A/N: Weeeee! Now back to this story! Now that my other one is done my full attention can be placed on this one. Oh and BTW, I am so sorry for not updating sooner. I just started Creative Writing this year at school and she gives us at least three or four different stories to write every week and my brain and ideas have been burnt out. Anyways, let's begin with chapter nine now... we are on chapter nine right? looks around the messy papers on her desk and starts throwing them everywhere uhhh, I'll check later and find out.

P.S. I know that I already said that I was sorry for the wait, but now I'm going to tell you the reason why it was later. I would have had this in weeks ago, but for some reason wouldn't take the format that I have been using for this story, and for that reason some of the symbols have been changed. For example, Yugi and Yami's mind link is now a # and the Yugi's doggie thoughts are now $$. Please take notice of these changes and I hope that this doesn't mess anyone up. Again I'm sorry for the wait and Thank you to Sorceress Vanessa for the help on the format chooses.

'Blah' Thinking

"Blah" Talking

#Blah# Yugi to Yami

##Blah## Yami to Yugi

$$Blah$$ Yugi's doggie thoughts

TEST OF FRIENDSHIP

Chapter 9: An at home Sleep Over

Shortly after Yugi's friends had all left Yami had decided to go look for Yugi on his own. The day was slowly starting to fade from a sun shinny day to a colorful sun set evening. All around Domino, people began to file out from the stores that lined the sidewalks and make their way home. And for those whose houses were to far away to walk to, they lined up by the bus stop waiting for its arrival.

When the bus finally arrived at 7:30pm the folding door opened up to let people on and off. Among those who exited was Yami Muto and his rather small charge, Yugi, or also known as 'Boo' to everyone but Bakura.

Yami pressed pass the people as he stepped out and onto the sidewalk. 'Boo' unfortunately had a little bit harder time. Being as small as he was it was hard for people in a hurry to watch out for a small black dot down by their feet. He constantly had to squeeze by several pairs of legs while being careful not to be stepped on in the process. One time he came really close to becoming a black dot underneath someone's foot and would have if not for Yami picking him up at the last second.

"You have to be more careful." Yami scolded lightly and he sat 'Boo' back on the ground

$$Right. Easy for you to say, people can see you. Nobody tries to step on you. But me... I'm just like a cockroach to them. By-the-way, why were you looking for me at the Salon? I don't go there.$$

Yami continued to walk down the sidewalk not hearing the thoughts of the small shadow behind him. The sun setting in front of them cast a long shadow behind Yami that stretched over 'Boo' making it where only his two purple gem like eyes could be seen shinny through the darkness.

$$I don't go there.$$ Yugi pouted $$Alright! So I went there once, but that doesn't mean I'd run away from home to go there.$$

Again Yami said nothing so Yugi decided it was useless talking or thinking to Yami if he wasn't going to get an answer. They walked for a time in silence, with Yugi looking at the ground and Yami looking straight forward with his hands shoved in his pockets. When Yugi did look up he noticed that where ever they were it wasn't the familiar Game Shop surroundings. He began to look around for familiar surroundings or even a clue as to where they might be going.

$$I can't tell where we're at. Where is Yami...$$

Yugi's train of thought trailed off as he ran head first into a pole. He scooted backwards and shook his head. When he looked up to see the offending pole all he found was Yami. It had obviously not been a pole at all, but the back of Yami's leg.

Yami turned slightly and looked back at the pup. He was shaking his head from the impact and when he stopped his tongue was slightly hanging out between his front teeth and his head was cocked to the side in a clear statement of confusion. The poor thing didn't know what hit him. "You're just as clumsy as Yugi, you know that?" At this the puppy barked and wagged its tail. The ex-pharaoh chuckled lightly at this and picked up the small dog.

Yugi stifled a yawn as Yami picked him up, but the lines of exhaustion on his face were evident. "Alright I know you're tired," Yami confessed, "I have to stop by one more place and then we'll go home."

$$And where is that?$$

"Ah, here we are," Yami pointed, "Domino City Museum. I need to speak with an old friend of mine. I just hope she's still here this last."

$$Knowing Isis, she probably lives here.$$

The pair made there way down the halls of the dimly lit museum in search of 'Yami's old friend'. While Yami was looking around for her, Yugi took the time to look and, oddly enough, sniff out all the new items the museum had received. It was obvious by the look on his face that all the items seemed to be the same in scent, for he would take a quick sniff of one item and quickly move onto the next.

sniff $$Dirt$$

sniff $$Dirt$$

sniff $$Hey this smells...$$ sniff sniff $$...different.$$

Yugi looked up at the item of interest. It was a tall casket like structure that was plated in gold, written in hieroglyphics, and held a rotting corps inside of it.

$$Rotting Corps!$$

The black pup jerked back and tucked his tail between his legs before running off to catch up with Yami.

At the current moment the aforementioned Pharaoh was looking through the hallways for his said friend while vaguely paying attention to the next exhibits. The halls were quiet and a bit creepy because of it. He had long forgotten about his black fluff ball of a charge until the said fluff ball skid to a stopped beside his leg.

"Whoa, what's the rush?"

$$There are dead people back there, and the smell is enough to give me a nose bleed.$$

Yami look up and around one last time before turning towards the path they had entered by. "Well, I guess she's not here boy. Come on, let's go."

Yami started to walk back to the front while Yugi played in his shadow, but was stopped by a feminine voice.

"Pharaoh?"

Yami stopped and turned back around to see Isis standing at the opening of a hall that led to the right.

"I thought I heard a voice coming from out here, but I had not expected it to be you."

"It truly must be a feat to take the protector of the Millennium Necklace by surprise."

Isis laugh with a closed mouth, "Yes, but since I did not foresee your coming, then you must be here for some other reason then your Ancient Past, I am correct?"

"As always," Yami nodded.

"So what can I do for you?" Isis asked

Yami was about to answer when he was interrupted by a third party entering the room.

"Sister, who was that outside?" a blonde headed Egyptian boy poked his head out and looked at Isis before turning to look at Yami. "Oh, hello Pharaoh."

"Hello Malik."

Both Isis and Yami were staring at Malik in silence as Malik looked back and forth between them as if waiting for something. Malik looked perplexed for a minute before realizing what they were waiting for.

"Oh, sorry! Please continue what you were doing. I'm just going to go back to the waiting room." Malik said waving a pointed finger back down the hallway.

Once Malik had left Isis looked back at Yami, "Forgive him for the interruption, I know that you're not very comfortable around him because of both your pasts."

Yami smiled, "He could not help what happened in the past, so I do not hold it against him."

"Thank you Pharaoh," Isis bowed silently before returning to the previous conversation. "So what is it you need again?"

Yami's slight smile disappeared when he was reminded of why he was here, but continued on none the less. "I've come to ask if you had seen Yugi either with your own eyes or the Millennium Necklace."

"Yugi's missing?" Isis asked. She looked down at her hands for a moment to think if she had since the little hikari lately when she realized the small black puppy sitting at Yami's feet. She watched as the puppy stifled a yawn and then gently scratched behind its ear. Isis was about to ask Yami if the dog was his, but stopped when the Millennium Item gave a quick flash and then faded as quickly as it had come. Isis stared wide eyed at the small ball of fur. 'How could this be...?' She thought. She must have been staring for a while because the next thing she knew she heard Yami asking if she was okay.

Isis jerked her head back up in Yami's direction. "Are you alright Isis? Did you have a vision?"

Isis could hear the anxiousness in Yami voice. "No, it wasn't a vision."

"But I thought I saw your Millennium Item flash." Yami stated.

"I-it must have been the light reflecting off of it." Isis remarked quickly.

"Oh."

"I'm sorry Pharaoh, but I have not seen Yugi lately."

"Not even a vision?"

Isis stared at the hopeful look on Yami's face before glancing down at the black puppy once more. She bite her lip at the thought of what she was about to do. She looked back up at Yami with an emotionless face. "No, I'm truly sorry, but my Millennium Necklace has revealed nothing to me involving Yugi's disappearance."

"Oh, well, Thank Isis. Please let me know if you hear or see anything." Yami hung his head and turned to the leave the museum.

Isis hated to see Yami leave this way, but there was nothing she could do. Her hands were tied in this matter. Looking down, she noticed that the small black pup was still sitting on the ground watching Yami. She then stepped forward, scooped up the puppy, and walking quickly over to the fast leaving Pharaoh.

"Please don't look so sad my Pharaoh." Isis said once she had finally caught up with him. "Things will all turn out in the end, you'll see. But until then, you need to take good care of this little fellow."

Yami turned around as Isis pushed the small ball of fluff into Yami's arms. "Something tells me that there's something very special about him."

Yami looked down at 'Boo' and 'Boo' looked back at him before they both looked at Isis. She simply smiled in return and bind them farewell. Yami cocked an eyebrow at Isis as she walked off back down the hallway and was soon out of sight. After a minute of standing there he shrugged and then left out the door.

A little ways down the hall, Isis was making her way back to the waiting room where Malik was waiting. But for the moment her thoughts were not on her waiting brother, but on another pressing matter.

'Forgive me for lying to you my Pharaoh, but I yet to understand what fate has in store for the both of you. I'm not sure what Destiny is playing at, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see.'

Yami was now outside the museum making his way back to the Kami Game Shop with 'Boo' still in his arms.

"Hmm," Yami mused aloud, "I wonder why Isis would say you are so special?"

$$I don't know... after all, I'm just your average ordinary boy stuck in a dog's body. Nothing special about that, right?$$

"Well, if Isis says you're special, then that must mean something, right?" Yami asked Boo, but as usual received no response. "So what are you? A reincarnation from my past perhaps?"

$$You're reading too much into this Yami, think of something a little more... modern, like the present.$$

"Well, I hope not. That would be bad to come back as a dog." Yami then laughed at his next statement. "Although I wouldn't mind to have seen Bakura come back as a squirrel."

'Boo' howled at this making Yami laugh again. "So you like that idea huh?"

$$Yep!$$

Yami smiled and ruffled the petite dog's head and continued on home.

Yami unlocked the door to the Game Shop and filed into it shortly followed by 'Boo'.

Yugi didn't even bother waiting for Yami to unlock the door and fully get in, because after being out and about all day, he only had one thing on his mind.

$$Couch, couch, couch, couch...$$

Yugi strolled into the living room an approached the couch. When he got to the edge he noticed that the couch looked slightly farther up then it was this morning, or maybe it was just that he was so tired that it made it look farther up. Either way, it was going to take some effort getting up there, and effort was strength that he didn't have at the moment. After all, this was the second day he had gone without food.

Yugi sighed and placed his front paws on the top cushion and made an effort to pull himself up.

$$Nope, that's not going to work. I can get the front up, it's just getting the butt to go with it.$$

By this time Yami had made his way into the living room. He had obviously been to the kitchen first, because when he got to the couch he had a microwavable tube of Ramen noodles with him. Yugi held a whimper in his throat as he set back on his haunches on the cold hard floor.

$$This so unfair, this is almost like staying with Bakura. Nooo... let's not feed the dog, the dog doesn't have to eat.$$

Yugi snorted and laid flat on the floor with his paws on either side of his head. All the while he was staring at Yami eating his noodles and watching TV. In other words, he was pouting, and he was doing it to the best of his doggie abilities.

When Yami was half way through with his noodles, he got the feeling that someone was watching him. He stopped eating at once and began to look around only to find that the culprit was 'Boo'. He at first he though it was nothing, but then at second glance he could see that 'Boo' didn't look too pleased and was giving him what looked to be a glare, but not a hard one.

"What's that look for?" Yami asked with a puzzled look.

Yugi then sat up a little bit and barked, "Feed. Me."

Unfortunately, because of their difference in languages Yami couldn't understand a word that he said. Yugi growled and stood up feeling a new burst of energy. With one leap he managed to land semi-gracefully on the cushion next to Yami.

$$I'll take this...$$ Yugi though as he crawled over Yami's lap, grabbed the cup of noodles with his teeth, pounced off the other side of the couch, and made his way towards the kitchen. $$Thanks!$$

"Hey! Come back here." Yami yelled after the retreating dog and followed him into the kitchen.

When Yugi reached the kitchen he sat the cup down on the floor and waited for Yami to get there. Sure enough, Yami was only a few seconds behind him.

"What did you do that for?" Yami asked as he scooped up his cup of noodles and sat them on the near by table.

Yugi growled in return and then started pawing at the cabinet door. $$I sure miss having thumbs.$$

Yami studied his action for a minute before a knowing expression crossed his face. "Oh I see, you must be hungry after our long day."

Yugi's face fell as he looked back up at Yami. $$Weren't you hungry when you got home?$$

Yami began to shuffle through the cabinets looking for something a small dog would like to eat, but the thing was, he'd never had a dog before. Sure he had seen them before in the park, but other than that, he only knew the things that Yugi had told him about them.

"Let's see," Yami mused aloud, "pocky?"

Yugi perked up at the mention of his favorite snack food. $$That's sounds good!$$

"Nah," Yami said placing the box back in the cabinet, causing Yugi's perked attitude to drop again.

"How about noodles?" Yami mused again

Once again Yugi perked up only to hear Yami's same 'no' and watch another one of his favorite foods get put back in the cabinet.

Unfortunately for Yugi, this went on for another five minutes. When Yami reached the last cabinet, he opened it rather quickly, not knowing what was behind it. Little did he or Yugi, who happen to be lying under that cabinet at the time, know that that particular cabinet was used to store baking ingredients. So it came as a surprise when a medium sized bag of opened flour came tumbling out and falling to the floor.

An explosion of white powder rose from the floor along with a doggish like yelp. When the powder finally cleared a white coated 'Boo' sat on the floor with the flour bag over his head. Yami bite back a laugh as he reached down and pulled the bag off. The black pup let out a sneeze and white flour puffed out around him.

"Sorry Boo." Yami half laughed

$$Its okay... with my luck so far, I should have expected it. But at least now my name fits me. Boo$$

"We'd better go get you cleaned up now, you look like a ghost." Yami sighed as he picked up 'Boo' and headed to the bathroom.

$$Okay, a bath would be...$$ Yugi's thoughts stopped dead in there tracks as a horrified look crossed his face. $$Bath?! Oh no! You are not giving me a bath! I refuse to let anyone else, especially my Yami, give me a bath. Nope... it's not going to happen.$$

"Hold still." Yami complained as a soapy wet Boo tried to wriggle away from him. "I can't get all the flour off if you won't hold still."

Boo finally stopped struggling and sat down in the swallow water. The expression he wore was less than happy and could possible be categorized as down right displeased. A blob of bubbles sat cheerfully on top of his head and bubbled down over his eyes.

$$This, is by far the most embarrassing part of my experience so far.$$

Just as Yugi thought that Yami poured a cup of warm water over the top of his head.

"There, you're all clean now." Yami declared as he looked at the once fluffy now turned wet rat dog.

$$You're turn!$$ Yugi cheerfully thought as he began to shake himself dry while ignoring the cries from Yami to stop.

When Yugi was done he looked back up at Yami and mentally snickered at the dripping wet ex-pharaoh. Now it was Yami's turn to look displeased.

"Thanks" Yami sarcastically remarked as he ran his hand over his face to remove the water droplets and went and opened the door for 'Boo', "You can go ahead down stairs now. I'll be down in a minute; I have to clean myself up now."

$$Okay$$ Yugi mentally agreed as he shook off one last time and then exited the bathroom forgetting about his red bandana that Yami had taken off before his bath.

Once Yugi was downstairs, he headed back to the kitchen. He some how managed to dodge the large powdery mess and make his way to the table. On top of the table sat Yami's have eaten cup of noodles.

$$Have I really sunk so low?$$

Despite his thoughts, Yugi hoped up onto the table, using the chair as a step latter, and began to eat his fill, which wasn't as much as he would have liked for it to have been.

Once he was done he made his way back to the living room as Yami was making his way down the stairs, but instead of going to the living room, he made a quick turn and headed to the kitchen.

Yugi sighed and lay down on the couch. $$How am I suppose to get him to know it's me? Tomorrow will be the third day and so far no one knows about me but Bakura, and a lot of good that's doing me. There has to be some way to make them see, but right now I'm so tired I don't think I could get my brain to scheme up anything.$$

"I see you found something after all." Yami commented as he chunks the empty cup of noodles in the nearby trash can."

Yugi didn't response aloud or to himself, he just simply yawned and laid his head back down on the couch.

"Looks like someone's ready for bed," Yami said just as he noticed the pup was already asleep.

Yami smiled to himself and looked around for a blanket the puppy could sleep with. He finally spotted one draped over a hanger in the laundry room. When he bought it back into the living room, he could finally see whose blanket it was. It was Yugi's. It was the blanket he always used to drape over the end of his bed; the blanket with his school's colors sown on it. Yami frowned at the blanket before placing it over the pup.

Yami was about to leave to go to his room when his Millennium Puzzle gave a quick flash and an odd picture appeared in front of his eyes. While he was staring at the black pup curled up on the couch, a picture of Yugi curled up asleep on the couch flashed before his eyes. Yami blinked a few times and when he looked back at the couch, everything was as it was a few seconds ago. Yami shook his head and started on his way back to his room.

'What was that?' Yami thought confusedly, 'Why would I have a picture such as that come to me. And what was that other flash in the room that I saw.'

Yami opened his room door and sat down on his bed. He slipped the puzzle from his neck and placed it on the night stand beside his head. 'Is the Millennium Puzzle trying to tell me something about Yugi? If so, then from the picture, it would seem that Yugi is alright!'

This last thought brought Yami some relief and joy that his aibou could still be out there, unharmed.

Yami yawned slightly before slipping under the covers of his bed and turning off the lamp.

##Goodnight Hikari## Yami sent through there link hoping that where ever Yugi was, he would be able to here it.

Yugi shifted in his sleep as a last wavering thought drifted through his head. $$Goodnight Yami$$

Now that both were fast asleep, a blue light glowed softly by the window of the living room and a shadowy figure stood there. From behind his hooded face came a soft but disturbing laugh. "The sun rises and falls on your second day Yugi, and you have yet to take a lead in our own little twisted game. Keep playing this way, and you are sure to lose. Not that I would let you win anyways."

The Shadowy figure chuckled to himself before disappearing back into the darkness of the night.

A/N: Well, that wasn't my best chapter, but I think I'm having a bad case of writer's block and it's all my teachers fault! She makes me write stories all the time and she is sucking the creative thought out of me. She's a leech I tell ya, a leech! Anyways, I still hoped you liked it, and stay tune because tomorrow is a brand new day for our little black furred hero. And Tristan's dog makes a scene. What will Yugi think of her, or perhaps the better question is, what will she think of Yugi? And a trip to the park turns from fun in the sun to a dog's worse nightmare. Thanks for viewing, R&R. See ya later!

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