Chibi: Oh boy! Last we left of, Yami had just been knocked unconscious! For all I know it may have been my flag...which has a terrible reputation for hitting ppl on the head ~_~' IT'S NOT MY FAULT! The flag has a mind of its own! I swear! ~ahem~ Anyways....on with the fic....

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

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Everything was black. Black and cold. He couldn't move. He couldn't see. He couldn't hear. Scratch that. He could hear. There was just nothing to hear. No people, no screaming kids, no cars, no radio, not even the wind rustling about. It was silence. Dead silence.

Yami opened his eyes, or at least he thought he opened his eyes. It was too dark to tell. He strained to see or hear anything, but there was nothing. Nothing at all, but.wait. Did he just hear something? Maybe there was something to hear.

Yami tried to turn his head as much as he could. Though his head was basically the only part of him not restrained, the constant pounding headache he had made it near impossible to even lift his head up. He was sure he felt a sticky substance going down his head and onto his neck and face. Probably blood.

Just as he was about to give up, he heard it. It was soft, but it was definitely there. But what is it?

He kept listening, focusing, straining all of his senses and memory's to try and figure this out. Then it hit him.

Breathing.

It was somebody breathing. But it wasn't normal. It was sporadic and attenuated. So much so that he thought it had stopped at one point, but then he heard the soft intake of air. Then.FLASH!!!

The lights went on, temporarily blinding Yami. Even though it was only a single, small light that turned on, which normally wouldn't be enough for a person to see in a room, Yami's eyes still had adjusted to the darkness of the room and were blinded none the less.

His eyes quickly adjusted to the new element of light and scanned the room that he was in.

The room was sparsely furnished, with bare, concrete walls and no carpeting. Yami took note that the only window, which was covered with thick black blankets, was up high, almost to the ceiling. This led him to believe that he was in the basement. He was tied down to a chair, his arms wrapping around the back of it and he was tied at the wrists and ankles. There was a table next to him with all sorts of knifes and what looked like shattered metal pieces, another larger table that looked like an operating table was close to the middle of the room, and yet another plain table in a distant corner covered in shadows. But there was also something else. It was in another corner of the room, still hidden in the shadows. But it looked like.yes it was.

"Anzu!!!!!" Yami screamed at her seeing her tied down to a chair just like he was. She was the one her heard breathing.

Anzu looked like a rag doll as her head hung to the side and it looked as if she would fall had she not been tied up. She was out cold and was not responding to any of Yami's constant calls.

Just then a door nearby door opened and footsteps could be heard coming down the stairway on the other side of the room. Yami stopped calling out to Anzu when he heard this and stood, or rather sat, face to face with whom he could only determine were Capac and Chimu Marrin.

The twins were identical and almost mirrored each other as they walked side by side down the stairs with their mousy-blond hair hanging over their blue- gray eyes. They started to walk towards Yami as they both simultaneously put a finger to their mouth and shushed him.

"Shhhhhh.don't wake mother." They said together in an eerie, monotone voice as they turned on another light next to Yami.

Yami was beyond confused. He was angry, bewildered and even a bit frightened.

"Mother?" He asked, not knowing what else to say.

"Yes, mother." Capac said as he walked over to Anzu, his baggy black pants dragging along the way. He put his hand up to her head and pushed back some hair. "Our dear mother."

"Get away from her you bastard!!" Yami yelled instinctively as he saw Capac touch her.

"Shhhhh!! Be quite!!" Chimu glared at Yami. "Mother needs her rest. Tonight's the big night." He walked over to another corner of the room, dragging his baggy dark-purple pants as he did so.

"What do you mean?"

The boys, however, ignored Yami's question and set out on their tasks.

Chimu had pulled a lighter out of his pants when he reached the corner and started to light the many candles that were placed upon a nearby table that was originally hidden in the shadows. When he finished, the light shone brightly, illuminating everything upon the table.

On it was a photograph of a beautiful woman. She wore a light-blue summer dress and had shoulder length, chestnut brown, hair. It startled Yami at how much she resembled Anzu. Infact, now that he thought about it, all of the dead girls in the pictures that he had seen early all had similar traits to the woman in the photograph.

When Chimu had finished he moved away from the corner and over to Capac. Capac had untied Anzu's restrains, picked her up and placed her on the table in the middle of the room.

"What are you doing to her?! Let her go! NOW!" Yami screamed as he fought with his restraints.

When the boys had finished tying Anzu down to the table they looked at each other for a moment, almost as if reading minds, and then headed up the stairs.

"We'll be right back." Capac said. "Be quiet and don't wake mother. Tonight we finish."

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Chibi: ^_^ Was this enough of a cliffhanger?! I don't feel like I had enough, so I had to put this in. Unfortunately, this is where my pre- written chapters stop. So..now I'll have to get off my lazy arse once again and try to complete this. But that shouldn't be too much trouble...my plot bunnies are running amuck! (amuck-amcuk-amuck-amcuk!!!!! ^_^) Infact, I've decided to write a sequel to my story 'Patience.' I haven't started it yet, so I don't know when it will be done ( I still have to finish this one!) So please, keep on reading this story, and take a look at my other story 'Patience' and soon there'll be a sequel up. OK, I've rambled enough...ja ne minna-san!