Author's Note: Welcome to my latest story I hope you will all enjoy it, also since this takes place after the end of Yu-Gi-Oh no Yami will be present sorry to all the Yami fan girls out there that were hoping to see him in this story.

Warning: Content in this story may offend some readers.

Prologue – The Kidnapping of Light

The Death of Innocence

Location: Domino Japan Date: May 3 2005 Time: 3:05pm

The spiky tri-colour haired master duellist known as Yugi Motou walked down the unassuming streets of Domino Japan, he'd grown accustom to his daily walks since Yami passed into death, it was a good way to keep his mind fresh.

Today Joey was supposed to have joined him on his walk but he'd been called away to something at the last second, Yugi didn't mind he knew Joey Wheeler was busy these days what with his sister living with him now and dating Mai, still Yugi was kind of depressed he couldn't spend some time with his best friend.

Yugi sighed again picking at the lint that had gotten on his leather shirt, he moved his hand up to adjust his neck belt lightly since it was constricting air to his lungs before slipping his hands into the pockets of his black jeans, unknown to the young duellist was the fact he was being watched intently by a man in a white van, his blue eyes gleamed with horrifying evil intent.

'I guess I should head back.' Yugi thought turning down another street that he knew from previous walks would lead him back to the games shop, his memories turning to the assuming time a month ago when he had gone for a walk at ten thirty at night and hadn't returned for two and a half hours on the account he had gotten himself very lost. Yugi couldn't tell who had been more freaked out about his little journey through the side streets of Domino, his Grandpa or Téa who'd come around after he'd left to see if he wanted to catch a late movie.

Yugi's mind pondered over Téa, lately she'd been acting strange around him, almost awkward every time he spoke to her, if Yugi didn't know better he would have thought Téa had a crush on him or something.

Yugi shook his head, "No that's not it, Téa had a crush on Yami not me, it's just that I remind her of him, in the looks department anyway.' Yugi thought continuing down the street; he didn't notice that a white van was pulled up to the side walk its driver struggling to get boxes inside.

As Yugi passed the driver of the van yelled out to him, "Hey young man could you help me?" The man requested.

"Ah, yeah sure what do you need?" Yugi said smiling always willing to help someone out if he could.

"These boxes are quite heavy I was hoping you could give me a hand loading them into my van." The man asked and Yugi nodded.

The man smiled but something in the pit of Yugi's stomach told him that the smile wasn't right, something about this made him feel uneasy as he went to pick up one of the boxes, "It's nice to know some children are raised with a generous attitude." The man commented picking up another box with relative ease as Yugi lifted the box he was holding into the van.

"Oh can you put that in the very back?" The man requested, Yugi nodded and moved slightly hunched over to the back of the van.

As he did every alarm bell in Yugi's head went off, he could feel the man looming over him as he put the box down, but before Yugi could turn around and try and get out a cloth covered his mouth, the foul smelling liquid that drenched the rag made Yugi feel dizzy and slightly nauseous could only think of his friends and family as his world turned black.

Location: Motou Games Shop, Domino Japan Date: May 3 2005 Time: 5:05pm

Solomon Motou paced the floor in the front of the games shop, it had been almost three hours since Yugi had gone for his walk and Solomon was very concerned, Yugi knew better than to run off and spend time with his friends without calling first.

'Even if Yugi didn't his friends would remind him to.' Solomon thought his attention drawn to the front door of the Games Shop where a tall blue eyed brunette dressed in a teal sleeveless shirt and blue denim shorts had just entered, this made Solomon even more nervous.

"Hi Mr. Motou is Yugi around?" Téa asked walking over to him.

Solomon Motou shook his head, "No Téa he's gone missing." Solomon said fearfully.

"He's missing, how?" Téa said concerned.

"He left for a walk three hours ago and has yet to return." Solomon said fretting slightly as Téa sighed.

"He's probably gotten himself lost again." Téa grumbled knowing exactly what she would be buying her friend for his birthday, 'A map.' She thought pulling out her phone activating the Instant Message on it.

"Yugi call home – Téa." She tapped out and sent as she and Solomon went to sit down in the back of the Games Shop.

A half an hour passed and now both of them were starting to get quite concerned, "Ok maybe he just didn't hear the message." Téa said trying to keep herself calm picking up her mobile phone and dialling Yugi's number.

'4 6 9 8 6 4 1 4.' Téa thought recalling the last eight digits of Yugi's mobile, the phone rung once before Téa heard three pitched tones, "We're sorry the phone service you are trying to contact is either out of range or turned off please try again later, we're sorry…" The mechanical voice droned before Téa hung up now starting to get a very bad feeling in her stomach.

"Yugi's phone is off." Téa stated getting up.

"Where are you going Téa?" Solomon asked.

"I'm going to find Yugi." She said marching out.

Location: Motou Games Shop, Domino Japan Date: May 3 2005 Time: 7:07pm

Téa walked into the games shop frazzled and exhausted, she had searched the entire neighbourhood looking for Yugi with little luck, she entered the back of the shop to find the rest of the gang waiting for her.

"Man Téa ya look beat." Joey said, he was wearing his normal green jacket over a white shirt and denim jeans, he guided her to a seat as Serenity in a pink shirt and blue denim shorts ran into the kitchen to grab Téa some water.

"I'm sorry Mr. Motou I couldn't find Yugi, all I found was his phone." Téa said throwing Yugi's black mobile phone with the Millennium Puzzle design on the back onto the table the gang looked at it expectantly as if waiting for it to yield its answers.

Joey spoke the un-asked and relatively obvious question, "Where's Yugi?"

Next – The Dire Search

Author's Note: I hope everyone enjoyed that, for the record this isn't like my other kidnapping story Missing Yug I just wanted to make that clear, and the owners of the Dark Magician card might find something familiar about the last eight digits of Yugi's mobile telephone number, Until Next Story, Cya.