"Yami, we have to talk about this," Yugi said entering the room after showing Bakura and Ryou to the door. Bakura had decided that they'd stayed long enough. Ryou was just thankful that they'd managed to stay as long as they had without Bakura starting a fight with Yami. Yugi was unsure if that were because Yami was too preoccupied to respond to the derogatory comments or because Bakura really hadn't said anything too rude. Yugi was starting to wonder if Ryou somehow had managed to find a way to control the dark spirit. Bakura had been a lot quieter the last few times they'd all hung out together and it was hard to tell if that were good or bad.

"There's nothing to talk about," Yami said, not looking up from what he was doing, which Yugi was actually unsure of what that was. He sat down of the floor in front of Yami.

"It's eating at you very slowly but is incredibly visible. You know you can't hide anything from me." Yami didn't respond. Yugi inched closer. " I know you're still upset about Duke and I don't know why." Yami met his eyes disbelievingly.

"How can you..." he stopped himself before saying something that would hurt his little hikari's feelings and looked back at the colored tiles that he had spread across the floor. "Yugi, he's unstable. You will never know what little thing can set him off again. It could be a look or a simple word... I just think it's best for you if you stay away from him for awhile.

"He said he was sorry," Yugi offered.

"Yeah... He did..." Yami said cynically. He shuffled the tiles absently into a new sequence. Yugi put his hands over Yami's, forcing Yami to look at him again.

"I just want to give him a chance."

"I know. You always want to give people a chance. I'm..." He noticed the hurt filling Yugi's eyes and stopped. "...I'm not..." He looked down again. "I don't want to tell you not to. That would be wrong. I just..." He sighed and looked back at Yugi. "Yugi. You're so trusting that sometimes... Sometimes you don't see things that could be important. Like someone trying to use you to get something else." He paused to make sure Yugi was in understanding. "I'm just asking you to be on your guard." Yugi smiled.

"Of course I will," he said cheerfully. Yami tried his best to mask the lingering concern and nodded, then went back to the rainbow tiles. Yugi moved over besides him to get a better look at them. "So, what's this?" he asked.

"I think it's a puzzle. Serenity dropped it off yesterday but this is the first time I've actually gotten to look at it."

"Serenity? Isn't she leaving today?"

"Yeah. We're all supposed to meet at the airport this evening to say good- bye."

Tristan and Serenity ( Somewhere out there in the world...walking...)

"You'll see him later. Then you can talk to HIM about it," Tristan said after the millionth question over Kaiba and Joey's relationship.

"Why can't you just tell me?"

"Because...I don't really know myself. We haven't really talked that much since...well, since they got together."

"Just hearing put like that... I never... I mean I know sometimes I thought they sounded like an old married couple but to actually have them stated as being 'together' it just... I can't even process what that means."

"Well, like I said...you can talk to him tonight."

"Do you even know where he is? I wanted to spend my last day here with both of you guys."

In Kaiba's limo

"So, where are we going?" Joey asked as they pulled out of the driveway. Kaiba just looked at him. "Come on. It better be some place good."

"Would I go anywhere that wasn't?"

"I choose not to answer that." Joey crossed his arms defiantly.

"It was rhetorical anyway," Kaiba rolled his eyes and looked toward the window.

"I knew that." It went silent between them. Joey started to look around the limo boredly and Kaiba turned around and studied him. Joey met his gaze. "What?" he shrugged uncomfortably.

"Just wondering how long I had to wait for you to say something."

"Well you could have just asked me to talk."

"I didn't want you to. I just knew you would."

"Well if you don't want to talk then what do you want to do, just sit here and stare at..." Joey stopped when Kaiba raised his eyebrow seductively and a smile crept across his face. Then he climbed over closer to Joey. "Isn't there a law or something against this?" Joey asked sheepishly as Kaiba hovered over him.

"Would you care if there were?" Kaiba asked daringly. Joey smiled.

"I'd care enough to break it," he said and let Kaiba kiss him. "But we need to talk about Mokuba." Kaiba withdrew at the mention of his brother.

"Why Mokuba? What does he have to do with anything?"

"He doesn't like us being together."

"What are you talking about? He's the one who..."

"I know but I can tell he's not okay with it. He just wants you to be happy so he won't say anything but I can see it on his face every time I'm around. He doesn't like me being around you."

"That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," Kaiba said crossing his arms.

At Kaiba mansion

Mokuba sighed and slid the toys he was playing with under his bed. He still couldn't believe that Seto had left him alone with some servant who he didn't even know. What was next, leaving him in some day care center? He wished he could blame Joey for how his brother was acting but he knew that Joey couldn't control Seto. Seto didn't do anything unless he wanted to...and he liked Joey. He was happy that his brother was finally smiling again. He just wished that he could be a part of helping his brother smile. He'd been trying for so long to bring back the happy young boy that Seto had once been and now all of the sudden one person, who Seto hadn't even liked to begin with, comes along and makes it look so easy. So why couldn't it have been Mokuba? Wasn't he enough to make Seto happy? It had been just the two of them for so long. Was Seto finally getting tired of always hanging around with his little brother? Had Mokuba been holding him back from doing things that he wanted to do? Mokuba didn't know what to think anymore.