A/N: Thank you to all the people who have reviewed and followed this story! I think so far this has gotten the most reviews, follows and favorites out of all of my stories. I am so happy that people have enjoyed this so far! Without further adieu here is the second chapter of River of memories! Enjoy!

Chapter 2: As the world falls down

Yuugi sighed as he looked out the window of his homeroom. The world was painted a dreary gray, rain falling down in thick water droplets, the weather was doing nothing for the mood of the depressed teen. Yuugi tore his eyes away from the window and tried to focus on his school work, unbidden a memory pushed its way to the forefront of his mind. The last good memory he had of hanging out with his friends before his life went to the dogs.

~Flash back~

Jou, Yami, Atemu, Anzu, Yuugi, Honda and strangely Kiba ran out of the school into the harsh rain. Jou ever the child immediately ran to the biggest puddle and stomped in it. Anzu let out a screeching yell as she was coated with the muddy water.

"Jou!" she yelled angry at him "What was that for?"

Jou laughed and shook his head. "Sorry Anzu," he said with a smile "Didnt think it would hit ya."

Anzu growled and ran at Jou, the young man gave an un-manly shriek and ran away from her. Atemu, Honda, Yami, and Yuugi started laughing at their friends expense while Kiba just shook his head and walked off towards his limo.

~End flash back~

Yuugi bit his lip and forced himself out of the memory, hot tears stung his eyes, and he began to shake. These last couple of months had been especially hard, despite being in his last year of high school Yuugi still was the smallest of the class. His shaking became harder as more memories these not happy assaulted his brain. Shakily he stood and made his way to the front of the class.

"Excuse me." he said quietly. "May I go to the bathroom please?"

The teacher looked up at him startled before taking in his face and a look of worry crossing her features. She pulled out a slip of paper and wrote him a hall pass. "Take your time." she whispered.

Yuugi nodded and practically ran from the room, he didnt stop until he reached the roof. The door slamming open Yuugi ran out into the rain. He stopped about half way across the roof and fell to his knees, his hands flew to his ears and he tired to block out the sounds and images of the hell his life had become. He stayed like that for a while his body's shaking slowing before eventually stopping.

Finally free from the disastrous memories he stood and walked to the edge of the roof and grabbed the wire fencing.

"Why Yami?" he asked quietly to himself. "why did you leave me?" Yuugi once again bit his lip and let go of the fence.

Sitting down he reached into the inner pocket of his uniform and pulled out a pack of smokes and a lighter. He picked one from his pack, placed it in his mouth and lit the end. He let his head fall back as he took a long drag. Half way through the smoke Yuugi got up and began to pace. Thoughts racing through his brain like a runaway train threatening to crash, burn and draw him down a cascading hole that would swallow him whole.

Yuugi looked up at the sky, warm drops of rain falling on his face as he whispered. "Gods please save me from this hell, I dont know what I did to deserve this but please." his voice broke going an octave higher than its normal tone. "please, take me away from this." Yuugi took a long drag off his smoke and looked over the edge of the school roof. "I could do it," he mused "no one would even know for a couple days, I could"

Yuugi shook himself, 'no.' he thought 'I wont let this break me more than it already has. I can't, for grandpa's sake'

-Else where-

Nuri sat on the couch, her leg bouncing nervously. Akefia watched with an amused look on his face.

"Would you stop that Nuri!" Nara hissed, her emerald eyes narrowing in irritation.

Nuri sighed and pulled her legs under her now sitting cross legged on the couch "Sorry Nara" she whispered. "Im just nervous."

"We could tell." Akefia said with a smirk. "You made it quite obvious gypsy girl."

Nara reached out and slapped Akefia on the back of the head. "Not helping." she growled

Akefia glared at Nara, "you know Harpy." he said "you will never get a guy when you treat them like shit!"

Nara shrugged, "Not exactly on my priority list Robber."

"No wonder you're such a harpy." he muttered as Nara growled at him once again.

Nuri rolled her eyes, stood and stretched, "When do you think they will be here?" she asked walking out of the living room.

Nara followed her sister, "Who knows sis." she said as the two walked into the library, "personally they can take as long as they like."

"Worried about that job at Kiba corp?" Nuri asked scanning the shelves for a book interesting enough to hold her attention for a while.

"Not really," Nara sighed, "I mean we only have as much knowledge about modern times as the books we have could tell us, its probably going to be completely different when actually living it."

Nara nodded and grabbed a manga off the shelf. Leaning against said shelf she began to read, "Maybe it wasn't the best idea to wake up at Ra's first light." she commented to herself.

Silence invaded the library as the two girls lost themselves in their own worlds. After what seemed like hours Akefia came walking into the room.

"Harpy, Gypsy." He said, the two girls snapped their heads up to look at him. "They're here," he said and walked back out.

Nara flipped over onto her stomach and stretched like a cat. Sighing in relief when she felt her spine pop she got up and walked over to Nuri.

"Ready?" she asked

Nuri put the book away and followed Nara out of the library and down the short hallway into the living room.

Entering the living room Nuri and Nara were met with three unknown people. The woman standing in the middle of the room wore traditional Egyptian clothing, long black hair came just below her shoulders, around her neck sat the Sennen Necklace.

"Hello." she greeted with a slight smile. "I am Ishizu Ishtar, that one." she pointed to a boy with sandy blond hair and light purple eyes. "Is my brother Malik, his friend" her finger moved to the other boy, the boy gave a bright smile and fiddled with his white hair. " is Ryou Bakura"

"Hi." Nara said nervously, stepping slightly in front of her sister, despite exchanging phone calls and the like every so often with the woman, Nara still didnt quite trust her. "Im Nara, this is my younger sister Nuri, and that bastard over there is Akefia."

"Easy there Harpy." he growled "I may just get sick of that mouth one day."

Ishizu laughed and shook her head. "As much as I would love to sit and listen to this witty banter all day, we do have a schedule to keep. A rather important one, so if there are no further objections I say we get down to it." At this she was met with silence, with a nod of her head, Ishizu continued, "Right then, Akefia, Nuri, you two will go to school starting tomorrow morning, Ryou and Malik with escort you there, Nara, today you have a job interview with the head of Kiba corp Seto Kiba, I stress this young one, it is of the utmost importance that you get this job, Seto doesnt like disobedience with his employees, so you must make sure to your temper in check. I have brought clothes that will fit you so no need to go through your closet to find clothes for this. We leave in half an hour."

-Back at the school-

Yuugi curled into a ball as the person above him kicked him once again. Suddenly he was hauled up and held there, his toes barely touching the ground, the person that had been kicking him was now punching him in the stomach and ribs. Pain coursed through his being, dark spots began to dance before his eyes and his breathing was short and labored. Finally after what seemed like an eternity of pain, Yuugi was dropped and the beatings stopped. He heard the people walking away as he once again curled into a ball to try and ease some of the pain.

Yuugi lay there till the pain started to ebb away, unsteadily he got to his feet using the wall of the school for support. Yep just another day in the life of Yuugi Mutou. He picked up his backpack from the ground and started to make his way home, the entire journey should have taken only about 10 minuets, however with the beating Yuugi got it took him about double that to make his way to the familiar game shop that was his home.

Entering through the back door Yuugi noticed the house felt cold, there were no lights on. 'grandfather must be out doing something' he thought 'Yami and Atemu are probably out with the others.'

Thankful for the reprieve of questions his grandfather usually asked him if he was home late, Yuugi made his way to his bedroom, closing the door with a soft 'click', he fell onto his bed with a contended sigh.

It was a couple seconds before the teen was able to fall into the bliss of unconsciousness.

-Else where-

The smell of cooking greeted Nara as she walked into the house, she inhaled deeply. "Nuri?" she called out "Robber, where are you?"

"In the kitchen!" Nuri's voice called back to her seconds later Akefia's voice called out from somewhere else in the large house.

"Not in the kitchen!"

Nara chuckled and toed off her shoes, she reached up to her hair and pulled the god forsaken thing out of it. The head band was about the only thing that could get Nara's curly hair to behave. She grumbled as she rubbed behind her ears and started for the kitchen.

Opening the door she was greeted to the site of Nuri literally dancing about the kitchen as soft music was played.

Nara laughed gaining her sisters attention. "Gee Nuri." she said. "Are you cooking or practicing for the ballet?"

Nuri smirked "a little of both." she said in a sing song manner. "So how did it go?"

Nara groaned, turned around and none to gently slammed her forehead into the door.

Nuri laughed at her sisters antics, "That bad huh? You didn't get the job did you?" she asked between bouts of laughter.

Nara muttered something and turned around. "Worse." she said dramaitically. "I got the job!"

Nuri blinked confusion written on her face. "Isnt that a good thing?"

"No Nuri!" she wailed "Its terrible! Damn the gods! Damn them!"

"Whoa whoa whoa!" Nuri said "hang on just a minute here! You got the job and because of that you're damning the gods?! Nara what has gotten into you!"

"Damn the priest and the gods!" Nara yelled not paying attention "Damn them both to the outer ring of the shadow realm!"

"Nara!" Nuri yelled and grabbed her sister by the upper arms "You are not allowed to go bat shit crazy on me! Now whats going on?"

Nara hung her head. "I got the job." she muttered dejectedly.

"Yes I got that." Nuri said with a roll of her eyes.

"I work for the damned Priest again!" Nara said and burried her face in her hands.

"Wait. You mean Seth? The priest got reincarnated?" Nuri asked confused.

Her sister simply nodded. Nuri's eyes grew wide, she let go of her sister and stepped back a couple paces, she raised a hand to her mouth trying to keep back the laughter that threatened to spill out of her.

"Its not funny Nuri!" Nara growled defensively

That did it, Nuri began to laugh, she fell to the floor and held her stomach. "This is hilarious!" she gasped through her laughter.

"Im glad you find it to be so." Nara said dryly, "I however do not."

-Time skip-

The next morning Nuri woke up before Ra's first light, yawning and rubbing the sleep from her eyes she grabbed a fresh towel and made her way to the bathroom for a nice soak. Drawing the bath water Nuri thought about the day. 'Heba' she thought as she shut off the water and carefully got in. 'Just hang on a little longer nuur, Ill be there soon.'

-With Yuugi-

Yuugi groaned as he got out of bed, his muscles were sore with the fading pain and fatigue. Sighing the teen ran a hand through his disheveled hair, quietly he went the stairs and out the front door. Once out side Yuugi walked down a little ways before lighting a smoke. His throat burned as he took his first drag of the day, he smoked rather quickly, a habit formed out of fear that his grandpa would find out. Once done he flicked the butt into the street and walked back to his home.

Opening the door to his house he quietly shut it before running back up the stairs to his room. Hurriedly he grabbed clothes and headed to the bathroom for a shower. As he undressed he idly thought about what terrors today would bring. 'Just another day I guess' he sighed to himself 'I just hope I can survive the day without getting beat too badly.'

Yuugi showered quickly, knowing that there were two others in the house who needed to shower before they left for school. Wrapping himself in a towel he went to the sink and brushed his teeth. Drying off he re-dressed slowly, mindful of his bruises as he bent to grab each article of clothing. Yuugi grabbed the last item on the floor, he looked down when he realized it was heavy. Groaning he realized he had grabbed his puzzle. He held it in both his hands as fresh tears came to his eyes.

'no.' he thought 'not mine, not anymore.' with determination he walked out of the bathroom and over to Atemu's door. He placed the chain around the handle then simply walked away. 'You can have that back Pharaoh.' his thoughts taking an angry turn. 'I dont want it anymore so i'll just cast it aside like you did with me.' with that Yuugi grabbed his backpack, put on his shoes and walked out of the house, slamming the door on the way out.