Ryou walked towards the direction of Bakura's office and took in a few deep breathes. He could do this. If this was potentially going to be the last time he saw Bakura, then he was going to make it count.

He reached Bakura's office but gave a sigh of disappointment when he noticed it was empty. He guessed he could wait till he came back. He walked towards the dark wooden desk and sat in the oversized office chair. He noticed a small picture frame next to Bakura's computer and picked it up. Inside was a picture of the three brothers; Yami in the middle looking annoyed as Marik and Bakura leaned over him with giant grins on their faces. Ryou smiled to himself and looked back at Bakura's smiling face. He really hoped he was doing the right thing.

"I could get used to seeing this everyday" a voice uttered. Ryou looked up to see Bakura leaning against the doorway watching him with a small smile on his face.

Ryou blushed and quickly put down the picture frame. "Bakura! I was just waiting for you" Ryou blurted out.

"And to what do I owe the pleasure?" Bakura asked as he walked towards Ryou.

Ryou stood up and walked in front of the desk. "I have something for you" Ryou revealed.

Bakura's face broke into one of surprise. "Here" Ryou said putting something small into Bakura's hands and ducking his head in embarrassment.

Bakura opened up his hands to reveal a small parcel. He unwrapped the present gingerly to reveal a small metal monkey holding a banner which read 'follow your heart'.

"It's so you can always remember to do what makes you happy and not what others expect from you" Ryou explained hurriedly.

Bakura stayed silent, not looking away from the small monkey. "This is the first time anyone has ever done something like this for me" Bakura murmured quietly.

He put the monkey down on the desk and pulled Ryou into a tight hug. "Thank you" he whispered into Ryou's hair.

Ryou's heart broke at the words and he hugged Bakura back tightly.

"You know, if someone told me I would be getting emotional over a monkey a month ago, I would have punched them" Bakura joked as he let Ryou go. Ryou smiled in response.

They both turned when they heard a knock at the door.

"Well well well, I think the mighty Thief has finally been tamed" Marik smirked, walking into to Bakura's office.

"Shut up" Bakura growled, chucking a clipboard at his brother's face. Marik caught the item and laughed.

"Well I guess I'll be off" Ryou stated. He walked to the door and turned to look at the two brothers one last time and forced a smile on his face. "Bye guys" he called and the other two waved at him.

Ryou turned around and walked away from the office, holding in the tears in his eyes.

'Bye Bakura' he thought. He hoped Bakura didn't hate him after he left; he was risking everything with tomorrow's break-in but if they didn't do it then KaibaCorp wouldn't stop until everything the brothers had worked for was destroyed.

Back at the office, Marik was examining the monkey. "That's kind of corny don't you think?" Marik commented, looking at the words on the small banner.

Bakura snatched the small metal figurine from Marik and put it in his desk drawer. Marik just laughed.

"What's with your happy mood?" Bakura asked.

"I just had a pretty good morning" Marik smiled thinking back to his little elevator adventure. He subconsciously licked his lips.

"I don't even want to know" Bakura said looking disgusted.

Marik just smirked in response. "Anyway, was there a reason for your visit?" Bakura asked dryly.

"Nope. Yami isn't here so I thought I'd come chill with you" Marik replied gleefully.

"Go do your work in your own office Marik" Bakura replied. Marik pouted.

"You're just upset because I interrupted your time with your boy toy" Marik teased and ducked when Bakura threw his wireless mouse at Marik's head.

Marik laughed again. "Okay, I'm going, I'm going" he said. "See you later" he continued as he walked out the door.

Bakura waited till Marik left before opening his drawer and holding the small monkey in his hands once more.

(S)(P)(I)(E)(S)

The next night

Night had fallen on the city of Domino as three men clothed in all black landed on the roof of Millennium Corp with a soft thud. The small helicopter they had just jumped from flew silently away without a trace.

Malik adjusted his earpiece to make sure it was still in place and led the trio to the large vent that was sticking out of the roof. He slid in first and Ryou jumped in after followed by Yugi.

The three didn't speak as they crawled their way through the vent down to level 24. The only voice that could be heard was Kaiba's as he gave instructions into the boy's earpieces as to which way to turn down the vent.

Malik kept his breathing steady as he crawled through the tight vent, his fear spurring him forward.

Finally after some time, they reached their destination.

"Okay, once you enter the design room, we will lose contact with each other because of the protective walls. Once you're in, grab what you need and get out" Kaiba ordered and the three spies made a small sound in understanding. "Good luck" Kaiba said and his voice cut out.

Malik looked through the vent shaft down into the corridor below. He could see two security guards guarding the entrance to the design room. Both men were loaded. He reached over and pulled a small dart gun from his belt and shot the two men with tranquilizers in the neck through the vent. The two men dropped without a sound.

"Okay let's move" Malik said and the three spies dropped down into the corridor.

Ryou pulled out the key card and swiped the card to open the door. The light next to the door turned green and the heavy door swung open.

The three men walked into the large room and took in everything around them. On one side there was a line of computers with the Millennium Corp logo on them and on the other side was a large machine. Everything was engulfed in shadows. The boys looked around for a light switch but couldn't find any.

They went over to the computers and tried to switch them on. The computers buzzed to life but required a password to log in. After a few guesses they gave up trying to unlock them.

"Let's split up. Ryou, you go suss out that machine and Malik see if you can find any hidden doors where they could be keeping the people who have disappeared. I'll go outside and tell Kaiba that we couldn't get the design. Keep in touch" Yugi ordered, tapping his earpiece and the other two nodded.

Yugi walked out the door and connected back to Kaiba's headset. "Kaiba, we got into the room but we can't seem to get access to the duel disk design. We're having a look around now to see if there's any clues on the disappearances but it doesn't seem like there's anything so far" Yugi relayed to Kaiba.

"Try again. I'm sure Millennium Corp are behind this" Kaiba ordered sternly.

"Understood" Yugi replied and shut the connection off with Kaiba. He turned to go back into the room but saw that the door had closed behind him. 'Shit' he thought.

It was then that he noticed that the corridor was too quiet. He spun around and realised that the two unconscious guards were nowhere to be seen. 'Shit shit shit' he thought.

Then to make matters worse, he heard footsteps coming his way. He ran down the other end of the corridor and hid in a small space in between two walls. He tried to warn the others through his earpiece but there was no connection outside the room. He quickly pressed the panic button on his earpiece and called for backup from KaibaCorp.

He stayed silent as he heard some muffled voices and the door to the design room open. The door shut with a loud thud but Yugi didn't move because he could still make out someone breathing lightly.

His heart sped up as a pair of footsteps walked towards his hiding place. Finally they stopped. There was a long silence and Yugi didn't dare to breathe.

Then a shadowed man turned to look in between the two walls and pointed a gun at Yugi.

He lowered his weapon as soon as he saw Yugi's face.

"Yugi?"

(S)(P)(I)(E)(S)

Bakura switched through the channels on the TV lazily.

"Can you just pick a channel?" Yami moaned. Bakura kept flicking through the stations as if Yami hadn't said anything.

The phone rang and Marik reached over to answer it. "Hello?" he answered.

Suddenly he sat up straighter. "Yes, okay… We're on our way. Don't do anything till we get there" Marik ordered and hung up the phone.

He turned to his brothers. "That was the security guards from work. The design room has been broken into. One of the guards is out cold and the other is still drowsy because they were both were shot with something." Marik relayed.

Bakura's face turned into a deep scowl. "Let's get those sons of bitches" he growled and walked over to the cupboard and pulled out three shot guns which he threw to his brothers.

"Let's move" he ordered and the three left the penthouse quickly.

They arrived at the building and met up with the guards. As they were about to enter the room Yami thought he heard something.

"You guys go in without me. I just want to check something down here" Yami told his brothers and the others nodded.

Bakura went to order the extra guard to stand at the door to keep watch but the said guard had already fallen unconscious once again. Bakura groaned and went into the room with Marik.

Yami walked down the corridor cautiously with his gun at the ready, keeping his ears open for any noises. He could hear faint breathing and followed the sound until he was very close to it. The noise stopped and Yami strained to hear anything for a couple of moments.

Suddenly he heard a sharp intake of breath and he turned between two walls, pointing his gun in front of him. He was met with Yugi's face.

"Yugi, what are you doing here? It's not safe – " Yami started but paused when he took in Yugi's black attire.

His gun dropped to his side and took a step back. "What? Yugi?" Yami asked in confusion.

Yugi watched in agony as the realisation crossed Yami's face. "Yami I can explain" Yugi started and stopped talking when Yami raised the gun again.

"Yami?" Yugi asked, fear in his voice.

"You've been lying to me all along" Yami stated, all emotion gone from his voice.

"No Yami that's not true! That was it in the beginning but things changed. We just wanted to make sure that there weren't any missing people here. We were never going to take the duel disk design or harm the company" Yugi rambled.

"Shut up!" Yami yelled and pointed the gun at Yugi shakily. Tears were starting to fall from his eyes.

"Please Yami" Yugi begged but Yami did not move from his position.

Suddenly they heard gunshots from inside the design room.

"Shit! Stay here" Yami ordered and ran back to the room. Yugi's knees collapsed underneath him and he started to shake uncontrollably. No, this could not be happening.

(S)(P)(I)(E)(S)

Ryou saw Yugi leave the room and turned towards the massive machine. Maybe it had something to do with the disappearances. He circled around the machine once but found it difficult to really see anything in the dark room. He pulled out his flashlight and peered into the tunnels that seemed to make up most of the machine. From what he could tell, it looked innocent enough. There was a conveyer belt that connected to the tunnels which Ryou assumed was where the final duel disk product came out of.

He followed the conveyer belt and noticed that it connected to another piece of machinery. While the main body of the machine was a dull silver after constant use, this extra part of machinery was a shiny silver, as though it was only a couple of months old.

Ryou went to shine his light into the extra part however stopped when he heard the front door swing open and he noticed two shadows at the entrance that were much taller than Yugi's.

He quickly switched his flashlight off and jumped into the tunnel to hide himself. His action must have made a noise because he heard footsteps come towards him.

'Crap' Ryou thought. This was not part of the plan.

His flashlight, which he had hurriedly chucked into his pocket when he jumped into the tunnel, fell out and made a loud clunk as it hit the tunnel floor.

Out of nowhere, a bullet buzzed past Ryou's head through one side of the tunnel to the other, passing through the tunnel walls as if they were made of air.

"I know you're in there" Bakura called sadistically and shot through the tunnel again.

Ryou's heart sank when he heard Bakura's voice. This was a joke. The Gods were playing a cruel joke on him. This could not possibly be real. But as another bullet swished past him and narrowly avoided his knee he realised that this was no joke.

"You think you can just come into this place and take whatever you want without paying the price? Think again" Bakura growled and shot through the tunnel once more. This time the bullet impacted with something that wasn't metal and Bakura heard a sharp intake of breath as the bullet hit its target.

Ryou gazed at his upper arm in shock and looked at where the bullet had hit his arm. Blood was starting to flow heavily from the wound. The shock wore off after a couple of seconds and then the sheer pain hit him like a ton of bricks.

"Ahhh" he moaned and fell out of the tunnel.

"Ryou?" Bakura asked in shock when he saw the familiar white hair tumble out of the tunnel. He dropped his gun and ran up to Ryou.

"No no no, Ryou no" he said lifting Ryou up lightly so that Ryou's back was leaning against Bakura's raised knee.

"I'm sorry for lying. Please don't hate me" Ryou muttered, half sleepily from the lack of blood that was flowing freely from his arm.

Bakura looked down at Ryou in shock. His mind was not working fast enough to comprehend what was happening. All he could think of was the fact that he had just shot Ryou and he was currently bleeding in his arms.

He ripped off a piece of his white shirt and wrapped it securely around Ryou's arm. It instantly started turning red.

"I'm sorry" Ryou repeated tiredly and then lost consciousness.

A/N: Ahh cliffhanger! Sorry guys!

Inspiration for the last scene taken from this lovely 3 part image which I can't link here however if you're interested just google 'Bakura orichalcos' and it should be around the second image that shows up