Angel: Hello! I'm Angel, the second member of the Trinity Girls! This is my first ever Yu-Gi-Oh! fic! OK, the first 2 chaps are pretty boring but ya gotta read 'em cuz otherwise ya won't know what's going on, but all the other chapters are really awesome, if I do say so myself! This pretty much focuses on Yugi (my love), but all the people with Millennium Items are involved. In this fic there are 13 items and 12 bearers (since Shaadi has 2) instead of just 7, and the stars are Yugi and Yami, plus the bearers of the other Millennium Items (6 of which I made up). Not all the yamis (I guess that's what you call them) have Egyptian names.

Disclaimer: WAAAH! I DON'T OWN YU-GI-OH!!! WAAH!!!

PS: Yami Yugi looks like Yu-Gi-Oh does on tv of course, but simply Yugi looks like Yugi, and simply Yami looks like the Yami Yugi with his blue cape (ever seen that pic? it's online and in Beckett's Yu-Gi-Oh Collector), and Pharaoh Yami (who comes in later on) looks like Yami on the box of the Playstation game, Yu-Gi-Oh: Forbidden Memories. HE LOOKS SO KAWAII!!!

PPS: My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! characters are: Yugi and Yami (they're both first on my list), Bakura and Kerihk (my name for Yami Bakura; weird as it sounds, I think Kerihk isn't really all bad), and Téa.

"talking"

'thinking'

/ - Any Hikari talking to his or her Yami in his or her mind

// - Any Yami talking to his or her Hikari in his or her mind

Hikari No Yuugi
Play of Light

by Angel

Chapter One: Ryou no Musou
Ryou's Dream

~*Ryou Bakura found himself standing on a rock in the middle of a still but vast ocean of water. Slowly turning his head, he wondered if he was dreaming. A strange mist blinded his view, and every now and again he'd feel a rain drop reach his skin. A mysterious flute tune was playing in the distance. He knew the song, but couldn't quite place it.

His deep amber eyes shifted upward, staring through the fog that shrouded his vision. A picture became clearer. It was a young girl standing on a cliff, appearing to be colored only white, holding a strange staff with a glowing star in the center. He watched her a bit longer as she opened a strange black book with the Eye of Truth emblazoned on the cover. Then he unconsciously turned the other way.

Behind him stood a lady with long, flowing black hair holding a strange silver bell. He couldn't see her eyes. She smiled, and rang the bell. The sound pierced Bakura's heart, and sent chills up his spine. The girl on the cliff looked up, and jumped to the ground, still clutching the book. She dropped it on the ground, and reached down her shirt, pulling out a glowing pink pendant. It glowed brightly, and -

Bakura was now standing in a room made entirely of gold, the thirteen Sennen Sets (Millennium Items). Only nine of them were distinguishable. Strange voices were chanting, and every now and then the voices would say a word but it would sound fuzzy and slurred to Bakura. The words he did hear were, "Pazuru... Enjin... Tarekazari... Tsurugi... Saji... Munekazari... Kagi... Kagami... Tangan... Pazuru... Enjin... Tarekarazi... Tsurugi... Saji... Munekazari... Kagi... Kagami... Tangan... HIKARI NO YUUGI!"

With that last shout, all the Sennen Sets began to glow different colors. He saw the Sennen Ring spread out two of its rays, and attach them into the Sennen Puzzle and the Sennen Pendant. The rest of the Sets attached themselves to those two, and when a complete circle was made, bright white light engulfed them, shaping into a diamond. Bakura shaded his eyes with his hands; the light was blinding his eyes.

The flute music played on.

He was back on the rock above the sea. White ribbons emerged from the water and fluttered around him, pressing against his face. Then they lowered near to the water, and wrapped themselves around his legs, pulling him under.

Though he couldn't breath, he wasn't panicking. He looked up, and watched as the light above the water slowly disappeared.

The flute music was becoming louder as he neared the ocean floor. The song... what was it?

That song...*~

"That song... where have I heard?" Bakura mumbled in his sleep. He opened his eyes, and found himself in the still darkness of his soul room. It must still be night out. He could see the giant moon glowing outside his window. The door connecting Bakura's soul room to Yami Bakura's was silent. His yami, "mou hitori no Bakura," was either asleep or thinking hard.

Bakura touched his cheek where Yami Bakura had slapped him earlier out of pure anger. That dream had been tormenting him for the last few nights, especially that song. He knew he should remember it, but he just couldn't seem to remember the name. He winced when his fingers reached just below his left eye - there must have been a cut there. Yes, there was blood on his hand now.

A tear trickled down his cheek. Yami Bakura's sneers played in his mind. He wondered what it was like to have a normal life. He'd wanted to die rather than be enslaved by Yami Bakura. He wondered what would happen if he told his yami about his dream.

His mind was back on track. The lady with the bell looked familiar, so familiar in fact, that he felt sure he'd met her somewhere, and that bell too. Who was she?

Sighing, Bakura rolled over in bed. He'd just have to brood over it tomorrow...


Angel: Didja like it didja like it didja like it? Yeah, I know, I TOTALLY messed up the show with THIRTEEN different sennen sets and stuff but... bear with me! This is gonna get better! I promise it'll be good!

Ryou: Yeah, yeah. That's what you said about Little Hope.

Angel: ::pouts:: Be nice! It was my first ever fanfic.

Honda: Yeah, and it stunk! I mean, whoa! I thought Jonouchi smelled bad, but -

Angel: Ok, ok! I get the point! Hey Yugi, since you're so jumpy today, why don't you -

Yugi: OH NO YOU DON'T! No, no, and no! I refuse to be your own Japanese/English dictionary! No, no, no!

Angel: OK, bakamono, fine then!

Yugi: Nyah, nyah!

Angel: Watch your mouth, Yugi! I'll just have to do it this time.

From the Desk of Angel:

Pazuru - puzzle
Enjin - ring
Tarekazari - pendant
Tsurugi - sword
Saji - spoon
Munekazari - broach
Kagi - key
Kagami - mirror
Tangan - eye
Hikari no Yuugi - "Play of Light"
Hikari - light
Yuugi - game or play
mou hitori no Bakura - the other Bakura

CHARACTER OF THE DAY:

Today's Character of the Day is Ryou Bakura, age 15. Bakura was given the ancient Millennium Ring by his father, an archaeologist. He had only been recently transferred to Domino High when his Millennium Ring lit up and detected Yugi Muto's Millennium Puzzle. Yami Bakura, or Kerihk, had been living in him for quite some time, but only then did he take complete control, sealing Bakura in his favorite card, Change of Heart. Why this is his favorite card is unknown, but it is my opinion that this card represents the difference between Bakura and Kerihk, one half light and one half dark, each competing for control of a mortal body. When Kerihk dueled Yami, he played the Change of Heart card which contained Bakura's spirit. Yugi's gang was able to free his spirit with the power of the Puzzle. After that, Bakura joined up with Yugi's group to help them defeat Pegasus. In Pegasus's castle, hower, Kerihk was once again able to take over, though only briefly. He began to long for Pegasus's Millennium Eye, and plotted ways to get it, and the rest is *currently* unknown, since I don't have Isis's future sight.

Bakura's dubbed accent is either British or Australian, which proposes the idea that he spent quite a bit of his life in the England or Land Down Under, and from there was where he was transferred to Japan with his family (in the original he was not from another country, but in this story I'm using Australia). He's a sweet and gentle kid who doesn't enjoy violence. On the other hand, he is definitely on the right side, because he was so desperate to destroy the darkness inside of him that he was even willing to die for it. Not much else is known about Bakura's personality, but as the story goes on, you can be sure we'll get to see where his heart really lies.