Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Hostile Takeover ❯ Little Soldiers ( Chapter 18 )

Shadow of Light: Job hunting is hard. Aku needed torture.

Iyyashi: What Aria said was just her. Oh, Malik's punishment will come soon…real soon..next chappie.

Ryous mistress: I'm glad you like, honey. I did it for you!

Acidflower: *blush* I weawwy twy.!!

Lady ELfskye: you know what they say….Revenge is a dish best served cold…my fave saying

Dragondreamer: I never gave any indication that Anzu was human.

Valea: Payback is good.

Malik Lover and Anzu Basher: *pout* I love that! YEAH HOSPITAL!!hehehehe….

bakachibi viodfox: *pout* ok! *Hands Yami plushie*

Bwuebewwy sugar princess: poor Aku…lost effort, man

Little Soldiers

Malik entered the plant store looking for new plants for his garden. Aku grinned as he saw Nightshade, a highly poisonous plant. He also picked up some foxglove.

[What are you doing?]

Aku laughed. //I'm reconstructing your garden.//

Malik picked up a rose bush that already had several buds. "It won't take much for me to remove the buds. Then I'll have a nice thorn bush.

['Reconstructing my garden?' It took me months to get that garden just perfect! I spent countless hours working on it!]

//This is my garden now, mortal! Just like this is my body now! So get used to it, my little puppet!//

Malik bought more plants and returned home. He ripped out he blooming tulips, lilacs, daffodils, and marigolds. He picked off he buds on the rose bush one by one, laughing as they were ripped and torn apart by his hands. Marik entered the garden from the back door and approached Malik with a coffee in his hand.

"Hikari? Why did you pull the old flowers out of the garden? They were blooming well."

"I wanted a change. I hate it when things become dull and boring," Malik said sarcastically.

"Is that why you have been acting like this? Are you bored of me? We haven't been married for more than a couple of weeks."

Malik stood up and wrapped his arms around Marik's shoulders. "I've known you for about eight years, yami. It's easy to get bored of a person after eight years. Especially you."

A tear fell down Marik's cheek. "Don't you love me anymore, Malik?"

Malik smiled and stroked Marik's cheek. "Of course I love you, baby……..but only for the sex."

Marik's eyes went wide and a tear fell down his cheek. His hands lost grip of the coffee mug and it shattered at his feet. Marik ran back into the house leaving him free to continue to work on the garden.

[How could you do that to Marik? I love him!]

//This is nothing compared to the pain that you will put him through later, my little puppet.//

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Ryou and Bakura stood outside. They knocked on the door and Mrs. Morgan let them inside. She lead them to the kitchen where she had tea and chocolate chip cookies waiting for them in the middle of the table.

"Ryou, it's so nice you let Aten to come play with Robbie this afternoon. He was very upset when he didn't see Aten at school today. He was very upset when he got home. I never saw him cry like that."

Ryou smiled. "I lived in Domino all my life. My father was a famous archaeologist."

"It's so nice that Aten has Robbie to play with. Aten is so shy."

"Robbie needs a friend. He gets so self-conscious of himself sometimes. It's because of his bad foot that he doesn't have too many friends."

Ryou nodded. "Aten has spent most of his short life in the hospital."

Miranda nodded. "I know all about hospitals. I knew Robbie would be born with a club foot in the middle of my pregnancy. Daniel had been shipped out to sea, so all I had to rely on was my sister, Vera, and she was no help."

"What did she do when she discovered about Robbie?"

Miranda took a sip of her tea and stared into the liquid. "When she found out I was pregnant, she was very excited. Then, the doctors informed me that the child had a defect in its right foot. The foot was a club foot, but the bones were twisted and misshapen. Vera was furious. My own sister! Vera offered to pay for the abortion. She wanted me to kill Robbie because of his foot. Vera said he would be an 'invalid,' which I know was not going to be true. Vera wanted me to destroy the pregnancy, even without Daniel's consent! Up to this day, she wants nothing to do with Robbie." Miranda took another sip of her tea. "Two days after Robbie's birth, they performed the operation. They were unsuccessful. The doctors told me that my son would never walk normally."

Ryou nodded. "Two weeks ago, Aten was hospitalized. Aten and I were kidnapped by my father and we were placed in dark, dusty, moldy basements. Our heart medication was running low and I gave Aten all of the medicine. When we got home, he cried all the time. When we brought him home from the hospital after he was born, he cried all the time."

"Yup. I remember walking the halls with a crying baby every night for months. I didn't have my husband. I only had myself."

Ryou sighed. "Aten has a deformed left ventricle. . The doctors told me not to expect Aten to live after his fifth birthday. Aten's on very strong medication to keep his heart pumping. I cried many nights, carrying around my crying baby, not knowing if I was going to lose him. Every time he woke up from a nap, I was relieved."

"I was the same way with Robbie. When Robbie made it out of that hospital, I was so happy! I'm just glad I gave birth to Robbie when we finally settled here. Daniel and I must have moved about six times while I was pregnant. I was expected to deliver any day and the Navy shipped us to here from Philadelphia. We no sooner settled in here and I was in Domino Hospital."

Ryou took her hand. "I couldn't have imagined trying to move an entire house when I was pregnant!"

Bakura chuckled. "Yeah. It would take us a year alone to move all the beef jerky and fruit punch that you were eating every day."

Miranda shrugged. She wanted to ask how or what Ryou meant by 'when I was pregnant,' but she was always taught not to pry into people's private lives.

Bakura looked up at the clock. "We better get home, angel. We still have to get Aten and Aria bathed and give them a snack."

Ryou looked up. "Oh! I lost all track of time! Yami, can you go up and get Aten?"

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Bakura went upstairs and heard Aten and Robbie laughing. Bakura knocked on the door and opened it. Aten was standing with a bandana circling his white and blond hair. He held a fake rifle in his hand and he had camouflage makeup on his cheeks.

"Aten Bakari Ishtar? What in Ra's name are you doing wearing makeup?"

"It's coo-flage, daddy! I no tan wet de emmeny tee me! Dere he is! Bang!"

Robbie stood up from behind the bed. He also had a bandana tied around his head and he had a sash of fake ammunition around his chest. He also held a fake rifle and had camouflage make-up on.

"Aten, your father is going to have a die another death if he sees you with make-up on your face."

"We're playing Commando! Aten's the bad guy and I'm the good guy!" Aten reached over and grabbed a green silk scarf tied to a stick.

"I dot da fag! I dot da fag!"

Bakura's face blushed. "Umm….Aten…It's called a 'fLag. A flag. Not fag."

"Dat's what I tay! I dot da fag! Dippie!"

"It's 'I got the flag,' Aten."

Aten squealed and jumped. He tackled Robbie. "I dot you fag, Wobie, toe you woss dis dame!"

Robbie sighed and looked at Bakura. "Does he have to go home?"

Bakura nodded. "Yes, he does. Come on, little soldier."

Aten stood up and removed the bandana. Robbie watched as Aten's bushy hair fell to his sides.

8"No, Aten. You can keep the banada. Keep it and this way, we can play when I come over to your house sometime."

Aten's brown and purple eyes lit up. "I tan teep it?"

Robbie nodded and Aten threw himself on Robbie again and cuddled into him.

"Tankoo, Wobbie!"

Bakura picked up Aten. "Come on, little soldier."

Aten smiled. "Dat's Ass-Miral Aten Bakari Ishtar to you!"

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Malik undressed in the bathroom. Aten happily skipped into the room. Malik sat in the tub and brought Aten into the tub with him.

//Isn't this convenient…….My pet, do you see where we are?//

[ATEN! ATEN! GET OUT OF THE TUB!]

Aten picked up the rubber ducky and began playing with it. He let out a happy little squeal as he put the ducky under the water.

[Aten! Get out of the tub!]

Maik took Aten and cuddled him against his chest.

//His body is so soft and warm. I wonder if he's like this all over his body.//

[Aku! Don't let me hurt Aten! Please!]

//His body is so soft….I wonder if he's like this on the inside, too. I wonder how he would react if his good old "Mommy

Malik" explored how soft and warm his body could be.//

Aten smiled and nuzzled his cheek against Malik's chest. Malik gripped his head and Aten's head shot up.

"Mommy Mawik, are you ok?"

//Don't fight me! You can't win!//

[I will NOT let you harm Aten!]

"Aten……be…..right……back…..StayR 30;….here…" Malik struggled out of the bed holding his head.

//Trying to scan that brainless girl has weakened my control over my little puppet!//

Malik ran into his room and locked the door behind him.

[I will not let you hurt Aten like that!]

Aku gathered his strength and Malik was thrown back into his prison with a painful scream. Once in control of Malik, Aku opened the door to the bathroom again. Ryou was in there washing the happy, squealing chibi's hair.

"RYOU! I could have done that for you."

Ryou shrugged happily. "No, I can take care of Aten. Why don't you go spend some time with Marik. He's pretty upset, but he won't tell me why."

Malik shrugged. "He gets bitchy sometimes. That's his nature."

Ryou shook his head as Aten splashed him. "Alright, well, Let me get our happy little chibi bathed, fed, give him his heart medication, and off to bed."

"Tan I haff a tory, mommy?"

"I don't see why not."

"Ok. Well, I'll go," Malik said closing the door behind him.

//You can't protect your children from me forever, Ryou. The Unfaithful Guardian and I will not stop until both your children lie dead…..and you along with them.//

Updates: Thursday.

Note: Next chappie is Ryou x bakura lemon, Marik/ Malik lime, some bloodlust