Author's Note: Wow, I haven't written a fanfic for any series in a LONG time. Well *coughs* I know I have a few that still need finishing, but I got a GREAT (or I think it's great) idea for a new story ^-^() Bear with me, since it's been like a year. Hope you enjoy! Oh and just to let you know, I THINK, I'll have the Yamis have their own bodies in this…not sure yet. Tell me what you think.
DMG
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN YU-GI-OH! Though I do wish I owned Malik, Ryou, Yami, and Kaiba…but I don't, so for now all I can do is drool over them ^-^.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Why do all the evil guys have to be the hot ones? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mirror's Reflection
A young girl sat alone in the small room at the orphanage. She'd be leaving today, but not because someone had come to adopt her. She was old enough she was supposed to be out on her own finally. That and the people who ran the orphanage needed more room and she had volunteered to leave since she was the oldest out of all the children there. She didn't know what she would do or where she would go now.
"Miya?" a voice sliced through her silent trance like state as she thought about what was going to happen to her. The girl looked up at one of the orphanage's care workers and she smiled faintly. Miya was a sweet girl by nature, but lately she'd been keeping people from growing close to her knowing she'd just have to leave anyway.
"It's time to go now Miya, we bought you a train ticket to Domino," the worker said moving into the room and sat beside Miya on the narrow cot, "we're going to miss you here," she said and Miya smiled looking back out the window. This woman was the closest thing to a mother she could remember and now she had to go. She felt the thin fingers push strands of her hair out of her face, the long blond bangs always falling over her purple eyes.
"I know, Mrs. Katsumi" she said forcing another smile and turned to look at the aged woman, her long straight white hair pulled back into a tight bun. She leaned forward and hugged her gently not wanting to start crying now. "I'll be okay, don't worry I'll find a place to stay in Domino, you've already done so much for me by getting me into the school and a part time job," she said. Temporarily she would be staying at a youth center, until she had enough to pay for her own rent at an apartment. The program she was in was so helpful and wonderful; she sometimes wondered why an abandoned child deserved such privileges.
"You just stay out of trouble you hear me, Miya. And you be writing to me and the others every day," Mrs. Katsumi said pulling back from the hug. She would have adopted Miya herself many years ago, but she herself lived in the orphanage so she could care for the children any time of the day if they needed it. It still would not have solved the problem of space; they just needed a bigger location was all.
"I promise," Miya said standing up with Mrs. Katsumi who kissed her cheek and looked down out the window.
"Your cab is here," she said trying not to cry. Mrs. Katsumi was always like that, very emotional when any of the children left. Miya smiled picking up her worn leather backpack and her one suitcase that one of the other workers had given her filled with her few personal possessions and clothing.
"I'll miss you…I'll call when I get to Domino" she said hugging Mrs. Katsumi once more before running down the stairs fighting tears as she handed her luggage to the cab driver and he put it in the trunk. She sat in the back biting her bottom lip; she was leaving the only home she had ever known. She looked up at a knock on the window and blinked lowering it, all the other children were standing there waiting to wave goodbye to her. She smiled seeing Mrs. Katsumi walk down the stairs, the young girl, Sakura, who had knocked on the window of the car handed her a small package wrapped with handmade wrapping paper.
"It's from all of us…so you don't ever forget us," Sakura said smiling and it made Miya smile as well despite the sadness she was feeling.
"Thank you Sakura, and tell everyone else I said thank you," she said she was about to say something when the cab started up and Sakura ran back to stand with the others that were all yelling goodbye and waving. She felt a tear slide down her face as she waved through the back window until the cab turned the corner and she could no longer see her friends, which over the years had become her only family.
She turned around sitting frontward as the cab drove through the fairly quiet streets towards the train station. She opened the package carefully, saving the paper they had made and took from it several objects. She smiled seeing pictures that had been taken during the annual car wash fundraiser, everyone smiling. She wiped her eyes before another tear fell onto the pictures she was looking at. Something strange in the package caught her attention and she slid it looking the box over, on the cover was an engraved rose. Mrs. Katsumi must have made it. She opened it finding a note and a single card. She read the note over holding up the card so she could look at it.
Miya:
We all know how much you have liked
Duel Monsters, we could not afford to buy you
a whole deck, but this is a start, never forget us…
P.S. Don't forget to write to us everyday from Domino
Miya blinked at the letter as it made her smile and then looked to the card they had saved up to buy her.
"Shining Friendship…" she held it to her chest and closed her eyes, "I will never forget" she said quietly placing the card back in the box carefully and slipped it into her backpack along with the pictures and the letter. She looked up out the window just as the cab pulled to a stop at the train station and she blinked once. A new beginning for her…she supposed.
(Author's Note: Bet you're getting sick of these ne? I promise you, Miya will NOT be a Mary-Sue character. I am so sick of seeing them -_-. Anywho, not sure yet what the pairings will be, tell me what you think so far.)