He opened his eyes panting heavily. His vision was blurry and dark, flickering flames danced across the stone walls. He felt warm his body was trembling though, pale fingers twitched slightly.

He looked to the sides at his wrists that were bound to stone, as were his feet. It felt like there was a lack of energy within him. He closed his eyes again feeling waves of nausea and exhaustion sweeping over him. He reopened them, lids sank lower. They drifted to one of the figures that stood beside him. Their faces were hidden by the hoods of the cloaks covering them.

He could feel the weakness growing the darkness welcoming him once again. Eyes shifted to the walls, the flames casting shadows. He watched the shadow closest to him lift his arm up. Brown eyes widened for a split second before fading again the strained sound emitting his throat.

The blackness began creeping onto the edges of his vision. His eyes stayed trained on the wall. Glued to the shadow of the man and what he held in his hand.

His Millennium Ring.

...

Lavender eyes opened appearing tired and restless. Marik let out a silent sigh as he briefly closed his eyes again. His head resting in his arms that were crossed on the table he was sitting at.

The yami felt a hand touch his shoulder causing him to glance back at his hikari.

"Marik, you should rest...you've been up for days." Malik said. The egyptians eyes seemed to darken at the statement though.

"I'm never going to sleep anyways until I find out where he is," he hissed out; his voice twisting with malice.

Malik frowned retracting his hand.

About three days ago Bakura had gone out to get something. But he didn't come back. Marik had called his cell phone after he'd been gone a few good hours, wondering what the hell was taking him so long. But when he called him he received a dead tone.

They knew something must have happened to him when even after the next day came; Bakura was still nowhere to be found.

So Malik had called the rest of the gang asking if anyone had seen him. But everyone answered no. Everyone offered to help look for him though...although Kaiba was less willing then the others.

They all split up and looked everywhere. And they had a lot of people looking. Since they had Tea, Tristan, Joey, Ryou, Kaiba, Mokuba, Yugi, Yami, Duke, Mai and the two of them looking. But even with all the people they had looking for him, they couldn't find him anywhere.

Thats when everyone started to get worried...especially Marik. Who was dating Bakura.

To say the least they were a tad bit frantic, asking people if they'd seen him, talking to the police. And lets just say when you have Seto Kaiba helping you look for anyone, its like you have control over just about everyone.

And that's how they ended up in this position. Three days went by and no sign had turned up about Bakura.

Marik now spent a lot of his time just sitting next to the phone watching it.

Malik looked back at the door when he heard it open. With Yugi and Yami walking inside.

"Any luck?" Malik asked. The two had gone to the police station to see if anything had turned up. Yugi seemed to have a frown etched onto his face; however. He looked down and shook his head.

"They still haven't found anything," Yami said. "There's absolutely nothing, no blood, no ransom, no fingerprints nothing." he said with a heavy sigh.

"What about you?" Yugi asked.

"No," Marik's voice sounded his eyes not moving from the phone. Malik frowned looking back at the two blondes.

"No ones called."

"I don't fucking get it!" Marik said sitting up. Causing them to look over at him. "How the hell could there be absolutely nothing!" he asked raising his voice. This whole fact had pissed him off the more he thought about it.

"Marik," Malik said.

Marik seemed oblivious to his hikari's voice though as he stood up.

"I don't understand how no one has seen him at all!" he said in frustration. "We've already looked fucking everywhere in this fucking town!" he growled. "How could he have just fucking disappeared!"

The egyptian fumed. This is what happened when you were worried about something. He was worried as fuck about the thief and the fact that nothing was turning up made it worse. And of course the only thing he could do was get angry about it.

"The damn police can't find him, we can't find him, even fucking Kaiba can't find him!" he shouted. "There's no fucking evidence, there's no damn ransom, there's no fucking anything!"

Malik frowned looking at his darker half. He opened his mouth trying to get him to calm down, but he was immediately cut off when he started again. Making the hikari almost flinch.

"I don't fucking get any of it! Who the hell would kidnap Bakura!" he yelled. "Not only that fact but who the fuck could kidnap Bakura without getting themselves killed!" he asked. He was confused, worried and angry because there was absolutely nothing he could do about it.

"None of it makes any sense!" he shouted loudly. "And how the hell could absolutely no one at all have seen him!"

The three others in the room couldn't do much but stand there and endure the yami's fury.

"Why the fuck is nothing making sense!" he shouted slamming his hand onto the table. Causing a loud bang to ring through the house. Making the three nearly jump.

Marik seethed through his teeth as he felt his anger gradually settling down. He finally slumped back down on the chair panting softly through his teeth.

"Marik, I know your worried about him but screaming isn't going to find him." Malik said carefully not wanting to upset him again.

"Well I'm not sure what the hell else will," he retorted roughly. He sighed though closing his eyes for a moment before opening them again.

"Well it's not like he could have just vanished into thin air," Yami said with his arms crossed.

"How would you know Pharaoh? If I'm correct we've seen some pretty fucked up shit already, vanishing into thin air doesn't seem like a totally impossible action at this point." he replied.

Marik let out another sigh and lifted his hand up rubbing his head slightly.

"I just don't get it though," he said. "I mean how could someone kidnap Bakura? Bakura is strong enough on his own, he could easily fight off a weak mortal. Even if he couldn't he would just send them to the shadow realm or something."

"Yeah..that's been confusing me too," Malik said.

"Maybe someone just came at him from behind though," Yugi said. Only making Yami shake his head.

"Not likely, Bakura was a master thief back in Egypt, he wouldn't be so un-alert; he would have noticed."

Yugi looked down again, "Well what if the person wasn't a weak mortal?" This caused everyone to look at the short teen.

"Well if they weren't...Bakura would have sensed it wouldn't he?" Malik asked. The tomb keeper shook his head at his own statement, "Even if he did he could still just send them to the shadow realm."

The four of them stood there in silence.

"Yami is there any way you can think of that someone could get around his shadow magic?" Yugi asked looking at his partner.

Who seemed very concentrated on the thought.

"I suppose...but in order to do that the person would have to know about it," he said looking back at Yugi. "They would have to know about the Millennium Ring and that Bakura had it."

"Someone else who knows about the Millennium Items?" Marik asked looking back at him.

"That's the only way I can think of, that anyone would be able to get around the shadow magic." Yami replied. "Still...it's shifty on its own."

"What do you mean?" Marik asked.

"Well getting around the shadow magic wouldn't be easy to do either, even if you did know about it and the Millennium Items." he explained. "The source of our powers are our items." he said holding his puzzle. "So if you took it away from us its like taking away our power source..or at least weakening it."

"So your saying someone could get around Bakura's shadow magic by taking away his Ring?" Malik asked.

"Exactly, at least that's how it would seem, the magic would be weakened at least. Since a part of our soul still remains in the item; however," he started but found himself pausing.

"What?" Mairk asked impatiently.

"If someone exorcised our soul from the item...it would leave us completely helpless."

"But how the hell could anyone get close enough to him to get the ring, without Bakura killing them first anyways?" Marik questioned.

"..I'm not sure."

"Well if someone did have that knowledge they must have some kind of background in Egypt." Malik added. "But thats another thing, if someone did have all that knowledge...why would they have taken the ring?"

Malik seemed to pace slightly at this thought. "I mean wouldn't someone go after the puzzle? And if they wanted the ring why would they take Bakura too?" he asked.

Again the questions stumped them all.

Marik sighed suddenly turned back to the phone again.

"Why does it matter anyways?" he asked. "We still don't have any leads or signs of where he is." he stated. "And we can't track him using one of the Millennium Items because thats what the Millennium Ring does." he said with a tinge of annoyance.

They all sighed in unison.

Marik let his eyes drift back to the phone again and rested his chin on his arms again. Malik looked down at him.

"I'm sure something will turn up soon."

TBC

okay OH MY LORD! yes i just wrote that AH! okay yes im sorry but i went through my faze again and for some reason twilight was..i dont know it was almsot fading a bit and i went back to look at some yugioh pairings because i'll honestly tell you the very first series i had was yugioh! it was my first pairing to it was how i discovered yaoi and i was hitched! lol honestly its always been good for me and i finally decided to write professionally for it..it was such a hard choice so im sorry the other twilight fics i was writing may be disconiued or put on hold who knows. Any who this is the first story i decided to actually post i like psychoshipping lol i hope you guys like it and aren't to mad with me please Review by the way this is going to be updated kind of fast maybe because i have such a fresh idea lol