Mokuba: C.A. Wants to thank Lynn-Chan for the review.

*Squelching noises and muffled yells*

Mokuba: Err C.A. You'd better look at this.

*There's a red tentacles, all knotted twisted and mangled. They've wrapped themselves around Seto Kiaba and Yami-An so they can't move. They can't talk ether since the tentacles are gagging them.*

C.A. You were going to tell everyone if An was a murderess or not weren't you?

Seto: *Growl*

Anhai: *muffled threats of destruction and banishment.*

Tristan: What was that about An being a murderess?

C.A. It was said in English so you didn't understand and Ryou didn't here since he was knocked out. (Sorry about that but it had to be done._)

Tristan: But what about the Kiabas they heard wouldn't they warn us?

C.A. Seto Kiaba called it slander, as in a lie.

Tristan: Oh, so she's not a murderess?

C.A. No one knows, that's why it's a plot twist. And it has hold of Anhai and Seto like that because they were going to give it away.

Tristan : Well I guess I should warn the others. Ahhhh! *Gets grabbed by plot twist*

C.A. The don't know for a reason Tristan!

Tristan: *Tries to apologise but is already gagged like the others.*

C.A. *Sigh* Some times I just can't get the help, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

"Blah" = Japanese

[Blah] = English

Blah= Welsh

/Blah/ = Telepathy.

Blah = Thoughts, emphasis, un-translated welsh.

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Warnings: Thoughts of a Boy/Boy relationship, and Hikari abuse. Mild swearing.

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The White Metals

Silver.

Chapter Six: Recovery And Disaster.

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Seto was the head of a corporation and still a student and a big brother to Mokuba so how he found so much time to stay at An's side was a mystery to most of Yugi's friends. Joey could guess though, after all he was a big brother too. His thought was confirmed when he visited An after school. Tomorrow would be Yugi's turn then Ryou's and so on.

Seto was sleeping his head on the edge of the bed. An still hadn't moved.

"Hey Seto." Joey said waking him up. Seto? What happened to Kiaba? "Listen I'm here and the others will be here in about half an hour or so why don't you sleep in your own bed."

Seto tried to glare but his tired eyes didn't do a good job.

"Your not doing her any good like this, go."

Seto looked down at An before sighing. "Okay."

Ryou was the next to arrive. Ryou was starting to worry Joey. His expression kept going dark whenever they started taking about An. As if he knew, or at least suspected what was wrong with her but wasn't ready to voice his thoughts. Joey had thought his expression would be down right black when he entered the room but it wasn't. He looked back to normal. He looked at An then looked at Joey a question in his eyes. Joey shook his head. Then Ryou did something odd. He knelt and looked into An's eyes and said something in English. Joey tried to figure out what it meant but Ryou had spoken to softy for Joey to catch the words. Whatever it was it had a reaction.

But not the one anyone really wanted.

An curled into a ball. Her eyes were still dead.

Ryou sighed sadly.

"Why are you Visiting today? And just what did you say to her?"

"Just a question, and I didn't have anything better to do." Ryou answered.

Joey guessed he wasn't going to get any more answers out of him so they just sat next to An. Her body relaxed and she uncurled slightly, she had fallen asleep.

About three hours later Seto, not Seto, Kiaba damn it, came back in, he looked more tired now than he did before.

"I thought I told you too sleep?" Joey said.

"I did."

"Three hours." Joey made a rude noise. "I'm sure that makes up for the days you've been spending here."

Seto glared at him, even with tired eyes it worked this time. Ryou opened his mouth but someone else spoke.

"Seto."

Everyone looked at An in the bed she blinked her eyes slowly and spoke again. "Don't do this."

"Don't do what An?" Seto growled. "I've been trying to look after you and look what a good job I've done!"

An slowly sat up. Joey could hear joints clicking and creaking in protest after being in one position for so long. "Then stop."

"How can I stop I'm..."

"You are not my brother Seto. You never will be." An said, darkness seeping into her dead eyes. "So stop trying."

Seto's eyes went wide, Joey could have sworn he was going to cry. Yeah right the great Seto Kiaba brought to tears by a girl in a hospital bed, like that's going to happen.

"Very well." Seto turned.

An panicked.

"Seto wait stop!" An tried to run after Kiaba but her legs wouldn't work after being inactive for so long. Getting out of the bed she landed in a heap.

Seto was there in a second.

An held on to his jacket lapels burying her face in his chest. Seto rocked her like a baby. Joey thought he must have fallen asleep, no way could this be real. An was whimpering something over and over.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean it I'm sorry!"

Ryou took hold of Joey's shoulder. "Lets go tell the others, give them some time alone."

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Everyone was ecstatic that An was up and about again. Even Yami said he was glad for her. They talked late into the night discussing what to do when An got out of the hospital. It was late when Ryou got home. Thankfully his father wasn't home this week so he wasn't going to get in to trouble for being late. He had eaten at Yugi's so he went bed.

A few moments later he was pulled out of his bed by his hair. He opened his eyes this wasn't his bedroom.

It was his soul room.

Shit.

Bakura pulled Ryou's head up and locked eyes with him.

"I'm glad that she's better too. Do you have any idea how hard it is to take the soul from someone who's locked themselves up like she had?"

Double shit.

"Don't..."

Bakura threw Ryou into the wall of soul room.

"You dare try to stop me? I know what you know and you know she has and Yami, there for she must have the millennium item we felt last month."

Ryou's eyes when wide. He slowly stood.

"Yes you remember now don't you?"

"I didn't fall down the stairs...did I?" Ryou accused.

Bakura hit him he would have a black eye if this were real and not in his head.

"This is more real because it's you head idiot." Bakura kneed him in the stomach. He then back handed Ryou across the face. "And that fucked up girl is getting a visit from me. She's just as pathetic as you she won't stand a chance."

Ryou didn't know what happened but suddenly Bakura was backing up, blood coming from his nose. Ryou looked down at his hand and saw that Bakura's blood was smeared across his knuckles. He looked back up at Yami Bakura his eyes wide. I...I just punched my Yami in the face?

Yami Bakura growled and advanced again on Ryou.

By the time Bakura finished, if the beating had been done to his body and not just him mind, Ryou would have been in hospital for a week. He had never been beaten so badly. I must have been because of that one punch he threw. That was why this beating was so bad.

It had shocked both of them, so much so that Bakura locked the door to Ryou's soul room. Bakura wasn't sure weather his threats would be enough to keep him under control anymore.

The next morning was a Saturday. Bakura waited where he could see the Game shop, An was sure to visit right? Joey could always be found in the shop and An seemed determined to beat him in a duel. There she was now along with the Kiaba bothers.

Bakura followed them.

"Oh, Hello." Grandpa said when she saw them. "Yugi and the others are up stairs in his room."

They nodded and started to head to the stairs.

"An can I talk to you a second?" An turned and looked at Bakura she told the Kiabas to go up ahead.

"An I want to duel Yugi but...well...I lost my Mystic Elf card can I borrow yours?"

/Don't give it to him. Don't give it to him. Don't give it to him/ Ryou begged in his soul room.

"Err...sure." An gave him the card, her deck had been in her jacket pocket. "But look after it."

They went into Yugi's bedroom.

"All right then An-girl get duel, I'll try not to beat you too badly." The ever modest Joey said the second he saw them.

"I'm not to here to play, I just wanted to say...well...thanks I know I've been...gone and I wanted to thank you for visiting, besides." An smiled a little but it didn't reach her eyes. "I want to see Ryou play."

/She's making this too easy. / Bakura told the almost weeping boy locked in his soul room.

They set up the game before Yugi noticed something off, he didn't know what it was but there wasn't something right.

"Ryou are you okay?" Yugi asked.

"Yeah. What makes you ask?"

An sighed. "He's just probably worried that you'd be mad with him, you know with all that 'The Heart of The Card's' stuff. The Heart of the Mystic Elf can't be too happy right now. He lost his and had to borrow mine."

Yugi narrowed his eyes.

Ryou smiled and found the strength to sit up. An just tipped off Yugi! Yami will do something, he'd stop Bakura. It might not be too late.

/Don't bet on it! / Bakura said. /It was to late the second her card was in my hand. /

He let Ryou see An suddenly collapse before he felt himself being ripped from his body.

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The Yami in An's body didn't know what was happening. An was...gone.

Not like when she was in the hospital room and nothing could reach her. She was really gone something no, someone, had torn her away. Seto was shaking her, Mokuba was crying, Yami-Yugi was threatening someone. Who just laughed?

Should she take over? Nether Seto or Mokuba knew about her.

"Yami what the hell is going on?" Seto growled

Seto knows about Yami? Who was laughing?

"See you in the shadow realm if you or Yami-An wants to play for An's soul, other wise just give me her millennium item and you can have her."

So that's what happened, An has been kidnapped and used for ransom. Seto and Mokuba know about her now thanks to who ever it was. She took over An's body.

She looked around, Joey, Tristan, and Tea were looking at Ryou he looked like he had fallen asleep on the Duel Monsters game board. Yugi, no Yami was watching her, the Kiaba brothers were staring.

"You're a Yami? How did An get a Yami?" Mokuba asked.

Seto just glared at her. Anhai looked around the room. Yami nodded at her, Joey, Tristan, and Tea copied. Anhai turned to the Kiaba brothers.

"I had hoped we could meet, but not like this." Anhai sighed. "My name is Anhai."

"How long have you been inside her?" Seto demanded.

Anhai locked eyes with Seto, if he was accusing her for An's stay in hospital and the reason for it he was going to regret it. "Since over a month ago, I think you can guess when."

Seto's widened a little, no one else seemed to notice.

An stood up. "So what exactly has happened to An? And what's wrong with Ryou?"

"Ryou has a Yami too, he's sealed An and Ryou in their favourite cards." Yami said.

"So that's why he wanted to borrow An's Elf?" Anhai asked. "You can get them out right?"

Yami looked down at the game table. "I can't play to save her."

"What?" Seto said.

"I don't get it it's not as if you haven't played Ryou's wacko Yami before." Joey said.

"His powers are different from mine. He can seal you in your favourite cards, I can't." Yami sighed. "For this shadow game living souls must be sealed in each other decks."

"That didn't happen in the duel with Pegasus." Tristan said.

"No instead of taking us to the shadow Realm he brought the shadow realm to us. If I do that I risk brining the house down on us. His arena had been above a pit for a reason."

Anhai bit her lip. She had no idea what she could do or not do, she had zero shadow powers before she had died, but, now she did, and she had used them. She had felt An being pulled from her body, she knew how it was done.

"I think I might be able to." Anhai said. "I think I can seal souls into you cards if you can play for An."

"Why not you?" Yami asked.

Anhai laughed a hollow bitter laugh. "I'm terrible that's why, An's a better player than I am and she's only an novice. I guess that proves that your really don't remember me do you Yami?"

Yami looked away sadly.

"Okay so are we going to do this? It took a lot of power to take An. I don't think I can do it if you fight me."

Yami thought for a long time. "Tristan, Mokuba, if everyone agrees to this I need you to keep Grandpa busy downstairs. The last thing we need is to come in her and find us all comatose."

Tristan nodded.

"But I want to help!" Mokuba said.

"Mokuba, I can't fight if I know you could be put into the fight, I won't risk you being hurt." Everyone looked at Seto. "You expect me to sit here while An is in a card, I know what that feels like."

"I'm in." Joey said, Tea echoed him. Anhai took a card of each of them Yami gave her Yugi's card. She looked at Yami he nodded before she took it from his hand. Anhai looked at the cards. She took a deep careful breath before picking up Yugi's deck. Yami showed her what cards could be taken out so she could add Five new ones.

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Y. Bakura: Ha! Anhai can't count!

C. A: What do you mean?

Y. Bakura: There are only four new cards, Kiaba, Joey, Tea, and Yugi and she...

C. A.: Shut up your going to wreck the next chapter! Plot twist! Get him!

Y. Bakura: Eep!

Y. Yugi : *Laughs as Y. Bakura is trapped.*

Yugi: Oh, how long are they going to be stuck like that?

C.A. : Until they swear not to give away the plot.

Yugi: Oh. *Blinks innocently.* Please Review, C.A. will give you and all of us cookies.