Watch as the crazy 24 hours starts…
This story takes place immediately after Yami and Yami Bakura's first duel in duelist kingdom. This will be in Ryou's P.O.V. for the entirety of the fic.
Disclaimer- I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! However, I can show it to you Ryou-style.
He was gone. I tried to wrap my head around that as Yuugi and I watched the rest of the group groggily wake up. Since they were not as used to shadow games as us, it was taking them longer to recover. I searched for him within my soul, just to be sure.
"Spirit?" I called throughout my mind. I had yet to come up with a proper name for him.
When I had asked him, long ago when we first met, he said his name was Bakura. I could not call him that for the obvious reason. That was what people called me. It would be too awkward calling him that. I had considered simply making up a name and giving it to him, but I then decided that it would be rude to do so.
I would not have liked it if he had gone "Look I'm inhabiting your body now and my names Bakura so you can just be Namu. Got it?" So why do it to him? I tried calling him 'Voice' but that did not work either. Whenever he said something to me, I thought, "The voices in my head are talking to me." I would not go down that road! I was not crazy! There really is the spirit of an ancient Egyptian thief that talks to me and makes me do things. Don't look at me like that I am not schizophrenic! God, I hope not anyway.
Anyway, we settled with him calling me Host and me calling him Spirit. Honestly, I was surprised when Spirit told Yuugi he was not Bakura. But he just had to add in that Chan." I'm not Bakura-Chan" At first, I was thrilled that Spirit did that for me. I was so glad that distinction between us. It meant that Yuugi would understand! That he would know that, I am not the soul-stealing psycho. Then it hit me. "Chan?" I remember asking Spirit. "You do know I'm not female, right?"
"I'm still getting used to these suffixes you Japanese use" Spirit responded a sadistic grin on his face as he prepared for the game. "Besides didn't you say that "Chan" was the appropriate suffix for children?" He said while shuffling Yuugi's deck.
"I'm 16, hardly a child." I retorted a little miffed. He had used it for the sole reason of patronizining me and he knew it. Appropriate suffix my arse. Since when did he care?
"I am 5,000 years old. Everyone is a child in comparison to me." He responded. He had a point." Getting back to the female subject though, you are very feminine looking." He added.
A mandatory insult that I was always prepared for.
"Since we share the same body, you just called yourself feminine looking"
One of the downsides of being a male with long hair was that you were the constant butt of jokes. I had prepared a retort for every person, including the spirit. Especially a retort for the spirit actually, since he had zero respects for me and was constantly finding flaw.
"I have to look like you because we're in the same body." He started. I could feel a rant coming on. "If you could see me in my glory days it would be something completely different." Here we go..."I was tall and muscular, fit and had none of that long flowing hair and big doe eyes. I had a look that would terrify the bravest warrior, I was KING and everyone who looked at me knew it in the pits of their soul. Unlike you, the person who is target of everything that moves and who has been mistaken for a female on three occasions. I can't command any respect looking like this." He had such a huge ego... A ghost of a though crossed my mind. 'And it's all your fault.' it said. He was not speaking to me, was not even paying attention to me but staring at Yuugi with hard eyes. Sharing a mind made it hard for us to hide things from each other. We often heard each other's stray thoughts of random things. It could be awkward at times, but it helped us get to know each other better. However, I put what he had said out of mind and recalled his attention.
"You might think I'm a loser," I said "But you're losing the game." I said with a smirk to rival his own.
"Yuugi just got Jounochi back. You haven't managed too keep a single one of them in the grave, I think he's going to win" I said. I was actually confident. Yuugi was doing far better then anyone who had ever played and I was hopeful for him. I might actually keep some friends.
"Are you instating that he's stronger then me?" The spirit yelled.
I had not been expecting that strong a reaction. There must be more going on between the two of them that I did not know about.
"Are you calling me weak?" I had definitely hit the wrong button.
"I'll show you what I can do!" This was bad.
A sly smile appeared on his face that scared me far more then when he was yelling at me. It was the grin he wore to people who were about to die, and it was staring straight at me. A light appeared around me and I was no longer in my soul room. He had trapped me in something.
"You're in a card." Spirit told me. "Change of heart to be exact." he specified. "You will cooperate with the plan or you will be trapped in it forever." Why did I have to have such a big mouth…?
"It's a bit strange that you keep getting those weak cards, oh ahem I'm sorry, your friends out of the graveyard so quickly," Spirit said no longer speaking to me through our mind link but speaking aloud to Yuugi.
"The miracle of friendship made it happen. Count on it!" Yuugi replied. I laughed that he said something like that with such a serious face. Spirit laughed too.
"You're going to use the power of friendship? Don't make me laugh." I wondered if he intended the pun. "I'll show you the power of terror" Spirit said and placed down lady of faith."
I knew the line was about me when the spirit revealed his plan. He wanted to use me to take over Yuugi and attack my friends to help him win. He thought I was terrified enough of being trapped in the card to actually go along with the plan. I looked at the game and made my strategy. Spirit was too busy gloating to notice the pure rebellion in my thoughts.
If any dialogue happened next, I did not hear it. At that point, Spirit summoned me to the Field. I had never been shoved into a shadow game before was new for me, though I had seen Spirit do it many times to others. The feeling shocked me and at the strange phenomenon, I let out a small gasp. Yuugi was looking at me with fear, wondering if I would actually do as the spirit commanded.
I gave him a smile to show I was on his side and quickly ran to the Lady of faith before Spirit realized what was happening. I took over her and felt a small satisfaction at taking someone else over instead of constantly being the one taken over.
"Yuugi-kun attack me" I yelled before any of the thoughts of 'This is going to hurt', 'I'm going to have to go to the graveyard.' and 'It's going to be weeks before Spirit lets me out, IF he lets me out' made me re-think my plan.
"WHAT!" Spirit yelled.I was not surprised that my rebellion shocked him. I was not a rebel. I had never made a fuss when spirit wanted to use my body. The few times he actually asked and did not simply rip me from control. I had never broken free and stopped a shadow game before, a fact I am not proud of nor can I ever forgive. For eight years, I have let Spirit run amuck but now he has given me the tools to put him in his place. He will LOSE this game, I will KEEP my friends and maybe he will have more respect for me, maybe our relationship will change for the better. We can be equals or I will stay in the graveyard. Might as well be dead if I am going to sit back and let Spirit control my life forever. I have to take a stand no matter the consequences.
Fully motivated I yelled "Hurry, attack me and defeat the dark duelist." as they had been calling him. Yuugi-kun however hesitated.
"But if I do that your soul will..."he said worriedly. I was touched that my new friend cared. I had been right; Yuugi would be the one that I could trust, all more the more reason to save him. "It doesn't matter," I yelled! "I can't go on being controlled by an evil heart! Attack!" I had to do this. I thought to myself, letting only sheer determination being visible in my stance. I had to do this to protect Yuugi, his friends and for all the souls that had been sacrificed because of my weakness, this would be my penance Let me be the sacrifice now.
"DAMN YOU!" Spirit yelled above me. Yes, I damn me for all my sins. I was ready for this. Then something neither the spirit nor I expected to happen did.
Without a word, as if he had been waiting for this very moment the whole game, the Yuugi who had been duelling's puzzle started to glow as he stared at us intently.
Suddenly I was no longer the Change of heart or the Lady of Faith. I was the dueler above. I looked down to see Spirit had taken my place inside Lady of Faith.
Before I had time to gather how or why this was happening, Duelist Yuugi yelled. "Now it's my turn! Black magician Yuugi attack lady of faith!" and Yuugi attacked Spirit sending him to the grave.
It happened so quickly. One minute I was preparing to die to save my friends and the next I'm standing over the tree stump with the cards spread out over it as if we had just been playing a normal game. As if it had not just changed my life as I knew it. All because I was upset, he called me Chan.
I had gotten Spirit killed. I felt a twinge of guilt. I wanted Spirit to lose not die. I didn't want anyone to die, that had been the point!
The examination on my conscience paused when I heard Jounochi say, "Damn, what a dream, Bakura was so freaky. He scared the living daylights out of me."
I walked over to them. This was my chance! Spirit was gone and that was unfortunate but he should have died 5,000 years ago, so perhaps it was for the best. I now had my chance to live out my life. To be someone you could trust. It was time to establish myself completely as the good Bakura.
I bent down and gave them my best smile hoping it said 'Hi, I am a nice person and not an evil psychopath that likes to steal souls and put them into cards.'
Perhaps I tried too hard or they were just really shaken up from the game because they both screamed. Yuugi-kun and I laughed, as Honda and Jounochi yelled at me not scare them like that. I could get used to this. To have a mind of my own, a friend who understands what I have been through and friends to just joke around with could make life so much better. For the moment, life was good.
Then a blood curdling feminine scream of terror ripped across the forest.
A/N-Lets get a review! First fanfic…