Author's Notes: This is my first ever Yu-Gi-Oh! AU fic, and it's a crossover with Magic Kaito. I got interested in this genre only recently and this is the result of my newest passion for AU fics. The world of this fic will be explained in the first chapters, so I won't be putting any details here. But I will inform you of the pairings I have so far decided to put in this fic: Yami/Yugi, Seto/Katsuya, Marik/Malik, Bakura/Ryou, Saguru/Kaito.

From Dusk 'Til Dawn

Chapter 1

At Night

I ran as fast as I could. I was not sure if they were still behind me or not, the adrenaline was causing my ears to ring too much for me to hear anything at all. But I was certain that I should keep on running, because if they were still following me, stopping would mean my death.

It was tiring, how this happened everywhere I went. Just when I was about to settle down and finally fit in, someone would realize I was not human. That I was something much stronger, much more dangerous. And then I would have to escape an angry mob.

I stumbled and almost fell flat on my face on the wet concrete. I had been running for a long time now, not to mention I had not slept well in days. It was just my luck to get myself into trouble on one of the weeks I had nightmares. I have had them since forever, ever since I realized I would never fit in anywhere.

My breath was coming out in faint puffs of smoke. That was the first thing that made people notice that something was off with me. Everytime I would get extremely angry, scared or exhausted, my insides would feel like they were burning. And I guess they were, kind of, since there would be smoke coming out of my mouth and nostrils.

I tripped over something and crashed down on the concrete below. The ground underneath me is wet from the rain that continues to fall around me in the night. I must have yelped in suprise when I fell since I heard someone call something out. Then I heard steps approach my current location.

Someone stopped right next to me and I saw a pair of shoes that are too small to belong to any of the hunters that had been after me. The person knelt down and I came face to face with large purple eyes. A hand reached out and brushed some of the long locks that were over my face away.

"What happened?" a gentle voice asks. The person was male, I could tell that much by his voice. But I could not determine his age, the voice spoke in a tone much younger to its sound.

A groan escaped my mouth as I tried to struggle up. A pair of arms were wrapped around my chest as the stranger tried to help me up. I heard him struggle to keep my weight up and I realized that he was too weak to get me up on his own.

I tried to move my legs to carry my own weight but I fear only keeps one going for so long. With another groan I let my legs give away as I fell against the smaller frame of my 'rescuer'. My face was buried in a mass of hair like I have never seen before. But the locks felt soft against my abused face and I sighed in contentment.

I heard some grumbling from the body that almost collapsed beneath my weight. Then there was a series of shouts. The boy called out various names. There were some running steps and people began to close in on us and I could not help but hope they would be as kind as the small being of light holding me. Light? I decided that it was a suitable name for him before I learned his real one. Hikari.

To be continued...