Aoi: YAY, Another chapter finished. And once again, I apologize. See, lately I've been very busy, and la-dee-dah, anyways, I hope you like this chapter and it just doesn't...disappoint you all. . Oh yes, P.S. About the story turning puppyshippingiesh, -eyes shift- I honestly don't know what you're talking about. XD.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh, and I based this Taylor off of one of my friend's characters. But remember, I had her permission. I DO OWN THIS STORY AND I WOULD REALLY HATE IT IF SOMEONE ENDED UP COMPLETELY RIPPING ME OFF OR I SAW THIS STORY POSTED OR PLACED SOMEWHERE ELSE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. Thank you.

The Horrors of the Ski Resort

Chapter 5: It's not what it looks like

Later that night as the clock ticked to midnight, something suddenly caused the CEO's eyes to snap open, he quickly sitting up. When had he actually dozed off, the male couldn't actually remember. The fact that he fell asleep before double checking over the security actually stunned him."What time is it," he heard himself ask as he hopped out of the bed, and started walking over the light switch. But before he could reach it he ended up tripping over something, causing him to fall hard to floor. Winces could be heard and a slight gasp. The brunette managed to get up, he moving off of the other.

The lights were soon switched on by a very pissed off Joey Wheeler, who was huffing in a rather angered manner. "Dammit, Kaiba."

"Hm, so dogs do like to sleep in the rooms of their masters," the other simply snorted as he got to his feet. Tripping, how clumsy of him. The male couldn't have remembered the last time he had ever tripped over anything, and the fact that he had tripped and landed on the blonde. Wait, so why was Joey still present.

"You're not my master," the blonde snapped.

"Why are you still here, Wheeler!"

"Because Tea's still outside the door," The other replied, as Seto walked towards the door, opening it to the dark hallway. He then gestured towards Tea's absence.

"I swear she was there!"

"Joey, I suggest you keep your voice down. I have guests who are trying to sleep," Seto stated, annoyance was obviously present. Then before Joey could argue the male grabbed him by the shirt collar and shoved into the wall that faced the open door. Another wince sounded from the younger male as the door suddenly closed, leaving him in the dark.

"Stupid, Kaiba," he grumbled as he stood straight up and started walking to his room, but once he had gotten to the door knob, the male's stomach growled. He really wasn't in the mood to be hungry, but it wouldn't hurt to grab a little something eat...well something to hold him off till the morning that is.

So without arguing anymore with himself he started walking towards the steps, occasionally popping a crick out of his back. After all, the floor hadn't been the wisest choice of where to sleep, but there was no way he was crawling into bed with the other male. There were a list of things in life that he would never do, and sleeping with a guy just wasn't one of them. Plus the blonde always had the feeling that the other would do anything in his power to take advantage of the company and try to sleep with him gutter-style, meaning, you're mind was allowed to go in the gutter to think of all the possibilities that sleeping with someone could mean. The thought sent a chill down the male's spine as he took his sweet time walking down the steps, a yawn sounding from him a few times. His lids starting to feel heavier as time ticked by.

As he neared the kitchen he noticed a light shining out of it, this actually caused the male to stop in his tracks and just...look in confusion. He tilting his head actually. However his face suddenly turned ghostly pale as he thought back to what he and Kaiba had saw. The bloody, slashed out car. Was someone in the resort? Was there a serial killer on the lose?

'Forget Kaiba, I'm just gon' go slowly up da stairs, get my friends an' leave. No way I'm gonna let us get killed. I mean, we have our cars, we'll just drive out of here.'

A single step was taken back, but a horrible squeak sounded, which caused him to bite his bottom lip nervously. He hoped with all his heart that the other hadn't heard him, but he feared that he wasn't going to be that lucky.

"Why hello," Bakura's voice hissed into the blonde's ear as he wrapped his arms around him from behind. "GAH," he quickly exclaimed as he pushed the tomb raider away from him. Turning to face him but made sure that distance was present. "God, you can't go 'round sneakin' up on people like dat, what? You wanna give me a heart attack?"

"I actually wouldn't mind," the other smirked, but soon turned his head towards the kitchen when a rather familiar voice called out, "Is someone out there?" Who did the voice belong to? Why Ryou of course. The ivory haired male stepped out of the doorway, a tiny bit of chocolate mousse left on the corner of mouth. Joey's eyes had been locked on the stain, he not blinking once.

'Don' say he ate all of it,' he whimpered in his mind.

"My little hikari looks rather delicious," Bakura whispered to the blonde, "Doesn't he?"

"Wha?" Joey quickly questioned, embarrassment was completely present.

"Pardon?" Ryou spoke up.

Bakura then grabbed Joey by the shirt collar, peering into his eyes as the millennium ring he wore around his neck started to glow. The ivory haired yami didn't look pleased. "This fool thinks that he can simply steal you from me," he growled, "Don't you find that rather comical, my hikari?"

"I suppose," the other awkwardly laughed, however stopped when Joey then snapped, "Hey, listen pal, I neva said I was afta Bak- Ryou, whateva I'm 'sposed ta call 'im. I don't swing that way."

"Are you saying that you find fault within him?" it was quite obvious that Joey had placed himself in a situation that he didn't need to be in.

"No," the blonde then tried to explain, "I'm just sayin' dat I'm not gay."

"You're not?" Ryou blinked.

"NO,"

The ivory haired male flinched slightly when Joey raised his voice, it actually surprised him that the male didn't like other guys. He always had thought that he...did. This fact actually caused a tiny sigh to sound from him. The tomb raider had glanced over at Ryou, arching an eyebrow when he saw his reaction to all of this, then looked back over to the blonde, glaring.

"So you're not gay," he smirked.

"Nope."

"Then I know exactly how to get your blood boiled," Bakura evilly grinned towards the other as his grip on his shirt collar tightened. Joey was getting very annoyed by all of this, the closeness to the other was simply just...irritating. "Ya wastin' my time," he muttered to himself.

"Hm? What was that?"

"Getch ya filthy hands offa me," he growled as he pushed away from the shorter male, the blonde then dusted himself off and started heading towards the kitchen however stopped when his wrist was suddenly grabbed."I said let g-" 'Bakura...earlier...he had blood on 'im. What if he killed dat guy.' That's when his eyes trailed towards Ryou, the expression upon his face had confused him.

"Eh, you okay, Ryou?"

When Joey asked this, Bakura's grip loosened on the male's wrist as he looked towards his hikari, wondering if there was indeed something wrong. His brow furrowed when he noticed the look of fear that was upon the male's face. Before the yami could open his mouth the hikari held up his arm, his index finger pointing towards a direction behind the two. Quickly they both snapped their gaze towards the darkness but they couldn't spot anything.

"Is it me or is Ryou goin' looney?" Joey whispered to the other, however the other spat back, "It's just you."

Small whimpers sounded from Ryou before he passed out, Bakura quickly moving to catch him. He looking down at the limp one before looking towards the blonde. "I suppose I shall have to deal with you later," the ivory haired yami stated as he picked his hikari up bridal style. And with that Bakura walked away into the shadows, going towards another part of the house.

Mokuba sat in his room, rocking lightly while hugging his knees. The look on his face was more of a 'it's not fair.' type of look. A tear even rolled down his cheek, it leaving a stain. All he could think about was Taylor and how she was wronging Noa. What made it worse was that his step-brother wouldn't believe him. A rather loud sniffle sounded from him, as he hugged his knees tighter, trying his hardest to keep from crying. "Kaibas don't cry," he said to himself as he tried to get himself together.

Footsteps could soon be heard in the hallway, this caused Mokuba's head to snap in the direction. His brow furrowed, as he tip-toed closer to try to get a closer look. The raven haired male was slightly confused of who would be up this late. Well sure he was, but he couldn't sleep.

After he cracked open the door, his eyes widened to see Taylor. The female was trying her hardest to stay quiet as she made her way over to one of the doors. A door that wasn't Noa's, but Malik and Marik's.

Note: It seems that all of the yamis and hikaris preferred to share a room than rather be separate. No matter how much they might've hated the other one in the past, they didn't want to sleep in a new unexplored place, without their counterpart by their side. Now after all of that has been said and cleared up, we can get back to the story.

Finally after giving her hair a slight shake and adjusting herself, she knocked three times upon the door of the Ishtar pair. A rather playful grin had been placed upon her face as the door was slowly opened by a rather sleepy Malik. Taylor's brows narrowed towards him when she saw it wasn't the yami that answered but the hikari. Her hands immediately went to her hips, as her bottom lip stuck out a bit in an almost pouty fashion.

"What do you want?"he asked rather groggily.

"I want the more evil of you and your yami," she declared with a stomp of her foot.

The egyptian yawned while fanning his mouth, before returning it to its place on the door post. His eyes blinking a few times, attempting to adjust to everything. "Fool," he muttered, "You don't want to see the consequences of waking him."

He soon closed the door, leaving Taylor standing there twitching. Her fists moved to the air as she was debating in her mind whether she should bang them upon the door to make the two open up. Sure it was a temper tantrum but she didn't care. Mokuba finally cleared his throat, rather loudly, enough to get the girl's attention at least. Which he did, her eyes glancing towards him.

A little innocent laugh sounded from her as she said, "Oh hi, Mokuba, can't sleep?"

"And apparently you can't either," he replied.

Taylor was not liking this, she honestly wasn't liking Mokuba one bit. It seemed that he was always trying to butt in her life. And it seemed that it was only to try to mess her up, too. Her arms crossed as her eyes locked onto him. A tiny grin making its way to her lips as she said, "You know...Noa's a good kisser."

"So," Mokuba mumbled, his eyes shifting from her for only a second in annoyance. She was doing it again, throwing what she and Noa do in the air to upset him. He couldn't stand how she'd do that. So he pointed his index finger to her whispering rather loudly, "You know what, you are a bad, bad, person."

"Oh, boo hoo, I'm bad, I'm bad to little Mokuba's standards," she pretended to cry, the presence of sarcasm being easy to detect.

This situation was just upsetting the male far too much, to the point where he didn't know what to do. Of course he wasn't going to run of crying or drop to floor in the way a bad child would. No he said something, the first thing that escaped his lips, and not through his control either. "Dammit."

Taylor's brow rose at this, "Hm, so you cuss, or was it an accident?"A tiny smirk sounding.

Mokuba's eyes were quite wide in fear as he stared at Taylor.

"I'm guessing it was an accident," she continued, "Well, I'm off to find someone. And I really don't care what you do because Noa won't believe you. You see-" The girl then held up her finger, spiraling the air with it, "-I have him wrapped around my finger."

"We'll see about that," the other snapped before running off in the direction of Noa's room, leaving Taylor to simply walk the opposite way in search for the Bakuras' room.

While all of this was going on, Seto was typing away at the great computer in the security room that was near the base of the Ski Resort. He taking the time to glance over each of the screens, checking out the areas, making sure there was nothing out of the ordinary. The brunette would never forgive himself if he let something happen to his brothers...well at least Mokuba. That's why the fact that he went to sleep, angered him greatly.

"Well, everything's checking out fine," he commented, but he couldn't forget about the scene that he saw earlier with Joey. At the car, images flashed through his mind. It was actually giving the male a headache.

"Chances are it didn't exist," Seto finally smirked, "That could've easily been staged. Hm, we didn't even take the time to look over everything."

Thinking of it this way made everything a lot easier for him, it took away a state of paranoia that tried to rest in his mind. All he needed was to wait this all out, and he and Mokuba would be able to go home safely. Putting all of this behind them obviously, this resort was going to be open to the public if it were the last thing he did.

Mokuba finally placed his hand on Noa's doorknob, turning it, quite surprised that it wasn't locked. But then he took the time to actually think about this, finally coming to the conclusion that his step-brother must've been expecting Taylor to come by. A heavy sigh sounded from his lips as he made his way inside, carefully closing the door behind him.

His eyes quickly scanned over the dark room, he was lucky that the moonlight shining through the window was so bright. It made seeing so much easier. Finally his eyes stopped when they spotted the mint-haired male's bed, he seeing his step-brother resting there.

The raven haired male tip-toed over to the bed side, and carefully climbed on. So that he was just sitting on his knees at the side of the other, just looking down at him watching him sleep.

"Noa...I wish I could help you..." Mokuba mumbled to himself as his hand moved to a twitching fist as it rested upon his knee. "But...I can't...you just won't listen...why wont you listen..."

The raven haired male leaned over lightly kissing Noa on the cheek. At the exact moment that the raven haired male's lips made contact, Noa's eyes snapped open. Quickly jerking up, as Mokie pulled away at almost the same speed. Embarrassment was quite obviously present on the youngest Kaiba's face. The step-brother's hand made its way to his own cheek as he felt where Mokuba had kissed him, and a tiny smile made its way to his lips.

"That's just too nice of you, Mokie," Noa spoke up, "Coming in here to give me a kiss good-night. Then I shall return the favor."

So the mint-haired male's lips moved in quickly to kiss Mokuba on the cheek, however the raven haired male had turned his head slightly so that he would end up kissing his lips. Noa quickly pulled away, fear in his eyes. "I'm...so...so sorry, Mokuba," he tried to explain, "It was an accident..."

Mokuba's mouth opened as he wished to say something, but soon closed, he just couldn't find the words inside of him. There was just so much he wanted to say, so many confessions. 'But he belongs to Taylor,' poked his mind.

'He loves her.'

'But she doesn't love him'

'He could never love you.'

'But what if he could?'

'He's your step-brother.'

'He's only my step-brother.'

'Your love is wrong'

'I can't help it.'

Noa had waved a hand in front of Mokuba's eyes to try to knock him from his la-la land. "Did you hear me, Mokie? I said I was sor-"

He had been cut off by the other wrapping his arms around his neck as he stole a kiss. And it wasn't an innocent peck though, however it wasn't as sultry as a passionate one, either. It was a lip-over-lip type of kiss, a tongue threatening to enter.

Noa didn't know what to do, he had froze, fear that if kissed back Taylor would find out. He didn't want to lose his girlfriend. Mokuba soon stopped kissing him, his eyes being filled with tears.

'I told you he didn't love you, like you love him.'

The raven haired one's lip was actually trembling as he arms quickly pulled from Noa. He had been such a fool to think that the other would kiss him back, now their friendship or brotherhood was probably forever damaged.

"Uh... sorry," he quickly spat out towards Noa before stumbling off the bed, he ending up on the floor on his back from falling out of it. It didn't take him long to get to his feet though, he making his way to the door as fast as he could.

Once Mokuba was out of the room, Noa took a deep breath, trying to fully understand all of this. His fingers making their way to his own lips where he had been kissed. The look that the younger one had on his face was actually the last thing he ever wanted to see. Disappointment, regret and fear.

"No...I'm sorry," he finally whispered.

Aoi: Yes, that was the chapter. Surprised? Or are you like: "Psh, I saw that coming a mile away." Anyways, review please. I love to hear from you guys.