Disclaimer: She owns Yu-Gi-Oh!

Doom: o Baka disclaimer-man!Do you want me to get sued?? I don't own it!

Disclaimer-man: Yep, that's what I said, she owns it!

Lawyers: *growl* You own? *snarl*

Doom: Nope, Disclaimer-man said he does.

Disclaimer-man: Wait...

Lawyers: *attack Disclaimer-man*

Spat-Spat: O.O

Haku: *locked himself in room with loud, depressing music*

Ryan: *sitting against door waiting for Haku to come out*

Spat-Spat: Well, I guess I'll do the warning since my yaoi-obsessive fellow muse isn't exactly in the mood to do it. Ahem, THIS FIC IS YAOI!!! I REPEAT, THIS FIC IS YAOI!!! Please, do not flame the sugar-high authoress or she will go all angsty on us!!!

Doom: Yeah, but I haven't been flamed. Ever! Well, unless you count when Darkworld said that Marik was acting too much like Bambi 'cause he was bein' all nice and stuff like that (Which is true!!). You should all know the pairings by now! Oh, and does anyone know what the plural word for youkai would be??

**Newspaper Article**

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Yami's eyes widened as his aibou shakily continued.

"S-she was standing outside! I could see her in the window!! She looked like she did in the diner, you know...THEN."

"Go ahead, aibou." Yami spoke quietly, trying to get as much information out of his koi without forcing him to tell.

"And-and- she looked at me, and just grinned, like, a horrible, HORRIBLE, grin!!" Yugi's eyes were brimmed with fresh tears of fear that Yugi refused to let fall.

"Keep going, aibou." Yami gave Yugi a gentle, mental push to tell him everything.

"She winked at me and she...just snapped her fingers....that's when Mrs.Shutt collapsed."

Yami gave a small gasp. He never heard of something being able to knock someone unconscious with a single snap of their fingers before. He scooped Yugi's hands into his own and gently caressed them and looked straight in his eyes, as if trying to urge more info out of his boyfriend.

Yugi seemed to understand and lowered his voice to a whisper.

"She blew on the glass, and wrote 'THERE ARE WORSE THINGS I CAN DO' in the fog. As soon as I read it, it vanished, along with her." Yugi stopped talking altogether and finally let his tears fall.

~~LUNCH~~

Yami finished the story to the table who were all dead silent. Yugi's eyes were red and puffy from crying, and Yami's arm was protectively wrapped around his shoulders. He seemed to stare at nothing, and it was a little bit freaky.

"Um..are you alright, there, Yug'?" Jou questioned with his voice low and full of concern.

Yugi lifted his head and smiled sadly as he nodded for the answer. Everyone sat in silence for what seemed like hours until Bakura broke the silence with his fist banging against the table.

"Well, if this whore is such a god-damned threat, then why are we still hanging around here?! We should do something before that bitch does!!" Bakura's mini-speech brought the table back to their usual morale as they started to discuss what would be done.

In between the mist of it all, Ryou suddenly remembered the AEY (Anti-evil youkai) group.

"What about that Kat girl? She helped us before! Maybe there's a way we could get in touch with her! Although, that would probably be extremely hard." He shared his idea with the crew.

"I forgot about her! We should check the diner after school for any traces of her." Seto said, deep in thought. "If we can't find her there, we could always look up that weird group she was running. We're bound to find some information."

"Then we should split up, one team will look for her, and the other team will research that group." Yami said, sounding much like a general in the Army.

Everyone nodded and picked groups.

~~AFTER SCHOOL~~

Jou, Seto, Honda, and Otogi went to the library to research and Ryou, Bakura, Malik, and Marik went to the diner. Yugi was leading Yami to the window where he saw Anzu to see if there was any trace of her left.

Yami examined the window carefully as Yugi stood next to him, looking very uneasy.

"I'm getting the creeps real bad, Yami." Yugi said, barely above a whisper.

Yami turned to face his koibito and smiled.

"You don't have to wait around here, I know that it's scary for you to be here. You can go sit on one of the benches if you'd like." Yami offered not *really* wanting his hikari to go anywhere.

'I feel he'd be safer with me, but I cannot shield him from everything.' Yami thought.

"No, I'd rather stay with you, Yami." Yugi gave Yami that 'I'm-so-cute-and-sweet-don't-you-just-wanna-hug-me?' smile.

Yami smiled back and faced the window again, glaring at it as if it knew something that it wasn't telling them. Yugi stiffled a giggle as his MUCH more serious koi eyed the innocent piece of glass suspiciously. The smaller of the two who had just been frightened for his companions lives (A/N cuz Yugi's a sweet little bishi! ^__^) was now trying not to laugh at the pharaoh's antics. Yami had noticed and suddenly turned around to face his aibou, with his chin high in the air.

"Yes, yes. The window cleaners have done a fine job, but not fine enough. There seems to be much room for improvement here." Yami said with a dignified voice as he stood as straight as he could and put his hands behind his back.

Yugi couldn't take it, he broke down laughing at the sight.

"I do believe that is dirt that they missed." Yami pressed on with his mock snob voice whilst he pointed to a brown spot on the window. "Why, is that pocky? Pfft! That will surely attract bugs!"

Yugi clutched his sides. Yami was usually serious, but he did great impressions!

"Stop-stop...We have to be serious, Yami." Yugi gasped out, calming his laughter.

Yami nodded and turned back to the window. He turned his head slowly so Yugi could see his face. Yugi raised an eyebrow in confusion and was about say something when Yami stuck out his tongue at his hikari and quickly turned back to the window before Yugi could respond. Yugi giggled a little as he crept closer to Yami. He was so close that the other could practically feel him breathing...not that this was a bad thing. ^__~

Yugi stood on his tip-toes and peered over Yami's shoulder.

"What cha lookin' for?" Yugi said, blinking cutely.

"Well, I don't think there is anything to look for here. We should just get out of here." Yami shivered a little.

"Are you scared, Yami?" Yugi teased with a playful smirk.

"Of course not, aibou. Just supremely freaked out. Let's go." Yami took Yugi by the hand and

headed for the library to see how the others were doing.

~~THE LIBRARY~~

Yugi and Yami found Seto clicking and clacking away on his laptop as everyone gathered around him (Jou right next to him, though ^^).

"Find anything?" Yugi asked.

"No, not yet." Jou replied.

Suddenly, Seto's eyes got big.

"I think I found something! It's an article that was in the newspaper!" Seto announced.

**THE ANTI-EVIL YOUKAI GROUP, FACT OR FICTION?

There have always been various rumors about a secret, government-controlled, group of agents specializing in the removal of dangerous 'youkai'. Many of us believe that there are no such thing as youkai, and most certainly no 'AEY' group. Then, there are people that DO believe that there are youkai, and we would not be safe from them without the AEY. A recent sighting has made a group of non-believers into DEFINITE believers.

"I saw one!" Christel Turingan, 16, of Florida, quotes. "It was huge! It had the biggest red eyes I've seen and it had long, shiny, fangs! It kept coming closer and closer when this girl with long, red hair tackled it to the ground! All these other girls came and tied it up with her. She dropped an ID card before she left with the other girls and the youkai. It said her name was Katrina Kakashi."

So, who is this Katrina Kakashi? Are the youkai real? We may neve know.**

"Katrina...I remember now! That's the name of the girl who saved us!" Otogi said.

"I could use the tracking device to sniff her out." Seto said.

"Good, but we should go to the diner to see what they have found." Yami said.

As the crew of friends exited the building, a lone figure laughed an evil laugh that was so evil that it was an evil laugh that was laughed...evilly.

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Spat-Spat: An evil laugh that was so evil that it was an evil laugh that was laughed...evilly?? What the heck?!?

Doom: ^^U Don't blame me, blame Yelene-ryudream! She's the one who gave me candy!! HAHAHAHAHA!! *runs into wall...repeatedly*

Ryan: Haku.... *eyes are all puffy from crying his lil' eyes out, and his nose is red too* Please, come out. *sniffle*

Doom: *shakes self out of sugar-high (temporarly) to console Ryan* Aww...poow wittle yami-Wyan. *turned chibi from Ryan looking so kawaii* You wook so cute wif youw wed eyes and nose. Don wowwy about Haku, he will come awound. (Translation: Aww...poor little yami-Ryan. You look so cute with your little red eyes and nose. Don't worry about Haku, he will come around.) If that doesn't work, give him pocky!! *goes back to running into walls*

Ryan: O.O Pocky? Hey, it's worth a shot. *slides box of pocky under door*

Haku: *opens door* Ryan...*sniffle*

Ryan: *thinking* WHOA! It worked!! *talking* I'm sorry Haku, I just thought you didn't like me anymore.

Haku: *munching pocky* Of course I still like you, Ryan! *sniffle* In fact...I-I lo-

Doom: *pops up in between Ryan and Haku* HOWDY, NEIGHBOR!

Ryan: ARGH!! YOU RUINED THE MOMENT!!! *chases after Doom*

Haku: ^^U

Spat-Spat: *sigh* I'll start the reviewer reponses then.

To YumiYa: Yes, yes! I know! Evil cliffies!! (It's fun to torture my readers. Hehe)

To Ranma Higurashi: WHOO-HOO!! I'M STILL BACON YOUKAI!!! YEAH, BABY!!!

To phwee? yami hobo: Thank you, at first I couldn't decide what Seto's nickname would be, but it just sorta came over and bopped me on the head, repeatedly!!

Spat-Spat: Umm... that was Ryan when he had that blow-up bat.

Doom: Oh, yeah.

To Jay Kamiya: Actually, I'm sorta having a mini-contest to see who will be in my ficcie, but since you asked first, I might just...'slip' your name into it if you can't get it. Look at the bottom of the fic for details!!

To Fallen: Mwahahaha!! Yes, I am evil beyond belief!! I shall...OH! A BUTTERFLY!! LALALALALALA..... *skips around chasing butterfly*

Spat-Spat: *shudder* Oh, yeah, that's definitly evil.

To aku-no-hime: Yes, it seems everyone was suprised from the cliffhanger I left for you all. I don't think any of you thought I was capable of writing a cliff. ^__^

To chibibaka: Thanks! Yep, fluff is the love of my life! *sigh*

Spat-Spat: That doesn't make sense.

Doom: Shut up.

To Ninetales122: I liked what you were going to call Anzu BEFORE you actually called her Anzu! XD

To Mavelus: Well, I don't THINK I'm going to kill anyone off...or AM I? MWAHAHAHA- *cough*

Ryou: You wouldn't kill anyone off. You don't have the guts.

Doom: *glare* Well, maybe I'll kill YOU off 'cause of your stinky attitude! Or maybe I'll make you really sad and depressed for about 3 chapters!!!

Bakura: *steps in* Excuse me?!? You have no right to talk to MY hikari like that!!! *chases Doom*

To D-Chan: Yes, cute name! Poor, poor, Haku! But, pocky cures everything except insomnia!! Hey, you know, if I changed my name, I could be D-sama cuz my name begins with a D, too! Then, we would sorta match!! My real name begins with a D, too. ^__^

To Princess Strawberry: But I'm not good at mystery!!!! I like odd humor and fluff that's so sweet that it makes you want to barf!!!! Um...nevermind. Yep, I know you updated!! I reviewed it!!!

To Karenu-anime: I shall try and update as soon as possible!!

Doom: I would like to give a special thanks to Hari ng Laro who couldn't review because her computer is acting evil, so, she emailed me her review!! That was so sweet!! *wipes tear away from eye* Well, anyways...I used a name from a favorite manga/anime of mine in this chappie! If you can find it and tell me where it's from, I'll let you be in my fic or I'll do a tribute to you or something! It's someone's last name!!

Spat-Spat: That is WAY too easy!! Do something else, too!!

Doom: Uh...the first five people to get it!! The rest can be extras. ^__^

Ryan: *huggling Haku* ^__^

Haku: ^.^U REVIEW, PLEASE!!

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