Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Yami slightly shook his head, wiping the drool from his lip with his thumb. He took a deep breath and then walked through the hallway, after all, he was here to work. He had to pick up his own group of children to work with.
The group consisted out of ten children, ranging between the age three and six. He was slightly nervous, biting his bottom lip now and then, even though he loved children. He loved to work with them, but sometimes they could be nerve-racking.
Meanwhile, Yugi and his mother arrived at the Happy Dragon and the little four-year-old couldn't stop talking about the "love of his life", while he was gazing around the kindergarten building. It was big, but he couldn't think of something fun to do here.
His mother smiled though. "Don't worry, Yugi. You'll make a lot of friends here", she said and smiled, ruffling her son's spiky hair gently. Yugi merely pouted. He wanted to go home and watch TV with his mum.
His mother walked over towards the office, the door being tagged with the name: Seto Kaiba. When they walked in, Seto greeted them and he got down on one knee to smile at Yugi and offer him a cookie. His mother then said goodbye to little Yugi, which brought tears to his large eyes, before the nice mr. Seto Kaiba brought him to his new group.
Yami slowly walked around the group, greeting everyone he could. He couldn't greet Ryou, because the boy would run for his life when Yami looked at him and Yami somehow wondered if the boy was sane. At the moment, Ryou was hiding behind the door to the bathroom, blushing madly and eyeing Yami carefully. The boy was even afraid of Malik and Marik, they were twins who constantly tried to terrorize the world.
Isis, the oldest of them all with six years, was their older sister and walked around with a crystal ball saying she could see the future. Malik and Marik did anything to stop that from happening by stealing the crystal ball, which made Isis cry and which made Yami desperate to lock the twins away in the closest toilet cube.
Ushio and Keith were the bullies. As soon as Yami laid eyes on them he just knew to watch them as good as he could. He had already caught them pushing the others around and being all "high and might", but he hoped he could solve the problem and just keep them quiet.
Even though Keith was a weird child with his American accent.
Although the strangest kids ever had to be Wheevil Underwood and Rex Raptor. Both collectors, but in different things. Wheevil collected bugs and the like while Rex had his Dino's everywhere and if someone touched one of them he would beat the kid to pulp.
Yami turned green as he watched Wheevil pinning a dead butterfly to a piece of paper before putting it in a small box. "What are you doing, Wheevil?", he softly asked. The green-eyed boy looked at his new teacher.
"Kill", he only answered and Yami wondered if this was normal. Probably not, but then he had Wheevil, Rex and Ryou who were clearly a bit weird.
When he finally arrived at the most normal child in his care, he had to smile and ruffle the blond hair. Joey was a funny child, was always hungry and would always cling to Yami's leg to beg for food. It was sweet, especially the big pout when he wasn't getting any food at all.
The other normal kid was Anzu, Bakura's big sister, although Yami hadn't met Bakura just yet. Anzu was a pretty girl, always dressed in pink (at least, that is what Seto had told him) with beautiful ribbons in her hair. She spend her day telling friendship speeches to anyone who wanted to listen and her biggest fan was Ryou.
Aside from Isis, because Anzu loved the future.
When another kid was dropped off at his doorstep, Yami had to blink twice before he noticed the differences between him and Ryou. Same white hair, same fluffy white hair. Yami thought it was adorable.
"Well, hello there, little guy. You got awesome fluffy hair", he said, slowly getting down on one knee. The child, Bakura, immediately stared him to death. "Fluffy?", he asked, eye twitching.
"Yes, it's very cute", Yami said, smiling sweetly. Bakura immediately roared in anger, swinging his little fists before he pounced on Yami and tried to claw his eyes out.
"I'M NOT FLUFFY!", the small boy screamed, while Yami screamed in pain. The child's mother ran over and tried to pull Bakura off Yami, but the boy clung to Yami's face still trying to claw his eyes out, until something happened and his mother was able to pull Bakura off. She scolded the boy, while Yami tried to get off the floor.
"Wow", he muttered softly, before the albino's mother started to apologize so many times that Yami got slightly embarrassed. "It's okay… I'll get it fixed", he said softly. She nodded and left, before Atemu slowly walked in.
"What happened?", he asked, his maroon eyes wide and his tanned fingers touched the scratches on Yami's face. Yami winced, before Atemu dragged him to the bathroom.
"I called Bakura fluffy", Yami whispered softly, while Atemu picked out the "magical crème". Tanned fingers gently applied the crème and Yami blushed.
"He's really pretty", Yami thought, but Atemu didn't seem to notice the blush before putting some small bandage on Yami's cheek.
"Never call that kid fluffy, it's a monster. Stay away from the twins, they'll murder you. Ryou is just shy, not insane and well, the bullies will try to tear you apart, but don't be afraid. They can't hurt you. They are not like Bakura", Atemu said as he put the crème away.
"Thanks for the advice", Yami whispered. Atemu smiled.
"You're welcome", he said, giving a sweet smile himself before walking away. Yami felt his knees buckling as he walked after the man back to his classroom, but Atemu turned around suddenly, as if he forgot something and Yami bumped into him.
"Sorry", Yami whispered, blushing even more, but Atemu chuckled softly. Then he frowned slightly though and lay his hand on Yami's forehead. "Are you okay?", he asked gently, feeling Yami's cheeks too to feel any kind of difference.
"My lover!", someone suddenly yelled through the hallway and a small body collided with Yami. They ended up on the floor and Yami was suddenly cuddled to death. Atemu merely stared at the scenery before him.
"Oh, hello Yugi", Yami said as he tried to pry the child away from him and got up from the floor for the second time that morning. Yugi was beaming next to him, cuddling Yami's leg as if it was his lifeline.
"I am so sorry!", his mother suddenly said and Yami chuckled softly. "He watches a lot of soap-series with me", she whispered.
"I'm sure it will be just fine. It's puppy love, I understand", Yami said as he ruffled Yugi's hair. Atemu was still staring.
"No! It's true love!", Yugi said loudly. Yami chuckled.
"If you say so, Mini-me", he said, which made Yugi scream in pure joy and he ran off towards the other kids. "HE LOVES ME! I have a nickname!", the boy called out, while Yami, Atemu and Yugi's mother merely stared at one another.
"I will never let him watch a soap again", she said, feeling miserable.
"I agree", Yami and Atemu said at the same time, staring at the boy now who was running around and screaming in joy.
