A Torn Heart Leads to a Torn Soul, Take 2 Chapter 5: An Old Face Plays a Trick, a yu-gi-oh fanfic

Chapter 5-An Old Face Plays a Trick

Joey, Téa and Yami all looked down at their lunch as if the potatoes were going to suddenly start shooting rounds at them. Then, they heard a voice that made them all look up, and it gave them a glimmer of hope.

"Hey guys, what are you doing looking all gloomy? You should be happy. It's lunch time!"

The three people looked up to see a pair of black colored eyes and long black hair looking down at them. "Hey, Janet." Téa said.

"Hey Yami." Joey quietly whispered to Yami, "Do you think Janet knows that Yugi is gone?"

"No," Yami replied, equally as quiet, "I don't think she does. She probably still thinks that I'm—."

"What are you whispering about, Yugi?" Janet said, poking her head between Joey and Yami. "Why don't you use those lips of yours to do something else?" She asked, almost pleasing. Yami kissed her on the cheek, the whole time thinking about how much he dreaded what he was doing. Téa and Joey just laughed to themselves. "So what are you guys up to anyway?"

"Oh," Yami started, "just thinking about a family issue. Téa and Joey said they might be able to help." Yami had to sat this while doing two things. One, he had to sound like Yugi, and two, he had to somehow get Janet out of there.

"That's too bad. Hey! I've got an idea. I've always been good at helping people. Maybe I could help too." This caused Joey, Téa and Yami to all give each other suspicious looks. They all knew they didn't want Janet involved in this. Whenever it came to getting 'one of their own' back, it had always been just them. They only difference was that Tristan wasn't there. He had died in a freak car accident the past year.

"Um, okay Janet." Téa said, uneasy. "You can help." She them mouthed the words 'do something' to Yami as Janet sat down, facing Yami. He just shrugged his shoulders. He didn't have a clue what to do.

"Well, you see," Yami began, "it's about my cousin, from France."

"You have a French cousin?" Janet asked, sounding very surprised as if something from France were strange.

"Yes, I do. And, as a matter of fact, I also have family in Canada if you must know." He said, sounding very confident.

"Okay, I'm sorry, Yugi. I didn't mean to make you upset." Then she leaned over the table and gave Yami another kiss. "So, anyway, you were saying?"

"Well, my cousin, the one from France that is, for some reason, no one in my family can find him. He just vanished." Yami said, trying his best to not sound like a total idiot. Janet just starred at Yami and the others, a blank look on her face.

"Anything else?" she asked.

"Not really." Joey answered.

"Oh." There was a pause in the speaking. To fill the quiet, Joey fiddled with his fork and potatoes. Téa eventually broke the silence.

"So, is there anything you can think of that might help Yugi find his cousin?" Yami looked over at Téa, and gave her a wink for playing along with calling him Yugi.

"Well," Janet began, "where did you see him last?"

"In my room." Yami stopped speaking suddenly almost covering his mouth.

"Did you say in your room?" Janet asked, quickly looking at her 'boyfriend'.

"Um, yes, I did. He was, uh, visiting me for a while. That's why it's such a big deal, he doesn't know where he is here in Tokyo." Yami couldn't believe the words that were coming out of his mouth. Somehow, his screw-up had made his story much more convincing. Luckily, Téa and Joey caught on as well.

"You haven't seen him, have you?" Joey asked, trying to sound convincing.

"Well, what does he look like? Anything like you, Yugi?" Janet suggested.

Téa and Joey laughed to themselves. "You could say that." Yami noted.

"Well, I'll keep a look out for your cousin, Yugi. In the meantime, after school why don't we go look where your cousin was seen last, okay?"

"Sounds good." Yami agreed. "See you at four?"

"Deal." Janet said, getting up and giving Yami another kiss. Then she waved to the others and went on her way.

"I hate her." Yami said to the others. "Thank God she finally left!"

"Your cousin from France, huh?" Joey mocked, elbowing Yami easily in the gut.

"This only buys us a little time. We really need to get cracking on this mystery." Téa pitched in.

"Right, but where do we start?" Joey wondered out loud.

"Even though I hate that little mortal, she did give us an idea." Yami proclaimed.

"What was that?" Joey asked.

"Yugi's room." Yami responded back.

:Yugi:

The boy with three-colored hair looked up in awe to see someone he hadn't seen in years-and hoped he would never see again.

"Marik, what are you doing here?" Yugi shouted at the being in front of him.

"I've been looking for you of course! Silly Yugi, my weaker counterpart might have been set free by your dueling, but I was forced to walk the shadows." Marik yelled back at Yugi, who continued to stare in awe.

"So what do you want, Marik? Is it a duel, is that what you want?" Yugi yelled, reaching for his deck.

"Slow down Yugi, who said I was looking to duel you? I just want to…chat." Marik declared, sitting on a stone just a few feet away from Yugi who pulled his arm away from his side. "Come, sit." He said to Yugi, motioning towards the rock. Yugi did as he was asked and walked through the small stream near his feet.

"What do you want to chat about?" Yugi asked, trifled by the situation he was presently in.

"Your demise." Marik answered back.

"My what?" Yugi asked sounding very surprised.

"It's a little dark in here, don't you think?" Marik asked, holding up a duel card. "Swords or revealing light!" He yelled, holding the card up. About ten or so swords appeared out of literary nowhere, and lit up the passageway. "So anyway, about your demise?"

"You do want to duel-don't you?" Yugi proclaimed confidently.

"Well, duh!" Marik said, lifting his arm and getting his duel disk ready.

"This isn't any ordinary duel, is it?" Yugi asked, raising his own disk and inserting his deck. "Whenever you're involved, there's always something tied on."

"Very observant Yugi. So you want to know the catch, huh? Okay, I'll tell you. If I win, I get to leave."

"Leave where?" Yugi asked anxiously.

"From this." He snapped his fingers and down from the top of the 'room' came a cage. If locked into position on the ground and a blue orb of light surrounded the cage. At once, Yugi attempted to leave this new enclosure and failed, repelled by the wall. "Nice touch, huh? Like I was saying, if, and when I win, I will be able to leave the arena-with your soul."

"My soul?" Yugi asked in disbelief. "And if I should win?"

"In the rare case that you do somehow manage to beat me in this duel, you will be permitted to leave-with my soul."

"Your soul? But I already have a soul!" Yugi announced.

"I'm well aware of that!" Marik stated. "You will gain my soul in addition to your own."

"So it's a lose/lose situation for me, isn't it?"

"Who knew you were so smart? And Kaiba said you were stupid! Shows what he knows. So, shall we get started already?"

"Let's do this!" Yugi yelled, along with Marik.

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(A/N:Please don't be upset with me. I tried to write a duel, but I failed…miserably. I'll come back to the duel, I promise.)

:Yami's Group: Time 3:00pm

Yami, Téa and Joey were all sitting on Yugi's bed in his room. "I can't believe we found nothing." Téa said after a vigorous search of the room had come up empty.

"We may have found nothing big, but that doesn't mean we haven't found anything." Joey said, astonishing both Téa and Yami.

"Joey, you need to cut down on the detective shows you watch." Téa said.

"No, he's right actually." Yami said. "For example…" he said as he left the room. Yami returned several moments later with a certain book in hand. "Here," he said, handing the book to Téa, "I found this the night Yugi disappeared."

She examined the book and then gave it to Joey. He examined it as well and then said, "I could send this to my uncle of you like. He works with the police force out in the states. He could fingerprint it for us."

"Really?" Yami asked. Joey nodded. "Well it's a start. Now come on, there must be something else here we're missing."

"Yami, we've looked at the room at least three times. I don't think we're going to find anything else." Téa said sounding very disappointed.

"Well then maybe I can help." A female voice said to the group.

"Hey, Janet." Joey said, sounding nervous. "You're a little early, aren't you?"

"Well, I thought about how I could help, and the first thing that came into my mind was to help you look all I could, so here I am. Your grandpa let me in."

"Well, it's um, nice to see you're so eager to help." Yami said.

"Thanks. Have you found anything yet?" Janet asked.

"Just this book," Téa started. "Joey's uncle in the U.S. is going to fingerprint it for us."

"Why send it all the way to the states. I can do it for you here in Japan. My uncle works with CSIs here. I'll hold on to it, okay?" She asked, reaching her arm out toward Joey who still had the book. Joey was very reluctant to give it up, but eventually gave in after seeing Yami give a small nod, out of Janet's sight. "Thanks. So, where else have you looked?" She asked.

"Everywhere." Joey said.

"Three times." Téa added.

"Everywhere? Are you sure?" Janet asked.

"What are you saying?" Yami now asked, sounding a bit suspicious.

"Well, I mean, define everywhere." She said.

"Yugi's room," Joey began, "that's our definition of everywhere."

"Well no wonder you haven't found anything else. Why not check the rest of the house?" Joey, Téa and Yami all looked at each other and gave one of those 'I guess so' looks to each other. "Okay Yugi, lead the way!" She pronounced, following Yugi, Téa and Joey out of the room.

:Yugi:

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It was coming down to the end of one of the greatest duels ever fought in the history of the game, and little Yugi Mouto was unsure of what he wanted to do next. 'If I attack his Beaver Warrior with my Dark Magician, I would win the duel, which means I would get his soul. But if I don't attack, he'll attack my Kuriboh, and he'll win, which means he gets my soul. I've never had to make a harder decision.' He thought to himself. As Yugi thought about his next move, Marik 'assisted' him.

"Would you like to know what I would do?" Marik asked.

"Not really." Yugi said back to him.

"Fine then." Marik said. "But I'll help you anyway. You have 60 seconds to make your decision. If you fail to make it in that time, then I'll just blow up the planet." He waved his arms and like magic, a digital type clock appeared in the arena. It showed 59, then 58, and then 57.

'What should I do?' Yugi thought. 48. 'There must be something I can do!' he screamed in his head. 29. 'Well, I guess this is my decision.' He thought. "Here goes nothing." He said aloud. Marik looked up and took away the clock.

"You know I really wasn't going to do anything." He laughed mockingly as Yugi said his final words.

"Dark Magician, attack his Beaver Warrior!" He screamed, as a small clear tear rolled down the front of his face. The Magician attacked the poor Beaver, and then broke into a billion holographic pieces.

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"This is where it gets funky." Marik said. At that moment, he burst into a beam of light, and then became a flying projectile. He aimed himself right at Yugi's heart, and went inside. Immediately, Marik's soul took over Yugi. This was a new sensation for Yugi. He was used to having a soul that would cooperate with him, but now he was facing a soul that was commanding. "Let's take care of business, shall we?" Marik controlled Yugi said, reaching for a cell phone lying on the rock just near the dueling cage that vanished with the merging of the two souls. Marik controlled Yugi picked it up and pressed the first number on the speed dial menu.

:Yami's Group:

Yami, along with his four companions were searching the kitchen when a cell-phone rang. Joey looked down and answered it. "Hello?"

A/N:Gasp! What does it all mean? Tune in next update to find out. Until then though, good health for yourself, family and friends.