Project Shadow
Pan: Ooh, aren't you lot lucky? It's Tuesday, and I'm updating! This is my favourite chapter so far; let's see what you think of it.
Thank you for all your reviews. Some of you have excellent ideas on the way this is going; and I'll admit it, I'm not sure how to continue writing this. My sixth chapter is just being finished, but after that you may have to wait a little while for the next update. Thank you again!
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"Come on, we need to check to see if anyone's still around." Yami said, running out the door. He was amazingly fast now. "Hey, Yami! Wait up!" Yuugi ran after him.
For the most part, the HQ was filled with bodies, all with shot and burn wounds. Yuugi spotted Yami kneeling by one of them. "What is it, Ya... oh dear Ra..." he said, trotting up next to him. Anzu was laying on her floor. Her cheek was gashed, and she lay unconscious. Yuugi checked for a pulse.
"She's alive... just. Yami, you're stronger than me, take her somewhere like the medical department." Yuugi said. Yami nodded, and picked her up. "I'll be back soon." he said, turning and running carefully off. Yuugi picked his way towards the intelligence centre.
He pushed a button to open the door, and went in. Many computer screens were shattered, some had small fires in them. Yuugi grabbed a fire extinguisher, and put them out.
"Yuugi..." a voice said from the door. He turned around. Ryou was there, holding an unconscious Bakura up. "Yuugi, they took them all..." Ryou collapsed.
/Yami!/ Yuugi called out mentally. /I've found Bakura and Ryou. Both unconscious./
//On my way.//
Yami was there within half a minute.
~*~
Yami and Yuugi kept a silent vigil over their friends until they awoke. Anzu was not badly hurt, but still refused to look at Yami, and left on the grounds that "she had better do some work locating the others."
Ryou and Bakura did not wake up for another two hours, and when they did they weren't at all sure where they were. Bakura complained of a bad headache, but Ryou sat silently, letting Yuugi tend to the few cuts on his arms.
"Ryou..." Yuugi said gently "What happened? How did they find us?" Ryou looked down at his bandaged arms. "Cyber Agent was a traitor, no, a spy. As soon as he found you were here, he went off to Kaiba." Ryou told him. "Then it's not safe for us here!" Yuugi exclaimed. "We have to go!"
"Where?" asked Bakura from the next bed along. "Kame Game Shop." Yami stated plainly. Everyone stared at him. "Well, they would hardly expect us to go somewhere that obvious!" he pointed out. Yuugi noticed that his darker half was wincing, and biting his lip, to stop himself from attacking everyone in the room through anger.
/Calm down, Yami/
//I'm trying.//
"I'm going for a walk..." Yami said, exiting the room quickly. Yuugi nodded. "You two appear fine. You can get up, if you want." he told his two 'patients'. "But right now, I think I've got an Oni to deal with..." Yuugi left, and turned to follow Yami.
"Yami! Yami, where are you? It's just me!" he called, his voice echoing through the empty hallways.
/Yami?/
//Yu... Yuugi, don't come near me... can't take it...//
/Yami? I'm coming to you, no matter what./
Yuugi tried to sense out where Yami was. A right... left... left again... and he was outside their office. Carefully, he pushed the door open. "Yami? You in here?" he said slowly and gently.
"H... hai..." Yami was sitting in a dark corner at the back of the room. He had the blades on his arms driven into the floor, and was shaking like hell. Yuugi slowly moved towards him, and knelt down in front of him. "Are you alright?" Yuugi asked, taking his Yami's hand. He could feel that Yami's arm was tense; ready to pull away from the floor, and strike him [Yuugi].
"You should go before I hurt you." Yami said, closing his eyes. Yuugi shook his head, despite Yami being unable to see him. "I won't leave you." he said. "I love you." He put his arms around Yami's neck, and kissed him. Yami started, opening his eyes, but returned the kiss.
A figure darkened their open door, jumped, and promptly dropped the papers they were carrying, and rushed off.
"See?" said Yuugi. Yami's arms came free as the blades disappeared, and he put them around Yuugi's waist. "I see, I see." he answered, hugging his aibou tight. "I'm just glad you're always here to pull me back to my senses!"
Getting up, they wandered towards the door together, intending to find Ryou and Bakura, and see what they should do.
"Hey, where did all these papers come from?" Yuugi said, looking at the haphazard pile of paper. Yami bent down to pick one up. "This is one of Anzu's reports!" he said, dropping the paper. "Oh... SHIT!" Yuugi yelled, looking windly around outside for Anzu. "I knew I should have closed the door!"
"Don't worry about it, Aibou. We have more important things to discuss with Ryou and Bakura first." Yami said, placing a hand on Yuugi's shoulder. "Are you going to keep up this time, or must I carry you?" he asked. Yuugi grinned. "I was nowhere near as fast as you to start with, so what do you expect?" he said. Yami shook his head, and scooped up Yuugi, carrying him as he ran through the halls.
"Yami!" called Bakura. The part-Oni stopped abruptly, nearly dropping Yuugi, but then putting him down carefully. "Hello, we were just looking for you!" Yami said. "Come on, Ryou's taken Anzu up to the Kame Game Shop, I said I'd wait for you." Bakura said, leading them towards the passage which opened up in the cellar of the Game Shop.
//What was that you said last night about Anzu refusing to be in the same room as us?//
/Heh... same building more like./
~*~
They emerged into the dirty cellar of the Game Shop. The small room was mostly empty, except for a few dusty cupboards. A few steps up, and through a door, and they were in the kitchen.
"Good thing Jii-chan left this place to me, ne?" Yuugi said, checking for food in the fridge. "Oh, dammit, need some stuff to eat." he said, looking up, and closing the white appliance door.
"About time you got here!" Ryou called. "There's another news report on TV about us..." The three who had just arrived ran into the lounge, where Ryou was sitting on a couch, and Anzu on a different one. Yuugi sat down next to Ryou, leaving Bakura and Yami to decide which of them would sit where.
"But I wanna sit with Ryou!" Bakura protested. Yami beckoned Bakura towards him. "Look, Anzu is pretty much disgusted at the idea of, let alone having to co-exist with, an Oni." he whispered. "If you hadn't noticed, she's moved as far as possible away from me, trying not to make it obvious, and won't look at me." It was true, Anzu was huddled up in the back corner of her sofa, the opposite end to Yami.
"I see." Bakura reluctantly whispered back. "But she'll have to deal with it sooner or later" Bakura sat down at the nearest end of the sofa, watching Anzu relax as she looked relieved. Yami sat down next to Yuugi.
"And today, Kaiba Corp.'s CEO, Kaiba Seto has announced the removal of rebel force 'Project Shadow'. These rebels are believed to have taken part in the release of two dangerous teenagers, Muto Yuugi and Muto Yami, two boys..."
"Nice of him not to say 'Yami Yuugi'. Probably confusing enough for the people as it it." Yami commented on the news report.
"... Giving a press conference earlier this morning, Kaiba Seto sent out a message to the two Muto brothers;" The screen changed from the newsreader, to a full-on shot of Kaiba. "You two WILL be re-captured. You've caused enough havoc for the people of Domino..." The screen changed back. "The two boys are believed to be connected with several dangerous criminals already behind bars..." Ryou turned the TV off.
"I assure you, Yuugi and I have no intention of being re-captured. The problem is, the Rod, Tauk, Red-Eyes and Harpy agents were missing. He must have them. He'll use them as bait for us. Or make them Oni." Yami announced. "We can't contact them, can we?" Anzu said quietly.
"Maybe. Knowing Marik and Malik, they'll have thought of keeping some method of communication open for us. Probably the earpieces; they do look like hearing aids, and Kaiba's never met them before." Bakura pointed out. "I'll go back down to the base and see if I can get something to work." "Me too." said Ryou. "We'll see you later, or comm you when we get something." Yuugi nodded to the Ring duo. "I'll see what I can do about food." he muttered, leaving the room. Yami and Anzu were alone.
Anzu got up to follow Yuugi, but Yami was instantly in front of her. "Anzu... I think we need to talk." he said slowly. Anzu looked away. "Anzu, I'm serious!"
"Fine," Anzu said irritably. "What do we need to talk about?" Yami made her sit down again, and he sat next to her. "What is your problem with me?" he asked. Anzu took a deep breath. "It's not you..." she said. "It's what you are." Yami frowned. "Why does that change anything?" I'm still the same person." he said, sounding a little upset. "And... and I saw you... and Yuugi earlier..." she said, shaking. Yami took her face in his hand, and made her look at him. "That's why. Are you jealous?" he asked curiously. Anzu slapped his hand away, and jumped up, fury present on her face.
"I love you! Okay, you heard it! I loved you before, and I still love you, even though you are some kind of... of..." she yelled, stopping to think of a word. "Oni, Anzu." Yami told her quietly. "Some kind of demon-freak!" she said instead. "I was apprehensive, of course, who wouldn't be... but then I saw you and that runt, Yuugi, getting all lovey-duvey with each other, and you KISSED him!" "So? What's wrong with that? Yuugi's my aibou, the best friend I've ever had, I can't help loving him, and I can't help the way he feels about me!" Yami shouted, getting to his feet.
"It's unnatural, disgusting, you're gay, but what's even worse is I didn't know BEFORE I fell in love with you! Now I have to watch you two, when I know it should be me in your arms!" Anzu cried. "I can't believe it, even if I got rid of Yuugi, you wouldn't turn to me! You'd go off with one of your other friends, Bakura or someone! What's wrong with being normal and having a GIRLfriend?!"
An angry fire lit up in Yami's eyes; holding more rage than he ever thought he was capable of. He harshly grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him, putting his arms around her. "This is what you want, isn't it? This is how I feel about you!" he said angry to the point of killing the wretched girl on the spot with the blades formed on his arms.
He roughly captured her lips in a harsh kiss of anger, and shoved her away from him. "You disgust me, Mazaki Anzu! You're a worse demon than I am, you can't just be happy for me? If you really loved me, you'd be happy that I was happy, instead you become some kind of green-eyed monster of envy! I detest you! If it wasn't for Project Shadow, I'd have killed you already!" he shouted, his voice echoing through the house.
Anzu burst into tears, and darted up the stairs, locking herself in the bathroom.
Yami dropped down onto the sofa, head in hands, and blades fading.
"What the hell have I done...?" he said to himself.
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Pan: I loved writing this. Tell me what you think of it, please? R&R!
Pan: Ooh, aren't you lot lucky? It's Tuesday, and I'm updating! This is my favourite chapter so far; let's see what you think of it.
Thank you for all your reviews. Some of you have excellent ideas on the way this is going; and I'll admit it, I'm not sure how to continue writing this. My sixth chapter is just being finished, but after that you may have to wait a little while for the next update. Thank you again!
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"Come on, we need to check to see if anyone's still around." Yami said, running out the door. He was amazingly fast now. "Hey, Yami! Wait up!" Yuugi ran after him.
For the most part, the HQ was filled with bodies, all with shot and burn wounds. Yuugi spotted Yami kneeling by one of them. "What is it, Ya... oh dear Ra..." he said, trotting up next to him. Anzu was laying on her floor. Her cheek was gashed, and she lay unconscious. Yuugi checked for a pulse.
"She's alive... just. Yami, you're stronger than me, take her somewhere like the medical department." Yuugi said. Yami nodded, and picked her up. "I'll be back soon." he said, turning and running carefully off. Yuugi picked his way towards the intelligence centre.
He pushed a button to open the door, and went in. Many computer screens were shattered, some had small fires in them. Yuugi grabbed a fire extinguisher, and put them out.
"Yuugi..." a voice said from the door. He turned around. Ryou was there, holding an unconscious Bakura up. "Yuugi, they took them all..." Ryou collapsed.
/Yami!/ Yuugi called out mentally. /I've found Bakura and Ryou. Both unconscious./
//On my way.//
Yami was there within half a minute.
~*~
Yami and Yuugi kept a silent vigil over their friends until they awoke. Anzu was not badly hurt, but still refused to look at Yami, and left on the grounds that "she had better do some work locating the others."
Ryou and Bakura did not wake up for another two hours, and when they did they weren't at all sure where they were. Bakura complained of a bad headache, but Ryou sat silently, letting Yuugi tend to the few cuts on his arms.
"Ryou..." Yuugi said gently "What happened? How did they find us?" Ryou looked down at his bandaged arms. "Cyber Agent was a traitor, no, a spy. As soon as he found you were here, he went off to Kaiba." Ryou told him. "Then it's not safe for us here!" Yuugi exclaimed. "We have to go!"
"Where?" asked Bakura from the next bed along. "Kame Game Shop." Yami stated plainly. Everyone stared at him. "Well, they would hardly expect us to go somewhere that obvious!" he pointed out. Yuugi noticed that his darker half was wincing, and biting his lip, to stop himself from attacking everyone in the room through anger.
/Calm down, Yami/
//I'm trying.//
"I'm going for a walk..." Yami said, exiting the room quickly. Yuugi nodded. "You two appear fine. You can get up, if you want." he told his two 'patients'. "But right now, I think I've got an Oni to deal with..." Yuugi left, and turned to follow Yami.
"Yami! Yami, where are you? It's just me!" he called, his voice echoing through the empty hallways.
/Yami?/
//Yu... Yuugi, don't come near me... can't take it...//
/Yami? I'm coming to you, no matter what./
Yuugi tried to sense out where Yami was. A right... left... left again... and he was outside their office. Carefully, he pushed the door open. "Yami? You in here?" he said slowly and gently.
"H... hai..." Yami was sitting in a dark corner at the back of the room. He had the blades on his arms driven into the floor, and was shaking like hell. Yuugi slowly moved towards him, and knelt down in front of him. "Are you alright?" Yuugi asked, taking his Yami's hand. He could feel that Yami's arm was tense; ready to pull away from the floor, and strike him [Yuugi].
"You should go before I hurt you." Yami said, closing his eyes. Yuugi shook his head, despite Yami being unable to see him. "I won't leave you." he said. "I love you." He put his arms around Yami's neck, and kissed him. Yami started, opening his eyes, but returned the kiss.
A figure darkened their open door, jumped, and promptly dropped the papers they were carrying, and rushed off.
"See?" said Yuugi. Yami's arms came free as the blades disappeared, and he put them around Yuugi's waist. "I see, I see." he answered, hugging his aibou tight. "I'm just glad you're always here to pull me back to my senses!"
Getting up, they wandered towards the door together, intending to find Ryou and Bakura, and see what they should do.
"Hey, where did all these papers come from?" Yuugi said, looking at the haphazard pile of paper. Yami bent down to pick one up. "This is one of Anzu's reports!" he said, dropping the paper. "Oh... SHIT!" Yuugi yelled, looking windly around outside for Anzu. "I knew I should have closed the door!"
"Don't worry about it, Aibou. We have more important things to discuss with Ryou and Bakura first." Yami said, placing a hand on Yuugi's shoulder. "Are you going to keep up this time, or must I carry you?" he asked. Yuugi grinned. "I was nowhere near as fast as you to start with, so what do you expect?" he said. Yami shook his head, and scooped up Yuugi, carrying him as he ran through the halls.
"Yami!" called Bakura. The part-Oni stopped abruptly, nearly dropping Yuugi, but then putting him down carefully. "Hello, we were just looking for you!" Yami said. "Come on, Ryou's taken Anzu up to the Kame Game Shop, I said I'd wait for you." Bakura said, leading them towards the passage which opened up in the cellar of the Game Shop.
//What was that you said last night about Anzu refusing to be in the same room as us?//
/Heh... same building more like./
~*~
They emerged into the dirty cellar of the Game Shop. The small room was mostly empty, except for a few dusty cupboards. A few steps up, and through a door, and they were in the kitchen.
"Good thing Jii-chan left this place to me, ne?" Yuugi said, checking for food in the fridge. "Oh, dammit, need some stuff to eat." he said, looking up, and closing the white appliance door.
"About time you got here!" Ryou called. "There's another news report on TV about us..." The three who had just arrived ran into the lounge, where Ryou was sitting on a couch, and Anzu on a different one. Yuugi sat down next to Ryou, leaving Bakura and Yami to decide which of them would sit where.
"But I wanna sit with Ryou!" Bakura protested. Yami beckoned Bakura towards him. "Look, Anzu is pretty much disgusted at the idea of, let alone having to co-exist with, an Oni." he whispered. "If you hadn't noticed, she's moved as far as possible away from me, trying not to make it obvious, and won't look at me." It was true, Anzu was huddled up in the back corner of her sofa, the opposite end to Yami.
"I see." Bakura reluctantly whispered back. "But she'll have to deal with it sooner or later" Bakura sat down at the nearest end of the sofa, watching Anzu relax as she looked relieved. Yami sat down next to Yuugi.
"And today, Kaiba Corp.'s CEO, Kaiba Seto has announced the removal of rebel force 'Project Shadow'. These rebels are believed to have taken part in the release of two dangerous teenagers, Muto Yuugi and Muto Yami, two boys..."
"Nice of him not to say 'Yami Yuugi'. Probably confusing enough for the people as it it." Yami commented on the news report.
"... Giving a press conference earlier this morning, Kaiba Seto sent out a message to the two Muto brothers;" The screen changed from the newsreader, to a full-on shot of Kaiba. "You two WILL be re-captured. You've caused enough havoc for the people of Domino..." The screen changed back. "The two boys are believed to be connected with several dangerous criminals already behind bars..." Ryou turned the TV off.
"I assure you, Yuugi and I have no intention of being re-captured. The problem is, the Rod, Tauk, Red-Eyes and Harpy agents were missing. He must have them. He'll use them as bait for us. Or make them Oni." Yami announced. "We can't contact them, can we?" Anzu said quietly.
"Maybe. Knowing Marik and Malik, they'll have thought of keeping some method of communication open for us. Probably the earpieces; they do look like hearing aids, and Kaiba's never met them before." Bakura pointed out. "I'll go back down to the base and see if I can get something to work." "Me too." said Ryou. "We'll see you later, or comm you when we get something." Yuugi nodded to the Ring duo. "I'll see what I can do about food." he muttered, leaving the room. Yami and Anzu were alone.
Anzu got up to follow Yuugi, but Yami was instantly in front of her. "Anzu... I think we need to talk." he said slowly. Anzu looked away. "Anzu, I'm serious!"
"Fine," Anzu said irritably. "What do we need to talk about?" Yami made her sit down again, and he sat next to her. "What is your problem with me?" he asked. Anzu took a deep breath. "It's not you..." she said. "It's what you are." Yami frowned. "Why does that change anything?" I'm still the same person." he said, sounding a little upset. "And... and I saw you... and Yuugi earlier..." she said, shaking. Yami took her face in his hand, and made her look at him. "That's why. Are you jealous?" he asked curiously. Anzu slapped his hand away, and jumped up, fury present on her face.
"I love you! Okay, you heard it! I loved you before, and I still love you, even though you are some kind of... of..." she yelled, stopping to think of a word. "Oni, Anzu." Yami told her quietly. "Some kind of demon-freak!" she said instead. "I was apprehensive, of course, who wouldn't be... but then I saw you and that runt, Yuugi, getting all lovey-duvey with each other, and you KISSED him!" "So? What's wrong with that? Yuugi's my aibou, the best friend I've ever had, I can't help loving him, and I can't help the way he feels about me!" Yami shouted, getting to his feet.
"It's unnatural, disgusting, you're gay, but what's even worse is I didn't know BEFORE I fell in love with you! Now I have to watch you two, when I know it should be me in your arms!" Anzu cried. "I can't believe it, even if I got rid of Yuugi, you wouldn't turn to me! You'd go off with one of your other friends, Bakura or someone! What's wrong with being normal and having a GIRLfriend?!"
An angry fire lit up in Yami's eyes; holding more rage than he ever thought he was capable of. He harshly grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him, putting his arms around her. "This is what you want, isn't it? This is how I feel about you!" he said angry to the point of killing the wretched girl on the spot with the blades formed on his arms.
He roughly captured her lips in a harsh kiss of anger, and shoved her away from him. "You disgust me, Mazaki Anzu! You're a worse demon than I am, you can't just be happy for me? If you really loved me, you'd be happy that I was happy, instead you become some kind of green-eyed monster of envy! I detest you! If it wasn't for Project Shadow, I'd have killed you already!" he shouted, his voice echoing through the house.
Anzu burst into tears, and darted up the stairs, locking herself in the bathroom.
Yami dropped down onto the sofa, head in hands, and blades fading.
"What the hell have I done...?" he said to himself.
~*~
Pan: I loved writing this. Tell me what you think of it, please? R&R!