Howl3, Thanks for commenting again! :D. Ha, that's how I like him as well! An adorable, insane little Pharaoh 3. Since both you and dragonwitch250 want Prideshipping, I'll definitely add it later! It'll take a while tho ^-^'. Yami won't be near as good as he is in the anime, so is better to expect things like last chapter's to happen every once in a while! Also, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

dragonwitch250, Hey you! Prideshipping on the way! It will take a while to Seto grow up though :p. I absolutely love their fiery dynamic as well! Thank you :D!

Two weeks had passed quickly.

Yugi didn't return since the day Seto completed the puzzle. The blue-eyed boy eagerly waited every day to return the puzzle, but the tricolor haired boy just... disappeared. The young man quickly lost hope of ever returning the golden artifact, feeling terribly guilty about it.

Seto didn't have many problems with the strange being who was now following him. The beast was weird, but kind and a nice distraction for everything that tormented his mind since the death of his parents. He only wished that it wasn't so sticky, literally. Having to take the black goo that covered the thing's body off his hands every time he touched it was starting to get tiring. It wasn't that hard to clean but it was just so annoying.

Biting his lip, the boy watched his little brother complain to one of the teachers about having to take his pain medicine every two hours. Seto felt filthy knowing that he should be in a worse state than Mokie but was unharmed, feeling no pain while the little boy suffered the consequences for his actions.

Feeling something wet and slimy going up his arm, the brown-haired boy quickly pushed the tentacle back into his backpack before thinking:

"If that black thing could heal me so easily, maybe it can... heal Mokie as well? I would have to find a way to keep his mouth shut though ..." Seto shuddered. "Maybe is not THAT of a good idea but still ..."

"Mokuba? Could you come here for a second?"

The black haired boy trotted happily to his older brother, smiling.

"Nii-sama?"

Looking sideways, Seto bent down and asked, "Would you like to take this plaster off right now and to stop taking these medicines within today?"

The little boy blinked, confused. "Of course, but I can't do this until I'm completely healed, Nii-sama."

Smiling, Seto pulled Mokie's uninjured hand and led him to the room they shared.

"Okay, it's settled then. Now you'll just have to promise me that you will. Not. Scream."

Mokuba swallowed hard. "Why ...?"

"Just promise me."

"Al ... Alright. I promise." The little boy said nervously, wondering what his brother could have planned for him. It couldn't be anything good.

Seto opened the door as quietly as possible, going slowly in and locking it with his trusty chair after Mokie entered. Climbing up the bunk and clutching his covers, he turned to his little brother. "Remember your promise Mookie."

The black-haired boy nodded.

Seto pulled the covers with a quick jerk, and the being under the same jumped from fright, blinking it's yellow eyes. When looking at the black-haired little boy that came along with the blue-eyed boy, it froze. Mokuba's eyes widened and he froze as well, staring the living shadow that was quietly sitting on his brother's bed.

"GAAAAAAAH!"

"GRAAAAAAH!"

"No! No! No! No! You two! Calm down!" Seto jumped in front of the stressed creature, trying to keep it in bed while his little brother did nothing to help by continuing to scream and cry incomprehensible phrases while pointing to the giant gooey shadow.

Mookie had walked backwards to the wall, still pointing to the being who was desperately moving in the upper bed. The blue-eyed boy strongly shivered as the room's temperature was suddenly freezing.

"W-What is this thing !? Please tell me that you're seeing it !"

"Yes, I can see it!" Seto said with effort as he tried to keep the gluey being in bed, holding it by the neck with both arms. His tiny members weren't even able to make the turn around the creature's neck, which slipped from his grasp easily, but didn't dare to get out of bed, looking at Mokuba with a mixture of surprise, concern and suspicion. The thing had calmed from the scare the little boy gave it quickly, and was now urging to examine this possible threat more closely, but Seto didn't seem to want him to come closer from that... small thing, which was making him very frustrated and uncomfortable.

A deep growl began to be emitted from the creature's chest, but it didn't move from it's place. If the blue-eyed boy was insisting that it should stop, who was it to disagree.

"Thank GOD!" Seto cried with relief when the shadow finally stopped struggling.

His heavy breathing was appearing in the air like little pale clouds in the cold room's atmosphere, even if the sun was shining intensely on the outside.

Still panting, he looked at his little brother, who was trembling against the wall. He tried to calm him down. "Mokie, calm down, it's not gonna bite you."

The thing smiled a dark yellow smile full of black teeth.

"I-I don't think so!"

Patting the head of the black being, Seto scolded: "Don't!", making the gooey thing lament miserably. Turning to his little brother, he said:

"It can heal any wound."

"You're kidding right?"

The brown-haired boy looked at Mokuba with a ' I seem to be kidding?' face.

"But what if it tries to eat me ?!"

"I won't try to eat you Mokuba." The blue eyed sighed.

The shadow tried to approach again. Seeing that the creature had calmed down, Seto let it jump out of bed and move towards the smaller boy.

"N-Nii-sama !"

"Calm down Mookie! It's not gonna hurt you!"

Mokuba gasped when the shadow towered over him, pinning him against the wall. Seto was also feeling the concern pounding in his chest, but he recognized the actions of the dark being. It was putting it's hand on the head of the black-haired boy, just as he had done before with Seto himself. Mokuba looked terrified, but the thing suddenly was completely relaxed, and as a result, the room's temperature quickly returned to normal.

"N-Nii-sama ! It's trying to eat me!" Mokuba screamed as the creature began to envelop him with it's black body.

"No, that's the normal Mokie. Just relax." Seto explained, even though he was also startled at the sight. Swallowing hard, he waited until Mokie was completely absorbed before approaching.

The shadow was firmly wrapped around his little brother, golden eyes unfocused in concentration. Seto didn't know how he knew that it's eyes were unfocused ... they just were.

Tense minutes passed slowly. The creature didn't move. Not even a bit. Seto started to get more and more nervous as the minutes passed, nervously playing with his fingers.

Finally, the black being got off the child, revealing a unconsious Mookie. The brown-haired boy quickly ran to his little brother, relieved to see that the bandages and plaster had disappeared and the boy seemed to be completely healed. It would be hard to explain to the teachers but okay. With a cheerful smile, Seto began to shake the smaller boy.

"Mokie! Mokie!" He encouraged. Mokuba squinted before rubbing his head, rising slowly. Black-greyish eyes blinked in confusion with the lack of the throbbing pain that had plagued his head the last few days, and then he jumped, realizing that he was massaging his head with the arm that should be broken and immobile.

The boy stood up, examining his body with surprise and admiration. "It worked ... it worked !" He started jumping happily, glad to be able to move freely again.

"Thank you !" Mookie said before jumping in the solid shadow, knocking it against the wall. The dark thing blinked several times as it held the little boy to stop him from falling.

Seeing the thing carefully putting his brother back to the ground, Seto came closer with a proud face.

"I said that it could heal you!"

"Yeah! It's so cool!" Mokuba said cheerfully as he played with the viscous creature's soft body. "It's so soft too! And ugh ... slimy ... what is it?"

"I don't know." The taller boy replied, blushing. When approaching, he patted the soft head of the weird thing. "It's pretty friendly though. I like it. This thing I mean. Not friendly things. They anger me."

Mokie chuckled with his brother's phrase before saying, "Wouldn't it be easier if we knew from which sex it is? Thus we won't have to call it 'it'. Try to rool it over, look between it's legs or something. "

"It doesn't have legs."

"Oh." Mokuba murmured, as if he hadn't noticed it before. "But it has to have a peepee or whatever girls have... it also has to pee doesn't it? It doesn't look much like a girl though..."

"I've met lots of girls who don't look like girls."

"But ... I just ... I don't know ... I don't think that it's a girl ... Try to search for something Seto!"

"Why me ?!"

"Because it's less likely to bite you! I've just meet it!"

"Less likely ?!"

"It's important Seto! Do it for us! Do it for science!"

Swallowing hard, the older boy whispered, "For science... For science, you hear me?" Before approaching the creature who was watching the conversation with it's head turned to the side in confusion.

"Don't bite me ..." He almost begged to be black thing before pushing his hands on the creature's bottom. It was similar to the serpentine body of a snake with some kind of dark cloud that followed it wherever it went. Seto heard the creature drop some uneasy sounds but the thing didn't bite him, even though it was obviously showing that it did not appreciate the invasion of privacy.

After groping the being for a long while, the boy walked away with a confused face.

"I didn't feel anything." He explained to his brother as he got rid of the sticky black liquid that had filled his hands. Mokuba held his chin thoughtfully.

"It's a girl then?"

"Girls have something. We just don't know what it is. And hopefully never will." Seto shuddered at the thought.

"So it's really a it?"

"It's the only answer."

The two brothers were quiet for a long time, thinking about the thing.

"Can we keep it?"

"No." Was the immediate answer. "It's not a pet. Look at it. It has ... arms and hair and ... looks like a person. It's going to go away at some point, back to it's family or something."

The two fell silent as sad memories filled their thoughts.

"For how long it was with you?"

"About two weeks."

They were silent again, looking at the being who looked back at them, it's eyes still narrowed with irritation.

Mokuba abruptly smiled a smile that lit up the room.

"Nii-sama! If it's in the orphanage, it's obviously an orphan like us! And if it doesn't have a family, can we keeeep it ?!"

Seto blinked in surprise. He had never thought that way. The thing came out of his- no, Yugi's Puzzle. It had to be linked to it somehow. If it even had a family, it's family should've been in the Puzzle as well. But It didn't return to the Puzzle. Not even once. So...

"You really are like us!" Seto said with emotion, smiling.

"YAY!" Mokuba jumped with happiness. "It'll be great! This thing will be like our HUGE fluffy cat!"

His brother turned to him in confusion. "A... cat? Why a cat?"

"Well, it doesn't scare you, and you're afraid of dogs."

"I'm NOT afraid of dogs! Just because I ran from this huge rottweiler one time, you and dad kept-"

"It was a poodle."

"Details!" Seto rolled his eyes in irritation.

"You want details? You ran crying from the neighbor's tiny dressed poodle!"

"SHUT UP Mokuba!"

A deep laught kept Seto from strangling his dead little brother. He blushed deeply when he saw his new pet laughing so hard that it began to lean agaist the wall.

"Mokuba! OUT OF MY ROOM! OUT! NOW!"

"But that's also my-"

"OUT!"

The little boy's laughter filled the hallways of the orphanage while Seto closed the door. The angry blue-eyed boy looked at the creature still laughing.

"And you! Shut up!"

Several hours later, when Seto had calmed down, he and his brother were sitting on the bottom bed of the bunk, looking to be dark thing.

"We should name it Yami."

"Hmm. Yami is a good name for it. Unisex as well."

Both breathed a sigh of relief to finally agreeing on a name. They were thinking about it for hours. Neither agreed with the ideas of other- Mokuba was still bitter because his brother didn't let the name of the thing be 'Kitty' while Seto was still nervous that Mokie didn't accept the name 'Killer'. How that name didn't fit the 'thing's profile' ?! He was sure that it could kill if it needed!

Yami was sleeping on the top bunk when they finally decided. The brothers looked at him.

"Maybe we could find what it is in que computer. Y'know, the one that's on the receptionist's desk."

"But we will be in trouble if they see us ..."

"If they see us."

"Ummm ..." Mokuba whispered nervously. He didn't like to break the orphanage's rules, the teachers shouted at him because of it.

"C'mon, Mokie, trust me. We just have to wait until it's bed time and sneak to her desk. Then we'll search quickly on the computer and get back in a wink, no one will ever know that we left. "

"Okay, Nii-sama." Said the boy, more relaxed.

Only after all the lights went out, hours later, Seto and Mokie left the room as quietly as they could, wincing every time the old wood creaked underneath their feet. Yami followed them silently, sliding out of the blankets, crawling across the floor and passing under the door in a way that none of the other boys who slept in the room were disturbed.

Mokuba grabbed Seto's shirt, shivering with the cold that seeped through the thin orphanage uniform and the darkness that dominated the long corridor. He almost cried when two bright yellow eyes opened in the darkness ahead.

Seto gave a whispered rebuke to the creature that wailed softly before continuing to 'walk' with the boys, floating above them. Seto had no choice but to accept, it was too late to Yami go back alone now. After several tense minutes, they finally arrived at the receptionist's desk. Seto sat anxiously at the computer, his fingers tingling to type on a real keyboard again.

The three quivered when the computer announced its ligament with a extremely high song, the Windows startup music echoing through the 's body became extremely creepy with the sudden melody.

While Mokuba soothed their pet, Seto opened the Google and searched:

'huge black shady supernatural being'

"Hmmm ..." He squinted at the screen. "You don't look like a Hellhound, you're black, but not a dog ..."

"Thank God, eh Nii-sama?" Mokuba giggled before being slapped on his back. "Ouch!"

"Shut. Up. Mokuba." Seto said with poison before turning to the screen again.

"The ... Lurking Shadow People?" They both looked at Yami in evaluation before Seto opened the page.

As they read the page's text, the little boys began to get more and more terrified at every minute. Seto read the entire contents aloud, ignoring the scientific explanation and, coming to the end of the page, they were met with one of the many images that decorated the explanations.

"I-It's it! It's just like Yami! Only without the creepy yellow eyes ..." Mokuba said as quietly as he could, still shaking with the things he had heard. The little boy buried himself in the warm, soft body of Yami, who blinked and looked at him with it's big bright eyes. Mokie smiled at the love and kindness fluttering within the flaming holes. It was nothing like these people said. It couldn't be.

"So Yami's a ghost ..." Seto muttered under his breath, wondering what kind of ghost Yami might be. It wasn't mean, It didn't scared them not even once, not on purpose at least, and was able to heal wounds. It did not fit with any of the examples given by the site, showing scary, violent and vengeful beings ... Why?

They reread the text several times, but their pet just did not seem to fit into any of the categories in particular. Yami had nothing that resembled those ghosts unless it's appearance.

"Maybe Yami is just special. Like the ghost of that boy who only plays with the animals and doesn't hurt anyone." Mokuba spoke fondly when Seto pointed that out to him. The little black-haired boy had begun to turn pale as he looked around the place, probably still frightened by the stories he heard. Sighing, Seto realized that Mokie probably will have nightmares tonight. Damn it.

Suddenly, the blue-eyed boy smiled. "Mokie." He said, gaining the shorter one's attention. His smile grew. "Let's search for our new 'dad'"

Confused, the boy with black hair blinked several times, as well as the black ghost where he had hidden in. "Our new 'dad'? But we can't choose one, Nii-sama, they are the ones who choose us." The usually cheerful eyes of the little boy became dark with sadness. "In fact, choose you." He murmured, hiding his watery eyes by turning his face.

Seto made a nervous grimace when his suggestion had the opposite effect than expected. Leaving the chair, he stroked the face of his little brother , who was still buried deep in the gigantic dark being's warm body. "No, no, no, we can choose a dad. I know we can. Trust me. I said Yami could heal you and it could, couldn't it?"

Mokuba nodded, trying to keep his sobs in and his tears from running down his face. But it was too late, Seto was already dabbing them with his fingertips and Yami had begun to mutter something so the resulting vibrations could calm down the little boy that was huddled in it's body. Mokie smiled when he felt them.

"This year, many rich people will visit us here in the orphanage, because of some 'charity event' or something. People like actresses, artists, politicians and even CEOs of various corporations. We'll make them adopt us, both of us. And then we'll take their place of them and use their money to build those amusement parks we did that day in the sand, all over the world, so that all children like us can have fun for free and smile again, even for a short period of time. " The blue-eyed boy said, thrilled with his own plan. A big smile was shining in his face after the little speech.

Mokuba's eyes shone like the sun among the clouds.

"S-Seriously, Nii-sama? That's so cool !" It was obvious that the child wanted to scream it as loud as he could, but they were still in the hallway, so he had to settle for an excited whisper. Yami gave the same huge smile from before, letting a loud purring show it's appreciation.

"I told you that we should've named it 'Kitty'."

"Shut up, Mokuba."

Seto was about to close the current page when a sentence in the left corner caught his eye:

"...female shadow-ghosts are usually grayer than the males. They are also rarer and less-likely to approach a living being, but beware. Males frequently appear with a deep shade of black, and most of the time have bigger and brighter red eyes..."

"Yami is a guy!" Seto said with satisfaction, ruffling the smoky ghost's hair when he came closer to take a look on the screen.

"How do you know that?" Mokuba said in confusion.

"He's black and has huge eyes. If he was a girl he should be gray and have smaller eyes."

"Ohh! Cool! I was sick of calling him 'it'!"

"Yeah." Smiled the taller kid. "Now let's search for our new 'daddy'." He announced before searching for the important people who should visit the orphanage during that year. A list of twelve people appeared, showing the profession of each one and some of their personal lifes.

"Hmmm ..." he whispered as he passed his eyes across the screen. "I have to choose someone who is really fixed in something that I also can do ... I need something to challenge them with ..."

It seemed that no one interesting would visit them because Seto hadn't found any hobbie that he could use to challenge these people until he saw the last person of the list- which would visit them in December.

"Perfect!" He smiled, seeing that the man was a CEO and was addicted to chess. The profession looked nice to him and he used to play chess a lot with his parents.

"Mokie, in December we will met our new dad." Seto smiled at his brother before getting up from the chair and starting to turn off the computer.

The deafening sound of a woman's voice announcing the update of the virus definitions made Yami jump, a third eye quickly appearing on his forehead. The room became cold as the ghost attacked the computer, pushing it off the table before any of the brothers could do something to stop him.

The machine made a loud bang when it fell on the ground and immediately all the lights in the hallways lit up. Steps were rapidly approaching both the in right and in the left, making the brothers become pale with fear.

With his entire body bristling, the black being grabbed the two brothers and jumped out the window, breaking the glass in the process. He desperately slid across the courtyard until he found Seto and Mokie's window to their room, but the blue-eyed boy began to struggle within him, causing him to stop and let them go.

Gasping in relief when he saw that the glass was still intact, Seto pushed the window up and let Mokuba and Yami jump\slide in before entering himself.

The ghost quickly skyrocketed in the bunk bed and hid under the covers while Seto and Mookie still were panting with fright. They could still hear the orphanage staff arguing and desperately running through the halls, which made them nervous and insecure.

The bigger boy was about to climb into his bed when his brother grabbed his arm. "Seto ... sleep with me. Please." the little boy said, doing his best to let his puppy eyes irresistible.

Seto wanted to deny but sighed in defeat. He couldn't blame Mookie to be frightened by the things he had heard, it was his own fault after all. While the black-haired boy cheerfully put himself to sleep, the blue-eyed boy pulled the covers of his own bed until two huge yellow eyes appeared on the edge of the top bed. He also didn't want to feel unprotected, after all.

"C'me here." Seto asked, patting Mokie mattress. Yami shoved his 'claws' on the bottom of the top bed and came down by the wall before curling around the two small boys, occupying most of the space.

The older boy covered them before putting himself to sleep too, smiling when he felt the gigantic creature breathing quietly around him and heard his little brother laughing about how soft the sticky body was. Sleep came quickly for the two boys.

They didn't had nightmares that night.

This chap may be HUGE but don't get used to it! ;-;.

Any guesses of who is the 'chosen daddy'?

Yami finally has a name and a gender! That's a HUGE relief to me. ^-^;

And I would like to thank so. Much. Everyone who commented, faved, and followed my fic. Seriously, it means a whole lot! 3.

Oh, Seto's search actually works on real life. The site was pretty creepy O.o. The gender differences are mine though :). Check it out if you want to know about the shadow guys.