Boku wa Yami desu...

This is just a little thing that I whipped up one day. If anyone likes it, I'll add more to it.

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"It's been so long. I walk alone now; no friends, just a host. A host who DIED because I went out with one of his friends for a while. In that TWO HOURS the Game Shop was robbed, and HE was shot dead. There was nothing I could do. I felt the shot through our mind link, but then it went blank. He died almost instantly; shot to the heart. I returned to him instantly, but it was already too late. So I took his body. I know I shouldn't have really, but I did. And I still have the shot wound. See, I don't need a heart. I'm just a spirit. I don't need a heart, and I don't want one ever again. In that brief two years I had with him, I learnt to like, and love again. And then I learnt to mourn. To cry. Something I had never done, not without his help. I cried on my own, for him. He doesn't have a grave; no body, no grave, see. His friends don't know what happened. Didn't know that I stole his form. After a while, they stopped coming to see me, living in Yugi's old bedroom. There's another first. That's the first time I've said his name since he died. And now, what am I to do? I wander the streets alone. Everyone knows that Yugi's dead... they all assumed it was a murder, and now he's just a statistic. One more unsolved murder, one more lost body. Never caught his killer. Never caught my killer; the one who killed my aibou killed my ability to be happy, killed my ability to love... never again. Never again. Now I know what true Yami is."

A boy with long white hair was walking along the street, not looking where he was going. It was raining, and the streets of Domino City were busy with people hurrying to get home. That's when it happened. He bumped into someone.

"Gomen nasai!" the boy said quickly, bowing, before looking up. "Yami?!" His chocolate brown eyes met with a pair of eyes that had long since lost their soft violet, and now were a harsh crimson. The person he had bumped into had stopped but said nothing. "Yami, we were all so worried about you! It's been five months, and none of us had seen you!" the boy said hurriedly. "Ryou..." Yami said slowly. "I need to speak to you and Bakura. Soon." Ryou nodded, and took Yami by the arm, pulling him off towards his house. Yami's golden bangs dripped cold water down his face, almost making him look like he was crying, but the harshness in his eyes defeated that illusion.

"What is it you want to talk about, Yami?" Ryou asked, removing his wet jacket, and taking Yami's blue coat. The Millennium Ring hanging around Ryou's neck glowed as his aibou, Bakura materialised in the room. "Hi, Yami." he said briefly, before sitting down, and signalling that Yami should do the same. Both remained silent, until Ryou returned. "Well, Yami?" he said, dropping down next to Bakura.

Yami emptied his pockets onto the coffee table in front of him. Thirty or so golden pieces scattered across it, all in irregular shapes and sizes. "The Millennium Puzzle?" Bakura asked. "You took it apart? Why? How come you're still here?" This time, Yami's eyes filled with tears for real, but he held them back. "I took Yugi's body when he died." he said quickly. Bakura and Ryou looked shocked. "Why?"they said in unison. "I wanted to remember him my way." Yami said quietly. He took off his black sleeveless shirt, and on his chest before his heart was a dark red mark. "Yugi was shot straight through the heart. If he couldn't have a heart anymore, I didn't want to keep mine." Yami said, putting his damp shirt back on. "And he didn't quite die before I got there. To save him, I put his spirit in the Millennium Puzzle... but for his soul to return, the Puzzle had to be broken up, and now it must be put back together. But Yugi was the only one who knew how to put it together." Yami poked the pieces on the table.

"We'll help you, Yami. After Yugi died, and you disappeared, our little group kinda fell apart. Anzu went off with some girls in her class; she doesn't care about friends anymore, just how she looks, trying to impress boys. Without Yugi to smile, and tell her that everything would be alright, she left her own path of destiny." Bakura said. "Jonouchi and Honda are both big bullies at our school. They even bully me. Without Yugi to make sure they didn't get too violent, they went back to how they used to be." Ryou added. "Seto Kaiba?" Yami asked. "Kaiba Corp. was taken over by Industrial Illusions. Kaiba disappeared, after his brother was captured. Just us two left now." Bakura answered. "Anzu is too caught up in herself to listen to us. Maybe she'll listen to you." Ryou said, smiling. "I still have her number."