Illusion of Innocence

Anshi: The snake girl snapped.

Anthy: Well...Yami is on her direct route.

BPP: There's gonna be a moment.

Anshi: Maybe.

Anthy: It would be sweet.

BPP: Why not?

Anshi: Because it might be creepy.

BPP: Yeah...

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Illusion of Innocence

A Mother's Cry

How come I must know

Where obsession needs to go?

How come I must know

The direction of reliving?

Yami felt two different emotions at once. One a driving hate, definitely of someone he didn't know. He didn't recognize it. But the other was a intense sorrow and anguish. That was Yugi. This made Yami panic. He held his head, feeling Yugi's pain. Damn that woman. Damn her to hell.

He felt a hand on his shoulder, and it wasn't the Nazure. Yami looked around. The Nazure wasn't there. They were gone. Yami looked at the hand. His eyes began to tear up and a knot formed in his throat.

"Mother...?"

The shadowy figure of his mother stood behind him. Her kind black eyes looked at him and she pointed at the sky. Yami looked and his jaw dropped.

There was Nazura, clothed in her Serpent Queen outfit, walking on the air with the Nazure waiting for her as she made her descent.

Yami turned, the spirit form of his mother vanishing into the wind. Nazura set foot onto the earth and a horde of snakes gathered at her feet.

"Yugi...wait for me..." She hissed and began walking towards Tokyo. Yami could feel her rage, and ran in front of her.

"Nazura...Listen to me...what is going on?!" Yami cried. The Serpent Queen stopped.

"Out of my way Pharaoh...this is not your battle."

"What happened to you?" Yami asked, not moving.

"Nothing of your concern. Move."

Yami didn't budge. Yugi's pain still stabbed at him, and the knot was growing in his throat. Nazura's rage poured from her, and Yami didn't know what to do.

It came like a storm, and Yami felt the sting soon after. Nazura held a gold whip in her hands, with a snake's head as a weight on the end. She glared down at him, with a look in her eyes that he had only seen when he first met her. And he knew she could kill him in an instant.

Nazura began to walk away...

"Nazura..."

She stopped, and turned to Yami.

But Yami wasn't the one she looked at. Standing defiantly behind him was the shadowy vision of Sheta, Yami's mother. The Serpent Queen inside of Nazura twitched. There, here, the person she had missed and respected for so long was here once again.

Quell your rage, your fury, your hatred. This is not your place.

Nazura fell to her knees as the intense anger inside her fleeing like birds. Yami watched as the snake-girl he once knew returned...slowly.

All will be all right, my son, she is not your enemy.

And she was gone once more. Nazura saw the tears form in Yami's eyes as he sat, immobilized and tharn (tharn means heartbroken or immobilized with fear). Nazura walked over and wrapped her arms around him.

"Yami no Yugi...your task is not finished yet. Come on...I know where Yugi is."

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"I tried to raise you the best I could..."

Yugi's eyes rolled up, so he was now looking at his mother's face. There was blood pouring down the side of his face, and his arm was broken. He felt...so...weak...

"If I hadn't had you..."

Hands tightened their grip around his neck.

"My life probably might have been different!!!"

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There are different kinds of wars...

People bleed even when they fight with themselves...

Even when...

Even when they smile...