After a few votes, here are the results:

Hirutani Bandit Keith Otogi Yami

Hirutani wins! He is our "faceless man" and THE BASTARD OF THE YEAR! (Nothing to be proud of there folks.)

Many voted for him because they liked the others too much. Quiet a few voted for him or Keith because you didn't want Yami or Otogi to win. A lot of you don't even know who he is; so I dug through my manga's to bring this too you!

The Hirutani story: BASTARD-NESS!

The Wild Gang.

Honda was looking around frantically which alarmed both Anzu and Yugi. What was it that had him so worried? They knew as soon as they saw him leaning over Jounouchis empty desk. "We got to solve this mystery! I mean you might not believe me, but in all of high school, I don't ever remember Jounouchi skipping class!" Honda annoyed fingers gripping the edge of the empty desk.

"This is the first time Jounouchi's missed school…" Yugi spoke up softly, violet eyes filling with worry for the lost blond. "Do you know what's going on with him, Honda?"

As the brunette shook his head Anzu muttered. "I hate to admit it but it's kind of lonely without him around…"

"Why don't we go by his place after school?" Honda questioned, while the other two nodded, seeing as Yugi was free and Anzu didn't have work that day.

As the bell chimed allowing the students freedom three of the classmates trudged along on their way to the mysterious Jounouchi home.

"So you've known Jounouchi sense middle school, Honda?"

"Yeah." A pause, " But I've hardly ever been to his place… This is it! His apartment building! I've only ever been here once. If I remember it's the third floor on the end…" The fin headed boy trailed off staring up at the looming building before them. Would Jounouchi be there? After trudging up three of the four flights of stairs they shuffled down the hall to find apartment number 301 with the nametag of Jounouchi slipping from its holder.

Hondas fist pounded into the wood door, " Hello!" There was no answer so he reached down gripping the doorknob. "Anyone home…? It's unlocked… Let's take a peek." Yugi didn't seem so sure but Honda pulled the door open and was caught by the sudden surprise of a bottle crashing against the opening door.

"Hey you brat! Where ya been the last two days!" The words where slightly slurred and the stench of liquor reached the three of them, along with the faint sound of hiccups.

"S'kuse us!" The three cried dashing down the stairs.

"That was scary…" Yugi murmured as they caught their breath.

"Was that…?"

"Yeah, that's his dad… He's been like that forever… that's why… Jounouchi never has his friends over…" Watching the look on Hondas face as he spoke saddened the other two, he looked so… sad. "But he wasn't at home. His dad says he's been gone two days… I wonder where he's gone…" He swallowed hard before continuing. "Anyway, lets look for him!"

And they looked, and looked and looked. "No good he's nowhere. We've tried all his usual hand outs."

"Jounouchi…" Yugi murmured his hopes slowly loosing for his best friend.

"HEY MAN!" The sudden yell caught the trio's attention and they looked to find a gang of people threatening a boy carrying a book bag.

"That's Rintama's school uniform! That place is really bad… Better leave 'em alone…"

"Honda! It's him!" The yell caught his attention as green eyes dashed to where Yugi was pointing. "It's Jounouchi!" And sure enough in the gang of people was the blond boy.

"Why is he with those punks from Rintama?!" Honda cried.

"Come one Jounouchi! Let's go to our place. Its called J'Z you'll like it."

"Jounouchi!" Yugi cried out, running towards the blond retreating form. "Jounouchi!" He called again but still the blond didn't answer.

One of the tallest thugs turned to look Jounouchis, and now Yugi's, way. "Heh… Jounouchi, you're too nice… don't tell me at Domino High you let kids like that follow you around. You should've come to Rintama with us from the start. The thugs face was lightly marred from fights, he was a rather bulky looking figure with blond hair pulled back into a short ponytail while the bottom half of his hair was shaved off. A cigarette hung from his lips. Honda gasped.

That's him! I've seen him with Jounouchi before! That's Hirutani! But why's he back with him now?!?

"Come back with us Jounouchi!" the small figure called reaching for his friend's arm.

"Hirutani, that kids getting on my nerves…" A figure perhaps two or three inches shorter then Jounouchi spoke up. He wore thick glasses and had short hair coming out from below a ski-cap. "Jounouchi said he didn't know him." All the while Jounouchi stood there silently staring ahead of himself. "Shut the hell up, whiny!" The boy in glasses yelled as his fist caught the side of Yugi's face.

Yugi! Honda gasped again.

"Jo…" Yugi trailed off hitting the floor.

…! The blond twitched slightly but did nothing as Honda and Anzu ran to comfort Yugi.

"Jounouchi…" Yugi whimpered softly hand reaching out as if trying to stop his friend from leaving. But he didn't.

"Jounouchi! You're the worst! I can't believe you! What's with you, Jounouchi?" Anzu screamed at the retreating form of the blond who was ushered along by gang members.

Anzu and Honda moved Yugi over to sit on the bench, while the green-eyed boy went to explain the situation. "You see, Jounouchi… was in a gang in middle school. There was a time when he lived to fight with other gangs from other schools… some times even high school gangs. He had a long record… They almost sent him to Jail… that's when he was with Hirutani" Yugi watched as Honda stared to the ground sadness creeping into his voice. "I mean, now we hang out all the time, but… I really used to look up to him." Honda gripped his fists. "He used to look out for the younger guys… and he never beat up on weaker dudes… but… I can't understand it… what's his head…? Maybe he's not coming back… DAMN IT!" Hondas head fell into his arms.

Jounouchi… That's right it was because of the puzzle that I made friends with Jounouchi… The puzzle glowed faintly. " I believe in him… Jounouchi hasn't changed! He couldn't have!"

Honda lifted his head and smiled a bit. "Th... That's right! He may not be a genius but he wouldn't treat his old friends that way!"

"Yup!"

"Lets go get him back!"

"I'm sure there's a reason for this…" Honda trailed off as they headed off for J'Z.

Once they reached the slum like building which had tagging all over it Honda spotted one of them exiting the building mumbling about cigarettes. Honda snatched him his fist meeting the guy's face a few times before he started yelling. "ALL RIGHT! Whys Jounouchi hanging with you guys from Rintama? SPILL IT!" The guy smirked shrugging. "SPEAK OR YOUR DEAD!"

"I get it… I'll talk…"

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Glad you joined us Jounouchi!" Hirutani smirked as he rested on a barstool. " Let's have fun just like old times. Heh Heh."

"We'll make them recognize us all over Tokyo." The boy in glasses smirked, a cigarette hanging from his mouth "Eh…?" He blinked looking a little puzzled as he saw honey colored eyes narrowing at him from behind a forest of golden bangs. "What is it? Huh huh. There something stuck to my face, Jounouchi?"

"Hirutani's been bringing his old friends to expand the gangs turf… Even that jerk Jounouchi… But he refused at first…"

Jounouchis eyes hardened as he continued to stare dangerously at the capped boy. "Whatcha thinkin' about, Jounouchi? You rather be playin with star head?"

Twitch.

"But Hirutani's too smart to stand for that… So he gave Jounouchi a warning. Huh huh… that punk went white as a sheet! Hirutani said that if Jounouchi didn't join our gang he'd beat up all the kids in his Domino High class one by one. When he heard that..." BANG! "Uh… what…?"

Jounouchi stood his hand slamming into the table before the couch he was sitting on. " No way. No way I'm letting that pass." His glare once more turned onto the boy with glasses, his fist flying forward cracking him across the face, blood spilling from his mouth as glasses went flying. "No way I'm letting you get away with hitting my friend!"

Hirutani smirked as his gang mate crashed across the room and into a wall. "Heh Heh… Jounouchi, I'm glad you're finally getting the old look back in your eyes… Too bad for you that it's aimed at us. Hold him down! Jounouchi needs an attitude lesson!"

The gang went to round around the blond boy while the trio looking for him started on the way to find him.

"Hold him down! We'll teach him never to pull that crap again!"

Damn five of them… that's not good…

A fist headed for Jounouchis face but he leaned back raising his knee to crash it into the boy's chin. And then turned to deck another, unaware a third larger boy had moved behind him. Two hands intertwined and then came down on the back of the blonde's head. "Now! All at once!" one of them cried, Jounouchi couldn't see which as all of them tackled over his unsteady body.

"Okay take him away!"

"Let me go, you jerks!"

"Time for a change of scene. To the torture chamber!" Hirutani smirked.

Rain started to fall from the sky upon the tree people searching desperately for they're lost friend. When they reach J'Z, Honda called something to the two of them about going in as he ran down the stairs kicking in the door. "Give Jounouchi ba--!! Gone?! Where the hell did they go…?! Huh?!" He blinked finding the capped boy lying on the floor, he shook him trying to wake him but it was no use, he was out like a light.

The tree of them split up after finding Jounouchi was no where in sight.

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Jounouchi groaned slightly, his cheek puffed up into what would soon become a bruise. His wrists where bound over his head as he hung from a pole in an abandoned where house. Pools of water forming around him from the large holes in the roof, he spat out a bit of blood.

"Heh Heh… I like this view, Jounouchi." Hirutani muttered smirking.

"Hmph… the view from here isn't so bad either! "Look! It's a red-assed boss monkey and his pack!" Hirutani twitched at the words as two members came forward, one kneeing him while the other cracked him across the face.

"Jounouchi… you've been like that ever since middle school! Always acting like you where my equal! Still, nothing could stop us when we were together… even some high school gangs were afraid of us. We had plenty of people working for us... but the one thing I never managed to do… was teach you this… I am the boss. You'll always be second in command."

Jounouchi forced out a weak laugh. "Of course. That's what a boss monkey would think!" Jounouchi smirked a little although he was panting from the pain of breathing from the injuries. "You done? Well lemme tell you I've got a good memory. I know you Jerks' faces… I'll remember how many times that each of you hit me. You know I hold a grudge. I'm going to pay you back double!"

"Don't worry… this isn't even the main course. " Hirutani smirked gleamed with malice. "The next item on the menu will blow your mind!" And from the pockets of the gang members came large black tubes with small metal ends.

"These are 200,000 volt stun guns. When I flip the stitch, the electricity comes on. And when That happens its gonna blow your memories right out of your head…and maybe your life too… so lets go…"

"You god damn jerk!" Jounouchi cried pulling himself to kick a spiky hared male who had been speaking away from himself. "Bastard!" A stun gun pressed to Jounouchis neck as honey eyes widened considerably. "AAAARRRGGHH!!" Jounouchi screamed his body twisting in pain.

"Please millennium puzzle…Tell me where Jounouchi is!" Flashes flew before the closed eyes of Yugi, an abandoned building, ropes hanging from the rafters. Volt guns. . And a twitching weak Jounouchi.

"Hey, Hirutani… he can't even talk anymore! He's just twitching now! Should we stop now…?"

"Do it!"

"If we keep going he'll die…"

"DO IT!!"

"Stop!" Their attention was caught by a small figure standing in an opening to the doorway, Yami Yugi. How dare you do this to Jounouchi…! I won't let you get away with this… any of you! Eyes narrowed as he stepped inside directly on a puddle in the near middle of the room.

(My fingers hurt *Types anyway, urged on by Seto Plushy. *)

"Oh, Heh Heh. I've seen this kid before. This little brat hangs around Jounouchi… If that's all the help he has, then he's done for…" They laughed.

"Hey kid! This is out hand out…" The boy who had slammed Jounouchi on the back of the head swung smashing his fits to the side of Yugi's face sending him flying back knocking over a tire as he fell. " Not your play-ground!"

Yami Yugi grunted moving a piece of mettle out of the way, as he removed the millennium puzzle hanging it form the chain as he stood. "Well now it's my turn to start something! He smirked turning back to look to them, water dripping down his face. "A Game! I challenge four to a game!"

A game…?

Yami stepped up to stand on a tire still smirking. "Heh Heh… Haven't you figured it out? There's a time bomb hidden at your feet… and a switch attached to that bomb. "It's already ticking off the seconds. "

Eyes looked down and around themselves. " A bomb?! What're you talking about wimp?!"

"Not the question is: "Can you find the switch?" If you do, you win. My life is yours to take! But if you can't find it, there's a penalty game.. The bomb will explode. Taking you with it! Now wring your brains for the answer."

"Hirutani the kids bluffing..." A black hared kid muttered, "Let's stun him and watch him jerk around. "

His finger slipped up to the button, "WAIT!" He smirked a little. " Heh Heh… I get what he was saying. He's not just bluffing. Look! We're all soaked with rain… that brat stood there just to lure us into the piddle so we'd get water on us. He let us hit him with that in mind. If even one of us turns on a stun gun right now, the 200,000 volts will go from his hands to the puddle… and the four of us will be blown away by that kid's "Bomb." Yami gasped softly. "Heh Heh Heh! We've found the switch, kid! We're safe if we done use the stun guns. So we'll use out fists instead!" They smirked, and a few laughed. "We win this fame! And now for your "Penalty game," like you promise, you die!"

"Heh… But you didn't find the switch. I'm the winner." The puzzled boys where alerted by a few groaning noises and they looked to see the boy Jounouchi had kicked in the face with his arm propped up, a stun gun fizzling inches over the water, the millenium puzzle dripping water onto his face.

"Switch on!" Tami smirked as the groaning boy shifted the stun gun crashing into the puddle by the tire Yami Yugi was standing on. While the boys writhed from the electrocution Yami tan over uniting Jounouchi leaving Yugi his body again. Just then two more figured entered the place, Honda and Anzu.

"Jounouchi..!" Yugi cried out as slowly lashes parted as he stared up to the wide eyes of his friend. "Jounouchi! It's me! Let's go back!"

"Yu..." Jounouchi started before crying out, "Yugiiiii!!"

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So now you know the history between out adorable Jounouchi-Chan and the ugly-ness known as Hirutani. If I get my scanner working I'll scan a picture of him so you all have a pretty good idea of what Mr. Ugly looks like.

Next chapter will be up as soon as I can manage, sorry for the wait!

P.S. I took this strait from the manga that I own. I cut out a little dialogue but other then that I kept the story the same, no add-ins (Or Seto-Kun would have came to the rescue!) I wouldn't have cut out the dialogue except for the fact my fingers are aching and that some it wasn't necessary.