Tie-dyed Trickster-Can't tell ya if he does or not. Sorry.

TakabtTenshi-Marik/Malik's... the really evil ones. God my different naming for the characters confuses even me. Okay. So Yami Bakura had shadow magic and allways worked for himself back when he was evil (since he's kind of Zorc) but once he bacame a baby he still had shadow magic but was suddenly really young and hadn't learned about good-bad yet so Malik can easily teach him to do bad things and Yami will think he's being a good little boy.

Chapter 9

Yugi shook his head "No, I haven't seen Yami anywhere"

Mr. Motou came back from the pool "He wasn't there either"

"And he wasn't in our room" Bakura whispered "Where could he be?" his cell phone, something he wouldn't have been able to afford if his father hadn't helped him support Yami for the first two years, started ringing. "Hello?" a moment of silence "Yes, okay. Thank you?" He put the phone down and shook his head "Ishizu says they aren't at her house, and Marik isn't picking up his cell phone…"

"Don't worry" Atem spoke up "If Yami's anything like how he used to be he wont die (he never dies)" The last bit, though unnoticed by the others, was said a little grudgingly. Obviously the former pharaoh was thinking about all the times he'd sent Yami to the shadow realm while he was still evil only to have him pop up no more than a day later.

OOOOO

"Bunny, where awe we?" Yami tugged on Malik's leg "Bunny speak! Bunny needs to tawk now! Pwease Bunny?"

Malik rolled his eyes, he should have known that Yami, being a four year old, would act somewhat like this. "Shut up"

"Ooooooh, Bunny said a bad word!"

Malik growled and slapped Yami "I said SHUT IT!" he growled and looked around at the small apartment he'd taken Yami to. He couldn't use the millennium rod to get away with keeping the place for free (since Atem had done away with it several years ago) but he didn't really care, he'd just let Marik take the heat once he had to pay rent for the place.

"Meany…" Yami whispered, the room was starting to go black "Meany… I don't want to pway wit you, Bunny. I want Wyou…"

Malik raised an eyebrow "Really?"

"I… I WANT WYOU!" He screamed. The window behind him shattered.

Malik snorted at that "That's all you're going to do. Yami, you used to be capable of so much more. What happened to that demonic side of you that loved destruct-"

He stopped in the middle of his sentence to dodge a knife magically thrown at him "DISAPEAR! DISAPEAR!" Yami screamed, magically hurling the knife toward Malik again.

Malik snatched it out of the air and held it up to Yami's neck "Little boys ought to behave better. Didn't Ryou teach you manners before he abandon you?"

Yami took a step back. His daddy? Abandon him? He wouldn't really do that would he? No… Ryou loved him… but he had been spending a lot of time with Erika lately… a lot of time. Half the time it was like he was invisible, his daddy was already away a lot with 'school' and 'work' and now he barely had time for him with that girl always around. Maybe he'd just figured to not waste anymore time on him.

Yami sobbed. Ryou wasn't like that. But Erika could make Ryou do things, he'd seen it. She'd talk to him in a really soft voice and Ryou would turn red and almost all the time he did what Erika wanted. Maybe Erika had used her voice to talk Ryou into kicking him out. That had to be it

"…Bunny…pway wit me…"

"Play with you?" Malik laughed "Why not? Let me teach you a fun little game" He pulled out a set of knives and taped a picture of Atem up on the wall "Do you like to play with those little shadows you summoned earlier?" Yami looked away, then looked back and nodded. Ryou had never liked him using shadow magic, but he felt so good when he used it, like it was the only time he was complete "Perfect. In this game you'll use those neat little tricks of yours to throw these," he pointed to the knives then gestured to the picture "at that"

Something about this game seemed a little off to Yami, almost like throwing the knives at the real Atem. He'd touche3d the shiny part of the knife before, it hurt. Then again, since when was the real Atem nice to him?

OOOOO

Bakura sat at a bench staring at the sky. There weren't any clouds to look at even if there were he wouldn't be watching them. Yami had been missing for a week now, he felt sick.

"Hey, Ryou" Erika tapped her boy friends shoulder "Come on, I didn't fly all the way out here so you could space out on me! Earth to Ryou!"

Bakura glanced over out her "….what…?"

"Okay. So I did a lot of searching and I think I might have figured out where Yami and Marik are. There's this apartment on the other side of the city that was rented the day Yami vanished, one of the people's neighbors posted a statement about their absolutely bizarre appearance does that sound like Marik and Yami or what?"

Bakura half shrugged "I… guess we should check it out…"

OOOOO

"Hey, Yami"

"Yes, Bunny?" Yami watched his new daddy. He liked his old one better, but at least this one didn't seem like the type to leave him for a stupid girl. Of course, he'd never thought that Ryou would do that either.

"Want to go outside? I know a really nice place to play"

"Weally? Yay! Outside! Outside!" Yami hugged Malik "Tank-you Bunny"

Malik grinned and led Yami out of the apartment, then out of the city, until they got to an old ruins "Bunny, were's dis? Is dis a pawk? Wyou used to take me to pawks."

Malik rolled his eyes and led Yami into an underground room. There were a couple holes in the ceiling where light came through. The temple of the dead, Malik thought of this as his own personal heaven, Yami saw it as hell.

"Bunny, I don wike it here…"

Malik ignored Yami and led him to the far end of the temple. He smiled to himself, this was where the pharaoh's last battle with the tomb robber had taken place. The old Yami had been a fusion of the tomb robber and the dark god Zorc. Yami still had the powers of the dark god, but not the memory. He was the only person left with shadow magic, and he was easy to manipulate.

"Bunny?" Yami let go of Malik's hand and walked over to a carving on the back of the wall showing pictures of the millennium items and telling the story of the battle between Zorc and the pharaoh "Bunny, wat's dis?" he put his hand on the carving.

The room went dark…

Isaya831: Mwahahahaha

Yami: Puh-lease tell me I'm about to do something cool. Get my memories back. Turn evil again. At least destroy something

Isaya831: Mwahahahaha

Erika: Write the next chapter already! I want to-

Isaya831: knocks Erika out Mwahahahaha (And sorry I waited so long to post this)