Ookami: *yawn* I can't sleep at 2:10am so here ya go...a new chapter.

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Chapter 8: Old friends, old enemys, new ways.

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Regular POV

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Suddenly Patricia perked up and shifted her ears toward the door, "Did ya hear that?"

Ry, who was thinking about how her brother looked a lot like him, glanced toward Mal and the

door. He replied, "Hear what?"

She shifted uneasily back to the way she was before Ry spoke to her. "Oh, I thought I heard

something."

(Ha, I had you going, ne?)

Suddenly, a crash was heard by Ry, Patricia, and Yu who just woke up. The crash was in front

of the place where they were. It was followed by a yell and some masculine voices shouting. Then some

screams of pain and agony.

(Not, heh)



Patricia, knowing her rep wasn't exactly the best here, so she picked up her belongings and

started to crept out the back. Only the robe and the diamond were her belongings so she was out before

the guards opened the door to the back area. One of them saw Ry and yelled to his friends. Soon the

moon was blocked by the backs of 4 guards.

Each guard picked up a kid. Snoutface held Mal, who was fighting with a knife. But the way

he was using it, the head guard could tell that he wasn't Marik. Guard #1 held Yu, and #2 held Kay, who

was yelling like a madman, probably waking everyone up in a radius of 5 miles. Guard #4 held Ry who

was clutching something. It seems Patricia had dropped something on her quick escape, the diamond half.

(Yas probably wondering where Guard #3 is, well, he was that crash. Masculine voices were the other

guards that were laughing at him)

The guards carried the kids out while dodging punches from Mal and Kay. In an alley about 30

feet away stood the demon who they really wanted. Her thoughts- /Those kids were nice to me, even thou

I look like a monster from the Shadow Realm. That Ry, was so much like my brother before he got the

Millenium Ring. Now my damn conscience is bothering me. And knowing that those stupid guards kill

anyone that they get their grummy hands on....okay, fine...fucking conscience/

The demon ran out of the alley, in the brown robe again, and threw a rock at Snoutface's helmet.

The echoeing of armor being hit gave Snoutface a major headache and the other guards were confused more

than ever. (Guard #3 doesn't count) After the echoeing died down, Snoutface turned around and his aged

eyes landed upon the unmoved, unafraid demon.

Ry and Yu had been silently telling her to run, as Mal and Kay still fought. Patricia's hood was

down so the head guard could clearly see the narrowed rainbow eyes. Snoutface ordered the guards to let

the kids go and to grab the brown robed person. They did so easily as Patricia put up no fight. Snoutface

walked behind Patricia and said some nasty things in her wolf ear, making her head butt him. He growled

and ordered them to take the demon to the dugeon, where he personally and happily will carry out the dead

pharoah's wish.

The guards walked away with Patricia. Ry, Mal, Kay, and Yu helped each other onto their feet.

They all, even Mal, were thanking the demon who saved them. Then they went inside their home to pack.

If the guards came back to arrest them or anything else like that, they wouldn't be here. Grabbing all the

apples, grapes, money, and clothes that could fit in their packs, the four angels left the run-down cart.

The orginal plan was to leave the city completly and start new in another southern city. But Ry

wanted to save Patricia...somehow...and they gave in. Why? Ry's cute chibi eyes.... No on on earth can

resist and say no to those.. (awww....kawaii!!! Ryou as chibi would be better. ^o^)

So with Mal leading, the angels ran toward the palace only to run into two guys that weren't too

much older than them in an alley. One guy looked a lot like Ry, only his eyes were sharper and a darker

brown and his white hair was much more spikey. His outfit was a brown robe that was much dirtier than

Patricia's with sandals that looked very clean (coughstolencough). His voice matched his description

perfectly.

"Watch where you're going!!!"

Ry and the stranger stared at each other for about a minute. Then the other guy came out of the

shadows in which he had been shoved into. He looked like Mal only his hair was sticking straight up and his

eyes were a sharper lavendar. His outfit was simililar to the albino's only he didn't have sandals. He

whispered, "What happened?"

"What do you think moron?!"

Then the blond-haired dude saw Mal and froze. His heart starting beating faster and he thought

everyone could hear it. Kay and Yu were hiding behind Mal and Ry while at the same time wondering

what the heck was going on. Suddenly, some guards came out of the palace doors and yelled to each

other, "Hey, find those Bakura and Marik look-alikes....Snoutfa....er....the head guard wants them."

Bakura and Marik pulled the four behind a tent and waited until the footsteps faded away. After

that, the theives pulled out some knives and Bakura grabbed Ry by his cloth collar. "So, you know we're

here, so now you die...." Mal was in the same predicament so he couldn't do anything about it. Kay and

Yu were on their knees, praying that their best friends wouldn't go to heaven.

Ry gulped and asked quietly, "You can kill me, but I need to ask you something."

Bakura smirked and pushed Ry to Yu and Kay painfully. Marik followed suit.

"Well, boy, ask away. You're going to die anyway." Bakura asked as Marik started to sharpen his

knife.

Yu, Kay, and Mal all looked at Ry, hoping his question would save their lives. They had no idea

how, but they hoped anyway.

Ry gulped again and asked, "D-d-d-d."

Marik and Bakura laughed at his pathetic excuse to say something. Ry tried harder this time.

"D-do y-you kn-know P-patricia?"

Marik keep laughing until Bakura smacked him upside his head. Then Bakura looked at Ry with

great disbelief. Ry stood up bravely and waited for an answer. Bakura growled at him, "How do you know

about her?"

Ry simply said like he had done to Patricia earlier, "She saved our lives but she got captured by

the guards a cycle ago. (a cycle to me is an hour) She told me though before she left about how I looked

so much like her brother."

Marik asked the tomb robber, "What do we do now?"

Bakura grabbed Ry's arm painfully and shoved him though a sercert passage. He told the others

to do the same if they wish to live. Kay and Yu ran through and so did Bakura. Mal was left staring at

Marik like he had been for the entire conversation. Marik was also staring, but he shook his head out of

that and grabbed Mal's arm, carefully and gently. Then he pulled Mal through the secret way.



*Meanwhile.....in the dugeon.*

"You don't know how much you humililated me that day...I'll torture and kill you for that, you bitch."

Currently Snoutface (who knew that was his real name) was clutching a whip tightly in his right

hand while his left slapped the demon's face over and over. After a 5th slap, he quit to hear Patricia's

answer. She simply glared at his aged and ugly face. She growled, "You couldn't do it, even if you tried,

you weakling."

Snoutface face flushed with anger as he started whipping the demon. Everythime the whip struck,

it left a bloody mark on her back, but she didn't cry out. Nor did she use her hidden power on him. For a

cycle, this went on. Snoutface was getting pissed. Even though she was bloody, bruised and red, she

didn't cry out once. So he continued, trying to use more force.

*In Yami's chambers*



Yami had just woken up from another nightmare, only this time, she felt closer to him. He got up

and put his outfit and crown on. He walked around the palace, to get the effects of the nightmare off his

shoulders. He heard a screaming coming from the dugeon and decided to investigate. At least this would

get his mind on other things.

Silently, he peeked into the smelly place and there, having chains burned into her wrists, neck,

and ankles, was Patricia herself. She barely had any clothes on as her body was blood red and dripping

with it. And Snoutface was whipping away, screaming for her to scream out in pain. Yami was now indeed

pissed as well.

Yami's voice echoed through the dugeon and he declared that Snoutface be put to death

immediatly. And that the innocent Patricia be cleaned, clothed, and put to bed in his chambers. The

servants in the area immediatly got to work, being as carefully as they could with the demon. But before

they brought her to the medical quarters, Yami lifted her face and saw the rainbow eyes that started all the

abuse and horror that his father had caused. He left to go to the kitchens to have something made for her

when she woke up. (This is old friend kindness, no Yami/Patricia stuff here at all. ^o^)

*Back with the theives, the angels, and Kay*

In their newly made hideout, Marik and Mal were having a tonsil hockey match in the other room.

(Wow, they're quick) Bakura was sitting at the old table, staring at Ry who was talking with Yu and Kay

about something weird. Ry had already told him about how his sis had saved them from Bhakato and how

nice she was to him. Bakura started to miss his sister, but he shoved that feeling way down and out of the

way. Everyone had found out each others names already.

He got fed up. He was the mighty tomb robber Bakura and he was being nice to this look-alike

who he just met. Marik was already lost, absolutley no hope for that guy. So he got control. "Hey, kid, go

get some food for me." Really slick, ne?

"My name is Ry and you should go get it...you have legs."

"Kid, I have a knife, and I'm not afraid to use it, NOW GO!!!"

Ry, now freaked out by Bakura's voice, ran into other room and grabbed some food they brought

with them. But that's when he found the half diamond with red tips. He picked it up with the food and came

back into the other room. Bakura now had the knife out and was sharping it like Marik was earlier. Yu and

Kay were sort of freaked and huddled together on the floor. Guess that's happens when you live with an

insane...er...2..no 3..insane people.. (Mal, Bakura, and Marik of course)

He placed the food in front of Bakura and stood there. Bakura ate two grapes before saying,

"Now what do you want?"

Ry simply placed the half diamond in front of him and looked at his two shaking friends.

For some reason he wasn't scared of the tomb robber as much as his friends. Maybe it was because he

had stood up to the more demon of the two siblings. Or maybe it was because the tomb robber was sexy..

HOLD ON!! Where did that come from? Oh shit...

Bakura raised his eyebrow at the gift, then he got excited about something. He grabbed the

diamond and said, "Holy shit...this is probably worth 300 gold coins...oh shit, how the heck did you get

this?"

Kay and Yu looked at Ry with a confused expression. Ry put his face in his hands. That wasn't

the point. He raised his head and said, "That was Patricia's and she dropped it. I wanted to know if you

and.." Ry paused to look at the door where Marik and Mal were. His eyes widen when he saw it start to

shake.

Bakura still couldn't believe that he, the mighty tomb robber that was on everyone's wanted list,

was kinda weak in front of this boy. Usually put in this situation with a guard or another human, he would've

sliced their throat or sent them to the Shadow Realm with his Ring before they said, "That..." But this boy,

he wanted to hear him speak again. Bakura had known about his sexuality for a long time and knew that

buffing boys was the fun for him. Heck he found this out when he met Marik.....

Anyway, Ry's voice had stopped the mighty Bakura from cutting his throat. Because if he

slit it, the voice would never sing to him again. Bakura was thinking that this crush was not a fling like it

was with Marik, but actually something worth his while. When Ry started talking again, his voice sounded

scared. Bakura followed where Ry's gaze was going and found that the wall and door was shaking

violently. The tomb robber started laughing like a maniac.

He turned to Ry and said, "Don't worry. That's just Marik having a good time with your friend, Mal."

Yu, Kay, and Ry were shocked to think that Mal was_that_way. Well, it's a fact now. Ry, kinda nervous

around the shaking door, shifted his weight onto the other foot which was somehow on Bakura's foot. When

he heard Bakura yelp, he jumped and and fell onto Bakura's lap.

Bakura now feeling weight on his lap, turned to see the angel he thought he loved 5 inches away

from his face. His first thought: I wonders what he tastes like... So he did what he thought necessary.

He gave Ry a quick peck on the lips and asked, "What were you saying, kid?"

Ry, on the other hand, was wondering why he was thinking all these nasty thoughts about this

guy that he just met. And if he was like Mal or if he was straight. Then the quick kiss came. And all those

straight thoughts went down the drain. Ry smiled and replied to the question, still on Bakura's lap. "And

Marik wanted to help us free her."

Bakura, softened by the boy's smile, said, "We can't. We're the infamous tomb robbers in this

city. If they saw us, then...."

"But you're never seen by anyone, so you could get in there and find her, and sneak out."

"Kid, as much as I want to, I can't." Bakura frowned not wanting to upset the angel in his lap.

"There's treasure in there and the name's Ry."

"Ry.." Ry loved the way that name flowed off Bakura's tongue.

"Bakura.." As so did Bakura loved Ry saying it. Ry, seeing how nothing was working, he pulled

out his secret weapon. The chibi eyes....and after about three minutes Bakura had said yes and everyone

was going into the palace tommorrow to save the tomb robber's younger sister. Yu and Kay had calmed

down, seeing how the infamous Bakura had stopped being so scary. But Ry was currently scary. He was

looking dreamily into Bakura's eyes and soon Bakura had tackled him. So basically they were making

out on the floor.

Yu and Kay turned around and went to sleep trying not to hear the moans and groans coming from

both the floor and the other room. Soon though it stopped as they screamed. And everyone was quiet

for the night. Until Bakura, Ry, Mal, or Marik felt the need, which was around 2:00 am.

In the morning, the tomb robber, his newly claimed mate, the tomb robber's friend, his mate, Yu,

and Kay were off to save the demon who had saved the angels and Kay. But was it going to be easy or fun?

And hopefully they won't be any closets or dark areas where Ry or Mal would get ravished by the thieves.

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Ookami: That was fun....hope ya's enjoyed....I'm going to bed, what time is it? Oh crap, 5:30. Oh boy..