Yami stared at the screen. It had been three weeks. Three weeks since his Aibou had been possessed and played with by that bitch. Three weeks since Yami slept. Three weeks since Yami felt whole. The Itupa bond was a definite curse right now. Yami could feel that Yugi had a superficial love and devotion for Anzu, and it was killing him. Yami could feel when Yugi and Anzu had sex...and the bitch seemed to be insatiable. If that wasn't bad enough, she sent videos of them having sex.

Yami shouldn't have watched them. He realized that it was killing him. He realized that watching it was eating away at him like a disease. Yet, he couldn't stop. He wished he could understand why. He wished he could quit. But all he could do was stare, watching his Aibou do the most intimate of acts with someone who was most definitely not Yami.

Suddenly, there was a knock on his door. "Enter." He stated lifelessly. The door opened and shut.

"Cousin, what are you doing to yourself?" Seto's voice came from behind Yami. Yami turned bleary, lifeless eyes to Seto. Seto looked worried. The group had went after another two monsters while trying to figure out how to get Yugi back. Ryou had worked out some deal with the angels for a temporal holding cell since Yugi had the pyramid with him. Yami hadn't went with them. He hadn't left the house in three weeks. He hadn't bathed in three weeks. Seto wrinkled his nose. Yami was beginning to smell.

"Cousin, you need to bathe. You stink." Picking Yami up, he took him into the bathroom without a fight. Turning on the shower, he sighed. He had never seen Yami like this. Distastefully he stripped Yami and put him in the shower. He was not soaping Yami up. Going out, he called Mai out of her room. She came out, looking sad, but healthy and clean. Seto looked at her. "Go bathe Yami. No funny stuff."

Mai looked offended. "I love Duke. I don't cheat." She sniffed, walking off towards Yami's room.

Seto waited outside the door while she went in. Joey came up to him. "Not any better, huh?" Seto shook his head no. Joey came over, planting a kiss on Seto's lips. "We'll get Yug' back. Bakura has been pourin' over books tryin' to figure it out. I know Ryou's been helpin' too, as well as the sangredon."

Seto looked to him. Nodding, he frowned. "I feel like the solution is right under our nose...but we aren't seeing it."

Joey shrugged. "I dunno Dragon."

Mai came out about then. "He's done and back to the desk. He's watching the video again." Her eyes were filled with sadness as she went back to her room.

Seto sighed. Peeking in, he looked at Yami, sitting at the desk, staring at the laptop. Shaking his head, Seto closed the door.

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Mai walked in, setting down on the bed. Duke walked over. "He's still not doing well, huh?" He put his arms around her gently.

She had her head hung low, her blond hair in her face. "No, hon...he's not. And it's killing me he's so upset."

Duke sighed sympathetically. "I know. I'm...all kinds of fucked up, because I'm feeling both layers of Yugi. I don't know if this is because of that Itupa Bond, because of the possession, or because of what...but I can still feel Yugi, just like you can still feel Yami. I thought we weren't supposed to be able to." He growled in frustration, picking up a die and twirling it in his fingers, the outward sign of his nervousness.

Mai nodded. "I'm really sorry about this."

Duke nodded too. He knew what she was apologizing for. Since this started, she hadn't so much as kissed him, let alone got intimate. She had suggested they remain celibate because she didn't want their first time to be influenced by outside forces. He grabbed and held Mai, wishing for his master and himself that this gets resolved quickly.

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Bakura grumbled, looking over Ryou's shoulder as Ryou was pouring through an old tome. Bakura had just got done with the tome he was reading. Standing and stretching, he ran fingers through his hair. "Find any fucking thing?" He questioned.

"No 'Kura, I haven't. But we will." Ryou replied patiently, eyes red with fatigue. Bakura noticed this and grabbed Ryou up, carrying him out of the room. "'Kura! I can't very well read when you left the book! Where are you taking me?"

Bakura went up the stairs and into the bathroom, setting Ryou down and drawing a bath. "I'm giving you a mother fucking sponge bath and a massage, then you can get back to reading. You're not a big help when your eyes are as red as a whore's cunt after Mardi Gras." Bakura explained, putting some jasmine oil in the water.

Ryou couldn't deny the idea that a bath sounded magnificent. Slipping out of his clothes, he slipped into the water when it was ready. Looking up at Bakura, he batted his eyelashes. "Aren't you getting in, 'Kura?" He questioned innocently.

"No." Bakura stated. "Because then I'll give ya a fucking instead of a massage. I'm trying to be fucking sweet here. Don't push it." Bakura warned.

Ryou smiled and closed his eyes as he let the water and scent relax him. Soon he felt a sponge on his body, cleaning him. Smiling up at Bakura, he let himself be pampered. He knew Bakura felt horrible about Yugi. He wished he could help Bakura, but he didn't know what he could do. He then felt shampoo in his hair and fingers massaging his head. He purred in happiness at the exquisite feeling. Suddenly he blushed furiously as he felt Bakura gently cleaning his wings. It was sinfully wonderful and Ryou heard himself moan.

All too soon Bakura was done and got Ryou out of the water, wrapping him in a towel. Taking Ryou into the bedroom, Bakura laid him down then got lotion, massaging Ryou's muscles, paying special attention to Ryou's neck muscles. Looking up to see how Ryou was enjoying it, Bakura smirked at seeing Ryou asleep. Bakura finished the massage and then covered Ryou up, crawling in bed with Ryou.

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"It's my turn to check on da cell. Wanna come wit' me?" Joey asked.

Seto looked up from the laptop. "Sure. We could get something to eat afterwards." Seto didn't like Joey being in that room alone. Closing his laptop, Seto followed Joey down to the study-turned-prison. Opening the door, Joey checked on the two monsters in the temporal holding cell. The cell was almost as big as the room, with just enough space for someone to walk around the outside against the wall. Joey looked at the two monsters, a chupacabra, which looked like a hairless coyote, and a cusith, a harbringer of death the size of a young bull with the appearance of a wolf with dark green shaggy fur and a long, braided tail with paws twice the width of a man's hand.

Looking back at Seto, Joey nodded. "It looks okay."

Seto studied it as well. "Yes. Let's go." Turning, Seto opened the door and walked out. As he was walking he turned around quickly when he heard the thud. Eyes widening, he ran into the room as he saw Joey being sucked into the prison, the chupacabra and cusith both opening their maws, saliva dripping from their jagged teeth. Seto saw Joey transform into his werewolf form. Snarling, snapping and biting, he held the other two at bay. Seto ran towards the prison, trying to force his way in...and was thrown backwards with great force.

"Bakura!" Seto screamed. Bakura appeared instantly, Ryou behind him. Looking in confusion at Seto and Ryou, Bakura opened his mouth to speak when a phone rang as Mokuba ran in.

"Big brother!" Mokuba yelled, seeing his brother's lover in the prison. "What happened?"

About then, Malik, Marik, Mai, and Duke ran in. Yami walked in, lifeless after them. Varying degrees of confusion were on their faces at the sight in front of them. Roland cleared his throat. All heads turned to him, as he turned his phone toward the group. Seeing Yugi's name on the phone, Seto growled, "Answer it."

Roland hit two buttons. "Oh, hello dear, dear Seto. Did you get my present?" Anzu's grating voice came out of the speaker of the phone as Roland had hit speaker on the cell phone. "What? No answer? Well, my information is showing you did. You didn't think I'd forget about you, did you? How could I forget about you when you rejected me after Yami did?

Now, please don't be upset that I didn't want to fuck Joey. I mean, I can enjoy fucking Yugi...he looks so much like Yami. But Joey? He's too low class for me...I mean, I'm surprised you want to fuck him. But, you always were one for a charity case. And I guess you like bestiality since you're an animal too, right? Anyways...I figure if Yami can't have his little fuckbuddy, you shouldn't have yours either, right? I mean, fair is fair, isn't it? And I want to treat the cousins fairly." Her laugh grated on the whole rooms nerves.

"Oh, I do hope you find a way to save Joey soon. The cusith will wear him down eventually...and then, poor Joey will be cusith food." The phone went silent as she hung up the phone.

No one said anything for the longest time. Seto looked up at Yami then, whose face was in a grim line. "She is going to die."

Yami shook his head no. "No. She is going to suffer first. Then she can die."