Yami Kiryu
By: Storychan
Summary: What if the part of Kiryu that wanted to destroy Yusei was still inside him…..watching…..waiting to seize control? Post – Crashtown Arc AU. Kiryu/Carly.
Author's Notes: I started thinking about Yami Marik from the original series, how he was created from Marik's childhood trauma. And if anyone's truly traumatized? It's Kiryu. Thinking about the marked difference between evil, Dark Signers arc Kiryu and sweet, emo, regretful Crashtown arc Kiryu, I started wondering "what if evil Kiryu is still in there…..and he's basically become Kiryu's version of Yami Marik?" Thus, Yami Kiryu. Oh, and btw, for you dub-only fans, Kiryu = Kallin. Also, even though I'm a HUGE Jack/Carly fan, I'm doing Kiryu/Carly here because I think since she was a Dark Signer herself, she might be able to understand Kiryu's trauma (the root of the fic) a little better than most. Also, I just love Carly as a character. R&R please!
I don't own Yu Gi Oh 5Ds, Kiryu, or Carly. This is for kicks. Also, dialogue wise, ALL CAPS LIKE THIS is Yami Kiryu talking.
Chapter 1
Kiryu found himself in a dark alley, devoid of light. He couldn't see in the pitch dark, but he knew he'd been here before. The fact that he couldn't quite remember gnawed at his fragile mind like a dog on a bone.
Where am I? he thought, heart racing. His eyes glanced back, forth, left, right, but he still saw nothing. Why does this place scare me so badly? Why can't I see anything?
"YOU DON'T REMEMBER, KIRYU – KUN?" snickered a voice from the void. It cackled, " OR YOU'RE JUST TOO SCARED TO REMEMBER, IS THAT IT?"
"What?" cried Kiryu. "Who are you? Show yourself!"
"YOU DON'T KNOW ME?" the voice asked. "YOU SHOULD."
"No!" Kiryu shouted. "Now, tell me where I am!"
"THE PLACE WHERE I WAS BORN", the voice replied. "THE PLACEWHERE THAT POOR SECTOR SECURITY OFFICER DIED".
Kiryu's eyes widened in shock and horror. "H-how do you know about that?" he screamed. Could this really be the place where he'd…where he'd done…..something he never should have done to that Sector Security officer? Where Yusei had tried to stop him? Where he'd been arrested, taken away, made to suffer til his death? Where the awfulness that had caused him to think Yusei had betrayed him, had caused him to seek revenge as a Dark Signer, to nearly destroy Yusei, placing a stain of guilt upon his soul that he could never wash out – was this really that place, where it had all began?!
"YOU KNOW IT IS", sneered the voice, apparently reading Kiryu's mind. "YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID HERE, KIRYU-KUN."
"B-but I'm sorry….." Kiryu muttered. "I'm so, so sorry…"
"I KNOW," said the voice. "YOU EVEN TRIED TO GET YOURSELF SENT TO WORK YOURSELF BACK TO DEATH IN THOSE MINES TO ATONE FOR IT. BUT WE BOTH KNOW YOU NEVER CAN."
"W-wait," stammered Kiryu. "You said that…..you were born here? How?"
Kiryu heard footsteps, and the owner of the voice stepped out of the shadows.
Kiryu nearly fell down in shock.
It was…him. Him, but not him, either. Specifically, it was him when he was a Dark Signer…..with the wild devil eyes, short hair, and cloak emblazoned with symbols of dark magic. Kiryu didn't look like that anymore – now, his eyes were human again, his hair was long and falling in his face, and he wore a battered trenchcoat and a look of abject horror.
"What…you're…."
"I AM YOU," said the phantom Signer Kiryu. "I AM YOUR DARKEST SIDE, WHICH YOU CREATED HERE WHEN YOU CROSSED THAT LINE, AND BECAME A KILLER. I AM YOU, KIRYU. THE DARKEST PART OF YOU. YAMI KIRYU. DID YOU THINK YOU HAD GOTTEN RID OF ME?"
"I am NOT you anymore," Kiryu insisted, shaking. "I'm not evil, or vengeful. I forgave Yusei. And I'm atoning for what you did now, helping rebuild Crashtown."
"YOU CAN DENY ME", said Yami Kiryu. "YOU CAN PRETEND I'M NOT A PART OF YOU ANYMORE. YOU CAN HELP LITTLE CHILDREN AND PLAY YOUR SAD PANPIPE SONGS AND THINK WE'RE NOT THE SAME PERSON ANYMORE. BUT I WILL ALWAYS BE HERE. WATCHING YOU. AND SOMEDAY I'LL WIN."
"Win what?" Kiryu demanded.
"YOUR HEART. YOUR MIND, KIRYU-KUN. I, YAMI KIRYU, YOUR DARKEST SIDE, WILL TAKE CONTROL OF YOU AGAIN. ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME."
"No,, I won't let you!" Kiryu hollered. "No! NO!"
"NOOOO!" Kiryu screamed, and woke up in his room in Crashtown with a start.
"Wha….Oh, it was…..all a dream?" he asked himself, realizing he was panting and covered in a cold sweat.
"It wasn't real," Kiryu told himself. "I'm not that guy anymore."
Seeing the light of dawn streaming through his window, he decided to get up. He got dressed, then stood at his mirror to comb his hair. Then screamed in horror when he saw his reflection….and saw Yami Kiryu standing right behind him, staring at him with a triumphant smirk.
