dragonlady222- Oh, Yugi continues to be OOC. It's the New Yugi. Like it or leave it… Anyway, to answer your question, Yami comes in later.

Akio the Dragon Master- Nah, he's just bored. I steal from hot Egyptian's when I'm bored, too.

AnimeJunky- Thanks!

yugirules- Yay! Somebody that likes the new Yugi. Thanks for your review.

- glomps Yugi -- You do realize, of course, that now I'm going to use the word "stealy-wheely." Lol. And yes, Marik's cape is sooooooo cool!

BakuraXMalik's Boys- Malik regular Malik, Marik Yami Malik. At least in my book. And stay away from that soda! . One time my friend downed a whole Diet Coke in 2 minutes… she was never the same again…

Dragon-Chamer16- Read your review again. Replace "rod" with…. The other type of rod. It makes your review twice as funny. Just tellin' ya.

Well, Marik was disgruntled, to say the least. He had fled the arcade while looking all badass (he had his cape, after all,) but had tripped over a three-year-old and had scraped both his knees.

That had been last night. Now, it was a brand new day. A wonderful day! A day, as Bakura would say, for stealing (right before Ryou tried to hit him with a frying pan). But Bakura would say that everyday. But today was, as Marik would say, a day for listening to the obnoxious tomb robber.

"Hmmm…" Marik smiled to himself, envisioning his enemy (everyone was his enemy, after all) as a Duel Monsters card. "Obnoxious Tomb Robber, go! Oh no, you have insanely low attack points! I'll just have to throw this card out!"

Marik threw his head back and laughed. "MWAHAHAHAHAH!" Several small children glanced at him curiously.

"What am I, the pied piper? How come all these damn little brats keep following me?"

You smell like peanut butter. Anyway, Marik groaned at the presence of so many small tots, before silently sneaking across the street… towards his destination. The bright green roof of the building supported slanted letters reading 'Kame Game Shop'.

He wasn't going to go in, oh no. At least, not through the front door. Marik's amethyst eyes narrowed slits, like the eyes of a contented cat. He spied the ladder leaning against the side of the shop.

"This just gets easier and easier!" he thought aloud. "Bakura told me that Yugi once chased after him by jumping out of his window, so if I can just get up to the area of the roof that's next to Yugi's window, I can get into his room… and steal back my other half's five dollars!"

"Why would you do that?" a toddler asked. Marik swiped at him, ridding him of his large, red lolly. "WAH!" The toddler ran away.

"So anyway," Marik mumbled over the lollipop in his mouth, "stealing, from Yugi. Dollars. Yay."

Of course Yami Marik didn't see anything wrong with this. Oh, no. He was evil. This was fun. And Yugi had been acting so pompous earlier, Marik was planning to steal the God cards as well.

He peered inside the glass front of the shop, resting his fingers on the glass. The sun was shining, so it was hot to the touch. An old, short man was setting out some regular playing cards on the table. He appeared to be humming.

That must be gaki-me's grandfather, Marik thought. Turning, he slunk around the side of the house…

There it was! The ladder. He hoisted it up against Yugi's garage. He climbed slowly. Closer… closer…

BOOM!

"Yaaaaaagh!" Marik fell backwards. "Ow! What the heck!"

Yugi snickered from his window. "Oops!" he called. "Sorry!"

He threw another tiny firework at Marik. "It's better to close your eyes!" he shouted. "It keeps you from going blind!"

This announcement only succeeded in making Marik's eyes widen ten-fold. "Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiii—" Marik scrambled away from the house. Yugi laughed madly.

"Yugi!" Yami's voice shouted from somewhere inside. "Your grandpa's trying to make me clean the bathroom! Can you do it? I'm supposed to meet Tea today and—"

Marik watched Yugi's face change. The wicked grin transformed into a reserved — even sad — frown.

"Okay Yami," he said bitterly. He shut the window and, for all Marik knew, left.

Boom!

Marik still saw this as his chance. He hoisted the ladder up again, and quickly climbed up… only to see a giant firework on top of Yugi's garage.

A giant firework with a really long fuse.

A giant firework with a really long fuse that was now getting shorter and shorter, and now…

"Kuso!"

Marik leapt off of Yugi's garage. The firework flew into the air and blew up loudly.

Marik rolled right into someone. And when he stood up, he was vis-à-vis with Tea.

Tea smiled brightly at him. "Hi Marik!" She waved at him, even though he was only two feet away. "Have you seen Yami? …Oh, wait, there he is. Never mind. It's been nice talking to you!"

Tea dashed over to where Yami was.

"…Uh…" Marik was kind of speechless. Why the heck was friendship girl talking to him? Stupid friendship idiot…

"Oi! Marik!"

Marik looked up. Yugi was waving frantically at him.

"HERE!" Yugi tossed him something.

Something to be used against the Pharaoh? Is he throwing me a weapon?

Yes, Yugi was, but Marik was too slow.

Boom!

Maybe Yugi shouldn't of lit it first.