Chapter 9 - The Rare Hunters Mean Buisiness

"........." Kay gave a soft, almost inaudible moan and slowly opened her eyes.

"Mokuba, she's waking up." She blinked and her vision cleared. Adelinda and Mokuba were looking down at her. Kay sat up and felt sore.

"Where...am I?" she managed to ask.

"You're at our mansion!" Mokuba said, smiling at her.

"Your mansion?" she asked. He nodded.

"After you saved me and and Adelinda, we ran out into the street and to our luck, my brother was looking for us too. When we went back to the alley, you were unconscious so my brother rescued you."

"Your brother?"

"Yeah, Seto Kaiba."

"You mean HE saved me?!" Kay snapped.

"You sound angry. I would assume you'd appreciate having someone save your poor life and body from those types of people," a smooth, icy voice said. Kay looked up to see Seto leaning in the doorway, arms cross, trench coat draped over his left arm.

Kay narrowed her eyes a bit. "I don't particularly enjoy playing the part of a damsal in distress, Kaiba." She swung her legs around the side of the bed and stood up. "Anyway, I fear we've worn out our welcome. Come on Adelinda, let's go home."

"Wait, Kay you've been knocked out for two hours. And it's already dark outside. Can't we stay...if it's ok with Mr. Kaiba?" Adelinda asked. Kay looked at her sharply.

"Adelinda," she said firmly, "I said we're going home. Is that understood?" Adelinda gulped nervously and nodded, suddenly very timid.

"Yes ma'am."

"Good. Now come on."

"Bye Mokie."

"Um, bye." Kay pushed past Seto and he snickered. She almost turned back around to demand what he found so funny, but she was in no mood. Now all she wanted to do was get to her apartment, shower, and go to bed.

Once they were a safe block away, Kay looked at Adelinda.

"I'm sorry I suddenly got so strict, Addy-chan." She looked up at Kay. "I just don't like Kaiba."

"Don't tell me I can't be friends with Mokuba!" Adelinda cried. Kay laughed.

"No, no. I like Mokuba, he seems nice. And I won't let personal prejudices get in the way of your friendships."

Adelinda hugge dher. "Thank you, Kay-Chan." she smiled and pat her on the head.

"No problem, Addy-chan."



Tick...tock...tick...tock...

Kay opened her eyes. She sat up and yawned then looked groggily at her clock.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Adelinda looked up from her cereal to see Kay running into the kitchen, brushing her hair and putting on her jacket.

"Addy! Why didn't you wake me up?!" she cried.

"I thought you needed some sleep."

"Hon, the tournament is still going on today and I need two more locater cards!"

"Oops, sorry sis." Kay chomped down a muffin for breakfast and gulped a glass of milk then quickly brushed her teeth, put her hair in a pull back, put on some make up, clipped on her choker, and put on her duel disk all in fifteen minutes.

"Are you going with Mokuba today?"

"Yeah. He's coming by a little later."

"OK, I'm gonna go." she kissed Adelinda on the temple. "Love you."

"Love you too." Kay ran out of her apartment and across the sidewalk. A limo stopped outside of her apartment and Mokuba watched her run off.

"Wow, she's late."

Kay sped off to Clock Tower Square and stopped to catch her breath.

"Oh...man...I need to...go to a gym or something..." She sighed and sat on a bench, running a hand thorugh her hair.

"Well, well, well." She looked up and saw a rare hunter. "Lookie at what found."

"Hey, what do you want, punk?" she snapped.

"My prey."

"If you're looking for a duel, I have on right here."

"Very good."

"Well then." She stood up. "It's time to duel, freak." They both drew their hands and gained 4000 lifepoints.

"Duel!"



"Um...e-excuse me?"

Cat, Anzu, Honda, Jounouchi, and Mr. Mouto turned to see agirl with brown eyes, glasses, and brown hair slightly long than Anzu's standing there.

"Can you maybe help me?"

"Um, I guess. What do you need?" Anzu asked.

"Well, you see, my boyfriend, Marik, entered this tournament and I can't seem to find him. He's been missing for quite some time and I'm worried."

"Oh, well, if you want to tag along with us, we'll help you find him."

"Thank you very much."

"No problem." Cat smiled kindly at her. "My name is Cat Tsuru."

"I'm Anzu Mazaki."

"I'm Katsuya Jounouchi."

"I'm Hiroto Honda."

"And I'm Sugoroku Mouto."

"Nice to meet you all. My name is Rin."

"Great to meet you, Rin."



It's been about an hour and no sign of Yugi or Marik. Jounouchi had just defeated Mako Tsunami and now had all six locater cards he needed to get to the finals.

Jounouchi had stopped to call his sister, Shizuka, to tell her he was getting to the finals and he discovered she could take off her bandages. Honda left to go and pick her up.

"Oh no, look!" Anzu cried. They looked up to see a boy carrying Ryou. His arm was cut and bandaged with some cloth. Miho was at their side, looking about ready to cry.

"It's Bakura! And he's hurt!" Anzu cried.

"Marik?" Rin thought. The other boy had sandy blonde hair, tanned skin, and violet eyes.

"Bakura!" Jounouchi said.

"What happened?" Sugoroku asked.

"Is he ok?" Cat asked.

"I just found him lying on the ground," the boy said, gently setting Bakura down.

"He doesn't look so good." Run just stared at them.

"Marik...what is he doing?" She moved into the shadows so Marik could not see her. "Last time I saw him...he was different...did he change back to himself again? Or is it an act?"

"I tried to take care of his injuries." Marik looked up at them. "You know him?" he asked hopefully. "He hasn't said a word since I found him." Jounouchi nodded.

"We're buddies." He leaned down. "Who do you think could have done this?"

"...Jounouchi..." Ryou said. Jounouchi looked at him.

"Bakura! What happened?" Ryou opened his eyes a bit and clutched his wound.

"It happened so quickly...I can't remember..."

"I'm lucky I found you all. He needs to go to a hospital, quickly."

"You're right." Cat nodded.

"Yeah."

"Sounds like Bakura's the lucky one. I'll take him to see a doctor right now." Sugoroku looked at Jounouchi. "Jounouchi, give me a hand."

"Can do."

They called a cab and Jounouchi helped Sugoroku carry Bakura into the back seat and he closed the door.

"There you go."

"He'll be alright. I'll call if there's some news."

"Alright, best of luck." The bab drove off and the gang watched it go. And little did they know, to the worst luck in the world, Yami and Seto were crossing the street nearby and the gang could not see them or be seen by them due to the taxi.

"See you later, Mr. Mouto."

"Feel better, Bakura." The taxi drove off.

Yami was worried. Marik had made threats after he won the duel with his mind slave, Strings, and took his God card, Slifer the Sky Dragon. He threatened to harm his friends.

Seto had only agreed to help him so they could duel and he could defeat Yami with his own Egyptian God Card, Obelisk the Tormentor.

And right now they were on their way to the Aquarium a few blocks away where Jounouchi, Anzu, Cat, Honda, and Sugoroku had just left.

"My friends are in a great deal of danger, Kaiba. I hope you've lead me to the right place."

"Relax, Yugi, your friends are here." They stopped outside of the aquarium.

"Really? How can you be certain?" Yami asked.

"Look, Kaiba Corp's tracking system traced Katsuya Jounouchi's duel disk to these exact coordinates. And it's foolproof." Yami ran off toward the entrance. Seto smirked a little. "Heh. Why Yugi cares about that third rate duelist is beyond me." He looked up, smirking evilly. "Soon he'll have bigger problems." Seto walked after him.

Jounouchi held up his hand to Marik.

"Hey, thanks a lot...eh...fella." Anzu slightly nudged him out of the way.

"What he means to say is we haven't introduced ourselves."

"I'm Namu, and you are?" He shook Jounouchi's hand.

"The name's Jounouchi."

"I'm Anzu. And this is Cat." Anzu turned and Cat was off in her own world. "Uh, Cat?" She looked up.

"Huh? Oh, sorry about that." she smiled. "It's nice to meet you."

"Hey, where's R-" Anzu started but Cat shrugged before she could finish.

"I don't know. She just seems to have vanished." Marik blinked.

"Who seems to have vanished?"

"One of our friends. She was looking for her booyfriend. I guess she took off."

"Oh."

"Well, thanks for all your help, Namu." Anzu smiled.

"Of course, I just did what anyone would have done."

"Hm? Is that a duel disk on your arm?" Jounouchi asked. Namu blinked and looked at the duel disk he was wearing.

"Uh, yes but I'm afraid I'm not much of a duelist. You're not challenging me to a duel, are you Jounouchi?" he asked.

"I don't hafta duel, 'cause I already qualified for the finals, Namu."

"Wow! Impressive. You must be good. Maybe you could give me some tips one day."

Well, I'll see if I can fit you in."

"Hm. I feel as though I've met you before."

"Yeah, I know what you mean. Smell ya later, Namu." Anzu, Jounouchi, ad Cat turned and walked away.

"Nice meeting you three!" Marik said.

"He seems like a nice enough guy."

"Totally." Cat didn't say anything.

"I wonder where Rin got off to...it doesn't seem like her to just leave..." Cat thought. "I know I just met her, but still...and I don't know if I trust this Namu guy..."

"Hey Cat?"

"Huh?" She looked at Jounouchi.

"How come you're so quiet?"

"Oh, it's nothing, really." She smiled. "I swear, I'm fine."

"You haven't said anything much."

"Don't worry, guys. I guess I'm worried about Bakura."

"Yeah, me too. But I'm sure he'll be fine." Anzu nodded.

"Yeah. Try to think positively."

"You're right. Thanks, guys."

"Hey! Wait up! Jounouchi! Anzu! Cat!" Marik ran up to them and they stopped and turned to look at him.

"What's up?" Jounouchi asked.

"I don't mean to be an inconvienience, but can you give me a few dueling tips right now?"

"Sure, I could hit you with a few pointers." Rin, who was still watching them, frowned a bit.

"Thanks, I'd like to win at least one duel in Battle City."

"Something isn't right..."

"You've come to the right place, Namu. I got so many dueling secrets, it'll make your head spin." Cat and Anzu smiled. Same old Jounouchi. "Just stick with me, Namu. You'll be a dueling expert in no time."

"Wait, Jounouchi, look behind you." Cat and Anzu gasped as a Rare Hunter grabbed Marik's shoulders. Jounouchi dealt with the one behind him.

"Take this!"

"They got him!" Anzu exclaimed.

"Piece of cake."

"AHHH!" A rare hunter grabbed Anzu.

"Anzu!" Cat exclaimed.

"Hey, let go of her, ya creep!" Jounouchi demanded. Cat shrieked as another one grabbed her.

"Look, what do you want?" Anzu asked. Jounouchi growled.

"You're real tough, why don't cha pick on me?" he asked. The two rare hunters he punched stood back up.

"Jounouchi, behind you!" Anzu warned.

"Look out!" Cat cried. But her warning came too late.

"You fool!" Jounouchi fell back as he was punched. Anzu and Cat gasped.

"Are you alright? Jounouchi!" Anzu cried.

"I've been better..." The rare hunter tightened his grip on Anzu and her cell phone started to ring.

"Oh!"

"Expecting someone?" one of them asked. Another one looked through her purse and pulled out her phone.

"I'll take that."

"Get off of my stuff!" she demanded.

"Yeah!" Cat snapped.

"Be quiet," the hunter holding her demanded roughly.

"You heard her, lay off!" Jounouchi added. The rare hunter answered the phone and, unknowingly, put it on speaker.

"Hello, Anzu, are you there? Hello?" Yami's voice asked.

"Yugi help!" she cried.

"Anzu! Where are you? Anz-" The rare hunter dropped the phone and stepped on it.

"No!"

"You're gonna pay for that!" Jounouchi snapped.

"Looks like your friend won't find you now."



Meanwhile, with Seto and Yami, Seto just recieved a call.

"Hm?"

Mokuba and Adelinda were sitting on the roof of a skyscraper. Mokuba was on his laptop.

"Seto, come in!"

"What is it, Mokuba?" he asked.

"We have a problem! Katsuya Jounouchi's duel disk isn't sending a signal to the satellite system. I tihnk something's blocking it. I'll go back to headquarters and make sure the team starts working on the tracking problem right away."

"Do it."

"Alright. We'll find those guys, Seto. I promise!"

"When you do, let me know." Seto broke the connection. Adelinda sighed.

"Man...these Rare Hunters aren't kidding around." Mokuba looked at her.

"Hey, don't worry Adelinda. My brother and I will find those wackos, jsut you wait."

"Ah, yeah." She smiled. "I know you can do it, Mokie." He grinned sheepishly and blushed a little. Mokuba closed his briefcase with his laptop and stood up.

"There he is!" Some rare hunters stood ehind the two and laughed evilly.

"Hey, who are you?" Mokuba demanded. The rare hunters jumped down and Mokuba and Adelinda backed away.

They tried to run off, but got blocked off.

"You're not going anywhere!" Odion hit Mokuba and he flew back, dropping his briefcase.

"What's the rush?"

"Mokuba!" Adelinda shrieked.

"Hey, who's the girl?" one asked. She looked up, fear in her eyes.

"Let's take her too."

"Yeah." They grabbed her and she screamed.

"Hey...let go of her, you creeps!" Mokuba yelled.

"Heh, you're ours, now." He looked up at Odion's cold, yellow eyes.

"Leave me alone! You're one of those rare hunters, aren't you?"

"Perhaps I am, and today you're my prey." They laughed evilly.



Kay walked down the sidewalk, grinning.

"Battle City finals, here I come!"

Her cell phone rang and she picked up.

"Hello?"

"Hi Kay." Her eyes widened at the voice.

"Uncle! You're alright!" she cried happily.

"Yup, I'm better than ever."

"Oh thank God. I was so worried. What happened to you?"

"I don't quite remember. But I know someone stole my millennium eye after I lost to Yugi Mouto."

"Was it Yugi?"

"I don't think so."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

"...I have to go, I'll call you tonight, ok?"

"Alright, bye." She smiled and hung up. "I have an apology to make. Better go find Yugi." She ran off.

Soon, she was at the pier.

"Hm...I wonder where I can find Yugi." She screamed when someone grabbed her from behind.

"Lookie here, an intruder."

"Let's lock her up with the others."

"Rare hunters!" Kay growled. "Let go of me."

"Sorry, love. Can't do that." They dragged her to a room filled with cardboard boxes and threw her in. "Enjoy your stay."

"YOU CREEPS!" she yelled.

"Kay-chan?"

"Huh?" she looked up to see Adelinda. "Adelinda?!"

"Kay!" Adelinda ran and hugged her. Kay looked to see Mokuba, Anzu, and Mokuba also there.

"Those creeps grabbed all of you too?" she asked.

"Yeah..."

"We need to get out of here."

"But how?" Mokuba asked. "They took my laptop so I can't call Seto for help."

"Can't we climb up those boxes?" Kay asked.

"I tried that once, but it didn't work."

"Well, when at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

"Hm..."

"Look, Anzu, I know oyu don't like me. But if we want to get out of here, you have to trust me."

"Kay's right, Anzu." Anzu looked at Cat and Kay then nodded.

"You're right." They stacked up the boxes.

"Ok, let's get out in this order. First Adelinda, then Mokuba, then Cat, then Anzu, and finally me. Sound good?"

"Yeah!" everyone agreed.

"Ok." Adelinda and Mokuba successfully climbed out the window and Cat was starting to get out when the door opened.

"Hey!" Kay looked at the rare hunters and gasped.

"Hurry, Cat!"

"I'm trying!" Adelind anad Mokuba were barely able to pull her out before the boxes collapsed, bringing Kay nad Anzu with them.

"Kay! Anzu!" they yelled. Both girls groaned in pain.

"Get some help!" Anzu cried.

"Yeah!"

"Right!"



Anzu and Kay were being lead down the hall and Kay counted in her head.

"NOW!" She racked the guy who was leading her and her immediately released her. Anzu didn't get the chance to do the same because she was trapped. "Anzu!" Kay said.

"Get out of here, Kay!" Anzu cried.

"But-"

"Please! Go and find Yugi."

"Ah, ok. I promise, I'll be back." She ran out of the building and shrieked as she was chased by at least ten rare hunters. "OK! Maybe I should have thought this through a bit more...AHHHHHHHHHHH!" She picked up the speed and continued running.

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