Sarah: I bet you're all wondering where YamiHeart is. Well, I KILLED HER! BWAHAHAHAHA! I found out I don't have to do the disclaimer every chapter and I killed her for it. Plus, I want Yugi to *COUGH* stop being hurt *COUGH*.
Must. Write. FanFic.
Sarah: AHHHHHHHHHHHH! YamiHeart has turned into a mummy who has come back from the dead to write this FanFic!
Why...does that...sound so pitiful? *TYPE TYPE TYPE*
Sarah: Must kill! *HOLDS UP BAT*
Police: FREEZE!
Sarah: WHAT?
Please enjoy chapter...11.
Sarah: Let me go!
Police: Stop struggling and come quietly! You are under arrest for murder!
*SIGH* *TYPE TYPE TYPE*
Yugi felt himself drift. He didn't know where he was drifting to and he didn't care. He felt as though his heart and been ripped from his chest and stabbed until it was a mushy pulp. Why had Yami not recognized him? Did…did Yami no longer have a need for Yugi since they had separate bodies thanks to Azrael? It…it couldn't be that, could it? Yami always promised him that their bond was more than simply host and guardian and closer to that of two brothers like the Kaibas. But…that still didn't explain Yami's strange behavior…
"You're so hurt…" The woman's voice broke Yugi's thoughts, but in a good way. Her voice was so soothing…
"Who are you?" Yugi had tried to form words, but instead his thoughts just amplified so they could be heard by the mysterious women.
"Little Uri, do you not remember me?" Yugi was confused. Was he supposed to be Uri or… "Ah…you still hold onto that painful past. You believe Yugi is your name."
"It-It isn't?"
"Oh, it was. But I've changed it."
The woman's voice wasn't as soothing anymore. It scared Yugi to know that someone had just changed who he was.
"Where…where's Yami?" Yugi asked. At first he wasn't sure if he wanted to know, but then he realized how horrible he would feel to know something had happened to the pharaoh.
"He's long gone. Didn't even look back when he went back to Earth with Ryo and Amane."
Yugi felt like he was going to cry. Sure, Yami wasn't hurt, but now Yugi knew for sure that the spirit had forgotten him. Yami had left him behind, left him to die in the In-Between. Yugi had been so confident that Yami would rescue him and was ecstatic when he saw his other half in the place were forgotten things roamed. But now…
Yugi felt comforting arms embrace him and make an almost silent "Shhhh" noise as the actuality of the situation branded itself into the young boys mind.
"My poor little Uri…don't worry, Suha will make it all better. Suha will take away all the pain. Would Uri like that?" Suha asked.
Yugi hadn't realized his eyes had been closed until he had to open them. Once he did, he saw the soft face of a woman with long, black hair and eyes like stars. Both of them were surrounded in a sort of fog that didn't let Yugi see very far. The woman, Suha, was cradling him in her arms and Yugi didn't think it was possible to feel more at ease. Then, Yami's face flashed before Yugi's eyes and a few tears escaped his eyes.
"What…what would I have to do?" Yugi, no, Uri asked.
"Let me, Suha, put you back into your body."
"But…" Uri recalled how he had been stabbed in the back. He didn't want to relive that pain over again.
"Don't fret, I fixed it up. Your body is all better now. No more pain…"
"What about this pain?" Yugi's eyes started to drift shut again from how safe he felt in Suha's arms as he grabbed the area of his chest over his heart.
"That spirit hurt you that much, huh? Poor, poor Uri." Suha held Uri closer to her as she stroked his back. "Would you like me to wipe your memories of him, of all of your 'friends'?"
Yugi tensed up and pushed away from Suha. Just because Yami had hurt him didn't mean he wanted his memories erased!
"No!" Yugi shouted in protest.
Suha's grip tightened warningly. "Now Uri, he's already forgotten about you, they all have."
"All the more reason for me not to forget them! Yami is a part of me, and my friends are my life!"
Yugi finally broke free of Suha's grip and backed away. Suha's eyes narrowed dangerously and her voice wasn't so kind anymore.
"Uri, you can either make this easy or difficult for yourself. Just let me bring you back to your body in the In-Between."
"Then what? And stop calling me that! My name is Yugi Mutou and…and…"
"Uri, this 'Yugi Mutou' no longer exists." Suha's voice was back to comforting and her eyes no longer had that dangerous edge in them. "He has been wiped from the face of the Earth. No one remembers him, there is no record of his birth or accomplishments. He has been forgotten."
The word "forgotten" hit Yugi hard and he found himself falling to his knees and wrapping his arms around his torso. Suha approached him gracefully and knelt down until she was at his eye level.
"I'm giving you the chance to be reborn as Uri, to forget all those people who have hurt you, to finally be at ease once again. Now, come back with me to the In-Between."
Suha stood up and outstretched her hand to Yugi. Yugi looked up at Suha and said, "No."
Suha was shocked. "What?"
"I don't want to forget the people who've caused me pain because they've made me who I am today. Yami, Ryo, Amane, Grandpa, Seto, Anzu, Honda, Jonouchi. All of them are a part of me I can never let go of. I am Yugi Mutou and I will never be Uri. Never."
Yugi stood up confidently, his eyes gleaming with realization. He didn't care about the pain. Even if his friends forgot him in their minds, he knew they would always remember him in their hearts. That was enough to keep Yugi from becoming what Suha wanted him to be and it was enough to make the pain fade away.
Suha snatched her hand away and began to completely transform. The fog began to move around the two of them as Suha's entire form became like that of a monster from a horror film. The miscellaneous pieces that formed her clothing fell off and were replaced with jagged, bleeding rocks. Her skin turned reptile-like and her eyes turned to crimson. Her mouth smiled wickedly to reveal sharp fangs and her nails grew into claws. The only thing that didn't change was her hair that remained long and black. Yugi stood frozen by the sudden change in the woman's appearance.
"Fine. I'll bring you back the hard way!" Suha lunged at Yugi and grabbed his shoulders.
Yugi fell backwards, but found that he never hit the ground. Instead, he found himself falling through layers of clouds. Yugi fought against Suha, causing his descent to slow slightly. In response to his fighting, Suha dug her nails into Yugi's shoulders. Yugi let out a cry of pain and Suha cackled.
"Just give up Uri! You're mine now!"
"Yami!" Yugi cried out. "Yami, help!"
"Why? Why do you continue to hope for his return? He is gone! He doesn't need you! No one does! Just give in and be mine!"
Yugi stopped fighting back so hard. Why did he continue to try? Yami couldn't hear him, and even if the spirit did it wouldn't matter. Yami would probably dismiss Yugi's desperate cries as the wind or something and continue on like nothing unusual had happened. It then dawned on Yugi how lonely he truly was. No one was coming to save him, so why bother fighting?
Suha sensed immediately Yugi's defeat and pushed him harder, a smile spreading across her face until it reached both her ears. She had won, she was going to have a new mind to feed on, and no one could stop her.
The clouds began to clear up and Uri's fixed body could now be seen. Suha went in for the kill and pushed with all her might.
All Yami did was run. He ran and ran with the only thought in his head being, "I'm sorry Yugi."
When Yami entered the castle he semi-noticed that the maze he and Ryo had first gone through had returned and was even more complicated. He would never have been able to go forward if he hadn't felt Yugi's presence far above him. Yami continued to run and take all the right turns and stair cases necessary to get to his destination.
If possible, the maze seemed to get angry at Yami's success and began to become more complicated. Yami, however, paid no mind to the change in difficulty and continued to advance at a constant pace. Finally, Yami recognized the hallway he had seen Amane's room in and, remembering the young girl's earlier instructions, took two lefts and five rights to come to Azrael's room.
Yami came into the room and was horrified to see the angry clouds from outside had entered the room and seemed to be hovering around Yugi's body. Suddenly, two forms emerged from the clouds and Yami gasped when he saw Yugi being pushed down by a grotesque monster. Yami remembered how Suha had said she had recreated Azrael's body and placed his soul inside of it so that she could feed on his sanity.
"Yugi!" Yami yelled out in fear for his partner's safety.
Both Yugi and the monster's heads shot over to look Yami. Yugi's eyes widened in joy at seeing his other half. He had come back! He said his name! He remembered him!
"Yami!" Yugi exclaimed.
The monster glared at the spirit and laughed. "I don't know how you retrieved your memories, but no matter. You're too late anyway, Pharaoh!"
Suha once again pushed down on Yugi, but this time he fought back. Yugi fought back with all his strength, and he was winning.
Suha frowned. She couldn't lose the child now; she could never find a replacement in time! Unless…would it work? Suha had little choice but to try.
"Get him!" Suha commanded.
The clouds swirled and shot towards Yami. He tried to run, but the clouds were much faster and had grabbed as soon as he turned around.
"No!" Yugi cried out. He couldn't let Suha take Yami!
"Go back into your body like a nice little boy and I'll let him go." Suha said. She grinned. Her plan was working.
"Don't do it Yugi!" Yami yelled as he struggled to get out of the cloud's grip. Yami was going to say more when the cloud wrapped itself around his mouth.
"You better hurry, or I'll take his soul instead, Uri." Suha threatened. Another round of muffled protests came from Yami when he heard Suha call Yugi Uri, but Yugi wasn't listening anymore.
Yugi looked over at Yami with a sad smile. "Thank you Yami, for coming back."
Yami just about had a heart attack. Yugi couldn't do this, but that didn't mean he wouldn't. Yami knew his hikari all too well, which scared him. It scared the Pharaoh to know that he might lose his other half to this…witch.
Yugi stopped resisting for the last time.
Suha pushed down.
Yami screamed.
Bun bun...BUN! Cliffhanger!
Sarah: *CRIKCET NOISES*
Oh yeah...she was arrested...I guess that means I have to do the review replys...okay then.
To R. N. Walker, Sorry, I didn't mean to make it anticliamctic. ^^; I'm glad you still liked the chapter, though.
To Kairi, Isn't it sad when it's a bad thing that Yami won?
To Assassin Massie, Heh heh...hope you don't mind another cliffhanger...
To DarkHeartInTheSky, Yeah...thanks about telling Sarah that. But I promise there are no hard feelings.
To Writer Of The Light, Thank. You. :) Epic is good.
To DarkChao1663, Yes, yes it was irritating.^^
To redglowingheart, WOW! You are a reviewing machine! Thanks for so many!
To A Perplexing Puzzle, Gee, thanks for the suggestion, but I think I'll continue to write my crap.^^
To ThiefOfHearts, If you print out FanFic, then you can read it at school! I do it all the time. School is boring. ;P
Well...I guess that's it. I hope you review and-
Sarah: I ESCAPED! I ESCAPED! Wait...you did the review replys...
Um...yeah...
Sarah: I'm goign to kill you again!
EEP! Please review and please come back for the next chapter!
Sarah: Grrrrrrrrrrrr...Hee hee! YamiHeart doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh!
Um...why are you...?
Sarah: Or a life.
AIEEEEEE!
