Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Baby of Mine ❯ The Joys of Parenthood ( Chapter 39 )

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Gralnak: I kinda wanted to do this before the trial. Trial next chappie. Then lemon.

Danae: Marik will certainly learn patience….*evil grin *

Dragondreamer: Mmmmm….Seto kicking ass *drools *

Lupusdragon: Ryou will turn male again, but the babies will be resilient. Don't worry.

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Ssjgoddesschico: It's a busy life. Not to mention, I'm doing other major things besides posting everyday, working, and going to school. I'm planning…. *Bakura kicks Bakurasgirl*. Ooops. I guess Bakura wants me to stay quiet. I have to tell him to stop kicking me.

Mystical Elf: Actually, the babies are under Anubis' spell. It would take a lot for them to break it. But they will get help.

Falling Leaves: I know…so many Rod jokes….so little time

The Joys of Parenthood

Bakura hugged Ryou closely in her sleep. Ryou opened her eyes slowly as

Bakura stroked her cheek with his palm. She turned around and looked Bakura

in the eyes. In the corner of the room, the cradle slightly moved with the

small waving motions of Aria playing with her pink bunny plushie.

Ryou rolled over and smiled at him. She brought Bakura's head down into a

passionate kiss. Bakura pressed his lips to hers and brought his arm around

her to hold her close. She breathed his warm breath into her own lungs as

his soft tongue penetrated into her mouth. Ryou giggled into his mouth as

she brought her hands under his shirt rubbing his back in sensual circles.

Bakura began to move against her as she caressed him.

"Oh, Ryou....I love you," Bakura moaned as Ryou turned him into a groaning,

moaning yami-puddle.

The cradle rocked again. The squeak of the cradle matched the squeak of the

bed as Bakura pulled himself on top of his hikari. He positioned himself so

he wouldn't be laying on her stiches from when she had her C-section. He

propped himself up on his knees and elbows careful not to press down on her

too much.

"Bakura...Bakura, I love you so much!"

Bakura kissed down Ryou's neck as she threw her arms around him and wrapped

her legs around him to bring him closer to her. The yami could hardly

control himself as Ryou's hands kneaded his tense back muscles and as she

squirmed against him making him whine.

"You...are...such a tease....Ryou...," Bakura could barely say from holding

back the desire to take Ryou like never before thought possible.

"I don't see you complaining, yami," she snickered at the helpless,

sweating, whining yami.

Bakura's body was quickly reacting to the gentle brushing of the area by

Ryou. "Ryou....I want you.....Please....Let me take you.."

Ryou pulled down Bakura's head for a kiss. "I want you, baby. I want you

badly."

"Oh, Ryou...I...."

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! WAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" The baby girl began to cry from

her crib. Bakura grunted as Ryou slipped from under him. Ryou picked up

the crying baby and brought her into the bed with her and Bakura. "What's

wrong, Aria? What's the matter, baby girl?"

Bakura sat back and saw that Aria's hair covered her head. It began to

spike like Bakura's hair, especially on the top of the head.

"I can't believe it! My daughter's got my hair!" Bakura said in shock.

"Neither can I. I wonder what Aten looks like."

Aria rubbed her eyes on her mother's chest.

"Aria, don't cry, baby. It's alright."

Bakura picked up Aria's bunny plushie. The baby didn't stop crying when he

played with it in front of her. Aria didn'tstop crying.

"Are you hungry, Aria?" Aria refused to feed off of Ryou.

Bakura grabbed the Millenium Rod toy from the cradle. On it were marks as

if she was trying to chew on it. "I think she may be teething."

Aria's cry became a piercing wail. Ryou looked inside Aria's mouth and saw

the crowns of teeth coming in. "This is all happening too fast, Bakura!

They shouldn't be having their teeth yet."

From the next room a piercing cry came. A few minutes later, Malik came in

rocking a crying Aten. Some of Aten's hair also came in. His hair was

white and was flat like Ryou's hair. The only difference between mother and

son were blonde streaks which covered Aten's hair in irregular patterns.

Malik yawned and kissed Aten's hair. "Ryou, he won't stop crying. I tried

feeding him, it won't work. I've tried playing with him."

Bakura pulled out a clear teething ring and gave it to Aria. Aria dug her

mouth onto it ferociously trying to bite it. Ryou handed Malik a blue

teething ring and Aten slowly stopped crying.

Bakura went downstairs to get breakfast together. Marik held two bottles of baby food and put it on the counter. Bakura looked at the food and two spoons and folded his arms across his chest.

"Marik Ishtar, do you have any idea how to feed an infant?"

"Should we even be feeding them yet? Isn't Ryou feeding them?"

"She still is, but Aria doesn't take breastfeeding too well. Ryou didn't want to leave Aten out. What you do to one, we should do to both of them. We don't want Aten to get jealous. Besides, you never answered my question. Do you have any idea how to feed an infant?"

Marik leaned against the wall. "The same way my dad fed me as a kid. He threw me a spoon and a bowl of anything he could find in the streets and said "eat." That's how I ate."

Bakura put the bottles in the microwave. "You have to heat the food up, genius. Remember Ryou? He never ate the food cold. He hated it. He liked his warmed."

Marik pulled out the bottle of orange juice and glasses. "Well, I never did this before, Itemri. Cut me some slack."

"I'm just telling you how to do it, Ishtar. You feed Aten and I'll feed Aria. It's not that hard."

Malik and Ryou came downstairs with the infants. Aten still held onto his Change of Heart plushie. Aria held onto her floppy-eared pink bunny. Malik and Ryou began making eggs and toast. The fathers were left to feed the babies.

Marik put Aten on the high chair that Yugi sent him. Aria was placed on her own high chair. Ryou and Malik put their bibs on and once again hugged the infants before continuing with breakfast.

Marik took the jar of steamed carrots and watched Bakura stir Aria's own jar of steamed carrots.

Aria watched her father stir the jar and smiled at him waving her arms excitedly. Bakura took the spoon and flew it around like an airplane. "Here comes the airplane, Aria. Open wide." Aria's mouth opened and she bit on the spoon as hard as she could with her toothless mouth.

Marik looked at Aten who looked less than enthusiastic about eating from the bottle. Marik put some on the spoon. "Open wide, son." Aten's blue eyes just looked at Marik.

"Aten. Open up."

Aten looked at Ryou and whimpered.

Marik put the spoon to Aten's mouth. "Aten, son, you have to eat."

Aten reached for his mother. Aria was fighting Bakura for the spoon.

"Aten, for the love of Ra, you have to eat." Marik put the spoon in Aten's mouth and Aten began to cry. The baby spit the food out at Marik.

Ryou turned around and saw Aten reaching for her. "Marik, if Aten isn't ready for baby food yet, that's ok. He's not ready."

Aria reached for the bottle of baby food. Bakura made the mistake up leaving the bottle on the high chair and Aria brought the bottle to her mouth licking the inside and getting steamed carrots all over her face and clothes.

"But Aria is almost done hers."

Ryou saw her daughter now completely covered in steamed carrots. "Yami, you left the bottle of carrots with her! Aria Kanika, now you need a bath, sweetheart." Bakura ran back and he wiped her face. Aria took a handful of steamed carrots and threw it hitting her father in the face. Bakura wiped his face clean. The baby girl laughed and chuckled.

Ryou picked up Aten who wrapped his arms around her whining.

"Aria is done eating," Bakura said picking the orange vegetable out of his hair as well as his face.

"Yami, can you give her a bath and put on a new diaper?"

"Diaper?"

"Yes. Diaper."

Bakura watched Aria once again suck on her fist covered in carrots. "Why can't you bathe her?"

"Because I have to feed Aten and I can't cook breakfast, bathe one baby, change her diaper, all while breastfeeding another baby, ok?"

Ryou carried Aten upstairs. Bakura picked up Aria and held her. Malik behind him made a chuckling sound. Bakura turned around. "What's wrong with you now?"

Malik covered his mouth to silence his laughing, but it failed. "Your daughter…..Aria just spat up on you. You've got carrots on your back."

Bakura turned around and saw the carrots. "Aria, can't you hold it in?"

Aria began to cry. Bakura's eyes went wide. "I just fed you. What is wrong?" Aria broke into a wail. "Ryou?" Ryou didn't answer.

"She won't stop crying! Malik, what do I do?"

Malik took Aria from Bakura and pat her back while singing to her.

Hush little baby don't you cry

Daddy's gonna get you the Millenium Eye

And if that Millenium Eye can't bring

You good fortune, then the Millenium Ring

Aria let out a whimper and burped. Her crying ceased and Bakura and Marik stood stunned.

"How did you get to know so much about kids, Malik?"

Malik shrugged. "I don't know. It just seems natural to assume that if a baby cries she either wants food, sleep, diaper changed, or wants to be burped. We already fed her, so she wasn't hungry. She just woke up, so she's not tired. It was either she needs her diaper changed or wanted to be burped. Actually…..Bakura…it feels like she needs to be changed. Give her a bath first."

Bakura left the kitchen grumbling.

Marik raised an eyebrow to his hikari. "You know too much of this stuff for your own good. You're like Ryou."

"Well, then I guess that makes me another mommy, doesn't it?" Malik giggled with the thought of being the second mommy. "Besides, I take that as a compliment. So if you tried to insult me, Marik Ishtar, you failed."

Marik took Malik by the hips and pulled him close to his body. "It's a shame you can't be another mommy, Malik. I would have loved to do this with you, too."

Malik laughed and hugged Marik. "I know, yami. But Aten looks like us. He's tan like us. The only difference is that white hair of Ryou's! He even has our blonde hair! I feel like he's mine."

"He is, tenshi. He is all of ours."

"Ryou, how do you get this off?"

Malik kissed his yami. "We really should help Bakura."

"Yami, I'm a little busy now," Ryou called from her bedroom.

Marik and Malik ran upstairs to the bathroom. Bakura was filling the tub with water and was trying to open Aria's sleeper outfit.

Bakura was dressed only in a towel as he held Aria. Malik helped Bakura undress Aria. Marik and Bakura almost ran from the room when Malik removed her diaper. Malik smiled at Aria and sat her up. "Time for bathies, baby girl!"

Aria smiled. Bakura sat in the tub and Aria sat between his legs. Bakura kept praying to every god in heaven that Aria wouldn't kick or move back suddenly.

Malik picked up the rubber ducky and sang.

Rubber Ducky

You're the one…

"Malik!" Bakura said grabbing Malik's shoulder. "We've already done that song before. Yami sang that to Ryou. Please don't subject me to another round of The Rubber Ducky Song!"

Malik shrugged and began to sing "The Itsy Bitsy Spider."

Ryou came into the bathroom and held Aten. She had her bathrobe on. "How's the water?"

"Fine. Does Aten need a bath, too?"

"I think he does. Marik? Malik, can you excuse us?"

Malik dropped the bath toys and Marik sighed in disappointment. Bakura put Aten in the water after taking him from Ryou. Ryou slowly untied her bathrobe and let it fall to the ground. She slipped into the water and she took Aten. Bakura took the washcloth and lathered up the soap. Ryou squeezed shampoo into Aten's white and blonde hair.

Aria splashed her brother laughing. Aten turned around to face his mother and buried his face in her chest.

"Aria, let daddy wash your hair."

Bakura handed Ryou the washcloth. Aria picked up the rubber duck and began to gnaw on it. Ryou smirked and moved her foot a little to the right making Bakura's eyes shoot open wide. Ryou smiled and felt Bakura try to move back, but only succeeded in getting more of his body into contact with Ryou's foot.

The babies began to play with the squeaky bath toys and trying to push them under the water. Their buoyancy brought them right back to the surface. The babies were too involved in their play to notice their father's head against the tile thrown back.

"Ryou…Ra….."

Bakura's hands gripped the sides of the tub and brought his head down to watch Aria play with her toy. "Ryou….the babies…are still here……"Bakura tried desperately not to move in time with Ryou's foot as it pressed against him and moved away.

"I'm only teasing…."Ryou moved her foot away and came to her knees. "We shall continue this tonight, yami. You and I. I love you, yami. We have to do this without Aria and Aten here."

Ryou kissed her yami's lips and rinsed off Aten. Bakura rinsed off Aria, but understandably was in no position to move or stand up. Ryou dried the infants and put clean diapers on them. Ryou looked down at Bakura.

"Yami, aren't you getting out of the tub?"

"I'm…I'm gonna sit here for a while."

Ryou gave them their teething rings back after they began to whimper. Ryou opened the door and yelled to Malik.

"Malik, can you take these two downstairs to their playpen?"

Malik walked the infants downstairs. Ryou turned to Bakura.

"Don't forget, yami. That trial is today."

"I know, Ryou," Bakura sighed. "You are going to have to go with me. They need me to testify as Bakura. We're going to have to go together."

Ryou looked at her belly, still slightly swollen, but healing. "How can I hide this?"

"Big shirts. You have plenty. Just hide yourself and your…..endowments…and you'll be fine."

"Aten has to eat every couple of hours. I'll have to take him with us."

"Malik can watch Aria for us. Marik and Malik need to spend time with her anyway."

Bakura nodded and struggled out of the tub. Bakura wrapped the towel around him.

"We'll have to do this later sometime, Ryou."

"We'll put them to bed and spend some time together." Ryou kissed Bakura on the neck gently grazing her teeth over Bakura's throat.

Bakura held her close. "Can't wait, Ryou."

Ryou held him tightly. "Neither can I."

Next Chappie: Trial continues.