Disclaimer: I don't own YGO, and I don't own the ideas I borrowed from Reaper.

Summary: Ryou has a secret. When he was a baby, his father sold Ryou's soul to the Devil himself. He was supposed to be a bounty hunter for the Devil, but he ran away to Japan. For some reason, the Devil only found him now and now he has to face the consequences. He has to fetch souls of escaped criminals from Hell. Poor Ryou.

AN: If anyone is worrying, I am most definitely going to finish Secrets and it is my first priority. This story is a somewhat random idea that sounded fun and is a good way to practice writing. I also plan on continuing this. The chapters will be relatively short.

AN: Sort of a crossover, except no characters from reaper, other than the Devil. Very loosely based of the new TV show Reaper.

Ryou The Reaper

By Fired Icicle

Chapter One: The Devil

Ryou always chose to walk to school since his school was fairly close to his house. He considered himself lucky, because if he had to take a bus he would have missed it and been late. Today, like most days, his lateness was caused by his yami. So now he had to run instead of walk. Unfortunately, Ryou wasn't all that athletic, so he had to stop and catch his breath several times. He panted for several minutes.

Just as Ryou was about to start running again he heard the squeal of a car breaking behind him, than a crash, and finally an explosion. He turned to see a minivan on fire as well as a nearby house. It didn't look good.

Forgetting about school he ran to see if help. When he got closer he could see that there was nothing he could do. There was no way the driver was alive. The majority of his flesh was missing and he could only faintly tell he was male.

"Poor man," Ryou muttered sadly. He hated seeing dead people. He had seen quite a few thanks to Bakura. "He must have really angered someone high up."

"Not quite," an aggravating male voice said behind him. "Quite the opposite actually. He angered someone way down. Me."

Ryou could recognize that irritating voice anywhere, though he'd only heard it once. When he had taken off because of it and moved to Japan. He turned around though he didn't want to. Yep, it was who he thought it was. The one person he never wanted to meet again. Ryou froze speechless with his mouth half open.

"He didn't do as I said." The male continued. He looked around forty to fifty, had black hair, was wearing a black suit, and had a smile that made him looked like he knew something you didn't, but really should. "He ran away from his responsibilities. What a coward. It's a real pity, though. He had so much potential."

Ryou gaped like an idiot; he still didn't know what say.

"Are you going to say anything? You're starting to look somewhat like a fish."

"D-devil." Ryou managed to utter.

"Yes," the Devil nodded. "You appear to be in a bit of shock. I bet you are wondering how I found you?"

All Ryou could do was nod.

"Well, sorry to break it to you," the Devil frowned. "Actually not. I always knew where you were. But until you are old enough to be useful, which you are now, there was no point to come find you."

Ryou had always figured that the Devil knew where he was. Ryou just hoped that Devil realized that Ryou would be useless at whatever the Devil had in mind for him.

"And guess what, Ryou?" the Devil said cheerily.

"What?" Ryou mumbled.

"I have a mission for you." The Devil said, rapping an arm around Ryou's shoulders. "Aren't you excited? Your very first job! It'll be great."

Ryou managed a weak fake smile.

"Here is what you have to do. You have to capture the soul of an escaped murderer. To help you I left a little present on your doorstep. You can go get it after school. You are such a good boy, I know you wouldn't miss school. Good luck."

Ryou somehow managed to maintain his earlier fake smile. The Devil removed his arm and patted Ryou on the back.

"Oh, and don't bother to try and get out of this. Or you will end up like that guy." The Devil said pointing to the crash, now surrounded by fire trucks and spectators. Ryou looked at the minivan and the house now almost entirely consumed by flames. He hadn't heard the fire trucks come. Too much shock he supposed.

Ryou look back to the Devil and found he was no longer there. Ryou continued on his way to school. A few minutes later he was in view of his school. He stopped and everything that had just happened hit him. A dizzy spell hit him. He stepped forwards and then fainted.

If he had been conscious he would have noted that he was now going to be really late to class.

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