Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Baby of Mine ❯ In the Light of the Fire ( Chapter 44 )

Warnings: Some yaoi-ish elements, but no lemon scenes in this chappie.

Michael: Thanks, hunny. That's so cute! Dark magician chew toy!

Mystical Elf78: * hugs back * I'm glad you liked it!

SuperJM: Thanks. I thought the last two were pretty good. This chappie was fun to write.

Ssjgodesschico: I thought it would be cute if she said daddy.

Danae: I know! Aren't they adorable?

Gralnak: Aten will try to resist.

Ryousmistress: I can try to work Marik being your…you know. But I have to add you as an OC. Of course, I need your permission to do that.

Dragondreamer: Busy Beaver. *snicker *

In the Light of the Fire

Ryou's POV

I hugged my daughter after she spoke for the first time. It was as if nothing in the world mattered at that moment. I kissed her forehead as I felt Bakura put his arms around us. When my eyes closed slowly, he kissed my forehead as I drifted into sleep.

**************Dream Sequence*************

I opened my eyes slowly and found myself in Yugi's Game Shop. Yugi was nudging me awake.

"Ryou? Are you awake? Are you going to take this card or not?"

Yugi showed me the Graceful Charity card.

"Oh. Sorry, Yugi. I must have dozed off there. Yeah, sure, I'll take it. My deck could use one."

Yugi sold me the card and I left the store. Outside, I saw a black and purple haze fill the air. It smelled like burning wood…and something else. Fire engine sirens blared as they raced towards the source of the thick smoke. I began to walk home and saw the cloud get thicker as I approached. I began to hear Malik's cries of desperation come from the source of the smoke.

Yugi called to me. "Aren't you going to shop longer, Ryou? Didn't you say you also wanted Skull Dice cards? I got them in."

I turned to Yugi. "I can't, Yugi! I hear Malik and he doesn't sound right."

Yugi pulled on my arm. "You can't go, Ryou. You have to stay and shop longer."

Malik's cries became wails and cries of panic.

"Yugi, I really must go. Malik needs me!"

I pulled away from Yugi and I ran home. A crowd was gathered by my street blocking me out. I struggled through the crowd when I saw the source of Malik's screams. My home…our home was engulfed in flames. I pushed through the police. Marik was standing there with his Millenium Rod in hand and Bakura leaned against him. Seto and Joey were sitting on the pavement making out, touching, and groping each other.

My heart stopped and I ran to Malik. Where was Aria and Aten?

"Where are my babies, Malik?"

Malik grabbed onto me tightly shaking me and running his words together in panic. "IDON'TKNOWIHEARDANEXPLOSIONDOWNSTAIRSANDFLAMESCAMEOOUTOFTHEBASEMENT… "

"Malik, tell me slowly!"

"I don't know. There was an explosion in the basement. I heard something burst and the force threw me out of the window!"

"Aria? Aten?"

Malik pulled at his hair sobbing. "They are still in there!"

Everything stopped for me in that moment. My babies were in danger! I turned to Seto and Joey.

"Seto, help me get my babies out!"

Seto crawled on top of Joey still fondling him intensely making the blonde arch and beg for more. "Why? The fire is creating the perfect mood for us. Oh, puppy……."

"My babies are in there!"

"Harder, puppy…good boy."

I pulled at Bakura and Marik. "Our babies are in there! Please help me!" Every second they stood there, by babies were in that burning house.

Bakura shrugged. "I am not going in there. It's too hot."

Marik gripped the Rod. "The fire is pretty, Bakura. Malik, come over here!"

Malik and I were too shaken to move. Marik grabbed Malik and began to kiss him. Malik struggled with his yami. "Aten is in there, you cold-hearted bastard! Aten!"

"That's all you can think of, Marik?!"

"Calm down, Ryou. We can always try again later."

I couldn't stand it! I raised my hand and slapped Marik in the face. "No, we are not trying again! I am saving my children, my offspring, my family! You stay here and lay Malik all you want! What the hell? Why don't you, Seto, and Joey have a freakin' orgy out here!"

Bakura turned to Marik. "What about me?"

I slapped Bakura, too. "You won't even try to save your child. Join them for all I care, yami! Malik, where were Aria and Aten?"

"Aten was upstairs in his room! Aria was in the living room, but went upstairs for her brother," Malik said as Marik dragged him towards where Seto was stripping Joey quickly.

I darted towards the heat, but the firemen stopped me saying I was "hysterical."

"I am not leaving my babies in there to die!" I bit and kicked the firemen and burst inside.

"Lady, you are going to die in there! The heat is intense!"

"Aria! Aten!"

"Mommy! Mommy!" I heard Aria's voice call to me from upstairs. Every god was thanked that she was still alive. The heat was exhausting. I could hear Aria coughing upstairs. Yes, this could cost me everything, but my children mean everything to me. What parent would not run into a burning house to save their child? I covered my mouth. The air was so hot, I could feel myself breathing in the cinders. Breathing in the heat was painful. I could only imagine in what state Aten was in with his bad heart.

I heard falling wood from upstairs crash into the kitchen. The sparks jumped onto me, but I quickly removed my overcoat. The stairs were very unstable. I rushed up to them as quickly as I could.

"Mommy! Mommy!"

"Mom!"

Aten's voice! "Hold on, babies! I'm coming!" I was lucky to make it up the stairs. The second floor hallway was unstable.

"Mommy!"

It was coming from Malik's room! I opened the door and found Aria and Aten hugging each other tightly on the floor. They looked around fourteen years old. They had their noses and mouths covered, but it was obvious it was taking its toll more on Aten.

I ran to them and hugged them grateful that they were alive. "Come on, Aria. I have Aten. You leave!"

"I can't leave without my brother, mommy!"

There was a crash downstairs as we heard some of the floor fall. "Alright. Try to stay as low to the ground as you can."

We picked Aten out of bed as he was too unsteady with the smoke to move. I tried to encourage them and keep them calm as the very foundation of the house shook around us. A pile of burning debris fell onto the stairs. With the stairs so worn away with the fire, our squeaky foundation failed us and we fell with the stairs. Aria screamed as the burning house began to collapse around us.

"Aria, run for it! Go, baby! Come on, Aten, get up!"

"I c-c-c-c-can't, m-mommy," Aten shook.

"Aria, please go."

To my relief, Aria fled the home. I pulled and tugged at Aten as the first floor boards started to cave in around us.

"Aten, please, son. You have to get to your feet."

A piece of the roof fell and I threw myself on top of Aten to protect him. The boards fell through the floor boards.

"Aten, please get up."

"Mommy…can't breathe. My chest hurts."

Outside I heard Aria crying to Marik and Malik. "Daddy Marik, stop hitting mom's ass and run in and rescue my brother and my mommy! Uncle Seto! Puppy! Daddy Marik! Daddy!"

I pulled Aten by the arm nearly dragging my boy to the door. I pulled him out of the home and to the lawn. Aria ran to us and hugged her brother. In the light of the fire, I could see my children's faces were blackened with the smoke and soot. Aten looked burned on his arm and the sides of his neck from the fallen debris.

"Someone called for an ambulance!" Aria cried to the firemen. The firemen watched my drama calmly and passively. Aten's coughing became worse.

"Breathe, baby," I said as I leaned down and listened to his chest. His heart and his breathing were slowing down. "Bakura, come help us!" Bakura watched something that interested him more than Aten, Aria, and myself. "Bakura! Get over here!"

My attention was drawn back to Aria kissing her brother and hugging him.

I rubbed my son's forehead not knowing what to do. I feared for Aten's life.

"Why won't somebody help me?" I cried as the moans from the scene behind me grew louder. "Aten?"

Aten brought me down for a kiss and he laid his head back on the grass. "You saved me, mommy."

I placed my head on his chest unable to block out the sounds from behind me and my son lying helpless on the grass.

"Aten, baby, I love you."

He raised his hand and pet my hair. "It's ok, mommy. It's going to be ok."

Suddenly, the sounds behind me, the burning house, everything disappeared. Total darkness surrounded me. My son was gone. I stood up frantically looking.

"Aten? Baby? Aria? Sweetheart?"

A voice hung in the air. "You passed your test, Ryou Bakura."

"What test?"

A room came slowly into view. It was my parent's room in my old house. I jumped back as I heard movement behind me.

"Who's there?" I turned around to see my mother, Rhea. "Mommy?!" I ran to her and hugged her. "Mommy, where are Aria and Aten? Are they alright? Is Aten safe? Is he breathing ok? How's his heart? Is Aria alive? Is she hurt?"

My mother pet my hair gently and held me in her arms. "They are fine, my angel. Your babies are safe because you risked your life to save them."

"I would do anything to save them. I love them. They are the only family I have. After you died, mother….after daddy killed you, I had no family. I had no one to love. I had to risk my lives to save my children. I love them."

Rhea kissed me on the forehead. "To save your children, my son, you must risk your life. You must put yourself in mortal danger to save them from a force that even I may not be able to match."

"To save them?"

"A force is attempting to control the bodies of your children, Ryou. That force is bent on destroying you."

"Anubis."

"Destroy Anubis and you will eliminate the spirit from your children. To do that, you must risk everything. You must face this evil alone. That is why no one came to your aid. When you fight this evil, Ryou, my boy, you will be alone. Your life and those of the children will hang in the balance."

I sighed. I have to fight my own flesh and blood? "What if I do not?"

"Then you will die. Malik will die. Yugi will die. Aria and Aten will be a plague upon the earth. They will bring destruction to the world. Aten will follow his sister blindly. Aria will rule with an iron fist. The baby that sleeps beside you…..is a vicious murderer, my son. The hands that she holds her bunny dolls now will take Malik's life away. Her hands will handle weapons and her life will be ruled by hatred. She will even take her brother's life."

This was not happening! "Aria is going to kill Aten?"

"She has the potential, Ryou. She has the motivation and the drive to destroy all around her…even her father is not immune."

How could she hurt yami?

"Aria and Aten were bred by immortal blood. The yamis are immortal. You, my boy, are mortal. Aria will live long after you have turned to dust. She will live a very long time."

"Aten?"

"Aten will not, Ryou. I'm sorry. Aria will exist for millenia. Your children are mortal, Ryou. They can die, but it will take much to destroy them."

I didn't want to think of my son in that way. I want him to live.

"I wanted to see if you truly would put your own safety before that of your children. This dream was a test for you. I'm glad you passed."

Rhea kissed me on the forehead.

"No, Ryou. While I cannot defeat Anubis, I can reward you for your good deeds and your love for your children. I am going to reward you."

Rhea kissed me on the cheek. "Wake up, Ryou."

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I woke up startled from the dream to find my little girl still sleeping beside me cuddled up to my chest with her bunny doll. She didn't look dirty. Her hair was still up in ponytails on each side of her head. She was sucking her thumb in her sleep and her eyes fluttered with her dreams. I kissed her head and rolled out of bed.

I went to the bathroom window to look at my eyes and to splash some cold water on my face. I washed my face and Marik came to the bathroom door.

"Ryou, are you OK?"

I opened the door and he jumped back.

"Ryou! What happened to your……breasts? What did you do to them? Where are they?"

I looked down. My breasts were gone. I quickly removed my shirt and found my chest was flattened as before. That means…..! As quickly as I opened the door, I shut the door and unbuckled my pants. IT WAS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FINALLY HAD MY….MYSELF BACK TO NORMAL!

I opened the door to the bathroom, forgetting to zip my pants up again. "Marik! I have it back! It's back!"

Marik watched me run into my bedroom and shake Bakura awake. "Yami! Yami! Wake up! I'm back to normal!"

Bakura opened his eyes and rolled over. "What?"

"I got my…you know…back!"

"What?" he still looked tired.

"My…ahem…my daughter is in the bed next to you. I am not saying this in front of her."

I pulled Bakura out of bed and into the bathroom. "Look what I got!"

Bakura yawned. "Yeah, I got one, too. So?"

"I'm a boy again, you ass!"

Bakura's eyes went wide. "You what?"

"I'm a boy again!" I took my hands and brought it to me. Oh…I forgot how good that feels! Mmm……yami.

"Yes, Ryou, you certainly…are a boy," my yami whimpered as he continued.

Malik banged on the door. "Are you both done in there? Some of us have to use the bathroom!"

I opened the door and Malike stared at me. He noticed my change immediately. "Ryou! You're back!"

He hugged me tightly. I missed my body. Now I had to decide how to celebrate…..

Next Chappie: VOTE!: DO YOU GUYS WANT A BAKURA X RYOU? A THREESOME OR A FOURSOME CHAPPIE? PAIRS OR FOURSOME? OR NO LEMON? I know…a lemon seems like a more logical continuation…I AM YAOI DEPRIVED, PEOPLE! I need yaoi!