Chapter 6

Ryou work up with a start when he felt something stir under his head. He looked around and realized he was still at the night club. Bakura sat up and stretched his arms above his head looking quite content after a nice sleep.

Ryou, on the other hand, was internally freaking out. How long had he been at the club? He looked down at his watch and realized in horror that it was 8.00.

Bakura looked at Ryou's wide eyes. "Don't worry, I texted Yami to tell your friends where you were so they wouldn't worry. Also I own this club so that's why they didn't kick us out" Bakura said, answering Ryou's unspoken thoughts.

"I should get home though" Ryou said, stretching his legs.

"Just come with me straight to work, we start in about an hour anyway" Bakura replied.

"What! Isn't it 7.30 pm?" Ryou asked in shock.

"Nope, it's 7.30 am. You slept through the whole night" Bakura smirked.

'Shit shit shit' Ryou thought and stood up to brush his pants. Malik and Yugi were not going to be happy.

"I should go home and change anyway" Ryou said, moving towards the door.

"Okay, well I'll see you at the office" Bakura said and Ryou couldn't help but smile at the tenderness in his voice.

"See you there" he replied.

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Ryou sprinted into their shared apartment and was met with two angry faces.

"Where were you last night? All we got from Yami was that you were with Bakura and that you might be out all night" Malik asked, alarm in his voice.

Ryou bowed his head in apology. "I'm so sorry, I lost track of time. But I came across something that might be interesting" Ryou said, trying to change the topic.

Yugi's face changed to one of interest. "Go on" he said.

"So yesterday I went to check out the design room but I couldn't go in because there was a man with silver hair in front of the door who was instructing another guy on something. I haven't seen the silver-haired man before but he looked like he was the one making the orders. My guess is he is the mysterious CEO" Ryou explained.

The other two boys looked at each other, trying to figure out what to do with this new information.

"I say we lay low for the time being and see if he reappears" Yugi instructed and the other two nodded.

"Anyway let's get to work before it gets suspicious" Malik said. The others agreed but quickly waited for Ryou to change before they headed out the door.

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Kaiba walked in and looked down at the other man in the room.

"What can I help you with?" Kaiba said patronizingly at the other man.

The other man gestured for Kaiba to sit. Kaiba didn't move from his spot.

"I told you to hurry up and bring me the duel disk design. Why can't you do one simple thing right?" the dark figure replied, his dark blue eyes staring venomously at Kaiba.

Kaiba held onto the boy's glare with his own. "If we rushed these things then our spies would be caught. And why are you so insistent on the design? We should be spending our resources looking into the company itself. Do you really think the designs will hold the key to the disappearances?" Kaiba replied condescendingly.

The other male faltered. "This is just because you're jealous that dad made me next in line to take over the company! You're trying to screw over my first official mission!" the boy yelled.

Kaiba's lips curled into a smirk. "Please Noah continue; you're really showing your age. It hasn't even been 3 months since he died and you're that insecure about your position in the company that you'll use his death as an excuse for your incompetence" Kaiba slow-clapped.

Noah Kaiba's ears turned bright red. "Yeah well I'm the one that dad trusted to take care of Mokuba's inheritance so if you want that to be dealt with correctly, we do things my way" Noah said threateningly.

Kaiba glared down at Noah, no humour left in his face. Noah laughed.

"Well then, I guess you should be on your way" Noah instructed as he turned back to his desk. Kaiba glared at the boy before turning around and storming out of the room, his jacket bellowing in his wake.

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'Dammit, pick up' Kaiba thought to himself as he dialed the spies' number one more time. He was met with a busy line.

He guessed he would have to take things into his own hands.

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Kaiba walked into the third office of Millennium Corp and looked around for his three spies. There was only one other person in the room. The said person had their face buried in their work and all Kaiba could see was the man's scruffy blonde hair.

The back of Joey's head itched as though someone was staring at him. He looked up and saw a tall man with brown hair and piercing blue eyes. The man wore tight black pants and a confident white jacket. Joey was pulled out of his ogling when another figure entered the room.

"Kaiba, what are you doing here?" Malik asked as he walked into the room.

"Kaiba?! You're the guy who hung up on me!" Joey yelled, jumping to his feel and pointing an accusing finger at the man.

"Quit growling and shut your face" Kaiba replied in a hushed tone. He turned back to Malik.

"I need to speak to you in private" he replied and went to pull Malik into another room. As they reached the door, Yami entered.

"Ah I see you've met Kazel. He is thinking of investing in our next project" Yami explained.

"Kazel? Isn't your name Kai-" Joey began but was instantly silenced when Malik stomped on his foot. Joey yelped in response but was immediately silenced by Kaiba's deathly glare.

"Kai?" Yami questioned, looking at Kaiba quizzically.

"It's an old nickname I had but I no longer use it" Kaiba lied smoothly, glaring at the blonde.

Joey kept his mouth shut until Yami left then turned to look at the other two. "What is going on here?" he questioned.

"Keep your voice down mutt" he sneered, then looked at Malik. "I'll take care of this" Kaiba said and dragged Joey to the next empty room.

"Hey let go of me!" Joey growled, trying to loosen Kaiba's grip. In response, Kaiba tightened his grip and pushed Joey onto a wall.

"If you want your friends to be safe then you'll forget I ever knew them" Kaiba warned, his breath hitting Joey on the face.

Joey nodded meekly at the threatening face before him and suddenly realised how close the other was to him. Joey sensed Kaiba also came to this realisation as the man looked into Joey's eyes for a split second longer before releasing him.

Joey fell to the floor and Kaiba left the room without a second glance. Joey sat there for a moment catching his breath. Who was this guy?

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Yami sat in his desk chair as his brothers entered the room behind him. Marik was last in and closed the door behind him.

"So, I called you guys in here because we need to figure out what to do about this whole undercover spy situation" Yami started.

"I say we just question everyone in the building and whichever three snap, are our agents" Marik said sadistically.

Bakura chuckled to himself. "That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. Not only will questioning every single member of staff take forever and make everyone suspicious, but, it's probably safe to assume that these agents are trained in the art of being interrogated" Bakura explained as if Marik was stupid.

"Right, we need them to expose themselves to us" Yami said and the others agreed.

"Well they're after the duel disk design right? So we just set a trap for them" Marik stated.

"Let's say we put extra security on at night and have them speak directly to us so that if anyone goes in or out of the design room unauthorized, we'll get notified straight away" Bakura suggested.

"I like that idea" Yami said picking up his phone to dial security. "Let's do it."

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Yugi looked up as Yami entered the restaurant, red-faced, and pulled out a chair from across Yugi.

"Sorry I'm late, I just had to talk to my brothers about something which took a bit longer than I anticipated" Yami huffed and drank a glass of water.

"No worries at all, I just got here 10 minutes ago" Yugi smiled. Yami smiled back and reached across the table to grab Yugi's hand.

"I missed this" Yami said, looking deeply into Yugi's eyes and rubbing the back of Yugi's hand with his thumb. The two had tried to organise to eat lunch together every day but because of Yami's busy schedule, most lunches had been cut short or cancelled.

"Me too" Yugi said, smiling back at Yami.

The guilt of their mission was really starting to eat at Yugi's conscience but it was too late to turn back now. And he really doubted Yami or his brothers had anything to do with the disappearances so hopefully their mission wouldn't turn up any information detrimental to the brothers.

A waitress came over to take their orders and Yami had to reluctantly let go of Yugi's hand.

Yugi watched the waitress leave after taking their order and sighed, "I wish we had more time together."

Yami nodded then a thought crossed his mind. "How about we both take the day off tomorrow and just go somewhere away from all of this?" Yami suggested, his eyes glowing with excitement.

"We can't just skip work! You have so much work to do!" Yugi exclaimed although he was not against the idea.

"You forget Yugi, my father owns the company. I'm pretty sure I can take one day off considering I work most weekends anyway" Yami laughed.

Yugi looked at him uncertainly. "Are you sure?"

"Do you not want to?" Yami asked quizzically.

"No no, I really want to!" Yugi said a bit too quickly and Yami laughed again. "Then it's settled, tomorrow I'm taking you out for the day" Yami said happily.

Yugi grinned back and allowed himself to take in the excitement. He could mull over his extreme guilt another time.

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Yugi met up with Ryou, Malik and Kaiba as they walked into the alleyway around the corner of Millennium Corp and stopped when they were further enough in that they would not be spotted or heard.

"So it seems that the urgency of this mission has been escalated. The company needs some sort of physical evidence that connects Millennium Corp to the disappearances otherwise this has all been a waste of time" Kaiba said, looking all of his agents in the eyes.

"We're really close to getting the duel disk design. We're going to have to go afterhours because there's always people watching the door" Ryou said and the others nodded in agreement.

"Well get on it asap because since you started this mission, another three people have gone missing" Kaiba ordered.

The three agents nodded. "And be safe" Kaiba added as he walked back to the entrance of the alleyway and disappeared around the corner.

Malik turned to the other two spies. "Is anyone else really not liking this mission anymore? For the first time in a long time I actually feel awful. Marik, Yami and Bakura really don't seem like bad people. Although Bakura is an asshole" Malik added.

"Oh I'm glad I wasn't the only one" Yugi added. "I can't look Yami in the eyes knowing that we're lying to him. And what are we going to do after this, just disappear? I don't think I could do it" Yugi said.

"I think we might have to" Ryou said quietly. The two turned to him in surprise. "Think about it, if their company really is the reason behind these disappearances and they find out that it was us that ends up exposing them, do you think they'd ever forgive us? That's everything they've worked so hard for."

"What if we don't expose them?" Malik suggested and it was the other two's turns to be shocked.

"How are we supposed to do that? Yugi asked.

"Well Kaiba said we only needed to get physical evidence that links the company to the disappearances. So if we can't find the evidence, then they can't be convicted of anything" Malik answered logically.

"You want us to throw away the whole case?" Yugi asked shocked.

"Well not exactly. I think we should find out once and for all what is in that design room and if we find the disappeared people then that's a plus and they deserve to be exposed. But if we don't, then we'll know they're not connected to it at all" Malik reasoned.

Ryou bit on his lip worriedly. "But what happens if KaibaCorp find out we purposely didn't get any evidence. They'd kill us."

"We've worked there for years. And Kaiba would take our side if anything came up" Yugi said and Malik agreed.

"And the duel disk design?" Ryou questioned.

"That's not really our design to take in the first place" Malik said seriously.

"When did you grow a conscience?" Ryou asked playfully and Malik laughed.

"I'm starting to realise maybe this type of work isn't for me. Maybe we should have stuck with being in the army" Malik sighed.

"Yeah, I feel the same" Yugi agreed and Ryou nodded.

"Okay, well let's get this over and done with. Should we do it in three nights from now?" Malik proposed.

"Sounds good" the other two agreed.

A/N: Oh boys, I doubt it's going to be that easy! But you've got to admire their optimistic spirit haha

Stay tuned for lots of puzzleshipping next chapter!