(A/N) Wow! I've got a reviewer! Thanks a bundle, Razanur!

Just so you know, knowing that even one person likes this story makes it worthwhile, because I'm writing this for me as much as you. Even my sister doesn't like it much. So…thanks for the compliments and all, and I'll try to keep it going.

Also, it's just way too much of a hassle to respond to every reviewer, so just know that it is appreciated, and you're really the only thing keeping me going here, so thankies for the pretty reviews.

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Disclaimer: I do not and never will own Yugioh or any of its characters don't ask me again.

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Chapter Four

The Secret is Out

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Jonouchi awoke when the sun shone upon his face, blinding him. And those birds were making such an awful racket!

"Oohh…my head…" he moaned.

Ryoh walked over and sat next to him, looking sympathetic. The pale man smiled weakly, and jerked his head toward the door.

"Yeah…I suppose we should get going."

Jonouchi lead the way to the fortuneteller's home, and knocked on the door.

"Come in, come in…I have been expecting you, my one-and-one-half visitors…" a softly melodic yet eerie voice floated out of the door as it slowly creaked open, revealing nothing but darkness and the smell of incense.

"Whaddaya mean 'one-and-one-half'? There are two of us here!"

"But your companion is but half a person."

"Huh?" was Jonouchi's intelligent retort as Ryoh smiled at him and walked inside. 'Missing half of himself?' Jonouchi wondered. 'I suppose hi must be, if he's 'half a person.' "Ah! Ryoh, wait!" Jonouchi dashed inside, after his companion.

The adventurer's mouth dropped open when he found his companion sitting in a chair next to the creepy fortuneteller, a happy smile on his face. Not one of the half-hearted 'I suppose we'd best get this done' smiles, but a genuine 'this is the best I've felt in a while' smiles.

Jonouchi turned to the fortuneteller, confused.

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Ryou smiled contentedly. When he'd walked in, Madame Zemphonia had done something, and now he felt complete.

Where there had been raging emptiness, there was now warmth and strength and hope…this was bliss…

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"What did you do to my friend?" Jonouchi demanded. "We only came here for advice!"

"Jonouchi, why don't you sit down and have some tea…my name is Madame Zemphonia, by the way," stated the shrouded figure in her mysterious voice.

"Sure," Jonouchi agreed, mystified. As he sat down and helped himself to tea and some cookies Zemphonia began to speak.

"You are helping Ryou to search for the other half of his soul, yes?"

"We're looking for Bakura…"

"Bakura is the name of my darker side," Ryou said dreamily. "I'm incomplete without him. Please, Madame Zemphonia, where can I find him?"

"The two of you must travel East to the city of Navaan."

"But, that's a month's travel! And only if things go well!" the blonde exclaimed.

"Relax, Jonouchi. If we stay there long enough, I'm sure Bakura will arrive," Ryou stated, "after all, he's wanted to go there for ages."

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Honda woke to sunshine, birdsong, and a foot in his ribs.

"Rise and shine, sleeping beauty," Bakura growled, kicking his companion again.

"Good morning to you, too. I suppose subtlety was also lost with Ryou? And a little trait called patience?"

"We can eat on the road," Bakura stated, backing his things up.

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Bakura grimaced internally. The lack of his hikari was beginning to hurt. He felt impatient and irritable.

"Come on!" he snapped at his unfortunate companion, "I want to get moving!"

"Why, so we can get lost or something?"

"No, because I get the feeling that if I don't start looking soon, I'll loose my mind!"

"Then let's go, Bakura! If you'd told me that sooner, I'd have moved faster."

And so, the two set off, bickering all the way.

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(A/N) I am so, so sorry! I went on vacation, and then I lost my notebook, and then I hurt my hand, and then I…

I'm rambling, aren't I? There are no excuses for not updating like that…no, wait; there are hundreds of excuses, but no reasons. After all, you know what they say, "excuses are like assholes. Everybody has one, and they all stink."

Please R&R, I'll get moving on the updates already!