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 7: Talk With Agent

It was lunchtime and none of the four had shown up. Joey could see that as he walked across the lawn outside to where they all had lunch together. Tea, Tristan, and Duke all sat there, but that was all. Now Seto was gone too. He took a deep breath to try and calm himself, his nerves starting to become seriously rattled. Seto would be along soon enough. After all, he had been here this morning, and he had promised to come. He couldn't have disappeared as well

"Hey," Seto said, coming up from behind Joey.

"Seto!" Joey exclaimed, nearly in tears of relief. He threw his arms around Seto and rested his head in the crook of his boyfriend's neck. Seto embraced him back.

"It's okay, I'm here," he said soothingly.

"Dey haven't showed up yet," Joey said in distress. "An I could hear da teachers talkin' 'bout how dey didn't call in or anythin'!"

"All right then."

"All right what?"

"We'll just have to go find them, won't we?" Seto said calmly. "And since we're seniors, we can leave campus for lunch. Which means we've got an hour to search."

"Lunch is only half an hour," Joey said curiously.

"Well, I've got a free period after lunch, and they'll hardly try to contradict Seto Kaiba when he vouched for you having a good reason for going with me," Seto said dryly.

"What 'bout dem?" Joey asked, jerking his head toward the three under the tree.

"It'll go faster if it's just the two of us, and if we don't find out anything, we'll recruit them later," Seto said without hesitation. "After all, we're just going to two houses. I think we can manage alone."

"One can only hope for small miracles," Joey said under his breath.

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Ryou sat on his bed, staring expressionlessly at his bedroom wall. He didn't want to think. He especially didn't want to feel anything. He had been happy for so longhe didn't want to go back to being in pain, being lonely.

"Don't you think it's a bit too coincidental that both Yami and Bakura disappeared within a day of each other," Yugi said quietly, leaned up again the wall, just left of Ryou's gaze. The usually bright boy still showing signs of having cried, a large dark cloud hanging over his head.

"What, do you think they ran away with each other?" Ryou said flatly. Unless Bakura came back and shouted that he loved Yami, there was no reason he had to believe that.

"That," Yugi said slowly. "Or somebody took them." Ryou laughed hollowly.

"Who on earth could take both of them?"

"I don't know, but I've thought about this all night. And even if Yami didleave mehe would have said something. No matter what, he wouldn't want to hurt me like this," Yugi said firmly.

"No?" Ryou said, looking into Yugi's eyes. "What if they thought it would be easier for everyone this way? That it would cause less pain?"

"He would have at least left me a note," Yugi said, a hint of anger in his tone. "And I suspect Bakura would have done the same for you." At one time, Ryou would have had serious doubts about that, but now

"Yeah, I suppose he would," Ryou whispered.

"You know one sure fire way to find out if someone is snatching yamis?" Yugi asked.

"Not really. Did you find a hotline somewhere or something?" Ryou replied bitterly.

"Call Malik."

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She looked downed at her hands. The hung limply, blood dripping off, running down her fingers and making small, red droplets on the ground. Her stomach churned, everything she had eaten recently threatening to come up in protest of her recent act.

He came up behind her and put his hands softly on her shoulder. Leaning in until his lips were right by her ears, he whispered, "Go." Then he released her and stepped back. It was her move now. She could either follow through with the next step of the plan, or she could refuse, stand up to him, and die.

Her soul might be shrieking for death but her mind and body were not quite ready yet. More time, she just needed a little more time, and everything could be right.

Everything, that is, except that one boy would never have his yami back.

"I will, master," she replied quietly, bowing. He nodded, but he had already known what her answer would be.

She sighed. She was not happy she had to go back to school.

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"All right," Seto said as soon as they reached his car. "Who's house is closer?"

"Ryou's, I think," Joey said, thinking back. "He lives on Marnac St. But I'm not sure which house he lives in."

"Don't worry," Seto said, getting in the car. "I do."

"How?" Joey asked. This was new information to him.

THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO HAS NOT GIVEN UP ON ME! And sorry about the about a month an a half between updates, but I wasn't able to go on line and post. And now I think I've got how the story is going to go, I wasn't sure for a while. Anyway, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR BEARING WITH ME!

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