Disclaimer: Where there is a will there is a way but I still don't own Yu- Gi-Oh!

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ON THE STREET

"Wait up guys, I have to put the mail in the mailbox." exclaimed Yugi almost forgetting to drop off the mail.

The group of teenagers and one preteen headed toward the skyscraper of Kaiba Corporation in search for Seto Kaiba. The search would take place all over the city and they didn't have all the time in the world to search for Mokuba's big brother but there would be other days; well not that many days. Trying to have a good time to match the season, everyone tried to make Mokuba laugh by telling jokes and laughing while having a good old jolly time! Was it working? Of course not but they where trying to the best of their ability. Mokuba was walking slowly and cautionary as he looked around at every single thing that was in front of him to see if there was any indication or clue that Seto could have been near the area. So maybe at this point, as Yugi and friends noticed, Mokuba had gone to the point of. PARANOIA! These days you could never tell anymore who that hits, it could be you, Te`a, Bakura who isn't in the story, Tristan or anyone else!

Taking the same route to Kaiba Corp. as Mokuba did when he walked, sometimes ran (when he wasn't tired or eating or drinking something) over to Yugi's house, not much changed since Mokuba last saw it.

"Mokuba are you alright?" asked Yugi worried about the kid the same height of him.

"Huh? Oh, I'll be okay." lied Mokuba so that everyone wouldn't be asking him all the time.

Everyone became quiet, they didn't know what to talk about or joke about. They walked the streets silent until Te`a thought of the perfect thing to talk about, not that it was perfect, it was something to talk about. "Hey Mokuba, I was thinking, you should put streaks of red in your hair! It'd look good on you and it'd match that sweater you're wearing." proclaimed Tea trying to spark a conversation.

"I like my hair the way that it is." replied Mokuba pushing his hair out of his face. There was a slight breeze and every now and then it would catch strains of Mokuba's hair and throw it in his face.

A lady was walking toward them; she looked like a business woman. She had long brown hair that was put back but flowed down to the middle of her back and she wore a pearl necklace on her neck and her whole outfit was red. The lady was on her cell phone not paying attention to the group of kids that were walking her way. She bumped into Mokuba and said, "Excuse me ma'am," and then walked away.

"I hate my hair!" Mokuba stated angrily to himself but loud enough for everyone to hear.

"You just said you liked your hair." said Duke. Everyone looked at him and Tristan elbowed him hard in the side. Duke didn't mean it as a insult or to annoy Mokuba or teach him a lesson, he just wasn't thinking.

They came to the end of the street and the road blocked their way. They were once again in silence and the group of Yugi and friends were waiting by the corner of the street because cars were passing by and the stoplights hadn't turned red yet. Joey walked over to the metal pole and pressed the button under the sign that had a representation of a person walking across the street. He pressed it two times to make sure that the stoplight would change to red and the light for them to walk over to the other side would turn on. It was a minute or so that they waited till the light turned red letting them walk across the street unharmed and safe.

"You guys should go there, they have some interesting flavors of water." Stated Mokuba pointing over at the store called 'Flavored Contender'.

"What kinda of flavors do they have?" asked Yugi pretty interested because of the name of the store and that Mokuba suggested that it was a good place.

"Well I went there to get water and from what I saw, they had almost any kind of water you could imagine but they didn't sell regular water."

"That's strange." replied Tristan getting a little thirsty from all the talk about water and plus he didn't drink much except for the milk that was in his bowl from his breakfast.

"Do you want to stop in?" asked Te`a.

"Naaa, I'm not thirsty right now." Mokuba said starting to pick up the pace so he could get to his house faster.

"I'm thirsty." murmured Tristan staring at the store. "I'll go run in real fast and buy a drink, does anyone want something?"

"I had my share of breakfast this morning, so I'm fine. What about you Yug?"

"No, I'm not thirsty either," Yugi said smiling, "But thanks for asking."

"No."

"No thank you Tristan."

"We'll just wait here for you." Mokuba stated in a hurry.

Tristan looked left then looked right and while he had the chance he ran across the street over to the store to get him something to drink. He opened the door and walked inside to find him something that he felt in the mood for which wasn't hard to think about since he was really thirsty. He knew he wasn't going to find what he was looking for in the alcohol section of the store so he went past it and found the soda section. He was in the mood for a Diet Vanilla Coke but in the isle that he looked at, it wasn't there, nor was there any normal soda. He checked twice and still wasn't satisfied but he noticed there was another isle which led to more soda. He looked around trying to find the soda that was for him but again he got the same result.

Instead of looking through the ten isles of sodas, he decided to ask the clerk working at the store to see if they had the soda he was looking for. "Excuse me sir, but I was wondering if you have any normal soda here?" asked Tristan trying to hurry up because everyone was waiting for him outside.

In a Russian accent, the clerk answered, "Why yes we have normal soda."

"No, I mean like Pepsi or Coca-cola!"

"Huh? What's that?"

"Soda."

"Well this is all the soda we have here is on those ten isles, if it isn't there, then we don't have it."

"I see."

"Take a look, you might find something interesting."

"This is an already interesting store, I'm sure it's full of interesting."

"You think so? I am pleased to hear you like it, kid. I'm the owner of the store!" responded the boyish looking man at the counter that had black hair.

"So you're the owner." said Tristan a little shocked.

"Yes. You know, it's a funny story why I decided to open a place like this. You see I thought I needed a change in life after watching a Mary Kate and Ashley movie and I just woke up one morning and decided to open this store and to this day I am proud to have made that decision." said the owner who had a headband around his head.

"Well I'm going to check the other isles." replied Tristan finding this man really odd. Tristan turned his back to the man and gave an expression on his face showing how strange the man and his store were. Quickly looking at each isle so the rest of the group wouldn't get angry, he didn't find any normal soda. Thirsty and frustrated, he decided not to buy anything from the store since there was nothing to his standards of normal but he thought he was really thirsty and his throat was really dry. He gave in and grabbed a bottle from the shelf, not looking and walked to the counter again where he put it down. He reached into his pocket to get some cash. "This is all I'm getting."

"Good choice!" Said the owner who revealed part of his left face to Tristan because he was looking at him from an angle and Tristan couldn't see his whole face. He had a scar near his lip that went down to his jaw line.

Tristan looked at him for a second realizing that he looked very familiar to him. "Hey mister, you look kinda familiar.

"Yeah you do too, but I just wanted to know do you somebody named. never mind. but you look very familiar."

"Well see ya." Tristan said as starting to make his way to the exit of the strange store. He got outside and waved to his friends and ran across the street almost getting hit because he jaywalked.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I forgot to charge him for the drink!!!!" screamed the store owner.

Tristan catching his breath from almost becoming road kill he said, "Don't go to that store, the owner is strange and they don't have normal drinks!

"Ohhhh! That's what I forgot to mention, you just reminded me." shouted Mokuba.

"So why did it take ya so long huh?" asked Joey.

"Well you see I was looking for Vanilla Coke and they didn't have it so I just grabbed a bottle and headed out.

"What kinda did you get?" asked Te`a curiously.

Tristan looked at the bottle and it was called 'Shark Infested Waters' and he had gotten mint flavored soda. It sounded disgusting of course but he bought it so he thought he'd try it and if he didn't like it dump it but at least he would have tried it! "Mint flavored."

"That's weird." replied Te`a making a disgusting expression on her face.

"It might taste good, the one I got tasted good." stated Mokuba.

"Well what kinda did you get?" asked Yugi.

"I got raspberry flavored water."

"But see Mokuba, you got flavored water, this is soda!" smirked Joey.

"Well anyways, let's get back on track alright; we have a lot of ground to cover!" Yugi announced.

Everyone began walking again and hesitantly, Tristan opened his bottle of soda and sniffed it. It smelt okay but how did it taste? He slowly brought it to his bottom lip and leaned the bottle on it before letting the liquid pour into his mouth. Taking a huge gulp, his eyes began to water and he ran over to the trashcan that was on the street to spit what was left in his mouth in it and dump the soda. Hey, he tried it!

"Poor Tristan." whispered Te`a.

"Hey bud! Are you alright!" yelled Joey power walking toward Tristan to pat his back.

"That was disgusting!" screamed Tristan.

"Didn't the name imply that, heh heh." Laughed Te`a.

"Thanks Te`a but I thought the same thing too, maybe I should of listened to myself or you could have said something." blurted Tristan still leaning into the trashcan to rid the taste of that soda.

Meanwhile, a car was on the road, going forward with the top opened because it stopped raining for now so it was safe to have it open. Hair flying everywhere, the wind pushing, pulling and flowing by the blonde hair of the sexy vixen, Mai Valentine was driving the street enjoying it. Even though it was gloomy outside, she preferred to wear her sunglasses and it also protected her eyes from getting lashed by her hair. She was driving her convertible living the life as she always tried to do, to just have fun. As much as she was having fun, she was still thinking about something that just wouldn't leave her mind and she couldn't wait to address her problem. Well it wasn't a problem, it got her a little down but thinking about it, it also made her happy. She had been the happiest she ever had been in her whole life for the first time since the certain event happened and she met that special person.

Going a little over the speed limit, but not by much, she was heading to the mall downtown when she reached a stoplight that was red. She calmly pressed on the breaks to make a soft stop. A car also stopped beside her that had teenaged guys driving. The driver looked to the side and saw the beautiful woman in the car next to him and started to smile a naught grin and bop his head up and down. The music from the car was roaring loud and the bass had been turned up to the highest level and it was frankly annoying to Mai. She looked over to the older and trashy looking car and noticed the guy looking at her and puckering his lips every so often. "Immature brats." murmured Mai disgusted at the display that was forced upon her. She wasn't going to let it ruin her day so she turned her head back and noticed the light turned green so he softly touched on the gas and drove forward. The car gas hard to catch up with Mai and show off to her which wasn't working but they were just poor ignorant boys. She noticed them again and just rolled her eyes and sighed, thank goodness the guy she liked was like that.

Switching lanes now, she slowed and went in the back of the car filled with annoyance because she would have to make a turn soon to reach the mall. Trying to ignore the car in front of her, she noticed a little boy with hair that was in the shape of a hand. Unusual to most because of its black, red and yellow hair color and the style of hair, she knew it was the only person she knew that had that hair style. Yugi Mutou was on the streets with four other boys and one girl.

Deciding to give those boys a scare, she started tail gating the car in front of her. She looked into her rear view mirror to see if anyone was driving behind her and there wasn't so she moved in close to the street and made a fast but smooth stop beside Yugi and friends. "Hey there Yugi!" said Mai, moving a little bit to lean her elbow on her seat so she could face Yugi and the people with him.

"Mai! Hey!" shouted Yugi.

"Hey miss Valentine." Duke voiced.

"Hey Mai!!!"

"Hello, how are you?" Te`a kindly asked.

"Hey everyone! How are all of you?" smiled Mai staring at a certain person but trying not to make it obvious to everyone else.

"Hi." said Joey short and sweet. "We're alright and you?"

"I'm good; about to head to the mall, what are you guys up to on such a stormy day?"

"We'll we are on our way to Kaiba Corp." stated Tristan before getting interrupted.

"Kaiba Corp.!" blurted Mai confused.

"Yeah, we're helping Mokuba." Tristan continued.

"Oh I see."

"His brother might have been kidnapped or is just missing." explained Duke who probably shouldn't have said that out loud to Mai because he didn't know how Mokuba felt about letting her know.

"Kidnapped! Missing!" yelled Mai shocked. "Do you guys need a ride?"

"Sure!" Yugi said glad that he wouldn't have to walk all that way and waste all his time getting there not that it was really far, it just felt as if they where going to a while to get their with Mokuba acting the way he was and walking very slow.

"Shotgun!" yelled Joey who ran to the other side of the car opening the door to Mai's convertible and stepping in. He looked at everyone to come in and then looked over at Mai winking at her in a sweet and caring way that made her blush a little.

Everyone got into her car though there wasn't room for everyone but they managed to fit. Mai drove, Joey was in the front seat, Tristan sat behind Joey with Duke beside him, Te`a sitting on Yugi's lap and Mokuba forced to sit in Tristan's lap. "Don't forget to put the seatbelts on!" said Mai looking behind her and then driving into the inner right lane. (Remember they are in Japan!) Driving with more caution and safety because the car was overfilled with people and Mai didn't want to get caught and get a ticket, she pushed on toward their destination wanting to drop her previous plans at the mall and help them. It was more interesting then going to the mall to buy clothing, at least for this woman.

"Since you know Mai, what to help us?" asked Joey very kindly and lovingly that it made it obvious that there was something between the two of them, but luckily no one picked up on it.

"I would love too," she began but realized that it wasn't for her to decide whether or not she could join in on the search, "If it is okay with you guys?"

"If something did happen to my big brother, he isn't giving any rewards." Mokuba said just wanting to get back to Kaiba Corp. and see for himself that Seto had come back. He called and even checked the answering machine already what more proof did he want, but the mind can be strange at times! Under the circumstances to Mokuba, Seto just leaving a note like the one he did was very suspicious! And what was that thing about bring Mokuba an American made shirt back for him, thought Mokuba.

"That was uncalled for Mokuba!" scolded Te'a turning her head and giving the boy the evil eye.

"What he means to say is it is okay." Duke said trying once again to play the psychoanalyst.

"Thanks." Mai replied sarcastically.

Feeling a couple of rain drops, Mai pressed on a button by the steering wheel that was on the dash board that made the top of her car start to raise above everyone's heads over to the windshield. As it moved forward, it began to rain again, drop by drop eventually making the roads wet and slick. While everyone in the back seat began to talk, Joey and Mia stayed quiet for a while. Whispering as loud but as soft as he could so no one could hear him, Joey said to Mai, "I would like you to stay and help up crack this case."

Mai chuckled a little bit as she looked at Joey real fast and then back on the road to concentrate on that. "Thanks." Mai said this time with more feeling and not being sarcastic.

"Hey guys! Look PHARAOH LINK is playing at the new movie theater they built!" cried Yugi almost face planting his head into the window of Mai's car. Everyone looked out the window except for Mai because she needed to watch the roads. The theater was lit up with florescent lights of blue, red, yellow and white and on the Markey in huge black letters read PHARAOH LINK now playing. The theater was based on that of an old one from the times that they only had one film showing but that was for the outside. Luckily, not hitting and stoplights that were red that would have made them stop, the group was getting closer and closer to Kaiba Corp. If things kept going this way, they'd reach it in no time but then came their first red light in a while so Mai gently hit the brakes and stopped.

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diamonddustx: Well like I said, they'd start searching in the next chapter and they did!!!! But next chapter, oh next chapter is the start of the actual search and then some!!! Please Review. I hope you enjoyed this chapter!!!! ^_^