Summary: When Yami Yugi, Yami Bakura, and Yami Marik all get themselves into a very hot situation (No, not THAT kind of hot!), something happens to the Millenium items. When they escape, they all go their separate ways and agree never to do anything with each other ever again. None of them realize that something has happened to their Millenium items that will change that. One day, while talking to each other in their soul hallways, each of the yami/hikari pairs discover the result of that thing: all of their minds have been linked. Things get very complicated as certain walls of privacy are erased, certain secrets and powers are discovered, and relationships are altered. Could end up having eventual: thief, tender, dark, klepto, psycho, angst, clash, bronze, puzzle...(the list goes on! there are 15. I did the math) shipping.
Rating: T, Rated for language and violence.
Characters: Yami Yugi, Yami Marik, Yami Bakura, Yugi Muto, Marik Ishtar, and Ryou Bakura.
[Edit: I changed the rating description above to saying it might become M. Because it wont. Because I dont do M's." I also did a few edits on the chapter itself.]
Sup! Another one. I mean, another idea that randomly happened that I decided to just throw here and see how it goes. I feel like I have too many of those...
I said that I would be posting this chapter this morning, but I didn't. Sorry. Here it is.
So yeah, the Millenium items, in my headcanon, are made of gold. Gold is a metal... Now look at the description... AHHHHHHHH... *winks*
There might be certain Marik, Yugi, and Bakura-related shipping combinations later on, but the only pairings I truly ship are: Thief, Tender, and Puzzle. I don't know how things will turn out. Maybe yes maybe no. We'll see. But don't assume anything!
Just so you know who is who, these are the names used: Hikari Marik is 'Marik'. Yami Marik is 'Malik' (even though I never actually use 'Malik' for either of them),. Hikari Bakura is 'Bakura', but sometimes called 'Ryou' by Yami Bakura . Yami Bakura is 'Bakura' (don't worry you'll be able to tell the difference), sometimes called 'Yami' by Ryou or 'Touzoku' by Malik. Hikari Yugi is 'Yugi'. Yami Yugi is 'Pharaoh' or 'Yami'.
This is the first official chapter, and chapter part, of Triangular Hallway. IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, PLEASE READ "The Volcanic Escape: a Prologue to Triangular Hallway" FIRST! In the prologue, the three yamis almost died trying to escape the inside of a volcano. They vowed never to hang out with each other ever again. But that is about to change. Because something happened in the volcano that none of them realized.
How it will work: There will be parts, and chapters of parts. This is Part 1, chapter 1. Okay? Okay.
Okay here we go...
R&R
ENJOY~!
PART 1
Back Home
Chapter 1
Never Friends Again?
Yugi was quietly sitting in his room one afternoon, examining the Millenium Puzzle. In the past, he had occasionally considered taking it apart again, just so he could re-solve it for fun. But he didn't, for obvious reasons.
He suddenly felt a small wave of sadness leak into his mind. But it hadn't come from him. So it must be...
Yugi zoned out and retreated into his mind.
His room faded out of sight and faded back into his shared soul hallway. He looked at both doors. His own was open all the way. However, Yami's door was slightly ajar. He walked over to it and pushed it open slowly.
"Pharaoh?" he called out.
He heard a small gasp from a corner of the room. He looked and found his yami sitting in a chair silently. He looked up. "Yugi?" he asked. "Is something wrong?"
"I could ask you the same thing," Yugi said to him. "You feeling down? I felt it."
Yami looked away. "Nothing much. Just thinking about that trip..."
"Oh." Yami had told Yugi a bit about his adventure with the other sides of Marik and Bakura a few days ago. "What about?"
"Well some of it was my fault..."
"Like what?" On the way back home, Marik, Bakura, and Yugi had taken over again, probably because their other halves were tired. But yesterday, Yami had told Yugi some of what went on. But only the basics, and no details. "What did you do?"
"Well for one, it was my idea to go there. And I probably was the one that almost caused us to fall in and loose our Millenium Items, which would have been a bad thing for all of us."
"How so?"
"If me and Bakura had lost the Puzzle and the Ring, then you and the real Bakura would have taken over again. And I don't trust your safety in Malik's hands. Or your friend's. You know that."
"Yes, but you don't have to feel guilty about it." Yugi walked closer to Yami and put a hand on his shoulder. "It's over now and everyone is alright."
Yami sighed. "I know that, Yugi. But I just can't help but feel like I always get everyone around us into unnecessarily dangerous situations that have something to do with ancient secrets and societies. And this one almost got us all killed. Even the Shadow Realm would be better than that. At least there's a way back from the Shadow Realm..."
Yami sighed again and walked away from Yugi. "And since I always seem to drag your friends into things they don't need to risk themselves for, Malik, the evil Bakura, and I all decided to have nothing to do with each other from that point on."
Yugi gasped. "What do you mean by that? I can't hang out with Bakura or Marik anymore?"
Yami quickly turned around, before Yugi could continue. "No. Not like that. I mean that the three of us, the yamis, won't ever meet each other. We promised not to. So I'm just going to sever my friendship with Bakura and Marik, before I drag them into something more. I've already caused enough trouble in Marik's life, and Bakura suffers at the hands of his evil side because of his rivalry with me. So I am hoping that if I don't come out when they're around, things will return to normal. You understand, right? You always tell the others to stay behind sometimes because you don't want to put them in danger. So I'm just staying away from Marik and Bakura. Also, two or more yamis do have the tendency to get into a lot of trouble when they're with each other. So you can still be friends with Marik and Bakura, but I can't."
Yugi listened quietly throughout the whole thing, then sighed sadly when he was done. "I knew you felt like that sometimes, but I never realized how strongly you felt about it."
"I know... I never did tell you that much about it did I? But anyway... Did you notice something off about this place?"
"Hey! No fair changing the subject!"
Yami ignored the accusation and looked around the room. "I'm being serious, Yugi. Something about our mind seems a bit... Off. Wouldn't you say?"
Yugi looked around and tried to see what Yami meant. Then he felt it. Something did seem off about the place. But what? "Yeah... Something does feel a bit strange." He left the room and went into his own soul room. "I feel it here too... Is Yami Bakura in here again?"
Yami shook his head. "Thankfully, I know for a fact that he's not. Yesterday, I made sure that I removed the part of his soul he had stashed in here."
"Maybe it has to do with the Puzzle itself then? It is connected to your mind after all."
"The Puzzle?" Yami asked. "Why? Did something happen to it? Yugi..." Yami have Yugi an accusatory stare. "Have you been considering re-solving the Puzzle for fun again?"
"Ahehehehehe..." Yugi laughed nervously. "No, not at all. But I did notice a little rough spot on the eye symbol thing and in one of the cracks between the pieces."
"What?! That's not possible. The Millenium items are all perfectly created and have no scratches or anything. When did you notice this?"
"When I was looking at it a few minutes ago."
"Well..." Yami also left his soul room and looked around. He looked to either side of their soul hallway and gasped at what he saw. "What's this?"
"What? What is it?" Yugi exited his room and also looked. He, too, gasped at the sight.
Before, the hallway had no end. There was simply nothing there. Now, the hallway actually ended, and seemed to turn in another direction and lead somewhere else? But where?
"Ryou..."
Bakura gasped when he heard his yami talking to him in his mind.
"Y-Yami?"
Ryou suddenly felt his body slip out of his control. He cried out in his mind as the other Bakura took over.
"Bakura?" Yugi asked worriedly. "Are you okay?"
Bakura closed his eyes and faked his voice. "I just suddenly remembered something," he said in his host's voice. "I don't want to be late! No time to explain." He turned away from the others and started running away. "See you some other time!"
They watched Bakura take off, all of them totally shocked at the abruptness of his departure.
When they were out of sight, he slowed down and just walked home.
He walked into Ryou's apartment building and began to head upstairs. However, on one of the landings of the staircase, he suddenly felt their body stop moving. Ryou was fighting back. And surprisingly, he won.
Bakura's knees gave way and he sank to the floor.
Ryou didn't bother to try taking control again, and just confronted his yami directly. "Yami!" he shouted. "Why did you do that?"
Bakura appeared in front of him in his mind. "I told you Ryou," he said. "I don't want to be anywhere near Yugi anymore. And you clearly didn't listen to me."
The emptiness around the two Bakuras faded away and they found themselves in the lighter Bakura's soul room.
"I thought you meant that you didn't want to be around him," Ryou explained. "You never said I couldn't hang out with him."
"That was implied," his yami told him. "You know very well that me and the Pharaoh have a rivalry that goes far back into ancient history. I'm not having you hang out with his little aibou."
"That's not fair!" Ryou shouted. "First of all, just because you don't want to be near him doesn't mean I can't. Second of all, I thought you wanted me to hang out with him so you could steal his Millenium Puzzle. Why the sudden cha-" He cut himself off before he said "Change of Heart".
"And I thought that you wanted me to let you leave. When you first learned that I was after him, you tried to transfer schools and run away from him. Now I'm letting you. What's with your change of heart?"
Ryou frowned and averted his gaze from his yami's eyes. "I want you to let me do what I want. Just for once I'm my life I want you to stop doing this to me! I can hang out with Yugi if I feel like it! You have no right to change that!"
The yami grinned at his hikari. "You're right," he agreed. " I don't have a right to. But that doesn't mean I don't have the power to do so anyway!"
"Why do you want to stay away from him anyway? Does it have to do with where we went two days ago?"
On the three yamis' trip back from that volcano place, the hikaris had regained control and caught up with each other. Ryou had been told by his evil side that he didn't want to hang around Yugi ever again. But he never knew why.
He hadn't told Ryou the reason.
"Fine! If you insist on knowing! The three of us agreed to not have anything to do with each other anymore. So no Pharaoh, no Malik, and therefore, no Yugi or Marik. That's final."
"But Marik is your friend!" Ryou protested sadly. "And Yugi is mine! We can't just stay away from them because we promised to keep away from their yamis."
"The three of us cause too much trouble when we're together. You should be thanking me for keeping your life drama-free. I might even reconsider my plot to take over the world if it means not getting myself killed because of them."
"Killed?" Ryou asked. "You almost died?! Why didn't you tell me?"
His yami scoffed and turned away. "Why do you care? It's of no concern to you."
"Wha- No concern? You may have been the one in control but it's my body you're using. What happened to us?"
Bakura didn't want to tell Ryou, but it would be fun to see the poor boy squirm and be scared. "We almost fell in a giant pool of lava. And I almost lost the Millenium Ring, meaning you almost got out. And I almost broke my foot. And I fell off of a high ledge. Twice."
Bakura smiled at his hikari's facial expression at the story. It was priceless. He tried not to laugh. "Wh-whose fault was this?"
"The Pharaoh's. He dragged us in to it."
"He did? But why would he?"
"Because he's not as innocent as you think. Which is why he's not going to be around you anymore. Yugi duels practically every five minutes and we both know that the Pharaoh always takes over to help. So no more Muto!"
Bakura was still a bit shocked from his yami's brief explanation of what had occurred in the volcano and temple. But he shook it off and became angry again. "I don't care! You can't tell me who I can and can't be friends with! We go to the same school so it's not exactly possible for me to stay away from him."
"I didn't say you had to transfer or change classes or anything like that. Just don't get too comfortable around him or I may be forced to convince him to avoid you."
"Was that a threat?" Ryou asked.
"Maybe?"
Ryou ran up to his yami and grabbed his arm. "You leave Yugi alone! Stop trying to hurt him! I really don't care what you do to his yami, but just leave him alone..."
"Ryou, haven't you learned by now that I do what I want and you can't do a damn thing to stop me? Now get off!" Bakura swung his arm forward rapidly, causing Ryou to be thrust back and fall hard on the floor.
"AH!" he cried as he fell. "No... you can't..."
"I can." Bakura ran out of his hikari's soul room and prepared to take control of the body. However, he stopped himself when he noticed something different about their soul hallway.
"When did this happen?" he wondered aloud.
Ryou, having recovered from his fall, got up and appeared in the doorway. "What? What happened? What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything! Have you ever seen an end to this hallway before?"
"What?" Ryou looked, and saw what his yami meant.
It seemed to actually lead somewhere, past a bend, instead of just continuing on into infinity. But where?
"Shiz! I'm taking a nap, so don't bother me!"
"Alright, Marik," came the reply from the living room.
In his room, Marik climbed into bed and tried to relax. It was easy because he was tired. He quickly fell asleep withing two minutes.
After a while, a form appeared before him. But instead of a dream as he would expect, he saw someone he didn't really want to talk to. At all.
Malik.
"Hello, hikari," he said.
Marik drew back a step. "What do you want from me you psychopath?"
"Just saying hi to my beloved weaker half," Malik replied sarcastically with a smirk. "Having a nice nap?"
"No. It was ruined when I saw your disgusting face."
Malik laughed. "It's your face too you know."
"No it's not!" Marik shouted defensively. "My face is much more better looking than yours ever will be!"
"Again, stupid hikari, the same face."
"Shut up and let me sleep."
"You are sleeping."
"Then what do you want?!"
"Like I said..." Malik slowly walked around Marik. Marik turned around as he moved and made sure he didn't have his back to Malik at all. "I just wanted to say hi. And to make sure you weren't still hanging out with that thief, Bakura."
Marik gasped. Why would he say something like that? "What do you mean? You saying I shouldn't be hanging out with him?"
"Ah huh."
"Why?"
"Because I said so."
The two stared at each other for a good minute in silence, the hikari expecting the yami to explain. But he didn't.
"So..." Malik continued. "Are you?"
"YES!" Marik said automatically. "Well, no... Well I am but I haven't seem him lately."
"Let's keep it that way, shall we?"
"Why?" Marik asked again. "What did he do to you that I can't hang out with him anymore?"
"I thought you knew," Malik said with a smile. "He almost got us all killed. In the volcano two days ago. Remember?"
Oh that. Marik knew about that. Unlike Yugi and Bakura, he actually shared a mind with Malik. A soul room too. Although he didn't have automatic access to Malik's memory, he was able to look at it any time he wanted. So Marik knew everything that had happened to Malik. He also remembered the promise that he had made with the other two yamis about not having anything to do with each other ever again. "I know. You promised to stay away from each other. But that doesn't mean I can't hang out with Yugi and Ryou. Or Bakura. And it wasn't his fault! If you don't like him then why did you save him?! Huh?"
That last question actually caught Malik off guard. Now why did he save the spirit of the Millenium Ring when he fell? He actually never considered a reason why he had. But now that he was on the spot, he forced himself to consider possible reasons. "First of all, the Pharaoh would totally have murdered me if I had let him die. Secondly, you would have murdered me for killing your boyfriend. Thirdly, it would be an issue for me if the Millenium Ring would have been lost. You might not still be interested in it but I am."
"I don't believe you! Except for that first one. But other than that, bull crap! And Bakura is not my boyfriend! Everyone knows that you're the one that likes him! Stop trying to accuse me of crushing on him!"
"No."
"I hate you."
"I know."
"I'm not staying away from them just because you don't like them. It's my body, bitch."
"And what about when I randomly decide that I want to come out for a day or two? What are you going to say to your fellow hikaris when you're visiting them in the hospital for-"
"SHUT UP MALIK!" Marik screamed. "Stop threatening my friends! One of these days I'm going to have Bakura send you to the Shadow Realm again!"
"That can't happen if you never see him again. And the Pharaoh already tried to send me there once. And here I still am."
"Then they'll do it again!"
"Fat chance of that happening. We all agreed to have nothing to do with each other, and this is a promise I have decided to actually keep. No more Bakura, no more Pharaoh, so no more Yugi or Ryou."
"Won't you miss your little pet?"
Malik laughed at the idea, but Marik still saw the slightest tint of red on his face. "Make up your mind already about who you-"
Malik suddenly stopped talking. Marik tensed, wondering what he was up to. Malik turned away and started looking around. "What?" Marik asked him. "What is it?"
No longer using a sarcastic or mocking tone, Malik became all serious and asked his hikari, "Do you feel something off about this place?"
"What place?" Marik asked back. He looked around and was slightly surprised to see that they had been transported into their soul room. It was split right down the middle, one half Marik's and one half Malik's. They were standing right on the divider between the two halves. Malik was still looking around. He suddenly snapped his attention to the door.
He walked around Marik and left.
"HEY! Where are you going?" Marik followed.
The two Mariks looked around and noticed that their soul hallway seemed to have been extended in either direction. And they turned in another direction at the end.
And to their surprise, it sounded like someone was approaching from around both corners.
This is not abridged AT ALL.
Should I capitalize the words "soul room" and "soul hallway"? I don't know. And I feel like I use those words too much lately...
The adventure scene in the first part (of the prologue) was lacking, I know. I only thought of the concept and idea of the plot, not the actual storyline itself or how it would play out. So if you want to suggest something to me on how to improve it, by all means please do.
Next chapter: PART 1: Chapter 2- The End of the Hallway
~In which the yamis and hikaris investigate what has happened to their soul hallway.
See you next chapter!
BYEEEEEEEEEE~!