"Speak" normal speech.

"Speak" thoughts

"Speak" Mind speaking (Yugi to Yami or Ryou to Bakura)

Chapter 4

A Ghostly Duel

"What's Mokuba doing here?" Ryou asked as Kagome stared at the two duelling.

"Shh" Kagome said, leaning forward to try to hear them better.

"What are they saying?" Ryou muttered as Kagome stared at the duel.

It sounds like their talking about Kaiba Corp and who gets to run it now that Seto's gone," Kagome muttered.

"Seto? You mean Kaiba?" Ryou asked.

"Uh-huh"

"Why do you…Never mind…So what are they duelling about?" Ryou asked as they settled in to watch the high stakes duel.

"Are you here to play head games, or Duel Monsters! It's time for your move." Yugi asked, staring down Kaiba.

"Hmhmhmhmhm and it's going to blow your mind! This next card's a blast from the past, Yugi, with the emphasis on blast!" Kaiba said, flipping the card around to reveal a Blue-eyes White-dragon.

Yugi gasps, shocked and horrified; "it can't be..." he protested weakly.

"I attack with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"

"Poor Kisara" Kagome muttered as she watched the Blue eyes appear.

"Kisara?" Ryou asked.

"Never mind."

Kaiba slapped down the card and the duelling arena started to shimmer with bright light. The dragon then appeared, roaring so that everyone in the vicinity could hear it loud and clear. (3000/2500)

"Only one deck has got that card!" Joey said weakly, staring in awe at the majestic, but deadly dragon.

Mokuba looked stunned and defeated as this almost proved that his brother was no longer among the living. "That means... what they say, could it be true?" Mokuba asked weakly, staring down at the ground in defeat.

Yugi stared anxiously as the Blue-Eyes roared as his Dark Magician.

"Hahahahahaha, looks like the advantage is mine." Kaiba said, gloating.

'So this really is Kaiba's deck. There's no other explanation. But does that mean that Kaiba, Kaiba is really-' Yugi thought, not wanting to finish that thought.

"Don't worry, Yugi; my feelings weren't hurt when you called me a liar- now admit that you were wrong!" Kaiba demanded.

"Hmph." Yugi said, not willing to dignify that with a response.

"Hmhm. Not having a real body isn't so bad, you would not believe what I save in food bills alone. However, I still get to enjoy the finer things in life, like revenge! And I'm going to savour its sweet taste for a very long time!" Kaiba said.

"Shut up! Please, someone make 'im go away!" Mokuba cried out. "Make 'im go away!"

"Ha, almost breaks my heart- if I had one."

"This is bad," Ryou said, staring hopelessly at the duel.

I don't think so," Kagome said, placing her ban onto the ground and taking out a small radio.

"What…?"

"Shippo!" Kagome said, speaking into the small radio.

"Shippo!" Shippo jumped as he heard Kagome's voice in the receiver attached to his collar.

Shippo glanced over at Kaiba for a minute for a moment before deciding it was safe move away, as Kaiba was far too interested in his computer system to notice a small fox in the back of the room.

He crept back into the darkest part of the room and spoke softly into the microphone attached to his bandana collar.

Overall, his appearance was no different from any other normal foxes, no thanks to Kikyo's stupid spell/act of revenge. His body was mostly a normal fox orange colour except for key parts. His paws and half of his legs were black, along with the tips of his ears. His chest was a cream colour that ran from the bottom of his face, all the way to under his back legs where it suddenly ended before reappearing again at the last third of his tail. His eyes were, thankfully, still their emerald green colour that he had inherited from his pop and around his neck; he wore a red bandana, fashioned into a collar by Kagome with a gold tag sticking off the end of it. It was here from whence Kagome's voice was now emanating from.

"Hold ya horse's" he spoke into the collar.

"Shippo?" Kagome asked.

"Yeah it's me." Shippo whispered. "Speak softly as Kaiba is still in the room."

"Fine, now where are you?" Kagome asked, sounding a little impatient.

"Currently, I'm at Kaiba's underground computer room on his estate." Shippo said, glancing around to make sure that Kaiba didn't hear him talk.

"How did you…never mind…listen do you know where Mokuba is right now?" Kagome asked.

"Yes, Kaiba's fancy talking computer explained that Pegasus's had kidnapped him and was now holding him captive.

"Well he escaped and it now looks like he got caught again," Kagome said.

"What do you mean?"

"Well unless my eyes deceive me, Mokuba is being held captive by one of Pegasus's goons and it doesn't look like he was brought here willingly."

"Mokuba escaped?" Shippo asked.

"Yeah, and it looks like he got captured again too." Kagome said as she watched the duel intently. "So what is Seto doing now?" she asked.

Well, he just crashed the Industrial Illusions satellite and is now trying to hack his way into field 146."

"That's the field that Yugi's duelling at." Kagome said.

"You don't say." Shippo said.

"What do you mean?" Kagome asked.

"Seto has already checked into all the active duels and didn't find a trace of Yugi's cards and now thinks that Yugi is duelling at field 146 just because he can't search for Yugi's cards. I mean, I know that Yugi's cards are rare but they're not that rare and because he was searching for a single card, he could've been going to all this trouble only to be disappointed when he found that it was some other kid who was using a Dark Magician card." Shippo said as Kaiba blew the field 146 entry door.

"Not to worry because Yugi is duelling there but I think you'll both be surprised when you find out who he's duelling." Kagome said as she ended the transmission.

"Seto isn't dead." Kagome said as she placed the radio back into the backpack.

"Who was that and how do you know Kaiba isn't dead?" Ryou asked.

"Let's just say that I have friends in high places who have just informed me that Kaiba is indeed alive and well." Kagome said as she turned back around to continue watching the duel.

"By the way, Inuyasha?" Kagome said. "If Pegasus's goon tries to remove Mokuba from here, can you follow them and report back to me where they went?" she asked.

Her only answer was a slight nod of the head from the oddly coloured German shepherd as he turned back to face the duel, careful to keep a very close eye on the younger Kaiba brother.