For lack of a better chapter title. But I'm working on the story so if anyone complains about names of chapter, Yoh and Amidamaru will chase you with shamanish powers. Bwaha.

Yoh: Um…right…. *Yawns*

Damn… Oh well, starting next chapter without talking much.

Warnings: Ah…no lemon, but I guess minor lime… .;; It's not that bad, but I figured I'd say something.

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I groan and roll over, body curling against the cold ground as I refuse to open my eyes. Why is it so cold in here? Or wherever here is for that matter, I know I wasn't laying on the ground when the spell started. Good, there's part of my memory. Ah…but wait…I started to float and then went…

Am I a ghost too?! I went through the floor! No….not a ghost, I'm not passing through anything else. Then again I still haven't opened my eyes still, so I guess I could be falling through the layers of the world, but that I think I'd be able to feel.

"Yami!"

Hmm….?

"Yami get up! I know you're alive!"

Who's there?

"Dammit, Yami!" I feel someone shake me and snap out of it, opening my eyes and look at the person holding me by the shoulders. And I don't see through that person. "Bakura!" My voice echoes, but screw that, I don't care and launch at the other, arms going around the other. "How are you solid? How are you alive?"

"It must be part of the ritual…"

"Indeed, that is true."

We look up at the voice that just spoiled our embrace. My mouth drops and I can feel Bakura tense as he helps me stand fully off the ground. "Y-You're the boy from the library…." I whisper as the boy short in height and black hair smiles at us. I….don't like this. "But how? You weren't in the house, you weren't even apart of the ritual…How old are you….?"

"Older than you."

"Impossible kid, we're over a Mill-" Bakura starts but the smirking boy, pale face brightening, cut him off.

"As am I. Older than that."

"You're nine or something though!" Bakura argues, I stay silent for good reason, trying to make sense of this before Bakura does something stupid. I guess when he's not a ghost, our mental connection doesn't exist.

"Nine millenniums."

"What? How?!"

"That doesn't matter as of this time. Are you both ready to start, or not?" I get it now, I think…

"So you're here to test us. That book from the library we took was yours and wasn't there until you came. You were reading that book on Egypt, that's why you had that glint in your eyes because you knew that we'd show up here soon enough…" I tighten a hand around Bakura's and he gives slight pressure back.

"Yes."

"Well I'm ready to get started," Bakura whispers but I really don't think he meant that answer. We didn't even need to say anything else, this kid - or - ancient…thing just suddenly vanished and I felt pulled away from Bakura, ending up on the ground. Again. He's in the same state and I stumble to try and get to him as the ground swirls, the darkness thickening more than before. "Yami!"

"Bakura, hold on, I'm coming!" I reach out, standing slightly, but somehow tripped and he was gone again. "No! Bakura!" Don't leave me alone in the darkness again….Please….I don't want to be alone! Help…

What if he's alone too? Bakura…. "I'll find you somehow!"

"You don't need to do that…" I hear a voice whisper and turn around, seeing no one, but I feel arms around my chest and pull me against whoever it was. The form wasn't Bakura, and that's all that mattered. "I'll stay with you, Yami.." Crap! It's Seto! Why is Seto here and h-holding me?!

"Kaiba, let go, now!"

"Mmm….don't want to…" I cringe as he licks at my ear, struggling to free myself while he straddles me. "We aren't really rivals, Yami…I just like to piss you off because your face contorts to be very sexy…" His hand is on my waist, feeling around at my shirt to try and move it and I cry out to get away. Why is he doing this?! And NOW of all times?! His tongue moves from my ear and trails along my jawbone until he finds my lips. I try to turn around, but he bites and nibbles onto my lower lip, making it bleed. I can taste it…and feel it trailing down onto my chin.

"Bakura…" I whimper as he starts to assault my inner mouth. The hand not on my waist pulls behind my neck, digits of his fingers tapping down certain parts of my spine to send shivers that I don't want. Bakura where are you?! Help… I can't…

"Why do you need him when you have me?" Seto sneers, kissing at my neck roughly as his hands start to lower and I finally gain enough control to kick him in the face and jump away.

"You bastard! I already told you, I love him, not YOU!" I growl, wiping my chin of the blood before turning to run into the entry of the darkness. I know I'm shaking and stumbling, but I don't think anyone can blame me. Being assaulted by Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaiba Corp is not something I want happening to me! If that was the first test, I hate to know what the rest is.

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"Yami!"

"Oh, god, Bakura!" I run towards him, a light glowing over him, but I failed to care. It was nothing to worry about right now.

"Don't come here!" What was he talking about? Why should I not come over there? I try to voice the question but a sound sweeps passed my ears and I pivot to try and find the source. "Yami, get out of here, now!!"

"What's wrong…?"

"GO!"

I gulp and he seems to be gone, but I can still hear his voice…or voices….telling me to save him. Them. Whatever. The volume of the voices increase, forcing me to cover my ears with my arms, shouting for them to leave me alone. It wasn't working. "Why is this happening?! What the hell is going on?!" It was mental breakdowns all over again, it felt like something was pulling me in all directions, calling my name in different tones of voice - but still it was the same voice. Just that voice times a million. "What's going on?!" I cry out again, expecting one of the voices to answer, though I receive no such luck.

"Can you find him?"

I snapped my eyes up, looking through the dark area carefully to find this new voice, seeing the boy again.

"You again!"

"Mmm hm…" He looked around, casually folding his arms. "Your test has already started what are you doing just standing there?"

"Test? Already…? I don't understand…." And I really don't. Even with him here, the voices don't stop. Can he hear them too? Is this a part of the test? He smirks kindly at me, raising out a hand and snapping his fingers once, the sound vibrating through the air and bouncing around until I could finally see what was causing the voices.

Hundreds. Maybe thousands, but the number didn't matter. They were all Bakura. Clones, perhaps, but I'm pretty sure cloning technology has been perfected on just sheep. But this…

I felt my body suddenly jerked back and I fell to the ground, at least five of the bakuras pinned me down, a sixth one straddling my hips. "Get off!" I snapped forcefully, trying to break away.

"How do you know this isn't the real Bakura?" That kid's voice was getting unbearable…but if I tried to kill him now, it'd ruin my chances of getting to my Bakura. "He's not yours just yet." I glare through the bakura atop me towards where the kid is. What, can everyone read my thoughts?! "He could be 'your' Bakura, or maybe the one besides him is. Guess three times and be wrong each, then you can kiss your hopes from finding the real one away ever again."

I hissed out at his comments and for the fact that the one straddling me was starting to kiss me. And hard. First Seto, and now this! Can't everyone just stop doing this to me? The hands are everywhere, grabbing for a piece of me and I manage to roll onto my side, covering my head in my arms again. This isn't Bakura…..none of them are Bakura…..they can't be…..no…..none of them can be….he wouldn't do this to me….

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" I was starting to cry, they were getting too close to me and not only was I getting Claustrophobic, but they were trying to get to places I didn't want anyone to go. The tears poured from my eyes clenched shut, there were lines behind lines of bakuras, waiting for their turn to pick me apart bit by bit. "Please…..stop…." My voice was cut off again, my plea drowning in one of their mouths as he sucked out my breath, forcing in its tongue deeply into my mouth. I was still crying as I was pulled out of my fetal position, forced onto my stomach. I was still fully dressed at least….but still…..how long would that last…? I saw the boy a moment, the ancient one who I blame this on. His eyes showed no sadness for me, but I did see a short smirk of pity on my very body. My forehead was pushed against the cold ground and one of the bakuras let off me, but another one took its place, laying across my back and started to suckle at my neck. He bit down hard and I whimpered out in pain, hands clutching at the ground.

The voices around me ceased for a moment, but I think it was only because that annoying boy was speaking out. "Not a guess yet? Oh come now, he's out there. Waiting for a piece of you as well. You're just a feast to him, that's all. The only reason he wants to return to the living world is so he can ravish you whenever he pleases to."

"Shut up! You're wrong!"

"Am I?" His voice was so….honest….caring….I…what if….

No! He's wrong! "You know that I'm telling the truth Yami, just face it already. He only wants you so he can watch the all-mighty Pharaoh begging beneath him."

I closed his eyes, trying to curl up again and just cry, but one of the forms was still making marks all over my neck, another kneeling in and licking at my earlobe and another nibbling and massaging my arms.

"You're wrong….." My voice came out so faint now, eyes blurry so much that I couldn't make out most of the forms around me. "He loves me…." I heard him answer saying to stop fooling myself. I wasn't going to make it. I was going to die here. I should have died awhile ago…but when I saw Bakura…. How could I have fooled myself? Maybe this other is right…..maybe Bakura doesn't……love me…..

"He's wrong."

I ignore the voice, though it seemed softer than the others. I can't bring myself to be lied to again. I just can't.

"Listen to me, he's wrong." I felt a few of the forms atop me moving off a bit, but still assaulting other parts of my body. I felt my head fall into a crevice, the warm making me almost forget that my soul was tearing into more than half of pieces. A hand rubbed through my hair, gently. "I'm not here." The voice whispered into my ear and I turned my head up, hoping to catch a glance of who it was but my head fell back to the ground. No one was there except another copied form pushing lithe against me.

Wait….

Bakura…

I pushed one of the forms off me to see a direct line of vision with the still smirking other. "You liar!" I hissed, starting to stand and kicked away at all of the bodies trying to reach for a piece of me. I forced myself not to look at them, hardly able to walk as they piled around me, but backed off when I got to this ancient child. "You good for nothing LIAR!" I snapped, reaching out to choke him, but instead of grasping his neck, I fell back as pain overtook me. I held my arms out before me, gasping for breath as a dark, electrified light fell around my arms, sending jolts of pain through them. I fell to my knees, looking up at him as he glared down at me. Somehow I managed my voice. "Y-You lied….Bakura isn't here…."

I started at the sound of slow clapping, face slowly faltering as he grinned at me. "Well, well, the pharaoh is smarter than he looks."

"What…?"

He rose his arm above him, snapping his fingers once again and all the false bakuras vanished, leaving one sitting in the middle of where they all were, head lowered as it seemed he'd taken on a defeated gaze. My face rose again, though my arms still coursed with pain as I stumbled towards the other, not making it though as the antagonizing throbbing shot through my arms once again and I collapsed, immediately sending a glare back at the boy.

"Ah, ah, ah," he shook his finger towards me, "you can't go near him."

"What?! Why the hell not?!" This was pissing me off. Everything! But mainly this kid, who of course I still don't know his name. I'm really starting to hate him though. He wouldn't even answer me. I felt Bakura's gave on me, but I wouldn't turn my anger from the boy who simply shrugged. "Answer me! Let me go to him!"

"Let me think……" He paused and I felt a tinge of hope. "I'm done thinking, and no, you can't see him." And my hope was crushed. "Well why waste time? Let's get the next started."

What scared me the most…

….Was how excited he was getting over this.

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Short, sorry oO;; Well. It's short for me anyway, I'm used to having like 8 pages typed and I only have 5 here. Uh…..poor Yami oO;; Getting angsty all over again, ne? Yeah….well, nothing we can do for him XD Next chapter may take some more time, I have to think about the second test (the first one was odd as it was), but I know the third one at least.

Anyone hate the Egyptian boy yet? He'll probably get worse, but he will be rather nice. Ah, I guess…

Least I didn't take as long to get this chapter up…

And I didn't edit, gomen nasai minna-san oO;;;