Warning: Shounen-ai. Yami/Yugi, (Eventual) Seto/Jounouchi, Malik/Ryou and Y. Malik (AKA Marik)/Bakura, various oddness and Anzu bashing.
Oh, and Silver Dragon? This is A/U. I made Ryou and Bakura/Malik and Marik brothers, because they look alike and I needed to give Malik and Ryou pasts in Egypt because I needed to give Malik a reason for being insane ^_^. And Bakura's a nice guy... Because. Just because!
Disclaimer:
Cutie: Iiiits time for more cameos, ladies and Gentlemen! This time we have... *looks at an envelope* Steve of Blue's Clues? The HELL with that... We haaave... TOMBA! Who will be tap dancing as Zippo disclaims to the tune of Frank Sinatra tunes.
Tomba: *tap dances*
Zippo: OOoooooOOOoo, Z does Not own YugiOH OH OH or any of the CHAAAAARACTERS...
Tomba: *some incomprehensible noise*
Cutie: *applauds*
Z: *giggles* Thank you again, Kooters! Your disclaimers are always so funny... Anyway. On with the first real chapter!
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CHAPTER ONE
*Domino Town, Japan, circa 2002 A.D. Three thousand and two years to the day later.* It was the end of an ordinary day at Domino High School. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, teenagers were making out behind the school... And Seto Kaiba was fleeing a horde of fangirls. His friends, the twin brothers Malik and Marik Ishtar and Yami Mutou had received advance warning of the fangirls' invasion, and thus escaped, but he had not been so lucky. He saw a fangirl with a tranquilizer gun drawing a bead on him, and he began running faster, dodging whatever students were in the halls and exhibiting the speed that had won him a spot on the track team three years running, even when laden with a backpack full of schoolbooks. 'Thank God all the teachers are busy right now... I would be in some very deep shit if they caught me running in the halls.' He turned a corner sharply, barely avoiding a tranquilizer dart, and disappeared through a door marked, "Authorized personnel ONLY."
Seto found himself in a back hallway of the school. "Yes! I've found a sanctuary!" He took off running down the hall and turned a corner, searching for a place to hide... when a door flew open and smacked him in the face. "OW! SHIT! FUCK! I FINK I BWOKE MAH NOBE!" He howled, clutching the offended appendage and doing a dance of pain. A sheepish "Whoops." drifted from behind the door, and a moment later, the spiky head of the billionaire's best friend, Yami, poked from behind the aforementioned door. "Eh... Sorry, Seto. I thought you were Anzu." Both teens shuddered at the mention of the head fangirl's name, then Seto shot Yami an evil death glare as he sagged to the floor, panting. "Remind me... to kill you... once the world stops spinning..." "I'll make a note of it." The spike-headed teen shot back, grinning. Another death glare hit him. "Shut up, Yami." Yami just shrugged, handing his friend a kleenex, which he used to mop away the blood on his face. "Whatever. I take it you need a place to hide?" Seto glared at his friend, looking quite comical with a wad of kleenex hanging out of his left nostril. "No SHIT, Sherlock!" Yami nodded wisely. "Thought so." The other glared at him momentarily, then shrugged. "Whatever. Is there enough room for me in there?" Seto jerked his head at the closet Yami had been hiding in. The spike-haired teen looked his friend up and down appraisingly, looked into the janitor's closet where he had been hiding, and nodded. "It'll be a bit of a squeeze, but I think we can make it."
"..." Seto, hearing the door he had entered through slam, promptly shrugged his backpack off his shoulders and walked into the closet, dragging Yami in after him while simultaneously dragging his backpack after him and shutting the door. Chaos ensued. "SETO! You stepped on my foot!" "Well, you made me hit my head on the wall!" "Did not! Where's the damn door?" "You did too, and I don't know! You tripped me and I lost hold of the doorknob." "Oh, shit. I'm trapped in a closet with Seto Kaiba." "Better to be trapped with me than a fangirl." Both shuddered. "How true." Yami mused, leaning back against a wall. Silence. "How are we going to get out of here?" Seto finally asked. "Bang on the walls. Then feel around any part that sounds different. Duh." Yami shot back, doing just that. Seto sighed heavily before leaning back and gently banging his head against the wall. "That's it!" Yami yelped gleefully, springing forward and opening the door, causing his friend to fall over, dragging Yami down with him. The result was that the billionaire ended up lying on his back with his friend sprawled on his chest, nose to nose with him, their lips pressed together.
"GAH!" Seto yelped, scrambling away from Yami. "ACK!" The other responded, scrubbing frantically at his lips with the sleeve of his coat as he, too, scampered away. "Oh grossness! I just kissed my best friend!" The spiky-headed teenager wailed, back pressed against the far wall, still scrubbing frantically at his lips. Seto was having a similar reaction on the other side of the hallway. "I did not just kiss my best friend... Must not vomit... Did not kiss Yami... must not vomit... Did not kiss Yami... must not vomit..." He chanted, rocking back and forth.
Their little island of disgust was washed away a moment later by the squealing of a fangirl. "EEEEEEEEEEEEE! IT'S SETO AND YAMI!" A moment later, the entire horde was after the two, who were running for their lives.
Yami and Seto screeched around a corner and dove into a shadowy doorway, just barely hiding themselves in a niche before the horde of screaming girls stampeded past. The moment all was clear, they slumped against the walls, gasping for breath. "That.... was too close." Yami wheezed. Seto nodded. "WAY too close." They held their breaths as another herd of fangirls rushed past, screaming.
It took awhile, but eventually, the fangirls got sick of hunting the duo and wandered off home, leaving our heroes to walk home in the dark. Fortunately, Seto and Yami lived not too far from each other, only a few blocks, so they could walk together and chat to pass the time. Mostly, they talked about duel monsters and the like, but something was different on this occasion, and the conversation turned to Egypt...
"Seto, has anything... changed... lately? Because, I swear, I've been having these STRANGE dreams about Egypt..."
Seto came to a full stop when he heard those words. "Strange.... dreams... About Egypt..."
Yami nodded. "And duel monsters coming to life..."
The tall brunette absently ran a hand through his hair. "And Malik and Marik pulling pranks on us..."
The shorter, spike-headed teenager bit his lip. "And Ishizu killing a kid who looks like me."
Seto winced. "And my little brother..."
Quiet reigned for a few moments- not even the cicadas dared break the utter silence, until Seto uttered a short, barking laugh and started walking again. "What are we, idiots? They're only dreams." Yami shook his head for a moment, before laughing and breaking into a jog to catch up to his friend. "Wait up!" Seto laughed again as he stopped. "Yami, you idiot, the game shop is right over there!" Yami paused, blinked, looked over, blinked again, then grinned sheepishly. "So it is. See you later, baka!" His friend waved, shouted, "You too, baka!" And walked off into the twilight.
'I'm glad I got my homework done while I was hiding in that closet... I really need to hit the hay.' Yami thought as he trudged through the front door, answered his grandfather's cheerful hello with a monosyllabic grunt and plodded upstairs, where he kicked off his shoes, and flopped facedown on his bed without undressing and promptly fell asleep.
*Several hours later.*
Yami found himself smack in the middle of a familiar dream... or so he thought, at first. He was in the center of a white marble hall, sitting on what felt like a throne, and surrounded by guards- the Celtic Guardian and the Dark Magician, to be exact. 'Not this again.' He tried to stand up and look around, but found himself unable to. As a matter of fact, he was unable to do anything except think. 'What the FUCK is going on here?! This isn't how the dream goes!' At that point, things began to happen. The large, bronze doors at the far end of the hall creaked open, and a short, spike-headed boy who was identical to Yami, save for his huge, innocent violet eyes, came dashing in, giggling as he scampered down the center of the hall, up the steps to the throne and onto Yami's lap, where he snuggled contentedly. 'WHAT THE FUCK?!' With a start, Yami realized he was speaking aloud. Or, to be more precise, he was CHUCKLING aloud, though, fortunately, he was not using the words he was thinking. "What did you do this time, Yugi?" Just as Yugi began to answer, the dream faded, to be replaced by another.
This time, he was sitting on the edge of a pool while Yugi swam gleefully around in it. "Come in, Yami, the water's great!" "Yugi, I don't-" He was cut off by a sheet of water which Yugi splashed at him, efficiently soaking him through. "Why, you-!" Again, the dream faded, to be replaced by a single snippet of Yugi, violet eyes half-shut, smiling at him. "Oh, Yami..." A second snippet, this time with Yugi looking worried. "Yami..." A third snippet, with Yugi screaming in terror as he was dragged away. "YAMI! YAMI, HELP!" Yami felt that he was falling into the blackness surrounding him, the smaller boy's terrified cries piercing his heart like a hail of knives. "Yami! YAMI! YAMIIIII!"
Yami snapped awake with a yelp. "AGH!" He bolted to his feet and stared around his room frantically, panting. "Wha-who-how...?" He sighed heavily, seeing nothing but the familiar furnishings of his room. "Just a dream. Damn it, how long is this going to go on?" He began to crawl back into bed, then, for reasons unknown to him, he paused. 'Turn around.' A little voice inside him said. He had learned to obey his intuition by now, so turn around he did. He found his gaze drawn to the desk, where a strange box lay. "Huh?" He muttered sleepily, stumbling over to examine the item more closely. It was a beautiful little thing, not more than four inches tall, crafted cunningly out of gold and set on one side with rubies and amethysts in the pattern of an eye. "How did this get here?" 'Nevermind how it got here, open it!' Yami's curiosity urged. His curiosity was his worst weakness, and he knew it well, so he gently lifted the lid off the box and spilled it's contents onto his desktop. 'A puzzle!' He looked longingly at his rumpled bed for a moment, then shrugged, turned the light up a little, sat down and set to work fitting the interlocking pieces of gold together.
*Exactly three and a half hours later...*
Yami yawned heavily, mindlessly snapping bits of gold together. "Almost done..." He muttered, snapping another piece into the heart of the upside-down pyramid. "Three more..." He felt over his desk, grabbing the right piece, and snapped it in. "Two..." Another grab at a puzzle piece, another satisfying click. "One..." He grabbed the final piece, the eye in the center of the front facet and frowned slightly, feeling a slight foreboding. "This is it..." He snapped the piece in place and held the puzzle up to admire his handiwork. "Pretty good for a beginner." He set the golden pyramid down on his desk, stood, and turned to go to bed, when he heard a loud whirring noise. "What the...?" He turned back to his desk, and was shocked to see the puzzle was enveloped in a flame of brilliant gold. "Holy shit!" Again curiosity gripped him, and he stepped forward, leaning over the puzzle to see better what was happening to it. What happened next was truly the strangest thing he had ever experienced. The light surrounding the puzzle floated away from it and formed into a short, spiky-headed boy who was nearly identical to the very confused Yami. "What the-!" The confused teenager had no time to expand on that thought, as he found himself staring into the huge, innocent violet eyes of the other boy. "Oh.... my... god..." He breathed, his own crimson eyes widening enough to take up nearly half his face. The huge, violet orbs blinked once, twice, thrice, then widened. "Y-Yami? YAMI!" Yami gave him a puzzled look. "Who are you, what are you doing here and how do you know my name?"
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I edited this one a wee bit... Thank you to Icz for goading me to fix it up a bit ^_^ I promise you, the next chapter will be interesting!