"What do you want?" Seto finally snarled; he had a feeling that the reason Bakura was there was to talk about Yami.

Silently, Bakura tossed him an item, which the demon hunter easily caught. Staring down at the item, Seto was horrified to recognize it as the bell and ribbon belonging to Yami.

"What did you do to him!" the brunet hunter yelled; quickly he drew his sword and placed the tip of the blade at the fire demon's throat.

"Nothing," Bakura snapped while using his arm to swat away the sword. "But because of you he's now in trouble."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"Oh please," the fire demon said with a roll of his eyes. "I know what happened between the two of you. You got a stick up your ass once you found out that Kitten loves you."

"I did not!"

"You're such a hypocrite; you have sex with Kitten and then refuse to love him."

Again the two men silently glared at each other. After a few minutes of failed attempts to calm himself Seto decided to start talking again anyway.

"What happened to Yami?" he asked through gritted teeth.

"Dartz happened to him."

Seto cocked his head, confused. "Lord Dartz of Doma?"

"That's the one. He's a wizard who has a fetish of collecting demons. Kitten is now a part of that collection and is in bad shape."

Seto paled as the fire demon's words sunk in. Bakura was a lot of things but he wouldn't lie about something like that. "Yami…"

"Are you going to help me or not? The bastard also has Ryou and countless other demons and I can't save them by myself."

Seto hung his head; it was all his fault. He had been so mean to Yami and now the cat demon was in trouble. The demon hunter's heart tingled with pain; he never wanted Yami to be hurt and he had to admit that he wasn't nearly as happy traveling alone as he was when Yami was by his side. He missed the cat demon despite everything that had happened. He now realized that Yami couldn't help loving him; the cat demon had no control over his emotions.

"Let's go," Seto said with newfound determination in his eyes. "We have to hurry if we're going to get to Doma quickly."

A smirk crossed Bakura's face, happy that the demon hunter was going to help him. "I have a faster way," he said, throwing his arms around the brunet's body and pulling him close. "Don't move. And you might want to close your eyes…"

Seto barely had time to react before feeling the heat of flames around him. Snapping his eyes shut, he desperately clutched the fire demon. Around them fire roared.

Heat burned around Seto and he didn't dare to open his eyes. He could feel the edges of his clothes singe as flames jumped close to his body.

"Would you relax, it's just a lot of flaming hot fire inches from your body," he heard Bakura say with amusement in his voice.

Seto didn't dare to reply but he silently cursed Bakura in his mind. He was going to kill Bakura once they were out of wherever the hell they were.

"Almost there…"

The roaring sound of the fire quickly vanished and Seto found himself being thrown backwards, hitting the ground with a hard thud; fortunately none of his clothes were on fire.

Snapping open his eyes, Seto glared at the fire demon who was brushing himself off. "What he hell was that?"

"Don't worry, it wasn't fun for me either." There was a sour look on Bakura's face as he turned around and pointed to the castle that could barely be made out in the night sky. "But we're here and that's where we need to go."

Seto stood and looked at the castle. "Let's go. Night is the best time to attack."

"Hey! I'm the one in charge here!" Bakura protested as he swung back around and glared at the demon hunter. "It's my brother in there! I make the decisions!"

Seto glared back. "With Yami's life on the line, I'm in charge!"

"His life is on the line because of you!"

"Don't act like you didn't have a hand in it!"

The fire demon and demon hunter continued to glare at each other, each not wanting to give in. Finally Seto decided to break the silence.

"I'm not agreeing to you be in charge but what do you suggest we do?"

"Raid the castle now because it's dark out."

Seto fumed. "That's what I said!"

"Yes, but you're not the one in charge."

Seto glared at Bakura again but decided to ignore the comment. "Let's just go."

The duo began walking towards the black castle, both shooting scowls at each other every so often. It was obvious neither was happy working together but also in the back of Seto's mind, he couldn't help but worry about Yami.

"Any ideas on how to get in this place?" Bakura asked, breaking the silence.

"Can you morph inside?"

A smirk crossed Bakura's face. "Of course."

"Good. Get in and unlock the door for me."

"As you wish," Bakura replied with mock amusement in his voice.

Coming to a stop in front of twin massive wooden doors, Seto waited impatiently as he watched the fire demon disappear into fiery flames. A few minutes later he heard a creaking sound and the large doors swung open.

"Did anyone see you?"

"Hmph," came the reply as Bakura pointed to two guards lying unconscious on the floor. "Nothing I couldn't handle."

Rapidly the two re-closed the doors and dragged the two guards to an empty storage room where they locked the two men inside so that it would take some time before anyone spotted them.

"Ryou's this way," Bakura said and he started walking down the hall. Seto however had other plans and grabbed the back of his shirt.

"Yami first!"

"I told you, I was in charge!" Bakura hissed, darkly looking at the demon hunter. "Ryou first."

"I don't trust you to help me once your brother is free."

Bakura growled, not liking the situation. He however knew that he needed Seto to break into the room where Ryou was being held. "Fine."

Reluctantly Bakura led Seto through the winding corridors and staircases until he reached the door where the demons were being kept in cages. The castle was eerily quiet, which kept both the demon hunter and the fire demon on cautious guard.

"This is it," Bakura murmured to Seto, stopping in front of a closed door. "Let's hurry quickly so we can get to Ryou."

Seto nodded his head, wanting, needing to see Yami again. His heart pounded thinking about the condition that the cat demon lay in on the other side of the door. With a tentative hand, he reached towards the handle, ready to swing open the door and save his partner.

"Well…well…well…what do we have here?"

Hearing the new voice, the duo swung around to find a man with spiky brown hair strolling towards them with a smirk upon his face. "Little rats scurrying around the castle, getting into places they shouldn't."

"And you are?" Seto challenged, unafraid of the new arrival. Bakura just plainly looked bored.

"Varon."

The spiky-haired man was unarmed but Seto knew that didn't mean he could take the man lightly. From the way he carried his body, Seto could tell that Varon was a skilled fighter.

"We have reason to believe that demons are being held in this castle."

"Is that so?" Varon was looking at them with an amused look.

"I'm a hunter."

"Ahh…so you're the legendary demon hunter. I assure you that the lord of this realm is big fan of yours and applauds your work in wiping out demons."

"This is boring," Bakura grumbled to Seto. "We're wasting time while this pathetic fool tries and stall us."

"And you are…?" Varon asked, turning his attention to the white haired demon.

"Your worst nightmare."

A frustrated Bakura formed a fireball in the palm of his hand and threw it at Varon who quickly dodged it. The fireball however had been a distraction and with a snap of his fingers Bakura created a cage of fire upon Varon's head which fell down, surrounding him.

"Let's hurry up," Bakura complained ad he turned back towards the door. Bakura would have liked to have killed the person called Varon but he knew that the demon hunter would be most displeased if he did that. "That cage will hold him."

Seto tried the door only to discover that it was locked. Again Bakura morphed to the other side and unlocked it for him. Hurrying into the room, Seto froze in his tracks when he saw the limp form of the black leopard, lying in a cage in the middle of the room.

"Yami!" he cried rushing over to the cage, while Bakura began melting the locks on the other cages. He finally came over and melted the lock on Yami's cage so Seto could crawl inside and pet his head.

"What is this thing?" Seto asked, fingering the collar around Yami's neck.

"It blocks their powers," Bakura hastily explained as he began working on the cage next to Yami's that housed a lemur. "All the demons here wear it."

"How do we get it off?"

"Dartz."

Seto frowned as he took a closer look at Yami's collar; it didn't glow as brightly as the others. Pulling out the red ribbon with bell attached that Bakura had given him, Seto retied it around Yami's neck.

Crawling back out of the cage, Seto lifted Yami's prone body up and cradled the black leopard in his arm. The lemur jumped up onto his shoulder and made a mournful nose as it stared down at Yami.

Bakura finished opening the rest of the cages. "All right you guys," he announced. "Scatter and escape from this place while we go rescue the human demon slaves and get Dartz to remove these collars. You're on your own from now on so don't get caught."

The animals, of all shapes and sizes, hurried from the room with Bakura and Seto, who still carried Yami and had the lemur on his shoulder, following them. As they passed Varon, the spiky-haired brunet began yelling insults at them and orders for the demons to stop.

Irritated, Seto handed Yami to Bakura before marching over to the cage and stopping right in front of it, glaring at Varon.

"Bakura."

In a flash the fire cage was gone and before Varon knew what was happening, Seto punched him in the face.

Unconscious, Varon fell to the floor and Bakura quickly brought back the cage as he handed Yami back to the demon hunter. "Nice move."

"He deserved it."

Free from Varon's control, the other demons scurried off in every direction they could find while Bakura began leading Seto to where Ryou and the rest of the demons were being held captive.

Hurrying down the corridors, the demon hunter and fire demon skidded to a stop when they rounded a corner and found two men waiting for them. Bakura recognized one of the men as the blond from the day before when he was there with Malik.

"Do you know another way?" Bakura asked the lemur, looking at the primate clinging to Seto's shoulder. The small head bobbed up and down. "Good. Take the Hunter there. I'll handle these two."

"What?" Seto protested as the lemur jumped off his shoulder and began running down a corridor that branched to the left. "What about Ryou?"

"Only a human can get beyond the magic protecting the room he's in," Bakura replied with annoyance in his voice. "It won't take me long to get rid of these two anyway."

Seto nodded his head and took off after the lemur. He couldn't help but notice that the glowing collar around Yami's neck faded some more.

With Seto gone, Bakura turned his full attention to the blond and the redhead who were strolling casually towards him. The blond was holding up a large axe with his two hands while the redhead had a dagger in each of his. "Child's play," Bakura muttered with a smirk upon his face.

The two continued to walk slowly to Bakura. The fire demon however was getting impatient and wanted to hurry things along. Raising the palm of his right hand towards them, a pillar of fire shot out and the two men had to jump to the side, pressing themselves tight up against the wall to avoid the blaze.

Calling the fire off, a grin crossed Bakura's face as they began charging at him. It was always more fun when pathetic humans tried to put up a fight.

Fireballs were thrown at the two men, barely dodging them as they continued to run forward. The blond reached Bakura first and swung his heavy axe but the fire demon quickly jumped backwards so that the blade easily missed him.

Swinging up his left hand, which he had been keeping by his side, Bakura threw another fireball at the blond, singing him on his bare arm. At the same time, Bakura crossed his right arm over his left and shot five quick balls at the redhead who was still trying to advance.

Deciding to end things, Bakura created a huge wall of fire that separated himself from the two men. For what they did to his brother, Bakura hoped that they had crashed into it.

Suddenly Bakura sensed a presence behind him. Swinging around he had no time to react as something snapped around his neck.

Slumping to the ground, the wall of fire vanished and Bakura soon found himself staring up at three dangerous men.

A/N - One more chap to go. As always thanks goes to Dukie for editing.