Disclaimer: I do not own YGO

A/N: DISCONTINUED. So this is a self-gratification fic, I'm not proud of it. I wrote it sometime ago, as you can probably tell from the monsters mentioned. Won't be continued, posted here as a backup in case I lost the file and wanted to read it still.


Hi, my name is Ushio. My name is now Ushio. I don't want to mention my previous name, for fear of this diary, no, journal (journal sounds much more masculine, not that it was something I had to think about before) being used as proof of my insanity. If I haven't already gone insane that is. But let me repeat. My name is Tetsu Ushio, and I live in a world where monsters are real.

I only realized it five minutes ago, when I stepped outside and physically bumped into a Tron-like cyborg, whom my neighbor casually referred to as Greg, species- Battle Warrior (700/1000). That problem had by far overshadowed my previous problem- becoming a 6'2, 250lb, 16 year-old male, in an anime world where my mind had just been destroyed by the main protagonist. As you can probably tell, I'm having my share of problems today.

I had woken up in an alley in this body, presumable because the soul of the previous being who inhabited this body had been shattered by a 5000 year-old dictator. I had the scattered memories of my, I guess former body owner, and managed to get home alive.

It was really too bad that his memories didn't include the part about Duel Monsters Being Real!

And also pathetically little regarding the supposed protagonist of this series, Yugi Moto.

My current plans were simple, avoid school, avoid Yugi and the much darker spirit that possessed him, until hopefully the anime version begins and the story turns a lot less dark. I never read the manga, so I can't be sure. Though how things change now that monsters are real, I really can't imagine. I mean, to have a separate species co-existing with human kind, it changes things completely.

Hopefully enough that I survive through the series