Chapter 11

-Law of Attraction-

Yami spotted Honda's car just outside the park and sighed; Yugi could be anywhere within the vast area. Yami looked up at the sky to gauge his time and there wasn't much because it was getting darker. He decided to go out to look for Yugi anyway since it would be better than waiting for him to return. Yami walked into the park and carefully glanced around for any sign of him. "Yugi!" he called but his own voice just echoed back. "Yugi, I'm sorry." Yami tried again. Still nothing.

While he walked, Yami replayed the kiss in his head. He shouldn't have done it. He shouldn't have kissed Yugi that way. He just wanted Yugi to shut up. Yami wasn't used to having people trying to pry into his business. And when he thought about it, Yugi was prying a lot.

Yami licked his lips; still, when he kissed Yugi it didn't feel as horrible as it should have. The attraction was there, Yami admitted; since the first time he'd seen those soft eyes staring back at him. Dammit! Yami shook his head; mere attraction shouldn't be enough to feel what he felt when he kissed Yugi.

Suddenly something caught Yami's eye near the swing set, on the ground was a white rag. Yami was too cautious to think it was a harmless piece of trash so he went over to examine it. He looked at the dirt beneath the swing and noticed signs of a struggle then two dragging marks. Yami picked up the rag and gave it a sniff. "Chloroform" Yami clenched the rag in his hands.

Yami pulled his cell phone from his pocket and began to dial a familiar number. "I don't want to hear it." Yami said when someone answered. "Please, just do me a favor…" Yami paused.

"Do you a favor?" Seto smirked, "oh that's rich, say it again and maybe I'll do it." Seto laughed, "Good boy." Seto said when it was repeated. Yami had some nerve calling him for a favor; nevertheless, it was nice to have a favor owed to him. Seto listened to Yami's instructions and went to his computer. "No, no one has been reported missing, why?" Seto paused as Yami cursed. "That's not enough evidence to say anyone was kidnapped let alone that Yugi was." Seto paused again

"A car proves nothing, who even knows about the kid?" Seto said. "You know the rules, seventy-two hours."

"What? Something happened to Yugi?!" Jou asked, having heard bits of the conversation on his way into Seto's office.

"Shh." Seto covered the mouth piece, "shut up, no one is talking to you." He said and began speaking to Yami again, "I'll send out a few guys to look for him." Seto said and hung up before Yami could say thank you. "As for you," he turned back toward Jounouchi. "What do you think you are doing here?"

"What happened to Yugi?" Jou said, ignoring Seto's question.

"Nothing that concerns you."

"Yes it does. Yugi is my friend." Jou said. "Tell me what's happened to him."

"Can't you even eavesdrop correctly? If you were listening you would have put together that Yami thinks Yugi may have been kidnapped." Seto said. Jou turned to leave but Seto grabbed his wrist to stop him. "Not so fast."

"Let go." Jou yanked, it was a warning and Seto knew that he didn't have much time to back off before Jou did something to make him.

"No." Seto said and yanked Jou closer to him so that their chests touching completely. "Why are you here?" he asked again. Jou swallowed against the pleasant sent of Seto's breath. "Could the reason you are here have anything to do with that video tape behind your back?" Seto brought up his hands and encircled Jou's waist, grabbing Jou's tape wielding hand.

"Fucking let me go!" Jou brought up his other hand to slap Seto but Seto was faster; he grabbed Jou's other wrist and yanked Jou over his desk, spinning Jou around so he could pin Jou beneath him on the desk. Jou dropped the tape causing it to slide across the desk and fall to the ground. "Let go! You crazy mother fu-"

Seto pressed his lips to Jou's. He could think of nothing else, Jounouchi's defiance was such a turn on for him. Jou struggled beneath him; it was obvious to Seto that Jou wanted the kiss to stop, and well that wasn't going to happen. Seto slid both of his hands up off of Jounouchi's wrists into his hands where he laced their fingers together.

"Get…off." Jou said breathlessly when Seto finally stopped kissing him. "What the fuck is your problem?"

"Such language." Seto smirked. "You need to learn to relax, Jou." Seto said and bit Jou's bottom lip earning him a low moan.

"Don't call me by that name, get off of me!" Jou thrashed until his hip came into contact with a hard object. Jou's eyes widened. "Rape!"

"Shut up, Idiot! It's just my gun." Seto said and yanked away from Jou to show him. "See. Gun." Seto sat back in his seat and licked his lips slowly. "You taste good, by the way."

"You are disgusting." Jou said and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.

"And yet you are still here."

"What the fuck was that, anyway?" Jou glared.

"Attraction, you moron." Seto said simply.

"Ugh… how can you say such embarrassing things?"

"I'm far too successful to get embarrassed." Seto stood slowly and made his way toward Jou once more, "I will admit that being attracted to you is the last thing I ever wanted. You infuriate me to no end."

"Yeah, well you annoy me too. So I guess we are even." Jou crossed his arms over his chest and looked away like a spoiled child.

"Are we?" Seto asked, his breath ghosting over Jou's face. "Are you attracted to me too?"

"What?" Jou shoved Seto away and sprung to his feet. "You're being crazy. I have to help find Yugi." And with that he stomped out of the room and Seto didn't try to stop him.

Seto sat back down in his seat and held his head in his hands, he'd gone and kissed Jounouchi, gone and let him know his feelings. This wasn't what he wanted at all, not yet anyway. No, he wanted to solve Jounouchi's case once and for all. Only then could he face him, only then could he be free to pursue a relationship with the blonde man of his secret dreams.

Seto let out a groan and kicked his foot forward where it came into contact with the tape Jounouchi had left behind. He lifted his head to discover what he had kicked and bent down to pick it up. "Home movies," He read out loud. He flipped the tape over and sighed, it was in pretty bad shape. Had Jou brought it here for him to fix? Was this the last remaining memento Jounouchi had of his family?

Seto stood up and grabbed his coat before heading back home. Once there, Seto climbed the stairs to his home office and toward a work station with ten monitors. Seto slipped the tape into the VCR and set to work on restoring the video and saving it to a CD.

Hours had past and Seto was nearly done with the repairs but something kept catching his eye. He stopped the tape on the same spot for the fifth time and this time he knew what he was looking at. It was a map. Seto stroked his chin between his forefinger and thumb.

"A map?" Seto asked himself but there was only one way to find out what it was a map of. Seto turned his attention to cutting out the map and making it as clear as possible.

After a couple of hours Seto managed to print out the old map. He looked it over and sat back holding his head, it was in ancient Egyptian and he could read it as if it were in English. "What is going on?" he asked himself.

"Big brother?" Mokuba poked his head into Seto's office, "are you okay?"

"I'm fine." He lied.

"It's just, you've been in here all night and dinner is cold." Mokuba walked into the room and glanced down at the map. "That's nuts!"

"What?"

"That map, it's the mirror image of the map that Yami and the others had me translate."

"Mirror image?" Seto sat up.

"Yeah, it was a map of Atlantis but this one is of a section in Egypt. See, that's Cairo, right there." Mokuba pointed to a small spot just at the edge of the map. "What could that mean?"

"I don't know," Seto said and paused, "Do you have a copy of the map Yami has?"

"I think I saved it on my phone." Mokuba said. "I'll get it," he said and grabbed his brother's hand, "but only after you eat dinner."

Yugi opened his eyes slowly, his head was stuffy and his throat hurt. He lifted his head up slightly and squinted at a bright light in his face. "You thought you could escape, didn't you?" Yugi turned his head away from the light and noticed that his wrists were tightly bound to the chair he was sitting in.

"What's going on?" Yugi asked, his tongue felt heavy and he swallowed thickly.

"Don't play dumb with us." Keith said.

"I don't know what you are talking about." Yugi said.

"You lying piece of shit." Ushio pulled his fist back and jammed it into Yugi's stomach. Yugi screamed out and curled in on himself.

"Ushio!" Ushio looked behind him at the owner of the voice. "That is enough."

"Yes, Master Dartz." Ushio said with a bow.

"It seems you don't remember us, little one." Dartz said as he made his way over to Yugi. Yugi flinched away when Dartz reached out a hand to him. "It hurts me that you can't even remember your own boyfriend." Ushio nearly choked.

Yugi stared blankly at Dartz and shook his head. "Boyfriend? No. I don't have a boyfriend."

"How can you be so sure? You were in a horrible accident and you don't remember us. But I am here for you now and I will make sure you are alright." Dartz said and stroked the back of his hand down Yugi's cheek.

"No wait, you kidnapped me." Yugi said, motioning his head toward Ushio. "Why would you do that if you wanted to make sure I was alright?"

"We had to take you that way; we weren't sure you would've come with us if we had just walked up to you and told you the truth."

Yugi paused, it was possible… but he didn't want it to be. It seemed like this truth was going to pry him away from his happy life with Yami and the others. And as short as that life was it felt comfortable. "I should still get in touch with the others and let them know I am alright. They don't exactly know where I went off too before you "found" me."

"Ah yes, that group you were hanging around with. I'll see what I can do about that. For now," Dartz reached in his pocket, pulled out a knife, and cut Yugi free, "why don't we get you into a nice warm bed?"

Yugi rubbed his sore wrists and nodded slowly; he stood and followed Dartz, as he was motioned to. Yugi padded his way out the door and up the stairs to a long narrow hallway. He got the feeling that not many people went through this hallway and came back through it alive. Yugi swallowed hard; if Dartz was his boyfriend then he would be safe, right?

"We'll make sure you are as comfortable as you need to be, we don't want to rush you into anything." Dartz said suddenly and Yugi found it hard to stop shaking. "There is no need to worry, little one."

"Right." Yugi said, "I just want to remember you, if you are my boyfriend then this must be hard for you." Yugi took a step back when Dartz turned to face him.

"It is." He said, "But you will remember who you are." Dartz gave a smile and stroked Yugi's cheek with the back of his hand. "I will help you remember." He said.

"Oh!" he exclaimed, "I have something for you, I never got the chance to give it to you before the accident." Dartz reached around his neck and unclasped a necklace and held it in front of Yugi. The turquoise teardrop pendant spun innocently before Yugi's eyes.

Yugi reached out to grab the necklace; he couldn't take his eyes off the pendant because the shade of green was so familiar. "Allow me." Dartz said and he put the necklace around Yugi's neck. "I'm sure you'll remember everything soon." Dartz smirked and watched as Yugi's eyes glazed over. "Little prince."

Dartz pulled open a door and led Yugi inside where he found a standard queen-size bed. "You can rest here, Yugi." Dartz said, causing Yugi's body to snap forward and into Dartz's arms unconscious. Dartz put Yugi in the bed and quietly left the room. "Sweet dreams." He laughed as he shut the door.