Disclaimer: Marik: No, Sariah doesn't own Yu- Gi- Oh. But if anyone wants to get me off this bedpost, please come and rescue me!

SIDE NOTE: Sariah: Pay NO attention to the Marik tied to the bedpost. ^_^ Well, I suppose you all have long- awaited an update. Heh.

Dragaria: I SHALL FIGHT YOU, RAIN OF LOVE!!!!!!

Sariah: -_- Oh, boy. Red Roses, please TELL me this will end. Why don't Rain of Love and Dragaria just get a life and go after someone else?

Dragaria: How about J-

Sariah: Touch Joey, and you die. Well, then; I thank my reviewers; and on to the fic!

Jono's eyes grew wide. "Murdered?"

Yami nodded. "Yes... and it's funny... now I seem to remember it all. Before I could only guess. Let's see... I remember you had come to tell me something about the priest..."

*Jono ran up the steps of the palace, breathing hard. Yami, who had just come outside to wander the streets for a while, saw him and asked what the hurry was.

"A pharaoh ruling another section of the continent has sent his high priest to duel you. He wants to take over your rule!"

Yami's eyes widened. "Where is he?"

"Headed straight this way. I thought I wouldn't beat him here..."

"And you almost didn't," said a cold voice behind him. "Lucky this uniform holds me down."

Jono turned around. Yami looked up to see the High Priest Seth. He was smiling in a devilish way.

"I've come to kill you, Pharaoh Yami," he said.

Jono turned in a panic to his friend and tried to get him to leave. "Yami, get out of here!"

"Jono, if he wants to take my rule, then I'll let him try," Yami told him.

"But he might kill you! I can't let him do that."

"Stop muttering," Seth said sharply. "My patience grows thin. I wish for a duel!"

Jono turned back to Yami. "Yami, run, please, I won't let him get to you! I promise!"

Yami tried desperately to reason with his friend. "No, he will kill you, I can't let you get hurt! Just let me duel him!"

"If he kills me, Yami, then so be it. I couldn't live with myself knowing that my best friend was hurt."

Seth was getting closer, chuckling at what he heard. "Ah, the pharaoh needs his pathetic little body guards." He smirked. "Duel me, Pharaoh!"

"Yami, run!" Jono tried to plead with his friend again.

Seth was getting even closer, now. He was almost at the steps. "Silence, useless fool!"

"YAMI, RUN, NOW!" Jono finally shouted with so much force that Yami began to retreat up the steps. Seth had now reached Jono and was trying to make him to get out of the way. Yami hesitated.

"I can't leave you alone!" he finally called to Jono.

"PHARAOH!" Seth brandished the Millennium Item that belonged to him. It was the Millennium Rod. "GET DOWN HERE, PHARAOH!"

"Get away from him, you murderer!" Jono faced Seth boldly, though Seth was much taller than him, and most probably stronger.

"Out of my WAY, fool!" Seth snarled. Jono still didn't back down.

"Make me!"

At this, Seth let a ghoulish smile spread across his lips. "Gladly," he said. And, to yami's horror, he brandished the bladed part of his Item. Jono still didn't back down, but Yami began to make his way back down the steps. Jono turned to tell him to go back, but he was cut off as the blade sank into his back. He gasped in pain and fell down on the steps. Yami stood in silence as Seth took pulled out the blade and put his Item back in his belt- loop. "You shouldn't have interfered..." he said disgustedly to the dying blonde.

Yami looked from Seth to Jono to Seth again. Then, in rage, he screamed. "NOOOOOO!"

"Now, Pharaoh," Seth stepped over Jono's body and up to Yami. "Let us duel for the sake of your rule."

Yami's fists shook in his rage. "I'm going to kill you, Seth. What purpose did you have for killing him?!"

Seth shrugged. "He was in my way. Now, are you going to duel me, or do I have to kill you like I did your friend?"

Yami looked down at his friend, then back up at Seth, teeth clenched. "You and I will duel. And if I win, you will leave this place and never return."

"And if I win?"

"You get what you came for. But mark my words: My friend's death WILL be avenged."*

"That's all I remember," Yami said, finally opening his eyes. "Of course, I do remember that after our duel, Seth left and I gave you an honorable burial." Yami smiled at the memory. "A burial to rival that of thousands of pharaohs." He then looked at his friend. "But you're here, now. Inside a Millennium Item. How?"

Jono shrugged. "Don't ask me. I don't assume you remember what happened after you died, do you?"

"Alright, so, no, I don't remember how I got into the Millennium Puzzle. You have a good point, there. I just find it very confusing."

"Why is that?"

"Because I remember owning the Millennium Puzzle as the pharaoh. I don't remember ANYTHING about you owning the Millennium Key."

"I don't either. One of life's little mysteries, huh?"

Yami nodded. "Perhaps..."

'Hey, Jono; I gotta get on home before my pops blows a gasket.'

'Eh, alright. Be back in the Key in about one minute, kay?'

'Fine, just hurry up.'

"Jono?"

Jono snapped back to attention, and then smiled. "Joey's gotta get home, and as you know, I have to go with him. Sheesh; how do you stand sharing someone else's body?"

Yami chuckled. "There is a certain bond, Jon. You'll see it with time."

Jono shook his head, took a moment to say good- bye to Yami, and then he and Joey were off.

'So, what'd ya talk about?' Joey asked him.

'Oh... just about the good ol' days.'

SIDE NOTE: Okay, that's the end of that! I'm blah, so I can't think of anything else to say right now. Well, please

Dragaria: MY YAMI- KUN!!! YOU HEAR ME, RAIN OF LOVE??????!!!!!!!

Sariah: *shoves Dragaria into closet* Oh yes. Red Roses, keep Rain of Love under lock and key! These two are NUTS! Well, please review!