PART 1 IS ENDING SOOONNNNNNNN~!

Previously on Triangular Hallway *cue "previously on yugioh" sounds*:
"Anyway..." Yami continued. "We should all consider figuring out how to live with and reverse it. Me, Malik, and Yami Bakura will deal with the latter. Yugi, Marik, and Ryou, you deal with the former."

"So everyone," Yugi said in a conclusive voice. I guess this is it?"

Everyone looked at everyone else and nodded at the same time.
*dramatic outro noise*

Just so you know who is who, these are the names used: Hikari Marik is 'Marik'. Yami Marik is 'Malik'. Hikari Bakura is 'Bakura', but sometimes called 'Ryou' by Yami Bakura and Marik. Yami Bakura is 'Bakura' (don't worry you'll be able to tell the difference), sometimes called 'Yami' by Ryou or 'Touzoku' by Malik. Hikari Yugi is 'Yugi'. Yami Yugi is 'Pharaoh' or 'Yami'.

This is Part 1, chapter 8.

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Chapter 8
Minor Aftermath


Instead of talking to Malik and getting distracted, Marik quickly made himself wake up.

"I can still talk to you, you know."

"Shut up. I know that. But what are we going to do now?"

"I'll be security. Anyone who tries to sneak in will have to deal with me."

"No... I don't trust you."

"We have the same mind. Whatever important secrets or whatever worth sneaking in for are the ones I actually care about protecting. So deal with me."

"No. I'd rather be in charge of keeping everyone else out, while you figure out how to fix it. Your mess, you clean it up."

"You really need to learn to start trusting me..."

"Hmph..." Marik got out of bed and noticed that for some reason he was holding the Millenium Rod. "What is this randomness!" he shouted, and threw it on the carpeted floor.

"I was paying a bit of attention. You had it on the nightstand and grabbed it while you were sleeping."

"Why would I do that?"

"I don't know!"

"Well I certainly don't." He looked at the Millenium Item on the floor. He eyes it suspiciously, then retrieved it. He started to examine it, especially the place where Ryou had pointed out. "How the hell did you manage to get it stuck to the other two like that? And why did you go there anyway?"

"Hmph. If anything, blame your boyfriend. And the Pharaoh. It's their fault for falling off the side of a rock."

Marik chose to ignore the comment about Bakura. Where did Malik get that idea from anyway? "Well... thanks for saving them I guess..."

"Hehehe... you're welcome. Now you owe me."

"NO I DON'T!"

"You do."

"I don't."

"You do."

"Oh just shut up already! Why don't you come on out so I can yell to your face?"

Malik materialized behind him. He tapped Marik on the shoulder. "Hey there."

Marik swung his arm around, trying to hit him. The arm went right through.

He turned around and faced Malik. "Nice try."

"Just shut up and leave me alone! And you had better keep your promise and stay away from Yugi and Ryou!"

"Hhaha... Why don't you try to make me?"

"Maybe I will!"

"Marik are you okay?!"

Marik turned to the doorway, which Ishizu stood in, her face full of concern.

"Oh I'm fine..."

"You arguing with Malik again?" she asked, eyeing the spot where she suspected Malik stood.

"Yeah. But we're fine. Really."

Ishizu gently placed a hand on the Necklace around her neck. "If you're sure..." She started to leave.

But Malik suddenly had an idea. "Marik, stop her!"

"Wait!"

"Yeah?" She walked back in.

"What is it?" Marik asked Malik.

"Millenium Necklace. It might help."

"Oh! Ishizu!"

"Yes?"

"I need to ask you something..."

"About the Triangle?"

Marik gasped. "How did you know?"

She tapped the Millenium Necklace. "You want me to tell you the future about what will happen to you six because of it."

"Yes. And maybe if you can see a solution to all of this?"

Without another word, Ishizu nodded and walked inside the room and headed for Marik's bed. She sat down cross-legged and touched the Necklace with one hand, then closed her eyes and concentrated hard.

Marik and Malik moved to stand on either side of her, and waited silently for her to speak.

Two minutes later, Ishizu opened her eyes wide with a gasp.

"What did you see?" Marik and Malik both asked (even though she couldn't hear Malik).

She stared straight ahead. "Sometimes, I don't see visions, but rather fragments or cryptic illustrations of them."

"So what did you see?" Malik asked.

"She can't hear you, idiot," Marik reminded him.

"Well I said it so you could give her the message!"

"She's going to tell us anyway so just calm down!"

"Marik," Ishizu said, still looking straight ahead, "will you and Malik stop arguing and please be quiet before I lose my concentration?"

"Sorry."

"Thank you. Now what I saw was a bit strange but either you know what it means now or you will realize what it means later." She closed her eyes and brought each vision fragment to the forefront of her mind's eye. "I saw secrets hidden in the darkness, a bright red flame and a glint of gold, a heart...somehow in the shape of a hexagon, the Shadow Realm, several specific Duel Monsters cards but the images of the monsters on them are blurry, and this last one is the most confusing to me but...I see the eyes of all six of you, but the colors are of someone else's eyes." She opened her eyes and looked back and forth between Marik and where she assumed Malik was. "That is what I saw. I hope it helps you out and I hope it will make sense to you."

"Well," Marik said, "the part about the fire and gold kinda makes sense because that's how we got into this mess. Everything else I have no idea about." He looked at Malik. "We'll tell the others about this next time we meet and see if they understand some of this."

Malik nodded. "Right."


Yugi and Yami stood in their own hallway.

"So..." Yugi said. "Now what?"

"Now, you stay even farther away from Malik and Bakura."

"Wait... What?!"

"I didn't say Marik and Ryou. I just don't want this getting out of hand. And... I still need to keep my promise to stay away from them."

"So how do you expect to keep them away from me?"

"I trust your friends to deal with them..." Then he thought, I just hope that I can trust Malik and Bakura to deal with them.

"You can't expect to keep away from them if we're going to figure this thing out. Sometimes the six of us will need to meet up and we'll all just have to deal with it. As long as they keep themselves under control, everything should be fine, right?" Then Yugi had a thought... "Unless you sometimes start problems too..."

Yami laughed nervously. "Well aheheheh... Nobody's perfect."

"Exactly. So jut deal with it so we can fix this as soon as possible." He shuddered. "I don't want anyone messing with my soul room. Who knows what could happen..."

Yami walked closer to him and put a hand on his shoulder to comfort him. "I'm sure the three of you will think of something to deal with that."

"And I hope the three of you figure out something to reverse this mess. Before something bad happens and before someone gets hurt..."


"Ryou..."

"Bakura..."

They stood there looking at each other.

"So," Bakura said to him, "out of everyone here I want this problem dealt with the most and I want it fixed fastest. So I'll allow you a tiny bit of freedom to do whatever you need to do to deal with your half of it..."

"Really?" Ryou asked excitedly. It was rarely even thought about that his yami would so obviously give him space and freedom to do whatever he wanted...

"IF!" Bakura continued, "you let me do whatever I need to do as well." He saw Ryou's smile fade. "What? You thought I was just going to let you run off and do whatever you want? Oh no. You're only allowed in my soul room if I let you. If I should ever let you in and roam around, you had better stay out of the darkest part. And I'll know when you've been there."

"What? Darkest...?" he murmured.

"But I doubt that you'll even figure out how to get in to the darkest part. But anyway... Of course that means that you have to let me in as well if I need something from you. I can read your memories as easily as you could read mine. If I find out that you learned something you shouldn't, and you find out the same about me... Well if you tell, I tell. Clear?"

"But you promised..."

"I never promised anything. I said 'whatever'."

"But-!"

"No buts! You do your thing, I do mine. You keep quiet, I kep quiet." The spirit walked over to his soul room door and opened it. Before he entered, he looked back at Ryou and said, "Because I know that something will go wrong and as innocent as everyone thinks you are it will most likely be your fault."

He closed the door.

Ryou stared at the closed door. Then he walked over to the door of his soul room and leaned against the wall next to it. He slid to the floor and buried his head in his hands. "What have we gotten ourselves into?"

Then he remembered what he had been doing before this had happened. He took over his body again, which was still lying on one of the staircase landings in his apartment building, and ran the rest of the way home. He entered his apartment and headed straight for his room.

He closed the door and leaned against it just like how he had leaned against the wall in his soul room minutes ago, and buried his face in his hands again. Once more, he whispered to himself, "What have we gotten ourselves into?"


I'm sorry if part one isn't very exciting. But please bear with me because it's over and because part two is much more interesting and eventful. That's where the DRAMA happens tee hee hee!

I PROMISE THAT PART 2 WILL BE BETTER~!
I'll go back and fix the part of Chapter 1 with Bakura sometime soon because even I get confused!

OMG PART TWO IS HERE! I will start Part 2 in the next chapter and trust me it WILL be better! this first part was like one big prologue that I could have just put into one whole chapter in itself. Part two will be much longer, have more drama, some ROMANCE (tee hee hee see if u can figure out the pairings before I reveal them! anything is possible!), secrets, and it's pretty much me showing you my headcannon (is that what it's called?) of certain YGO things and pairings and giving it a plot. Some name usages will be changed possibly maybe. Oh and there's a fight! OOOOHHH! So see you then! And see you soon.

Now that I've had more time to write more stuff, I have a whole lot of things for that part so I should update more regularly! weekly maybe at longest. And the chapter formating will change a bit, in terms of ANs and commercials.

So brace yourself!

See you next chapter!

BYEEEEEEEEEE~!