Disclaimer: I once owned Yu-Gi-Oh, but it turned out to be a dream. So legally I don't own it, but in my dream world I do. It gets confusing after awhile.

Author's Ranting: Okay, I am lazy, I admit it. Yeah. I am now 17 as of October 8th. I have a boyfriend now! Go me. And I am updating. Yes the apocalypse is coming. Take shelter. Also all registered, I implore you to vote. All non-registered but legally can, I implore you to registered. Also those of us who can't vote, beg your parents to. Although I will not give a long speech on my party if I could vote (cough Libertariancough) I want you all to do what you want.

Notes/Warnings/Dedication: Yeah an update. Story not going as planned. For some reason the plot is a lot different then when it began. Nothing really this chapter. No yaoi as of yet, but their will be some. Maybe rape also. Yeah. Dedication goes to the normal people: South Park, Rinchan's Flower, Mistress Nika, and Sara Kitten. Also to Edgar Allen Poe and Nathiel Hawothrone. Yeah, American Romantic encourage me to write fanfiction. Don't ask. Just read some of their works. And one last note. Sara Kitten is writing a story with the same basic plot as mine. The plot is originally mine but I signed a contract in blood letting her use it (no, we have a verbal contract only. Come on, she is my sister, I trust her). So after you read mine, go read hers.

Chapter 3: Visiting Again and a Large Surprise.

Yami and his friends came back the next day. Although none would admit it, they had since the last visit started looking at their lives differently. Although they all had problems, none were as bad as the boys they had just meet. It was even move frightening how they could see themselves in each boy. They approached the building and meet Isis at the entrance. She looked highly upset, but was trying her best to repress it.

"Hello boys," she said in a bit of a sharp tone. "Miss Anzu has already arrived and started working. I hope you all will also."

"Have we done anything to upset you, Miss Isthar?" asked Yami. He checked his watch and saw that they were a few minutes early, so she couldn't be upset with tardiness.

"Oh, I am sorry," she said, making her tone more inviting. "It is just that I had to deal with Mr. Pegasus today."

"Mr. Pegasus! Doesn't he own the company that makes Duel Monsters?" asked Marik.

"Anyone with half a brain knows that idiot. But I guess the excuses you and Bakura," said Seto.

"Seto is it hard to sit down with that rod up your ass, because I would be glad to remove it for you," said Bakura, pounding his fist. Seto turned to him and got into a fighting stance.

"Guys quit it! This is a hospital!" said Yami, exhausted. No matter what everyday, two or more of his friends got into a fight with another, usually it was Seto versus either Bakura or Marik. Bakura was just a smart-ass, Marik had an anger management problem, and Seto sometimes could not keep his mouth shut. Sometimes it turned out to be Marik versus Bakura, and then even rarer still was when Marik and Bakura teamed up to take Seto down together, when he was being especially annoying to the others. Yami was always the mediator. Sometimes Yami wonder how Seto could be so smart at technology and gaming, but so stupid at keeping his mouth shut some of the time.

"Yes, please do. We don't want to encourage others to violence," said Isis, a bit worried. The expression 'Monkey see, monkey do,' came to mind. She knew some of the patients copied what they saw others doing and she didn't want to have to break up the fights. "Besides being the CEO of Industrial Revolutions, Mr. Pegasus is also a phanltrapist of this institute. He visits bi-yearly to check out the patients and make sure we are doing our jobs."

"But this place runs so smoothly, why are you so upset?" asked Yami. Isis sighed.

"Mr. Pegasus has decided that if the boys you are working with do not show improvement by his next visit, he will take them away to a more private hospital." she said very sadly. She looked near tears and quickly looked at her feet.

"WHAT!" screamed all the boys.

"How could this get more private?!" asked Marik. "They only see each others, doctors, nurses, and recently us!"

"Mr. Pegasus would not allow them to visit each other, claiming that their bad habits rub off of each other," she said. "He won't allow them any visitors, not even family." She now started crying. Marik remembered that Malik was her brother. It must hurt her so much to have to work with him everyday and know that when she goes home at night, he wouldn't be going with her.

"But how can he do that?" asked Marik.

"When the boys were brought here, since they were such extreme cases they needed a lot of money. They are all orphans and their remaining family didn't have enough money to pay the bills. Mr. Pegasus offered to offically adopt the boys and pay all their bills. Their families had no choice but to comply." By now, Isis was in full sobs. Her repressed feelings were coming out ten-fold and she could not stop it. "They have shown more improvement here then anywhere else. We know that given enough time we can rehabilitate them. Mr. Pegasus would ruin all our work and destroy the boys more. Society doesn't care for children like these. But we do! I love my brother and want to take him home again. I remembered all those nights that I was locked in my room I could here my father beating and beating him! Our servant, Odion, loved my brother and me like his own. He would cradle us together every night after our father left. Until, until..."

"Until what! What happen Isis!" asked Marik, very concerned. The strong, graceful woman they had first meet was collapsed on the ground in front of them, crying. He saw that they were trying to free the boys from their prison, but everyone was working against them. Not just Pegasus, but the world its self.

"My father killed Odion in front of Malik," she said, sounding oddly calm. She was know out of tears and could only sink lower in unexpressed sadness. "Malik then took a gun and shot our father. He was taken away from me. I became a psychiatric nurse to help him. Every time he left a hospital, I left, just so I could be with him. But now Pegasus plans to take him away from me forever and I can't allow that. I have to stop him!"

"We have to stop him," said Shaadi, as he appeared seemingly out of no where. He stooped down to help Isis up. "I am with you on this all the way."

"Can we help?" asked Yami. He hadn't known how serious this was until know. He began to wonder along with the others, how could a simple community service project needed to graduate turn into a crusade to help those who could not help themselves.

"By visiting them and talking to them," said Shaadi. "Tell them about the world. Tell them about yourselves, really make them feel like they are apart of this world."

"You make it sound easy," sneered Seto.

"Far from, Mr Kabi," said Shaadi. "But if we lose hope now, we might as well give the boys over to Pegasus. And I refuse to do that." He and Isis left, leading the boys into the common room.

The Common Room.

Yugi, Jou, Marik, and Ryou were waiting with anticipation for the others.

"They aren't coming, I win the bet!" said Jou. Yugi slumped in his chair as did Ryou. Malik remain standing.

"What bet?" asked Ryou.

"Malik and I made a bet yesterday that they wouldn't be coming back today. And so far all I have seen was that check helping the grounds keeper," said Jou.

"It has only been a minute," said Malik. "They could still come."

"Face it," said Jou, "They were freaked out yesterday. They ain't coming back. What do you think Yug?"

'I think we have to wait a bit longer before we jump to conclusions,' Yugi wrote.

"Well, your always the optimistic one. What do you have to say Ryou?" asked Jou, turning to the albino who blushed at being addressed. Even though these three were his friends, he was still a little nervous around them. He felt that if he said the wrong thing, they would not talk to him again.

"Well," he said. "I am not certain about what they would do. If I could read minds, I wouldn't be here now would I?" He made a tiny laugh at his joke as did Jou and Malik. Yugi just remained silent.

'What did you guys bet any way?' asked Yugi.

"Nothing. We are just having contradictory opinions and Jou called it a bet," said Malik. He sighed. Him and Jou had a conversation yesterday about their new companions. Jou said they would not be back, and Malik disagreed. Jou then stated the bet was on. Even if this was a bet, they had nothing they could bet on. If they did, the hospital would have taken it away by now.

"Stop it with the big vocabulary," said Jou. "Between you and Ryou, I think I am in a book club." Malik just sighed again, Yugi shook his head, and Ryou blushed. The turn open and in came Dr. Keys and a very disheveled Isis. Malik nearly ran to his sister to see what was wrong with his normally elegant sister, but was stopped as Marik, Yami, Seto, and Bakura entered the room.

"Your friends came to visit again today," said Dr. Keys. "They are a bit late because Isis and I were talking with them."

"Looks like I loose," said Jou, not sounding a bit disappointed.

"Yeah you do," said Malik.

TBC

Not progressing how I had originally planned, but hey, it is progressing now. Except more updates soon.

Jodea Moondreamer.