Disclaimer: Okay, everyone here class? Yes? Good. Now let us proceed. I will now write down some notes on the board. - scribble, scribble- and you, random person in the first row, read them out loud to me. RPITFR: "Remo Con is completely broke and living no where near Japan. She owns more books then necessary, but nothing pertaining to Yu-Gi-Oh. She merely borrows them to toy with them and cause them all misery." -glare- "I mean, make them all completely happy." Better.

CHAPTER 5: Revise and Do Second Draft

"I went to Yugi's today," Joey began and then stopped. It hurt to think about this and he wasn't even Yugi! Seto's eyes glittered in amusement and he wondered why, not knowing that Seto was thinking how Mokuba must be some kind of little psychic.

"Yes," Seto prompted, seeing that Joey wasn't continuing.

"And, well, I found out somethingYami is gone." The amusement zapped out of Seto's eyes. Apparently it registered a lot quicker with him than it had with Joey.

"Why?" Seto asked quietly.

"I don't know," Joey replied.

"Oh," Seto said. Suddenly Joey's eyes began to fill with tears. Yugi was his best friend, but Yami was too. And those two had been so much in love. If Yami could just leave like that, what did that say about his relationship?

"Joey?" Seto asked softly. "Are you okay?" Joey threw himself into Seto.

"Promise me you won't leave," came Joey's muffled voice. Seto put his arms around Joey.

"I promise," Seto whispered. The girl could wait. Right now he had to be there for Joey

LETSCALLTHISTHEPRETTYLINETOSEPERATESCENES

(That night in Egypt)

Malik stood out in the middle of the desert, watching the wind gently blow the sand dunes around. It was quiet, all the noise of the city left behind. It was just him, the sand, and the stars.

He sat down and began to meditate. He knew he was lucky that Marik had chosen to let him stay when he had mysteriously shown up again. Even now he wasn't quiet sure how he had escaped the confides of the Shadow Realm, but he knew the only reason Marik had kept him was, at first, that he was too scared to do anything else.

But he didn't want that.

In the Shadows he had been tortured, the pain he had inflicted being done back to him doubled. As he had been tortured slowly all the evil had started to seep out of him, all the desire to cause destruction and mayhem, it had been left behind. He had no desire for his hikari to fear him.

So he spent all day doing his best to prove to Marik that he could be trusted, that he had changed. He had even gotten a job and helped pay for the apartment and once summer ended he would even start going to school.

Every night he went out to this spot to meditate, as he was now, to search his soul for any traces of negative energy. If he found any he could rid of it right then are there where no one could be hurt in anyway. People thought he played in the Shadow Realm. That wasn't true. But he figured it was best to let people have their opinions of him that way. Though he wasn't evil, he had pride, and he knew that Bakura and the pharaoh would never let him hear the end of it if they knew he had gone completely good. Especially Bakura.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath and began. In, one, two three four, out, one, two, three, four, in, one, two, three, four, out, one two, three, four.

He let his mind free to wander, searching, it was always searching. Minutes passed and he continued in this pattern. Then something made his breath hitch and he opened his eyes.

There, sitting on a larger dune in front of him was a girl.

"Where did you come from?" Marik asked her.

"Where you came from," she said. His eyes widened.

"What do you mean by that?" he demanded. This was no ordinary girl.

"The Shadows of course," she answered. He stood up.

"I think it would be best if you left," he said, doing his best to keep his voice steady.

"Only if you're coming with me."

"Coming with you? Why in Ra's name would I do that?" Marik demanded. "Who are you anyway?"

She didn't answer, instead she carefully jumped off the dune and stepped toward him until she was so close he should have been able to feel her breath on him. But he couldn't - she wasn't breathing.

"Will you come with me?" she asked, keep her eyes locked on his.

"No," he practically shouted. She reached out and put her hand on his chest. He looked down at her hand, it was glowing in a strange black light.

"Come with me," she said. "Or I will return you to your former self and set you loose on your hikari." More so than her words was the way she said it that frightened him most. She didn't say it as a threat. To her it was a simple statement that was as true as the fact that it was night.

"Why?" Marik managed to croak out. "Why would you do such a thing?" A nasty smile worked it was onto her face.

"Because I like to get what I want. And I want Seto Kaiba, and you're going to help me get him." But Marik never heard that because the same darkness that had taken Bakura the night before had already engulfed him.

Next Chapter: Send to Agent

That morning Seto awoke to find Joey in his arms. Not that anything had happened (which was regretful, true) but still, this was certainly a pleasant change to what he normally woke up to. And he had a bad feeling that this was going to be one of the last good things for quite a while.

Now to thank my lovely reviewers: Thank you all so much for being patient with me (especially those who are still taking the time to review my pitiful chapters)! And I'm sorry that this is such a short chapter. I was kinda uninspired for a while (not to mention disgustingly emotional) but now I'm back. So I hope you'll bear with me 'cause next chapter will be longer! I promise!

Oh, and the website is I could have sworn I put it in last time, but anyway, if you can't get to it through that link, go to my bio and click to my Homepage link. I know that works.

solarsenshi: If i told you what Bakura was for it give away everything! And typos...crap. Oh well- revision can come later! First finishing is the goal! And did you say if I post it 3x? What does that have to do with anything?

Chika of the High Mts: Okay, when I said it wasn't her, maybe I should have refrased it. Its not her- exactly. Does that help? 'cause it defintly isn't Isis, and thanks for reviewing!

Smoocher of Evil: I think problems are good for characters, don't you? And thanks for the compliment (though my story is by no means awesome...)

Kumori Sakusha formerly Saelbu: -wipes tear of joy way- i love being understood. And here's your update (just cause its like a month later, that's okay, right?)

Shin Mao: Happy? Well...i guess i should work on that.-grin- but hey, at least i'm continuing

Time-Again: Dark side? Interesting. Anyway, I love Bakura! And he loves Ryou! Remo: And this has to do with what? Me: Doesn't matter. but anyway I wish i had my talent too! (lol) but anyway, glad ya like it!

Mokuba's Offical Glomper: (horrified) He wants them...dead?! How can I not worry?! Continuing (updating) but mostly to pray for Seto's health!

dawn: yes, shes has a few problems and i'd throw rocks at her car 'cept she doen'st have one. How about jsut at her? And i hope i fixed the problem with the link.

Speaker For The Five Year: -glances suspiciously- are you psychic or what?! and no, Ryou wasn't awake. and i'm glad you like it -suspicous again- But how the hell did you know all that? Am I that obvious? Nooooooo!!!!!1 Anyway, you were wrong about one thing. Its not Kisara. Entirly anyway.

Anyway, everybody PLEASE REVIEW and I might be posting up a couple new stories so everyone check them out!! Remo