Darkness, Light and Sugar.
By Vada Via Cretino*~*~*~*~*~*~* - Change of time and/or scene.
//Blah.// - Yami to Yugi through their link.
/Blah./ - Yugi to Yami through their link.
"Blah" – Speech.
'Blah' – Thinking.
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Rachel: Alrighty! Here's my first ever story. I apologize if it's not all too great, but I tried! Yugi and Yami are the main couple. They're so kawaii together! *Sighs*
Yami: *Sweatdrops* Rachel does not, did not, and never will own Yu-Gi-Oh. Or me or Yugi or any of the unfortunate characters of this ficcy. ESPECIALLY not Yugi!
Rachel: Yeah yeah. I KNOW. He's yours forever, your soul partner; nothing will ever break you apart blah blah blah.
Yami: *Growls protectively* Exactly!
Rachel: *Laughs nervously* Well, let's get on with the fic, shall we?
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Chapter 1 – Poor Yugi's hearing things
Yugi fled as fast as he could from the one person he feared the most – Anzu Mazaki.
"Come back, Yugi! You can't escape from me forever! We're the friendliest of friends, and friends stick-" She screamed in her annoying voice before tripping over her feet and falling flat on her face.
"Keep runnin', Yug'!" Jou yelled, "We'll see ya later!"
Without answering, Yugi just kept running, until he was sure no one was following him. He sighed in relief and slowed to a walk, sweat trickling down his small, child-like face.
He smiled gratefully when the Game Shop came into view.
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Yugi sighed and collapsed onto the couch. Glancing up at the clock on the wall, Yugi made it out to be 3:30pm. He absently raked a hand through his spiked up, tri-coloured hair.
Too tired to move much, he stretched out his arm, trying to reach the remote on the coffee table in front of him. He shifted his body to the edge of the couch as he tried to reach the remote.
Unfortunately, he had moved further than he realized and fell off the couch and onto the floor; pulling the contents off the coffee table along with him in a loud crash.
"Ouch!" Yugi winced, sitting up and rubbed his head.
Looking down on the floor he saw the reason for his pain – along with a lot of other things he had made fall on the floor.
He eyed the box curiously and picked it up, shaking it as if it were some kind of birthday present. Shrugging, he tossed the box onto the couch.
After putting all the things he knocked down back on to the coffee table, Yugi picked up the remote, turned the T.V on and sat back on the couch. Picking up the box again, he noticed the note attached to the top.
Dear Yugi,
My friend Professor Hawkins is in town, back from a recent excavation in Egypt. He gave me something he had recently discovered, but I want you to have it. I know how much you love puzzles, and I'm sure it won't take you long to solve it.
I'll be spending the weekend with him; I know you can take care of yourself. I've been to the store so you should have enough food till I get back. Don't forget to do your homework and chores.
Love,
Grandpa.
Yugi rolled his eyes at the last comment, but they shone as he opened the box. He frowned as he realised there was another box inside, but gasped as he pulled it out, discarding the other box on to the floor.
It was made of gold. Yugi doubted it was pure gold; no one would simply give that away. What caught his attention, though, was the eye symbol on the lid of the box.
Yugi tilted his head slightly, confused, looking extremely cute in the process. Holding it up to the light he inspected each side of the box. He shook the box again. A small clinking noise was heard; like metal against metal.
Now intrigued, Yugi opened the lid, to find small pieces of metal, a lot like the metal of the box, inside. He reached a small, soft, extremely cute (Yami: I think they get the point!! Rachel: *Blushes* Gomen!) hand into the box and took out a few pieces.
"Grandpa was right, they do look like pieces of a puzzle." He said softly.
Flicking the T.V off, not really paying attention to what was on it anyway, he got up. Only to fall flat on his face again as he tripped over the box he'd earlier thrown on the floor.
Groaning, Yugi lifted himself up and noticed the golden pieces strewn out over the floor. Cursing quietly, he picked up the pieces and put them back in the box.
Yugi ran up the stairs to his room, being extremely eager to start the puzzle right away.
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Yugi smiled triumphantly as he managed to fit the final piece into place.
"Finished!" He exclaimed gleefully.
He looked at the now completed puzzle with a confused tilt of his head.
'What is it? It just looks like some sort of pyramid.' He thought to himself, unaware that the puzzle was, in fact, the wrong way up.
He was slightly disappointed. He'd spent all those hours putting the puzzle together, and that was it? A pyramid. Great. The excitement of putting the puzzle together was now completely gone. He had managed to put the puzzle together, sure. But what the hell did it actually do?
As if answering his questions, a blinding light filled the room. And guess where it was coming from? Yup, you got it. The puzzle!
Shocked and terrified, Yugi stumbled backwards and shielded his eyes from the blinding light with his hands. He looked on in terror and disbelief as something slowly made its way out of the puzzle.
His eyes widened as he realized that someone was coming out of the puzzle. Yugi blinked and looked closer, well, as close as he could while a bright white light was blinding him.
Something wasn't right. The dark, scary figure… was coming out upside down?
All fear was driven from his mind as Yugi bit his lip in anticipation. Still squinting from the bright light, he watched as the dark figure finally separated from the puzzle…
And fell with a 'thud' to the floor.
Yugi also fell to the ground. He was clutching his sides and giggling as tears rolled down his cheeks.
You may be wondering what's so funny. But, when an eerie bright light suddenly fills your room, and a dark figure slowly starts coming out of a puzzle a friend of Yugi's Grandpa gave him from Egypt, landing on the floor in a less-than-graceful way, ALSO landing on its head, Yugi found it funny. Very funny indeed.
"I'm glad you find it so amusing." A deep voice growled.
Yugi abruptly stopped laughing. He slowly looked up, amethyst eyes wide, and met a pair of annoyed red ones. Yugi eeped and scooted backwards until his back hit the wall. He whimpered slightly.
The figure was now sat up, cross-legged, with a hand to his head, in obvious pain. Yugi could do little more than stare, in both fear and shock, at the Puzzle Guy.
Yes, Puzzle Guy.
It was obvious that the figure was a guy, and he had just somehow come from that weird puzzle on his desk.
He also didn't know his name, but he had no intention on finding out right now.
Therefore, Yugi had dubbed him Puzzle Guy.
'Dear Kami-sama… he looks just like me!' Yugi thought in amazement.
Apart from a few obvious details, it was like looking at a mirror image of himself. The boy in front of him had a more muscular figure and was definitely taller, though most were. There was also the matter of his eyes. His eerie, blood red eyes.
//I think you'll find it is you that looks like me.//
Yugi did the only thing that came to mind. He screamed.
"AH! My head!" The Puzzle Guy whined.
"YOUR head?! Your head doesn't have a voice in it!" Yugi yelled, causing the Puzzle Guy to wince.
"A Voice?" The Puzzle Guy asked in confusion. Slowly, a small smirk appeared on his face. A smirk Yugi didn't like.
The Puzzle Guy just smirked at Yugi for a while, making him extremely uncomfortable.
Until…
//BOO!//
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Yugi jumped up and ran. Past the scary Puzzle Guy sat on the floor, clutching his head due to the extremely loud girlish scream from Yugi. Down the stairs. Into the kitchen, where he hid. Under the table…
Hey, what would YOU do if you heard a voice in your head and had a sexy, yet extremely scary boy sat on your bedroom floor that had just appeared out of a puzzle?!
//How do you expect to run from a voice that is inside your own head?//
"Leave me alone!" Yugi pleaded as he started to cry.
//…Hey, don't cry. I'm sorry.//
"Who are you and what do you want with me?" Yugi asked quietly, sniffling, feeling slightly better that the voice had apologized. The voice seemed to sigh.
//Don't move. I'm coming downstairs.//
Yugi merely nodded, not entirely sure whether the voice could actually tell or not. And what did it mean by 'coming downstairs'?
Then it dawned on him. The Puzzle Guy! He must have somehow spoke to him telepathically.
Yugi narrowed his eyes in anger. That was, until a devious idea formed in his head.
An uncharacteristic smirk appeared on Yugi's face. He crawled out from underneath the table and chose to sit at it instead.
Then, Yugi closed his eyes and screamed in his head.
Smiling innocently, he watched as the Puzzle Guy walked into the kitchen, left eye twitching and his hand massaging his temple.
"What did you do that for?" The Puzzle Guy hissed, then wincing at the sound of his own voice.
"Do what?" Yugi asked innocently, cocking his head to the side to add to the effect.
The Puzzle Guy's eye twitched again and he let out an exasperated sigh. Pulling out a chair, he slumped down into it and glared at the small boy in front of him.
Yugi continued to smile innocently at the riled-looking boy in front of him. He suddenly had the urge to laugh but put his hand over his mouth to cover it. Causing the laugh to come out as a muffled snort.
The Puzzle Guy raised an eyebrow at the action, causing Yugi to laugh more.
As a result, Yugi found himself having a giggling fit on the kitchen floor.
"Why are you laughing so much?!" The Puzzle Guy demanded.
Instead of answering, well, right now he couldn't due to the fact he was having trouble breathing, Yugi got up and poured himself a glass of water.
Calming himself down slightly, Yugi drank the water, well; more like downed the whole glass in one.
Not a good idea.
He found he needed to laugh again. Though through fear of choking, Yugi could only do one thing with the water in his mouth – spit it out.
After doing so, Yugi's eyes almost doubled in size as he realized that he had spat the water all over the weird Puzzle Guy.
"Oh my God! I'm so sorry!" Yugi cried at the less-than-happy looking Puzzle Guy.
But the other boy didn't seem to hear. He was just glaring at Yugi with his piercing blood red eyes.
Yugi laughed nervously and waved a small hand in front of the now-soaked Puzzle Guy's face. The other boy still didn't move.
"Fine, just stay there, then." Yugi mumbled.
Shrugging, the smaller boy walked out of the kitchen and into the living room.
Flopping onto the couch, he picked up the remote and turned on the T.V. Yugi flicked through the channels before deciding on one and then tossing the remote to the side of him.
It wasn't long before Yugi heard a slight noise behind him. Getting to his knees, he turned round to see what it was.
His eyes widened in alarm as he saw the Puzzle Guy looming above him with a smirk on his lips and a mischievous look in his eyes.
It was then that Yugi noticed the glass full of water in the taller boy's hand. (1)
Before Yugi had time to move, the Puzzle Guy had poured the contents of the glass over his head, soaking his once styled hair and plastering it to his head.
Yugi just knelt there with a shocked expression on his face as the Puzzle Guy burst into laughter.
Seeing red, Yugi got to his feet and launched himself at the person that had the nerve to mess up his way-cool hairstyle.
The Puzzle Guy's eyes widened in surprise as the smaller teen threw himself on him, sending them both to the floor.
Dazed, Yugi blinked to find he had pinned the Puzzle Guy to the ground. Looking down, his eyes met equally confused ones.
"Well, this is quite a compromising position isn't it, little one?" The Puzzle Guy said, smirking.
Blushing furiously, Yugi scrambled off the taller boy. Not bothering to help the Puzzle Guy once he had gotten up.
Still with the smirk Yugi was growing to hate on his face, the Puzzle Guy got to his feet.
"All right, who are you? Or more importantly what are you?" Yugi asked, having to look up to meet the other's eyes.
"You look cute when you blush, you know."
As if on cue, Yugi blushed again.
Chuckling softly, the Puzzle Guy answered. "My name is Yami. I am you." He said wisely, folding his arms in front of his chest.
"But you can't be me! I'M me!" Yugi protested, being extremely confused.
"Yes, but you are also me."
"So if you're me… and I'm you… I'm not actually me?"
"...What?" Yami asked. "You're confusing me now, hikari!"
Yugi tilted his head, looking up at Yami with large doe-like eyes and a confused expression on his cute, little face.
"Hikari?"
"Yes, you are my hikari. My light. The other half of me. Just as I am your Yami. Your darker half."
Yugi nodded slowly, seeming strangely calm about the whole Yami appearing out of a puzzle thing.
"So that sort of explains who you are. But what are you? I mean, no normal person just comes out of a puzzle like that."
"Well, you see…" Yami said slowly, with an embarrassed look on his face.
Yugi continued to look up at him expectantly.
"I don't know…"
Yugi face faulted and Yami laughed nervously, scratching the back of his neck in an embarrassed manner.
"Well, things are a little hazy. All I remember is having my soul trapped in the puzzle and darkness. A lot of darkness…" He said, shuddering.
Yugi looked at Yami thoughtfully.
"How long do you plan on staying?" He asked, trying not to sound rude.
"Forever." Yami stated simply.
"FOREVER?!" Yugi shrieked. "I'm stuck with you forever?!"
Yami looked slightly hurt.
"Well, if you want, I could just stay in the puzzle for the rest of eternity, surrounded in darkness…"
"No, no! I couldn't bear it if you had to spend all of eternity in darkness." Yugi said quickly, his eyes saddening. "Sorry. It's just a bit of a shock, you know?"
Yami smiled. It was the first time Yugi had seen him smile instead of smirk. It lit up his handsome face and made his eyes sparkle.
"I understand. Tell me, hikari, what is your name?"
"Yugi Mutou." Yugi answered politely.
"Well, Yugi." Yami said, grinning. "I think this is going to be the start of a beautiful friendship."
'Maybe now I know he isn't a threat things will go back to normal pretty quickly.' Yugi mused.
He looked at Yami, who was now talking to the person on the T.V and poking the screen.
'Maybe not.'
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Rachel: There we go! My first ever chapter! Yay! ^-^;
Yami: Now all you have to do is type lots more of them.
Rachel: Uh…oh yeah. Well, if anyone has any ideas to help me with my story-line I'd greatly appreciate it! Do you want certain couples besides Yami and Yugi? Who will become a couple…eventually, after a lot of mayhem 'n' stuff. Well, unless I don't get many reviews, 'cause if my story sucks major monkey balls I won't bother continuing. So please review!
(1) I know you're probably wondering how Yami got the water, with him being new to this era and everything. Well, even if you're not, I'm telling you anyhow! He saw how Yugi did it and caught on. Not just a pretty face, then, huh? ^_^