The two boys began walking and walking, and walking. After about a half hour had passed, Yugi stopped and looked around, a frown appearing on his face. "Ryou, does it seem like we're getting anywhere here?"
The pale silver-haired boy shook his head, eyes searching, "No, not really."
Yugi sighed, tears beginning to fill his violet eyes. Sure, he had been annoyed with his yami but the thought of never seeing him again.......in frustration, Yugi hit the wall with his fist.
Suddenly, a tiny voice was heard, "Allo?"
Both Yugi and Ryou blinked looking around. "Down 'ere." The voice replied. Looking down, they both spotted a small worm.
"Did...did you just say something?" Ryou asked, looking at the worm. The worm nodded, giving the two boys a friendly smile, "Yes, yes I did."
Yugi raised an eyebrow. A talking worm. Well, why not? It wasn't like he hadn't been through weird stuff before. "Do you know how to get through this labyrinth?" Yugi asked.
The worm shook his head, "No, can't say that I do. Would you like to come inside and meet the missus?"
Ryou smiled but shook his head, "Thank you, but no. We really need to get through this labyrinth, but it just seems to keep going on and on."
The worm looked at both boys, cocking his head to the side, "There's plenty of openings around, you just ain't seeing them."
Yugi and Ryou both looked around then looked back at the worm, "But there's nothing around here."
"Sure there is, 'fact there's one right across from you."
Yugi walked cautiously over and put his hand against the wall, surprisingly, his hand passed right through. Stepping all the way through, Yugi disappeared. Turning around, he came back out, a grin on his face as he walked over and grabbed Ryou's hand, "Thank you." He replied as the boys stepped through and made to go right. Suddenly, the worm called out, "Don't go that way!"
Ryou peeped his head out, "What was that?"
"Don't go that way!" The worm replied, shaking his head.
"Oh, okay, thanks." Ryou smiled and led Yugi in the other direction. As the worm watched them go, he let out a little sigh of relief, "If'n they'd have gone that way, they would have went straight to that horrid castle!"
The boys continued walking. After searching through his pockets, Ryou had produced a black marker which the two had been using to mark their way as they went around each corner. Unbeknown to them though, their arrows were being changed.
After their last mark, Ryou looked down at the marker, "Darnit, I lost the cap." Shrugging, the two continued on their way.
Continuing a bit further, they came upon a dead end. Deciding to go back and find their last arrow, the two came to the corner they had marked to find nothing there. "I'm sure we marked this corner." Ryou frowned.
"Um...Ryou?"
"Yes koi?" Ryou looked up to find Yugi bending over and picking something up off the ground. Taking a closer look revealed it to be the marker's cap. "Someone's been erasing our marks!"
Yugi growled, "This isn't fair!"
"No, it's not fair!"
Turning, both boys noticed two doors where the dead end had been minutes before. Infront of the doors stood two guards. Taking a closer look, the guards were peculiar looking indeed. Each guard held a giant shield and underneath the shields were two more faces. "Okay, what's going on? This was a dead end before!" Yugi exclaimed."
The guard on the left shook his top head, "No it's not, behind you is the dead end."
"Whaa?" Yugi turned around and frowned, "How are we ever supposed to find our way through this if it keeps changing?!"
"Try one of the doors." The right guard suggested. "One of the doors leads to the castle while the other door leads to certain death."
"Certain death?!? " Ryou bit his lip, "Which one is which?"
"We can't tell you." The bottom head of the right guard explained.
"Why not?"
"Because we don't know either! But they do!" The bottom head motioned towards the two top heads.
"You can only ask one of us!" The two top heads exclaimed. Both Yugi and Ryou groaned.
"How come?" Yugi asked."
"Because that's the rules!" The left head replied, "You should also know that one of us always tells the truth and one of us always lies. He's the one that lies!" He motioned towards the right head.
"That's a lie!" The right head exclaimed.
The left bottom head snickered, "Even if you ask a question, you won't be able to tell who's telling the truth and who's lying!"
Yugi sighed as Ryou looked completely lost. Turning to Ryou, he shook his head, "I have no idea Yugi-chan. You're the king of games, you should be good at this!"
Yugi shook his head, "I never was very good at these type of riddles, that's mou hitori no boku's department."
Ryou paled even more than usual. "Great."
Yugi chewed on his bottom lip, trying to think of something to help them. "Well, the first thing we should do is come up with a question that we can ask both but would be the same answer."
Thinking for a moment, Ryou came up with something. "Got it, but who do we ask?"
Both guards pointed at one another as Ryou went up to the right one. "Alright, answer yes or no. Tell me if this door leads to the castle?"
The guard looked at Ryou, "Um...yes."
"Then...the other door leads to the castle and this door leads to certain death."
"But how do you know? The guard asked. "He could be telling the truth."
"Then you wouldn't be." Ryou explained, "So if you tell me that he had said yes, the answer would be no!"
"But I could be telling the truth."
"Then he would be lying and so if you told me that he said yes, the answer would still be no." Ryou grinned as Yugi stared at his koi looking completely confused. Ryou grabbed Yugi's hand and led him to the left door.
"Very clever." The left bottom head pouted and stuck his tongue out at the two. Ryou chuckled and pushed the door open, stepping through. As he walked through, he suddenly fell down a shaft, dragging Yugi with him.
Had they chosen the right way after all?
"What have you two been up to?!?" Jareth asked. Both yamis stopped in their tracks as they were heading out of one of the rooms. So far they had found three bathrooms. Three bathrooms that now were missing toilets.
"Um...nothing." Bakura smirked. Yami snickered softly as Bakura elbowed him in the ribs.
"Mmm..hmm. And why am I detecting traces of magic about?"
"No idea."
Jareth stepped forward and grabbed Yami's chin, bending forward, he brought his lips dangerously close to the pharaoh's. Bakura let out a growl, "Hey, let him go!" Sending out a blast of shadow magic, Jareth waved his hand, sending it back towards the tomb robber. Bakura was flung across the room, smashing into the wall. Yami growled, pushing away from Jareth and heading over to Bakura as the goblin king just shrugged. "I warned you about that." Jareth sighed.
The eye of horus began to flare on Yami's forehead as Jareth just tsked, "You too Pharaoh? You should know that you can't beat me. Now I think I will leave you two to cool down. When you are both ready to behave, I'll be back." With that, Jareth swept out the door leaving the two spirits alone.
Yami sighed and bent down, helping Bakura to his feet. The tomb robber grabbed Yami's shoulders unsteadily. "Are you alright, Kura?"
Bakura blinked and looked at the pharaoh, eyes widening. Did he just call him what he thought he called him? Maybe he had hit his head too hard.
"W..what did you call me?" Bakura asked.
Yami gulped. He had not meant for that to slip out. Sighing, he realized that there was no way out of it but to tell the truth. "I..I called you Kura."
"Phar....Yami? Why?"
"Because, I...I...." The normal confident pharaoh frowned. He could beat anyone, had the confidence to do anything, but this...this was just.....
Suddenly, without warning, lips were pressed gently yet firmly against his own. Yami stiffened for just one moment than sunk into the kiss. After a few moments, the two broke apart, "Is that were you were trying to say?" Bakura smiled. Not his normal I'm going to kill you and suck out your soul evil smile, but a true genuine smile.
Yami chuckled gently and nodded, a soft blush appearing on his cheeks, "Yeah, I guess it was."
Bakura smirked, "Aishiteru pharaoh no baka."
"Aishiteru baka tomb robber." Yami smirked back.
With that, Bakura grabbed Yami's hand and led him out of the room, "Come on pharaoh, it's time to get even!"