Hi!

Poor little Yugi (Why the heck do I say "little"? He's what like sixteen seventeen? Well Seventeen in this story) has been asked to marry Rebecca, or consider her a bride, and he's been told to grow up a bit... NO!

But Yugi always bounces back, let's watch.

I don't own Yugioh or Pocahotas or the songs from that movie, all rights to their respected owners!

Enjoy! I've changed the song to fit my story, I hope you like the changes!


Kuriboh and Iru jumped up onto Yugi's shoulders, not used to seeing him looking so down. Yugi tickled Winged Kuriboh's feathers lightly looking at them both. "Grandpa wants me to be steady… like the river…" he leaned over the edge and two Aqua Magikarp's jumped out of the water, making bother Iru and Kuriboh jump away shrieking.

Yugi giggled, suddenly back to his old self "But it's not steady at all!" he said, standing and watching the two fish play in the shallows urging him to follow. Yugi nodded and then saw the canoe that Baby Dragon had brought back for them sitting idle.

Yugi smiled and starting to sing, all the creatures loved to hear Yugi sing, the spirits would drop what they were doing just to listen, his voice was beautiful.

"What I love most about rivers is:

You can't step in the same river twice"

Yugi's toes entered the cool water, stepping barefoot the few steps to the canoe that would take him away from this place of growing up and hard decisions.

"The water's always changing, always flowing

But people, I guess, can't live like that

We all must pay a price;

To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing"

Iru tapped some Catapult Turtles on the shells and they all hummed their deep greetings to Purinsu yūgi as he paddled by in the canoe, Yugi waved back and kept singing, Winged Kuriboh sitting at the nose of their little canoe, looking forwards and his brown eyes widening.

"What's around the riverbend

Waiting just around the riverbend"

Yugi leaned around, the village vanishing as he turned a corner that was hidden behind some reeds, the sky suddenly erupted with flowers and leaves as the Catapult Turtles launched bundles of them in a game of bright colours and lots of noise. Yugi smiled widely, vanishing from the eyes of the village and he held his arms in the air as he sang.

"I look once more

Just around the riverbend

Beyond the shore

Where the gulls fly free"

The canoe all flew into the air around him, their wings blocking out the sun suddenly, their wings covering Yugi in a blanket of feathers as they fell from wings it the fray. The open sky dotted with white. Kuruboh cheered in joy "Kuri!" Iru clapped her hands and lead the way.

"Don't know what for

What I dream the day might send

Just around the riverbend

For me

Coming for me"

Yugi turned the boat towards a series of waterfalls, the spray covering him in crystal droplets. Yugi giggled and reached out to touch the water with a dainty finger.

"I feel it there beyond those trees

Or right behind these waterfalls"

Winged Kuriboh leaned out and touched the water too and then got three large fish drop on his fury head from the top of the waterfall. He pouted and shrieked in annoyance, batting them away with his little paws and frowning. Yugi patted his head gently as he sang the next line of his song.

"Can I ignore that sound of distant drumming?

To be handsome sturdy husband

Who builds handsome sturdy walls

And never dreams that something might be coming?

Just around the riverbend

Just around the riverbend"

Yugi's eyes lit up as he saw a waterfall in his path. Kuriboh jumped up and beat his little cherub wings, shaking his head while panicking "Kuri! Kuri! Kuri!" he waved his paws at Yugi but the little amethyst eyed boy paddled onwards determinedly. Iru screamed and covered her eyes as the tip of the canoe crossed over the waterfall. Yugi prayed quickly and the Water Element Bird appeared from the water and carried him in a gliding motion down to the water again. Yugi waved his thanks as he kept singing.

"I look once more

Just around the riverbend

Beyond the shore

Somewhere past the sea

Don't know what for…

Why do all my dreams extend

Just around the riverbend?

Just around the riverbend-"

Yugi paused, the canoe stopping as he dung in his paddle and stopped his journey. He looked at the water splitting into two paths, one was rougher and seemingly less smooth and inviting but at the same time more exciting, the other was smoother and more water flowed that way.

Yugi's problem came back to him and he sighed as he sang more solemnly.

"Should I choose the smoothest course?

Steady as the beating drum?

Should I marry Rebecca-kun?

Is all my dreaming at an end?"

All the spirits listened sadly to his song, poor Purinsu yūgi, being forced to give up his freedom…

Yugi's eyes cleared slightly as he looked towards the sky and finished his song longingly.

"Or do you still wait for me, Dream Giver

Just around the riverbend?"

Iru and Winged Kuriboh flew behind Yugi as he paddled down the smaller path of the river. The woods resumed its normal activities now Yugi wasn't distracting nature by singing. Yugi beached the canoe in a small bay, where a willow tree grew, its vines brushing Yugi's white skin.

Iru lit the way with her staff and Winged Kuriboh jumped around excitedly, spirits jumped from the flowers and the water, little animals who liked the Prince, like rabbits and birds all landed in the branches around where Yugi was headed. A voice came from no-where as Yugi climbed the roots of the huge tree to a seat like root before the trunk. "Is that my sweet Purinsu yūgi?"

Yugi smiled at the warm female voice and knelt before the trunk "Wise Eldertree Ishizu, I need to speak with you"

The tree trunk began to mould into a young woman who's back was attached to the tree, she couldn't move, only her torso and shoulders and head was human like the rest was one with the tree. The eyes opened and revealed wise eyes that were bark but alive "Good day to you, sweet Yugi, I was hoping to see you today" the willow spoke warmly to her favourite human.

Yugi smiled at the ancient spirit, she had been talking to his Mother's side of the family for generations, Sugoroku knew about her but wasn't too keen about her, Ishizu refused to speak with him, calling him a crabby old man who was too tied in one place to be worthy of a inner spirit.

"It's good to see you, Ishizu…"

Ishizu looked interested, her branches moved, a vine tilting Yugi's face up so she could see him. "Something troubling you young Prince?" she asked.

Yugi nodded and curled his arms around his legs. "Yeah… I need some advice… My Grandpa thinks I should marry Rebecca"

Ishizu jumped, sneering "Rebecca? But she's such a slut!"

Yugi nodded "I know… Grandpa thinks that it's the right path for me… but lately, I've been having this dream!"

Ishizu looked surprised then smiled widely "A dream young Prince? How exciting, let's hear all about it" The animals began chatting and Kuriboh jumped about shouting. Ishizu sighed irritated "I should never give then such an excuse to shout. Quiet!" she ordered sharply but it go nothing but a bird landing on her head "QUIET!" she yelled.

"Kuri!" Kuriboh said, then hid behind Yugi, his little wings covering his face as Ishizu glared at him. The bird on her head fled as soon as she began getting angry.

She shook her head "These stupid youngling spirits, don't know when they're not wanted… now, Yugi, you were saying?"

Yugi chuckled and then looked at his hands "Well… I'm running through the woods, towards a red sunset, it looks like the sun is bleeding… then all of a sudden there's a weird bracelet on the ground in front of me, it looks like a wing… it's made entirely of gold!"

Ishizu frowned "A Winged Bracelet… how unusual…"

Yugi nodded, thanking the Creator that she understood him "That's it! I put it on then a beam of light comes from it and into me when I start running forwards again, there's war drums sounding and I feel really scared for another, I see that person but they're in shadows. I keep running then I start glowing and shining like the starts that fall from the heavens then… I wake up" he finished.

Iru and Kuriboh looked disappointed with that ending.

Ishizu thought carefully about what Yugi had told her "Well, it seems to me that this Winged Bracelet is a key feature in the path of your destiny"

Yugi looked up at the wise tree longingly "But Ishizu, what is my path, everyone I talk to says different, how will I find my path?"

Ishizu laughed warmly "Your Mother asked me exactly the same question"

Yugi blinked "She did? What did you tell her?"

Ishizu thought and then smiled, a vine grabbing Yugi's hand and placing it on his chest. "I told her to follow her inner hearts. You, my young Prince, have several hearts for each part of you"

"Really?" Yugi's eyes were wide, his childish features full of curiosity.

Ishizu nodded "You have three hearts. One is one that links you to this earth; the 'beating heart' that will stop beating when it is time for you to journey into death. The second is your 'spirit heart'; linking you to your inner spirit and the other spirits around you, that one is particularly strong in you, making you nearly as wild and free as the spirits you live alongside" Yugi blushed as yet another told him about his free spirit nature.

Ishizu chuckled. Yugi looked confused "What's the third?"

Ishizu wrapped her vines around his wrists and placed them both on his heart "The third is one you give away to the one you love the most. You must listen to them, they all tell you the same message even though they all represent different parts of you"

Yugi closed his eyes and listened.

Ay ay ay ya

Ay ay ya

He suddenly heard something, the spirits talking for far and wide. "I hear something" he whispered.

Ishizu smiled "What is it telling you? If you have heard something then you are destined to listen to it and follow your own actions from what you hear. What is it saying?"

Yugi turned, facing the trees, his eyes opened as the world revolved around the voices that whispered to him "I don't understand…" he whispered and closed his eyes, losing himself in the sound of the earth and it's spirits talking to him, he thought he heard the voice of Mystical Elf and Celtic Guardian in the endless murmur.

Ishizu joined into the song behind him, her own voice weaving understanding into his brain as he listened.

Yugi heard the spirits chanting around him, some sounded familiar and others new and strange or old and foreign, Winged Kuriboh and Iru were singing too to help him understand. But they weren't speaking, it was as if Yugi was listening into the very melody of life.

Ishizu nodded and smiled to herself, this boy was destined for greatness, when she first bestowed the title Purinsu yūgi onto the boy as a three day old infant she knew he was different. His hearts were so open, she knew he would be more tightly linked to her world of spirits than any before him.

Yugi gasped suddenly "I hear them! All the spirits…" his eyes remained closed as he shifted through the noise to find some sense.

Purinsu yūgi

You will understand

Yugi heard a light reasoning appearing in his mind. Iru and Kuriboh felt the change in their companion and waited eagerly. Yugi was beginning to understand, quite a feat for one so young.

Listen with your hearts

You will understand

Let it break upon you

Like a wave upon the sand

Yugi opened his eyes, the link fading now he wasn't listening fully "They're saying something's coming… strange clouds?" he reached up and pulled himself up Ishizu's branches to get to the top, where all the voices were fleeing from.

Listen with your hearts

You will understand

Ishizu followed him up with her eyes, unable to leave her glade, she felt him reach the top as the last of the voices faded from Yugi's ears.

Yugi looked over towards the sea from the top of Ishizu's branches. He gasped and gripped the wood under his hands. Iru shrieked and fled back to the bottom of the willow. Ishizu called up to Yugi "What do you see?" Kuriboh hid behind a large branch, his face worried as he looked at the sight Yugi was hypnotised by.

Yugi blinked, dazed "Clouds…" his eyes seeing the clouds of an odd shape, moving like fabrics not the fluffy shapes and texture they were normally, to top it off they were moving as one against the wind. "Strange clouds…" he whispered again. What on the Creators earth are they? Yugi climbed back down and vanished into the trees. I have to find out!


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It's Atem! He's back baby!

So how were the song changes? Good? Bad? Could be better, it's not easy you know, i had to make them ryhme and fit the tune!

Won't update unless fed reviews, and I've got to study... damn school...

Hope you all liked it! Byes!