Title: The Way You Treat Me

Author: Alyssa_Anime_Angel

Rating: R for Violence, Swearing and Abuse

Warnings: Do not read if you are offended by any of these things.

DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE OFFENDED BY VIOLENCE, SWEARING AND ABUSE, and RAPE.

Disclaimer: I don't own YU-GI-OH nor any of its characters however I do own this plot line and I would like to point out that I am not making any money off this fic so don't sue! I don't own any of the lines from the actual TV show.

Alyssa: okay sorry it took so long. And this is one of my top fav fanfics to write.

Chapter 3

Bakura stomached the two twins infuriating rhyming. How those two gloated! And all for no reason, they would lose. Two mortals could not beat an immortal; no only Bakura himself would be up for the job.

Bakura clenched his fists as that mutt started to build up his forces, 'so totally primitive.'

However lame the mutts moves were, Yugi's were just as predictable. He played the Dark Magician, his favorite card, as Bakura had gotten to know in their recent and certainly not the last duel.

What drew Bakura's attention was when one of those blasted twins changed the labyrinth. That was the first, truly strategic move worthy of his interest they had made yet. He gasped in surprise that they had more than half a brain each.

The evil spirit barely contained his laughter as the mutt quivered in fear and muttered, "This doesn't look good."

The two friends took it the wrong way; Bakura was merely worried that he wouldn't get a chance to be the one to beat that smug spirit.

Tristan agreed, "Tell me about it, it's a good thing that Yugi's up next."

'So much faith, how pathetic.'

Bakura retreated to Ryou's soul room to check on his…pawn.

He found the boy sniveling and rocking in a fetal position. He walked up to the small figure and knelt down. Tracing his finger across Ryou's cheek, it seemed to the boy almost a gentle action. However that was only until Bakura grabbed the chin and turned the light's face to meet his. The boy looked away in submission. Bakura felt the soft skin and pulled the red lips to his. Ryou looked at his yami in shock as the spirit forced his tongue inside. Ryou was revolted and tried to back away but the spirit's strength was too strong. Finally they parted due to Bakura's preoccupation. He had sensed something outside so he departed from the soul room, leaving a terrified boy behind.

Bakura came to, to sense a dark presence emanating from a box played on the field by the twins. It was intriguing to say the least and the twins were obviously confident in it's power.

His perceptions were further justified when the other twin played a second box. He sensed an ancient and evil power and he knew that the other spirit could sense it too. Feigning confusion he said, "What could they be?"

However there were some aspects to these boxes that Bakura did not know. He barely registered the defeat of the Celtic Guardian and the plays of the magical hats and monster tamer. A loud burst from Joey was what brought Bakura out of his reverie, and saw the swordsman becoming stronger from salamandra.

"Good show, not only does Salamandra increase the swordsman's attack strength but because of the worms weakness to fire, it negates the onus points it got from the monster tamer, returning its attack points to twenty-two hundred." Bakura hated speaking the obvious, but that is what the friends of his enemy tended to do.

Well as expected the worm was defeated but Bakura felt his senses heighten as the last box was played. He instantly recognized the power, 'The Trinity.'

Bakura silently agreed with Yugi, The Trinity was certainly in the league of Exodia, but it did have its weaknesses, if the two could figure it out. Bakura grimaced in delight.

Tea as usual had some comment to say, "Now what do they do?"

Bakura feigned ignorance, "I don't know, this looks bad."

Tristan replied, "Don't be so down beat Bakura, if they don't beat then, we'll never get outta this maze."

"Gee, thanks for cheering me up Tristan." What did Ryou see in these mortals? And yet with ignorance of the power of the Trinity, the two cheerleaders still cheered for their friends.

And with that last thought the Trinity launched an attack on the mutt's favorite card.

Bakura had no doubt it would be destroyed, unless Yami could do something about it.

And there Yami went to the rescue, playing mirror force. Bakura laughed inwardly at Yami's useless attack.

The Trinity was too powerful. Yami boasted about his plan to defeat the monster and Bakura was surprised it had taken this long for Yami to work out it's weakness.

And then Suijin went on the attack.

"Oh my, Dox is using the water elemental section of his Gate Guardian to flush out the entire maze. Everything in its path will be attacked. The mystic properties of the magical hats will protect the magician. But I'm afraid Joey's Swordsman will not be so lucky."

And as Bakura prophesized, the swordsman was destroyed, but Yami seemed happy about it. He played the Summoned Skull and Bakura listened to Tristan state the obvious, "The water, Yugi's gonna use it as a conductor for an electrical attack."

Yami shouted, "Summoned Skull Attack!"

Tea stated, "The water's actually guiding the attack."

It looked as though Yami's attack would fail but Yami had an ace up his sleeve. Because the magical hats had been attacked, his trap, the Spellbinding Circle took effect, immobilizing the Gate Guardian. And with the Summoned Skull's attack, Suijin was destroyed.

Bakura forced himself to cheer along with the others, though he almost retched from the action.

On Joey's turn he played the Red Eye's black Dragon whom Yugi palmerized with Summoned Skull to form a most formidable monster, The Supreme Black Skull Dragon!

The twins could only laugh at what they saw was a futile act.

Upon informing their opponents of the no flying rule of the maze (which was the only way the dragon could move) and Yugi stating he had an alternate plan, they played Ryoku.

Its affect sucked away half of Joey and Yugi's life points and added them to the Gate Guardian.

Yami responded daringly by moving Dark Magician into harms way and out of the maze.

He then played monster reborn.

Bakura laughed as the twins attacked too early, they did not foresee any monster that could survive their attack.

Yami ordered, "Suijin, Tidal Shield!"

The Magician was saved for the time being.

Tristan breathed a sigh of relief, "Phew, that was a close one."

Tea agreed, "Sure was."

"Hmm, Now the question ism can they follow it through," Bakura was actually interested in how this would turn out.

Joey drew his next card and after confusion, grew extremely confident.

He threw it out, "Here it goes, I'll use copycat and play it as Ryoku."

Even Yami was surprised, though he hardly let it show.

"That's right, say adios to half of your life points. But don't worry, they're going to a good cause, my Black Skull Dragon."

The Dragon's points rose from 3100 to 400 and each of the twins were only on 450 each.

Yami exclaimed, "Great move Joey."

The twins came back with a vengeance; they attacked Suijin in two waves destroying the monster.

Tea asked, "What happened?"

Bakura filled her in reluctantly, allowing his vast knowledge to be seen, luckily no one noticed, "Suijin is only allowed to use his tidal defensive ability once per turn, so the paradox brothers split their attack into two waves."

However Yugi still seemed confident to the spectators.

He played his ace in the hole, Monster Replace, switching The Dragon with the Magician.

Bakura knew this was the end.

"Black Skull Dragon, molten fireball blast!"

The Gate Guardian was destroyed and Yugi claimed, "The Duel goes to us."

Tea cheered, "All Right."

"They won."

"Doesn't that mean?"

Tristan replied, "Oh yeah, ten stars."

Bakura said, "They did it."

In response all three of them cheered in unison, "They did it!"

"Not yet!"

"One Test Left!"

The group congregated in front of the two doors. Bakura knew that even if the rest of these fools were trapped in this maze, he could still escape so he lazily watched the exchange wondering if Yami would save the day yet again. He was starting to get predictable.

Joey replied, "What do you mean there's another test? Yugi and I beat you at a duel. Isn't that enough?"

"Enough to win our star chips but not enough to escape this labyrinth."

"You still must choose a door, remember."

"I remember," Yugi stated, "Now which of you brothers is guarding the door that leads out of here?"

"If you cherish your lives you will choose my way."

"Select my door, or else you'll pay."

Tea was annoyed, "Not this again. Cant you just act normal and give us a straight answer."

The twins said in unison, "I am giving you a straight answer."

Yami stated, "The answer is that we can't trust either of these two."

Tristan asked, "Okay any bright ideas."

"Uh, sure, don't I always." Joey replied, much to everyone's sighs and refutes.

"Ah, zero respect."

Yami revealed two coins, "Hmm, we'll decide with these."

Everyone replied with, "Eh?"

One of the twins asked, "Okay, heads or tails?"

"Neither, I marked each one with a different door. The coin that I keep clenched in my fist will be the door that I have chosen…Ready?"

Tension grew thick in the air as Yami decided which one to choose.

He opened one of his hands revealing the Dox coin and the twins seemed pleased.

"That coin is marked for Dox's door."

"But was your choice good or was it poor?"

"What say you Dox, shall we tell which was right?"

"In due time Para, I am enjoying their plight."

Joey let his impatience show, "Come on, was it Para's?"

Tea continued, "Or was it Dox's."

Tristan encouraged, "Yeah, fess up."

The twins laughed and revealed that they had chosen wrong.

"I say…"

"You choose wrong, it was my doorway…"

"All along."

Tea frowned, "So Dox's door was the right one?"

Yami answered, "Not quite."

The twins grins faltered, "Huh, oh yes it was."

Yami growled, "Except if we had picked it, then Para's door would be the right one! You can change which door leads to which path, ensuring that we choose wrong."

Joey exclaimed, "That's not fair! You guys cheated."

"Too bad, too late, you chose a way."

"And that means here you'll stay."

Yami smiled, "Well actually, you never saw our choice." And with that statement he opened his other hand.

Joey was shocked, "The Dox coin."

"I figured you two would pull a stunt like this, so I pulled a stunt of my own with these two coins. Instead of marking each coin with just one door insignia, I marked this one with two. One insignia on each side, that way we couldn't lose."

The twins gasped. They had been beaten.

Joey boasted, "Hah, beat ya at your own game."

Yami smiled, "Both of them! Now if you'll excuse us, we have a score to settle with your boss."

The doors opened and the team made there way in as Joey stated, "All right then, on to Pegasus' castle."