Well... I had drawn a picture of Sora for you, but I don't know how to show you, if you want to see it go to dA and search 'Sora Okino' it should pop up right away, and again POV from both Atem and Yugi, actually, this might be how it is from now on, unless, for some stupid reason I change my mind :P anyway, as I promised, more funny stuff :D
Sorry for the long wait!
Enjoy~
Atem's POV
Tea, Tristan, and Joey all stared at the Pharaoh.
"What do 'ya mean by that pal?" Joey asked. for once, Joey was serious.
the Pharaoh sighed. "Yugi's been keeping things from me lately, that's why I agreed with Tristan, and-"
he was cute off abruptly by Tea,
"So, your suggesting that something was seriously bothering Yugi?" she asked.
Yami nodded. "Yes. Ever since I suspected this, he's been self-consious, and he keeps his thoughts to himself."
He sighed. "I'm not really sure why he was doing that, he knows that he can always turn to me when there's something wrong. But it bothers me that he's been keeping his thoughts to himself. He normally doesn't do that." Yami said.
Tristan, Joey, and Tea didn't say anything, they knew that the Pharaoh was still grieving, and they didn't want to upset him more.
Tristan sighed, "Well, since this isn't really productive at the moment, why don't we-"
he was cut off by a sharp loud squeak of wheels.
Everyone's attention was diverted to a knock at the door.
Tea slowly got to her feet and walked up to the door, she looked through the peep hole and then opened the door.
It was pouring down rain outside, no one had noticed this before, they were so absorbed into what Yami was telling them, that they didn't notice the distant rumbles of thunder.
When Tea eased the door open, Tristan and Joey all gaped in shock. It was one of the Kaiba Corp. Officers.
"Hello?" Tea asked.
The man nodded, "Yes, is Mr. Muto here? he wasn't at his house, and his grandfather said he might be here." he told her.
Yami visibly winsed at the mention of his young friend, but he stood anyway.
"I'm here." he told the man as he walked towards the front door.
The man held out his hand, "The name's Raiden." he said.
Yami took his hand and gave him a handshake. "Yugi Muto." he said.
Joey and Tristan looked over at Tea, and they saw concern in her eyes. Must be because he has to introduce himself as Yugi, it is his body after all... Tristan thought.
Raiden was whispering urgently to Yami. By now Tristan and Joey were standing beside Tea, they were too far away to hear what they were saying, but Tea had guessed that Yami was probably needed. But what for? she wondered.
Her thoughts snapped to the present when Yami had motioned for Tea, Tristan and Joey to follow them outside into the pouring rain to a Limo that was parked out front of Tea's house.
Raiden slowly came to a stop just outside the Kaiba Corp. building.
He got out and opened the door for everyone to so they could get out as well.
"Alright, follow me please." he said, and he walked towards the entrance.
Everyone followed Raiden slowly.
Tea leaned over towards Yami and whispered. "Where is he taking us?"
Yami leaned toward her and replied to her question in a whisper. "He's taking us to Mokuba."
Tea grew a little confused, and when Yami saw this he explained further. "Since Kaiba has gone missing, I don't doubt that Mokuba must be feeling awful, I'm afraid I already know what he's going to ask, but I have a feeling I won't be able to help him." he said in a small sigh.
Tea nodded slowly. I forgot that the Pharaoh said that Kaiba went missing. she looked up at the big Kaiba Corp. building. Mokuba must feel lonely and afraid. If I were him, I would have called us here too... she trailed off.
"Here." Raiden said when he came to a door.
Everyone could hear faint arguing and complaining coming from within.
Raiden knocked on the door, and the complaining automatically stopped.
The door opened a crack, probably to check who was there, and then opened at the sight of Raiden.
Mokuba stood there in the doorway.
Yami's eyes widened when he realized this was Kaiba's meeting area.
"Tea, Tristan, Joey, Yugi, you're all here!" Mokuba said with a relieved expression.
He then turned around to the table with many staff members seated.
"Alright everyone, time to get back to work." he said.
there was a sudden spout of angry complaints from everyone, their voices rising so they could all be heard over eachother.
Mokuba gave an angry sigh, and put his hands on his ears. It was getting way too loud.
"NOW!" he shouted.
everyone seated immediately stopped talking, then, slowly, they all got up from their seats, dark mutters came here and there as they exited the meeting room.
Mokuba groaned inwardly and motioned for Yami and his friends to sit at the table.
Raiden was no where to be found, but that didn't really matter at the moment.
Mokuba sat down at the end chair, while the others found their place.
Yami looked at Mokuba with a curious, yet knowing, look.
Mokuba sighed. "Yugi..." he started.
Yami closed his eyes. "Mokuba, i know... your brother has gone missing."
Mokuba's eyes lit with surprise, then faded to wonder.
"Have you seen him Yugi?" he asked.
Tea suddenly interupted.
"Stop it Mokuba. Stop calling him that." she said sharply, though not really meaning to.
Everyone looked at her a little shocked, including Yami.
"Tea... it's alright." Yami said.
Tea shook her head. "It's not fair that people torture you by-" she was cut off,
"They don't torture me Tea, it's really alright." Yami said.
Mokuba was listening to this conversation, and then realized that Yugi wasn't really acting like himself. He was more formal, and older sounding, and his thoughts drove him back to when Tea and Joey had been captured.
Back then, Marik was still evil, he had taken over both of their minds, but before the battle had happened, Yugi had told Kaiba and him about the Mellennium Items, and then he said something about a spirit inside the puzzle...
Mokuba suddenly became aware of everyone staring at him, and he looked down at his hands avoiding their gazes.
"Mokuba? what did you want to talk to us about?" Yami asked. "there's more to Kaiba going missing isn't there..." he said.
Mokuba closed his eyes, fighting back tears.
I can't start thinking like that. I know that Seto would want me to be better than that. I have to figure out a way to get him back. But Yugi... wait...
he thought again about the helicopter ride to the dock, and he recalled Yugi's words. I'm a spirit trapped in the Mellennium Puzzle, back then, I lived in Ancient Egypt, and I ruled as Pharaoh...
Pharaoh? he thought. When Yugi seems to act like he's a lot older than he actually is, does this mean that a Pharaoh has taken over his body?
"Mokuba!?" Joey screamed at him, immediately snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Oh, sorry!" Mokuba said.
Yami smiled, "It's alright Mokuba, is there something on your mind?" he asked.
Mokuba nodded.
Yami waited expectantly.
"Yugi, I mean..." he trailed off.
Yami nodded. "Yes." he replied.
Mokuba looked up at Yugi, or, the person he didn't really know much about.
"Yugi, are you that other guy that lives in that necklace you always wear?" he suddenly asked.
Yami and everyone all stared at Mokuba blankly.
It was then he realized that his question was completely off topic, and that it wasn't the question he had really meant to ask them.
Yami sighed. "Yes. I am." he said slowly, he didn't really remember if he had told Mokuba that he wasn't really Yugi before... but he was pretty sure that he had at some point in time.
Mokuba nodded. "What's your name?" he asked.
Yami blinked. "I'm not really sure... but you can call me Yami if you'd like." he replied.
Mokuba nodded. "Yami..." he said testing it out.
Yami cleared his throat. "Um... Mokuba... your brother..." he said trying to veer the conversation in the right direction.
Mokuba sighed. "As you said, he's gone missing. I haven't had any clue where he's gone, and i'm afraid... well... that he won't ever come back..." he said sorrowfully.
Yami quickly shook his head. "Mokuba, that's not the case. He didn't run away or anything like that..." he quickly trailed off.
Mokuba looked up at Yami with hope in his eyes. "You know where he's gone then?" he asked.
Yami shook his head slowly. "No Mokuba... i'm afraid that Kaiba was taken." he said.
Mokuba's eyes widened. "Taken? by who? how do you know this? were you there?"
Tea rested her hand on Mokuba's shoulders, telling him to go slower with his questions.
Yugi's POV
"What-" he pointed towards the floor, "-is that?" he asked.
Sora looked at the floor where he was pointing. It was one of Yugi's shoes, it must have fallen off. Struggling not to panic she quickly thought of something.
"I borrowed it from Kali's brother." she said instantly, well, it was actually the first thing that popped into her head.
"Kali's brother?" he asked. "You mean little Shiro?" he asked. "Why, pray tell, did you decide to do that?" he said.
"An experiment." she said instantly, also something that came to her head.
"What experiment?" he asked. Sora rolled her eyes.
He always needed to know everything.
"An experiment." Sora said.
The man glared at her. "Mira, I know that it's an experiment, but what is the experiment about?" he seemed to have struggled to stay calm, but it didn't seem to work out the way the man had hoped.
"None of your business." Sora said.
The man glared at her again. "Mira, so help me I will-" He was cut off by Sora,
"You'll what?" she said squinting her eyes.
"You'll throw a book at me?" she said.
The man, clearly flustered, turned and stalked out of the room.
Sora sighed in relief as the man left. She walked over and closed the door and locked it.
She faintly heard a small shuffle from the closet, she blushed a little, and opened the closet door.
Yugi looked up at Sora as she opened the door.
He gave a little smile and hopped out of the closet, then bent down and grabbed his shoe that had fallen when he was dragged across the room.
"So, what now?" he asked the girl curiously.
Sora sat down on the couch where Yugi had slept the night before, and thought for a moment.
"I don't know." she said thoughtfully.
"Hmmm..." he said, then he stood in front of her. "Sora, do you think there is some way to communicate with Kaiba?" he asked.
Sora looked up a little startled. "Kaiba? you know him then?" she asked.
Yugi nodded. "Yeah, he's the owner of Kaiba Corp."
Sora looked a little confused. "Owner?" she asked. "That can't be, Kaiba Corperation doesn't exist, or atleast, anymore." she murmered.
Yugi's eyes grew wide. "Doesn't exist? what are you talking about? of course it exists, unless you've never been to Domino City..." he said trailing off.
Sora, at this point looked majorly confused. "Yugi, We are in Domino City, but the Kaiba Corp building was destroyed by a fire almost 4 years ago, killing everyone." she stated.
Yugi's eyes grew wild, "No! that's not true! I was at Kaiba Corp only a few days ago!" he exclaimed.
Sora shook her head. "No, you're wrong, I saw the ruins of that building that day." she said.
Yugi couldn't believe what he was hearing. He had to talk to Kaiba now...
"Sora, right?"
Sora nodded. "Sora Okino." she said
Yugi smiled a little, "I like that name." he told her.
She blushed slightly, "Thank you." she said.
"Sora, do you think it's possible for me to talk to Kaiba?" Yugi asked.
Sora blinked, "Well..." she started. "What do want with him?" she asked.
Yugi got on his knees infront of her. "I have to talk to him, it's important.." he said.
Sora sighed, "I guess, but he's such a tattler, he'll give me away." she told him.
Yugi thought for a moment. "Well, why don't you act like Mira then?" he suggested.
"Hmmm..." she said. "I think if I keep my distance, he won't notice as much." she said thinking out loud, then she quickly nodded and stood up, Yugi stood as well.
"Here, get behind the couch, i'll go get him." she said, and walked out the door.
Yugi sat quietly behind the couch, with Sora gone, he had time to think about things a bit more.
If Kaiba is here, then surely the others must be here as well... he thought.
But wait, if what Sora said about Kaiba Corp being burned down is true, then how is Kaiba here? I know he's the owner of Kaiba Corp, that's for sure, but wouldn't he be dead if he was in that building? what if he was the only survivor? he closed his eyes, trying to imagine what could have happened, but he couldn't. He hadn't even been outside, and when he had first met Mira, it certainly wasn't here, it was in a white room, with white, well, everything.
He wanted so desperately to be home, and safe with his friends, but with everything that had happened, he knew that probably wouldn't happen anytime soon.
And, who knows how many of his friends were here. From what Sora had told him, she must have known Kaiba for quite a while, considering that she knew what he was like. Which brought up questions to his mind.
What if it didn't matter what i did? what if my friends were being taken days before Mira and I had even met? if thats so, then what was their purpose for bringing everyone here? I have to find out!
Just then, the door slowly opened, footsteps sounded, and the door closed.
"Yugi, come out." Sora said, and Yugi did.
When Yugi appeared behind the couch, he saw Sora with not one, but two people behind her.
Yugi was about to say something, but Kaiba pushed his way past Sora,
"Yugi? what are you doing here?" he asked.
Before Yugi could answer, someone else pushed past Sora, to stand infront of Kaiba.
Yugi, in a way, was a little surprised, he certainly didn't expect him to tag along with Kaiba.
The man smirked.
The people Sora had brought with her, was Kaiba and Bakura.
Bakura looked at Yugi. No, he stared at Yugi. Yugi didn't know why, but he had assumed that Bakura was trying to make him feel uncomfortable, which was working quite well.
Yugi sighed.
Kaiba pushed Bakura over, and Bakura landed on the ground with a thump.
"What the bloody hell was that for?" he complained,
but Kaiba ignored him, and instead, walked towards the couch where Yugi was. He was rather confused on what Yugi was doing here, but he had assumed that Yugi had been kidnapped like everyone else.
"Yugi. Why are you wasting my time by calling me here?" he said in his non-emotional tone.
Yugi sighed, "Sit down-" he pointed towards the couch, and indicated for Bakura to do the same. "-and i'll tell you why." he finished.
Hey, sorry for the extremely long chapter, I didn't mean for it to go on like this.. don't worry, the next chapter will be better, I do have to admit though, it was kinda hard to get Mokuba to realize that Yugi was missing and that Yami took his place...
well,
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i'll be writing the next chapter unless you tell me not to, and if that's the case, i'll discontinue it and put up something else.
