Tails, You Lose!

Disclaimer: BWUAHAHHAHHHAHAHAHAHA!!! I STOLE A CONTRACT!! NOW I DO OWN YU-GI-OH!! ... Oh... wait... no, I don't. U.U

D/N: High-school is bloody demanding. I've always thought they gave too much homework. Oh, for my fellow Diplomacy fans... no, your computer hasn't crashed yet, (Eriso: YET... duhn, duhn, duhn... ) I haven't sent out the chapter. I decided not to. I'm just going to post them up on Fanfiction. When? I don't know. I may not though. I may just banish the whole thing to the ends of the Shadow Realm... (Eriso: Ok, how about no?) ... Too much? Sorry. Meh. I'll finish it. Buuuuuuuuut once again, when I do is a whole different story.

Doo-Dads:

'blah, blah, blah' - thoughts

"blah, blah, blah" - speech... as if you couldn't figure that out.

Blah, blah, blah - emphasis on italic word

Blah, blah, blah - Razatul's little rants and ness

Blah, blah, blah - Well... I don't really use bold, now do I?

Oh, and obviously Joey can't speak to rats, so he can't understand Kaiba when he speaks... or squeaks. So whenever I'm writing about their conversation, it's Joey that's talking, and Kaiba that's writing on his computer. Duh! XD Anyways, READ!!!

OOOOOOOOOO

I can almost taste it.

Youth.

Freshness.

Life.

I shall obtain it.

I should have it now.

But he has interfered.

He has betrayed me.

He is protecting my source.

Keeping him away from me.

But it will not work.

I will get my life.

I will get my youth.

I will be renewed.

And I will not be stopped.

OOOOOOOOO

"Found it!" Joey called from far away.

Kaiba didn't bother looking up from his current task, which was to scavenge through his trench coat to find his Palm Pilot (YES THAT'S HOW IT'S SPELT!!), for he felt it would be easier to use. Instead of the little plastic pen, he would simply use a finger. It would be much easier than hopping from key to key.

"Kaiba? Where are you?" Joey asked, much closer now.

"Down here." Kaiba squeaked. He knew Joey wouldn't hear him, much less understand him, but at least the squeaks were enough to signal his whereabouts. Suddenly, Kaiba felt himself being lifted out of the air and shaken. With a fierce squeak of anger, Kaiba fell out of his trench-coat and onto the seat. He was then whacked on the head from his Palm Pilot falling on top of him.

"Ehehe... Sorry..." Joey grinned, not seeming to really care. Kaiba, finally getting that dazed look out of his eyes, promptly began... er... squeaking at him. "Oh, relax! You're fine! Look, I figured that maybe I didn't want KaibaII to kill you right away, so..."

Joey picked up something from the floor, as Kaiba's beady, little eyes widened to the size of his 'usual' ones. "I found this for you! You know what they say! 'One's person trash is another person's treasure!'"

Kaiba rolled his eyes, and wrote down, "I think this is trash no matter who you give it to."

Joey just grinned a little more. "You're just a little stiff because it's not a mansion!" Joey told him, and placed the item on the table. "Come on! Go inside! See what it's like!"

"I don't have to go inside to know that it's a dump." Kaiba wrote down.

"Just try it!" Joey insisted, then picked him up, greatly to Kaiba's disapproval, and threw him inside. "There, now isn't that cosy?"

"No."

"You just have to get used to it!"

"I don't want to get used to it!" Kaiba replied, angrily. "I don't want to be a rat, and I am not going to live in a hamster cage!"

"Well, it's either this or you've got nothing to sleep in, and plus..." Joey gestured towards the dog that was tied up in the living room. "So?"

Kaiba didn't move.

"Oh, come on, Kaiba! It's only for a little while!" Joey said. "Seriously, besides the fact that it's a hamster cage, what's really wrong with it?"

"It smells."

"I'll clean it out, obviously!"

"Where am I supposed to sleep?"

"In a corner?"

"And where am I supposed to go to the bathroom?"

"In a different corner?"

"You're hilarious."

"Thanks."

"That wasn't a compliment."

"Meh." Joey shrugged, picking up the cage, Kaiba and all, and began walking up to his room. "You'll just have to stick it out for a while, ok, Kaiba?" Squeaks of protest were heard. "And if you don't shut-up, I'm gagging you!"

The squeaks immediately stopped.

"That's better." Joey put the cage on his night-table in his room, and opened the door. Kaiba immediately jumped out. "Ok, so, I'm just going to let your brother know you're staying here, ok? You just... fiddle with your Palm Pilot or something." And then Joey left, the door closed behind him.

Kaiba sighed, then picked up his Palm Pilot.

OOOOOOOOO

He is alone.

He is with me.

The other has trapped him in here.

There is no escape.

I will have my youth.

I will have my life.

I will have it now.

And there will be no escape.

He will have no salvation.

He is alone.

And he is doomed.

OOOOOOOOO

Kaiba sighed and looked around Joey's room. He had to admit, it was pretty nice, but still nowhere near as fabulous as his own. Joey had flicked off the lights for some strange and crazy reason, but luckily Kaiba could see in the dark.

"This sucks." Kaiba muttered to himself, but obviously, to anyone else that wasn't able to speak to animals/an animal (COUGH dog COUGH!! Eriso: ... nice.)/evil magic dude bent on revenge and ruling the world... wait... did I say he was planning to do that? Oh, well, he is.

Kaiba grumbled to himself, and ran up Joey's bed. "Why can't he just make me a bed? I mean, seriously, I'm the size of a baseball! Am I really going to take up that much room?" Kaiba began grumbling to himself. It sucked being a rodent. But hey, as long as he was on a bed...

Closing his eyes, he started to relax, and slowly drift off, when suddenly-

"Are you comfortable?" a sly voice rang out.

Kaiba shot up onto his feet... er... paws, and scanned the area. Then he looked off the edge of the bed.

"Are you?"

"I can't exactly call being a rodent very comfortable." Kaiba replied, not sure if speaking to a voice was the greatest sign of mental health.

"Well, you will not be a rodent for much longer, I can assure you."

Kaiba blinked. "Oh? And how would you know this?"

"I will help you shed this rodent form."

"And what do you want in return?"

"It's quite trivial really. I doubt you should even want it."

"What do you want?"

"You won't even miss it. You probably won't even be able to miss it."

"What. Do. You. Want?"

Two eyes, glowing a fierce, fiery red, lit up directly in front of Kaiba. "I want... your life." Then a harsh pain went searing throughout Kaiba.

OOOOOOOOO

During this time, Joey was busy calling Mokuba. This was he third time, and the kid still wasn't picking up! How many phones were in that house so that it took a year to actually find one? Geez! But at last, the phone finally was answered by Mokuba.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Mokuba! It's Joey! Uhm... Kaiba wanted me to tell you that he's probably gonna stay over here tonight to finish working on the project." Joey said.

"Really?" was the reply. "That doesn't sound like Seto..."

Joey inwardly sighed. "Yeah, he said that the sooner he finished the project the sooner he could stop looking at me or something like that. I forget what he said exactly."

"Oh. Why can't he just tell me himself?"

"Uhm... because... he's... busy." Joey thought up. "Yeah, he's busy."

"Doing what? Working on the project?"

"Yeah!"

"So why can't he just take a quick break to call me?"

"Because... he says he doesn't want me around to screw it up, so he sent me instead!"

"Oh. Ok... well, have him call me later, ok?" Mokuba said.

"Yeah, sure! No problem!" And then Joey hung up. Sighing, he said to himself, "Well, I'm glad that's over with..."

A sudden crash coming from upstairs made Joey jump. Running into the living room, he gasped in horror when he saw that his dog had somehow gotten untied, then bolted up the stairs into his room. Whipping open the door, he felt something furry run up him (O.o) and settle on his head. Kaiba. And where was KaibaII? On the ground, yapping away.

Kaiba squeaked furiously at the dog, and although Joey couldn't see it to be sure, he felt that Kaiba was shaking his fist/paw as well.

"Geez, I can't leave you alone for five minutes without someone trying to kill ya, can I, Kaiba?" Joey rolled his eyes. Picking up his puppy and shooing it away, Joey took Kaiba off his head and sort of threw him on the bed, which of course pissed Kaiba off that he had been handled so roughly.

Kaiba scurried to grab his little Palm Pilot (Which would have been really cute to look at if it wasn't Kaiba that was doing it... ) and typed in quickly, "That thing has a death wish for me!"

"Oh?" Joey raised a tired eyebrow. "What makes you say that?"

"It tried to kill me!"

"Kaiba, everyone tries to kill you now and then. It's a part of your life now." Joey sighed. "I'm tired. I want to sleep..." He closed his eyes and was about to drift asleep when he was quickly bitten sharply on the arm by the rich rat. (Eriso: XD Rich rat... clever, clever Qk. / Qk: I know. Heheheh!)

Joey sighed and looked at the Palm Pilot, which I will now refer to as 'PP' (Eriso: XD / Qk: You're so immature.) because I'm too lazy to keep typing out Palm Pilot... which I just did again... Ok, ANYWAYS, Joey looked at the PP and read off the screen, "And where am I supposed to sleep?"

"I told you, pick a corner of your comfy little cage and sleep."

"And I told you, I'm not sleeping in a cage!"

"Oh, yes you are!" Joey snapped, grabbing Kaiba, and stuffing him in the cage, and then grabbing something that was sticky (Qk: Gum. Let's call it gum. / Eriso: What about duct tape? / Qk: Yeah, ok.), which just happened to be a roll of duct tape, he sealed the CEO inside the hamster cage.

Kaiba squeaked as loud as he could and thrashed inside, and even resorted to chewing on the duct tape, but alas, it was to no avail. Kaiba sighed, and finally wrote something on his PP. (Eriso: XD It's funnier every time you say it! / Qk: -.-;; Maybe I should just stick to Palm Pilot... )

"What if I get hungry or thirsty?" Joey saw. "Uhm... hang on, I'll go get you something to eat."

The Palm Pilot was pushed towards him once more. Joey looked at it, then snickered a little. Then giggled. Then just burst out laughing. Kaiba squeaked angrily at him, obviously displeased that he was being mocked.

"You want me to take you with me?" Joey managed to get out. "Awwww... Poor little Kaiba needs me to save him when trouble's near!" He rolled his eyes, picked up the cage, then walked out the door into the kitchen.

OOOOOOOO

What happened?

He interfered yet again!

He is slowing my progress!

He will not stop me.

He cannot stop me.

He must not stop me.

I am powerful.

But I grow weaker.

I need life.

Or I shall perish.

He must stop interfering.

Or I will stop him.

Permanently.

Either way, I shall be satisfied.

That fateful day is forgotten.

But I remember it.

I will stop him.

I will have to.

He must not stop me again.

I need my life.

But I will get it.

I will wait.

But for how much longer?

OOOOOOOOO

"Ok, so, we got cookies... chips... pop... uhm... carrots, strawberries..." Joey turned and smirked at Kaiba. "I could always go up to the pet store and buy you some hamster food. Would you like that? Get you some nice sunflower seeds and corn. You like corn, right?"

Kaiba, incapable of numerous expressions as he was, sent a forceful message simply with his eyes that said, "Wheeler, if you even think about it, I will kill you while you sleep."

Joey snorted in amusement, then resumed getting some food. Finally selecting a bunch of carrots, lettuce, and a couple of strawberries, Joey placed them in a dish and put it in the cage.

"And my water?" Kaiba wrote on his Palm Pilot.

"I'm going, I'm going." Joey rolled his eyes.

"This is a very large strawberry. I can't even lift it!" Kaiba wrote.

"Poor, weak, little Kaiba." Joey grinned, and was about to fill up the water-bowl when suddenly -

"I'm home!"

Joey's eyes widened. His mom!

OOOOOOOO

OOOOO

OOOOO

D/N: GASP!! Shocking turn of events, isn't it? Well, whatever, I'm going to sleep now, so good night! Oh, and for those waiting for Diplomacy... geez... I better start actually working on the chapters, huh? Anyways, GOOD NIGHT AND SLEEP TIGHT!! (Eriso: Yeah, don't let the RATS bite! AHAHHAHAHHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!) Yeah... Eriso? You're not funny. (Eriso: U.U I know.) ... Okaaaaaaaay... anyways, new chapter next Sunday! YAAAAAAAAY!!