BookDragon: "No I'm not doing another Bakura Fiction, sorry guys. I'm trying to focus on everybody."

Bill: "Yeah it's nuts." *makes crazy sign with hands*

BookDragon: *looking boredly at the signs* "You're realizing this NOW?"

Bill: "Uh…okay… just read the chappy…this is getting weird…"

Chapter 5: Sword Sheath

"I'm tired of walking!" Kyle complained loudly, echoing off into the desolate purple-black smog around them. Ann rolled her eyes, annoyed for the fifth time he said that in ten minutes.

"Look! I have no idea what will happen to us if we stop. What if we get lost?!"

"Aren't we already lost?" Ann glared at Brian menacingly. He just looked at her and yawned boredly and kept walking as she turned and shook the bracelet angrily.

"Come on! Why wouldn't this freaking thing work!"

"Maybe it's you…try putting it on again." Brian reasponded tiredly as Ann took it out of her left hand wearily and slapped it back onto her arm and kept walking on, noticing that her legs were starting to cramp and was starting to consider to stopping. Finally after a few minutes of debating she heard a loud thumb behind her and immediately knew Kyle was sitting on the ground, legs curled Indian style and his nose turned up like a preppy teen girl who was just asked out by a nerd.

"I'm not going a step further." He said in a plain voice, no added emotion at all. "If I die, I die a resting man." Ann simply turned and sat down in the same fashion and stared up at the sky. Brian just blinked at the both of them, messed up his black-brown hair while rubbing his head, tugged on his black shirt and sat down in the same way.

"We're all going out together?"

"No." Brian answered locally and pulled out some crackers out of his pocket, took a few and crunched on them. Kyle looked at them with longing sad eyes, until Brian forked over the bag finally sick of the look. Kyle took it happily and started munching on them hungrily, making Ann raise an eyebrow surprised at him.

"When was the last time you ate? Two days ago?"

"No, accually ten minutes ago." Ann's head went down with a jerk at the question and sighed annoyed.

"What's the time?" She asked a few moments later ignoring Kyle's lip smacking sounds. Brian took out his watch slowly, looked it, shook it a lot, tapped it, punched it, and finally looked at her baffled.

"It's not working."

"I've realized." She stated looking dully at the watch hands that were dead on the surface of the watch, frozen in time. Maybe they were frozen in time too, frozen like lake water in the depths of a never-ending winter, covered fluffy snow, hiding behind the ice crystals, forever.

"Hey! Are you okay?" She blinked at looked at Kyle's pale white face, a huge opposite to the rosy checks he always had, which woke her up rudely.

"What?"

"I don't know, it just got really cold a minute ago… like I could see the fog coming out of your mouth…" Ann wrinkled her forehead confused, dazing off thinking, too busy to notice her eyes were on his purple shaking lips. Brian stood up and dusted his shirt off while rubbing his arms when he noticed some white fluff by his feet, and knew it was snow. Looking curiously at it he tapped her on the shoulder carefully, shook her a bit, and finally jabbed her in the arm very painfully.

"OUCH! What the hell was that for?!?!"

"It's time to go." He pointed to her arm, which had a bright glowing band around it that hurt to look at directly, making her have difficulty taking it off while shielding her eyes. Once it was off it did the usual tugging and twisting and firework light show until it was done, probably feeling smug with itself by being so stubborn. Ann sighed in relief and took a firm grip on both sides and step through the bubbly radiant light and into the familiar dim basement she had only visited yesterday. She blinked a dew times have trouble adjusting her eyes, as Brian emerged through it nimbly, and Kyle who struggled around a bit and almost fell on the floor. The circle stayed open a few minutes longer until Kyle started wiggling his finger in his ear, and smacked the side of his head. A few golden drops hung about in the air a few moments until they whisked themselves into the huge pool and dissipated, leaving them surprised but not really surprised, like it was too normal.

"Where are we?"

"We're in Bill's basement."

"Since when does Bill have the know how to have a house?" Brian asked in disbelieve.

"Since now…" Ann climbed the stairs quickly, making a lot of noise scrabbling up the stairs as the other two boys struggled to get in front of her. It had turned into a contest to get up the stairs and open the door first. Of course none of them did. Yugi opened the door puzzled at the noise and ended up getting tackled by the group hard onto the floor. Muddled disarray filled the room loudly with shouts of pain and bitterness until they straighten themselves out. Brian and Kyle were happy to see him, as he and Yami was to them; Ann was busy looking around for Bakura, and found him leaning against the doorway of the hall. She snuck away from the jabbing guys and to him.

He was usually pale, a computer paper white with two very chocolate colored eyes looking at her, frail eyes. She only glanced at him and kept walking, knowing he would follow her at a slow pace down into the stretching hall to the first door. She rested he hand on the door gently and opened it with a shaking twist and slowly opened the door, peering in to look if the coast was clear. The room was empty of people. She opened the door all the way with a jerk and shut it after Bakura.

"What do you want me to do?" She asked him below a whisper, trying to control her stomach writhing in her gut.

"Pick up one of those…" He pointed to the desk with a long pale finger and Ann stepped toward it slowly, feeling her heart in her chest thumbing quickly. Each step was horrific, more sickening than the last. She wanted to throw up to get out of this situation, to leave and never enter the room again. She was at the table staring down at the sparkle of gold in front of her, which was now moving like water, swirling in their objects frames.

            She took her hand slowly and reached forward slowly and picked up a long rectangular object that had caught her eye and held it up slowly. She only realized it was a sheath when it was too late, when everything suddenly went very dark, like a shroud smothering her instantly. She heard a hard swallow behind her and knew Bakura had somehow come with her, where ever that had gone. Air was circling them; she could feel it and see it in her hair. It tickled her face playfully and wrapped itself around her like a light blanket. She heard a small whimper from behind her and knew it was Bakura, which sent a chill down her spine and tried to turn around to see what was happening to him when she realized she could move and she too became afraid. The wind was suddenly restless and strong around her kneels, and suddenly circling not on her but in front of her stormily with small sparks crashing. The sound that ear splitting as her eyes shut tightly and ended with a loud slam when she landed to the floor with a dull bone shaking thud. As everything came into focus she felt increasingly lightheaded and sick, and saw someone standing in front of her. Getting up slowly in a jerky fashion because she was trying to get back control of her own muscles again, she stood up and looked at a girl standing in front of her in aghast.

            Her eyes were closed lightly, as if sleeping, but it was her own eyes. It was herself standing in front of her in different clothes, some kind of white robes, but with her face and body. Her arms were crossed and holding a sheath in her right hand with a clenched fist, like Ann was holding the same object at that very moment. Ann felt a body brush against her arm and jumped and found Bakura standing calmly beside her, looking somewhat surprised.

"I never expected this…"  The Ann's double jerked suddenly and uncrossed her arms, making Bakura jump and pull Ann back away from her as her eyes opened. Golden eyes looked at them under a stern glance at them and moved her arms comfortably and looked at Ann seriously.

"Who are you?" The double moved her wrists slowly and secured the object into her leather belt and put her arms behind her back.

"I am Kakra, royal guard of the Pharaoh. Who as awoke me from my slumber?"

"Um… Ann and Bakura… we are…uh…friends of the Pharaoh." Kakra glared at Bakura menacingly suddenly.

"Friends! We've caught him stealing several times from the treasury. You lie." Ann looked at Bakura's baffled face just as confused, until realization lit her face.

"…Times has changed…" This caught Kakra's attention.

"Changed?"

"Yeah…it's been more that two-thousand years since your Pharaoh ruled…"

"T-two thousand?" Ann nodded at her.

"It was suppose to awake earlier than that, only to serve King Yami again that I was put to sleep…" Ann and Bakura looked at each other.

"King Yami?"

"Yes, when the worlds split I swore to stay at his side, but he refused. I then went to a spellcaster and had myself imbedded in my sword…him." She pointed behind them. Bill stood in the blackness behind them, shaking with furry with red-brown eyes he looked at them.

"You…You…You…" He voice was extremely hoarse in the air around them. Ann felt herself stepping away from him, wide-eyed at his figure slowly getting larger and more and more menacing by each moment.

"Uh…Bill calm down…" Bakura said in a small whimper.

"CALM DOWN!?!?! YOU EXPECT ME TO CALM DOWN?! AFTER MY BEST FRIEND BREAKS INTO MY ROOM AND BETRAYS ME! YOU EXPECT ME TO CALM DOWN AFTER THAT?"

"A-actually the door was open…" Ann's voice stated like a suggestion as Bill's glare loomed over her head.

"YOU! You weren't even suppose to KNOW about this…did HE drag you into this?! NO he probably told you and you decided to get involved. YOU MEDDLING BITCH!" A spark of rage flashed in her eyes and she made a movement forward. She felt a hand squeezed down on her shoulder and a voice much like her own whispered in her ear.

"Control it…he is your friend" Maybe they had more alike than expected. Her hand claimed painfully with increased strength. Bill raged on, as Bakura stayed silent, letting it fall over his head. She pulled forward again and was restrained.

"Leave them…it is their quarrel."

"No, I'm part of this mess too…Bakura wouldn't fight him, not even if he has a good reason…"

"He's not much of a man then." Even through the yelling she heard that.

"…Never mind…can you do something for me?" Kakra thought about it a moment.

"Yes."

"Can you find the boy you mistook my friend here for?" She thought about it a moment.

"Yes, I can. However, we would need the spellcaster's help…or that." She pointed to the bracelet lighting under her sleeve like a flashlight.

"Really?" Kakra nodded.

"What do I do?"

"Look at the inside band." Ann took it off shakily and looked, the same three pictures shinned out at her.

"Let me have it."  Ann forked it over to Kakra's tanned hands. She looked it over with a small smile on her face.

"You know, I had a family bracelet like this… but I had to use it to pay the caster…I shouldn't have ever, it's surprising you have one…you must be my mirror image."

"Mirror image?"

"Yes…he had told me before I did this, in every world you have a double at some point in time, we must have a whole string of doubles. It's a type of balance, he was very vague…"

"…Okay…let's call Bakura's double then…"

"The white haired boy's a double? It makes sense…are you ready?"

"…Yes." Both girls looked at each other and Kakra gave the bracelet back and took the sword Ann held. Kakra muttered something under her breath, and put her fingers together. Ann felt the wind picked up again and light filled the room, stopping Bill's yells flat and left them staring as slowly a familiar shape emerged from it. Loud coughing commenced and brown eyes glared at her and she immediately knew it had worked.

"It has been a long time since anyone has summon me-" His eyes froze at the sight of them, suddenly embraced with rage. It was going to be a long day.

BookDragon: "Sorry for the cliffy guys…I'll update next week.

Bill: "Please review… she's been writing for three hours straight to even think of all this…"

BookDragon: "Yeah I know the double thing is kind of weird, but she wouldn't be part of the whole story, this is only going to be for a few chapters…unless you guys think I should keep her in the story… I still don't know what I'm gonna do…review and I'll make up my mind."