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It was Monday when school came around again, and when Yugi and Ryou spotted each other, the reaction was instantaneous.

"RYOU!" Yugi shouted, running over to the albino and leaving a shocked Alya, Marinette, and Nino behind.

"YUGI!" Ryou replied, rushing from her seat in the limo leaving a chuckling Adrien. The two girls collided in a big hug that was also thrown in with lots of talking that was usual for girls.

"I'm sorry Yugi, I told him…" Ryou whispered. "I know you wanted to keep things down- Bakura got careless again."

"I figured." Yugi replied a little louder. "It's okay, Marinette knows as well."

"Yugi, did you-"

"See it clear as day?" Yugi interrupted with a smile, and Ryou nodded. "No worries, I did too. We got a love square on our hands." She stared at Ryou knowingly and Ryou tilted her head in question. Yugi didn't elaborate, finally letting go of Ryou to look at Adrien.

"Hello Yugi." Adrien said, and she could tell from his voice just how much Ryou had told the other.

"Hi Adrien!" She said cheerfully. Then she grabbed Ryou's hand. "Come on, let's introduce you to everyone!"

"Y-Yugi!" Ryou exclaimed in slight shock as she almost fell over as they walked up the steps. Adrien chuckled and followed them up.

"Guys, this is Ryou!" Yugi introduced happily. "Ryou, these are the friends I told you about- Marinette, Alya, and Nino."

"Nice to meet you!" Ryou said happily

"Nice to meet you too, Ryou." Alya said, holding her hand out to shake the other's hand. Marinette was trying not to freak out because Adrien had decided to stand next to her when he walked up the stairs, having absolutely no idea on the effect that had on his dear friend. Ryou noticed, saw the love square that Yugi was talking about, and almost laughed.

Bakura suggested talking to Adrien to ask how he felt about Marinette, and to point out that he MUST have a crush of some sort on her, seeing as she was the one furthest from the steps and yet he chose to stand by her anyway, when he could've very well just stood by Yugi and Ryou, the closest to the stairs.

Ryou sent that only Bakura would notice such a small detail because of the total fanboy he was.

Bakura scoffed and sent indignantly that he was NOT a fan boy and that he had only noticed because he didn't trust anyone.

Ryou replied with a skeptical look and an of course that's it, while on the outside she walked with the rest of her new friends to their class. Much to Bakura's displeasure, Ryou ended up sitting by Yugi as Nathaniel wasn't here that day. How unbearable, he had to sit next to the idiot Pharaoh who had only supposedly gotten together with his light thanks to Bakura pointing out the Pharaoh's blind feelings.

Ryou raised an eyebrow at the other and sent stop whining like a fanboy, 'Kura.

Bakura shouted that he WAS NOT a fan boy and turned to sulk in the back of Ryou's mind, almost causing Ryou to giggle. Not a fan boy. Right.

However, Bakura got even more annoyed as the day passed because of a certain brat and a certain boy that wouldn't leave Ryou alone.

This boy wasn't in their class, but had seen Ryou at the front of the school and claimed to have fallen in love with her

"I'm sorry." Ryou said. "But I'm already in a relationship." The boy's eye twitched.

"Really?"

"Yes." Ryou sighed dreamily. "He's back home, in Japan." A gleam seemed to spark in the boy's eyes as an idea came to mind.

"In Japan?" He asked. "I'm sure he wouldn't mind then."

"What do you mean?" Ryou asked as Bakura's anger grew.

"Do you really expect him to not date other girls while you're gone for a whole year?" He asked. "It would only be fair if you were to go on a date or two with me." Before Ryou could speak she was almost thrown out of her body, Bakura taking over for the first time since they had come to Paris.

When 'Ryou' opened her eyes, they were a dark and angry purple, her hair, though in a braid, almost seemed to spike up. Yami saw the change and also switched with Yugi, though there was no danger present to his Aibou. 'Ryou' grabbed the boy's collar and forced him down to her suddenly taller height with a growl in her throat and anger burning through her eyes. Shadows, though unnoticed by all but Yami, almost seemed to dance around them.

"Listen. Here." 'Ryou''s voice was now dark and sinister. "My Te- boyfriend would never do something like that, and if you think that I would ever do something like that to him than you are terribly mistaken. Now…" 'Ryou' threw the boy with only a small portion of her strength, off the ground and into the crowd that had begun to surround them, which was at least a yard or two away. "Get it through your thick skull that I'm taken and not interested." Then she turned and stormed off, 'Yugi' the only one following her as the others watched in shock.

"That. Was. So cool!" Alya gushed. "Oh, if only my phone wasn't dead!"

"Dang, remind me not to get on her bad side." Nino muttered, rubbing his neck absently.

"Uh, I'm gonna go check on her." Marinette said slowly, her eyes still wide in shock. If Bakura was that powerful when angered, just how powerful was Yami? A similar thought seemed to go through Adrien's mind, and he spoke up as well.

"I'll go with you!" Marinette blushed but put her feelings aside a little as they began to walk, then jog, to find Yugi, Ryou, Bakura, and Yami.

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"Bakura!" Ryou projected herself and began to float behind the furious Bakura, who stormed off of school grounds and into the streets. "Bakura, please, calm down!"

"Calm down?" Bakura muttered, knowing that Ryou could hear him clear as day. "Calm down?! How do you expect me to calm down after that, tenshi?! He wanted you to cheat on me, the b******! If I had my own body this sort of thing would never happen!" Ryou sighed, grabbed his shirt, and gently pulled Bakura into an alleyway and away from any pedestrians. Bakura grudgingly let her.

"Bakura…" Ryou muttered calmly, placing her ghostly hands on his shoulders as he looked down at his hands. "I wish that as well, but… the pharaoh's memories…"

"I want to protect you." Bakura almost whispered, not noticing that Yugi and Yami had walked in on the two of them. "D*** it, Ryou, I want to protect you with my own body, using my own strength! But this curse…" his hands turned into fists. "Stupid Pharaoh wants his stupid memories back and the only way he can is through that stupid duel and the stupid tablet!"

"Bakura…" That was when Yugi took control of her body again and cleared her throat, Yami disappearing into the puzzle now that he knew that Bakura wasn't going to summon the shadows.

"I apologize for interrupting, Bakura." Yugi spoke quietly, walking over a little as Bakura stubbornly turned away. "But… we don't want to go through the Ceremonial Duel either."

"Tch."

"It's true!" Yugi protested. "We… Yami and I… we'reinarelationship!" Yugi admitted finally, blush on her face. "He doesn't want to leave either. He wants his own body to protect his light as well! The main reason we came here, to Paris, was because we hoped to find a way to get his memories back and have him stay!"

"Yugi…" Ryou muttered in slight awe.

"I know it's weird… and that you're probably going to decline- you hate Yami, after all." Yugi admitted. "But… do you wish to help us find a way?" That was when Marinette and Adrien walked in, but they remained silent as none of the others had noticed. "Ishizu said that there is none, that it's Yami's destiny to follow through with the Duel, but for once I don't believe her. She claimed that you two are our other halves, yet she expects us to give you guys up in exchange for Yami's memories. That doesn't make any sense! And if she won't tell us another way, then we'll find it!"

"Yugi…" Bakura spoke slowly, and Yugi froze as the other chuckled, the sound sounding threatening even though it wasn't meant to be that way. "That friend of yours… Anzu Mazaki… she's been rubbing off on you." Yugi blushed, scratching the back of her head nervously. "I accept- but only if that idiot spirit of yours promises not to do anything."

"He accepts if you promise to do the same." Yugi relayed. Bakura growled, but before he could respond, Ryou put a hand on his shoulder again.

"He promises." She said with a smile that Yugi greatly returned. With that, Ryou took over the body and Bakura returned to the Millennium Ring, which was now showing over the front of her jacket.

"Hey, Yugi?" Ryou asked.

"Yes, Ryou?" Yugi asked in turn.

"You're not the only one in a relationship with a spirit." Ryou smirked a very Bakura-like smirk and Yugi blushed, hiding her face in her hands.

"Oh my gosh, that's the first time I ever admitted it to anyone." She said through her hands, and Ryou giggled.

"I figured you were, it's nice to know I'm not the only one." Yugi smiled shyly up at Ryou, who was only a few inches taller.

"Is everything okay?" Marinette managed to ask despite the fact that Adrien was right behind her and standing awfully close.

"Yeah." Ryou said as Yugi blushed deeper. "Just some spirit troubles." In almost perfect sync, Marinette and Adrien paled, turned to face the other, and spoke.

"You knew?" Then they stopped. "Sorry, no-" another pause. "You speak- I'll just-" Yugi's giggles broke through their words.

"Maybe you should notice a few other similarities between you two besides knowing and speaking later- we should get back before we're missed." Ryou spoke, Yugi's giggles moving to all out laughter as Marinette blanched and Adrien tilted his head in confusion.

"Similarities…?" He asked, looking over at Marinette, whose face was one of dread. Now that he thought about it, he didn't really know much about about cute, princess-like Marinette that sat behind him in class every day. She was a designer, liked the color pink, and always seemed really nervous around him for whatever reason. She didn't like Chloe, is kind to everyone, and is great at video games. Was that it?

With that seed of thought planted in his head, he curiously followed Ryou and Yugi with an extremely nervous Marinette leading the way back to school, unaware that Marinette was starting to come to the same realization that he had, though in a different view.

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