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"Jonouchi, we need to go," Seto hissed into his lover's ear, desperately trying to remove his quickly numbing arm from his grasp. "We have to go get Yami."

Jonouchi meekly followed his blue eyes as they exited the arena and entered the back stage area. Here a cold voice greeted them with a snarl.

"Hello Seto Kaiba and Katsuya Jonouchi," cold green eyes smirked as both hand twisted behind his back.

"Seto…Jonouchi…," a weak whimper came from behind the man. A harsh tug on the now visible chain brought forth the battle worn figure as he stumbled forward, collapsing in utter exhaustion, only to be caught with a hiss of pain in the green eyes' arms.

"You thought that you could disguise yourselves and come to take him away from me?" The green eyes cackled as he indiscreetly ran his hand up under the bent over prisoner's back.

"Seto…where's…Aibou?" the prisoner whimpered.

"Yami," Seto ground out as he watched the master continuously toy with Yami's back, all the while holding the chain, causing the leather collar on his neck to dig into the paled flesh.

"How much is he to you?" the green eyes asked as he ran his tongue along Yami's earlobe, causing the dark to tremble.

"Who the hell are you," Jonouchi snapped, his hands already called into fists at his sides. The green eyes only laughed as they stepped out leaving the two to gape in shock.

"DARTZ!!" the green eyes only laughed again as a shadow consumed the Atlantis king.

"This body I merely borrowed. I am a spirit much like this one except, I have many desires and the pharaoh has caught my eye for quite some time." He had begun to run his hands down over the plains of the thinning chest.

"Seto…where's Aibou?" Yami whimpered again. Jonouchi made a dive to go grab the frightened pharaoh but Seto put an arm up to stop the trembling the mutt.

"Yami, Yugi is fine. You do realize that you have been calling me Seto the whole time."

"Yugi…is fine…okay," at that Yami fell fully forward with only the leash keeping him in the bent, vulnerable position in front of the Dartz imposter.

"Hmph, weak whore," Dartz laughed as he let the leash drop, watching coldly as the body crumpled to the floor in an unceremonious heap.

"You BASTARD," Jonouchi lunged passed his brunet's arms and made a punch for the man only to be caught in the gut with a fist from the guy's gut. Seto still remained frozen and stared coldly at the crumpled body.

"You foolish mortal, how the hell do you expect defeat me when I ran even the pharaoh out of his mind." The fist then hurled the unsuspecting human back into the body of Seto, knocking them both to the ground. The opposing spirit bent over and licked at Yami's neck while digging his hand through his shirt and kneading his back, causing the unconscious pharaoh to let out a moan in pain.

"Let him go," Seto growled dangerously as he shoved his blonde off of him and stood up to his full height.

"Certainly but…" the spirit rose and laughed. "You haven't answered my question."

"I have no need to disclose such information." Seto growled again.

"Ah but you do, answer me truthfully. How much is he to you?" Everything focused on Seto as he struggled out the answer.

"I would give my life, my company, and everything that I have worked hard to obtain if I could reverse time and save him."

"Then take him but, he will not be easily won over," the spirit Dartz laughed as he picked up the pharaoh and threw him into the CEO.

"Seto," Jonouchi breathed as he watched the CEO pick at the lock on the chain links then grunting in annoyance when the collar refuse to give way.

"Let's go, the car is waiting for us."

"Ok."

"Oh and puppy," Seto stopped and whirled around to face his blonde lover.

"Seto…," Jonouchi could feel a small blush creeping up onto his face as he stared into the blue eyes that could see into the depths of his soul.

"Give a call to Yugi and tell him to meet us at the mansion." Seto turned again to walk before saying words that made the blonde's heart flutter. "I love you more than the world puppy."

"Whatever moneybags," Jonouchi smiled.

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"Kame Game Shop, Yugi Mouto speaking," Yugi hummed into the phone while balancing a stack of puzzles to a very high shelf.

"Yug'," answered the Brooklyn accent over the phone immediately alerting him that it was Jonouchi.

"Jonouchi-kun, how are you?" Yugi chuckled back. The next statement made him drop all the puzzles and made all hell for him freeze over.

"Meet us at Seto's mansion in 2 hours. Yug', we have something that you have to see," Jonouchi finished with what sounded like choked tears. Yugi could hear soft whimpering in the back ground and then the sharp voice of Kaiba shouting at Jonouchi to get in here and we're having another attack.

The line went dead as the soft pattering of feet echoed through the hallway and the door bell chimed.

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"ANZU!! ANZU!! ANZU-CHAN!!" Yugi pounded into the worn oak door of apartment 008.

"Yugi-Tachi," a very drowsy Anzu responded as she creaked open to let the grown teen into her living room.

"COME DOWN TO KAIBA'S MANSION HURRY!! JONOUCHI SOUNDED LIKE HE WAS CRYING!!"

"Okay," Anzu hurried whipped on a skirt and a t-shirt and was racing after the back of the running boy.

'He looks so much like him,' Anzu sighed to herself as she watched Yugi's back fade into that of the long missing Atemu's.