xIsisx: Sorry for the lack of updates! I was busy with something else... and so yeah, anyway, thank you reviewers! My replies to you are below! And yes I own Yu-Gi-Oh and Alfex (I'm not sure if I spelled that right) when I have a life... by the way, where can you download a life? I heard that they were pretty cool

Dumb Arse: Strange name... anyway, I'm continuing! )

Sarah Costa: Yesh I like the name too! And lookies! I updated!

LonlyTombRobber: Ooo RxB? That's even BETTER! I can't wait until you update! lol!

EVILISHpunkPRINCESShorsesj: Boy, your name is a handful to type out, but yeah Marik had sugar and we all know what happens when he get's sugar high...

Notes:
Bakura ≈ Yami Bakura
Ryou ≈ uh... the hikari
Yami ≈ Yami Yugi
Yugi ≈ ... Yugi
Marik ≈ is the yami
Malik ≈ the hikari

§ Ducks and Men §

"Marik! Ow-!" Yami yelled as Marik bopped him on the head.

"BE QUIET PHARAOH!" Marik was still dragging the said Pharaoh by the arm.

"Maybe we should get an umbrella?" Yami said quickly, before Marik had the chance to interrupt him again.

Marik abruptly stopped and let go of Yami, who fell face-forward into the mud.

"WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA YOU PSYCHO?" Yami spluttered, spitting mud from his mouth.

The psycho, however, didn't seem to hear him and sniffed the air like a dog for a moment. Then he suddenly ran North West.

Yami groaned and cursed and started running as well. Hey, it's not like he had a choice, between him, Bakura, and Marik, he was the responsible one, the voice of reason. Ra, where was Anzu when you –gasp- actually needed her for once in your life?

"MARIK! YOU KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING?"

"TO FIND BAKURA!"

"AND THAT WOULD BE WHERE?"

"I HAVE ABSOLUTLY NO IDEA!" Marik yelled over his shoulder cheerfully.

Yami sighed, losing faith in the race of humanity.

- ¤ - ¤ - ¤ -

"Get OFF of me! What the FLIP is your problem?" Bakura yelled, vainly trying to pry off a squirrel that had stubbornly attached itself to his chest.

It squeaked something and glared up at Bakura through the rain and, as if on cue, a gang of chipmunks surrounded Bakura, whose eye started twitching.

He gritted his teeth and growled and the ring glowed, and …nothing happened. A few birds chirped in the distance and they all, chipmunks and squirrels alike, blinked once. They were expecting something medodramatic to happen.

Nothing moved, there was no sound; everything seemed to be frozen in time, then… a savior.

"ALFEX!"

The thunder rumbled, the squirrels and chipmunks fled, leaving a poor, poor thief to deal with the newcomer. The said thief gulped.

"W-Who are you? S-Show y-yourselves!"

"Alfex!"

Bakura yelped and frantically looked around for the source of the sound. He didn't see anything… until he looked down. Then, out of impulse, he screamed and ran in the opposite direction, then blinked and doubled back to the duck.

"Alfex?" The duck cocked it's head up at Bakura.

"Bakura kneeled down to it's level, "Who or what are you?"

"Alfex."

"Your name's Alfex?"

The duck frantically nodded.

"You can understand me?" Bakura raised an eyebrow, skeptical.

The duck nodded again, looking as impatient as a duck can look.

"Can you say anything else?"

It shook it's head, "Alfex…" It said sadly.

Bakura stood up and put his hands on top of his head and started walking, all rain and storm forgotten. Alfex followed him. He pondered the weirdness of the world. It had stooped down to the level where squirrels and chipmunks formed alliances, and where ducks could say 'alfex' but nothing else. Hm. There are strange things in this world if you look carefully enough. Or don't look, it might come to you.

- ¤ - ¤ - ¤ -

"Bakura's down there?" Yami asked nervously, peering over the edge of the cliff.

Marik nodded and bent his knees, preparing to jump. Yami yelped and grabbed the back of his shirt, making Marik choke.

"ARE YOU INSANE?" Yami yelled, then considered what he said, "Oh wait, yes you are, hm, ARE YOU SUICIDICAL!"

"The great Marik the Superhero can't die! MUHAHAHAHA!" Marik crowed, but then he dropped his voice into a serious tone, "Now let me go before I bit you, PHARAOH!"

To add theatrics, Marik growled, displaying a row of pointed teeth, Yami gulped, but then shrugged.

"It's your neck," Yami let go of Marik, who jumped happily.

"WHEEEEEEEE!" Marik screeched as he went down.

This left Yami to ponder his choices.

"Well maybe now that the thief and the psycho are gone, things will be normal. But then again, the hikaris will be mad that I lost their yamis, and Yugi will be disappointed in me, but on the other hand, they might be happy because they never really like Bakura and Marik in the first place, but that'll leave me to be the only yami… but that might be good because they won't attempt to kil- GAH SCREW THIS!" Yami concluded angrily glaring up at the rain, which had ruined his beautiful, beautiful leather clothes. He sighed.

"This had better be worth it." And he jumped.

It seemed like forever and a day before he, uh, landed upside down next to an unconscious Marik.

"OW! Radamnit! Why do I always land on my head?" Yami muttered, pulling himself into a sitting position and rubbing an obvious bump on his head.

"'Cause your head's so heavy?" Marik mumbled. Yami glared at him, but he still seemed unconscious. That's weird. So he can talk while his mind's out of it? Blink. Well, he wasn't a psychopath for nothing.

"Marik, get up." Yami ordered, slapping the said psycho.

Marik, surprisingly, blinked a few times and got up.

"W-where are we?"

"You tell me!" Yami snapped, "You got us here in the first place!"

"I did?" Marik blinked in a weirdly innocent way, "How?"

Yami groaned, "Marik, have you lost your memory again?" Marik had lost his memory once before, and it had taken weeks to patch it up.

"I don't think I have… who are you anyway?"

"GAH! This is just great…" Yami mumbled and crawled over to a nearby tree and hugged his knees, drawing circles in the dirt.

"Does this mean I-I l-lo-lost my m-m-mem-mory?" Marik sniffled, and then started crying and brawling, his tears making a lager puddle than the rain. SO unfair, why did everything happen to HIM?

- ¤ - ¤ - ¤ -

Ryou was restless, he took a shower, read every book he had, listened to every album in the house, and yet, all of that only took him an exceeding short amount of time. Maybe that was due to the fact that he didn't even have a lot of books, and he wasn't that big of a music fan anyway, only classical for him, thank you very much.

He sighed; did Yugi really send Marik and Yami together to find Bakura? He'd be grateful if only two of the mentioned three returned alive and in one piece. Most likely Yami would be dead because of Marik and Bakura trying to take his Millennium Puzzle or whatever. But then Marik and Bakura would probably kill each other for ownership of the puzzle. Hm. So ultimately, maybe only one would return alive.

Ryou scowled himself. Must. Not. Think. Bad. Thoughts …too late for that dear Ryou. Oh, wait a minute. The three yamis can't die! His spirits lifted slightly. Then again, it'll be weeks before they can get other bodies of their own. Besides, they were the ones carrying the Millennium items, so to help them; the hikaris would have to find the items first.

This is just getting confusing.

- ¤ - ¤ - ¤ -

"You know what would be funny Alfex?" Bakura asked, still walking casually to who-knows-where and completely ignoring the rain and mud.

"Alfex?" It fixed Bakura with one beady eye.

"If this is just one of those fanfics that Ryou always reads, I'll laugh out loud. Somehow, this just seems too unreal to happen to someone, even us." Bakura looked up at the sky, as if seeing it for the first time, "And why are the clouds dark when it rains? What makes rain? Are the gods crying? What are they crying about? Can they even cry? How can we cry anyway? Do we have water stored in the back of our eyes?"

As Bakura rambled on, the duck rolled it's eyes, wondering 'WHY ME?'.

- ¤ - ¤ - ¤ -

"So you think the yamis are okay?" Yugi asked Malik at the end of their 4th movie.

"Yeah they're fine." Malik replied confidentially.

"How can you be sure?"

"Well, I just get this vision that Yami's being all depressed while Marik is crying his eyes out and Bakura's walking with a duck muttering nonsense questions…"

Yugi raised an eyebrow. Malik caught his eye, and he shrugged.

"Don't ask me how I know this; Ishizu must be rubbing off on me."

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xIsisx: Hm. I typed this at midnight... I'm crazy, I know. Bakura, Yami, Marik, go hug the reviewers.

Marik: Why?

xIsisx: Because they love you guys!

Bakura&Marik&Yami: fine... -hugs reviewers-

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Yami: They will?

xIsisx: YES because I'm the authoress and I say so! MUHAHAHA! Fear my wrath!