A/N: Once again, one of those ideas that came to me in the middle of the night. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. R/R, please!

Update 3/17/09: As with Come Save Me, I looked over this story and decided to make some big plot changes. The original plotline I had just seemed silly to me.

Disclaimer: YuGiOh ain't mine! So put away those lawyers!

Little Angel

Chapter 1

Footsteps echoed as she made her way down the cold stone hall. She had been summoned for a very special task, or so the message had said. Gigantic double doors opened with a scraping sound as she entered the room where her master awaited her.

"I see you got my message," a voice said.

"Indeed," she replied. "What task do you require me to perform?"

"There is a human boy who will come near death very soon. However, his death will not be final even though his spirit will have moved out of his body. He will have to make a choice."

She frowned. "And you want me to help him?" This was rather unorthodox; helping souls make decisions about death usually wasn't her particular line of work. She usually focused more on helping souls to fall in love.

"Yes, and I also wish for you to help an angel make a choice, as well."

"An angel?"

"Yes, though this angel's choice will not be the same. He will have to choose between his home in the White Lands and Earth."

Her frown deepened. "What, may I ask, is the story behind all of this? Are this angel and human actually going to meet?"

The master smiled. "You will find out soon. Go to where the angel lives; the human boy should be there soon."

Her frown deepened, but she obeyed, knowing that her master saw far more than she did.

"Oh, and one more thing," the voice said. "The human boy will remember very little of his life on Earth. You may have to job his memory a bit."

Another unusual task. She bowed and turned, exiting through the great doors as they closed behind her.

Yami was bored out of his skull. The math sub had a lisp that made him completely unintelligible, not that anyone was listening anyways, and math was always boring no matter what. Yami's eyes drifted from the window he had been staring out of over to the desk next to him, where Jou was scribbling a note that he and Hiroto had been passing back and forth for the past half hour.

Sighing, Yami looked at the clock. Only ten more minutes, and school would finally be over. It had been a bad day already. Yami had slept through his alarm and ended up running to school in the rain only to realize once he got there that he had forgotten his history homework. That, and he had managed to blow up his chemistry experiment with Jou's help, as well as getting a detention after school next Monday for writing notes in the middle of health class.

Yami was so lost in thought over his bad day that he nearly fell out of his chair when the last bell finally rang. Jou and Hiroto were off like a shot, and Yami had to run to catch up to them. When he finally did they were already slamming their lockers shut and were ready to leave.

"Hey, Yami, did you catch what pages we had to do for homework?" Jou asked, leaning on his locker. Yami just blinked at Jou.

"We had homework?" Jou blinked back as Yami stuffed a few books in his bag and shut his locker.

"And I thought I was bad at listening to the teacher. Couldn't understand him anyways, though. You sure you're okay, Yami? You're acting kind of weird today."

"Yeah, I'm fine," Yami said as he pushed open the door and walked down the school's front steps. "This just hasn't been one of my better days."

Jou opened his mouth to say something else, then spotted Seto from the corner of his eye.

"Hey, Seto!" Jou called to his boyfriend, waving. The brunet waved back as he walked over to them.

"Hi, puppy," he said, giving Jou a peck on the lips. Yami's faraway expression caught his attention at that moment, and he asked Jou, "What's wrong with Yami?" Jou shrugged.

"I just had a bad day," Yami said quietly, then he started off down the sidewalk towards his house. "I better get home. I'll see you tomorrow, guys."

Yawning, Yami stretched as he walked. He knew he shouldn't have stayed up so late the night before, but video games were extremely addictive. Besides that, Yami also knew that he had been extremely pensive and quiet lately. He had logically decided that it was because he was jealous of Jou and Seto, but he thought that he had gotten over that jealousy weeks ago.

/And I'm over it, right?/ Yami thought to himself. /Right?! Okay, so I'm not over it. I've got a reason, though./ His brain came to a halt as he suddenly realized that he didn't even have a reason for being so jealous.

/Okay, so I don't have a reason. So what? Do I need to have a reason?/

Yami sighed. He knew that his jealousy was rather baseless, but it had refused to go away. Just a few years ago when he had started junior high he had begun to feel that there was something crucial missing in his life, something that he could almost see and touch, but somehow it always eluded his grasp.

This feeling of absence had left him somewhat distant from everyone else as he tried to figure out what he was missing. He had even been brave enough to try talking to a school counselor, but all she had said was that most teenagers are looking for an identity. That wasn't the problem. Yami knew who he was, he just didn't know what wasn't there. It was becoming extremely frustrating.

/Maybe I'm just imagining all this/ he thought. He had told himself that many times before, but somehow the stubborn part of his mind just wouldn't buy it. He had found it quite frustrating that his own mind was turning against him.

Staring at his feet, Yami kept walking in the direction of his house, lost in thought. He wasn't even aware of where he was until a shout jarred him out of his thoughts. He looked up in a daze to realize that he was on a crosswalk in the middle of the street. He also realized it a little bit too late.

"Look out, kid!"

Yami had barely processed that there was a car heading straight for him when it hit, and that was the last thing that Yami knew as darkness claimed him.

A/N: Wow, a story that will actually have more than one chapter. That's a first for me! Anywayz, it's probably almost painfully obvious where this is going, but it will get good, I promise! I'll need reviews to actually go any further on this, so please R/R!