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Summary: Yami no Bakura is pissed. "To think the midget hikari has the pharaoh on a leash. It's pathetic." Faced with the need to bring his true rival back, the two suddenly find themselves surrounded by the new form of magic in the midst of a war. Will Yuugi fight to protect the innocent without bloodshed, or will the Pharaoh finally free himself to rule again, and fight in the battle just as he had all those millennia before? What will Bakura do should the Pharaoh return, will he fight with him to insure the Pharoahs death by his own hands, or will he use this chance to finally destroy him? What will be the fate of the hikaris should their yamis join this war?

Pairing: Yami no Yuugi/Yami no Bakura

A/N: This is an Alternate Universe fic. The characters will seem out of character, but it's the only way to fit them into the story properly.

The Pharaoh's Return

Chapter 1: Yami no Bakura is pissed.

No one understood what it meant to be a 5000 year old spirit. To awaken in a place miles away from your home – non-corporeal – in front of a young boy who was nearly mirror image of yourself. Full of confusion, no memory of who you were, nor your purpose in unrecognizable new world. Watching as the days move by, with no control; unable to live. Those moments of freedom, where the host whose body you share is attacked, and – through choice, through the instinct to live, or a reason unknown to you – you attack, set the aflame, send them into the realm of darkness, a few and far in between. Your host is lonesome and often bullied, yet he prefers the continuation of this to the punishments to give. He asks you not, yet runs to you in his moment of need. Never once thanking you for what has been done, yet is always berating you for how.

There are two ways to respond to such act, the choice the spirit makes will never bother their host, as the host will not give them up, yet it affects whether the spirit lives again, or if he's forced to watch as life goes by. No one can truly understand this, just as one could never understand that a pharaoh of Egypt gave up a chance at living for the sake of the young boy.

"I don't like it," Yami no Bakura, otherwise known as just Bakura, states.

He is pacing around his host's Soul Room, a chamber within the boy that houses the host's spirit. He stops for a moment, staring at the cowering form of his host, yet it seems as if he looked straight through him. Bakura Ryou, the spirit who host's the dark spirit trembles slightly. Whenever Bakura enters Ryou's soul room instead of his own, particularly when confused or angered, Ryou understands he is in for a world of hurt. Though one can say that Bakura's soul room, which is housed within the Sennen Ring, seems to make the torture chambers of London into an amusement park, Ryou prefers that to the acts that occur within his own. He was once told by Bakura that as much as he loved his instruments, to see the red of his hikari's blood splattered across the wall was an art that could never be replicated, no matter how many times he tries. So, he has given himself the challenge to create the same piece of art work twice, then he'll think of stopping. Suffice to say, he is nowhere near that point.

"To think," Bakura continues both his rant and his pacing, "that little midget keeps the pharaoh, the pharaoh, for Ra's sake, the supposed child of Amun-ra, the reincarnation of Horus, kept on a lease like a guard dog, bound within him and only to be let out to fight off intruders." He lifts a jeweled knife, which appeared from thin air, and throws it at his host. It whistles through the air and lands with a thud, embedding itself in the floor between the frozen spirits thighs. Usually, Bakura would have a great laugh at the state he's pushed his hikari into, but he's too distracted to care at the moment. "I hate him, I truly do hate him, and would gladly eviscerate both him and his host, then hang them from the rafters by their innards, but he's is just pathetic."

Bakura thinks back to the times in which the pharaoh, Yami no Yuugi, and him battled. Though the past was not clear to him, watching the other Yami battle, watching out for his 'friends' and his Aibou – he snarls at the thought of him – and being distracted because he was worried about the others welfare. Hell, Yami nearly refused to battle him out of worry for Ryou, who wasn't even his hikari. The fact that this bothered him, well, it bothered him. He no longer cared that he continued to lose and would've gave up and presented him to Ma'at if it wasn't for the fact that he was still wait on the Pharaoh and his big showdown, should the Pharaoh finally decide to take his rightful place.

Sighing heavily, Bakura storms out of his host's soul room and into his own, leaving Ryou in control of the body. He could no longer tolerate thoughts of the Pharaoh, and doesn't care what his host does with his temporary freedom, so longer as it doesn't disturb him. It does, however, disturb Ryou. Not only is he allowed the freedom of his own body, he didn't even get injured in the time his Yami was with him, which meant more good then not.

Because he knows that he could not disturb Yami no Bakura, and that he also couldn't do anything that his Yami would consider an attempt to free himself from the dark spirit, not that he would want to no matter the amount of hurt, Ryou decides to visit the host of the man who plagued his Yami's thoughts. He could always say he was spying on them for use by Bakura later.

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