Insane: You guys are enjoying this? (Just skim to the ~*~*~ if ya don't wanna read this part)

Yami Yugi: WHY?!

Yami Bakura: -.-. I like Pharaoh angst…hehehe…

Yami Yugi:…why?

Yami Malik: ^^ Tiss the season to confess your deepest darkest demons! Fa la la la!

Yami Yugi: O_ Why?

Yami Bakura: Shut up with the whys.

Yami Yugi: Why?

Yami Bakura: Because I said so.

Yami Yugi: Why?

Yami Bakura: Because you're annoying me.

Yami Yugi:…why?

Yami Bakura: . …DIE! *slaps Yami Yugi with another chapter of angst*

Yami Yugi: X_x…why?

Yami Bakura: O_o…

Insane: Just leave him alone…

Yami Yugi: W-…why?

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Insane: .;; I DON'T KNOW!

Yami Bakura: -__- I'm gonna' go hey wire on you, boy.

Yami Malik: O_o… While they settle their…erm…differences, please note that Different is beautiful. I have a degree in being different-

Yami Yugi: THAT'S BECAUSE YOUR HOMICIDAL!

Yami Malik: -.-. I rest my case…moving on… As a certain review said, this story IS indeed different. I am not big on fics that portray Yami Yugi as the hero. I prefer Yami Yugi angst…for reasons I won't go into-

Yami Yugi: YOUR NOT EVEN WRITING THIS! SO WHY ARE YOU TALKING?!

Yami Malik: details, details, details. What's your point?

Yami Yugi: -__-U

Insane: Let me talk, Seth.

Yami Malik: Okay…

Insane: And yes…Seth is Yami Malik's REAL name. I found that out some time ago. Erm…O_o…I forgot what I was going to talk about…oh yeah. Thanks to all the reviews! ^^ -_- But my muse still hasn't returned from the other fics…-.-;; curses… And yes…I am starting this before I got 7 reviews…oh well. I was to anxious to wait.

Yami Malik: Don't own yugioh, never did.

~*~*~*~*~*~

I walked within thin air as I pondered over my predicament. I couldn't bring myself to what I had concluded about my sin of hatred. I don't know why. It all happened so quickly. Within a matter of seconds I had lost both my pride and trust from Yugi Mouto, my hikari, my aibou, my last bit of life.  And yet…there is no one to blame other than my now broken self, a now broken soul. How I despise this day, this hour, this very minute. I hate it all. I hate the fact that I had once again received life,-sort of- and learned that there was something in this mortal filled world. Yugi. Why will he not forgive me, trust me, love me?

Maybe I should apologize? No. I will not reduce my self to a … There I go once again. This embodiment that I live within is weak, and yet I am strong. It has indeed gone to my head, I will not deny this. I feel as if I am still the pharaoh, and that I am indeed in charge. But I have lied to myself ever since Yugi, the heir, the guardian of the puzzle, the protector, put the pieces of my once ruined Millennium Item, the Puzzle. As he guards my home, my soul room, my cage, my prison, I was to simply protect him. But instead I have used his fragile body to play a once sick, deadly, horrific game known as Duel Monsters. But I am pleased that the stakes have decreased dramatically. It is indeed a change for the better that most people today use the cards as simple play things.

Unfortunately…Not all have dropped the desires for power. Pegasus J. Crawfard/Maximillion Pegasus, you fool. You would have been dying in my palm if it had not been for Seto Kaiba. He cheated, while I played fair.

This is not fair! I have played this game for over what? A whole millennia! And here, I lie battered, bruised, not physically…unfortunately. For I can not be hurt in such a way, but my mind –or is it soul- has been cut into two pieces. One side breathes nothing but the taste of both revenge and anger, while the other lays within Yugi now, the other side of me which found pleasure in his predicaments. That side dueled with one idea and one alone. To help Yugi in any way I could.

Now I know. I have been consumed. Eaten. Obliterated by my own hatred. This whole thing was my fault. Not Pegasus, not Kaiba, nor my hikari's stubbornness towards anything that involves violence. My own.

Yugi will never be reunited with his grandfather now. My fault, his loss. His cherished family relative gone in nanoseconds.

 A curse…that is what I am. If only I had cooperated with Yugi, maybe there could have been another way to beat the billionaire? Could I have saved Yugi's grandfather, possibly the young Kaiba? Mokuba… Another loss. He was to young. He never deserved to learn of the powers of the Eye. He didn't not deserve to have his heart, his soul, ripped from his very body. I wouldn't have put myself in front of the of the ray which beamed from the blasted Millennium Eye. Not then. But now…I would have gladly, I am willing. But now…I have used up my last chance. The last hope. In a way…I feel as if I…myself…have killed Yugi's loved ones, his friends, and their relatives.

Serenity Wheeler… will go blind… I have killed her last hope, for I know deep within this darkness known as my soul room, that Joey…cant win. He shall be consumed by Pegasus... like a gazelle, he shall be eaten alive by the lion. I wish deeply that I had more faith in Yugi's best, and first, friend. I have been cursed with doubt…as well as everything else.

And what is to stop Yugi's other friend, Ryou Bakura, from being consumed as well? Eventually he will fall into fate, he will become like the spirit in his ring. I can feel it. He is to kind, to gentle, to loving… But the darkness in his ring still lies dormant. I can feel it. The spirit may not be there, -Even though I doubt this- but the evil which had devoured the tomb robber in the first place still is. Without Bakura to absorb that dark energy, the holder will. One more fault, one more loss.

As I wait for the outcome of this "game of life" I shall try to…love…little Yugi, even when he does not love me. I just hope…that…maybe a miracle of some sort will come to pass… And Yugi's trust and me will once again be reunited… I pray for such an outcome. But my doubt has taken over… And I fear the worst is yet to come.

~*~*~*~*~

Insane:  ^____^ I like this!

Yami Bakura: He's very…

Yami Malik: in need of help..?

Yami Bakura:…yeah.

Yami Yugi: *pouts* Lemme' alone! Yuuuuugi! Forgive meeee!

Yugi: *turns back* NEVER! HAHAHAHA!

All: O_o…

Yami Yugi: ;_; tiss such a hard life…

Yami Malik:…erm…review..? O_o…need at least 5 to continue…um…eh…ya.