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Ryou stood with his back against the wall, holding his books protectively infront of him as the ring of bullies around him leerd, laughed, and made rude mean coments.

"Awwww... little girly boy afraid of us?" the leader, Honda, said stepping even closer. It was well known that Ryou was one of Honda's favorett punching bags, along with Yugi and Malik. Desperatly, Ryou tried to dodge around the thugs dropping his books in the process. One of the thugs grabed ryou by the arm and threw him back to the wall. Honda aproached him then and punched him hard in the face busting Ryou's lip. "I dont think so!" he said getting ready to throw another punch.

"BACK OFF!!" A carfully measured heavily accented voice said. Turning, Honda saw Malik beind him and his thugs looking ready for a fight.

"Or what, Ishthar? there aint nothin you can do to us." Honda said. With that, one of his thugs threw Malik against the wall by Ryou and all of them closed in to beat up on the Egyptain boy.

"Wats all dis den?" a heavily accented and verry cocky voice said.

"Stay out of this Katsuya!!" Honda growled.

"Not on your life Hitiro." Jou said. "I don like to see some punks beaten up on people who don deserve it."

"You dont scare us, Katsuya." Honda said, and for the moment he and his thugs were ignoring the egypain and british boys and focusing on Jou who had a rep as a fighter.

Big mistake.

Throwing themselves at the blond, the six of them soon found themselves running away from the superior skills of the accomplished street fighter. *(*no, not meant as ANYTHING at all*)* As they ran wimpering like the cowards they were, Jou turned to Ryou who was trying to help Malik up.

"You'se alright?" he asked going over to help.

"I'm fine, but they got Malik pretty bad and he is coughing up blood." Ryou said, trying to hold his friend up.

"That aint good! Look, I can give yas a ride on my bike," Jou said, pointing to where he left his motorcycle. "but I can only take one person at a time. Would you be ok waiting for the next ride?"

"I'm not hurt and can walk the rest of the way, but please take Malik, he cant hardly stand right now Katsuya-san." Ryou said.

"No problem, and just call me Jou." the blond said, helping support Malik.

"I'm fine!!! I will walk!!" Malik said determinedly trying to stand up, then doubleing over coughing blood again.

"Not like that you aint. Stop fighting and come on." Jou said. As soon as Malik was on Jou started the bike and before he left Ryou told him to make sure Malik actualy went to the nurses ofice as he was apt to try to sneak away.

As soon as they were gone, Ryou gatherd up he and Maliks books and continued on his way, oblivious to the olive eyes watching him.

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Bakura watched the blond join the fray and defeat the ones harming the inocents and was glad. He easily recognised His Hikari by the verry distinctive white hair and demure atitude. If he had been hurt there would have been some dead teenagers down there.

Bakura turned away, trying to ignore the pain iside at knowing his Light was down there but to go to him now would cause so much pain to the boy.

"You have found inocents?" Seto asked from behind him.

"Hikari's." Bakura said, his quiet voice filled with pain.

"I know." Seto said, and for an isntant, Bakura heard the pain there and knew Seto was in the same way as he was. "Come on. I suppose Yami will be looking for me now."

"Yes." Bakura said simply. "This way." Bakura led Seto to the place he was supposed to meet Yami and Marrik in about an hour.

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