Hey guys sorry this is a couple of days late I got a little busy...totally nothing to do with too much Easter candy...and didn't have the chance to write the full chapter, but its here now and I didn't abandon it, so that counts for something, right? Anyways, on with the story!

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

Ryou Bakura, it couldve been anybody but him who transferred and it would've been fine, but no fate seems to like throwing roadblocks into my plans. He even has the friggin millennium ring, I don't know if that means this will be that much easier or harder at the moment. Worse though is that he could severely ruin everything, because Yugi doesn't know who he is, so if he comes over here trying to get reaquainted Yugi is going to start to question things.

I have to say though he looks a bit different, his eyes are a bit bigger and more doe like. His hair has somehow been tamed from the wild mess he had, and well he looked happier for lack of a better word. Not to say he wasn't happy when we were friends but he never looked so, i don't know, innocent.

Shit. I knew he was going to come over here, course it was the teacher's fault for sitting him right next to Yugi, but still you couldn't have given me anymore time to plan? He doesn't seem surprised that he has to introduce himself though, maybe after 9 years of not seeing me, he just forgot about me. It would be better for everyone if that were true, hopefully it is. I mean I could just get him to bet the ring up in a game, win said game, and everything would be fine and dandy.

Yugi and his friends are attempting to absorb him into the group, they think that by pestering the shit out of him about games he will just come over to the dark side, course if he is anything like when we met like hell is that going to happen. Although, it has been 9 years, a person can change, but he is just as timid around new people as I remember. Course now he seems more shy rather than un-trusting of the general population. Right now I don't have time to worry about that, I have to figure out how to get the millennium ring from him all while keeping up my act for Yugi.

Ryou was absent the next day, Yugi and the rest of them are going to go over to his place to make sure he is ok and stuff, considering what that gym teacher did to him yesterday. Anyways, when we got there he didn't want to let us in at first, he almost looked scared to see us, but then he just completely changed expressions and seemed perfectly willing to let us in, he almost looked like he did back when we were little. I didn't like this naturally, it was too weird and I knew right away something was up. Yugi, however, he sensed it, but like all the murdered girls in those horror movies he brushed it right off.

He invited the gang to play a game of Monster World. He had a bunch of figures that looked eerily like us considering he just met most of us today. The game started off simple enough, just your normal tabletop RPG. That is until Honda just passed out right down onto the table, and then we were able to hear his voice seemingly come from the character. Jounouchi got angry thinking Ryou used some magic to put Honda there and rolled the dice for his turn, that's when Ryou said that because it wasn't his turn he would be punished as well and then Jounouchi was in the same state as Honda. Anzu and I could hear Jounouchi from his figure too now, and the things were even moving on their own too. I actually didn't know what to make of this, magic was never real so what was the trick, and I knew I had to find it fast so that he couldn't get to Yugi and do who knows what to us. I mean, he never took part in the shit I did back at the house but he must be a little crazy for not running the second he found out about my little hobby, right?

I was on that train of thought when all of a sudden Yugi and Anzu both tell Ryou to allow them join their friends down there. I didn't know if I wanted to be proud of him for being brave to go into that or shoot him for being so self-sacrificing, same went to Anzu. Ryou the chuckled and said they were idiots, but said he was more than happy to allow them to join them. Yugi was thinking that because I was here, even if his soul was sucked out I could just take over the body. Maybe after this I will introduce myself and set some boundaries, I will not let him get himself killed because he thinks I'm just gonna come and fix it. That was when I saw it, over in the corner of the room there was a light that was swirling different colors, like the kind they use to hypnotize people. Anzu went down first, guess she's pretty receptive to that stuff, but I took over quickly and gave Yugi the illusion of being inside the game of Monster World. I'll think of something to get the others to believe this happened too later, probably work off of their grogginess from the hypnosis and just make them think it was all real. Yeah, that sounds good, but more importantly, what the fuck was Ryou doing?

"Alright Ryou what the hell is all this?" I half yelled half asked.

"Oh calm down Yugi, they're going to be fine, I just put them to sleep so I could get you alone for a few fucking minutes, I mean it's been 9 years here I can't catch up with an old friend?" He replied calmly

"So you do remember me?"

"Of course I do, you were the only one in that whole damned neighborhood I could stand, probably didn't help that we lived in the rich side of town full of brats and pricks. But the past is in the past, I want to catch up and hear about the 9 years we haven't seen each other, maybe trade some stories."

"I guess some explaining is in order, it seems we both have changed a bit haven't we, still I want to know how you managed to make all this happen and how to wake them up, then we can talk."

"And here you were fun, maybe you really have changed over the years, but calm your ass down, I told you they're fine, I put them in a state of hypnosis and they won't wake up until I tell them to. Also, yes, I saw your eyes find the light in the corner and yes that is how I did it. As for the figures, they're just little robots pre programmed and have been recording your voices since you walked in so it could simulate 'being trapped.' Not a bad trick eh?"

"Who said I wasn't fun, and for the record not bad if I do say so myself, you even had me a little fooled. Also I think you misunderstand the situation, I could give less of a shit what happens to them, they're not my friends, they're Yugi's. That's the only reason I'm even making a fuss. Now are we going to continue sitting at this table where we practically have to yell to be able to hear each other or do you have a more comfortable place to catch up?"

"So he is still there and here I was worried! How about we go over to the couch and I'll grab us some soda."

"Sounds good to me, so tell me what happened with you after I killed my parents?"

"So it was you! Always did wonder that all these years, you do have to tell me how you did it, I may not have wanted to take part in your hobby, but those stories were always the best around town. As for me my parents decided that somehow because your parents died and I was friends with you, that somehow they were going to get hitched, so they took Amane and I and ran off to England. Things were good for a couple of years, but then the bitch decided she was going to start cheating on dad and things got bad. She brought the whore to the house when dad wasn't home and banged him after locking Amane and I in my room. That was pretty much my last straw and I wasn't going to let that bitch just do whatever she wanted, so one night after she stupidly let her little fuck buddy use a steak knife during dinner I snatched it after putting on a pair of gloves and got the spare key to my room so I could get out. They always went to sleep after having sex and I took that time to strike. I stabbed her in the throat and when he woke up just put the pillow over his face so he couldn't breathe, I didn't kill him though, I just made him pass out, he was going to be my scapegoat after all. I placed the knife in his hand and went back to my room and locked us back up. Amane was cowering the corner when I can back though, crying about how I looked so scary. I'm pretty sure she saw what went down and being the age she was she didn't know how to keep a secret so I went and got the knife one more time and did what I had to do. I replaced the knife and waited for dad to come home setting the scene to make it look like I didn't do anything. I got away with it too, dad had then decided to send me to a therapist to make sure I was going to be alright, like some quack with a degree could do anything, but I got stupid weekly sessions. Those lasted for about 6 months, during that time dad started going on more and more excavations and tried to avoid me as much as possible, late at night I would hear him say that I looked too much like them to look at. I didn't like that, don't know why, but it bothered me deep in my core somewhere. Something told me that I needed to change that I wasn't normal in any sense of the word and so I did. I'm taking a wild guess from how we met again that you know how I did, although you seem to be farther along than I at disappearing. Anyways, I guess I wasn't subtle enough when doing it because my dad sent me to a psych ward. I was there for 7 years, I was released last year after they decided that I was 'better' and that some sessions with a psychiatrist would only be mandatory from there. I lucked out with that though, seems I got a corrupt doc and he gave no shit that I was trying to replace myself. After that dad thought it would be best to move back to Japan and so did the psychiatrist apparently if you know what I mean. The doc was the one who came to the school and told them to put me in your class, I think he wanted us to meet or something, but yeah that has been the last few years of my life."

"Damn I'm surprised you're not more fucked up by that story. Did Ryou already in control when you were in the ward?"

"Yeah, maybe I gave up control a little early, especially for that place, I think I may have broke him a little too much, plus he knows it was me who you know killed them. Does Yugi know about you?"

"Hell no, I want him to not know the cruelties I bring, I want no part of him to have even a hint of me, the worst he's seen are the bullies."

"So he knows as much about this as the rest of the world does, probably should've done the same, I thought that by letting him remember he would hate so much to obliterate me, but it had the opposite effect, so I just convinced him I was the spirit of this ring who wanted revenge. Been keeping up the act, but no matter what I do he won't hate me and just get rid of me."

"Well I knew I was making Yugi an innocent pacifist so I knew that strategy wouldn't work too well in my favor seems like you did the same and didn't anticipate the results. He just barely knows I exist at the moment and he assumes I'm from the puzzle since I 'showed up' when he solved the damn thing."

"So we are in the same boat, the doc did say there was 2 other patients like me and not to worry that I wasn't alone or some shit like that."

"That psychiatrist interests me, what was his name?"

"The doc? His name was Shadi."

"Well what a coincidence we have here, you'll never guess what happened to me."

At this point I went on to tell him all the details right down to meeting Shadi again and what he wanted me to do.

"So what is it gonna take to convince you to give me the ring?"

"Honestly not much, I just need the same help as you so how about this, we create this whole entire set up, where I'm a revenge filled thief and you an amnesiac pharaoh who have been locked away for, oh I don't know, 5000 years and make this big ol' show that at the end we both 'move on' and leave them for good."

"You know, that doesn't sound half bad, plus I have already been making them all think magic is a thing so that will play right along with it and I have Kaiba on my side so he can set up some other things if we need them, I already have a deal with him so that's all good. Then at the end we'll set something up so that Shadi gets these dumb ass items and we're good."

"Well then, it sounds like we have ourselves a plan. I guess it was a good thing that we met up after all these years." He smirked

"Yes it seems so, now let's setup our little show, starting with the game right here. I can take care of Yugi's mind and you Ryou's but I'll need the hypnosis thing to get this same 'magical journey' into theirs." I said

We then woke up the others slowly and used the device to tell them the story of what "Bakura"- as we are going to call him- did and how I apparently saved them all. We went home assuring Ryou he was safe and the next day he was back and happy. He made this cute little diorama that had me on the floor bawling, while the others were calling it a token of friendship. Now its time to figure out how to move on to the next stage of the "story."

Ok guys that's all for now, I'm sorry about that long speech bubble about Ryou's back story but I didn't want to put one set of speech into paragraphs, mostly because I didn't really know how while keeping it looking natural. Anyways this is a wordy enough of a chapter by itself so I'll stop here for now. Next up- Duelist Kingdom! Please R&R