Okay my first darkshipping fic. Welcoming Beautiful Death. I was watching CSI which influenced my idea for this story ten-fold.

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//Yami - Hikari// --Hikari to Yami--

Other couples: Heartshipping (Ryou x Yugi), Puppyshipping (Jou x Seto), I made this one up... slight B-tchshipping (Death x Anzu)

Here we go... (FYI Bakura and Atemu aren't a couple right now, all right?)

Chapter 1: Find My Blood

It was December. Atemu was walking home... alone. Bakura had offered to accompany him home, yet he declined the offer. Suddenly, a hand placed itself over his mouth and dragged him into the dark alley from where it had originated.

//Aibou!// Yugi (who was at home, washing dishes) nearly dropped the plate he had been holding in his hands in utter surprise.

--Atemu!! Doushite no? (1)-- Yugi could feel so much fear and regret coursing through the link, it scared him.

//Call the police!! Aibou, he ---// The link went dead...

Yugi was shaking in Ryou's arms with worry as the cops were asking him questions about Atemu and any information that could be significant in their search. All of their friends (2) came over once they had heard that Atemu went missing.

"If we find out anything," said the female 'good' cop, "we'll call you, all right?" Yugi nodded, eyes glistening with his tears. The adults of authority (AN that could be a band... or is it already a band?) left the teens to their worries. Yugi tried the link once again.

--Atemu... please answer.-- Nothing answered back except the darkness.

Three days later, nothing had turned up, no evidence of struggle anywhere because Yugi wasn't able to get the location from Atemu before he dissappeared. Kaiba proposed that they search the city themselves, which they did. What they found was nothing that they expected.

Yugi and Ryou were looking by the park for any sign of the missing yami. They seriously turned over every rock, searched every nook and crany (sp?) for any hint of Yugi's older 'brother' (3). Fruitless was their search and so they met up with Jou and Seto by the ghettos of Domino City.

"Hey," Jou said, "why don't we look in the alleys around here?" His friends and lover agreed and so they split up. Each went down a different alley. Jou's happened to be the bittersweet one. He was walking deeper into the alley when he had almost tripped over something on the ground. He looked down and gasped in shock. He screamed. His three companions came and found him... and Atemu's body.

Atemu was so cold, so lifeless. His wrists were bound with what appeared to be fishing line, as well as a loop around his neck.. for choking purposes most likely. Handcuffs were also on his wrists and strung through a screw, which was embedded into the brick wall he was against. A large hole was in his chest, spearing right through his heart. Blood covered his chest, but mostly his lower regions. His torso was still covered in clothes (although bloody), but his legs, ass and... other places as well, were completely exposed. He had been raped as well as murdered. Tear marks were visible on his cheeks, making Yugi start to cry in desperation, wanting his yami to be alive again... especially after finding his blood on the ground.

Here is Ch. 1 of Welcoming Beautiful Death.

Atemu is dead... maybe we will see him again...

Review to find out what happens.