DISCLAIMER: Welcome! I am Nuin and I will be your guide as we embark on this wondrous tour of Yugi-Oh and Yaoi-land. Now remember that feeding and petting the characters is forbidden at all times. I do not wish for them to run off with any of you, which would result in disabling me from writing the rest of the story. Please keep your arms and legs inside the moving vehicle as I do not wish to receive any lawsuits containing dismemberment of tour-guests. Thank you.

WARNING: May I also kindly remind you that this story is in fact a Yaoi-story. Which means lovers of the same gender. Anyone with restrictions against this form of love is asked to please leave the premises as it will probably upset the characters. Now if you'll please turn to your right, I believe that we are in for a treat as the characters begin on a new story.

Born to Servitude

By Nuin

14. Fleeing the Fortress Walls.

-Or-

How To Get To School On Time

Two golden brown eyes popped open in a single fluid movement. They scanned the surroundings quickly trying to decide where the owner of such precious colored eyes was at the moment. A warm body was pressed up against his back, a pair of arms was snaked around his midsection, one of the hands was riding dangerously low, while the other had a tight grip around his chest. A long and lean leg was casually draped across his own, successfully trapping him from moving anywhere soon. Although Jou didn't mind the way Seth was embracing him, it did put a damper on his plans.

Operation: 'How to get a hold of the Sennen Ring WITHOUT Seth ever noticing it or anyone else for that matter and DEFINITELY not getting Jou into trouble and then last but not least make sure that Bakura Ryou's past incarnation and yami would be able to get him home'.

Uhh...he would have to shorten it down a bit...Operation:...Sennen Get Away. That sounded good, he could live with it. Okay, so he had the name, now how was he going to carry out his brilliant plan, which he actually didn't know what would contain as of now?

He would have to get Seth out of the room, preferably very far away, so it would take forever for him to get back. He luckily already knew where the brunette had hidden the Ring, in the cupboard to the far east corner wrapped in linen, not unlike the spot he himself had first sought out to hide the golden item. Maybe he could ask Atemu for help, but then decided against it, Atemu was just as nosy and curious as Yugi and Jou was not keen on getting the third degree from the Spanish Inquisition. So that was a no. Perhaps if he was really lucky Seth would have some kind of meeting or obligation that didn't require for Jou to attend with him.

Besides it had been a long time since he had talked with Atemu, nearly a month had passed since he had last seen the tri-coloured mop of hair. What had Atemu been doing? He knew that, as Pharaoh, Atemu had duties and obligations that no other person in the entire country had. You had to be retarded or better yet, brain dead not to know that and Jounouchi Katsuya was definitely not brain dead, far from it.

Sure Kaiba had made fun of his grades or lack thereof. But so what if he had hard time concentrating, when the teachers sounded like they had been dead for years and all that was left were recordings of boring lectures from the 19th century. He couldn't help it. It was a regular invitation to a slumber party. Just begging to lull him to sleep.

But it had been a while since he had seen Atemu, he was always of somewhere or in a meeting, rather reminding Jou of Kaiba Seto back home. Though Atemu didn't sneer or insult him every time they passed each other. But the past incarnation of his best friend wouldn't be able to help him, Jou could get in serious trouble if he even suggested it to the Pharaoh, he bet he would be. Stealing from the High Priest and sharing knowledge with a tomb robber, not so good.

He shifted so he could get closer to the comfortable warmth that Seth provided, in response the brunette tightened his arms around Jou and breathed softly, still deeply asleep.

Then it struck him. The next night the sky would be dark, tomorrow night the moon would be new and Seth and Atemu would participate in the Shadow Games, as they were supposed to every new moon. Seth would be out all night, Atemu as well and every one else would be inside their houses and chambers in the fear of becoming prey for the Shadows. It was perfect. No one would interrupt him or the tomb robber. He would be able to go home, but not without paying a price. He couldn't say goodbye to Seth. What would the blue-eyed teen do when he discovered that Jou had gone home. They would never see each other again.

Damn all these complications, why did he have to go an fall in love, now that he finally had the means and the help to get home. He mentally banged his head against an imaginary wall. Stupid...stupid...stupid. He had the following day to decide upon his options, steal the Ring and go home or stay here with Seth. Both did have their pros and cons.

He yawned, deciding to procrastinate his problems until in the morning, just not yet, he wanted to sleep. And that was just what he did.

Yugi munched happily on the butter-covered piece of toast that made out a part of his breakfast. He hummed quietly to himself and took another bite, washing it down with the orange juice before him. It wasn't often that his grandfather made such a breakfast, usually it consisted of the traditional rice balls and miso soup and not of something so western. But he didn't complain, this was great and it was a great morning to start the day with. The sun was shining, it was Friday and breakfast wasn't all that bad, not bad at all.

And they were finally getting somewhere in their quest to find Jou, somewhere that could actually help them.

So now all they had to do was to find some girl with magic powers, who for some reason hated Jounouchi Katsuya and himself. That couldn't be to hard. Could it?

'Perhaps, Aibou. We have the general idea of what we are looking for. But I doubt that it will as easy as you picture it.' Yami's voice cut through his thoughts.

'Hnnn.' Yugi grumbled, this was downsizing his good mood.

'Aibou, it is not like the female is going to come up to and say 'Hi I'm the one spelled your friend away and tried to do the same to you, I'm very sorry and I'll never do it again.' Yami pointed out to his light, while he tried, but failed, to take control of their shared body so that he could have some breakfast as well. 'We would be lucky if the Tomb Robber could seek her out with the Ring.'

'You know, Yami. That might not be such a bad idea after all. And then of course we could leave Yami Bakura-kun alone in a room with her for an undetermined amount of time, guaranteeing that we would never see her again in our lives.'

'Hmm...not bad...' Yami contemplated.

'But, it would also mean that we would never see Jou-kun again, if Yami Bakura-kun got to her first.' Yugi interrupted him.

'Damn it...'

After this nice little morning conversation Yugi continued eating his nice little breakfast, okay, maybe not so little seeing as it consisted of several plates filled heaps upon heaps of delicious food. 'Grandpa must have gone a little overboard with the cooking this morning. Where is he anyway?' He thought, grabbing a plate with pancakes and a bottle of maple syrup and dug right in. Then unfortunately a little voice inside his head, which happened to be Yami, who was still sulking over the fact that he couldn't wrestle the control from Yugi at the moment, piped up.

'You know, Aibou, we could force her to bring Jounouchi-kun back first and then let the Tomb Robber have a go at her or better yet let me do it. I know a nice little spot filled with vile monsters just begging for some company in the Shadow Realm.'

'Yami' Yugi warned.

'Alright, ruin all my fun will you, I will have you know that there is not much to do in here. I have already read all the books I have in my Soul Room. If you could perhaps get some games in here or that Playstation contraption of yours? That sounds like fun.' He asked hopefully. And which promptly earned him a 'No'.

'Spoilsport.' Yami then cut off their connection, deciding it would a better idea to just go back to sulking. Yugi content with the following silence went back to finishing off his breakfast, before he darted out of the front door, racing to get to school on time.

Ryou too was eating breakfast, traditional English for the not so traditional English ga...uh...guy, when a voice, who undoubtedly belonged to his yami spoke up, seeing as his father was currently on a dig site somewhere in Egypt or something like that.

'Hikari, let me have control, I want some of that breakfast as well.' He snapped, yet it was in a light tone of voice, not the condescending sneer he usually spoke with.

'Why? You're a spirit, you don't need food to sustain you' Ryou snapped back and deliberately took a large spoonful of bacon and eggs to his mouth and munched, just to annoy his other half. He grinned at the frustrated growl that followed. His yami had been letting him off the hook more and more over the past few months. Bakura had even apologized to him, okay so it was only once, but he had apologized and it meant more to him than anything else. His yami had started treating him better as if to make up for all that he had done to him in the past years. Ryou actually looked forward to sometimes just be alone with his yami, talking of course, though he wouldn't mind doing something else.

'Come on Hikari, I may not need food like you do. But there's nothing with liking the taste.' Ryou snickered lightly and replied again with a 'No'. It almost sounded like the big bad Bakura was whining like a two-year-old, who was denied their favourite candies. 'But Hikaa-riiii' This time Bakura most definitely whined and Ryou's light snicker turned into a full-out laugh. Bakura just receded to his soul room obviously angered by his light's behaviour.

After a couple of moments Ryou finally came down to Earth again, feeling slightly guilty for making Bakura feel bad. He tried in a soft coaxing voice.

'Please, Bakura-kun, I didn't mean any harm by it. Come on I'll let you have control. Just don't be like that.' Ryou felt it immediately when his yami took control, he smiled to himself. Bakura was rather insecure sometimes and it almost seemed like he was normal teenager instead of a millennia old spirit trapped inside a golden ring.

They or more precisely Yami Bakura ate in a sweet silence that is until said dark half decided to share of his knowledge with his light.

'You know Hikari, there are many things between the past and the present that are similar.'

Ryou was baffled, what was Bakura onto now? 'What do you mean?'

Since he was in such a good mood, Bakura elaborated. 'Well, the Pharaoh is still an idiot with a huge ego, the High Priest acts slightly more as if there is pole stuck up his ass and has a huge ego and the mutt is as annoying as ever.'

Ryou startled. 'What do you mean 'the mutt'? The mutt as in Jou-kun?'

'Who else do you know, who has that idiotic nickname?' Bakura sneered, he could feel his good mood slowly vanishing, he should never have said that. Damn his nosy Hikari.

'But...But Jou-kun never lived in Kemet.' Having an archaeologist for a father had had some effect on his knowledge, fortunately or he wouldn't know what his yami was talking about half of the time. 'Why have you never mentioned this before?'

'Because none of you brainless idiots never asked. And we all know that the Pharaoh has the memory capacity of an ant. So what if the mutt lived in the past, he was as stupid as he is now. And gullible as well.'

'What do you mean?' Ryou asked alarmed. But Bakura remained silent and let Ryou in control again, making it clear that this conversation was over. For the remainder of the time before Ryou was to go to school, he worked as if in a daze, washing the dishes, drying them and even when he finished packing his book bag. He left the house and walked towards the school to meet up with his friends before the bell rang.

'BEEP...BEEP...BEEP...SMACK'

Rolling back into his former position, Honda snuggled up to his boyfriend and fell blissfully asleep again.

Sometime later two sleep filled emerald eyes slowly opened, while adjusting to the still somewhat dark room, he glanced over at the bedside table to the alarm clock placed on it. He blinked once, then again and suddenly he shot up, grabbed the clock in his hands to get a closer look.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

Honda woke up so forcefully that he fell out of the bed, he sat up groggily and glared mildly at Otogi. His boyfriend however had turned into hurricane mode, racing through the room towards the bathroom. Honda just sat there blinking confusedly, but decided it was too early to care, so he crawled back into bed and got under the sheets. Though he was not allowed to stay there for very long.

"HIROTO!!!! GET UP!!!"

Honda rolled over and glared once again at the raven haired teen. He growled, then sighed exasperated. "Ryuuji, it's too...yawn...early, come back to bed."

"COME BACK TO BED, YOU SAY. Come back to bed. Huh? Honda Hiroto, you get your ass out of bed NOW! We're late. GET UP!!!" Otogi stormed over to him, fully dressed and ready, how he had managed in such a short time to look like his usual self, when Honda knew he looked like hell in the morning, was beyond him. Honda could feel the burning glare from those piercing green eyes, but no he would not cower away. He may not be the brightest in the bunch, but he was not afraid of his own boyfriend.

Though he should be.

Otogi grabbed a hold of the sheets covering the other male and yanked them off, Honda, who was valiantly trying to keep said sheets on, was holding them in a death grip, which in the case of cause and effect made him fall onto the floor once again. Otogi then grabbed him by his hair and dragged him toward the bathroom. Honda whining and cursing all the way.

"You better be ready in five minutes or I am going on without you!" And with that he slammed the door closed and stormed downstairs for a hasty breakfast and to pack his school bag. Few minutes later Honda came in through the kitchen door in a blur, he glared again.

"Why didn't you tell me, we're that late?" He growled, while wolfing down a bowl of cereal, his boyfriend had been so kind to make for him.

"I tried, Hiroto. But nooo you wouldn't listen, would you? 'It's too early, Ryuuji, come back to bed, Ryuuji.'" He said in a mocking voice, casting his own glare at the brown haired youth. "Hurry up, I've already called for the car, so get finished. And meet me outside." With that he picked up his school bag and walked out the door, a little later Honda could hear the front door slam. He hurriedly shovelled the rest of his breakfast in his mouth, grabbed his own back pack and followed his boyfriend.

Kaiba Seto was not very happy with his little brother right now. They were both sitting in the chauffeured town car on their way to each of their respective schools. Why was Seto not all that happy at the moment, do you ask? Well, for the last hour and a half he had tried to get his baby brother to get out of bed, fifteen minutes, then get him to take a bath, twenty-six minutes and thirty-seven seconds, then clothe him, another fifteen minutes and then get him to eat breakfast, twenty minutes and finally get him to pack the rest of his school books into his backpack and then storm off to the car, using up the remainder of the time he had put aside to get ready for school.

And what did Seto get out of it? One fist in the face, two kicks in the shins and three pieces of toast for breakfast. Mokuba was definitely not a morning person, but this morning had proved to be the worst one yet.

He grumbled as did his stomach, three pieces of toast were not enough for someone of his build. Unlike what Jou used say about him not eating anything at all, he liked food as much as the next person. He just didn't like the food that was served in the cafeteria and with a brother like his, he never really had time to make something to bring or even get the cook to do it for him, he just forgot with all the hassle of getting Mokuba ready.

They arrived at Mokuba's school first, as always. Seto smiled, something he did rarely, kissed his little brother's forehead, ruffled his wild black hair and wished him a good day at school. Mokuba smiled back, eww'ed at the kiss, glared at the ruffling and returned the good day to his brother, before he skipped off to meet up with his classmates.

Seto leaned back in the leather seats of the town car and told the driver to carry on.

He arrived at his own school just in time to see Mouto Yugi storm by, muttering about being late. Shortly after a green jaguar raced into the parking lot and out stepped Otogi Ryuuji and Honda Hiroto, both looking like they had seen a ghost, their faces pale and their breaths short. He smirked glad that it wasn't him, even though he just barely made it today, he wasn't as stressed as his friends.

He bid his driver goodbye and followed the other students up the front steps to the entrance. He went to his locker and was met there by the others, luckily they all had lockers in the near proximity of each other, it used to be unfortunate for him, seeing as he had to be near those he thought he hated. Though one good thing did come out of being so close to Yugi and his friends, he was close to Katsuya as well. Just seeing him smile every day was enough make him feel good, if Jou was happy then he was happy, even if he didn't show it.

An arm snaked its way around his own in a tight grip, he whirled around to see a girl, not just any girl, he though with an exasperated sigh, the most annoying girl on the face of the planet. She just couldn't take a hint. When would she leave him alone? She was by far the most persistent of those fan-girls that followed him nearly everywhere. He glared at her with his blue eyes, darkened by anger and frustration. She on the other hand winked at him, trying to look seductive and failing. She trailed an invisible path on the arm she had trapped in her grasp, all the while she looked at him through her eyelashes.

"So..." She spoke in a low hoarse voice, in an attempt to sound hot. "Have you thought about my proposition?" She smiled sickeningly sweet.

"What?" He asked perplexed, as if he would remember anything she said, other than the time she had insulted Jou and pissed Yugi off.

"My proposition of us dating, of course, silly." She smiled again trying to be charming and witty, he wanted to empty his stomach at the sight.

"No thanks, not interested." He then said, without a moments hesitation.

"WHY? Why not?" She screamed and clawed at him with her red painted fingernails. "I got rid of the pestering mongrel, just...just so we could be together...forever." She panted breathless, her fingers gripping tighter to his arm.

He froze. What did she just say? He stared at her in shock with wide, horrified eyes. Then he could feel it, the anger and fury, building up inside him, reaching its highest peak ever. He wrenched his arm away from her grasp, then glared at her with stone cold eyes, like two chips of ice and snarled menacingly.

"Stay away from me." He grabbed a hold of her collar, lifting her inches of the floor. "Never come near me or my friends ever again." Only few inches separated their faces as he growled lowly at her. "If you do I will kill you. Understood?" She nodded vigorously with her head, her eyes pleading to be let down. He let go of her collar and dropped her uncaring on the hard floor. He glared briefly at her again, then left her in the wake of his billowing dark-blue trench coat.

"MOUTO!" Seto yelled throughout the halls, storming of in his usual manner that made sure the was cleared for him. The students cowering of to the sides. The fury that was Kaiba Seto was back in black...uh...blue. He quickly found the group he searched for and grabbed Yugi by the arm, dragging him off and leaving the others of their small group to follow behind curiously. He looked down at the small teen with the distinctive tri-coloured hair. "We have much to discuss." He said and led the group of to a secluded space.

Seth had finally left and Jou's nerves had reached a point. During their small dinner, Seth had looked worriedly at him several times, asking him if he was okay. Jou had just nodded quickly and went back to his meal. He had been nervous about Seth finding out what he himself had planned to do tonight. Going home. Well, first he had to steal the Sennen ring and then get a hold of Bakura.

Right now Jou was double checking that Seth had really gone to the temple for the monthly Shadow Games, he peered out of the door, only seeing the two guards Seth had placed there for his protection yet again. Though this time he would not disobey, he wouldn't even leave the High Priest's quarters. He carefully looked over his shoulder now and again as he sneaked off towards the hiding place of the Ring. He dug hastily through the other belongings of his lover in search for his ultimate goal.

He grinned when he found it and held it up like a prize he had won. He then looked back at the door Seth had left by, he was having second thoughts...again. He had spent the entire day trying to make up his mind, but finally he had come to the decision that he wanted to go home, where he belonged in the first place. Three months he had been here. He felt strangely at home with Seth, but it wouldn't last, they had found out that they had to be careful since the High Council had been spying on them from day one. Why? He did not know. But it couldn't be good. Now, he just wanted to be home, hanging out with his friends, teasing Kaiba and hoping for something more between them, if Kaiba was as passionate as Seth, he shuddered in pleasure of the prospective. He was being egotistic right now, he knew, but he didn't care, he was to go home tonight.

He quietly crept over to the door that led into his old room and which was now Bakura's room. As he opened the door he was met with complete darkness, but a pair of glowing eyes, lighting up like a cats in the dark, made him aware of the other's presence. Bakura lit a single candle and walked up to him. Placing the candle on the nearby table he smiled.

"Did you get it?" He whispered, eyes alight with hope.

Jou revealed his goods and Bakura nearly jumped in glee. "Yes, now can you show me how to use it so I can go home?"

Bakura looked at him, an almost sadistic smirk appearing on his face. He quickly grabbed the item out of Jou's unsuspecting hands and slowly backed away. "No, sorry. I have not got the faintest clue of how to use it. I will just be going now, thank you for your kind help." He replied with a snide smirk.

Jou panicked. What? But Bakura had promised. He took two steps towards the albino haired youth...that thief. He growled, much like the dog he had always been accused of being, only more menacing.

"You promised you would help me."

Bakura looked like he was contemplating this, but rolled his eyes and answered with an aloof tone of voice.

"You are just too gullible. You should not believe everything you are told. I never promised you such a thing. I implied that I could help you and you jumped to conclusions that I would help you. This is your own fault." He smirked, jumped up onto the windowsill and turned around just as Jou was coming at him. But Bakura managed to punch him lightly, then he grabbed the blonde by the scruff of his neck, pressing his lips against the other's. Jou startled by this action gasped involuntarily only to have Bakura plunge his tongue inside. But as quickly as it had begun, Bakura pushed him away and smirked once again.

"See you around." With that he jumped out of the window, with the Ring leaving Jou behind in shock.

Jou didn't notice the guards coming through the door, having heard the entire conversation. Jou didn't notice as they grabbed a hold of him by his arms and dragged him away. Helping a criminal to escape and giving him one of the Seven as well did not forebode any good for the blonde. Of to the side a servant of the High Council was grinning, he had some interesting news to deliver to his master and with that he trailed off behind the guards.

Only one thought ran through the mind of one Jounouchi Katsuya. 'What the hell just happened?'

A/N: "AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! CLIFFHANGEEEERRRR!!!!!!!!!" pause "MUAHAHAHAHA."

Okay, enough of that.