A/N: Well, I guess I have some explaining to do, huh? I haven't updated in so long is because I was just stumped. Totally stumped on what was going to happen. But after about a week I finally yelled "Eureka!" and I found a solution. It's not the best solution, but it goes with the plot of this story.

Some of you might hate me after this chapter and I understand fully, others of you might love me. But hang in there, it will all resolve in the end...unless I get another writers block that is...hehe...

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Ode to Reviewers

Kiasa and her yami Kanou- Sorry if I made Yami evil...but you know how stubborn guys can get, ya know? So he was just being a bit stubborn, that's how I like to look at it. Hehe...But he'll be less evil later on when Naomi saves his butt, and believe me, she'll have something to say once she finds out about that. Ohhhhh, that will be a war within itself. ^_~ Keep on reviewing!

joeyz girl- -_- haven't heard from you in quite a while. I hope you didn't get too confused when I combined some chapters together and all. Where I left off was at chapter six, then I added chapter seven, and now this is the grand chapter eight! You'll figure it out! If you can't...feel free to flame be because of it. Please review cause I wanna hear from you again so I know you ain't dead.

Kawaii Hyper Dragon- Haven't heard from you in a while either. I hope everything is coming along okay with you. And I'm sorry if I confused you with the combining of chapters, I know, that was kinda stupid, but my computer is just so screwed up right now that the memory is like down to a pea size because we don't have enough room for anything else...-_-(glares at parents) But I hope I HEAR from you soon or else I'll think you're dead! And I don't want that...

A/N: Okay, so it's to the part you have been waiting for...*drum roll* THE TURNING POINT IN THE STORY! BUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

AND ONE MORE THING! There will be two new characters coming into the plot in a couple of chapters. BUT! There's a catch. I have no clue what two new characters should come into play, SO THIS WILL BE A CONTEST! TELL ME ABOUT THE CHARACTER YOU WANT TO PUT INTO THE STORY. Tell me every description like eye color and hair color and even if she/he's weird, a prep, or just plain normal. You get the idea. And the name most of all!(like Sally Sue Bondora, I would prefer that if you don't mind. Screen names would be more like nicknames like Mistletoe or J.R. I wanna keep it as real as possible.

THE TWO THAT MAKE THE CUT WILL PREMIERE IN THE STORY! SO MORE OR LESS YOU CAN PUT YOURSELF INTO THE STORY IF YOU LIKE!! (I would, but I already have...-_- *glares at Naomi* She may not look like me, but she sure acts like me...)

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Chapter 8- Fate is not Always Kind. The Darkness Awakens.

"HELP ME SOMEBODY!!! JAKE!! KURT!!! TIKI!!!!" Naomi yelled in chaos. Her hands where flailing about as someone kept a tight hold on her from the back of the motorcycle. This was a scary experience Naomi would later say. Not knowing who took you or where you were going.

The motorcycle suddenly halted and the tight hold relinquished. Naomi fell off the motorcycle onto her face. Flat on her face. She looked around. They were at the pier near a boat docking.

"Who did that? They are going to pay! I swear!" Naomi shouted in outrage, lifting her head and looking at her captures. She gasped. "No way! Malik and Bakura?!"

Bakura rolled his eyes. "Yes girl. Now come along. We need a little...information from you." He said darkly as an Egyptian know as Odion picked Naomi up and carried her into the boat. (A/N: you know that boat...right? YOU SHOULD! hehe..)

"No! Let me go!! Let me go!!" She cried as Malik just looked back at her and smirked.

Odion dumped Naomi inside and tied her to a computer chair. Malik drew his rod from his belt and sat down in a nearby chair close to a counter. This was a pretty nice boat. Malik poured himself a glass of water with ice inside and looked at Naomi. He had to get to business. The trap for Yugi was already set down at the peer. He directed Joey out of another boat and the duel between the two best friends began. No one won. Malik growled angrily, but that was about it because he knew that he held the key to his victory anyway. Malik looked back to Naomi, who was sitting there patiently with a cloth wrapped around her mouth. Odion took it off. Bakura was leaning on a wall with his arms crossed, waiting patiently also.

"We know you posses the knowledge of what's going to happen in the future. Tell us." He stated very very bluntly.

Naomi just blinked for a few moments, then laughed like a maniac. The Bakura laugh to be exact. She smiled, "I know all of that and beyond. But that doesn't mean I'm going to tell you Malik."

"And why not?" Bakura butted in, stepping closer. He folded his arms. "You are in no position for choices."

The girl just stared up at him. "I don't see why my knowledge would help you, even now. The future has already change. I know that for a fact. Nothing has gone the way it was suppose to. The present is slowly slipping off of it's tracks. Will this world go into chaos and madness now? Or will there be a bright future on the horizon? Frankly I don't know anymore."

Malik clenched his rod tighter. "What do you mean that the present is slowly slipping from the tracks? I don't understand. How has the future changed?"

Naomi laughed again, this time like mad. Her voice became two-toned as the Millennium Symbol shown brightly on her forehead. "It hasn't. But now...it has."

Both Bakura and Malik backed away.

"What are you doing Malik?!" Hissed Bakura as Malik shook his head.

"N-Not me!" He admitted and dropped the Rod.

"Is she possessed?" Bakura asked, staggering back towards the exit. Malik had no where to go.

"How am I suppose to know that?!" He spat back as Odion stood behind Naomi, trapped.

Naomi looked back madly, swung her chair around, and kicking Odion in the face. Odion's head hit up against the wall and he fell into unconsciousness. She grinned. "Finally..."

"Odion..." Malik uttered as his head started to throb with pain. He growled and clutched his head. This was the worst pain he had ever imagined. It was like something was pushing at his consciousness, trying to take over.

The Symbol stopped glowing on Naomi's head as she plummeted into unconsciousness also.

Bakura blinked and fumbled with the doorknob. Why did Malik have to lock it? He tried to yank it open. That didn't work. He tried to break the handle off. No go. The spirit turned back, eyes wide, as a golden flash showered the room, blinding everybody who was awake. That was only him and Malik.

The tomb robber opened his eyes to find that nothing had changed in the flash. With the exception of Malik...The Golden Symbol shown on his forehead and he looked insane. Worse that he, Bakura, could ever be. Bakura's mouth became utterly dry as the man smiled and picked up his Rod.

He walked over to the girl as she began to stir. Naomi opened her eyes as Marik lifted her chin. An evil smile wound it's way onto his face as Naomi's eyes widened with fear. She tried to scoot back, she couldn't. She tried to get out. She couldn't.

Naomi looked over to Bakura. "RUN!!" She screamed as Bakura, for the first time he could remember, stood there dumbfounded. He shook this off quickly and spat back.

"And how would you expect me to do that? The door's locked!" He shouted back as Naomi shook her head and met eye-to-eye with Marik.

"Just go you numb brain! While you still can!" She looked back at Bakura and gritted her teeth. There was no way for him to get out. "What are you going to do Marik?" She asked quietly as Marik answered simple.

"Send you into the realm of darkness of course." Marik shrugged and pointed the Rod towards Naomi. There was a blinding flash and a scream, Naomi fell limp on the chair. Not one bit of struggle. She was just...gone.

"I am finally free. That girl came quiet in handy for me. I never knew I could use her like I did." Marik smiled and looked at Bakura. "And you...the spirit of the ring..." He opened the Rod's sheath to reveal a sharp knife. "Ready to visit the darkness?"

Bakura yanked on the door one last time before facing the enemy. He was scared. Yes, he was scared. But he wouldn't let it show. He laughed. "Visit the darkness? I am originally a member anyway." He smiled his trademark smile. "You can't possible win against me mortal."

Marik fiddled with the Rod playfully. "You'd be surprise of all what I can do Bakura. Every time I send a soul to the Shadow Realm, my powers grow stronger. You can't possibly stand up against me, now can you?"

Bakura smirked, "Try me."

"I won't try, I will." He raised the Rod, knife end pointing towards Bakura and smiled insanely.

Bakura had no way out. No way to get away from here. If he didn't think of something fast, he would be done for. The spirit looked around for something he could use to defend himself. He heard the click of a gun.

The knife came down.

THE END! BUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Seriously, did you think I would be THAT mean? Naw, y'all would kill me totally. ^_^

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"Naomi! Naomi!! NAOMI!!!" Tiki screamed as she ran along the pier. Where was her friend? Was she in trouble? God, she hoped not. Naomi and her had been best buds for as long as she could remember. She wouldn't know what she'd do if something happened to Naomi. She didn't know. She closed her eyes and remembered one time she and Naomi got in trouble and somehow came out alive.

"Naomi..." Tiki said scratching her head. She was about twelve, thirteen. "WATCH OUT YOU DOLT!!"

"What?" Naomi suddenly ran into a huge juggernaut the side of Mount Everest. "Whoa, big momma..." She gulped and backed away.

A HUGE old lady peered at her, rolls of fat everywhere. Her fingers literally looked like sausage strips. "Watch where you're going." Her voice was as deep as a man's. She was the one lady that everyone feared in the little town of Lexington. She was the meanest, nastiest, ugliest person in that town, and I mean UGLY.

"Umm...Sorry Mrs. Elephant- I mean Eligan. I didn't SEE you there."

Tiki rolled her eyes, whispering out of the corner of her mouth. "Can't see HOW you can miss a person like that..."

Naomi laughed as Mrs Elephant-err...Eligan grabbed her by the shirt and yanked her forward.

"What's so funny girl?!"

Naomi shook her head. "NOTHING! NOTHING!!"

Mrs. Eligan eyed her up and down, letting her go. "Just watch where your going missy." And with that, she walked away, or waddled away. However you prefer.

Tiki whispered into Naomi's ear, "I think she's jealous cause we have muscles and she don't." Naomi laughed.

The HUGE, I emphasize HUGE, juggernaut turned around, swinging her fifty pound purse into the air. "WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT ME?!!" She boomed.

Tiki and Naomi looked at each other as the lady swung her purse. The two girls ducked and race around her.

"Wow, I didn't know we could get around her..." Tiki marveled as the lady started running behind them. Tiki could remember the ground literally shaking with every step that elephant took. But that elephant sure was fast.

They raced around a corner and entered a grocery store. Naomi ran straight into the metal detectors, hitting her head and stumbling backwards.(A/N: I did that one time...) Tiki helped her up quickly and they raced over to the grocery carts.

Naomi yanked one out, turned it around, and stood there ready to meet Mrs. Eligan head on. Tiki did the same.

Mrs. Eligan came stampeding down an isle, swinging her monstrous purse and yelling a now hoarse battle cry. "AaAaAaAaAaAhHhHhHhHhHhHh...*cough**cough*"

Naomi and Tiki looked at each other and smiled, a full isle of people behind the juggernaut and nothing in their way. They grinned and ran forward, pushing the carts towards the lady.

Mrs. Eligan stops swinging her purse. It hit a guy square in the noggin. Her eyes widened and her jaw dropped as the two girls ran forward with two buggies.

The two girls smiled daringly, showing all of their teeth. "BOWLING ANYONE?" They screamed and thrust the buggy into the woman. They thought she would go bowling over and topple everyone on that isle over. She did. But the impact to the ferocious gut of the woman sent them flying backwards, buggy and all, into the checkout line.

Naomi ended up on the conveyer belt as the belt started pulsing back and forth, trying to find the price for the item. Tiki ended up in the candy. A Snickers stuck right in her pink shorts. Later she had to end up paying for it from intoxication. But their plan worked! It really worked! Not the desire impact they wanted, but it actually worked!

They laughed on and on as the onlookers started and Mrs. Eligan kept screaming. "HELP ME! HELP ME! I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP!!" But that screaming was drowned out by the laughter of everyone in the store. Letters came in later to the two girls saying that they really brightened up their day. They weren't surprised.

They always, in one way or another, brighten someone's day up. No matter how crummy theirs were.

Tiki help back a tear and kept calling out her best friends name. She wanted to do that again. Just one more time. That's all she wanted, just one more time.

"Naomi!!" Kurt called after her too. Though Kurt only knew Naomi from his classes last year, they were pretty good friends. He didn't know what he'd do if something happened to Naomi. His first thought was revenge. But a memory soon flooded in on their last day of school.

"Dude, what's up Naomi?" Kurt asked, walking up to Naomi.

Naomi had her nose stuck in a book. "Reading Kurt. And I am not a DUDE!!"

Kurt shrugged, "Whatever. Anyway, want to catch a flick with me later dudette as a date?"

"No thanks Kurt. Family is much more important. I have to go see my grandmother tonight."

"Oh, tomorrow night then?"

"Sorry, I am going to go see a 'flick' with Tiki. And I'm sure you don't want to come Kurt." Naomi said, turning the page.

"Ever then?"

Naomi smiled and put down the book. "Maybe. I don't know. I'll get back to you though. But I'm not really into the date thing yet. I don't really want to have a boyfriend right now. Sorry."

Kurt sighed, "Dude, then can you at least call me a friend?"

She smiled and took off her reading glasses. Naomi held out her hand. "Anyone who even talks to me is my friend Kurt. I always considered you a friend." Kurt went to shake her hand. She pulled it away. "But, to me, a handshake means that you are obliged to help me when I need it and I'll help you also. Agree?"

Kurt smiled, "Dude, I agree. A surfer's handshake also means friends till the end babe." They shook, sealing each others fate as friends forever.

"Yes, friends till the end." She put on her glasses again and began to read once more. Kurt started to walk away. "Oh and Kurt..."

"Dude?"

"STOP SAYING DUDE! I AM A GIRL! NOT A BOY! AND FOR THAT MATTER, DON'T CALL ME BABE EITHER!!"

Kurt chuckled inwardly to himself. "I promise you Naomi. I will help you! I will find you Naomi, my friend."

"Yo! Naomi!" Jake beckoned. No sound came. He knew that this was his fault in a way. If he had just slowed down for Naomi to catch up with him, this wouldn't have happened. But it did. And whoever was responsible would get a can of whop-ass from him. He stared off into space as a memory emerged from his mind of when he met Naomi..

"Your right. But how are we suppose to get back? By the way the two guys acted, this ain't no 4Kids production with the goody-goody two-shoes characters. This is real." Tiki sighed and sank down to the ground. "Just when we were on the top of the world, we fall flat on our faces." She laughed as a voice interrupted.

"I know what you mean..." A boy with short dark blue hair appeared around the alleyway corner. "In our rightful world, we are considered by the police officers missing, perhaps even dead. Because we disappeared from sight and sound..." He trailed off looking at them with his mesmeric deep blue eyes.

Tiki gasped, "What?! Dead? They think we are dead?! I might have a funeral when I am still alive and my parents don't even know it?!" She panicked and realized hi statement. "Wait, we?" She asked as the boy nodded/

"Yes, we. I am in the same boat as you. And I can't tell you if they think we are dead." He spoke shrugging and leaning against the wall.

Naomi bit her lip. To Jake, she looked so cute when she did that. "So your saying we were whipped out of existence there?" She asked as Tiki stared at the boy. Naomi fumbled with her blonde hair, thinking.

The boy chuckled, "Not quite. No, were just here now. But I don't know all the circumstances. Mind you, I'm a victim in this too..." He looked up to the blue sky.

Naomi looked at him, "This is feeling more like The Twilight Zone than the Yu-Gi-Oh World now..." She sighed and stood up. "Well, we'll just have to make the best of it until we figure this out!" She said cheerfully as the others sweat-dropped. "Hey! I didn't know we could do that!" She yelled, pointing to the two. She always knew how to turn things around right when they needed to take a U-turn for the best and at the right time too.

The boy rolled his eyes and rubbed the back of his head. "Does the word 'Anime' mean anything to you?" He asked sarcastically. Sure, he was hard on the girl, but all he wanted to do was impress her, for once.

Naomi thought for a second and snapped her fingers, "Ya! Japanese Animation of course! Like Gundam Wing, and G-Gundam, and Zoids, and the hideous Pokemon, and Sailor Moon, and Rouni Kenshen,(Sorry if I misspelled) and Yu Yu Hakusho, and the utterly disguising DragonBall Z, and-" She kept on naming the Anime she knew and loved. "Tri-Gun, and KiKaider, and..." She stopped and tapped her foot on the ground. "Now I know I forgot one...." She paused, then shouted, "INUYASHA!!" With that, they two other teens sweat-dropped again. She was the kookiest girl yet he'd seen. She seemed to be very annoying at times, but what girl didn't? She was one of a kind.

Tiki slowly stood up and rubbed the back of her head, cursing in Spanish. She had learned it from a vacation she and her family took to Mexico. Then she looked at the blue haired boy, ignoring Naomi. "What's your name?" She asked as the boy looked back at her surprised.

He tensed up, "Well, m-my name is-is Jaken actually....really peculiar in my opinion." He stuttered softly.

Naomi walked over, "Jaken aye? Not a bad name, but why don't we just call ya Jake." She held out her hand and the boy excepted it. Boy, a friend on the first day and a potential girlfriend. This was his luckiest day yet! "So...um...." Her stomach growled as she blushed. Naomi tapped her foot and waited for a second as everyone just looked at each other. "Is anyone hungry?!" She asked finally breaking the silence as the two others bit the dust again.

Jaken smiled sadly and looked around. She was his friend. He just had to find and rescue her, just had to!

They spotted the docks and raced to the boat that Jake had recognized as Malik's. They took a deep breath and slammed on the door to the inside of the boat. It wouldn't budge! The door was locked and Naomi was inside!

Jake and Kurt banged on the door for a while as Tiki searched her hair and pockets for a bobby pin, that would work. She found one and quickly shoved the boys aside. Tiki stuck the pin in the hole and rattled it around. All was silent inside and out. Were they too late? Was she even in here? One way to find out.

The lock clicked open.

To Be Continued...

And that is where I end it for this chapter. Can y'all tell where the other two characters would come in at?

I'm so sorry that I am soo mean right now, An evil cliffie, I know! But I'll make up for it by giving you a sneak preview of the next chapter since I was so mean. ^_~

~Bakura heard the sound of a gunshot as he watched the knife fall closer and closer to him aimed directly at his heart. Suddenly something ricocheted off of the blade and changed it's direction to his arm.~

~Bakura just looked at him, a small smile crept upon his face. He could use this situation to his advantage after all. "And how are you going to 'Make him pay'?"

Jake and Tiki looked straight into his eyes. "Join Battle City. Defeat all in our paths till we rescue Naomi by beating Marik."~

Hope that will give you a clue! (and hopefully it hooked you too...) STAY TUNED TILL NEXT TIME!

R&R!