Annime: Hi! I'm back!

Yami: Run!

Annime: What did you just say?

Yami: Nothing…

Yugi: Annime doesn't own YUGIOH or anything belonging to someone else!

Chapter 9

Yami woke up the next morning…sort of. He hadn't been able to truly fall asleep until 5am, but he was now awake again at 8. He stumbled out of his room, unable to move correctly because of the exhausted state he was in. He couldn't get his mind off of Yugi and what could happen to him…or what might have happened to him.

Yugi still swung from the rope that dangled from the ceiling. He was fast asleep. It had taken him hours for him to finally fall into a deep slumber like this. 5am was when his eyes stopped opening.

Celrelda walked calmly into the room with a wicked smile. She held a special phone in her hand as she went over to Yugi.

"Wake up, Yugi," she snickered. "The fun is about to begin."

Yugi's eyes fluttered as he looked at her. At first he held a look of confusion before finally remembering what had already happened.

"I don't want your kind of fun," Yugi growled.

Celrelda giggled evilly. "Yugi, I don't believe you have a chose in the matter, now do you?"

Yugi scowled as Celrelda began to press in the correct phone number.

Yami turned on the sink in the kitchen and splashed some onto his face at an attempt to wake himself up. Apparently Heba and Atemu were still out cold in their room because there was no breakfast cooking or anything. Yami didn't mind, though. He didn't feel in the eating mood.

Ring, ring

Yami sighed as he slowly mad his way to the phone.

"Hello?" Yami spoke in a very tired voice.

"H-hello?" a shaking voice replied over the phone. Yami tilted his head in curiosity.

"Hello, who is this?"

"I-it's me…Yugi."

Yami's eyes widened. "Yugi, are you ok? What happened?"

But before Yugi could answer, a woman's voice appeared over the phone.

"Why hello, Yami," Celrelda's voice crackled over the phone. "It's nice to meet you, even if it's not in person."

"Who are you?" Yami demanded angrily. "And what do you want with Yugi?"

The woman chuckled from the other line.

"Don't you remember?" she answered. "I don't like the fact that he is the heir without being the son of the pharaoh. So, I'm planning on taking care of the problem."

"If you touch him, I promise you I'll—,"

"You'll what, Yami? What makes you think I should be scared of you?"

"You should be very scared of him," Yugi's voice told Celrelda. Yami knew Yugi wasn't at the phone, but that he was very close to Celrelda.

"Shut up, Yugi," Celrelda snapped at Yugi.

Silence came from Yugi after this and Celrelda began to speak again.

"Go to the lake in the park, just like when we kidnapped your precious Yugi. Wait there with a cell phone for further instructions."

Yami growled at her demands.

"Oh, and go alone," she added. "If you don't go, or if you go with someone as company, Yugi will pay the price."

Yami nodded. "Very well, but promise me that Yugi won't get hurt."

Celrelda laughed before answering, "That's actually all up to Yugi. If he behaves, then we will get along swimmingly, but if he doesn't…"

She didn't finish, but Yami didn't need her to.

"So what time should I meet you at the park?" Yami spoke. He tried to keep his voice from shaking.

Celrelda didn't hesitate in replying, "I need you to be there in fifteen minutes. I don't care what you are dressed in."

Yami nodded and listened as he heard the woman hang up.

"When I get my hands on her I'm going to strangle her," Yami muttered and he forcefully hung the phone back onto its receiver.

Yugi watched as Celrelda took the phone from her ear and looked at him.

"You really had to interrupt our conversation, didn't you, Yugi?" Celrelda questioned the smaller.

Yugi nodded with an innocent smile. "Yes, why yes I did."

Celrelda growled in her throat and turned away from him. She quickly walked out of the room and left Yugi alone to wait for the next big thing to happen.

Yami walked briskly towards the park to meet with this woman who dared to take his Aibou away from him. A cell phone was resting securely in his right pocket as he made the last turn into the park.

'She said to go to the lake,' Yami thought. 'I just hope I don't get snipped again!'

The lake was in the same state as it had been when Yami was last there with Yugi. The quiet air didn't help settle Yami's nerves as he waited. He was sitting down on a bench; the same bench Yami had sat with Yugi on past dates.

Yami sighed at the memories as he continued to wait for the mystery woman.

"Are you Yami Muto?"

Yami shot up from his seat and spun around to find a big man standing behind him.

"Yes and why does it concern you?" Yami asked.

"Well, my boss told me to give you this phone number and to call it the moment you receive it from me."

Yami looked from the man back down at the paper before slowly reaching out for it. After the paper with the number written on it landed in his grip, Yami pulled out his cell phone. He kept glancing from his phone to the escaping man as the teen boy dialed the given phone number. Once the man was out of sight, Yami placed the phone to his ear to hear the line ringing.

"Hello?" a familiar female voice spoke over the other end.

"You coward," Yami snapped. He clutched his teeth together as the echo of the woman's voice rattled in his ears.

"Oh, Yami," she said. "There is no need to be so mean. Yugi is just fine, and I really couldn't risk you hurting me if we were to see each other in person. If I get killed, or hurt, by you or your little friends then my new partner wouldn't be as nice to Yugi as I'm being."

Yami was silent for a moment.

"So, you are so cowardly that you can't even do something like this by yourself?"

"Oh no, Yami, being cowardly has nothing to do with having a partner for this job. Now, let's go over some things so the real fun can begin."

Annime: 0.0… What does she have in mind?

Yami: Don't you know?

Annime: No…good thing I have a little while before the next update to figure that out!

Yugi: Please review!