Dangerousgirl: You know I felt like an author when I was writing down this chapter. Seriously, I had told one of my reviewers that I would update in the middle of October and then I realized that I would be too busy studying and going to a haunted house to even update this chapter, and since I already told this reviewer that I would update, I suddenly started to frantically write down this chapter in order to meet the deadline or forever be cursed by my fans. So I present to you my next chapter to Did You Ever Really Care?

Chapter 7 I'm Working With Who?!

Oh, Yami my love, where have you been?!" the girl sobbed into Atem's neck. "This girl's voice is grinding pain into my ear." Atem thought, as he tried to rescue his throat from the girl's latching tentacles.

"Can't…breathe." Atem wheezed out, knowing his face must be turning blue.

His eyes looked upward from the floor and noticed Seto Kaiba, and his mini-me looking down on him. It was no surprise to him that Kaiba had a superior smirk on his face as he watched Atem being tortured, what did surprise Atem was that his mini-me, instead of being on the verge of crying, actually had a big grin on his face, almost like he was happy that Atem was being attacked, almost like a realization…Atem couldn't continue his train of thought, which was caused by a sudden yank on his throat which made him turn his attention back to the girl around his neck…well, more like trying to cling to his neck, because he saw that his partner Sai, wearing his waiter uniform, had grabbed the girl by her hair and was yanking her away from Atem.

"But, but he's my love!" the girl screamed, "Ask him!"

Sai's light blue eyes flashed dangerously at Atem.

"Oh shit," Atem thought "Gotta explain or I get cut off."

He forcibly removed the girls hands and stood up. "I don't affiliate myself with crazy, schizophrenic girls." Atem explained loudly for everybody to hear, but mainly for Sai's benefit. "Please remove this girl from this place." Atem stated, as he straightened his clothes out.

Sai's eyes calmed down almost instantly before he said in a sharp voice "Yes, sir" bowing slightly and turning with the screaming girl's hair still in his hand, he walked away almost happily at the prospect of throwing the girl out.

"Yami, my love! Wait for me! I shall return to you, no matter what!" the girl screamed.

Atem shuddered, "That girl's statement was border lining a threat." He thought scared at the prospect of what would happen if they met again, he frowned "Wait? She said Yami? That's the same name those guys were calling me." Atem narrowed his eyes as he turned to Kaiba and mini-me.

Change to Yugi's POV

"I never thought I'd say this…" Yugi thought "But thank God for Tea." Yugi smiled outwardly "She was the only one who had that affect on Yami, and Yami was the only one who got like that whenever she was close by." Yugi's smile dropped a little "But now that Yami's cover is blown, will he admit it now?"

"What's that smile for?" Yami's voice shook Yugi out of his musings. Yugi looked up at him with a smile, hoping Yami would admit who he was…"This was all your doing wasn't it mini-me?"…..

or not.

Yugi's smile vanished "But…but your reaction Yami, your cover is blown, we know who you are, why can't you admit it?"

Yami's…Atem's eyes flashed dangerously, "I don't know what the hell you're talking about, but I will say this for the last time, I don't know what that girl did to me to make me react like that, but I DO NOT KNOW YOU, I DO NOT KNOW YOUR FRIENDS, AND I AM NOT YAMI!!!" Atem shouted, before turning on his heel and stomping away.

Yugi stood still, his eyes growing bigger with the intention to start crying.

Meanwhile, Seto straightened up from the wall he was leaning against, uncrossed his arms and walked over to Yugi who was still rooted in place.

"Let's go Yugi" Seto said quietly, having been a silent witness to their altercation.

Yugi started crying quietly "Why?" he wailed through his tears "I know he's Yami, his reaction to Tea was proof of that, so why is he still denying he's Yami?"

Seto remained silent as he led Yugi outside. His mind already calculating reasonable explanations. As soon as they walked outside they were met with a shrilling screaming.

"But Yami is my love, I have to go back in there!" Tea was screaming, her hair in a total disarray with clumps of it on the floor.

"Like I said," the waiter answered, as he brushed the rest of Tea's hair from his hand. "He doesn't know you and his name is not Yami. Now get the hell out of here, before I make you bald!"

The waiter turned around and stomped back to the entrance, turning his head slightly to look at Seto while he walked past. Seto met his glare, "Little over possessive aren't we?" Seto sneered, the waiter hesitated at the door before turning around and retorting "Just doing my job to keep riffraff such as yourselves out." He disappeared through the door.

"Yugi!" Tea screamed bounding over to him "Where's Yami, why did he say that he didn't know me?"

"Tea, we've been trying to tell you that, that guy is not Yami, his name is Atem and he just looks like Yami." Joey answered before Yugi could respond, the rest of the gang walked up to them.

"No, he can't be a different person!" Tea said shrilly. The guys shrugged, "Don't know what to tell you." Joey answered.

"No," Yugi said quietly, "It really is Yami." Everybody grew still, "How do you know?" Marik finally asked.

"Because of his reaction to Tea." Yugi answered

"Oh yeah," Joey said "His whole shaking body."

"His scared voice saying it's here." Tristan continued

"If you can feel the evil too?" Marik finished with a smirk.

"Hey! He does not react that way to me!" Tea exclaimed loudly. The guys shook their heads.

"Well, if he had that kind of reaction then it really is that bastard pharaoh." Bakura spoke up, looking up from counting the money he stole.

Yugi shook his head "He's still denying that he's Yami, that he doesn't know us," Yugi's voice started breaking a little "I don't understand, why did he say that? Does he hate us? Or does he hate me? Is that why he left, and after all this time, he says doesn't know us?" Yugi started weeping silently again.

"Well I can understand his feelings towards Kaiba." Marik started, ignoring the dirty look he got from Seto. "But maybe he's trying to protect us from something."

"Yeah," Joey cut in "Maybe he got a job as a secret agent and he can't get close to us because his enemies will kill us."

"Shut up, you dumb dog," Seto finally spoke up "Your stupidity might be contagious, and I'll be damned if it makes my IQ drop even one point."

"Oh yeah," Joey retorted haughtily "If you're so smart, then you explain Yami's reaction."

"He doesn't know he's Yami" Seto answered simply. Everybody grew quiet again, processing Seto's statement. Joey cocked his head to one side, much like a dog "Huh?"

Marik's eyes widened in realization "You mean…?"

Seto nodded "His memory was erased. That would explain why he doesn't know us, and explains his body's reaction to Tea, because even though he doesn't remember, his body does, and it was pure instinct." Seto paused "Or Tea is really scary that it doesn't matter."

Tea shot him a dirty look, but stayed quiet as she tried to smooth down her hair.

"But why would he get his memories erased?" Yugi asked bewilderly.

"Maybe he didn't have a choice," Joey cut in "Maybe he needed to get his memories erased so he can start his life as a secret agent."

Everybody groaned, "Shut up mutt!" Seto snapped "I swear you get dumber everytime you open your mouth."

Marik was in deep thought before looking up and opening his mouth "Maybe there was something that he wanted to forget, you know kind of like a traumatic experience, or bad memory that he didn't want to remember…" his voice trailed off, he looked around at everybody who was trying hard not to look at Seto.

"What?" Marik asked, looking puzzled, nobody answered so he turned to Bakura "What'd I say?"

Bakura shrugged, "How the hell should I know?"

Yugi finally spoke up "You guys weren't there but…"

"Oh, for God's sake" Seto cut him off "I dueled Yami in this shadow game, almost killing him in the process and because of that he became depressed."

There was a pause…"So how is that different from all the other time you nearly kill him?" Bakura asked.

Seto shrugged "I don't know."

Yugi glared at him before answering "Because Seto kept dueling him just for the King of Games title, he didn't even care if it killed Yami, just as long as he got the title.

Another pause…"Well, that would explain Yami's depression" Bakura finally said, he smirked at Seto "Considering how you two were with each other in ancient Egypt, I'm not surprised he would be so hurt."

Seto frowned, "What do you know? And besides Yami doesn't even remember ancient Egypt."

Bakura raised an eyebrow "I thought you were going to deny all that hocus pocus stuff? And just because Yami doesn't remember ancient Egypt doesn't mean that somewhere deep in his heart, he still loves you, just as it must be the same with you. Otherwise you wouldn't have acted so angry when you saw him inside. Am I right?"

Everybody held their breath, as they waited for Seto to answer.

"Shut up" Seto snarled "Or you geeks are walking home." He stalked over to where the limo was waiting. Everybody looked at each other, each face holding same question "Does he love Yami?"

On the drive home Seto mulled over what Bakura said. "What does he know?" Seto thought, he glanced over at the thief who was still trying to steal both the millennium rod and a kiss from Marik. "He doesn't love anyone, and the tomb keeper keeps ignoring him." He watched as Marik finally drew that dagger from it's sheath and point it at Bakura's throat, Bakura raised his arms in surrender and settled back in his seat, his eyes still containing a hungry look as he stared at Marik. Seto shook his head, he glanced over to Yugi who was looking outside with a dejected look.

Seto felt a pang of guilt, "If I hadn't tried to kill Yami, he and I would probably be together right now, and Yugi wouldn't look so sad. How can I get close to Yami, if he doesn't remember me, and considering our Corporations have nothing in common?...Music…. games…..that's it!"

Seto turned to Yugi "Yugi……"

"What the hell was wrong with those guys?" Atem yelled, throwing his tie and jacket to the floor, "First, they bombard me with questions about where I've been, and then that freaky ass girl tried to kill me with that chokehold."

Sai bent down and picked up the tie and jacket "Calm down Atem, obviously they had the wrong person."

Atem whirled around to glare at him "How ironic, considering it took me an hour and one blow job to convince you that I didn't know them." He placed his hands on his hips as he glared at his partner who started to whistle innocently as he put up the tie and jacket. Sai turned around and smirked, "And it was oh…so worth it."

"Uh-huh" Atem retorted dryly, before a smile crept up to his lips. He slowly started to creep up behind Sai, who started to take off his own jacket. When he had slipped the jacket halfway past his arms, Atem pounced on him, effectively trapping his arms in the jacket, before pushing him on the bed.

"Kind of frisky tonight, aren't we?" Sai whispered as Atem loosened his tie and unbuttoned his shirt before attacking his neck with his sensual lips.

"Mmmm, you have no idea the torture I had to endure in order to steal those documents from that secretary." Atem murmured, as he was unbuttoning Sai's shirt, referring to the job they had to do during the party.

"I can imagine" Sai purred, throwing his head back against the bed, when Atem's hand came to the top of his pants and started unbuckling his belt. "Considering it was a woman." Sai managed to gasp out before his mind went completely south as Atem started to stroke him. Just as things started to heat up.

Atem's cell phone rang.

"Aaaaaargh!" Atem snarled stopping his ministrations on Sai's neck.

"Don't answer it" Sai said, his voice breathless.

Atem sighed "I have to, could be important." He got up and walked over to the table where his cell phone lay.

"Yamazaki" He snapped, he paused listening "Uh-huh, uh-huh, you already drawn up a contract?...uh-huh…who's the client?...I'M WORKING WITH WHO?! SETO KAIBA?!"

Dangerousgirl: I know I'm evil, I'm sorry if some of you think this chapter was boring, but think of it as a transition, from here on it gets a lot more interesting, filled with action, romance, and lots and lots of drama that I know you guys like. I will try and update on a regular basis.

Atem is shaking is head, "Why did you interrupt us?"

Dangerousgirl: "Don't worry you'll get your chance…HEY! Wait! You can't do it NOW! Noooooooo!!!

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