Chapter 3:

A little bit before Ryou pushed Malik through the door to meet his doom:

"Bakura! Don't do that!"

"Are you contradicting my idea?"

"Yes! That is too much sugar!"

"Fine, fine. We will do it your way, but please turn off that blender. It sounds like a human moaning."

Yami turned off the blender. Or at least he tried but instead he accidently knocked it over.

"Hurry, clean that up!" Bakura rushed over to help clean.

"No!" Yami cried but somehow Bakura plugged the thing back in. It sounded like a moan before the Pharaoh was able to turn it off.

Bakura looked at the buttons. He was about to turn it back on. Yami dove to stop him. "Don't. Do. That." He gasped out.

Suddenly both stopped wiping up the batter as they heard whispering outside the door. They heard Ryou shouting and suddenly something or someone came flying through the door.

"NO!!! My innocent eyes!" Malik landed in the cake batter. "Ahh!! It's white!"

Yami reacting quickly slammed the door shut so the hikaris couldn't see the mess the batter had made.

"Of course its white." Bakura said while quickly helping the boy to his feet. "What color would you expect vanilla to be?"

"Malik what are you doing here?" Yami demanded once he finished cleaning the mess off the floor. "And why are you standing there gaping? It's rude."

Malik before had seen the way the yamis acted and he had tasted the food but this was the closest he had been to them. Now they were both eyeing him, and he found it rather unnerving.

"uhhh.. Hi?" He tried backing into the counter.

"Hello." They coursed together.

"How are you?" He asked a little more confident.

"Fine, and you?"

"Good." Malik chuckled nervously. "What are you doing in here?"

Bakura looked a little ruffled. "Well if you must know... We are baking a cake."

"That's it?"

"Of course that's it." Yami glared. "What did you expect?"

"What about the moans?"

Yami reached over and plugged in the blender.

"Oh. Well that explains a lot."

"So Malik, I repeat the question. What are you doing in here?" Bakura glared as well.

Malik gulped nervously. "uhhh.. That's kinda a funny story. You see.."

~*~*~*

"BANG!"

Seto looked up from his work.

"BANG, BANG, BANG!!!!!"

'What in the world?' He asked himself as he ran out onto the patio.

There was Billy and Earl, with their shot guns, shooting crows off the power lines. Mokaba was running around asking if he could try. Joey was running around trying to make them stop.

"eh. Howdy there Seto." Billy rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "Whatcha doing?"

"Why he's a coming out here to help us rid the yard of these blasted pets of course!" Earl slapped the CEO's back hard. "Come on there boy, don't be shy. Show your brother here how well you can shoot."

First instinct was to refuse, but the look in Mokaba's eyes made him reconsider and he found himself with a gun in hand.

Take aim, and fire. "BANG!!"

"Wow, big brother! I didn't know you could do that! Please show me, please!"

And that is how Seto found himself teaching his brother how to commit illegal activities, becoming addicted to them, and forgetting all about work.

~*~

"Okay Ryou, you can stop that now."

"Stop what?"

"Stop holding my hand!"

"But you need comfort!"

"I don't! It was all a misunderstanding!"

"You heard them!"

"Well yes but..."

Ryou turned quickly to face the other boy. "Yugi, please don't go into denile. We can get through this together!" Ryou enveloped the smaller boy in a giant, seemingly innocent, hug.

"Get your hand off my butt!"

~*

A little later found the boys turning off the sidewalk and into a small store.

"Where are we?" Yugi asked while peeking around. The shop was dark and dusty. "And please stop looking at me like that!"

"But you look so cute and venerable!"

"Ryou!"

"It's true!"

"Okay look," Yugi rounded on the slightly taller boy. "Even if our yamis are cheating on us, it doesn't mean that we are going to do the same thing!"

"We should share the pain!"

"No! Lets just get whatever we came here for, and go home! This place is creeping me out!"

"You could always hold on to me if you get scared..."

"NO!"

"Fine. We are in a spy shop by the way, so I can prove to you they are cheating without any more sacrifices like.." He paused for a little dramatic. "Dear Malik"

"Lost in the battle for good." Yugi added even though he was sure the other light was just fine.

"Right then." A new voice said causing both boys to jump. It was the shop keeper. "Can I help you with anything?"

"Yes" Ryou answered immediately. "I need to bug a kitchen."

~*~*

"And that my dear boy is how you big brother wrestled a wolf." Billy smiled at the small boy's awe struck look.

"Whoa."

"Yeah, now how would you like to hear about the time he beat up a bunch of evil Crocketts, all in the name of Joey's clothes?"

"Yeah!"

"No!" Seto interrupted story time. He, Joey, and Earl had gone grocery shopping for some barbecue supplies. Billy stayed with Mokaba, because all of the mansion staff had been told they had a free time off until the red necks left.

"Ahh. Come on Seto." Mokaba started and everyone else joined. "please?"

The brunette rolled his eyes. "Fine. Come on you other two, lets set this stuff up."

Seto had started to unpack everything when the phone rang. He sighed as he realized this was going to be a long call. He lost track of time while on the phone, but hurried back to the kitchen. He was surprised to see that there wasn't anyone in the room. He slowly made his way through the house, also checking the room where Billy and Mokaba were last seen. No one anywhere.

He just happened to walk by a front window, and the sight that met him made him do a double take.

TBC

Finally the mystery of the kitchen is somewhat explained. Marik will appear in the next chapter. Ryou is very OOC throughout the entire story, until the end. I am sorry if that makes you mad. Please review!