Sorry for the long update! U_U I had homework in the way! Argh! Die, homework! .. anyways. I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, and would never deny it, I own six Hidden Items, mysterious voice, Ria, Ka, Sii.

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Chapter Six: The Mysterious Transfer Student

"WHAT?!? YOU MEAN TA TELL ME YA HAFTA COLLECT DEM ITEMS ALL OVER 'GAIN?!? WHY?!?"

Tea and Tristan were struggling to hold Joey from exploding and beating Yugi to a bloody pulp. Joey had a talent in beating people to a bloody pulp. Bakura was sitting quietly and politely farthest from the group and hadn't said anything to the group except a very polite "hi" since he got there.

Yugi nodded his head nervously.

Joey made some strangling motions to the air and started cursing to god asking why a task like this had to be brought on poor little Yugi and about injustice.

"JOEY! You're going to spoil poor innocent Yugi and Bakura!" Tea was talking about the swearing, of course. She was pretty, um, protective when it came to Yugi or Yami.

Bakura checked his watch. "Great Scott, it's past my bedtime. See you all tomorrow at school!" That said, he walked out of the Turtle game shop and into the night.

Everyone was reminded by Bakura that it was 11:43 pm and decided to go home, also.

That left Yugi with trying to talk to Yami for company. Trying, because the former pharaoh was already arguing with somebody...

""When I was stuck in Ryou's body he was kinder than this! And he certainly did not wear the Ring around his waist!""

""I think Bakura has spoiled you too much, tomb raider, and how else do you expect me to wear the Ring? Take off my puzzle?""

Yugi let out a tragic sigh. Those two spirits don't know when to shut it, did they? He had an idea...

"You know, why don't we just return the items to their former holders for now? We have no use for them."

Yami Bakura seemed thrilled about this. ""You mean I don't have to hang around the pharaoh's waist anymore? I get to live with Ryou again? Is this true?""

Yugi smiled. "On one condition: you don't beat the daylights out of him. Deal?"

Yami Bakura was overjoyed. ""Is that a joke? In case you haven't heard, I never beat up Ryou to begin with! That's just a wild and bizarre roumor that's been spreading around. I don't know where people got such a ridiculous idea. I know he was a reincarnation of me, meaning he is me, and so It would be like I'm beating up myself if I beat him up.""

Yami and Yugi wiped happy tears from their eyes when Bakura suddenly remembered who he was talking to. He turned bright red. ""I mean, I still need his body in tip-top condition."" He tried to cover it up with a feeble excuse.

Yugi apologized. "But that's really sweet of you, Yami Bakura. I'm happy for you."

""So, will you return me tomorrow?""

"Yes, definitely!"

""Who could have guessed that Bakura would give an influence on the grave robber...""

""Shut, pharaoh.""

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While the "pharaoh" and the "tomb raider" were throwing insults at each other again, Bakura was running down the alleyway, hopelessly lost. He had gotten used to finding his way home with the help of his alter ego. Now he was all alone, and a group of bullies just picked that time to spot him and to start picking on him.

"Hey, old man, if you're lost, I can lead you to your apartment. Or do you even have a home? My grandpa lives in a trailer."

Bakura turned around to face the bullies. He recognized them from school. They were all twelfth graders, and nobody except Kaiba messed with them.

"Oh, pardon me, it's the famous Ryou Bakura!" the leader of the gang said.

"Ooooh, isn't it the guy that took your girlfriend, boss?"

Bakura winced. He had attracted a lot of girls when he had transferred to Domino High, but he had no idea that other people had lost their dates with that. He really had no intention at all in having a girlfriend yet. "I'm sorry about that, I didn't mean to take your girlfriend..."

The leader didn't seem to care. "Hey, I heard it's better for seniors to walk with canes." He punched Bakura so hard he slammed against the brick wall of the alleyway. "That way, they don't fall over too much."

The punch had hurt, but the brick wall had made Bakura's head start bleeding. And that hurt a lot.

I've gotten into more trouble after my yami moved out of me, Bakura thought miserably. Oh, what I'd give for some help right now...

His wish was granted. As he was busy hiding in his thoughts, another shadowed figure revealed itself. It turned out to be a girl, still wearing her uniform from her school.

"Hey, bully! Pick on someone your own age!" she yelled at the bully in a voice that seemed much older than her uniform.

The leader stared at the girl and studied her uniform. Then he laughed.

"Ha! Who are you to say such filth to me? I am in twelfth grade in Domino High, and judging by your uniform, you still go to junior high! Why do you tell me to pick on my own size?"

The girl finally looked up. Brown eyes flashed a violent glare. "I think you misunderstood my command. Clothes can be deceiving." She threw off the uniform jacket she was wearing. Underneath she was wearing a tank top and tight black pants.

Wait a second, Bakura slowly realized. This routine looks familiar...

That was as far as he got before his brain shut off.

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"Let us play a little game. I'll shuffle my deck. You'll draw a card, then I'll draw a card. The one with the stronger monster wins." The girl's eyes narrowed. "If I win, you will leave Ryou alone. If you win, I will leave."

The bully smiled. "Fine, I'll play your stupid game. It's not like you're gonna win, anyway."

"You cannot be so sure. This is merely a game of chance. Neither of us has an advantage over the other."

The bully just shrugged. "Yeah, well something tells me you're the loser and I'm the winner!" He drew a card from the top of the deck. "Ha! I drew Summoned Scull! Attack 2500 and defense 1200! Try and beat that, punk!"

The girl drew a card from the top. "And I drew Dark Magician, with attack points of 2500 and a defense of 2100! He is stronger than the Summoned Scull, so I win!"

"What? You squirt! You must have cheated! Oh, well. Who said I had to keep my end of the bargain?" He started to look through Bakura's bag for cash.

"You shall be punished for breaking the rules of the game!" An eye flashed on her forehead. "MIND CRUSH!"

The last cries of the bully were heard as his mind disappeared to the Shadow Realm. The rest of the gang, now without a leader, ran away.

"Are you all right?" the strange girl ran up to Bakura worriedly. He did not answer. "Do not worry, the bully is gone."

She took a small washcloth from her left pocket and a bottle of water from her right. She dipped the washcloth in the water and patched it over Bakura's bleeding head. "There, that should slow it down." She got up and stared down at him. "I have a feeling we have met before, and I feel that we will meet again. Until then, farewell." With that, she ran off.

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Bakura started to open his eyes. The first thing he noticed was a damp rag over his bloody spot. His head had stopped bleeding. He could make out a shadow of the girl running off. Then he noticed something next to him...

The girl had forgotten her jacket.

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"Bakura, is there something wrong?" Yugi asked Bakura the next morning before school. They had arrived an hour early. "You look like you have a lot on your mind."

"Huh? Oh, I'm okay."

"Here, this should cheer you up." Yugi took out the Ring and handed it to Bakura. "Yami, Yami Bakura, and I decided to let you have the Ring back! We don't need it right now, anyway."

Bakura looked very happy. "I can have my Ring back? Thank you, Yugi!" He started to study the Ring, wiping off blood and fingerprints from it. "I even started to miss polishing this thing!"

Suddenly, a needle on the Ring rose up and pointed to the right. "Huh?"

Yugi looked confused. "I have all the Items here, and I'm standing to your left..."

Bakura started to walk the direction the Ring was pointing. Yugi followed him. They eventually walked up to another school.

"Bakura, Does this make any sense to you?" Yugi asked. "Bakura?"

"This school...isn't it Domino Junior High?" Bakura asked.

"Yeah, this is Domino Junior High. So?"

Bakura took out the jacket that the girl had left behind last night. Sure enough, printed on the purple material, were the words "Domino Junior High".

"Where did you get that?" Yugi stared at the jacket. "You never even went to this school, and that's part of their girl's school uniform."

"Really?" It was certain now. This girl went to Domino Junior High. But does she have anything to do with his Ring...?

"I want to go in." Bakura ran into the school, following his Ring's lead. They soon reached a classroom. It was a classroom full of sixth graders. He walked up to the closest student, a girl with short black hair held back by two clips.

"Is anyone here missing their school uniform jacket?"

The girl looked at him strangely. "How did you know? Sii is the only one today not wearing a jacket. She doesn't seem to know where it is."

Bakura nodded. This is the kind of answer he had been looking for. "Which one is Sii?"

"Over there. She's a transfer student. She seems pretty creepy if you ask me. Since she came to this school, she hadn't said a word to anybody." The girl thought for a moment. "Except on her third day here. We were reviewing what we knew about Egyptian deities, because we were about to start studying Egypt, and we knew some, like Ra and Horus. But Sii raised her hand, and when the bored teacher called on her, expecting her to say either Ra or Horus or both like the rest of us, she started listing off a whole lot of them. Set, Nut, Geb, Tawaret, Bes, Hathor, Ma'at, Thoth, Isis, Osiris, Sobek, Bastet, Sekmet, and a bunch of others I don't even remember. The teacher had to stop her because she listed them clear into recess. Later, she didn't even seem to remember doing so."

Bakura and Yugi looked at each other. This girl did seem sort of weird. But Bakura still wanted to find out about her. The least he could do was give her a thank-you for saving him last night.

"Thanks for the background information." He made his way to Sii. She was sitting at her desk drawing scarab beetles.

"Hi there, Sii. Remember me?"

Sii looked up. Her brown innocent eyes widened at the high schooler that was addressing her politely. She had been looking for a friend since she moved to Domino City. "Hi. Nihao. Neihou. Hello. What did you say?"

Bakura stared at Sii. "Just how many languages do you know?"

Sii shrugged. "Only three. How do you know my name?"

"A girl told me."

"Oh. Since you already know my name, can you tell me yours?"

Bakura stared at Sii some more. "Don't you remember me? Ryou Bakura?"

Sii smiled sweetly. "Ryou Bakura. What a cute name for a cute face." Bakura blushed a bit. "I don't remember anything from last night, though. I don't remember doing anything special. It's odd, though. My jacket disappeared this morning." Bakura quickly took the jacket out of his bag. "Wait, I think this is yours. You left it next to me on the ground last night."

Sii put the jacket on. "Thanks, Ryou! But what was my jacket doing on the ground?"

Bakura blinked. Had he heard her correctly? "You threw it off. Remember?"

Sii looked confused. "I don't know how to throw off my jacket. It looks too hard." She paused for a moment. "Then again, maybe I did do something like this...I just don't remember." She studied Ryou. "Did you run here? You look tired!"

"Uh, yeah. We did run here. I'm fine." Bakura said.

"Oh, please, have some water. You need it more than I do." Sii took a water bottle out of her bag and handed it to him.

"Thanks." Bakura gulped the water down thirstily. To his surprise, he didn't feel as...tired.

"Wow, this is cool water!"

Sii lit up some more. "It is, isn't it? It restores energy. For some reason, every water bottle that I pack in my bag has that kind of restoring water. Strange, huh? And I drank one of my friend's before. It was made from the same brand, and it didn't restore my energy. It's kind of freaky to me."

Bakura smiled knowingly. "I know how that feels. I used to have things like that happen to me, too. I was also very quiet when I transferred into my school. We have quite a bit in common, do we?"

Sii nodded. "Yeah." She looked at Bakura and studied him harder. "Oh, my! What happened to your head?"

She was obviously staring at his bloody spot. "Oh, it's okay. It hurt a lot last night, though."

"What happened?"

"A group of bullies came and beat me up. If you hadn't come and saved me, I might have bled to death."

"That sounds scary." Sii thought about Bakura's last response again. "Wait, I saved you?"

"Well, you did, but you might not remember. I can't fill you in; I blacked out from loss of blood."

The Ring's needle started tugging again, this time really hard, and the tip had even started to glow. Sii studied the Ring. "What's that funny looking thing?"

Bakura noticed it tugging and glowing. "It's the Millennium Ring. It contains powerful magic." He didn't know why he was telling Sii something like this. He knew he sounded crazy.

"Erm, how did you...get it?"

"My father gave it to me after he retuned from a business trip to Egypt. I treasure it. But there are lots of disadvantages of having it..."

"Oh." Sii finally noticed Yugi. "Hey, aren't you Yugi Motou, the King of Games? It's such an honor to meet you!" She started shaking Yugi's hand. Yugi jerked at the sudden attention. He hadn't minded being ignored; he had been too busy talking to Yami.

"Um, thanks."

"Your title is what interested me to come here in the first place. Can I learn to duel from you? Please?"

Yugi loosened. "Of course. I've taught a lot of people to duel already, there's no reason why I can't teach you."

Sii jumped up excitedly. "Yay! Thanks, Yugi!"

"Just meet me at Turtle game shop after school. Okay?"

"Okay!"

Yugi studied Sii. He noticed a certain something around her neck that interested him...

""Yugi, she has the Millennium Necklace!""

Yugi wasn't sure, but he wanted to ask about it. "Sii, may I see your necklace more clearly?"

"Sure!" She revealed the necklace that had been hiding under her jacket.

""Yes, Yugi. That's certainly the Millennium Necklace.""

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