Hello again. :) These are quite easy to write and I've been staying up all night typing away. That's probably not good for my health. "OTL But! The story must be told!

Yu-Gi-Oh is not mine, I only like to write about the characters. :)


Yugi didn't know what he was feeling as he zoomed through an endless abyss of darkness. Was he…dead? He felt something holding his waist and suddenly remembered. The Shadow Thief had stolen him. "Where am I?" He called out not seeing anything. Not even the thief who was holding him was in sight. Suddenly a flash of gold split the darkness and he was blinded by light, quickly shutting his eyes he was welcomed by a breeze. Slowly he opened his eyes finding himself on a roof of a skyscraper. He looked around. "Gah!" He jerked back seeing the Shadow Thief next to him who now was looking down at him. "Y-you're the-"

The Shadow Thief laughed darkly in an intimidating baritone, amused at Yugi's fear, and took a knee. "The Real Shadow Thief?" He guessed with a smirk on his face. "We've got a smart one here." He said quickly dodging Yugi's poor attempt of a punch. "Now don't be difficult. I gave you what you wanted. Not many get to see the real Shadow Thief up close like this."

Yugi pulled away from him. "You're a crook! I-I'm putting you under arrest." He stammered as he scuffled to his feet to pull out his handcuffs. "Hands out!"

The thief looked at him blankly and then threw his head back in a roar of laughter. "They must be hiring anyone to be cops nowadays. Even children now! The poor DCPD is getting pretty desperate it seems. Kid, I'm the Shadow Thief." He smirked looming over the tiny officer. "After the reaction you had with the two fake thieves earlier do you really think you should be attempting an arrest on the actual thing?" He was smiling…until Yugi stomped on his booted foot.

"I'm not a kid!" Yugi shouted crossly.

"Alright, alright." The Thief brought up his hands. "Let's try not to act one and go out of our way to stomp on people's feet now shall we?" He stepped back away from Yugi not wanting to have his foot crushed again. It actually bruised his ego that some rookie cop managed something like that.

"Where are we…?" Yugi asked as he looked around trying to figure it out. He went to the edge of the building but everything looked foreign to him. "Why did you steal me?"

"We're everywhere and nowhere."The Shadow Thief played around a bit. "Really? We're in France." He pointed to the obvious Eiffel Tower. "Come now…there was a clue right there and you-"

"FRANCE?" Yugi interrupted in awe as his eyes grew wide at the golden lighted tower. It was beautiful. He quickly snapped out of his enchanted trance of the city and looked back at the masked kidnapper."H-how?"

"-missed it." The Thief finished giving Yugi a glare towards his rudeness. "As for why I stole you…well, didn't you want to find the real Shadow Thief?" He asked with the look of superiority in his eyes. Yugi gave a glare back. The man's ruby eyes made Yugi know he was not to be trusted.

"That means I find you; not you find me!" The young rookie protested as he looked back towards Paris's cityscape. "Did we…travel through the shadows?"

The Shadow Thief jumped on the ledge of the building with ease to look over at the city. "Hmm…You seem to be catching on maybe you're not so naïve after all." He flashed a white smile at the stolen boy. "Yes, the shadows. It's the best way to travel you know. I'm here..I'm there. Hell, I'm everywhere."

"How?" Yugi pushed trying to learn more about this thief, but he quickly caught on and wagged a finger in his face.

"Now I can't tell you all my secrets on the first date." The Thief chuckled at this as he hopped down from the ledge and went back to his bag of stolen items. His hand dove into the bag and pulled out a vase. "Beautiful isn't it? It will look good in my house." He said with sarcasm.

"The Caramel Vase!" Yugi gasped putting his hands to his mouth. He had recalled seeing it in the museum many times when he visited it. Even as a child. "You can't take that."

The Thief looked away from his prize and back to the boy objection with a raised brow. "Oh?" In a flash he was right in Yugi's face holding the vase with one finger. "Now why is that?"

"B-Because." Yugi stammered leaning away from him he soon made a grab for the vase but it was simply pulled away from him. "It's against the rules…the law! It's against the law!"

The Shadow Thief inched closer to his face. "Law? Rules? That's cute…Who makes those? People. Why should others be allowed to make rules over other people? It's all for the taking. Rules are meant to be broken and I intend to do so by stealing this beautiful vase." A silence between them formed and Yugi wasn't convinced by the thief's reasoning. It was…unlawful! He looked back at the thief seeing him staring in thought. "It's funny…amusing even. I've never seen you before. You really must be fresh out of the water."

Yugi saw he was trying to change the subject…perhaps because he'd never answered and hated the silence. "Uh..yeah tonight was my first night on the clock."

"Hm…Yugi." The Thief let the name roll from his tongue. "How refreshing, I need new blood on the force."

Yugi stiffened. "H-how do you know my name?" He stammered in discomfort. What was with this guy? Was he REALLY the Infamous Shadow Thief?

The Thief had a smirk slip upon his lips. "Why…it's on your name tag of course." He said as he pointed to the nametag that read Yugi M. on it.

Yugi slowly looked down to see the nametag plainly reading his name on it. "Oh…" He said feeling stupid. This was the worst night ever. The Shadow Thief laughed a little crossing his arms after he'd put the vase away. Yugi blushed feeling even more foolish now that he was being laughed at. "What's so funny?" He demanded.

His laughter died and he simply shrugged. "Nothing, I like you Yugi…you're…something else." He looked at Yugi as if almost puzzled himself. The boy was truly innocent.

Yugi puffed out his cheeks as he blushed. "You can't like me! You're a thief! A crook! I'm an officer of the law for justice!" He blinked as the thief only stood there in thought.

"True…" The Shadow Thief agreed to what the green horn had to say. "But still…is that a rule? I think I'm going to break it." He stepped closer to the officer of the law. "Hmm…" He examined Yugi's face which made Yugi nervous. "The odd thing is you look…"

"What?" Yugi asked while the masked man stood so close. It was so weird he couldn't help but blush from the awkward closeness.

The Thief only shook his head again. "It's nothing…maybe I'll tell you next time." He flashed his smile to him again. "Speaking of time… I think it's time I leave." He informed as he went back to grab his bag. "It's going to be morning soon after all." He looked back to Yugi and gave a salute. "Au Revoir!" With that he dived into the shadows and vanished without another word.

Yugi looked on in a daze as to what happened, he had just had an encounter with the infamous Shadow Thief. "Wow…" He murmured and looked on at the Eiffel, Tower as he did it slowly sunk in about where he was. A loud groan left him. "Paris, France! AUGH! You left me here, Thief!" He shouted in anger knowing he was stuck in a foreign country without passport.