Summary: Not everything is always as it seems; something a young, dark-haired teen had learned a long time ago… // "Jii-chan…promise me we can stay here forever?" The elder smiled from the doorway, blue-grey eyes darkening with untold emotion. "Forever…is such a long time, Yuugi. But if it's what you want…" he trailed off, "…if it's what you want…" // HPYGO crossover //
Melody of Mirage
Shadows
He lay in a limp heap upon the cold stone floor, his bare chest heaving with every breath he took. Fevered skin taking both pain and comfort from the damp as dull, violet eyes stared unseeing in the darkness. Such darkness that was all he ever knew; his forehead furrowed with pain, his throat raw from continuous screaming and his mind blank of any real thought of who he truly was…the way he had lived for so long.
He knew what the darkness called for; revenge, bloodlust, fear…. It fed the dark emotions in his body, soul; tore at his skin and weaknesses in anger—forced him to taste the bitter tang of his own blood again and again. Never letting him die even if he was drowning….
He hated it; oh how he hated it…but this was all he'd ever known. Times like this, where he lay as nothing more than a mere rag doll, healing from his last torture session, were times where he could reflect. Try to remember.
All it ever brought was pain in the end; no memories lasted of who he was. The only remaining memory, his first, was what he figured was his first time in this darkness….
Screaming, pleading, begging for it to stop…Ra make it stop, please! No more! No more! I'm sorry, what did I do wrong, how could I have, stop it, please, forgive me! I didn't do anything, it wasn't me, stop! It hurts! It hurts!
His frame shivered and he felt his arms being tugged back; his body being pulled up until he was hanging, hands above his head and body beginning to tense….
The first of the shadows then tore at his flesh and he screamed….
I'LL KILL YOU!!!
Yuugi shot up with a gasp, staring at the ceiling almost unseeingly as the horrors of the dream faded until nothing, leaving the small teen to groggily rub at his eyes and yawn.
"Yuugi! School starts in a bit, don't want to be late now do you?"
"Gahh! Crap, why didn't you wake me earlier jii-chan!" Yuugi yelled, leaping out of bed and hurriedly grabbing at his clothing.
"But I thought I did…" he heard his grandfather mumble as he walked off.
"Jii-chan!" Yuugi almost-laughed as he raced out his door and to the bathroom.
"The way you're running one would think the house was on fire," he grandfather cheerfully called from the bottom of the stairs.
"Sorry, can't hear you, I'm in the shower~!" Yuugi cheerfully called as the water started.
Chuckling the elder shook his head and muttered, "So much like his father…" before stalking into the kitchen to make up some toast.
Fifteen minutes later Yuugi was racing out the door to school, waving goodbye to his grandfather who stood in the doorway.
Hello, my name is Mutou Yuugi. I'm a short, sixteen year old geek who lives with his grandfather in the back of the Kame Game Shop which doubles as our house. I'm really nothing special; just a boy living with his grandpa. Or at least that's what I want to think…
Yuugi frowned, tapping his pencil against his lip as he tried to figure out what to write. Grinning as inspiration struck he bent back down to his paper and began to scribble hastily.
…for, not matter how hard I try, my real past always seems to crop up in the least helpful of ways. It's not like I asked—
"Yuugi! We're going to play basketball, wanna come?"
Startled Yuugi looked up from his paper at one of his classmates before shaking his head.
"Uh, gomen…demo, I think it might be better if I stay here. Whatever team I join will just lose anyway…" he muttered, giving a smile to the other teen.
"Right. See ya!" the kid replied, and raced off.
Yuugi frowned and bent back towards his paper before sighing and closing it up with the rest of his school items.
'Recess already, huh?' he thought, a small smile falling across his lips. 'Well, more time to work in it! Although why I felt the urge to take it to school with me I'll never know…'
Laughing to himself Yuugi pulled out a golden box and said to himself softly, "Within this box is something that you can see but cannot be seen…it's my special treasure…."
"Ehh? Treasure?" a familiar voice sounded as the box vanished from his vision.
"H-Hey!" Yuugi yelped, startled, and turned to glare at the taller teen. "Jounouchi-kun give that back!"
"Oh? Why should I, Yuugi?" Jounouchi smirked at the smaller teen, eyebrow raised.
"It's important to me!" Yuugi snapped, reaching for his golden box but Jounouchi pulled back, hold the box over his head.
"Aw come on, be a man! Besides what's so special about this little box anyway? Dirty magazines or somethin'?"
"N-No!" Yuugi stated, going red. "J-Just give it back, please!"
"Hit me and I might comply…" the taller teased, waving the box just out of Yuugi's reach.
"If he hit's you, you'd hit back, Jounouchi," Honda uttered, a small smirk settled on his lips. Jounouchi turned and smirked right back.
"Not if he hits hard enough."
"You hear that, Yuugi?" Honda chuckled. "Jounouchi says if you can knock him out you'd get your precious treasure back!"
"N-No! I…I DON'T LIKE HURTING PEOPLE!!!!" Yuugi screamed, balling his hands into fists.
"And it's a good thing you don't or you might be like these two, Yuugi-kun," a soft female voice interrupted as the box was snatched from Jounouchi's hand while the teen laughed with Honda.
"A-Anzu!" Yuugi cheered, grinning at the taller girl. Anzu smiled at her smaller friend and handed him back the box before turning towards Jounouchi and Honda sharply.
"You two should be ashamed!" she snapped, eyes ablaze with righteous fury. "Picking on someone smaller and not as strong as yourselves! Get out of here before I call sensei back!"
"W-We were j-just trying t-to toughen him up, Anzu, sheesh…" Jounouchi muttered. "Come on Honda, let's get out of here…"
"Tch," Honda also muttered before following Jounouchi out of the classroom.
Yuugi sighed, "Arigatou, Anzu!"
Laughing, Anzu replied, "It was no problem, Yuugi," as she sat down beside him. "So…mind telling me what I just yelled at those two for anyway?" The two grinned.
"Anzu, really, you didn't have to come…" Yuugi protested as they reached the Kame Game Shop.
"Ah but I wanted to! We haven't hung out since you were…hm…thirteen?" Anzu said, tapping her lip in thought. From beside her Yuugi rolled his eyes.
"Yeah but I can understand, really! You've been so busy…and so have I, you know! Kame Game Shop doesn't just run itself!" Instead of a reply Yuugi received one of Anzu's winning smiles as she walked up to the door.
Her shriek brought Yuugi back to attention and he raced inside, stopping when he saw it was just his grandfather. Although Anzu appeared a mixture of pale and flushed from her apparent collapsed position several feet away from the elder Mutou, almost like she had thrown herself back. His grandfather had this smile across his face and his gaze almost distant. There were a few cards from the Duel Monsters game that appeared to have been knocked over, given their rather haphazard scattering across the floor.
"Jii-chan! You didn't try and molest Anzu, did you?" Yuugi asked, after taking in the scene. Given by what he saw, and what he knew of his grandfather, Yuugi felt his claim to be justified.
"What? No!" the elder spluttered. "I greeted Anzu-chan like any normal customer, and what does she do? Screams! Although she has grown since she last came over, ne, Anzu-chan?"
"H-Hey!" Anzu yelped, back up until she clutched Yuugi's leg, gazing at the old man with a mixed look of horror and stark realization.
"Jii-chan!" Yuugi groaned, trying to ignore what he had long ago dubbed his grandfather's 'rape face,' a term he had garnered from various anime fans.
"Yuugi-kun just told me his puzzle was a memento of his jii-chan at school!" Anzu attempted to defend.
"Eeehhhh???" the elder stated, turning pouting purple eyes on his grandchild. "Yuugi! Are you trying to kill me already!?"
"Jii-chan…" Yuugi almost moaned. This was turning out worst than when Anzu first met the old man!
"What have I told you, young man? Don't ever tell anyone your devious—"
"—plans or they'll blow up in your face," Yuugi intoned, pouting. "But I'm not trying to kill you! I meant it would someday be a memento…I just kinda forgot the someday part…"
"You are trying to kill me!!" the old man pointed towards the teen in shock, giant crocodile tears falling from his eyes as the man sniffed.
"Ano…Yuugi-kun…" Anzu muttered.
"I knew this day would come; oh my darling son why?! WHY!?"
Yuugi groaned and tried to hide his face.
"And you wonder why I never bring anyone over," the short teen muttered just as Anzu finally decided to stand up.
She exclaimed, "Gomen nasai, Mutou-san! This is a giant misunderstanding on my part! Still, Yuugi-kun was showing me his puzzle at school and I asked…I should've realized you hadn't died! After all where would Yuugi-kun be then?"
"I see," Yuugi's grandfather murmured, the tears stopped, before the old man froze and turned sharply towards his grandson and yelled, "YOU TOOK THE PUZZLE TO SCHOOL!?"
"Ack! Jii-chan I just—gomen!"
"Good for you!"
"Na-Nani…?"
"Heh, heh. I was wondering when you'd tell your friends," the old man cheerfully replied. "But…do they know of the curse? Of what the Hieroglyph's read…?"
"Hieroglyph's…? Curse??" Anzu murmured, her hair standing up. Yuugi just rolled his eyes, grabbed the newspaper off of the counter, and whacked his grandfather up the head with it.
"Jii-chan quite scaring Anzu! Anzu, please ignore jii-chan. He's just trying to be scary."
"Yuugi…"
"Why don't you come on back," Yuugi continued, ignoring his grandfather. "I'll make you some tea!"
Rather hesitantly Anzu nodded and darted past the old man and Yuugi into the back room where the house started. Yuugi turned back to his grandfather and said, "Next time don't attack my friend's, jii-chan. Now I'm gonna go study with Anzu, kay?"
"Oooh? Study?" his grandfather stated slyly.
"Not like that jii-chan!" Yuugi cried, turning bright red. He too dashed past his grandfather, mortified that he even started that suggestion in the first place. Granted if Yuugi was honest with himself….
'I stepped right into that one….'
The next day, after a rather mortifying night of my jii-chan teasing me and leering at my best friend Anzu, I found myself wandering to school like normal, trying not to think of the news my jii-chan told me a few hours before. Apparently things weren't doing so well concerning some of our friends who had moved to Egypt two years ago…
"Yuugi-kun! It's lunch break!" Anzu stated, setting her lunch down beside Yuugi's papers. "Oh? What's this?" She reached out for the page Yuugi was writing on but the smaller teen was much quicker and ended up having it stuffed away before Anzu could even fully make out the title.
"Gomen, Anzu," Yuugi laughed, "but I kinda don't want anyone to read that. You might get accused of cheating!"
"Mou…I suppose so," Anzu sighed, sitting down. "Eh? Where's your lunch, Yuugi-kun?" she asked a second later, causing Yuugi to pause mid-packing.
"I left it in my locker," he replied as he finished his packing, standing and pulling his bag onto his shoulder. "I was just going to go get it. See you later, Anzu!" Yuugi waved as he raced out of the room.
"D-Demo, Yuugi-kun!" Anzu called, but the shorter teen was already gone. She shook her head and sighed with a small smile.
In the hallway Yuugi found himself cornered by Ushio, much to his chagrin. He'd barely managed to avoid the upperclassman yesterday, barring that weird cryptic half-conversation that was mostly on Ushio's part by the lockers. Either way Yuugi couldn't go against his upperclassman when Ushio said he wanted to show him something. So now Yuugi was stuck following the taller, older teen to behind the gym.
"U-Ushio-san…" Yuugi chuckled nervously. "A-Ano…"
"Where almost there, Yuugi-kun," Ushio cheerfully replied.
"O-Okay…" Yuugi muttered, his mind slightly drifting in his worry.
…and yet, little did I know, things were about to turn much worse at home too.
Yuugi arrived home bruised and battered. He'd skipped the rest of the school day after Ushio beat him senseless, leaving his damaged body on the ground unconscious besides the unconscious Jounouchi and Honda. When Yuugi had woken up, an hour or so later, the other two were apparently long gone and Yuugi forced himself to limp home. He entered through the back door for once, not wanting his grandfather to see him this way.
Making his way up the stairs to the bathroom, Yuugi tiredly dressed his wounds before turning and collapsing onto his bed, his bag lying next to the door of his room. He pulled his puzzle box out and methodically began to piece it together again. It was a coping mechanism, one he'd had ever since he was gifted with the gold box filled with golden puzzle pieces. He'd always seemed to do better when upset.
Still, the rhythmic chink, chink, click, click-ing of putting the puzzle together relaxed his battered body, and his tormented thoughts. Soon he was lost entirely in the motions….
"Yuugi," a soft voice called, shaking him back to awareness. Yuugi blinked up at the elder before him.
"Jii-chan?" he muttered sleepily.
"Working so hard again, my boy?" the elder murmured, touching his shoulder gently.
"It keeps crying out…" Yuugi whispered, touching the gold puzzle pieces. "But I can't seem to figure out how to put it together!"
"Its okay, my boy," the elder sighed, gently scooping up the puzzle pieces and placing them back into the box. "Why don't you continue in the morning?"
"Mmkay…" Yuugi muttered, slipping down onto the bed. "It's not…evil, is it, jii-chan?" he asked, voice fading slightly.
"Don't be silly," the elder laughed. "Would I let you near an evil thing?"
"No…"
"That's right…now go to sleep, Yuugi." The elder tucked him in gently and then stood, moving towards the doorway. Yuugi's voice stopped him, however.
"Jii-chan…promise me we can stay here forever?"
The elder smiled from the doorway, blue-grey eyes darkening with untold emotion. "Forever…is such a long time, Yuugi. But if it's what you want…" he trailed off, "…if it's what you want…."
"I…like it here," Yuugi whispered and the elder nodded.
"So do I. Now go to sleep."
"Mmkay…"
"Jii-chan…" Yuugi whispered, stopping to stare down at the puzzle in sadness. He paused when he noted that only one piece remained left. "Yatta! It's almost done! Now for the last…oh, where's the last piece?! Noo!" Yuugi dropped to the floor, scrambling around for the last piece of the puzzle that had vanished. "No, no, no! I need that…I need to finish! The wish and…it hurts…no!"
"Yuugi."
Yuugi jerked up to see his grandfather in the doorway, a piece of the puzzle in his hand.
"Jii-chan! Airgatou!" Yuugi cried, flying tackling the elder man.
"Heh, heh. Thank one of your friends, Yuugi," his grandfather replied with a smile. "They came here and gave this to me, looked soaking wet too like they just got out of the shower or a swim in the lake!"
"Well…thanks, a lot," Yuugi stated, taking the puzzle piece and darting back to his bed.
"Mm, you're welcome, Yuugi. I'll be heading to bed now…" his grandfather trailed off and Yuugi looked up. "I love you, Yuugi."
"And I love you, jii-chan," Yuugi stated, smiled, and turned back towards the puzzle. He caught his grandfather slipping something in his bag before the puzzle caught his entire attention. "And," he whispered, "with the last piece…it'll hurt no more…."
He slid the piece in place…and the room fell into darkness.
He screamed and screamed, back arching and arms taunt. Muscles tightening as blood splattered the ground and his body grew warmer and warmer from the exertion until—
The pain vanished; the shadows dropped him to the ground with angry yells and screams of rage. His wounds healed quickly and he stood, feeling his body taunt. His senses overloaded—someone was here, in his domain—his torture! They would pay, they would pay, they would pay!
Violet eyes flared and, bare-chested, he stalked forward with a sneer.
"D-Doko ni…" Yuugi whispered, eyes darting around the darkness. His skin crawled, hairs standing on edge. He was effectively blinded and his other senses weren't working right or didn't appear to as his hearing was all out of whack.
Then he felt something—something wrap around his waist and he felt his back pulled flush against something—no someone—and the grip around him tightened. Hot breath and then lips fell against his neck and Yuugi felt himself stiffen, eyes going wide. The person leisurely nipped and bit along the teen's collarbone and his neck, up to his ear where that mouth sucked on the lobe. One of the hands around his waist began to shift lower, the other raising higher and higher until it slid along his neck to grip his chin tightly.
The person forced his head backwards and hot lips, angry and harsh claimed his quickly, demandingly. Yuugi felt himself weak in the knees but suddenly he flared to life and struggled, trying to pull away as the shock now wore off.
"Mmm!" he cried into the other's demanding kiss, his struggles forcing the other's hand, the lower one, to move and grasp his wrists tightly, trying to stop the struggle. The being behind him shifted and next thing Yuugi knew he was being pushed against a wall, the other in front of him, bare chest against clothed, one knee against his crotch forcing his legs apart. The demanding kiss still bruising his lips only now the person was trying to coax Yuugi to open his mouth. Yuugi's wrists were being held by both hands now, tightly against the wall. His body was now entirely unable to move besides the barest of struggles.
Suddenly the other moved back, releasing the Yuugi's lips and instead attacked with vigor at the teen's neck once more, rubbing his knee almost seductively against the teen's crotch causing Yuugi to cry out, eyes going wide in shock.
"Ya-Yamero!" he cried, voice weak. The other just smirked into Yuugi's neck and bit sharply; Yuugi squeaked and bucked, yelling out once more now in a stronger voice, "YAMERO!"
This time the other did stop, frowning, and pulled back to stare Yuugi straight in the eyes. Yuugi felt his breath hitch as he saw brilliant violet orbs, tanned, bare skin, and a lot of golden trinkets before his eyes drooped.
The being before him gripped him more gently and whispered into his ear softly, voice slightly hoarse, "Nemuri…"
Yuugi knew no more.
Inside his room, Yuugi's eyes snapped open revealing bright, red orbs glaring harshly at the wall, thoughts of Ushio and the envelope his grandfather slipped into his bag filling his head. A dark smile fell across his lips.
He had a greedy fool to punish.
Japanese translations:
Jii-chan - grandpa
Gomen/Gomen nasai - sorry
Demo - but
Arigatou - thank you
Ano - um
Nani - what
Doko ni - where
Yamero - stop it
Nemuri – sleep
Author's Corner!
Yo Fanfiction peeps! TK here presenting yet another story…. Sadly this baby's been in thought for a LOOONG while. A very long while. As in inspired by my good friend Abyss of Essence back when he was still Shinigami's Shadow here on FFN long while. I finally got around to writing it so yay! Anyway a few things of note…
First: Warnings. Yaoi, Shonen-Ai, Some Dark Themes
Second: Pairings. Puzzleshipping (Yami no Yuugi x Yuugi) Tendershipping (Yami no Bakura x Ryou) Noteshipping (Katsuya x Hiroto x Anzu) Obscureshipping (Shaadi x Isis/Ishizu) BillxCharlie (HPverse characters) MalikxHermione
Now…this fic will be slightly darker in some aspects than the Yu Gi Oh you've all probably watched or are watching. It'll mirror more the manga, which was much darker, than the anime, although the anime has been taken into account for a lot of things. I hope however that this was obvious (the fic being a bit darker) considering Yuugi was getting pretty damn well molested against his will in here.
Also, every duel concerning duel monsters will be completely original. Yes the characters decks will remain mostly the same (specifically Yugi and other main characters) however the duels will start, and most likely end, differently. The strategies will be different. Why? Because I'm recreating the duels with a randomizer (to generate the order of cards in a deck) and playing against myself.
Plus some rules might change slightly (such as Duelist Kingdom's area boosts) and others modified to fit the TGC many of us in life play…depending on situations like if a character's deck (when I attempt to research it) is lacking a set number of cards. In those cases I most likely will bring in random cards I've collected (which believe me, I have more than enough to probably make 15 different decks)
However that's all just concerning decks and the duel monsters. There's more to note so let's move on…
Now about discrepancies you might notice in the chapter…such as Sugoroku Mutou (Jii-chan) having different eye colors in one scene versus another. There's a reason for that. The same with Yuugi's eyes appearing bright red at the end of the chapter, and our mysterious (to few if not all) guy in the shadows having violet eyes. (fans might recognize this mystery guy with violet eyes, and some might recognize a red-eyed Yuugi, but I will say its probably not entirely what you think)
The eye color changes would be better explained, I feel, if this story wasn't started about in reality 1/4 way through. However I have my reasons for stating this fic 1/4 way into its storyline, the lacking of back-story is actually important. I have a reason for it (and no, it does not mean I don't have a back-story for this, I do, really—I even started writing it up, however I wrote this story in this way for a reason)
Further I feel I should state that a lot of the side stuff that goes on in the manga and anime (such as duels between side characters or supporting characters) will be largely ignored unless our main character is present…
Next you may note the lack of description in this chapter. There also is a reason for that—I'm working through writers block. To be honest the only real piece of this chapter I had conscious thought entirely about was the Yuugi-getting-molested scene…yeah -_-;;
Finally, many names of the cards, characters, and a bunch of other things will be following either Japanese pronunciation/spelling, or direct translation (and not a re-naming such as the Elf Swordsman getting renamed in the English Dub and TGC as Celtic Guardian) This means that characters that many may know as:
Yugi Moto
Joey Wheeler
Tristan Taylor
Téa (or however that accent on the e is and whatever her last name in the English Dub is)
Solomon Moto
Dark Magician
Dark Magician Girl
Beast Warrior
Celtic Guardian
.
Will instead be known as:
Mutou Yuugi
Jounouchi Katsuya (Katsuya is Jounouchi's first name)
Honda Hiroto (Hiroto is Honda's first name)
Mazaki Anzu
Mutou Sugoroku
Black Magician
Black Magician Girl
Ruizu (pronunciation wise; translation wise this would instead be Louise, however I'm going pronunciation here)
Elf Swordsman
.
I do believe that is all I have on this matter to say. Thank you for your support, please review!
--TK