Nightly Gallantry

Maybe, if Yuri would wait for just one more moment, the noise would turn out to be from his dream and he could slip back into the comfort of sleep.

"It's your turn." A voice next to him stated as the crying that sounded through the apartment resumed. All of Yuri's hopes were gone in an instant.

"Dear Serena, it must be a lapse in your memory. You may have done it last time, but I, in fact, did it twice before that." Yuri countered, softly and without missing a beat.

There was a moment were only the unceasing crying echoed through the halls and Yuri thought his argument might have actually worked.

Soon he would hear the muffling sound of someone climbing out of the bed, maybe a huff or an annoyed remark and he could close his eyes again, returning to the sweet sleep that he had struggled to get all week.

"Yuri, if you don't leave this bed right now, you will be the second crying person in this apartment." Serena's sleep deprived voice threatened into the darkness.

Yuri's hope that his little bending of the truth would let him stay in the warm bed was shattered and he quickly tried to think of another argument to use, but between his thoughts being dragged down by the lack of sleep and the unrelenting crying, he just couldn't.

With a long and drawn out sigh, Yuri removed the blanket from himself. Then, with every part of his body protesting, he forced himself to sit up on the bed.

Yuri then removed his sleeping mask and slipped into his silk slippers; two items Serena never failed to mock him for. He then turned off the baby monitor so Serena could keep sleeping. The noise was now only heard in the distance.

Standing up and leaving the room were the next challenges and his body fought him on every step of the way, but he pushed through the pain and discomfort, making his way through the hall and to the source of the noise.

Finally, at his destination, Yuri opened the door and turned on the light.

The room was full of color, it had blue and pink walls and a line of colorful flowers along the window. A large shelf , as well as the floor, was filled with duel monster plushies of all kinds and sizes. Yuri had to carefully maneuver through the room to get to the crib the crying came from.

The crib was also blue and pink and above it was a mobile with stars, moons and a few dragon duel monsters hanging from it.

"What is bothering you little man?" Yuri asked quietly. This was his soft voice, the one he had found only about a year ago, a voice no one else would ever hear, excepted for times he failed to hide it from Serena. "Don't feel like sleeping? Well, I didn't either. Let's get you something to eat and drink."

Yuri laughed a little and smiled even through the sleeplessness in his face, before picking up the baby boy out of the crib. With Yuri picking him up with both arms, he only stopped crying for a moment before starting again.

The boy was still small enough to be carried by Yuri easily, but there was already a bit of spiky blue and pink hair on his head.

Yuri was about to head out the door before stopping.

"Let's not forget him." He said and picked up one of the small duel monsters plushies, Entermate Hammer Mammo, a blue elephant with a top head and a hammerhead at the end of his trunk. "As uncle Yuya uses it, it can't be a great duel monster, but at least It is fluffy."

Giving the small stuffed duel monster into the tiny hands of the boy in his arms, Yuri thought about how they must have all of the Entermates, Furnimal and whatever else there was by now, even ones that Yuri swore none of their entertainment duelist friends ever used.