Previously! On Yu-Gi-Oh!

Things are heating up as mysteries are slowly unfolding and Ryou is finally told about the secret being hidden from him. Marik finally showed the Millennium Rod to his sister, Ishizu, and they rush towards the Mouto Game Shop to find more answers and maybe figure out what's going on. With the attention brought off Atemu and faced towards Ryou and his Millennium Ring, what will things lead to?

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An urgent knock was heard at the door of the Game Shop, silence swept the room as Yugi turned and slowly walked towards the door. Opening the door, Marik leaped into the room and started chatting away about who knows what.

"EVERYONE RUN! THE RAPIST IS IN THE HOUSE!" Ryou hid under a table as he shouted this to everyone.

"Gosh damnit! I am NOT a rapist, Ryou!" Ishizu walked over to her brother and stood behind him,"Leave him be, Brother. We have business to attend to."

Yugi looked at the two Ishtars, "What do you need?" Ishizu looked at Marik and nodded; Marik brought the Millennium Rod to attention and held it up where everyone could see it. A few gasps were let out, "His hair isn't going to go all crazy again, is it?" Joey popped up in front of Marik and jabbed a finger at the golden object. Pulling the Millennium Rod away, "Believe me, he wont be coming back," Marik glared at Joey.

"Yugi we have come to-" Ishizu spotted Atemu over by the front desk of the shop, "My Pharaoh!" Atemu looked up, just now noticing who was all in the small Game Shop after concentrating on a plan to make the evil Thief appear. "Uh, hello."

"I never figured you would return once again. The Ishtar family was only told of one acknowledgment, but since the return of these two Millennium items we had to see for ourselves if there would be another recurrence." Then everyone suddenly began talking at once about what could be happening, what happened, and what was going to happen. Too much noise for anyone to notice a large amount of light in the room and Ryou suddenly crashing to the floor. "Everyone! Quiet!" No one seemed to hear Yugi, except Tea who demandingly screamed Yugi's demands to everyone else. Everyone was suddenly quiet and looked over at the two," Thank you!"

"Now, does anyone here have any idea why the Pharaoh has returned? Please, raise your hand or something, we can't take everyone talking at once, it'll just waist any time that we have." Joey raised his hand," Yes, Joey?"

"As I said before, he's probably back to fight evil once again," Joey moved his hands in a 'spooky' way as he said evil.

"So, that's one possibility, fighting evil... Anyone else?" It was quiet...

"SOICANKICKHISASS!" Everyone suddenly looked over at Ryou who was dashing out the door now. A few confused looks were shot as well as surprise and shock. "There goes our thief."

Atemu now walked towards Yugi and Tea at the door," I believe our greatest challenge yet, would be saving Ryou... from himself."

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"It doesn't seem they even noticed me, maybe I should of stayed longer... found out anything I need to know. But it's not very fun not to be all fussed over." Bakura walked silently through the dark down a sidewalk, hands in his pockets, thinking, or should I say talking, to himself. "I need to get to this fool's house, it'll give me a place to stay and contemplate my plans to destroy the Pharaoh.

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Everyone glanced around at each other, still thinking steadily about the first question Yugi had asked the large group of people. Finally, after quite a bit of speechlessness, Tristan raised his hand (Likewowz, the idiots are raising their hands). "Yes, Tristan?" Yugi sighed.

"Maybe Bakura's telling the truth. Maybe Bakura is the one that brought him back, just to destroy him?" Everyone seemed to nod a little at the suggestion

"But then, why would the other Millennium Items be returning?" Tea questioned.

"Remember, Bakura wants to get his hands all the Millennium Items. He will probably use them to destroy the Pharaoh. How he plans on getting his hands on the Puzzle though..." Marik looked around a bit, holding the Millennium Rod tightly in his grasp.

"He's gotten it before, remember?" Yugi sadly looked around, bringing the memory back. In the memory of the Pharaoh, Bakura did get it. He changed the past.

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Back at Ryou's house, Bakura was opening the door to walk inside. He made it all the way to the house without any interference by his host. Maybe since Ryou now knew of Bakura being in presence, he was keeping himself from fighting; he didn't want to fight Bakura no more. Chuckling to himself at the thought he turned a light on in the living room and sat on the couch (Harhar, Ryou has his own house. D) "Now, which Millennium item should I go for first... I need to save the Millennium Puzzle for last, it will be the hardest to get. But Shadi should have both the Millennium Key and Scale, two in one visit, which will be pleasant." Bakura pulled a piece of paper and pencil out and leaned over towards the table sitting in front of the couch, placing the paper on top.

Neatly, in a list down the paper, he wrote 'Ring, Scale, Key, Eye, Necklace, Rod, and Puzzle'. Then he put a check beside the word 'Ring' to indicate that he had it. Next on the list to receive for himself was the Scale and Key. Now, Bakura wondered to himself... when he had been rushing out the door, he got a quick glimpse of Ishizu, she didn't have the necklace. Had she received it back yet? If she didn't have it, then had the other ones reappeared yet?

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"Ishizu!" The long, black haired Ishtar looked at her brother," What is it?" Marik turned completely towards her with everyone's eyes on them,"The necklace... you don't have it." Ishizu then put a hand to her neck and only felt skin. "Did it ever reappear to you?" She shook her head at the question," No."

That was a good thing though, correct? Yugi thought to himself... If she didn't have the necklace, then Bakura couldn't get his hands on it. It also indicated that maybe the other items hadn't shown themselves to the other people that had owned them at one time. This was favorable. Well, maybe not to Bakura, but it was for them. "That's good."

"What?" Marik and Ishizu looked over at Yugi. Everyone else did too, everyone but Atemu with awestruck faces. "It's a good thing that Ishizu doesn't have the necklace, this means Bakura can't get it. It also means that maybe the other items haven't emerged yet. The thief can't get his hands on the items if they aren't here." Finally each person understood, Atemu of course already understood. (D)

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The thief lay back against the couch looking at his sheet of paper, an arm behind his head. He cackled to himself (He seems to laugh a lot) as he decided to try and find Shadi tomorrow. He had no idea where Shadi would be hiding, probably in Egypt as he usually is... "AGH!"

A hand shot up to Bakura's head, his hand. "No, he can't... I can't let him do this!" Dropping the bit of paper from his hand as he raised it to the other side of his head. He stood, scowling at the pain in his coconut (That's actually a synonym for brain. XD But no... really) in his head. "Why is he fighting me!? It's not going to help his sorry little ass any!" Now Bakura fell to his knees on the floor bending over to where his head was touching the floor, his elbows in the air.

"I am NOT going to let him win!" Bakura fought against Ryou, silently, in his mind.

I'm tired of being bullied by you, Bakura. I am going to fight against you, and I will win. Bakura looked up, had he just heard Ryou? Throughout all the times he had had been sharing, okay not exactly sharing, Ryou's body... Ryou had never actually spoken to him. Or maybe that's just because Ryou had no idea that Bakura was there, and Ryou was usually unconscious. He sat up; the pain wasn't as vigorous, now that he had quit fighting. Speaking out loud Bakura questioned," You... can you hear me?" He didn't get a reply... "RYOU! You fuck, can you hear me!?"

Still he didn't get any sort of reaction from the fighting hikari inside his mind. Then he thought that maybe Ryou wasn't able to hear Bakura actually speaking, but inside his mind... Ryou, can you hear me?

Yes, I can hear you. What do you think I'm deaf?

Now Bakura stood up, laughing widely. Oh my gosh, I have NEVER actually been able to speak with you. I've always just taken control while you were unconscious, most likely because of me.

Do you really think I am here to conversate with you?

Oh yeah, you're right. All righty then. Bakura began fighting against Ryou once more, but with more of an enthusiastic feeling than pain. Ryou was weak now from all that he had done already, but he continued trying to free himself from the corridors of his mind. Ryou you can't win, you know I have more energy and more strength than you.

I don't care. I want to be rid of you for good. I want you to leave me.

Bakura smirked as they continued to brawl. He now folded his arms across his chest and silently walked around the house, figuring out where everything was, what Ryou had in his home. He didn't have as much trouble fighting with Ryou, now that he wasn't as surprised at the attack and figured out how to speak with Ryou, making the connection even closer. Yet, as Bakura entered Ryou's bedroom he suddenly collapsed against the door and slid down to the floor. He couldn't move and he toppled over, lying across the carpet. Ryou, what have you done?

Both the yami and hikari blacked-out.

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