Kinsako- Purr! Yay! First Chapter! For some reason, the prologue got kind of lost, and didn't show up on the update. Oh well, hopefully this one will work.

Thunder- I WANT MORE FAN FIC DAMMIT!!!

Kinsako- Hehehe. I Love being evil. I dedicate this story to Thunder, aka Shanrei, or Jess. Just because I can! : P.

Also, I would like to thank the people who reviewed, if it was just one person. Meh, come on people! Review!!! Please?

(Misura) Thanks for the review, it's my very first one! Glad you liked my story, and my characters!

Tonde- And Kinsako does not own Yu-Gi-Oh, or any other copyrighted items mentioned in this story. The would go bankrupt and die if she did!

Kinsako- Hay!

This is a story about a Yami and Hikari of my own creation, and was done pretty much on a dare, cause certain people kept telling me my writing is too "normal" and "cutesy".

*Warning* This story contains Yuri, or a girl on girl couple. Don't like it, don't read it. It's that simple. Flames will be used to set fire to spare soul cards. This story is rather angsty, and there is quiet a bit of violence and unrequited love and such. Oh, and other couples mentioned in this story but not really expanded upon are: Yami/Yugi, and some mentions of Marik/Malik. I love Yami/Hikari relationships, so check for future stories on them. I'm going to do some Bakura/Ryou, and Seto/Joey fluff too.

Oh, and this so far is just a prologue to get you interested, I will try to update rather often, so check back.

Tonde - /…/ is Hikari to Yami

//…// is Yami to Hikari

Shadow's Light

Chapter 1- Still Dreaming

          I woke up abruptly from a strange dream, by a soft moan from my room. I opened my eyes slowly and glanced around the room for the source of the sound, but found it empty. I sighed and flopped back on my bed. I hadn't actually heard the moan, it had been a telepathic thought from my yami. I closed my eyes, and slipped into my soul room. I walked down the short hallway, and stopped between the two doors at the end. I ignored the lighter door on the left, and carefully pushed open the heavy stone door on the right. I blinked into the flickering darkness of the room, and slowly stepped inside. I ran my hand along the hieroglyphics carved into the polished black stone walls, and made my way further into the temple-like room. In the back of the room, lying on a stone structure covered in pillows was my yami, Akasha. She was tossing back and forth in her sleep, and groaning softly. I sighed and knelt down beside the bed.

"Akasha," I sad and shook her. "Come on, Kash, wake up."

Her purple eyes snapped open, and she reacted, snarling something in ancient Egyptian, and making a slashing movement with her arm. I closed my eyes, and instinctively brought my arm up to try and block the spell. A wave of shadow magic knocked me back a few feet, and I fell over backwards. Akasha was on her feet in a flash.

          "Oh Ra, hikari, are you aliright?" She pulled me into a sitting position. "I'm sorry Kay, I was dreaming, and I reacted out of instinct."

          I winced and got to my feet. "It's all right yami, I'm fine." My eyes clouded over with concern. "Was it the same dream again, you know the one where you relive…"

          "… how I was tortured and put to death in ancient Egypt? Yeah, that would be the one." Her face darkened. "Baka Anubis damned Pharaoh! If I ever got my hands on him, I swear I'd shred his soul!"

          I sighed. "That's kind of hard Akasha, seeing as he's been dead for over 5,000 years." I grinned. "So, are you going to come out, or sit in your soul room all morning?"

          She smiled halfheartedly, and we walked down the corridor to the real world. There was a bright flash and then we both stood in my room, sunlight just starting to filter through the window. She yawned.

          "Well, since you're up Kay, you might as well go get ready for school. You can't be late for your first day."

          I nodded, and turned to leave the room, but hesitated. Akasha flopped back on my bed.

          "Ummm… Kash?" I said softly?

          She blinked at me. "What's wrong hikari?"

          I blushed and looked at the floor. How in the world was I going to explain this? "Uhh, it's my first day, and it's a new school, and I don't know anyone." I took a deep breath. "Would you mind coming with me… in the Night Stone?"

          She smiled warmly, and something I could recognize flickered in her eyes. "Of course hikari, I told you as long as I was here, you would never be alone."

          I smiled brightly, turned and dashed out of the room. I didn't want her to see the blush that was creeping over my face. "Thanks yami!" I called.

Perspective change- Akasha's P.O.V

I sighed sadly and fell stared at the ceiling of my hikari's room.

If only she knew…

I shook my head. No. I couldn't tell her how much I cared for her, I couldn't risk it. I smiled sadly. 5,000 years.

My thoughts drifted to my past life. I had been a Lesser Shadow Mage in the Temple of Bast in Ancient Egypt, but even though my power and skill exceeded that of my peers, I was treated like I was helpless, because of my age. Usually the temples didn't accept disciples that were older that five or six, but they had made an exception in my case because of my abnormally high magical abilities. My parents cared less, I was one of five daughters, but because of my temper and attitude, they had never been able to find a wealthy man to marry me off to, despite the fact that I was rather good looking. 

I sighed, and rolled onto my stomach. I guess my life hadn't been too bad in the temple, I did learn a lot of magic, even if it was usually from spying on the Arch Mages. But one day, I accidentally stumbled upon a meeting between the High Mages of my temple, and the temple of Anubis. At first, they were going to kill me, because they feared that I would turn them over to the Pharaoh's guards. Instead, they decided to let me in on their plot to overthrow the Pharaoh, using the forbidden magic of the lost age. At first I loved it, they taught me magic more powerful and complicated than I knew existed, but after a time I learned that the magic they were going to release was too powerful for them to control, and they could destroy the world if they tried. I tried to tell them, to warn them of the danger that they put Egypt, and maybe the entire world in, but they refused to listen. At last, I had gone directly to the Pharaoh, to try and warn him of the High Mage's plan. He wouldn't listen to me. His High Priests were also in on the treachery, and they convinced the Pharaoh Yami that I was lying, and sought to destroy the temples. The Pharaoh, being arrogant and completely under their control, had believed them, and thrown placed me in prison. It was during this time, when one of my only friends, one of my masters had come to visit me. He told me he believed me of my innocence, but the Pharaoh did not, and was planning my execution. I didn't cry. I just stood there, feeling empty and numb. I had risked everything to try and save my nation, and now I was going to be put to death for it. Before he left, my master gave me something. He told me that it had been created be a legendary Mage in the lost age, and it was somehow connected to the afterlife. The Night Stone, no one had ever been able to discover it's true use, and he wished me happiness, and hope that my next life would give my the light this one never could.

I shivered, even in the warmth of my hikari's room. That was weird. It might have been a thought from Kayore, but I had felt her close of the mind link some time ago. Or maybe it was my memory. Just the thought of those endless hours of pain that the torment that the guards had been ordered to put me through before I had died. I had laughed in their faces as the beat me, burned me, cut me, raped me, and done every other imaginable thing to me. As I lay on the floor of the prison during the last moments of my life, cold and broken, I felt something. I felt… light… and free, and suddenly the pain was gone. Then the darkness took me, and I finally understood the purpose of the night stone. It sealed the dark half of a soul for eternity, until the light half was reincarnated, and the two halves of the soul were rejoined.

And so I died. The first time anyway. After what seemed like an eternity of darkness, suddenly there was the beautiful light, there was Kayore. I didn't know it at first, but I loved my hikari even then. When she first set me free, I looked into her eyes and I saw an innocence and beauty I had lost so long ago. I took it from her. I used her body because I didn't have me own, and I did things I know I shouldn't have. She found out after a time, and broke our connection. Once again, I was confined to the everlasting darkness in the night stone. I thought she would never come back to me, but she did. That was the night I realized it. That was the night I finally admitted to myself that I was in love with her. That night, I also regained my physical form.

I held my hand above my face and studied it. I've never been able to figure out how that happened, maybe it was my love for my hikari that gave me my body. I sighed. I could never tell her how I felt. I ran my finger over my lips. One night, just a few weeks after I got my body, I hadn't been able to sleep, so I had crept into my hikari's room. The sight of her sleeping had taken my breath away. Lying there in the moonlight she looked like some kind of angel, and I just couldn't stand it anymore. I had kneeled beside her bad, and softly brought our lips together in a kiss. She tasted… so good, the strangest kind of sweetness that I still haven't been able to find in anything else. Her eyes had flickered open sleepily.

"Akasha?" She had said, still half asleep, "Is that you?"

I fled to my soul room. I don't think she remembered then next morning, and after that I had slept in my soul room, and told her that it was comfortable. I knew I couldn't trust myself with her.

I heard the water turn off in the bathroom. She must be out of the shower. I sat up, and slid off the bed. I smiled. Maybe I could never tell her how I felt, and maybe she could never love me in that way, but for now I had her next to me, and maybe it was enough. Maybe. The door swung open, and she stood there in her pajamas, her midnight black hair dripping on her t-shirt. She smiled at me.

"Hi Akasha, did you go back to sleep?"

I smiled warmly at her. "No hikari, but I think I'm still dreaming." She gave me a puzzled look, but before she could say anything, I disappeared into my soul room.

YES! Chapter 1 done! Hah! Take that Jess! : P. Don't worry, there's more where this came from, this isn't the end!

Thanks to everyone who read this, even if you didn't like it, you're still all awesome for reading it! J Vanilla Coke and Starbursts for all!