WA: Back here again! let's get this started!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN YUGIOH!

WA: Gawd! I keep on forgetting to put that up! --;;

"So how are things going along, Kaiba?" asked Bakura, who was sitting crossed-legged on the couch making Seto clenching his fists. Seto snarled at him, "What do you want?" Bakura smirked still having his smug face on which annoyed Seto more.

"What do I want?" Bakura said at last, "No-no, it's not what I want. It more of what you want." Seto crossed his arms raising his eyebrow.

"Such as?"

"Revenge," he answered, "On little Yugi, I think you're mostly aiming after the pharaoh, Atem, aren't I correct?"

"Get out!" Seto bared between his teeth, "You're being such a waste of my time!"

"Very well," Bakura said standing up and off the couch, "But don't come crying to me, if you see…quite a change. Especially in your little girlfriend…"

Seto stopped.

"What do you know?" he asked.

Bakura chuckled.

"Want to know why all of a sudden she broke up with you?" He said smiling knowing he caught the CEO's attention. "She has feelings for another, and who better than your worst enemy, Atem?"

"And do you even have proof about that?" Seto said calming himself. It's not true! I always told Kokoro to stay away from him! She knows how much I despise that guy. He looked at Bakura wondering if it was true. But then again, he thought to himself, I haven't really been with Kokoro long enough. And a lot could've happen and I didn't even noticed it.

"I do have a small piece of proof." He answered to Seto's answer, "But I'm not sure if you'll find it something to be jealous of, supposing your so cold-hearted. So what is the point of telling you?"

"Just get to your point," Seto snapped, "You freak-show!"

Bakura smirked and yet Seto was wondering if his face was hurting so much from smirking so much, he replied, "Well for one thing, he ditched his own date to go down town with her on the night of the school dance. I was watching them and he even walked her back to her home. Then the next day didn't you realize he was giving you glares when you were with Kokoro?"

Seto stopped. He did remember seeing in the lunch room Atem kept on turning around in his seat to look at Kokoro and him, mostly glaring at them. Seto just thought it was because he was since last year at school him and Atem got into a fist fight and then Seto was left with the last blow before a teacher came out telling them, they were no longer allowed to have the same classes together.

Bakura walked away towards the door saying, "Well, when you make your mind up tell me if you plan on crushing the pharaoh. Just call me and I'll be there…" Then suddenly Bakura turned transparent and soon he wasn't in the room anymore.

(At the hotel)

"EVERYONE," Atem yelled over the loud voices in the room, "PLEASE! Can't you see I'm TRYING to get some sleep!" But the voices in the room kept on going until Atem got his shadow powers to make the electricity of the lights blink shutting them up. Atem sighed, "Finally, Can we please just get back to sleep? Mahado I'm alright, I don't need you ALL the time." Mahado bowed lowly softly saying, "I'm so sorry my pharaoh."

"If you were sorry," Yugi said, "You wouldn't be in this room and Rini-chan would've have panicked and dragged me out of my room."

"Yugi," Atem snapped, "Don't talk to Mahado like that! Now get back to your rooms and rest alright?"

Everybody started walking out the room when suddenly the lights started blinking. Everybody looked at Atem who was looking at them just as clueless as they were.

"What? It wasn't me!"

Then the lights totally blackened out blackening the room. Mahado looked around the room trying to look for Atem through the darkness but then felt a great surge of power flowing through him making him freeze. Suddenly the lights came back on and everybody was quiet.

"What the hell was that?" Yugi asked breaking the quietness.

"Well," Kokoro answered, "I think the power went off. Let me check the TV." She picked up the remote and turned on the TV but it wouldn't turn on for some strange reason.

"What the hell…?" she muttered softly, keeping on clicking on the power button but nothing happened.

"Hey," Atem replied, "The refrigerator's not working either!" Kokoro's eyes widen. Something's not right! She thought to herself as she dashed towards the phone picking it up only hearing the phone line was dead. She slammed it down thinking all of sudden Rini's voice started to chuckle. It wasn't the way Rini usually chuckled but it had an eerie, cold ring added with it. Kokoro swung around as everybody in the rest of the room turned to look at Rini.

"So," she replied, "Having fun? Pharaoh?" She looked up and all of a sudden the sennen ring appeared around her neck. Mahado stiffened when he saw the sennen item and it was glowing brightly blinding everyone in the room.

"The ring!"

Rini laughed coldly.

"I see you recognize it, Mahado." She said smirking evilly. "You see with this sennen ring this foolish girl picked up she has now become my new vessel. Oh! And another thing, I have one of your precious friends in my hand."

"Mana?" Kokoro asked feeling a hint of guilt, "Where are you keeping her?" Rini whipped her head to face Kokoro and held out a hand using a surge of power to knock Kokoro into the wall. "You're a stupid girl," she said, "Don't even understand of the powers going in this room."

"Kokoro!" Atem hollered as he ran over to her, helping her up. "Are you alright?" Kokoro felt every bone in her body had been bruised and just shook her head not even bothering to talk.

Rini suddenly smirked as she watched Atem and Kokoro.

"I see you've taken a liking to this girl?" she said as she caught Atem's attention, "that's all I need. Brace yourself pharaoh. I'm watching you. You and the ones you love the most." Suddenly the sennen ring stopped glowing; Rini closed her eyes and was falling on her knees unconscious. Mahado ran to catch her looking at the sennen ring wondering how it got on her anyway. The doors on the front broke open again and standing in the door way was Joey and Yamu.

"Yo," Joey yelled, "Are you guys ok?"

"Joey!" Yugi yelped happily. "Yeah, we're okay!"

Yamu sighed, "Oh good. We saw the lights go off and heard some banging noises, so we called the staff members, and look Kokoro-chan! Kaiba even came!" Behind them was three staff members and Kaiba standing, staring hard at Kokoro. Atem looked at Kokoro, who didn't looked pleased to see Seto and it made Atem wonder why.

The staff members stepped in the room, inspecting everything and everyone was out in the hallway.

"May I talk with you, Kokoro?" Seto asked.

"Humph!" She replied as she narrowed her eyes at him and followed him out of the hotel leaving the gang staring in disbelief.

"Hey," Joey said, "Did anybody see that?"

Yamu nodded awkwardly.

"What the hell was that?" Yugi added.

Atem then ran quickly and silently after Kokoro and Kaiba.

"Hey!" Yugi yelled, "Yami!"

"Pharaoh!" Mahado yelled but didn't chase after him because he was carrying Rini in his arms.

(Outside the hotel)

Seto whipped around to finally face Kokoro hissing, "Just what the hell do you think you're doing?" She stared down at him hard answering, "I don't know. What the hell does it look like to you?"

"It looks like you're hanging around with those freaks again!" He snarled, "I told you to stay away from them, didn't I?"

"Oh sorry," she snapped back, "I was too 'busy' to realize at the moment that I was enjoying myself!"

"You were…what!" he asked startled. This just couldn't be happening!

"Yeah," Kokoro said feeling that hot-cold lump in her throat again. She tried to swallow it down but it stayed there stuck.

"At least these people who you call 'freaks' have time for me! In fact they're my friends. They seem to care a lot more than you do."

Seto sighed deeply rubbing his temples. He stared down at Kokoro calmly as his rubbed his chin thinking. Kokoro stared back at him not saying anything but her face had an expression of half anger and the other half of hurt. She stared through his icy-blue eyes while he stared at her dark colored ones.

"Listen," Seto started talking calmly, "Let's just forget about this and continue with how things were before, alright?"

It was silent for long moments and the only noises were the people in the hotel coming to check out the incident and the virtual sounds of the night. Kokoro stood there as if she had been nailed down to the floor by her ankles. Her hands by her sides turned into shaking fists. She finally spoke in a soft and unsteady voice, "No…we can't."

"But…!"

"But nothing!" She said looking at him now her eyes halfway filled with tears. "We can not fix this. Tonight I realize I don't need you, because you never were and never will be a part of me..." Then she said something she had never said before, "We're done, Kaiba." Seto's eyes widen in shock and looked at her in disbelief. She started to blink the tears back in but soon they stung her eyes. She had to run away before Seto saw her tears. She swiftly spun around and started to run.

"Kokoro, get back here now! KOKORO!"

Damn! Seto thought, why did I even bother…!

(Back in Mahado's and Rini's Room)

The gang decided to stick together incase Rini had another freaky incident for the rest of the night. Yugi suggested, "We can't tell her what happened tonight. It'll probably just upset her. So for now on we have to keep a close eye on Rini." Everybody in the room nodded in agreement.

"I'll be in watch of her." Mahado suggested, "Besides who ever is possessing Rini is quite dangerous. The person tried to hurt Kokoro back there in the other room. They could harm any of us." He then looked at the Sennen Ring pulling it off gently off Rini's neck. Mahado was around to put the ring around his own neck when he felt a great surge of power telling him to back away. He looked at it in shock. This is odd! He thought to himself, I am the original holder of this item. If I am not allowed to touch it then how could've Rini got a hold of it? Mahado looked at Rini who was just sleeping peacefully.

"What's wrong, Mahado?" Yamu asked concerned.

"The Sennen ring," Mahado answered, "it has some great power surrounding it. I'm afraid that if I wear it around my neck, it will possibly kill me. Or possess me just like it possessed Rini."

"Whoa!" Joey said in shock, "Dat's weird! I say we just chuck the thing out the window!"

"Joey!" Yugi said, "We can't just do that…can we?" He looked at Mahado who seemed like the only wise one so far in the room, since Atem wasn't here. But regardless how Yugi looked at him, Mahado's facial expressions were just so unreadable and he was about one of the most unpredictable person. Mahado sat down quietly unsure. Joey stood up on his feet swapping the Ring out of his hands saying, "Gimme dat!" He walked towards the window opening it and chucked the Ring away, "There! The end!"

(Everyone in room: oO …is that ok…?)

"I don't think so," Mahado said.
"Huh?" Joey asked.

Mahado didn't even bother to comment and kept silent. I should watch out on this girl and the pharaoh. Who knows? If she did that harm to a random person in the room imagine what she could do to the pharaoh. By the way she was talking sounded like the person knows about us very well.

"Hey," Joey yelled at Mahado, "Answer me you Black Magician-freak!"

Mahado's eye twitch as he was ready to tackle Joey but kept calm. Better to act like he's not there than to attack rashly unless needed. He thought to himself.

"Hey! Listen to me when I'm talking to you!" Joey still yelled.

"Joey!" Yamu and Yugi said, "Keep it down!"

Just then Joey pulled on Mahado's long light brown hair saying, "'Ey! You better start answering me and stop acting like your going to be the hero okay!" Mahado shoved Joey away hissing, "Don't pull my hair!"

Joey growled, "What? You some kind of freak, whose obsessed with his hair?" Mahado just about had enough and he was ready to transform into his Black Magician form to attack Joey. But someone had kicked Joey in the shin hard making him howl with pain.

"Don't you DARE talk to Mahado like that ever again not while I'm around." Rini said slowly waking up.

Joey who had a fountain of tears rolling down his face clenched tightly on his aching shin. Yugi and Yamu sighed, "Baka…"

"Hey!" Rini said looking around the room, "What are we all doing here? How'd we all get here?"

Everyone was silent unable to speak until Yugi answered, "Oh! You fell asleep, and we all came together because we thought we can make this into a slumber party!" Rini's eyes widen with happiness and yelped for joy, "OH YAY! A SLUMBER PARTY! WHOO!" Suddenly she stopped and looked around the room, "…Where's Atem and Kokonutz?"

"Oh…" Yugi said. I didn't think about that…

"Um…they both went out to see if they can buy pizza and some ice cream for all of us!"

"YAY!" Rini jumped on the bed happily. "And maybe we can stay up all night and watch movies!"

"Yeah…" Yugi said as he sweat dropped but smiled.

(Right outside their window in the shadows)

Bakura stood out of the darkness looking at his new host smirking. "I think we're going to be working together perfectly…" he said as he began to chuckle silently. Then he walked back in the shadow disappearing as if the darkness was devouring him. His job for tonight was done. Time to prepare for the next day…

(In the virtual forest near by)

Oh! Why can't I just rip my eyes off! Kokoro asked herself as she walked farther away. Her tears blurred her vision that she tripped over a stupid virtual log. Damn that thing! She thought to her self as she slowly tried to get back on her feet but her ribs hurt and she fell back down. They had become very sensitive since the day Mana got kidnapped. She couldn't help but feel weaker and weaker. She couldn't help Mana. She couldn't help anyone not even herself. She furiously wiped the stinging tears off her cheeks. She felt her eye lids so heavy and sore. She looked at her watch to see it 3: 15 A.M. She finally shut her eyes making everything black out and let her dreams fill her mind.

"Kokoro!" Atem yelled looking through the forest. He saw her run through here and then he lost her. Dang! He thought, she can run! He couldn't believe what he heard. Could it be? Kokoro broke up with Kaiba? Maybe that's what she was sad about earlier before. Did this mean…?

/What? That you might have a chance with her/ Yugi's voice came through Atem's mind making him jerk.

((Ahh! Yugi! Don't scare me like that! I thought you would be asleep!))

/Are you kidding? Rini woke up and we told her we're all sleeping in the same room and she's expecting you to bring back ice cream and pizza./

((Ugh…not tonight…))

/Whatever! And do it/

((But…!))

Yugi had closed the mind link between them. Atem cursed under his breath and pulled out his cell phone and dialed a pizza hut.

"Hi? I'm going to order a pie of pepperoni pizza? Yeah. In 15 minutes? That's cool. Thanks." He hung up, sliding the phone in his butt pocket and looked for Kokoro some more. He could worry about the ice cream later. The forest was thick with trees and bushes. The forest looked so real Atem wondered if Kaiba built this dueling dome over a forest. "Kokoro!" he shouted some more. Soon he saw a log up ahead with some sneakers sticking out. Atem ran up to the log and sure enough…there she was asleep.

"Heh…weirdo…" he said as he picked her up trying not to wake her up.

(The next morning)

The room reeked with the smell of pizza and ice cream cans half way empty and empty were all over the room. Kokoro winced then slowly opened her eyes and then widen them when she realized she was in a bed. She looked around and shocked to see Atem by her bed asleep and noticed he was holding her hand. Alright. This is definitely weird…EW! What's that smell!

She winced and held her nose and noticed the smell came from the bathroom smelled of something she did not want to know. She looked to see Rini sleeping on the couch with a Mahado plushie in her arms and Mahado sleeping in the corner facing Atem. Yugi was sleeping in front of the TV. Kokoro shook her head and looked at her watch. It was 6:30 A.M. She shrugged and got out of bed, quietly slipping her hand out of Atem's gentle hand.

(11: 45 A.M.)

"GOOD MORNING!" Rini yelled jumping with joy.

"Ugh…" Yugi groaned, "Rini-chan, we're trying to catch up with some 'z's."

Yugi looked at the clock to see it almost the afternoon and he jumped out of bed getting dressed. Mahado shifted his weight and looked at Atem with his eye lids half ways closed to see him still by Kokoro's bed. But he noticed Kokoro wasn't in her bed. Mahado stretched and yawned. Then he got up and shook Atem lightly.

"Pharaoh-sama…wake up!"

Atem groaned and opened his eye slowly. He looked around the room and rubbed his eyes yawning.

"Good morning pharaoh-sama!" Mahado greeted him.

"'Morning Mahado." Atem answered. He looked at Kokoro's bed and his eyes widened and jumped up, "Where's Kokoro!" Mahado shrugged, "She IS one of the staff members. She probably left earlier to do her job." He got up and opened the curtains. "By Ra! This place stinks!" he said.

(In the staff member's room)

"AHH!" Tatsuya screech as he dialed his home phone number hoping Kokoro would pick it up but she didn't. "Where could she be? Don't tell me she's planning running away! I called her last night and she should've picked up! That lazy-good-for-nothing girl has nothing else to do in her spare time but be home all the time for her summer vacation!"

(In office)

Seto swung his door opened whacking the wall hard. A sign showing he was in his ticked off moods. He sat down in his sear with his legs crossed and started pounding his fingers on the keyboard typing away. After 20 minutes of being in the room by himself he noticed someone was standing near his desk hovering over him. He looked up expecting to see his employees but instead saw….Bakura!

"What do you want now?" Seto grunted.

"Oh. Are we in a bad mood?" Bakura chuckled. "Now does it have to do with something that happened last night?"

Seto growled wishing his looks would just shut Bakura up. She stood up hissing, "Don't you have someone to piss off?" Bakura replied with that same smirk which just made Seto want to rip his head off, "Why I do. But I want to talk about things with you. Listen, you want your title back as 'King-of Games' by beating the pharaoh or little Yugi right? And I want is the power of the pharaoh. I was thinking we should team up to get what we want." Seto snorted, "No way I'll ever join you! So you can just get out!"

Bakura sighed shrugging. "Poor Kaiba." He said, "He doesn't even know not ONLY is his title stolen from him by pharaoh…but also his girlfriend." Seto twitched.

"What about her?"

"Oh nothing!' Bakura said turning away, "Since you don't care about anything but your work."

"Grr…! You better tell me right now!"

"I'll only tell you if you agree to join me into destroying the pharaoh and little Yugi."

"Well screw yourself, because I am not going to join you!"

"Fine….better let you see it yourself of what's going on." Bakura said and walked away and vanished within thin air.

WA: Alright! That's all! Later!