Okay another chapter for Ryou Exposed. I have been in a writer's block and I'm still in it. So instead since it's been eight days I've decided to put in a filler chapter until I get the real chapter up. Gomen nasai, Lo Siento, but I bet a lot of authors get these writer's blocks once in a while. I don't want people to complain saying where's the chapter or when are you going to update. I at least want my readers to have something while the next chapter is being made. So here's for your reading pleasure How Ryou got into the mess of telling his beginnings in the first place. Please don't kill me!

I don't own Yugioh just some merchandize.

Chapter 0: The wrongly placed prologue.

The final chapter of the Yugioh saga has closed. Yugi and the pharaoh have dueled their last with Yugi as the victor. Seto finally admitted that everything he had seen was real. (AN: I nearly fell over when he admitted that) The Pharaoh passed through the gate to the next world. The Ishtar family are finally free of their tomb keeping duties and everyone is back to their own lives. For some this is a new start and for others it's like nothing has changed. For Yugi, Tristan, Joey, and Tea though the chapter that's closing will open again.

"Ahh, Nothin' says morning like a sunny day." Joey sighed happily carrying his bookbag with his arm like a V over his shoulder.

"I hear you, the Pharaoh's off to rest and our days of adventure have come to a close." Tristan added.

"It's kind of sad though. I still wish we could have known the Pharaoh more."

"Don't worry Tea, I'm sure the Pharaoh is alright now." Tristan replied putting his hand on her shoulder for comfort.

Ever since they had left Egypt the boys noticed that Tea seemed a little down. Yugi from behind saw Tea's face. Even though she was smiling he could sense the sadness behind it. Though Yugi didn't want to admit it he knew that Tea cared deeply about the Pharaoh. It hurt him even more seeing her go after him when he went through the gate. If Joey hadn't pulled her back what would she have done, kept going? The answer to that question wasn't important at that moment. As he watched the gates close forever, finally separating himself from the Pharaoh, he chose to ignore it, knowing that he couldn't be jealous of the pharaoh now that he was leaving, but it still hurt. Now that the Pharaoh's presence is gone he could have taken advantage of it and gone after her. Being the fellow that he is though he knew he had to give her some time.

"Tristan's right Tea." Yugi said walking towards her. He got to a spot where he was at least in front of her and looked at her so their eyes met. "Besides even in the next world the Pharaoh knows we're still friends."

"You're right. Sorry for this guys it's just that I miss him so much."

"We all miss him, Tea. Now who's going to get us into some wacky adventures."

(laughing) "Joey."

"I mean what's going to be my excuse now when I want to travel somewhere. Bye dad I'm going to Paris to uh...clean the ozone layer."

"Joey you're being ridiculous."

"Maybe I am, but you gotta admit without the Pharaoh our lives would have been pretty boring."

"I guess so."

"I wonder what would have it been like." Tristan pondered looking up at the sky. Yugi watched them slowly going into thought. Even he wondered what life would've been like, but now wasn't the time as he reminded himself that this was a school day and he knew they had already missed some school days already.

"Uh guys it's almost 8 shouldn't we be goi--"

"School! Oh man I almost forgot." Joey exclaimed. "Let's go."

The four ran as fast as they could to the school. Ryou or Bakura as they called him stood in wait for his four friends. He waited behind the gate and looked at the clock in the center of school. Some other students were going in which worried him. If they didn't make it before the gates closed they might be expelled.

"So Mr. Bakura waiting for your friends are we?" said an approaching teacher. His face was too awful looking to describe so we'll skip that. His brown suit looked faded and his hair smelled strongly of oil and not the hair kind.

"Yes, teacher. I hope they're not going to be late."

"I hope so too." he said with a convincing smile. (thinking) "NOT! This is the closest I'll ever get to expel a student. Heh, it's almost 8 just three minutes left."

Meanwhile….

"Hurry guys." Joey called behind him since he was in the lead.

"Hey you try running in a skirt!" exclaimed a fuming Tea. She was trying her best to keep her skirt from flailing up and run at the same time.

"Well that's why you should wear shorts underneath. I never understand why they never do that."

"That's not important right now!"

"There's the school!" Yugi shouted pointing out the school gates.

The clock read 7:57 and they were coming in close.

"Hurry the bell's about to strike!" yelled Ryou.

"They won't make it and I'll make sure of it." The teacher walked away from Ryou's view and headed to the gate's control room. Once there he reworked the system so that the gates would close right at 7:58. He left smiling with confidence. He watched the system pick up and the gates slowly closing.

"What? The gates can't be closing now."

"Ahh! What's with the gates, it's not even 8:00."

"Come on Joey we got to hurry," shouted a frustrated Tea running at mach speed in her case.

Seeing the gates come nearly halfway Tristan replied still running "We won't make it through at this rate."

They looked at the closing gate. Their hearts filled with doubt, until Joey suggested, "Then we won't go through we'll jump."

"Are you crazy?" shouted both Tea and Tristan.

"The gate is too high we won't come even close." Tristan shouted.

They were just a few feet but the gates now were getting too thin to go through.

"Guys it's now or never." Yugi yelled demanding an answer from the two doubters. Seeing they had no other choice, they agreed. They all lined up in a row and held each other hands tightly. They rushed at the gate with a faster speed, their hearts nearly bursting or at least that was the feeling they had.

"Alright on the count of three." Yugi shouted. "One, two…"

"Three!" They leaped into the air not knowing whether they were going to land safely or crash into the gate. Then they remember their bond, but was this the time to think about it. Yes! With a loud thud and a sand cloud enveloping them they made it over the gate. The gates closed and the teacher fumed with anger at his defeat. He left grumbling as a nicer teacher a female and Ryou rushed to help the fallen four.

"Are you okay?" they asked at the same time.

"Oh, next time I bringing an air bag." And with that Tristan's head fell and his eyes became swirls of dizziness. The others groaned in pain and Ryou and the teacher got them to the nurse's office. When they all we're fitted with beds, the nurse started asking questions.

"I'm surprised you guys made that jump. That gate is fifteen feet high."

"Fifteen feet! Ow." He clenched his arm now bandaged. It had been scraped bad when he landed.

"At least we made it in time." replied Tea holding an ice bag to her head. The rush of them going over and hitting her head on the sand was too much.

"But we're all okay right."

(Joey) "Yep" (Tea) "Yes" (Tristan) "Barely"

"Don't worry everyone I saw the whole thing with the gate so you won't be in trouble." Ryou assured them.

"And I got his actions all on tape. Surprisingly I was trying to film a bluebird and it kept flying away. Then I caught that teacher messing with the controls, I would have alerted you sooner but I needed the evidence."

"That's alright, but we beat that teacher by making it through, so he knows not to mess with Joey Wheeler. Ow my feet."

"Cheer for victory later, my feet hurt." Tristan groaned.

"And thanks to those actions you four can't attend your classes so I will bring them over here." The nurse left and the four said their "thank yous" Their attention turned to Ryou as he sat on a stool.

"Bakura, shouldn't you be heading to class. It's fine that you want to stay but we don't want to get you expelled."

"Don't worry Yugi." He pulled out what seemed to be a golden credit card out of his pocket. "This pass allows me to stay here with you for a while."

"How long?"

"30 more minutes."

"That's good."

(long pause)

"So….what's new with you, Tristan?"

"Are you that bored Joey?"

"I'm just trying to get a little talk going. Is there something wrong with that?"

"No, it's just that some of us would like to rest now." Tristan turned from Joey's view and pulled the blanket over his head. A few snores came after.

"Joey."

"Yeah Yuge."

"My grandpa and I are still in the card business. I think that's one thing that won't change soon."

"Me and Serenity are planning to go to the beach once we finish school."

"You're really taking her?" asked Tea.

"Yep, I've kept that promise waiting long enough."

"Hmm."

"So Tea you got any plans?" asked Yugi.

"I'm going to ask my parents if I can attend dance school."

"You're going for it this time?"

"Yes. I guess now that I think about the pharaoh has prevented me from getting my classes."

(Yugi laughs)

"Say Bakura, I realized something. What are you going to do now that evil Bakura is gone?" asked Tea.

The three invalids sat up and turned their direction to Ryou once more. It did come to a shock realizing that he was finally gone. There were times where they thought he was gone and they'd been tricked, but now it was over.

"I don't know. I didn't think this day would come."

"Maybe you can patch things up with your family." Yugi suggested. "I'm sure now that the evil Bakura is gone they'll welcome you back."

"It's not that simple Yugi." Ryou bent his head to his knees. "It's been three years and I'm sure they're still skeptical."

"Bakura it's not too late." assured Tea. "No matter what you did I'm sure your parents would want you back."

"At least give them a call." Joey recommended. "What could it do?"

Ryou agreed to it and went over to the phone. As he dialed the number though the memories came flooding back…

Okay a filling chapter but hey at least I put up a chapter. Don't worry the real chapter will be up soon. I hope. In the meantime check out my profile! I added more links and gave credit this time! Please review.