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Salt of the graveyard

"Damn, I can't believe that it's true!" Jo screeched as she dragged Zane out the door and continued to pull him down the darkened street. She had a very tight grip on his wrist and did not seem to realize that she was digging her nails into his skin. (Not that Zane would ever tell her that she was hurting him; I mean what man would?)

"What's true?" Zane asked as he ever so subtly staggered Jo into a normal pace and watched as Jo subconsciously dropped his hand.

"That, that stupid song is true," Jo sighed as she took a sip of her coffee. "You know, 'It's a small world after all'," She answered as she saw the question is Zane's eyes. "I mean what are the chances that out of all the people in the world we would run into your old friends?"

"Yah, what a small world," Zane grumbled as he took a sip of his coffee.

"Do you miss them?" Jo asked with her eyebrows raised.

"No!!!" Zane snapped earnestly as he snatched Jo's cake bag and started eating her pieces of cake. "It's just that…"

"It's like getting a wart removed," Jo finished for him.

Zane stopped eating and looked up at her with a slightly degusted look in his eyes. "Do you have to make your mysterious, little analogies-that I never full understand- so disgusting? I'm eating here you know."

"Yah, eating my cake," Jo snapped. "I mean seriously stuffing yourself with cake; what are you a hormonal teenage girl?"

"Just explain the wart thing would ya."

"What I mean is that even though everyone's happy when they get rid of a wart it can still be a painful experience."

"Hmmm," Zane grumbled as he thought on Jo's words. "Here," he said as he offered her back the cake.

"No thanks," Jo said as she stared at the half-eaten pieces of cake. "Let's just say you owe me a piece of cake."

Zane smirked as they both turned and walked off into the darkness sipping their coffee.

"A real luscious, delectable, lip-smacking piece of cake."

"Shut-up."

Meanwhile back at the café'…..

"So let me get this straight, to get my brother out of the underground you're going to pair him up in the tag-team tournament with another underground duelist, in hopes that they will fall in love?" Syrus asked Atticus as he sipped his hot chocolate.

"You got it little blue," Atticus replied as he continued to fill out the entry form, "after-all love can conquer anything. Now let's see…First name: Zane, Last name: Truesdale, Age…"

"Atticus I don't think this is such a good idea. I mean Zane is not the kind of guy that likes to be fixed up; no matter what color his trench coat is," Alexis interpreted as he continued to fill out the form.

"Lexi, Lexi, Lexi," Atticus chimed, "trust me, when it comes to love I know what I'm talking about. I may have only just met her but I can already tell that Zane and Jo are destined to be together. They're like Romeo and Juliet."

"Romeo and Juliet ended up killing themselves," Bastion said as he sipped his hot English tea.

"Well that's because they didn't have me as their official secret cupid. Trust me if I had been around when they were alive that story would have ended very differently," Atticus hummed as he continued to fill out the entry forms.

"Yah, the two love birds would have killed themselves by scene one, soon followed by everyone else just to escape the stupid cupid," Alexis muttered as she started rubbing her head in frustration. Alexis loved her brother and all, but sometimes she just couldn't believe that they were related.

"Just let him have his fun Alexis," Bastion comminuted, "after all what's the harm? I mean we've tried everything else, perhaps this will work."

"Do you really think it has a possibility of working? That I could get my real brother back," Syrus asked with a hopeful look in his eyes.

"Sure Sy," Jaden replied as he patted Syrus on the back. "I mean no one knows Zane as well as Atticus does."

"Yah, no one…including me," Syrus whispered to himself as he watched Atticus run out the door to drop off the entry forms, and returned to what he was thinking about. 'Family is nothing more than strangers that happen to be related to you'. Those words kept replaying in Syrus's mind. Is he right? Syrus thought. I know I love Zane, but do I really know him? I mean apart from Duel Monster I really don't know that much about him. What's his favorite color? What books does he like to read? What's his favorite food? Does he like Coke over Pepsi or Pepsi over Coke? I don't even know why he likes going to the docks so much. And what did he mean by 'I'm tired of being salt?' What does salt have to due with anything? Nobody really gives a care about salt until it's gone. Syrus thought as he continued to stare at the door that Atticus had just gone though.

Now back to the underground duelist…

"So Fahrenheit 451 huh?" Jo asked as she and Zane continued to walk down the street neither of them really giving much thought to were they were going.

"Ya," Zane said, "it is my favorite book of all time. We had to read it over summer break back in 8th grade, but I really enjoyed it. I think it gives some interesting insight into the inner struggles a person can go though. So what is your favorite book?"

"I would have to say that it's a toss up between A Raisin in the Sun and A Dolls House's. I think they both give compelling opinions about what can happen in relationships if people are not honest with each other, and about how people often have one identity that they show to the world and another that they keep locked a way inside."

"So does everyone have a secret identity or just the people that hang out in The Batcave or the Fortress of Solitude?" Zane rather joked sort of asked.

"I think everyone keeps part of who they are a secret from everyone else, some just more so than others," Jo answered with a slight mysteries smirk, but the smirk quickly faded and Jo's face twisted into a mix of pure horror and rage as she saw were they had walked.

"So what secrets have you been keeping from me?" Zane asked with a laugh as he continued to walk forward passing the Missing Pieces graveyard on the right, but came to a stop when he saw that Jo had stopped walking. "Hey Jo what's with the hold up?"

"Let's turn around and walk the other way," Jo sputtered as she quickly turned around and began walking back the way they became.

"Walk another way? What are you talking about, your apartment is only two blocks away it will take an extra 30 minutes if we turn back and go the back way."

"Just shut-up Truesdale," Jo snapped as she continued to walk the other way.

"What is your problem?" Zane yelled back.

"You, you're my problem your unemotional robot!"

"Shut your mouth ice queen."

"Oh why don't you just go back to hell, Kaiser, and leave me the hell alone."

"Well, fine."

"Fine."

"Fine."

"FINE!!!" Jo screamed as she stormed down the road, leaving Zane standing all alone in front of the graveyard entrance.

"Women," Zane ranted as he turned and started walking in the opposite direction, "one minuet there all nice and talkative the next they've gone all psycho on your. Gezzzzs, you can't live with them and you can't live….No, that's it! You just can't live with them.

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Well, here's chapter four and I hoped you like it. Now there're many questions to be answered. Will Atticus's plan work? Will Zane and Jo make up? And why was Jo so freaked out about the graveyard? If any of you would like to make a guess please leave it in the review. I would also like to thank Kaiseress and Beautyheart18 my two wonderful reviews. I would also like to say that I did go back and do a few grammar corrections in my previous chapters. Thanks for reading and please live a review, I would really like to know what you guys think of the story, and maybe some ideas about what you would like to see. I really what to do some stuff with Zane and Syrus's relationship; I always thought that a lot more could be done with these two brothers relationship. Well, thanks again for reading.