Author's Note: These are accounts written by CagedInGold on Tumblr. He is an alternate timeline version of the YGO Bakura you all know and love. He has the same past up to mid-Season 0. The Thief has been locked inside the Ring without controlling anyone's body until he takes over Ryoh Bakura and becomes what we know as Yami Bakura.


At the behest of their spirits.

Benerib.

She died at the age of sixty-seven, a ripe old age for anyone, but especially for a Thief. She didn't get it by laziness. She was quick and clever, and her body didn't succumb to frailty or age until it was melted into the gold.

She could be cruel, yes. As young children, My playmates and I would clamor into the bushes growing around her small house, sneaking fruits and sometimes blossoms out, thinking ourselves so quiet and clever. H-heh. Old Benerib was never afraid to strip down some tree bark with her bare hands and lash us with it when she caught us. We children thought she was a demon and hated her for the red marks left on our hands and backs, but the adults told us to thank her for training us to not get caught.

We thought that was bullshit, but I admit, it worked to a degree.

And the twinkle in her eyes when she spied us, the way she would make us think we were in the clear until suddenly the old hag spun around and cornered us—thinking back on it, she must have enjoyed the "raids" as much as we did when we managed to get something out of them.

Mm. Still, she had begun to stoop a bit, and her dark skin—darker than most of ours; she said it was because she had Nubian blood—had gotten wrinkled enough for us to jeer at her and call her "spider" and "Neith." In Kul Elna, you see, the gods were for the most part reviled as tools of the pharaoh, so to call her by the name of the spider goddess was an insult.

When I was around five years of age, I was left with Benerib when the rest of My family was out. I don't recall what exactly I did in her home, but I know both she and My parents punished Me for it quite severely. I might still have a mark from that on My body somewhere.

H-heh. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was worth it.

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