Kopy_kat14: Yay!! The first chapter!!!
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Chapter 1
Rain poured on the dark streets of Domino City. It was late Saturday night, though technically, Sunday was just an hour away. Small cats ran for shelter in alleyway boxes, and the few unfortunate enough to be caught in the late night rain ran to escape the cold wetness.
Even so, one boy walked through the rain unfazed (sp?). Yuugi Mutou, at age 15, was a Domino High freshman. Some called him a loner, while others marked him off as being just plain weird. It didn't really matter to the boy, as he preferred solitude. Yuugi's violet eyes had a rebellious glint to them, while his unruly spikes of black hair, tipped with magenta, and blonde bangs announced to all how little he cared for conformity. He walked with a sense of defiance, and the black clothes that he wore supported the stance that he took. Yuugi had been wandering aimlessly around the city since nightfall, with an urgent need for clearing his head.
He had gotten in another fight with his foster parents.
His real parents had died long ago, leaving only him and his grandfather to live together. Although that didn't last long, either. Soon, his grandfather developed a strange illness, which killed him. This caused Yuugi to be sent to an orphanage, from which his current "parents" adopted him.
"Crap." He muttered under his breath after staring at his watch, and quickened his pace. There was no way his foster parents would approve of his late-night romp through the rain.
When he arrived at the appropriate destination --he couldn't bear to call it his home-- he couldn't help but stare at it again, like he did so very often. It was a quaint home with two stories. Downstairs were the living room, kitchen, a dining room, and the "family room", while the upstairs contained five bedrooms: four housing children and one for the couple to reside in.
It seemed, to Yuugi anyway, that the two were trying to start a collection of children. Or maybe it was a sick game of sorts; to see how many children they could keep in their zoo. All of the children were a year apart, Yuugi being the youngest, and as soon as the oldest one, a female named Rei, moved out to go to college, another 15 year old would be added to their collection. This was just an orphanage outside of his old one, a cruel removal of the light at the end of the tunnel. At least while he had been at the orphanage, there was a hope that he would be adopted into a loving family.
He crept upstairs silently into his room, shutting the door. Letting out a large sigh, he turned on the light and walked over to his closet, pulling out a pair of black pants, as well as a plain black T-shirt and hooded sweatshirt.
After changing into dry clothes, he sat down on the bed, leaned over and pulled something out from underneath it. It appeared to be a gold box with hieroglyphs, the ancient Egyptian's writing, as his grandfather had told him, on it, though he wasn't sure what they meant. This puzzle was the only thing to remind him of his grandfather, Sugoroku, and all the wisdom and kindness the old man had possessed, and he was determined to finish it tonight.
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KK14: That took forever for me to write! Sorry it was short, but oh well, I got it done! R/R!!!