Disclaimer: See previous chapters.

Warnings: Angst… crime… kiddies, if your reading this story, don't steal, karma will eventually happen to you.

Me- hello, I'm back! Lucky for you!

Voice in head- yeah don't you just love us! Well let's get down to it.

Joker- Otogi (thanks to Saelbu)

Penguin- Yami (sorry if that's offensive, it's not meant to be)

Two Face- Malik (thanks to Saelbu)

Harly- Serenity (not Jou's sis anymore MWAHAHAHA! Or is she?)

Cat Woman- Mai (it fits along with the suit… hehe)

Riddler- Yugi (he's good with riddles)

Mr. Freeze- Bakura (white hair)

Poison Ivy- Anzu (well someone has to be her)

Italics- flashback, something being read or watched, you'll know which on by the text.

Cheesy announcer guy- last time on Batman!

"Here they are!" Mokuba finally said as he got down and handed Kaiba a bottle. "You take some calms, then go to bed. Tomorrow, we'll start looking again, and when we find them, you'll be ready."

Hit greeted them and told Bakura to leave at once to keep look out on the outside with the others. He didn't even look at Mr. Freeze; all his attention was on his dinning guest.

'Don't worry Jou,' Bakura thought, 'I'm going to help you.'

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"So Jou, are you comfortable?" Hit smirked, Jou was one of the few people he would show any type of emotion too. Jou frowned in response. Hit had connected his chains to the chair so he couldn't move one inch.

"Well do tell me how your life has been since you ran away." Hit seemed like he really wanted to know, putting on a interested face, Jou knew he was just a good actor, that's how he got Jou to join his gang in the first place. Hit was just trying to waste time so that Jou could become even more desperate for the food that was so conveniently placed in front of his nose.

Jou wasn't going to stand for this so he responded; "it was going much better until you showed your ugly face again."

Hit frowned, but showed no other signs of movement. "Fine be that way. Let's just get down to business then. You know why you are here right?" Jou nodded to this and Hit stood. "Good less explaining." Hit was standing right next to Jou now. "I want to know how to work that machine of yours. You must think it was so clever of yourself to build it so I couldn't run it huh?" Hit's face turned to furry as he smacked Jou hard across his face. "You had better tell me how to work your invention, or else." Hit Smirked as Jou started coughing again, blood splattering onto the floor.

"I'll… never tell… you." Hit smiled at his response.

"Oh, you'll tell me, just wait."

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"Brother, it's getting late, please let's go home." Robin said to the Caped Crusader. With a sigh Batman turned the bat mobile into the direction of his lair.

'Finally,' Mr. Freeze thought as he quickly followed on his motorcycle, staying a far distance behind the duo as to not be detected.

When they got back to the cave, Kaiba couldn't wait to get out of his gear, after being in it for practically two days straight, it got uncomfortable. Mokuba felling the same let out a sigh of relief and started for his room.

ALERT INTRUDER ALERT

The brothers let looks of panicked cross their faces as they saw Mr. Freeze make his way up the stairs from the bat cave.

"Mokuba get upstairs right now!" Mokuba decided not to argue and left, but stopped half way so he could watch what happens from a safe distance.

"Batman!" Mr. Freeze yelled with malice.

Kaiba quickly put his mask back on; luckily, he hadn't taken the suit off. "You have invaded my home Mr. Freeze, this is unforgivable. Prepare to…"

"Shut up and listen you rat with wigs!" Mr. Freeze yelled once he made it to the top of the stairs seeing Batman. "Wow nice place."

"Don't move or you won't live to see another day." Batman said.

"I need…" Me. Freeze couldn't say it; he couldn't ask his enemy for help! That was ridicules.

"You need to go to jail for kidnapping!" Batman roared before punching Mr. Freeze smack in the face. Mr. freeze fell to the floor bleeding.

"Ow! Geez! I came to tell you were the boy is!" Mr. Freeze said while he was holding his bloody nose. Kaiba froze, as he was about to hit Mr. Freeze again.

"What?" Batman shook his head; he must be tired because thought he just heard…

"I know where Jounouchi Katsuya is. I was going to tell you that I need your help to get him out." Batman couldn't move. Kaiba couldn't believe this. It wasn't really happening. His enemy doesn't just come and ask for his help to do something good.

Smiling, Mr. Freeze knew that he had Batman right where he wanted him. Jou must mean something special to… 'Wait

"I… I knew that you would all come after me. I didn't want anything bad to happen to him, so, I told him to not save me, or come after me. I didn't want to see him hurt, or do anything… bad. I told him that I'd handle it. I don't know if he'll listen, and I don't know if I want him too."

Was Jou talking about Batman? I remember Batman saved him that one time before we could get him.' Mr. Freeze looked up at Batman with his newfound knowledge.

"So you really care about Jou don't you? Was that why you were out so late? You were looking for him?" Mr. Freeze smirked at Batman's expression. "He told me that he asked you not to look for him." Batman's face looked like he was about to die of shock.

"You really know where he is?" Batman said as hopeful as ever, but trying not to show it.

"Yep, and I'll tell you." Mr. freeze said. 'He really wants to know. Maybe I could get something out of this as well.'

"For a price." Mr. Freeze smirked. Before he could think about the error he just made, Batman had him pined to the ground with a bat-a-rang against his throat.

"You'll tell me where I can find my Jou, and I'll let you live." Batman said between clenched teeth. Mokuba, having seen the whole thing, ran down the stairs, as Mokuba, to stop his brother from killing their foe.

"What are you doing, I told you to stay away!" Batman yelled worried that Mr. freeze would see and find out their secret identity.

"You can't kill him Seto! He knows where Jou is!" Mokuba said pulling his brother off of Mr. Freeze.

"Is that Mokuba Kaiba? You're Seto Kaiba! Batman is Seto Kaiba!" Mr. Freeze yelled jumping up pointing at the brothers.

"If you value your life, you will keep this information to yourself." Kaiba said taking off his mask, as there was no point in having it on any longer, and pulling out his tazer gun. Mr. Freeze didn't stop though, he obviously didn't see the gun, and so Kaiba did the most logical thing, he tazered Mr. Freeze.

"Kaiba! He knows where Jou is and you make his pass out in our house!" Mokuba yelled.

"Mokie, he would have told everyone!" Kaiba explained, putting his gun away. Moving over to where Mr. Freeze's unconscious body lay. "We better tie him up, when he wakes up we'll get the information out of him."

"Kaiba, he asked for our help."

"So?" Kaiba grabbed a chair and, with the help of duck tape, tied Mr. Freeze up.

"Where am I?" Mr. Freeze said trying to see though the dark of the room made that a little difficult. He tried moving before he realized he was taped to a chair. "What the hell? What is the meaning of this! I'm here trying to help you and you treat me like…"

"A villain, well then, what are you?" Kaiba said.

"I'm the person who's here on the behalf of Jou you jerk!" Mr. Freeze yelled.

"Oh so Jou wanted you to bribe me into getting his location?"

Mr. Freeze looked down ashamed. "Ok maybe that was a little too far, I wasn't thinking though. I just finally get you and…" Mr. freeze looked up and Kaiba's emotionless face and flinched. "Fine you win! Just let me out so I can tell you were Jou is!"

Kaiba sat for a while thinking about if he should trust him or not when the lights turned on.

"Seto!" Mokuba came in and started cutting Mr. Freeze out. "Mr. Freeze is trying to help us. Something happened to change his ways, and this is just the thing that will change it back!"

"Thank you… Robin?" Mokuba nodded. "Wow you are young. Well you can call me Bakura. You are much smarter then your brother, yes something did happen to change my mind and help. It was Jou himself."

"Come sit, we'll get something to eat and you can tell us all about it, then we can head out and save Jou from where ever he is." Mokuba said as he headed to the dinning room.

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Jou sat in his chair watching the food disappear, his coughing fit had ended about an hour ago according to the clock on the wall. It was around 8:30pm and Hit was eating all the food on the table. If Jou's memory serves him right, Hit was never a very heavy eater, not like him, so he was just doing this to make Jou hungry.

"You know this isn't going to work." Jou said sounding very sure of himself. Hit just smirked and looked up at him, putting his chicken leg down.

"Now Jou, whatever would have given you the idea that I was doing this for any other reason then the fact that I'm very hungry?" Jou just rolled his eyes.

"Don't think that I'm going to just given in because I'm a little hungry and you're teasing me with this food." To extend his point, Jou lifted his nose and turned his head away from the food, thanking his lucky star that his stomach didn't growl in protest.

This obviously wasn't what Hit wanted to hear because his smirk lowered into a frown. This didn't affect Jou, or he just didn't notice, and he continued, "I'm not just some little boy that you can easily manipulate, I've changed since you last saw me."

"Well then Jou, I guess I will just have to go to plan B then now won't I?" Jou didn't like the sound of this, or the strange almost desperate look in Hit's eye.

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Seto was sitting across from one of his archenemies, listening to how Jou was being tortured, and he just couldn't handle it. Even through this he sat and listened, like his patient little brother.

"I left after that to find you, so you could help." Mr. Freeze was done. Seto was at first speechless, then…

"What the hell!" Mr. Freeze and Mokuba turned from their conversation to see what was the matter. "Mokuba, don't tell me that you are buying this!" They both just stared at him.

"And why shouldn't we trust him?"

"Mokuba! Have you lost your mind?" Seto felt like pulling out all his hair in frustration. "This is Mr. Freeze, do you remember the time when he froze you? You were stuck like that and suffered for days after with a cold! How do you expect me to just trust him?"

"I understand your frustration… You think I'm just saying this to lure you in and hurt you, all part of some cynical plot or something right?" Kaiba lowered his head and accusing finger. "Well, if I show you the reason I did all those bad things, showed you my most precious thing in the world, would you trust me?"

Kaiba thought about this. Mr. Freeze knows his secret identity, and is willing to show something of his so that if he does betray them, they know where to look for revenge.

"Quickly, Mokuba, get dressed and we'll leave immediately." Kaiba said as Mokuba came out of the bat cave with his costume on, waving for them to hurry.

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"There he is." Bakura said with a low, affectionate voice. He walked up to the glass, rubbing a finger over where the boy's snowflake necklace would be. "This is my version of Jou, Ryou." Bakura laughed at that, a sad small laugh.

Kaiba looked closely at the boy, he was a little smaller then Jou and looked remarkably similar to Bakura. He then looked at the pendent around his neck. "What is that?"

Bakura looked shocked that Kaiba spoke to him; he assumed this was a way to say that he was now trusted. "It was the last gift I gave him, before…" The rest was known to the superhero, there was no need to continue.

"I understand, you will show us to Jou, and I will help you as best I can in researching a cure for the disease." Bakura felt a tear slip past his lid, for the first time in years, not since Ryou was taken from him had this happened. It felt good.

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"I'm not going to help you!" Tears welded in Jou's eyes.

"Well then, your loss." Hit said smirking larger then Jou had ever seen from him as he walked out of the room.

Things didn't look to good for Jou right now. He was moved to a different room. The good news was that the large chains around his wrists were gone, the bad news, they were replaced with straps. Now that may not sound as bad, but it is when they are holding you up a foot off of the ground. He was also striped down to his boxers. Jou felt more exposed now then he ever had before.

Hit had not done anything to him here, yet. Jou just knew that it was coming. He couldn't give in though, never, no matter what.

Hit walked back in, his hands behind his back. "Pick a hand, any hand." Jou just looked up at him through thick, dirty bangs, matted down with blood and sweat. 'Has he gone crazy? He has never acted like this to me before, like he's finally lost it.' Jou really didn't know what to say to this, almost new Hit.

"If you don't pick one, you'll get it even worse, just say left or right." Hit smiled menacingly.

"Ah… l… left?" Jou said, trying to cooperate with this new Hit.

"Well let's see what you've won." He pulled his hands from behind his back, the right held a shiny new dagger, Jou was very happy to have not picked that one, he then looked at the left. Hit dropped the dagger and started swinging a whip over his head.

"Kinky Katsuya…" Hit commented as he brought the whip down on Jou's chest. A large welt started to show, a second hit created blood that ran down Jou's bruised chest, thin stomach, and into the cloth of his boxers.

Jou hissed and clutched his fist as the whip came down again, more blood this time. "Now isn't this fun! I was hoping you'd pick this hand." Hit was laughing like a maniac, Jou screaming at each crack. Hit started to circle Jou, making sure that he got every area of Jou's torso.

All Jou could think about was the pain that was going through him, 'maybe I'll go numb soon.' just as he thought this, the reign of leather stopped. Jou opened his clenched eyes and started to breath a little more. Hit was nowhere to be seen. Jou became aware of his presents again though, as a cold hand was placed on his bloody side.

"Doesn't this just… excite you little Katsuya?" Hit said, licking some of Jou's blood off his hand.

"W… what?" Jou didn't know what was happening, Hit, though he was always messed up in the head, had never acted like this before.

In response, Hit licked on of Jou's bleeding wounds. Jou started to scream and thrash wildly, "no, no, no, no! Stop it! Don't touch me!" This continued until Hit found his dagger from the ground and put in to Jou's shoulder.

"I'd stop moving so much if I were you." Hit said pushing the sharp knife into Jou's skin. Jou started to silently cry.

"That's not going to save you Jou, nothing can, except," Jou stopped crying at that.

'Hit is going to… If I don't…' he started to feel the tears fall again, 'I wish I hadn't told Kaiba to not come. Please, I don't know how I'm going to survive this, please help me Seto.'

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"Quick! I'll hold them off, you go and find Jou!" Mr. Freeze yelled fighting Catwoman while Robin was working on Joker.

Batman nodded running of into the building, 'they can handle it. Now where to go?' Kaiba thought as he hit a dead end with two doors. He walked closer to them, listening for any signs of life. He couldn't hear anything until.

"Stop! I won't help you no matter what you do!"

"That sounded like Jou!" Kaiba said. He turned the doorknob of the right door quietly, peaking his head out to see if anyone would see him. No one was there so he walked in and closed the door behind him. "Where are you?" Batman whispered listening for any trace of Jou.

"No!"

Kaiba ran in the direction of the noise and started to hear muffled noises, like crying, and moaning. Kaiba felt his heart pounding in this chest, what was happening to his Jou!

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Me- Do you guys not like that idea… I can stop it before it goes to far if you don't want that… meaning Hit and Jou thing. it's not like I'm going to write that happening, but it would be about to I guess… so that's not so bad.

VIH- yeah… so tell me stuff you want and don't, I'll do something. Maybe.

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