A bit of a warning: If you have issues with transgenders and homophobes, then I'd advise you to skip part of this chapter. If you choose to do this, the part you should skip is marked.

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•Chapter 38: The Agony of Waiting Pt2...•

The blond guard was standing near the couch where Bakura, Luke, and Layton sat. The brown-haired guard was near the other couch, where Kaiba and Yami sat. The masked guard was standing a few paces away from the door, facing it, so he had a perfect view of those on either couch. All three of them had their hands resting on the handles of their guns, ready to draw and use them. Yugi and Ryou were sitting next to their respective yamis.

The four Ninja Guys were simply doing whatever. Bowie-Sensei was carefully watching everyone in the room, Clive and Noah were talking to each other, and Descole was watching the security monitors. The five middle monitors had returned to their normal function of showing camera views, now that the plot-telling was over.

Bakura was looking around at every single detail of the room, using his keen thief's eye to scrutinize everything.

OPTIONAL SKIP PART BEGIN

As he was looking to his right out of the corner of his eye, he noticed the blond guard staring at him out of the corner of his eye. The guard had a disgusted and annoyed and irritated look on his face.

Bakura turned his head to the guard and glared at him. "Is there some sort of problem?" he asked venomously.

"Yeah," the guard replied. "But I'll keep my mouth shut."

Bakura smirked. "No. How about you tell everyone what your problem is."

"Make me," the guard shot back.

Bakura stood up and stepped close to him. "Maybe I will. Homophobe."

Everything suddenly froze and silenced as all eyes turned to the two of them. For a moment, whole entire room was still and quiet, even more so than it had been for the past minute or two. Then just as suddenly, it wasn't.

The blond guy suddenly sprang into action. He raised his foot and attempted to kick Bakura down to the couch, and at the same time drew his two guns and aimed them at him.

But Bakura dodged and stumbled towards the masked guard. The blond guard's leg just hit the couch.

At the same time, the masked guard jumped out of the way and drew his two guns. He aimed the visible gun at Bakura and the invisible gun at the blond guard.

The brown-haired guard just froze in place, as if he was unsure how to react.

Layton automatically drew Luke protectively into his arms. Ryou shot up in alarm and concern for the safety of his body and the spirit currently controlling it. Yugi perked up, but didn't make any other movements. Yami and Kaiba stayed where they were and didn't move.

Then all was still again. Everyone's eyes were wide and everyone was tense. Except for Bakura. He simply had a smug look on his face.

The blond guard suddenly noticed that the masked guard's hand was raised in his direction. The one holding the invisible gun. He didn't move. Instead, he just turned his head to Bakura and said, "F*** you! Shut up!"

Layton covered Luke's ears.

"Hit a nerve, did I?" Bakura asked tauntingly.

"Yami Bakura, shut up and stop provoking him," the masked guard suddenly ordered. "And Damion, control yourself and stop being and instigator!"

Damion turned to him. "F*** you too, Krista!" he shouted.

"Isn't 'Krista' a girl's name?" Yugi randomly asked.

'Krista' cringed, closed his eyes, gripped tighter on his guns, and grumbled under his breath for a moment. Then his eyes snapped open and he shouted at Damion, "SHUT UP, DAMION! I TOLD YOU MY NAME IS 'CHRISTIAN', NOT 'KRISTA'!"

Everyone's eyes widened yet again. Layton and Yami and Kaiba gasped. Layton even let his hands drop away from Luke's ears in shock.

Krista had shouted with a feminine voice. Whereas the deep masculine voice Krista had been using until then had sounded unnatural and faked, this feminine voice had sounded genuine and natural. And real.

"Was...was that your real voice?" Yami suddenly asked.

"Are you...actually a woman?" Kaiba asked.

Krista cringed. He took of his mask"No," Krista replied, using the deep voice again. "I am not a woman named Krista, I am a man named Christian. Get it right!"

"And apparently Damion is homophobic," Yami said.

"He is," Christian replied.

"So what's up with you?" Yami asked Christian.

"Are you a woman?" Kaiba asked.

"No. I'm trans*."

"So you're a shemale like Bakura?" Yugi asked.

"Sod off, Yugi!" Ryou shouted.

OPTIONAL SKIP PART END

"JUST STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!" Christian shouted at the top of his lungs. "This has nothing to do with the plot!"

"Christian is right," Descole said. "This is getting us nowhere."

"Yami, this is all your fault!" Ryou whispered harshly. "Why did you have to start trouble?!"

"Shut up, Ryou," Bakura whispered back.

All of a sudden, there was a seemingly drastic change with him. Ryou disappeared. Bakura appeared in his place. And Ryou had taken control of his body again.

Ryou glared at him with an angry look on his face. "Next time you cause trouble with these people..." Ryou removed the Millenium Ring from around his neck and held it on one hand. "...I get rid of this."

Bakura's eyes widened. "You're joking, right?"

"Do I look like I'm joking?" Ryou asked, a purely serious look on his face.

"What the bloody hell is your problem?"

"These people have Flora under lock-down," Ryou explained. "Anything that any of us does to them risks putting her in danger. So stop making a scene, before they do something to her!"

Bakura chuckled. "Oh I see," he said bemusedly. "You're not trying to defy me, like I thought you were. You're just worried about your girlfriend."

"That's right. Do you have a problem with that?"

"I would," Bakura said as he turned to the four Ninja Guys, "but I'd be a hypocrite. Because I feel the same way about Marik."

Ryou smiled wide. "Good!" he said cheerfully. "Then you won't mind going along with me in my decision to agree to help these four blokes so we can get them back!"

"Of course!" Bakura answered automatically. Then he fully registered what his host had just said. "Wait a moment! What?! No! I'm not—"

"Yami! Just give it up already! All I want is to get Flora back and go home! I'm tired and so is she! You're just a stubborn tosser who doesn't want to submit to anyone or anything! Well don't think of it as submitting. Think of it as making a deal. Which is exactly what it is. They've laid out their terms, and I've agreed to them."

Clive smirked.

"Ryou," Clive said. Ryou turned to look at him with a questioning look on his face. "If you really need some help convincing him, I have the perfect piece of blackmail."

"Blackmail?" both Bakuras said questioningly.

"Clive~," Bowie-Sensei said, "what are you talking about~? We didn't plan any kind of blackmail~."

"No," Clive confirmed, still smirking, "we didn't. But that doesn't mean I don't have any." He looked at Noah. "Noah, can you connect the middle monitor to YouTube?"

Noah nodded. "Sure. Sensei? Permission to take over?"

"Per-mish-ee-un graaaannn-ted!" Bowie-Sensei replied. He sat down in the center chair.

Noah suddenly disappeared from sight. David Bowie's body suddenly went limp. His head dropped. Then just as suddenly, it shot back up. His hair had turned mint green, his eyes had turned a dark blue color and changed shape, and his face just suddenly seemed significantly younger.

Where Noah had just been standing, Bowie-Sensei appeared in a transparent form. Almost like...

"Spirit form?" Ryou murmured in confusion.

"Perhaps," Bowie Sensei said. Only it wasn't the spirit of Bowie-Sensei, it was Bowie-Sensei's body. And it wasn't even Bowie who had spoken. The voice sounded like Noah's.

"Whoa!" Luke cried out in surprise.

Noah, in Bowie's body, pushed the ninja mask down to his neck, revealing his other eye and his mouth. Then he spun around in the chair, faced the monitors, and stood up.

He held out his hands over the control panel in front of him, a few inches above it. Then his body went tense. Although they couldn't see his face, everyone could tell that he was concentrating hard.

Two jolts of electricity suddenly jumped from Noah's hands to the control panel, then to the screen. A moment or two later, the screen went dark, then lit up again, white and blank.

After a few more seconds of total silence and stillness, the screen changed to show the YouTube homepage.

"Thank you, Noah," Clive said.

Noah lowered his hands. "Sure. What are we looking for?"

"Look up 'Italy's Blackmail', then click on the video by 'BlackDove556'," Clive instructed.

Noah nodded and put his hands over the control panel again. His body tensed up again.

A mouse cursor appeared on the screen and moved over to the search box. It clicked. Text appeared in the search box, the words 'Italy's Blackmail BlackDove556'. Then the cursor moved over to the 'Search' button and clicked. A new page loaded, this one with a list of video search results. The cursor moved over to the first one and clicked on it. The thumbnail was of a green wall. The page loaded. The video loaded. The page scrolled down so the whole video player was visible on the screen.

Everyone heard a soft staticy noise. Sound was coming from the video through a speaker somewhere.

The video started playing.

Everyone held their breaths in anticipation of what they would see.

The loading screen for a video game appeared. Then a familiar voice started speaking.

"Werewolf bat mitzva, spooky-scary, boys becoming men, men becoming wolves."

"That's Marik's voice..." Ryou pointed out.

"So it is," Clive replied.

"What are you trying to show us?" Bakura asked.

But the video answered his question. The loading screen faxed away, and faxed into a scene of a mansion at night in the rain. "Oh hey, it's one of Mel Gibson's more modest properties," Marik said in the video.

Bakura's eyes widened. He knew what this video was.

"That's Marik Plays Bloodlines 6!" he cried.

"It is," Clive said. "And I believe you know what happens in this particular episode. Shall we skip ahead to that part?"

"NO!" Bakura demanded. "Pause the video! Don't show them!"

"Show us what?" Kaiba asked.

Bakura blushed. 'I'm not going to let them do this to us...'

"Fine!" Bakura cried out desperately. "I'll accept your bloody terms! I'll help you! Just don't..." He hissed in a breath. "...don't show these people that part of the video!"

The room was silent for a few moments. Then Clive spoke. "Noah, you can get off of YouTube now."

Noah nodded and lowered his hands. The video went silent and the screen went dark.

Bakura growled and refused to look anyone in the eyes. "I hate everyone."

"Welcome to the club," Kaiba said.

"Shut up."

"So two out of seven are on board with this," Descole said. "What about the rest of you?"

"What do you want me for again?" Luke asked.

"Nothing," Noah said. He sat back down. His head went limp for a second, then perked back up. His hair had changed colors again, this time to gray. Noah and Bowei-Sensei had switched again. Bowie-Sensei put the ninja mask back on.

"I told you we should have captured him!" Noah whispered harshly to Clive.

"I'm pretty sure that Krista was supposed to push him in as well," Damion said.

"CHRISTIAN!" Christian corrected.

"Okay, no problem," Descole said. "Two out of six of you are on board. What about the other four of you?"

"I'll do it," Yugi said.

"What?! Yugi..." Yami said.

"I'm doing this for you and Emmy," Yugi said, "and also for Flora and Mokuba."

"Not for Marik, though, right?" Yami asked.

"Of course not for him!"

"Hmph," Bakura said.

"Good," Yami said. "I guess I can't do anything about it, since you're the one doing it. But what happened to all of that talk about not caring and it being a waste of our time?"

Yugi smiled and shrugged. "I got over it?"

"What's the real reason?"

"Friendship?"

"For?"

"Ryou."

"Aw...Yugi..." Ryou murmured happily, a big smile on his face.

"Okay," Yami said with a shrug, "good enough for me. And it's your call, not mine."

"So now it's four against two," Descole said. "Layton? Kaiba? What about you two?"

Kaiba and Layton exchanged glances. Then they looked at Descole.

"I'm not doing a thing for you, Noah," Kaiba said.

"Shut up, Kaiba," Yami said.

Kaiba glared at him. "Did you just tell me to shut up in a similar way that everyone tells Mokuba to shut up?" he asked in a low and highly irritated tone.

Yami smirked. "Yep."

"Oh I am so pissed off right now that if I had a lot of money with my right now I would throw it all at you so I could give you a bunch of paper cuts!" the rich giant-egoed CEO fumed.

"SHUT UP, KAIBA!" everyone except for Layton shouted at him.

Kaiba was speechless.

"I can speak for him and say that he will also agree to it," Yugi said.

Kaiba was speechless, so he didn't say a thing.

"Then we can go," Descole said. "We have the perfect place set up to do this. Just follow Christian out and the rest of us will follow."

Christian moved to the door. Everyone else stood up and slowly moved into a group behind him. two guards went on either side of the group, somewhere towards the back but not exactly in the back.

When everyone was in formation, Christian reached for the button next to the door, which everyone suddenly realized had been there the whole entire time but was colored to blend in with the wall and make it hard to spot. It was probably the button that opened the door.

But before he touched it, the door suddenly opened.

Something flew through the door, knocking down everyone directly in front it.

"FREEZE! HEALTH INSPECTOR!"

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WHOA! WHO LET THE HEALTH INSPECTOR IN?!

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Role Reversal

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