward the sink to wash her hands.
"Sure thing, kid." Her babysitter replied before the door slowly cracked open. April walked in as her sister stood up on her tippy toes, struggling to turn on the faucet.
"Gotta go paw~dy." The littlest girl announced as Bakura took pity on Raven and turned on the water for her.
"Whatever." Bakura muttered leaning against the wall by the door. He glanced at Raven and noticed she was just playing in the water instead of washing her hands.
"Batura, help." April cried drawing the yami's attention back to her. While he was focused on her older sister, the little girl had tried pushing down her pants and her Pull ups all at once and since her Hello Kitty shorts were the type that needed to be unfastened before they could be removed, they had gotten stuck.
"You're supposed to unbutton them before pulling them down." Bakura said with a roll of his eyes. He went over, knelt down in front of her, pushed her shirt up a little and unbuttoned her pants for her. Bakura then left the rest to her.
With a happy cheer April pulled down her pants, waddled over to the toilet and with a little help again from Bakura, got up on the commode. He left her alone to do her business and got up to deal with her sister.
"Okay, enough of that." Bakura told Raven as he turned off the water. "You're wasting water. Go back to Ryou and Marik and play on the computer."
"Gotta go potty." Raven replied solemnly. He gave her a bland look.
"You have to go to the bathroom again?"
She nodded and the yami sighed.
"You just went." He told her and this time Raven sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Gotta go!" then Raven went over to her sister grabbed a hold of her arm and gave a mighty tug. "Get off!"
"No!" her little sister shrilly screamed holding the sides of the commode with a surprisingly vice like grip. "I here first!"
"Quit trying to jerk your sister off the toilet." Bakura snapped grabbing a hold of Raven and pried her hand off from around April.
"Gotta go potty!" Raven retorted shrilly. Her bottom lip began to tremble and her face began to redden.
Bakura knew where this was headed…
"April, are you done?" he asked and the little girl shook her head.
Raven had a fit. She stomped her feet as she screamed and cried. In between her whiny fit semi-coherent words were spoken. Bakura understood "not fair", "April" "go potty" and "now" but little else. Meanwhile, April happily swung her feet as she sat on the can.
Bakura was beginning develop a headache and a wish that he had never agreed to take care of the two little girls. The tomb raider couldn't guess why Malik ever thought asking someone who had never babysat was a good idea. He was an evil spirit that lived inside a piece of jewelry not Mary Poppins. Bakura was already plotting the two girls' deaths not an hour after the last time.
"Marik!" he screamed over the hissy fit Raven was throwing. A moment later a bemused blond spiky head peeked in.
"Is there another bathroom here?"
The evil spirit of the Millennium Rod smiled evilly, "No~o."
"They ever pull this crap with you?"
"Ye~s" he drawled once again with that smile.
"What did you do when they did this with you?" he growled. Bakura hated him and that grin. It made him think Marik thought he was better than him…which he wasn't!
"Hey Raven, wanna have some cinnamon toast?" the yami of the Rod asked her. Both little girls somehow managed to hear the question and the sound of a hissy fit was replaced with the sound of cheering and clapping.
"Toast!" Raven exclaimed.
The older little girl ran out the door, throwing out queenly demands on exactly how she wanted her toast with Marik sedately following.
Bakura turned back to April who was trapped on the toilet and found her ready to cry.
"Want toast too." She sobbed.
The pathetic sight would have broken many hearts. A sweet little girl with angel like curls around her chubby cheeks, bright blue eyes with tears wetting her lashes. But Bakura didn't have a heart and if he did, it was black and shriveled. That was what you got when you've been dead longer than most governments have been around.
"So you're done going to the bathroom, I take it." Bakura replied. The little girl nodded and her babysitter lifted her from the throne.
She made an effort to wipe and then Bakura assisted her back into her training pants and shorts. He had to steer her toward the sink to wash her hands before she made a mad dash after her sister. Then Bakura balanced her on one knee so he could turn the water on and hand her the small bar of soap to wash her hands with, feeling all the while he was performing tricks in a circus. He let April happily rub the soap between her hands beneath the water only to snatch it away from her when he noticed she was just playing a moment later.
April sprang from the bathroom with a cheer and raced into the kitchen where Ryou was supervising the toaster. At Marik's table, Raven sat before an empty stoneware plate and their yami host was pulling out his sugar bowl and cinnamon under now two diminutive females' rabid gaze.
"So anytime they fight, you make them toast." Bakura commented as April climbed into a chair stacked with two phonebooks.
"It's called distracting them." Marik replied. "I thought as a thief you would know of that fine little technique."
Bakura ground his teeth together before he began teaching his two charges some interesting new words. He glanced over at April and noticed her smiling quite brightly at him. It was as if she knew…
"Die" she exclaimed rather happily.
Oh yeah…
The yami patted her on the head as the toaster ejected two nicely toasted pieces of bread. Ryou gathered the two pieces as Marik retrieved another plate for April and then drug out the butter from his fridge. He laid out all the ingredients and Ryou deftly made the two their toast.
While Raven happily dug into her cinnamon toast, April merely looked at her and whimpered.
"What's wrong?" Ryou asked as Marik began to put the sugar bowl and cinnamon back in the cabinet.
"It burnt." April replied and shoved the plate toward the hikari. "You eat it."
"It's not burnt." Ryou said with a laugh. "It's toasted."
"Not like bown toast."
"I do!" Raven cried snatching up her sister's rejected bread and April let out a shrilly scream.
"It mine!" the littlest girl screamed.
"You didn't want it." Bakura argued and April began to cry.
Tears fell from the girl's eyes like rain as she said unintelligible words that not even the best linguists in the world could understand. It didn't help matters that her sister began laughing and calling her a big baby.
And telling her she wasn't ever getting toast, which really set April off.
"Oh Ra, she's loud." Marik shouted over the din with his hands over his ears.
"Kinda like the pharaoh's hair!" Bakura replied with his own hands clasped over his ears.
"You two!" Ryou exclaimed then addressed April, "I'll make you more toast, how do you want it."
April quieted a bit and said something neither yamis could understand nor Ryou really could either. Then she began crying at full volume again.
"You want it lightly toasted?" the hikari asked pulling out another slice of bread. "Just a hint of brown?"
"No!" the little girl screamed and said the same garbled thing as before. Ryou knew Bakura was getting annoyed. Ryou also knew that if his yami was annoyed, the volatile Marik was just as bothered. And two angry yamis was never a good thing.
"Pop it in the toaster for two seconds and see if that's okay." Bakura growled.
Ryou immediately did just that and presented the new piece of toast to the unhappy one year old. She stopped crying, whimpered, looked at the toast in front of her, poked it with her finger and asked perfectly clear,
"Butter?"
All three of the males in the room let out a sigh of relief. Raven happily munched on her pilfered slice as Ryou slathered April's toast with a thin layer of butter.
"I just love it when we get together." Marik told Bakura sarcastically. "Don't you?"
Before Bakura could reply Raven announced something all too familiar… And dreaded.
"Kura, gotta go potty."