IkutosGirl: Hello Everyone! Since my current story, "A Not So Tragic Love Story" is on an official hiatus, I decided to write a new one. This fan fiction story is slightly different though… It's A Yu-Gi-Oh fan fic!

Ikuto: A what?! Are you leaving me!?

IkutosGirl: Yes. Now leave, you're not in this story!

Ikuto: Well then! *stalks out of room*

IkutosGirl: This story is NOT a yaoi or a tendershipping, so leave if that's what you were expecting!

Master Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh, any of its characters, or any of the songs/bands mentioned in this story.

Chapter 1

I walked through the school gates towards my apartment, too lazy to run even though the clouds were already turning black. It was fall, October 9th to be exact, so of course it was going to rain sooner or later.

"Shit, I forgot my jacket in my locker." I muttered to myself, noticing that it was already drizzling.

"Ryou, you baka, run! You're gonna be soaked by the time we get home if you don't!" Bakura, who was ever so annoying, obviously announced.

But Bakura was right. I ran my fingers through my already soaked hair. I decided I might as well jog home if I didn't want to catch a cold. I finally reached the apartment and slowly opened the front door. I stood in the doorway for a moment, feeling out of breath even though I had only jogged for 10 minutes at the most.

"And you have a fever." Bakura stated matter of factly.

"What… I'm not sick." I would never admit it, but my vision was already beginning to blur and the earth underneath me was tilting swiftly. I put my hand against the wall in the hallway to brace myself, but it was too late. I collapsed onto the hard floor.

"Ryou! Ryou!" Someone was calling my name. I tried to answer the person, but the darkness was sucking me in. Eventually, it was too much, and I gave in.

Something was under me. It was most likely my bed. I tried to sit up, but my body was being unfairly stubborn. It was too heavy to move, let alone sit up.

Damnit, Ryou. Take better care of yourself!" Bakura said noticing I was awake.

"I'm fine…" I lied. My head was aching and I was sore head to toe. In addition to that I was burning up.

"DO NOT lie to me," Bakura nearly growled, "I had to take control just to lay you in your bed!"

"Ryou!" This voice wasn't in my head, plus it had 'booming' affect to it like… high authority. Finally realization hit me.

"Oh my! You invited the Pharaoh over, Bakura!" I was in a state of shock and disbelief. Bakura HATES the Yami, Yugi, and all their friends.

"Well, you were sick and I didn't know how to take care of you…" I would never say this to Bakura, but I was very grateful to him.

"Ryou are you alright?" Are you hurt? What happened?" The Pharaoh asked, eager for an answer.

"Yami, it's alright. I'm fi-" I was about to finish but I was cut off.

"Don't even think about saying your frikkin fine, Ryou!" Bakura was, unfortunately, right.

"I'm sick…" I said unwillingly and sighed. Yugi, who was always protective of his friends, including me, would probably begin to overact now.

"Oh No! Ryou! I'll take care of you!" Hooray, it's Yugi. Don't get me wrong, Yugi's one of my best friends, but he worries TOO MUCH. Especially about I since him and the Pharaoh believe Bakura to be completely and utterly evil.

"Yugi… it's not that bad. I just have a slight fever and I'm a little sore. It's nothing, really." I was really hoping that Yugi would believe me, but it was highly unlikely.

"Ryou, you're as pale as a ghost! You don't really expect me to believe this, do you?"

"Umm…"

"Ryou! Tell Yugi you are SICK!" Bakura screamed.

"Fine. I'm SICK. I feel as hot as the sun, I'm covered in a cold sweat, I'm as stiff as a stick, and the whole room is spinning, okay!?" But as I screamed at Yugi my head was pounding and I felt like I might faint again.

"Uhhh…" Everything was black again.

Bakura's POV

"Baka, how can you faint while you're already lying down?!" Ryou is so fragile. Sometimes I do worry about him, but that's because he's my host, and I can't survive without a body inhabit.

"Now I will tell you what I've done for you… 50,000 tears I've cried, screaming, deceiving, and bleeding for you!..." Is that someone singing!?

I went towards my host's soul room, for he must be there since he fainted. I opened the door to Ryou's room and it was not what I had guessed. The room that had always been a pure – white color was now black and surrounded by reddish and fiendish auras. The room had a sense of dread and everywhere there were gothic lamp, candles, and even his bed had a gothic railing and the sheets were the color of blood. In the middle of the room was a boy who was sitting down. He was listening to his iPod and his eyes were closed. He was softly singing a song.

"Going under! Don't want your hand this time I'll save myself. Maybe you'll wake up for once!..."

"Ryou, is that really you?" I was shocked the sweet innocent boy I knew could not be him! I walked up to him and knelt down to see his face. These eyes... weren't his. They were brown, but a dull kind and they were bottomless, soulless.

"Ryou! Ryou, what's wrong with you?!" He wouldn't answer me no matter how many times I called his name.

"Tomb Robber, I suggest you show yourself!" Damn Pharaoh, now was not the time! Or was it possible that he knew what was wrong with Ryou?

"Nani?!" I sat up in the bed, a human body now weighing down my spiritual form.

"Tomb Robber, I believe I know what is happening to Ryou…" Now he had my attention.

"Well what is it!" I asked him irritably. Excited to finally have an answer, even though I already knew it would be horrible inside of me.

"Bakura, I'm not positive, but I believe that something terrible… horrible… is happening to Ryou." The Pharaoh looked nervous, but continued. "His heart and soul are being devoured by darkness and sorrow. He's been fighting of the shadows for a while now, but now his body and mind are numbing slowly. He's... becoming one with the shadows… he's becoming his own yami…"

IkutosGirl: Oh no Ryou, what's happening to you! Find out in the next chapter!

Here are a few translations for those who don't know Japanese:

Baka- idiot, jerk, dummy, etc.;

Nani? - What?

Mou Hitori No Boku- My other me; my other self

Hikari: light; light half/person

Yami: dark; darkness; dark half/person

Arigotou: Thank you.

(Some of these words were not used in this chapter.)

*If I made any mistakes or misspelled anything please tell me so it won't happen again. :D