SOTP: Hey guys! Chapter 4 here! I own nothing!

Laura kept her eyes closed as she awoke at the sound of a group of people talking outside the door. She then slowly cracked her eyes open to see Yami stand up from the bed. With sleep still in her eyes, she sat slowly sat up and called to him.

"Yami?"

The vampire king turned at small wisper of his name. His eyes softened as he smiled at the sight of the little girl half asleep in his bed. He leaned down to kiss her forehead and layed her back down while covering her with the blankets.

"Go back to your dreams, sweet one. I 'll be back in a moment."

Yami wispered sweetly as he patted Laura softly on the head and left the room. Laura however, was far too curious to find out what was happening. So she crawled out of the warm bed and stood behined the door to listen in on the conversation.

Out in the hallway, Seto and Joey stood with a man that had black hair in a spiked up pony tail with green eyes known as Duke. The three of them continued to argue as Yami walked towards them. Who was about three days passed happy from being woken up before sundown.

" If we don't do something soon, he won't be the only shikabanie walking around!" Seto declared.

" For all we know, that girl is one too. I say we get rid of her as well." Duke agreed. Laura gasped at hearing the statement knowing full well there were talking about her. She became scared and confused as the men continued to argue.

" Duke, she's a kid!" Joey disagreed with his eyes full of rage.

" Kid, adult, elderly, makes no differents!"

"ENOUGH!"

All three men turned to Yami at the sound of his voice. His eyes serious as he stopped in front of them. Laura shook at the sound of command in the vampire kings voice as he spoke. The sound brought back the fearful memory of her father's anger as she stood hiding behined the bedroom door.

"Bad enough that you should wake me. However, if you wish to continue behaving like idiotic human diplomats, then at least be mindful of the sleeping girl in the next room."

Yami said before Duke quickly began to argue once more.

" Yami, that girl is a shikibane for all we know. A living corps! We have to kill her before she tries to-" Duke was cut off by Yami slamming
him against the wall. Yami glared at Duke with a look of pure anger in his eyes. A look that was so terriafiting, that even the devil himself would cower in fear at a mear glimps of the vampire king's eyes.

"That girl, is nothing but a pure, innocent child. A shikibane has no thought of being considerite or selfless like she does." Yami said as he spoke in a tone that was quite, yet threating. Duke glared at Yami as he released him from the hold he had on his collor at Seto's command.

"For once, I'm afraid I argee with my cousin, Duke." Seto said as held up a new paper artical that dated two years ago.

The story was on a lab in Tokyo, being destroyed by an experiment gone wrong. The lab was the very one Laura's Father had worked in the year that her Mother was killed. The story commented on how a young girl's mother had saved the life of her daugther. Shielding her from the falling ceiling that was on fire by using her own body. Miraculously, the daughter was alive with only small cuts and burns. The Mother however, obivously didn't.

"What's that got to do with anything?" Duke exclaimed as Yami glared at him.

" I'm getting to that, you impatient fool! " Seto snapped before continuing with his explaition.

"The girl's Father, who apperently was the leader of the project, should not have lived for he was at the place of impact when the lab exploded. Yet he walked out of the building, carring the body of his wife in his arms."

" So you mean dat Lor's old man was dead even before Yami sucked him?" Joey said with a shocked expression. Laura, who was still listening at the door, couldn't believe what she heard. She began to sink into the floor with tears filling her eyes.

"Correct. That means that Laura might have lived with a shikabane all this time, but she is not one herself." Seto finished as he folded the artical and place it back into his pocket. Joey then spoke up to ask an intresting question.

" Hey, how does a shikabane actully come into existance, anyway?"

"Those who are human that die, but refuse to give up living. They trade in their humanity and become the undead. The emoitions the of person dying become so strong, that they don't die. Instead, their reborn to become the living dead and are giving incredible powers to boot."

Duke explained all of this with an air of fear and hatetred in his voice. His parents were killed by a shikabane when he was nine and his sister was only three. So in order to get revenge, he became one of the undead himself allowing himself to be turned into a vampire. He then swore to kill every last shikabane standing untill he found the one that needed to die.

Yami knew his reasons for he was the one who had turned Duke. The vampire king did understand his reasons. However, he would not allow Duke's hatetred of the shikabane to cloud his judement. After Duke finished explaining, Yami began to speak.

"Then we have to act fast. Considering what happened at his origanal death, he must be trying to use his science to reserect his wife. He blames Laura for her Mother being killed. Which would explain why he's been treating her badly all this time. We must destroy him, or something terrible could happen to the innocents of the city."

That at moment, Laura's heart stopped. She could not believe that Yami had just spoken those words. Her father may have been crule, but he was her family. The only family she had left. She quickly ran from the bedroom, almost tripping on the crimson rug. She screamed as she ran to Yami with tears flowing down her face.

"YAMI, NO!"

Yami turned at the voice with wide eyes as Laura wrapped her arms tightly around his troiso. She cried desparetly into his shirt as Yami stood there. Remorse showing in his deep red crismon eyes.

"Yami, please! It's my fault! Daddy didn't do anything! If Mama, hadn't saved me, he would be alright! Please, don't hurt him! PLEASE!"

Okay I got chapter of this up. Kinda short, but this should keep you guys happy for a while. NOW THEN, I will be busy with certain things for one, I have been working on a another story for a friend of mine for her brithday.

So if I don't update this for whlie, CHILL! I will update whenever can. One of my goals is to finish, EVERY story I write here, so don't worry if I don't update write away. Besides, do this done fast or good? So, please bare with me. Thank you.

YUGIOH 3D is out JULY 19th! YES!

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