I am REALLY sorry for the last chapter! This chapter is (hopefully) much longer so don't stop reading it, please! Oh, and a chocolate cake goes to all my wonderful reviewers.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or DNAngel, if I did, I wouldn't be writing fanfics …or would I…MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! *coughs* sorry, I really don't own them though. If I did, you would know. Besides, I don't draw that good. And I am really bad at keeping track of characters. For example, I forgot about Honda and Ryou about…..probably 5 or 6 times before realizing, and then going back and fixing it. Later I might have character get sick or something to add more to the story, and take out characters.

/hikari to yami/

/yami to hikari/

-/broadcast to other yamis or hikaris /-

Thoughts

dreams


Chapter 3: Nighttime Raid

After school ended Daisuke, Satoshi, Yuugi, Jounochi, Seto (though he didn't really want to), Anzu, Honda, Ryou, and their respective yamis (that's what, 12 people total (counting the yamis)?) all walked outside school, and picked up the conversation where they had left off.

Daisuke and Satoshi, the only two who knew about Dark, had talked about what to tell Yuugi and friends about Dark after school during lunch (they avoided Yuugi and them then of course) , with Dark's help, and had decided to tell them only that Dark was a great phantom thief (in his opinion anyway), had never been caught and that Satoshi was only in charge of catching him because of his father. None of them were willing to say anything about the Hikari artworks, or Krad for that matter. They also talked about the strange powers they sensed, and where they might have been coming from. They had all agreed that it was coming from only Yuugi and Ryou, that the strange power actually felt like Daisuke and Satoshi, but a little different, older, and although not as powerful (that was only Dark and, surprisingly, Krad talking, both Daisuke and Satoshi thought it was about the same, or even more powerful), and that the power didn't come from the bodies like Daisuke and Satoshi's did, but from an object. Unfortunately, they didn't know where on them it was coming from. Daisuke had also mentioned that Yuugi's presence had felt different somehow after Satoshi started talking to him.

"So who exactly is Dark?" Honda asked. "I know he is a great phantom thief and all (here Dark smirked, and said something to Daisuke, but Daisuke ignored him) and I know what the news people tell us about him, but since you work for the police Hiwatari-kun, I-we thought you might know more about him." Daisuke flinched , he just knew that Satoshi was going to say something bad about Dark. Satoshi smirked as he saw Daisuke's expression.

"Dark is just a petty thief-"(-/I am NOT "just a petty thief"!/- Dark broadcasted to Daisuke and Satoshi, with a pout on his face) "who steals (usually) precious artwork from museums, and occasionally, people. He has a big ego from what I can see, and has failed in stealing an artwork once (the second hand of time). He also happens to be a big pervert. Satoshi said, remembering (with some horror) when he dressed up as a girl to try and stop Dark. Dark and Daisuke remembered this too, Dark broadcast laughing to Daisuke and Satoshi, and Daisuke with a chill. Dark had almost KISSED Satoshi. He could see Satoshi remembered well to, by the expression on his face. They were so lucky Wiz was there.

" So you really don't know anything more?" Jounochi asked with a look of disbelief on his face. Actually, the same look that Honda and Yuugi had. Satoshi shook his head.

"No" he said.

"What about you Daisuke? You know anything more about Dark?" Anzu asked. "He is so cool~" she added as an afterthought. Daisuke sweat dropped.

"N-no." he said stuttering because he was trying to keep his laughter in (and he is a horrible liar). Dark, cool? he thought. More like just a huge pervert. He hardly does any of the work, I'm the one who spends all their free time setting up.

/Hey! I do the actual stealing!/ Dark said

/ I could do it just as well as you, and remember we're supposed to find out where the strange power we sense is coming from / came the reply

/all right/

"Are you sure?" Yuugi asked.

" Yes, I'm sure." Daisuke said. Jounochi, Honda, Anzu, and Ryou sighed.

"Aww-man" Jounochi said.

"Hey," Ryou said, looking around "where did Seto go?"

"ehh?" everyone (but Satoshi) erm…. said (?).

"Look." They looked around. Seto was gone. Daisuke took advantage of this and he (and Dark) looked at Yuugi and tried to figure out where the strange power was coming from. He noticed a weird gold necklace, that looked like an upside down pyramid, with an eye on it, on a leather cord.

-/Dark, Satoshi, look at that/- Daisuke broadcasted, mind-pointing to the pyramid. -/Is that where the strange power is coming form?/- he asked.

-/ Yes, that seems to be it/- Satoshi broadcasted

-/But how do we make sure?/- Dark asked.

-/ I think I have an idea/- Daisuke said.

"What's that necklace you are wearing?" he asked, pointing at it.

"Oh, this?" Yuugi said, gesturing to the upside down pyramid. "It's called the Sennen Puzzle, it is an artifact of ancient Egypt. It was a puzzle I found in the game shop I live in. it took me eight years to complete."

"Eight YEARS?!" Daisuke yelped.

"Uh-huh, eight years."

"Can I see it?" Daisuke asked. Satoshi looked over to him so that's what his idea was. Simple, but effective he admitted.

"I don't know, it's really precious to me, I would hate for anything to happen to it." Yuugi said, hesitantly.

"Don't worry, I won't do anything to it, I just want to look at it."

"Everything Yuugi has shown someone has had a history of getting thrown away, stolen, or broken." Honda said.

" That's right." Jounochi said. "Like when-" he was cut off when Daisuke interrupted.

"Sorry, I didn't know." he said.

"Hey, is anyone listening to me?" Jounochi said. Everyone ignored him, and kept talking.

"it's okay" Yuugi said, after a moment's pause. A few seconds later, he took the Sennen Puzzle off, and handed it to Daisuke "Here, be careful."

"Thanks." Daisuke said, as he reached out to grab it. As soon as he did, He froze. flash he saw a image of someone like Yuugi, but with red eyes, and more of a commanding presence.

"You okay?" Anzu asked, snapping him out of his trance.

"Eh? Oh, yeah, I'm fine" Daisuke replied distantly, blinking.

/Dark, did you see that?/

/See what?/

/….never mind./ Daisuke said to Dark. What was that just now? That presence, I've felt it before….it was when Satoshi started talking to Yuugi earlier today! That was the EXACT same presence I felt earlier! Daisuke thought. To Dark and Satoshi he said -/This is it, isn't it, where one of the strange powers is coming form?/-

/Yes/ Dark replied, /this is it. /

-/It is? Good, now all we have to do is find the other one./- Satoshi said.

" Here you go." Daisuke said, giving the Sennen Puzzle back to Yuugi. Yuugi took the Puzzle back with badly concealed relief. "Thanks." Daisuke said. Yuugi nodded.

" Ryou has something like this too he said."

"Really!" Daisuke said, excitedly. Ryou nodded.

"See." He said, reluctantly taking pulling something out, that shined when the sunlight hit it. "It's called the Sennen Ring."

" There are a lot of those sennen items aren't there?" Satoshi asked.

"Yeah." Ryou said, surprised.

"There are seven." Yuugi said. "My sennen Puzzle,"

"my Sennen Ring," Ryou said

"the Sennen Rod," Jounochi said

"the Sennen Eye" Honda said

"the Sennen Key" Anzu said

"and then there is the Sennen necklace, and the Sennen Scales." Yuugi finished.

"Wow, Daisuke said, "Have you seen them all?"

"Yeah," Yuugi said. "Pegasus has the Sennen Eye, Malik has the Sennen Rod, his older sister has the sennen necklace, and Shadi has the Sennen Key and the Sennen Scales."

"Yuugi, Jounochi, Honda, Ryou, we had better get going home, the sun is setting." Anzu said.

"It is?!" Yuugi, Honda, Ryou, Jounochi, and Daisuke all asked.

"Yes, weren't you paying attention?" Satoshi asked, pointing towards the sky, where you could see the sunset. They all looked at the sunset.

"It's so pretty." Daisuke said.

"Yeah," Jounochi said "hey Yuugi, doesn't it remind you of-"

"Come on you guys," Anzu said, we're really late.

"Yeah," Ryou said. "I have to buy groceries on the way home so…..bye!" He said running off.

"Well, nice meeting you" Yuugi said, "See you tomorrow!" Yuugi, Anzu, Jounochi, and Honda waved bye, and walked towards the bus stop.

"Bye~" Daisuke said, waving. Satoshi just kind of stood there.

"So" Satoshi said, as soon as they were out of sight. "We know one of the strange powers that we sensed, the one coming from Yuugi, came from his Sennen Puzzle, and the other, the one from Ryou, we think is coming from the Sennen Ring."

"Yep," Daisuke said, "so now what do we do? The Sennen items could be dangerous."

-/Why don't we steal it?/- Dark broadcasted

"What?!, no way!! It's to precious to him!" Daisuke said

" Wait. Think about it Daisuke, the Sennen Puzzle could hurt Yuugi, and besides, what we could do, is just steal-"

"NO STEALING!!!!!" Daisuke yelled.

"/Listen/" Satoshi said/broadcasted, frustrated. " We steal the Puzzle, seal the magic in it, and then give it back!" Daisuke sighed, and reluctantly asked

"How long will it take to seal it?" This time, Dark answered.

-/ An hour at most, but if creepy boy helps, we can get it done in 15 minuets. We just need to find the right place to do it./-

"Well, where would we seal it then?" Daisuke asked. Satoshi thought about it for a minute.

"We'll do it at my place, tomorrow night, including the time it takes to get there, back, and to actually steal it, it should take about an hour. Maybe longer if something goes wrong." he said. Daisuke decided not to ask what could go wrong.

"Fine, what time? It will have to be when he is asleep, so he doesn't notice, and when my parents are asleep (I have to sneak out)."

"2 A.M., that gives your parents, and Yuugi's household to be sound asleep. What time will Dark bring it over by?"

/Well, Dark?/

-/ I can get it out of the house in 2 minuets, tops. So around 2:15/-

"Got it. So it'll be back by 3:00, that's pushing it, but if Dark is quiet enough, he can do it without getting caught."

"Okay. But wait, isn't tomorrow Thursday? Why not wait till Friday night?" Satoshi just looked at him. "Fine, fine I'll do it."


Yami projected himself out of the puzzle to look at his sleeping hikari. He smiled as he saw what position his hikari was in. His hikari was asleep at his desk, slumped over his half finished homework, the sennen puzzle around his neck. He looked at the clock, it was 2:00 A.M. his Hikari had gone to sleep at what time again? That's right, he remembered, 1:00 A.M., he defiantly won't get enough sleep tonight. Yami chuckled. Although his hikari didn't have very much homework, they had spent most of the night on the phone with Ryou talking about the strange powers they had sensed. Both the yamis were worried about them. He frowned, as he remembered part of the conversation. They had figured out that the Strange powers were coming form their new friends Daisuke and Satoshi, and that the powers were not all that strange, because it felt kind of like the yami hikari mix, but younger, and still a little different. Yami looked around the room. With Yuugi being Yuugi, it was very messy, but had some order, and at least the cards weren't scattered about the room, like everything else. He looked towards the open window. As he looked, a shadow moved . What was that? he thought, walking towards the window. It moved again, but this time, he noticed the shadow moving was only the curtains. Oh, he thought it was only the wind. Next time, I'll tell Yuugi to shut the window. he decided. Satisfied that there was nothing wrong with the room, he decided to go back inside the Puzzle and sleep. Usually he would do this during school, but he wanted to keep and eye on Daisuke and Satoshi. Just as he was about to go inside the puzzle, a dark figure moved inside the window.

This time, he knew it wasn't the curtains. As Yami was about to go investigate, the figure moved into the room. It was a person ( Yami was a little doubtful here ) with black wings (a fallen angel maybe? oh, right he remembered Angels don't exist.), purple hair and eyes, and black clothes on. He recognized this person from somewhere….he's the Phantom Thief Dark! Why is he here? Yami watched (out of sight) as Dark looked around, looking for something. He had a bad feeling about this. As Dark looked around some more, his eyes stopped at the desk where Yuugi was sleeping, and he walked towards the Desk. Yami followed, glad that he had never heard of Dark kidnapping anyone. Dark's hands reached out towards Yuugi, and started taking the Puzzle off his neck. Not the puzzle, he (Yami) groaned, not again. As the puzzle was lifted off Yuugi's neck, Yami vanished into the puzzle, so at least he wouldn't be dragged along by it. Which was painful. Very painful.

A few minuets later, Dark landed (Yami could feel it) and started walking somewhere. Yami projected himself outside the puzzle again, and heard voices talking.

"Do you have it?" a strangely familiar voice asked.

"Yep, the kid was sound asleep ,luckily, did you know he sleeps with the thing?" Dark said.

"Whatever, now let's seal it and get it back before he wakes up." Yami paled as he heard this (if spirits could pale). He did NOT want to be sealed inside the puzzle again. He walked around looking for a way out. It seemed he was in an apartment, with the items and markings needed for a powerful sealing. Well great. He walked back to where Dark and the other person had been talking, this time to see who that person was. He was shocked as the person moved into the light. It was Satoshi!!!!!!! Yami frowned (again). Satoshi? Why is he here? Isn't he the detective trying to catch Dark, not cooperate with him? Has he been helping Dark all along, is that why he had never been caught? That thought flew out of his head as heard the next set of dialogue.

"Something has been bothering me, creepy boy." Dark said

"Who, you, or you?"

"Me"

"What?"

"If the strange power we sensed is really like ours, does that mean it's like us?" Satoshi paused, thinking about it.

"Maybe," he admitted. "but we don't know how dangerous it is, we really don't want another Krad, now do we?"

"No, not really. One's hard enough to deal with, thank you." Yami moved even closer. Krad? He had never heard that name before.

"That's what I thought."

"But what if it's like me?"

"Like you?" Satoshi laughed, "the Yuugi would want it gone, wouldn't he?"

"HEY! Daisuke does not want me gone! Not anymore!" Satoshi didn't reply. Daisuke?

"How about one of us checks it out, it wouldn't take too long, and then we could be sure."

"I'm not doing it, and I am not letting Krad do it, he would well, you know what he's like."

"And sadly, I can't because if something goes wrong, I am the only one that-"

"So that leaves Daisuke?"

"Yes." Dark said. Daisuke? They mentioned him again, What does he have to do with this. This time as Yami moved even closer, Satoshi seemed to look right at him, and he paled.

"Dark," Satoshi said, "did you bring Yuugi back with you?" Dark looked at him like he was crazy, and turned around, to where Satoshi was looking, and said.

"Of course not why would you- Oh, no….."Dark trailed off as he looked at Yami.

"Are you sure because-" Dark shook his head.

" It's not Yuugi."

"Can you see me?" Yami asked, very, very surprised. No one except the other hikaris and yamis (or people with Sennen Items really) had ever seen him.

"Who are you?" Satoshi asked, "you look like Yuugi, and you presence is his, but it's not…."

"Yuugi calls me Yami." Yami said.


Well, it's the end of the chapter, MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Evil cliffhanger!! And sorry if I got some of the Japanese Sennen item names wrong, I have only seen the Japanese version once, and read a little of the manga, so I forgot. This is a really evil place to leave off isn't it? But I couldn't figure out what would happen next!! Anyone have any ideas? Please? I'll update within the month , unless I don't get any reviews. Oh, and check out my profile, I will probably have a poll for my fanfic, like what should happen next and stuff like that. Umm…..I hope none of the characters seemed out of character, and that you are all satisfied with this chapter, and that it made sense! This chapter is twice as long as the previous! YAY! The chapters always seemed really short to me….anyway, I hope you all review, and like this story!