A rewrite of "Naraku no Chibi Neko". Plotted more in depth and clearer than the first version. Thank God.
Kamiyonanayo Book 1
Rating: M
Universe: Anime + Manga
Pairings: Implied, none stated as of yet
Warnings: All applicable to the Toei anime/Season Zero, as well as the first 7 volumes of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. In summation: Yami no Yuugi, Jounouchi Katsuya, and Kaiba Seto
Notes: Japanese names are being used. It is also being uploaded to AO3.
Chapter One - Shezmu
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. - William Shakespeare
He knew no rest. He knew the pain of the Shadows' teeth piercing his flesh.
He knew of the vague memories that managed to pierce through the veil of pain.
He knew how to serve, and that his pain was serving.
Serving a God.
How many years had passed?
He sensed movement once and was then lost to the darkness again, dismissing the motion for something that the Shadows had used to deceive him.
A false hope of release.
When he awoke, for only a moment, it was when a small hand touched the prison that he was trapped inside of. It was a soft hand, belonging to that of a truly pure being. He needed to see this person, the one who let him feel a sensation other that pain for just a moment.
In the form that he possessed, he could touch nothing and his eyes were sensitive to the light. Looking around, he saw that he was in a storage room. There were boxes piled up and so much dust decorated the tops of them.
"He wants to see it again, oto-san." Somehow, he recognized that the voice was that of a woman and the words were not the ones that whispered to him in the darkness, not even the language. They were words of a foreign land, but he understood that something significant was present here.
Someone.
"All right, Karuta. Only because my grandson wishes to see it." The door opened and he was bathed in light. He looked down to himself and saw robes. The man, elderly, that came into the storage room passed through him, making him shudder. The elderly man left the room with a golden box.
His prison.
As he followed his prison, he saw different and new things that he was fascinated by. There was a box connected to a knobbed stick, with small inserts marked in digits, on a table, next to pictures that seemed so lifelike, he expected the people in them to jump from the picture. A circle on the wall was marked with digits as well, two hands, akin to a sundial, pointing to spots on the circle that he couldn't see. He noticed a room with a cabinet for bottles that seemed to have magical properties of healing, and another room that the woman that he had heard earlier was in, fire coming from one of four small firepits on a large metal box.
"Jii-chan! Is that the box?" The spirit turned and saw a child with large eyes that were a hue between the sky and blood, like the sea slugs.
"Yes, Yuugi. It is." The old man handed the golden box to the child and the spirit was shocked at the audacity of the man. Surely he knew that it could hurt the child.
"It's so pretty," the child mused, holding the box close to his face, perhaps trying to examine all of the symbols on it. "Jii-chan, can I have it?"
The old man laughed, his expression warm.
"If you think you can solve it, of course you can."
"Solve it?"
"Look, Yuugi. It's a puzzle!"
The spirit paid no more attention to their words, watching the child and his grandfather - Jii-chan - interact. There was something warm there, and the spirit found himself longing for it.
'Why would the Shadows let me see this?'
'When you are happy, bad things happen,' harked the Shadows as they began to take hold of the spirit's vision, the family in front of him disappearing. The pain came back and the spirit found himself voiceless.
'You protect him, He who shall solve the Puzzle. Out of our will, you shall do this.'
The spirit held tightly to his sense of sight for a moment longer to see the child, Yuugi, touch a piece of the Puzzle. At the same moment, he felt warmth and softness against his body.
'No. I shall protect him because he is himself. The only Yuugi in the world.'
For never had he met a soul so bright.