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Yuki is bored, he’s not got anything to do. That’s when he sees Max, Max must be little, Max doesn’t sit in the grass when big or feeling 3. Yuki sets off and runs to him as fast as his little legs let him. He stops behind Max and goes beside him. “Konnichiwa Maxie.” Max looks at him. “Huuh.” He says. “It’s Yuki, Yuu-kii.” Max opens his mouth. “Yuukii.” He parrots. Yuki claps his hands together and looks around. “I’m gonna help you cause Danny’s not around. I may be short but I can take you!” Yuki walks up to Max and Max wraps his arms around Yuki’s neck, Yuki gets him up and huffs. He waddles to the pits with Max but Max keeps touching his face. “Stop, stop- Maxie- I gotta see.” Yuki stops.
“Yuki!” Max yells happily, putting his hand over Yuki’s left eye. “Maxieee!” Yuki cries, Max laughs. “Yukiii!” Max responds between laughs. The Japanese reserve driver gets Max’s hand off his eyes and continues waddling to Max’s driver room. Once there, he plops Max onto the couch. They look each other in the eyes before Max touches Yuki’s cheek. “What do I do with you?” He asks, Max blinks and put his other hand on Yuki’s right cheek. “Heheee.” He smiles. Yuki pulls away to think, he’s played with his race car plushie and pretended it was a baby with Carlos, he fed the car, changed it, made it sleep, and rocked it. But Yuki can’t rock Max, Max is too big for that. “You hungry?” Yuki asks, Max just continues messing with Yuki.
“Nope.” Yuki says, looking away again. Carlos did the sound effects when he and Yuki played house, when the car cried, it was like “vroom vroooom”, Max isn’t fluent in car sadly so Yuki decides to find out what he is fluent in. He moves his hand up and Max takes it, putting it in his mouth. “Noo- Maxie, no!” Yuki puts a hand on Max’s forehead and pushes him slightly, he lets go and gives Yuki a sad look. “No wait Maxie, I got perfect thing for you!” Yuki skitters off to Max’s backpack and rifles around, then grabs a pacifier, he rushes back and puts it in Max’s mouth. “Easy.” He says, Max isn’t fluent in anything.
That did change though. Max is crying after a while, he does NOT sound like the race car and he sounds more like “wahhh, wahhhh!!”, Yuki panics. “What is it?? What happened?” He asks frantically, he looks at Max and tries to remember why the car cried when it sounded like vrooom vroom. “Hungry??” Yuki asks, Max doesn’t respond. Yuki tries to be silly with Draggy, pretending Draggy is attacking him. Max stops the crying to watch. “That’s it?” Yuki asks, then Max wails again. “Ahh- noo!” Yuki stands up and throws Draggy aside, he tries the pacifier, Max won’t take it though. Max is used to Daniel, Daniel knows Max’s cries better than Yuki does.
“Oh!” Yuki tries to comfort him but it fails, so he gets Max’s racesuit off, then he throws it aside and gets the firesuit open. “Oh.” He makes a face. “I don’t wanna.” He says, he steps aside and looks to the side, Max isn’t quieting down any time soon, so Yuki decides to be brave. He turns back to Max and gets the firesuit off. Max stops to look at Yuki, Yuki is horrible at this. Yuki rushes off at some point and Max cries out. The reserve driver comes back and throws things on the couch. “This first, then that, then that.” Yuki nods, he tries his best, he gets kicked once while cleaning and he gets his hair pulled when he gets the new diaper on. “Maxieee stop!” He grabs Max’s arm and makes him let go. “Finally!” Yuki makes a proud face, he then sees the racesuit and firesuit on the floor.
“Ahh!” Max yells happily. “Yeah.” Yuki responds, looking at the suits again before rushing off with the things. He comes back with a RedBull polo and some shorts. “Stay still for Yuki?” Max just looks at the other curiously. Yuki gets the polo over Max’s head and gets it on, Max tries to grab Yuki’s nose but Yuki pulls his face away. “Nuh uh.” Yuki comments, getting it on all the way before putting the shorts on. Later on, Daniel finds them. “There you are Max, and Yuki.” He smiles. “Hi.” Yuki says. “Come here, you.” Daniel picks Max up. “How’d it go with him, Yuki?” Daniel asks. “Eh. Maxie is okay.” Yuki says, not wanting to admit fully that he wants to play big brother to Max again.