A/N- Woohoo! I'm halfway through this story! Yay! I'll be so happy when it's done, lol. This chapter would have been out sooner but I had to make some changes. 1) it wasn't long enough and 2) I really hated how I wrote Seto at the end of the chapter. He was kinda mean in the original version so I rewote a bit it at the last minute.

The following takes place between 7pm and 8pm

7:00PM

"What do you mean Anzu is dead?" Yami demanded to know.

"I have to tell Seto!" Mana cried as she stood and hurried off with both Yami and Mahado hurrying after her.

Reaching a door, Mana punched in a security code and the door opened. Inside the room Seto was watching Kisara interrogate Isis through a one-way mirror.

"Mana, what's wrong?" Seto asked seeing that the door had been open. Seto's eyes immediately fell on Yami but looked away towards Mana when he saw the hateful look on Yami's face.

"Anzu is dead."

"What?!"

"She was in Japan," Mana explained. "Her body was found in a game shop there. They found an old man as well who appeared to have suffered a heart attack. He's in a hospital now but too weak to answer questions of the investigators."

"Was anyone else found in the game shop?!" Seto demanded to know.

"It didn't say."

"Put me in touch with Pegasus Crawford!" Seto quickly ordered as he hurried from the room and rushed back to the command center. Immediately Seto bounded up the stairs to his office to await the call. All three of them, Mana, Mahado and especially Yami, stared after him with a confused look on their faces.

7:05PM

Lavender eyes watched the new commotion around him. Malik knew that Isis was there somewhere even though he had not seen her brought in. While trying to figure out a way to help his sister, Malik had innocently been watching when first Mana, Yami and Mahado ran through the room only to return moments later with Seto Kaiba.

Wondering what was going on, Malik glanced around the room to make sure that no one was paying attention. Malik then began looking through the CTU database to see what the other agents in the room were up too. After a few seconds, Malik had succeeded in breaking into Mana's computer to see what the computer tech had been up too.

"Anzu Mazaki?" Malik murmured as he looked through the file. "What's up with that?"

Seeing Mana return to her computer, Malik logged off the access he had to it and pretended to work. He however continued to keep an eye on her and watched as she picked up her phone and call someone. Seeing that she was busy, Malik took the opportunity to make his way back inside her computer and look up the information she was gathering once again.

Satisfied with his work knowing that Mana would not be able to detect that he was spying on her, Malik settled back in his chair and began waiting to see what would happen next. Moments later a scowl appeared on his face as he watched Yami Mutou hurried through the room and up to Seto's office.

7:11PM

"What the hell is going on here Seto!" Yami yelled as he stormed into the office and angrily slammed the door behind him.

"Not now Yami," Seto commanded who was busy typing at something on his computer. "In case you were not paying attention another agent of ours turned up dead."

"Mazaki quit."

"She's been working undercover in Japan," Seto quickly informed him while glancing up at Yami. "The fact she's dead is now a very bad thing."

"Look Seto, I don't want to hear it. I quit remember. Just tell me where the hell Yugi is so I can give my statement about what happened at the warehouse and then get out of here so I can find my cousin!"

"I don't know where Yugi is," Seto admitted while turning back to his work.

"What the fuck?!" Yami yelled. "Tell me you bastard!"

Pressing a button, the blinds for the window that overlooked the control closed and Seto then turned his attention back once again to Yami, once no one down below could see them anymore. "Yugi was in Japan," Seto calmly explained. "Mazaki was there keeping an eye on him. He was working at a game shop that was owned by an old man. According to Anzu's last report the old man treated Yugi like a grandson."

"Mazaki's body was found in a game shop….." Yami quietly said as he began piecing everything together. "….and there was an old man there as well…"

"Exactly. Now you know why I'm kind of busy at the moment."

"Tell me right now what the hell happened Seto!" Yami yelled as he slammed his fist onto the top of Seto's desk. The director didn't even flinch however.

"Mahado was sent on an undercover mission. To get close to the Shadow Ghouls he was supposed to kill you."

"I know that part! Tell me about Yugi!"

"After Mahado arrived on the scene to kill Yugi. Yugi and Mahado faked the killing in case Mahado had someone watching him. I had Anzu hiding on scene as well. Mahado left, and Yugi and Anzu spread the pigs' blood over the house. Once the area was clear, they both vacated the area and went to a safe house. After a few days they were put on a plane to Japan with their new identities. They were posing as a newly married couple and Yugi got a job in a game shop.
The DNA results were rigged so that they said the blood belonged to Yugi."

"I'm gonna kill you."

"Yami stop it!" Seto snapped. "This isn't my fault!"

"If you would have told me that Yugi was in Japan I could have gone there to protect him a long time ago!"

"You would have been dead now too then!" Seto shot back. "I know you hate me right now but I still love you! I regret nothing that I did! Now if you don't mind, right now I'm busy trying to get a hold of Pegasus. He's on vacation in Japan right now with his wife. I need him to go investigate the game shop and figure out where Yugi is."

"Don't screw this up Seto," Yami replied with dark eyes.

7:25PM

The sun was setting across the city as Bakura pulled Ryou's rented car into the underground parking garage of the unfinished building where Marik was hiding out.

"Marik is going to be mad with you," Ryou said as they exited the car and started heading towards the elevator.

"Like I care," Bakura scoffed as he and Ryou stepped in the elevator and began their ride up to the suite where Marik was.

"BAKURA YOU BASTARD!" Marik roared as the door to the suite flung open and an angrily Marik stormed down the hall towards Bakura and Ryou.

"Nice to see you too Marik."

"Don't act like you didn't do anything!"

"What?" Bakura innocently asked while Ryou hid behind his back. "You told me to leave nothing behind."

"I meant physical things! Not burn the whole bloody hotel down! Cops are going to go there now! It will draw attention!"

"I just got out of jail," Bakura calmly replied with a small shrug of his shoulders. "How long did you really expect me to go without burning something up?"

"You have a point," Marik muttered as he calmed down. Moving aside the three of them walked inside of the suite.

"Hey this is nicer then your other hotel," Bakura commented as he looked around the place.

"Don't go burning down this one!" Marik warned as he took his seat back on the couch.

"Aww come on Marik! You haven't seen me in almost two years! Can't you be a little nicer?"

"No."

"Bakura let it go," Ryou whispered to his lover while taking a hold of his hand. "You know what he's like."

"Hn, I'm not scared of him."

"But I am!"

Bakura looked deep into Ryou's eyes and saw the fear there. Bakura sighed at the memories. Ryou had a reason to be afraid of Marik. Considering that Marik had brutally raped him, causing his family to disown him afterwards saying the rape was Ryou's fault. If it hadn't been for Bakura, Ryou would have been dead long ago.

"Okay fine," Bakura huffed. "I'll be good."

"You better!" Marik called from the couch.

"Don't listen into our conversation!" Bakura yelled back at him.

"I listen to everyone's conversation. That's how I'm so good at what I do."

Ryou sighed as the two of them continued to yell back and forth, while trying to remain calm. Ryou wasn't too worried for Bakura's health. Bakura was like an addition brother to the Ishtar family and there was one thing that all the Ishtars valued above all else was family. Ryou however was a bit more concerned about himself. Years ago, after Ryou and Bakura had started sleeping together, Marik had taken Ryou under his protection. However Ryou was always concerned that some day that protection would run out.

7:43PM

"Pegasus, I don't care if it's your vacation!" Seto yelled into the phone. "Cynthia will understand! Get to Domino now and find out what is going on there!"

From across Seto's desk, Yami was sitting down in a chair while glaring at the burnet. Yami impatiently watched as Seto slammed down the phone. "So where is he?"

"Pegasus is in Tokyo, Yugi was in Domino. It will take a few hours until Pegasus gets there and starts investigating," Seto quietly explained to Yami.

"My patience is wearing out Seto," Yami grumbled as he looked away, not seeing the sad expression that appeared on Seto's face. Seto hated that Yami was so mad at him. Everything he had done in the past year he did so that he could protect the spiky haired agent. Couldn't Yami see that?

"I take it you're still mad at me."

"Why shouldn't I be mad?" Yami angrily declared as he looked back at Seto again. "You took away my cousin who is now missing and you played with my emotions for the past nine months."

"Why can't you get it through your thick head that I love you?!"

"If you loved me you wouldn't have done that!" Yami shot back.

"I was jealous!" Seto yelled as he jumped to his feet and leaned across the desk getting right in Yami's face. "I needed someone to go undercover and it should have been you! You were the best! But I couldn't bear to be apart from you for that long! I love you! I have always loved you! Yet all you ever do was hang out with Mahado and Yugi! So I selected Mahado to go on the undercover mission."

"You're a bastard. You decided to destroy my life just because you're selfish," Yami coldly shot back. "And that still doesn't explain why you didn't tell me about Yugi. Or Mahado for that matter."

"Yugi was safe. If you had suddenly gone running off to Japan, someone would have noticed! That would have put both of you in trouble!"

"I could have protected him!" Yami argued.

"Are you completely sure Yami?" Seto gently asked. "These are professions who have hated you ever since you killed Marik Ishtar. They would have overwhelmed you in numbers so that not even you could have survived. I refuse to lose you!"

"You're an obsessive freak!"

"I love you!" Leaning forward a bit more, Seto captured Yami's lips with his own. Seto's lips lightly danced over Yami's, the other too shocked to kiss back. After a few moments Seto pulled away and sat back down in his chair. It was only then that he saw the tears streaming down Yami's face.

"You can't play with my emotions anymore," Yami whispered. The field agent then stood up and walked out of the office. Hiding his tears to the best of his ability, Yami walked through CTU and ducked into an unused room. It was then where he allowed himself to openly cry as he thought about how he treated Mahado, Yugi and Seto.

8:00PM