Sorry guys if it has taken a while for updating, but you can blame school, projects, writer's block and illness.

In this chapter Malik will reveal to Ryou of what his plan is and then Yami Bakura will tell Mariku what his heart is telling him. Also some turmoil.

Chapter 21

Betrayal

Malik seemed to be fighting with his fingers on the chair as he watched the digital clock strike another hour and he was dead tired. He had trouble keeping his eyes lids open as he wondered what his yami and Ryou's yami were doing in the closet. He even tried to peek into Mariku's mind, but all he got was a sheerk of pain and another noise that he didn't want to ever hear again. He immediately closed the link.

"Malik, they are doing it, right?" Ryou asked in a real quiet voice as he pinched the other in the arm to get him out of his day dream.

"Huh? I guess so. Your yami is at it again." Malik tried to smile discreetly as in his mind it was boiling with every bit of hatred.

"The sounds are not going off. I think that whenever they get out of the closet that we should hightail it out of here." Ryou said as he drummed his fingers onto the bed that he was now sitting on.

"Oh yeah? Like where? Are we supposed to jump off of the ship and hope to land in soft water? We can't go anywhere. We are on a blimp. We are screwed no matter what we do." Malik replied in a somewhat nasty tone as he climbed onto the bed against Bakura's wishes.

Ryou was taken back by the tone, but then thought that probably the hikari was still sore with what Bakura had said to him. He crawled over to Malik and began massaging his shoulders, and soon the hikari began to relas and lied down on his lap. Though his curiosity lead him towards the closed closet. Once again he tried to read Mariku's mind.

In the closet the two yami's were actually torn apart emotionally. As soon as Yami Malik had confessed, Yami Bakura was torn with aggrivation and distrust. He did not understand Mariku's motives and how he was first stalking him and then he had been something else that Bakura had no idea what to think of or what to do with himself.

He was trying to show no fear even though deep down inside he was afraid of his lover. He could tell that Yami Malik did not want to hurt him and was ashamed of telling him the truth about him. Yami no Bakura tried to narrow down his options. If he refused to be with him then the psycho could always kill him in his sleep. Or better yet, keep going after him. If he did accept him, then Mariku would be happy, but then Bakura would have to deal with not seeing him at all in the day time. Plus, Mariku being part vampire he would have to deal with his tendencies.

"Mariku, this is hard for me to say, but I want to be with you, but also I need time to adjust to this new thing that I have learned about you." Yami Bakura sighed as he patted the other on the shoulder. He was looking down at him straight in the eye expecting Yami Malik's violent nature to kick in.

"I understand, but it shouldn't affect the way I feel towards you. I can control my tendencies and I can heal you completely." Yami Malik looked at the other, a small smile crossed his lips. "I won't turn into a monster or anything. The only things I have are claws and fangs, and also no reflection, but you can barely see them."

"I have fangs also. I know that the yamis are supposed to have those. Just don't turn me into what you are." Yami Bakura panted heavily and bit Yami Malik on the lips playfully.

"I won't as long as you accept me for who I am. Some time you will have to let me be seme." Yami no Malik smirked as he twirled his tongue in the others mouth holding his body close to him.

"Don't threaten me. I would rather have sex in a bed and not a stuffy, dark closet. In time you will." Yami Bakura pulled back and layed intentionally in the other's arms.

Just by reading Mariku's thoughts Malik had found out his deep dark secret. Of course his mind went to the gutter and it irritated him since he wanted to catch Yami Bakura alone and then execute his plan. He did not want his yami to fall for the thief of the darkness or better yet having sex with him. He already knew that Mariku was falling more in love with the robber and it wasn't a good thing in Malik's mind because it would be harder to get rid of his lover.

After another fifteen minutes, the blonde hikari rolled his eyes and was going to open the closet door when the door flew open and the hikari had it slammed into his face.

Ryou noticed his lover with a bruise on him that he tried to scold Yami Bakura for, who glared at the other hikari intentively. Instead of hurting or slapping him. Yami Bakura pulled his hikari up by the arm. "Ryou, we are going to talk alone."

"Yami, I….want to stay with Malik." Ryou argued back as he for a second looked down at the ground in embarrassment and feeling betrayed by his yami as he wrenched his arm away from his yami's strong grip and ran over to the other side, his back pressed hard against the door, cuddled towards Malik.

Yami Bakura hissed as he noticed the wound on his wrist throbbing wildly. While Ryou was struggling to get away, he had touched the irriating scar that was now invincible, but was painful to the raider. He was shocked and was astonished and could not understand his hikari's weird behavior usually the little light would do anything he said, but Ryou was giving him the evil eye that the yami usually used on him.

"What did you say? Ryou this is extremely important. I need to talk to you so don't betray me by trying to grow a spine and stand up for yourself." Yami Bakura slammed his light into the wall at the side of the door. He had his fist ready and was about to pulverize him with a blurr of blonde hair whizzed past him and punched him in the back of the neck.

"I warned you to stop hurting my lover. Yami Bakura, this is where you life ends." Malik kicks him in the ribs before the thief could realize what had happened and then he reveals a hidden dagger he had in his belt and slashed the tomb raider with it.

After Yami Bakura was fighting off his unconscious state, his blurry vision could see that Mariku's hikari would not stop from there. He could see the blade of the dagger rising above his throat. He was confused, but wasn't going to let his life be cut short because of Malik's hatred towards him. The thief's har gets more spiked as he has the Millenium Ring's pointers lash out against Malik's dagger and use it almost like a sword.

Yami Malik looks on in horror as he sees that his own mirror image was trying to slice his lover. He tried very hard to fight back the urge to attack, but a natural born instinct was taking over him. Another thought was going through his mind. If he wre to attack who would protect his lover or his hikari? Either way the other would feel the sense of betrayal and perhaps give him the cold shoulder.

Ryou catches his breath as he notices that his own lover was beating up his dark half. As much as he hated his yami he also loved him. He already knew that he could not live without him and he knew that Malik's stubboness was hard to deal with, but depe in his heart he knew that if Malik really loved him he would sotp this senseless fighting.

As Ryou was about to step in he noticed that Yami Malik had sprouted fangs and claws that were growing in quickly. This scared the crap out of Ryou who tried to bang on the door thinking that the psychotic yami was going to attack him. Yami Malik looked at Ryou strangely and then at Malik and Bakura.

"Yami Malik? What happened to you?" Ryou fumbled with his words as he tried to keep his knees from shaking constantly.

"Let Akura tell you. He wants your opinion on something." Yami Malik stated defensively.

End of Chapter 21. Please review.