"Well?" Yami questioned.

"We've discovered a few helpful things and we will be looking into them soon." Seth answered. Yami looked to Jou who nodded.

"All right. Where are the guards who were supposed to watch over Teanna?" He asked.

"I'll go get them." Jou offered as he turned and ran off.

"Why did you take in that mutt of the streets?" Seth asked.

"Because I believe my father did the same for you as I did for your brother." Yami answered somewhat coldly.

Seth knew he had treaded too close to that line. "Forgive me sir." He said, bowing.

"I want her brought back unharmed. If I find out you harmed her in any way, you'll lose more than just for title." Yami promised. Seth bowed again then turned and left the room.

-

Teanna managed to make her way back to her room with help from the cat. She lay out on the small bed in the corner. 'What is wrong with me?' She groaned mentally. Then it hit her. 'I knew there was something in that soup.' She thought. 'But what did I tell him?' she felt something on her mouth and she wiped at it. Bringing her hand before her face she saw that it was blood. Frowning she racked her brain trying to figure out where it came from. 'Did I pass out and bite my lip?' She wondered. Her lips weren't swollen but they did hurt. 'What the hell did he give me?' She thought before she fell asleep.

-

'I need to get rid of her now, before she corrupts my mind anymore.' He thought of a few ways to do it. He could leave her in the woods and let her fend for herself, but knew that would be useless. He thought about killing her, like he'd done with the others but immediately tossed that idea to the side, disgusting himself by even thinking it. 'What the hell is wrong with me? I can't even kill her! Ugh! The stupid bitch has done something to me!' He continued cursing in his mind over and over. Then he got another option, but it was risky. 'I could take her back but can I do it without getting caught? She'd probably give me away first chance.' He continued. 'I'd have to do it tonight while she's still drugged.' He walked out of his room and into hers. He picked her up and left the hide out.

He was able to slide through town without a problem but getting into the palace with her would prove to be more to difficult. He held her tight against his body as he walked around the first corner. He could remember vividly where her room was so that wasn't a problem. The problem was just getting around the guards. There was one pacing outside the hallway that led to Teanna's room. Looking around for something to knock him out with, he spotted a few small rocks against a wall. Setting Teanna down, he picked up the rocks and threw them at the guard. The first one missed but the second one hit him square in the forehead and he fell to the ground with a thud. Bakura went back to Teanna and picked her up. He opened the large door quietly and crept down the hall to her room. He laid her out on the large bed and stepped back. At first he didn't want to leave and just wanted to take her back with him but he went against that and left the palace in a hurry before he could change his mind.

>At The Same Time-

"I wanna see if there's a clue or anything in her room." Yami said as he walked down the grand hall with Seth and Jou.

"It might help but we won't know till we try." Jou agreed.

Yami's next statement was cut off when he walked in the room and saw her on the bed. He ran up to the bed, not believing what he was seeing.

"I guess we can call off the search party." Jou said.

Yami placed his fingers beneath her jaw checking for a pulse. He nearly cried out in joy when he found one.

"She's alive! Teanna, Teanna wake up." He shook her shoulder.

Teanna groaned in protest as she rolled away. It took her a couple seconds to register the voice calling out to her. She shot upright in surprise. She glanced around the room, taking in its familiarities. Then she saw Yami and threw herself into his arms, crying her heart out.

"Go call off the guards." He told Seth as he comforted her. Seth bowed and left.

"Are you all right?" Yami asked.

"Yes I'm fine." She said as she pulled back from him.

"He didn't hurt you did he?" He continued. She shook her head.

"How did you escape?" He asked.

Teanna frowned. "I didn't."

Now it was Yami's turn to be confused. "What do you mean 'you didn't'?" He asked.

"I didn't escape. I think he brought me back." She answered.

"He…BROUGHT…you back?" Yami asked in disbelief.

"I think so I mean, how else would I get here?" She asked.

This thoroughly confused Yami. He had lost many female servants throughout the palace but not one of them had ever been brought back, dead or alive. 'So why was this any different?' He thought to himself. He was ecstatic that she was alive and well and here, but it confused him as to what Bakura really wanted.

"Did you tell him anything?" Yami asked.

"No…not that he wanted." She answered.

"Ok. Are you sure you're all right?" He asked again.

"Yes I'm sure. I am tired though." She replied.

"Ok well I'll let you get back to sleep." He said as he stood off the bed.

She smiled gratefully at him as she lay down. Then she saw Jou and gave a small wave, smiling as he returned it. Then he and Yami left the room. Yami waited until they were outside the hall to speak.

"I want that bastard found now." He ordered.

"Yes sir." Jou said then ran off to repeat the new order to the guards from the search party.

>The Next Day-

"What the hell is your problem?" He asked the cat. It had been moody all day and he couldn't figure out why. Then it stood and walked into the room Bakura had kept Teanna in. he followed the cat, curious as to what it was doing. It walked in a circle than laid down. 'Damn cat actually misses her.' He cursed.

"Of course she was the only one who wasn't afraid of you." He said.

The cat let out a weak cry in response as if agreeing. "I need to get out of here for awhile." He said finally as he stood up and left.

-

"So how are we gonna know it's him?" asked a guard.
"From me. When I give the signal is when we attack, is that understood?" Jou asked.The group with him agreed.
Then Jou heard something approaching them and motioned for them to be quiet.

"This is fucking ridiculous. How can she affect me so much?" The figure muttered. "And of course I couldn't find out anything on the Pharaoh so it was practically useless to kidnap her. ARGH! Why couldn't I kill her!" he exclaimed.

"That's him let's go." Jou instructed as he slowly stood. Given the signal, one of the other guards raised a bow and arrow, aimed and released. It impacted the figure in the arm and he released an anguished cry.

"Shit!" Bakura yelled as he yanked the arrow out of his arm then he ran.

The palace guards were close on his tail. Bakura ran through the gardens and lost them briefly in there. He stopped near a hot spring to catch his breath but because his back was to it he didn't see the other person there.

"What are you doing here?" A female voice asked. Bakura jerked and spun around. There she was standing waist deep in the water with her arms crossed over her chest. At first he was speechless but quickly snapped out of it.

"I'm running from your damn guards." He answered roughly. He could hear them getting closer.

"Go in there. They won't find you." She said as she noticed his nervousness then she turned back to the spring.

Frowning in confusion as to why she was helping him, he went to where she pointed. After a minute the guards came running through.

"Oh! Terribly sorry miss!" one guard cried.

"Have you seen anybody come through here?" Jou asked.

"No." she answered.

"All right thanks." Jou answered then he and the guards left.

Bakura stayed hidden, not wanting to face her.

"You can come out now they're gone." She called.

Hesitantly he crept out of the temporary hideout. "Why?" he asked.

"Why what?" She asked.

"Why did you help me?" He elaborated.

"Why did you bring me back instead of killing me like you did with the others?" She countered as she tied her robe off.

Then he was suddenly before her. He griped her hair tight and jerked her head back.

"What makes you think I can't?" He sneered.

"Because if you could you would've already." She answered. He growled out in frustration as he jerked away from her, knowing she was right.

Then Teanna noticed the blood drenching the right sleeve of his robe. "Why are you bleeding?" she asked.

"They shot an arrow at me. It's nothing I'm fine." He stated.

"No you're not. There's blood dripping from your sleeve." She said.

Then she grabbed the sleeve of his left arm and pulled for him to follow.

"I said it's nothing!" he snapped as he snatched his sleeve from her.

Her eyes narrowed in anger. Then she grabbed his right bicep, directly on the wound and squeezed. He had to bite down hard on his lip to keep from yelling out and attracting the guards.

"Is it nothing now?" she snapped back.

"No." he groaned out painfully.

"I didn't think so now come on." She said as she grabbed his sleeve again and pulled him along.

Teanna was glad her room was close to the gardens or else their little trip would've been interesting. Once they got in her room she pushed him to sit on the bed as she went to get something to wrap his arm with. She made him take off his robe when she came back. As she sat beside him and began cleaning up the blood, he noticed a thin chain hanging from her neck that was hidden beneath her robe.

"What's that?" He asked.

"What's what?" she asked.

"That." He replied pointing to it. She looked down to see what he was referring to and saw her gold chain glinting through her robe.

"Oh…um…that attaches to the cloth I wear beneath my skirt. It's held up by the gold ring around my neck." She answered. (A/N: ok for better visual as to what she's talking about. She's wearing a type of thong basically. I figured back then they didn't have elastic yet so it's held up in the front and back by a chain and the chains connect to a gold ring that she wears around her neck.)

"Are you wearing it now?" He asked.

"Not that it's any of your business but no I am not." She gritted her teeth at the personal question.

She really didn't think he needed to know that. She was having a hard problem trying not to stare at his chest and abs which were rock hard but apparently he had no problem looking down her robe. She tied the bandage tight, making his attention snap from her chest to her face.

"Bitch, don't do that!" he exclaimed.

"Stop looking down my robe asshole!" she snapped back angrily as she jumped off the bed. He grabbed her arm and jerked her back down before she could go any further.

"I'll look if I damn well want to. It's not like you weren't doing the same thing!" he retorted angrily.

"For your information I wasn't. I was too busy focusing on the wound on your damn arm." She retorted. He threw her back on the bed and, rising up on his knees, he placed one hand on her wrist to hold it down. She brought up her other hand to retaliate but he caught that and pinned it down too.

"You know I could take you right now?" He said.

"And I could scream, I have four guards out in the hallway." She retorted.

He narrowed his eyes briefly. "No matter." He said. Then he leaned down and kissed her.

At first she struggled because according to her conscious mind, this was the first time he'd ever done this. As he was picking up the pace and making it rougher she stopped fighting against him. He let go of her arms, both completely entranced in their actions. Teanna didn't know what to do with her arms so she left them lying beside her head. Bakura had one bent arm beside her head propping himself up as he set his other hand at the tie of her robe. He was about to untie it when a knock suddenly sounded at the door. Teanna pushed back into the mattress, gasping out loud then sat up as fast as she could.

"Who is it?" She called.

"It's Seth." They answered. Teanna's eyes widened as she choked on a breath.

"Oh my Ra," she whispered. "Just a few minutes!" She called. "You have to go now." She rushed as she pushed him off and threw his robe at him.

"Why?" He asked as he put his robe on with some difficulty.

"Because he'll kill you if he catches you in here and I don't know what he'll do to me since I let you in here." She explained as she began pushing out the back towards the balcony. She shut the door and locked it so he couldn't come back in. She ran behind her changing curtain so she could finish dressing as the door opened.

"Teanna?" Seth called.

"I'm back here." She replied.

"Are you feeling better?" He asked.

She came out from behind the curtain, putting a smile on her face. "Yes I'm much better now." She answered.

Bakura's jaw nearly dropped at the outfit she was wearing. She had on a small gold bikini top with a flowing white skirt that had slits up the sides to her hips. The end of the thin gold chain hanging from her neck disappeared beneath the top of the skirt. There was one gold chain on her ankle, a few on her wrists and a couple bands on her upper arms.

"What?" She asked.

"The Pharaoh has requested your presence." He answered.

"All right I'll be out in a minute or two." She said and turned away.

Seth watched her walk away, his eyes raking over her body. Bakura got so pissed he nearly tore the door down so he could tear his ass apart. He turned away and left before he did any serious damage.

"Ok I'm ready." She announced.

"Good I'm supposed to escort you out there." He said as he offered as she slowly took it. As they were leaving, Teanna briefly looked back at the doors but he wasn't there.

"Is everything all right?" Seth asked. Teanna whipped back around.

"Oh yes…everything's fine." She bluffed.

-

Koki: Just to let you guys know I did a sequel kinda to this.When I post it the title will be 'Now You Save Mine'. I'm going to retitle this one to 'I Saved Your Life' when I start posting the sequel. For now it'll stay as it is. What your reading now is like a glimpse into the past and then the sequel will be the present. That's why I titled the story that way. I need to redo the chapter titles so it'll say 'I Saved Your Life' for the first part of it then have it titled 'Now You Save Mine' for the sequel (which is why I titled the whole thing 'I Saved Your Life Now You Save Mine'). When I do it you should get what I mean. I'm not good at explaining some stuff without actually doing it while explaining it…I'm weird that way. I thought of doing a third one but I can't think of anything to write for a third one, but if any of you have any ideas feel free to give me them…I might be able to do one if I have a good enough idea. Well anyway hope you enjoyed the chapter and I'll get the next one out as soon as I can. For those of you reading 'Breaking The Silence', don't expect my updates to be as quick as they are for I am in the process of writing it as I post unlike with this story. But so far I've been adding a little more at a time so I should be good. It is and isn't close to the end, I'm not sure yet. I still have a few things I want to do in it. Guess we'll just have to wait and see right?