Crossover : Yu-Gi-Oh

Characters : Kuroko Tetsuya, and Akashi Seijuurou

Pairing : None.

Rate : K

Words : 1287

Summary : Eight years he tried to put this puzzle he found together. The puzzle his grandmother gave to him. And it will be finished this time. But something strange happened when he wears the puzzle, and he doesn't know what it is.

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Eight years.

It has been eight years since Kuroko Tetsuya got a small, golden box from his grandmother that said can grant your wish. It's eight years ago he took several pieces of gold puzzle from the same box. Eight years he tried to fix the shattered puzzle on the table in front of him.

A storm howls outside, the wind blowing fiercely and dark, ominous clouds swirling overhead, but he could care less about that. He is too engrossed in his current activity. His wide, innocent azure eyes that should have faded with age remains within his visage, scanning the puzzles before him.

Every now and then, his concentration would get the better of him and he would receive a pounding headache, causing him to sit back in his chair and clutch his head for a moment, further ruffling his teal colored hair. His bangs thankfully does not cling to his face (which is a feat, considering the sweat this boy was putting forth over a simple puzzle), and tends to wave about a bit whenever he had to take momentary breaks from his strange task. Many fragments of gold sit in a similarly-colored box in front of him, but he is quickly picking them out of it.

Eight long years had gone by, and he had still not yet solved this puzzle. Eight years and he still had not given up.

But tonight, however, is going better than usual. The puzzle is almost complete.

As each piece slips into place with either a simple slide of the hand or a click, he barely notices a dull, golden glow around the edges of any piece that meets the correct place. He does not have any idea what shape the final product will be in, but he still continues his endeavors with the mysterious puzzle. His excitement reaches its peak as only one piece is left. In his excitement, the boy can barely notice the artifact beginning to faintly pulse.

He pulls the final fragment of gold from the mysterious box. He gazes over it momentarily. The wadjet eye. It's mysterious and seeming to gaze back at him, into the very recess of his mind. Even so, his heart is filled with excitement. After waiting for a moment, he slips the final piece in place.

A moment of victory reigns over his heart when it's finally done to the point he is completely unaware that the puzzle pulsing for briefest of moments. The feeling has last for few minutes before it fades and he calms again. He then took a small, long chain necklace from his drawer, nervously slips it through the loop on top of the finished puzzle.

He smiles as he holds his most beloved possession in his palms. Strangely enough, the object seems… warm. It is as though it is alive. But, he shakes his head, decides that it's just his feeling. The lightning tears through the sky, startling him momentarily and causing his heart to race.

He huffs and smiles again. He cradles the pyramid-shape pendant in his hands a bit more, before he put it around his neck. With a foolish smile that never seen from him before, he speaks quietly.

"Millenium Puzzle, hear my wish. I wish for friends. I wish for someone whom I can share my heart with." He takes a breath deeply. "I want a bond that can't be broken."

The moment the words leave the boy's lips, a small humming sound fills the room as well as a small corner of his mind. His heart jerked a moment, but quickly a smile spreads across his face as a brilliant golden light emitted from the mysterious pendant. This was it! Was his wish finally being fulfilled?

Little does he know there are something else, another beings, also waiting for him to finish the puzzle in the room.

An aura of foreboding fills the air in the room. The puzzle trembles uncontrollably in his hands, and for a moment he feels that it would once again split into fragments. It does not take long for the entire room to echo with a sharp chime coming from the metallic pendant.

A dark light pours forth from the wadjet eye on the puzzle. His eyes widen as he saw it forming menacing creatures that surrounded the boy, their eyes gazing hungrily on their prey. His breath is heavy with fear. His mouth trembles, wanting to scream loudly. One of the creatures, the smaller one, creeps ever closer to him with its bared vicious teeth. Instinctively, he rears one of his arms to shield himself, a cry of alarm barely escaping his throat, stumbling backward towards the table behind him.

A sharp chime rings throughout the room as the eye on the puzzle begins to shine even more brilliantly. He feels his mind swarming with countless thoughts, the puzzle pulsing violently as it dangles around his neck. The light only grew brighter as time passed. He did his best to fight back in any way possible, but as he does the brilliance went further to overtake him.

As the golden radiance blinds him, he feels no choice but to squeeze his eyes tightly shut and turn his head away. A sensation filled his nerves; it was foreign, and the boy does not understand or trust it. No matter how hard he pushes at it, it fought back. In a panic as he feels his senses sharpening beyond belief, the boy cries out in what sounded like pain as the golden light coursed throughout the room and wrapped around the human almost threateningly.

He can't see it, but his appearance slowly changes behind the light. His teal hair turns into red, and his body grows taller than before. His eyes opens once more, showing his once azure colored eyes now become a pair of mismatched red and golden eyes with the pupils slit like cat eyes. He stands confidently as his eyes narrow fiercely.

The eye of wadjet glows furiously on his forehead, and within moments a golden swarm of light twisting around him, creating a shield of sorts. The creatures once again begin to lunge at him, but they stopped as they are too blinded by the golden light.

Just one look and you know that this is not the fearful boy from before.

He holds the pendant in his hand delicately, saving his ferocity for the monsters. He moves his other hand to the side. "Shadow Beasts!" he commands, almost in snarl. "Be gone! Return to where you came!"

Radiance of light engulfs the beasts, obliterating them one by one. The golden light shines so brilliantly it floods out the boy's window. Anyone who had been looking that way would have seen something akin to an enormous golden beam firing out his window.

The light slowly fades, it sinks back into the puzzle, channeled through the wadjet eye. The darkness once again covered the room, the strange light is gone and so are the beasts. The mark on the boy's forehead disappears. His appearance turns back into before, teal haired and azure eyes.

He gasps, standing quietly and blinking in surprise as his eyes re-adjust to his surrounding. He turns his head left and right, confusion is seen on his face. He looks at the puzzle around his neck, holding it carefully in gentle hands, before glances about his bedroom once more. Nothing is different. No strange light. No the beasts that surrounded him. There's nothing change except the fact that something seems to be prodding in the back of his mind. Oh, and he suddenly feels exhausted for some reason. His head also hurts as hell.

Just… what happened here?


A/N :

Well, what do you know, Akashi could become Yami/Atem very perfectly.

But if he became Yami/Atem, then it will create a complex paradox. Another personality of another personality of someone. In other words emperor!Akashi is another personality of real!Akashi who is another personality of Kuroko.

I'm dizzy.

Well, at least he doesn't like the... pft... the phantom Taiga... *laugh again*