Me: I do not own Teen Titans characters, DBZ attacks, or Yu-gi-oh characters. Yami Marik (evil side) and Thief Bakura (Manga version) come into play, but they're the only Yu-gi-oh characters in this story. This chapter is shorter than the last on, but I hope you enjoy it all the same. Please review.

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It's been a week since we saw Red X and my powers returned to normal. The bullet wound was healed and dad did the stealing by himself so I wouldn't get hurt again. We hadn't had a call from Brain in a while, but our free time allowed us to train a lot more and dad was getting better at harnessing his powers. I noticed a big change in his power level and he was getting a lot stronger with every attack. He would get tired after a few hours of Kamehameha Waves and Masenkos, but that was because he wasn't used to using the powers like I was.

"Mr. Slade."

"Slade's not here right now," I said staring down a robot. "Can I take a message?"

"Tell him that Thief Bakura and Marik will be at your place at three o'clock tomorrow," Monsieur Mallah said. "They're going to pick up the machine's equipment that you stole."

"I'll make sure he gets the message," I said destroying the robot with an energy ball. "Bye."

The giant ape cute the transmission and I destroyed my last robot. Jackal landed on my shoulder and he chirped softly in my ear. I walked out of the training room and I headed for the kitchen.

"Chirp!"

"Bird seed, coming right up," I said. I took the bowl from the counter and I put his food into it. I put it on the bar and he started eating his lunch. Dad walked in as Jackal was eating. Slade put the stolen merchandise on the bar and he walked behind it. We didn't look at each other as we started a conversation.

"Mallah called," I said. "Two guys named Marik and Bakura are coming over tomorrow at three to pick up the stuff."

"Anyone else call?" he asked.

"No."

I sat in silence and Slade wouldn't say anything either. Jackal noticed the silence so he broke it.

"Chirp!"

"Come on Jackal," I said getting off my chair and walking towards my room.

Jackal followed right behind me and we got to my room two minutes later. Jackal flew into his opened cage and I closed it. I had put fresh water into his empty bowl and as I watched him drink, I started staring off into space. I never realized when I would stare off into space unless someone told me I was doing it. I found myself thinking a lot from time to time and it was slightly annoying.

"You're staring again."

I turned my head in Slade's direction and he was sitting next to me.

"I know," I said turning my attention back to Jackal, who was flying around his cage.

"You seem to do that a lot lately," he said.

"And you tell me this every time I break from it," I said angrily. "I'm tired of you nagging on me all the time."

Slade didn't say anything from my reaction, but instead he placed his hand on my head.

"I'm sorry about beating you the other day when you told me that you caused that fire," Slade said. "I was just worried about you, that's all. And I know I'm not your real Father-"

"Then stop pretending to be!" I said angrily walking away from him towards my door and turning back around to face him. "Father's wouldn't beat their kids for doing something wrong! The worst a Father would do to their kids is yell and shout at them! My real Father wouldn't have done any of that shit to me!"

I turned back to the door and I left the room at a run. I ran out of the house and I ran through the city. After five minutes I slowed down to a walk and I was seething with rage.

You seem pissed.

"No shit Sherlock," I said angrily at myself. "Why can't I be a normal wolf?"

I thought you didn't care about any of that stuff. You even said to your Dad that you didn't care about anything when he told you the truth.

"I could have been wrong you know," I said. "I've been wrong before."

But why should you care?

"I don't know anymore."

I don't know either.

"Then why are you asking?" I asked angrily.

"Asking what?"

"Holy shit!" I said in surprise. "Don't do that X!"

"Sorry kid," he said. "Who were you talking to?"

"I was talking to myself," I said. "I do it all the time."

"And why are you out here by yourself kid?" X asked. "Where's Slade?"

"He's pissing me off, that's all," I said. "He's trying to be my Father, but he can't."

"What happened to your real Father?"

"My Father left me," I whispered turning my head away. "He didn't want me." I walked to one of the store windows and I stared at my reflection. "I've become something that I don't want to be. But I can't change who I am. I'd give anything to see them again."

"Who kid?"

I paused before speaking.

"My parents."

"This is all of it," Slade said. "Make sure you don't break any of it."

"You don't have to worry about that Mr. Slade," Bakura said. "I'm an excellent thief and I know how to take care of my stolen goods."

"We need to get going Bakura," Marik said. "So we can get paid for our help."

"Nice doing business with you Mr. Slade," Bakura said.

They started walking off when dad stopped them.

"Bakura."

"Yes Mr. Slade?"

"My son's necklace if you will," Slade said.

Bakura pulled something out of his pocket and he threw the object to Slade. Slade caught it and Bakura smirked.

"You've got a sharp eye, Mr. Slade," he said. "No pun intended."

"Come on Bakura," Marik said. "We're on a tight schedule."

"They seem like great people," I said sarcastically as Bakura and Marik left. "I think they'd do well with the Brother Hood of Evil."

"He is a good thief though," Slade said giving me my necklace. "I saw it being taken when you couldn't."

"I guess the student has surpassed the teacher," I said. "You've gotten a lot stronger since I've taught you my powers."

"I'll never be as good as you, son," dad said. "You were born with these gifts and I just learned them from your experience with them."

"I feel like something good's going to happen sooner or later," I said. "I have a good feeling in my gut that we'll have something important coming our way."

"What do you mean?"

"Never mind," I said. "Its hard to explain."

"Well, I got some work to do," Slade said. "You can do whatever you want."

"All right," I said.

I walked to my room and Jackal was chirping happily.

"Hey buddy," I said letting him out. "Have a good nap?"

"Chirp!"

"That's good to hear," I said. "I'm going to get some rest. Wake me up in two hours."

I got into bed and I closed my eyes, falling asleep.

Me: Well, that's the end of this chapter and I'll have the next chapter ASAP. Please review.

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