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The perfect team
Chapter 9: Take care of…
"Nice work!" Yugi congratulated him, showing up behind Jaden. In each hand the King of Games held a sword with a very thin and lightly curved blade. Jaden guessed their original colours were bronze, but he couldn't really tell as every inch of them were covered in blood.
"Thanks!" Jaden answered, smiling sheepishly. He was about to say something more when a figure appeared in front of them. It was a man with dark brown eyes and unruly, white hair that didn't agree with his age...
"Bakura!" Yugi spat. The man only laughed…
"Who's that?" Jaden wanted to know. He'd never heard of the man, so he couldn't be a professional, could he? But if the man wasn't working in their line of business, how could Yugi know him at all? Jaden decided to stop making up theories and wait for an answer instead. All he got, however, was silence. The two men were watching each other intensely as to not to miss a single move, because even the slightest movement could mean their deaths.
"Who is he?" Jaden asked again, even though this time he wasn't really expecting Yugi to say anything. Still, he was curious.
"Just an old acquaintance."
"Very old indeed…" the Bakura-guy added mockingly.
Now Jaden found himself even more confused. What were they talking about? Old? Old as in "a long time ago" or old in another sort of way? He didn't understand.
"Get out, Jaden."
"What?"
"This will not be pleasant; in fact, it will actually be pretty dangerous. Too much for a schoolboy, no matter how talented. You have to get out of here. Take your friends and move. Go with Pegasus, Kaiba and the others and pay good attention to what they tell you."
"Why? What is it with you and this man that…"
"No time for that right now. Now go find Tea and get the hell out!" Yugi ordered coldly, leaving no room for discussion.
"Okay, okay."
And in three quick steps, the Slifer was out of sight, due to some smoke bombs that had been thrown a couple of minutes earlier.
(Scene Change)
Tea was looking around frantically. Where the heck was that kid, dammit?!? Yugi said he would send him to her as soon as he found him. Ishizu had given her some vital information over the headset mere seconds before the attack began, the most troubling being the identity of their mysterious enemy. The piece of information sent chills through Tea's blood. The spy's first thought was that it couldn't be! They had sent him to hell years ago, when they were still teenagers. But then again, he returned after Tristan sent him off of a "cliff" (a tower of Pegasus' castle), too.
Still, Tea didn't want to believe the information. Even so, she knew Ishizu had never failed before!
'Which makes everything all the more complicated and horrifying!' the brunette thought miserably.
"Tea!"
'The kid!'
"Tea!" Jaden shouted again.
"Finally. What took you so long, brat?!" she snapped.
"He he, sorry about that, but with all the smoke and…ah, never mind!" Jaden stopped himself, seeing as the spy's pupils grew considerably smaller in her fury.
"Whatever. Let's get moving."
"Yeah."
They quickly fought their way out on the backside, killing whomever stood in their way--one of whom would have almost been one Joey Wheeler, too. He came to check up on them and provide them with some help, if they needed it. In the end, he needed it more than them…
"Whoa, stop Tea, it's Joey!" Jaden screeched just in time. The young woman had already let loose one of her arrows and another pointed at the poor man.
"Oh my God!" she exclaimed apologetically. "I'm sorry, Joey, but really; you shouldn't sneak up on me like that!"
"Why, thank you for asking, my arm doesn't hurt so much… Geeze! I'm just glad that you've gotten older or you would've shot me in the heart on the first try…"
Oblivious to the blond, Jaden tried his best to stop one, really pissed off woman with a murderous intent to kill her husband's best friend for good. Which wasn't easy since Tea was pretty strong for someone who seemed as frail as a porcelain doll. Not that she really was one in any way, mind you.
"We should get going, don't you think, ma'am?" Jaden asked, his words snapping the brunette back to reality. Grumbling incoherent words under her breath, Tea let Joey's comment slide for now and moved out of the door.
"There you are!" Duke shouted while they ran over to them. When they reached the little group standing a couple of hundreds of meters away from the building, he continued: "We almost considered going back in. Hell, don't scare us like that! You really need to…"
He never finished that sentence, because right at that moment, an explosion took all of their breaths away; Kaiba's building was blown up, never to be built again. Everyone was so mesmerized by the horrible sight that none of them noticed Tea's desperate looks until she cried:
"Where's Yugi?!"
(Scene Change)
A little earlier…
"So, with the kid out of the way…are you going to fight me one on one?"
"What do you want?"
"Same as ever. Power."
"You seem to be immortal already. What else is there you could wish for, bastard?" Yugi ground out, frustrated. This man always got on his nerves...
"Oh, that was nothing special. I'm like a ghost. You can't kill a ghost… However, I still desire your power over destiny--I crave it!"
"I see." Yugi rolled his eyes, annoyed. Would this idiot never change? "And how do you plan on getting it?"
"By killing you." He threw a little metal ball between Yugi's feet. It gave a little noise, like a clock.
A bomb?
"You're going to blow us both up?"
"Not exactly. I'm a ghost, remember? I can't die, because I already did…five thousand years ago."
"Vindictive much?"
Bakura smiled.
"You can bend destiny to your will… Let's see if you can cheat on death, too…"
Without another word, Yugi ran…"
End of chapter
A/N: Sorry, it took me so long, but my oral exams are coming up and I needed the time to learn. The exam is on Monday, I hope you all squeeze your thumbs for me (In germany, my home country, it's a way to wish someone good luck)