Thanks for the reviews. And I finally got to do my last Examination, so the vacation has started for me already! Not. I need to clean up my room thoroughly, I got fired from my job, so I have to sort out all of my Dad's music (but he does pay me for it) and my school gave me exactly three months to learn speak French. I happen to be extremely good at German, but that isn't going to help me with my French. I weisse nicht ob dass klappen werde. (I don't know if everything will work out well.) No, computer, I do not wish to install an auto-correct-function that's not on the hard-disc, and therefore, should be uploaded from CD-ROM.

Ryou-Ran: Say, Yami, why are you crying?

Yami: (sobs) Hikari Lunar cut my spike off... my beautiful spike! Bwaahaa! (throws his arms around Yugi's neck)

Ryou: (is peering into the hole in front of the door) That's some deep hole.

Marik: Yes, I did my very best on it. (looks around proudly)

Silverwinged Phoenix: (shoots up from the pit, holding Seto in her claws)

Seto: Aah! Help! I'm afraid of heights! I'm afraid of birds too! Put me down!

Silverwinged Phoenix: Okay. (drops Seto, flies away)

Seto: (falls) BWOMP!

Crater: (appears in the ground)

Ryou: Ah, Murai got him out. (sees something flat crawl his way) OO" Yami Bakura!

Marik: What happened to you?

Yami Bakura: Oow... DreamingChild did something Mean and Nasty to me with the Millennium Mallet... my back! (is still flat)

Yugi: Why would she do that?

Yami Bakura: Because I broke Ryou. She had to use a lot of glue to fix him again. Ow ow, my poor back...

Ryou-Ran: Here, I've got a bicycle pump. (sticks end in Yami Bakura's mouth, begins pumping)

Yami: My sweet little spike... sob... grumble...

Yami Bakura: PANG!

Ryou-Ran: Oops... I blew him up... Does anyone have some stickers to fix the leak?

Yami: MY SPIIIKEEE!

Ryou-Ran: Don't worry about your spike, Yami. I'll draw you a new one. There.

Yami: I've got my spike back! I missed you so much, spike! (hugs spike)

Ryou: Here are the stickers.

Yugi: Hey, I've found a magic box, what can be inside it?

Yami: Trust in the Heart of the Cards and you can safely open it, Yugi.

Yugi: What does the Heart of the Cards have to do with a magic box?

Yami: Nothing, but I just felt like saying that.

Yugi: --"(opens box)

Disclaimer: (pops out, knocks Yugi upside-down)

Yami: YUGI!

Yugi: XX

Yami: See? He didn't trust in the Heart of the Cards. That's why that happened.

Disclaimer: Ryou-Ran does not own Yu-Gi-Oh!

Yami Bakura: Ah, I feel like runnig again! (promptly runs into a tree) Argl...

Ryou-Ran: You can say whatever you want, but these guys are an odd lot. Let's start the fic.

Darkness Surrounds

A few days later Ryou had packed his stuff and had moved into his appartment again. Yugi gave him a hand collecting the necessary things and put them into bags. He saw Ryou pick the pictures of his family from the wall and put them into a small bag. Ryou held the picture of him, his father and his sister for a while and looked at it.

"Huh, your little sister."Yami Bakura grumbled. "How cute. A pain in the neck, that's what she was." He mentally appeared besides Ryou and looked at the picture. "Don't you dare say those things about Amane."Ryou said. He wanted to put it in the bag, but Yami Bakura grabbed his wrist. "Or what, Omote?"he asked, his face close to Ryou's . Ryou tried to pull back, but the Yami was too strong for him. He yanked Ryou closer to him, causing his host to drop the picture. The glass cracked. A fissure ran across the throats of the three Bakuras. "Or what?"he asked again. Ryou turned away his face, but Yami Bakura grabbed his chin between two cold fingers and forced him to look up. "She knew there was something about the Millennium Ring. Therefore, she had to disappear. I did not want anyone to be in my way."he said. He released Ryou. The boy backed away until he hit the wall with his back. "You... you killed her?"he stammered. He slid down the wall and landed on his behind on the floor. He began to tremble. Yami Bakura looked down at him with a fiendish grin on his face. "Yeees."he hissed. "I had to slowly get rid of all 'disturbing' factors so I could eventually break you. I could not kill them both at once, that would only arise suspisions, so I took my time. Think about what I am going to ask you. What are you fightning for? Why don't you just give in and let me do whatever I want to do?" Ryou hung his head. He did not know what to do.

Yugi had noticed Ryou had been standing there for more than five minutes in a row, picture still in his hand, a vacant look in his eyes. The little boy walked over to him and pulled his sleeve. "Bakura-Kun?" he asked. Ryou gave no response. Yugi got worried. He had seen that look in Ryou's eyes before, when he was in contact with Yami Bakura. "Yami, the Spirit of the Ring is talking to Bakura-Kun. This is no good!"he anxiously told his Yami. Yami quickly changed places with Yugi and appeared besides Ryou. He looked at Ryou's pale face.

Ryou suddenly began to giggle. He threw the picture to the floor and firmly placed his foot on it. When he looked up Yami looked into two cold, brown, bloodshot eyes. Yami Bakura stomped the picture again, spread his arms and began to laugh insanely. "I win!"he shrieked. "Whahahahahaaa! Bakura's broken! Now nothing can stop me any more!" Yami looked at him in disgust. "I will stop you, whatever it takes!"he bellowed. Yami Bakura abruptly stopped laughing, leered at him and grinned evilly. "How do you want to achieve that, Pharaoh?"he asked. Yami raised a hand and pointed at him. "I will stop you. Destiny is at my side."he said. Yami Bakura folded his arms and blew a lock of hair out of his face. "That's what Marik said, before I dueled Yami Marik. I lost."he said. He stared at Yami arrogantly. Yami began to boil over, but Yugi stopped him. "Don't do him any harm, you know it's Bakura's body he's in."he said. Yami Bakura had eavesdropped using the Ring and got a very unpleasant grin on his face. "Yes, don't forget, Pharaoh."he said, mimicing Yugi's tone. The very next moment the Ring began to glow and launched an attack that sent Yami sprawling. Yami slid over the floor and banged his head against the door, which woke him up a bit. When he looked up he saw Yami Bakura loom over him. "Duel with me, Pharaoh. I want that Puzzle."the evil Yami growled. A duel disc was attached to his arm. He placed his deck in it. "Don't duel, Yami."Yugi said. "Bakura-Kun is in bad shape. Yami Bakura will have him take the blows when you are dueling him. We can't do that to him." Yami growled and looked up at the Spirit of the Ring, who was looking down at him, grinning madly. The Ring wasn't glowing. Yami Bakura did not use it's magic.

"Yugi, I have a plan."Yami said. "He's not listening right now, so he won't find out." He mentally discussed the plan with Yugi.

Yami Bakura was so convinced that he would win, that he forgot to listen to what the Pharaoh and his host were discussing. Yami slowly got up, swayed a bit, and activated his duel disc. Yami Bakura activated his too, but before he could play a card Yami suddenly leapt forward and lashed out with his "disced" arm. The round side of the duel disc hit Yami Bakura on his cheekbone. Yami Bakura backed away, hissing in pain. The next moment Yami activated his Millennium Puzzle. "Mind crusher!" he bellowed. The stunned Yami on the other side of the room was hit with full power. He was slammed into the wall, cried out and fell to the floor. When the golden light around him had disappeared Ryou was there, eyes just opened a crack, barely awake. Yami left Yugi's body and formed a temporary body of his own. Yugi gently slapped Ryou in the face and had the Pharaoh get a glass of water for him. Ryou emptied the glass so quickly that part of the water ran down his neck. He looked at Yugi. He tried to hold back his tears. "Amane... he did it..."he said. Yugi and his Yami exchanged glances. "Who did what?"Yugi asked. Ryou picked up the picture with the broken glass. "The Spirit of the Ring killed Amane."he said. He removed the glass and saw the picture was torn. The tearing ran over the throats of the Bakuras. Ryou pushed the sheet of paper against his chest and hid his eyes behind his bangs.

Done! I'm sorry I wasn't able to update any sooner, but you know, I'm writing secretly, so I don't get the opportunity to write very often. And I suffered from a:

Yugi: What's this? (points at a little lump of rocks standing in the middle of the room)

Ryou-Ran: That's what we call a "writer's block".

Yami: And what does it do?

Yami Bakura: It blocks writing, fool!

Ryou-Ran: Uh... well... kind of.

Ryou: What should we do with it?

Marik: Why don't we throw it into the hole I made?

Ryou-Ran: Okay! Let's. (picks up block, throws it into the hole) There.

A random Earthbound Spirit: (pokes his head out of the hole) Hey, we don't want your rubbish down here! (throws block out of the hole, in Yami Bakura's face)

Yami Bakura: (is angry) Stupid block! Stupid spirit! (sends block and Yami to the Shadow Realm)

Yugi: Yaaaaamiiiii!

Yami Bakura: Oops, wrong spirit! " (brings him back) I can't believe I'm doing this.

Ryou-Ran: --"I'm fresh out of perspiratio... uh... inspiration for this "side-line" story. Okay. What is going to happen in the next story? And is Marik going to do something about that hole? Check out the next episode of Gadget and the Yami-tinis? Geez, this is stupid.