Chapter 5: We have a deal

"Maybe I can help!" someone said. All three youngsters turned around, shocked that they didn't hear the man enter…

"Who are you?" Jaden asked, while pulling out three daggers and moving in front of Alexis, ready to kill.

"I'm a friend of Yugi's, you can call me Duke!" the man said, flipping away the bangs of black hair, which hang over his face. His green eyes sparkled dangerously and Jaden decided to never take his eyes off of him. The Slifer Red wanted to make sure that this Duke Devlin wouldn't try anything while he and Lex were near him.

"Duke?" he asked suspiciously.

"I've heard of him, Jaden!" Alexis suddenly said with glimmering eyes. "His expertise is camouflage. He's the best!"

"Wow, I didn't think I would meet a fan-girl here!" Duke laughed and moved to kiss Alexis hand, but as soon as he approached her, he had one of Jaden's daggers at his throat.

"Don't touch her, don't even get near her…" Jaden said very slowly, very angrily.

"Are you jealous, Jay?" Alexis asked playfully, while tracing irregular circles on his chest. Jaden remained silent. Everyone knew, the girl was right, but he was too stubborn to say it out loud.

"Well, what do you want?" he asked Duke instead.

"The question is: What do you want… from Yugi?"

Jaden sighed and finally put the daggers back to where they were.

"We need help to find a traitor in the Kaiba Corporation. The one who told Pegasus about our… job at his company."

"Then you'll have to ask Yugi himself. I'm here to 'lead the way'- and only that!" Duke answered with a reassuring smile, but he knew Jaden wouldn't trust him. He was a killer after all and he didn't trust anyone. Well, almost.

"Then 'lead the way', Duke."

Devlin smirked. This Jaden-boy really was one tough teenager. Not many dared to give him an order and managed to live.

"However, Yugi wants to meet that boy alive. It looks like I'll have to wait before I give him a piece of my mind…what a pity!" Duke laughed to himself, as they left. A little uneasy, Jaden hopped into Devlin's red car. His hands were always near his daggers. One wrong movement from that man and he would have one of Jaden's little friends in his throat.

(Scene Change)

"I've got it!" Hassleberry shouted.

"Be quiet, you moron. If the security finds us here, we're doomed. Then Kaiba will think we're the traitors and there's gonna be an execution this very day!" Bastion hissed madly to no end.

"Why didn't I say 'no' when he asked me? Why couldn't I? This is not going to work and even if it would, we would still be on the black list of this academy…"

"Oh, come on. We did a great job; it's past three thirty in the morning and nobody's found us yet."

"Just because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't!" Bastion warned.

"Whatever. I've got the information. His real name is Judai Yuuki and Alexis' is Asuka Tenjoin… We can now look for…"

"Isn't it a little late to be around here, my young friends?" a voice suddenly asked from behind them.

"We're doomed!" both Ra Yellows thought, as they turned around.

Behind them, there was standing a young woman with long brown hair and questioning brown eyes. She wore a black cat suit with a high collar that she also used as a mask to hide half of her face. In her hands, she had two thin swords that shimmered a little in the moonlight that fell through the window.

"She surely isn't a member of the campus security. So, if she hasn't killed us yet, we have a chance of not being expelled from the Duel Academy…" Bastion concluded.

"Who are you and what do you want?" Hassleberry asked. He didn't seem frightened.

"I'm Serenity Wheeler and I work with Yugi Muto. He asked me to come and get you. Your friends will be waiting for us!" the woman said, while pulling down her collar to show a light smile.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Hassleberry said and he seemed a little… anxious about what she said.

"I'm far from kidding, but if you need proof that I'm telling the truth about your friends…" she answered and showed them a photograph. If it weren't for Jaden's bright smile, Bastion and Hassleberry would have thought he and Alexis had been kidnapped. On the photo Jaden was sitting in a chair with a newspaper in his hands. The newspaper held yesterday's date, so he really had to be with those people.

"I'm waiting for your decision."

Both boys looked at each other, before responding in union:

"We're coming."

(Scene change)

"Finally!" Jaden sighed. "I thought the three of you weren't coming anymore. What took you so long?"

"Your friends weren't in their dorm, so I had to look over the whole academy. I even had to search the boys closet…" Serenity said, shivering with disgust.

"It's good to see you too, Judai!" Bastion smiled.

"How do you…"

"We were searching the entire database of Kaiba Corp. when your friend found us."

"So, you've been bad boys while we weren't around?" Alexis asked, approaching them.

"You could say that!" Hassleberry answered, scratching his chin. "But, now what?"

Jaden gave them a sign to follow him while he was moving to a door in the back. From behind it, stairs would lead them on to the next floor. The group remained silent until they were upstairs. Then they heard some voices, talking quietly to each other. Serenity went to the last door and knocked lightly. The voices stopped immediately and they were asked to come in. As soon as the door opened, the four Duel Academy students stopped dead in their tracks. There, before them, in a small room in the back of a very little game shop, were most of their idols all sitting together: Tristan, the explosives expert; Duke Devlin, the man with a hundred faces; Mai Valentine, the poisonous seductress; Tea Gardener and Serenity Wheeler, two of the best spies on the planet; Joey Wheeler, her brother and Yugi's right hand, and of course Yugi Muto himself, the king of games and the best killer around. "The deadly seven", as they were called by most of the people in and out of their business.

"Come on in!" Yugi suddenly spoke. His voice was calm and friendly, and he even gave them a light smile to reassure them. "We want to propose to you something."

"We could use some help!" Jaden said in an act of courage.

"We know. And we would give you all the help you might need, if…"

Silence.

"If Pegasus forgives you and you come to work with us after everything is done…" Yugi finished. Jaden's little group didn't even have to think about it, as all of them screamed "YES!" in their minds.

On the outside though, they remained calm as Jaden stepped in the middle of the room and gave their answer:

"We have a deal, Mister Muto."

A/N: At least somethin is going right for them. Still, will Pegasus forgive them?