Four Men, Twelve Cats, A Billion Dollars

By Liz

Okay, so I don't know where I got this idea, but it just came to me. And since I'm at my dad's house and Bakura's Journal is at my mom's house…I did this instead ahahahaha. Enjoy!

"Oh my god…"

"What?"

"Come here and see for yourself."

Seventeen-year-old Yugi Mutou was watching the evening news in his living room and eating his dinner. He lived with his grandfather in a game store where he also worked.

"What is it, Yugi?"

He went to high school like any other normal seventeen-year-old did. He even had a love interest…thought the object of his affections was not who you'd think it was.

"Look."

His name was Yami. He lived with Yugi and his grandfather in the game shop. He didn't go to school, he didn't really have a job other than helping with the shop. Problem was, he wasn't really even alive.

"Oh my god…"

"Exactly."

He was the pharaoh from three thousand years ago, and he technically died then. But for some unknown reason, he was locked into an object, the Sennen Puzzle, and reborn in the future.

"How did this happen?"

They had a few friends. Jounouchi Katsuya as one. Blonde haired and hot headed, tall but short tempered. A very interesting person to be around.

"I don't know…Jounouchi's going to be really upset."

Then there was Bakura Ryou. He was a very shy person and didn't normally talk to anyone at all. At least, when his yami wasn't around. See, Ryou had the same problem as Yugi…a spirit who resided in an object and was reborn in the future. Bakura was his name, and evil was his game.

"Bakura will be thrilled."

"Yami!"

"What?"

There was another "friend" of theirs. His name was Ishtar Malik. More of a friend of Bakura's actually, but no one really cared. He had sandy blonde hair that flowed down his back and across his face. Once evil…still evil…who really knows.

"Nothing."

"Malik will be jumping for joy…"

"Yami!"

"What? It's true!"

And then there was Seto Kaiba. Seto was the CEO of a major corporation named Kaiba Corp. He, along with his younger brother Mokuba, ruled most of the city of Domino. Yet he still attended school with the rest of Yugi's friends.

"I can't believe this happened."

"Well, he won't be after me anymore!"

"YAMI THAT'S HORRIBLE"

"You know it's true! He couldn't stop following us! All the talk about 'beating me' this and 'claiming the title' that. It was annoying!"

"Yeah, but…"

""No buts! It's wonderful this happened. End of story."

"YAMI! He DIED! Doesn't that hurt you just a little?"

"No."

"You are so heartless!"

"Not really. I feel bad for Mokuba."

"He died too!"

"What?"

Yugi ran upstairs to his room, leaving Yami all alone in the living room.

"We're here at Kaiba Corp. where it was believed to be the murder site of brothers Seto and Mokuba Kaiba. There has been no word otherwise, and it is also known that the company has everything taken care of."

"Turn that up!"

The volume on the TV slowly crept up to a decent range allowing the white haired teen in the kitchen to better hear what it was saying.

"Did they just say that Seto Kaiba…was murdered?"

"Yes, Bakura." Ryou said as he leaned back on the couch. "He was killed in his office. Mokuba too, during a visit."

"Wow…" Bakura said. He opened the refrigerator and took out a soda. "That sucks. I mean, I was the one trying to kill him and here someone else goes and does it first!"

"Bakura!"

"What?"

"Nevermind." Ryou sighed. "This is just horrible! I mean, Kaiba was one of our friends!" He paused. "Well, he was almost one of our friends."

"Get over it." Bakura walked into the living room. "People die. It happens. Get used to it."

Ryou made a face. "Well I'm sorry Mr. Bloodshed, but I'm not used to death and destruction." He turned away from the spirit.

Bakura looked down at his soda and sighed.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Malik ran into the front room of the house with a baseball bat. "What's going on? Is someone breaking in? I'll kill them!"

"NO!" Malik's sister, Isis, yelled. After that she began crying.

Malik put the baseball bat down and walked over to his sister. "What happened? Do you want to talk about it?"

"Seto Kaiba was murdered today."

"Say what?" Malik shouted. "There's no way! He's Mr. Rich-and-Powerful! He has body guards galore! Plus he can kick major ass!"

"I know." Isis cried. "But he and Mokuba were killed in his office."

"Wow…this is kinda sad…" Malika said.

"Kinda?" Isis screamed. "I LOVE HIM! First he finds someone else, and now he's dead!"

"Wow…"

Malik watched as Isis ran out of the room.

"Why!"

"I don't know."

"Why did this have to happen to him?"

"I really don't know, man."

"I love him! He promised me he wouldn't leave me!"

"I know."

Jounouchi sobbed into the arms of his best friend, Honda. He had been dating Seto for months and the two had been madly in love. There was no one he loved more than Seto Kaiba.

"I just…I just miss him." Jounouchi cried.

Honda rubbed circles on his back as he tried to calm his bet friend. He didn't know what to say. Really, what could anyone say after the loss of his most loved one?

"Wait a minute!"

"What?" Yugi said from the top of the staircase.

"I just remembered something!" Yami said.

Yugi gave him a questioning look.

Bakura smirked evilly.

"I don't like the look of this..." Ryou said.

Malik lay on his back and stared at the ceiling. He couldn't believe that Seto Kaiba was dead.

But wait a minute…

Jounouchi abruptly stopped crying as a questioning look spread across his face.

"What is it?" Honda asked.

"What about his money?"

So, did you like the first chapter? Hahahaha there's more where that came from. Review!