Illusion of Innocence

Anshi: Wow...

Anthy: This gets better.

BPP: Yami...

Anshi: What is it?

BPP: He seriously needs a helping hand.

Anthy: I know.

Kainaz: *grrrrrrrrrr*

Anthy: I agree.

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Illusion of Innocence

A Nazure Crusade

If you are lost in your way

Deep in an awesome story

Don't be in doubt and stray

Cling to your lonesome folly

Yami waited three or four days until going back to the game shop. Grandpa was waiting at the counter when he walked in. Yami was aware of Verdy, who had slipped into his pocket and had the snake resting on his shoulder.

"Oh, hello Yami."

"Hello." Yami said, before asking where Yugi was.

"Oh...Yugi and his mother moved to Tokyo. Yugi didn't want me to tell you this. I'm sorry."

Yami and Verdy left, both of them feeling crushed. But Yami didn't go home. He walked to Nazura's apartment and was greeted by Kainaz.

"Yugi is in Tokyo. That's where I'm going."

Yami and Verdy turned to leave, but both Kai and Kal began to follow him.

"Are...are you coming to help?"

Yami found himself on Kalnaz's shoulders and the four were on their way to Tokyo. He thought about Yugi, and what was going to happen. Mrs. Muto would probably ignite his temper again and sparks would fly.

"What will happen to Nazura?"

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The girl-so-named opened her eyes for the first time in days. She groaned and tried to sit up, only to find out that she was tied to a bed. There was a bandage over her eye, and the other one was still blurry. She turned her head to see the open window and white walls. Again, she groaned.

"Good, she's awake." A voice said.

Nazura turned her head the other way to see a man in a navy blue suit and black glasses, like a body guard or something. Her eye narrowed.

"State your name." He ordered.

"Nazura."

"Your full name."

"That is my full name. It is my only name that you know."

She could feel the man glaring down at her through the glasses and she felt a hellish intelligence creeping into her mind.

"How long have you had your snakes?"

"Since I was born."

Another silence entered the room. Nazura's emotion burned. This was going to be fun.

"And what was your intentions on the night of Friday the thirteenth?"

Nazura laughed...a psycho hell-borne laughter that rivaled Ishtaru and Bakura. The man stepped back a bit. Nazura looked at him with her one eye, unaware that it was glowing green.

"To kill the threat to my friends."

Once she said that, the leather buckles tying her down changed slowly into diamond-back rattlesnakes, freeing her and going after the man. Nazura sat up and pulled the bandaged over her eye off. Her white robe changed as well, shifting into an ancient Egyptian gown, adorned with cobra pendants and gold cuffs. Her cobra headband glared its ruby eyes at the world it had not seen for years.

"I am The Master of Games..."

The wall of her room blew open, and a chilling wind blew in. Nazura laughed again.

"The Serpent Queen Nazura."

Nazura stepped outside, walking on nothing but the air. Her rage was driving her to Tokyo. The Serpent-Queen inside her was seething with pure hatred.

"Yugi...wait for me..."

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Yugi looked out the window of the apartment and sighed. He missed Yami, and Nazura, all too much. He glanced at the bandages on his arms and tears formed in his eyes.

"I feel bad...whenever mother would hurt me...Yami was always gone and I had always made up an excuse for him. And he would believe me. He was gone when she was arrested, and he never asked. Nazura was only trying help, and her snakes weren't here to kill anyone..." Yugi's voice trailed off as he began to cry. He fell to his knees and sobbed.

Something heavy his head. He cried out and toppled over, blood trickling from the new injury. Mrs. Muto said something that Yugi didn't hear and kicked him, sending his body careening into a chair, which was soon his refuge. His mother passed out on the couch.

The eye on the Sennen Puzzle began to glow. Yugi weakly reached over and ran his finger over it, tears and blood mixing together.

"Yami...hurry..."

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Anthy: MWAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

Nazura: Woah...I snapped.

Anthy: All in favor of Nazura and Yami having a moment, tell me!