A/N – First thing I should say is that I've never read Ann Rice or watched Buffy and Angel. I do however love all the old Dracula movies and just saw Van Helsing which gave me the idea to do this fic. What I'm trying to say my knowledge on vampires beyond those Dracula movies are extremely limited so most of the vampire stuff in this story is completely made up by me. Do not leave reviews or email me informing me that I've screwed something up when it concerns the vampire parts. This is my own view on things and I am not going to copy stuff that other people have come up with. So please don't flame me stating things like "There are no way vampires can survive in the sun!" or stuff like that because yes in the original movie Dracula can survive in the sun but he's just not as powerful (even the 92 version of the film keeps this intact) and I want most of my vampires to be that powerful.

"Honda, I don't really care if Otogi canceled on you because of work," the pretty short haired brunette said as she and her friend Honda walked to their apartment that they shared. The pair was best friends along with their other roommate Jounouchi but he was out of town at the moment visiting his sister Shizuka.

"But it was our three week anniversary, Anzu!" Honda cried and Anzu mentally rolled her eyes. She knew that Honda had liked his boyfriend, Otogi, for years but only recently did he have enough guts to ask him out. Since then he was always paranoid that Otogi would break up with him at any moment. Secretly Anzu thought if Honda didn't start chilling out Otogi would dump him anyway.

"Honda! He has to work!" Anzu yelled at him. Mentally she wondered how many times she had to tell Honda that she didn't care that Otogi had to cancel their dinner plans that night because of work. Sure it sucked for Honda, but to her that met she wouldn't have to listen to the noises of them having sex all night. She needed her beauty sleep!

"But I even got Night Passes!"

That bit of information surprised Anzu. The area they lived in was controlled by vampires and only with Night Passes was it safe for a human to be out past sunset. This was because although there was a law that vampires could not kill a human unless there was a shortage of blood at a blood bank, a few vampires did not follow the law, as there was no punishment. To kill a human with a pass however was instant death if caught. Night Passes however was a rare thing to come by as so many humans wanted them. The only one with a permanent pass was Mokuba Kaiba, the current CEO of the Kaiba Corporation. Mokuba had gained control of the multi-billion dollar company after his elder brother was killed two years ago. Since then the child had continued his brother's dream by building Kaibaland all around the world.

"We could go out," Anzu casually suggested. It had been far to long since she had been able to safely go out at night. "Dinner and a movie maybe? My treat?"

"I guess," Honda muttered.

"I mean it would be a waste not to use the passes," Anzu continued. "I hear you can find those suckers going for a couple of hundred American dollars on Ebay."

"I could sell them then," Honda mused. "That would be a lot of yen. I bet I could get Otogi a really great present."

"NO!" Anzu practically cried. "Honda, I swear if you don't take me out tonight you can find yourself a new place to live Mr. I Have Yet To Pay The Last Two Months Rent. Even Jounouchi can pay his rent on time!"

"Only because he has a sweat job at Kaiba Corporation!" Honda protested. Before Seto Kaiba had died, he and Jounouchi had briefly dated and Seto had given Jou a comfy job, who had practically been homeless at the time.

"It doesn't matter!" Anzu protested. "If you're that dispirit for money get Otogi to give you a job! Now you will take me out tonight or not only will you be homeless but I'll tell Otogi all of your little secrets!"

"Fine!" Honda sighed giving in. In the back of his mind he thought that he should have known better then to try and fight with a woman. Secretly Honda expected that a lone female human could take on ten male vampires and win since women were deadly.

"Good," Anzu replied giving Honda a triumphant smile. "Now lets hurry home and get those passes before it gets dark!" With that she hurried off, leaving Honda to run after her to try and catch up.

Mokuba Kaiba sighed as he stared down at the grave before him. The grave belonged to his brother, Seto, and he missed him terribly. As the landscape grew dark around him, Mokuba knew that he was safe. Mere hours before Seto had been killed he had given Mokuba his lifetime Night Pass. Mokuba had always wondered where Seto had gotten it but he never had the chance to ask for an hour later Seto had been killed in a robbery.

"I miss you ni-sama," Mokuba whispered into the night as he began to cry.

A pair of piercing blue eyes watched as the young Kaiba brother sobbed over the grave of Seto Kaiba. The owner of the eyes wished that he could do something to comfort the young boy but he made the decision long ago not to interfere in again Mokuba's life. The last thing that Seto Kaiba wanted was his brother to know was that he was one of the very creatures that many feared on a daily basis.

"Seto!" a soft voice whispered throughout the air and Seto rolled his eyes from where he was crouched in a tree while watching his brother. But other then that he did not move. "Seto this is important!" the voice whispered again.

Knowing that his moment of peace was over Seto hopped down from the tree and landed gracefully in front of a young and beautiful Egyptian woman. "What do you want Isis?" Seto softly replied, as Mokuba was still nearby and Seto did not want his brother to over hear them, but there was also harshness to his voice. "You know that I do not wish to be disturbed when it comes to Mokuba!"

"I realize that, but this is important," Isis calmly said. "The Pharaoh has gone missing!"

"Impossible!" Seto scoffed. "Atemu rules this land, he does not just go missing."

"Well it's happened! Mahado, Bakura and Marik are out looking for clues right now. Yugi is naturally a mess and last I saw, Mana was trying to comfort him."

"How could have this have happened?!" Seto demanded as he began to pace. Fortunately Mokuba had already wandered off so they no longer had to worry about him seeing them. "Are you sure he's missing? Because no one is dumb enough to try and do anything to him!"

"Perhaps Zork is back?" Isis suggested. "He is one of the few of us who is powerful enough to defeat Atemu."

Zork was a powerful vampire who once before had almost taken control of the land until he was defeated by the Pharaoh Atemu, the most powerful and feared vampire in the world. Zork vowed revenge before he was trapped away by the Pharaoh so it was possible that he was back.

"Only an extremely powerful vampire could break his seal," Seto replied while rapidly thinking. "But just in case, make sure someone is always watching Bakura. We don't want to take any chances."

"I agree, that is why Marik is with him," Isis informed the other vampire. Bakura had been Zork's right hand man before Zork had ordered him to kill another vampire called Ryou. Unfortunately for Zork, Bakura had fallen instantly in love with Ryou and switched sides. But because of his past, they were unable to completely trust Bakura, so he was often under the watchful eye of Marik, although the two often caused more mischief then good. Marik however also happened to be Isis' brother-in-law, so he was a good choice to watch Bakura.

"Good," Seto nodded. With one last look around the graveyard to make sure it was clear, he jumped and flew up into the air with Isis close behind him

"See isn't this fun!" Anzu cheerfully cried as she grabbed hold of Honda's arm. The pair had just finished their dinner at a restaurant and was currently walking along a pier need to the beach as they wasted time before their movie would be starting.

"Yeah you were right," Honda reluctantly agreed. He was having fun with his friend but he also knew that he would have been having more fun with Otogi. Suddenly out of the corner of his eye thanks to the full moon, Honda spotted something floating in the ocean near the edge where the water met the sand.. "Hey what's that?" he asked Anzu pointing to the shape laying there.

"I think it's a body!" Anzu cried and a split second later they were both jumping off the pier and rushing forward to see if they were right or if they could help. Reaching the unmoving shape, they quickly discovered that it was indeed a body.

"I got him!" Honda yelled as the water splashed around his legs while he picked up the small thin body and carried it to shore.

"It's Yugi!" Anzu whispered "But impossible! He died three months ago!"

"It's not Yugi," Honda quickly told her. "Check it out, this guy's older."

"Is he breathing?"

"I'm not sure," Honda replied. As he bent down to start giving the young man CPR, red eyes flashed opened and looked up at both of them.

"Who are you?" the young man asked as he looked at them in confusion.

"I'm Honda and she's Anzu," Honda told him. "What's your name?"

The young man stared at them blankly for a few minutes before turning his head away in shame. "I don't know," he admitted. "Everything is so foggy right now."

"Why don't we call you Yami for now?" Anzu suggested.

"Why Yami?" Honda asked her.

"Because you have to admit he does look a lot like Yugi but like you said he's older and different. He's like a dark version of Yugi. So we should call him Yami Yugi and just Yami for short."

"Anzu! He's not a pet! We just can't give him any name we feel like!" Honda protested.

"It's alright with me," the young man replied before looking away thoughtfully. The name Yugi had sounded familiar to him but he couldn't place where he knew it.

"See!" Anzu beamed triumphantly at Honda. "So Yami do you at least have a Night Pass on you?"

"Night Pass?" Yami asked and Anzu held up her small plastic card to show it to him.

"Don't you even remember that?" she asked. "Vampires rule this city and every city nearby. At night all humans have to have a Night Pass or a vampire could kill them."

Yami searched all his pockets on his leather pants, and black trench coat but he came up with nothing. "We better get him home," Honda said to Anzu who quickly nodded her head.

"Come with us," she told Yami and helped the young man to his feet. "Our other roommate is away right now so you can stay in his room for a few days until he gets back. Jou won't mind one bit."

"Thank you," Yami softly said as he walked between his new friends back to their apartment.

"There is still no sign of the Pharaoh," a tanned vampire with bushy white hair and pale blue eyes, under his right eye was three scars crossing each other, reported as he walked into the main chamber of vampire palace where the Pharaoh and his most trusted friends, advisors and employees lived. Another tanned vampire followed him, but this one had spiky pale blonde hair and violet eyes. Both vampires were dressed all in black leather and both were wearing black trench coats.

"Keep looking Bakura!" snapped an elderly vampire, known as Akunadin, who stood near the end of the room next to the throne where Atemu normally sat.

"We have been looking!" argued the blonde haired vampire baring his fangs. "We've been looking all over Domino for him while Mahado has traveled off to nearby places to look."

"I wasn't talking to you Marik," Akunadin growled. "I was speaking to Bakura since he has the best chance of knowing where the Pharaoh is."

"What's that suppose to mean?!" Bakura yelled. "I've been nothing but loyal to Atemu!"

"Oh really?" Akunadin asked in amusement. "I seem to remember a time when you wanted nothing to do except kill the Pharaoh."

"That was then, this is now!"

"You've spent 3000 years trying to kill the Pharaoh and only two on his side, surely you must still feel a little hatred towards the Pharaoh."

"That's enough Akunadin!" a new voice yelled as Seto strolled into the room with Isis close behind him. "We have enough to worry about. We don't need to start turning on each other as well!"

"Tell that to Akunadin," Bakura muttered before turning and storming out of the room. Marik was about to follow his friend when Seto called out to him.

"Marik I want a word with you," Seto said and Marik paused his footsteps.

"I know what this is about," Marik coolly replied. "And if you think I will spy of my best friend you are gravely mistaken."

"Fine, but just make sure he doesn't do something stupid," Seto growled.

"There are no guarantees on that either," Marik replied before following his friend.

"I will speak to Malik about this," Isis quietly informed Seto once Marik was gone. "If anyone can convince Marik to do something he doesn't want to it's him."

"No," Seto quickly replied. "Right now we both need to be out looking for Atemu right now. If word got out that the Pharaoh is missing there will be all kinds of vampires trying to take his place."

"You could assume the role as Pharaoh," Akunadin causally suggested. "You are as old and as powerful as the Pharaoh. The others will follow your leadership."

"I don't even want to be here!" Seto spat before storming off to get something to eat. Like Atemu, the Ishtars and some others who lived at the palace, Seto had been born as a vampire over 3000 years ago. For years he faithfully served Atemu until one day he woke up and had enough. He immediately left the palace he had called home for a number of years since they moved their operations from Egypt to Japan. From there he found himself wandering around the streets of Domino until his hunger brought him to the Domino Hospital. While there he met a young woman who had just given birth to her son.

The woman was dying when Seto found her and she begged him to take care of her son. Changing his appearance into that of a young boy, Seto claimed that the woman was also his mother when the hospital staff found him. He also altered the woman's husband's mind into thinking he was his son. For five years Seto cared for Mokuba while their father worked until he too was killed in a car crash.

By that point Seto was going to take Mokuba back to the vampire palace and raise him there but before he could do that the pair was shipped off to an orphanage, where they stayed there until Seto tricked the millionaire owner of Kaiba Corporation to adopt them. After years of their stepfather mistreating them Seto finally killed him making it look like a random vampire attack. Unfortunately Mokuba developed a fear of vampires from the incident so Seto no longer dared to reveal his true identity to his brother.

Seto therefore took control of the Kaiba Corporation and built it into a powerful gaming company until two years ago when Zork returned. Akunadin blackmailed Seto into returning, threatening to turn Mokuba if he would not return willingly. So Seto faked his death and returned to the vampire world rejoining Atemu as one of his right hand man. Seto hated himself for what he did to Mokuba, knowing that he should have stayed with his younger brother. With 3000 years of being alive, with various relationships with both men and women, Mokuba was the only person that Seto ever truly loved.

"Made it," Anzu sighed in relief as she unlocked the door to her apartment and the three of them walked inside. "Jou's room is that one," she informed Yami pointing to a closed door. "I don't know how tired you are but we did fish you out of the ocean. Bathroom is over there if you want to freshen up and I could cook you something if you're hungry."

"Never eat anything Anzu cooks," Honda quickly whispered to Yami while Anzu walked into the kitchen.

"Umm . . . okay," Yami replied uncertainly. "Something to eat does sound good though after a shower."

"Go on ahead then," Honda replied. "There are towels in there and I'll get out some of Jou's old clothes that should fit you. I'll also try and keep Anzu from cooking anything."

"Thank you," Yami replied as he walked into the bathroom and started pealing off his clothes. He quickly wrapped a towel around his waist when he heard a knocking at the door.

"This is the best I could find," Honda said sticking his head in the door and handing Yami a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. "If you give me your other clothes I'll make sure they get clean and we can get you more things your size tomorrow."

"Thank you," Yami repeated as he took the clothes and handed Honda his own black leather jeans, black sleeveless t-shirt and black trench coat.

"No problem buddy," Honda replied before disappearing, leaving Yami alone for his shower. Yami had a brief hot shower before dressing in the clothes Honda had gave him and walked barefoot into the kitchen where Anzu was fixing him a sandwich.

"Almost ready," Anzu said looking up from what she had been doing which was cutting the sandwich in half with a large knife to give Yami a smile. Unfortunately for Anzu the distraction caused her to slice open her finger with the knife spilling blood all over the table. As Anzu cried in pain, Honda dragged her off to the bathroom for first aid, leaving Yami alone in the kitchen.

Yami stared at the blood with a hungry look in his eyes. With a quick glance around he saw that Anzu and Honda was still busy so he quickly licked up the blood and licked his lips in satisfaction. He then munched down the sandwich but to his disappointment no blood had landed on it.

"Sorry about that," Honda said as he walked back into the kitchen while Anzu plopped down on the couch in the living room. "Hey! Did you clean up the blood?"

"Yes," Yami softly replied. Although he greatly enjoyed the blood something inside him told him that drinking blood was not normal.

"You didn't have to do that," Honda scoffed. "You're our guest here!"

"It's alright," Yami quietly told him. "I am tired though and would like some sleep."

"Go ahead then," Honda replied. "We'll see you in the morning after a good night's sleep."

"Thank you," Yami said one last before retreating to the room he would be staying in.

"So what do you think of him?" Anzu asked as Honda joined her on the couch for some late night TV.

"Kinda quiet," Honda admitted. "But he seems nice. Extremely polite."

"Well we did drag him out of the ocean and he can't remember a thing," Anzu reminded him. "I would be quiet too if something like that happened to me. It's weird how he looks so much like Yugi though."

"I know," Honda sighed. Yugi had been Jou's best friend but he had also been friends with them. He was a sweet, short kid who always saw the best in people, but tragically three months ago he went missing one evening and was never seen again. It was expected that he didn't get home in time before night came and was killed since he didn't have a Night Pass. His body had never been found however so it was still hard to handle for his friends since at least then they would have had closure on the issue. "But we have to remember he's not Yugi."

"I know," Anzu replied and it was her turn to sigh. "He used to have the most crazy crush on me. But I always blew him off saying I just wanted to be friends. It would have so made his day if I only went out with him once on a date."

"Try not to think about it Anzu," Honda replied. "You had no way of knowing what was going to happen."

"Maybe I can still make it up to him," Anzu thoughtfully replied as she stared at Jou's closed door.

Malik Ishtar hummed a happy tune as he tried on a new pair of red leather pants. "Do I look good in these?" he asked his companion who was laying on his bed. When it came to matters of clothes Malik really wished vampires had reflections.

"You look amazing," Marik hungrily replied as he stared at his wife. The pair were currently in their own room in the palace.

"Amazing enough for you to tell me what happened between Bakura and Akunadin a few hours ago in the main chamber?" Malik asked as he flopped down on the bed next to Marik.

"Nothing happened," Marik smoothly lied and Malik gave him a dirty look.

"Not only am I your wife but I also created you," Malik reminded the bigger vampire. "I know when you're lying." Although Malik was born a vampire, Marik was not. Malik accidentally turned him into a vampire when he was the equivalent of a ten-year-old human child. Since then they had become inseparable lovers and they married each other 1837 years ago.

"He thinks Bakura plotted the entire thing with Atemu missing," Marik admitted with a sigh.

"Bakura would never do that," Malik scoffed. "Ryou is completely loyal to Atemu so betraying the Pharaoh would mean giving Ryou up."

"Fortunately a lot of us know that," Marik replied. "But still, if there was an uprising things could go bad around here."

"Then we won't let that happen," Malik firmly replied before a smile appeared on his face. "Now come on, lets go out and have a night on the town. You never know we just might happen to bump into Atemu."

"As you wish master," Marik replied with a smile of his own. He then stood up before helping Malik to his feet. The pair then walked hand and hand until they reached the outside of the palace before flying off into the night sky looking for some fun and excitement.

"Atemu!" the small Pharaoh look-a-like cried as he sobbed into the chest of the young tanned and brunette girl on the bed with him. The look-a-like was Yugi and the girl Mana.

Yugi was discovered almost half dead by the Pharaoh almost three months ago. Atemu had taken the young one back to his home and cared for him for two days until it was discovered that Yugi would not survive from his injuries. Not bearing to give up the person who had captured his heart, Atemu turned him into a vampire and they had been lovers ever since. Mana on the other hand like many of those around the Pharaoh had been born a vampire and had grown up with the young prince. Atemu had always been like an older brother to her so it was natural she would grow close to Yugi in such a short amount of time.

"I'm sure he's alright," Mana reassured Yugi, who for once in her life was not hyper and perky. "Zork couldn't kill him and no normal vampire could harm him either."

"Then what happened to him?!" Yugi wailed.

"I'm not sure," Mana sadly admitted. "But we'll keep searching until he's found."

"I miss him Mana."

"I know Yugi, I miss him too," Mana admitted. "But we'll find him. Trust me."

"Soon I hope."

"Look why don't you try and get some sleep?" Mana suggested. "You'll be able to think better after a good rest and help us look."

"But I can't go out in daylight yet," Yugi reminded her. Although humans did not know it most vampires could survive out in sunlight. Sunlight was only harmful to weaker vampires or to those who had been newly turned. During the day humans could not even tell the difference between vampire and human since they looked so much alike and the fact that vampires only needed blood at certain times to survive. Most vampires, except those who lived in the palace, lived similar lives to humans except for the fact they had nothing to fear from being caught out after dark as any vampire could tell the difference between a human and another vampire.

"Well you can stay here and think of places Ouji-sama might be," Mana said trying again. "Then at dusk you can come out with us."

"Alright," Yugi grumbled before closing his large, round purple eyes. "Will you stay with me? I don't think I can sleep without someone next to me."

"Of course," Mana gently replied before closing her eyes as well.

Review! BTW, Ouji-sama means Young Prince. It's what Mana calls Atemu in the anime instead of calling him Pharaoh like she's suppose too.