~Prologue~

Pain.

So much pain, radiating off my arm and filling my body with heavy fire. There was nothing but the pain; the world around me was a chaos I didn't recognise.

"Where is this place? How did I get this wound?"

No answers.

But then a voice, calling my name.

"Yuugi-kun...." and he was there opposite me, at the end of a dark tunnel.

"It hurts, Yuugi-kun...." I repeated, begging him to make the pain stop, to explain what was happening.

"Yuugi-kun...." One more time. Did I speak aloud? Why didn't he move?

Fire again, a different one. Fire and steel entered me, sending me reeling back away from my eyes, the pain gone. The dark tunnel few until I saw nothing.

There was words - Yuugi's voice - and then bright, blinding, lightning flamed pain.

Why?

Why did this happen?

I wish it wasn't real... that it hadn't happened.

I wish....
Author's note: title paraphrased from act 3, scene 1 of Hamlet, the "to be or not to be" speech. I'd give lines but the online page I was looking at doesn't have line numbers. Stupid thing.