Chapter 10

Me: Well reader, I am glad you have made it this far. So now is time to post the next chapter. I figured out something though! Has anyone ever watched Yugioh's season zero episodes? There on Youtube if you want to see them. DO YOU KNOW THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN TEA'S FRIENDSHIP SPEECHES?? HONDA'S BEAUTIFICATION MEMBER SPEECHES!! Gosh! They're annoying!! I think his speeches are WAY more annoying right now. It might become a tie later or something though. If you ever get the chance to watch the episodes, you'll see what I mean! (sighs happily) Finally, got that out of my system!

(Yami & Yugi arguing)

Me: What's going on now??

Yugi: Everyone thinks I'm soo innocent and you treat me like a little kid! Well, I'm sick of it!

Yami: But Yugi-

Yugi: Don't start with me! I am not a kid! I'm actually sort of older than you if you think about it in general terms!

Yami: Yugi, you're shouting. I don't like it. Anyway, I can't help it. You're too sweet.

Yugi: Really?

Yami: Well...maybe not right now, but...

Yugi: (pause) Not innocent.

Yami: Yes sir.

Me: What's going on here?

Yugi: Just clearing things up. Seems everyone is angry today.

Me: Had to get that off of my mind into the open!

Yugi: Okay Okay, sheesh.

Me: Yami, aren't you angry?

Yami: I'm angry from all the shouting! Enough!

Me & Yugi: Sorry. But we just had to say it.

Yami: (anime falls)

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh. I have no snappy line today. Sorry.

Thanks to the reviewers:

Yami-Yugi3

Tayomi

Protector Of The Nameless

Warnings: Only one swear word.

/blah/ Yugi's mindlink to Yami

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Chapter 10

Yami's monster leaped forward to attack Yugi's monster, but Yugi played his face down card to stop the monster. He thought it would stop the monster, but why would Yami still have that smirk on his face? "You really shouldn't have done that Yugi. My monster has a special ability to negate that trap card. All I have to do is just discard one measly card." He discarded a card as the monster continued his onslaught and attacked Yugi's face down card.

Yugi smirked this time. "Nice try, but I played the Mystical Elf. Her defense is 2000. And sense your monster has 1800 attack points you lose 200 life points."

"Why you little...Why did you play that trap card then?"

"To get you to draw out your monster's special ability."

"And sense that special ability only happens for one turn, it wouldn't work the next time. So you used your trap card as a decoy."

"Yep."

"Hmp! Nice moves Yugi. But they won't be good enough. It's your turn now."

"Yami, I don't want to do this." /This is just gonna be like that duel where Jou was brainwashed./ Yugi accidently mindlinked. He didn't realize their link was still working.

"Hmm, yes I remember then too. An example persay of how you always used me up until then. You didn't need me to duel for you so you just discarded me!"

"Whoa, no Yami that's not true!"

"Oh please, who are you trying to fool here?"

"Yami, I would never do that to you. I care about you too much. I just thought the brainwashing would wear off better because he knew me more back then."

"Yeah right."

"Please Yami-

"Enough! Are you going to start your turn or what! Or do you pass?"

Yugi sighed. "Fine. Anything to get you back Yami." Yugi was about to take his turn when he saw Kaiba step up. "Kaiba, what are you doing?"

"What does it look like?"

"Are you helping me?"

"Hmph. Don't get any ideas Yugi. I'm only in this for my company."

"Yeah right, Kaiba has a soft spot!" Jou shouted.

"Shut up mutt!"

"Oh for Ra's sake, HE HAS A CRUSH ON YOU!" Yami shouted frustrated.

"What!!! No I don't!!" Kaiba defended.

"Kaiba has a crush on me?" Jou got real confused this time.

"You wish mutt!...Oh why did I just say that?"While they were arguing the rest of the gang looked wide eyed and confused.

"Whoa Yami, how did you think of that?" Anzu asked.

"Well, when you're a spirit, watching everyone, you tend to see some things," he smirked.

"SHUT UP!!!" Kaiba shouted boiling with rage. "I'M GONNA KILL YOU FOR SAYING THAT!!!"

"WELL IT'S TOO LATE! I'M ALREADY DEAD!" Now they were arguing and almost clawing at each other's throats. Dartz was actually starting to get frustrated with all this as well. That's a first.

"Are you done yet?" he asked.

"Yes Dartz," Yami said.

"Why don't you call me master Dartz?"

"Cause...I don' wanna. Besides, even I don't bow down to you. Now Yugi, go."

"Don't you think I should go since I didn't yet?" Kaiba asked still angry.

"Depends."

"Depends what?"

"Depends...are you done with Jou?"

"YAMI!!" Jou shouted red faced.

"Yami, stop it!" Yugi shouted. Kaiba looked about ready to twist him until his head popped off.

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Raphael was running as fast as he could to confront Dartz. He understood everything now. He figured out that the Oricalcos is the one responsible for all this mess. He knew that Alister, Valon, Mai, and anyone else, yes even Yami, are totally innocent in this. They were just being used, including him. Well no more!

"I'm almost there," he said as he was running down the hall.

Meanwhile...sometime after all that with Yami and them...ID

Things weren't exactly going as according to plan as they had hoped. They did have Yami challenged but they didn't have him on the run. Dartz was kind of backseat dueling, even if Yami didn't want it.

"Pharaoh, not even you are strong enough to handle more than one Oricalcos."

"Don't tell me what to do!" He played them anyway. He felt the surge of dark energy flow through him but it hurt him as he put his hand to his chest and winced.

"Yami please listen, we don't want to control you. We never have. We love you very much so just stop this now!" Yugi was getting frantic.

"You...can't...tell me...what to do...either," he breathed. He was able to play that big snake monster. (AN: I can't remember the name. :.sweatdrop.:)

"Whoa, 'dat 'ting is big!" Jou shouted amazed by the size of the snake.

"Now snake, attack!" The snake was about ready to attack.

/Yami, stop./ Yugi said calmly through the mindlink. Yami stopped in his tracks. Somehow, just the way Yugi said it that time made him stop. Yami stared at him wide eyed. The Millennium Puzzle was glowing.

"Yugi what-

"Yami, I'm not gonna let the darkness take you." The puzzle glowed more as the Oricalcos rings shattered. All three of them.

"What's going on here?!" Dartz shouted.

"Yugi...

"Yami, I'm gonna help you." He let the puzzle glow until the light reached Yami. He covered his eyes from the brightness. The Oricalcos symbol was replaced by the eye of Horus. Yami was shown images of him and his friends. (AN: A Sailor Moon moment! I don't own that either.)

"You did it Yugi," Yami said.

"We both did it. And I don't even know your name."

"I've been called many things in the past. Pharaoh, Yugioh, I've been known as Yami."

Yugi nodded. "Well Yami, I'm proud to call you my friend."

"Good. Cause I'm good to be it."

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"I'm not sure what this is all about guys, but I'm sure we can trust him, whoever he is," Yugi said.

"Hey, if 'da big guy's okay in your book, then he's okay by me," Jou said.

"Yeah," Honda agreed.

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"Hey Yugi, do you think Yami wants to play a video game with us?" Anzu asked.

"Who's Yami?" Jou asked.

"You know, the spirit. The guy that fought while we were duel monsters," Yugi said.

"Oh him. I thought that was a dream."

"Well it wasn't!" Anzu shouted.

"Oh okay. Yeah, let him come out and play with us."

"Yeah, he should play too," Honda agreed.

"Okay." Yugi said

Images and scenes were poured into his mind overwhelming him as he collapsed on his knees holding his head. "Those flashbacks, are they true?" Yugi nodded.

"Pharaoh! Don't listen to him! He's shoving lies into your brain!" Dartz shouted frantic.

"Yami, he's the one that's telling you lies. Please Yami. Believe," Yugi said.

"I'm not that sure what to believe anymore." As soon as he said that, Raphael came bursting through the doors.

"DARTZ!!" he shouted.

"Ahh, Raphael, what brings you here?" he asked.

"Shove it. I've had enough of your lies."

"Whatever are you talking about?"

"Don't give me that! You're the one who was feeding us all lies. You manipulated me, Valon, Alister, Mai," he looked over to Yami, "and the Pharaoh."

"Well, I had to do something. Sometimes even manipulating the events in their lives."

"No...wait...

"Ahh yes, like Alister. He thinks it was Gozuboro (AN: Can't remember how to spell it.) who took his little brother. But it's easy to manipulate with disguise."

"No...

"And Valon, he was sent to many detention camps, however he wouldn't have gotten there without manipulation by me."

"You didn't."

"And then there's you Raphael."

"No...You didn't!"

"Your ship got hit by a wave, however I was the one that caused that wave!"

"YOU BASTARD!!" Raphael was boiling with rage. Yami was still confused on some things but he realized what was going on.

"Raphael don't! Don't get angry! The Oricalcos!" Raphael didn't listen to him as he charged at Dartz. He didn't get far as the Oricalcos surrounded him and he screamed.

"Raphael!" everyone shouted.

"What's going on?!" he shouted through the pain.

"Raphael, you can never escape the Oricalcos. It's a part of you now. And now it's feeding on your rage...and your soul," Dartz smirked.

"NO!" he shouted as the Oricalcos took his soul and he lay limp on the ground. Meanwhile Yami was trembling from watching that. Yugi saw this and decided to say something that was sure to knock some sense into Yami.

"You see that Yami. That's what's going to happen to you if you keep this up." Now it was up to Yami to figure out what he wanted to do.

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Me: Guess I'll end it here. It was supposed to go longer but I added a lot of things so this is sort of your cliffhanger. What will Yami choose to do?

Yami: What in the heck was that?

Yugi: Yeah, what was up with the KaibaxJou thing?

Me: (sheepish) Oh. That. Well, I swear that was totally spontaneous! It just came out of nowhere. At the time, I was thinking of Family Guy where Stewie says, "Oh for God's sake, HE'S WEARING A WIRE!" And I just had to put that in there. I always have to put some humor somewhere. I don't own Family Guy either.

Yami & Yugi: (Laughing)

Me: (sigh) I hate to break it to ya people, but this story's only gonna go on for a couple more chapters.

Yami: We should have a party!

Me: For what?

Yami: Your first finished chapter story!

Yugi: Good idea! I love parties!

Me: Let's talk about it later. Anyways readers, review please!