Her Sweetness: Hello, my faithful readers! Well, here we are at my next fanfic… starting things like this always make me wonder if I'll actually finish. But that depends on how many reviews I get.
So, anyway, let's go ahead and begin.

Wish You Were Here

Chapter 1:

It was a quiet and tranquil June morning in the city of Domino. The streets were veiled in a thick fog and mist, which made it much harder for people to guide their way through it. Especially for Marik, who was never any good at navigating anyway.

"Now, let's see…" Marik looked at the map that his hikari gave him earlier. It was of the neighborhood, and had a star marked on the Game Shop. He flipped it around and sighed, "Damn it. Why didn't he just wake me up?"

It was about ten more minutes before Marik wandered back into an area he was familiar with. The eye on the top of the Game Shop was starring at him as he went inside.

"Hoo…" Marik leaned against the door, "That was a long walk."

"Oh, hello, Marik!" Grandpa yelled cheerfully from behind the counter. He walked over and shook Marik's hand, although Marik refused to shake back.

"So, where's Malik? He left a note taped to my head telling me to come here for some stupid meeting."

"Malik and everyone else are waiting for you upstairs. They'll all be in Yugi and Yami's room, go down the hallway and it's the second door on your right."

Marik trudged up the stairs, went down the hallway and looked around for their room. He stopped at a door that said 'Yugi and Yami's Room!' and knocked.

Shuffling could be heard inside and Yugi's small voice saying, "What's the password?"

"…" Marik growled, "What do you mean password? You'd better let me in there right now, you little twerp, or I'll…!"

The door quickly opened and Yugi was hiding behind Yami as Marik walked in and looked over at Malik who was sitting next to Ryou and Bakura was on the other side of Yami.

"Hi, Marik. You're late." Malik said simply.

"That's because that map you gave me was defective."

"…" Malik smirked, "Just sit down, Marik."

"Okay… what's going on here?"

"We don't know." Bakura shrugged, "Ryou, Malik, and Yugi dragged us in here and we were just waiting for you."

Marik sat down and glared at Yami, "And what are you doing here, Pharaoh?"

"I live here! And anyways, why does it matter to you? We've been just sitting here for twenty minutes waiting for you to hurry up."

"Why don't you just shove it? I got lost!"

"There's the surprise of the century." Yami yawned and turned to Yugi, who was now sitting on the other side of the room with the other hikaris, "Yugi, now that he's here, will you tell me why we're having this meeting?"

Yugi looked at Ryou, "Why don't you tell them? It was your idea."

Ryou blushed, "Of course. Well, we were talking it over last week and we were saying how taking care of you all has kind of been tiring, so-"

Bakura gasped, "WHAT! I-I know what this is! I saw this exact thing in a movie once!"

Marik and Yami looked at him, "Huh?"

"There was this movie on at three in the morning and all the husbands got tired of taking care of their fat, lazy wives! So, they tied them up and threw them into the ocean!"

Yami looked at Yugi, Bakura looked at Ryou, and Marik looked at Malik. There was about two minutes of awkward silence until Yami said, "Wait a minute, that was totally ridiculous! T-Their not going to throw us away… are you?"

"No!" All three hikaris screamed at once.

"Good…"

"Jeez." Malik rolled his eyes, "Ryou was just saying that we need a vacation. There's this weekend cruise we saw in a brochure…"

"See?" Yugi held up a little pamphlet with a nice, big cruise ship on the front and 'Rain-Shine Cruise Line' across the bottom. "It's a really exclusive cruise line and Malik won tickets!"

"…Hooray!" Bakura and Marik got up and danced around the room, "We're going on a well-disserved vacation! This is awesome!"

Yami wasn't dancing, but a small smile could be seen on his face, "Yay."

"Um…" Ryou looked at them, then back to Yugi and Malik, "Should we tell them before this gets out of hand?"

Malik nodded, "Hey, calm down you three! You're not coming. I won three tickets, meaning only three people can go."

Bakura and Marik stopped in mid-tango. Marik looked at Ryou and Yugi, "…Well, sorry, you guys. I guess that means only me, Bakura and Malik are going. You guys can housesit."

"Marik, that's not what he means! We're going and you, as in yamis, aren't. And that's that." Yugi folded his arms, "We need time away from you all. Having a yami is driving us all to drink."

Bakura looked at Ryou, "So, that's what happened to all the vodka."

"It's not exactly the kind of cruise line you'd want to come on anyway. It's a spiritual-cleansing trip. It's supposed to help you unify you mind, body and spirit." Ryou sighed happily, "You're supposed to relax and make yourself pure. Not run amok, which is what you would do, Bakura."

"Well, what are we supposed to so while you three are cleansing yourselves on the cruise?" Marik sat back down, "Just sit here and collect dust?"

"No…" Malik grinned, "Actually, we were thinking about something for you three to do productively while we're gone."

They looked at each other cautiously, "What…?"

"We think that you guys don't spend enough time together… bonding." Ryou smiled, "So, we've arranged for Yugi's grandfather to drive you away on a weekend camping trip. Just the three of you, doesn't that sound nice?"

Yami screamed and jumped into Yugi's lap, "Yugi! No, please! Don't make me go on a trip with Marik! He'll kill me! And with no witnesses out in the forest, it'll be twice as easy!"

"Bakura can be a witness of your murder." Marik grinned, baring all his fangs. "Isn't that right, Bakura?"

He nodded evilly, "Yeah, I'll be a witness for you."

"Ahh!" Yami clutched tighter to Yugi's shirt, "No way! Uh-uh! Yugi, please tell me this is a joke of some kind! Some sick, modern-day joke!"

"Oh, Yami, stop it." Yugi dumped him on the floor, "This'll be good for you. All of you. It's called fresh air."

They still groaned and pouted.

"Either you go on that camping trip or you can stay here and you can help Grandpa with his knitting. What are you going to do?"

"…" Marik looked at Bakura and Yami. They nodded solemnly and Marik turned back to Malik, Yugi, and Ryou. "Okay, okay… I guess, we'll test it out."

Suddenly the door burst open and Grandpa came running in with a bunch of bags and suitcases strapped to his old shoulders. He was beaming from ear to ear, "We'd better get moving if we want to beat the traffic!"

"Oh, and I think we forgot to mention you're leaving tonight." Ryou grinned sheepishly and pointed to all the bags, "We've packed for you."

Yami shook his head in disbelief, "Ra, you're just pushing us out the door…"