Chappie eight! I'm sorry for killing Yugi! Really! I am! Anyways…

Disclaimer- I own the ten rings on my finger nothing more, don't sue, I won't give them to you! (and yes I really am wearing ten rings at the moment – one on each finger)

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"Look pharaoh" he spat, "neither of us killed your light, what's done is done, you can't bring him back, now are you going to help us kill the one who did it or fight us? I suggest the former or she'll die next." He pointed to Anthy. " I don't mean by Kilandra – I will kill her. You're either with us or against us.  And I don't suggest against. What do you say pharaoh?"

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" You let him die." Yami whispered.

" No, she might have saved him had you let her; you're just as much to blame as us. Don't try to be high and mighty with me."

Yami stared hollowly at them and then at Yugi's body in his arms. Silence filled the room.

"I can prove it." Kinta said though somewhat strangled.

"What?"

"I can prove we didn't kill him." She snapped, " Yami - here." She took the Sennen band off her wrist, " you can use it to see my memories of the last few minutes. Go ahead."

Bakura stared in semi shock, "Why are you..?!"

She cut him off; "He's stubborn and this will prove it, and oh kill him he does anything other than just look."

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" Malik just get your ass down here!…. yes of course he's here! ..stop being a brat Ishtar and help!….good. … no now….I'll explain the rest later!…fine! just get here!" Bakura slammed down the phone. " I hate him sometimes."

"He's coming though?" Kinta asked.

"Yes.  He should be here in a bit and Seto should be on his way by now."

"Good, let's go back to them…on second thought let's not…" Kinta groaned at the thought of being stuck with the pharaoh and Anthy, she still had an urged to stab both of them. She slumped onto the counter, her head hidden by her arms.

" I'm not leaving Ryou with them."

"Oh go fuck yourself!" she said looking up; " Baka. They aren't going to do anything to him or pollute his 'innocent' mind! Maybe they'll bore him to death but that's all!" she scoffed before slumping forward again " Ra my head hurts, remind me never to get hit with a Niet' ever again."

"Still hurting?"

"My brain feels like it's being trampled by a thousand tiny monkeys and no; I have no idea where the monkey idea came from. I blame it on the pain." She said without raising her head.

Bakura sniggered to himself; before putting an arm around her and leaning in, "Eh, who cares, so after we kill your hikari I say we get Yami and his bitch, what do you say?"

"Sounds great to me."   she smiled dimly.

 The shop bell rang as Seto entered closely followed by Malik, Bakura and Kinta quickly separated and turned to face them.

"Great you're both here, this way." Bakura said as he led them to the back room where, Anthy, Yami, and Ryou were waiting.

"So what the hell's going on?" Malik asked.

" Way too much." Bakura muttered, " Kinta, you explain it."

" For starters we need your help. Kilandra as Bakura told you is not human and is out to kill us; well mainly me, Bakura, and Yami but she'll kill you to get to us. Yugi is dead." She paused to let that sink in, "… She killed him about an hour ago – not even. We have to kill her before she kills us. But to do that  we have to take away what demon powers she has left. That's where you two come in. We believe you two can stop her."

The two exchanged glances and then looked around the room.

"Bakura your girl's insane. I don't know shit about her light.-"

"She knows you though. I tried to retrieve info from her mind – two things came up several times, I piece of text, once Seto was using it on Yami – it's some type of spell. And the other time it was being carved into your back Malik."

 Malik tensed at the mention of that. Too many bad memories.

"Malik we need to see your back." Kinta finished. " Something on it she doesn't want us to see. That's why she came to you."

Malik was silent for a moment. " Fine." was all he said; avoiding their looks.

" Okay, so you need the spell from Malik's tattoos, and why do you need me exactly..?" Seto asked.

" Because you were using the spell in the vision, I highly doubt the spell is going to have a 'how to' guide, so you're going to have to search your mind for it, or let me, your choice."

" You can stay out of my head thank you very much."

" Fine but you better start thinking because we want this fast before she comes and kills someone else."

" Yugi's really dead?" Malik asked, you could tell he didn't quite believe.

" Yes, he's really gone."

" That's so unreal."

" All the more reason for us to move faster. Malik, c'mon off with the shirt."

" What?" He asked dumbly.

" Your tattoos Malik." Kinta said impatiently.

Malik pulled his shirt off and had everyone not just witnessed a death there would have been several stripper jokes at this point, but seeing as everyone was more or less subdued there were none.

Malik turned so they all had a clear view of his back. Kinta stepped forward and studied it.

"So what does it say?"

"… Load  of rubbish about the pharaoh over here, I just have to find the part we need…" Kinta replied her hand hovered over the glyphs as she read them trying to find the spell.

" I got it, here." She pointed to a row of glyphs, " That's the spell, Give me a second to copy it." As she went for a paper and pen Yami and Bakura both took a look and read what she had pointed to. It was indeed a protection spell of some sort.

" what good is a protection spell? We need to get rid of her powers." Bakura stated.

" Read closely, it also drains power of the offender. It should work against her when she attacks Yami."

"Me?" Yami said quietly, his eyes were reddened form holding back tears.

"Yes you pharaoh the spell was written for you in the first place. We get Kilandra to attack you once the spell's on and then she's powerless, and we can get rid of her.  I' m done Malik. "

Malik pulled his shirt back on as Kinta read over what she had just written. Then she started copying it again.  Once she finished she ripped the paper and thrust one copy at Seto, " This is what you're looking for any time you see this try to remember everything surrounding it."

Seto nodded.

" That's that. Until we have some plan and Seto can remember what this ritual entails we can't do anything. But I want everyone staying here, she knows who's a threat, and quite frankly  everyone here is in danger, all of us either can ham her directly or are very important to those who can." She looked to Ryou and Anthy, "We can't go too far away, because the only warning we might have is if I can sense her coming. So anyone who wants to live needs to stay here. I have work to do, I'll be upstairs." Kinta finished her speech and swept from the room. Leaving several sullen and surprised faces behind.

Looks were exchanged and everyone left, the shop was locked up by Yami and Anthy who then retreated to Yami's room, Bakura followed Kinta upstairs to the extra bedroom, Malik, Seto, and Ryou looked around uncomfortably before settling in the living room.

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and that's the end of eight. It was a pain to write, I hate exposition scenes, but I love the next chap, (I get to do go though everyone's thoughts and feelings.) basically, its' dealing with Yugi's death and wondering what to do about Kilandra.

Not a happy chap.

But I never said it would be.

 Oh yeah, I'm working on chap. ten, any last ideas about deaths /endings/etc. please leave in your review!!!

Oh and just so you know… I'm planning a 'Buffy' later on, if anyone knows what I mean, go you.

In layman's terms: Death is not permanent.