I was so inspired on the bus that I typed up half of this into my rubbishy little phone. It took up a tonne of texts. May I remind you that this is the Yuugi-verse. Everything odd/stupid/insane is almost normal here.

Phase Four

Jounouchi stared at Seto Kaiba's retreating back, feeling light headed all of a sudden. A hand on his torso shocked him back to reality. Jounouchi turned to see Bakura smiling beatifically at him.

Jounouchi's eye widened and he tried to step away, but Bakura's surprisingly strong hand kept him in place. The Tendrils began to creep back.

"I'm proud of you," Bakura murmured, twining his fingertips in the Shadow Tendrils. "Your shadow powers are developing extremely quickly."

"I hate you," Jounouchi spat.

"I know," Bakura said softly. There was a pause as they stared at each other. Finally the albino smirked. "Now, how about your little prophesising powers?" Bakura asked. "How are they?"

"Exactly as you designed them," Jounouchi replied, manoeuvring a pointed tendril around behind Bakura.

'Be careful,' Manako whispered. 'Aside from the Pharaoh, this bastard has the greatest shadow powers I know of.'

'Got to try,' Jou replied as the Tendril flew at Bakura. It was deflected at the last second by a burst of shadow magic.

"You'll have to try harder than that, love," Bakura smirked. "Try being more… imaginative…" Bakura moved closer, touching their bodies together. "But remember. You can't touch me…" he pressed a kiss to Jounouchi's lips, who turned his head away.

Bakura leant back. "I'll leave you to your Shadow magic. Your 'friends' should be here soon…" He walked away, almost seeming to melt away into the walls.

No sooner than he had disappeared than Jounouchi heard Anzu's high pitched voice. "Jounouchi!" she cried. "What happened?"

The blonde turned his face away. "Nothing, Anzu."

Suddenly, Honda's hand caught the side of his face and jerked his head sideways to reveal the Eye. It shone viciously in the glare of the school lights. Jou tugged his head away again.

"Why…"

Jounouchi glared at Yuugi. "Why what?" he hissed accusingly.

Yuugi looked hurt. "I'm sorry, Jou. It's just…why…why did you do it?"

The blonde growled at the smaller boy. "You think I did this to myself? You think that I would be that stupid?"

Yuugi suddenly changed. "No, Jounouchi," Yami said. "Just tell us what happened. Just tell us -"

"Hang on," Jounouchi said. "I've got this little voice in my head who's currently attempting to bow down to you, 'oh-mighty-Pharaoh.' So don't mind me if I just tell it to SHUT UP!"

Yami, Anzu and Honda all stared, speechless.

"Ok, so someone put this thing in my eye. Bastard's made it so I can't tell you who it was. But they did. And now, I've got some kind of control over the part of the shadow realm where the cute little Shadow Tendril-things are made." He looked at his friends. Anzu and Honda looked unconvinced.

Yami looked worried.

Jounouchi narrowed his eyes. "So, what can you do?" he asked. "I can't do anything, and if I try and remove it, I die."

'I'm sick of hearing that,' Manako mumbled.

Jounouchi hissed, then gave Yami and the others a look. "Don't even ask."

The blonde was suddenly hit by a wave of pain in the centre of his head. He closed his eye tightly to try and rid himself of the pain. He stumble back against the wall as new images flashed into his head. But these weren't just random pictures, this was a sequence of events.

He watched, through somebody's eyes that were not his own, as Honda ran across one of the main roads and narrowly avoided getting hit by a car. He spun around from the speed of the car and stumbled backwards. Jounouchi's eyes widened as he watched his best friend walk straight backwards into wet tar being laid down for the road.

A few seconds later, a truck with the rest of the bitumen for the road emptied its contents straight over him.

Jounouchi snapped back to reality and found himself on the floor, his breathing rapid and shallow.

"You were totally gone for a moment there," Honda said. The blonde stared at him. "You ok?"

"Honda…you…you're going to die."

The brunette blinked. "Excuse me?"

The blonde clutched his friends wrist. "I just saw it! I just watched you die!"

Honda shook him off. "You're crazy."

Jounouchi fell back against the wall. He looked at his friends desperately. "We…we should go," Anzu said slowly, frowning and turning away. Everyone else followed, but Honda turned back to give Jounouchi a dirty look.

"Don't make shit like that up," he said tonelessly.

Jounouchi stared helplessly at Honda's retreating back.

"I…wanted to help you…" he whispered softly, tears forming.

'I told you,' Manako said regretfully. 'You'll start seeing deaths…and if they don't believe you…'

'I just lost another lifeline, didn't I?'