Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh

Jou was sitting in the living room of his one room apartment; he had managed to save up enough money from his part time job to get his own place about six months ago, watching some highlights from last nights quarter finals. Right now it was showing highlights from Yami's brilliant victory that brought him one step closer to his third world championship title. Jou couldn't help but smile at the thought, or at the idea of the huge victory party Yugi would throw as soon as he received word that Yami had won.

He was drawn from his thoughts by a knock on his door. Now who could that be? He wondered as he went to answer the door, it was a bit on the late side for any of his friends to drop by unannounced, but the more he thought about it he realized that would be something that Honda or Otogi would do without much thought.

Jou opened the door and did not come face to face with one of his friends as he had expected, but instead two police officers.

"Good evening officers, how can I help you?" Jou said as calmly and politely as he could. He had ran into some trouble with the law back when he was in Middle School, and despite having left Hirutani's gang some time ago, that didn't mean seeing police officers show up on his doorstep didn't unnerve him somewhat.

"Yes, are you Jounouchi Katsuya?" one of the officers asked.

"Yes, I am officer, how could I be of some assistance to you?" Jou said with a nervous smile.

"Could we come in? We have some questions to ask you regarding a friend of yours." The officer said in a rather businesslike manner.

"Of course, come in, come in." Jou said as he stood aside to let the officers in. After the three had sat down the officer turned to Jou and asked,

"When is the last time you saw Yugi Moto?"

Jou blinked, of all the things the officer wanted to ask him about, that been the last thing he had expected.

"Yesterday afternoon, when he went home from school, I think it was around 3:30. Why?" Jou asked. Yugi isn't in trouble now is he?

"Your friend was reported missing, and according to his grandfather, he was supposed to be spending the night at your house yesterday. So, we're trying to figure out what might have happened to him." The officer said rather calmly, too calmly in Jou's opinion.

"He's What?!" Jou asked as he stood up.

"Missing." The officer repeated, not at all bothered by Jou's outburst.

"Wait a minute, he told Gramps he was coming here?" Jou said, having just registered what the officer had told him.

"Yes, and you weren't worried when he didn't show up?" the officer said as he eyed Jou suspiciously.

"Why would I have been worried when, as far as I knew he wasn't coming over? I had work last night, you can check with my boss." Jou stated rather defensively.

"So, he wasn't going to be spending the night over here?" the second officer piped up, apparently in order to clarify Jou's statement.

"No, he wasn't, but lying to his Grandpa is so unlike him. Something must have happened to him." Jou said.

"Something, like what?" the officer questioned.

"I don't know, however, if Yugi was in trouble he'd call Yami." Jou said. I know Yami's busy, but if Yugi's in trouble he'd want to know, who knows maybe he might know something about this whole mess.

"Yami? Who's Yami?" the officer said rather confused.

"Yami Atemu is Yugi's best friend. The two of them have known eachother since elementary school. Yami is always helping get Yugi out of jams, if Yugi were in trouble I'd say he told Yami about it." Jou explained. The officer quickly wrote down what Jou told him.

"Funny, the Grandfather didn't mention Yami when we asked for a list of Yugi's friends." The officer said as he looked at Jou in a way the said, 'please explain.'

"Gramps knows that Yugi would flip if he sent the police to bother Yami in the middle of a tournament." Jou said, "But if it'll help get Yugi found, then it's worth it."

"Tournament?" the officer said looking rather puzzled.

Jou pointed to the television, "Duel Monsters tournament being held at the Kaiba Dome. Yami's defending his title as the world champion. He's been there since Monday." Jou explained.

"Alright, thank you for your help." The officers said as they got up and left.

Yami had just finished beating Mai Valentine securing his spot in the championship match. He had an hour of free time before he would be facing off against his archrival, a billionaire named Seto Kaiba.

He sank down onto the bed in his assigned room, happy to be away from all the noise. He was just getting ready to close his eyes when there was a knock on the door.

Annoyed Yami got up to answer the door, figuring it to be another annoying fan who wanted an autograph. However, he frowned when he saw two Domino City police officers through the peep hole. He opened the door and asked,

"How can I help you officers?"

"Yami Atemu, we need to ask you some questions about your friend Yugi Moto?"

"Yugi? What's wrong? Is he hurt, did something happen to him?" Yami said very quickly.

"We don't know, but he was reported missing, and according to a friend of his you would be someone he would go to if he were in trouble."

"Yes, Yugi would come to me if he needed help, but I haven't spoke to him since Monday, when he called to wish me good luck." Yami said as he thought back to his 45 minute cell phone conversation with Yugi.

-Flashback-

"Hey Yami, I was just calling to wish you good luck in the tournament, though you hardly need it, you'll win without a doubt." Yugi said.

Yami laughed before saying, "Well, thanks for the vote of confidence, I'll do my best but I can't guarantee anything."

"You'll do just fine Yami." Yugi repeated.

Yami frowned, "Yugi what's wrong? You sound upset about something, did something happen?"

Yugi didn't say anything immediately, but Yami could hear the sound of Yugi going up the stairs and closing the door. Apparently, something had happened.

"Well, it was nothing major, just Ushio and his gang of thugs were bothering me again today…"

"What happened Yugi?" Yami asked yet again.

"Oh, the usual, they roughed me up a little bit, demanded a ton of money that I don't have and said that it would be worse if I didn't get it to them." Yugi explained.

"Something else happened and you know it, Yugi now spit it out already, or do I have to come back there and…" Yami started.

"Alright, alright I'll tell, this time they pulled a knife and said that I would be getting a lot better acquainted with it if I didn't give them the money. Yami, please don't worry about this, its my problem not yours. You just need to focus on this tournament, let me worry about Ushio." Yugi stated.

"How much money does he want Yugi?" Yami asked.

"Yami I told you not to…" Yugi started.

"How much Yugi? Either tell me how much money Ushio wants , and I transfer it to your account, or I pack up and come back and see for myself that everything is okay. Yugi, this is serious and you know it. I don't want you to get hurt, or worse killed because of something that could have easily been avoided." Yami explained.

"Fine Yami, you can transfer the money, I'll pay you back." Yugi said.

"Don't worry about paying me back, its not a big deal. Now, how much?" Yami said.

"2000000 yen." Yugi said.

"Alright 2000000 yen. I'll get that transferred to your account now. Now, Yugi I want you to promise me something." Yami said.

"What's that?" Yugi asked puzzled.

"That you won't deal with this alone, and if things seem like there getting out of hand you WILL contact me." Yami said rather firmly.

"Let me guess, if I don't promise this or you find out that I broke my promise your coming back, right?" Yugi said.

"That's correct, I'll drop out of this tournament before I take the chance of you getting hurt." Yami said.

"Alright, I promise that I Yugi Moto, will not deal with Ushio by myself and if the situation gets out of hand I will contact you. Happy?" Yugi said.

"As long as you stick to it, yes I am." Yami replied.

"Anything else you want to talk about before you go kick some butt?" Yugi asked.

"Hmm, let me think…how badly did Ushio rough you up?" Yami asked.

"Not too bad." Yugi said.

"Define 'too bad'." Yami replied.

"Split lip, bloody nose, a nasty looking bruise on my stomach, all in all not too bad." Yugi explained.

"Alright, just be careful okay? I've got to go, the opening ceremony starts soon and I've got to stop by the bank first." Yami said.

"Alright, good-bye and good-luck." Yugi said.

"Alright, talk to you later. Bye." Yami said, then they both hung up.

-End Flashback-

"So, you don't have any reason to believe that someone might try to hurt him?" the officer asked.

"Why would you ask me that?" Yami asked.

"Well, the person who reported him missing said someone had threatened Yugi. And according to…"

"Who reported him missing?" Yami asked suddenly.

"Ryou Bakura did, why does that mean something?" the officer asked.

"No, no it doesn't mean anything, I was just wondering, you were saying. Yami said. Though that is strange, of all Yugi's friends he spends the least amount of time with Ryou, and he never goes over to Ryou's house without me or Jou, something isn't right there.

"Yes, according to his friend Jou, Yugi would tell you if he was in trouble, so maybe you would know of who might want to hurt him."

Yami was quiet for a few minutes, while I tried to remember the names of every person who had ever threatened Yugi.

"The only people who I know of who have ever threatened Yugi are Ushio, Yami Bakura, Marik Ishtar, Keith Howard, and Raphael Smith. Though, as far as I know Ushio was the most recent, but in my opinion any one of them would hurt Yugi without a second thought." Yami explained.

The officer took down the names and said that they would be in touch if they had any more questions, and then left.

Yami looked at his watch and sighed, according to his watch he had to face off against Kaiba in 15 minutes. He reached over and grabbed his cell phone off the nightstand. He scrolled through his list of contacts before he found Kaiba's number. He hit send.

"Kaiba." Kaiba said rather sharply into the phone.

"Kaiba, I need you to postpone the final match, either that or tell your sold out crowd that I forfeit." Yami said rather quickly.

"You are not, I repeat NOT going to forfeit Yami. Give me one good reason why you need the finals postponed, before I send Rolland and Kemo down and have you escorted to the arena." Kaiba snapped.

"Yugi's missing. The cops just left. I have a feeling he might be in trouble, I need to go and check some stuff out." Yami explained.

"Missing? Do you have any reason to believe he might be hurt or in danger?" Kaiba asked.

"Kaiba, we wouldn't be having this conversation if I didn't." Yami snapped, this was taking too long.

"Alright, go and look for him. I'll postpone the finals. Call me when you find something out." Kaiba said.

"Okay I will Bye." Yami said.

"One more thing Yami, be careful alright?"

"I will Kaiba. I will." Yami said and he hung up his phone.

He was about to put his phone away when he noticed that someone had sent him a text message.

He opened up the message and it read:

Things took a bad turn. In over my head. Need help. Call when you get this. Yugi.

Yami immediately started to dial Yugi's number. On the third ring, someone answered.