Chapter 6
First Light
Y. Mojobubbles: Guess what!?
Kaiba: I'm almost afraid to ask.
Y. Mojobubbles: You know how Yu-Gi-Oh! is a Japanese show?
Kaiba: O_o A show? What do you mean?
Y. Mojobubbles: Never mind. Well, anyway, we're going to have the characters speak Japanese!
Mojobubbles: Well, sometimes. But we'll tell ya what it means, k?
Y. Mojobubbles: And we made Kaya a year older, just to let ya know. She's now 13, about to turn 14. It's because I wanted her to be closer in age to the bishie that she-(mouth is covered by Mojobubbles)
Mojobubbles: Geez, ya baka, are ya trying to ruin the rest of the series!?
Malik: Hey, where am I? I wanna be in the fic too!
Mojobubbles: Alright, alright! (puts Malik in this lil machine hickymabobber that says, 'to the ficccy') (pulls lever)
Malik: (falls down into the ficcy) YAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yami paced back and forth. He turned to Yugi, who was sitting at a table hickymabobber in his Soul Room.
(Mojobubbles and Y. Mojobubbles: Hickymabobber is our word! No touchy!)
"I'm getting dizzy just watching you," Yugi told his darker half. Yami sighed and sat down at the table hickymabobber next to Yugi.
"She'll come back," Yugi whispered, putting his hand on Yami's shoulder, but with some difficulty owing to their *cough* height difference *cough*.
"I don't know, Yugi," Yami sighed. "Kaya doesn't...she doesn't trust me anymore. I tried to link to her, but-"
"You and Kaya have a mental link, like ours?" Yugi interrupted. Yami nodded. "She doesn't trust you.." Yugi pondered out loud. "Do you remember, at Duelist Kingdom, when we were dueling Kaiba, and he did that...thing, where he stood on that wall.....thing?"
"It's not exactly something that's easily forgotten, Yugi," Yami replied, although it was clear the memory pained him.
(Y. Mojobubbles: I hear ya, Yami.
Mojobubbles: That eppie's so sad! v_v)
"Well, I trusted you again, didn't I? So what's to say that Kaya's going to hate you forever, ne?"
Yami groaned and put his head in his hands. "Ok, bad example," Yugi muttered under his breath. "Um, do you remember...." he thought for a moment. "The time you banished my homework to the Shadow Realm?"
The absurdity of this statement caused Yami to crack a grin, kinda rare for a guy with his seriousness.
"Remember what I said?" Yugi asked. "I said, 'What am I supposed to tell my teacher?!' "
Yami remembered. "Then you said, 'My yami banished my homework to the Shadow Realm?! Is that what I can tell her?!' " he finished.
"You were really stubborn about that, remember? You didn't apologize until almost a week later," Yugi added. "So, basically, what I'm trying to say is that you can be really stubborn, even though you know whatever you did was wrong. If Kaya is like you, then she'll come around," Yugi finished. Yami smiled warmly at his light's sincere effort to cheer him up.
"Well," Yami sighed. "I'm not sure. You have a point, Yugi, but I think that I'm not the only one rediscovering my past." Then he noticed Yugi's confused look. "Like me, when Kaya came into this time, and her parallel dimension, she forgot her past."
"Like amnesia?" Yugi asked.
"Well, the memories are not actually gone, just." He searched for the right word.
"Un-gettable?" Yugi offered. "Like, behind a locked door, but you have no key?"
"Exactly," Yami replied. "There is always something that triggers the brain, and you can find the memories."
"So....a visual or an audio aid would be like the key to the door?"
"Yes. For me, Kaya's necklace was the visual 'key' that caused me to remember...everything," Yami continued, then he paused. "Well, not everything. The things that Kaya...said to me, before she left, that caused me to remember....and her to remember..." He paused again, and turned away. "Let me show you, Yugi," he said, finally. Yugi nodded, pretending he didn't hear his yami's voice waver. Suddenly the puzzle began to glow, and a door/portal/hickymabobber appeared in Yugi's Soul Room.
"Wait," Yugi said. "Won't you, well, your past self, I mean, kind of freak when you see...yourself?"
"You and I are going to be invisible, and the people of the past will neither see us nor hear us," Yami replied.
"Like in 'A Christmas Carol'," Yugi muttered under his breath, earning him a quizzical look from his dark side.
(Mojobubbles: Who here has seen the Muppet version?
Y. Mojobubbles: Have you noticed that the Ghost of Christmas Present in that movie looks like Hagrid?
Mojobubbles: (singing) It is the summer of the soul in December!
Y. Mojobubbles: I, for one, think the Marley brothers are funny.
Mojobubbles: (singing) We're Marley and Marley, whoooooooo!!)
"Never mind," Yugi said quickly. Then they stepped through the door/portal/hickymabobber.
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Yugi sat up, wiping dust of his hands onto his pants.
"Yugi, are you ok?" Yami asked.
"That was a bit....different," Yugi replied, getting up. "So, where are we?"
"Ancient Egypt," Yami replied tersely, his crimson eyes scanning the desert. "There," he whispered.
A small girl, about five years old, suddenly entered the scene, strolling along a river, with a doll in her hands. She was dressed in fancy clothes, her long, dark hair flowing loosely in her face.
"Yami," Yugi breathed. "Is that..../Kaya/?"
"It's her," Yami replied, not much louder than Yugi. A group of tough looking boys came up behind her. "Hey, lookee here! Her 'highness' has a new doll!" one of them said. "Ooh, lemme see it, your 'majesty'!" another one of them mocked. They took the doll and held it above Kaya's reach. She jumped for it, and missed. "Give it back!" she shouted. They pushed her down. Just then, a boy knocked the boys to the ground and began beating them up. They ran away, leaving the doll on the ground. "Maybe next time, you'll think twice before picking on my sister!" the boy shouted.
"And that's..." Yugi began.
"It's me," Yami murmured. "Here's your doll, Kaya," his nine-year-old self grinned, handing it back. "Thanks, big brother," Kaya grinned back. "It's good to know you'll always be there to help me." (Y. Mojobubbles & Mojobubbles: (jumping up and down) KAWAII!! KAWAII!! KAWAII!! (their heads explode from kawaiiness overload) Everyone else: (sweatdrop) O_O)
"Wow," Yugi murmured, watching the two of them jokingly throw punches at each other.
"That's not all, Yugi," Yami told him, as the door/portal/hickymabobber appeared once more. They stepped inside it, and looked around.
They were in a palace, and there was obviously something going on. There was a sort of pleasant tension in the air, like on Halloween, right before you go Nutter Buttering.
(Mojobubbles: Yes, Nutter Buttering. It means Trick or Treating in Nerdish, a language that I am very fluent in. ^_^)
"So, what's happening here?" Yugi asked.
"It's my thirteenth birthday," Yami replied, beginning to walk down the hall.
"Happy birthday," Yugi joked, but from the look on Yami's face decided this was not a very pleasant memory and not the time for joking.
"Kaya will be turning.." Yami stopped and thought for a moment. "Nine. In three weeks from my birthday."
"Your birthdays are that close together?" Yugi asked.
"Yes," Yami answered. "We would always have a double celebration, but not......this year. I was turning thirteen. Thirteen was when children turned to adults, and took their place in life. I was going to be pharaoh, and, well, my thirteenth birthday was a big deal. But..."
"But?" Yugi prompted.
"But, in the excitement, Kaya was excluded."
"You mean, she was forgotten."
"Yes," Yami sighed. Then they walked into a huge banquet hall hickymabobber. There was this big ol' ceremony going on, and Yugi and Yami sat in silence for a while watching. Then Yugi noticed someone slowly edging towards the door. He realized instantly who it was.
"Should we follow her?" he asked Yami, pointing to the figure.
"I don't know if we can," Yami replied. "I wasn't with her, so it's not my memory. But I suppose we could...try." They got up and walked to the door, although by the time they had gotten there, the girl was gone. Yami silently cursed to himself, and they followed, breaking into a jog. The corridor was blurred, and sometimes parts of it would disappear completely. They were no longer in Yami's memory.
Just then, the corridor disappeared and Yugi and Yami were standing in a courtyard hickymabobber. The girl sat next to the fountain, sobbing silently. Yami sat down next to her and stroked her hair, even though she couldn't feel it.
"Kaya," he whispered. But he wasn't the only one who had said it.
Kaya, Yugi, and Yami looked up at the roof. Someone was up there, someone with......white-slivery hair and deep brown eyes. "I know who that is," Yugi breathed, as the other boy jumped down off the roof and landed next to Kaya. "It's a kid version of......Bakura's yami!!"
"Bakari," past-Kaya said. "You scared me."
"So, he really forgot you?" the past-Yami Bakura said, his tone angry. "Just cause he's going to become pharaoh, he goes and completely ignores you! I oughta teach your high and mighty brother a lesson!"
"Bakari, you know you'd be in so much trouble if you tried something like that!" Kaya reasoned. "He could easily beat the camel poop out of you!"
"Camel poop?" Yami Bakura/Bakari snorted, and the two of them began to roll on the ground and laugh their *ahems* off.
Yugi grinned; 'camel poop' had been pretty funny.
"Let's go, Yugi," Yami murmured. "We still have one more memory to visit.
(Y. Mojobubbles: Ugh.
Mojobubbles: This next memory originally involved Kaya being suicidal, but I changed it........no particular reason, I just didn't like it. X_X)
Now, the palace seemed gloomy and depressed. Yugi and Yami were in someone's chamber. Yami's chamber. "When is this taking place?" Yugi asked.
"Kaya is thirteen, nearly fourteen. I am seventeen, almost eighteen," Yami replied, and he seemed to be bracing himself for the worst. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and Kaya entered.
"Excuse me for barging in on you, elder brother," she said, and present Yami flinched visibly at her icy tone. "I was wondering what we will be doing for a birthday celebration this year."
"We'll be doing the same as always, why do you ask?" past Yami replied, sounding confused.
"Well, I was just worried you might be to /busy/," Kaya snapped.
"Kaya, what are you saying?"
"What do you think I'm saying!? Ever since you turned thirteen, you never spent time with me! I know you've been busy, but is it /that/ impossible for you to spend a little time with me?" she said, turning red.
"Well, I'm /sorry/," past Yami replied sharply. "But I am going to be running a country soon, /younger sister/, and with the Shadow Games, I-"
"The Shadow Games!?" Kaya shouted. "That's your excuse?! You're obsessed with the damn things! Every night, all your spare time, you go come up with new strategies for the /Shadow Games/! You don't care about me at all anymore!!!!!" Her brother looked shocked and hurt.
"That is not true!" he shouted indignantly.
"You know it is!!" Kaya shrieked. "You hate me! Well that's just fine, because I hate you!"
(Mojobubbles: Whoo, she's PO'ed!)
"Get. Out. Of. My. Sight," Yami hissed, sounding very venomous and not at all like himself.
(Y. Mojobubbles: Whoo, he's PO'ed!)
Kaya flung herself out the door and ran. Yugi and present Yami lost no time in following her. "WHOA!" Yugi shouted, as a huge hole appeared in the middle of the floor, separating him and Yami. "What was that?!" Yugi gasped.
"This isn't my memory anymore, remember? Just stay there, Yugi. I'll come back...or you come get me," Yami replied tensely, breaking into a slight jog.
Y'know how you'll just be walking somewhere and all of a sudden you feel like someone's right behind you and you start running like hell? Well, that's exactly what happened to Yami. Suddenly, the corridor disappeared, and Yami found himself standing in Kaya's room. She had changed into an outfit a little more common looking, and was furiously shoving clothes - more common clothes - into a bag, along with a couple coins and a loaf of bread. She grabbed the bag and hoisted it onto her shoulder, then crawled out of the window. Yami's eyes widened and he ran to the window, just in time to see Kaya scrambling down a ladder placed against the roof.
He knew he had to follow. Yami pushed himself out of the window and leaped, catlike, straight onto the ground. He landed rather heavily, but this being a memory, was unscathed.
Suddenly, the memory changed once again, and Yami found himself walking down a crowded street, Kaya only a few feet ahead of him. It had been night before, but now the sun beat down on the people, going about their daily business.
Then, suddenly, a pair of rough hands from an alley grabbed Kaya and dragged her away.
Yami's eyes widened, and he began to run after the kidnapper. Once again, much to the pharaoh's annoyance, the scene changed.
Yami's eyes widened, and his heart skipped a beat.
(Yugi: Wait, he's a spirit! He doesn't have a heart.
Mojobubbles: *blink*.....BANANA!
Yugi: ¬_¬U)
Kaya was lying on the ground, unconscious, a bruise forming on her head, surrounded by the same rough men who'd grabbed her and dragged her down the alley. But the worse part was, blood was running from deep, long gashes all along her wrists.
Yami was frozen; he couldn't move. Subconsciously, he knew Kaya would be alright, since this was in the past, and she was alive in the present, but....
Yami! Yugi said using their mental link hickymabobber. What happened? Yami didn't answer. Just then, something caught his eye.
A familiar mop of silvery-white hair bobbed along the roofs of the nearby shops.
"The girl is MINE!!!" Bakari cried suddenly, leaping off the building and brandishing a knife.
"T-the King Of Thieves!!!" one of the thugs gasped.
"Let's get out of here!!" another yelled.
"That's right!!!" Bakari yelled. "You'll regret the next time you cross me!!!!"
Back in the palace, Yugi fell to the floor, sweating and shaking. He could feel something horrible was happening. He felt so helpless. Yugi stood and closed his eyes, concentrating hard. When he opened them, the hole was gone. Yugi didn't skip a beat; he just tore down the hall.
As soon as the men were gone, Bakari dropped the knife and ran over to Kaya. "Kusottare," he muttered. "Kuso! Chimeiteki na......"
"Iie," Yami choked. "It's *not* fatal....."
"Baka na pharaoh......." Bakari said under his breath. At those words, Yami's eyes widened.
"Me.......it was my fault......." he said quietly. "If I hadn't said those things......."
Bakari slowly scooped Kaya into his arms, and began to walk back in the direction of the palace.
Yami noticed Yugi had been standing next to him for the last few minutes. "I'm sorry," Yugi choked.
Yami sank to the floor, tears rolling down his face. Yugi put an arm around him. The scene dissolved, and Yami and Yugi were back in Yugi's soul room.
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All that Yugi had told the others was that Yami wasn't feeling well, and they all got the message. Yugi-tachi* (*Yugi and the others) were a very subdued group. Yami had locked himself in his Soul Room, Kaya had run off, and Brock had been called back to Johto.
(A/N: Told ya I was kicking him out as soon as I could!
Y. Mojobubbles: Duck!
Mojobubbles: Why?
Y. Mojobubbles: There could be Brock fangirls out there, just waiting to chuck sharp pointy things at us!
Mojobubbles: Sure...¬_¬)
And speaking of Kaya, let's check in on her, shall we?
(Mojobubbles: Nande kuso*!? We have a narrator?!
*What the hell?!
All: (blink) O_O)
Kaya had run into a forest place. She sat there, her head in her hands. He had betrayed her, plain and simple.
~~Flashback~~
"Get away!"
"But, Kaya-"
"NO! I thought you sent me away to keep me safe, to protect me, but now I see you just did it to get rid of me! You hate me! You never loved me!"
"Kaya, you know that's not true!"
~~End of Flashback~~
Just then, she heard someone coming. It was a guy about her age, with a purple tank top and blond messy hair, and lavender eyes. He tripped, stumbled, and crashed in front of Kaya, jerking her out of La-la Land.
She blinked. "Are you ok?"
"Owww.....yeah, I'm ok," he replied, getting up. Then he noticed the small charm she had been fiddling with. "Holy crap," he gasped. Kaya looked up and their eyes met.
~~Flashback~~
Finally, Malik broke the embrace. "I-I forgot to give this to you. I saw this up.....there.....and I thought you'd like it....." He held out a small gold charm, a charm for a charm bracelet. Hieroglyphics spelled a single word.
"It means luck, right?" Kaya asked. Malik nodded.
~~End of Flashback~~
(Yes, I know that that may seem confusing right now. It will make sense in the first chapter of part 3, to be posted fairly soon, as of 8/3/03)
"Can you still read it?" the person asked.
"It means 'luck', right?" Then her eyes widened. Wordlessly, Kaya stood up and walked to the stranger. She looked deep into his lavender eyes. "Malik?" she whispered. "Is that you?"
"Yep," Malik replied softly, a grin forming on his face. Kaya grinned back, and flung her arms around his neck. Malik hugged her back. "It's been, what, 4 years?"
"I thought I'd never see you again!" Kaya exclaimed, hugging him hard.
"I know," Malik said quietly, grinning.
(BMMW: Must. Not. Kill. OC.
Y. Mojobubbles: Heh. That's basically going to be Yami's reaction. ^_^U)
Kaya felt so weird. This was her best friend, (A/N: SEE?! Best friend, NOT boyfriend! And NO, they will not hook up, so don't even ask!) the one who had been through so much with her. It was funny, in a cosmic sort of way, how he had come in, right when she needed him so much.
Everything came crashing down on Kaya at once, and she collapsed on Malik and sobbed.
"Hey, are you ok?" he asked. Kaya didn't reply. "Apparently not," Malik said under his breath, hugging her tighter.
Kaya looked up and Malik and drew in a shaky breath. "Ok," she said. "I really need to tell you a long story."
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Yugi gently pushed open the door to Yami's Soul Room. "Um, hi?" he said, opening the door a little further. He walked in and sat down on the floor next to Yami, who had his back to the wall. They sat there for a moment, not saying anything.
(Mojobubbles: No, this is not yaoi...
Y. Mojobubbles: If you really see the need to make em gay, fine..but to us Yami and Yugi are just really close, like brothers, y'know?)
Yami broke the silence. "I'm sorry," he said.
"Sorry for what?" Yugi asked.
"That you had to see those memories, that I...." Yami couldn't find the right words to explain what he meant.
"It's ok," Yugi said, putting his hand on Yami's shoulder. "What you saw was enough to make anybody cry." Yami sighed.
"I can't believe how blind I was," he said bitterly. "I thought that, that I was doing the right thing....I came so close to losing her, Yugi." He stopped and looked at Yugi. "You are my light, my friend, but Kaya was my light thousands of years before you were born. Kaya was my first light."
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(Y. Mojobubbles: So, now you know why we called this chapter, "First Light"!)
"I'm sorry," Malik said, as soon as Kaya finished her story.
"Me too," Kaya sighed. Malik looked worried. He remembered the last time Kaya and Yami had had a huge ass fight like this one....
"Kaya," he said slowly, "did you....you know?"
"No....Malik what the hell are you talking about?" Kaya asked.
"Give me your hands," Malik ordered. Kaya stuck out her arms, palms facing down, wearing a puzzled expression.
Malik gently rolled up her sleeves, then took her hands and flipped her arms over. Kaya nearly screamed at what she saw.
Long, jagged scars were all over her wrists.
"Oh my God.." she whispered. "I remember..I was so angry..and so confused...I ran off....got hurt......then you........"
"It freaked me out so much when you showed me those.......because I had thought that.......things had been so perfect, that I was the only one with problems with my family........then I realized you and me where in the same boat," Malik said, his voice wavering.
For a moment, neither said anything.
"Malik, I wanna go find Yami-tachi," Kaya said finally, rolling her sleeves back down. He nodded and they got up. The two of them began to talk, and just be best friends.
Then Kaya heard a thump and looked down. Malik had tripped on a tree root. She snorted and rolled her eyes. "That was /real/ smart, Malik," she said, bending down to help him up. They looked up, and froze.
Kaya found herself staring, once again, straight into the face of Maximillion Pegasus.
(Mojobubbles: DUN DUN DUN!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA! Whoo, I kill myself.
Y. Mojobubbles: (smacks forehead) You are still a baka.)
"What do you want?" she asked, feeling tons of emotions coursing through her body.
"I still want them," he said. "I still want the Millennium Items."
Malik gripped the Millennium Rod a little tighter, and felt Kaya squeezing his hand so hard it was cutting off his circulation.
"You'll never get them, you /murderer/." Malik hissed.
Pegasus simply looked annoyed. "Fine, be that way," he said. Then he drew something out of his pocket. They were two Duel Monsters cards. But not any Duel Monsters cards.
There was a sudden flash of light, and Kaya and Malik slumped to the ground.
Pegasus grinned maniacally and stared at the two Duel Monsters cards.
"Two down," he muttered, then he started laughing like an insane vegetable.
First Light
Y. Mojobubbles: Guess what!?
Kaiba: I'm almost afraid to ask.
Y. Mojobubbles: You know how Yu-Gi-Oh! is a Japanese show?
Kaiba: O_o A show? What do you mean?
Y. Mojobubbles: Never mind. Well, anyway, we're going to have the characters speak Japanese!
Mojobubbles: Well, sometimes. But we'll tell ya what it means, k?
Y. Mojobubbles: And we made Kaya a year older, just to let ya know. She's now 13, about to turn 14. It's because I wanted her to be closer in age to the bishie that she-(mouth is covered by Mojobubbles)
Mojobubbles: Geez, ya baka, are ya trying to ruin the rest of the series!?
Malik: Hey, where am I? I wanna be in the fic too!
Mojobubbles: Alright, alright! (puts Malik in this lil machine hickymabobber that says, 'to the ficccy') (pulls lever)
Malik: (falls down into the ficcy) YAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yami paced back and forth. He turned to Yugi, who was sitting at a table hickymabobber in his Soul Room.
(Mojobubbles and Y. Mojobubbles: Hickymabobber is our word! No touchy!)
"I'm getting dizzy just watching you," Yugi told his darker half. Yami sighed and sat down at the table hickymabobber next to Yugi.
"She'll come back," Yugi whispered, putting his hand on Yami's shoulder, but with some difficulty owing to their *cough* height difference *cough*.
"I don't know, Yugi," Yami sighed. "Kaya doesn't...she doesn't trust me anymore. I tried to link to her, but-"
"You and Kaya have a mental link, like ours?" Yugi interrupted. Yami nodded. "She doesn't trust you.." Yugi pondered out loud. "Do you remember, at Duelist Kingdom, when we were dueling Kaiba, and he did that...thing, where he stood on that wall.....thing?"
"It's not exactly something that's easily forgotten, Yugi," Yami replied, although it was clear the memory pained him.
(Y. Mojobubbles: I hear ya, Yami.
Mojobubbles: That eppie's so sad! v_v)
"Well, I trusted you again, didn't I? So what's to say that Kaya's going to hate you forever, ne?"
Yami groaned and put his head in his hands. "Ok, bad example," Yugi muttered under his breath. "Um, do you remember...." he thought for a moment. "The time you banished my homework to the Shadow Realm?"
The absurdity of this statement caused Yami to crack a grin, kinda rare for a guy with his seriousness.
"Remember what I said?" Yugi asked. "I said, 'What am I supposed to tell my teacher?!' "
Yami remembered. "Then you said, 'My yami banished my homework to the Shadow Realm?! Is that what I can tell her?!' " he finished.
"You were really stubborn about that, remember? You didn't apologize until almost a week later," Yugi added. "So, basically, what I'm trying to say is that you can be really stubborn, even though you know whatever you did was wrong. If Kaya is like you, then she'll come around," Yugi finished. Yami smiled warmly at his light's sincere effort to cheer him up.
"Well," Yami sighed. "I'm not sure. You have a point, Yugi, but I think that I'm not the only one rediscovering my past." Then he noticed Yugi's confused look. "Like me, when Kaya came into this time, and her parallel dimension, she forgot her past."
"Like amnesia?" Yugi asked.
"Well, the memories are not actually gone, just." He searched for the right word.
"Un-gettable?" Yugi offered. "Like, behind a locked door, but you have no key?"
"Exactly," Yami replied. "There is always something that triggers the brain, and you can find the memories."
"So....a visual or an audio aid would be like the key to the door?"
"Yes. For me, Kaya's necklace was the visual 'key' that caused me to remember...everything," Yami continued, then he paused. "Well, not everything. The things that Kaya...said to me, before she left, that caused me to remember....and her to remember..." He paused again, and turned away. "Let me show you, Yugi," he said, finally. Yugi nodded, pretending he didn't hear his yami's voice waver. Suddenly the puzzle began to glow, and a door/portal/hickymabobber appeared in Yugi's Soul Room.
"Wait," Yugi said. "Won't you, well, your past self, I mean, kind of freak when you see...yourself?"
"You and I are going to be invisible, and the people of the past will neither see us nor hear us," Yami replied.
"Like in 'A Christmas Carol'," Yugi muttered under his breath, earning him a quizzical look from his dark side.
(Mojobubbles: Who here has seen the Muppet version?
Y. Mojobubbles: Have you noticed that the Ghost of Christmas Present in that movie looks like Hagrid?
Mojobubbles: (singing) It is the summer of the soul in December!
Y. Mojobubbles: I, for one, think the Marley brothers are funny.
Mojobubbles: (singing) We're Marley and Marley, whoooooooo!!)
"Never mind," Yugi said quickly. Then they stepped through the door/portal/hickymabobber.
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Yugi sat up, wiping dust of his hands onto his pants.
"Yugi, are you ok?" Yami asked.
"That was a bit....different," Yugi replied, getting up. "So, where are we?"
"Ancient Egypt," Yami replied tersely, his crimson eyes scanning the desert. "There," he whispered.
A small girl, about five years old, suddenly entered the scene, strolling along a river, with a doll in her hands. She was dressed in fancy clothes, her long, dark hair flowing loosely in her face.
"Yami," Yugi breathed. "Is that..../Kaya/?"
"It's her," Yami replied, not much louder than Yugi. A group of tough looking boys came up behind her. "Hey, lookee here! Her 'highness' has a new doll!" one of them said. "Ooh, lemme see it, your 'majesty'!" another one of them mocked. They took the doll and held it above Kaya's reach. She jumped for it, and missed. "Give it back!" she shouted. They pushed her down. Just then, a boy knocked the boys to the ground and began beating them up. They ran away, leaving the doll on the ground. "Maybe next time, you'll think twice before picking on my sister!" the boy shouted.
"And that's..." Yugi began.
"It's me," Yami murmured. "Here's your doll, Kaya," his nine-year-old self grinned, handing it back. "Thanks, big brother," Kaya grinned back. "It's good to know you'll always be there to help me." (Y. Mojobubbles & Mojobubbles: (jumping up and down) KAWAII!! KAWAII!! KAWAII!! (their heads explode from kawaiiness overload) Everyone else: (sweatdrop) O_O)
"Wow," Yugi murmured, watching the two of them jokingly throw punches at each other.
"That's not all, Yugi," Yami told him, as the door/portal/hickymabobber appeared once more. They stepped inside it, and looked around.
They were in a palace, and there was obviously something going on. There was a sort of pleasant tension in the air, like on Halloween, right before you go Nutter Buttering.
(Mojobubbles: Yes, Nutter Buttering. It means Trick or Treating in Nerdish, a language that I am very fluent in. ^_^)
"So, what's happening here?" Yugi asked.
"It's my thirteenth birthday," Yami replied, beginning to walk down the hall.
"Happy birthday," Yugi joked, but from the look on Yami's face decided this was not a very pleasant memory and not the time for joking.
"Kaya will be turning.." Yami stopped and thought for a moment. "Nine. In three weeks from my birthday."
"Your birthdays are that close together?" Yugi asked.
"Yes," Yami answered. "We would always have a double celebration, but not......this year. I was turning thirteen. Thirteen was when children turned to adults, and took their place in life. I was going to be pharaoh, and, well, my thirteenth birthday was a big deal. But..."
"But?" Yugi prompted.
"But, in the excitement, Kaya was excluded."
"You mean, she was forgotten."
"Yes," Yami sighed. Then they walked into a huge banquet hall hickymabobber. There was this big ol' ceremony going on, and Yugi and Yami sat in silence for a while watching. Then Yugi noticed someone slowly edging towards the door. He realized instantly who it was.
"Should we follow her?" he asked Yami, pointing to the figure.
"I don't know if we can," Yami replied. "I wasn't with her, so it's not my memory. But I suppose we could...try." They got up and walked to the door, although by the time they had gotten there, the girl was gone. Yami silently cursed to himself, and they followed, breaking into a jog. The corridor was blurred, and sometimes parts of it would disappear completely. They were no longer in Yami's memory.
Just then, the corridor disappeared and Yugi and Yami were standing in a courtyard hickymabobber. The girl sat next to the fountain, sobbing silently. Yami sat down next to her and stroked her hair, even though she couldn't feel it.
"Kaya," he whispered. But he wasn't the only one who had said it.
Kaya, Yugi, and Yami looked up at the roof. Someone was up there, someone with......white-slivery hair and deep brown eyes. "I know who that is," Yugi breathed, as the other boy jumped down off the roof and landed next to Kaya. "It's a kid version of......Bakura's yami!!"
"Bakari," past-Kaya said. "You scared me."
"So, he really forgot you?" the past-Yami Bakura said, his tone angry. "Just cause he's going to become pharaoh, he goes and completely ignores you! I oughta teach your high and mighty brother a lesson!"
"Bakari, you know you'd be in so much trouble if you tried something like that!" Kaya reasoned. "He could easily beat the camel poop out of you!"
"Camel poop?" Yami Bakura/Bakari snorted, and the two of them began to roll on the ground and laugh their *ahems* off.
Yugi grinned; 'camel poop' had been pretty funny.
"Let's go, Yugi," Yami murmured. "We still have one more memory to visit.
(Y. Mojobubbles: Ugh.
Mojobubbles: This next memory originally involved Kaya being suicidal, but I changed it........no particular reason, I just didn't like it. X_X)
Now, the palace seemed gloomy and depressed. Yugi and Yami were in someone's chamber. Yami's chamber. "When is this taking place?" Yugi asked.
"Kaya is thirteen, nearly fourteen. I am seventeen, almost eighteen," Yami replied, and he seemed to be bracing himself for the worst. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and Kaya entered.
"Excuse me for barging in on you, elder brother," she said, and present Yami flinched visibly at her icy tone. "I was wondering what we will be doing for a birthday celebration this year."
"We'll be doing the same as always, why do you ask?" past Yami replied, sounding confused.
"Well, I was just worried you might be to /busy/," Kaya snapped.
"Kaya, what are you saying?"
"What do you think I'm saying!? Ever since you turned thirteen, you never spent time with me! I know you've been busy, but is it /that/ impossible for you to spend a little time with me?" she said, turning red.
"Well, I'm /sorry/," past Yami replied sharply. "But I am going to be running a country soon, /younger sister/, and with the Shadow Games, I-"
"The Shadow Games!?" Kaya shouted. "That's your excuse?! You're obsessed with the damn things! Every night, all your spare time, you go come up with new strategies for the /Shadow Games/! You don't care about me at all anymore!!!!!" Her brother looked shocked and hurt.
"That is not true!" he shouted indignantly.
"You know it is!!" Kaya shrieked. "You hate me! Well that's just fine, because I hate you!"
(Mojobubbles: Whoo, she's PO'ed!)
"Get. Out. Of. My. Sight," Yami hissed, sounding very venomous and not at all like himself.
(Y. Mojobubbles: Whoo, he's PO'ed!)
Kaya flung herself out the door and ran. Yugi and present Yami lost no time in following her. "WHOA!" Yugi shouted, as a huge hole appeared in the middle of the floor, separating him and Yami. "What was that?!" Yugi gasped.
"This isn't my memory anymore, remember? Just stay there, Yugi. I'll come back...or you come get me," Yami replied tensely, breaking into a slight jog.
Y'know how you'll just be walking somewhere and all of a sudden you feel like someone's right behind you and you start running like hell? Well, that's exactly what happened to Yami. Suddenly, the corridor disappeared, and Yami found himself standing in Kaya's room. She had changed into an outfit a little more common looking, and was furiously shoving clothes - more common clothes - into a bag, along with a couple coins and a loaf of bread. She grabbed the bag and hoisted it onto her shoulder, then crawled out of the window. Yami's eyes widened and he ran to the window, just in time to see Kaya scrambling down a ladder placed against the roof.
He knew he had to follow. Yami pushed himself out of the window and leaped, catlike, straight onto the ground. He landed rather heavily, but this being a memory, was unscathed.
Suddenly, the memory changed once again, and Yami found himself walking down a crowded street, Kaya only a few feet ahead of him. It had been night before, but now the sun beat down on the people, going about their daily business.
Then, suddenly, a pair of rough hands from an alley grabbed Kaya and dragged her away.
Yami's eyes widened, and he began to run after the kidnapper. Once again, much to the pharaoh's annoyance, the scene changed.
Yami's eyes widened, and his heart skipped a beat.
(Yugi: Wait, he's a spirit! He doesn't have a heart.
Mojobubbles: *blink*.....BANANA!
Yugi: ¬_¬U)
Kaya was lying on the ground, unconscious, a bruise forming on her head, surrounded by the same rough men who'd grabbed her and dragged her down the alley. But the worse part was, blood was running from deep, long gashes all along her wrists.
Yami was frozen; he couldn't move. Subconsciously, he knew Kaya would be alright, since this was in the past, and she was alive in the present, but....
Yami! Yugi said using their mental link hickymabobber. What happened? Yami didn't answer. Just then, something caught his eye.
A familiar mop of silvery-white hair bobbed along the roofs of the nearby shops.
"The girl is MINE!!!" Bakari cried suddenly, leaping off the building and brandishing a knife.
"T-the King Of Thieves!!!" one of the thugs gasped.
"Let's get out of here!!" another yelled.
"That's right!!!" Bakari yelled. "You'll regret the next time you cross me!!!!"
Back in the palace, Yugi fell to the floor, sweating and shaking. He could feel something horrible was happening. He felt so helpless. Yugi stood and closed his eyes, concentrating hard. When he opened them, the hole was gone. Yugi didn't skip a beat; he just tore down the hall.
As soon as the men were gone, Bakari dropped the knife and ran over to Kaya. "Kusottare," he muttered. "Kuso! Chimeiteki na......"
"Iie," Yami choked. "It's *not* fatal....."
"Baka na pharaoh......." Bakari said under his breath. At those words, Yami's eyes widened.
"Me.......it was my fault......." he said quietly. "If I hadn't said those things......."
Bakari slowly scooped Kaya into his arms, and began to walk back in the direction of the palace.
Yami noticed Yugi had been standing next to him for the last few minutes. "I'm sorry," Yugi choked.
Yami sank to the floor, tears rolling down his face. Yugi put an arm around him. The scene dissolved, and Yami and Yugi were back in Yugi's soul room.
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All that Yugi had told the others was that Yami wasn't feeling well, and they all got the message. Yugi-tachi* (*Yugi and the others) were a very subdued group. Yami had locked himself in his Soul Room, Kaya had run off, and Brock had been called back to Johto.
(A/N: Told ya I was kicking him out as soon as I could!
Y. Mojobubbles: Duck!
Mojobubbles: Why?
Y. Mojobubbles: There could be Brock fangirls out there, just waiting to chuck sharp pointy things at us!
Mojobubbles: Sure...¬_¬)
And speaking of Kaya, let's check in on her, shall we?
(Mojobubbles: Nande kuso*!? We have a narrator?!
*What the hell?!
All: (blink) O_O)
Kaya had run into a forest place. She sat there, her head in her hands. He had betrayed her, plain and simple.
~~Flashback~~
"Get away!"
"But, Kaya-"
"NO! I thought you sent me away to keep me safe, to protect me, but now I see you just did it to get rid of me! You hate me! You never loved me!"
"Kaya, you know that's not true!"
~~End of Flashback~~
Just then, she heard someone coming. It was a guy about her age, with a purple tank top and blond messy hair, and lavender eyes. He tripped, stumbled, and crashed in front of Kaya, jerking her out of La-la Land.
She blinked. "Are you ok?"
"Owww.....yeah, I'm ok," he replied, getting up. Then he noticed the small charm she had been fiddling with. "Holy crap," he gasped. Kaya looked up and their eyes met.
~~Flashback~~
Finally, Malik broke the embrace. "I-I forgot to give this to you. I saw this up.....there.....and I thought you'd like it....." He held out a small gold charm, a charm for a charm bracelet. Hieroglyphics spelled a single word.
"It means luck, right?" Kaya asked. Malik nodded.
~~End of Flashback~~
(Yes, I know that that may seem confusing right now. It will make sense in the first chapter of part 3, to be posted fairly soon, as of 8/3/03)
"Can you still read it?" the person asked.
"It means 'luck', right?" Then her eyes widened. Wordlessly, Kaya stood up and walked to the stranger. She looked deep into his lavender eyes. "Malik?" she whispered. "Is that you?"
"Yep," Malik replied softly, a grin forming on his face. Kaya grinned back, and flung her arms around his neck. Malik hugged her back. "It's been, what, 4 years?"
"I thought I'd never see you again!" Kaya exclaimed, hugging him hard.
"I know," Malik said quietly, grinning.
(BMMW: Must. Not. Kill. OC.
Y. Mojobubbles: Heh. That's basically going to be Yami's reaction. ^_^U)
Kaya felt so weird. This was her best friend, (A/N: SEE?! Best friend, NOT boyfriend! And NO, they will not hook up, so don't even ask!) the one who had been through so much with her. It was funny, in a cosmic sort of way, how he had come in, right when she needed him so much.
Everything came crashing down on Kaya at once, and she collapsed on Malik and sobbed.
"Hey, are you ok?" he asked. Kaya didn't reply. "Apparently not," Malik said under his breath, hugging her tighter.
Kaya looked up and Malik and drew in a shaky breath. "Ok," she said. "I really need to tell you a long story."
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Yugi gently pushed open the door to Yami's Soul Room. "Um, hi?" he said, opening the door a little further. He walked in and sat down on the floor next to Yami, who had his back to the wall. They sat there for a moment, not saying anything.
(Mojobubbles: No, this is not yaoi...
Y. Mojobubbles: If you really see the need to make em gay, fine..but to us Yami and Yugi are just really close, like brothers, y'know?)
Yami broke the silence. "I'm sorry," he said.
"Sorry for what?" Yugi asked.
"That you had to see those memories, that I...." Yami couldn't find the right words to explain what he meant.
"It's ok," Yugi said, putting his hand on Yami's shoulder. "What you saw was enough to make anybody cry." Yami sighed.
"I can't believe how blind I was," he said bitterly. "I thought that, that I was doing the right thing....I came so close to losing her, Yugi." He stopped and looked at Yugi. "You are my light, my friend, but Kaya was my light thousands of years before you were born. Kaya was my first light."
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(Y. Mojobubbles: So, now you know why we called this chapter, "First Light"!)
"I'm sorry," Malik said, as soon as Kaya finished her story.
"Me too," Kaya sighed. Malik looked worried. He remembered the last time Kaya and Yami had had a huge ass fight like this one....
"Kaya," he said slowly, "did you....you know?"
"No....Malik what the hell are you talking about?" Kaya asked.
"Give me your hands," Malik ordered. Kaya stuck out her arms, palms facing down, wearing a puzzled expression.
Malik gently rolled up her sleeves, then took her hands and flipped her arms over. Kaya nearly screamed at what she saw.
Long, jagged scars were all over her wrists.
"Oh my God.." she whispered. "I remember..I was so angry..and so confused...I ran off....got hurt......then you........"
"It freaked me out so much when you showed me those.......because I had thought that.......things had been so perfect, that I was the only one with problems with my family........then I realized you and me where in the same boat," Malik said, his voice wavering.
For a moment, neither said anything.
"Malik, I wanna go find Yami-tachi," Kaya said finally, rolling her sleeves back down. He nodded and they got up. The two of them began to talk, and just be best friends.
Then Kaya heard a thump and looked down. Malik had tripped on a tree root. She snorted and rolled her eyes. "That was /real/ smart, Malik," she said, bending down to help him up. They looked up, and froze.
Kaya found herself staring, once again, straight into the face of Maximillion Pegasus.
(Mojobubbles: DUN DUN DUN!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA! Whoo, I kill myself.
Y. Mojobubbles: (smacks forehead) You are still a baka.)
"What do you want?" she asked, feeling tons of emotions coursing through her body.
"I still want them," he said. "I still want the Millennium Items."
Malik gripped the Millennium Rod a little tighter, and felt Kaya squeezing his hand so hard it was cutting off his circulation.
"You'll never get them, you /murderer/." Malik hissed.
Pegasus simply looked annoyed. "Fine, be that way," he said. Then he drew something out of his pocket. They were two Duel Monsters cards. But not any Duel Monsters cards.
There was a sudden flash of light, and Kaya and Malik slumped to the ground.
Pegasus grinned maniacally and stared at the two Duel Monsters cards.
"Two down," he muttered, then he started laughing like an insane vegetable.