LefthandedFreak: Hello again!

Kaiba: Oh god! No!

LefthandedFreak: I'm back with the final chapter of 'Fate's Underhanded Tactics!' Yeah! Which, as soon as I get started with my continuation, I'm going to reread and reconfigure some things that I messed up. I think I'll get rid of the author notes.

Kaiba: Good, listening to you more than necessary is uncalled for.

LefthandedFreak: (hits him with a fish) Anyways, just so you all know. Now it is time to reveal the winner!

Yugi: Actually, it didn't win by votes since none received more than one vote so…

Joey: So Lefthand and all her infinite wisdom decided to play spin the bottle with the choices.

LefthandedFreak: Yeap! Except, instead of a bottle, I had a pen. And the lucky number that won was….

CHOICE 4

The chobits crossover! Wheee!

Kaiba: Great, now I have to build a human robot.

LefthandedFreak: Mwhahahaha! Trust me, I loved all the ideas and, if I could, I would right a continuation using all ideas separately, but being in school again, that kind of makes it hard to right four stories at once…Hell, that's hard no matter what day of the year it is. Now to the reviews!

Dagger

Hey! Look! Chobits won! (Dances) Woot!

DragonLady222

Damn, it lost. Oh well. Thanks for feeling my sympathy. I've actually written three continuation chapters to it, explaining more of how I think. And I like Josh too. He'll be helping with the next story!

HellsEternalFlame

This lost too…. damn.

RedEyesDarknessDragonLady

Holy hell that's a long name! Took awhile to type. Anyways, Sorry that five didn't win. Darn, I liked that one a lot too. Don't worry, the child is going to be a girl. And, um, C2 Communities…hehehe…no, I have no idea. Why, you want me to join or do you want to know?

You'll all come back for the continuation right? It wouldn't be the same wihout you!

Anyways, sorry for misspelling. To the story!

Joey sat at the table, peering down at his coffee. Kaiba glanced at him from over the reports he ignored from last night for obvious reasons as Yugi and Yami could me heard from upstairs getting ready to greet the day. By the third stir of the coffee and the sound of the shower turning on, Kaiba was a bit curious.

"What's eating you?" Joey nearly jumped at the question, as if surprised that Kaiba even existed, though it was his house to begin with.

"Oh um, nothing really, just thinking." Kaiba stared at Joey a little longer before sighing.

"Come on Joey, I know something's up. Your usual smart-ass remark has run off somewhere. Now, what's on your mind? Are you thinking about the so-called 'little girl' that was around here." Kaiba snorted a bit. Joey must have had is hands bound to tightly last night.

Joey, of course, being slightly out of it, didn't pick up the sarcasm. "Yeah. It's just what she said that got to me."

"And that would be?" Kaiba asked, curiously.

"Well, she wanted to know if I was happy."

"Well, aren't you?" Kaiba knew that if Joey wanted something, he could get it, no matter what the cost. He also knew that Joey would never admit to wanting thing in fear that he would be bothering Kaiba. Joey now, however, was staring at his now cold coffee, gazing at the murky brown reflection within.

"Well, yeah, it's just…"

"Just?"

"I feel like something's missing, that's all." Kaiba raised a brow, knowing by the look Joey had, he was telling the truth.

"What could possibly be missing?" Joey glanced up finally at Kaiba and shrugged.

"That's the thing, I don't know." Kaiba gazed back down at his documents.

"Then there should be no need to dwell on this."

"But-" Kaiba stood, grabbing his briefcase and looking Joey in the eye's.

"Believe me, it'll do no good to waste away thinking. Ok? Now, since one of my employee's decided to take a week off starting today, I probably won't be home until real late, k?" Joey nodded absentmindedly as Kaiba ruffled his hair. "See ya later", and with a twirl of his coat, he left.

Not soon after did Yugi amble downstairs, hair wet and grazing his shoulders, as he plopped down into Kaiba's now unoccupied chair. "Morning Joey."

Joey grunted a hello. Yugi, glancing over, reached across the table and grabbed the cereal. "Uh, what's wrong? Still mad about the handcuffs?"

Joey didn't respond causing Yugi to fidget.

"Um, is it Seto? You know, if he's working too late you could always-" grunt, "-ok. Um. The coffee! Too bland-" grunt, " –never mind. Is it.."

"I'm going out". Joey interrupted as he removed his body from the chair and grabbed his coat.

"Going out? But you never go out on a Sunday. The guard's give you hell on Sunday, remember?" Joey shrugged as Yugi poured some milk onto his breakfast.

"That doesn't matter. I just want sometime to think to myself, k?" Yugi shrugged.

"Sure I guess so just-", Joey left before Yugi could finish, "-Stay out of trouble.".

Yami ambled into the room, having dried his hair with the use of a hairdryer, fully relieved that it wasn't some sort of evil creature after his brain, and buttoning his casual blouse. "Hey Yugi!". He happily flopped down next to him and grabbed the milk.

Yugi shrugged at Yami as response as he took a bite out of his cereal. "Hey Yami."

Yami glanced at him, noticing the somewhat putdown sound to it. "Oh come on, the sex wasn't that bad, was it?" Yugi nearly jumped out of his seat.

"WHAT! No Yami, It's definitely not that. It's just Joey. He looked really upset this morning." Yami shrugged as he poured the milk into a glass.

"What's new? He's always like that when we use the handcuffs." Yugi shook his head.

"No, it was different this morning. It was like something was missing." Yami raised a brow.

"Where is he now?"

"Don't know", Yugi shrugged. "He went out just before you came down. Didn't say where he was going other than he needed to think."

"Must be important if he risked leaving today. The guard's always give him a hard time on Sunday." Yami smiled a bit. "But Joey is a big boy, he can take care of himself. I'm sure that if anything was wrong, he'd tell us. Don't worry about it"

Yugi nodded, not really convincing. Yami eyed the smaller of the two before getting an evil smile and disappearing under the table.

"Yami? Yami what are you- DOING!", Yugi jolted as he felt Yami's hands trail up his legs. "Ack! Not at the table, remember? Yami, are you listening? Ya-MI!"

And of course, since it's getting interesting, I shall switch. Darn, sex on the table sounds good too.

Joey ambled down the street, kicking an old, empty can as he walked. His mind kept wandering, trying desperately to work out his hearts twisted behavior and to watch out for cars. Sighing a bit annoyed, Joey kicked the can a little farther and stopped as he saw someone bent down and picked it up.

It was the little girl from earlier, smiling at him serenely. "You! Who are you?". The girl ignored him as she giggled an turned, running off.

"Hey, WAIT!" Joey gave chase, following the girl as best as possible. She was extremely fast for her size and Joey had the feeling that she was actually leading him somewhere instead of escaping. Turning sharply around an extremely sharp corner, Joey froze as he noticed the girl was missing but instead, was facing a bright and lively park. He paused for a bit before slowly walking amidst the happy laughter and playground equipment, studying everything he passed with interest. Two children where swinging, trying to see who could get higher, while a couple swung across the monkey bars. The slide had become refuge to a little boy's imagination as he played.

Joey could almost barely feel the ball the knocked into his foot. Peering down, he studied it for a moment before picking it up. A little girl, short hair bouncing slightly, approached Joey not too soon after.

"Excuse me sir, could I have my ball back please?" He gazed into her cute green eyes as he placed it into her hands.

"Sure". The girl smiled before running back to her friends who where patiently waiting for her return.

"Do you see now." Joey froze for the second time that day and glanced down at the girl from earlier he was chasing. "Do you now know what's missing?" He looked back up at all the kids.

"I think so. But how did you kn-", he stopped as he noticed that she had disappeared for the third time that morning. Shrugging a bit, Joey turned and headed home.

The child had been right, it was what was missing, but when did they have time to raise a child? Kaiba would be the only one with experience, having practically raised Mokuba on his own (who was now off at a boarding school.) and was swamped with work while Yugi helped his grandfather and Yami tried not to blow the kitchen to bits. Then there was Joey.

He had a small job himself, which Kaiba thought was unnecessary due to the fact that they really didn't need any more money than they had, but Joey still attended to since he was bored otherwise. Then there was the fact that they where all GUYS. I mean, that's just a big problem all together. Who'd have the child?

Joey rubbed his head in agony. "Oww, my brain hurts…". He sighed. Besides, the others might not actually be thrilled with the idea of children, especially at there age. He shoved his hands into his pocket. It had been pretty nice watching the kids play, however. Maybe he'd do that instead.

Who knew, it could hopefully help numb the feelings of a twisted heart and from the loss of Fate.

This was truly the second beginning.

TO BE CONTINUED

LefthandedFreak: MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Kaiba: ...I don't like it when you laugh like that…

LefthandedFreak: It's just, I can't wait to show all of the reoccurring characters that'll pop up! And how awesome this will be. Also, I sort of forgot this was ending this story and beginning another so I sort of ended kind of weird.

Kaiba: I'm just hopping I can get a nice insurance claim after all this.

LefthandedFreak: Anyways, I have one more question for all. Do you want me to continue the story here, in THIS story, or do you want me to continue it in another storyboard? I'd prefer that since it would give me room but I'd rather not have so many of you searching for it. If I DO it'll be titled "Digital Emotions"…or something like that.

Kaiba: Just tell her and she'll place it all up next time.

LefthandedFreak: Weerrrr. (spins like a top) read and review!