Yami

By: Yoake no Yami

Chapter 1: Millenium Item on the Loose

She sat in the quiet of her dark room. The blackness welcomed her, embracing her body and mind. How she wished she could drink in all that blackness. How she wished to fill the emptiness within her with this cool darkness.

Everything was black and light dared not to intrude on this sacred ground. She pulled the darkness to herself, but it slipped through her fingers. She thought of the girl at her high school, Anzu Masaki. She was always hanging out with that runt Yugi and his pals and they always had all the fun; all the adventures; all the danger in the world always sought them out. Aki-Nariko's heart filled with jealousy. Why was her life so empty? What had Anzu done to get to help save mankind? Aki sighed at her childish stupidity. Why would she want to be in danger? "Life isn't fair anyway," she said to the darkness as she often did. The strange thing about this time was that the darkness spoke back.

"Come. Give me your loyalty and I will give you power you could never imagine."

Aki stiffened at the voice. Then her fear dissipated. "As you wish," she whispered.

"Hey, Bakura!" Yugi called, waving to his albino friend.

(Scene change. I have to write this in because nothing I put in stays!)

"Oh. Hello, Yugi," Bakura replied.

"You look worried," Yugi said. "What's wrong?"

"I suppose it's nothing. It's just that my Millennium Ring seems to have vanished."

"Well that's a good thing isn't it?" Yugi remarked.

"I suppose," the white-haired boy agreed. "I'm just worried about where it went."

Yugi froze as he suddenly realized the severity of the situation. If the Millennium Ringwas floating around, that meant the evil spirit had returned from the Shadow Realm. "We should try and find it before anything happens," Yugi said frantically. Then the two heard a scream.

"It may be too late," Bakura said as they both dashed toward the source of the scream.

They found one of their classmates face down with a girl standing next to him. She was mortified. "What happened?" Yugi asked.

The girl replied, "Someone came down here while we were talking and challenged him to a duel! The text thing I knew, everything went black and we were surrounded by this decrepit landscape. The stranger won the duel and said something like 'Penalty game!' I woke up here with Ryko out cold!"

"Sounds like a Shadow Game," Bakura said in a hushed tone.

"it certainly does," Yugi agreed. "Which way did the stranger go/"

"I don't know. After the game I blacked out and when I woke up he was gone," the girl said.

"Okay. Come on, Bakura. We should find the others and then go looking for this creep."

"Right," Bakura agreed in his crisp British accent. The pair ran off.

The terrified look faded from the girl's face. You'll be too late. I've already gotten them too, she thought. Of course, no one will suspect me.

"Excellent acting," a deeper voice said. A cloaked figure stepped out of the shadows. The Millennium Ring jingled around his neck. "My foolish hikari didn't suspect a thing. It's too bad his friends won't be around to help."

"Heh." Aki-Nariko smirked. She was no longer just an average high schooler. Now she was the only being giving this spirit human form. Now Bakura would pay for the way he had scorned her love.

YNY: Well that's chapter one. Hope you liked it. Review! Plz.

Quote of the Chapter: Things aren't always what they seem.