A place in my heart

Chapter 4

~Atemu Pov~

After the meeting, I watched the others leave. I leaned forward in my chair and placed my head in my hands.

'Too much has happened as of late.

First, I lost my parents to assassins.

Second, Yami got kidnapped while pregnant.

Third and last of all, we lost out son to an illness.'

Almost instantly, my thoughts turned to our little gift, the neko, Yugi, and how he brought a smile to Yami's face so easily when I couldn't. I felt my lips twitch upward, 'He's such a cute baby…I wonder how old he is.' I sighed and stood up. I walked out of the throne room, my chambers and found Yami asleep and Yugi awake in the crib, looking up at me with curious amethyst eyes.

"Mew." 'Hi.' I smiled and picked him up, out of the crib. I looked down at him, he was somewhat dirty.

"Looks, like someone needs a bath." Yugi looked at me and purred softly his tail twitched as I placed him on my hip.

I walked over towards the dresser and pulled out a smaller outfit for Yugi. I also grabbed a clean one for myself. I walked into bathroom and stripped myself, stepping into the already prepared hot water, sighing in bliss. I looked over at Yugi who was sitting on the floor with a cute confused look on his pale face.

He frowned and crawled over towards the water, patting at it making the water splash. "Mew?"

I chuckled as he gave me a questionable look. I gently stripped him down to see soft, pale skin. I picked him up and sat down with him in my lap. He clung to my chest, obviously not liking the water. "It's alright, Little One." I said softly to comfort him. I grabbed the soap and started to wash his small body, making him smell of lavender and vanilla. I washed it in his hair which he seemed to enjoy the fact when I scratched behind his black ears. "You like that, don't you, little one." I heard him purr and stated, "I'll take that as a yes." Atemu mused.

After pulling from the bath. I changed into my clothes as I did with Yugi before myself. They fit just right, 'Cute,' was the word that ran through my mind once I looked at the smaller.

Yugi stood up and walked out into the bedroom with his hands out in front of himself. I sat on a chair and watched him carefully. I saw that he crawled under the bed. I got on my hands and knees, looking under the bed to see him playing with a small ball. He rolled it out from underneath the bed and chased after it pouncing it once he saw that it wasn't moving.

I chuckled and walked over towards my chair and sat back down and watched the smaller play with the rubber ball, it must have been one of the palace dogs. The ball held his attention for a good ten or 20 minutes before Yugi's gaze fell to his tail as it flickered, he looked back at his ball rolling it back under the bed. His head snapped towards his tail as it flickered again. He tried to grab it but it kept moving away from him, every time he moved towards it. He stood up on all fours and started to run around in circles trying to catch his tail. I couldn't help but laugh. "Oh, my Ra, Little One, you are too funny." I wiped away a stray tear that had squeezed its way from my sealed eyelids. He stopped and looked up at me, his head cocked to the side. His eyes showing brightly with confusion.

"Mew?" 'Whats wrong papa?' He walked towards me and climbed up onto my lap. He patted my cheek just where my tear had fallen. His ears lay flat on his head neatly. I frowned confused at his action. He reached up and gently nuzzled my neck.

I felt my features soften to a gentle look and thought, 'He thought I was crying.' I patted his back in a soothing motion. "I am alright, little one." I cooed softly to him, in hopes of making him understand I wasn't crying.