Me: Hi. Sorry it's taken so long to get this out. I've had writer's block for the past few days. My muses are coming today as well. The muses that will be with me are: Chibi Yusuke, Chibi Joey, Chibi Seto and Chibi Kuwabara and of course my yami: Yami Neko.

Y. Neko: hello everyone. How are you? Good? That's great! This is the third chapter so enjoy.

Me: I think we're missing something.

Y. Neko: Oh, what?

Me: we're missing the chibis.

Y. Neko: oh... ok I'll go get them.

Me: ok.

Chibis: Hi Neko-mama.

Me: Hi chibis. Are you ready to start a new and exiting chapter?

Chibis: Yeah!

Me: Ok. Who wants to say the disclaimer?

Chibi Yusuke: I will I will!

Me: Ok go ahead.

Chibi Yusuke: Ok. Neko-mama doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh, Yu Yu Hakusho, Koga, or Naraku. But she does own the new cards.

Me: Thank you chibi you did great, here's a sugar coated orange slice.

Chibi Yusuke: Yay! Thank you Neko-mama.

Y. Neko: lets get to the fic now.

Me: Ok. On with the fic guys!

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The Ultimate Case

By: Neko Yugi's Hikari

Chapter 3: Seeing the Puzzle for the First Time

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Yugi looked at Bakura in disbelief. "Are you sure about that Bakura? You know that kids at school bully me, but what if these four hurt me too? Why do you and Marik always act like overprotective big brothers? I can understand why Malik and Ryou are like that because they're my sisters. It's the two of you and Pegasus that I can't understand, and Pegasus acts like a father who lost his daughter and found her again years later so he gets overprotective. Why do the two of you and Pegasus act like a family in which I'm the youngest of so you have to be overprotective? It gets annoying after a while. Why do I have to keep telling you that I don't need protection? Please stop babying me. I can take care of myself!" tears had started flowing down Yugi's cheeks at the end of her speech. As soon as Yugi finished talking she got up and dashed out of the room.

"Uh-oh," said Marik. "I'll go after her. I may be like an overprotective big brother but I'm not like you and father Bakura. I'll see if I can get Hikari to calm down."

"Go on then Marik. I'll call father and tell him that Hikari had a major break down," said Bakura.

Yugi ran into her room sniffling. It was decorated like the queen's had been in Egypt. She turned to a picture on the wall. It was a picture of a person with scarlet eyes. With the eyes being the only visible part of the person. "Oh my scarlet eyes what am I going to do? Bakura and Marik don't see that I don't need protection. You're my only confidant what can I do to make them see that I don't need or want to be protected. Why do your eyes haunt me so? I feel as if I should know you... like you were a large part of my life at one point. I wish I knew where I felt I knew you. Then I could find you. This would be a lot easier to deal with if you were here." Yugi fell onto her bed sobbing. "It's not fair Ry-chan and Mal-chan have their other halves and I don't. I don't even know where he is." She sniffed. "It's not fair! Why am I the only one unhappy? I wish things could be simple just like in ancient Egypt!" Yugi heard a knock at her bedroom door. "Who is it?" she called.

"it's me Yugi, Marik. Will you let me in please? I need to talk to you about that missing piece that you keep talking about, and about what happened down stairs."

"Ok Marik come in it's not locked," said Yugi. The door opened to show Marik in the hallway.

"Why did you run Hikari? Was it something one of us said?" asked Marik.

"Yes it was something that Baku said. I don't want protection. I just want to be left alone so I can find what has eluded me for so long..." said Yugi.

"And what's that Yugi? "asked Marik.

"My other half and I'm not talking about Yue. I need MY yami," said Yugi.

"What if I told you that you didn't have to look anymore Yugi? For your other I mean," said Marik. "Would you believe me? And the reason Pegasus, Baku, and I are protective... that is hidden in your memories..."

"Huh? What do you mean 'hidden in my memories' Marik? Is there something that you and Baku aren't telling me? And what do you mean? And just where is my Other Half Marik? Tell me where he is. I need him..." asked Yugi.

"He's right here," said Marik taking out the puzzle box. "His soul is trapped in the puzzle pieces all you need to do is to is put them together. About your memories... I wish I could tell you... but I can't it's for you to discover on your own..."

Yugi snatches the puzzle box from Marik's hands. "Thank you for telling me Marik!" said Yugi.

"You're welcome Yu-chan," said Marik.

"Now leave so that I can bring my other out alone! I work better if no one's watching me," said Yugi. "Besides I need to concentrate on this puzzle." Yugi opens the puzzle3 box as Marik leaves the room. "Man, this looks like a very complicated puzzle... oh well, the more complex the puzzle, the more fun the puzzle is..." With that last statement Yugi began the tedious job of putting the puzzle together. (A/N: Maybe I'll stop it here... Everyone else: You'd better not! Me: Relax I was kidding.)

Marik was walking down the stairs to the living room where the others were waiting for a report on Yugi's mood. If he had been in the room at the time he would've sworn he could hear crickets chirping. As Marik walked into the room everyone started to ask questions. All of them came out as mumbo-jumbo. Marik started to laugh. "It's ok guys I managed to redirect her attention. I gave her the puzzle to work on."

Everyone let out a sigh of relief. "That's a relief, Marik. If she you hadn't curbed that feeling, she might've grown to hate us..." said Bakura.

"I know Baku, I had hoped that she wouldn't have acted like that," said Ryou. "I don't know what I would do if Yu-chan hated me..."

"Same here, Ry-chan," said Malik. "I don't know what I'd do either..."

Up in Yugi's bedroom, the owner, Yugi was putting the pieces of the puzzle together. "I wonder why the pieces of the puzzle were taken apart... hmm, whatever it's not like it really matters is it? Oh well, I guess I was meant to get it this way... but still it would be nice to know exactly why it's been taken apart... I guess I'll find out later. I'm half way done already this is a fun puzzle even if it isn't hard..." She stopped when she saw what time it was. "Oh my, it's already 8:00 pm I'd better go down to dinner...

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Me: I hope you liked the chapter... I worked hard on it...

Y. Neko: I'm sure they did... I know I did.

C. Yusuke: Sure you Yami Neko... you helped write it. .

C. Joey: Don't tell me you didn't like Yusuke weren't you crying and complaining just now because Neko-mama ended the chapter? I liked it and I know you did too...

C. Seto: I loved it especially when Yugi yelled at baka Baku and baka Marik.

Me: Thank you I'm glad you liked it.

C. Kuwabarra: I wiked it... R&R pwease!

C. Seto: Bye

Me: Your friends are your soul, Lose your friends, Lose your soul, Lose yourself...