Disclaimer: Ok I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of the things associated with it, they belong to the creator. I do however, own the character Takara 'Kara' Hiroshi and her item the Millennium Crescent. So please don't take them or use them without permission ok.
A special credit: This fic was created and edited from an RPG I did with a friend whose screen name is Emerald's light. Without her I wouldn't have been able to edit this from an RPG to a story, thank you Emerald's Light. Your help in making this fic is greatly appreciated.
(note: all conversations between Yami and Yugi are noted with square and fancy brackets, ones between Ryou and Bakura are noted with inverted brackets and other scenes with two mini lines are thoughts or dreams)
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As a new day started at Domino High School, a new student was arriving. She was a transfer student from another city and high school quite a way from Domino City, and was a little nervous about starting her new school. Her name was Takara Hiroshi, or Kara for short. She stopped at the school gates, having waited for the other students to go into the school before she followed. There was a slight uncertainty in the way she walked, as if she wasn't sure going to Domino High was a good idea, but taking a deep breath she proceeded into the school and through the many corridors. She finally found the place she wanted to get to and stopped at the door. Peering in she saw her fellow students, pretty much chatting away with each other in seperate areas of the classroom; the teacher wasn't there yet, obviously.
"Better get this over with," she said to herself as she reached for the door pull. Moments later she was startled as the teacher arrived. He looked down at her quietly, as she stared back. He was a man in his early thirties with short cropped brown hair and dark brown eyes, and he appeared friendly enough for although she knew looks could be deceptive sometimes.
"You must be the new student," he announced after giving her a look over. "Ok then follow me, and don't be disturbed by the noise. It's always like this first thing in the morning."
"Yes sir," Takara nodded as she followed him into the room, and as he'd said she was greeted by a wall of noise upon entering it.
Takara walked into the room behind the teacher, her book bag hanging casually over her shoulder. Her uniform was a little new to her, but she figured she'd best get used to that to.
"Class settle down!" Mr. Hanusume instructed loudly. On hearing his voice the whole class quickly neatened up their seats and sat down at their desks, with all their eyes glued to the front of the room.
"Ok now before we begin today's class," he told them. "I'd like to introduce you to a new student in class today. This is Miss. Hiroshi, Takara. Please, say hello and tell us a bit about yourself Miss. Hiroshi." Takara stepped forwards and her usualy bright and casual smile crossed her face. The whole class couldn't help but look her over; Takara was about 5ft 4" in height, she had shoulder length crimson red hair with golden highlights in it tied in a half ponytail and emerald green eyes.
"Hi, my name's Hiroshi, Takara," she started. "But I prefer being called Kara for short. I play piano and I like duel monsters."
"Thank you Miss. Hiroshi," the teached announced. "You may now take your seat. Just over there two seats in front of Mr. Bakura." He indicated to the white haired teen as he said so, and with a nod Kara walked over and sat down at her desk.
Ryou smiled to her as Kara headed for her seat. Being an exchange student himself, he knew how she must feel. He'd come to Domino from england when his father began to worry about the strange disapearances that seemed to surround his son. At that time Ryou didn't know that the disappearances were actually caused by a dark spirit that inhabited a golden ring his father had given him when he was younger. Thankfully, however, since he'd come to Domino and met Yugi and his friends, his dark spirit hadn't gotten the chance to cause any more 'disappearances' since Yugi also had a dark spirit who fought his own to stop him from harming anyone. Ryou sighed slightly, pulling himself out of his thoughts, as he took out his books for class and whispered to Kara,
"Do you have your books yet?" Kara turned in her chair and nodded to him, whilst holding up her book.
"Yes, picked them up the other day. My parents are pains for making sure i'm equipped for school," she whispered back, and giggled. Kara couldn't help but think that Ryou was actually rather cute, for such a quiet type. She gave him a quick smile and turned back to facing the front of the room, placing her book in front of her.
"Ok class, i'll do a quick review for Miss. Hiroshi," the teacher announced. "Then we'll get on with chapter 4." So he began to talk, as Kara quickly noted down her work, but she couldn't help but wander about a few things. As she'd entered the class, she'd noticed Ryou and a small tri-haired teen were wearing strange looking Egyptian like objects, that reminded her of something her mother had been talking about. Feeling a little bit light-headed all of a sudden, she hurriedly shook the feeling off, and carried on writing notes.
Ryou listened quietly as the teacher spoke and read over his class notes making sure they were thurough enough. He enjoyed school very much, mainly as it took his mind off of other things. These other things being the nagging voice inside his head that kept muttering that school was useless and the only real knowledge one needed could be easily gained through experience, not listening to some pathetic mortal talk endlessly about consepts that he would really never need to know. Since he'd found out about his dark half the Yami had stopped hidding himself from his host. Ryou was really beginning to wish he hadn't found out. At least when he didn't know he didn't have to worry about what he might do and who he might hurt. Kara didn't like the feeling she was getting being near Ryou and the other teen, who she learned was actually called Yugi. It helped since the blonde boy next to him kept whispering things to him. Her head was becoming a little sore, and her mind was sending her completely into another world. She was beginning to think she should asked Mr. Hanusume if she could move further away from them, to avoid the slowly forming headache.
"Miss. Hiroshi," Mr. Hanusume called. Kara blinked on hearing her name being called, and was brought back to reality by the teachers frowning face.
"Yes sir?" she stated coolly when she heard a few concealed giggles.
"Is this lecture boring you?"
"No sir," she hastened to exclaim. "My head's just hurting a bit."
"Do you want to go to the nurse?"
"No, no sir it'll be fine."
"Very well then." Kara sighed and tried to focus on her reading, perhaps it would help take her mind off the headache.
)Hmmm, strange( came a voice in Ryou's mind. Ryou knew this voice all too well as that of his darker half, )perhaps this isn't so bad after all(
His dark half must have realized he seemed confused because he spoke again,
)This girl seems to give off an Aura of great magic. A millennium item perhaps? We will see(
Ryou tensed suddenly and clenched his fists knowing what would probably happen as soon as they got out of this class. He glanced over at Yugi and bit his lip then took a deep breath.
)What's wrong Hikari? Worried now? You don't even know the girl, why should it concern you?( his dark half asked curiously. He'd never really understood the concepts of friendship and caring and other such emotions. They were nothing to him. He didn't need all those sentimental emotions. They were for the weak.
Yugi saw Ryou glance at him out of the corner of his eye, his expression looked quite worried. Of course that sent his gaze over to Kara, despite what she'd said to Mr. Hanusumi the headache she was obviously getting seemed to be getting to her. Her semi sharp emerald green eyes were staring daggers at her notebook as she wrote, obviously trying to ignore it without luck. Occasionally she closed her eyes tightly, then opened them and returned to writing.
"I wander what's bugging her," Joey whispered to him. "She looks like she's so bored with this work that she's going to throw something. Not like it would be the first time it's been done though." Yugi simply nodded, and decided to check with Yami.
[Yami, what's your view on this?] he asked.
The spirit who was leaning in his spirit form on the back of Yugi's chair settled his sharp gaze on the girl, who seemed to turn her eyes in his and Yugi's direction as if she could see him.
{I do not know, but I sense magic around her}
[A millennium item?]
{Perhaps, but let's not jump to conclusions just yet}
After what seemed like an eternity, the bell rang to signal the end of class. Kara sighed and put her things away hurriedly, before leaving the room as soon as possible. She'd made it down the corridor, and found that her headache was gone.
"What was all that?" she asked herself quietly.
[Should we follow her?] Yugi asked the ancient spirit.
{Right now i'm more worried about keeping Ryou away from her. I'm sure his dark half can sense her magic just as well as I can} Yami replied. Yami knew well enough that if, indeed, Ryou's darker half sensed them magic then he would surely go after her and he knew that he had to protect this girl at all costs.
[Then we follow Ryou?] Yugi asked.
{Yes} came the reply
Ryou made an effort to collect his things slowly as everyone else left the classroom. He could feel his darker half's impacience growing but he continued on slowly as his hands began to shake slightly.
Yami Bakura growled from inside his soul room,
)This is beginning to get on my nerves Hikari. Stop this and follow the girl or I will just have to do it myself(
Ryou prayed that Yugi and his lighter half had caught on by now and quickly grabbed his bag and walked out of the classroom,
(I don't know were she went) he said hoping his darker half would forget about her and they could just leave.
After having told the others he'd catch up with them, Yugi made his way along, keeping an eye on Ryou. He could feel Yami growing more concerned by the minute, as Ryou tried his best to keep himself from finding the girl. The day seemed to go well, Kara only had a few classes with them and the others she had elsewhere. He knew from sneaking a peek over Kara's shoulder at her lessons list that she and Tea had gym together, so he asked her to watch her and she did. She reported that Kara had been fine, and nothing untowards had happened. Thankful for that Yugi waited by the gates after school was over.
[Yami, do you think Kara knows? I mean, about the magic?]
{No} came the blunt response. {She mearly thinks it's a headache}
[Well here she comes and Ryou's not far behind]
{You mean Bakura} Yami corrected. {His eyes are way too narrow} Yugi could see that he was right, they were. Bakura had taken over again, what a jerk. He allowed Kara to walk past, not noticing her blink away the serge of pain in her head and stepped in front of Bakura. That's where Yami took over, not willing to let his hikari face down the former tomb robber.
Knowing that Yami obviously knew what he was up to the 'former tomb robber' growled at him,
"Get out of my way Pharoah. This has nothing to do with you."
"Oh, but think it does. Anything that concerns you and innocent people is my business. Stay away from the girl Bakura," Yami said in a completely calm reasured voice.
(She's long gone now anyways, Yami) Ryou piped up from his soul room.
)Be quiet!( his darker half growled, )I'll find her and this fool isn't going to stop me. I will find whatever magic that girl has and if indeed it is a millennium item then I will take it. And I might add, there is nothing you nor that pathetic ex-pharoah can do about it(
Kara soon reached her home, which was several blocks away from school. She caught the bus in the morning but in the afternoon since she wasn't in a hurry, she walked. She walked up down the final street and up to her front door, ignoring the passersby. She pulled out her front door key and placed it into the lock and finding it hard to turn, she tried the handle and found the door already open. This meant one of her parents was home, that or she was at the wrong house. She HAD only moved to Domino a few days ago, so it was a high possibility. Reaching into her pocket she fished out the address and double checked, and found she was at the right house.
"Mom, dad?" she called as she walked into the passageway.
"In here sweetie!" her moms voice called back.
Kara dropped her bag by the coat rack, kicked her shoes off, placed her slippers on and walked into the kitchen, to find her mom busy sorting out groceries.
"Have a good day at school?" she asked cheerily.
"Sort of," Kara responded as she looked at her mom. She got most of her looks from her mom, her hair, her eyes and her height.
"Sort of?" her mom queried. "You weren't teased being the new student were you?"
"No just a headache."
"Again?" her mom asked worriedly. "Are you sure you don't want to see a doctor?" Kara sighed, it was true she'd been having these headaches since she'd arrived in Domino City last week, but she really thought nothing of it as they went eventually.
"No mother," she responded as she picked up an apple and left the kitchen.
"Oh, there's a little something for you on your bed sweetie!" her mom yelled after her as she heard her running off up the stairs.
"What is it?" Kara called back.
"Something I thought it was about time you have!" Kara cocked an inquisitive eyebrow as she headed towards her room. She pushed the door open and walked inside.
Her room was the second biggest of the three bedroom house, and was still decorated in it's original simple creamy colours from when the family had moved in. The only thing that had changed was that she'd added her own touch of things, wardrobe, bed and all. Her mom was an Egyptology and ancient history professor at the university, and her dad was an archeology and history professor there when they moved jobs so a love for ancient cultures ran in her blood so to speak. Egypt especially, although other past histories intrigued her to, but Egypt was just too mystical not to be noticed. One particular item in her room though that made it hers, was the piano up the far corner. Usually she practiced straight away when she got home, but this thing her mother had put on her bed was to interesting not to take an interest in.
She walked over and sat down, before pulling the small parcel into her lap. It was wrapped in a small gold piece of paper. Small item, small wrapping she thought. She unwrapped it carefully, and inside was a really beautiful gold necklace. It was two crescent moons connected at their backs, one pointing upwards anf the other downwards. The final part was a single eye right in the middle of the joined pieces, and it stared back at her as she lifted up the strong but light gold chain.
"It's so pretty," she said to herself. "But it looks so like the things Ryou and Yugi were wearing. Maybe I shouldn't." Immediately her headache whelled up again, and she put the necklace down. She walked away to soothe the headache and went to change into something more comfortable. In the end that turned out to be a pair of jeans, and a gypsy sleeved top with bow ties at the sides in a pretty shade of sky blue.
"I guess I can't disappoint mom," she said to herself as she picked the necklace up and put it on. She walked up to the mirror on her dressing table and looked at herself in it; the necklace seemed made for her. The magic causing the headache forced it to appear again, till it was close to a migrain. Closing her eyes Kara moved to her bed and lay down, and not long later fell asleep just as the eye in the necklaces centre began to shimmer gold.
Kara slept peacefully on her soft cushy bed for a couple of hours, and she was so comfortable that she didn't want to move. She hadn't noticed her headache residing as she slept, but it was slowly shifting away. The necklace at her neck was still glowing away, lighting her room up with a soft golden shimmer. Several warnings flashed through her mind as she slept, they were verbal words but where they came from she didn't know.
''Beware the white haired one'' a voice cooed softly. ''He may do you harm. But do not fear the boy with amethyst eyes, he means you well'' Just then Kara's mother walked up the stairs to tell her that dinner was ready and she saw the glow under the door. Wandering what was causing it, she pushed the door opena dn peered it. No sooner had she done so did the glow immediately vanish, leaving the room in semi darkness.
"Kara honey," she called as she walked over to her sleeping daughter. She shook her gently. "Kara." Kara groaned and opened a sleepy eye, finally noticing that her headache was gone.
"Yes mom?" she asked.
"Dinner's ready if you're hungry." Hearing her stomach growl, Kara blushed and realised that she was rather hungry.
"I'll be down in a moment," she told her mom. With a nod the older woman left, leaving Kara to look at her necklace. She lifted it up with her fingers, and stared at it. White hair, amethyst eyes? She asked silently. What does that mean?
Bakura had long left the pharoah and his host behind and had headed in the opposite direction he'd seen the girl walk off to knowing that if he went that way the annoying pharoah would most likely follow. When he saw the pharoah walk off with his 'friends' he headed back towards the school. He went straight to the office which would still be open for a while longer. He walked into the secretaries office and gave them one of Ryou's usual sweet smiles. One of the secretaries smiled back,
"Is there something we can do for you, Ryou?" He nodded,
"I was sort of wondering if you would be able to give me the address of the new girl in my class. Takara Hiroshi. She's knew and I thought she'd enjoy a tour of the city." The secretary smiled,
"Sure sweety." Yami Bakura nearly gagged,
)Sweety? Aibou, you really need to get a life( Ryou just ignored him and stayed quiet in his soul room. Yami Bakura smiled and thanked the secretary as she passed him a piece of paper with Kara's address on it.
Kara was eating her dinner quietly, with both her parents sitting at the table. Her head was swimming with the warnings from her dream, verbal warnings. Who could they mean? Who did she know with white hair and amethyst eyes? Then it hit her, Ryou had white hair and Yugi had amethyst coloured eyes. Ryou was dangerous? That wasn't possible, he'd been really nice to her. Then she thought back to the ring around his neck, she for some reason didn't like it. She didn't mind Yugi's so much, but Ryou's did kind of give her the creeps. She wished she could talk to Yugi, but she hadn't really spoken to him except to say hi. Then she thought, she'd seen Yugi with Tea and having asked Tea where she could get duelling cards from she found out where Yugi lived.
"May I be excused?" she asked her parents.
"Are you full?" asked her mom.
"No, I just need to make a quick phone call."
"Ok."
Pushing her chair back from the table, Kara got up and wandered off into the hallway to retrieve the phone book. She sat on the stairs flicking through the pages till she got to K and searched for the Kame Game Shops number, until she finally found it. Reaching out to the cordless phone, she picked it up and dialled the number. It seemd to ring for ages, till the end like was picked up and an old voice answered.
"Kame Game shop, how can I help you?" he asked.
-Hi, is it possible to talk to Yugi please?- she asked.
-Just a moment.-
While Kara waited, Yugi's grandpa called up the stairs to Yugi who was sitting in his room with his friends. He was duelling with Joey when he heard his name being called.
"What is it grandpa?" he called back.
"There's a girl on the phone for you," came the response.
"Your girlfriend Yugi?" Joey teased, only to get a punch in the shoulder off Tea. Yugi smiled slightly, and picked up his bedroom phone.
"I've got it grandpa!" he called and he heard the other phone being put down.
"Hi this is Yugi," he answered.
Kara was relieved when Yugi's bright voice spoke on the other end of the line, she'd got the right place.
-Yugi, my name's Kara i'm in your class at school- she announced.
-Oh yes hi Kara- he responded, which alerted Yami who appeared in spirit form at his side, listening as best he could to the conversation.
-I know this might sound strange, but what do you know about golden items with eyes on them?- Yugi paused on the end of the line, which worried the girl a little.
-I know a little, why do you ask?- Kara fingered the necklace around her neck before answering.
-I think i'm in trouble- she told him. That alerted Yami even more, if she did have a millennium item it wouldn't be long before Bakura found out about it.
Yami Bakura smirked as he walked down the street towards Kara's house,
)Perhapse this'll be easy for once( Ryou heard his dark half's thoughts but ignored them. He was angry and this was the only was he knew to show it from his soul room other then shouting it out full blast at his darker half which would, most likely, just set him off. Since he really didn't need an angry Yami right now, he stayed quiet on the bed of his soul room. Yami Bakura smirked as he stepped onto her street and glanced over at her house,
)We're here( Ryou closed his eyes and tried not to listen as the tombrobber walked up to the house and knocked on the door.
Kara was still on the phone to Yugi as she heard the knock on the door, and as if by instinct she knew she would not like the person who answered it. Noticing the girl's pause on the other end of the phone, Yugi's concern grew.
-Kara is something wrong?- he asked.
-I...erm...I think Ryou's here- she managed to tell him, with a stutter in her voice.
-Ok, well don't panic, just go along with him and I'll try and catch up with you-
-Where?- she half cried as her mom appeared to open the door. -I don't want to be alone with him. I have a bad feeling about him- Yugi hadn't told her about Ryou's 'other' self, he didn't want to frighten her as she already sounded worried enough. He thought hurriedly, as Kara moaned softly on the other end of the phone line.
"Kara!" her mom called and Yugi could hear her. "One of your school friends is here to see you, he wants to know if you want to hang out."
"Who is it mom?" Kara responded as she covered the mouth piece of the phone.
"He say's his name is Ryou." Yugi heard Kara choke back a gasp even with the receiver of the phone covered by her hand. Kara thought about it for a few minutes, as she bit her lower lip.
"I'll be right there!" she called to her mom.
{She must not go with him} Yami warned Yugi through their link. She'll be in a lot of danger and I doubt she'll know how to handle it if Bakura appears and becomes dangerous
He's already dangerous enough/ Yugi countered. She's got to do something till we can help her/
Then tell her to go somewhere we know how to get to and to take a duelling deck if she has oneYugi nodded, knowing that Yami would probably be right on the last count as Kara had said at school that she liked duel monsters.
-Kara- he called over the phone just as she was about to update him on what was going on. -Go with Ryou, and get to Domino Park and if you have a duelling deck with you, take it along-
-I sure hope you know what you're talking about- she told him. -Bye-
Kara placed the phone back in it's cradle and disappeared upstairs.
"Sweetie where are you going?" her mom called.
"Just got to get something and i'll be right there!" she yelled back. She grabbed her duelling cards off her bedside table where she always kept them and put them into her pocket. She hurried back down the stairs, grabbing her jacket, kicked her slippers off and slid her strap shoes on.
"Ok," she chimed as she saw Ryou. He had his sweet smile on she noticed, but the vibes she was feeling were not the same as earlier.
"Bye mom!" she called shutting the door. "So, where shall we hang out Ryou?"
)You take over aibou but if you speak a word about me I swear you'll wish you were dead( Yami Bakura growled as he relinquished control of the body they shared, )I have plans to make(
Ryou looked nervous as he took control but soon regained his composure.
"Well, would you like a tour of the city?" he asked, remembering what his dark half had told the school secretary. His smile had long left his face and he worried for the young girl before him. Of course, what could he do to help her? All he could do was anger his Yami.
"That sounds like fun," Kara agreed, trying to keep the tremour of worry out of her voice. "Does that include the famed Domino Park? I hear it's beautiful." Kara didn't know about the spirit of the Millennium Ring, but she could feel the strange vibes coming from it. They were enhanced by the agitated aura of her necklace, which was still telling her to be weary of this boy. Despite that fact she still thought Ryou was kind of cute.
"Sure if that's what you want. We can go there first if you like, it isn't far," he smiled slightly. This wasn't so bad once he got around the fact that this girl was his dark halfs next target. He had to admit, she was nice and rather pretty.
"Great!" Kara chimed. "I love parks, the one back in my last hometown was amazing." She literally took a hold of his hand, and noticed that there was a slight clammy feeling to it. Surely he wasn't nervous, she was the one willingly putting herself in danger. She moved away from the house, and as the two worked towards Domino Park she tried hard to calm the aura of the necklace, which had flared up considerably with her touching Ryou's hand. Despite the necklace's obvious dislike for the boy, Kara didn't seem to care. Her headaches were gone now, she could tell and she could sense now deep down as she held Ryou's hand, that he wasn't the one who meant her harm. So if that was true, who did mean her harm? She tightened her grip on the boy's hand, and smiled at him kindly.
Meanwhile Yugi had put his phone down and was heading out of the house, forgetting about Joey, Tea and Tristan till Joey grabbed his wrist.
"Yo Yug', where ya goin' in such a hurry?"
"That was Takara from school on the phone, she thinks she has an item like my puzzle and is worried that she's in danger," he responded adjusting his jacket. "I told her to go to Domino Park and i'd meet her there."
"Damsel in distress huh?" asked Tristan. "Then we'll come to."
"Yeah, if only to keep you away from her," Tea said as a sweatdrop appeared on her face. That said the four dashed out of the game shop, said a quick goodbye to Yugi's grandpa and ran towards the park.
Ryou had been slightly startled when Kara had taken his hand but slowly let himself calm down. He was nervous enough without being afraid of the girl's touch. He blushed slightly at her smile as he led the way to the park. His Yami still seemed to be busy in his soul room mumbling to himself so he was able to calm his nerves a bit more at the thought that maybe they could get through this day without anyone getting hurt. Kara sighed as she looked into Ryou's kind brown eyes, they showed that he was rather nervous about something but was trying to calm himself down a bit. She squeezed his hand in a comforting gesture, and decided to try and make conversation.
"So Ryou, have you ever done this sort of thing before?" she asked. "You know given personal tours to new classmates? Especially girls? I didn't think anyone did that anymore." Kara could've kicked herself, there her bright and friend making side went again, being optormistic and overly friendly with others. Kara was a girl of two halves, bright and easily made friends by being nice, bright and kind to them and on other occasions she could be a sweet and kind girl who kept her opinions to herself.
Ryou shook his head,
"You're the first new student I've met. I just moved here a year ago. I was in your place once too. I know how it feels to be new and thought I'd help you out a bit by showing you around." It was partially a lie of course. This was all his Yami's idea though he had wanted to make Kara feel welcomed. Kara once again smiled at him, a smile much warmer than the last one. Kara could even feel herself tightening her hand a little more on Ryou's, and she stepped a step closer to him, whereas a few minutes ago she'd been walking at half arms length. The two walked through the gates of the park, and began walking along the path. Kara was amazed at the beauty of the place, especially with the sky now changing colour as the onset of sunset was becoming apparent, even though it would be about another hour yet.
"It's very nice of you to do this Ryou, the sweetest gesture i've ever had," she told him in a soft voice. "Not many guys in this day and age offer to do this for anyone. They're too focused on looks and what not." Once again she took a step closer to the white haired teen so that she was practically centimeters from his side. She couldn't help it despite the inkering inside her chest that she was still in danger, she liked Ryou even though she'd only known him for a day. What am I doing? she thought as she mentally kicked herself. I'm getting close to a guy I barely know, and who could possibly be a threat to me. I'm either nuts or just very brave.
At the same Time, Yugi and his friends had entered the park at the other entrance and were now looking around for the two. It wouldn't be hard to spot them though, not since one had white hair and the other had crimson red hair with gold streaks in it.
{I can sense two sets of magic} Yami told Yugi as he appeared in his spirit form beside him. {One is ultra powerful and evil, and the other one is powerful and yet semi unknown}
[Semi unknown?] Yugi questioned. [could you be more specific?]
{I don't know whether it's good or evil yet}
[Oh, do you know where it's coming from?] Yami took a moment to sense for it, looking around the large parkland.
{Down beside Domino lake} he responded nodding in the direction of the lake.
[Right] Yugi nodded.
"Guys Domino Lake!" he cried to the others and took off.
Ryou smiled as they neared the lake.
"This is the best spot in the whole park. Come on." He walked towards the lake pulling her with him and sat down on the grass by the edge. A mother swan and her offspring watched them from nearby. There were also Ducks roaming around the waters bobing up and down. Ryou looked around then and noticed that there was no one else around. He shrugged and looked over at Kara, his face flushing slightly. This really wasn't the kind of place he should have taken her, expecially after they'd just met.
)I'll take over from here( Yami Bakura said pushing Ryou to the back of his own mind and into his soul room.
Ryou began to panic. What was his Yami going to do? He hoped to god that he wouldn't hurt Kara.
"Just take the item and leave her alone," he mumbled to himself. Kara felt the dark aura grow the moment Bakura forced control over his hikari, her necklace was starting to shimmer slightly at the eye, telling her to move. Kara however didn't listen to it, she trusted her female intuition a lot more than the word of an item of jewelery. Sure she was in danger, but not from the Ryou she liked, but from something else that she took to be just a dark side of him that he seemed to fall victim to. Not knowing what else to do, and not knowing how long it would take for Yugi to find them she did the first thing that came to mind and rested her head on Ryou's shoulder.
"This is beautiful," she told him softly. "Thanks." It was at that time the necklace seemed to glow with a more relaxed aura, and lifting her head she gazed sidelong to the left as Yugi and his three friends approached from half way around the lake. As they neared she could sense a change in Yugi's energy, something was different about him now and that was true as Yami had taken over.
Yami Bakura growled slightly and pushed Kara away from him just as he saw the pharaoh and his friends approaching.
"Why can't that fool stay out of my business," he hissed before grabbing Kara by the wrist and dragging her up.
"Time to go," he said dragging her off at a run.
Kara felt the fiercely tight grip on her wrist and struggled to break it, but Bakura was much stronger than her when he was in control of Ryou's body.
"Ryou stop it, you're hurting me!" she cried as she tried to keep up with him. In response to her cry of distress, her necklace began to glow at the eye. She didn't notice this at all, she was too concerned about the fact that her hand was starting to turn white.
"Ryou please!" she pleaded. "Please stop!"
"Leave her alone thief!" she heard Yugi or rather Yami yell as he ran to catch up. Kara had no idea what was going on, and had no idea that her necklace was about to intervene.
A bright flash of light erupted from the newely activated item, stunning both her and Ryou or rather Bakura.
"What!" Bakura yelped releasing his hold on the girl.
"What in the world?" he growled slightly and looked at the necklace, "I knew it. A millennium item." He then glanced at Yami and narrowed his eyes. He wasn't going to let this chance get away from him because of that annoying stuck up royal brat. Quickly ceasing her chance Kara backed away from the white haired teen, she knew it wasn't Ryou hurting her, it was someone else all together. Yugi or rather Yami was at her side in seconds and put himself between the evil spirit and the girl, whose necklace was still faintly glowing.
"I warned you earlier Bakura," he growled. "You stay away from this girl. That item is not rightfully yours."
Yami Bakura narrowed his eyes then retreated to his soul room leaving Ryou to deal with the concequences. He paced his soul room muttering to himself about 'the annoying pharaoh always getting in the way'. Ryou blinked and stared at Yami for a second then let his gaze fall to the ground. He looked up again, glanced at Kara then turned and walked away. 'She's never going to want to speek to me again,' he thought to himself as he walked away.
Kara watched him walk away, she'd have gone after him immediately but Tea was holding her arm and was trying to see if she was ok. She was of course, but she was concerned for Ryou. It wasn't his fault, her necklace had shown her that when the light had blinded her for a moment. She could see the lost feeling in his heart, she could feel it.
For the rest of the evening after Ruou had left and before Kara returned home, she spent it on a bench in the park listening to Yugi, who'd since switched back with Yami. explain about the Millennium Items and about Ryou and that he had an evil spirit who took him over without caring what happened. She also learned as Yami studied her necklace and from what she'd said about what had happened during the flash of light, that her item somehow was able to find lost things, and was especially good at finding lost souls.
"So is this a curse or a gift?" she asked Yugi, as the whole thing finally sunk in.
"Depends on how you see it," he responded getting up. "If you let it be a curse it will be, the same if you let it be a gift. Sleep on it ok." Kara nodded and watched Yugi walk off with Tea, Joey and Tristan before heading home herself.
That night as she lay in bed, staring at her school uniform hanging over a near by chair, her thoughts travelled to Ryou.
I'm going to talk to him in the morning she thought finally. Evil spirit or no evil spirit. She travelled off to sleep almost immediately afterwards.
The next day she walked into school after getting off the bus, knowing she was in the same class as Ryou. Maybe since school wouldn't start for another ten minutes yet, she could get him alone, if she could find him.
Ryou walked into the school holding his bookbag tightly. He sighed as he walked to his locker and got the books he needed and dropped off the books he didn't need. His hand went to the bruise on his cheek before he closed his locker and headed for class.
Kara was also heading to class, from down another corridor when she bumped right into someone. She didn't realise who it was till she went to apologise, and saw a shock of white hair in front of her.
"Ryou," she said happy to see him. "I was hoping to see you today." Then she saw the bruise on his cheek, and her eyes shone with worry.
"That looks nasty," she told him as she reached up and gently brushed her fingers over the brownish blue mark.
Ryou winced slightly grabbing her hand and shook his head,
"It's nothing. We better get to class." With that he walked off towards their class. He really didn't want to have to explain were he'd gotten the bruise. Kara followed him to class, managing to keep up with him, but she planned to get him alone as soon as possible. Her chance didn't come before the lesson, it would have to come later. Till then she kept passing glances over her shoulder at him during class; she considered handing him a note, but the fact that their teacher was constantly asking questions about anything and everything, she couldn't. After her first set of classes she rushed to the lunch room, she knew Ryou went and sat in there at lunch she'd seen him. Seeing him, she made her way quickly over to him and before he could sit down she grabbed his wrist and led him out of the cafeteria.
"Come on," she said in one of her brighter tones. "There's a nicer spot in the picnick grounds outside. Besides, we need to talk."
Ryou bit his lip,
"Uhh ok." He was sure she must be mad for what had happened the day before but he was shocked that she didn't seem to show it. What did she want to talk about? Probably about last night which he would like to forget completely.
Kara found herself a comfy spot under a large tree, that had tonnes of branches hanging off it's main trunk, some of which were even hanging quite low towards the ground. She sat down and patted the seat next to her, and waited for Ryou to sit down. When he was seated, she pulled out a sandwich and took a bite out of it, looking at him thoughtfully.
"Ryou," she said eventually. "Yugi told me everything. I know about Bakura and the millennium items." She didn't wait for his response, but slipped her hand gently onto his and put her sandwich into her lunch bag.
"I know it wasn't you who hurt me last night, my necklace was warning me and I didn't listen. It was Bakura, and I know that. I'd have gone after you last night, but Tea's a worry wort." She looked at him long and hard, before continuing.
"The fact is I know it isn't and wasn't your fault, and I wanted to tell you that this morning, but you were too widthdrawn." She touched the bruise on his cheek again. "And obviously afraid."
He looked away.
"It is my fault though. My fault for putting the darned item on every morning. My fault for not fighting back and protecting you from him. My fault for not getting rid of it for good," he told her. Of course he knew trying to get rid of it was useless. Tristan had already tried that. The item always came back.
)You really are pathetic, Ryou. Why don't you just shut up already. I'm sure she doesn't want to listen to you. She's obviously just pittying you( Yami Bakura pipped up from his soul room as he lay on his back on his bed with his arms behind his head. This girl was prooving to be quite interesting while also rather irritating. Kara's soft smile she'd given him the night before graced her face again as she looked at him, he was blaming himself for something he couldn't stop. Yugi had explained to her last night that the people who owned Millennium Items were destined to have them, whether they liked it or not. It was a responsibility they all bared, even Ryou. Leaning over she gently kissed the white-haired teen on the cheek.
"I don't blame you at all," she told him. "I'm not mad either."
Ryou sighed and blushed slightly trying to ignore his dark half's words. All lies he told himself. Kara did like him and she wasn't mad. She understood what was going on and she wasn't afraid of him. Ryou smiled at her and leant against the tree then grabbed his bag and pulled out his lunch. Kara smiled again, glad that she'd finally managed to talk to him. Pulling out her sandwich she took a bite out of it, and leant against the tree herself, totally forgetting that she was still holding Ryou's hand.
Thanks for explaining Yugi she thought to the smaller spikey haired teen, even though he probably couldn't hear her. I owe you one.
Ryou blushed slightly realising they were still holding hands but decided he didn't mind. They ate their lunches quietly and Ryou glanced at her every now and then. She looked so beautiful sitting there. He blushed at the thought and looked away again. Kara chanced a small glance at him from time to time, when he wasn't looking mainly. Taking a quick look at her watch, she noticed that the bell for the end of the lunch hour was going to ring in a few minutes and seperating her hand from Ryou's, she packed her things away.
"Ryou, I know we don't have our next class together," she told him as the two got up. "So i'll see you after school ok, i'd like to finish that tour we started last night. If I survive maths that is." She giggled and took off, giving him a short wave as she went. Ryou smiled and watched as she walked off. He couldn't wait till after school. He couldn't remember a better day in his life then this one. He sighed as he packed his stuff away and headed to his history class.
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Ok R&R if you want to see if anything more happens between Ryou and Kara.