Yuki:# Thanks to those of you that reviewed and sorry about not being able to update sooner. My parents banned me from the PC until my b-day on 7/19. But this is what they get when they leave their 12 yr. old daughter (who can sneak out of many different situations
Ex: subtly stealing and returning things to her friends before they know what even happened) home alone. (I have sources)
Yami: Oh yeah and to an important question. No I didn't know I could obtain a physical body on my own. Yugi sort of triggered the power.
Yugi: (dancing and singing to Hips don't lie with Ryou, sees us staring)
What?!?! Can't I dance to Shakira if I want to? (We nod)
Yugi and Ryou: Yami/ Bakura, come dance with us. (Both look at me pleadingly)
Yuki: Yeah, you two dance and I'll write the story.
Disclaimer: I.D.O.Y (I Don't Own Yugioh)
"Blah" talking
'Blah' thinking (recalling what someone has said)
"Blah" Egyptian
/Yami - Yugi/ \Yugi - Yami\ mind link (will have Ryou and
Bakura from time to time)
WARNING: REVEALING OF SECRETS, MILD LANGUAGE, AND... 2 MENTIONS OF BEATINGS AND RAPES. (GOMENASAI GOZAIMASU!!!)
Prologue (part II)
Yami and Yugi quietly ran down the hallway of the Ishtars' boat to Ryou's room. Yugi knocked on the door. From the room emerged a sleepy eyed (A/N: Heal fangirls heal (no offense).) Ryou.
" Yugi, what is it," Ryou asked. His tiredness suddenly leaves once he sees Yami, "And how is the Pharaoh here?"
"Would you like Bakura to stay with you, Ryou?" asked Yugi. Ryou eagerly lets Yami and Yugi come in. Yami give him the Millenium ring as he puts the puzzle on Yugi's neck. Suddenly, the Ring started to glow and next thing he knew Ryou was looking at his yami sprawled out on the floor. Yami helped Bakura up. A thanks was all that he said to Yami, but it's the thought that counts, even in a thank you.
" Bakura do you want to stay with Ryou?" asked Yami. A nod showed him the affirmative.
"Yami," asked Yugi, "how exactly does the ritual work?"
"Bakura and I shall call on three certain gods and ask for some of their power and a special goblet to perform it. It requires the use of sage stones, that is a crystal that symbolizes a person's soul. The person must reveal their greatest secret to the others performing the ritual, take a piece of their stone and drop it into the goblet. Afterwards, we must set the goblet alight and call on the goddess Maat to grant us what we wish."
Everyone's thoughts at this time: ' Shit I didn't want to say any of this yet.'
Bakura and Yami stood up, eyes glowing and shadows dancing.
" We call on powers of light and shadow for our freedom. We call on Ra, Osiris, and Maat for freedom of our condemned souls."
" We have heard your plea of freedom," said Ra as he, Osiris and Maat appeared.
" Pharaoh Atemu, it has been a while since you have called me," said Maat, once spying Yami." For what purpose have you called us here?"
"We would like to stay in this life with our other halves, great Goddess," answered Yami.
Ra, Osiris, and Maat nodded their heads understandingly.
"Atemu, Bakura, show us your light halves," ordered Ra, and that is what Yami and Bakura did. They lead their lights over to the three gods and the hikaris bowed before them. " They are as they should be, full of light and innocence, but the pharaoh's light has a difficult past, so has the tomb robber's. Is this correct little ones?" Yugi and Ryou nodded hesitantly.
"Yes, this is correct, great God of the Sun" answered Yugi. (A/N: Flattery)
"Then I suggest you four start the ritual as we shall give you the power required," Osiris said as his, Ra's and Maat's hands glowed, relinquishing small portions of their power and a golden goblet to the two yamis. They immediately disappeared but not before Maat said one last thing to Yami in his ear,
" Please don't worry about what will happen. I shall come back for the end of the ritual."
(A/N: Depression time)
" I'll go first," said Ryou, and he told the group of his abusive father who beat him whenever he wasn't on an archaeological excavation as he showed some of the scars that he had. Bakura held him close as he cried. His sage stone appeared as a crystal dove in his hand and he dropped a feather piece into the goblet. " So who's next?"
" Me." This came from Yugi. Yugi managed to tell the group how his mom died when he was five and how his father blamed him and beat him for it. He sat in his yami's lap cuddling close. "And that's not the worst of it. My dad also..." Tears started flowing. " R-r-raped me after my mom died, saying that it was my fault she died." This shocked the group, though more so to Yami, who held Yugi in a loving hug. To Yami this held some answers as to why Yugi had so much in common with him, not just in meeting one another, but that Yugi's father had beaten and raped him as a little kid. (A/N: Messed up) A crystal lotus appeared on his forehead and Yami took a petal and dropped it in the goblet. Yugi was still crying, and after hearing sweet nothings from Yami, slowly calmed down.
"Ok," said Yugi, after calming down a bit," next is... Yami or Bakura?" Bakura immediately looked at Yami.
" ME?!?!" he said. "Umm... Uhh... Bakura. Rock, paper, scissors." Yugi and Ryou were confused as to Yami's behavior, almost like a girl's.
"No."
"What, Bakura? Afraid to lose at the hands of the ' baka no Pharaoh'? Wimp." Yugi's thoughts at this same time: 'Ooh, Burn. He must be taking tips from Tea on how to be very annoying, seeing as the insults seem kind of (no offense) girly.'
"Fine." Bakura lost (Y: paper B: rock) and he told the secret of his short crush on the Pharoah after their first duel at Duelist Kingdom (A/N: Humor!). His sage stone was an eagle on his head. He took a feather and dropped it in the goblet. And finally it was Yami's turn.
"Uhh... Ok fine. Just wait a minute." Yami stood up looking defeated and went to the bathroom in Ryou's room. (Cue the question marks around everyone else's heads)
/Aibou will you love me no matter what/
\Yami, what are you talking ab-\
/Can you just answer the question please?!? Gomene, but this is really important. /
\Yes, I will always love you. \ He sent love and compassion as hard as he could through the link. He received gratefulness and hope back. Yami forgot to close the link before Yugi heard/I hope that's true, aibou. /
A dull but visible light came from the bathroom. The door opened and a girl stood in the bathroom doorway. Yugi's, Ryou's, and Bakura's chin practically dropped to the floor when they saw her. It was a girl version of Yami, with rose red eyes that held some innocence (not as much as Yugi's) and long tri-colored hair that came down to her waist. She held an attractive leather clad figure but the eyes are what got to the three teens. These eyes knew how to be fierce and held a special fire in them but also held hope and innocence. This was indeed Yami. But this Yami was not in that usual triumphant attitude. Her eyes were watering and she started to rub at her eyes to attempt to stop the tears but this led her to fall on her knees, close her eyes and start to cry.
/Ai-bou./ Yugi heard a depressing female voice in the mind link this time. Yami did not notice her thoughts were being thrown into the link. /Don't hate me for not telling you. I-I couldn't take the risk of ever losing you or making you hate me like he did. Don't hate me now for hiding this from you. Please don't./ Yugi walked over to the sobbing Yami, knelt down and held her close in a warm embrace.
" Yami, is this really you?" Yugi asked, a little skeptical about this situation. Yami nodded keeping her eyes closed, returned his embrace, and started to lovingly nuzzle Yugi. Yugi lifted up Yami's chin and caught her in a deep kiss. (A/N: My first time writing a kiss scene.) Yami opened her eyes shocked but let she sink into pleasure as Yugi started to nibble her bottom lip, asking for entry. Yami complied and let Yugi claim her in the delicious heat of love and lust. Yugi tasted Egyptian spices and gold, as Yami tasted sugar, strawberries and silver. Yugi challenged her to battle with their tongues and surprisingly Yugi won. Yami started to suckle on the probing tongue and they both moaned in each other's mouths.
\Submissive this way, koi?\ Yugi teased just before they finished the kiss. Yami had a dream-like glaze on her eyes.
"Could you please tell us why you are like this?" (A/N: What were Bakura and Ryou doing that whole time? Answer: They were making out!) Yami snapped out of her trance, looked down and nodded. Yugi held onto her and stood up pulling her up as well. He practically dragged her to where to other two boys were.
"Pharaoh," said Bakura," if this is really you, would you mind explaining how this happened?"
"Might as well get this over with," said Yami. She took a deep breath. "I guess it started when I was just born."
FLASHBACK (Yami's voicing this)
Kalia (Aknumkanon's wife) held her crying newborn daughter Nashwa close to her as she knew her living time was short. Her daughter had rose red eyes and tri-colored hair. She was beautiful. Kalia had to think of a way to save her daughter's life. She remembered what her husband had said when they found out she was expecting
' " If we have a daughter for our only child, I shall dispatch of her and have my brother take the throne. A woman cannot rule Egypt as a Pharaoh." ' (A/N: He's a sexist.)
She stopped worrying, realizing something. She called in her midwife Tamari and her ten-year-old daughter Isis. "Yes your Highness?"
" I need you both to summon great goddess Maat. We don't have much time." Both women did so as the newborn baby started settle down to mere sniffling. A bright light filled the queen's chamber and there stood Maat.
"What is it that you need, lady Kalia?"
"My husband did not want a daughter as my only child. He said months ago that if we were given a daughter, he would kill her and have Aknadin take the crown after passing on. I cannot let that happen to my daughter. I need your wisdom, great goddess."
"I can help in another way, your highness." She walked over and took the baby from the queen. "I can conceal the fact that she is in line for the throne as a female Pharaoh." She placed one hand on the infant's head and chanted.
" With this spell, change this princess into her opposite. As she is day, let her become night. As her future this way is a desert, let her become pure and beautiful like the sea."
The princess had a glow around her and she was handed to the queen, but she was no longer a princess. Her face was angular and her eyes a shade darker. As she started to cry again, her voice was that of a newborn boy's.
" Thank you great goddess" said Queen Kalia. She held her new son close. She said one more thing to Maat as she was leaving. "Tell her about her true self one day when she is older. And tell her that I loved her." Maat nodded.
"I shall be her guardian as long as Ra shines with his sun boat across the sky." Those were the words the queen heard. That and her son Atemu cooing softly at her.
7 YEARS LATER
Atemu was playing with Isis outside in the courtyard with a small Kuriboh that he had just summoned. That day was one of the hottest that he had ever experienced.
"Why don't we go to Maat's temple," Atemu suggested. He always felt at home there and there was nothing else to do. Isis agreed and both ran off to the temple after sending the Kuriboh back home. Once in the temple, both children fell down, exhausted from racing. All of a sudden, the statue of Maat in the center of the palace started to shine brightly. The duo covered their eyes and once the light dimmed, there stood Maat in front of them. They stood in awe of her beauty.
" I have been watching you, Prince Atemu. And I think it's time I fulfilled your mother's last wishes and reveal who you truly are," said Maat. She gracefully walked over to where Atemu stood in front of Isis.
" What were my mother's last wishes?" Atemu asked as Maat placed her hand on his head and a blinding glow emitted from him. After a few moments, in Atemu's place stood a young girl of rose red eyes.
" AHH!!! What happened to me?! Why am I a.. GIRL?!?!" Atemu shouted.
Isis spoke first, " This is the real you, my prince or should I say Princess Nashwa."
"Then how come I was a boy not even a minute ago?" asked the princess, believing whom she considered a sister.
"I can answer that, little one" said Maat, sitting on a chair that she had just materialized. She patted her lap and Nashwa cuddled in her lap. Maat proceeded to tell her the story of her birth, and her mother's proposal.
"Why didn't Father want me to be a girl?" asked little Nashwa, not fully understanding the situation.
"He doesn't think that women are capable of being rulers, that they are only to serve their husbands, even if they are royalty." answered Maat, " and so wanted his only child of the person he truly loved to be a boy." At that moment the sun was setting.
"Great Goddess," said Isis," I shall have to return the princess home. But her father cannot see her this way."
"I know, young priestess, which is why I shall give her this." Maat placed a charm of a desert rose around Nashwa's neck as she said this. " Little princess, you must not let your father see you this way, alright?" Little Nashwa nodded. "When you want to wander around this way, go with Isis behind locked doors and ask her if the time is safe. If so, hold the charm in your hand and recite these words, ' As I am night, let me be the day. As I am the desert, let me be the seas.' To change back, recite this with the charm in your hand, 'Reverse the day, and let me be night. Let my open rose close as this is done.' Do both of you understand?"
"Yes, great goddess." Nashwa proved her loyalty to the goddess by reciting the reversal spell.
"Reverse the day, and let me be night. Let my open rose close as this is done." She changed back into Atemu and received a smile from Maat and Isis.
The three departed the temple for the night, having each received a new sense of completeness, and a deed accomplished.
END FLASHBACK
Yugi held Yami close as she started to cry (at the end of voicing the flashback).
"My father hated me so much when he found out that he and a prostitute raped me as a boy." Yami buried her face in Yugi's shirt, arms around his waist. "Aibou, please don't hate me like he did. I couldn't bear it if you did." Yugi was shocked. His pharaoh was begging him not to leave her. He held her tighter and ran his hand through her hair. Ryou was shocked as much as Bakura was when they saw Yami beg desperately to her hikari. Ryou walked over and patted her back, comfortingly.
"Yami, don't cry. Yugi doesn't hate you. Neither do Bakura, or I" he said soothingly. Said tomb robber came foreword and lifted Yami still clutching Yugi's hand and carried her over to Ryou's bed and sat her upright with her hikari. Ryou and Bakura just watched as Yugi comforted the girl and the four saw as Yami's sage stone was a rose with a petal slightly hanging off. Yugi took that petal and dropped it into the goblet.
"Would you like to do the honors... Nashwa-koi" asked Yugi, using that new pet name to show his feelings were true in all situations no matter how unbelievable or difficult they were. Nashwa (A/N: Yami as a girl Nashwa; Yami as a boy Yami From time to time they'll both be called Yami cuz' I feel lazy today.) nodded as she was handed the goblet and set the crystals in it to flames with shadow magic. Maat appeared and her gaze fell on Nashwa who got off of the bed with the goblet at hand.
"I told you not to worry, my princess," said Maat taking the goblet. "I must also reveal a secret before complete this ritual." She walked over to Yugi and placed her hand on his head. Yugi emitted a glow and in his place stood a girl with amethyst eyes and tri-colored hair. The other three teens stood staring jaws down to the floor. Yami's thoughts (... YUGI'S A FCKING HOTTIE AS A GIRL.)
" Yugi, this is your true form just like the Pharaoh's," said Maat, as she amusingly saw Nashwa come over and gape at her hot girlfriend in the PJ's she wore to sleep, but now they were a tank top and adorable star night pants.
" We are deeply confused," Yami, Yugi, Ryou and Bakura said in sight of this unexpected turn of events.
" Let me explain," Maat said, sitting on bed, suspending the goblet of fire (A/N: couldn't resist XD) in mid air. "You see, about 1 and a half years after the pharaoh was born, I had a daughter of tricolored hair and pale skin. I sent her to Earth in order to protect her as a great evil was awoken before her birth. I sent her to live with one of my priestesses in the city where the Pharaoh ruled, for I created my daughter as the soul mate of the prince. By some off chance, she got trapped in the same situation as the prince and when I sent her to Earth, I changed her into a boy to keep her protected. Both of them met as teenagers in the Pharaoh's 16th year. The land of Egypt prospered under their leadership. Here we get to the story that you know. Atemu and my 'son' Hikari were at a feast for it had been 2 years since the new leadership had started. Thief King Bakura under the control of Zorc (A/N: I don't make Bakura evil in this fix) kidnapped my child and rode off with him where as the Pharaoh followed him to Kul Elna. Bakura and Hikari were fighting by the time he got there. He had all Millenium Items but one. The puzzle. Zorc came from the Millenium Stone and was about to kill Atemu when my child got in the way of the blast and so her first life on Earth was past. I took her body and took it to the Realm of the Gods where she was born. Atemu lost his life sealing his soul into the puzzle in order to defeat Zorc. There he waited for 3000 years. My daughter's body I created a new and came to a young woman in this time 20 years ago. She wanted a child so much and so I charged her with caring for my child. I gave her my child and she gave birth to a boy, just as Hikari ended up so long ago. This baby boy's name was Yugi Mutou." That caused much silence among the teens. They looked at Yugi who was in Nashwa's arms. Surprise was on her face. Yugi stood up and gave Maat a hug. (A/N sory about the long story.)
"You are my mother?" she asked.
"Yes I am, my little Hikari," Maat answered. The clock read 12 a.m.
Nashwa stood up. " Great Goddess we must finish the ritual. The others will wonder why our hikaris are so tired when they get up for breakfast." Maat nodded, let go of her daughter and grabbed the floating goblet.
" I grant the wish of the condemned souls and give them their freedom," said Maat and the goblet disappeared into nothing more after being engulfed by its flames. " I must tell you this. Nashwa and Bakura have to come to the Afterlife. It is the only way the world can have order once again. They must also learn how to survive in this world, for it is unlike Ancient Egypt."
"Yes, great Goddess," the four teens said, accepting the fact that they may not see each other again after the Ceremonial Duel and perhaps even a few years. Maat came over to Yugi and Nashwa.
" I trust that Nashwa told the story of when she met me in the temple?" A nod in the affirmative from both girls. " Recite the spells you need when you want to change my daughter, we shall guard over you from the Realms," she said, placing a charm of a lotus on a thread over Yugi's neck. She then kissed both Yugi's and Yami's foreheads and they changed back into boys. " Good-bye my child," she said as she left them. The only ones now in the room were them and Bakura and Ryou. Yami and Bakura started to glow and they became spirits once more.
"Guess our time is up," Yami said. "You should get some sleep Aibou. You as well, Ryou."
Ryou confirmed this by yawning which made the other three chuckle lightly.
"Oyasumi-nasai, Yugi and Yami" said Ryou as he climbed into bed, Bakura in the ring, which he took off and put next to him.
" Oyasumi-nasai, Ryou and Bakura" said Yugi as he left the room, Yami in the puzzle waiting in his aibou's soulroom, for his aibou to come and have a promised sleep together in their remaining time.
Yuki: TA-DA!!!!
Yugi is really the daughter of a goddess, Yami is really a girl, Bakura had once messed up crush, and Ryou is still the awesome nice person that he is. A lot we learned today, huh?
Yami and Yugi: Read and Review
Ryou and Bakura: Please no flames