Her Sweetness: Oh my gosh. I have NO idea how this happened! I mean, there I was, writing this innocent little one-shot and now…? Now, it's the first chapter to a short fic! I had no idea what to do.

Should I post it, or no? I thought yes. My other fic, A Tale of Two Idiots WILL be updated next weekend, so no worries. But I wanted to do this. So enjoy.

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Something Stupid This Way Comes

Part One of Three:

The fresh nighttime air was crisp and beautiful; the leaves from the trees drifted down to settle in the gutters and the feet of little children scuffled along over them as they bounced from house to house. It was Halloween night in Domino City yet again and everyone was celebrating, one way or another.

"Hey, Yami! Where are you?" Yugi called, just coming out of his room and into the hallway.

Yami had just come up the stairs, hearing his hikari's call, "Yes, Yugi, I'm-- Oh my freaking Ra!" Yami screamed, ducking behind one of the hallway's plants and trembled with fear. He peeked out again to confirm what he'd seen, "Oh my gosh… Y-Yugi? Are you okay?"

"Yami, I'm fine." Yugi said, exasperated. He was dressed in a large pumpkin suit with only his head sticking out below the stem and he guessed Yami hadn't seen his face. He managed to coax his other half out from behind the plant.

"M-Maybe you didn't know this, hikari, but a… pumpkin's eating you…"

"…" Yugi sweatdropped, "No, Yami. It's Halloween! I'm dressed up as a pumpkin, nothing's eating me. I'm in here because I want to be."

"Oh!" Yami nodded solemnly, "Halloween."

"Yeah, c'mon." Yugi waved his hand, motioning for Yami to follow him into the living room. When they got in there, Yami sat down on the couch and Yugi stood in front of the television set, arms folded as he gave his other instructions, "Alright, me, Malik and Ryou are going to go to Otogi's Halloween party, tonight, Yami. They called about twenty minutes ago and they should be here real soon."

"But--"

"Let me finish. You, Bakura and Marik have to stay here. We've talked about this and we don't think you three should be let on the streets to Trick-or-treat. There are just too many liabilities and you remember what happened on St. Patrick's Day!"

"Yugi, you know that hotdog kissed me first!"

"Never mind that! Your little escapade cost me money and Grandpa's still paying the hospital bills!" He cleared his throat and pointed to a large white bowl that was sitting next to Yami on the couch, filled to the brim with candies, "You guys get to do something more fun anyway. You guys get to pass out candy!"

"… To who?"

"To the Trick-or-treaters! This is how it'll work, they knock on the door and say 'Trick-or-treat' and you answer and give them candy. Do you get it?"

"I think so." Yami looked at the candy bowl suspiciously, "And these 'Trick-or-treaters'… won't hurt me, will they?"

"No, Yami. Most of them will be eight or nine."

He smiled, brightly, "Alright then!"

Ding Dong…

"Oh, that must be Ryou and Malik… Come on in, guys, the door's open!" And no sooner did he say that, Malik and Ryou appeared along with their yamis who were sulking in the background, whispering to each other and such.

"Hi, Yugi!" Ryou and Malik echoed and ran over, hugging the little pumpkin.

Yugi hugged them back and then took a good look at their costumes. He tilted his head to the side and blinked, "Um… what are you supposed to be…?"

Malik pointed to all his chains and belts and few pieces of purple silk that covered the important parts. He put his hands on his hips, "Can't you tell? I'm a stripper. I thought it was obvious!"

"How can it be obvious when you dress like that everyday?" Marik mumbled.

Malik shot his yami a dirty look.

"Eh heh…" Yugi smiled but sweatdropped as he turned to Ryou, "And… you're a cat, right?"

"That's right!" Ryou tilted his head which was fitted with two large, yellow cat ears and his torso was covered in a white tufted of fur while he had on yellow paws on his feet and hands and a tail that came out of the back of the yellow thong he was wearing. "You don't think this is too inappropriate or strange, do you…?"

"Uh… O-Of course not… After all, I heard Otogi's going as a Chiquita Banana."

It was silent for a moment.

"O… kay." Malik turned for the door, "Well, we don't want to be late. And I've just gotta see Otogi in his costume. You guys have a good time and no fighting!"

Yami nodded unsurely, still sitting on the couch, as Marik and Bakura stood in the other corner and yawned, sending mild glares at their hikaris.

"Bye, Yami!" Yugi called just before the door was shut.

"So… What are we supposed to be doing?" Bakura asked.

"Something stupid, I'm sure…"

"No." Yami pointed towards the candy bowl sitting next to him, "We're supposed to hand out all this candy to the… um… Baby-eaters."

"Pardon? Baby-eaters? What the hell are baby-eaters?" Marik quirked an eyebrow at the pharaoh who was now kind of confused himself.

"Yeah… Yugi told me to hand out candy to these little nine-year-olds called Baby-eaters and they would knock on the door and say 'baby-eat' and we would answer."

Bakura frowned, "That's weird. And here I always thought they were wife-beaters."

"Nope."

"Pheh. This is gross, if Malik expects me to give candy to pedophilic cannibals; he's got another thing coming. Baby-eaters. Where do people get this stuff? It's sickening." Marik snorted, sitting on the other side of the couch and beginning to search the candy bowl for Snickers bars.

"Why do you care about babies being eaten, Marik?"

"I don't care about it. I just don't support it. Suppose Baby-eating was around when you were born in Egypt. And someone ate you. You wouldn't be here today to torture Yami, here."

"Gasp."

Yami frowned, taking the bowl away from Marik, "Well, Yugi said he have to hand them out and that's what we're gonna do, Baby-eating or no Baby-eating."

Ding-dong…

"Trick-or-treat!"

Yami looked over at the door and picked up the bowl, "I guess that's the Baby-eaters…" He didn't get up though and he scooted more into the couch, "Um… do either of you want to get the door?"

"No." They echoed.

"… Fine. I'll go. I don't mind."

"Good."

Bravely, the spiky-haired boy got up and walked over to the door. He opened it and there was a group of four people, three little witches that came up to his hips and a lady behind them with a little boy in her arms who was dressed up as a giant tooth.

"Trick-or-treat!" They said again.

Yami gasped and grabbed the little boy away from the lady and shouted, "Shame on you! He couldn't be older than two! Do you plan to eat these ugly, little witches too?"

"W-What are you talking about? Give me Jeremy!"

"No! He will be spared!" And with that, he slammed the door in their faces.

When Yami came back into the living room, he held a still full bowl of candy and a tooth-like toddler who was drooling on his arm.

Both Marik and Bakura were on the couch and starred at the boy for a moment before breaking the silence.

"… You did something stupid, didn't you?"

"… B-But, she was going to eat him! I could see it in her eyes!"

"So you took the kid?"

"… Yes."

"You're an idiot, have you ever been told that?"

"Many a time."

"Good, just making sure."

Bakura shook his head and got up, snatching the baby away from Yami, "It doesn't matter if he was going to be eaten; we're not keeping a kid in here! These things make noise. Go throw it back."

"I'm not throwing him back, Bakura, give him to me!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

They immediately started a tug-of-war on the young boy's limbs. Bakura had his right arm and leg and Yami had his left arm and leg. The infant drooled some more and then began to sleep.

Ding dong…

"Trick-or-treat!"

"Oh no, more Baby-eaters…" Yami knitted his brow at the door and Bakura gained full control of the baby.

"Good. Maybe they'll take this one. Go give it to them."

"I refuse."

"Grr…! Marik…!"

"It's not my problem."

"… Fine! I'll do it, then!" He tucked the kid under his arm and grumbled all the way to the door. When he opened it, there was a small fairy princess and a little skeleton next to her. They began to sing.

"Trick-or-treat, smell my feet! Give me something good to eat! If you don't, I don't care; you can smell my underw- AAHHH!" They shouted when Bakura threw the baby at them and it bounced off the porch and onto the grass. The kids ran away leaving their candy bags.

Bakura blinked before picking them up and coming back inside.

"I have more candy."

"I call dibs on the Snickers!" Marik announced before pouncing on Bakura to retrieve the candy.

Yami looked around nervously, "B-Bakura, where's the baby?"

"Eh…" He said, munching on lollypops, "I gave him to some kids."

"Oh no…" He hung his head, "That poor kid… How could we allow something this evil to go on? Halloween is horrible, children all over the world must fear this day…"

"I dunno. Seems kinda fun to me. Hey, I've got an idea…" Marik finished another candy bar and grinned at the other two evilly, "Why don't we become Baby-eaters?"

"Because we don't eat kids!" Yami shouted.

Bakura coughed, "Actually… there was this one time… it was an accident, kinda… I didn't mean for it to go so far…"

"Oh my Ra, Bakura, you ate a kid?"

"… I thoughtshe was a pork chop!"

"…"

"… Okay. So, who's up for some Baby-eating?"

"We'll need costumes."

"You can go as Mr. Ugly."

"And you can go as a dead man!"

Yami stepped in between the two and gaped at them, "Y-You… You're not actually considering…?"

"Of course we are. Why not? While hikari is away, yami shall play, after all. And what better way than to go eat babies?"

"We could make a game out of it!"

"You two are beyond help…"

Both Bakura and Marik grinned at each other before looking at Yami, "So, you with us?"

"N-No…! But… I… can't let you go out alone… who knows what kind of havoc you'll wreak? I… I'm coming just to make sure no one gets hurt!"

"YES! Our first year of Baby-eating!"

"… Disgusting…"

TBC...

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