The Better Father

A/N: I had to take this down for more work on it, but now it's back and better than ever! Enjoy! ^_^

Summary: They all said I would grow up to be just like him. I was going to prove them wrong.

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: Adult language, adult content, lemon, yaoi, M/M, Brief Violence, Solo

Main Pairing: Seto Kaiba/ Joey Wheeler

Other pairings include: Yami/Yugi, Ryou/Bakura, Malik/Marik, Duke/Tristan

Disclaimer Note: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Hell, if I owned it, I would be making the bucks and not KT. Anyway, they're his and not mine.

Yamis- Malik, Bakura, Yami
Hikaris-Marik, Ryou, Yugi

Entire story told from Joey's POV
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Chapter 1: My Life As A Teenage Father

WAHHH!

"Uhh..."

My eyes slowly opened as I stared at the clock by the bI guI guessed it had to have been at least one in the morning. My daughter, Elizabeth, or Liz as I called her, was already up and wailing. She was only six weeks old. I adopted her as a newborn left abandoned on my front steps. Everyone was excited for me to find out I, Joey Wheeler, was going to be a daddy. Well, my friends that is. Everyone else...to hell with them. They think I'm much like my father.

Abusive bastard.

They all said I would grow up to be just like him. I was going to prove them wrong. Hell, I was only sixteen myself having to move out on my own into the world. It was the only thing I could do to escape him. Now I'm a father. I groaned as I got up off my bed and walked toward the nursery. My best friends Yugi and Yami definately made it well. I'm really going to have to do something for them one day. But they volunteered to be Liz's uncles, so I wasn't complaining. Ryou, Bakura, Tristan, Duke, even Marik and Malik all wanted to chip in. I was grateful to have such great friends. Then there was Ol' Moneybags himself, Seto Kaiba. If he could fly like an eagle, it would be in this very house. His hawk eyed glance was always on me for some reason. Made me severely nervous. I was ready to give Ol' Moneybags a piece of my mind if I wasn't careful. I walked to the crib and lifted Liz in my arms blanket and all. "Shh," I whispered. "Daddy's here." Well, one problem was a dirty diaper, which I basically expected. This kid goes through diapers like I go through money! The second problem was she wanted to be fed. I walked downstairs and got the bottle and everything ready as I satn inn in a rocking chair and began feeding her. She had these trusting blue eyes that stared straight up at me while I fed her. I smiled sleepily a little and kissed her forehead gently. She smelled like baby powder and the soap I used to bathe her with.

She finished her bottle and I burped her before I noticed she was falling asleep once more. I kicked the bassinet toward my bed and placed her in it. I yawned as I crawled between the sheets once more and fell asleep. It would be two hours worth it though. She would be up again in that period of time. Once she starts sleeping through the night, I'll feel a lot better more than likely.

Around 7:30 am, my alarm went off nearly shocking the shit out of me. I fell out of bed and hit that floor rather hard. "Damn," I grumbled and rubbed my head. I looked at Liz and she was asleep since she just woke me up like an hour before. I needed a shower and to change clothes, but I had to wait until someone came over to babysit. Sure enough, the doorbell rang and Liz whimpered slightly. "C'mon, baby," I whispered and lifted her in my arms as I walked downstairs in my boxers and opened the door. "Hey, guys," I said as Ryou and Bakura walked in. Bakura, Ryou's darker half, looked rather chipper. I knew that look. He got him some. Ryou smiled and took Liz in his arms. "She was sleepin' before you guys came in," I explained rubbing my eyes slightly. I wefinefinately going to be sleeping in school today! "How many times did she wake up?" Bakura asked making a goofy face at her causing a slight smile on her face. "Uh...I dunno," I said. "Probably same amount as usual?"

"You're definately taking a break tomorrow," Ryou said seriously. "We'll get the gang and baby-sit while you sleep." How many times have I heard that one before from anyone's mouth? But I was sleep deprived, but still alive thankfully. "Danks, Ryou," I said. "Ya'll watch her while I git a shower." "Sure thing," Bakura said and I headed upstairs. I closed the bathroom door atriptripped my clothes relieved at the hot spray that hit my skin. Ryou looked at Bakura as he began fixing another bottle. "We should adopt a kid," he suggested and Bakura chuckled. "Let's see how far Wheeler gets with this one," he said holding Liz in his arms. I forgot to mention she had a thing for yamis. She sees one, she squeals louder than anything. When it came to hikaris, it was a squeal, but a bit softer. Makes me wonder if she's related to a yami in ways the way she acts around them.

The door opened again and it didn't take a genius to know who it was: Hawk Eyes Kaiba. I could basically feel the chill in the air in the shower and quickly rinsed the suds from my hair as I got out and dried off. Bakura was feeding Liz, but kept a steady glare at Kaiba. It was obvious those two didn't alonalong. Ryou was fixing breakfast rather silent. Kaiba's eyes hit me right as I walked downstairs. "What brings ya here, moneybags?" I asked. "I'm wondering why you won't take up my offer to get you anizabizabeth from this dump and stay at the mansion," he said seriously acting like Bakura and Ryou were shadows. "I told ya, I don't need your damn help," I said narrowing my eyes. "Besides, it ain't like you're provin' anything. You'll still be de same pompus windbag we all know." I was also mocking him to say the least causing two sets of snickers from the Bakuras. Ha! I knew I still had the Wheeler edge!

Kaiba frowned deeply as I walked in the kitchen and fixed the diaper bag for Liz. While I was at school, I had her with Bakura and Malik since they didn't go to school like their hikaris did. They proved they were very responsible babysitters too and they always got paid the best way I could be it having dinner here or doing something. Money was rather tight and they knew that thankfully. Not to mention I was taking a part time job to help pay the bills and such. "Joseph, sometimes I wonder about you," he sighed shaking his head. Whoa! Hold the phone! He didn't just call me by MY real name, did he?! Ok, you don't call Joey Wheeler that and get away with it. I slowly clenched my fists and Ryou gave me a Give Liz a Good Example look and I slowly relaxed. "You're mine at school, ya bastard," I growled under my breath. Ryou grabbed a laddle and ped ped me with it. i knew what that was for, but that hurt! I rubbed my head a moment and shook off the pain.

Once I got Liz settled with Bakura and Malik, I headed to Domino High School to see Yugi and Yami. Apparently, the former pharaoh wanted more of an education than Bakura and Malik. That was their decision as well as Yami's. "Mornin'," I yawned as I headed for my locker. Yugi chuckled. "She keep you up all night again?" he asked. I nodded. "Doc said she'd do dat for another week or so," I said. "I enjoy dose two hour intervals though." Yami chuckled. "You're gonna teach her to play Duel Monsters, right?" he asked. "Of course I am," I said proudly. "I ain't dat big of an idiot!" Tristan Taylor and Duke Devlin came up to us locked arm and arm. I raised an eyebrow at this. Hell, I'm gay myself, but I don't announce it to everyone. These guys didn't care. "Hey," Duke said. "What's up?" "Nothin' much except I need sleep more and more every day," I teased and Tristan laughed. These guys were my gang. However one member was missing: Marik Ishtar. Turns out Marik was in the bathroom and we could hear "OH MALIK!" coming from one of the stalls. Oh Malik?! Ok, here's the deal on that! You hear OH MALIK repeated constantly in a bathroom stall, you can tell Marik hasn't had none today.

It's hard not to just fall over laughing hearing the noise coming from Marik. Yami got smart and locked the door as we waited for Marik to finish jacking off. A couple of titters came from Duke's lips and Ryou was blushing so red he could make a firetruck have a bad paint job. Me...I was really struggling to hold it in as I pretended silently to be Marik and that caused a silent snicker from Tristan. I couldn't resist. It was too rich. Finally you heard the toliet flush and a red faced Marik walked out and nearly jumped back in seeing us. "You don't have to tell us anything," Ryou said. "I think we caught the message." Yugi fell over laughing then. Marik gave a weak chuckle and washed his hands. I just snickered.

As predicted, I fell out asleep in class. The teacher knew why too and didn't say anything, but some of the others giggled hearing me snore. Kaiba looked up from the book he was reading and rolled his eyes. Ok, one word of advice to Mr. Moneybags...if you went through the hell I do waking up every two hours in the middle of the night to tend to your child, you'll be in my position fast! The bell rang and Kaiba kicked underneath my chair waking me up. "What?" I yawned. "It's lunchtime," he said rather curtly and left the room. I yawned rubbing my eyes and grabbed my cell phone. Like any parent, I check on my child constantly.

Malik answered the phone. "Oh, hey, Joey," he said. "We're fine. Bakura and Liz are napping on the couch together. Yeah, I got the picture. It's rather cute. Ok then. I gotcha. Say hey to Marik for me. He what?! *insert insane laughter here* Oh Gods! Yeah. Ok. Bye." I hung up giggling. It was too funny.

Since I became a father, my day was like this. Go to school, sleep, eat, sleep some more, go pick Liz up, go home, try to get dinner while handling my baby...aw, you get the rest. But however, I didn't know life would take one turn I never expected. It's one of those days you wish you never woke up if it was a dream.

And believe me, it was a dream come true...but it's better when I tell you.
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To Be Continued....