I have conquered the evil that is writer's block! D: So now hopefully I shall be able to update more frequently! Apparently the best way for me to cure writer's block is to start a new story! …..*sweatdrops* well fortunately the next few chapters of other stories will be up soon…

NOTE: Ok, for Yugioh fans reading this that have not seen Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler, you don't have to know it to read this story(and vice versa for the most part). However, if you are in the middle of watching it or plan to watch it in the near future, there will be spoilers later on. I will say when I have them in a chapter.

I hope you enjoy this!

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh or Kuroshitsuji.

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Prologue

In the local busy town of Domino City, Japan, life goes on as usual. People go about their daily lives as they always do; the postman delivers the mail, the garbage man collects the trash and the students go to school. Little do any of them know… about the fierce battle raging in the school as we speak…

POP!

"OW! Damn, the pirate hit me in the face again!"

"Oh! Sorry Jonouchi!"

"Hahaha! You suck at this game, Jonouchi! Who gets beat up in a game of pop up pirate?"

"Shut up, Honda!"

Well…. Maybe not so fierce…

In class B of Domino High School, sat five students sitting around a desk with the pop-up-pirate game on it. The blonde male sporting the black eye was Katsuya Junouchi, a loudmouthed and D averaged student who used to be quite the bad boy. Sitting next to him, apologizing profusely, was his friend Yugi Mutou. Yugi was rather short for his age, about the height of a grade schooler, with wild, spikey black hair with red tips and blonde bangs. A large, gold pendant was around his neck, in the shape of an inverted pyramid with an eerie eye in the center of one of the sides. His large purple eyes looked teary as he continued to apologize for popping the pirate into Jonouchi's left eye.

"I'm really sorry, Jonouchi! Does it hurt? Do you need to see the nurse?" He asked.

"Don' worry about it, Yug'." Jonouchi reassured his friend, hating to see Yugi upset for nothing. "I'm a tough guy!"

"Yeah, a tough guy whining like a girl 'cause a toy pirate just beat him up!" Jonouchi's friend, Hiroto Honda, was standing behind the blonde teen watching the game. Honda had brown hair gelled to a spike coming off of his forehead. Though they were friends he and Jonouchi fought a lot, but it was mostly just roughhousing. Mostly. Jonouchi turned and glared at his friend.

"Hey! I ain't the one cryin' 'cause Miho doesn't think being a janitor is cool!"

"I'm not a janitor! I'm the president of the ever-prestigious Beautification Squad!" Honda cried, filled with a passion for his extracurricular club.

"It's still uncool." Spoke up one of the two girls of the group. This one was Miho Nosaka, a cute girl with long grey-blue hair tied in a ponytail with a yellow ribbon. Though as cute as she was, Miho could be quite shallow. "Miho wants to marry a prince, not a janitor."

Honda began crying in the corner.

The last member of the group, and the only other female, rolled her blue eyes. Anzu Mazaki was a rather tomboyish girl with short brown hair and was arguably the most mature of their little group. "Miho, you know the odds of marrying a prince are next to none, right?" But Miho ignored her.

This is how each day was for the class B of Domino High. School, games, and fun. Yugi sighed in content as he looked out the window, hoping things would never change. And for now it looked like they weren't going to change for a while. Or so they thought.

"Jonouchi! Don't throw the pirate out the window!"

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That evening, down by the dock, a young fisherman looked out on the sea. To the untrained eye, everything may have seemed normal, but he knew better. The waves that pushed at his tanned feet seemed to cry out to him, telling him to flee, and the wind blowing his spikey, dark blue hair felt as though it was trying to scream. Something wasn't right. He felt as though the eyes of a predator were on him…

Below the docks, no more than 10 yards from where the fisherman sat, a deathly pale hand shot out of the water, latching onto a rock. After a bit of pulling, a dark head emerged as well along with the slim body of a young man, clothed in sopping wet black clothes. Seaweed clung to his hair and skin, along with a few barnacles on his pants leg, suggesting he had been in the water for a long time. Lifting his head the young man looked around him, panting from his fight with the waves. He shakily stood up and walked from the rocks, catching the eye of a passerby.

Kida Nosuke was a student of Rintma High School and a member of the local gang. He was a tall young man over 6 feet tall and the IQ of a gorilla. He usually spent his time after school smoking and looking for some kid to beat up or a pretty thing to take advantage of. This afternoon in fact he had beaten the crap out of a young businessman and acquired 5,000 yen to his fat wallet. All in a day's work. He lit a cigarette when his attention was drawn to the dock after hearing some splashing. Curious, he walked over, expecting to see some stray dog that fell in or someone dumping their trash into the bay. What he didn't expect to see was a striking, soaking wet man, looking to be in his early twenties or late teens, pulling himself across the rocks. He smirked. Tonight might be more fun than he thought…

"Hey!" Kida called, making his way down towards the stranger. The boy looked in his direction, his black bangs covering his eyes. "You get lost down here?" Kida glanced around. There was no one around. Good.

"…" The young man hesitated, staring at him. Kida decided to see how far he could push his luck.

"You look lost, pretty boy. You got money? A place to stay?" His grin widened when the newcomer shook his head. A small voice spoke from frozen blue lips, deep yet meek at the same time.

"I'm cold…." The stranger spoke in English, arms wrapped around his body in a feeble manner. Kida put a hand on his shoulder.

"Why don't you come with me, hot stuff? I'll treat you right…" He grinned.

"Oh…" The stranger looked up into Kida's eyes, his hair sliding back. "That's very kind of you…" Kida took a look into the boy's eyes and began to panic, but before he could shout, the stranger took a hold of each side of his face with his pale fingers, the black nails digging into his flesh. There was a gaping wound on his left hand as well.

SNAP

With a sickening crack, the newcomer snapped Kida's head backwards, killing him instantly. With a small smirk on his lips, the young man let Kida Nosuke's corpse fall down onto the rocks. He knelt down, taking the dead student's coat and fishing through his pockets. He pulled out a thick wallet and a small set of keys. Straightening up, the young man now held himself with an air of confidence and danger. His smooth voice spoke again, to himself.

"Now I have money… and a place to stay…" He looked at the ID in the wallet he had acquired. "A high school student, eh?" At that, his features began to shift and shrink slightly, taking the guise of a high school age. "I might as well keep up that front…" And with that, he turned and ventured into the city, leaving Kida Nosuke's corpse lying among the rocks, face twisted in terror.

Looks like things might get interesting after all…

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Well, I hope that was a good beginning…

Ok, just as a side note, I'm going to be using the Japanese names as the Yugioh part of this fic starts in season 0. So if I misspell any names please let me know!

Let me know what you thought? Anything I can work on or suggestions? The next chapter will be up soon (along with the next chapters of my other stories) and I mean it this time!