Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of the characters neither am I making money of this fanfiction.

This is my first fanfiction I've ever wrote so don't go hard on me ,okay?

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Chapter 1

The Beginning Of A Journey

A young lady was sitting on the floor waiting for her brother, she knew the routine and yet she feared it every morning since she was five the usual place the usual time the usual pain.

"Ah, I see your already here Exodia!" a man's voice said with false cheeriness.

The lady on the floor gritted her teeth: "Yes brother"

"I am sorry to disappoint you Exodia but I cannot teach you the Shadow games today because we have a high visitor today, the pharaoh himself will be coming to make a deal with our small Emirate of Bahrain. He will be arriving shortly, I expect you to be at the dinning hall. Oh yes and don't forget to dress well!"

The man slipped out of the doorway and walked away, letting Exodia by herself. "I would rather spend the day in the Shadow Realm then have a pharaoh as a guest!" She murmured as she stood up.

She was 15 years old and tall and slender, the slender part was actually because her brother's idea of fun was to torture her and not give her any food, her skin was pale and her black hair had a wired shimmer of green to it. Shaking her head franticly she made her way to her room. She quickly changed and jogged down to the dinning room. She barley had a chance to sit down when her brother announced the arrival of Pharaoh Yami and his sixth priests.

"By all Gods!" Exodia thought "Seven of those wired Egyptians and all of them have a Millennium Item! This is just asking for trouble!"

She was interrupted in her thoughts when her brother addressed her: "Exodia will you please bow down before the pharaoh?"

"No" she thought but did, I mean you never know when they might want to us those Millennium Items do you?

She had a closer look at Yami: He was about two years older then she was and had spiky black, red and gold hair. He also was a bit shorter then her. He was also wearing some sort of puzzle around his neck, witch was one of the legendary millennium Items.

She already knew witch matters where going to be discussed, the King of Thieves himself had been seen in the area. Well more then just seen he had murdered her sister Rea.

If she ever met him in person and lived long enough to tell him she would thank him for that. Why? Because her sister once squealed on her when she tried to run away...

"There are some matters I wanted to discuss alone with you Abduhla." The pharaoh said to her brother.

Exodia picked up the hint and removed herself from the table. She went outside and nearly tripped over her own feet because standing by the wall was the King of Thieves and he was holding a knife.

As soon he noticed her he plunged foreword to stab her without knowing what she was doing Exodia grabbed the blade of the knife with one hand.

To Bakura's surprise she didn't even twitch that was unusual most Princesses cry when they just saw a knife. But not with her, she just stood there holding the knife and starring into his eyes.

"What are you doing foolish woman!" Bakura growled.

"Not wasting my time trying to kill someone who's not worth it." She answered without a trace of a feeling.

She let go of the knife. They heard voices in the distant. With a growl Bakura turned and hid in the shadows just as her brother and the pharaoh entered. "Sister to whom were you talking to?"

Bakura gripped his knife tight he knew that she was about to spill the beans and that he was going to haft to fight for his life to get out of the palace.

"I was just thinking out loud that maybe Bakura has left the country." Exodia said with a little smile. Her brother was satisfied with that answer and left but Yami stayed.

"Where did you get those cuts on your hand?"

"I... ähm was just..." she was cut of when one of the priest called out to Yami that the were heading back to Egypt soon.

While the priest talked to Yami, Exodia quickly slipped away and headed towards where Bakura was hiding.

"Hey tomb robber!" she whispered

"Yes" Bakura answered coolly.

"Do you think you can get out of the palace and off the island this night?" Exodia asked firmly. Surprised by the question and especial from who it was coming from he answered slowly: "Yes"

"Good" she said "because your not leaving here alone I'm coming with, meet me where you tried to kill me earlier."

"Why?" Bakura asked slightly annoyed.

"Let's say I have my reasons and I forgot, thanks for killing my sister." And with that she walked away.