Hi! This is my first ever fic that I have posted, so please, be gentle. That being said, PLEASE REVIEW. Actually, forget what I said about being gentle, review anyway. If it sucks, tell me. If it's good though, I will continue it. You decide.

I'm REALLY sorry, but I have really only seen the American version of Yu-Gi-Oh, so that is really all I have to go on. I am reading Shonen Jump as fast as they are released, but Bakura hasn't even entered yet. I really don't know how he got the ring. The show said from his father, but I have heard so much about how inaccurate the dub is, that now I'm not so sure. Anyone that has seen the show, please tell me if there are any really big differences in the show about Ryou and the spirit of the ring. I would really appreciate it.

Disclaimer: I don't own it. I think you misunderstand the concept of FANFICTION. If I owned it, it wouldn't be a fanfic, now would it? I don't own the song either, Linkin Park does.

I will never know

Myself until I do this on my own

And I will never feel

Anything else until my wounds are healed

I will never be

Anything 'til I break away from me

And I will break away

I'll find myself today

Linkin Park: Meteora

Are spirits immortal? Can they ever die, or will they remain until the end of time, long after you and I have ceased to exist. I don't know the correct answer, but I hope it is yes. I hope that a spirit can die. I hope that it can blink out of existence and never, ever come back.

I have a secret. I'll tell you, but you have to promise not to tell anyone. Not to tell my friends, because they probably wouldn't believe me. Not to tell him, because he would try to stop me.

And he would succeed too. Please realize that I'm not writhing in self-pity. There was a time for pity, now it is over. I am past the point of pity. I am just stating an obvious fact.

He is stronger than me. He always has been, ever since my father gave me that cursed ring and I slipped the thin leather rope around my neck. In that single moment, I felt him. Inside my mind, trying to take over. Little by little, he has succeeded. There have been moments when I would lose control for a second. That is all the time he has needed. Then, I am gone, and only he exists. I can never escape.

But here is my secret, I tell you now in confidence,

I can kill a spirit.

Saige: So? What do you think? I know it's short, but I have a theory, maybe if I keep the chapters really short, then I'll actually finish a story!

Ahem…now, go and review. If you don't I'll…um…(looks around searchingly)…I'll kill Yami! Yeah, that's it. Kill him dead.

Yami: I'm a spirit remember, I can't die. So I don't think that your threat is very effective.

Saige: Didn't you read the story? I have the power Mwahahahaha!!!

Yami: I don't believe you.

Saige: Well then…I'll…break the puzzle!

Yami: Then Yugi would put it back together. I'm getting bored with you.

Saige: He couldn't put it back together if I split the pieces up and sent them to other sides of the globe Mr. Smarty Pants.

Yami: He would eventually find the pieces, and reassemble the puzzle. You know what, you suck. I'm going to go visit someone else's fic. Turns to leave

Saige: No wait! I have a good threat then. I'll send the pieces to the other side of the globe, then, so the puzzle will never be put back together, I'll kill Yugi!

Yugi: OO!!!

Saige: Oh no Yugi!!! I'm sorry, I didn't mean it!!! I would never. Do you see what you made me do?! Bad Yami, Bad! Bad!

Yami: Oh boy. rubs headache. Please review so that she will shut up.