Dangerousgirl: Okay everybody I'm sorry for not updating sooner but I have finals coming up and everything like that, but now I'm taking a break to bring you this chapter. I want to thank all the people who reviewed my story (starts crying) you make me the most happiest person in the world (stops crying) anyways, you guys all have no idea how you make me feel, with finals coming up I was overloaded with studying, and I worried so much that I just start throwing up everything that I eat, NOT ON PURPOSE, I think I'm getting a stomach ulcer or something, good thing I haven't puked blood yet, but when I read your reviews, I feel better, so once again thank you.

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Egypt

"Uh, Marik?" Yami asked

"Yes, Yami?" Marik answered

"Am I suppose to wear all these weights and equipment?"

"Of course, that's how it is in the army." Marik answered

"Yeah, but in the army the men are actually self-motivated, not motivated by a psychopath waving around a picture and saying he's going to destroy it." Yami said dryly

"Ah, heh heh." Marik answered sheepishly, as they both turned and looked at Odion shouting at them with a microphone.

"ALL RIGHT YAMI, YOU KNOW THE DRILL YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH THIS COURSE AS FAST AS YOU CAN, BEFORE YOUR PRECIOUS SETO TAKES A NICE RIDE WITH ME!" Odion yelled as he sat in a construction steamroller.

"Here." Marik said handing Yami a microphone

"Thanks." Yami said, he brought the microphone to his lips "WHAT DO YOU MEAN A NICE RIDE WITH YOU?!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! YOUR SETO WILL HAVE A NICE RIDE WITH ME….. UNDER THE STEAMROLLER! I WILL START OUT AT THE END OF THE FIELD AND I'LL START CREEPING OVER TO WHERE THE PICTURE IS LAYING, IF YOU'RE NOT THERE BY THE TIME I GET TO THE PICTURE I FLATTEN IT AND KEEP GOING ALONG MY MERRILY WAY LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY, GET THERE BEFORE I DO AND YOU CAN PUSH THE BUTTON THAT WILL LEVITATE THE PLATFORM THE PICTURE IS ON AND KEEP IT OUT OF HARM'S WAY, BUT THE PLATFORM WILL DESCEND AFTER I'M GONE, AND I WILL BE TURNING AROUND TO COME AFTER IT! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?"

Yami sweatdropped "YOU CAN'T FOOL ME ODION! THE PICTURE IS ALREADY FLAT, SO YOU CAN'T DO MUCH DAMAGE TO IT!"

Marik shook his head "I guess you still don't know how Odion's mind works, Yami"

"Huh?"

"MY DEAR BOY, THAT IS EXACTLY WHY I PUT SUPER GLUE ON THE BACK OF THE PICTURE! CAN YOU PICTURE IT?! THE STREAMROLLER SLIDING OVER ON THE PICTURE, THE PICTURE FOREVER STUCK, AND YOU WATCH HELPLESSLY AS THE PICTURE IS ROLLED OVER AND OVER NEVER TO BE RELEASED! ARE YOU READY? READY OR NOT HERE I COME!" Odion put away his microphone and started up the engine.

"SHIT!" Yami screamed as he tossed the microphone to Marik and took off.

Marik started laughing at Yami's determination to save the picture, and laughed even more at the disappointed looks Odion kept giving Yami, when the platform kept rising.

Meanwhile…..

"What are you doing Seto?" Mokuba asked as he wandered into his big brother's study.

"I'm listening to all the conversations me and that mutt had." Seto muttered as he was writing on a piece of paper.

"Oh, why?" Mokuba asked, then grinned evilly "Is it because you want to hear his voice over and over again?"

"Get your mind out of the gutter." Seto said absently, still writing "I'm listening to them, because I'm getting tired of talking to the mutt every day, and so far nearly all the conversations talk about the same thing."

"And?" Mokuba asked sitting on the arm rest beside Seto

"And I'm going to have a tape recorder talk to the mutt instead." Seto said giving an evil laugh.

"Seto," Mokuba said "Are you sure that's a good idea?"

"Of course I'm sure it's a good idea," (NOTE: If Seto has ever made one mistake in his life this is it!) Seto answered "Nearly all the conversations talk about the same thing, except for one (HHHMMM I wonder which conversation that is? ) and the odds of that mutt saying anything different are slim to none."

"If you say so big brother." Mokuba said raising an eyebrow. He got up and went to the game room to play.

Seto continued to listen to the conversations for a couple more hours analyzing what the mutt would say and what he himself would say, he set the right time decibels in his pauses and when he should answer, until he finally finished. He had just finished his tape recording when he got his daily call from the chihuahua, "This is a good a time as any to test the tape recorder." He thought as he picked up the phone, listening in as well but letting the tape recorder answer.

He pushed the play button.

MEANWHILE BACK IN EGYPT…..

"Wow Yami," Marik said in awe as he handed Yami a bottled water "You managed to raise that platform every time Odion came by."

Yami stopped jugging the water long enough to answer with "I…puff… can't let…. him destroy…. wheeze picture." He went back to guzzling the water.

"I see." Marik murmured "Well, while Odion is filling up his steamroller with gasoline, I'm supposed to take you to our dojo, for your martial arts lessons."

Yami finished guzzling the water and said still wheezing "Okay."

Marik helped Yami get up and walked him to the dojo, there he let Yami sit and rest, and waited until Odion came in carrying the picture.

"What are you going to do to the picture now?" Yami asked eyeing Odion warily

"Nothing" Odion answered cheerfully "I'm only here to watch, since I'm not teaching you this class."

"What?" Yami asked surprised "Then who is?"

"I am." Marik said as he pushed off from the wall he was leaning on.

"The first thing I will be teaching you is how to defend yourself." Marik said as he pulled Yami out to the middle of the mat.

"I noticed the bruises on your back." Marik said softly, Yami's head shot up fast "When did you…?"

"This morning." Marik said "I noticed it when I came in your room to take your picture and your back was turned towards me."

"Oh," Yami said softly bowing his head so his hair fell over his face "I guess you think I'm just a weakling who can't handle himself."

"No, I don't think that" Marik said putting his fingers underneath Yami's chin and raising his face "I think that with a little work you can go from being the defenseless flower that you are right now; to being the dangerous desert beauty that I know you can be."

Yami smiled taking in the soft beautiful lavender eyes that held his. "Thank you Marik." He whispered

SNIFF SNIFF

That was the loud noise that they heard that broke them away from each other, and saw that Odion had a big handkerchief to his eyes, "I sniffle never thought I'd would live to see the day when my little brother would actually like someone." BWAAAAA Odion covered his face with his handkerchief and started bawling. Yami considered going over and comforting Odion, when Marik held him back.

"Please Odion, I know you too well, to fall for that trick." Marik said over the sounds of Odion's bawling. The bawling instantly stopped, and Odion's face popped up behind the handkerchief tear free.

"I guess I can't fool you, huh brother?" Odion said laughing "but I wasn't lying when I said I never thought I'd live to see the day you would actually like someone."

Marik blushed hotly "I…I don't know what you're talking about." He muttered turning away

"Just as I can't fool you, you can't fool me little brother." Odion said tauntingly

Yami looked back and forth at each brother, not knowing who to believe "I mean I'm leaning more to believing Marik than Odion, but why is Marik blushing so hard? Could it be what Odion says is true? Could Marik actually like me right now, even with how I look right now?" Yami broke out of his thoughts when Marik cleared his throat

"Well, I guess we should get started now." Marik said still not looking at Yami

Yami nodded then realizing that Marik wasn't looking at him said "All right."

"Okay," Marik said "Like I said we'll start with defending yourself, and when I think you're ready, we'll start with attacks, and so forth. Now the first thing you want to do is……"

Odion smiled as he watched his little brother teach Yami the basics of defending oneself, frowning slightly when a thought came to him "When Yami's training is finished, what is he going to do? Will he stay? Or will he go?"

Meanwhile….

"MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Mokuba rolled his eyes as he heard the maniacal laughter come from his brother's study, "Oh boy, big brother's going at it again." He decided to ignore the laughter, since he was used to his brother's outbursts. He figured his brother will come bursting in the room in about 3…2…1 and

"Mokuba!" Seto yelled as he flung open the door

"Yes, big brother." Mokuba said his eyes never leaving the TV screen.

"My plan worked, the mutt said the exact same thing as I said he would." Seto said triumphantly. "He's so stupid that he never realized that he was talking to a tape recorder."

"You know big brother, this might come back to you and bite you in the…" Mokuba said

"Now, now Mokuba, language." Seto said

"Well, it will." Mokuba said

"That I hardly doubt Mokuba, my plan is fool proofed and guaranteed to work." Seto said confidently

"Whatever you say," Mokuba said "But would it kill you if you just met someone to be with?"

"What do you mean… be with?" Seto asked

"Like a boyfriend or something." Mokuba said "Someone you can just be with and you won't feel like you're alone."

"Everybody in life at one point or another are going to be alone, whether it's parents ignoring you, or you're all by yourself when you go to college because there's nobody there that you can trust, being alone makes you stronger and more able to handle whatever life throws at you, because in the end the only one you can really depend on is yourself. If you depend on others, sooner or later they'll only let you down." Seto finished dramatically and with a wisk of his trademark trenchcoat, he exited the room.

"Okay," Mokuba thought "He's in a depressing mood today, but still we can't always be alone, if only there was a way I could fix him up with someone that he can't get out of." Mokuba thought long and hard, his thoughts wandered toward the tape recorder and Joey "AHA!" Mokuba cried out loud "That's it, that's what I can do to set up my big brother."

Seto was already in his chair when he heard the maniacal laughter come out of the game room. He shook his head "Mokuba must have won a game or something." (If he only knew) He leaned back in his chair and thought about what Mokuba said about getting a boyfriend, there was nobody that he could think of that came to mind. He closed his eyes and suddenly a flash of eyes behind glasses came to his mind. His eyes flew open immediately "NO! Definitely not!" Seto thought confused as to why he thought of that person "I mean, sure I may have always noticed him, but that guy has walking punching bag written all over his face, it's a wonder he didn't drop out of school, I wonder what's keeping him here? (HEE HEE more like who?) I doubt it's for the poor excuse for a school academic program. Anyways, we're total opposites, he's a punching bag and I'm the guy most likely to punch him. Now I must get back to work." Seto opened his laptop and started typing away, his mind already lost in the business data.

Few months later….

"Wow Yami, you have gotten very good with your defenses, as well as your attacks." Marik said with awe as he and Yami faced off on either side of the dojo.

"Why thank you Marik, however I'm still not quite as good as you." Yami chirped, grinning lightly.

"I have to admit, your confidence has come a long way." Marik said, the statement was made true when Yami was the one who made eye contact with Marik and actually held it instead of shying away as he used to do a few months ago.

"What my little brother really means is, is your body has come a long way." Odion said popping up beside Yami.

"Odion!" Marik cried out indignantly

"What?" Odion asked innocently

Yami merely laughed "I'm hoping one day my body could look as good as yours Marik."

"When did you see my brother's body?" Odion asked "You can't tell how his body looks by the clothes that he wears."

Marik turned away, blushing. Yami noticed this and surprisingly decided to be very bold "Well, even Marik has to take off his clothes when he bathes."

Odion's mouth dropped open, and Marik looked in surprise at Yami, turning even more red.

"You SAW MY BROTHER?!" Odion said, he grabbed Yami's collar and lifted him up so that they were eye level. Yami looked a little scared but he looked Odion straight in the eye. "Uhhh yes?"

Odion stared at him a little more before answering "So what do you think? Pretty hot stuff isn't he?"

"ODION!" Marik yelled

Yami turned and looked up and down at Marik, "I have to admit I had to take a cold shower after that scene."

"YAMI! What happened to the sweet guy who would have never even thought of that?!" Marik said turning still an impossible red

"I think he went bye-bye seeing as how your sexy presence influences him immensely." Odion said cackling

"Odion you're supposed to be my supportive brother." Marik said still red

"Just telling it like it is." Odion said solemnly then turning away quickly and letting out a snort of laughter.

"AND YOU!" Marik turning to Yami, he stopped short when he realized that he and Yami were face to face in a very, very, very close proximity.

"Yes, Marik?" Yami whispered huskily, his eyes roaming every aspect of Marik's face, his eyes continually stopping at one place on Marik's face… his lips.

"I… uh… I" Marik stammered, at a loss for words

The two of them were so caught up in each other's faces that they failed to notice that Odion had pulled up a chair, and settled himself in comfortably with a bowl of popcorn; he grinned and started munching happily. He knew it would come down to this. The only question was when, he knew that Yami became attracted to Marik, soon after the talk Marik gave him when he started his defense training, as the days went by Odion saw how close those two had become, laughing together, training together, eating together, coming up with ways on how to thwart Odion together, but Odion knew that Marik refused to act on his feelings because he and Marik both knew that Yami was still hung up on this Seto person, this was still a very well known fact seeing as how Yami was still determined to protect the picture from Odion's daily tortures. "Who knows?" Odion grinned with a very hentai thought "Maybe all three of them can get along…OOOHHHH a ménage a trios. I just hope that Yami doesn't hurt Marik, because I can see that Marik is falling for him hard. If Yami hurts Marik, I will break every single bone in his body, cut off his balls and make him do himself, and I'll make sure that NO ONE WILL EVER FIND HIS BODY! BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… hack note to self must practice maniacal laughter more, but I do hope Marik is happy, he is after all my brother"

Odion turned back to the scene before and started to munch on his popcorn again.

"Uh…" Marik was still stammering, not sure of what to say

"Well, Marik?" Yami asked raising an eyebrow

"You… uh… need to practice your throw downs more." Marik finally blurted out

Yami raised both eyebrows, then he smiled mischievously "I see, then is it okay if I practice throwing you down? Seeing as how you said I need to practice."

"Yeah Marik, why don't you let Yami practice throwing you down, it'd be a good life experience." Odion said from his chair.

"SHUT UP ODION!" Marik snapped at Odion "And what's with the popcorn?!"

"Well Marik?" Yami asked

Marik blushed again "Fine." he muttered "Which approach do you want to practice?"

"How about when the attacker come from behind?" Yami suggested still smiling

Marik gulped when Yami turned his back on him, he walked straight to Yami and wrapped his hands around him, pinning Yami's arms to his side.

"Okay the first thing I have to do is stomp on the guy's foot in order to get him to loosen his grip right?" Yami said softly as he stomped the ground pretending that it was the attacker's foot.

"Uh-huh." Marik said just as softly

"Then I thrust my arms out to break through," Yami said pushing out his arms and breaking through Marik's hold. "Then I grab one of your arms and wrap my other arm around you." Yami grabbed Marik's right wrist and wrapped his right arm around Marik's trim waist. Marik gulped well aware of the closeness of their bodies. "Now help me here Marik." Yami said with a predatory grin "Do I have to keep the attacker away from me before I throw him down, or do I have to bring him even closer, like this?" He pulled Marik even closer to him.

"Uh you have to keep them close to you." Marik said trying to very hard to swallow despite his dry throat.

"I see." Yami said softly

"SHIT! Where the hell did Yami learn all this?" Marik thought "Eight months ago he would have never ever thought of doing all this. Oh Ra… his body has come a long way, he's no longer scrawny at all, in fact a few more months of this and he'll be the same thing as me, and me and Odion have him for a surprise, I mean a surprise him, I mean dammit I can't think straight with having his body this close to me."

BEEP BEEP BEEP! Yami and Marik turned to the where the source of the annoying beeping came from, they both glared at Odion, who was grinning sheepishly

"Sorry for interrupting, but I have to take Yami away now Marik." Odion looked at Marik meaningfully.

Marik looked confused for a little while before it suddenly dawned on him "Ohhhh, right you have to go with Odion now Yami."

"What? Why?" Yami asked bewildered

"Now, now Yami." Odion said with a smile as he took Yami's arm and started to drag him away from Marik.

"Don't worry Yami, if ever you had to trust Odion, this will be the only time." Marik called out to Yami before the door shut on Yami's frightened face.

Meanwhile….

"So, big brother" Mokuba asked Seto as they sat down to eat dinner "How is it that you're still able to get away with using the tape recorder on Joey?"

"Simple Mokuba, if for some reason I can't avoid the mutt, I just comment on the last conversation that he had with the tape recorder. I just record every conversation and review them briefly just to make sure the mutt isn't saying anything different." Seto said before he decided to eat. "but those conversations have been very consistent so I think I'm going to stop listening to those conversations."

Mokuba's eyes lit up at the last sentence "Excellent! Finally, after waiting patiently for so long I finally have my chance… MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…. hack choke how does Seto do it?"

Dangerousgirl: HAHAHAHAHA, how's that for a cliffhanger, what is Mokuba planning for Seto? What are the pairings really going to be in this story? And that was my first attempt ever at a romantic setting.

Yami: Where's Odion taking me?

Dangerousgirl: (snarling savagely) NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS! YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT!

Please review while I try to coax Yami from out beneath the bed.