A/N: Soooo many updates. Be proud of me. Of course, I'm writing this instead of doing calculus homework, but whatevs, I'm failing the class anyway so I'll just retake it in the fall. Anyway, enjoy the story! And review please! PLEASE!

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Chapter 14

Crow opened the door to what was presumably Seto's home office, seeing as it had the KaibaCorp logo displayed on the door. The room was disappointingly empty; there was no laptop on the desk, no papers strewn about. Kaiba obviously was very careful about his business strategy. After looking through the drawers unsuccessfully, they left the office and continued on to the bedroom. This room was far from orderly, which was shocking knowing Kaiba. Also interesting were the clothes that were tossed carelessly on the bed. Kaiba didn't seek like the ripped jeans type. The closet and all the drawers were separated into two halves, one neatly filled with suits and dress shirts and trench coats, the other a mess of tee-shirts and baggy pants.

Unless Kaiba had multiple personality disorder, there were definitely two people living in this room. And they were both guys. Seto Kaiba was gay? No, he couldn't be, there had to be another explanation.

He went to the bedside table, where there was a pad of paper designated for messages next to the phone. The top page was a name and a call back number, some company in Germany. He flipped to the second page. Scrawled in messy handwriting was:

"Went to store with Mokie, bbl."

The name was signed with a heart, "Joey." Crow raised an eyebrow. Davey had been talking about some kid Joey… he'd gone with Kaiba and his little brother to Kaibaland tonight.

His musings were interrupted by footsteps in the hallway outside. Crow and Silas dived under the bed. The door opened and a maid stuck her head in. The two boys held their breath, and eventually she shook her head and left. They remained under the bed while she continued down the hallway.

"Silas, I think Kaiba's gay."

Silas snorted, "What gave you that idea?"

"So you thought it too?"

"Well, yeah, as soon as I saw this," he showed Crow a picture frame he'd snatched off the window sill; it was a self taken photo of Kaiba kissing someone, a blond.

"Is that..?" Crow asked.

"You bet."

Crow didn't say anything.

"Um, you okay man?" Silas asked.

"Why wouldn't I be?" Crow snapped back.

"Whoa, chill, no need to be so touchy I was just asking."

"Sorry," Crow said quietly. "It's just…" he trailed off, not sure exactly what he was trying to say.

"Come on, let's go, we've seen enough," Crow said.

"Should we take this as blackmail?" Silas asked eagerly.

"No." Crow said shortly.

He sent out a radio signal to the rest of the gang to take what they had and leave. When they all met up outside the Kaiba mansion, Crow instructed everyone to head home, he had something to take care of. No one questioned him except Silas, who raised his eyebrows suspiciously.

When they were all out of sight, Crow went back into the house to wait for Kaiba to return.

Yami stared at the sliding glass doors for a half hour before Joey came in, Ryou in his arms clearly asleep.

He raised his hand, acknowledging them. Joey set Ryou down in the chair next to Yami's. The boy's head slumped onto Yami's shoulder.

"He's been out cold since about five minutes after you called," Joey said.

"I figured out how to bring Bakura back," Yami said in monotone.

"What?" Joey asked. "How?"

"It's complicated… since he was never really alive to start with, like me, he couldn't die. So his soul is still trapped in the ring." He pointed to the gold chain around Ryou's neck. "I'm pretty sure that I can bring it out again, but there is still the issue of a body. When Bakura, Marik and I entered this world, we used the bodies created by our hikaris. Bakura's body is so badly damaged that it is unusable, and Ryou is far too weak to create a new one."

"So, what're you going to do?" Joey asked.

"Spirits can inhabit any body they wish to, alive or dead." Yami replied.

"So you're saying that Bakura can come back in some dead guy's body? That's… plain weird."

"It'd be no one you knew, so you'd never even know he was dead. And it would stll be Bakura, just in a different form."

Joey shook his head in disbelief.

"I still don't see how that'll work. I mean, what about Ryou?"

"What do you mean?" Yami asked.

"Well," Joey lowered his voice, "Don't you think that'd be awkward for him? I mean, What if Yug' suddenly came back as someone else?"

"I'd still love him," Yami replied.

Joey had nothing to say. He scratched his head pensively.

"I'm here if you need any help."

"Thank you Joey," Yami said appreciatively.

Ryou yawned and blinked his eyes. He lifted his head slowly off of Yami's shoulder.

"Where's Bakura," he said, deadly.

"His body is being… cleaned up for burial," Yami informed him sadly, "But his soul remains in the ring."

Ryou glanced up, a flicker of light returning timidly to his eyes.

"He's not dead?"

"No more than he was before the accident."

"But I can't bring him back," Ryou's hope died. "I tried, when I felt it happen. I tried to talk to him, but the link wasn't there."

"The connection should still be present. Bakura might be very weak right now, he might not have the strength to communicate through the mindlink. Now I can't promise you it'll work, but I do have a plan.

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