Aoi: I'm in a good mood, so I'm just going to go ahead and type out this chapter. YAY!

Yugi: I'm surprised...

Aoi: Why?

Yugi: Because you're like one of the biggest procrastinators there are.

Aoi; That's it...get out.

Yugi: What?

Aoi: -replaces Yugi with Mokuba- Now this is more like it. -smiles-

Mokuba: whoo hoo, I'm important!

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, I mean seriously if I did I wouldn't be writing fanfiction now would I?


Chapter Six

Let's Split Up


All Yugi heard was the sound of his feet pounding onto the soft carpeted floor of the theater, searching for where the yell came from. But all of the signs looked the same. They were all... blank. Joey had been running behind Yugi, calling out, "Hey Yug, wait up."

Yugi stopped, there was no point, but he didn't want to give up. Joey finally caught up with him, so that he was in front of his tri-colored haired friend. All Yugi could do was fall to his knees. Tears forming in his eyes. After all Yugi was always thought of as the overly emotional type. Joey stooped down to his level, placing his hand on the shoulder of his friend.

"Aw, Yug it's gonna be okay," Joey assured.

Yugi didn't look at his friend, he only continued looking at the floor.

"I should've kept us together," Yugi cried.

"Man, it's not you're fault...you gotta remember dat,"

Yugi glanced up at his friend to see him giving him a friendly smile. The saddened teen managed to give a smile, "Thanks."


"Damn, the song stopped," Bakura cursed as he clinched his fist.

Ryou looked down at his fist then up at him. His gaze later returning to the darkness.

"So now what do we do?" Ryou asked.

Bakura bit his lip to think, this was all so frustrating. So he leaned up against the wall so he could get probably a better look at their current situation. Ryou leaned back beside him, then let himself slide down to the floor. His hands in his lap, as he glanced up at Bakura. He hoped that he could figure everything out. But sometimes his better judgement was clouded by anger.

Ryou's nose suddenly twitched, he smelled something nice, quickly he got up to his feet. Bakura gave his hikari a puzzled look. Ryou's tongue was just about hanging out of his mouth.

"What's wrong with you?" Bakura suddenly asked.

"Food, I smell food...I'm so hungry," he whined.

"Hungry? How the hell can you be hungry...you ate before we left,"

"And do you know how long ago that was?" Ryou asked.

No answer.

"That's what I thought," Ryou laughed then started running off in the direction of the smell.

Bakura was left startled for a moment, then realized what was going on, he couldn't let Ryou run off by himself. If something happened to Ryou...then something would happen to him.

"Fool," he thought aloud as he chased after the starving teen.


He finally caught up with Ryou to see him munching on popcorn from a bag which had been set in front of the cracked theater door.

"What on earth," Bakura asked as he dropped down on one knee to get a closer look at Ryou. He seriously didn't think that the teen was serious.

Ryou gave him a playful grin, then continued eating. Bakura was tempted so he took a bite, he hadn't really eaten popcorn before.

"It's good...yes?" Ryou asked.

Bakura simply nodded then continued eating.


Tristan suddenly blurted out, "Since our leader is emotionally distressed-"

"I'm not distressed-"

"And can not continue leading us-"

"But I can," Yugi corrected.

Tristan ignored all of this, then turned back the remaining people in the group.

"So I elect myself the new leader," Tristan proclaimed.

"Uh, are you sure dat's da best idea," Joey asked.

"Yes... yes I do," Tristan flatly replied, "Any-ways...let's split up gang,"

"Um...Tristan, just to let you know...this isn't Scooby-Doo," Tea reminded as she sweat dropped.

"Sure it's not," Tristan replied quite sarcastically, "Now split up!"

Everyone was so stunned by the actions that no one objected, they were all about to dart off indifferent directions when Tristan suddenly stopped them.

"Hold up...I'm going to split us up," Tristan commented, "Okay, Joey and Yami you go that way. Duke and Yugi, go that way...while me and Tea will continue down this path."

Every eye was on Tristan at the point.

"Oh...kay," Yugi commented after glancing over at Duke. This would be different.


Suddenly the door behind where Ryou was eating started to slowly open, Bakura caught this out of the corner of his eye. At first he didn't noticed it, however after a double take he realized what was going on.

"Damn," he said as he quickly grabbed Ryou's hand, trying to pull him to his feet.

Ryou was startled by all of this, to the point even when he fell over on Bakura. The two of them toppling to the floor. Bakura's head snapped over in the direction of the opening door, he not being able to get up because of the fact that Ryou's body was lied over his.

"When I tell you...you get up and run," Bakura whispered, "Just don't panic."

All of his words were whispered so quickly, that you had to listen to fully understand what he was saying. It was quite a shame that when the hikaries and yamies were separate that the millennium items lost a lot of their power. So calling upon the powers of the shadow realm was actually impossible.

Ryou suddenly glanced over his shoulder to see what he was afraid of. The door was more ajar now, allowing him to see their assailant. He suddenly went limp, falling over on Bakura.

"What the-" Bakura began, then noticed that Ryou had fainted.

He turned staring in the direction that Ryou had looked, the same direction that had scared him so much.


Bakura's scream could be heard through out the theater. Tea stopped, to look cowardly about, fear was written all over her.

"Uh...Tristan, did you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"That scream"

"Nuh uh,"

"Oh...are you sure?"

"Tea, I'm absolutely, positively one hundred percent sure...there was no scream, you are imagining things," Tristan promised.

Tea thought for a moment, then sighed, hoping for once in her life that Tristan was right.


Yugi and Duke also stopped when they heard the scream, they looked at each other for a moment then ran towards the source. Nothing was more important than making sure that Bakura wasn't hurt. Not because they saw him as a friend...no of course not. It was mainly because they didn't want Ryou to be hurt.

"Yugi...wait up," Duke called out, so surprised that Yugi could run so fast.

It was even more a surprise because of Yugi's size. Yugi however didn't stop, he cared about everyone...and wasn't going to be bossed around by anyone.

"Why don't you just shut it, Duke!" Yugi shouted without looking back.


He finally saw a corner approaching, and they'd be closer to Bakura. Closer to help him. To make sure that their dear friend, Ryou, wasn't harmed.

"Almost there," Duke assured Yugi.

However Yugi wasn't listening, he already knew that...he was really getting tired of Duke telling him what he already knew. He just wanted to tell Duke exactly how angry he was making him at the moment, but Yugi was too kind for that. So instead he kept it to himself.

Left

Right

Left

Right

Went their footsteps. The sound of their feet pounding on the floor. Their heavy breathing. Around the corner they soon went only to run into someone else.


After the impact, it took them about two minutes to remember what they were doing. Yugi still rubbing his head, wincing as he did so. Duke simply knocked a strand of his raven hair out of his emerald eyes, then looked over at who they bumped into. It was Ryou, he had also been stunned by the crash.

"Ryou...you're covered...covered," Duke stammered.

"In blood," Yugi finished.

Ryou looked down at himself, he was completely drenched in blood. All he could do was cry into his hands.

"Ryou what happened?" Yugi demanded to know.

The ivory haired teen opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out, only whimpers. Duke was seriously concerned.

"Are you hurt?"

He shook his head. "Not a scratch," he managed to say, then glanced back in the direction that he just came from. "He told me...told me...to run...so I ran...but then I came back...I'm such a coward," he sobbed, "I ran again...he needed me...and I ran."

Both Yugi and Duke looked at each other, then back at Ryou. They were actually in disbelief.

"Where's...Bakura?" Duke asked.

"He's NOT HERE," Ryou sobbed, banging his head on to the carpeted floor of the theater.

Yugi rolled his eyes, of course he wasn't here...what he needed was real information. So far he figured that he wasn't going to get that from Ryou. Quickly he stood to his feet, starting to walk towards the direction that Ryou had just ran from. Duke was trying his best to comfort Ryou, patting his back with the firmness of his hand.

Ryou glanced up when Yugi had passed by him.

"Where are you going?"

"To find out what scared you," Yugi simply replied, then continued walking. However he was forced to stop when he felt the feeling of Ryou grabbing onto his leg. The tri-colored teen glanced back to see Ryou. He looked puzzled, however the fear on Ryou's face said enough.

"You can't go Yugi...he'll get you too. He'll hurt you," Ryou cried, however tried to control himself to the point where his voice was audible.

"I have to," Yugi replied, "Maybe there's a chance of helping Bakura...that's what you want right?"

Ryou released Yugi's leg, then nodded his head. Duke wasn't too fond of being near Ryou at the moment, anymore that was. There was just too much blood. The blood staining his clothes, his skin...a high chance of it getting in his hair. Ryou especially had blood in his hair, his long ivory hair. Blood was even stained on his face...he was covered in the stuff.

"Duke...find the others," Yugi commanded.

Duke nodded, then quickly stood. Next taking Ryou by the hand to help him to his feet. Ryou never smiled, he just kept the same expression on his face. A broken expression, tears streaming down his cheeks. He trying to keep his cries under control...which was extremely difficult for him to do at the moment. Yugi couldn't look at Ryou, this was already hard for him. Trying to stay calm, trying not to get to attached.


"Yami...I need your help," Yugi finally admitted to himself as he walked down that lonely hallway. He kept seeing that same expression on Ryou's face. The expression of sadness. Tears began streaming down his cheeks.

"Well...I guess it's a good thing I'm alone," Yugi stammered to himself.

"Yug?" Joey said.

Yugi looked up to see the blond teen who looked quite concerned. In a quick motion Yugi hugged Joey, then pulled away looking up at Joey. Wiping the tears away from his eyes. Joey didn't understand.

"Yug...are ya hurt?" Joey asked, as he quickly started looking for the source of the blood on Yugi's leg.

Yugi shook his head, then wailed, "No...it's Bakura. Something happened to him. And I was hoping I could find him." It was beginning to get harder for him to speak, "I can't do this alone."

"Well, dat's why I'm here buddy," Joey managed to smile, trying his best to cheer Yugi up.

Yugi nodded, then tried to give a smile...but it still wasn't possible. That's when he remembered that he was running out of time, and with Joey here with him...he could do anything he set his mind to. The teen gave Joey a very serious look then said, "We need to seriously keep moving...or the guy who hurt Bakura's going to be long gone."

Joey nodded in agreement, then started running in the direction that Yugi was heading towards. Yugi making sure not to lag too far behind, since he was still tired from running earlier.

"I just need ta find Yami again," Joey added.


Aoi: Okay, that was Chapter Six...I hope you enjoyed it...I did. . I'm so glad that I'm out of that writer's block. But there's no telling when another one will pop up...so I'm trying to finish this story as quickly as possible.

Mokuba: I like this...but what happened?

Aoi: About what?

Mokuba: Never mind...anyways to find out what happened to Bakura, my brother and Yami...read the upcoming chapter, please.

Aoi: And remember to review...I love them so much.