"The only way people should be allowed in our minds is if they want to be tortured."—this quote is from the author (anime needy) about the both of us it also doubles as the warning for this chapter.

"Why would we own Yugi Oh? We're certifiable nuts people, get over it!!! Stupid disclaimer."—grrring from anime-needy.

Mokuba, Tani, and Yugi now done with their tea, crumpets, and questions related to dress were extremely bored just sitting there so Mokuba stood up and exclaimed "Hey! Since you've never seen Kaiba Corp. before, Tani, how about I give you and Yugi the tour!"

Yugi and Tani looked across to each other, shrugged, and said to Mokuba "Sure."

A little later on the tour

They had finally gotten to everything except the computer room… and were proceeding into it when they heard a scream come from the room, well that just made them rush faster to it they were confronted with a strange site. Mokuba turned to Yugi and said, "I can now say yes to your question earlier, and that kind of scares me just a touch." Yugi nodded, and then looked at Kaiba and Ryou tilted his head and commented, "You know you're doing that position wrong, Kaiba. You've got him tied wrong and you are so going to hurt his back that way and that is not the purpose of that particular position." "Yeah big bro, you should use something else when tying him up. Cuz' that's gonna chafe or something like that." Mokuba stated. "Silk's a good bondage cord." stated Tani. The boys looked at her weirdly. Kaiba stared at all them "Will you stop critiquing my ways of fu—"

The door burst open

"Hi Guys! It's me Tea! Hey I wanted to invite you all to go dancing tomorrow night! Oh I hope you don't mind my dropping in so suddenly Kaiba-kun!" Tea said in her annoyingly high pitched voice and stated also "Kaiba-kun you're binding him all wrong, well, I'll see you all tomorrow! Don't forget it's all for friendships' sake!!" Ryou being the one to wake from sleeping through the sermon first said, "Okay, umm, we will be there." and then said to Taniya laughingly "I know this is kind of odd, love, but could you get that kink out again?" Tani looked at him a little spacey but then nodded and got, yet again, the kink out of his back that Kaiba put there.

Yugi and Tani were then promptly sent away with Kaiba a little miffed at everyone but he still decided to go dancing the next night anyways.

Meanwhile, late at night in a dreamer's realm…

They met in a cold, dark passageway, beneath the opulent outer layer of the palace, in the dead of night, when no other soul stirrred... though the tunnel was cool to the touch the air was charged with something akin to hate, or was it? "Bakura…"she hissed in the dank dark, "Why, Kitten, did the pharaoh have no need for you tonight?" the thief spoke silkily. She edged closer wanting to attack, yet couldn't. Now, both were far too close to the other for any comfortable purposes... "What are you here for Tomb Robber?" she almost moaned because his heady scent surrounded her intimately..."Only for you, Kitten, only you." he whispered softly in her ear, trailing her face with his finger and bringing his lips to hers...

Tani shot up in bed, sweating a little, and started to murmur, "A dream, it was just a dream...it means nothing, not anymore." Getting out of the bed she went to take a shower, hoping, if anything to presently wipe away such a memory...it devoured her so…she closed her eyes 'Just like he had that night....' she shivered in the warm liquid.

The Next Day

Tani arrived at Yugi's house at 10 am. They had breakfast and talked, though Tani avoided questioning when she replied that she hadn't slept much as to why that was.

"So, Yugi," changing the subject for the umpteenth time "what should I wear to this dancing thing?" He looked at her a moment, " Something that looks nice, but not sluttish, wear something you can keep cool in considering how hot it gets in clubs and don't wear too short a skirt that's asking for trouble from the assholes at the club." She smirked, "I'll find something that fits your wishes at least a little okay?"

Most everyone was dressed in his or her normal clothes except Ryou, who Seto made dress to kill or maybe it was Bakura, no one can rightly say, Yugi who was in a darker version of his usual outfit, Tea who was dressed in her dancing outfit, and Taniya who arrived last in a long trench coat. She just watched everyone else in her trench coat for a while sipping on water she'd ordered. When they all arrived back from the dance floor for their first round of drinks she said " Dancing has gotten worse since I've gotten back, that's so sad. Tea you said you were a good dancer not a whore!" Tea snapped back "I am not a whore, and what do you know you haven't danced yet!" Tani replied, "Your dancing as you put it is nothing more than a heathen's way to arouse a boy! Of course I haven't danced yet I wouldn't fit in, I can actually dance!" Tea furiously yelled "Oh Yeah? Prove it!" "Fine." Tani replied darkly and took off the trench coat revealing a fully slit skirt in belly dancer fashion with a top covering her breasts and little else, though still a secure hold. She walked in front of them all and closed her eyes and thought back, tuning out the distracting music of this era to the steady drums of her own and began her dance. Her steps and her movements were hungrily only by the two who knew the music and all the steps she would take: Atem and Bakura. They remember well that day she had danced, and was never allowed to do so again, because the pharaoh deemed it unwise to have such a temptress in the dance, well that, and nobody was happy to have the Roman fools looking at her. Ryou looked over to Yugi, he was staring just as himself intensely at the woman before them…

'At least I'm not alone in my appreciation of her abilities…'

'Awwwww, Ryou likes my Kitten, does he? ' '

Huh, what kitten? There isn't a kitten here; you didn't get another pet to maim did you? '

'No, silly hikari, the kitten is dancing right now, and of course I wouldn't hurt her… she's my favorite pet, after you of course.'

'Right… and we all know just how much you take care of me…you're a horrible psychiatrist Bakura.'

'Well at least I haven't billed you yet, hikari. And besides you don't need the lovey dovey crap the brat has to deal with his darker half.'

'Huh? Really? But anyway, I thought she was the pharaoh's umm… 'chick'?'

Ryou felt Bakura grin wolfishly 'Only by the light of Ra.' Ryou felt like pulling at his hair or Bakura's

'And what, pray tell, does that mean exactly?'

Bakura still smiling, 'She was mine in the deep darkness of night, beneath the eyes of all above. And I think you triggered her memory of that very notion when you called her love the other day…'

' Hey, that's just something we Brits say to a lovely lady or really any lady above a certain age, it's not my fault…!'

'And I think you're in denial, and not the river in Egypt, by the way.'

' I can't be in denial, I barely know her, and she's a girl, I'm not bi, Bakura.'

'That's what you'd like to think wouldn't you? Besides you're staring at her like any normal male would any way just with specific attention to anything below her midriff, which is where belly dancing is important anyway.'

'No I'm not, I just like the music.'

' Look, hikari, you have a list of things about her you like about her, I can start reading it off to you if you want…'

'No I don't!'

' Your sounding like a two year old and here's the list; you like: Her hands, feet, the way the light hits her eyes, the way her hips move, her voice when she yelled at you, her…'

'Okay, okay, okay, I get it I like her, but what the hell am I going to do, I'm dating Kaiba remember? I really don't want to break off that relationship I like him a lot!'

' Oh really, then why is his list so much shorter?'(Her list has about 15 and growing, b/c Ryou's still watching her, and Kaiba's has 'bout 5, two of which concern sex.)

'You probably added onto hers…'

'Nope, sorry, I have my own list of personal reasons thank you very much. Why would I do that? I'm your psych. I've got to make you see your problems, not mine. '(He has a pretty long list too, about her, and a nice long list of why he hates Kaiba…-)

'Okay so how are we going to do this, umm get-the- girl-operation?'

' Oh, little hikari, just leave that to me, I've got a plan…'

This all happened in an exceptional span of 10mins. Or so…

ThenYugi suddenly changed into Yami and stood up and strode to Tani stopping her continuance of the dance. Seeing Tea in near tears and wanting to stop the dance before it's end; some particularly nasty looking guys were staring at Tani, that irked both the bearer and resident of the millennium puzzle. All Tani said to Tea was "See, I told you, but don't worry, I sure you'll get better…" Tea ran out, with Yugi, who momentarily glared at Tani, running after her. Ryou and Bakura both thought 'Well, that was convenient.' Tani looked as Yugi left, understanding showing in her eyes and a very tiny smile on her face. She then passed Ryou and sat down gulping down the water in her cup. Ryou just stared at her completely ignoring Kaiba's death glare of I-will-kill-you-when-we-get-home (Bakura was going over the plan with Ryou again).

Unfortunately for Bakura, well Ryou actually, Kaiba was drinking something a little harder than soda: try whiskey (since he thought sake was well, gross, at least in his opinion). Kaiba's mind state was slowly crumbling from highly organized library to the sty of a teenager's room complete with the pizza smell from somewhere… and the only one who noticed was Joey. So Joey took Kaiba somewhere slightly quieter, outside the dance club, next to Kaiba's limo so that he could see him off safe toward Kaiba Corp. and asked leaning in closer to Seto

"Was' up Kaiba why so glum, man? Are you alright?"

Kaiba's watery eyes look into Joey's softly concerned ones and something snapped in his head, his logic broke in twine and he sobbed into Joey's shoulder. All Joey could get out of the muffled sobs was

"Ryou…sobbing…ungrateful bitch…more sobs…cheater… a sob followed by a hiccup…and couch permanently."

Even though he was a blonde he at least could get a slight pic. Something along the lines of how Ryou having stared at the dancing guard, hell they all had, was somehow cheating and there were going to be severe consequences on Ryou's part. 'Ouch.'

"Kaiba, man, we all stared at her, and besides even if he doesn't care about you, I still do, a lot, actually."

Joey confessed this slowly not quite comprehending what he'd said until afterward and his eyes got big, but then again Kaiba's were saucer wide and sober now, he whispered

"You do? Mutt I thought you hated me!?!"

"I only dislike you a little when you call me Mutt!"

Joey said quickly after. Kaiba always on the up take said

" What if I show you the real meaning behind your nickname, Joey?" breathing in his ear and opening the limo's door invitingly. Joey caught in the moment said "Sure thing," daringly adding "Master Kaiba." wagging his eyebrows (since he had no tail) and went in the limo. They drove to Kaiba Corp.

Back inside the club

(AN: Remember those unsavory characters briefly mentioned for the reason of stopping Tani dancing? In a distant voice: Well they're back….)(Effiel's 'Blue' playing in the background)

People from the gang were quickly dispersing at an alarming rate and unluckily for those that remained (Ryou, and Tani) this was not good for their survival ratings or so it seemed. So a least one guy came up to the table, he actually wasn't that bad looking (for a brunette) he just gave off negative vibes (a.k.a. evil) and spoke to trench coat girl

"Hey pretty, wanna hang out wit' me instead of this loser here wit' the jewelry?"

She looked at them annoyed, and said,

" Not really, you don't seem to be much competition."

Several of his friends currently joined up and he said,

"Pretty please, pretty lady?" she flatly replied without looking up

"No. Now go away."

"But little lady, if we don't get to take you your oh so boring friend here won't live through the night."

Ryou felt a knife to his spine and stiffened. Tani looked between the punk and Ryou, smiled secretively, and said

" Oh well if you put it that way, I guess I have to come with you since my companion can't take care of himself and you are so very obviously the stronger man here."

Picked up her coat and started walking with them. Ryou took a sip of his soda and waited for about ten seconds after they'd taken her out the door and followed after switching control over to Bakura.

'Are you sure we'll get her out safely?'

'We could've taken them in the club, but Kitten always makes chasing her hard and she can take care of herself to a point…'

'So then why are we even following them?' Bakura stopped and frowned a moment and thought to Ryou

'Remember when she threatened us in the store, well she wasn't kidding her claws have plenty of blood on them, but the Kitten never wanted to acknowledge defeat or conceive being out numbered…'

' So she's overconfident?'

'Not for the time period she's from on a fair fight she could easily kill them all but with the advantages of technology and medicine on their side… she could very easily be overpowered or overwhelmed.'

'You really care for her don't you?'

'Care is too shallow a word for Kitten. She is a mix between my salvation and my sin, very similar to you, my hikari. Now silence I'm still tracking them. '

They found the troupe in an old rickety building with her tied to a chair bound and gagged.

'How'd that happen?'

'We'll ask questions later, Ryou, later. For now let's just get them away from her.'

(Gangster's Pov.)

"Well pretty lady, let's see just how pretty you are." The brunette sneered while taking his hand to her face in a sound slap. "It'll get rougher," seeing the red besmirching her cheek, "if you don't be a good bitch and cooperate with our wants and needs…" At this point there came a loud crash from above and a light thud to the ground.

(Third person pov)

There stood covered in dust Ryou, though in actuality Bakura, with a ticked off expression on his face. Bakura grinned evilly as he started trapping some of the group into the shadow realm. The main evil guy, in desperation, cut Tani's ropes and used her as shield with a long dagger to her throat saying,

" If you don't stop, little punk, the chick gets sliced."

Bakura stopped for a moment and glared at the guy while proceeding to punch another guy out. Soon, about four guys had surrounded Bakura. He stood there now motionless.

"Haha, not so tough now, are ya? Afraid of your girlfriend getting hurt, huh?"

Bakura raised his head, stared him straight in the eye, and smiled his evil smile. He then promptly kicked two of the guys surrounding him, then hit the other two's heads together, rendering them unconscious. He then ran so fast, it was like he had disappeared and reappeared behind the leader.

"And if I didn't care about her? What could you have possibly done then?" he hissed, before hitting him on the base of his neck, also knocking him out.

"Of course, how was he to know that you do care for me, Bakura?" Tani asked him.

All of a sudden, part of the building they were standing next to (A condemned building) fell off near them, burying the leader underneath it.

As the dust settled Ryou took control and asked Tani

"So mind telling me why you didn't help getting yourself free? From what 'Kura tells me you're actually pretty good with hand on hand combat and considering my encounters with you I'll take what he's saying as truth. So…?" he led off.

Tani replied "So, I just wanted to be rescued for once, I did have that fantasy once upon a time. Besides now I owe you, my gallant thief, a debt."

Stepping closer his body and whispering in his ear lightly, "Do I not?"

Ryou switched to his darker half and a glimmer appeared in his eyes "Kitten," he directed at her, grabbing her wrists to face him properly "What is the reward?" inching closer to her face.

She smirked slightly "Isn't it obvious, tomb robber?" he smiled softly and talking to Ryou for a moment,

"Well, Kitten, it seems my lighter half has an apartment nearby, want to go there?"

She snuggled into his shirt, "You know we won't make it farther, 'Kura."

The gleam in his eyes turned humorous "Lost your sense of adventure, Kitten?"

She scrunched her nose up in distaste "No but I don't think we'll find the Pharaoh's throne room here in Japan."

He chuckled lightly " We could look for it in the museum…"

Her eyes went wide for a second then narrowed

" No. Just lead the way to your hikari's apartment, please, Bakura."

He kissed her forehead, "Alright you win this time Kitten."

And grabbed her around the waist possessively leading the way to 'his' apartment.