Yugi sighed as he watched Jou and Takao engage into another food. He had long since given up with helping Seto with his work, for it had gotten very difficult. Last time he saw Seto, which was about three hors ago, he had been so engrossed in his work that he didn't even know they left.

'Probably doesn't even remember that we helped, either.' Yugi thought. He hated to see Seto so interested in his work. It made him look like a machine, and that was a scary thing to see.

'Poor Mokuba has probably seen in plenty of times.' He focused his attention now towards Kyouju, whom was sitting beside him talking with his computer.

"So…you're saying that a bitbeast is in there?" Yugi asked, not really interested.

"Yep! I'm as real as can be!" Dizzy shot out.

Kyouju rolled his eyes. But his attention suddenly flew above the laptop as Kai and Rei walked in, both completely alert and stiff.

"Woah! What happened to you guys?!" Jou asked, catching Takao's attention as well.

Kai looked away and ignored him. Rei glanced at Kai before speaking, "We were attacked."

~*~

After finishing up his work hours after Yugi had left and Rei and Kai left together, Seto returned to his room.

He opened the door and discovered his little brother eating a grilled cheese sandwich as he watched television. There wasn't much on except for a few German stations. Mokuba was watching a soap opera, and was following it with little interest.

"So when did you wake up, lazy-bum?" Seto teased. Mokuba stuck out his tongue, that was filled with food, at his brother and then swallowed the food. He laughed at his brother's emotionless face that came from what Mokuba had done. "About an hour ago. I'm still pretty tired." He admitted.

"What are you watching?" the brunette packed all his work into his bag and then zipped it up. Mokuba took another bite before responding. "Uh so~ opra."

"Swallow before you answer next time Mokuba." Seto warned. Mokuba nodded undaunted. He swallowed.

"So, how about you? What have you been doing since I was asleep?"

Seto sat on the couch and watched the TV with no interest. "I've been in the lobby working on my presentations. And I'm planning on getting my presentations done before the tournament so I won't have to worry much. Other then that, nothing."

Mokuba had somewhat tuned Seto out by now. "Ok."

The older one stood up. "I think I'll go back downstairs. Perhaps watch a movie on DVD. Anyways, you should probably get out and do something other then watch TV. Go swimming, or take a tour of the Hotel, I don't really care whatever you choose."

Mokuba rolled his eyes and finished off his sandwich just as his brother left the room. He got up and smoothed out his wrinkled clothing then he too exited the room.

He caught up with his brother and after a bit of persuasion, it was agreed to go downstairs and get some dinner and desert and then go watch a movie in the room.

~*~

"ATTACK?!" the group shouted in unison.

Rei was not surprised by their concern. Anzu was the first to ask, "Are you guys OK? You weren't hurt?"

Rei shook his head. "Luckily Kai saw it coming. Here, I'll start from the beginning…"

~*~ Flashback ~*~

Rei waved goodbye to Yugi and then sat on a couch close to Kai. "I'm bored." He complained. Kai ignored him, so Rei lay on the couch and stared at the ceiling.

A long moment passed, Rei couldn't tell how long, until Kai finally put down his book and waited for Rei to notice.

Rei noticed right away, from hearing the book shut. "Done?" he asked, already knowing the answer. Kai nodded.

This was the daily ritual. Kai would go down to the lobby and read, and Rei would go down there and join him until Kai was done reading. Then the two would go for a run and then practice their beyblading. Afterwards, when the two were tired, they would take the stairs and head back up to the Hotel room and find that the others were awake and watching TV. The day continued however the others planned or anything else.

Rei got up and stretched and Kai stood up loosely then regained himself. The noticed Seto still busily entranced in his work so they both left him.

They headed for the park that was only three blocks away and together they jogged around the one-mile park three times. After the three miles had been run, they weakly walked to the abandoned warehouse they had found.

The warehouse was a good place for training. Since it was abandoned, things and trinkets were scattered everywhere, some even lined up as if they had been placed that way. So Kai and Rei would knock things down and then do a beybattle just for the heck of it.

~*~ End Flashback ~*~

"We were walking back to the Hotel. Suddenly, out of nowhere, some people tried to jump us…"

~*~ Flashback ~*~

"Rei." Kai whispered with seriousness in his voice. "Be on your guard."

Rei nodded, trusting his friend. Just then, two Rare Hunters ran from behind them. Rei was able to dodge one, but he was a little too late, and the guy took hold of his ponytail-thingie. Rei was pulled back and fell to the ground with a cry.

Kai was grabbed at the wrist and someone slammed him into the ground. He cried out in pain but remained alert and active. He shot up from it and tripped the guy.

Rei, whose hair was still held on to, tumbled to the guy and kicked him in the family jewels. The man groaned painfully and fell to the ground with pain twisted in his face.

Rei smirked and Kai knocked the guy who had attack him out. "Come on!" he shouted, then took off running quickly.

~*~ End Flashback ~*~

"I'm just glad you guys are all right!" Max exclaimed. Yugi nodded in agreement. "But…what were they wearing?"

Kai seemed a little surprised at his question. "Very dark purple robes—almost black. It had an eye at the top of the hood." He explained. "Why?"

Yugi-tachi looked at each other. Each had their own thoughts in their minds, but none were spoken. "Just curious." Yugi responded.

Kai watched the short boy with suspicion. Rei glanced at him, thinking of the even in the elevator that morning.

Max decided to break the ice. "Ok, come on people! Let's see what they're serving for lunch! We haven't eaten yet!"

~*~

They headed downstairs, each with their own group. Yugi and Jou had a serious look on their faces, and Anzu was deep in thought.

Rei and Kai were still thinking of what had happened only an hour before, and Takao and Kyouju and Max were talking amongst themselves about what they were to order and about the tournament that was taking place very soon.

They decided on eating in the Hotel, since they didn't feel like getting jumped. Since it was between lunch and dinner, and people had a lot of plans and activities, everyone they went was full.

So, after deciding on just getting a snack or something small, they headed for a café on the other side of the Hotel, since it was likely to be less crowded.

"YUGI!!" an excited cry startled said boy and he looked to his left just in time to be hugged by Mokuba.

Yugi laughed warm-heartily as he hugged back while Jou laughed and Anzu kneeled so the young boy could hug her next. Which is what he did.

"Mokuba! How are you!? It's been awhile!" Anzu exclaimed. "We've missed you!"

Mokuba, after brushing Jou off and getting a laugh from everyone, stood up straight. "I'm doing just fine!" then he turned to the BBs. "New friends of yours?" he asked politely.

"Yeah! Theses are the BladeBreakers!" he introduced each one of them to him and then Mokuba nodded a greeting.

"So, are you going to be in the tournament?" Jou asked, teasing him a bit. Mokuba shook his head. "No, I'm not. Niisama was way too busy with his presentations and holograms and KaibaLand, so I couldn't bother him and ask. But now that he is relaxing a bit, we're watching a movie together! Well, we were, but I'm ordering the snack, so Seto is going through files. He is sitting down over there." He pointed his thumb out to the section. "Well, I'll see you around!" Mokuba rushed away to the counter and Yugi turned to the group.

"How about we go say hi?" he asked. Jou immediately shook his head. "Hell no Yugi! You know how much he hates me!"

Anzu rolled her eyes. "Big deal. Nearly everybody you meet begins to hate you in one way or another."

Jou ignored her.

"Come on." Anzu took hold of Jou and pushed him after Yugi, whom was already heading for the table. The female looked back at the BBs. "You guys can come if you like. I'm sure he wouldn't mind."

Rei didn't even wait for the others as he sped up to greet the person he had met earlier. Kai followed after, not that quickly, and Takao and the others followed uncertainly.

When they found them, Seto and Jou were in a verbal argument.

"Leave me alone puppy." Seto said sternly.

"Don't call me a puppy princess." Jou shot back.

"Does someone need to go to the pound?" Seto wasn't really getting into the argument. He just said them without much interest. Programming some things on his laptop sidetracked him.

"Kaiba." Jou warned. "Stop being an ass."

"I'd rather be eaten alive by red ants." Seto closed his laptop.

"And I think that you both should stop arguing." Mokuba snapped, putting down a cup of coffee for Seto and some Sprite for himself.

Seto did not answer, as if he was listening to his brother. Jou crossed his arms. He grumbled, then whispered to Yugi, "Told ya he hates me."

Yugi smiled contently. He actually missed Jou and Seto fighting over nothing. But the next thing Mokuba said shocked him and Seto.

"Why don't you all come over to room 4488 and watch the movie with us. Seto can hook up the laptop to the TV and we can all watch it." The young boy asked. Seto looked sharply at his little brother, but the young boy brushed him off. Jou smirked. "Sure Mokuba. I'd love to." He looked at Seto with a smug grin, and Seto glared at him.

"Fine. But if you must know then it is a rated R movie." He picked up his coffee and took a drink. "If it's rated R, then why is Mokuba watching it! He's eleven, not seventeen!" Anzu exclaimed with disapproval.

Mokuba rolled his eyes and then glared at Anzu. "Niisama says that I'm old enough to watch something like this. Besides, it's not a scary movie or anything. Its not like it has any sex scene. And from what I read on the box cover, only violence is where the rating comes from." He looked at his older brother, who gave him some puppy-dog eyes. "So…how about seven Niisama. Then they have plenty of time to go to bed afterwards."

Seto nodded. "Whatever." He began to walk away, leaving Mokuba behind. Mokuba grabbed the laptop and his Sprite and skipped off after his brother. "Room 4488!!" he called after him.

Takao crossed his arms. "Well…that was interesting." He said sarcastically. Jou nodded the same way. "He's a bitch."

Anzu smacked him. "Not true Jounouchi!" she scolded. "He's a strong person for himself and his brother! Besides, he's stressed out, couldn't you tell?!"

Jou cupped his chin. "Yeah, well, now that you mentioned it…" he trailed off. Then he looked at the brunette with a glare. "He's still a bitch." Anzu shrieked with displeasure and threw her hands to the air. "You're a bitch Jou! A perverted bitch!" and then she stalked away.

"Jeez, what flew up her ass?" Jou mumbled. Yugi rolled his eyes. He turned towards the BBs. "Sorry about that. Kaiba isn't one for conversations, though he does do arguments. Anyways, I'm sure that you all can meet him better if we go to the movie. Besides, Mokuba would be disappointed."

Rei nodded. "Sure, we can go. Well…Kyouju is a little faint at the sight of blood, so I'm sure that he'll just hang out around the Hotel. But the rest of us would be glad to come!"

"Yeah, and that Mokuba kid is a good person. Hard to believe that they're brothers. What happened to them anyways?" Takao asked.

Yugi turned away, clutching his puzzle. "It's…not my place to tell you. You'll have to find out for yourselves. Maybe you can ask them tonight." Then he began walking away. "I'll meet you guys there! I, uh, need to ask Kaiba something!"

As they watched him leave, Anzu turned towards the BBs. "So…um…" she smiled, "Let's eat!"

~*~

Yugi walked down the halls, a transparent Yami right next to him, floating with his legs crossed. "So…what did you want to ask?" Yugi asked his dark.

Yami's eyes went cross and his thoughtful lips turned into a frown. "He seemed out of place today. He barely noticed that you were helping him with his work, and he wasn't really arguing that much with Jou. Anzu could tell and said that he was stressed, and though I agree with her, I want to find out why."

Yugi nodded and went back to walking.

~*~

Mokuba jumped onto the couch and watched his brother connect the lines for the DVD. It was an American movie, but it had Japanese dubbed. Every single line was made as it was for the Americans.

About a minute later, Seto returned from behind the huge TV. He went over to his laptop and entered the DVD in.

"GLADIATOR is what its called, right Niisama?" Mokuba asked. Seto nodded and clicked a few buttons. Seeing the TV showing what was on the laptop, he blinked a few times and then sat on a recliner.

The room was a large room. It had two bathrooms and three rooms. As you came upon the door that said 4488, you would open the door and come to a very small room with one door on the right and one right in front of you. The door on the right was the bedroom, which was huge. It had two beds and two dressers and one desk and then a night table on each side of the beds. Then you would see two doors. One would lead to the private bathroom, which had a bath and shower and a long sink area. The other would lead to the room that the small room with two doors had behind the door that was in front of you. The 'living room/party room' was rather large, with three couches and a coffee table. Then there were two recliners, one separating the first couch from the second and the second recliner separating the second couch from the third. It had its own sink and bucket for champagne, since this type of room was for parties.

A knock came from the door and Mokuba yelled through the door to come in.

Yugi, somewhat shy, came through the door. "Hey Mokuba, hey Kaiba."

"Cut the crap Yugi." Seto snapped. "What do you want?" Yugi was rather surprised by the outburst, but expected it somewhat. "Mou Hitori no Boku would like to speak to you…" Yugi was about to go on, but Yami took over.

Seto noticed the change. "Yes Pharaoh?" he spat.

Yami was not happy with the tone of voice. "I want to know if you are stressed or not, and if so, then why. I also want to know…" he chuckled. "How much violence does this movie contain?"

If Seto weren't so different from a regular person, he would have animefell right then and there. Mokuba did though.

"A lot of violence." Seto closed his eyes and crossed his arms. "And I'm not stressed, just annoyed. I have a lot of meetings to prepare for…and I can't stop thinking about the tournament."

"What type of meetings?" Yami took a seat on an empty couch.

"I have a lot of meetings. Two are going to decide if I'm suitable to keep the company. Four or five of them are business deals. The rest are just because my employees wanted everything to be Hell and beyond." He rubbed his eyes.

Mokuba saw this and went to the room. Yami watched him leave, just because he had nothing to say.

"And now they want me to relax. Ptf, yeah right." He said bitterly.

Mokuba returned to the room with a bottle of aspirin.

~*~

Takao patted his stomach. "My word! I've never eaten so much food in my life!"

Max poked him. "And hopefully you'll get a huge stomachache and realize not to do that again. Then next time Kai can have some money left over." He teased.

Kai crossed his arms and leaned backwards more. He shrugged.

"I still think Jou ate more." Anzu had placed her elbows on the table, watching Jou finish drinking the last of the pitcher of Coke. "And to think Shizuka and him agreed for a diet." He amused herself.

Jou ignored her and looked at his watch. "Woah! It's almost seven! And man oh man do I have to use the jon(the toilet)!" he yelped. Anzu gave out a sigh and buried her head into her arms. "I should have gone with Yugi."

The rest of the group laughed. Then Kai stood up. "We should probably get going. I'm interested in the movie that the brothers said they were going to watch."

Rei stood up also. "I agree." As he and Kai got out of the table and waited for the others, Kyouju shook his head furiously. "Have fun! I'm staying down here!" another laugh came from that. Suddenly Dizzy spoke up. "I'll keep him company guys!"

And so, five minutes later, everyone had done what they needed and were heading to the room.

Anzu took hold of Jou's arm and held it up so she could see the watch. She shrieked. "It's six fifty-nine!"

"So what's wrong? We'll be a couple of minutes later, no big deal." Takao shrugged.

Anzu and Jou shook their heads. "No way! When Kaiba says that something is going to start at a specific time, he means it!" and so now they all were rushing to room 4488.

~*~

Seto clicked one button on the laptop and suddenly the screen lit up with a 'Feature Presentation'.

Suddenly, the door flew open and in stumbled Anzu, holding onto Jou's wrist and the BBs followed behind very close.

"About time you guys got here." A stern but light voice said. They saw 'Yugi' sitting on one of the couches and Mokuba sitting on his brother's lap.

"Sorry about that!" Max said. "You see, we had to pay for Takao and Jou's eating habits."

Yami laughed. "I see. Excuse excepted." And so everyone filed into the room and found a place to sit by the time the first Viking came out.

Seto sat on one recliner; Kai took the other recliner and the others just placed themselves out as they pleased.

Seto suddenly became very tired. His eyelids were drooping slowly and his head was dipping low. Right when Maximus told Quintus 'Strength and Honor', Seto was in a deep sleep.

The restless nights had finally caught up to him.