Story: Love of an Outlaw

Chapter 2: Into the Outlaws Den

Summary: As you may know, I suck at summaries, so I'm just going to start the story ok.

Disclaimer: me: I'm so excited! (jumps up and down)

Seto: Why?

me: Because I already have an idea for the second chapter for this story.

Seto: But what's with the title, "Love of an Outlaw", come on.

me: Hey! It's all that I could think of. Besides, I might change it, but it all depends.

Yami: (just walked in) Actually, that title isn't that bad...

me: Yay, at least someone likes it. (glares at Seto)

Seto: Who cares anyway.

me: You can do the disclaimer then.

Seto: I don't want to.

me: Do it, do it do it, do it...

Seto: Stop saying that!

me: I'll stop if you do the disclaimer.

Seto: Fine.

Yami: She got you there.

Seto: You would get annoyed to.

me: Will you hurry up.

Seto: Once again,Tenshi of Freedomdoesn't own anything to do with Yu-Gi-Oh... They know that you don't so why bother with the disclaimer?

me: I donno...

Seto: Why do I bother?

Yami: Why would anyone bother with her?

Seto: Good point.

me: That's it! (chases Seto and Yami around the room) I'm kind of busy now so I'll start the chapter. Get back here!

Story: Just outside the palace walls stood four men.

"Yami?" asked one of them. "You go for the princess's room, we'll get the guards down here ok?

"Ok." Yami nodded towards his friend. (Yes Yami as I have said is an outlaw)

Yami has three friends with him. One named Tybalt, who has black hair and green eyes. Another is named Kyo, who has blonde hair and blue eyes, and the third is Tren, who has dirty blonde hair and bluish-greenish eyes. They are all wearing black, and cloaks with hoods over their heads.

"We'll meet back here in an hour or less, so we'll have to be fast." said Tybalt.

"Agreed." said the other three.

They started spinning ropes with hooks tied to the ends, and then they threw them on the top of the front wall, making sure that the ropes were secrue, they all climbed the ropes. Once they were over the walls they separated, each person going in different directions. Leaving Yami to attend to his job.

"I'll have to do this quickly." he thought as he started spinning his rope with the hook tied to the end once agan. Koharu's balcony was right above him. After spinning it a few times, he finally let it fly, and in one shot, it hooked onto the balcony. "Yes. Now I'll just have to be quick and quiet." then he started climbing the rope until he was finally on the balcony.

He pulled the rope up and folded it around himself. With his cloak and hood on, he moved silently within the shadows, until he was in a dark corner beside her bed.

"There she is." but he hesitated for a moment, Koharu still had her head down not realizing that someone was in her room. Yami quietly crept over to her, moving with the shadows, he reached her bed. Reaching a hand over to her he grabbed her wirst.

"Huh?" she looked up at him, but all that she could really see were his crinsom colored eyes. "Who are you." she asked shaking a bit. "What do you want?"

"Shhh..." he put his fingers up to her lips. "If you be quiet, and do what I say, I promise that will not hurt you. Ok?" Koharu nodded.

Koharu got off her bed and walked with Yami down the stairs, he still had a firm grip on her wrist and has a dager in his other hand. The lights from the torches were dim, but once they reached the bottom of the stairs, as if out of nowhere came two guards holding spears in their hands.

"Princess Koharu!" shouted one of the men. Both guards walked up to Yami gripping their spears.

"Stay back or I'll kill her!" shouted Yami pulling Koharu closer to him and taking his hand with the dager and putting the dager up to Koharu's neck. "Come any closer and I swear I'll kill her!" the guards stop walking each of them tring to figure out what to do.

"Not going to hurt me? Yeah right." carefully Koahru moved her free arm and threw it towards Yami, elbowing him in the stomach.

"Ahhhhh...!" he let go of her, falling against the wall with his arm on his stomach as if he was stabbed. Quickly Koharu ran behind the two guards. They once again put their spears up and charged at Yami.

Yami quickly moved out of the way, and with the dager in his other hand he fought back. "Run! Princess Koharu! Run!" shouted the guards, but she didn't move.

"I want to run, but my body won't move. Am I that scared? Or is there some other reason?" she wasn't sure why, but she stood there waiting.

"Run... Princess...Koharu..." and with that both guards were knocked on concious. Yami walked up to Koharu.

"You could have killed those men,you had a chance. So why didn't you?" asked Koharu looking at him as he walked up to her.

"Because I didn't need to." he looked back at her. "To let you know, I didn't appreciate you hitting me in the stomach." then using the back end of the dagger, he hit Koharu in the stomack knocking her out.

Then putting the dager away in a small holder on his waiste, he picked up the princess in his arms and carried her through the rest of the palace, but being careful not to run into any more guards. He finally met his three friends at the front door.

"How'd you guys do?" he asked them.

"Great. I got three guards." said Kyo in a bragish way. Kyo is a big show off.

"So, I got six men, without using aweapon." said Tren. Tren and Kyo were always competing, no matter what it was.

"So, I guess that I don't have to ask how you did Yami." Tybalt looked down at the princess in his arms.

"Why did you tie her hands up, if she's asleep?" asked Tren.

"Because if she wakes up, we're going to be glad that her hands are tied." said Yami

"Why? What did she-"

"Shouldn't we get out of here first?" asked Yami looking around.

"No problem." the doors weren't heavy, and could be easily opened. Tybalt, Kyo and Tren quickly opened the doors, but not all the way, they just opened it enough, so that they could get through and close the doors. Once they were out of the palace, Yami hoped onto his horse and Kyo helped him get Koharu onto his horse, and then everyone else got on their horses and they all left. Koharu was sitting in front of Yami, with her head resting on his chest and on leg on each side of the sattle. By the time that the sun had come up, the four men along with Koharu were out of the village and heading up a nearby clif.

"My Pharaoh!" called out Seto running into his room. "We had a break in!

"Yes, I heard about it. But why didn't they take any of the treasure that we have in the palace? They nocked out almost every guard." the Pharaoh turned to Seto, he was standing by the window.

"They weren't after any treasure... they were after Koharu."

"She's missing?"

"Hm." Seto nodded. "We found two guards that were by the stairwell of her room knocked out. When they finally woke up, they said that they saw a hooded man with Koharu, threatening to kill her."

"Is there a ransom note?" he walked over to Seto.

"That's the weird thing, there was no ransom note."

"Get every guard out seaching."

"I've already done that, now, I think that I will go looking for her myself." then Seto left leaving the Pharaoh alone in his room.

While this was going on Yami and the others had already reached their hideout, it's on a clif, it takes about half a day to get there by horse. They live in a rundown abondoned village. Yami, Tybalt, Kyo and Dren still on their horses rode through the village streets. Then they stopped at an old warehouse, and got off their horses. Just as Yami got off his horse Koharu woke up.

"Huh? Where am I?" asked Koharu looking around, then she looked down at Yami who was helping her off the horse.

"I still don't know why you tied her hands up, like what can she do?" asked Tren once again.

Koharu walked over to him. "You want to see what I can do?" then with out any notice, Koharu stomped on his foot.

"OWWww...!" Tren started hopping up and down holding his foot that she stepped on up. "You're so dead now." he put his foot down and walked over to her. Koharu backed away.

"Hold on." Yami stepped in front of him.

"You want to see what I can do with my hands untied?" Koharu looked at him.

"Come on, let's get her inside." Tren, Kyo and Tybalt walked inside of the abandoned warehouse. While Yami grabbed her arm and led her inside as well. They all took off their hoods as they entered.

The inside had patches on the roof and walls, bags of gold and other stolen items were laying around, and small lamps hanging on walls lit up the dark room. Finally they reached the main room, Yami and his friends weren't they only ones there. There were other men too, sitting on the floor, leaning on the walls, all wearing something black or grey. Some had scars from who knows what.

"Hey! Sweet! You got her!" some of the men started shouting as Yami and Koharu walked into the middle of the room. "What a beauty!" came more calls. "I hope that we don't have to kill her!"

"Just be quiet, and don't do anything stupid." whispered Yami to Koharu.

"Put her on the ground." came a voice. In front of Koharu were about six steps leading up to a chair with a man sitting in it, she couldn't see his face, there wasn't enough light where he was sitting.

"Yes." Yami nodded, he looked at Koharu, then he threw her to the ground in front of him and backed away.

Koharu landed on her side and then sat up, with her hands still tied in front of her. "What do you want from me?" she asked trying not to sound scared.

"Don't speak unless spoken to." said a man coming up to her and slapping her in the face, Koharu's cheek is now red, but she didn't move. This man has no hair, a brown mustash and beard that stopped at the bottem of his chin. He is wearing what everyone else is wearing, black and grey robes but no cloak. And he has a scar on his cheek.

"No need for that." said the man on the chair. "I like the way that she speaks, not a sign of fear."

"I'll ask again what do you want from me?"

"I need you. We need your help getting into your palace."

"Why me?" Koharu asked still trying not to sound scared.

"Well, you're the princess, you can help, and you will."

"No, I won't." she looked away from him.

"What did you just say?" he spoke with a angry voice.

"I said I won't, I don't care what you do to me."

"Why you..." the man stood up. "Give me the whip."

"Yes sir." the bald man beside him handed him a brown whip.

"You will." he didn't come out of the darkness, but he was stillclose enough for the whip to hit her.

"Uh..." Koharu looked up at the whip in his hand.

"Huh... do I detect some fear?" asked the man still holding the whip in his hand. ButKoharu said nothing. "Fine! The whip should teach you to do what you're told!" just as he was about to throw the whip down and hit her, Yami stepped in front of him. "What are you doing!" Koharu looked up at Yami

"I have a better idea." Yami spoke with calm tone in his voice.

"Oh?" he put his arm with the whip down at his side.

"Put her in my care. I will deal with her, and make sure that she doesn't escape."

"Very well." he sat back down in his chair. "Take her to the small house just across from here, bring her back tomorrow morning, hopfully then, she will have changed her mind."

"Yes sir." Yami bowed his head, and then took Koharu by her arm and took her out of the warehouse. "I thought that I told you not to do something stupid?" he said once they were out of the warehouse. They walked across the street and into a small house that had boarded up windows and a door with a lock on the outside.

"I couldn't help it. I'm not some product you know. You guys can't just use me to get what you want." they finally walked inside of the small house.

It's a one room house, a bit smaller than Koharu's room, it has on small table and chair in one corner, with a small lamp and maches on top of the table. And small beatup old pillow that use to be red, and is now brown in the other corner and a blanket of the same color with some holes in it.

"Things work differently here." Yami took her further into the house and she sat on the small wooden chair and Yami untied her hands

"Why are you being so nice, those other guys are socruel compared to you." she looked up at Yami who was standing in front of her.

"I don't know." he turned and was heading out the door. "I'll go get you some food and water." then he left the house closing and locking the door behind him.

"What do I do? He's being so nice, I wouldn't stand a chance if I tried escaping. But tomorrow, who is that man? And what does he want with me? Duh, to get into the palace, but why?" she continued wondering these things and possible answers to some of her questions.

Later on, Yami returned, carring with him a small wooden water bottle with brown leather on the outside, and a small bag of friuts.

"Here." he handed her the water and food

"Thanks." she put the food and water on the small table in front of her, then Yami started walking out the door. "Where are you going?"

"Huh?" he turned and looked at her. "I have... stuff to do. I'll come back later tonight, maybe." Koharu looked away from him. "Are you worried about tomorrow?" he asked walking up to her.

"Uh, I don't want to do what he wants but..."

"Just don't do anything stupid again okay."

"Okay."

"Just a question though, why didn't you run? Back at the palace, you had the chance?"

"I don't know, I wanted to, but at the same time, I didn't want to..." she got up off the chair and walked into the corner with the pillow and blanket and sat back down. "To tell you the truth, I don't mind being out of the Palace. I was never allowed outside the walls, and..."

"And what?" Yami walked over to her and sat down beside her.

"My father wants me to marry someone that I don't even love."

"I see."

"Didn't you say that you have stuff to do?"

"I did? Yeah, well because I lost um... track of time, I'm going to be behind on my other work..." he stood up. "So, I might not beable to come tonight ok?"

"Ok." Koharu nodded, and Yami left.

"Why do I feel so drawn to her?" he thought locking the door behind him.

"I feel, drawn to him, but why?"

To be continued...

me: Finally. This chapter is done.

Seto: What took so long?

me: I wasn't sure where to end it.

Seto: Whatever.

me: What's his problem?

Yami: Why would I know?

me: Seto? What's your problem?

Seto: I have no problem.

me: Ok.

Seto: ... I was barely in that chapter!

me: Sorry, but you weren't really needed. And... Uh... You won't be in some of the next few chapters either.

Seto: Why?

me: You won't be needed. But don't worry, you'll come back.

Seto: When?

me: Well, you get a chance to kill Yami... oops, gave it away.

Seto: I do?

me: Well,

Yami: What? I'm going to be killed?

me: No, Yes, I don't know.

Yami: Great, my fate is in the hands of someone who doesn't know what she's doing. (walks around in circles)

me: You might not.

Seto: But you said-

me: I said maybe.

Seto: Whatever.

me: Well, I'm going to find out what Seto's problem is, so... bye.