It's Time!
It was now week 9 of Yugi's pregnancy. Yami and the others were trying to hurry and finish the house before it was time.
But they knew they wouldn't finish it in time. They only had the basement and framing done to finish.
Since Yugi couldn't do much, he was bringing water to the others due to it being the least straining work he could do..
Yami was taking a break when Yugi came up. He gladly took some water soothing his tired, hot lungs from the work.
While he drank Yugi sat down on the rock he was on. He saw that he was panting very hard even though it wasn't a hard job.
His eyes held only concern and love for the boy. He knew that it was hard for him because he was carrying many babies.
Yami got up and helped Yugi onto his feet. His stomach was bigger than he expected.
He knew that it would be big, but he didn't realize it was going to be this big.
"Yugi, let's get you to the tent to rest. It's going to be time to give birth soon."
"Ok. I do feel a little tired. Thanks Yami."
Yami escorted Yugi to the tent. When they were inside they saw Aqua sitting on the bed reading.
He looked up when they came in. He immediately moved so that he could lay down.
"Is he going into labor?"
"No. He's just very tired. It's beginning to get harder for him to move."
"Don't look so concerned loves. I-I'm fine as long as I can walk."
They both were still worried. They put it behind them and they laid down with Yugi.
Bakura, Marik, Aqua, Keara, and Seto went out to get the meal for that night.
They came back with two deer and 3 rabbits to feed the pack until they had to hunt again.
Solomon, Toben, Crimson, and Ruby stayed behind with Yami to protect Ryou, Malik, Kaiser, Jou, Topaz, Diamond, and of course Yugi.
That evening Yugi had to eat in the tent because he couldn't move very well. Since they brought back more food, Yugi, Yami, and Aqua each had a rabbit.
Yami had to feed him since he couldn't move very well. After a filling meal, they laid down to rest. Everyone else sat around a campfire telling ghost stories.
It was much later, around midnight, that Yugi awoke because of pain. His face scrunched as another contraction ripped through his body.
He quickly shook Yami and Aqua awake. It took a few seconds but they were fully awake.
"What's' wrong love?" Yami asked.
"The…pups… I think… they're coming." Yugi said between pants.
Yami and Aqua immediately shot out of bed.
"Ok, we'll go and get Keara you need to rest." Aqua said.
Yugi nodded as he lay back panting. Yami and Aqua ran out of the tent and headed towards the campfire.
Solomon was telling ghost stories to everyone. The hikari's were very scared. So scared they clang to their yami's.
This made the yami's very happy. Yami and Aqua jumped out of the bushes scaring the crap out of everyone.
They all screamed at the surprise but it quickly turned into growls. The yami's had to hold back their hikari's. Yami and Aqua turned to Keara.
"It's time Keara."
Her eyes widened as she nodded.
"Diamond, I'm going to need your help."
Diamond nodded and they both ran back to the tent. Everyone started back to the tent slowly all hoping nothing would happen.
Solomon ran to the front of the group hoping that Keara and Diamond would let him in.
"Keara, can I come in?"
"Yes but tell Yami and Aqua that they have to stay out there."
After telling them what Keara said, he went inside. He stood frozen for a few seconds. He saw Yugi, his only grandson, shivering in pain.
Keara was down near his bottom getting everything ready. Diamond was dabbing a cool, wet rag on his forehead.
"What can I do Keara?"
"You can come and try to keep him calm."
He nodded and went around to the other side of the bed. He hopped up and started to lick Yugi's face.
Yugi turned as he felt little kisses. He expected Yami or Aqua, but smiled when he saw his grandfather.
"T-This …is it… grandpa. I-I'm going into la…bor."
"Yes. Now you stop talking and rest. You need all of your energy for pushing."
Yugi nodded and laid back. He felt another jolt go through his body and howled in pain.
Solomon was doing all they could to comfort and calm him.
Outside
Outside Yami and Aqua were both pacing. They stopped when they heard Yugi howl.
They tried to run inside, but the other yami's kept them back for the pups safety.
They finally calmed down when they heard Keara deliver good news.
"Everything's alright."
Inside the tent
"Alright Yugi, you're ready. When I say 'now' I want you to push for 10 seconds and then stop and breathe."
Yugi nodded as he relaxed his whole body.
"Alright now, push."
Yugi leaned forward with all of his might. Solomon was counting the seconds.
"8…9…10"
Yugi laid back and relaxed. As another pain went through him he pushed again. Solomon counted off the seconds.
This push brought a beautiful baby boy into the world. Keara handed the baby to Diamond and she cleaned him off.
Yugi looked and saw his baby. He smiled. He brought a baby into the world by himself.
Another pain came and of course he pushed and Solomon counted. This time a baby girl came out.
This continued for a few minutes and poor Yugi was so tired. The last baby was finally ready to be born, but Yugi was almost asleep.
Diamond took a cup of water and poured it on his face and he awoke with a jolt. What confused everyone was that the baby also came out.
They looked at it and found that it was the runt of the liter, but still a miracle of birth in a huge litter.
Yugi didn't care because the baby was his. He looked to all of his babies. The order they were born were: boy, girl, boy, boy ,girl, girl, girl, boy, boy, and lastly girl.
Now Diamond and Keara were putting them together to decide who the father was to each pup by color.
It was no mystery. The pups with a reddish tint were Aqua's and the ones with a blackish tint were Yami's. The runt belonged to Yami.
Yugi looked to Solomon. He was doing his little anime style dance while chanting.
"Babies! My first great-grandchildren! Beautiful baby boys and girls!"
Yugi giggled while shaking his head. His grandpa could be so silly at times. He looked down and saw 10 big sacks.
"Keara, what are these?"
Everyone stopped to see what it was. Keara came over and looked.
"Well, they're breasts Yugi. Now you'll be able to give your babies' breast milk."
Yugi nodded. Diamond came over and started to clean him off while Keara stayed with the babies.
When he was clean Keara brought the babies over to their mother/father to snuggle against.
Yugi looked down lovingly at his children. He still couldn't believe it. He actually brought these beautiful babies into the world.
Yugi rolled over to feed his babies and rest enjoying the feeling of them feeding for the first time.
Once they were feeding Keara and Diamond went outside. They saw Yami and Aqua sitting and fidgeting to see. They smiled to them.
"Well, we are happy to say everything went fine."
A big sigh came over the campsite but that still didn't calm Yami and Aqua.
"Yugi has given birth to 10 babies. 5 girls and 5 boys."
Everyone sat there silent. Yami and Aqua were the only ones to move. They shakily got up and went to the tent with Keara and Diamond.
When they reached it, they went inside only to stop and stare. They couldn't believe their eyes. Yugi was breast feeding their babies'.
Yugi looked up to them and smiled.
"Hey."
They didn't say anything for a while. They just walked up and looked at the babies.
Everyone in the tent looked to Yugi and the pups with nothing, but love in their eyes.
"Yami, your children were the last five born. Aqua yours were the first five."
They just nodded. Then Yami saw the runt of the litter.
"Why is this pup so small?"
"That pup is the runt."
Yugi didn't like his baby being called runt.
"She's just small. She's not a runt." Yugi said.
Everyone got a good laugh out of that one. Everyone else started peeking in hoping to see them.
Keara didn't like this one bit so she tried to keep everyone except Yami and Aqua inside the tent.
"Shoo, shoo. He needs his rest."
"It's alright Keara. You all can come closer."
Everyone then piled into the room.
"Well we still need to pick out names." Yami said.
"Well I was kinda hoping that I could name some of them." Yugi stated.
Yami and Aqua nodded. Yugi first looked at the first born.
"I think our first born should be named Atem." Everyone liked that name.
"Our second born should be Kagome."
Yami and Aqua nodded again. Aqua looked at his pups and saw one hopping around.
"I think the bouncy one should be named Hopper." Yugi giggled at the name but nodded anyway.
Aqua looked again at the pups and saw one shaking.
"Why do you think she's shaking Yugi?"
"Maybe she's shaking because she's filled with joy."
"Then her name shall be Joy."
He looked again. This time he saw a boy moving quickly away from Yugi. He grabbed him before he could fall off.
"I think this ones name should be Speedy." Yugi nodded. Now all of Aqua's children had names.
Yami was looking trying to decide names. He put his eyes on the runt of the litter.
He had to admit that he was a little disappointed, but he still would love her equally to her brothers and sisters.
"I think our little one here should be named Autumn Sky."
"Why that name Yami?" Seto asked.
"Because she has a mix of mine and Aqua's fur color. She looks a little like an autumn leaf."
Everyone nodded. Yugi was still in thought of the other children.
"I think this one…" he pointed to a girl that had a graceful appearance. "Should be named Grace."
Yami looked down at one of the boys and saw him thumping his foot on the bed.
"No doubt about it. This one should be named Thumper."
Yugi looked down at the last girl and thought of the perfect name.
"I think this little girl should be named Mystie."
"Why?" Ryou asked.
"Because she has a mystie color to her eyes."
Everyone thought that it was a good name. There was only one child left to name.
Yami and Yugi looked down to see the last puppy peeing on the bed.
They both looked at each other and said the name at the same time.
"Wizzer."
The pup looked up and tilted his head. Then went back to eating. =
After a few minutes everyone left to go to sleep from all the excitement.
Yugi, Yami, and Aqua stayed up and watched their little pups.
"Yugi we are so proud of you. You did a great job." Yami said kissing his cheek.
Yugi nodded and lulled the pups to sleep. Once they were he laid back and fell asleep. Yami went outside to find Keara awake.
"Keara what are you doing up?"
"I'm taking post of course."
"But I'm the one that does it first."
"Look, Yugi just had 10 pups. Go back in there and be with your family. I don't mind taking the duty for a while."
Yami smiled and nodded.
"Thanks."
Keara just nodded and went back onto the lookout. For some reason something felt wrong to her and she couldn't put her finger on it.
Elsewhere
Pegasus and Dartz were coming through the trees and came to a lake. The same lake where everyone was. They didn't see the campsite.
Pegasus was holding a sack. The sack was moving as if something was inside it alive.
"Do we really need to do this?"
"Yes. These little mongrels are completely useless. They are only half werewolves because we had that whore sleep with us."
Pegasus then threw the bag into the water. The splash made Keara look up. She saw Pegasus and Dartz.
She quickly got down and ran into the tent. She shook Yami and Aqua awake.
"What is it Keara?"
"It's Pegasus and Dartz they're here."
They both shot out of bed. The sudden movement woke up Yugi.
"What's going on?"
"Pegasus and Dartz are here."
Yugi started to shake in fear.
"They can't see the campsite. They threw something into the lake and were going to go and see what it is."
He nodded and laid back down trying to get back to sleep. The three left out of the tent and woke the other yami's up.
They all followed and looked around the lake. No one was there and Pegasus's and Dartz's scent was gone.
Keara saw something floating in the water. Bakura reached over and picked it up. When he brought it back up they saw that it was moving.
Keara took it and everyone was ready to pounce if it was something dangerous.
She opened it and pulled out a tiny pup. Everyone knew they were crooked but not that crooked.
She reached back in and pulled out 4 more pups. All of them were small and shaking.
"They look like they were just born tonight. They're cold and need a lot of mother's milk."
Yami sniffed them and growled.
"These are Pegasus's and Dartz's pups."
"That doesn't matter right now Yami. These pups need milk or they will die."
Yami was a bit reluctant but agreed to have them in the camp.
They were taken back and inside the tent. Everyone found that Yugi was awake, along with the other hikari's by his side.
When he saw the pups, Yugi went and laid down with his nipples up. Everyone put them at a nipple so they could drink.
"We found these pups in a sack in the lake. They're Pegasus's and Dartz's children. Apparently they wanted to get rid of them because they are half were animals."
Yugi nodded and looked down feeling sorry for the pups. He gently licked them to try and keep them warm.
Yami didn't like the idea but they needed a mother's milk.
Everyone went to sleep again and all was at peace. Keara was the only one up. She still thought something was wrong.
The pups just appear out of the lake. She was thinking it was a trap but how could it when they still had their eyes closed.
Her head was hurting so she decided to stop thinking.
The rest of the night was peaceful.