Feck.

So I finally hit up Wikipedia and see how Battle city ends because yanno, I like being vaugly accurate, and since I want to do things based on the Japanese version (since yanno, english is for pussies) well basically everything that I had written for this up to a point was inaccurate and crap.

So here we go again.

After Battle City, AU? AND HOW!

Why Yes, My name is Kazuki Takahashi and I made Yu-Gi-Oh so I guess this isn't AU...

cough

That and I'm a lier.

Shades of Grey

Chapter 1

My ears hurt. But then I guess thats a good thing since it meant I had ears, last thing I remembered was my eyes disintegrating, luckily he shielded me from most of the pain, I never knew if it was intentional or just a side effect but when he took over I stopped feeling, I could just observe. Somehow fitting, leaving the controls and just observing, it's like I had been doing it all my life no wonder it was so easy for someone else to waltz in and take over. Not like he was the first one.

But anyways, I have ears, and the beeping noise I hear is hurting them.

beep

beep

beep...

Were have I heard that before. Oh right, TV it's the sound of a heart monitor, which means.

Wow maybe I was almost dead.

Well I'm not going to go back into the grey might as well get up.

Opening my eyes everything was far too bright for me to see, then again it wasn't like I was expecting much, wouldn't be my first hospital visit I woke up alone. After I had Yugi over to my house and he took over, after we went to that island and he came out again, suddenly I'm beginning to see a pattern. Man my parents are going to be pissed off. Hospitals in Japan are expensive and my insurance is shit.

Ahh look a chair with no one in it, sur-fucking-prize and here I almost deluded myself into thinking maybe someone gave a shi...

"You're awake" Came a cool accusation from the other side of my bed causing the heart monitor to give a small double count.

Slowly I turned my head toward the voice, it wasn't him but something in the tone was like it, and familiar.

"Do you know the trouble you've caused?"

Well slap my ass and call me susie

"Hi Dad" I managed to gurgle through my dry throat.

"First you go missing then you show up half dead what the fuck is wrong with you?"

Ahh can't you just feel the love.

He would have had something witty to say, but oddly even the usual running commentary in my head is silent right now. Maybe I rattled him loose on deaths door this time.

Righto, ears again, I believe my beloved sperm donor was speaking again.

My how bitter I've become.

"This is it Ryou, your mother and I have been talking about this for a while now and well we just can't do it anymore, you're our son but this has gone on long enough, we want you gone."

Yea pop's I've been gone for a while already, not like you or Mom have been around to notice.

"You're 18 now"

Huh?

"And so we'll arrange for you to get an apartment, you know help out for a little bit but then I'm taking your mother back to England with me. You have a citizenship here so you can figure things out on your own."

"I'm... 18?" I croak again, fuck how long have I been under.

"Ryou, quit fucking around! You've been missing for nearly 4 years now! Do you KNOW what you've put us through?? FOUR YEARS of getting over you, of thinking you were dead and then you just showed up at our doorstep looking like a corpse. What the fuck have you been doing? Drugs? Prostitution? fuck... FUCK I don't even want to know.."

He continued to rant his hands clenching and unclenching. I knew he wanted to hit me, but he knew it could kill me and of course, killing a comatose patent is a no no.

Wow 4 years I...

"He was with us."

eh?

A dark skinned boy with blond hair leaned against the door-frame, clearly a dye job but then again his eyebrows matched, Neat!

"Who the fuck are you?"

"Malik We'll be taking care of the hospital bill of our... Friend here. Bakura-san was with us the last few years in Egypt helping at an archeological dig. It was rather delicate work and become quite hush hush in the government considering the strange monster occurrences around the world in the last few years which were believed to be connected to that. Bakura-san here was not permitted to contact you, his... escape to reunite with you has caused some trouble for us."

My dad looked like his head was going to explode, I think mine was too. I was where? Doing what? I think my Da's explanation of my time was more believable.

I closed my eyes as my Dad turned on Malik. The memory of his face seeping in as I could recall my death and him being there. Four Years I've lost, maybe... maybe everything else was just a dream.

Wait did he say monster occurrences?

shooorrt I know but it garuntees I'll update once in a while if I'm not trying to curn out huge chapters. Malik explains all in the next chapter I may move out of first person writing, I'll try and tell me what you think.