This is a Yu-Gi-Oh fanfic. You can tell that from the genre it's under.

But, this fanfic isn't about Yugi or his friends from the present time, it's set in ancient Egypt when the Shadow Games were now, yet not as fierce as they would become. Let me introduce the main characters…

Yami: The eldest son of the pharaoh. Let me rephrase that; he's the only son of the pharaoh, later to be the spirit inside the Millennium Puzzle. Also the leader of the group of kids, because, when you're a prince, you can get away with practically everything…

Bakura: Bakura is the son of an Egyptian guard and a Hebrew slave. When he was six, he was brought to the palace to be Yami's personal slave. Well four months later, the two boys could be found playing pranks on the guards and causing chaos among the people. Needless to say, the two were best friends. In the TV show, Bakura was a tomb robber and was sealed in the Millennium Ring.

Seto: In the present, he's a genius. In the past, he was the next high mage in training. It's not clear yet whether it was his spirit in the Millennium Rod or not, but in this fanfic, he will. He is also good friends with Yami and Bakura.

Selena: Yami's little half sister. She's a character I made up by myself because I felt there needed to be a girl in this fanfic. She has a huge crush on the white-haired wonder that is Bakura. She is five years old, but is way ahead of her years in wisdom… sometimes.

Now, since this is during the time of the Shadow Games, the monsters are alive. Children are granted a monster to be their guardian at birth. Let me give a run down of the main monsters in this fic.

Dark Magician: Yami's monster. This purple-haired wizard is the victim of more then a few pranks…

Change of Heart: Bakura's monster. On the card, the Change of Heart is half angel and half demon, so in this fic she has a very major personality disorder. But, most of the time she's a motherly figure for the boys.

Dark Magician Girl: As you can see, a female Dark Magician. Selena's monster. Has the biggest crush on the Dark Magician and won't let the other female monsters have a chance at him…

Lastly…ummm, forgive me, but typing this fic, I've realized that I've given Bakura his hikari's personality! Ahhhh! But, then again, he could have been like that in the past…

With that intro, I think I'm ready to start the fic!

The Adventures of Yami and Bakura

B.C. 3000

"Hurry up, Yami! We're going to get caught if you don't speed up already!" Bakura yelled in a whisper to his best friend.

"I'm cumin', I'm cumin,'" the prince of Egypt yelled back in the same manner. Yami quickly caught up with Bakura and the two ran for the palace as fast as their nine-year-old legs could carry them. The two ducked into the symmetric alleyways of Cairo under the cover of night quite easily. As one would expect from Ancient Egypt's very own veteran pranksters.

When they felt it was safe, the two took a breather in an alleyway next to a bakery. It was a bit after midnight and the large ovens were still cooling off as the boys could both feel the heat from the previous day's baking. The boys sat down next to each other, both very tired and sleepy.

"Hey Bakura," said Yami deviously.

"What?" the boy in question asked.

"Who do you think will be angrier? Farmer Ramous for his precious chicken eggs being stolen or…"

"…High Priest Heishin, for his house being egged!" Bakura finished. The two boys laughed at the immolation they had done to their 'arch enemy'. Heishin really didn't like either of the boys at all.

"Yeah, I never really liked Heishin. He's always-saying stuff like 'The prince of Egypt should be more of a gentleman or a scholar'. It drives me nuts."

"I don't like him either. He likes to pretend I'm not there," said Bakura stating his own troubles to Yami.

"You're a kid and a slave. You've got two strikes against you right there, Bakura."

"True, true," said Bakura standing up, "We'd better head back now, if Dark Magician and Change of Heart find out we're gone, we're in for some major retribution from your dad, Yami." With that closing remark the two sleepy boys ran tiredly back to the palace.

Upon arriving at the palace the two started to climb up the vines that lead to Yami's bedchambers. "Hey! That's not the vine! That's my leg!" (Sound familiar?) Well, as quietly as two nine year olds can get anyway.

"Sorry, Bakura." Then on a second thought Yami added sarcastically, "I feel such great contrition."

"Haha, very funny. Stop using big words, they intimidate me." Yami stopped climbing for a second and raised an eyebrow at the enlightenment of this new 'fear' of Bakura's, but didn't press the subject.

Bakura was the first to get his body onto the balcony, and then helped his friend up over the railings. Both then took off their sandals and ran quietly toward Yami's bedchambers. But as soon as they entered through the curtains, they found a sight, which made them cower in fear.

A younger girl, smaller then the two boys, was perched on Yami's bed glaring at the boys like nothing else. She stood up and addressed them.

Then almost screamed, "YAMI! I can't believe you and Bakura left me behind again! Do you enjoy seeing me sulk in eternal boredom?!" Yami sighed.

"You're too young, Selena, that's why. You'd just be a hindrance to us. Besides, father would kill me if I managed to get you hurt somehow," Yami said cool and collectively.

"Just leave the pranking up to the older kids, Selena," said Bakura, putting his two cents in.

"But Yami! You're my role model! I wanna help you big brother," Selena proclaimed obstinately, hugging onto the eldest child. Ever since the death of Selena's mother she had clung to her older half brother for everything. As for Bakura… well…

"Bakura, will you take Selena to her chambers? I think it's time to end this conversation. Selena has clarified what she wants, now it's time for all of us to go to bed."

At the mentioning of having to bring Selena to her room Bakura's eye twitched. Then his whole body shivered then he replied to his so -called 'master' with a firm "No".

Yami's eyes narrowed dangerously to a level that would make anyone who didn't know Yami personally feel impotent. Even though Bakura was his best friend, Yami was still the next in line to be pharaoh. Taking 'no' for an answer was not acceptable. "Do not test my patience, Bakura. I don't ask you to do much…" Bakura waved Yami off (a shocking feat) , and then whispered to him in a voice Selena could not hear.

"Yami, you know I'd gladly do what you ask me to, but the last time I had to bring Selena to her room at night she tried to…" Bakura looked around as to make sure no one was listening.

"What is it, Bakura?"

Bakura started to sweat. "… She tried to…chain me to her bed. And you know why. You're her brother, you of all people should know how her kinky mind works."

Kerblinkies.

Yami's eyes widened. "Bakura, Selena is five years old."

Bakura nodded. "I know." Both boys looked at Selena who chose that moment to wink and blow a kiss at her white-haired wonder. Bakura shivered again.

Suddenly the door opened and an angel walked through the door… or was it a demon? Who knows? It's hard to tell what kind of mood the Change of Heart was in. The children all recoiled in fear and crossed their fingers that Change of Heart was in a very good mood.

"Goodness, children. You should all be sleeping right now. It's well past midnight," she greeted them in a strangely British sounding accent. The kids sighed in relief. She was in a good mood. "Now hurry into your beds and shut those eyes," she said as Selena ran out the door half grumbling about not getting her love interest to escort her, while the said love interest was sighing in great relief once more.

"Tomorrow is a brand new day," Change of Heart said again, tucking in first Yami, then Bakura in their respective beds. "Sleep now and you will have the right of mind to enjoy it." She then gave them both a kiss on the forehead and then disappeared out the door. Since neither boy had a mother, Change of Heart was certainly close enough to be one, more especially for Bakura.

As soon as she exited the room, Yami's eyes shot open and one the other side of the room, Bakura leapt out of bed and ran over to Yami's side of the room.

"So what's the plan for tomorrow, oh my mighty master?" Bakura asked sarcastically. Yami smiled evilly.

"Listen closely, my faithful servant, and you will learn." Yami said just as sarcastically. The boys laughed maniacally into the night plotting and planning…

The Next Morning…

Bakura woke up to a loud slam of the door. He rubbed his eyes and looked about. His eyes found Yami panting heavily with his back to the door. Bakura raised an eyebrow. "I see you already went through with your prank on the Dark Magician today," Bakura commented. Yami nodded, still breathing heavily. Outside the Dark Magician could be heard yelling bloody murder. Yami walked over to Bakura's bed on the floor and sat down next to him.

"Even if Dark found out, I still got some juicy information. Heishin is coming over and he's bringing Seto with!"

"Do you think Heishin knows it was us?"

"Yeah, he's probably coming to tell my father about it."

"We are so dead."

"My thoughts exactly."

When Heishin arrived, Yami and Bakura were ordered to come and attend the meeting. Both of them endeavored to not look guilty, but it wasn't working. Seto did indeed come, which made both boys very happy. Heishin made it a habit to make sure Seto didn't hang around with the two troublemakers, much to Seto's dismay. Not that he ever showed it. He was impassive most of the time, never showing his true feelings to anyone. Yami and Bakura were trying to get the boy out of that habit, but Heishin had way too much control over Seto as his mentor.

Bakura stood off to the left of the pharaoh, next to Change of Heart, in case he was needed to run any messages. Yami stood to his father's right with the Dark Magician towering over him. Before the meeting, the Dark Magician had to explain to the Pharaoh exactly why his hair was pink. Not that Pharaoh knew already, though. Because of this Dark Magician would glare at Yami, who merely chuckled nervously.

Selena stood next to her brother with the Dark Magician Girl. (DM Girl for short.) The rest of the pharaoh's court looked on nervously as it was obvious to anyone that DM Girl was hitting on the Dark Magician. "Come on, Darkie. Let's ditch the kids after the meeting and go on a romantic love cruise down the Nile." Now, 'Darkie' had been having a very bad day today and was not in the mood for DM Girl's antics. He just didn't say anything. Only growled in annoyance, which was a big improvement for him.

It wasn't long before Heishin entered with Seto. He looked extremely angry. "Your Highness, your successor and his slave egged my villa last night. I feel that they should not have impunity for their actions!"

Pharaoh glanced over at his son, who was whistling innocently. Then he looked at his daughter who was growling. Thanks to the pharaoh's connoisseurship of his children, he concluded that Yami and Bakura had indeed egged his high priest's villa last night and Selena was angry she was left out of the event. Looking at Bakura's nervous sweating confirmed it. It was always hard for the poor boy to hide his feelings. Pharaoh sighed and addressed Heishin

"Thank you Heishin. I will deal with the boys as I see fit. I apologize that I could not have precluded this." Heishin nodded and turned to leave, satisfied.

Before he left he managed to speak to Yami making sure only the boy could hear. "It certainly is fun to impose upon your father, young prince. Watch your back child, soon the throne of Egypt will be mine and I'll have you and your little friends right where I want you."

Yami honed his glare in on Heishin. "Not if I can help it. As long as I'm around, you'll never get away with it."

"We shall see, prince. We shall see who wins this game."

"I will win Heishin. You forget easily that my birth name is Yu-Gi-Oh." Heishin chuckled.

"We shall see King of Games." With that Heishin left.

'Soon, Yu-Gi-Oh,' Heishin thought, 'I will have my retribution on you for all the misery and trouble you've caused me. It would be my greatest delight to see you locked away in the Shadow Realm… forever.'

Meanwhile, Seto had wondered off over to Bakura and handed his peer a piece of papyrus with writing on it. "Is this a note for Yami?" Seto nodded, then left. Bakura sighed. Seto was a boy of very few words. One of these days he and Yami would have to get him out of that nuthouse Heishin called a temple.

As Bakura mused he heard the pharaoh order everyone out of the room… minus Yami, Bakura and Selena. He gulped, and then prepared himself to receive his punishment with much consternation.

Pharaoh glanced the three children in front of him. Two of them his flesh and blood and the other one nearly as close to his heart as his children.

Yami was the first to speak up. "Father, I'm really sorry about last night…" His father hastily cut him off.

"Speak no more of it my son. You, your sister and Bakura will only be children once. Be one while you can."

Bakura's eyes widened. "You're not going to punish us?"

"No," said Pharaoh, " but I will warn you to keep your pranks to a minimum. One of these days Heishin is going to find a way to punish you two." Yami and Bakura smiled them gave each other a high five.

"Why'd you ask me to stay, daddy?"

"Selena, I know you well. As soon as your brother lets you I know you're going to be helping them. Also, I have some disturbing new for you…"

"What is it, daddy?"

"You remember the king of Babylon?"

"The jerk?" implied Yami, getting a snicker from the other kids.

"… He came to me earlier with a peace proposition…"

"And?"

"To seal it, you and his son shall be joined in wedlock once you are of age."

Selena's eyes widened in horror. "I AM NOT GOING TO MARRY THE SON OF THAT JERK! I DON'T CARE IF THEY'D START A WAR WITH US! I'D RATHER BE A BACHLARETTE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!"

The present company all had their ears plugged. When Selena went on a temper tantrum, she went on a temper tantrum. As Selena continued to yell and scream and throw a fit, Yami and Bakura dragged her out of the palace, which calmed her down a bit, because she was in Bakura's arms.

Pharaoh sighed. Today was going to be a very long day.

To be continued…

From the desk of Unrealistic…

Well, you have to admit, this is certainly a very different fic from the fics I've written before. This was … inspired by a fic Yami-chan is writing about Bakura's past. We both came up with the idea that Yami and Bakura could have been best friends in the past.

Because Yami-chan is the proud owner of a copy of 'Forbidden Memories' we added Seto as the high priest in training. Yami's half sister, Selena, was my own creation. I thought it would be cute. Especially if I brought her into the future, which gives me an idea where I can go with this…

Until Next Time,

Unrealistic :-)

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