Yay new chapter! So excited to write this! Thankyou to all of you who reviewed it makes me happy and gets chapters out sooner.

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He watched every step he walked away. Tracing each footstep in his head. Why was something as simple as Bakura walking to his own desk so… so entrancing. Why does this person exude confidence? In that moment Marik could only think of himself and the white haired teenager polar opposites. While they were talking Marik was easily able to gather that this boy was most likely the type of person that always got their way no matter what it took and never took 'no' for an answer. And he was definitely bold he would give him that… A jerk too.

But then if they were so distinctly different, how were they able to converse so well together? Like they were old friends or something. Like they were comfortable in each other's company. He wanted to know him. What was that saying? Opposites…. Dammit I can't remember.

Marik didn't know if this was one sided or not but he knew one thing for sure; he opened up a lot more with this one boy than anyone else he'd met in Domino. And he suddenly he hoped Bakura would bother him again. Now that was odd.

"Touzoku, Bakura Touzoku" he whispered to himself, repeating what that very same person had said to him not long ago. Bakura. I don't think I'll give him the respect of honorifics. I can't figure them out anyways.

Completely lost in his own thoughts, Marik hadn't realized he'd been staring in the other boy's direction for a whole three minutes. "That was pretty cool what you did just then" the voice of one of his classmates came from the right side of his desk, snapping him out of his stupor. He flicked his head up to see two boys he assumed were in his grade. The one the voice belonged to had hazel eyes and

messy Dirty-blond coloured hair. Along with the taller brunette standing to the blondes' left side, who had his hair pointed in one spike on the top of his head and dark brown eyes. Both boys were easily four or five inches taller than Marik himself.

"Nobody dares to cross Bakura" The brunette continued. "and gets away with it"

"Yeah," the first one. "They say he's insane"

Marik decided he'd make his first contribution to the conversation. "Who exactly are 'they'?"

"Well, I've heard he gets in a lot of fights and he often gets in trouble with major gangs and the law" this was the second voice once again. "He's known to pull knives on 'em too."

"I've seen him in action he's quite good in a fight, trust me we generally don't label people crazy without good reason. Many people make the mistake of underestimating Touzoku and I don't think I've heard of one that didn't end up in the hospital after doing that." The blond said. "And then there are those who try hurting his twin brother…"

Marik certainly had a lot of questions about this mysterious boy now and he had a sneaking suspicion these two boys in front of him could answer him now. "Why is he called The Thief King?"

"It's his title I guess, he's a kleptomaniac. It's rumored he can steal anything and he's never been caught. He does it often. The trouble he gets in is for fights and stuff like that, never for theft." the blond responded. "But I think most of the time it's for him and his brother, Ryou. They've lived by themselves for years. Not really sure about the details though." He took on a more serious tone for the second part.

"That's pretty much it" the blond concluded. 'Pretty much' were the key words. But that's a story for another time.

"Thanks, I guess." Marik said not really sure how normal conversations usually went.

"No problem, man! I'm Katsuya Jonouchi. This is Hiroto Honda." Jonouchi gestured to his friend.

"Yo!" Honda offered.

"You're Marik Ishtar, right? I think I recognize you. You in Kato- sensei's class? That's next to ours!" Jonouchi continued

Marik's answer was in the form of a simple nod. So that's the name of the bitch that got me here! Kato!

"Maybe we can hang out sometime." Honda added.

"Uh, sure, that'd be nice." Marik said.

"Why don't you come eat lunch with us tomorrow?" Jonouchi said

"Okay." He really wasn't completely sure how he felt about this, but he was making friends which he knew would be good for him.

"How'd you get detention anyways? You don't seem like a bad kid. You're not really the type we usually see in here."

We're the same age, Idiot! Was what Marik really wanted to say at the time but knew that being rude was not the way to make friends. So instead he responded with: "I wasn't paying attention in class. I was drawing and I got caught."

"Wow, I'm glad I didn't get Kato-sensei! She really sent you here for something like that" Honda exclaimed.

"Yeah"

"You any good at drawing" Jonouchi asked.

"I guess" he said.

"You'll have to show us sometime." The blond boy added to his statement.

"Why are you guys here?" The Egyptian boy asked trying to get out of showing his drawings to anyone; it was not something he ever wanted to do.

"Just a fight," Jonouchi replied. "Some guy was bugging our pal Yugi so we put a stop to it." Jonouchi then pulled up the sleeve of his school blazer to show off his bandaged arm.

That's not too bad, He thought doesn't compare to when dad beat me.

"You should've seen the other guy" The brunette joked.

The two more outgoing boys laughed together for a while before Marik asked a question that had been on his mind for a while.

"Isn't there supposed to be a teacher watching us here?"

"Right! You're new! I guess we forgot to tell you. That's another thing Touzoku did! I don't know how he went about creating and maintain this deal, but he somehow got the teacher to stay away from this room during detention! He's over in the next room doing his work in case something happens, but we leave him alone and vice-versa for the time we're here. It's pretty much a free for all thanks to him. Just don't tell anyone else about this, it's a secret." Jonouchi explained.

"That's pretty cool." Marik sounded unimpressed even though he really was. Bakura did all that! Maybe he's not a jerk after all… Then he thought back on their previous conversation. Then again he's probably doing this for selfish purposes. Bakura Touzoku was becoming a very interesting topic for Marik, he wanted to learn more about him, and he would no matter what according to his state of mind at the time.

For the rest of the detention period Jonouchi and Honda tried to have a proper conversation and make friends with Marik. They each found that they could as long as they found a subject that peaked the shy boy's interests enough. However, Marik was careful to only let his friendlier side show so as to not scare off his possible friends, which proved to be a difficult task. Rishid and Bakura. Those were the only two people he felt he could be himself around. But now with Honda and Jonouchi he wouldn't be depressed about his living in Domino anymore.

The other two boys noticed something about Marik and his interests. Most were common things like motorcycles and card games. Some less common ones such as his vast knowledge of the history of his home country and Japan. Marik even shared with them some information on his family, only his explanation included details on only the personalities and such of Ishizu and Rishid. Conveniently leaving out his father and one other member of his immediate family who was still living in Egypt. But, they never found him as absorbed in the discussion as in the beginning. When they were talking about Bakura(who was now setting up traps around the class for unsuspecting teachers and students that would enter the room the following day). When they both knew very well he was one person not to get yourself involved with.

"Hey Marik," Jonouchi tried to catch the smaller boy's attention.

"Hmm" Was his signal to continue.

"I'm only saying this 'cause I don't want you to get hurt too bad, but I really think you should stay as far away as you can from Touzoku. He's dangerous."

"No need to worry about me." Marik assured "I can handle myself. Besides, I don't think Bakura is planning on leaving me alone"

"Just a little advice." He said "You might want to be careful."

"I will, honestly Jonouchi you're worse than my sister!" They all laughed.

Just then the door to the classroom was opened and an older looking man entered. Marik assumed this was the teacher that was meant to be with them. "Detention is over you're all free to go home." Was all the man said before leaving and not shutting the door behind him.

"Time to go!" Bakura announced from the front of the room before taking off down the hall.

In a similar manner, Marik quickly got up seconds later and began making his way to the door, offering a small wave at his new friends behind him.

"Marik!" The shorter of the two called out.

"What?" He turned around to face him. Jonouchi brought up the index finger of his right hand to the side of his head and moved it in circles. He was mouthing out the word 'Crazy'. Honda was just watching him and laughing.

Marik smiled "Bye!"

"BYE!" The other boys repeated in unison.

Marik walked out the door to meet his freedom at long last. He exited the school to enjoy an uninterrupted walk home. When he got home dinner was waiting for him on the table. He had to explain to Rishid why it was that he had gotten detention and being the one understanding brother he was he told him he wouldn't be in anymore trouble after he'd been in detention for 2 hours. Marik conveniently left out the details of the detention he had served. Rishid told him he would take care of Ishizu for him so he didn't have to worry about getting shit concerning what had happened.

Later that night Rishid came into Marik's room with a phone in his hands. "Marik someone's on the phone for you. He has something really important to tell you." The word 'someone's' seemed to stretch out. Marik had a guess as to who it was and he'd been expecting this call for some time now, since they arrived in Japan.

He automatically knew the call was long distance.

Who can guess who it is on the phone? I hinted at it a bunch of times! He'll probably be in the next to FangsAndFeathers22 for inspiring me to add that last scene with the mystery character who is probably really obvious to them. It's probably obvious anyways though.

I really like this chapter because I was explaining all the shit Bakura does 'cause he's awesome like that. I also got to add two characters and mention Ryou (who will be in the story soon).

I also noticed this chapter was alot longer than my other ones so that was really cool because my chapters are short and I didn't know how to make them longer.

Please review!

-Witch12