Hello everyone. Ok, here's chapter two.

Atem: Can he leave my kitchen now?

Bakura: Oh, get over it.

Twilightknight1594: eh hem.

Both:….

"Hello there your highness. So how have things been?" Bakura said with a devilish smile. He hadn't expected to get caught, but this was actually a pleasant surprise.

"What are you doing in my kitchen?!" Atem demanded to know.

"Be quiet! Stone makes things echo idiot. You'll have the whole palace swarming down upon us in less than five minutes if you don't keep it down."

"That may not be such a bad idea. I do have the king of thieves eating my grapes."

"Yes and they are quite delicious." He popped another one in his mouth and began to chew. Either he was really hungry or just trying to be irritating because it was really loud chewing.

/I have never been able to get rid of him but this! How did he get in here? How…/ A thought hit Atem. "How are you standing here?" He asked.

"Well I have two legs and two feet. When I put the feet on the ground the legs hold me up. And I thought you were intelligent." Bakura said sarcastically with a small grin.

"Not what I meant. How are you standing here in my kitchen when the whole kingdom knows that when Zork was defeated you should have been too?" Atem got a look of concern on his face.

"Ah yes, you wouldn't know about that would you? At least you asked. Most just cower away and call me a "ghost"." He said popping another grape in him mouth.

"We are in the afterlife. What do they expect?" Atem asked. /With all the reasons to cower from him why on Earth would they pick that one?/

"That's what I said. However people can be so dense. Anyway, I guess I will take the time to explain." He let out a long sigh, ate another grape, and started talking. "You see, I was working for Zork to avenge my village and it is true that we were connected in a way but we were not the exact same being. Zork is ultimate darkness that has been around for eons but when you come right on down to it I'm still human." And with that he popped the rest of the grapes into his mouth.

"And so you were given a shot at the afterlife like everyone else." Atem stated.

"Pretty much." Bakura responded.

"But how could you be a part of Zork if you are human?" Atem wondered. When they had played the "ultimate shadow game" Bakura had clearly seemed to be a physical part of Zork since he said that was his representative on the field just like the pharaoh had been for him.

"I am a part of darkness just as you are a part of light. It's a matter of what sides that we pick really. You chose to side with that Horachkty character but you are not a part of her. Just on her side. Same as me and Zork." Bakura said. It did make sense. Seeing a Bakura had been a thief and Zork had risen when the items were made after Bakura had already reached about seven years of age they really weren't part of the same thing.

"So I am stuck with you." Atem said. He really didn't want to here the answer he knew was coming.

"Yes. For all of eternity I will be robbing your villages and towns and possibly coming by here every-so-often. You never know." Bakura's evil grin came back. He knew this bothered the king.

The pharaoh let out a short but aggravated sigh. /I thought this was supposed to be a resting place./

"Well at least it wont be boring. You cant possibly have that much to catch up on with your lackeys and aside from that after all the little adventures with those fools you called friends you are bound to want to do something after a while." Bakura said.

"First they are not "lackeys", they are my friends. Second, my friends in the 21st century are not fools and third, so long as everything is at peace I am happy. Unlike you I don't get a kick out of seeing people suffer." Atem said, a little angered.

"I don't get a kick out of it. I just like to see those who deserve it get what is coming to them." Bakura said putting on an innocent face.

"However you want to put it, you still laugh like a hyena when it happens." Atem said, taking the cheap shot. He knew it was a cheap shot but still, he had to score a point in this conversation some way.

"Back on the subject of those meddling fools you call friends in the 21st century." Bakura said, slightly aggravated. "Do you miss them?"

"Of what concern is that of yours?" Atem asked. /Why would he ask that? What is he trying to do?/ He got ready for some kind of verbal conflict.

"I just wanted to know if you wanted to know how they were." Bakura said. He waited to continue till he saw the look on the pharaoh's face. It was one of confusion that he didn't see too often. He liked it. "I could tell you if you care."

"How?" Atem asked. He was a little shocked by what the tomb robber had said.

"I am on the darkness' side. I also have the Millennium Ring." He picked it up so the pharaoh could see it shine in the fire light of the torch.

"How did you get that?!" Atem almost yelled.

"Mahad needs to keep a closer eye on his valuables. Anyway, since these use shadow magic then I have a bit of an advantage from working with the lord of darkness for so long. I know all the tricks." Bakura said. "But again if you don't care then I will be on my way."

"Wait."

"Yes?"

"Tell me. I just want to know if they are ok."

"I'll do you one better."

"And what's that?"

"We'll just go see for ourselves."

"Wh-"

And with a flash of light they were gone.

Twilightknight1594: Long but necessary.

Atem: What are you scheming Bakura?

Bakura: Me? Scheme? Never. (innocent look)

Atem: Yeah, right.