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REMEMBER! CHARACTER DEATHS!!!!!

Chapter Nine

"RYOU!" Tea gasped. "You're alive??"

"Indeed. I was never dead in the first place." Ryou said, smiling gently at Tea.

"That was a great bit of acting, Ryou. How did you survive the fall off the cliff? I had really worried about you for a while." Malik said, twirling the Rod carelessly.

"Yeah, how did you do it?" Tea asked, genuinely curious.

"Simple. You forget that even without the Ring I can have my yami with me and he helped me slow my fall until I could land safely into the water. Then it was simply a matter of returning to my soul room." Ryou answered.

"Bakura? Where is he??" Malik said, glancing about. "I thought he was with Marik back in Domino."

"So you were telling the truth when you said that?" Tea said, eyes wide in wonder.

"Yep." Malik nodded.

"Bakura can be here, and he can be there. It is easy for him to travel through the Shadow Realm." Ryou said, smiling as his yami materialized beside him.

Tea's eyes widened even more. She had never liked Yami Bakura.

"You!" she hissed. "You tricked Ryou into doing this, didn't you? It was probably you all along!"

Yami Bakura smirked as Ryou smiled that infuriatingly gentle smile at her again.

"No, it was really me the entire time. The only time I had Bakura's help was when I 'fell' off the cliff, and when I needed Yami killed. All of us except Tristan were in the parlor, Malik and I couldn't kill Yami. So I had Bakura do it." Ryou explained, leaning on his dark half.

"Yes, and it was quite a pleasure to do so." Came Bakura's husky reply.

"How did you kill everyone?" Tea whispered. "How did you do it so that we wouldn't know?"

"For Duke it was easy." Malik said. "Ryou just slipped some cyanide into one of the cups. We didn't target anyone specifically, Dice boy just happened to get it."

"And Yugi?" Tea said, choking a bit at the careless way the Egyptian described the act.

Malik held up the Millennium Rod, giggling.

"Easy enough to sneak into his room and control him enough to stop him from breathing." Malik said, snickering.

Tea blinked back tears, and fought her panic.

"After Yugi was.........Serenity." Ryou said, counting on his fingers.

"And I can see how that happened." Tea whispered. "Both you and Malik went to the bathroom before that happened, so one of you must have run upstairs and pushed the poor girl over." Tea said.

"You're right. It was Malik who did it." Ryou said, pointing at his friend.

"And for Yami, thanks to you, he was alone and I was able to have Bakura go after him." Ryou said.

"And it was quite easy for me to slip up behind him and – "Yami Bakura began, but Tea cut him off by pressing both hands over her ears.

"No more, no more, please!" she cried, and Yami Bakura smirked.

"And then it was Mai. The tea was actually meant for YOU." Malik said.

"What?" Tea whispered.

"You were the one who insulted Bakura to me, and told me those horrible things about him. I was planning on the tea being delivered to you, but Mai took it first. Oh well, your time will come." Ryou said, and Yami Bakura grinned as he played with a dagger that he pulled from midair.

Tea swallowed.

"And then you 'died', Ryou." Tea said.

Ryou smiled. "Yes, and then I 'died'." He said, and smiled.

"And then Joey left his room." Tea said. "And you killed him?"

"Actually, we were planning on killing the next person the next morning, but Joey heard Ryou walking about in the house and went to investigate." Malik said.

"And I decided to lead him out to the cliffs and do it then instead of later." Ryou finished.

"And then Bakura 'clocked' Tristan." Ryou said.

(A/N: Thanks TCD0012, I liked that phrase so much I used it from your review! You don't mind, do you?)

"Why Bakura?" Tea asked.

"Because 'Kura has better hand-eye coordination than Ryou does." Malik answered, and Ryou nodded.

"It's true." He admitted.

"Let's see, that is eight people." Yami Bakura said, smirking devilishly as he counted off on his fingers. "Dice boy, mini-Pharaoh, that girl, the Pharaoh, the blonde, Ryou's fake death, the idiot, and dimwit over there who had his time stopped."

"Now, we must finish the poem." Ryou said, staring at Tea intensely.

"What?" She stuttered. She knew they were going to kill her, but not so soon!

"Do you remember the last line?" Malik taunted.

She shook her head.

"Two little kids get tired of the fun, one hangs himself and then there was one." Ryou quoted.

Yami Bakura grinned evilly, and Malik giggled.

Tea stared for a moment, and then took off running.

Malik shouted and reached for her, but she dodged. She ran, breath heaving. She glanced behind her, and saw Malik and Ryou standing there, watching her leave. Were they really going to let her go? Wait! Yami Bakura! Tea ran harder.

A snarl echoed from behind her.

Really, really close.

She glanced over her shoulder and saw the white haired yami easily keeping up with her, teeth drawn back from white teeth in a snarl, revealing his fangs.

Tea cried out in terror and ran as hard as she could.

She spun a corner and found Malik and Ryou waiting for her.

"Good bye, Tea." Ryou said. She looked behind her and saw Yami Bakura stalking towards her.

"Bysie bye." Malik giggled, holding up the Millennium Rod and soon its glow was all she could see.

- - - - - - -

Malik made Tea go upstairs and stand on a chair, pulling a noose that Yami Bakura had set up over her neck and then she kicked the chair away.

The final death.

"Now we erase everything we have touched, we get rid of all the evidence we were ever at this island." Malik said.

"And check the rooms of the people to see if any kept journals, we'll have to erase our names from there as well." Ryou pointed out.

"Good idea." Malik said. "'Kura? You go ahead and contact." Malik waved and took off to make sure everything was taken care of.

Yami Bakura reached into his pocket and flipped out a cell phone.

He pressed the speed dial and waited for an answer.

"Kaiba? It's done."

(End Chapter.)

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