Chapter 5: Bananas, Crackers, and Nuts

DiNozzo was wandering around Domino City looking for Ms. Valentines other friends. His sense of direction was terrible so it took him a while to find even where to begin.

'Ok, what am I going to do to find these 'friends'. I could cruse around until I get lucky but that would…mean…' Tony thought while he was looking.

What he saw out the window qualified as someone that only Ms. Valentine or Mr. Mutou would be friends with. He had platinum blonde hair, wore a blue and white horizontal stripe shirt, a blue jean-like outer shirt, denim shorts and a pair of sneakers. He looked whiter than a sheet and had the expression of being lost and, at the same time, knowing the city inside and out.

'Now if that doesn't classify as weird than I'd beg Kate to date me.' Tony thought.

"Excuse me. Hey, excuse me" Tony shouted from the car.

The kid turned towards Tony's direction and asked, "Yes, can I help you with something?"

Tony smiled, pulled out his badge and said, "Special Agent DiNozzo, NCIS. I need you to follow me. Someone wants to talk to you back at the Naval Base."

The kid shrugged and said, "Fine. My name is Ryou Bakura if you want to know."

As the kid got in, Tony was thinking, 'If the other kids are like this than this is gonna be easier than I thought.'

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Kate walked up to a small house that looked like it had seen happier days. The paint was really fading, the pavement looked cracked and the whole place looked like something out of a horror movie.

'Keep it together, Kate. It's not like this girl is homicidal. Just in case I better keep my gun handy.' Kate thought.

She saw a shadow in the one of the curtain but dismissed it and knocked on the door.

The door opened a crack and a girl's voice asked, "What do you want?"

Kate looked a little unnerved and said, "Uh…Ms. Gardner."

The door opened fully and out came a girl that totally didn't match her outfit from last night. Her hair was longer was…pink. Like washed off blood pink. Her eyes looked a little clouded but were still blue. She wore what looked like a dark blue turtleneck that had seen better days, a pair of burgundy sweatpants that also looked like they had seen better days, and a pair of white slippers that looked like they were coming apart at the seams.

"What do you want?" Tea asked.

Kate looked a little stunned and asked, "How about we continue this discussion inside, Ok?"

Tea looked dazed before she said, "Sure."

Kate figured that this was going to be a long interview.

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Abby, McGee, and Dr. Cassidy were wandering the area that Lt. Anderson was murdered and Ms. Valentine was found. Abby was still looking over her shoulder to see if any ghostly figure that looked like either Mr. Mutou or Dr Cassidy were watching her. McGee was taking photographs of anything that looked useful and Dr. Cassidy was pointing to anything that looked useful for McGee to photograph.

'I could get the job done better if I wasn't so spooked out of Dr. Cassidy and Mr. Mutou.' Abby thought.

'You could also 'get the job done better' if you stopped worrying about 'us' and more about the evidence'

Abby nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard that thought.

'Dr. Cassidy, I'm so going to hurt you when we get back.' Abby thought.

Julius turned and simply smiled a roguish smile before turning back to giving McGee directions.

It was then that Abby noticed two things, a shiny object and a knife. Abby walked up to the items and was going to call McGee and Dr. Cassidy when she…'felt', for better lack of a term, the gold object calling her. She picked it up, shifting the drying mud off of it, and noticed that it was the same design as the ring, upside-down pyramid, and dreamcatcher-like object that the others had.

'Take it…follow your destiny…'

Abby looked around her to see if Dr. Cassidy was around to spook her again. When she saw that no one was around, she looked at it some more and wondered who it was that was talking to her.

'Are you dense, Abigail. You're talkin to yourself'

She looked around again and decided to put the round, golden Item in her pocket and cover the hole she made with more drying mud.

'I'll look at it later with Ducky's sample.' Abby thought.

Aloud, she said into her walkie-talkie, "Dr. Cassidy, McGee, I found something."

"Where are you, Abby?" McGee asked through the other walkie-talkie.

Abby looked around a little bit and said, "Just over the hill where you two are at."

"Right, be over in a minute." McGee said.

'Abby-girl, don't forget to look at your new Item later.'

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Gibbs walked around the base to get somewhat of a picture of how an 18 year old girl, with little to none of military training, managed to blast a hole in one wall, stop a guard from drawing his sidearm, blast the door open, and disappear into nothing.

He almost didn't notice when Yugi bumped into him until he was rubbing his thigh from the hard bump Yugi's hair gave him.

'Kid definitely uses too much gel.' Gibbs thought.

'No, Agent Gibbs, this is our natural hair color.'

Gibbs stopped and wondered if this is what Abby went through when she was thinking before going on to the quarters assigned to Ms. Valentine.

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"So, Ms. Gardner, according to your school records you have either been tardy as of late or don't even bother to show up. Care to elaborate?" Kate asked after getting settled on the old couch.

Tea looked confused for a moment and asked, "What do you mean? I've been to school on time for as long as I can remember so, I ask you, What are you implying?"

'Almost forgot, I need to phrase my words carefully.' Kate thought.

Aloud she said, "I mean, the times that you…haven't been seen by the student body or the teaching staff of the high school that you attend."

"Look, let's cut to the chase shall we?" Tea asked nonchalantly

Kate looked a little lost herself before saying, "You were seen at the naval base not too far from Mr. Mutou's game shop home. Now, would you care to elaborate or would you like to go down to an interrogation room to talk about this to my superior?"

Tea stood up abruptly and said in a double voice, "No one is going anywhere."

That was proof enough for Kate as she pulled out her gun and stepped away from Tea. Tea's hair started growing wild and more silver with each step she took. She grew a little taller and subtly grew more muscle on her frame. The look in her eyes went from blue confusion to brown malice to red mayhem.

'I am in serious trouble.' Kate thought as she kept backing up.

"Unfortunately, I already have a pawn in my game. However, you can be of some use to me as a bargaining chip." Tea-Bakura said.

Kate felt the window behind her and said, "Bargain this," before shooting the kneecaps of the possessed girl and jumping out the window.

She ran to the car she took, slid across the hood, opened the door and flung herself inside before flooring the gas peddle and taking off back to the base.

She dialed her cell phone, praying that Gibbs wasn't in an interrogation room or someplace where his phone was shut off.

"Yeah?" She heard Gibbs on the other line and sighed with relief.

"Boss, don't ask ANYONE to try and take Ms. Gardener to lock-up. Unless you want to wind up with dead sailors, of course." Kate said.

Gibbs looked confused before asking, "Why?"

"I think that the tale that Dr. Cassidy told us is true. I just got threatened by Ms. Gardner to be a 'bargaining chip' for NCIS." Kate said.

"Just give me a full report when you get back." Gibbs ordered.

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Tony was having a little trouble trying to find the Kaiba brothers. He found both Mr. Taylor and Mr. Wheeler in an arcade not far from the local high school. Mr. Devlin was at another game shop when Tony found him. And Kate was supposed to get Ms. Gardner so that left the Kaiba brothers.

"Just my luck that one of these guys was an employee at some corporation." Tony mumbled to himself.

DiNozzo walked up to a receptionist at the lobby desk and said, "I'd like to speak to whoever is in charge here. Tell him that it's an NCIS agent."

The receptionist looked puzzled before dialing a number on her interoffice phone and saying, "I need to talk to Mr. Kaiba. No, it's not another one of Mr. Pegasus's goons, it's some man from the naval base the U.S. Navy is building. OK, I'll tell him."

The receptionist looked back to Tony and said, "Mr. Kaiba is waiting on the top floor. Just take this hallway down to the elevator on the right and someone will take you from there. Enjoy your day."

Tony finally got directions right and made it to the elevator in a hurry. The thing was entirely decked out in wood paneling and brass plates. Tony pressed the button that led to the top floor and waited.

'Well, things are looking up.' Tony thought before wincing.

"Geez, I even wince at my own puns. I need a real vacation after this.' Tony thought as he was ascending.

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Mokuba was drawing in his room when he felt someone that wasn't there before enter his room.

"I need you to take care of something, my servant." A familiar voice said.

Mokuba gave a little smirk, nodded and stood up. Turning around he saw Ms. Gardner step through a portal and had it disappear before anyone got suspicious.

'Looks like I find my own way.' 'Mokuba' thought.

He knocked on the door to tell the guard outside he was going out. He pulled a bat that was laying on the ground behind his back and waited for the guard to unlock the door. When it opened, the guard didn't stand a chance when 'Mokuba' smacked the guard upside the head and effectively sent the man to dreamland. 'Mokuba' dropped the bat, pulled out the gun that the guard had in his holster, and walked out of the house, making sure to hide the gun on the way out.

"Time to die, big brother." 'Mokuba' said.

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