Pharaoh Felicia-(Rescues Malik before shoving Yugi into pool of eels) wat did you mean? and wont as a little ' in between the n and t. I'm sorry. I like to tease you about typos.

ahilty-Just out of curiousity, what drove you to use that name? Not that you're pen name's bad. I've just never seen one like it. Thanks for reviewing

Journey Maker-Don't worry (Too much) no depresion can last forever.

DeathsIllusion-Great. Now I want to know about your life. Thanks alot. If I ask you people will think I'm some internet criminal. Meany.

dragonlady222-He will...or will he?

ketaglass-Just saying. Sorry about chap. length. This once is the shortest yet (I think)

InkedButterfly-Nice choice of weapon.

D.H. Knightly-I like their relationship too. Thank you

Chapter 5

Ryou was back at school today, for the past week it's been his yami. I was starting to worry a little.

It didn't help that my own yami kept forcing the event that had made Ryou vanish for a week replay in my head. How was I supposed to know he'd get depressed? It's not like I'm responsible for that thing, that's our yamis' mess. If Bakura or Marik want to help fine by me, but just having my DNA in the mix doesn't mean I'm the baby's father.

Marik sent me the image of Ryou looking at me in horror then sobbing and falling into his yami. I really hadn't meant to make him cry and lock himself in his house for a week but that kid isn't mine.

Ryou won't even look at anything near me because it would bring me into his view...

I could just barely make out the spirit form of Bakura sitting on the desk behind Ryou. Whispering things or sending death glares in my direction. Occasionally he got down and went to talk with Yami, who doesn't look too pleased with me either.

//Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalik// Oh great, Marik… //Bakura's really pissed. I'd bet your high up on his hit list right now. Want me to tell you how to get off it?// I've learned from past experiences that whether I reply or not Marik assumes I said what he wanted to hear //You'll have to let him kill you. Or… maybe you could ask me to help calm him down…//

/Go to hell/

//I was there before. It's a very nice place//

/Bakura and I are friends (kind of) he won't kill me. He's just pissed/

//I don't know… He was going on about how mad he was and how poor little Ryou was all depressed and suicidal// and I was the one who got him that way…wait, suicidal? Oh god…

SC

"RYOU!" Yugi waved my friend down and ran up to him. They were talking quietly so I couldn't hear them. Did they know I was watching? "Marik?"

He appeared next to me "Wazzup?"

"Um… was Ryou really suicidal? I mean…"

"Bakura had to hide all the knives in the house from Ryou, usually it's the other way around"

Oh man… I really didn't mean to do that… but I refuse to take responsibility for a kid that isn't mine.

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SnowCreek: Mm-hm. This chapter took forever for me to write (As it was written before I finished NMTH. I work on to many things at once but you guys never really know that)