Here's fic number four. The gang goes to Egypt to visit Marik and Ishizu, but they do not know Ryou has taken the Millennium Ring with him. Yami Bakura gets a big boost of power, but is been confronted with some bad side- effects.

Yami Bakura: Side-effects? We're not talking medications here.

Ryou-Ran: I know, Yami, I know. Too bad for you.

Yami: Aahh, Egypt... the country were I come from...

Yugi: I've never been to Egypt!

Joey: Is that where they invented shish kebab? (drool drool)

Everybody: --"

Ryou: Am I going to die?

Ryou-Ran: I'm not going to tell you. That would reveal too much, you know.

Tristan: Are we going by plane? I want to be a pilot! (acts like a plane) wwwooooosshhh...

Yami Bakura: You aren't a pilot, but an idiot!

Téa: (nods)

Marik: A plane? What's a plane?

Yugi: One of those flying things, you know...

Marik: I guess I have never seen that kind of bird, then. What colors are it's feathers?

Yami: --" It's a flying machine.

Marik: Oooh, a machine.

Ryou-Ran: While you speculate about planes I'm going to start the ficster. Yami Bakura, you are going to do the disclaimer?

Yami Bakura:Okay, but then I want the Millennium Puzzle for christmas.

Ryou-Ran: Ryou, you do the disclaimer.

Ryou: Ryou-Ran does not own Yu-Gi-Oh!

Yami Bakura: It's not fair... no Puzzle...

My Roots Are In Egypt

Ryou was sitting in a plane-chair and looked out of the small window. He was delighted. He was now able to leave the haste of Domino City for a while and go to Egypt. And the most important thing: He was going to see his father again! A smile spread across his face.

Yugi and Yami had been watching him. They had seen him smile and were glad. Ryou had been sad and a little ill the last few weeks and now he would be going to Egypt and see his father again he had completely lived up. There was even a little blush on his face. "This trip is doing Bakura much good."Yami said. "He looks much better than a few days before." Yugi grinned widely. "Yes."he said. "He is very glad he is going to see his father again. Actually it's kind of sad, don't you think, Yami?" "What is sad?"Yami asked. Yugi looked up at him. "Bakura's father is never home. He's always in Egypt. Bakura lives alone... alone with an evil spirit."he said. Yami's gaze hardened a bit. "Yes, that evil spirit... You know, Yugi, every time I see Bakura go home on his own I feel the urge to run after him and forbid him to go home. But what can I do?"he said. "Who knows what the Spirit of the Millennium Ring does to him when they're alone?"

"Look, we're touching down!"Ryou's voice sounded. His eyes were sparkling and his cheeks were pink. He showed his white teeth in a big, exited grin. Neither member of the gang had ever seen him that happy. They were glad for Ryou.

When the plane had stopped and the door hadf opened Ryou immediately wanted to rush out, but a stewardess stopped him. "Ho, honey, you must wait, or you'll fall out!"she said. Ryou looked down and saw the mobile stairs hadn't arrived yet. "Oh, thank you, Ma'am."he said, smiling at her.

Mr Bakura was standing on the airfield when he suddenly saw something white flashing. He saw it was something silver reflecting the light of the sun. He put on a pair of sun-glasses and saw it was the white hair of his son. "Ryou!"he shouted.

Ryou heard somebody shout his name and saw it was a man with a blue ponytail and tanned skin. "Dad!"he yelled, ran down the stairs and to his father. The members of the gang watched him as he flew into the arms of his father and hugged him. Ryou was as tall as his father, but Mr Bakura picked him up easily and swung him around. Ryou laughed and looked at him with tears in his big brown eyes.

"Aw, look at that."Téa sighed. She folded her hands. "It's so beautiful..." Joey stared at them and fell with a scream and a slump from the stairs. He landed with his nose in the sand and mentally grumbled and muttered to himself, until he felt two hands pick him up. He looked up and saw the Bakuras had each grabbed one of his arms and were lifting him back onto his feet. "Are you okay, Joey?"Ryou asked. Joey nodded sheepishly and slapped the dust out of his clothes. "Be a little more careful next time, okay?"Mr Bakura thundered and gave Joey a pat on the back that blew all the breath out of Joey's lungs. "Now let me help you with your luggage."

"Oh, look, it's Marik and Ishizu!"Yugi suddenly shouted. He began to wave and hop up and down. Marik and Ishizu approached them. "Hi, Yugi, Téa, Joey, Tristan and Bakura."Marik said, began feeling rather silly and laughed. The gang greeted him and Ishizu and then went to the house of Ryou's father, where they would stay. Marik and Ishizu still lived under the ground and they thought the others would not really enjoy staying there for such a long time.

Mr Bakura helped carrying the bags and suitcases and led them to the small house in which he lived. The house was even smaller than the house in which the Bakuras lived when they were both in Domino City. It was just a little bigger than Ryou's appartment. Ryou slumped down on a bed, after wiping a fat beetle off. Yugi, Joey and Tristan did the same thing. Téa would sleep in the livingroom.

"How often have you been here, Bakura-Kun?"Yugi asked, as they unpacked their bags. Ryou paused for a moment and rubbed his chin. "Uh... I think... about ten times."he said. Joey dropped a book with a picture of a dragon on it. "Wow! You've been here that many times? This is actually my first time in Egypt!"he said. Tristan said nothing, but got a very pink blanket out of his bag. Everybody gazed at him. "What now?"he asked, a bit stupidly. "What do you think of that?" He pointed at a pair of white underpants with red hearts on them Joey was just picking up. "Uhh, those aren't mine."Joey quickly said. "They are Bakura's, ain't that so, Bakura?" He threw them at Ryou, who caught them. "No, these aren't mine."Ryou said. He held them up and more or less shouted: "To whom does this pair of underpants with red hea-"Joey quickly slapped a hand in front of Ryou's mouth, but Téa had just come in and had heard him. "Oh, Joey, red hearts?"she teased. Ryou's father came in too and broke into laughter. It was really a pathetic sight, a blushing Joey holding Ryou, with a hand on Ryou's mouth, while Ryou was holding up a pair of underpants with red hearts on it. Joey released Ryou, who handed him the underpants. "There's a drink for you in the living."Mr Bakura chuckled and left. They could hear him laugh in the kitchen.

Ryou did not know the Yami inside his Millennium Ring had woken up because of the noise they had created. Yami Bakura did not know where he was at first. He sensed something... somthing familiar. He opened a link to Ryou's soul and saw Ryou was looking out of the window, looking at gold colored sand, blue skies, palm trees and... piramids.

Egypt. Now Yami Bakura knew where he was. He was in Egypt, the country where he was born and had died, more than five-thousand years ago. He at a small window that showed his memories and saw a man with copper colored skin, white hair and a long scar on the cheek. He could feel the ancient powers running through his veins. This was where his root were. Yami Bakura was home.
This will not stay so peaceful for such a long time, don't worry. And Marik will get a bigger part, for the Marik-lovers.

Marik: Oh, yeah!

Ryou-Ran: Someone is really glad.

Marik: I got a role... I got a role...

Yami Bakura: You got a role in "the fire of life can easily be distinguished" too, remember?

Ryou-Ran: Well, now I can give my fics more intelligent names.

Ryou: There's sand in my sandwich.

Yami: Why do you think it's called a "sandwich"? Ha ha ha !

Everybody: --"

Yami Bakura: I, as a collegue Yami, am ashamed!

Ryou: I don't know if sand has to do anything with a sandwich. (crack, cretsh, scritsh)

Oops, it's almost time! I hope you like the first chapter, but the next ones won't be so sweat! Please review!