Echoes

A whole new fic!

A YGO fic none the less.

Well...a brief summary shall we?

Summary: After the death of Yugi's grandfather, Yugi is sent to live with his mother and Yami is shipped off to a foster home. But things are not as they seem, for the supposed "sister" of the family is not as she seems...

Well...we own nothing except Saemoden, the puppet witch, and...that's it...everything else probably belongs to Kazuki Takahashi. "Suzaku" and "Seiryu" are blatantly stolen from Fushigi Yugi.

I probably should start.

Let the ph34r begin...

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Echoes

Unfamiliar Ceiling

How could this happen to me?

I've made my mistakes

Got nowhere to run

The night goes on

As I'm fading away

I'm sick of this life

I just want to scream

How could this happen to me?

Yami stared at the empty room that was now his. There was a lone one-mattress bed pushed off to he left, and a dresser and mirror against the adjacent wall. There was one large window next to the dresser with thin white curtains blowing. The lamp hung idly from the ceiling, giving a light that let a glow settle on the room. Yami sighed and walked in, closing the door behind him.

He set his bags on the bed and began to unpack, thinking about what had happened earlier that week.

Yugi and Yami stared at their bleak bedroom, they were being separated. Yugi's grandfather had died of a heart attack, and Keiko Muto had gotten custody of Yugi, but Yami was being shipped off somewhere else. Yami glanced down at Yugi, at the tears welling up in his eyes.

"Yugi? Are you crying?" Yami asked, as if Yugi's tears were completely new to him.

"I don't want to go Yami. I don't want to be separated from you." Yugi said, a solitary tear slipping out from the corner of his eye. Yami smiled.

"But we'll never really be separated. I'm part of you, remember? We're one and not the same. Our minds are still linked together, and if you need me, the door to my soul room is unlocked for you. We can see each other any time." Yami said.

"But...it's not the same..." Yugi's voice trailed off as they both heard Keiko Muto's voice calling. They hugged each other quickly.

"Yugi, I want you to promise me that we'll never forget each other." Yami said. Yugi smiled at him.

"Never!" Yugi said and the two of them hurried downstairs.

But once Yugi hopped into the passenger seat of the van, it hit him that they may never see each other...even in their dreams. As Keiko was driving off, Yugi stuck the upper half of his body out the window and turned back to Yami.

"Yami!! I'll miss you! You were the best friend I ever had!" Yugi shouted.

Yami felt his ears tearing up, he wanted to run after Yugi, to tell him all the things he forgot to say, to tell him what he really thought...but before he could, he was shuffled into a black van and driving in the opposite direction.

The entire ride, Yami was crying.

Yami tried to shake the thought from his head and resumed what he was doing. He put his clothes in the dresser drawers and began to unpack the more useless stuff. He placed a framed photograph of himself and Yugi on the dresser, facing the bed. It was a time when nothing had mattered, when their smiles were genuine.

Yami felt his eyes cloud over with tears. He quickly tried to wipe them away and continued. Yugi had given him their dueling deck, and Yami decided to figure out if he could still summon monsters. He pulled the Black Magician from its spot and summoned it.

It worked...but it was only twelve inches tall. It looked around at the strange surroundings and then back at Yami as he pushed his bags off the bed. The Black Magician nodded and returned to his card form. Yami sighed and, with his deck in hand, flopped onto the bed, feeling ready to cry.

"Mreow?"

Yami glanced over at the doorway where, pushing its way through the crack in the door was a white, short-haired cat with big black patches. It looked at him with green eyes and walked over, hopping onto the bed and staring at him. Yami reached his hand over and it nuzzled against it. Yami caught sight of the name on its collar, "Saemoden". Yami smiled weakly and turned his attention to the floor.

He closed his eyes and retreated to his soul room. He popped the door open and walked into the hallway. He tapped gently on Yugi's door. Hearing no answer, he cautiously opened the door to find Yugi not there. Yami spied a pad of paper and a marker. He snatched them and wrote Yugi a note saying:

"I'm here, I'm sad, I miss you, and I'm bored. Write Back. –YY"

Yami stuck it to the inside of the door and returned to the other world. He casually glanced around the room, finding Saemoden curled up into a little furry ball next to him. His eyes traced around his unfamiliar surroundings as there was a knock at the door.

"Who is it?" Yami muttered, eyes dimming.

A girl appeared at the door dressed in a black and pink shirt with black pants and boots. She had short black hair and black eye shadow. She had a pentagram necklace and dragon earrings. Her amber eyes looked at the room and then at Yami.

"Nice." She said simply, walking in and sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Hn." Yami said. Saemoden uncurled from its little ball and hissed at the girl once before jumping off the bed and running out of the room.

"Mum told me to come and say my hello. I'm Suzaku, and my younger brother is Seiryu, but he's off at the movies with his friends. You're Yami, correct?" She extended her hand.

"Uh-hu. Nice to meet you." Yami said, shaking her hand and not moving from his position on the bed. He was preoccupied with Saemoden's actions.

"I heard that you were into magic, can you do any tricks?" Suzaku asked, assuming he was like a party magician.

Yami, ignoring her assumption and randomly pulled a monster card from the deck. It happened to be the Celtic Guardian. Yami set the card face-up on the bed next to him and waved his hand over the picture. The mini guardian popped up and looked around. Unlike the Black Magician, he appeared more chibi-like. Suzaku laughed and Yami returned the CCG (Chibi Celtic Guardian) to his card state.

"Well...I'll leave you alone to get used to this place. I'm gonna go start dinner." Suzaku said.

Yami didn't even watch her leave. He turned onto his back and stared up...

...stared at the unfamiliar ceiling.

Luv me and I'll write more!

/Pay for my head-bump surgery and I'll get you down!/