Now that it's summer I can hopefully update sooner! his is really short I'm afraid but it will give you a lot of stuff to think about...and some foreshadowing of why Yuugi's mom was such a protective freak...^^
// blah // = Yami
/ blah / = Yuugi
...Memories...they coursed through the darkness and threatened to overwhelm the shocked senses of the figure they drifted over. They hurt, they were painful! Aibou, make them stop! He wanted to cry out but found he couldn't. He was...alone...again...in the darkness of his own world...
"I'm sorry..." he finally whispered, "I didn't mean to hurt anyone...let me go...let me away...make them stop! Make them stop..." they flowed quicker now, like blood from grave wounds they poured forth more of the stuff that had kept him alive, the memories that he had forgotten for the years he had been trapped in the puzzle. The pain increased, and he whispered into the darkness one final plea..."Aibou...help me..."
Insidious green eyes watched from a distance, lit with the fires of sadistic amusement...
"Yami...help me..." Yuugi was alone and frightened with an unconscious Jou clutched in his feeble grasp as he tried to drag him out the door and away from the house. Police could show up or something else, something worse. Something had been lurking in the back of Yuugi's mind for days now and he began to wonder, at that instant he knew not why, if that 'thing' had been what his mother had been trying to protect him from for his entire life, if the smothering wasn't just some annoying habit but a primal instinct to protect her child from the wild beasts of a strange and different world that neither of them had been able to imagine... "Yami..." his voice, cracked and so painful that it felt as if his vocal cords themselves were bleeding, rang out and seemed to echo in the infinite abyss of his mind.
He could feel and see his Yami's mind, the swirling reds and purples of a confused, hurting being. "Yami...where...are you..." Yuugi gasped out, imagining for a hellish moment that blood was leaking out of his mouth and staining everything crimson...scenes of places and people he didn't know were flashing through his head and he couldn't make them stop...
//Aibou...help me...//
"Yami?"
//Aibou...? ...it hurts...I, I don't understand what they...are trying to tell me...please...make it stop...Aibou...//
/I don't know how.../
//Where are you Aibou...your voice is so far away...//
/Try to get closer to it!/ Yuugi tried to imagine his voice reaching and comforting the other being trapped inside...wherever he was but he could feel the "fingers" of Yami's consciousness slipping away, farther and farther like grains of sand through an hourglass... /Yami! Hold on! I'm coming for you!/ Yami sighed with relief and clutched at his mental stronghold with a tighter grip.
...that's it...call him...closer and closer to his undoing...the voice whispered cruelly in his ear and caused his grip to loosen and slip.
/Yami? Are you okay? I'll be there in a second, I promise!/
//No! There's something else here! Stay away!//
/Yami?/
...too late...
/Yami!/ The sickening scream that was wrenched from Yuugi's body was heart-wrenching.
//Aibou!// And Yami could only listen...
Sorry that was way too short but I had only limited time! ...fifteen minutes to be exact... Gomen, gomen, gomen, gomen! Please forgive that really long waiting period! I'll try to update again soon! Really!