A/N- UGH, I HATE MY FRICKING COMPUTER!!! It has this stupid Norton Autoclean installed in it, and whenever you don't cancel it after to boot up the computer, it deleates half of my fricking files!!! It deleated one story I was working on, and part of this story's chapter! And I'm on writer's block, and it's hard to write even half a chapter when you have that! So, I was done half a chapter, and when my sis was on the computer, he didn't stop stupid Norton Autoclean, and deleated my stuff! I'm really pissed now, cuz it's going to take longer now to rewrite that half chapter! >.< I would deleate Norton, but it's more like a virus than help to our computer, because it won't let me deleate it! Oi. AKA, sorry for the longer wait for this chapter. I hope you like it. It's not as good as when I first typed it out, I cut out the first bit, but at least it's something. Also, I found out how to use a HTML file, so now my chapters won't be as messy, and I can use italics for thoughts and such. Well, enjoy. p>
Yugi's large violet eyes snapped open. He had just woken up from a nightmare, which was just as bad as the rest of them. But, this one was different; Pegasus wasn't in this one, but the mysterious white haired person was. He groaned to himself, and sat up, still feeling very tired, but feeling unable to fall back asleep...yet. Yugi tried to talk to Yami, but saw that Yami was sleeping in his soul room. Yugi was about to walk him, but thought better of it; he shouldn't wake him up like before. Yugi sighed, and broke the connection. He really wanted to talk to someone, anyone. Yugi fingered his puzzle idlely, and found himself looking around the room.
It was, as always, somewhat empty, but you could still tell that someone lived there, espically if you knew the castle's history. It was also dark. Yugi shivered; even to this day, he was still somewhat afraid of the dark. But, he had also gotten over it a bit, but the memory of the fear still lingered, making him a bit frightened. He looked at his mother, and found himself smiling sadly. He was basicly all he had left, excluding Yami, and his newfound friends. But, she was all Yugi had left from his past, since Yami and his other friends weren't around when he lived in his village outside of Osaka. He missed it, and knew that by now that it had become a ghost town by now, since Pegasus took everyone from their homes, and made them his slaves. Yugi hated him for that, and for one of his guards killing Jii-chan.
Jii-chan...I miss you so much, thought Yugi sadly, as a small tear ran down his cheek. He choked on a sob, trying to make as little of noise as posibile. He didn't want to wake up his mom;he wiped his tear away, and sniffed a little. He stopped playing with his puzzle, and moved his small hands to his blanket. He feeled around for something, and when he found it, he pulled it out. It was the container than used to hold the puzzle, when he was still solving it.
Yugi raised his eyebrows in thought, and pulled a card from the top of his deck, turning out to be his Blue Eyes White Dragon. How did I get this? I don't remember ever having this before, and there are only four of these in the world...and yet I have it. What if...what if Jii-chan gave this to me at one point? What if he gave it to me when he gave me the puzzle? Hmm...
Flashback, four months ago
Yugi sobbed miserably in the empty darkness of his cell in Pegasus' castle. He was all alone, even his mother wasn't there. She was still working for Pegasus. It seemed to Yugi that the adults worked longer than the children, leaving them alone longer. Even so, you'd expect the elders to have finished their work by now. But, Yugi had no use to wait for an elder, since the only elder that had lived with them at one point was Jii-chan, but he had died a week earlier, and was buried somewhere behind the castle. Yugi sniffed to himself sadly. He hated being alone, and was afraid of the dark. He brought his knees to his chest, and held with his arms tightly. He felt a tear escape his violet eyes, and crawl down his cheek, dripping to the dirt ground beside him and his blanket. He looked down at the spot for a minute, blinked a few times, then remembered something. He reached under the marron blanket, and found what he was looking for, which happened to be the puzzle's golden container. He looked at it for a minute, still feeling nervous around it, since it beared the symbol that Pegasus' eye also held.
It's not evil, it's anything but evil, Yugi, Yugi remember Jii-chan's words carefully, as he gathered his courage and opened the top. Inside held many puzzle pieces, glowing a little even in the darkness of the cell. He then noticed something on the top of the pieces, blocking out the glowing a little. It beared the symbol of a duel monsters card on the back. He picked it up, and without another thought, he placed it aimlessly in the pocket where he held his deck. He then picked up two pieces of the puzzle, and felt warmth flow through the tips of his fingers. He half smiled sadly, and started to solve the puzzle which would take about four months to finally solve...
End Flashback
I guess I got it then, Yugi thought blinking, I don't see how any other way I could have gotten it. In fact, I never really looked through my deck after that, since I became obsessed with solving the puzzle. One of the last times I went through my deck was when I was dueling that guard with Yami--
//Someone say my name?//
/Yami! I-I thought you were sleeping!/
//I was, but I woke up. Why are you awake?//
/I woke up, too. Couldn't fall asleep again, either./
//...Are you sure that's it?//
/...I also had a nightmare, about that white haired person again. Pegasus wasn't there this time, though./
//Hmm...well, I must admit, this is starting to get a bit...well, freaky. But you shouldn't really worry about it, it's just a dream, after all.//
/I guess your right, Yami./
//...Are you sure that's all that's bugging you?//
/Yes./
//Really?//
/Yes./
//Positive?//
/Yes./
//Are you absolu--//
/Yami!/
//Oh, sorry, Aibou. I didn't mean to annoy you. I just want to make sure your OK, because...well, your like a brother to me, I guess.//
/...Really?/
//I'm not the type to lie, Aibou.//
/Ya, I guess so. But, I'm sorry for snapping at you, too, Yami./
//I guess we're even now, right?//
/Ya./
//Well, maybe you should try to get to sleep again, Aibou. Good night.//
/'Night, Yami./
Yugi broke the connection between the two, and sighed to himself. He was glad to have Yami with him, since Yami was also like a brother to him, too. The brother he never had. Yugi laid back down, curled up into a ball, and closed his eyes, drifting off to sleep once more.
"Ack!" Seto fell flat on his face after tripping over a hidden log in the dark forest, and into a pile of mud. Sputtering, Seto got up, his face now taking on a brown-ish shade. Mumbling a string of swear words to himself, he wiped his face clean with the sleeve of his coat. He looked around, remembering that he was stuck on duelist kingdom to fend for himself until he came up with a plan to save his brother, Mokuba. Mokuba. Seto pulled out from under his t-shirt a golden necklace with a case at the end, and opened it. Inside was a picture of his brother when he was six, playing chess. At the side, he could tell that he was the one playing chess, since his hand was sticking in the picture, with a black chess piece in his hand, which looked like a knight. I'll save you, Mokuba. No matter what. I'm going to teach Pegasus a thing or two, one of them being never mess with a Kaiba. But one thing puzzles me--why kidnap my brother, and not me, too? Is it for some form of ransom? Seto closed his ice blue eyes in thought, and snapped the picture of Mokuba shut. He shook his head, opening his eyes. He suddenly felt sharp pain in the back of his head. He yelped out in pain, and rubbed his sore spot. It happened to be the spot that he got hit with the steel bat, too. He winced a bit, realizing for the first time that the bandage around his head had fallen off a while ago; probably when he fell out of his helicopter.
"Stupid god damn steel bats--" he started to swear a whole lot, most of them being the f-word, which would make the rating of the story higher, so I blocked it out. He continued to rub his head gingerly, but soon stopped since it really only made it hurt more.
"I've always hated baseball as a kid. Well, now I have a good reason to really hate baseball!" Seto grumbled to himself, taking a few wobbly steps forward. Grumbling more strings of swear words to himself, Seto took a few more steps slowly, until something caught his eye. Raising an eyebrow, he hid behind a tall and fat tree, keeping an eye on a bight glow not too far ahead. He narrowed his eyes, looking at a white haired person, and a dark black and blue gateway(or what looked like one) in front of the person. He couldn't really tell the person's gender, since the white white hair on him or her was longer than what a boy would have.
Then again, he had seen boys have hair that long before, so he couldn't really be sure. Besides, his head was hurting too much to even think straight.
Seto snapped himself out of his thoughts as the white-haired person started to talk.
"Leave me alone! I don't want to do this anymore!" The person shouted. Seto may have been not able to think straight, but but he could tell by the voice that it was a boy.
"You have no choice in the matter here, dear Hikari," A voice deeper than that of the boy's rang through Seto's ears, seeming to come from the portal.
The boy that the other voice had called Hikari narrowed his chocolate brown eyes, "You can't make me anymore! I don't want to do this! This is all...so wrong, and evil!"
The other voice chuckled, "And you'd expect it to be something good? From me, espiecally? I think you've been in the sun too long, Hikari, because your brain is scrambled like an egg."
"I should never have accepted the ring from my father when he gave it to me! I hate you!" Hikari ripped a necklace that looked like a dreamcatcher from his neck, and threw it on the ground angerly.
Seto's blue eyes widened when the necklace floated to the boy's neck, and clasped itself around his neck. "Resistance is futail, young Hikari. Your too weak, you might as well give up and give in, because either way, your going to help me in the end. You can do this the easy way, or the hard way."
"Never!"
The other voice sighed. "Why does everyone want to do it the hard way?" A flash of light, and a scream from Hikari, and his young fragile body fell to the ground. A moment later, his brown eyes opened, and an evil look crossed his features. He chuckled evilly, and stood up. "It would be so much easier if I don't always have to seal you in the ring everytime I take over your body, Hikari. You should just do it willingly, it makes things go so much smoother." A small shimmer from the ring made 'Hikari' 's face screw up into one of anger. "What? You dare call me a squirrel that lost his nuts?! I'll teach you a thing or two, Hikari..! But right now, I don't have time for idle chit-chat. I have to collect more souls now, to power up and get Pegasus' eye.." The portal closed with a wave of his hand.
Seto was in shock. Souls? What did he mean? And what the hell happened to Hikari over there?! He head was still throbbing in pain, and he was trying to sort his thoughts out.
Seto didn't even realize that 'Hikari' knew that he was listening, until he was right up in his face. Seto hesitated for a moment, and with a wave of Hikari's hand, a wave of sleepyness washed over him, and he fell unconscious.
Seto figeted a bit, trying to shake off the wave of unconsciousness. He groaned a little, and his ice blue eyes fluttered open. He blinked a few times and sat up. Damn, my head hurts, he thought to himself. It wasn't hurting as much as last night, but it still hurt.
...Wait, last night? It was day already?!
Seto held on to his head as he groaned painfully, then noticing that miraculously his briefcase was still clutched in his left hand. It was a bit dirty, but still intact. Seto then turned his attention to in front of himself. His eyes widened; he was at the freaking doorway of the castle! I hope nobody saw me yet,
"Hey, you! What are you doin' there?!"
Damn. Seto cursed, seeing two guards run from the now open doorway, running towards him. One of them was male, and was cursing a lot in what Seto believed to be Spanish, while the other was female with long black hair sweeping over her shoulders. Seto stood up as quick as he could, and tried to run the other direction and into the forest, but wasn't fast enough, and was held back by the two guards by his arms. Seto grunted in both pain and concentration, as he struggled to free himself. The other two guards grunted with him as they continued to hold onto the elder Kaiba the best they could without letting go. Seto then thought of something else, and stopped struggling, and fell limp.
"Hehe, go 'em," sneered the spanish man.
"No thanks to you, Jose," the woman commented.
"Hey, we're boh holding him back here, Giselle!" Jose shot back.
Seto chuckled quietly to himself. What idiots, he thought, But now's my chance. Seto then snapped his ice blue eyes open, and smacked Jose with his briefcase where it really counts, making him fall to the ground in pain. Seto then smacked Giselle over the head with his briefcase, making her clutch her head in pain, enabling him to get out of both their grasps. He then ran into the forest, faintly hearing the cursing of the two guards. Oh, great, now they're going to be after me for sure, Seto thought bitterly to himself, as he continued to run through the thick and slightly lit forest.
Yugi's eye lids slowly fluttered open as he heard the soft clutter of bar doors opening, then something metal sliding on the dirt floor, and bars closing once more. Yugi blinked, then looked up, yawning. He heard footsteps fading, and saw stale bread and water in front of them. Great. You'd figure Pegasus would give them something different for once, too. Yugi sat up, and started to reach for 'breakfast', when he heard some voices.
"I'm telling you, Panchito, somebody spotted that guy!"
"What guy? You mean that guy who killed Akira?"
"Or at least that's what your brother said, and that new chick, Giselle."
"Ah. But how could they tell, Rintaro?"
"Don't ask me, they just thought that 'cause he was kinda sneaking around, like some kinda outlaw, or murderer or somethin'."
"...But wouldn't that mean that he looked like us?"
"Panchito, this is not really the time to bust my chops here. I'm already a bit scared 'bout that guy, 'cause if he killed Akira, what's stopping him from chopping us up tonight?"
"No diga la materia como eso, su arrastramiento yo hacia fuera aquĆ!"
"Say what-a who the whats-it??"
"Sorry. I said 'Don't say stuff like that, your creeping me out!' It's just a reflex speaking Spanish."
"Well, break it then! Nobody can understand a damn thing you say except your brother when you speak Spanish!"
"I kind of figured, Rintaro. But you see that Giselle girl?"
"Oh ya, she is HOT...!" The voices faded after that, which was a bit of a relief to Yugi, since he didn't want to listen to those two bozos talk about girls as if they were Trophies.
But after sitting still for a few moments, the important information sunk in. They think Seto's the one? But it can't be...he wasn't even here when his soul was stolen! I know it's not him, but those guards are for sure going to be after him now! I've got to warn him, somehow... Yugi narrowed his violet eyes, taking on the appearence of Yami, but had not transformed into him; not yet, anyway..
To Be Continued...
A/N: And the end of another chappy! ^-^ I love writing this, even though I had writer's block. But, thankfully, it's mostly gone now! Yay! ^-^ But one lil problem-- school starts on Monday!! ~_~ Oi-ness. I like school, but I like SLEEPING IN, NOT GETTING UP AT FREAKIN' 7:00am! ~_~ Plus, with homework that I know will start coming, I won't get much time to work on this story, and my other one(or two)! ~_~ Poo. Well, please review! Please don't get mad at me if it takes a while longer to get the next chappy out, too...
