Kao 012: yay, I updated this story AND the other one (Only One Way Out) on the same week

Joey: yay, good for you

Malik: she doesn't own yugioh, but she does own $5.14

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(Malik's POV)

School finally ended and I headed home. It was kinda weird though, I felt like someone was stalking me. I started to walk at a faster pace, but no matter what I did, it still felt like someone was following me. Before I knew it, I broke out into a run, then to a sprint. Whoever was following me was keeping up with me, because I couldn't throw away the feeling inside that somebody was watching my every move.

I arrived at my front door and unlocked it. I threw my bookbag aside on the floor by the coat rack and raced upstairs into my room. I peeked outside the window and saw nothing. Not like I was expecting anything though. I let out a sigh of relief anyways and turned to go back downstairs for some tv. When I turned around however, my throat soon found out that it was being strangled by a strong right hand, and I found myself being pushed to the wall by a strong left hand.

"Do you know why I love torturing you so much?" Marik said in a low, menacing voice. "It's because you're so weak" he said as he tossed me across the room (he's not a real yami, he was created from all of the hatred and rage I had for my father, so the more furious I get at people, the stronger Marik gets)

As I crashed to the floor, I clenched my teeth, but I didn't make a sound. If I did, Marik would make sure that the pain felt much worse. He picked me up by the shirt collar and started to say something, but I couldn't hear what because my headache from school grew when my head hit the floor. When I finally heard something, Marik dropped me on all fours.

"Get up." He demanded. I slowly stood up, my face still staring at the floor. Marik did an uppercut, then kicked me in the stomach. When he elbowed me in the neck I fell to the floor once again. I clenched my teeth even harder as I tried to catch my breath, but it was just one attack after the other. Soon I noticed that I was coughing up blood and gasping for air. Then Marik started to say something again, but now my head was too dizzy to pay attention. Everything was blurry and spinning around like crazy.

Marik turned so that his back faced me, but I had the feeling that he was still watching me out of the corner of his eye. Again I could hear, but not what Marik was saying because he was muttering under his breath. I saw something Marik was holding. It was so shiny that it was like a mirror reflecting everything off of its surface. It seemed metallic, and the part that I could see was very thin, and came to a point at the tip. Marik turned around to face me. He slowly walked towards me, grinning evily, and even though his chin was up high, his face was still darkened by shadows...

(Ryou's POV)

"Yu-yugi?" I said to the midget on the tree limb above me. "I-is what I'm see-seeing re-real?"

He was obviously ignoring me by accident because he was so frightened. "N- no..This can't be ha-happening..No, it ca-can't be tru-true..ri-right?" he muttered to himself.

I took deep breaths, still trembling with fear. I looked into Malik's bedroom window with my binoculars. I couldn't believe it. I never knew that Malik had it this bad. At school, all the bullies gang up on him and beat him up and stuff. Not to mention that anyone hardly ever talks to him, so he's always so lonely. Then there's all of my friends excluding Yugi. They give Malik the worst time of his life. Because of his yami, all of my friends (still excluding Yugi) treat him worse than how Kaiba treats Joey. Sometimes they even beat him up too.

But when Malik gets home, he has to face Marik...I always thought that his relationship with Marik was like me with Bakura...In the public, Bakura always threatens me, but he only does it to make himself look even tougher, but everybody knows that he would never try to hurt me. I guess Malik and Marik were completely different...

"Yugi" I said without trembling.

"Ye-yeah?"

"We have to tell somebody"

"Li-like?"

"Like the police for example maybe?"

Even though he was afraid to say it, I knew in my heart that Yugi agreed.

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Kao 012: review please! :)(:

Joey: vote for happy ending or sad ending, otherwise there ain't gonna BE an ending