Bakura: Yeah, um, Annzy's a little…busy at the moment…

Marik (reading a note he found in the closet): "Dear Marik and Bakura, I have escaped the closet of doom, and am doing something important. Please show my viewers the next installment of 'A Vampire Story.' Thanks! From Annzy."

Bakura: Marik, I told you explicitly NOT to read that note.

Marik: I think the viewers deserve to know what's going on! Don't you think so to?

Bakura (coldly): No.

Marik: …Well… anyway! Here is the next chapter for you! Hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 7: (for lack of a better title) Yugi

No, that can't be the Pharaoh, he died a long time ago…At least I think he did. Bakura was trying to come up with a logical explanation as to why someone who looks exactly like his former pharaoh was walking the streets of Japan.

Marik had seen the Pharaoh impersonator as well, but he had only seen the Pharaoh in ancient hieroglyphics when he used to live in Egypt. He thought it was weird, but he deemed it unimportant as long as he got the Millennium Item.

"Okay," Marik said, "We need a plan."

"Why don't I just go up and take it from him?"

Marik looked at Bakura, "We can't just do that! That's too obvious."

"Why not? I used to be a thief you know, I stole tons of stuff from my Pharaoh. I can do the same here. And it's not like he'll see my face." He gestured to his outfit.

"Yes, but you have a pretty distinct feature: white hair. That's not exactly common you know."

Bakura rolled his eyes, "Fine! Then why don't we just ask him for it? It's probably just some useless peace of jewelry to him anyhow."

"No! We have to think of some kind of complicated scheme!"

"Marik, this isn't the movies."

Marik sighed, "Well, this whole situation kind of seems like a movie, think about it, a vampire and an ex-vampire slayer trying to find the mystical Millennium Items so that vampires can walk the Earth without humans running in fear or trying to kill them."

Bakura smirked, "I know it sound like a movie, maybe when this is over we can pitch this idea to a movie producer. But back to the topic on hand, follow my lead." Bakura walked over to the midget and Marik followed.

While Bakura walked over there he prepared himself mentally, and then he "accidentally" bumped into the alleged Pharaoh.

"Oh!" Bakura began in an innocent, child-like voice, "I'm sorry sir, I wasn't watching where I was going." Marik tried to resist the urge to stare at Bakura eyes wide with his mouth hanging open. Who the hell is this and what has he done to Bakura? Marik thought.

The kid with the pointy hair smiled, which mad Bakura suspect he was only a child of 9 or 10, or even younger. He said, "That's okay, it happens, say you look familiar… Do I know you from somewhere?"

Bakura was surprised, Could this actually be the Pharaoh Atem? Did he become reincarnated and he still remembers me? Bakura ignored his thoughts, telling himself that was impossible, and said, "I don't believe we've ever met, but that's an interesting necklace you have there."

"Where'dya get it?" Marik asked, getting over his shock of Bakura's acting skills.

The boy smiled and said, "Oh, my Grandpa gave this to me, he owns a game shop, it used to be a puzzle." Bakura was annoyed upon hearing that, Great, he probably won't give it to us then.

"Did your Grandpa solve it?" Marik asked, because he remembered something that was said about the Millennium Puzzle.

The boy smiled brightly and said, "Nope! I solved it all on my own, it took me eight years, but I finally did it!"

Marik was speechless, This young child is the person who solved the Millennium Puzzle? How is that possible!

"Are you sure we've never met before?" the young child asked Bakura again.

"I'm pretty sure," Bakura said, ignoring his questioning mind.

The young boy snapped his finger, "I got it! You're Bakura Ryou aren't you?"

Bakura smiled, "Yes! I am." Ah, he's a fan., that's why he thinks he knows me.

The boy smiled again, "My girlfriend loves you! Ah, my name is Motou Yugi by the way."

Bakura smiled, He has a girlfriend? he thought, but instead said, "Nice to meet you Motou-san." Then remembering what his host would do he said, "This is my, uh, business partner," he said, referring to Marik, "Ishtar Marik."

Yugi hadn't heard the pause before 'business partner, and instead shook Marik's hand, "Nice to meet you. So what do you do exactly? I don't remember your name in any of Bakura-san's books."

"Ah, well," Marik started, surprised that Yugi had a girlfriend as well, "I'm fairly new to the team, I'm going to be the new, um, illustrator."

Yugi didn't hear the pause that time either, "That's good, I think that's the thing those books need, some pictures. You should draw some manga too!"

Marik laughed, "Well, that's up to Bakura. San." He added the "san" hastily, "Um, if you don't mind my asking, how old are you?"

"I'm 20."

Marik and Bakura were both shocked, He's twenty? they thought, he doesn't look older than ten!

Yugi smiled, "Would you mind autographing something? Anzu would kill me if I met you and didn't get your autograph."

Bakura laughed and said, "I have a better idea, why don't you and your girlfriend come over to my house."

Yugi's eyes went wide, "Really? Won't that be a bother to you?"

"Not at all! Here's the address." Bakura wrote down his address on a piece of paper he found in his pocket and gave it to Yugi.

"Great!" Yugi said, "When should we come over?"

"How about, tonight, at eight-o-clock. I'll cook dinner."

"No no, I couldn't ask you to do that!"

"It's no trouble at all really, I love to cook."

Yugi smiled, "Okay, well, see you tonight!" He ran off with a huge smile on his face.

Marik started clapping his hands, "Wow, you are a good actor, how do you do that?"

"It's fairly easy when you had to live in the body of someone who acted exactly like that. Being that kind, it makes me feel sick."

"One question though."

"What is it?"

"What's the plan?" They started walking back to their house.

"Well," Bakura began, "His girlfriend is a fan of mine, so I figured if we invite her over Motou will be grateful and want to repay us. Then I'll ask for the Millennium Item he carries around his neck."

"But he said his Grandpa gave him that."

"So?"

"He probably won't give it up that easily."

"I'll give him a different necklace in exchange for it."

Marik raised an eyebrow, "You have necklaces?"

"It gets very boring during the daytime, and sometimes I buy random things on e-bay. Sometimes, those things are necklaces."

Marik nodded, "Uh-huh, so it has nothing to do with you liking jewelry?"

Bakura scoffed, "If anything, you're the one who like jewelry, you're wearing earrings, necklaces, bracelets-"

"I wear these things for protection."

"Protection? Against what?"

Marik shrugged, "My sister told me to never take these off, she said they protect me, she never said against what. At the time I thought it was against vampires, but I'm not too sure anymore." Bakura didn't answer, he didn't feel like talking anymore. "Did you used to have a sister?"

Bakura didn't answer for a long time, then he said, "I personally, didn't have a sister, I was an orphan and the only way I survived was by stealing. There was no room for pity, or sadness, if you felt those, you would die. No, on the streets, you couldn't care for anyone but yourself, I still think that today."

Marik nodded, but couldn't help but feel that Bakura was avoiding his question.

Bakura was inside his room (back into his regular clothes) and was searching through his closet angrily. He was trying to find a necklace that Yugi would want to trade, but he wasn't finding anything. Whenever he had bought stuff from e-bay, he had just stuffed it in his closet since he never planned on actually using any of the things he bought. He only bought that stuff so that other people couldn't have it and it was something to do. He ripped some silk fabric that he had found in half, and walked into his living room where Marik was watching TV. Bakura walked up to the wall, and punched it, leaving a fist-sized hole there. He sighed and sat down next to Marik.

"Feel better?" a smirking Marik asked. Bakura glared at him and then closed his eyes and leaned his head against the couch.

Marik continued watching the TV, and then got up and searched through random drawers.

Bakura sighed on the couch, and then looked at his mark. His eyes went wide.

His mark was red.

It wasn't a dark red, it was more of a bright red. But it was very surprising considering he had almost killed Marik that morning. Hiding how much this freaked him out, he covered up his mark and then went back to his room closet. It was around 7:00 PM, he head roughly an hour before Yugi came over and he still hadn't found anything to trade him with. He sighed, and then something caught his eye. He dug through a pile of mechanical toys he had bought, and underneath was a flat pendent shaped in the style of a pyramid. And it was gold too. He smiled, it looked exactly like the Millennium Puzzle, only flat and without the eye.

He closed his closet door and walked back into the living room. At least one problem was solved for tonight.

"Marik, I found it," he called so that Marik would stop searching. He stopped looking through a side-table drawer and walked over to Bakura and took the necklace from him.

"How creepy is it that you have a pyramid shaped necklace?"

"It's not creepy, it's convenient."

"… I still think it's creepy."

Bakura: Wow, this chapter wasn't too good was it? phone starts ringing, it's a restricted number. He answers it Hello? Annzy! Where the bloody hell are you? …. Uh-huh, okay, okay, fine. Yes, I'll tell them, YES! hangs up Well, folks that was Annzy, she wanted me to tell you, "I hate this chapter, it is possibly the worst chapter I have ever written, I hope you can forgive me. TT_TT " Again, her words, not mine.

Marik: Bakura still won't let me read the ending of chapter 6.

Bakura: For good reason.

Marik: I WILL READ THAT CHAPTER! I WILL!

Bakura: Good luck with that, I put the chapter inside a top secret vault with many booby traps and flame-throwers to stop you from reading it.

Marik: How do the readers read that chapter then?

Bakura: The booby traps only work on you and I gave them the password to the vault.

Marik: … Um, bye for now, I guess…