Kinsako- Huh. My first fan fic. Whoot. Go me! Hmm, well I suppose I should read the disclaimer and summary now huh?

Tonde- You'd think.

Kinsako- Quiet Tonde. Why don't you read the summary then?

Tonde - I didn't read your story, I have no idea what it's about.

Kinsako- Sigh. Fine then,

This is a story about a Yami and Hikari of my own creation, and was done pretty much on a dare, cause certain people kept telling me my writing is too "normal" and "cutesy".

*Warning* This story contains Yuri, or a girl on girl couple. Don't like it, don't read it. It's that simple. Flames will be used to set fire to spare soul cards. This story is rather angsty, and there is quiet a bit of violence and unrequited love and such. Oh, and other couples mentioned in this story but not really expanded upon are: Yami/Yugi, and some mentions of Marik/Malik. I love Yami/Hikari relationships, so check for future stories on them. I'm going to do some Bakura/Ryou, and Seto/Joey fluff too.

Oh, and this so far is just a prologue to get you interested, I will try to update rather often, so check back. J

Tonde - And Kinsako does NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh, or any other copyrighted things mentioned here. She would lose them if she did.

Kinsako- Hey! :-P

Tonde - /…/  is Hikari to Yami

             //…// is Yami to Hikari

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Shadow's Light- Prologue

Wake Up

I ran. I had no idea where I was going, I just ran blindly into the rain, into the darkness. Or maybe I was running from the darkness. How can you run from something that is inside if you, something that is who you are?

My foot caught on something on the sidewalk, and I fell heavily forward. My breath was coming in ragged gasps, and I was soaked to the bone. I sat back on my heels, and raised my face towards the sky. Rain stung my face harshly, and fused with the tears that flowed freely from my eyes. I laughed darkly. I hadn't cried in over 5,000 years, even after I was tortured for over a week straight before I died.

I covered my face with my hands. Could the dead cry? I was worse than dead. I choked back a sob. But not worse than her. My hikari. My beautiful, innocent, unselfish hikari. She had given up everything she had in a second, to save my hated enemy.

My chest became tight, and I struggled to breath. What had I done? I had killed her.

Sobs wracked my body. No, not dead. Worse than dead, but still alive. I had shattered her soul. Her body would remain functioning until she died of a natural cause, but without her soul it was just an empty shell. She was gone. Everything I loved about her was gone. Love. Why hadn't I told her how I felt before? Why had she stepped in front of that spell? It had been for him, my revenge upon that Set cursed Pharaoh, the bastard son of the gods who had condemned me to my brutal end. 5,000 years, and he ruins my life again. I squeezed my eyes shut, and covered my ears with my hands, but I could still see her, and hear her.

//Hikari???//  I shook her violently, trying to get her to open her eyes, trying to convince myself that what I feared most wasn't true.

She opened her beautiful eyes slowly. They looked empty. I shivered.

"Akasha?" She said slowly. Her voice sounded hollow. Tears traced down her cheeks. "Akasha, I'm so sorry …I couldn't let you do that to him, Kash. No one deserves a fate like that. Please don't be angry."

A sob rose in my throat. "Hikari…Kayore, please don't try and talk, you have to save your strength. I have to try and save you, I have to help…" I knew my words were pointless. Nothing could be done, the spell I had used was the strongest of the Forbidden Magic, noting could break it, or reverse it.

Kayore looked into my eyes. She knew that I couldn't reverse the spell. "Akasha," she said, her voice almost too soft for me to hear. "I love you, my yami. I don't care if you don't feel the same way. I've cared about you for the longest time…I…hope you don't hate me for that…" Her eyes glazed over, and her breathing became shallow.

/Aishiteru Akasha/, she whispered through our mind link. Her eyes closed. /I'm so cold…/

Cold fear stabbed through my heart. "Kayore!!" I had screamed, on the verge of panic. "Hikari, please answer me! I'm not angry at you." Tears welled up in my eyes, and threatened to fall. But I wouldn't cry. Not in front of him. He and the rest of his little gang stood frozen in place, stupid expressions of shock on their faces. "How could you just leave me, Kay?" Suddenly her words finally got through to me. She… loved me?! But… how… No! I sobbed. I didn't care if the Pharaoh saw me anymore. "No…" I whispered. "You can't just tell me something like that, and then go and DIE!!!"

"Akasha…" Said the deep voice of the Pharaoh. I whirled to my feet and faced him.

"You ordered me tortured and put to death over 5,000 years ago, and now, when I finally, after what seemed like an inifinty of darkness, found some kind of happiness, YOU TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME AGAIN!!" I screamed at him. I didn't care. He deserved it.

He looked at me sadly with those strange crimson eyes of his. "Akasha, I didn't do this. I don't know why your Hikari saved me. If you hadn't been so consumed by hate and revenge, maybe you wouldn't have lost control of your magic."

I sank to my knees. I felt a hand on my shoulder, and turned to see the Pharaoh standing there. I snarled at him, and tears streamed down my face. I knew he was right. It was all my fault. I had killed her…I had killed my hikari. I couldn't take it anymore. I ran. I ran blindly down unfamiliar streets thorough the city and it started to rain. 

I stood slowly and shivered. What was I going to do? It hurt so much. I had been in love with Kayore for the longest time, but I was so afraid to tell her. So afraid that she wouldn't feel the same way, or that she would hate me for it. I should have seen the truth. It just wasn't in my hikari to hate. But it was in me. My hate had destroyed her. Why hadn't I listened to her, and just let go of all that pain I had inside of me for so long?

I gazed up at the sky and laughed bitterly. "Is this your idea of a joke?" I said to the sky. "I spent my entire life in Egypt worshiping you and serving you. I risked my life to try and warn the Pharaoh of the evil that the high priests were planning, and what do I get? I get tortured and killed, my soul locked away in a silver trinket of your for 5,000 years, to be given life by a tenshi like Kayore, only to have the power that you gave me consume me, and destroy her?!" I could feel my shadow magic building as I grew more and more angry. I half expected the gods to strike me down with a lighting bolt or something, but only the silence and rain surrounded me. I started into the dark clouds, and smiled grimly. My power had been a gift from the gods, maybe I would you this "gift" to end my suffering. I knew I couldn't die. I was immortal as long as my soul was bound to the Night Stone. I closed my eyes slowly, and drew as much of my power as I could through the Night Stone. My energy crackled in the air around me, and I slowly began a low chant. The power began to flow into the spell, and darkness formed in the air around me. I chanted faster, and the darkness slowly toke shape, and I relaxed slightly and smiled. A gate to the Shadow Realm swirled in the air in front of me. This was my escape. I slowly lifted the silver chain of the Night Stone over my head, and let it clatter to the ground. The Shadow Realm would hold my soul forever, and without the Night Stone, no one would be able to bring me back. I stepped for ward slowly.

"Akasha!" cried a voice, "Please Stop!"

I turned slowly toward the voice. The Pharaoh's small hikari run toward me, panting for breath. He stopped, and looked at me with his huge innocent eyes. I blinked. "Yugi…" I said slowly. I had met him with my hikari earlier that day. "Leave. Now."

Sadness filled his eyes. "Yami told me about you Akasha. You're from ancient Egypt like him, aren't you?"

I bared my teeth in what he might have taken for a smile. "Yes, and did your Pharaoh also tell you that in our time he ordered me put to tortured and put to death for a crime I didn't commit?" Shock registered on his face. "I guess not." I said slowly, and turned back to the gate.

"Wha… what is that?" Said Yugi, and I could hear and edge of fear in his voice.

I sighed, bent quickly, and grabbed the Night Stone. "Here." I said, and placed it in his hand. "I don't know what you can do with this, but where I'm going I won't need it."

His eyes widened. "That's the Shadow Realm, isn't it?" He blinked. "But, if your soul is bound to this, how will you be able to get back?"

I smiled sadly. "I won't." I said, and before he could react, I turned quickly, and launched myself into the portal. I heard him call my name as I fell into the darkness, and I laughed as the portal closed, and the unreality that was the Shadow Realm swallowed me into its depths.

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Wohoo! Yay! My first chapter! Or the prologue at least. Please reply and tell me what you think, and if you'd like me to continue. Hehe. Gotta love cliffhangers!

Thanks to everyone who read this, even if you didn't like it, you're still all awesome for reading it! J Vanilla Coke and Starbursts for all!