Revelations: Truth in the Darkness
The Nightmare...
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, never have, never will, so don't sue me, because really I don't even have any textbooks to my name! I do however; own that pathetic title up there, so…well feel free to suggest another. Lol.
Authors Notes:
This is
actually updated for a reason, I've realized something, this is my fanfiction,
my story…my world I can do whatever I please.
This will not be Shounen-ai (as That's the real form for BoyxBoy romance, not
Yaoi, that's kind of…umm… well you know, consider it a word that would fit into
a lemon story ::blushes furiously::)
Aibou means Companion, this I realize
Hikari means Light.
I'll attempt to use Japanese names, but I can't promise anything. It's Jou, Yugi,
Anzu, Honda, Ryou…umm…and that's all I can think of at the moment.
I know what I want from this story, a mystery! Laced with a little drama and
angst. No romance, unless somewhere
along the line it turns into a Yugi/Yami plot, which I doubt, cause I'm really
no good at writing romance at all. I'm
not an Anzu basher, but she won't be a really big part in this story cause I
really don't know too much about her. So, yeah. ::blinks::
Anyways, as we know //Yami to Yugi// /Yugi to Yami/
Anything in Japanese
that I type up I may make reference too, but I'm going by the assumption that
most everybody here knows Japanese, or at least a basic form of it, so I won't
be doing too much. I figured, if I want
to use my Japanese skills I may as well start by going by the Japanese.
I will remind you however, I've only seen the Dubbed version, a few eps
anyways, I'm waiting to get Windows XP so I can d/l DivX and watch the Japanese
Episodes, then I'll be able to write better! ::Cheers::
So, now that I've bored you to death, that's all. ^_^
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There was darkness surrounding him, not the comforting
darkness that was sleep, or that of being under the blankets at night when the
power goes out, but a terrible suffocating darkness.
Looking around Yugi tried to say something to call out, but his voice failed
him and he was stuck staring blankly into a black oblivion.
It seemed as if he was in this place for hours, but before he could even get the chance to contemplate the thought of being unable to see for the rest of his life, a scene began to materialize, much to his confusion.
A very unfamiliar woman appeared in front of his eyes, cradling a child as she sat and rocked in a chair. Humming softly she brushed a hand gently over the baby's head and smiled peacefully, her raven hair pulled back in a loose ponytail, just out of the reach of said child.
"My little angel…" she cooed gently and stood to move to
the crib and placed the baby inside. "Sleep well, my child." She whispered and
moved to leave the room when a flash of horror crossed her face.
Yugi looked curiously at her, and a feeling of dread spread through his stomach
and he turned around to the doorway to hear a slightly distant crashing and she
bolted out of the room.
"W-wait!" he
cried and took off after her, only to find himself at the foot of a stairwell,
another crash was heard and the woman cried out again, this time he understood
why. A man wearing jeans and a black shirt stumbled to the ground grasping at
his chest, but there was no blood, so what was going on?
"Kazushi!" the woman cried as the man fell backwards, eyes shutting.
"Kazushi?" he repeated softly to himself then he caught sight of another person
looking malevolently at the woman, his face shadowed.
"Hello Amunet," he spoke, his icy voice quite gentle. "It's been so long since
we've spoken little Zahra, tell me, why do you hide from me, after all I've
done for you?"
"Stay away from me!" Amunet cried as she knelt next to Kazushi, her husband.
"Where is your little child, Maya? The little one, where is he?" he asked
fiercely causing the woman to shudder.
"Leave him alone." She said and stood up. "I'll never let you hurt my child,
you'll have to kill me first." She said angrily and stared him in the eyes (at
least, that's what it looked like…)
"This can be arranged." He said his voice lazily annoyed as he brought his hand
up and with a flash of light she fell to the ground with not so much as a gasp,
she did however mutter something as she closed her eyes. Something neither in
the room caught.
Yugi stood there, staring helplessly as the shadowed man stepped over the
fallen woman and made his way towards the stairwell, as soon as he started
towards the stairwell he sneered.
"Oh sagira, truly you shall be missed." He muttered and Yugi let out a gasp,
this man…his eyes!
With a cry he stumbled backwards only to feel himself be pulled even further
down, with a jolt he realized he was falling.
"Yugi.." a voice said beckoning to him, was it that man?…no…
"Yugi!" the voice called again, this time louder.
//Hikari, wake up young one.//
With a startled gasp Yugi shot up in bed, eyes searching frantically for something in the dark room.
He was unaware of the shimmering of the Millennium Puzzle on his desk glowing slightly as another figure appeared next to the desk. And he was also unaware that said figure approached his bed slowly.
"Yugi?" he asked softly in concern.
Oh sagira, you shall truly be missed…Something about that dream haunted the young teen to no end. Something was disturbingly familiar…
"Aibou, are
you all right?" he was brought out of his dreadful reverie when Yami's voice
finally registered in his mind.
"Yami?" he asked suddenly when his breathing seemed under control.
"What is the matter?" his older counterpart asked curiously sensing the unease
in his hikari.
"N-nothing Yami, only a dream." He said stumbling over his words slightly, still unsure of what he'd seen.
"Are you sure?"
"Y-yes, of course I am, just a dream." he replied, trying more to reassure himself, than Yami.
Casting a skeptical look at his hikari Yami sighed and nodded, accepting the answer for the time being. "Maybe you should try to get to sleep, it's only 2:30 in the morning, you need rest."
Yugi smiled and shook his head but agreed. "Don't worry." he dismissed and with a small nod of acceptance his counterpart disappeared back to the Puzzle leaving Yugi to his thoughts.
Sleep indeed... he thought to himself morosely before lying back down uneasily, but quickly slipping into a dreamless sleep.
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The next time
the tri-haired teen was awoken was by being literally dragged out of bed by his
older half.
"Yugi, wake up, you have twenty minutes to get to school!" Yami said as he
finally succeeded in waking up Yugi.
"What?" he asked still slightly caught in the trance of sleep.
"It's almost 8 o'clock, you need to get ready or you'll be late." Yami said
with a hint of amusement in his voice as he watched the full effects of those
words hit his charge.
"Almost-oh my gosh!" he exclaimed jolting himself fully awake and into a
frenzy. "I have an exam first hour! Yami!" he whined slightly and hurried to
grab his uniform, and when he rushed back from the bathroom adjoined to his
room he stumbled trying to get his shoes on.
This was rather amusing in one sense and the older of the two in the room shook his head and finally spoke when Yugi was slipping on the Millennium Puzzle and trying to grab his assignments all at once. "Yugi, calm down, you still have 20 minutes, your grandfather left you breakfast so that you wouldn't rush like this." He said calming his aibou slightly.
Looking around Yugi sighed and nodded assignments and stuff in hand, settling a
little as he made his way down to the kitchen Yami following.
After eating rather hurriedly Yugi grabbed one more piece of toast, gathered his stuff and, after Yami disappeared once more ran out of the game shop.
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He'd made it successfully to school with about 5 minutes to spare,
caught up with Jou who was sitting at the back of class talking with Anzu and
waved.
"Hey Yug!" Jou called and waved the shorter boy over to the group.
"Hey guys." He said sitting down opposite of Anzu who was glaring daggers at
Jou at the moment.
"You were almost late buddy, what took ya so long eh?" Honda said with a grin.
"I slept in."
"You? No way, that's it, you've been hanging around Jou for way too long,
that's usually his department." Anzu said finally getting over whatever
annoyance she was at, and this time gaining the look back from said blonde.
"Oh stuff it Anzu, late a few times and suddenly you're deemed…"
"An idiot?" Honda offered with a slight shrug.
"I was gunna say a little unruly…" Jou finished casting him an insulted glare.
"Idiot fits you much better." Came the quip but before he could get a rebuttal
in the teacher came in.
"Alright, settle down students, Jounouchi sit down, now."
"Ah, gomen nasai Sensei."
"Now, as you all remember we have an exam today so take everything
off your desks and prepare yourselves, and that doesn't mean go off into
fantasy land." She said casting the sheepishly smiling teen a stern glare.
Tests passed out and students silently taking them it was Yugi could do to keep
his mind on the test, the silence in the room only reminded him of the recent
dream, and it still raked on his nerves. He was pulled back to reality however
when a hand on his shoulder by the teacher reminded him what he was doing.
Who were those people…and why did I see their murder? He thought miserably as he continued with the test not quite catching a concerned look from Anzu and Anzu, who also had to be pulled from his own little world.
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After parting with the others after school Yugi started home slowly ignoring the dreary sky above him threatening to rain.
"Now, what would make this the perfect cliché day, a nice little downpour to go with my attitude." He thought to himself and almost as if on cue he felt something wet splatter onto his head.
No, way…stopping and looking up he felt a droplet of rain hit him in the eye and he flinched on reflex. One, two, three. Three turned to ten, and ten to twenty, soon it was raining at quite a good pace. But he just stood there, next to the lamppost, staring up to the sky that flashed with silent lightning, the rain chilling him terribly as a shudder rippled through his body. The rain picked up but he remained still for whatever reason in his muddled mind.
// Aibou?// he heard Yami's voice vaguely.
/ Yes? / he replied absently.
// Are you alright? You, seem distant...// this was merely an observation on his Yami's account but it unnerved Yugi a touch.
/ I'm fine Yami, just a little tired. / He offered, then as an after thought added. / I think I may not have done too well on that exam, then again, not too sure if Joey did either.../ he said laughing aloud and pathetically hoping to comfort his dark.
But it wasn't working, Yami knew very well that his light was lying, but was not sure the reason, so accepted this answer, if only to avoid conflict. // If you're sure...//
"I'm sure Yami, I'm sure..." he muttered out loud and, with a shrug trudged the rest of the way home, cursing his luck as the rain picked up with every passing moment.
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Throwing his wet bag to the ground next to the door Yugi called out "Grandpa!" and receiving silence was confused, until he saw a note on the door leading to the shop.
Yugi,
A friend, I'm sure you
remember Arthur Hawkins? He's called me to a meeting about something he says is
really important and that I would 'love' to see. So, you need to run the shop
for the night, I may be home tomorrow but I'm not sure.
Take Care!
Yugi sighed and shook out his hair, which was sopping wet and sneezed. "Oh, great."
With that the Millennium Puzzle glowed momentarily then Yami
appeared next to him and looked at him in shock. "Yugi."
"I'm fine Yami, just got caught in the rain that's all."
"You were standing in it for a few minutes Yugi, you'll catch your death of a cold that way!" he admonished and caused his younger counterpart to raise his eyebrows. "Go change." He ordered.
"Yes mother." Yugi said with an amused tone and after a few minutes came down wearing black jeans a loose fitting plain black shirt, his buckle around his neck and the puzzle of course. "Happy?" he asked tilted his head to the side.
Remaining silent Yami nodded and watched as Yugi walked into the
shop, opened up and waited for the off chance anybody would come, even in this
rain.
"You are distant Yugi, is that dream still bothering you?" Yami asked
when he noticed how silent his charge was.
Faltering slightly Yugi shook his head. "Dream?" he
asked feinting ignorance.
"The dream that woke you this morning, are you still worried about
it?"
"What? No, no of course not! It was just a dream right? Nothing to worry
about." Yugi said laughingly and continuing to rearrange a few things at
odd intervals. Busy work, nobody will be coming today.
"Mmm..." was the only reply he got and within seconds he felt the presence of his dark half no longer in the room.
A hurt _expression passed his eyes momentarily but, he admitted, it was he who was keeping the secret, can't blame Yami, but if he'd of asked again.. "Nobody is coming today, I'm just going to close up." he said to himself mostly out of annoyance and as he flipped the lights off to the shop and shut the door a loud crack of thunder startled him and he sighed.
"I really hate storms." he muttered and just to cap off
his day he sneezed ignoring the // I told you so. // that whispered in his ear
and he stared straight forward in annoyance.
What a day indeed.
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More Authors Notes:
Yes a bit more from me, just to apologize for how pathetic this
first chapter must seem.
I mean it's my first attempt at a Yu-Gi-Oh fic. Not as long as my other
chapters could be, but I figured it's just a starter so it can't be that bad
right? Not that I'd disagree with you people should you say it's horrible, I
mean, even I think it is, pointless and pathetic. Right? :: whispers:: agree
with me here people.
Ah, but anyways, I'm sorry about this, I want it to be good, but if it's not
I'm sorry, I'll still continue it anyways, cause this is going to bug me until
it gets written unfortunately, even if you guys hate it. So. :: shrugs ::
That's all I
have to say, should there be a few of you out there who enjoy it, Sugoi desu
ne! That makes me happy!
On another note, I hope this doesn't turn out to be terrible cliché, you know,
taking after a lot of other fics. I've not read one quite like this yet, but it
could happen…I guess. :: sighs :: that's all.
Um, take care, and you will hear from me soon, I just need to get these SAT's
out of the way tomorrow.
So, until later.
@};---
Adieu!