"Jono, when you wake up?" I smiled and ruffled his hair
"Soon kiddo, I promise."
"But don`t worry squirt, you can see him here until he does wake up." Akefia reminded and Yugi nodded
"Me go now papa wants to play ball." We both nodded
"Okay Yugi, We`ll see you later."
"See ya squirt." Akefia said before Yugi disappeared from his hold
"Well that was eventful."
"Yeah, is your grandpa ever going to leave?"
"Hopefully he`ll leave soon, and he`ll take Mai with him."
"Dad we all pray for that."
Atem`s Pov
On the way back to the palace Yugi had fallen asleep in my hold; I smiled down at him as we arrived back at my chambers. Yami had a hold of the ball I had bought for Yugi, I laid Yugi don`t on the bed before taking a hold of Yami`s hand and leading him out onto the balcony
"Why are we out here Atem?"
"Because I wanted to talk to you without disturbing Yugi from his sleep."
"Oh, so what do you want to talk about?"
"Why did you leave? And I know it wasn`t because you stopped loving me or hat you were causing trouble."
"I-I just felt like a burden and I thought I was the cause of Yugi getting hurt."
"Yami, it was an accident he`s fine now and he`s going to be fine, it`s not like he`s suddenly going to take a turn for the worst."
"I know, but I still thought-"
"Well don`t because it wasn`t your fault, it would have happened if I was in your place or anyone else, and you know that Yugi is quite jumpy when he wakes up." He lowered his head
"I know." I slid a hand under his chin and forced him to look at me
"this isn`t going to happen again is it?" he was quiet "Because if you still want to leave, you best do it now." I let go of him and turned to look across the kingdom when I felt arms around my waist
"I`m not leaving, it was hard the first time and I don`t want to d that again." I smiled and turned around before embracing him and nuzzling my face into his hair
"I`m glad."
"So am I."
"Now, why don`t we play ball with Yugi? Besides you need to make up for leaving." He sighed
"I know, he said to me earlier that I didn`t love you because I left." I chuckled
"He said that to me as well, but I think he was trying to make me feel better."
"I bet, but it wasn`t true and I am really sorry." I shook my head
"Enough now, let's go play ball with Yugi." He nodded and we walked inside before I walked over to the bed and shook Yugi.
"Yugi, wake up, Yami and I are going to play ball if you want to play." He slowly began to wake up, rubbing his eyes in a cute fashion before he raised his arms up to me. I smiled and picked him up before he leant his head on my shoulder
"Me play ball too." I chuckled and turned to Yami to find him smiling and holding Yugi`s ball
"Let`s go to the garden then." Yami nodded and walked out the room
"Papa, me tired."
"I know Little one, but you had to wake up or you wouldn`t have slept to night…don`t worry you`ll wake up when we start to play ball." I got no response and looked down at him to see that he had fallen asleep again, I chuckled and carried him out of the room only to see Bakura and Marik stood in front of Yami with their arms crossed. I sighed and walked over
"Look I said I was sorry." Yami said to the pair
"Well sorry isn`t good enough." Marik stated
"Guys enough, it`s not going to happen again so you can stop now." They all looked at me and Yami smiled softly
"I thought we were going to play ball with Yugi." Yami said
"We are, I'll wake him up again once we get to the gardens."
"You can`t wake him up, he`s sleeping." Marik stated
"Well no duh, but I can`t let him keep sleeping if I do he won't sleep tonight and we all know how that worked out last time don`t we?" the pair groaned
"Don`t remind me, we were running after him all night."
"Honda and Otogi found it very amusing, not to mention they were the ones that caught him." Yami said
"Now do we want a repeat of that?"
"NO!" Bakura, Marik and Yami yelled causing Yugi to jump in my hold and wake him up and I growled
"You`re lucky I didn`t drop him."
"Heh, Sorry Atem." Marik said
"Papa, play ball now?" I looked down at Yugi to see him sleepily rubbing his eyes, I smiled
"Yes Yugi we are going to the garden to play ball."
"Uncle Ma-ik and uncle Ku-a come too?" I shrugged
"If they want to."
"Sure we`ll come play ball with you Yugi." Bakura said after Yugi had given them the sleepy puppy dog look, I chuckled and walked past them
"And you say I`m whipped."
"Hey!" both called causing Yami and I to chuckle and Yugi yawned
"Alright let`s go to the garden so this little one can wake up." Yami nodded, Bakura and Marik followed