Chapter 6- Busted!

Yugi, Heba, Jou, Ryou, and Malik stood stunned as they realized that their secret was blown.

"You idiots are the band!" Marik shouted.

"No way! How could a bunch of idiots be that good?" Bakura demanded.

"Shut the hell up! We are good at what we do! Why the hell are you here?!" Jou demanded.

"We came here to see the concert! Id we'd known that it was you, there's no way that we would have come!" Atemu snapped.

"Maybe you shouldn't have!" Ryou retorted.

"I'm sure that the people in school will love to know this." Seto said.

"NO!" Yugi suddenly shouted.

All eyes turned to Yugi, who hadn't said a word yet.

"You can't tell anyone who we are." Yugi said.

"Why not? What's stopping us?" Bakura asked.

"We use the masks during our concerts so that no one will know who we are." Yugi said.

"Yeah. I'm sure that that is true." Atemu said sarcastically.

"Atemu, unlike the other four, Yugi hadn't gotten into any of your fights, and he's never said a bad thing about you. Besides, how do you know that he's lying? You haven't heard the whole reason." Yami said.

Atemu was surprised that his brother had contradicted him like that, even though he knew that Yami disapproved of the fights they had with them.

"What's the rest of the reason?" Bakura asked gruffly.

"Could we continue this conversation in here?" Yugi asked, pointing to the dressing room.

The group filed into the room.

Yugi flipped on the lights. He and Heba set their guitars down.

"Now, why the disguises?" Marik asked as gruffly as Bakura had.

"We use them so that no one will know who we are. Our lives wouldn't be as simple as they are if anyone knew." Yugi said.

"He's right. We couldn't walk out the door without someone being there. There would also be fan girls coming onto us all the time." Heba said.

"What would be so bad about that?" Seto asked.

"You know how Anzu and Vivian come onto you guys all the time?" Jou asked.

"Yeah." Yami said, shuddering at the thought of Anzu coming onto him.

"It would be a hundred times worse." Ryou said.

"Besides, everyone would want to date us or be our friend because of who we are. We want to be liked for who we are, not the money we have or the fame we have." Yugi said.

"You guys like the simple life?" Bakura asked.

"Believe it or not, yes, we do. We enjoy being able to hang out like normal people do. We like to be able to go to public school and not be accosted constantly. We like not having our personal lives exposed." Heba said.

"Hmm. Maybe we could your secret." Bakura said a little mischievously.

Yami knew that Bakura was up to something.

"Thank you." Ryou said.

"But it's going to cost you." Marik said.

"I knew you would be low enough to do this." Jou growled.

"What do you want?" Heba asked.

"You're going to have to give us tickets to any of your concerts in Domino." Bakura said.

"You'll be waiting a while." Yugi said.

"Why?" Atemu demanded.

"Because this was the last concert of the tour. We won't be doing any more concerts until the summer time." Yugi said.

"None?" Marik asked.

"Nope. Touma made pretty strict rules about all of this. We can only do concert tours in the summer. This one just ran into the start of the school year." Heba said.

"What does this Touma have to do with anything?" Seto asked.

"Simple. We are all underage. Touma is out guardian, so he sets the rules where our career is concerned. He's also our manager, so he's pretty much in control of what we do." Heba said.

"Oh." Atemu said.

"The only thing that he let's us do during the school year is record. In fact, our label is here in Domino, so we'll be doing a lot of recording here." Jou said.

Seto smirked. "Then you'll have to let us see the recording. If you want your secret to remain a secret, that is." Seto said.

"Fine. That's not too much to ask." Ryou said angrily.

"Good. You'll also have to do anything else that we think of." Marik said.

"Within reason. We have morals." Malik snapped.

"All right. We're not going to do anything morally wrong." Atemu said.

"We'll start tomorrow." Seto said.

"You'll have to wait." Yugi said.

"Why?" Marik asked.

"Because Heba, Ryou, Malik, and Jou are grounded for the next month for that fight at school." Yugi said.

"Speaking of which, you four are grounded, too." Yami said.

"Fine. In a month then." Atemu said.

The door opened, and Touma walked in.

"Yugi, are you-What is going on here?!" Touma shouted at seeing Yami, Atemu, Seto, Marik, and Bakura in the room.

"They have backstage passes, and they saw us without our masks on." Yugi explained.

Touma raised an eyebrow and said, "Why did you take off your masks when you knew there were backstage passers bought?"

"Well, someone told us wrong!" Malik snapped, glaring at Jou.

"Jou, I told you there were backstage passes bought." Touma said.

"I thought you said there weren't any bought." Jou said.

"Were you eating at the time?" Heba asked.

"Yes." Jou replied.

"There's the reason why." Ryou said.

"Sounds like the mutt is actually a pig." Seto said.

"Shut up!" Jou snapped.

Touma sighed. He looked at Yami, Atemu, Marik, Bakura, and Seto, and said, "You can't tell anyone who they are."

"We won't." Atemu said.

"Yeah. As long as we do whatever they want." Jou muttered.

Touma sighed again. He had seen that coming. "Well, just remember that you four are grounded for the next month." Touma said, looking at Heba, Jou, Ryou, and Malik.

"We know." Malik said.

"Don't worry about it. Seiji grounded them for a month, too." Yami said.

Atemu glared. "You didn't have to tell them that." Atemu said.

"It's the truth." Yami said.

'So, Seiji actually is their guardian.' Touma thought. "All right. I'm going to have to ask you to leave so that they can get ready to leave." Touma said.

"Fine." Atemu said before they all left.

Touma looked at the five and said, "I might can talk to their guardian and see if he'll stop this."

"No, Seiji. Let us handle this. We'll figure out a way to deal with this." Yugi said.

"Are you sure?" Touma asked.

"Yeah. We'll figure something out." Jou said.

"All right." Touma said before leaving.

The other left the dressing room, and Yugi stayed since it was his.

'I'll talk to Yami Monday. Maybe he can help me out.' Yugi thought.


Bakura, Marik, Seto, Atemu, and Yami walked back into their home.

"This is gold. I never thought that we would have this to hold over their heads." Bakura said.

"No kidding. There's no way that they'll be able to do anything to us without us being able to hold this over them." Marik agreed.

"What you all talking about?" Seiji asked as he walked into the room.

"Nothing." Seto said quickly.

Yami rolled his eyes. "We went backstage and found out that the five member of the Hikari and Aibou band are schoolmates of ours, the same ones that they got into that fight with earlier this week, and they're using it to blackmail them." Yami said.

"WHAT?!" Seiji shouted.

All of them winced.

"Way to go, Yami." Bakura muttered.

"I can't believe that you would be this petty." Seiji said.

"Come on. We're not going to be outrageous with this." Bakura said.

Seiji glared at him. "I know that you know better than this. I don't want you doing anything to blackmail them." Seiji said.

"Come on, Seiji. They don't want anyone to know because they want to keep their simple, boring lives that way. Why can't we milk this a little bit?" Bakura asked.

"Because I think that this is wrong." Seiji said.

"It's not going to hurt. We're not going to do anything too drastic, and Atemu, Yami, and I will make sure of that." Seto said.

"Leave me out of this." Yami said.

"Why?" Marik asked.

"Because Yugi is my friend. I was friends with him before I knew this, so I don't want that to change." Yami said.

"At least one of you has some morals." Seiji said.

"Come on. Why don't we milk this?" Bakura asked.

Seiji sighed. "I won't interfere for now, but if you do anything outrageous, I swear that you are going to regret ever wanting to do this." Seiji said.


"I can't believe that we were blackmailed into this by those lowlifes!" Jou said.

"It's your fault we're in this mess, Jou. You were the one that told us that there were no backstage passes bought!" Malik snapped.

"I said that I was sorry for that! It's not like I wanted this to happen!" Jou retorted.

"Knock if off. You are all at fault in this." Touma said.

"Why are we at fault?" Heba asked.

"Because we should have waited until we were in our dressing rooms to remove our masks instead of out in the hallway." Yugi said.

"Exactly. You have no one to blame for that but your selves." Touma said.

"Great. And there's no telling what they're going to have us do." Ryou said as he headed upstairs with Heba, Jou, and Malik.

Touma sighed. "I might need to talk to their guardian." Touma said a little uncomfortably.

Yugi knew that the thought of talking to Seiji made Touma real uncomfortable for some reason. "Don't, Touma. We'll try to handle it on our own for now." Yugi said.

"Okay. Just let me know if you need any help." Touma said.

"I will." Yugi assured him.


"Yugi, I cannot tell you how sorry I am about all of this." Yami said.

Yami had invited Yugi out to get an ice cream together on Saturday since no one else that lived in their houses could do anything.

"It's not your fault, Yami. You can't control what they do." Yugi said.

Yami sighed. "Seiji knows about it, but he's going to let us deal with it on our own. He's hoping that they'll somehow resolve everything without him needing to interfere." Yami said.

"Touma offered to help, but I've told him to tell us try and handle it on our own. I wish that all eight of them would reach some kind of understanding." Yugi said.

"I know what you mean, but with them, I can tell you that there will not be any understanding reached anytime soon. They can be stubborn asses when they want to be, and they are going to be stubborn asses over this issue." Yami said.

"I understand that. I'm afraid that Heba and the others are the same way." Yugi said.

"We are in for a long year." Yami said.

"Hello, Yami."

Yami looked up to see Anzu standing there.

"What do you want, Anzu?" Yami asked.

"I actually came over here to talk to Yugi." Anzu said sweetly.

Yugi raised an eyebrow. "Why did you want to talk to me, Anzu?" Yugi asked.

"I was hoping that we could go somewhere and talk alone." Anzu said, fluttering her eyelashes.

"Anzu, Yami and I decided to come here so that we could hang out, and I don't really think that I should just up and leave him. It would be rude." Yugi said.

"I'm sure that Yami wouldn't mind." Anzu said.

"I mind, Anzu. I have no intention of leaving my friend, so if you have something that you wanted to say to me, then you can say it in front of him." Yugi said.

Anzu was obviously displeased by this. "I wanted to know if you wanted to go out on a date with me." Anzu said.

Yami felt his blood boil at that. He didn't like the thought of Anzu out on a date with his Yugi.

'My Yugi? Where did that come from?' Yami asked himself, unsure of why he was suddenly jealous of the fact that Anzu wanted to go out with Yugi.

"Anzu, I would like to but-" Yugi started.

"Great!" Anzu squealed. "You can pick me up tonight at seven." Anzu finished and turned to leave.

"Then you'll have a long wait." Yugi said.

Anzu spun around, anger in her eyes. "And why's that?" Anzu demanded.

"Simple. I have no intention of going out with you." Yugi said.

"But you said-" Anzu started.

"Anzu, I was being nice. I do not want to go out on a date with you." Yugi said.

"Why not?" Anzu demanded.

"Because when I go on a date, I want to be able to have a good time, and I know that I wouldn't have a good time with you." Yugi said.

"Yes, you would. I would be the best date that you have ever had." Anzu said, tossing her hair over her shoulder.

"No, I wouldn't Anzu. I know that I wouldn't have a good time." Yugi said.

"Why's that?' Anzu demanded angrily.

"I am gay, Anzu. I will only go out with guys, so leave me alone." Yugi said.

Anzu's eyes widened. "No! You can't be gay!" Anzu cried.

Yugi smiled. "I am, and there's not a lot that you can do about it." Yugi said.

Anzu glared at him before she stormed off.

"I'm glad that's over." Yugi said.

"Yugi, listen to the voice of experience. She will not give up that easily." Yami said.

"And I will tell her no every single time. I don't want to date her." Yugi said.

"I wish you luck." Yami said, feeling happy at knowing that Yugi was gay. 'Why am I so glad that he's gay? He's just a friend.' Yami thought.

"Anyway, I hope that we can figure a way to get all this settled before this blackmail goes too far." Yugi said.

"I know what you mean. I just don't know what we can do. I mean, you're safe but the others aren't." Yami said.

"What do you mean?" Yugi asked.

"Well, they decided to just blackmail one of you each." Yami said.

"Let me guess. Bakura's blackmailing Ryou, Marik's blackmailing Malik, Seto's blackmailing Jou, Atemu's blackmailing Heba, and they left me to you." Yugi said.

"How did you know that?" Yami asked.

"Because that's who they were mainly pissed at." Yugi said.

"Well, I'm not doing that because you and I were already friends when I found out, and I don't want to ruin that." Yami said.

"Glad to hear it. Maybe the others will resolve this quickly." Yugi said.

"I hope so, but I don't think that will be happening." Yami said.

"Well, I just hope they don't go too far with this because I really don't want it to get to the point that they are blackmailing them for every little thing." Yugi said.

"If it got to that point, I would be telling Seiji to put a stop to it." Yami said.

"Well, at least we won't have to deal with it for a month." Yugi said.

"But we're going to need help when it gets to that point." Yami said.


Hope that you liked it.

Next: Some blackmail. Also, Yugi and Yami will get together.

R&R.