"Bakura, take good care of your brother while I'm gone, Amane and I will only be an hour or so. Don't forget, it's your first day at a new school in a week and I don't want you two gettinginto the habit staying up too late and sleeping the day away. I love you both."

As Bakura is making steak for him and a nice fish dinner for his brother he hears, "This just in" a Tv in the background blares as Ryou flips through the channels, but halts suddenly, "a major Hit Run just outside of Muto's Game Shop which has created this insane fire you see behind me". Bakura walks out and places Ryou's dinner on the table then halts, as if drawn to the tv. "It is unclear if anyone has survived this, we will stay on the scene until we find out more". Ryou drops the remote and breaks down hysterically as he recognizes the car, his moms beloved Mustang, it was Bankura's favorite type of car and with the black with red racing stripes on it making it very special to them, the memories it had held. Bakura drops his dinner and yells "Ryou stay home", as Muto's Game Shop was a few blocks away, but Ryou was already running out of the door in full hysterics. Bakura chases his brother at a full sprint trying to deny what he had saw on the news, pushing those thoughts into the back of his head while trying to catch Ryou.

Ryou sees the raging fire from a block away, the buildings surrounding the accident are all illuminated, as if it were daytime. There is a large crowd of people on the sidewalks across the game shop. Police have the area blocked off and fire fighters are trying to subdue the fire. Ryou quickly shoves people aside, not caring for mannerism like he usually does, and freezes. Bakura finally gets to this scene and calls out for Ryou, shoving people aside, this not so uncommon for Bakura as he does not care as much for manners as his younger brother. He spots his brothers unmistakable white and tamed hair and rushes up to him, as he puts a hand on his shoulder,

Ryou quickly turns around and cries into his shoulder. Holding him, he looks at the scene as the fire gets put out and they try to open the door. They find a middle-aged woman and a young girl,dead. Bakura, refusing to believe this jumps the barricade and rushes to the two stretchers beingbrought to the Ambulance, he heard people yelling at him and a hand being put on his shoulder, which he responded with a hard-right fist straight to his face. Ignoring everything other than the two stretches as he reaches them he lifts up the sheet only to see what he feared most, Amane dead, he dropped the sheets and felt his heart shatter. The Paramedics try to get him out of the way but he wont budge. He is frozen, his eyes widened and mouth open as he can't believe it.

Ryou and him are all alone; an officer pulls him aside and reunites him and Ryou, who is still in full hysterics. Bakura can only say "how did this happen; how can they be taken away!?"

The two, newly orphaned children are taken to the police station where they had been told what happened, Ryou only felt his heart sinking more and more as they went on, Bakura however, was holding onto every word as he needed answers, he was devastated but he tried to be strong for his brother. The police finally give him something he had been waiting for, an item left behind. It was a strange upside-down pyramid with an equally strange eye on the front of it, as if it were judging him, particularly his soul, he was looking at one of the 7 millennium items.

This was one of the items that caused his father to abandon them, he sought fortune rather than a family and was never around, they take money from his account he gets for "working" he sends the money and that's how they survive. The officer went to speak but before he could make a sentence Bakura cut him off "its late and we know nothing about this, id like to get my brother home". The man nodded and they went to walk out of the door but everything fades to white,

Bakura and Ryou are standing next to two graves while caskets are being lowered. Time seems to stand still, the two boys are just staring and as night approaches, they slowly and reluctantly make their way home. The city seems dead, no one around and street lights illuminate the side walk and Bakura stops dead in his track. Ryou looks at his older brother and asks "Are you okay 'Kura? What's wrong" Bakura only points and says "mom… Amane…" he begins to walk forward slowly and it turns into a run and as he gets closer he goes to embrace them but they fade away and he is back in his house. When he looks around he's in Ryou's room, as he moves closer he notices his brother writing a letter to his deceased sister about starting school and the friends he's going to make..."

Bakura shoots up in a cold sweat thinking about those memories, he looks at his phone which reads 0440. An hour before he has to wake up for his flight, he decides its best to stay up and stares at different pictures, 7 different gold items that will insure that he gets the answers thathe needs. Ryou softly knocks and opens his door, "Kura, are you up?" Bakura gives him a sarcastic "No, I'm climbing Everest, its quite cold this time of year" Ryou rolls his eyes and comes in sits next to him, "Do you really have to go? I don't want this to take your life over, the past is the past, can't we move on, all of us move on?" Bakura sighs and responds "we've had this conversation many times, I have to do this and I will be okay, so quit worrying about me."

Ryou sunk his head but lifted it with a smile. "You better be, the time will fly and I have Yugi coming over today and we are going to work on figures for the game shop." Bakura laughs and says "you're such a nerd". Ryou jumps up and says "yes I am now do you want breakfast or should I just throw it away." Although he wasn't hungry Bakura smiled and followed his brother to the kitchen ready to begin this trip ahead of him.

A/N this is my first story and I would love any and all feedback. Thank you