This first chapter will make very little sense till later into it. IT WAS MEANT TO BE THAT WAY. Please forgive me for making it hard to read, but understand that this is only to serve as a hint to the rest of the fic.
Key: All the centered text is song lyrics that I made up on the spot. The italic words are one set of lyrics and then the plain text set is the next set of lyrics (versus is another word for this, but I can't spell it) The bold text is in the se of lyrics, but is whispered/sorta faded.
Disclaimer: Despite current attempts to become president, take over the world, make all men slaves, and own all Anime and Manga I still don't own Yugioh. I also don't own any lyrics that seem awfully familiar.
Her face was as pale as the snow. She was lovely. Her body was thin and frail, but luring. Her hips shook with a practiced look. As if she shook her hips all the time, as if she was use to moving them in that way. You couldn't tell she was supposed to be pure the way she danced. I knew something wasn't right. How could an angel dance like a devil? How could the savior of hikari be so dark acting and look so light? She danced to the hip-hop and sang. Her voice rising to the heavens to tell them she wasn't coming.
"I'll never go to heaven
I'll never die like you
I'll save the world again
Then run from hell
While all comes crashing down"
I was shocked at her words. Something about them sounded true. Too true. I felt something shove me.
"Don't just stand there, Ryou. We need to find her. She's the only one who can help us," Yugi's voice was urgent. He couldn't stand how he felt right now. Hell, I couldn't either. Light needed dark. Dark needed light. To be balanced in light and dark was to be whole. If you missed one you were half. To be half was to allow fate to tear you apart. Yugi was falling apart faster then Malik or I due to this. He couldn't cope with it. I could cope with hell till it froze over, because to me life was hell. Always had been always will be, but to Yugi? He was as angelic as the real thing, as angelic as the savior that danced like a slut. At least, the savior was supposed to be an angel.
"Malik, what does she look like?"
"Will you believe me?"
"Of course I will. You told us this girl could help us. You said you had read something about the savior of the souls in one of your scriptures. And you said you saw it in Marik's mind once and that we would find her here. Why won't I trust you?" Malik flinched at the name of his yami. Yugi was so stupid to believe Malik. He wasn't one to trust. His yami had polluted him, just as mine had done to me. Yami had been too trusting too. He had handed Yugi that trait. He had helped make the baka even more of one.
"There."
"Where?"
"Over there," he pointed, "dancing like a slut." I could've sworn Yugi's jaw really hit the floor. I could feel disbelief radiate off him as hard as it could. It knocked into me and pounded hard. I had never seen Yugi in such a state. He stopped breathing and his voice squeaked as he tried to talk.
"That, that whore is the savior of souls." It was my turn for my jaw to drop. Yugi had said that? I was torn between laughing and going into shock. I smiled for the first time in awhile as laughter won out. It felt so damn good too. To laugh, I had forgotten how it could heal even the worst wounds, even if they would close for just a second.
"Ryou, hell really has frozen over hasn't it?" Malik asked me as he held his sides and broke into a fit of laughter. I collapsed into a chair as I laughed with him.
"Yup!"
"You think anyone will believe us if we told them what Yugi just said?"
"I think we would be taken away in straight jackets for even thinking such a thing." My sides were hurting from the laughter now. I calmed down enough to hear Malik say something that left me laughing all over again.
"Been there, done that, not so fun."
Yugi was standing there in front of us with an angry look, but Malik's words left him laughing too. Why couldn't life be like this all the time? Why couldn't Bakura just leave me alone and quit hurting me? I stopped laughing and starred at the ground. Why couldn't he? Why couldn't I just be allowed to live my life in peace? Was it asking too much? Was it selfish? I knew it wasn't, but did someone think it was. Did someone decide I wanted too much? They must've or I wouldn't have been in this predicament in the first place. I sighed and looked up to see Malik and Yugi looking at me worried.
"What?" Attitude dripped from voice. I was pissed off now. I was depressed again and it was all because my life had came to this. I didn't want them to know what I had gone though. I didn't want them to see how much pain I was in. I didn't want them to pity me. No, Bakura had given me that.
"Pity is for weaklings Ryou, don't you ever forget that." He hit me then, just to make sure I knew what he meant. Then he cursed and left the room. I lay there and cried myself to sleep. Bruises pulsing deep pain though my body. I slept very little that night, not that I ever got much sleep.
I shuddered at the flashback and Yugi gave me a concerned look.
"You sure you're fine Ryou?"
"Yeah, your paler then usual."
"I'm just fine. I'm just tried."
"You sure?" Malik had that odd look of concern that didn't fit him, too now. So I looked away and starred at the stage where the angel was.
"Can't you tell
I'm hurtin' inside
I'm not who I used to be
Lost in a memory
Wanna go back again
Even if it means to feel pain again
Cuz this new pain isn't better
Tearin me apart
Won't you save me
Won't you?"
Her singing drove me in deeper. It drove me to the edge and I stood up. I wasn't gonna stand for it. Bakura. I wasn't me without him. He was me and I him. I had to get him back. I couldn't go on pretending.
"Let's go."
"Huh?"
"You heard me let's get our yami's back, before we fall apart. I don't wanna pretend to have to get along okay." They looked at me weird again, but followed as we headed towards the angel.
"Life's gonna fall apart again
Everything will go upside down
And go to the fire flames
I won't leave you though
You just won't know how
To tell where I went
When you needed me
And I may hate the new you
I'll blame myself
I'll cry for you
But you'll be happy
And somehow someway
You'll go back
To the you I knew
To the you I need
So don't cry just yet
I won't leave you though
You just won't know how
To tell where I went
When you needed me
Light will find me
Darkness will find you
The balance will break up
I don't know if it will come back
But I promise to love you
I won't leave you though
You just won't know how
To tell where I went
When you needed me
Don't cry just yet
Don't give up just yet
I'm coming
Gonna save you
I'm coming
Don't cry
I'm coming
Don't cry"