Chapter 13

"So remind me again why we decided to take separate cars?" Malik asked as he leaned back in his seat.

"Well we thought it be less suspicious if we arrived separately" Marik reasoned, a glimmer in his eye.

"And a limo is the way to do that?" Malik asked, his arms in the air as he gestured to their surroundings.

Marik just laughed and scooted over to sit next to Malik. "Well we haven't had any alone time since you let the cat out of the bag and I thought this would be the perfect opportunity" Marik said, his hand resting on Malik's leg.

Malik gulped nervously. "Do you really think now is the time considering everything that is happening?" Malik asked, his cheeks reddening as the hand trailed upwards.

"Better now than never" Marik replied slyly. He turned Malik's chin in his hand so that they were looking into each other's eyes. Malik's breath hitched in his throat.

Marik leaned forward and their lips connected. It felt so surreal. After everything that had happened, Malik had not expected this chain of events.

The kiss lasted about a minute before Marik slowly trailed his mouth down to Malik's neck.

"M..Marik, that'll leave a mark" Malik whimpered.

"Do you want me to stop?" Marik asked.

Malik actually had to take a moment to answer. "…no" Malik replied and Marik laughed before continuing what he was doing.

"We have arrived" a voice called from the front of the limousine.

The two broke apart suddenly when the door to the limo opened and Bakura stuck his head in.

"Are you guys coming?" he asked. The two nodded guiltily and exited the limo.

They met up with the others who were busily talking to Kaiba.

"You two decided to show up then?" Yami asked, his arms crossed as he took in their slightly disheveled appearance.

"We're here, aren't we" Marik grinned, his arm casually around Malik's neck.

"Hmph" Yami responded and turned back to the group conversation.

Kaiba looked at the newest additions to the group and cleared his throat.

"Well as I was saying, the most probably place Noah is hiding the two is at the mansion. He'll be expecting just three of you, not the rest. And knowing him, he'll strongly underestimate us and this should all be done within an hour" Kaiba explained, his tone almost possessing a bored quality.

"And how do we know you won't double cross us? He is your brother and you were the one that ordered us to be spied on" Yami accused, his eyes narrowing.

"Don't take it so personally, it's just business" Kaiba answered coolly. "And believe me, I won't double cross you. I have my own motives" Kaiba continued, his mind wandering to a certain blonde-haired male.

"Yeah whatever, let's go" Bakura said as he grabbed Ryou's good arm and pulled him back towards the car.

"I guess we're off" Yugi said and lightly touched Yami's arm. "Are you ready?" he asked, his wide eyes looking up at Yami.

"As ready as I'll ever be" Yami sighed and they made their ways back to the cars as well.

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Joey quickly whipped his head to the side when he heard a creak to the left. It had been silent for hours and he had gotten used to Mana's slow breathing as she had drifted off to sleep.

Joey strained his ears and heard another creak and suddenly he felt an arm on his shoulder.

"GET O—" he began to yell but was silenced by a gently hand on his mouth.

"Joey, it's me, Yugi!" Yugi whispered quietly and took Joey's blindfold off. He blinked repeatedly as his eyes got accustomed to the natural light.

"Yugi, what are you doing here?" Joey asked urgently.

"We're here to save you of course" Yugi replied, a soft smile on his face.

Joey looked around at his surroundings as Yugi began to cut through the ropes that were binding his hands. He was in a large room with multiple boxes. Other than that, there were no other clues to his whereabouts.

He turned to look at Mana and saw Malik untying her hands.

"Yugi, he could come back any moment, and this guy isn't playing games" Joey warned, looking around the room.

He spotted Ryou in the corner. One of his arms was in a sling and he was slowly loading a gun.

"Umm, why is Ryou holding a gun? And what happened to his arm?" Joey question as he massaged his wrists. The skin around them had gone red and coarse.

Yugi scratched the back of his head nervously. "Well the thing is Joey –" Yugi began but was cut off by Malik.

"We're secret agents" Malik grinned largely as up as he walked over to the other two with Mana in tow.

Joey took a step back. "What?!" he cried at the same time as Mana.

Yugi hid a smile at the sheer looks of shock on both their faces.

"It's true" Ryou said as he walked up to the others.

"Okay, as much as I'm struggling to take this all in at the moment, shouldn't we be worried about where our kidnapper is?" Mana asked.

"Don't you worry about that, we've got it all taken care of" Malik said.

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Kaiba walked into the office quietly and motioned for the men behind him to follow.

Yami, Bakura and Marik walked in after Kaiba and surveyed the room around him. It was eerily quiet with only the rustle of the curtain from the wind breaking the silence.

They walked to the back of the room and pulled the curtain away to see an open window.

"He must have gotten away through here" Yami concluded but Kaiba didn't look too convinced.

They all turned around and caught a flash of white as someone escaped from under the desk. Noah stood at the door with a gun pointed their way.

"What are you doing here?" Noah questioned, his eyes narrowing upon seeing his brother.

"I should have known you were stupid enough to do something like this. Now put down the gun before you hurt yourself" Kaiba drawled.

Noah did not move from his position. "I said, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Noah yelled and shot at the spot above Yami's head.

Kaiba just smirked in response. "You made a very dumb decision. Now let me ask you, why did you kidnap two innocent people?" Kaiba asked.

Noah grumbled in response but kept his stance. "You wouldn't understand. All you care about is your stupid company and your stupid missions. Even though dad chose me to take over the company nobody respects me. And then when things are finally looking my way, I've got spies going against my orders! When will people understand that I make the rules and we don't need spies anymore! KaibaCorp is the new ruler in duel-wear. I need to set an example" Noah spieled, his eyes frantic.

"By taking out our own spies? You really are dumber than I thought" Kaiba replied, taking a step forward.

"Stay where you are!" Noah yelled and pointed his gun directly at Marik's chest "Or he gets it."

"Please they're not who you're really after" Kaiba smirked.

Bakura looked at Kaiba throughout the exchange. This guy better know what he was doing because he was risking his brothers' lives now.

Noah suddenly smirked. "You wouldn't keep them far away would you?" he asked, not expecting a reply.

Noah's smirk suddenly disappeared. "The hostages!" he yelled and ran out the room down the corridor.

Yami, Bakura, Marik and Kaiba immediately ran after Noah but the younger boy was nimble on his feet and got to the room first.

He slammed the door open to see the three spies, Mana and Joey walking towards the back door.

"Not so fast" Noah yelled. Kaiba and the brothers ran in just in time to see Noah shoot at Yugi's retreating figure.

"Yugi!" Yami yelled in horror.

Yugi spun around but was pushed out of the way by a mop of blonde hair.

"Joey!" Yugi yelled as the bullet missed his own body.

"What have you done?!" Kaiba yelled, completely losing his shit.

"What are you going to do? If you touch me then Mokuba's inheritance is going down the drain" Noah smirked, not at all fazed that he'd just shot at someone.

"Well it's lucky that's he's woken up then isn't it?" Kaiba yelled before punching Noah in his surprised face. Noah hit the floor and lost consciousness.

Kaiba didn't even turn around to look at the damage he had caused. He ran to Joey and pushed Yugi out of the way as the said boy was currently leaning over his savior.

Kaiba looked down at the boy in front of him and noticed the dried blood on his face from where he assumed Noah had punched him. His eyes scanned Joey's body to see where the bullet had hit him.

He sighed in relief upon seeing that the bullet had only brushed the side of Joey's little finger which was bleeding heavily.

Joey gave Kaiba a quizzical look as the other man checked him over and wrapped some material around his hand.

"I thought you didn't give a hoot about me" Joey asked, looking up at Kaiba with a puzzled expression.

"You stupid mutt, of course I care if you get hurt" Kaiba said softly, avoiding eye contact with the boy as he finished tying the material around his hand.

"But you … you literally yell at me every time I see you" Joey countered, still trying to wrap his head around the situation.

"Just shut up" Kaiba replied and pushed his lips onto the other man.

Joey's eyes widened in surprise but didn't pull away. After a few seconds, Joey pulled away to breath. Kaiba looked at him confused.

"As much as I would love to continue this, my hand is really starting to hurt like a bitch" Joey said as he used his other hand to sit up properly.

Mana suddenly coughed loudly and the two looked up at her red face. "And as much as I don't want to interrupt, Malik has called the police so they're on their way."

Marik walked up to the three of them and pointed back to where he'd came from. "We just tied the boy up and I say we boot sooner rather than later. I'm surprised he didn't have back up."

"As stupid as it seems, I think in the end, he was too arrogant for his own good and thought he could do it on his own. Ah well, I guess he'll just be tried for attempted murder. He'll be behind bars for a long time… or at least time he turns 18" Ryou said, joining the conversation.

"Let's get out of here" Joey said from his place on the floor and the others helped him up as they made their way to the exit.

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"Cheers" Marik said as he clinked glasses with everyone in the group. The others responded and took a sip of their respective drinks.

The night club around them bustled with life but the group ignored everyone around them.

"Well that was an interesting last couple of days" Bakura said.

"Indeed!" Marik responded and clinked glasses with Bakura again.

Yugi looked at Yami. Yami hadn't said a word since coming back from Noah's and Yugi was concerned for him.

"Can we talk?" Yugi asked the slightly taller male.

Yami looked at Yugi in surprise as he was brought out of his thoughts. "Sure."

They put their drinks down and Yugi grabbed Yami's hand and pulled him to a quieter section of the club.

"Are you okay?" Yugi asked. "It's just, you've been so quiet since we left Noah's. Did something happen when you were with Noah?"

Yami's eyes softened as he looked at Yugi. "Yugi…" he began but paused.

"Yugi, I know you're used to guns and near-death experiences but that's unchartered territory for me. And seeing you shot at … I could have lost you. In that split second when the gun went off, everything stopped" Yami explained, his eyes showing years beyond their time.

Yugi just stared back at Yami in shock. Of all the things he was expecting to say, that was not one of them.

"Yami, I'm fine. Nothing happened" Yugi replied, grabbing Yami's hands in his own.

"But it could have" Yami said and switched their hands so that Yugi's smaller hands were in his own. "And I don't care if it was only for a second, I never want to have that feeling again" Yami continued.

Yugi just smiled softly and a small tear escaped one of his eyes.

"And another thing. I feel like you're punishing yourself too much. Noah told us how the three of you went against his orders and I know that you did it for us. I think I was just too big-headed to realise that" Yami explained, a smile creeping up on his face. "So I'm sorry for making this harder than it needed to be."

"No don't apologize! You did nothing wrong. I'm just glad that we're all safe" Yugi replied.

Yami leaned down and kissed Yugi on the forehead. "Yes we are" Yami said and Yugi's heart soared.

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Joey sat on the edge of the hospital bed and looked down at his bandaged finger. This was stupid. He couldn't even brag about getting shot because the bullet literally just skimmed his little finger. If anything, it was just a massive inconvenience.

Shizuka laughed as she looked at her brother's grim face. "Oh big brother, it's going to be fine! The skin will be repaired in no time and you'll be back to your old bubbly self" Shizuka smiled as she gave her brother's shoulder a light squeeze.

"Easy for you to say, you got the brains in the family. I need to rely on my own physical body to get things done" he replied and playfully ruffled her hair.

"Do you get this comfortable with all your doctors?" a voice said from the front of the room.

The siblings turned to look at the front of the room and saw Kaiba standing there.

Joey's heart skipped a beat. He hadn't seen Kaiba since he'd kissed him and he really didn't know what was going through the other man's head. Heck, he didn't even know what was going through his own head at the moment.

Shizuka laughed once more, completely unaware of her brother's uncomfortableness. "He does when he's related to them" she replied.

For the first time in his life, Kaiba look taken aback. He stared back and forth between the two. "You're related?" he asked. He felt like this sort of information should have come up in his research. He'd have to remember to fire whatever incompetent employees were in the research department.

"Yeah she's my sister. Split parents so different surnames" Joey spoke up pointing between the two of them. "How do you know my little sis?" Joey questioned.

"She's the best doctor in Japan and I make sure to know the best of the best" Kaiba replied and moved towards them.

Shizuka flushed slightly and looked down at her papers.

"How is he doing?" Kaiba asked.

"I'm right here, you can just ask me!" Joey yelled. The other two ignored his remarks.

"He's doing fine. Like I was telling him before, the skin should heal up in no time" Shizuka replied.

"Good. Do you mind if I have some privacy with him? Kaiba asked. Joey gulped.

"Yeah sure! I have some other patients to attend to anyway. See you big brother!" Shizuka called out as she left the room, completely oblivious to Joey's silent attempts to keep her there.

Joey waited till the door shut before turning to the taller man. "So are you going to tell me what the heck happened before?" he questioned Kaiba.

"I don't know what you're talking about" Kaiba replied smoothly.

"Like hell you don't! You know, the … kiss" Joey replied, his voice losing its strength at the last word and his face flushing ever so slightly.

"Was there a problem with it? Kaiba asked.

"Stop acting dumb, you know that's not it" Joey growled.

"So if there's no problem, why are you making a fuss?" Kaiba replied as he walked so that he was directly in front of Joey.

Joey looked at the man in front of him. No way was this guy going to get the upper hand this time. Joey wouldn't let the other man's attractiveness distract him.

Joey stood up suddenly and pushed Kaiba into the wall and kissed him. Kaiba looked surprised at the start but smirked as their lips disconnected.

"The puppy's got bite" Kaiba smirked and Joey pouted before Kaiba switched their positions and continued kissing him once more.

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"Aha, finally!" Pegasus cried as he wiped his forehead with the back of his sleeve. He put down the spanner and took a step back as the machine came to life once more.

"We're back in business" he said to himself and started laughing manically.

A/N: One villain down, one more rises. Wooo relationship development everywhere! Hope you guys are enjoying it all. Next chapter coming soon xx