Sorry. I had a huge mental block after the first paragraph for a long time -.-

Chapter 2

Yami rolled out of bed as his alarm clock went off. He couldn't remember whether or not he had any reason to be out of bed and climbed back in. It wasn't until half an hour later when his little sister started bouncing around on him that he finally got up.

When he managed to make himself leave his room Erika confronted him "There you are! You have a meeting today!"

"What…? Why?" Yami yawned and started to look for the coffee maker. Maybe his father had been as generous as to leave some of the miracle liquid for him.

"I told you before" Erika scowled "It's for the 'gifted and talented students program'. You want to get into a nice college, right?"

"Not really"

"Yes you do" Erika said "Now get dressed and eat breakfast. Hurry!"

Yami took his time to drink a mug of coffee before changing into a somewhat formal outfit before Erika rushed him out the door and into the car.

The building was small and well hidden. Yami had to admire Erika in that she actually new how to get to the place. It looked more like a hidden base than a school owned building.

There were metal detectors as they went inside. His shoes didn't meet the security standards and were confiscated. When Erika asked him why his shoes had been considered a hazard he simply shrugged. Hell if he knew.

Each room seemed to have its own unique security system. Yami made a game out of figuring each one out as he was led through the building. There was a pattern in which system was used depending on where you were in the building. By seeing similar systems Yami changed his game from simply figuring them out to figuring out how to crack them.

Erika led him into what looked like a meeting room for a big business. "Stay put" she ordered before leaving. The second she was gone Yami was up on the table picking at the security system. He took it off and set it down. Taking it apart and looking at the different layers to it before quickly putting it back together and replacing it on the ceiling.

He jumped into one of the seats just as Erika came in with some 'all business' men. Yami was tempted to try a disappearing act at the site of them. They were the type of people who were either villains or boring, judging by looks.

"Mr. Yami No Bakura" The head man said, taking a seat in the large chair at the end of the table and looking at Yami amused "Do you know why you're here today"

"That's a good question for a positive answer, but if your looking for something negative then ask me if I care" Erika glared daggers at him, warning him to be polite. "But yes, I do know what this is for"

"Good" The man glanced at Erika and she shook her head. He grinned slightly and looked back at Yami "You don't have to high of grades, but do well on standardized tests. Looking over your records the problem seems to be homework that went ignored. You're on the school soccer team as well and-" He turned on a large screen behind him which showed an image of Yami just a minute ago playing with the security device "Know your way around technology"

"Um… where…" Judging by the angle he was at on the screen the camera was somewhere on the wall parallel to the door. A quick scan proved this theory correct. Yami was amazed at how well it was hidden.

"Now, we've been looking through school reports and rumors. It seems that in every class where something unexplainable happens you happen to be there. There were several other student with this schedule but these occurrences have also happened while they are absent, leaving you as the only suspect left"

Yami glanced at Erika. If she was upset about the man coming so close to learning about his powers he hadn't said it yet "Yami No Bakura, how do you do these things" He continued to look at her. She signaled for him to answer honestly.

"I…" he looked up at the security device, then to Erika, then back to the device. He held his outstretched palm toward it and the object was engulfed in darkness. When he moved his hand away the darkness vanished, but the device did not reappear.

"Amazing" the head man whispered "We've had several gifted children like you in before, but they never demonstrated that sort of power" Yami twitched, this was the type of gifted and talented Erika had been talking about? Why bother to hide his powers if she had them shown to a public school program? "Yami No Bakura-"

"Just Yami"

"Yami… we'd like you to spend a couple weeks here over the summer so we can gain a full understanding of your abilities. Mrs. Bakura, is this okay with you"

"Yes" Erika replied

"But I'm in Egypt then!" Yami protested.

Erika silenced him with a glare "You can go to Egypt some other time. This is more important"

Yami growled at her but remained silent for the rest of the meeting.

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"He's an interesting one. You did good finding him"

"It was entirely by accident" Erika admitted "He just happened to be my boyfriend's kid. I didn't even know it until after we were engaged"

"You still did well. I've never seen anyone with a power so… dark. He doesn't seem to willing to go along though. Are you sure it was a good idea to bring him in now?"

"No. But it's too late to bring him in earlier. He'll be fine with it if we reschedule his silly trip"

OOOOO

Bakura glanced up at Yami as he burst into the room "You have to stop her!"

"Your mother, your sister, or your friend?"

"Erika! She's evil!" Yami complained "She says I have to let some nut case company that's supposedly school related lock me up for X many days during the time I'm supposed to go to Egypt!"

"Yami" Bakura set down the book he'd been reading to look at his 'son' "To be honest, I'm not too comfortable with you going to Egypt. I know you've been looking forward to it, but I just don't think it's a good idea" all the shadow realm related reasons for this were left out "And if your mother thinks that this is best for you the least you could do is give it a try"

"You're just as bad!" Yami yelled. He stormed out of the room. Bakura flinched as stay bits of Yami's unnatural shadow energy knocked things over when the boy passed them.

Isaya831: SOOOOOOOOO SORRY that I waited so long to update!!!