A/N: Hey pplz, this is what you get when you leave alone for an entire weekend! Yep, you get this story! Ah well, now I would really like to say I really don't own YuGiOh, yeah such an unfair world huh? Oh well, now that that is done I would also like to say that reviews are extremely recommended because I will use the names of the reveiwers in a mini story that'll come right before every chapter. And flammers will be tied up, thrown in a burlap sack, and thrown off Niagara Falls!!! Am I making myself clear!!!??? Okay that's enough ranting, (dramatic music) now on the story!

~*Second Youth*~

Chapter 1: The Curse

~*~*~*~*~*~ "Now what have we here?" Smirked the dark Yami sinisterly. The shaking Bakura huddled against his bedroom wall. "Disobedience should be punished, little runt!" He spat darkly as he swung his foot into Bakura's stomach forcefully.

"Uuuh-ugh," Bakura moaned, blood seeping from his mouth and staining his already darkened sweater. Not wanting to risk more harm, Bakura refrained from looking at his yami. Eyes fixed on the floor. From his Yami's view all he could gaze at would be Bakura's, red dripping bangs which, covered his eyes from view.

"What? You don't seem to like your little punishment!"

Bakura quivered in fear, his tattered breathing was labored. Minutes passed, to the albino on the floor, it seemed like hours. He took a chance and glanced up at his Yami, relief washed over him when saw that his back was turned to him. Yami was oblivious to Bakura's gaze on his back. He was staring out the window, approximately ten feet away. Bakura's instincts kicked in and he recklessly attempted to run out the door, and escape. Before he could even get six feet away he was hurled to the ground, where he was knocked into the hall table. This caused the table and phone to knock over. It also caused a searing pain in Bakura's right shoulder.

The phone hit the ground, which had luckily hit the number for speedial. As if fate was at work the speedial connected to Yugi's number, where Yugi and Yami were home alone.

~ Yugi answered and heard a great clammily going on. Realizing Bakura was in trouble, he and Yami immediately ran out the door and over to Bakura's house. ~

Yami Bakura gripped the collar of the frightened Bakura, and slammed him face first into to the wall. Completely unaware of Yugi who was rushing over, the Yami commenced with his punishment.

He spun Bakura around and glared at him, they were eye to eye. Yami thrust his knee into Bakura's stomach as Bakura coughed up blood, that threatened to change the color of his sweater forever. The new wave of pain caused Bakura to become limp in the death-glaring Yami's clutches. Satisfied Y. Bakura dropped the body carelessly.

"Stupid mortal!" He hissed through his teeth. "He would have been better off just taking his punishment!" The Yami thought for a moment. " Oh well," he said. "I'll just have to punish him again after he wakes up." He sneered, darkness covering most of his features. Then in a flash of light, he disappeared into the Millennium ring, to bide time before the Hikari awoke again.

~5 minutes later~

Yugi arrived at Bakura's house and instantly began knocking raptly.

~Y. Bakura~

'What was that?' He asked in the inky darkness that consumed his soul room. He used his magic to gaze at whom was at the door. 'Yugi!? Yami!!?? What the bloody hell are _they_ doing here!!!!????' He yelled in his little panic attack.

~Yugi and co.~

There was no answer.

/Well?/ Yugi mentally asked his Yami.

//Well what?// Replied a certain good Yami.

/What do we do now?/

//We um. Go in? Just be careful! I almost feel like we're walking into a lion's den//

/I know Bakura's Yami is dangerous, but just how dangerous I'm afraid to find out/

//No kidding//

Bravely Yugi turned the doorknob without hesitation. The door clicked and creaked squeakily open. He along with the spirit walk in. Things looked normal.

//Yugi look at the top of the stairs!// Yami sounded nervous.

Yugi obediently fixed his gaze on where his Yami had instructed. He could see a tiny trickle of blood dripping off the top floor and creating a small puddle on the fist story carpet. Yugi bolted upstairs and froze at the sight of his unconcious friend.

"Bakura!" He practically yelled. He ran to the wounded boy and paused before lifting him up a little. /Yami what could've happened to him/

//Yami Bakura, that's what happened to him.// Yami said sternly.

/Well we better clean him up./

//I agree//

Yami helped Yugi lift the boy which was not as hard as it had seemed. He was incredibly light. They gently placed the boy on the bed and began to clean the blood off him. After they had finished they changed the sheets and left him to sleep.

Knowing that their Grandpa would be home soon, they left Bakura alone. They'd told the unconscious albino that they would come back soon but alas the silveone would not know that.

~Y. Bakura~

"Troublesome Pharaoh!" He growled. "That's okay, I've finally found the perfect spell to get rid of him once and for all!"

He walked over to a shelf that was darkened in spiderwebs. He slashed them away and took a six blue crystals, a tin of salt and a jar containing a pink flame from a shelf. He also took some hairs he'd threatened Bakura to get for him from the Pharaoh.

He lay the crystals in the shape of a star, poured the salt from stone to stone and placed the hairs in the center. He then lit the salt with the pink flame that turned dark purple. It spread from stone to stone as the Yami chanted a curse he'd recently learned from an ancient scripture. The flame lit his face up maliciosly. As the curse finished the flame glowed and disapeared. He grinned. 'All in due time.' He thought, "All in due time.'

Although he was confident in his plan, he was sadly mistaken. The curse he'd gotten was mistranslated. So instead of making someone have ungodly bad luck, it would make them age backwards. And those weren't Yami's hairs he'd gotten, they were Bakura's. So now both the holders of the Millennium Ring were in for a rude awakening!