(Play opening theme song: 'Vampires Will Never Hurt You' by My Chemical Romance)

"Where. Is. He?" The more dangerous one said, violet eyes narrowing."

"Crap. Marik and Malik. We gotta go."

"Who?" Yami asked. Yuugi didn't respond, taking backwards steps towards the room they had just exited.

"Calm down, Marik." The smaller yet calmer one, who was apparently Malik, said while placing a hand on his others masculine bicep. He looked into the crowd of vampires harshly. "We're not after you. As far as I know, no one has done anything wrong here except for three people." He narrowed his gaze. "Let's put this bluntly. We're looking for Seto Kaiba, Bakura Akefia, and Yuugi Mutou."

Every head turned towards the miniature vampire. He grinned nervously.

"You." Marik growled, positioning a crossbow with a stake for a weapon (Instead of the arrow). Yuugi took a few more steps backward, smiling still.

"And then Yuugi ran!" The boy quickly attempted to make a run for it as Marik fired. Unfortunately he forgot that the chain around Yami's neck was attached to his neck collar. So Yami toppled backwards, taking Yuugi down with him and the boy just missed the stake.

"Are you trying to STRANGLE me?!" Yami whispered harshly, trying to get to his feet.

"Are YOU trying to KILL ME?!" Yuugi whispered right back. He grabbed the chain and dragged the musician out of the club and into the room. "COME ON!"

"Wha-DON'T GET ME INVOLVED IN THIS!" The college student protested as a stake whizzed by his left ear, just missing Yuugi's leg.

"It's either come with me or I can leave you here with Otogi and Mai." Yuugi offered 'innocently', stopping for three seconds for the boy (who was now pale at the thought of such a deed) to regain composure.

"Let's go then." He agreed quickly, seeing another stake fly by.
"DAMNIT! HOLD STILL!"

"NO THANK YOU!" Yuugi called back, heading towards the door. He flung it open, and ran inside, snapping it shut behind the two of them. Bakura blinked from the bed he'd apparently been sleeping on.
"Ng. What's going on?"

"Where's Kaiba?" Yuugi asked quickly. Bakura pressed a finger to his chin.

"I think he's in the bathroom."
"You've known for 33 years that even vampires need to take care of business!" The named called from the lavatory. Yuugi's eyes darted to and fro worriedly.

"Hurry it up, Kaiba. Malik and Marik are here." Bakura yelped at the names and fell off the bd.

"M-Malik and Marik?! They're after us again?!" Yuugi gave the boy a bland look.

"No, they're here in the name of the Lollipop Guild to welcome us to Munchkin Land. What do you think genius?" Bakura quickly rose from his spot on the floor. He seemed quite jittery.

"We gotta go."
"No shit, Sherlock." The tiny look-alike retorted as he walked three or four steps to the bathroom door. He gave it several hard knocks and a powerful swift kick before screaming.

"HURRY IT UP!"

"I'M GOIN' AS FAST AS I CAN! YOU CAN HOLD IT!"

With the end of that sentence, a stake went through the door, whizzing past Yami and right by Bakura's ear. The albino vampire just stood there, gaping like a fish out of water.

"Did that thing just-"
"Yeah." The musician replied hoarsely with a similar look in his face. Yuugi banged harder.

"HURRY! WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME!"
There was a turn of a knob, the sound of halting water, and a flush as the door unlocked and Seto violently jerked the door open.
"WHAT IS IT?!" The other door then broke down, both hunters in the doorway. Seto stared.

"Oh. That." He answered himself blankly. Bakura continued to stare stupidly at the sight of Malik who snarled.

"Bakura…"

Even IF Yami was scared shitless and couldn't think straight, there was no mistaking the hurt in his voice.

"RUN!" The leader suddenly shrieked, making a mad dash for the door, Seto following with a grab of Bakura's arm. Yami choked, the chain still around his neck, and he fell to the ground again. The vampires didn't notice however and continued to run out the back door into the early dark indigo morning, dragging the student along with them. He sputtered and spit as his back slid against the hard gravel-covered ground. The hunters weren't slow, however, and followed them right out the backdoor. Seto unleashed the black wings he'd hidden and jumped.

"SEE YA!"

"GET BACK HERE!"

"Oh, yeah, we're just gunna do what you say." Yuugi rolled his eyes before following Seto's lead. He then began to pull the chain as Yami rose along with him. If anything, the strangling increased as the vampires pulled the college student into his arms. The musician breathed deep the sweet air his lungs had been missing.

"SEE YA!" Yuugi called, dodging several airborne stakes in the process. As he rose higher and attempted to catch up to Seto, Yami took this time to yell at him.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! PUT ME DOWN! ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?!"
"IF I WAS, I'D HAVE BEEN EATING AT THE SAME TIME!"

"WHAT?!"
"STOP WRIGGLING!"

"AS IF I CAN HELP IT!"
"QUIET BEFORE I DROP YOU, I DON'T CARE HOW CUTE YOU ARE!"

"Blush STOP THAT!"

Malik dropped onto his hands and knees, facing the ground.

"Damnit!" He gripped the sand beneath him, his look-alike staring from behind.

"Malik…you have to understand things are different now. He's a vampire now."
"I know." Malik growled. "And those damn vampires…Yuugi and Seto…THEY are to blame…" He blinked as a hand rested on his shoulder. Marik tightened the grip.

"We'll get them. We have our scores to settle."
'Isis…Rishid…'

Malik nodded. "We will."

'Bakura…'

..::Half An Hour Later::..

Seto and Yuugi sat on the floor of the old warehouse tiredly, panting and gasping.

"Damn that was a long flight."
"The sun almost caught us. Good thing this was close by or we'd be burning right now." Yuugi looked up at his doppelganger.

"Is there any blood?" Yami blinked as Bakura gave the boy a sarcastic look.
"Yeah, old abandoned storage houses always keep some blood handy just in case people need to feed any vampires that abduct them, try to rape them, nearly get them killed by people they don't even know, and nearly drop them in mid-air."
"Okay, THAT was FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO and a COMPLETE ACCIDENT!" Yuugi protested to the younger white-haired vampire. He then smiled at his look-alike. "Yami-Chan knows that I didn't mean it, right?" Yami blushed at the use of his first name, still finding himself under the vampires spell. Seto quirked in eyebrow.
"And the raping him part wasn't as bad?" Yuugi growled.

"It WOULDN'T have been if SOMEONE HADN'T INTERRUPTED!"

"STOP! SCREAMING!" Bakura yelled.
"THEN YOU STOP SCREAMING!" Yuugi shouted back.

"POINTS OFF FOR BEING A LOUD ANNOYING ASSHOLE!" The albino spat. the mini-vamp seethed.
"There you go again with the STUPID POINT THING!"
"EVERYONE CALM DOWN!" Seto boomed. The room fell silent as let out a breath.
"Now I THINK we owe our friend here an explanation," He lowered his eyes at their leader. "AND an apology." Yuugi grinned sheepishly.

"So then...why are they after you? It sounded kind of…personal." Yami asked, sitting down. Bakura blinked.

"Rather bright, aren't you?" Yami shrugged. "Well, basically MY story is with Malik in Egypt." He said. "To make a long story short, we were inseparable ten years ago, that was back when we were sixteen. We grew up together, lived together, ate together, everything together. He was one of my best friends."
"And they were lovers." Seto added. Yami blushed.

"Lovers?"

"Indeed." Bakura added. The musician switched gazed from Seto to Bakura.

"What happened then?"

"Well to make ANOTHER long story even SHORTER," Bakura raised a slightly accusing finger to Seto and Yuugi who grinned embarrassedly. "THOSE two…were HUNGRY." The artiste paled with a audible swallow.

"Y-You mean they-"
"Yep." The albino boy agreed. "Right on the neck. Seto took the first bite and Yuugi the second. Seto's the one who sired me so I am a lower rank than both of them. Malik found out and was enraged. But when I refused to come back, don't think I don't like being what I am because I quite ENJOY it, Malik became enraged and decided to take revenge on those two. AND on me for that matter." Yami nodded slowly. He mentally decided to keep a cross, some garlic, and a vial of holy water near him at all times once he got out of this situation.

IF he did.

GOD he hoped he did.

"And….the other one?"
"Marik….THAT ONE was ALLLLL Yuugi." Seto said, glaring at Yuugi. Said vampire pouted.

"I didn't mean it."

"Like hell you didn't." Yuugi looked at Yami nervously.

"Well, I was a few years into my vampirism and I was getting REALLY hungry one night and-"
"He SUCKED Marik's brother and sister BONE DRY." Seto interrupted coldly. "Right in FRONT of him." Yuugi's pout increased.

"I didn't see him there."
"Oh, yes you did!"
"I SWEAR I DIDN'T!"

"Whatever. All that matters is, Marik saw, went nuts, tried to kill Yuugi, Yuugi got away, Marik devoted his life to hunting down the little brat. As a result, Marik wants Yuugi's head. But Malik wants mine and Bakura's."
"Though with Bakura, we're not quite sure which one-"
"OH CAN IT YOU LECHER!" The named yelled with a blush as Yuugi sneered perversely. Yami's eyes rolled.
BEBEBEEP!

BEBEBEEP!

BEBEBEEP!

He blinked and turned a pale tan, if possible. Yuugi's eyes got big.

"What the hell is-"
"It's a timer on his watch, moron. You've seen them before."
"I-I-It's 9:30 in the morning. I have to open up the Game Shop. And I need to get to college at 5:30…" Yami moaned. Yuugi sighed.

"Go."

"Huh?"
"Go, go." Seto and Bakura's eyes widened. Yuugi continued. "I wouldn't want you to have a heart attack from missing a class or because your precious store wasn't open today. Corpses don't resist and they don't make any noises during sex. That's boring." The musician's hair frizzed slightly.

'Is sex all he thinks about?'

"Go for now and you don't have to come back here right away because I can't say we'll still be here. But do know this…" he smirked, fangs glinting.

"You haven't gotten rid of us just yet, Yami Atemu. I like you, I plan to make you my own and I'm an exceptionally greedy person, I'll tell you right now." Yami blinked, standing.
"Thank you." With that he quickly ran outside, taking a look around. Ah, he knew this area. The college wasn't too far from here. He quickly ran off westward and Yuugi smirked from the inside.

"We'll be back, just you wait."

..::Three Days Later::..

'Yep, that's right, I'd been let go for three days.'

"MAN did Spitzer chew you out. I can't believe you didn't do the sonnet assignment. You LOVE that stuff."
"Yeah well," Yami yawned, walking back home. "I didn't have any time." He then rubbed an eye dazedly.

"You okay, man?" His best friend, Jounochi Katsuya asked. Yami looked him in his honey warm eyes, blonde hair blowing in the crisp October breeze. Yami shrugged.

"Didn't get much sleep last night."

'Believe it or not, I'd convinced myself it was a dream, trying my best to block out any evidence that might prove their existence.'

"You were up all night doing taxes again, weren't you?" Yami shook his head.

"Nah. Had a dream about that…VAMPIRE again."
"The SAME one from your dream three nights ago? That ain't healthy. It's all that livin' alone. It's drivin' you bonkers." Jou rolled his eyes. "Man, I TOLD you having your own place right now was too much. You should bunk with me and Hiroto in the dorms." Jou stated obviously. Yami shook his head.

"Ah, no. I'm good where I am." he said, stopping at the Game Store front door. "See ya Jou."
"Yeah, see ya."

As Jou walked away, the musician gripped his guitar neck tightly, only to remember three days a…

"NOPE! NOPE! NOT REAL! NEVER HAPPENED!" Yami screamed. Noting the stare he got from the old lady next door, he cleared his throat.

"Besides, if Yuugi was as greedy as he said," He began, twisting the key and unlocking the door. He stepped inside. "He'd be here by now."

'But wouldn't you know it; the second I've come close to ACTUALLY CONVINCING myself it wasn't real…'

He stretched and dropped his briefcase on the cough next to a grinning Yuugi Mutou.

"Welcome home, Yami-Chan."
"Hey there." He replied, walking up the st-

What?
WHAT?!

The college student did a 180 as he stared at the small vampire.

It wasn't a dream…

It wasn't a dream…

It was REAL.

And he was an IDIOT for trying to think otherwise.

"You're…You're…You're…" He sputtered with an accusing finger. Yuugi quirked an eyebrow.

"Are we doing THIS again?"

"Yeah. Last time you were scared. Now it's just…repetitive." A cool mature voice said from behind him. The musician froze, slowly turning his head to see a relatively cool-looking Seto Kaiba behind him. He let out an ear-piercing shriek as he lost balance and tumbled backwards down the stairs.

"You know," A familiar voice rasped. "That was rather stupid." A white-haired albino stood over his fallen body. Yami paled at the sight of Bakura Akefia.

'They come back and tear that little fabrication to shreds.'

He yelped once more before the vampire above him propped Yami onto his feet.

"Well, we TOLD you we'd be back, didn't we?"

"How-How did you f-find me?" Seto brushed some dirt off his shoulder and pulled a miniature laptop from his pocket. Opening it, he let his eyes wander the screen.

"Yami Atemu, age twenty, second year student at the Domino University for the Refined Arts. Has no parents, both were killed in a car accident. Soul guardian, his grandfather, dead from a heart attack. No other family members exist. Owns a game store which doubles as his address. Blood type A,-"
"Ooh, my favorite!" Yuugi squealed excitedly as he jumped off the couch. Yami was not soothed. Seto walked down the stairs, snapping the mini-laptop shut.

"People are quite easy to trace."

"So, what do you want from me?" Yami asked nervously. Seto stared him down coolly.

"Malik and Marik found the storage house we'd been using. It wasn't safe there anymore." Bakura slung an arm over Yami's shoulders.

"So what we're here to say is," Yuugi smirked, latching himself onto Yami's chest, his legs wrapped around the taller boys' waist.

"We have a little….ARRANGEMENT we'd like to propose to you." Yuugi smirked, his violet eyes boring into Yami's.

That boy could be scary.

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Well, wasn't THIS a long one? Yeah. Not my best. Another rushed one. I might not post for a while after this one. So, keep me interested in writing this, I'll supply.