"Seto?" Joey asked sheepishly. He was helplessly pinned beneath the brunette who was half sleeping, lying across Joey's chest.

"Hmm?" Kaiba responded, not moving or opening his eyes.

"You do realize that we're still in the bathroom right?" Kaiba groaned unpleasantly and sat up. Still halfway leaning on Joey he met the blonde's eyes.

"Why do you always have to ruin everything?" Joey half smiled and tried to shrug.

"It's not always me..." Kaiba raised an eyebrow and waited for him to imply that he had once too. Joey smiled, knowing that Kaiba knew that the implication wasn't in vain, and left the sentence unfinished. Kaiba rolled his eyes and slid away from him. Keeping his back to him, he started to collect his clothes. "Awe, come on. I was only suggesting that..."

"We go somewhere else. Yeah. I got that," Kaiba interrupted annoyed. Joey pulled himself up as well and grabbed his shirt from where it was draped over the bathtub.

"At least I didn't bring up my friends." Kaiba made a ' well I can see how true that is' face and shook his head. "Hey. Why don't we go find something to eat? I'm sure the guys are hungry and I already feel bad that I've been ignoring them." Kaiba stood up and pulled half of his clothes on.

"You can do whatever you want. I have some work I need to finish." Joey pulled his shirt on and started to button it.

"So that's it? Use me and lose me? Do you even really want a relationship or did you just need to get that out of your system?" Kaiba looked down at him and smirked.

"Tell me what you think," he said. Joey scowled but it quickly turned into a smile as he grabbed Kaiba's arms and pulled him down on top of him.

"I'll tell you what I don't think," he said flirtatiously. "I don't think that you can walk away as easily as you think you can." He pulled Kaiba into a kiss and Kaiba closed his eyes, sinking into it, but a knock at the door made him scramble away as if he'd just been caught doing something he didn't want other people to see. Joey laughed as he blushed.

"What?" Kaiba barked out angrily as Joey put the rest of his clothes on.

"I wasn't sure if I should tell you but Yugi and Tristan are gone," Mokuba's voice called through the door. Joey exchanged looks with Kaiba. Kaiba opened the door.

"Did they say where they were going?" Joey asked from behind him. Mokuba looked from his brother to Joey.

"No. But they've been gone for awhile..."

"I don't think they would have just left. Yugi's not like that, especially after what happened to Ryou. Are you sure they're not here?"

"Positive. The door even says that they left." Joey looked at Kaiba confused.

"The door has a counter for every time it's opened and closed," Kaiba replied boredly. Joey nodded, still unsure of what that meant. "Maybe you need to be more concerned about your friends then how a simple security device works." Joey glared at him.

"You're lucky that you're right right now," he said. He walked past both Kaiba brothers' toward the front door. "And I hope for their sake that they just got lost in the house instead of wandering out there with the psycho that hurt Ryou after them."

"Bakura? Do you think it will always be like this?"

"What do you mean? Like what?"

"Like this." Ryou leaned over and kissed him lightly on the lips. "I want you to stay with me always. Promise me you'll never leave me." Bakura backed away a little to look at him better. Ryou looked down embarrassed as if he'd done something wrong. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..."he trailed off. Bakura pulled him into an embrace.

"Of course I won't leave you. I...I love you, Ryou." Ryou looked up at him with wide eyes, teardrops forming at the sides. Bakura smiled and brushed the side of his face as one of them started to fall. "Silly child. Why are you always crying?" Ryou's eyes snapped shut as he hugged the spirit tightly, snuggling his head into Bakura's chest.

"Nobody's ever said that before," Ryou cried happily. "I love you too, Ba...kura?" His eyes opened and he found himself alone. He looked around confused. "Bakura, where'd you go? Did you really leave me?" Darkness seemed to swirl in around him and his vision blurred. "Bakura?"

"But you promised..." Ryou mumbled incoherently. He groaned and pushed himself up. His whole body ached and his head hurt and when he opened his eyes and found himself in a room with only one light, that appeared to have no doors, he became a little wary. ' I knew that wasn't real...' he couldn't help thinking. He looked around the room confused.

"Where am I?" he asked the silence. He stretched, well tried to and recoiled when sharps pains shot through his body. He was bleeding from a spot on his leg and a new bruise had begun to form on his arm. He turned his head slowly as he heard a clicking sound behind him. "Bakura?" he asked knowing very well that it wasn't him. The clicking stopped and the room went quiet again. ' What happened to me? Where am I?' he repeated in his thoughts. Worry creased his forehead and he closed his eyes again. ' And where's Bakura?'

"Bakura, stop it. There are plenty of ways to handle this without using violence," Yami said as Bakura pulled out a knife. He looked to Yami skeptically.

"Not one will get this bastard what he deserves."

"But if you kill me, how will you ever find you precious hikari?" Marik said smiling. Bakura pushed Yami off of Marik and flipped him over pinning him to the ground unmovable. He held the knife up to the side of Marik's neck.

"What does that mean?" Marik's smile curled into a twisted smirk against the pavement.

"I already told you that I had my mind slaves pick him up. It was almost too easy seeing as how he was already unconscious. He's mine now," came his muffled response. Bakura increased the pressure of the knife on Marik's necks, creating a very noticeable line and narrowed his eyes. Yami looked from Bakura's face to the knife that was digging into the side of Marik's neck. He couldn't decide what to do. If he stopped Bakura, Marik would live and even if he were sent to the shadow realm, who was to be sure he wouldn't come back again? But if he let Bakura kill him what would happen to Ryou if he weren't bluffing? He felt something on his shoulder and turned his head. Yugi was kneeling beside him looking worried, with Tristan not too far behind, only Tristan seemed more focused on Bakura and Marik.

"Are you okay?" Yugi asked quietly. Yami nodded.

"No need to concern yourself with me. I think we need to be worried about Ryou right now."

"I'm not..."

"What did Ryou ever do to you?" Tristan spoke up interrupting Bakura. Marik laughed and Bakura increased the pressure again.

"Absolutely nothing. This jerk just likes to watch people suffer. Scum like you doesn't deserve to be breathing the same air as a rat with rabies."

"That may be true but killing him won't help you any," Yami said.

"It would get me a hell of a lot farther then letting him live. Even if I don't kill him, he won't tell me where Ryou is, if he even really knows at all." So Bakura had been thinking the same thing. Yami closed his eyes, trying to think.

"I'll take care of it," Yugi said standing up. Yami and Tristan both watched in complete shock as he walked over to where Marik and Bakura were.

' What are you doing?' Yami asked through the link. He didn't answer and knelt down beside Marik's head.

"Bakura... I want you to... I need you too... Let him go," he said. A deep blushed crossed his face as soon as the words were out. Everyone except Marik looked at him, unable to figure out what was going through his mind.

"Are you crazy?" Tristan broke the silence. "Yugi, he's threatening to kill us." Yugi tried to hide his face by looking down. Bakura went back to putting pressure on the knife.

"No. This is." Yugi grabbed the millennium rod from where Bakura had thrown it. "And I know exactly where it belongs."