Her Sweetness: Wow, sorry about that. I know I haven't updated, but you wouldn't believe the work load I'm carrying now, it's terrible. Sorry, I just had to get some stuff out of the way, but I'm still totally buried, forgive me.

Oh, and a small note… I know this chapter won't seem like it's a part of the plot, but it is a HUGE part, so be on the lookout for small details. Goodluck…!

Rascals R Wee

Chapter 3:

"YUGI! YUGI, YOU PWOMISED!"

The little pharaoh howled as he was carried down the street by his now bigger other half. It was around eleven o' clock in the morning and Yami had only woken up at ten. As soon as he did, Yugi assaulted him with hugs, kisses and a new set of clothes that Yami certainly did not approve of. Yami was wearing a little blue and white sailor's suit, complete with the little hat and a golden emblem on the left cuff that read 'S.S. Cutie-Pie'.

Yami looked up at his hikari again; his overly large eyes were red and glossy. "Y-Yugi…! How cwould you?"

"Oh, Yami… I'm sorry, believe me, but… well, we talked it over and—"

"We? We didn't dwo nothin', Yugi! You an' Ryou an' Malik conspwired against us! Dat was so mean, I won't forgwive you!"

Yugi sighed, his eyelids lowering as they stopped moving in the middle of the sidewalk. This wasn't fair to Yami or any of the others and Yugi knew it and for a brief moment of insanity, he'd allowed himself to be overcome with Yami's new form and had forgotten that he was a person. Not just some incredibly cute chibi to be cuddled and kissed at will.

"Yami, I-I… I'm sorry."

He blinked and sniffed, "S'okay, Yugi."

"… Sorry I didn't do this sooner!" He shouted, squeezing the life out of Yami and squealing in his small ear, thus resulting in Yami crying and sobbing all the way down the street.

It was about fifteen minutes later when Yugi arrived at the mall's parking lot, Yami all curled up in his arms. He'd ceased his tantrum about ten minutes ago and fell asleep in Yugi's arms, causing him to faint in the middle of the road and block traffic. They woke him up though and soon he was walking through the doors of the Sunset Mall.

Yami squinted at the rays of sunlight that were shining down on the mall's floors from the glass ceiling and walls. People were walking all around them, yelling, talking and carrying on.

Yugi looked down, "Oh, Yami, don't have such a sour look on your face."

"I can't hwelp it…"

"Yes, you can."

"No, I cwan't, Yugi. I dwon't feel wike smilwing. You betrayed me, and dat is unfo'givable."

"Aw, I didn't betray you, Yami; I just decided that you might have more fun in this new form. I mean, admit it, you do get a lot more coos from random strangers now, don't you?" Yugi gestured to a group of old ladies who were across the hallway and starring at Yami, stars in their old eyes.

"… You gwotta be kiddin'. Dey're old… I got bunches of looks when I was big."

"Yeah, you got looks from old bikers who wanted to chain you up and make you their love slave."

"…" Yami choose to ignore that comment and looked around. "W-Where're we goin'?"

"Hmm? Oh, we're meeting Ryou and Malik here!"

His eyes widened and he smiled brightly, "Oh, Yugi, you're da bestest!"

"… Um… Alright…"

"So you weally are changin' us bwack!"

"… No, no, we're not."

"…"

"Oh, there they are! Hi, guys!"

Yugi was immediately waving over his and Yami's heads to over in the center of the intersection of the mall. Ryou and Malik were standing in front of a water fountain with liquid drops raining down into the small pool where random change such as pennies and nickels were thrown.

As the spiky-haired teen walked up beside his friends, he didn't even get a chance to properly greet them before they attacked him and ripped Yami away, hugging and holding him.

"Oh my gosh, look at this, it's so adorable!"

"Tell me about it! Yugi, this is just too sweet for words! Yami's a sailor!"

"Wemme go…! Stwop, pwease…!"

Yugi's eye twitched. He was happy that they liked Yami's outfit, but Yami was his chibi after all and he was the only one permitted to touch him. So, after snatching his darker half back from the two, he asked politely, "Where are Marik and Bakura?"

Ryou blinked then smiled, whirling around to present to Malik and Yugi a blue stroller with stars all over the top. He lifted the flap and revealed a small, sleeping form that was currently sporting a pink bunny suit, one of the ears covering half of his face and the color complementing the blush on his cheeks.

"I just had to get it for him." Ryou informed them as Yugi's eyes grew to twice their size, "He did put up quite a fight this morning when I tried to put it on him, though. Ha ha, good thing I had a tranquilizer!" He posed happily with a giant needle that was twice Bakura's size.

"Um… where exactly did you put that tranquilizer…?" Yugi dared to ask.

"Wouldn't you like to know!" He began to giggle insanely, "Mwe he he he he he!"

"… Well, Ryou's lost it." Malik affirmed.

"Yeah… So, Malik, I trust you didn't tranquilize Marik, right…?"

"Ha! Didn't have to! He actually liked what I got him." Malik turned his back to his friend and, to Yugi's surprise; Marik was on his hikari's back, nestled in a baby carrier that was purple.

Malik reached back, undid Marik and set him on the ground. He was decked out in a small, white leather jacket and matching pants, a black leather shirt underneath it. Marik lowered his sunglasses and glared up at Yugi, "Wat da hell ya starrin' at?"

"… Wow."

"Isn't it adorable? I made it last night." Malik said proudly, "I made it especially for my little Marik!"

"… I'll smack ya, Malik, call me wittle one mwore time an' I swear ta Ra, I'll smack ya."

"AW!"

"Dwammit!"

"Ey, shwut up down dere." Bakura had awoken from his drug induced slumber and rubbed his eye at Marik who looked back up at him in the stroller and almost couldn't contain his laughter.

"… Wat?"

"Y-Ya twurned inta a bunny!"

"…?" Bakura looked down at himself and fell out of the stroller onto his head, but the bunny ears cushioned the blow. He scrambled up and was almost weeping, "I-I wam a bunny! R-Ryou, dat weirdo, did dis to me!"

"H-He sure did! Wah ha ha ha!"

Yami was set on the ground as well as his hikari and Ryou and Malik discussed something. He nodded towards Marik, shyly, "I-I wike your outifwit Marik…"

"… Oh yweah? Pheh, well I wike yours too, Cutie-Pie."

"Hey! I was twyin ta be nice to you!"

Marik rolled his large purple eyes, "I cwould do witout it, tanks."

Bakura was currently bawling on the floor and fighting with the offending bunny ears that he was tripping over and that were hitting him in the face. "N-Nah!"

Suddenly, a pair of hands adjusted the bunny ears and Bakura looked up through watery eyes at a blurry Ryou who smiled down at him and pinched his cheeks. "So cute."

"Listen, you guys." Yugi picked Yami up once again, "We've got shopping to do and we can't take you with us, so—"

"Why nwot!" Yami shouted.

"Because, Yami…" Yugi looked to his two friends whose yamis were asking the same questions and they were blushing and coughing. Yugi cleared his throat, "Because the store we're going to isn't for kids. You could get hurt …or scarred for life…"

"What we're trying to say is we'll only be gone for a while and we have someone to take care of you while we're away!" Malik cheerfully picked Marik up and they walked a little ways over and stopped in front of a merry-go-round.

Yami whined, "You're nwot gunna put us on dat ting, are you, Yugi…?"

"Well, I ain't goin'!" Bakura stated firmly before being placed on one of the horses.

Marik put up a small fight but Malik won and duct tapped his small butt to the porcelain horse's back. He and his friend threatened to skin their hikaris alive if they didn't stop this madness, but they just smiled and waved as the man who operated the machine started it up and the little animals began to go round and round.

Yugi smiled back at Yami as they walked away, though he had a small feeling of guilt. Yami had looked so sad and forlorn when they left him and Bakura and Marik just looked like they had been disrespected in the worst possible way.

He sighed and turned back around, catching up with Malik and Ryou as they walked passed the stores and passed the other shoppers.

Ryou held his head in his hands, "I can so not believe we're doing this again! We swore that the last time was the last time!"

"Oh, come on, Ryou, you know you want to." Malik rolled his eyes, nudging his friend, "And it's not like we do this all the time. It's okay once and a while. Right, Yugi? Yugi will tell you!"

"Actually, Malik…" Yugi twiddled his thumbs, "I-I got weird stares from the saleslady the last time we went in there…"

"… Yugi. Have you ever considered the fact that she was starring at you because you're hot?"

He blushed, "Um… N-No…"

"Well, then there you go."

"Ugh. Here we are…" Ryou pointed out when they arrived and stopped in front of the glass doorway of a pink shop with the words 'Victoria Secret' written in cursive and a dark haired woman with her slender finger to her lips which were curved into a seductive smirk.

"C'mon, boys." Malik motioned for them to follow suit when he entered the shop, not paying any attention to the other shopping women who gave the blonde Egyptian some glares and strange looks.

Ryou and Yugi hid their faces as they walked in and over to the back section where Malik was casually going through racks and stacks of dainty unmentionables.

Yugi whispered anxiously, "Malik… What's taking so long…?"

"I'm not done looking." He thought for a second and then turned around, searching another stand, "I don't think they have what I'm looking for…"

"Good then let's go!"

"In a minute!"

Without Ryou knowing, a saleslady had crept up behind him and had put her head over his shoulder which scarred the living daylights out of him.

"W-What are you doing?"

"What are you doing? Are you a pervert?"

"N-No! I'm not, really!" He began to sweat, "I'm just here with my friend who's looking for something and I-I'm just waiting, honest!"

"… So, you're not perverts?"

"No, of course not!"

All of a sudden, Malik walked up to them, holding up a small see-through blue thong and asked the woman, "Do you have this in a smaller size?"

"Good heavens!" She exclaimed, glairing at them both, "What are you doing with those?"

Malik held it up to his waist and turned around, "I think it's too big… I have lost a lot of weight, so do you have a size 4 maybe? If not, I could get the red ones, but I look so much better in blue… What do you think, Ryou?"

"Oh! Um, blue definitely…"

The woman starred blankly into outer space before looking back to Malik and groaning. 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em…' She thought before nodding sympathetically, "Well, the blue does accentuate your curves… I'll see what we have."

"Yayness!"

Ryou sweatdropped, "W-While we're here… I might as well pick up something for myself… Um, something in pink, please…"

While Ryou and Malik were in the back with the saleswoman, Yugi had ventured to the west side of the store, casually looking at things that caught his eye and occasionally picking up something to check the price. He was now just leaning on the checkout counter until a familiar voice made him turn his head.

"Alright, alright! I'm going!"

Yugi blinked and looked up as a familiar, tall form came out of the back of the store followed by another salesgirl.

"… Kaiba?"

The brunette turned around, already glaring at Yugi, "What the hell are you doing here?"

"I… Um, could ask you the same question…"

His face turned beet red but he fought it to the best of his abilities, "Nothing, nothing. I was here… just ordering some stuff for my company, nothing unusual."

"You were ordering lingerie for Kaiba Corp?"

"… I-It's just too complex for your small mind!"

"… O… kay…"

The salesgirl finally came out from the back as she had lost track of Kaiba and was now in front, shooing him out of the store. Kaiba growled and walked out briskly and the salesgirl put her hands to her hips and sighed.

Yugi walked up to her, meekly, "Hey, um, was Kaiba really here ordering things for Kaiba Corp?"

"Kaiba? Who is that?" She turned to him for a second before blinking, "Oh! You mean that guy I just chased off? I dunno anything about Kaiba Corp, but that guy's always in here sniffing our European styles!"

"…"

"Okay, we're ready to go, Yugi!" Came Malik's voice from behind the boy.

He turned around to see Ryou and Malik holding bags and smiling.

"You got your stuff?"

"Sure did! We'll show you later…" Ryou winked.

"Alrighty." He said, obviously not getting the underlying message. They started for the door and were soon back out into the mall, walking back to where they left their sweet chibis and the merry-go-round.

"Oh, I hope 'Kura is okay."

"Of course he's okay. We weren't even gone for as long as I thought we would be." Malik nodded to himself, "And he might be enjoying the merry-go-round. Bakura really likes horses."

"Yeah, live horses."

As they walked on, Yugi turned to the side, casually looking in a bookstore display window. A little stand towards the side stood out with a rather large book set atop it, titled 'Classic Children's Tales' and colorful pictures all over the cover.

"Hey, Yugi, what're you doing over there?" Ryou asked, he and Malik about fifteen feet away from the boy.

"Um, just a minute."

Back at the merry-go-round in the mall's center, three young boys had been riding porcelain ponies for the past twenty minutes. The man who was operating it was getting annoyed though as Yami had thrown up on his favorite horse twice and he was the only one to clean it up. Marik and Bakura, meanwhile, had gotten the duct tape off of Marik and were now hopping from horse to horse, fighting each other with imaginary swords.

"Hah! Die, Bakura!" Marik shouted, holding his 'sword' and jumping onto another horse, following his 'arch nemesis'.

Bakura swung around the pole attached to the horse and dodged Marik's attack, "No way, Marwik, ya not gunna get me dat easawy!"

Marik followed him around the other horses until they landed on Yami's horse, doing battle around the sick pharaoh. Yami ducked as Bakura swung his sword over his head. He shouted, "Stwop! Ya gunna kill me!"

"If we shwould all be so wucky." Marik rolled his eyes and bonked Yami with his imaginary sword and turned back to Bakura who was currently 'getting away' on another horse in front of Yami's.

"Mwa ha ha!" Bakura's evil laugh was squeaky and high-pitched, "Long wive da King of Twieves!"

"Hurry, Yami, fawow him!" Marik gasped, pointing his sword forward.

Yami looked up at Marik innocently, "… But he ain't goin' no wheres."

"…" Marik bonked him again.

Suddenly the merry-go-round stopped and all three chibis looked to the side where the man had pulled the lever and was now taking them off the horses and setting them on the ground. "Sorry, kids, but I gotta clean up over here. Your moms are back."

They looked beyond his legs where Malik, Yugi and Ryou were standing with shopping bags and calling them.

Marik frowned, "Dat's not my mom!"

"Is dose bags from dat girly stwore?" Bakura asked casually, fixing his bunny ears.

"… No… Malik cwouldn't of gone in dere!" Marik's facial expression was that of pure terror. "M-My hikawi's a girl!"

"Dat was obious."

Yami waddled over to Yugi, looking at him suspiciously, "Yugi… where'd you gwo? Girly stwore?"

"Um… no… I-I got something for you!" He sweatdropped and held up a white bag with the words 'Barnes&Noble' on the front.

Yami nodded cautiously, "'Kay."

Marik tilted his head at his hikari and asked, "Dwid ya get stuff for me, Malik?"

"… Well… Um… If you want one, you can have it, but I doubt you will."

Before Bakura could even ask, Ryou said the same thing to him. He turned to Yugi and Malik and asked, "So, are we ready to go?"

"Yeah, I—"

Just as Yugi was talking, a small boy with long black hair went running by with a pair of purple, French-laced underwear on his head. A taller, brown-haired teen ran after the boy, shouting, "Mokuba, get those damned things off your head!"

Everyone sweatdropped.

TBC...