Alright not as long as I wanted it but that's okay it'll get there. ;3

Kaiba meet Ishizu at the entrance of the hotel that morning when the sun was just peaking over the horizon. She had a plastic bag in her left hand and a rolled up black mat in the other.

"Where is Yami?"

"The idiot did not respond when the front desk called him."

She shook her head at him.

"I see. Let's go get him. We would have had to go back to his room for the ritual anyway."

Seto nodded and lead the way through the halls towards Yami's room. The thought of Yami being cursed made him uncomfortable. It wasn't like he cared about him but Mokuba would be alone more now that he had to take care of the curse and his company work would start piling up. But really, he was not concerned for Yami.

"Here is his room."

Ishizu nodded and knocked on the door.

"Yami, we need you to come out."

"He's not going to answer. He slept like a lazy pig at my house."

"Really, interesting. That could be part of the curse you know."

"Hmm."

She knocked again louder this time but still no one responded. Seto began to walk away.

"Hey, where are you going?"

"To get another key. I paid for that room."

He snapped. Ishizu huffed and leaned patiently beside the door as she waited for Seto to return. When he did, they quickly swung open the door to find Yami sitting in a catatonic state on the bed where Ishizu had deposited him last night. They hesitated at the door before walking in front of him. He didn't look up as they stood there. His eyes simply gazed lifelessly at the floor.

"We should start the ritual immediately."

"This better not be another crazy blood sacrifice or I'm called the asylum."

"Is the only thing that comes out of your mouth insults?"

"They're not insults. They're just the truth."

Ishizu decided her best option was to ignore Kaiba and began to set up the ritual. She carefully spread out the black mat she had and removed the chalk and sage from her plastic bag. She dragged Yami to the center of the mat and lite the sage on fire. As she chanted a spell she waved the smoke around Yami.

Kaiba watched as at the same time Ishizu and Yami let out a gasp and their hands shot to their heads in pain. Everything went black around Ishizu and she passed out. Seto lurched forward and caught Yami before he hit the ground. He shook him to see if he would awake and swore when his head simple rolled over.

All he could be was wait for Ishizu to wake up. He gently picked Yami up and set him in the hotel bed. When he turned to Ishizu she had begun to wake up.

"Uhhh."

"What happened?"

"Kaiba? Help me stand, I had a vision."

Seto obliged and when she was up she looked deep into his eyes.

"You two have a strange connection indeed. Come follow me to your room and I will tell you of the curse. It should take Yami a while to wake up."

When they entered his room she sat down on the coach while Seto choose to remain standing to mask his growing discomfort.

"Well, speak."

"It's a very complicated curse he has on him."

"Are you saying you are too weak to remove it."

Ishizu smiled at Kaiba's inpatients.

"Calm down you will be able to help him. Actually, only you will be able to help him."

Seto shot her a warning glare so she decided to continue.

"The curse he has on him separates his soul. The particular part of his soul he is missing is responsible for any good feelings a person may have, be it happiness or just the ability to be warm and comfortable. Now that's where you come in. In your past life you must have gotten in the way of this curse from completing because as soon as you are near the pharaoh his soul is whole. It's like your presence calls back his soul from wherever the pieces are scattered."

"That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard of."

Kaiba snorted. All of it just sounded like some cheesy romance to him.

"Yes, of course you would have some trouble taking this in but I haven't even told you about how to fix him yet. You told me your vision occurred when you and Yami touched your Blue-Eyes White Dragon card."

"Yes."

"That's how you can break the curse. His soul must be trapped in different cards. I'm sure being a master duelist you will be able to figure out the pattern. I would tell Yugi and the others as well. They might have a card already that contains his soul because they are so close to him."

Just as Seto was about to respond his door was kicked open and Yami's angry eyes greeted him.

"You just pushed me into that lake. I should duel you right now and remind you of how you always lose against me."

Yami glared heatedly at Seto trying his best to ignore the warm feelings threatening to consume him.

"Okay, Let's duel then."

The pair whipped out their decks Seto snatched Yami's and began shuffling it but as soon as he saw the Black Magician he placed it on the top of the deck without Yami noticing.

When Yami grabbed the deck his finger brushed the top card that Seto's thumb was on and he gasped as his eyes flooding with a vision once again. Seto dropped the deck spilling the cards everywhere when he felt a burning sensation just like when they touched his Blue-Eyes. He closed his eyes and allowed the vision to take over him.

He walked cautiously using the rocky surroundings and trees as a shield.

He could hear them as he drew closer,laughing, shouting, screaming, hate, disorder.

At one point he could see them and his rage seemed to grow more hideous then the sound of all their noise tied together.

But they were just the sheep.

He wanted the shepherd's head.

Okay... don't know how I feel about this chapter. It was kinda just my explain and set the stage for later chapters thing so I hope it wasn't boring and dragged out. :/