His face light up in a bright smile and he jumped up and hugged me
"Thank you Papa." I laughed and held him at shoulder length
"You`re welcome Yugi, come on I drew you a bath, it`s not deep and it`s not too hot either." He smiled
"Papa up, up." I chuckled and picked him up before carrying him into the bathroom and set him down
"Do you want to do it yourself? Or do you want me to help?"
"Me do it myself, you watch." I smiled
"Alright." I sat down in the chair he uses to stand on to reach the sink, I watched as he washed himself, I closed my eyes for a few seconds and thought back to the first day I met Yugi
Flashback
I walked through town with Seth just embracing the freedom from the Palace wall. I sighed and took a deep breath in. And I heard Seth chuckle beside me
"Enjoying your freedom?"
"Immensely, thank you for doing this Seth."
"You`re welcome, I just thought you could use some time away from the place."
"Well I appreciate it." we carried on walking past stalls and vendors when a heard a whine and then a whimper coming from something covered in a white sheet
"Atem did you heard that?"
"Yes Seth, it sounded like a baby whimpering and whining and its coming from under there." I pointed to the white sheet. Seth and I walked over to the stall and Seth started to lift the sheet only to be stopped by the stall owner
"Pharaoh, High Priest is there something I can help you with?" the man asked
"Yes, we`d like to see what is under this sheet."
"Ah, I` afraid that`s not possible."
"And why`s that?" Seth asked
"Because it`s my stall."
"And this is the Pharaoh`s Kingdom if he wants to see what is under the sheet, you will let him Ra damn it!" I placed a hand on Seth`s shoulder
"Calm yourself cousin, you have one chance you either let me see or I will have you arrested for refusal." The man growled before lifting the sheet. There was a cage there and inside the cage was a young baby.
The tiny child had small black cat ears tipped in amethyst flat against his head and a long black tail with a soft amethyst tip wrapped around his waist. His hair was a deep black with purple tips. His eyes the same colour as the tips of his long hair were narrowed and filled with tears that were threatening to follow the tracks of many more that had fallen before them.
I knelt down in front of the cage and opened the door. I carefully picked up the child and pulled him out of the cage and into my arms. The child stiffened before relaxing and snuggling into my chest.
"Why are you doing? that`s my property!"
"Property?! A child is not something that can be bought! A child is something you care for and love! If the Pharaoh wants to take the child with him he will." Seth explained
"I suggest you pack up and leave my kingdom before I change my mind and send guards down here to arrest you." I walked away from the stall with the child carefully wrapped up into my arms, soundly sleeping
"Atem, what are you going to do with the child?" Seth asked
"Well, first I`m going to get it checked out by Isis, then we`ll see where we go from there."
"I think that is a wise choice." We both looked down as we heard the young one sigh in content
"Though he does seem to be very comfy in your arms Atem."
"He does? Never the less let's get back to the Palace and have him checked over." We arrived back at the Palace ten minutes later and headed straight to Isis`s healing chambers and walked inside
"Isis, are you here?" Seth asked, a few moments later Isis walked out of her office
"Yes, what may I help the pair of you with?"
"Mew? (Hello?)" I looked down to see confused amethyst eyes looking up at me
"Hello Little One."
"Mew (hello)" I smiled down at him before looking at Isis
"I need you to look him over to make sure he is alright."
"Of course, might I ask where you find him?" I walked over to the bed to set him down on it but he only clung to my tunic
"He was caged at one of the stalls in town, the cage was covered over with a sheet, if it wasn't for him whimpering and whining we wouldn't have found him." Seth explained, I tried to set the child down again which resulted in him clinging tighter accidently catching me with his claws
"It looks like he doesn`t want to let go of you Pharaoh." Isis commented
"Yes it looks that way, come on Little One Isis won`t hurt you, she just wants to make sure you`re okay."
"Mew Mew? (No hurt?)" He looked up at me with worried eyes
"I promise no harm will come to you, you can come right back into my arms after Isis has checked you over, but you must let go first." the child slowly let go and I gently place him on the bed before moving back to stand next to Seth earning a wine from the child I chuckled as Isis did a quick check over of him. After she was finished I walked back over and picked him up before he could start his whining. He clung to my tunic and snuggled up to my chest
"He seems to be okay apart from a few bruises he should be fine."
"Thank you Isis."
"Just out of curiosity will you be naming the young one?"
"You might as well Atem, I doubt he`ll want to be away for you." Seth commented
"Um...I think I`ll name him Yugi, do you like that name little one?" he looked up at me and smiled
"Mew (Yes)" I chuckled
Flashback end
"Papa, Papa, PAPA!" I snapped my eyes open and looked at Yugi to see him smiling at me
"Are you done?" he nodded and raised his arms, I chuckled and picked up a towel before walking over to Yugi and wrapping the towel around him and lifting him out and into my arms, wrapping him up like a new born baby making him giggle. I chuckled and drained the bath before walking back into the bedroom and picking up Yugi`s outfit and sitting down on the bed before drying him and dressing him into his clothes and sitting him down on my knee
"There all dressed."
"Just like papa." I chuckled
"Yep, just like me."
"Papa, we see Jono now?"
"How about we go see uncle Bakura and uncle Marik first, they told me If I didn`t bring you to seen them first this morning they would disrupt all of my meeting of the next three weeks." Yugi giggled
"Okay see uncle Ku-a and Ma-ik first." I smiled and picked him up before standing up
"Thank you Yugi, you saved my meetings." He giggled
"Papa work important."
"Yes it is." I walked out of my chambers and headed to Marik and Bakura`s office where they said they would be and knocked on the door, seconds later Ryou opened the door and stepped aside to let us in before closing the door behind us
"You kept your word." Bakura stated and I sat down at the table and set Yugi on my lap
"I said I would, now leave my meetings alone." Marik said
"We will, no hand over Yugi." I sighed and lifted Yugi up to Marik to quickly took him and set him on the table
"Happy birthday little one." Marik said and handed Yugi a wrapped box who happily took it and se it down next to him
"why aren`t you opening it Yugi?" Bakura asked
"Jono no here, Jono always here when I open gifts."
"Well I might as well give you mine now cause you don`t have to open this one, you just have to wear it." Bakura said and stood up for him seat and walked over to his desk and picked up something and walked back over before placing something around Yugi`s neck and sitting back down