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Attention: I will stop updating stories after Chapter 6 is published but I will update Chapter 7 in times between June and July. After that, I will stop updating stories again until December. This is because I have two important exams I really need to study hard for if I want to become a doctor. (Yes, that's my ambition and most probably goes for Pharmacy.) So, I'm really sorry for your disappointment but still, I hope you will continue to read my story. Wish me good luck, everyone! (Smiles sweetly)

Beta: Sumire Mayonaka

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Keys:

"Talks"

'Thoughts'

Chapter 6: Troubles

It was the time the sun shone the brightest and yet, the forest was just as dark as the night blue sky. It was due to the fact that the trees blocked the sunrays almost completely and only a small beam of light managed to break through the tree's 'barrier'. However, that did not stop a pair of identical 'twins' who headed towards their destination in a quick pace.

"Where are you taking me?" The younger of the two, Yugi asked in his usual innocent tone with his head swinging from left to right.

"Don't worry, I just want you to meet someone." Yami's deep smooth voice assured him while giving Yugi's small hand a gentle squeeze as a way of comfort. "Someone special."

"Someone special?" Yugi repeated and looked at his friend in curiosity.

"Yes, she's a good friend of mine but I'm certainly sure that you two would make great friends." Yami said with a charming smile marked on his lips.

'She?' Yugi thought silently to himself, his once glimmering purple eyes slowly set its gaze onto the ground.

'I wonder who this special person is, is she Yami's…' He quickly shook his head when a word that could break his heart into two entered his mind.

'Why am I feeling this way? For Heaven's sake, we just know each other for like 3 days. Plus, it doesn't matter to me of whom he's being with, does it?'

Yugi was obsessed in his thoughts that he barely heard Yami's voice.

"We're almost there, Yugi."

When he didn't receive a reply, he spun round and found himself staring at his younger look-alike who kept ogling at the steep cliff with green grass all over its surface. His face only showed one expression – confound.

"Is something the matter?"

The said teen brought out from his thoughts and spun round to realize that Yami was just a few inches away from him.

"See that orchid over there?" The amethyst-eyed youth pointed towards the direction where a yellow orchid was found standing at the middle of the cliff, its beautiful petals shone as bright as the sun.

"My grandpa loves orchid, that's why his garden was always full of them. It reminds me of him every time I see this flower whenever or wherever I go." His sad voice slowly changed into a whisper.

"I really miss him."

While Yugi's gaze was fixed on the flower, he didn't notice the red-eyed adolescent was staring at him the whole time.

'I understand how you feel.' Yami thought sorrowfully and just as he was about to place his hand on Yugi's shoulder, the purple-eyed stripling knelt and started to climb down the steep cliff.

The size of Yami's eyes expanded when he realized what his little friend was trying to do. "Yugi, no!" He warned. "It's too dangerous…"

"I'll be fine." Yugi interrupted and quickly flashed him a reassuring smile.

However, that smile alone was not enough to convince Yami who continued to protest. "I can help you get it, Yugi."

To his dismay, his 'twin' rejected his offer.

"Thanks but no thanks. I can get it myself."

Yugi looked up once again to see Yami's worried expression written all over his features. "I'll be alright, trust me." He gave his friend a confident wink before he continued to clamber down the slippery cliff.

With his alerted eyes and expeditious hands, Yugi managed to get close to his target within a few minutes much to Yami's amazement.

When the Newcastle student was close enough to get the flower, he held a firm grip on a palm-sized rock while at the same time, stretched out the other hand as far as possible. The enchanted orchid seemed to glow brighter and brighter as the gap between Yugi's fingers and the petals was getting narrower.

This situation caused Yami's heartbeat to increase rapidly like a loud drum. He was so concentrated at seeing Yugi's actions that he wasn't fully aware that he grasped the poor grass with all his strength just to control his fear.

As soon as his fingers touched the flower's soft petals, the determined Yugi made his final move. With his might and main, he forced his body to move forward and grabbed the flower in a fast lightning speed.

Silence engulfed the duo as no one dared to speak a word but when Yugi opened his eyes and saw his most precious item shimmering in his dirty hands, he immediately squealed in exhilaration.

"I did it, Yami, I did it! See?" Yugi proudly raised the flower up high; the sunrays that shone onto the orchid caused it to glitter even more.

"I told you I could do it, am I?" He said playfully while releasing his victory grin to the ruby-eyed teen.

Yami let out a light chuckle before saying,

"Okay, you win. Now, grab my hand and I'll pull you up."

Yugi nodded obediently as he stretched out his arm, ready to climb up and reached for Yami's larger hand but it looked like the Gods were playing cruel tricks on him because when Yugi started to climb, his left foot suddenly slipped and lost its balance. Thus, caused Yugi to lose his grasp on the rocks and started to fall.

Luckily before that happened, Yami slid his body forward and managed to grab Yugi's right hand just in time. Yugi's shock instantly turned into relief as his fast palpitation tardily returned back to normal.

"Thanks Yami. You've just saved my life." He spoke with a grateful smile pasted on his lips.

Yami flashed back a warm smile but just as he was about to pull Yugi up to the surface, the bulging ground underneath Yami's body was unable to withstand the pressure. Therefore without a warning, it slowly broke into pieces of soils, resulting Yami being slid down so in the end, the duo fell off the cliff.

Of course, the two nervous adolescents were screaming at the top of their lungs even when they were clutching each other's hands.

While Yami was desperately thinking of a way to save their lives, he landed on the steep slope with a loud thud and bounced off. When he landed on the slope again, he was sitting on a big strange smooth leaf. A bouncing and shouting Yugi was later ended up sitting behind Yami and soon, their 'roller-coaster' ride adventure began.

Because the leaf they were sitting on was as smooth as the slippery oil, the sliding speed was much faster than a normal roller coaster. This made Yugi yelled a lot louder than before as he shut his eyes and gripped Yami's shoulder with all his energy. On the other hand, Yami was laughing out of joy and grabbed the leaf as though it was his control handle.

"This is fun!" Yami shouted out loud for Yugi to hear.

"Not funny, Yami!" The younger look-alike whined in displeasure.

When Yugi tried to open an eye, a long tree branch appeared and Yami managed to dodge it followed by shrieking Yugi who later dodged it too.

"Come on, Yugi. Open your eyes and enjoy the fun!"

The poor trembling Yugi rested his head on Yami's back and shook his head repeatedly. "No!"

Just then, a helpless ancient boulder that stuck on the ground for decades sent them bouncing up and back onto the surface again. At the same time, Yugi released a loud yelp while Yami laughed at hearing his friend's response. He had never once felt this happy before ever since that 'incident' happened.

However, that was not the end of their adventure as the 'twins' entered a dark area with many tree branches that bent like a curving moon and stuck together to form a round 'tunnel'.

At that moment, the crimson-eyed youth gaped at seeing the view shown in front of him.

"Yugi, look…"

"No!"

"Really, you should look at this. I bet you'll love it!"

Slowly but steadily, Yugi opened his eyes but shut once more when a luminous light wrapped them like a warm hug. As soon as his eyes adjusted to the light, Yugi's features changed completely in a split second.

What the two astonished boys saw was beautiful scenery of the forest – Trees that looked like tiny broccolis with many different heights and sizes covered most of the path. A flock of colorful birds scampered round the blue sky like floating kites. The long narrow unpolluted river that seemed to split the forest into half sparkled on the surface and last but not least, a huge mountain that was half covered with frozen snow stood proudly on the ground. All in all, the landscape was breathtaking.

While the two paralyzed teens were busily watching the view, they didn't realized that a large boulder bounced them off the ground again and sent them flying over a huge gap but luckily after that, they landed on the ground safely and that was the moment the duo snapped out of their thoughts.

"Phew, that was close." Yami said while wiping his sweat off his forehead. "Do you enjoy the scenery?"

Yugi nodded in reply before giving a blithering smile to his friend. "Yep, I do."

Soon, the amethyst-eyed teen was no longer afraid of the 'rides' and just like Yami, he enjoyed it very much as they continued to play 'tree dodges' and 'boulder bouncing' game until...

"Yami, what's that?" Yugi asked curiously while pointing at a brown blurry object that was only a few meters away from them.

As they get closer, the object was soon visible enough to let Yami realized that they were in deep trouble.

"Oh no." The red-eyed adolescent spoke aloud worriedly and felt nervousness slowly taking over his body. "It's a tree."

Yugi thought he was getting a wrong message so he asked again. "Wh…What?"

"It's a tree!" This time Yami screamed, as he couldn't control his fear anymore. "We're going to get hit by a tree!"

Fright overcame most of Yugi's emotions but he wasn't going to let fear overtook his body. So, he tried to stop that from happening by grabbing the long skinny tree branches but luck was not on his side as most of them were too high for him to reach.

Yami on the other hand, was pressing his hands onto the ground as hard as possible but the leaf kept sliding down the path and sooner or later, the distance between the two boys and the enormous tree was getting closer.

'Darn it! If I could use my powers…' However, Seto had once told him and his cousins that they were forbidden to use their elemental powers around their 'new' friends under any circumstances or else their identities will be revealed.

'I don't have a choice; I have to do it no matter what.'

While Yugi shut his eyes and prepared for the worse to come, Yami held out his hands and positioned them towards the tree that was only a few inches away from them.

The burning sensation slowly began to flow through his veins and when he was about to release his powers on the tree, the leaf they sat on had stopped moving.

The ruby-eyed youth who didn't realized he had closed his eyes tardily opened them and found himself staring face to face with the tree. His nose almost touched the hard brown material that they called wood.

Yami looked at his hands, then back to the tree. Then, surprise switched to joy as he realized that somehow, they managed to stop themselves from banging on the tree.

"Yugi, we're safe. I don't how or why but it just stops…"

When Yami spun his head round, he wasn't expecting to see Yugi in a state like this. Instead of seeing Yugi's normal cheerful face, he was staring at something below them with his body shaking uncontrollably and his skin color draining into as white as snow.

"Yugi, what's wrong?"

Fearing that his voice betrayed him, the young fretful teen held out his shaking index finger and pointed downwards. Yami of course, followed his gaze and looked down only to understand why Yugi react that way.

Below them was a waterfall that seemed to pour the fresh clear water down endlessly but why the two teens were trembling was because the waterfall was steep, thrice steeper than the cliff. The only problem was that whether they could make it alive or not if they fall down the slope.

Unfortunately, the bulging slope began to crack into half and before the boys had time to escape, it split into tiny pieces of soils as they both fell from the ground.

At that moment, there was nothing they could do so all they did was screamed, screamed and screamed until their voices turn into echoes, finally the sound of the waterfall splashing down the surface took place.

-Meanwhile-

Four teens were spotted walking casually at the East Wing while at the same time, chatting with each other happily.

Before that happened, Marik and Malik were 'playing' chases with each other until they happened to bump into the two albinos who were both being quiet the whole time. Marik as expected, was taking Bakura as a 'shield' whilst Ryou was clutching Malik's arm tightly to stop the fight so all the angry Egyptian could do was shouting random stuff with some bad languages in it while pointing his index finger towards his older look-alike.

However, after a few minutes, Malik managed to calm himself and Marik apologized to him later on. In the end, they became 'so-called' good friends.

"What? You guys explode the laboratory? And you even stole some expensive chemicals without the lecturer's notice?" Malik spoke aloud while staring at the two maniacs in a shock expression.

"Yep!" His older look-alike, Marik said with a proud cheery grin.

"Wow, I can't believe you guys would do something like that." Ryou exclaimed with similar surprised expression. "Won't the lecturers punish you for such an act?"

Bakura waved his hand as a sign of saying 'no'. "Nah. They don't have any prove to show that we're the ones who did this. Plus, we only did this twice. Thrice at most because Yami and Seto both knew the truth so they banned us from doing it."

"I see…" Malik wondered aloud. 'Maybe someday, I would like to try that myself, it looks fun to me.' He thought with an evil grin formed on his lips.

"Anyways…" Ryou began as he decided to change the topic. "How did you guys get into the forest?"

The two cousins thought silently, trying to find a reasonable answer to that question and finally, it was Marik who spoke first.

"By car of course."

"Car?" Malik repeated as he raised an eyebrow. "How did you get through the barrier by riding a car?"

"Barrier?" The confused duo whispered before they looked at each other as though their faces will tell them an answer.

"Well?" Malik asked impatiently while Ryou looked at them ambiguously. They were in deep trouble now.

Luckily, Bakura managed to find a plausible answer so he said,

"Our car has this special ability to make it invisible, that's why we could get through it."

As expected, their two startled friends gaped at them with eyes as wide as an owl.

"Really? That's awesome!" Malik exclaimed in exhilaration.

"But…" Ryou said as he tilted his head to one side. "That kind of car hasn't created until now although the scientists had plans to do so."

Malik nodded in understanding before he spoke once again. "He's right. So how do you get it when we don't have one in Japan?"

"And it's not just Japan; none of the country has it." Ryou added.

The two daredevils cogitated with unseen sweats rolling down their cheeks. After a minute or so, Malik's patience ran out but just as he was about to open his mouth and shouted, Bakura at the same time replied his question.

"That is because my uncle is a scientist and he just created this invisible car a few weeks ago…" Actually, Bakura's uncle was a clerk that worked in a bank.

"And…" Marik interrupted. "He then decided to let us ride it and tested its invisible ability by going through the barrier and what do you know, it worked!"

"Yes, that's how it is. So anymore questions?" Bakura asked in an impatient tone with his arms crossed in front of his chest.

"Hmm…" Ryou hummed while placing his index finger on his chin like he always did when he was thinking. "So, that car had just created and hasn't got the government's approval?"

"Yes. The car had just tested for less than two weeks and we can't confirm whether it is safe to use for the citizens or not. We need to test it for at least three months and if it works perfectly, then we can get the government's approval." Marik explained while inside his mind, praying that his friends won't ask any more questions.

After what seemed like long hours of thinking, both Ryou and Malik nodded comprehensibly.

"If what you've said is true…" Malik said before a cruel smirk started to form on his lips. "Can you show us the car?"

Ryou's spirit aroused when he heard that comment from his schoolmate. "Yes, please!"

'Great, another problem occurs.' Both Bakura and Marik thought simultaneously with an inward sigh. They knew that they had no choice but to 'obey' them for they'll get suspicious again if they don't.

With another deep sigh, Bakura nodded in response before the two eager teens followed him like loyal servants.

'Now, how do we get an invisible car when there's not even a single car here?' The albino brooded anxiously but just then, an imaginative 'light bulb' appeared on top of his head.

He pulled his cousin who was beside him the whole time closer and secretly whispered his plans to his ear. Marik's feature was obviously changing from nervousness to excitement, and then slowly switched to evilness. Oh, this is going to be fun.

The tallest of the four turned to his friends and cheerily said,

"I'm going to check the car's condition." Then, he was gone like a disappearing ghost.

When Marik was far enough from them, he closed his eyes and concentrated on his elemental power that was slowly awakening in his blood. Tree branches started to sprout from his glowing green hands and with his creative mind, created a tree-made sport car in approximately 5 minutes.

'This should do the trick.' Marik thought with a smile while stroking the car like it was his most-prized item. A few minutes later, his friends arrived followed by a few talks and giggles behind Bakura.

Without warning, Malik's eyes glimmered in excitation as soon as he saw the sport car. "Wow, this is awesome!" He exclaimed while running his fingers on the car's surface.

Ryou's jaw nearly dropped to the ground as he stood beside Malik and touched it as well.

"I've never seen something like it. A car made up of nothing but trees?" He swung round and gave Bakura a perplexed expression; his eyes clearly said that he demanded for an explanation.

"My uncle wanted to make something out of ordinary." The taller white-haired albino answered with a shrug. "Also, this car brings many advantages. It was light enough for two people to carry since it's all made up of trees and easy to repair."

Ryou nodded to show that he was listening while his eyes fixed on the incredible object. "I see…"

"I wonder how the engine works." Malik thought aloud as he tried to open the bonnet but stopped when his 'twin' jumped into the seat and clamored with a playful grin on his lips.

"Come on, guys. We're going for a ride."

Without hesitation, the other three youths hopped into the seats as well.

"The seats are really uncomfortable." The shorter Egyptian complained while examining the car in curiosity. "It doesn't have radio either."

"Stop complaining, Malik. You should be grateful that Marik and Bakura offer us a ride. You begin to act more like Joey, you know."

Ryou's remark instantly stopped Malik from having anymore complains. The duo sat quietly but did not notice the exchange glances the two cousins were giving each other. Evil grins emerged on their faces before Bakura the driver channeled his power to the wheel.

Slowly but steadily, the tree-made sport car afloat from the surface and began to move forward. Soon, it functioned like any other ordinary cars as it floated until they were above the trees.

Malik and Ryou who were sitting silently behind them the whole time glanced at the view in awe.

"Wow, I didn't know that the forest can be so beautiful and attractive." The lavender-eyed teen admitted while watching the birds flying above the tall-looking trees like they were dancing in the air.

When they passed through the South Wing, Ryou instantly spotted two arguing figures standing beside the river.

"That's Seto and Joey!" The albino exclaimed while pointing towards the direction where they saw a honey-brown eyed youth staring sharply at the taller brunet who pretended to ignore him completely.

"You're right. Hey, Joey! Seto!" Malik called out whilst waving his hands wildly like a flapping bird.

However, before either Joey or Seto notice them, the driver quickly drove to another direction with an amazing lightning speed.

"Hey, what'd you do that for?" The tanned-skin Newcastle student said with a pout. At the same time, Joey asked his so-called friend with his head spinning from left to right.

"Did you hear something?"

"No." Was Seto's simple answer so the blond-haired teen shrugged in response before the duo continued their conversation…I mean fights.

While everyone in the car was each having a peaceful and enjoyable time looking at the beautiful scenery, something has gone wrong with Bakura's power.

'Not now. Not this time.' The taller white-haired albino thought anxiously while desperately trying to control his power as best as he could but in the end, Bakura lost control of his power as the car's speed slowly palliated.

"Wh…what's going on?" Malik asked as he began to feel panic.

"Just calm down. I'm sure the car is doing just fine."

Unfortunately as soon as Marik spoke his last word, the car abruptly stopped moving. Thus, causing it to drop down from the sky within a few seconds.

As expected, the boys screamed at the top of their lungs since they expected more pain and blood as soon as they reached the ground but luckily, they ended up dropped into a huge supportable tree.

"Ouch. That really hurts!" Malik shrieked as he pulled out a sharp tree branch from behind his back.

"Is everybody alright?" Bakura asked while trying to get out from the car but couldn't because there were many tree branches surrounding him like a prison.

"I guess so." Ryou whispered as he tried to crawl back onto the seat.

"Where are we?" Marik asked more to his older cousin than his friends.

"Don't know." Bakura replied. "And I think we're stuck in this damn tree."

It took a full minute for others to realize that they were in deep trouble.

"Hey, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" The tallest of the group questioned before receiving a nod from the Air Elemental.

"Yep. There's only one thing we can do."

All four teenage boys nodded to each other before they began to call for help, causing the animals to scramble out from their hiding place.

A few hours passed by but neither Joey nor Kaiba could find their companions so during dinnertime, the duo went out to search for them together.

"Where are they?" Joey asked furiously whilst watching the blue-eyed adolescent searching for his cousins in apprehension.

"I don't know but what I do know is that the lesser you talk, the sooner we get to find them."

The shorter of the two was obviously getting infuriated after receiving that comment.

"I know you're worried about them but you shouldn't...wait, what's that?"

Soon, they both heard strange noises coming from the Northwest side of the forest. Without a second thought, the two teenage boys ran towards the direction of the noise and as they get closer, the noises were soon turned out to be snores.

Even thought it was nighttime, they could see the view clear enough especially when the moonlight shone onto the path and finally onto a particular tree.

What the two youths didn't expect to see was that the people they were looking for were sleeping soundly in the tree with tree branches encircled them like curling ropes. It looked like they were using so much energy on shouting that they got tired and eventually, fell asleep.

Anime sweat drops falling down Joey's forehead whilst Kaiba on the other hand, was clenching his fist in anger before he yelled as loud as he could to wake the foursome up.

"Wake up, you stupid lazy pigs. Do you know what time it is?!"

To Be Continued…

The end of Chapter 6 has arrived! (Wipes sweat) I've made this chapter extra long since I decided to stop updating stories until June or July. I hope you enjoy this story so far! (Smiles sweetly) If you have any questions, feel free to ask me by sending a PM! Again, I'm really sorry for the delay but I hope you understand and hopefully continue to support me by reading this story or maybe even better, faves and alerts! (Laughs)

So, stay tune for Chapter 7: Search!

Finally, review please! Thank you!