-Start Chapter 7-

Yugi stared at Trio strangely. Trio had known them for...almost a year now, and she didn't remember? Yami looked slightly embarrassed, as if it were all his fault, which he thought it was. "Yeah, I suppose you do know me...I visited you earlier, remember?" Yugi said.

"That's right!" Trio answered, recalling the blue room. "Are you two brothers or something?" she asked, pointing at Yugi and Yami.

"You could say that," Yugi replied, "but not really." Trio just got more confused, but she let it go.

Trio looked around to each of the remaining faces. Besides the shortest one, whom Yami had called "Yugi" earlier, and Yami himself, she couldn't match names to faces, though all looked somehow familiar. How, though? Trio was sure she had never seen any of the remaining people before...oh well! If she couldn't remember, it was too bad.

The tall brown-haired one sat down on the bed next to Trio. He looked her over carefully, as if he could be reminded of something by only seeing her form. He found nothing. Yugi had told him a few days back that an arrow had shot Trio, but he didn't really believe him...until now. The brown- haired boy was brought back to earth when Trio said, "Hi. Who're you?"

"Tristan. Don't you remember me, Trio?" replied Tristan. Trio shook her head, but it still hurt, so she stopped. "I visited you earlier, but you were unconscious," he continued. He could see it didn't really help Trio in her state of confusion, so he stopped.

Trio then noticed what seemed to be a set of twins standing behind all of them. One of them had an evil aura around him, the other...he didn't seem evil, but who could tell? They were very cute too. (1) "Who're the rest of you?" Trio asked.

The non-evil twin answered her, "I'm Ryou, that's Bakura, and this is Joey." Leaning in, Bakura whispered to Trio, "Joey's a bit...touched in the head."

"I heard dat!" Joey said.

"No you didn't!" Bakura responded.

"I think there's a place just down the hall where they'll take him. He gets a free coat too! A nice white one, with pretty brown buckles!" Trio said to Bakura, who then grinned evilly. He took Joey by the wrist and literally dragged him down to the psychiatric ward. He returned grinning maliciously, saying, "They wanted to take me too. But I showed them..."

"What'd you do to them Bakura?" Ryou almost yelled.

Bakura was just about to answer when the nurse came in saying "Out, out, out!" She pointed at Yami. "Especially you, Mister I-Think-I'll-Sleep-With- A-Girl-In-A-Critical-Condition!" She meant it as a joke, but Yami, Yugi, and Tristan took it differently.

"You did WHAT?!" Tristan yelled. "Trio's MINE!"

"I agree with Tristan, Yami!" Yugi said. "Except the part about Trio being mine. She's Tristan's."

Yami was about to retort, probably using foul language, but Trio interrupted. "I'm not sure who in all the Hells you think you are, but I do NOT belong to anyone but myself, dammit!" The nurse, who was still watching all of this, stared at all of them strangely. Bakura looked at Trio with admiration. |She's learning. She never said 'Hells' or 'dammit' before...and she didn't remember...|

Trio noticed that the nurse was still there, and still looking at them with that 'I Don't Know These People' look. "Please don't make them leave!" Trio begged, looking at the nurse pleadingly. Yugi gave her the dreaded puppy-dog eyes. (2)

"No," the nurse insisted, but turned to Ryou and Bakura. "You two ladies may stay, but the rest of you have to go."

"But we're GUYS!" Ryou told her.

"Spoilsport!" Bakura whispered to Ryou.

"In that case," the nurse continued glaring at all of them, "all of you need to go. Now, out!" Only then did she notice Yugi's kawaii puppy-dog look, which almost mesmerized her, but just enough to make her say "never mind you may stay..." in a weird mechanical voice (3). All of them stared after her, except Yugi, who was still giving the puppy-dog look.

Yami stood protectively near Trio. Her ankh, he saw, was glowing green again, ever so faintly. He looked up, and his gaze met Bakura's. Had he seen it too? The look in his eyes answered Yami: only they could see it.

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trio: hmmm...Joey's in the psychiatric ward, I'm stuck in a bed, Yami won't leave (but that's okay), Bakura heard me swear, Tristan wants me (MY TRISTAN! MINE, I TELL YOU, MINE!), and Yugi is still giving that kawaii puppy-dog look. Who could ask for anything more?

Amunet: *under her breath* I could ask for a date with Yami...or Bakura...

Zeva: you're mad as all hell! *thinking* though that Bakura is kinda cute...

Yami: O_O shiny...*he's still staring at trio's Beatles cd's*

trio: *sitting up* hey...it's a long weekend! And my teacher wanted us to play a domination game on Monday (which happens to be Columbus Day)...

Yami: what's your point?

trio: that means that...oh whatever. Yami, you and me are dueling on Monday!

Amunet: I thought you had that duel with HugglesKitty on Monday!

trio: I do! And I'm gonna slaughter her! But that doesn't mean that I can't duel Yami too!

Yami: o.O you're going to slaughter your friend? Like a cow?

trio: I won't literally slaughter her! She's just going to lose so fast she won't know what hit her!

Zeva: counting chickens a bit early, are we?

trio: whatever. Amunet, will you do the ending please?

Amunet: please review to see what happens next! Some questions, if not all, will be answered in the next chapter! Like: what's with trio wanting to slaughter Kit? And why are Zeva and Yami talking about livestock? Who shot Trio, and was it an accident? If you want these questions answered, press the pretty purple button down there!

NOTES: 1. DON'T INJURE ME! AAAAAHHH! *runs out of room* *from elsewhere* but they ARE cute. NO! THEY'RE MINE! HUGGLESKITTY AND I ALREADY AGREED TO SHARE THEM! MINE! MINE I TELL YOU! MINE! *ahem* sorry! 2. *Yugi gives trio the puppy-dog eyes as a demo* trio: ARGH! You're just too damn cute! *hugs Yugi* so kawaii... ^_^ 3. Like the voice for the curl-ups test. Or the push- up test. Take your pick.