Yami Himeko: *glares* I'm still only mentioned in this chapter.
Jade: Actually, you did have a small part this time around.
Yami Himeko: *rereads chapter* Where?! My hikari only talks about me, again!
Jade: Looks like you'll have to see next chappie, YH.
Yami Himeko: Hmph...
Disclaimer: Jade does not own Yu-gi-oh and never ever will.
/Hikari to Yami/
//Yami to Hikari//
The Nightmares Begin
*Yami's POV*
It's cold. Cold and dark. I can barely make out the outline of my hand. This isn't the Shadow Realm or my soul room. It's never this dark there. I try to make my puzzle shine, but I am unable to. In fact I can't even feel my hikari. Our bond had grown too strong which made it impossible to completely cut off each other. //Aibou?// I try to call though our link. //Aibou can you hear me?// There is no answer. I see a light flicker in the distance. I run towards it. There has to be someone or something here! The light grows brighter as the distance grows shorter. I stop a few feet in front of it. It had been a mass of light that had the shape of a human. A short human with spikey hair much like... "Aibou, is that you?" The light lifts it's 'head' up and opens a pair of glowing iris eyes. It turns and runs from me. "Matte!" I call and start to run after it when a glowing pair of crimson eyes open in front of me. "Nani?!" I can barely make out an outline of a human. "Who are you?" I ask it. The eyes narrow and a red eyeball pops up behind it. A violet one pops up on my left with another red one next to it. Soon the whole area is filled with eyeballs including the 'floor.' Their irises glow and I clutch my head as the largest headache I've ever felt in my life overwhelms me.
"Wow, they're so pretty!" I look around. Where did that voice come from?
"I see you like them." That had been my voice!
"Yeah, this is the best present you've ever given me!" I hear that girl's voice again. Who is she?
"Anything to make you happy." My voice again. My nails dig into my scalp as an image of flowers pass through my mind.
"Who are you?! Why are you doing this?!" I yell at the dark figure in front of me. It's eyes narrow and disappears with a soft chuckle echoing in the darkness. The red eyeballs narrow in a similar fashion and disappear. The violet ones blink twice and continue to stare at me. They close their eyelids and disappear as well. A stong, cold wind blows and I wrap myself in my jacket. The whole area is filled with hot, white light and...
The alarm clock rings loudly. "It was just a dream," I whisper, opening my eyes and turning off the alarm clock. It's only a dream, nothing more. Yeah, right. Having the exact same dream for the last three months can't be good. Especially when it starts the same night I had beaten Malik back at Battle Tower. Crimson eyes, iris eyes, a girl's voice, flowers... I sigh and rub my temples. What did it all mean?
*Himeko's POV*
Father called a few hours ago. He's going to be late again. Great, another night spent bored and alone. Technically I could never be alone. Not with a spirit that will always exist in the back of my head, but I may as well be alone. She hasn't been talking to me recently and whenever she does, it usually comes with another bruise or two on my tattered soul. My yami has been destroying me from the inside. She didn't dare come out of the earring and hurt me in the real world. My father would get suspicious of the bruises. I haven't gone into my soul room in a long time. The only time I go there now is when my yami orders me to. It had all started when my yami had been watching the t.v. and she saw my cousin, Yugi, dueling some guy called Otogi in a game called Dungeon Dice Monsters. That was the night when she had first beat me. I took a sip of soda and whispered, "Yami, why do you hate him so much?" I feel a pain in my chest and drop the can on the floor.
I'm in a car, driving on the roads. I can't wait to surprise my daughter and tell her the good news. Oh shit! A cat! I turn the wheel to the left in order to avoid it. I try to turn it to the right, but the front end doesn't touch the ground anymore and I fall into the cliff. I let out a scream. I can feel the flames scorch my skin. Himeko, I'm sorry...
I double over gasping. A vision... a vision of... A loud ring cuts through the air. It's the phone. Tears gather in my eyes as I slowly pick it up.
About a week later...
*Yugi's POV*
I stuff another forkful of pancakes in my mouth. Yami does the same, even though he doesn't have to eat. He says it makes him feel alive, so we always cook for him, too. The phone rings and jiisan picks it up. "Moshi moshi," he greets, "Yes, this is.......What?!......Yes, of course we'd be glad to.......When will her plane arrive...Tomorrow? Yes, that would be fine.....Understood, tomorrow at noon.....Alright, bye," he hung up the phone.
"Who was that, jiisan?" I drink down a glass of orange juice.
"You know your uncle, right?" I nod, vaguely remembering a family barbecue ten years ago. "Well, he has died in a car accident, and his daughter will be living with us now."
Jade: For those who read the first draft, you may notice that I don't mention the Dead Zone, or Himeko's mom this time. Why? Cause I found it to be quite irrelevent(sp?) at this time. Himeko's passage is altered pretty well, and I changed the third person POV to Yugi's POV.
Himeko: Atleast the cat didn't get squished!
Jade: O_O You're thinking about the cat, when you're father just died?!
Himeko: What?! Cats are cute!
Jade: -sighs- Please review...
Jap/Eng Guide:
Aibou-partner
Hikari-light
Yami-darkness
Matte!-Wait!
Nani?!-What?!
Jiisan-Grandpa