I own all of Yu-Gi-Oh! and most of all… Yugi! Yugi is miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiineeeeeee!!!! -squeals- Or… not… [Kazuki Takahashi]
Ok… fine! Then this story is mine and nobody can steal it because I worked oh so hard to come up with the plot and everything and then and then I… -hyperventilates and dies- [Teloka]
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--To my Reviewers--
Oh no! That is not at all sad! No one can have too much Yugi memorabilia… -little love hearts in eyes- It is nice to find someone who is as obsessed as I [Kopy-Kat14]
Here you go Mary, an update just for joo. Or more… for me 'coz I wanted to see who the cliffie turned out! I can be self-oriented! Bwaha… ok… I will not be vain… oO''' [Bayleef]
Ahaha, more people I have annoyed with my ebil cliffhangers. -waves a rainbow- Don't eat me, eat the rainbow like Bayleef! And to clear things up, I am pondering on whether Yugi will actually die… BUT if he does he will come back of course! ^^ [Neosun7]
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No trees were harmed in the making of this Fanfiction, though as I have a cold, a lot of tissues got used, much to their distaste 0.
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||This is a POV change or Flashback||
-Yami to Yugi-
-:Yugi to Yami:-
"Talking"
'Thoughts'.
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Chapter 2:
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A soft chuckle rewarded the boy, and it snapped that this wasn't Bakura, but Bakura's evil spirit taking control of the white haired teen.
"How very nice to see you again little Yugi. Where were you headed in such a hurry, hmm?" Yami Bakura's voice was like ice, harsh tones that froze Yugi's blood in his veins. Swallowing, Yugi replied shakily, fingers tightening around the straps of his backpack.
"To a tournament that's being held at school. I'm running late, so I best be off" Spinning on his heel, Yugi lurched forward into motion and flew through the crowd, hoping to blend in.
But hair like that, and such a small size were not common in Domino City, so this cover couldn't last long, no matter how much Yugi wished it would.
After five minutes of running flat out Yugi was tiring, but the school was in his sight just across the road. Careless of the cars that seemed to be constantly racing, Yugi ran out onto the street, realizing his recklessness at the very wrong time, Yugi stopped short in the center of the road, brakes screeching around him.
Diving to the side, Yugi landed on the sidewalk out the front of the school, and lifted his head, the clock in the high tower proclaimed he had one and a half minutes to go 'til the tournament began. He was probably too late to sign up, but at least he'd made it.
Looking over his shoulder Yugi was met with the angry faces and curses of the drivers who he had put off course, but the traffic had soon started again.
Pushing himself to his feet, Yugi could see Yami Bakura over the other side of the road.
He seemed to be glaring and smirking at the same time.
A car zoomed past, almost certainly over the school's set speed limit, for it whipped Yugi's hair into the air stream wake, and the loose flaps of his clothing also.
Bakura was gone.
Frowning, Yugi turned and darted inside the school fence, a feeling of safety washed over him and he walked towards the stairs, already able to hear the racket of anticipation.
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"Alright, I place one magic card face down, and play Fairy's Gift, in attack mode!" The girl opposite Yugi sneered, and the audience all turned their gaze to the boy, each wondering what he was going to do now.
So far it had been a rather even duel, and both Yugi and the girl he was dueling against were getting down to their last remaining life points. Yugi's Silver Fang was on the field unprotected, but defeating the wolf with that Fairy would still leave Yugi with life points remaining.
'I wonder what that down card is… I have no way to be sure, so I'll use this card on my Silver Fang' Yugi strategized, as he drew another card and added it to his hand.
"Ok, this is it, wouldn't you say Jenny?" Yugi asked the girl, who nodded and glanced down at the cards she had in play and the cards in her hands.
"Alright, I'll equip my Silver Fang with the Reinforcements Card"
Joey cheered from the sidelines, a few other people gasped. The blonde male had already been victorious within two rounds, and as well as signing up for himself, Joey had managed to sign up for Yugi too. It was lucky the short teen had made it on time, him being the first match. Of course, so far it had been a fly through for the King of Games.
Yugi kept feeling bad. This tournament had a lot of beginners, and he was an elite… though he preferred not to be any different. He proclaimed it was just luck and a trust in the 'Heart of the Cards'. So far, neither of his opponents had believed in the Heart of the Cards, and neither had Joey's.
"Ok, now I send my Silver Fang to attack your Fairy's Gift!" Yugi smiled, as he moved the card of his beast wolf over to Jennie's side of the Game Mat, directly in front of her fairy.
Despite his attempts not to, Yugi found these Dueling Mats primitive compared to the Holographic Projecting Arenas he'd gotten used to.
"Aha!" Jenny proclaimed, flipping over the card she had face down, revealing the Elf's light. Yugi twitched. This girl reminded him too much of Téa, but at least Jenny didn't rant on about friendship all the time. ((Authors Note: Heehee, sorry to any Téa lovers out there… I don't like her))
"What?" Yugi stared at the opposing card, and bit his bottom lip. That made the Fairy's Gift stronger than his Silver Fang.
Silver Fang: 1700 attack, Fairy's Gift: 1800 attack.
"Aha! I've taken you down again Yugi! You only have 200 Life Points left, and your Silver Fang is sent to the graveyard" Jenny gloated.
Yugi scowled and picked up his defeated monster card and the now useless equipment card, placing them both on his rather small graveyard pile, and he drew from his deck once more.
"You won't last another turn Yugi!" She was 50 Life Points above Yugi now, 250 to be exact. Jenny grinned, 'I'm actually going to beat the King of Games in a duel!'
"Yes I will Jenny. For I've pulled one of my strongest monsters. The Summoned Skull!" Jenny gasped as Yugi slapped his card onto the table, grinning. "And my Summoned Skull has an attack strength of 2500, completely vanquishing your Fairy's Gift, and destroying your remaining Life Points!"
Joey cheered from the ground, jumping up onto the slightly raised platform upon which Yugi and Jenny had been dueling, and grabbed his friend in a headlock. "Way to go Yug'!"
Yugi kicked with one foot uselessly against the larger teen. "Joey… let.go. You're.choking.me"
"Oh, sorry…" Joey grinned and put Yugi back on the ground, where the purple eyed, pointy haired youth panted slightly but grinned.
"Alright, Yugi Motou, you advance to the next round. Ok, next up we have Flora and Patrice!" Said one of the people who were keeping track and score of things.
Joey rolled his eyes, as the two girls put their hands up from different spots within the massing crowd of duelists. "Hey Yug' I'm gonna go get somethin' to eat, I'm starving!"
Yugi laughed at his friend, nodding. "Sure Joey. I'm going to stay here and watch these two duel. I can get an insight to their talent and strategy"
Joey stared at Yugi for a second. "Oh c'mon Yug'! You're better than anyone here, sheesh, you're King of Games. You beat Pegasus!" Yugi shrugged slightly, but said nothing as Joey turned and headed for the door, saying he'd be back in five minutes.
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||Yami's Point of View||
Ouch. My back hurts.
Sitting up slowly, I forced my eyes open. Where was Yugi? He wasn't anywhere in the room, so I just assumed he'd be downstairs.
A flash of gold in the sun snapped my gaze to the Millennium Puzzle, the pyramid shaped pendant sat on Yugi's dresser.
I couldn't tell what time it was, but the sun appeared high in the sky.
Knuckling the small of my back I stood and wobbled blearily, licking my lips and making my way to the door. Pushing it open I staggered towards the stairs, running a hand over the spikes of my hair, not that I really expected them to be too out of place, for they never seemed to fall out of their wild natural position.
"Wha--!"
Loosing my footing on the second stair down, I grappled for the wall but failed to get a hold on anything, curling up as I tumbled down the stairs and landed in a heap at the bottom.
Lucky I didn't feel proper pain in this spirit form.
"Well well well" The voice of Yugi's grandpa greeted my ringing ears and I lifted my head, looking up. I rolled suddenly, the blood rushing to my head, for my legs draped up the stairs, me having stretched them out after I'd landed at the foot of the fall.
"Good morning Mr. Motou" I mumbled, squinting my eyes shut and pulling the rest of my body down the stairs, I got onto my hands and knees, crawling back to sit on the very lowest step, rubbing my forehead with one palm.
"More like good afternoon Yami, it's one o'clock! Somebody slept in for once!" I heard him laugh heartily.
'One o'clock? Ra, I did sleep in… I wonder what has come over me… first I hit my head on the dresser, then I sleep in, then I fall down the stairs'
Mr. Motou didn't say anything for a while, I suppose he was waiting for me to speak first, but when I didn't he continued, "Yugi's gone out. He went to this tournament. He rang me not too long ago to say he wasn't coming back in time for lunch" Grandpa's fingers flourished in the air over a large poster on the wall behind the counter.
I scanned it quickly, and nodded, my mind suddenly clicking into the fact that Yugi had neither awoken me, nor put the puzzle on.
To tell the truth, I was a little hurt.
"Are you sure your ok Yami?" Mr. Motou asked in concern, noticing the fact that I continued to rub my head, and I replied with a nod. At least now he only had two feet instead of three swimming before my eyes.
Giving a faint groan I stood up, standing a little above the older male I looked down to him and smiled as warm as I could muster. "At the school?" I asked, already heading towards the door.
"Yes, but Yami, I wouldn't advise going. What if…" It was too late, I'd shut the door behind me, and Solomon watched as I, the spirit that looked so much like his grandson walked past the window, giving a wave before he disappeared out of my sight, and I from his.
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||General Point Of View||
"Yes, but Yami, I wouldn't advise going. What if…" The grey haired man trailed off as Yami left, before continuing to himself, "Somebody sees you…" He finished. He was worried that someone with one of the Millennium Items might notice Yami out and about in his spirit form, and frowned.
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'I wonder where Joey is. He said he'd be back within five minutes, and it's already been at least fifteen' Yugi was getting anxious as he watched the duels from the doorway. He'd slowly been moving back. Yugi'd had to tell the announcer once already to postpone Joey's duel with some body called Kyoto.
Somehow he didn't think the match could be postponed much longer.
Frowning Yugi decided to head outside, to see if Joey was around anywhere. 'But why would he loiter outside, and not come in? He should know he's got to duel again soon!'
Yugi crossed the road more carefully this time. He knew where the closest 'Joey' shop was. His friend would have gone there. It was one of his favorites too. So Yugi began to sprint.
He found the small corner shop that sold most of Joey's best foods. Rushing inside, Yugi panted out the question of whether Joey had been there.
"Why yes, he has. That was a good 20 minutes ago though"
"He was here?" Yugi was a bit surprised, but nodded his thanks and turned, jogging back out of the shop.
'I should be heading back…' And so he did, looking at his watch Yugi frowned. 'I've made it here in three minutes… Joey should have made it down here and back easily within five minutes'
The alleyway from before loomed in front of Yugi suddenly; memories of Yami Bakura's evil smile flooding back to the boy. Frowning, Yugi looked down into the darkness of the alley. 'Hang on… doesn't this alleyway have a link directly behind that shop?' It was true.
This particular alley linked to an area just beyond the building Yugi had just left. It would have been much quicker for Yugi to use the alleyway as a shortcut, but the small boy had never believed in going into darkened places.
'Oh no! What if Joey took this as a shortcut and… and…'
Fear rising inside of him Yugi glanced over the road at the school, before turning and running into the pitch nothingness of the alleyway.
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"Yugi and Elaren?" The spoken girl stood up and looked around nervously, recognizing the name 'Yugi' as the King of Games, the young man who had easily made it through all of the duels so far.
"Yugi Motou?" The announcer tried again, but Yugi wasn't there. Frowning, the plump woman turned back to Elaren. "Would you mind holding? We'll put some of the other people up first… We're holding for Joey Wheeler too… Maybe Yugi went to look for him"
Whatever was on the ladies mind, she concealed it from everyone there, picking up a piece of paper and reading the next pair on the list. "Kelly and Gulard"
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As Yugis' steps slowed, he tried to do the same with his racing heart and his heavy breathing. It wasn't working too well. He was sure that if there really was anyone down here, they'd have heard him already.
A muffled shout caught his attention, and he jumped up against the sidewall of the alley. Taking deep breaths, Yugi rounded the slight corner, and started at what he saw.
Joey was sitting up against what looked like a cardboard box, his legs splayed at odd angles over the ground. The contents of a brown paper bag were spilled at his feet, what looked like enough candy and chocolate to last a week. Yugi stared long and hard at his friend, taking in scrapes and bruises.
Someone had been beating him up. Flashbacks hit Yugi blindingly, images of a scenario much like this, but for sure, he and Joey were much better friends now.
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||Flashback||
Joey and Tristan lay crumpled, leaning on each other's back for support. Above them towered a shadow, the sun behind him making features hard to distinguish, but a pair of amused eyes and huge bushy eyebrows.
This was, believe it or not, another kid from Domino High School, but he was huge. So of course when Yugi turned up, being as small for his age as he was, the bully dwarfed the young teen even more.
"Leave them alone! These guys are my friends!" Yugi shouted, anger rising inside of him as he put himself between the hulking figure of the male, and Joey and Tristan's beaten forms. Joey blinked. This boy, Yugi, was the same one he and Tristan had been bullying. And now, Yugi was trying to protect them.
The huge man just laughed, turning his attention and huge fists to Yugi. "Well little Yugi, you've just jumped to the head of the line!"
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A small sound from Joey called his attention, and Yugi lifted his head from the shadows to watch as someone with glistening white hair stalked into view, and towards Joey, a small knife clutched in bony fingers. This was obviously who had already been beating Joey.
It was Yami Bakura.
Again.
But this time, Joey was at the evils' mercy.
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Another evil cliffhanger. And who can guess what our brave little Yugi is going to do? -glomps Yugi in armor- Well, I'm not going to tell you, you'll have to wait to the next chapter, but I'm sure you can read my mind… 0.0 Not that there's much in there other than 'yugiyugiyugiyugiyugiyugiyugiyugi' and other things very similar. XD
I can't believe I got three reviews already. Oh I'm so happy. Is that sad or what? Going crazy over three reviews. I realized my mistake that I don't even have 'Undecided Fate' up yet… XD how obtuse, as Yami would say, which is just a fancy way of saying stupid. No, not obese… Xx
I hope you are enjoying reading this fanfiction as much as I'm enjoying writing it. Oh, also, I have had an 'anonymous request' to author a Yaoi or Shouen-Ai (hope I spelt those correctly). Now, I am not particularly fond of boy/boy relationships, and I refuse to write a Yugi/Yami story, but if I get enough votes for a Yaoi, I might just write one (but not Yugi/Yami… Xx Yugi is all mine! XD) even though I don't really fancy it. So please leave a vote in your review.