Warnings: M and Yaoi don't like or to young or easily offended then DO NOT READ! Don't own Yugioh

CHAP 22:Part 1: Fight For Me

Ryou growled as he landed on the ground heavily and looked around from his knelt position, and felt the morning due seep into the knees of his pants making them wet and cold. This was not his idea of fun; he would rather be in the warm bed with Malik, but he wanted to make sure that nothing outside was a threat to Malik or himself before going back to bed. Ryou then swiftly moved to the tree lines, though he couldn't been seen by the human eye, he didn't like to be out in the open like that.

When Ryou shifted out of sight, his world went from colorful, to greens, blues and blacks. He sniffed the air as he walked curiously and without sound through the woods, he picked up the sent of cologne, leather and… dogs. He stopped walking, as he could smell, dogs?! The one thing that could detect Ryou in his unseen form giving away his location to the dog handlers or anyone else. Ryou growled as the hair on the back of his neck stood on end.

The last encounter Ryou had with dogs was a field test, he was placed up against five large Dobermans, savage and snarling at him, wanting blood, his blood!… and most likely Gozaburo had fed them just that at one point before the test, making sure that the dogs would efficiently hunt him down. Ryou had sat in the trees to avoid them on the ground, it worked until he was shot down then attacked by the dogs, biting and tearing his clothing and flesh… a week, a whole week later and he was forced back on his feet… he really hated dogs.

Ryou came to a large clearing and gasped in shock, which made him come out of his invisible state, thankful for the cover of the trees. He could see everything, a helicopter, seven four-wheel drives and three trucks. When had they come? Why hadn't he heard them? Did they come when he was in town with Malik? Or was it when he was distracted in bed by Malik? Ryou walked around the trees to get a better look.

The trucks had empty dog cages in them, twelve dogs all up he counted. He couldn't tell how many men there would be all carrying guns on them, but there was quite a few of them, Gozaburo wasn't here, was he?.. Strange then who was in charge of all this, Founder? Ryou snorted that man never did anything but sign papers for his tests, Ryou had never met Founder face to face, and they had never been in the same building as each other, so Founder wouldn't be easy to find, Ryou had no clue what he would smell like, but thought he would smell repulsive.

Ryou knelt down in the long grass his ears constantly twitched trying to pick up any sounds around him, like the snapping of twigs, people couldn't be quite if their lives depended on it. His clear blue eyes scanned everything around him; the early dawn would start to light up the area soon and he would be spotted easier. He couldn't use his powers here, to kill them all off at once, because Malik was…

Ryou's eyes widened as his heart leapt into his throat and almost choked him, he shot up to his feet and started to run using his full speed back towards the house, again. How could he have been so stupid!

Malik rolled over in the bed with a soft groan his arm landed on nothing but the mattress; he slowly opened his eyes as his hand clutched the sheets of where Ryou should have been sleeping. Malik sat up looking around the room. "Ryou?!" He called out, thinking he had maybe gotten up for some reason. Malik rolled over onto his other side and just lay there and waited, watching the door and listened for footsteps. After five minutes of waiting, Malik pulled himself from the bed and picked up the pants from the floor that he would have worn to bed that night, and pulled them on, running his hands through his hair a few times, he walked over opened the bedroom door and stepped out into the hallway with a yawn and a stretch.

"Good morning." Malik looked up not recognizing the voice at all and his eyes widened at seeing a man with black lines on his cheeks along with large goggles over his eyes, his face just looked dirty and that smug grin. Malik took a step backwards more in surprise than anything else, and before he could register what was going on. The mans smirking face was the last thing Malik saw as the handle of the gun connected with the side of his head, Malik fell to the floor unconscious.

Ryou stopped a good distance from the side of the house, looking around he couldn't see anyone in the area but his mind told him that they were here somewhere. Ryou bit his lip and he started to shake from the adrenalin in his body. He dashed across the neatly cut lawn to the house and jumped up to the second floor, grabbing onto the windowsill to prevent himself from falling back to the ground. Ryou pushed up the window silently glad that it wasn't locked and climbed inside.

Ryou stepped into the bedroom that he shared with Malik hoping to find him still asleep in their bed. His heart stopped and he gritted his teeth together and growled as he picked up the scent of Malik's blood and another scent of someone else, plus finding the bed empty, didn't help his already bad mood. Ryou moved to the door and opened it a crack and looked the small hallway over. A man dressed in all black standing at the end of the hallway looking out the window that Ryou had first climbed out of before.

Ryou slipped out of the room leaving the door open and walked silently up behind him, with lighting fast hands, Ryou placed a hand over the man's mouth and snapped his head sharply to the left, if he had used anything else the man would have screamed, which Ryou didn't need. The man fell against him limply; Ryou struggled a little under the weight and eased the man to the ground so not to make any noise.

Ryou frowned hard in concentration, his ears flattened back against his head as soft angry growling sounds constantly came from his chest as he searched the man's body. Ryou didn't mind that they had come after him, but what he did mind was that they had come and gotten Malik involved in this. Ryou pulled two handguns with silencers attached, and a knife from the man's belt. Ryou checked Seto's bedroom, placing one gun in the back hem of his jeans, the cold metal against the skin of his lower back made him shiver. He placed the other gun in front hem against his abdomen and the knife at his side. Ryou moved to the door, finding the bedroom empty, he then dragged the dead body inside the room and turning off the hand radio so the body wouldn't be found to easily, Ryou closed the door then made his way to the stairs.

Ryou vanished from the world again and took the first few steps downwards and crouched, to look into the living area. His clear blue eyes widened as Bakura, Yami, Marik, Yugi, Mai, Serenity, Jou, Valon and Otogi, were tied up with their hands behind their backs and laying on their sides.

Ryou's heart constantly pounded in his chest as he worried over Malik. He moved one more step down and Ryou had to fight everything in himself not to use his powers and kill everything. Malik lay on the floor in the corner, hands tied behind his back and blood ran down his forehead. Oh this was no test, were Gozaburo and his men would walk away at the end, laughing on such a good and existing test, not for this, not for hurting his Malik. Oh no, Ryou, narrowed his eyes, he was going to kill them all, no one was going to walk away from this with mild injuries, not this time! He had never felt so angry before. Fine! They want to see what he can do, what he's made of, then he would show them first hand what they wanted too see, what they would be up against.

Suddenly a strong scent made itself known to Ryou, he crouched down more on the stairs, his sensitive hearing picked up on a whine, his ears pricked forward, so the dogs were in the house. 'Perfect.' Ryou growled to himself and then did the most hardest thing he had ever done… he backed away into the hallway and out the end window again climbing out. 'Hold on Malik.'

Ryou was once again running through the trees to the front of the house, a good view of the front door that was closed and most likely locked from the inside. Where were the men? Cracking sounds of a branch came from above him with soft-spoken words. Ryou's ear's pricked up and his eyes followed up to the tree, so that's where they were. No wonder he didn't run into them before or smell them, or had he been so worried over Malik that he himself had missed them. Ryou narrowed his eyes he couldn't pick up the mans scent something was blocking it, he bared his fangs and growled as his eyes turned from clear blue to all white.

The man dressed in all black was sitting in the tree; he was pulled out with a startled yelp and slammed to ground. Ryou stepped forward and placed his foot on the mans neck and pushed down, the man tugged and pulled at Ryou's leg while he gagged for air. "How many are you?" Ryou growled at him.

The man shook his head no; Ryou seethed and pressed his foot down harder. "It was a mistake coming after me, and a bigger one for hurting Malik." Ryou narrowed his white eyes even more, as the man pulled a knife from his belt and went to stab Ryou in the leg with it. The shadows ran towards the guy like water and wrapped around the man. Ryou moved back a little and watched as it looked like the shadows were dragging the man into the ground, he let out a panicked scream that lasted a few seconds before he was gone, all that was left was his weapons, helmet, night vision goggles and few other odds and ends that were made of metal.

The bark of the tree flew off the trunk as bullets just missed Ryou's body. The Neko-boy turned instantly to look at them, to see another round shot off at him. Ryou turned away from them and ran heading right for a tree that wasn't to far from him, and as if he was a ghost, he vanished into the tree trunk and never came out the other side. The men watched in shock as their target had vanished from view right in front of them, guns shook in their hands as they spoke softly to each other on what had happened and if they had seen right.

They stood there looking about for a sign that would tell them where the target had gone. Ryou appeared behind them and moved in, taking them out one by one shadows wrapping around them dragging them into the ground or trees, the whole area was engulfed in screams of fear and gunfire.

Inside the house Malik moaned and rolled onto his back, it felt like his brain was fifty times to big for his skull. "Hey, Malik, you okay?" Bakura asked as he was facing Malik from the other side of the living room, Yugi, Valon and Mai looked up at him, the rest just gave Bakura questionable look.

"No, I'm not." Malik mumbled and blinked his eyes open and looked at them, lost for a minute on where he was and what had happed to him to be down here, then the pain his head allowed thoughts to come through and he gasped. "Where's Ryou? He wasn't in bed." Malik started to struggle with his bonds behind his back; it was obvious that Ryou had been found out and that they had come to take his Neko back, 'over my dead body.' Malik thought angrily.

"I don't know, I haven't seen him." Yugi mumbled keeping his voice low as he looked around what part of the room he could for their captor. "Yami and I were the first ones that they brought down here."

"This is really bad guy's." Serenity whimpered her back was to everyone and she faced the front door, Marik was at her back.

"Fuck my head hurts." Seto mumbled near Malik's feet from the far corner of the room. "What the hell is going on here?!" He growled as couldn't really move.

"Somehow, 482 knew we were here before we could move in." Malik looked up confused for a minute on who it was. "Don't insult me, you should know me at least through Ryou anyway."

"Boots." Marik hissed he recognized the guy, Malik glanced at him for a second then at Boots the tall male with short red hair.

"But they said you were dead." Malik remembered the news broadcast and the papers that Marik had showed him, that the man had been drowned in a river somewhere.

"Please, I faked my death so I could take over…" Boots stood over him, a gun on his hip and a radio in his hand and a smug grin on his face that Malik wanted to slap off. "But then again I'm the one that made him like that, I should be the one getting the money for him. I did all the work."

"But it was you who called me on my cell that day?" Malik said disbelieving. "You sounded as if you wanted to help Ryou, not take him back"

"I did want to help." Boots said. "But an offer came up that I couldn't refuse, I'm not a bad guy." He bent down a little and said. "I got someone who'll buy 482 from me." Boot's used the tip of his shoes and pressed it against Malik's right cheek and forced him to turn his head up

"Why?" Malik shook his head and moved his face away from the shoe glaring up. "Why did you create him if you were only going to abuse him and sell him as if he were a mere slave?"

Boots narrowed his eyes. "What? You think because I'm here and everything is falling apart for you, that I'll just tell you everything?" Boots rubbed at his eyes as if he was tired and said. "What kind of idiot do you take me for, I'm not going to blab everything out to you now?" His voice turned colder. "All you need to know." Here Boots gave Malik a light kick to his stomach making him grunt in pain and pull his knees up. "Is that 482 is very expensive. And I also thank you for taking care of him and bringing him right back to me."

"You're a sick bastard!" Malik sneered at him. "Ryou has done nothing to you and you treat him lower than the scum you scrap off your shoe." Boots bent down swiftly and shot out a hand slapping him across the face hard, the side of Malik's head hit the carpeted floor.

"Gozaburo was responsible for that, not me. Ryou means more to me than that, he is going to make me rich beyond my imagination."

Marik snorted and said. "Which wouldn't be much considering that you're a narrowed minded, self conceited, egotistical bastard." Bakura gave a burst of laughter along with the rest of the group that giggled, despite the situation that they where in, Marik added. "And I have never liked you that much, always boasting about your work at my fathers dinner table."

"Me either." Seto mumbled, Malik looked at him. "He worked for me." Seto blurted out.

Boots picked it up on the meaning in his words and said. "You're firing me, Seto? But I had quit a month ago… Oh and here's the brain twister." Boots walked over and kicked Seto in the ribs, the teen cried out and coughed to get his air back. "That dear Seto is Founder and the one responsible for the funding of 482."

"So you called them here, Seto?" Malik asked then yelled. "You traitor!"

"I didn't know anything about Ryou." Seto shot back innocently.

"Liar!" Malik struggled in his bonds; Boots smirked as he watched the two in an argument.

"How could I." Seto yelled back. "I just met him the other day."

"Yes but you merged with a pharmaceutical company that researches and conducts testing on new drugs to help with people who are suffering fatal illnesses." Boots said.

"I saw the reports on Ryou, your name was on everything." Malik growled forgetting that Seto was also tied up along with them.

"Because the new pharmacies labs are called Founder, all the order forms and paper work within my company have the water-mark Founder in it." Seto arched his neck back to look at Malik and said. "I don't know what's going on."

"Then why all the questions about him?" Bakura asked before Malik could say anything.

"He was in my house, I was trying to get to know him…I was being nice!" Seto looked over at Bakura.

"Yeah, as nice as a blizzard storm." Jou mumbled, Seto glared at him, Jou snapped. "Yeah, you heard me, you cold hearted bastard!"

"Shut up, Jou!" Seto snapped at him. "If I wasn't tied up…"

Jou cut in. "What moneybags? What could you do, I'll kick your ass into next week!" Jou shot back.

"Do you two even realize how serious this situation is?!" Mai asked with a shake of her head disbelieving the pair could still fight at a time like this.

"Do they ever stop?" Yami mumbled to Yugi, who just plainly shook his head no.

"No, I have a headache just listing to them." Valon mumbled to them and Otogi agreed with him.

"Seto's the traitor." Jou gave a sharp nod of his head towards the said teen.

"I'm not the traitor!" He looked at Malik again. "Because I came off a little distant from everyone and I know that I came off cold at times, but whatever is going on here I'm not a part of it!" Malik was just confused now and had to many questions to ask and he doubted that he would get them.

"Yeah right, like I would believe that." Jou mumbled, and the two were at it again, insults flew across the room between each other; truly the two didn't get on at all.

"Shut up the lot of you!" Boots barked he turned his attention back to Malik, who was still glaring at him and wanted nothing more than to strangle and punch the life out of him.

"I won't let you take him from me." Malik seethed but Boots just smirked amused at watching Malik struggle with his bonds. "I'll hunt you down no matter where you go." Malik hatefully glared at him and said in a low deadly tone that made a few of the others look at him in surprise. "There won't be a place on this earth where you can hide that I can't find you."

"I'm sure you'll make good on that promise, Malik." Boots reached down and pulled Malik's face up more to look at him as he said. "Oh, but wait, how is a penniless, worthless piece of trash like you going to find me?!" He mocked him. "The world is a large place, boy."

Malik went to say something when the room was filled with barking dogs inside the house, and then the sounds of rapid gunfire came from outside and shouting came over the radio in Boots's hand, men called out over it in blind panic.

'What's going…' The voice cut short with a gasp, the rapid gunshots and then nothing but static.

'I can't see anything, it's moving too fast, I can't…' A scream of fear and pain then nothing, Boots looked a little paler then normal then the same noise of nothing, he looked at the front window as gunfire continued to go off outside.

'What's the targets location?! Wait it's here! We need back…" Boots shouted into the radio. "What's going on out there?!" No reply came and he tried again. "Anyone! Answer me?!"

A voice Malik knew all to well and he lifted his head with a surprised look, as did the others. 'I'm coming in now, I'll give you five minutes.'

"Who is this? What's going on out there?" Boots demanded.

'You know who I am.' Malik smiled to himself relieved that Ryou was okay and hadn't been caught yet.

"482?" Boots sounded surprised.

'I hate to tell you.' The words were spat out. 'But your troops are all, should I say? Gone.' Boots growled, this wasn't how it was meant to happen, it was supposed go smooth, and it had been all planed out: coming in to take 482. Kill everyone left. Sell 482 for the billions of dollars waiting for him on delivery and retire somewhere sunny, hot and with a beach. Boots panicked a little as all the noises from outside had stopped and Malik saw the sweat run down his cheek and neck.

'You listen to me…' Boots started to say but Ryou cut him off.

'You have Malik and I want him back.' Boots turned around as a sharp whistle came from upstairs. "You two get up there, it's in the house!" Boots ordered pointing at the six men in the kitchen with all the dogs, they all rushed up stairs.

A few minutes later shouting came with gunfire. "He's there!" Came a yell.

"Behind you!" The sound of the men yelling out from the top floor followed by the dogs yelping and the slamming of doors as sparks of rapid light lit the top of the dark stairway.

Malik bit his lip hard, Ryou was in too much danger, he could be hurt or worse killed. Boots watched the stairs with wide eyes, Malik looked at him then said. "Sounds to me that your perfect weapon has turned on you." The tall man turned looking down at him with a scowled. "You look nervous Boots." Malik was grabbed by the back of his head and shoulder and pulled up to his feet.

Boots yelled at him. "I still have one move left under my sleeve." He jumped as the house fell quite with a final yelp; Boots was inches from Malik's face panting fear. Malik knew he would be the same way if he had his troops taken out by one person and he was next, whatever Ryou had done to them, Malik just wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of Ryou's anger.

Malik lent in a little and said. "The words of a desperate man with no escape, Ryou's coming, you better run." Boots punched him in the stomach, Malik grunted out as he doubled over at the waist and started to cough for air, his head was then pulled back and made to look Boots in the face.

"I will not be done in by something I made or your smart mouth, I have to much money riding on this." He let Malik go and as he doubled over again still panting for air, Boots grabbed his hair and pulled him towards the door.

Boots knew he was taking the coward's way out but he would be far too rich to die, and taking Malik with him would insure his escape and safety from 482.

"What dose it mater your all dead anyway." Boots pulled out from his jacket a few sticks of C4 tapped to a clock with all wires attached to it and placed it on the counter in the kitchen, to buy him a little more time and cover up any witnesses, plus he would use Malik to get 482 back again. "In five minutes." He laughed as he pulled Malik out the door.

The group started to struggle to get free from their bonds.

TBC

This chap would be a shocking 17 pages long, so I have to break it up a little so there will be a few more chaps, I'll post this a lot sooner as I have typed it all out, so editing is all that has to be done, so R&R me. (love and cookies)