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'We are fine, we don't exactly have a solution yet but we at least have some idea of what is causing this mess,' Seto answered, waiting for Mokuba to gather his group together.

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'Waa,' Honda murmured sleepily, 'what's going on?'

'I'll try to summarise,' Seto promised, 'I just want to get you all here as quickly as possible. We'll explain everything then.'

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'You're not Anzu,' Shizuka said, after they'd been driving in silence for almost half an hour.

'Oh I don't know about that,' the girl who looked like Anzu replied with a laugh, 'if you pricked me Anzu would bleed, if you tickled me Anzu might even laugh and if you were to poison me then Anzu would most certainly die.'

'What do you want with me?' Shizuka asked, 'Why are you after my brother and Kaiba?' She attempted to remain calm, levelheaded. She was certain she was in great danger, but she also had a unique opportunity to perhaps find some answers and maybe a way to save her brother.

'With you, nothing really, you're just an unfortunate means to an end. With your brother it's strictly business. With Kaiba, well, that's just a bit of unresolved fun really,' Anzu laughed.

'Care to elaborate?' Shizuka prodded sweetly.

'Absolutely not, I don't think I'd find that fun at all,' Anzu replied, smiling sinisterly over at her passenger.

'Would you at least like to tell me where we are going?' Shizuka asked, trying very hard not to beg.

'Hmm, where indeed, where indeed.'

Seto frowned a bit while listening to his brother shout repeatedly for Shizuka. 'Mokuba, is everything alright?' he asked tentatively, he didn't want to worry Jounouch if nothing was wrong.

((Haha, yay, finally pictures! In the first picture I was like 'woah, they are buried behind so many other figures, but the second picture was luckily just them. They do look good, and I don't think Jounouchi looks too much smaller. Plus in my head Jounouchi always is probably that much smaller than Kaiba. Kaiba is so domineering and looming and every time I look at height differentials I always think 'that can't be right, Kaiba is a giant!' razz ))

'What do you mean you can't find Shizuka?' Seto blurted out, wincing as he watched the look of panic cross Jounouchi's face.

((I was thinking the height difference wasn't as notable in the kitchen shot.))

Shizuka glanced over at Anzu as her phone started to ring. 'I'm guessing I can't answer that?' she queried.

Anzu pulled out her pistol again and waved it in Shizuka's face. 'You know what, you can, but you don't say anything unless I give you the go ahead mkay?

Shizuka tensed, both with excitement with this possibility to save herself, but also with suspicion. She pulled the phone out, although frowned a bit when she noticed it was an unfamiliar number. This was a new phone though and she really only had family, Anzu and a few school friends in it. Hopefully this would prove to be Kaiba or Honda or someone who could potentially reach her brother and let him know she was at least alive for now. 'Hello?' she answered quietly.

Shizuka glanced over at Anzu, wondering how much of Yuugi's side of the conversation she could hear and what she'd be allowed to say. 'Umm, not exactly, but I can't really speak freely atm,' Shizuka began.

The Shikigami smiled at Shizuka's naive attempt to play it cool. Turning her way, Anzu silently mouthed, 'for now you can mention anything you want except this meat suit, I'll stop you if I think you've gone too far.'

'Umm, I guess I've been taken hostage by, by someone,' Shizuka floundered, not sure how to explain her situation, 'I'm fine for now, but I have no idea where we are heading, just that we are in a silver convertible.'

'Well, I have seen them, but they...they aren't themselves,' Shizuka answered slowly, not wanting to be forced to hang up the call before some sort of useful action could be taken, or at least a bit more information gleaned.

'Sure thing Yuugi, everyone is okay at the house yes? I am sorry to have left in such a hurry,' Shizuka attempted friendly chatter, anything to stay on the line.

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'Yea, give me a second,' Seto answered gravely, handing Jounouchi the mobile so he could pull his laptop out of the limo, 'give me her number and I'll see what I can do.'

Seto had no problem entering her number and beginning a GPS search, he also decided to run a wide net search on a rented silver convertible. Even without a make and model they might get a hit on who had taken Shizuka. This couldn't be a coincidence, Shizuka just happening to be kidnapped while a separate evil spirit was trying to kill them. Still, spirits don't drive cars, so unless Shizuka was just spouting random details to stay on the line she had to be with someone.

((Will reply to message tomorrow, very tired, very long pancake day.))