Yugioh belongs to Kazuki Takahashi.

AM: Kinda sad beginning just to warn you.

"I don't understand!" yells Cairo. "Why won't you let me hang out with her!?"

"Because she's dangerous that's why!"

"But you don't know her!"

"And neither do you. Just because you've talk to her one night doesn't mean you know what she's all about. She can turn on you in a second. Humans are nothing but bad news."

"How do you know!?"

"Because they killed your mother and your uncle that's how!" he fires back. Cairo shakes her head and she narrows her eyes at him before turning away. "Cairo…" "Not all humans are bad! You'll see!"

"Cairo." She ignores him and opens up her coffin, slipping inside and closing it shut.

Atem sighs and places a hand on his head. 'I didn't mean to tell her that way…She was so young then that she doesn't even remember what happened.'

Flashback

A female vampire carries her child in her arms as she follows her husband and his brother to a farm where they can eat. Her husband, Atem leads the way, knowing where to find the best food they could possibly find that will fill their stomachs. She wears a black trench coat similar to her his and her black hair reaches her hips. She also has slightly narrowed, grey eyes. Atem's brother, Yugi looks exactly like him, only his eyes are more rounded.

They approach their prey which is a sheep that stands by itself eating some grass. Atem walks forward and Sahara watches as he kills the sheep and gives them the signal to come over. Yugi looks over and sees a sheep for himself and kills it as well so he can have the sheep to himself. Sahara bends down, taking a sip off of the sheep's blood before having her daughter take a drink while Atem stands watch. Sahara goes to her feet and stands next to Atem and he wraps an arm around her waist while she places a hand on his chest as they watch their three year old daughter drink up.

"She takes after her mother," says Atem.

"Yes, but she has your eyes."

After finishing his sheep, Yugi stands up and looks out toward the barn to see an angry farmer coming at them with a shotgun. Before he can give a warning to his brother, shots already start to ring out.

"Sahara, we need to--" He turns around when he hears her gasp and his eyes widen in horror when he sees a hole in her chest. "SAHARA!"

"Take…care of Cairo…for me…" Is her last words before she falls backwards into a pond. He ducks down and grabs Cairo in his arms before making a run for it along with his brother. They fly up into the air where the shots continue.

"GAH!" Yugi yells all of a sudden, feeling a shot go through his body and he starts toward the ground.

"YUGI!"

"Go on without me!" he yells as he falls toward the ground. The last Atem sees is the farmer going toward him. He looks away and hears one last shot and he shuts his eyes and flies back to the safety of his home.

He drops to the floor with Cairo still in his arms and he puts an arm over his face as he starts to sob uncontrollably. In less than a minute, he has lost his wife and his brother. He bangs his head on the floor before looking down at Cairo who seems confused and clueless to what has just happened. He brings her close to him, holding her in his arms. "I promise, I will always be there to protect you."

End Flashback

'I wish she would just understand why I'm so overprotective of her. She's the only family I have and if I lose her…I would never forgive myself.'

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Next night

Mana does her normal routine which is walk down the street late at night all by herself. One of these days she will invest in buying a car which will be a lot quicker and safer. But that's not on her mind right now. For some reason, she finds herself thinking about those vampires. They have been on her mind all day.

'That girl…She doesn't want to attack me or any other humans. She just wants a friend. Maybe vampires aren't all that bad. But her father…'

"GOTCHA!" yells a voice from one of the alleyways and she rushes toward the source and gasps at what she sees. She thought she would never see Atem actually get captured by the police. He is trapped and entangled by a net that was thrown on him.

'Heh, serves him right,' she thinks at first before watching as Atem tries to struggle out of the net and break free. She sighs as her conscience finally hits her. 'He was probably only trying to get his daughter some food. I can't let him get captured. What will his daughter do without him? Darn my conscience.' She picks up a pole and slaps in it her hand a couple of times before going behind the officer and whacking him in the back of his head, causing him to fall out.

Then she goes down to Atem and attempts to get him untangled. She groans in frustration. "Hold still," she tells him.

"Why are you saving me?"

"Because I feel sorry for your daughter okay?"

"What?"

She gets him loose and she throws the net to the side. "I grew up without any of my parents so I know how it feels to not have your mom and dad in your life. And from the looks of it, you're the only she has."

Atem looks behind her and sees the police coming up behind her with a gun. "Watch out!" he warns and she looks over her shoulder before crying out when he shoots her with a taser. He can hear the sort of hissing sounds coming from the gun as it stuns her. He takes this opportunity while the officer is occupied and with his claws, he swipes the gun out of his hand before picking him up and throwing him to a brick wall with his incredible strength.

The police officer slowly starts to get up. "Halt!" he exclaims as Atem picks Mana up bridal style and flies off.

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Cairo lifts the lid off her coffin as she hears her father come in. But she isn't expecting to see Mana with him as well. What makes her even more upset is seeing that something has happened to her. She hops out and joins her father as he places her down on the bed. "W-What happened to her?"

"She saved me," Atem says, looking down at Mana. "I was so close to being captured but she saved me…"

"Is she gonna be alright?"

"Yes. She's just exhausted."

'All this time I thought all humans were bad. But she is much different from the others…'

Cairo looks up at her father. 'Maybe now he'll see that not all humans aren't as bad as he says they are.'

So now you know why Atem dislikes humans. But maybe that will all change…

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