Melody: Hello everyone! this is my first fanfiction, and I am so excited to post it. By the way, for anyone who noticed, I refer to myself as Melody because my name is long. But if you want, its totally ok to call me MS.

Yugioh gang walks into room.

Joey: Who ya talking to? Dere's no one in here, unless you're goin' insane.

Melody: I'm talking to the readers Joey. Don't be so annoying.

Joey rolls his eyes. Two seconds later, Joey is lying on the ground knocked out cold with a big bump on his head. Melody is standing next to him, smiling as if nothing happened.

Melody: Yugi, would you be a dear and do the disclaimer?

Yugi: Melody does not own YuGiOh or any of the characters; just her OCs and the plotline. I WILL have an OC named Juna and her Yami Jade, as certain chapters will be from Juna or Jade's point of view. If you don't like stories with OCs, don't read or you just deal with it. Why are you still reading if you don't like it?

Melody: Thank you, Yugi. Enjoy everyone! Oh, and before I forget, constructive criticism is allowed and totally accepted, but this is my first fanfic, so please no flames! Thanks!

"Hikari to Yami (and vice versa)"

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

Chapter One: I'm Afraid of Being Forgotten…

Juna's POV

It's a bright, sunny day outside, and the students from Domino High are all enjoying it. It's spring break, and we finally have a considerably lighter load of homework, who wouldn't enjoy it? Well, I know one person who isn't, and he happens to be both my best friend, and my favorite cousin. His name is Yugi Motou.

I'm sorry, I haven't properly introduced myself. I'm Juna, Juna Motou, though most people call me Jun, June (yes they are pronounced differently!), or Ju. Call me what you'd like, you can even insult me with the "shorty" or the "shrimp" nicknames, I really couldn't care less. I've been bullied so long with people calling me that; it doesn't even register in my mind. But at least I got the guts to stick up for myself, unlike my way too-nice cousin Yugi. Don't get me wrong, I love Yugi to death, but sometimes, he's just too nice and timid for his own good.

I'm getting a little sidetracked here. Let's focus on Yugi. What's going on? It's Yami, he got his own body. Yeah, that Yami, the one who plays Shadow Games and Mind Crushed a few people. The one who acts like Yugi's alter ego, but is really a 5,000-year-old spirit of a pharaoh, and once resided in the Millennium Puzzle. The one who, not even 2 years ago, used the Seal of Orichalcos to try and win a duel, but failed to win and forced Yugi to sacrifice himself to save the selfish idiot!

I need to calm down and find Yugi before I end up stepping over the ever-thinning line of patience that I have for Yami. I know that if I step over it, I might just end up killing Yami, and even though because of all the things that idiot did to Yugi and all the things that happened to Yugi and him not realizing it either way, Yugi still wouldn't want him dead. So, as I passed Yugi's old friends and Yami hanging out, laughing, I looked straight ahead and did my best to ignore them. Téa Gardner noticed this, so she waved to me and yelled, "Hey! Wanna come hang out with us?"

I just looked at her, threw the dirtiest scowl I could muster, turned my head, and walked away, feeling slightly miffed by her ignorance of the situation at hand.

"Are you alright, Yu-chan?" Jade said, sounding worried. Jade is the only one who can call me Yu or Yu-chan other than Yugi, Atemu, and someone else who is very close to me. "You're frustrated right now."

"I'm fine, Jay-chan. Just a little mad at Yugi's old friends for ignoring him." I replied back to Jade. I'm also the only one other than Atemu who can call Jade by Jay or Jay-chan.

I ran back to the Game Shop to see if Yugi was there. As usual nowadays, I found him sulking in his room, pacing the floor as he muttered things I couldn't hear. He sat down and curled up in his dark little corner after a while and then I came in, not wanting to come in while he was pacing in case he lashed out at me while I was coming through the door.

"Hey, Yugi-kun. It's me, Juna. Is it okay with you if I come in?" I asked softly, not wanting to provoke my now temperamental and moody cousin. Before Yami got his own body, you would think, 'Wow, that is so unlike Yugi. He isn't a temperamental and moody person, he's sweet, kind, soft, and extremely hard to get angry,' wouldn't you? Well, ever since then, he's been like this, and I learned not to go into his room while he was pacing the hard way. As soon as I walked in his room that day, I saw his face, and the last thought I had before everything into total chaos was, 'Ra save me, something dirty is about to go down.'

In the dim light, I saw him lift his head from between his knees and chest and look at me, his once beautiful, now dull amethyst eyes bloodshot from what looked like lack of sleep and recent crying. I heard a sniffle and a soft, cracked reply of "Yes", as if he hadn't drank water in a while.

I open the door wider, letting the hallway light flood into the room. I went downstairs and quickly poured glass of water and also filled a small pitcher of water to put in Yugi's room. I went back upstairs and coaxed Yugi to take the glass of water from my hand after putting the pitcher on his desk. It took even more coaxing to get him to drink it. After I took the glass, refilled it with water from the pitcher, and handed it back to him, I took out a brand new light bulb that I got from the basement and used a towel to unscrew the dying light bulb in the usually bright lamp. I hear him mutter a soft "Thanks" and I smile, replying with an equally soft "You're welcome". I then place the towel and old light bulb down on the nightstand, and screw in the brand new one in its place inside the lamp. Then I walk over to my cousin and sit down next to him. Atemu, having heard me go into Yugi's room and being home at the time, also came in and sat on the other side of Yugi. Yugi doesn't complain, just snuggles closer to us.

"How was your day Yugi? How are you feeling?" I ask him gently in a soft, soothing tone to calm him down.

"It was good," he replied, but not 5 seconds after he says it, he breaks down in sobs that cause his whole body to convulse. I realize he is slowly drifting to hysteria, so I ask Atemu to call Malik and Marik and ask them to come over, while I call Ryou and Bakura and ask them the same thing. They arrive ten minutes later, barge through the door, and scan the scene, calculating what to do. Then they all come over and start comforting him like me and Atemu were already doing. They all ask me what happened, and I reply with the usual answer, which they know the meaning of.

"Yami's what happened."

They all continued to comfort Yugi, and I swear I heard Bakura and Marik use soothing tones to help calm him down ( which, by the way, they NEVER used soothing tones, like EVER). Eventually, Yugi tells us something as he tries to regain his breath after his 6th panic attack this month.

"I'm afraid… of being… forgotten…" he chokes out, tears welling in his eyes as he cries once more. But this time, as he curls up in a sitting position and pulls his head down, the tears are completely silent. Tears streaming down his face, he cried himself to sleep in silence.