Lara The Dark Angel-I know Atem wouldn't really do that. Keep in mind that this is a fanfic and that was kind of nesecary for the story (though maybe hitting was taking it a little to far)

ONIX-21-Thanks. Here's the next chapter . I actually had this done before the first chapter was posted but I forgot to put this one up... sorry...

sk-I thought it was a funny concept too. Up there with Kaiba becoming a cat. There's a fanfic like that but I can't remeber what it's called.

Before you read this, there's a time jump. Yami's 3 now. I apologize in advance for making it hard to read what he says

I didn't know that I could write chapters this long…

Chapter 2

"Wyou, where awe we going?" Yami, looked up at Bakura, who'd fallen asleep "Wyou? Wyou!" Yami hit Bakura

"Huh, uh, you were saying something"

Yami crossed his arms "Wyou, where awe we going?"

"Same place as always" Bakura replied, looking back out the window of the train

"You-e's?" Bakura nodded "YAAAAAAAAAAY!" Yami jumped down from his seat and started running around in circles in the isle, getting everyone's attention as he yelled "You-e, You-e, You-e, You-e!"

"Yami calm down" Bakura whispered pulling Yami back onto his lap

"Wyou, how muts wonger tiw we get to You-e's?"

"Um…" Bakura looked up out at the station the train pulled into "about ten minutes…"

"YOU-E!"

Bakura chuckled "you really like going to Yugi's, don't you?"

Yami nodded "You-e pways wit me aw da time! An Gwampa pways wit me too!" Then Yami looked down "But Tem's mean when I ask to pway wit him…"

Bakura sighed, he knew all to well what Yami was talking about

"Wyou, why's Tem so mean?"

Bakura ruffled Yami's hair "I'll tell you when your older" Yami pouted "Now Yami, What are the rules?"

"No twicks, don't huwt peopwe on puwpos, and don't bweak anyting" Yami said in a somewhat chant-like tone "I know dat" It was something he had to say every time he went out of the house with Bakura

OOOOO

Yugi checked his watch, 9:47. He waited, then checked his watch again 9:48.

"I don't see why you bother" Atem muttered from behind the cash register of the family store

"Just because you don't get along with Bakura doesn't mean I don't. He's still my friend"

"He's raising a demon"

"A demon that's three years old and has no memory of his crimes, no will to cause harm to others, and no powers" Yugi pointed out

Atem scoffed "He could be acting. And if he isn't he could get his memories back at any time"

Yugi rolled his eyes and looked at his watch again, 9:49. "If Bakura doesn't get here soon I'm going to miss the train to the academy (I think he has my train pass so I can't leave without him…)"

"YOU-E!" Yami cried bursting through the store doors and tackle hugging Yugi.

"Sorry we're late. Our train got stopped and-"

"Bakura are you ready to go?"

"Yes…"

"Great, I need to get ready!" Yugi ran through the door in the back of the shop "Wait a minute, okay!"

"Next time get ready before I get here!" Bakura called after Yugi. Then turned and looked at different toys for sale at the store, trying to busy himself

Atem fiddled around with the cash register a little before looking up and saying "You're still being immature about it"

Bakura ignored Atem

"Bakura, I'm serious. Your letting a friendship be ruined by a petty little-"

Bakura turned and glared at Atem "It wasn't petty, Atem. He wasn't even a year old and you-"

"Come on Bakura!" Yugi purposely cut in as he ran back into the shop "The train leaves at 10:00 and it's 9:56!" He grabbed Bakura's arm and bolted out the door with the borderline albino in tow

"I'll see you in a few hours" Bakura called back to Yami

"By-by!" Yami called cheerfully and waved, then turned and looked at Atem

"Tem pway wit me?"

Atem glared at Yami, who shrunk back and crawled into the house behind the store to look for Mr. Motou

OOOOO

"Take your time Yugi…" Bakura murmured to himself "It's not like we'll miss the train or anything…" he looked over at the classroom door where Yugi was staying late to finish a test

"Ryou? Don't you have work?" someone asked coming up behind Bakura and tapping him on the shoulder

"Huh, oh" Bakura looked behind him "Hi Erika"

Erika grinned "You have work don't you?"

Bakura nodded "Yes, but Yugi lost his train card and thought I had it so I lent him mine and now he's testing so I can't get it back yet (I'm going to be late for work)"

Erika giggled "Mind if I use your pass too?"

"Um…"

She pouted "I'm your girl friend right?"

"Yes, but why do you need my train card?"

Erika blushed and looked at the floor "I was talking to Yugi earlier today and he said you had a son who Mr. Motou kept an eye on for you while you were working or at school… If I'm really a serious girlfriend there's a chance I'll be this kids mom isn't there? I think I should meet him…"

Then she scowled "Though I would like to know who the mother is"

Bakura chuckled "I have no clue. Yami looks a lot like me but he's actually an adopted son. Fine, tell Yugi that you're getting a ticket on my card to, just let me borrow your bike to get to work on time!"

Erika giggled and nodded. "Need the combination for my bike chain?"

OOOOO

"ATEM GIVE ME A HAND!" Mr. Motou called from behind the shop as he tried to unload a his latest shipment of goods for the store

"I'M TALKING TO A CUSTOMER, I'LL BE RIGHT OUT!" Atem called back

Mr. Motou grumbled as he carried a heavy box to the warehouse. He sighed as he set it down "Oof… I'm too old for this" he muttered as he put his hands on his hips and panted

"Oof! I'm too owed for dis!" Mr. Motou blinked and looked down to see Yami with his hands on his hips, a small empty box was in front of him that the boy had obviously just moved there.

Mr. Motou doubled over in laughter and Yami started screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" He ran around Mr. Motou in circles crying "NO WAUGHING! NO WAUGHING!" which, of course, only made Mr. Motou laugh harder.

"It's like a mad house" Erika said to herself then looked at Yugi "Is it always like this?"

Yugi nodded "What makes it worse is that my brother-"

Right then Atem came out and spotted Yami "GRANDPA, NO! DON'T BE FOOLED BY HIS TRICKARY!"

"-thinks Yami's an evil mastermind" Yugi finished

Erika giggled and watched as the scene unfolded into a box war "So does it normally take them ten minutes to notice someone?"

Yugi shook his head "They're usually better about that" he then picked up a large, not quite empty, box and yelled "INCOMING!" as he hurled it at Atem.

Atem turned to greet Yugi just in time to get hit in the face by the box. "Yugi when did you get back?" the former pharaoh asked, rubbing his now sore nose

"YOU-E!" Yami ran up and tackle-hugged Yugi (again) "You-e pway wit me!"

Yugi laughed "Sure, Yami. What do you want to play?"

Yami looked at Yugi, thinking hard about what to play. Suddenly a huge grin spread across his face "TAG!" he hit Yugi "YOU-E IT!" then squealed and ran off as fast as he could

Yugi would have followed after him but three seconds later Yami ran straight into Erika's leg and fell over. He looked up at Erika "Pway wit me?" he asked, holding both his hands up.

Erika giggled than looked at Yugi and whispered "What's he saying?"

"Erika would love to play with you" Yugi told Yami, ignoring Erika

"Erika?" Mr. Motou said to himself. "Oh yes," he looked over at Erika "You're Bakura's girlfriend, aren't you?"

"WICKA PWAY!" Yami squealed "WUN, WICKA! YOU-E IT!"

Erika nodded to Mr. Motou then looked at Yugi with a desperate look showing she couldn't understand Yami

"He wants to play tag," Yugi explained "and he's telling you to run because I'm 'it'"

Erika mouthed out an 'oh' and watched Yami run off. Yugi followed after him at more of a walking pace (since everyone knows that someone in college can walk at about the same speed that a three-year-old can run at).

"He sure is hyper" Erika muttered once Yami was out of view "Is he always like that?"

Mr. Motou nodded "Most of the time. On days when Bakura works late he gets kind of depressed after being here for a while. I wish I could have had a kid who actually cared whether or not they'd seen their father in the past few hours"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" They heard Yami scream off in the distance

"I think Yugi just caught Yami" Mr. Motou mussed as Yami continued to scream

"Little kids are like that aren't they?" Erika asked "They have to have something there way in a game or else they don't enjoy it"

Mr. Motou chuckled "He'll have a new game set up by the time those two are back"

"YAMI LOOK OUT!" Yugi screamed. The sound of a car honking and screeching followed, along with a scream from Yami which mixed in with the screams of several other people.

OOOOO

Yugi followed Yami out to the sidewalk just in front of the shop "Don't go out onto the street" Yugi told Yami, who ignored Yugi and ran towards the busy street anyway. "Yami!" Yugi hissed, grabbing the child before he could reach the street.

Yami, who was still in 'tag mode' didn't think that Yugi had just saved him from being ran over, he thought that Yugi had tagged him "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he screamed. Tearing out of Yugi's grasp and running into the street anyway.

"YAMI LOOK OUT!" Yugi screamed as a car speeded toward the three year old.

Yami froze as he spotted the car too, screaming while others who saw the event unfold screamed.

Bakura, who was walking up right then, went stiff as Yami held his hands out in front of him. Most people would have thought that Yami as a pancake, but Bakura knew better. He bolted out into the street as there was a purple flash and the car spun out of the way (several people ran off as it skidded onto the sidewalk and came to a stop).

Yami fell onto the street and started crying. Bakura picked him up and Yami buried his face in his father's chest "Are you okay? Yami you could have been hurt really bad, what were you thinking?!"

Yami looked up at Bakura "W… Wyou… dat was… weawy scawy!" he whispered between sobs "I'm… sowwy, Wyou… pwease don be… mad I… didn mean to... do any twicks"

"Shh, it's okay Yami. I'm not mad at you for that" Bakura whispered to Yami as he got himself of the street.

"I'm so sorry!" A woman cried as she ran out of the car "I wasn't trying to-I mean"

Yugi shook his head "No, it's my fault. I'm the one who let him run out into the street"

The woman nodded "R-right. Sorry!"

Bakura looked over at Yugi "Let's go inside. I need to talk to you privately"

Yugi, expecting to be yelled at for letting Yami get out in the street like that, bit his lip and nodded before leading Bakura into the house.

OOOOO

While Mr. Motou, Atem, and Erika talked to witnesses outside trying to find out what had happened Yugi watched Bakura try to calm Yami down inside

"He's in hysterics" Bakura whispered "poor thing, I don't normally take him somewhere with streets so…"

He shook his head and looked at Yugi "Promise me you won't tell anyone what really happened. If someone asks just say the car swerved out of the way at the last second"

"Bakura, that was shadow magic wasn't it? Yami still has his powers!"

"Don't tell anyone" Bakura begged "especially not Atem or Shadi. If Atem finds out he'll tell Shadi and if Shadi finds out there's nothing that will stop him from getting rid of Yami"

At the mention of Shadi Yami clutched Bakura even tighter. Shadi had come several times since Bakura took it upon himself to raise Yami, and none of the memories had been pleasant for the child. He didn't know why, but a lot of the people his father was friends with didn't seem to like him.

"Bakura, someone has to know. What if he looses his temper and-"

Bakura shook his head "Don't tell anyone!" he sighed and stroked Yami's back in an attempt to calm in down a little "please, Yugi. Joey, Tristan and Tea would tell Atem instantly. Odion would tell Marik, Marik would tell Ishizu, and Ishizu would tell Shadi. Mr. Motou's probably the only person who wouldn't tell anyone but I don't want to worry him"

"…What about Erika?"

Bakura looked away "I… I'll have to tell her sooner or later… I'm a little worried about how she'll react though" he admitted.

"Wyou?" Yami looked up at Bakura "I'm tursty…"

"I'll go get you some water" Yugi muttered

"Hey Yami," Bakura whispered "can you show me a trick?"

Yami smiled and lifted a stuffed cat of the shelf using shadow magic.

"You can keep that if you'd like" Yugi said, walking back into the room with a cup of water

"Is that okay?" Bakura asked

Yugi nodded "He was almost hit by a car, and it was kind of my fault… Anyway, he's welcome to have it"

"NIWWA!" Yami cried, snuggling with the stuffed cat

"Ah… I've never heard him say that before" Yugi muttered "What did he say?"

"Um… vanilla?" Bakura guessed "Yami, did you say Vanilla?"

Yami nodded and held the cat up "Kitty, Niwwa!"

"Bakura, what's he saying" Yugi asked, aware of the fact he sounded like Erika

"He named the cat 'Vanilla'" Bakura ruffled Yami's hair "Lets get home, it's almost your bed time already"

"AAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"

Yami: you made me a baby…

Isaya831: Oh get over it, besides, you're three now.

Yugi: "Tackle-hugged"? Does that action have a real name, or did you make it up?

Isaya831: shrugs It may be the real name for that action, but if it is I'm not aware of it. And it isn't that hard to figure out what a tackle-hug is.

Mari: Yeah, it's nothing like the language you're making up for the Sheetal Trilogy, it actually makes sense

Isaya831: It's called the Goddess Sheetal Trilogy, and what are you doing on You're on my story on fictionpress Shoot's Mari with a canon (sorry I keep using this joke)

Mari: Flies of into the distance (little twinkle in the sky where he vanishes)

Yami: O.O eh heh… ah… I'll be good

Isaya831: smirks

Bakura & Yugi: Backs away

Isaya831: Right… well… for the record, my name isn't Erika (It's a friend of mines name). I'm a Bakura-fangirl, but not to the point that I'd pretend to be going out with him in one of my stories. Now review or I won't update.