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A/N: First of all, I would like to say that I'm very sorry for not updated sooner. You know, with the end of the school year and all, things tend to get hectic. Anyways, sorry again!

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PHARAOH'S ANGEL: Well, if you really can't wait... here you go, sorry it took so long to get here...

SWORD MASTER JEFF: Thanks! I'm glad you like the plot. gasp Your trying to guess the plot, well, that's a very good guess, but I can't tell you if your right or not, you'll just have to wait and see... I mean read.

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SORCERESS VANESSA: gasp and grabs Kuroo You want to kill him... again?! You can't! I have to have him just for a little longer, or maybe I might keep him. However, the way you people want to kill him, he might not make it.

JILL: Yep, yep, that's just like your Joey to come through at the last minute. Well, here's the update and thanks for the review.

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/Blah/= Yugi to Yami

Blah= Yami to Yugi

'blah'= Thinking

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BACK 2 THE FUTURE

Chapter 13: Breaking the Barrier Part1

A loud thud echoed around Yami's soul room as Joey, Tea, Ryou, and Shadi lay in a heap on the floor.

"Ow, where are we?" Tea asked as she rubbed her head.

"Joey! Get off, your crashing my leg!" Ryou yelled

"Geeze, sorry Ryou."

"We're inside the Millennium Puzzle."

Everyone stopped complaining as they looked around them. The room was a bland color of brick and it was semi-lite, but not enough that it would impair their vision. The walls were laced with many many staircases that lead to several doors. It was definitely what someone would call 'puzzling', being that some of the doors and stairways were upside-down and even vertical.

"So this is what the inside of the puzzle looks like." Tea stated more than asked. "Not much for decorations."

"Come, we must hurry."

"Huh?" Every said, save Shadi because he had been the person who had ordered the statement in the first place.

"We must hurry and find the problem before it gets worse," Shadi swept over the door that separated Yugi and Yami's soul rooms and pulled hard on it. When nothing happened, he took off his key and placed it on the door as if he were going to unlock it. A light emitted from the key and then died off.

"What's the matter Shadi?" Joey questioned.

"Something has permitted me from opening this door with my Millennium Key. It's more serious than I first thought." Shadi placed his key back around his neck and turned to the others. "Let's go."

"We're right behind ya man." Joey said as he was about to follow Shadi when he realized something. "Hey, you guys. Where's Ryou?"

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Bakura walked up a set of stairs and stopped at the top to look around at all the doors. "Well, well, looks like your not that worthless after all Ryou. Your bumbling has somehow managed to get us inside the Millennium Puzzle."

He walked a little farther down the upper hallway and stopped in front of a random door. Grasping the door knob, he pulled it open. He was about to enter it when his Millennium Ring flashed.

"Hmm, looks as if this room isn't as friendly as it first appears." He ran a finger a cross the Millennium Ring as he shut the door and continued on his search.

Later on down the path, he came to a clearing with serval more doors. The white haired thief growled. "You would think the idiot Pharaoh would put up some kinda road signs or something." He picked his Millennium Ring and held it at eye level. "I guess it's a good thing that I carry my own map around." The ring let off a light glow, as if it had responded to Bakura's voice. "Ring, summon the source of the puzzles power and lead me to it." The ring shot to life and all the pointy spikes that attached to the bottom began to point in all different directions.

The tomb robber growled as he put the ring back down. "There's to much power around, it can't pin point one spot. I'm going to have to do this the annoying way.... look myself."

With that, Bakura stalked off down the halls of the puzzle looking for one door that stood out from the others. Unfortunately, he had no such luck. Every door on every hallway looked exactly the same. Bakura was beginning to get frustrated when he heard a light pounding coming from inside one of the doors close by. He quick traced the sound to the last door on the right of the wide opened chamber. He looked around the opened chamber noticing all the holes and burned marks that littered the walls and floor.

"What happened here?" He glanced around the rest of the room and then back the to the door. It had grown quiet now and Bakura was beginning to wonder if he had been hearing things. He decided to check it out anyways and slipped his hand around the doorknob. He twisted the cold metal in his hand and the door fell open along with something, or someone else.

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Yami slumped against the wall of his prison. He had been searching for a way out for what had seemed like hours, but was only about one. He rested the back of his head against the wall.

It was quiet... like before. Like when he had been locked away in the Millennium Puzzle for five thousands years. Before Battle City, before Duelist Kingdom, and before, Yugi. It was depressing, to think that that might become his life again. Would he have to wait another five thousand years before being freed again? Who knows... Maybe he would never be freed again.

No. He couldn't think like that. After all, it wasn't over yet. He may have lost the battle, but the war was yet to come. And when that war came, he planned to be there to win it. Yami stood up and faced the door that was so set on keeping him in. He drew both of his hands together forming a large black orb of energy. Seconds later, he released the orb causing it to smash into the door and create a small dint. Yami gritted his teeth in frustration and continue the same process over and over again. In the end, all the attacks failed to do any real damage.

Yami was about to continue pounded on the door with energy blasts until he heard soft muffed noises coming from outside the door. He blow it off at first, thinking that it was only the muffed echos of his pounding, but the noises started to get louder which ruled off the theory of the noise being echos. Also, the sound was more rhythmic, and a lot like... footsteps?

Yami pressed his ear to the door trying to find the direct location of where the noise was coming from, but soon after Yami began to listen, the nosie stopped. He was about to move away when the door he was leaning on swung open and gravity pulled him forward and crashing to the ground.

"Well, well, I never thought the Pharaoh of all Egypt would ever being laying at my feet."

Yami stiffened at the sound of that 'oh to familiar voice'. He quickly looked up and frowned. He was right, the voice belonged to non other then the tomb robber himself. Wait a minute! But what was the tomb robber doing inside of his puzzle?!

"Bakura! What the heck are you doing here?" Yami growled as he pulled himself to his feet.

"I'm here to help," Bakura smirked, "Why else would I be here?"

"Don't waste my time with despicable lies. I haven't the time for them. How did you get here in the first place?"

"It wasn't hard pharaoh, your mentally defenses are weak," Bakura crossed his arms. He was loving the fact that now he could toy with the pharaoh's emotions and continue to waste his time. He knew that every second that he wasted was a second that what ever was wrong, was getting worse. "that, and I used the spare key."

"You used the spare key?" Yami asked more to himself than Bakura, but then it hit him. He knew what Bakura was talking about. "You used Shadi's key? Then, does that mean he's here?"

"Humph, him and the cheer squad. For some unknown reason, he thought they might be usefully."

"They might just be," the former pharaoh thought to himself. "Come on!"

Yami grabbed Bakura's arm and ran off down the corridors. "What are you doing?!" Bakura yelled, "Let go of my arm and explain yourself!"

"No time!" Yami yelled back, "I need to find Shadi before Kuroo does, and I'm not leaving you alone in my puzzle!"

"Kuroo! Who the heck...?"

"No time to explain!" Yami cut him off as they both continued their mad search.

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"I've never seen so many stairs before." Tea said in awe

"I've never seen so many doors before." Joey replied, "I wonder which one leads to the john?"

"Be serious Joey."

"What?! I'm serious, I haven't gone in hours."

The trio continued to walk along in the silences, until Joey decided to break it. "Hey Tea, you think Ryou's okay?"

"I don't know Joey," Tea said with a look of concern on her face, "but I'm more worried about what Bakura could be doing around here."

"Yeah, your right, and what ever he's doing... it's probably not helpful."

Tea nodded in agreement.

"It's strange." Tea and Joey both looked up at Shadi. He had stopped just ahead of them and was looking at his Millennium Key.

"What's the matter Shadi, your Key broke?" Joey asked completely under the impression that a Millennium Item could actually just break.

"No, there's just some much energy all over the place, that my Key is having a hard time locating one specific spot."

"Well, can't you act least try and find one spot?" Tea asked, "Even if it is the wrong spot, a wrong spot is better than no spot, right?"

"I could try, but it still could come out the same as all the other tries." Shadi began to concentrate on locating the spot with the most energy. He could see many locations running through his head, but they were all the same. They had just about the same amount of energy. Until... there! "I found one," Shadi announced to Joey and Tea's delight, "It's not much stronger than the other energy my Key traced, but perhaps your right Tea, a wrong locate is at least a starting point."

"Alright!" Joey cheered, "So where is it at?"

"This way," Shadi pointed to a set of stairs, "follow me."

The Millennium Item holder raced off in front as the two teens followed. The trio ascended the staircase and stopped at the top catching their breath at the sight.

"What the heck is that?!" Joey exclaimed. What stood before them was a large ball of black energy that appeared to be cracked open.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say it was a giant cocoon." Tea replied.

"I think that's exactly what it is." Shadi said. "I think this is where all of the dark energy originated from. Perhaps all the dark energy was brought together have and formed something even more powerful inside of it."

"And after it had formed, it popped out and started making trouble." The blonde haired boy added.

Shadi was about to agree when soft clapping could be heard somewhere close by. "Bravo, you three aren't as stupid as you look."

The three shot their eyes up to a staircase not to far away. There, on a level just above their's, sat a figure concealed in shadows. "Hey man! Who you callin' stupid? And who the heck are you?" Joey fumed.

"You. And as for who I am, I thought you would have figured it out by now."

Joey cocked his eyebrow and looked at Tea and Shadi to see if they had any clue as to who the person was. Tea scrunched up hear nose in thought. She thought the voice sounded familiar, but this guys voice was deeper.

"I guess I was right to began with, you three aren't very intelligent."

Shadi stepped forward to try to speak with the person. "My name is Shadi, keeper of the Millennium Key and Scales. Now that I have introduced myself, it's only fair that you should introduce yourself."

"Ha! Fair? Since when has life been fair?" The shadowed figure asked in an angered voice. "But... since you three pose no real threat to me, I'm suppose I could spare a face."

The Shadowed figure smirked and then took one step forward and out of the shadows. Joey and Tea gasped. "Yugi!" They both yelled in unison.

"You're the one behind the dark energy?" Joey asked in disbelief.

"Of course not, buffoon!" the so called Yugi yelled back as if he had been insulted. "Do you think your pathetic little friend could had been capable of such power?"

"Well, if your not Yugi than who are you?" Tea asked.

"Kuroo..."

Everyone looked up to see Yami approaching the three with a not so smug Bakura dragging behind. "Yami!" Joey and Tea greeted.

"Hey guys." Yami greeted back

"Pharaoh" Shadi bowed as Yami nodded his head.

"Well, well, who let the bird out of it's cage?" Kuroo smirked.

"You will pay for what you have done Kuroo, your time is going to be short lived."

"What's going on around here Yami?" Joey asked in concern.

Yami snapped his head back to Joey when he heard his question."As far as I can tell, a spirit named Kuroo has taken over Yugi's body and pushed all of his soul out. But I can sense that a piece of his soul is still inside, but it's weak and it's shrinking with ever minute that goes by."

"Well, what can we do?" The blonde continued asking his questions.

"There's nothing you can do, except die!" Everyone looked up just in time to see a large black energy ball heading there way.

"Move!" Yami yelled as they all ducked under a near by staircase. The impact of the energy ball caused a large dint in the floor and dust hung in the air like heavy fog.

Yami and the rest sat sprawled out under the staircase. They were protected for the moment, but who knew how long that would last. They all agreed that they had to come up with a plan, and quick. They didn't have to wait long for an idea to hit them, because Tea had already been thinking about a possible solution.

"Hey Yami?" Tea asked as the ex-pharaoh looked at her. "You said that a piece of Yugi's soul is still left inside of Kuroo, right?"

"What are you babbling about girl?" Bakura interrupted impatiently.

Tea glared at him and then went back to what she had been saying. "Well, I was thinking that maybe if we could reach that piece of Yugi's soul that still exist, maybe we could bring him back."

"Then if Yugi comes back, then Kuroo would have to leave." Joey added.

"It's worth a try." Shadi said.

"As much as Yugi loves all of his friends, I sure it will work," Yami agreed, "I should have thought of that myself."

"So it's agreed" Tea said in a confident voice, "Well, go out there and bring Yugi back, together."

Bakura only rolled his eyes.

They all stood up the best they could and crawled out one by one. Yami was the first out of course and the first one to meet Yugi, or Kuroo, standing not to far away. He stared into his hikari's eyes, and could almost feel the real Yugi looking back at him with his usual happy go lucky smile, but it disappeared when the spirit inside Yugi smirked. Yami frowned at Kuroo. 'Don't worry Yugi, we're coming.'

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A/N: And that's it for chapter 13 ladies and gentlemen. I hoped you like it and again so sorry for the long long wait! Please R&R and tell me what you think!

And remember all you Trigun fans... "This world is made of Love & Peace!"

Next Time on 'Back 2 the Future': The Battle for Yugi's soul begins as Yami and his friends fight to bring their little friend back from the brink of destruction. Will Yami and the gang be able to bring him back or will they be too late and lose their friend forever. Find out next time on 'Back 2 the Future' chapter 14

See ya soon!