I know it's a little late for this but that's because I forgot to take my brain out of it's jar when I posted the first chapter.

Disclaimer
I do not own any rights to Yugioh or Watership Down.
My fanfic is based on the Yugioh dub and Watership Down film.
I will be using the characters from Yugioh to tell the Watership Down story as well as adding my own little personal touches along the way.

Thank you to those of you who have been reading and reviewing. I'm glad that you are enjoying what I have written and hope that I will continue to please you with the rest of the fanfic.

I have not rewritten the hrududu scene as I was unable to think of a way of doing so.

Anyway, on with the story ...

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Chapter 4

The gang had continued their way through the outskirts of the city as they all followed slowly after Yami who was leading them. The heat from the sun had dried out their soaked clothing, which had been weighing many of them down who were exhausted, as they struggled to keep going.

Kaiba made his way to the front of the group to confront Yami. "They need to rest." he told Yami, indicating the others as he was too proud to admit that he too was exhausted.

"I'm aware of that." Yami answered honestly. He turned to see his friends as they slowly joined up in a group and came to a stand still behind him. "There's a park not far from here where we'll be able to rest under the shade of the trees that will keep us cool during the midday sun, and hide us from view of any nearby monsters."

"Spoken like a true leader." Joey said as he forced himself to move again.

"Well he was a Pharaoh after all." Yugi smiled at his friend who was now acting like the leader that they needed to guide them.

"Don't ever expect to hear me call you leader." Kaiba smirked as they all made their way into the park where they stopped under the shade to get some much needed rest.

After a while Yugi awoke from his sleep as he felt someone trip over his outstretched legs. "Tea?" He looked to see his friend slowly creeping away from where they were resting. "Where are you going?"

"Sorry Yugi, I didn't mean to wake you." Tea whispered, she began to blush as she told him. "I just got to go to the bathroom."

"Okay." Yugi yawned as he snuggled back up to go to sleep. He found it hard to get comfortable again and shivered before he turned over and tried to make himself comfortable on his other side. He saw Tea walking further away from them as he struggled to keep his heavy eyes open, and as he was about to fall back to sleep he heard Tea scream which caused him to open his eyes fully, now wide awake.

Horrified, Yugi watched as he saw Tea carried off by a Punished Eagle who had spotted her as she walked out in the open. One by one the others appeared beside him as they too had been awoken by Tea's scream.

"What's wrong?" Yami asked as Yugi began to sob.

"Tea's gone!" Yugi cried through the tears that fell from his huge watering eyes. He pointed to the giant bird in the sky which was now so far away from them that it was merely just a dot amongst the clouds.

Yami found it hard to swallow as he was shocked to find that Tea could have been so easily taken from them. He didn't want to lose anymore of his friends, and holding back his heartache he told the others; "We better keep moving." before he moved away from them as a tear rolled down his check.

"Hey, we can't go just yet!" Tristan shouted after Yami.

"We've just lost a friend here!" Joey shouted sounding quite angry and hurt. "I thought you would have shown some compassion."

Yami didn't stop or turn around but just kept on walking knowing that if they stayed to moan over Tea that they too could still be in danger. Kaiba also sensed this and ordered the others to follow. "You heard him, now move." he said before he and Mokuba followed on after Yami.

Not wanting to be left behind, Bakura also followed after the two Kaiba brothers, and after looking back to his two friends who seemed to refuse to want to leave Tristan also followed, leaving Yugi and Joey alone.

"It's my fault that this happened." Yugi told Joey as he wiped away tears from his face. "If I hadn't made you all leave the safety of the school then Tea would still be here."

Joey looked down towards his tearful friend and fought back his own sadness. "It's not your fault Yuuge." he told him and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Come on, otherwise we're going to get left behind."

Together the two of them caught up to the others in no time at all. Nobody said anything to each other as they walked in silence remembering the friend that they had just lost.

They finally left the outskirts of Domino and now trekked across open land, keeping as close as possible to any nearby shrubbery to conceal themselves from the view of passing by duel monsters.

It was now getting dark and they all were becoming tired and hungry. In his backpack Mokuba had brought along a fairly large sized collection of different sweets which he happily shared with anyone who wanted some. It was keeping the hunger at bay for the moment but it was agreed that finding a more substantial food source was the first thing to be done the next day.

They had stumbled upon an old deserted looking graveyard and had decided that the rundown church would provide shelter for them during the night while they slept. The inside of the church was almost bare as most of the benches had been ripped from the floors where they had been bolted down and now lay piled up at one side.

"But it's a graveyard!" Joey protested. "You know the place where dead people are laid to rest."

"Take note on that last part." Yami said as he made himself comfortable against one of the stone walls. "They are dead and buried, so nothing is going to hurt you." he knew how much his friend hated zombies, ghosts and ghouls of any sort.

"But it's still creepy." Joey complained as he nervously watched Yugi and Bakura also make themselves comfortable on the floor. He heard a Whoo! sound come from behind him and turned to see Tristan break out in laughter. "That's not funny!"

Kaiba chuckled to himself as he watched Joey hit Tristan. He was sat on the floor leaning against the remains of an altar as Mokuba snuggled up beside him. "Are you okay?" he asked his younger brother.

"Yeah." Mokuba replied as he shivered from the breeze that blew through the church. "I just thought that all of the hard times were behind us now."

"They will be again soon." Kaiba quietly told his brother as he removed his coat and wrapped it tightly around Mokuba. He knew that it would be a long while before things got back to the way that they were before the monsters had appeared but didn't want to discourage his brother's hopes.

"I know." Mokuba yawned as he loosened his brother's coat from around himself so that he could use it to cover them both. "We can get through anything as long as we're together."

It wasn't long before they had all fallen asleep but Yugi found himself woken up again. This time he opened his eyes to see a pair of huge green Kuriboh eyes staring back at him. The small fuzzy creature chirped at him and continued to make more cute sounding noises, as Yugi sat himself up, before jumping onto his lap.

"Quiet down or you'll wake the others." Yugi told the Kuriboh as he ruffled its fur. He looked around to see Yami not far from him as he slept sat upright leaning against the wall. Bakura was also close to him as he lay on the ground peacefully. Joey and Tristan were laid side by side, both with their mouths open and snoring quitely.

Yugi then looked further into the church towards where the two Kaiba brothers were sleeping as they both rested against each other and wrapped in Kaiba's white coat. Something caught his eye as it moved swiftly, concealed in the shadows, and took a moment for his brain to register just what it was that he had seen. "Kaiba! Mokuba! Wake up!" he shouted loudly waking everyone.

Kaiba awoke suddenly from hearing Yugi's cry and as he saw a long clawed leg reach out for him and Mokuba, he pulled his still sleepy little brother to one side, leaving behind his coat which was now clasped in the claws of a Man-Eater Bug.

"Everybody out now!" Yami ordered on seeing the monster as it reared and attempted to lunge the brothers again.

"We have to do something." Yugi said to Yami as he held the Kuriboh tightly and watched as Kaiba had managed to use a nearby candlestick to try and force back the Man-Eater Bug as it had its jaws clamped around the candlestick.

"I know but what?" Yami said as he didn't have any idea how to fend off the giant bug.

The Kuriboh in Yugi's arms began to struggle and managed to jump down to the ground. It made a series of small snarls and growls as it approached the struggle between the human and the duel monster.

"Go now!" Kaiba shouted at Mokuba to leave while he had the chance, before the bug noticed than the younger boy was an easier target than the one he was currently duelling against.

"No Seto, I won't leave you!" Mokuba refused as he was pushed aside by a small gang of Kuriboh who had also appeared from the shadows as they surrounded the Man-Eater Bug.

Kaiba saw the appearance of the fuzzy duel monsters as their chance for escaping and grabbed Mokuba as he ran to the others as they too finally began to make their way outside into the pale morning light and as far from the church and graveyard as they could go before stopping to catch their breath as they all gathered at the start of a small forest area.

"That was a lucky escape." Bakura panted and dropped down to the ground, closely followed by some of the others.

"At least you didn't have that thing breathing in your face!" Mokuba exclaimed back to the white haired boy before he turned to his brother and laughed. "I bet that you never thought you'd be glad to see those fur balls?"

Kaiba didn't find his brother's comment funny. "I told you to go Mokuba." he stared at him sternly to make clear just how annoyed he was that his brother hadn't done what he had asked him to.

"I wasn't going to abandon you." Mokuba told his big brother. "And, stop treating me like I'm a kid."

"You are a kid." Kaiba said still annoyed.

"Am not." Mokuba stuck out his tongue.

"Then stopacting like one!" Kaiba roared back.

Mokuba looked shocked at hearing the anger in his brother's voice, anger that was aimed at him. He managed to keep himself from showing any signs of being upset by the outburst. "Fine then, I will." He turned and moved away as far as he could from Kaiba.

"I don't want to interrupt your brotherly conflict, but I think its time that we started to move again." Yami said awkwardly as he watched the pair pretend to ignore each other.

"All right, chow time!" Joey said happily as he remembered that one of the first things that they were going to do today was find something to eat.

They began to start their search for food as Bakura, with a little bit of help from Tristan, began to explain just what kind of plants and berries were and weren't edible. Mokuba joined them at the front of the group whilst Kaiba remained at the back.

"I've never seen them like this before." Yugi whispered to Yami about the way that the two Kaiba brothers were behaving.

"Nor have I." Yami replied. "I think it has something to do with the Man-Eater Bug and Mokuba not fully appreciating the sacrifice that his brother almost made for him." He thought about just how much Kaiba was prepared to do for not only Mokuba, but also for the rest of them like he had done the previous day for Tea. He hoped that Kaiba didn't see Tea's rescue as a wasted effort which might deter him from being part of the group.

"Hey Yami?" Yugi asked breaking his friend's trail of though as it was about to wander back to losing Tea. "Do you think that maybe our monsters are looking over us?"

"What makes you ask that?" Yami said rather surprised.

"Well it's just that back at the river Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon appeared, and then at the church Kuriboh also appeared." Yugi explained. "I just think that maybe there's more to it than just coincidence."

"Let's hope so." Yami smiled back, but in reality he wasn't so sure that he agreed with Yugi.