The Heart of the Cards:
Seto Kaiba
By Soul_Shard_Wielder
Yu-gi-oh! is owned by Kuzuki Takahashi,
My soul is owned by some really not-nice people
Please don't mess with either one
Yugi Mutoh, the one that tore away all my precious illusions.
Will he ever know what he has done to me?
He defeated me.
He showed me death.
He showed me life.
He showed me what I had become
And a way to gain back some of what I had lost years prior
On the surface, I am the same as before
Arrogant
Possessive
Ruthless
I always will be
I have to, I'm a businessman, it's my life
But that is not all of who I am anymore.
I know the important things now.
Mokuba
The heart I felt again after so long numb
The fate of those who reached out to me
And the Defeat of those who would bring them harm
I'm learning,
I'm learning to be human again
I'm still crawling but soon I will be able to stand
As I shuffle through my deck,
I look at the creature that has always been mine.
Blue-eyes White Dragon
Power
Solitude
Common but Unique in its own way
I look for the other two and find them
I have to hand it to Pegasus, their Portraits are beautiful.
like the real thing
I've seen them in the dreams which come almost every night now
my friends
my allies
my freedom in imprisonment
my soul on wings of silver
it's funny
I have always denied the connection
between myself and what Yugi terms "The Shadow Games"
the darker and more magical half of Duel Monsters.
Yet I have always known of it
it scared me, I think.
That the cards
made by what the business world knew was a madman
and myself
with only a tedious grip on sanity at the time
were connected.
I lost many a night's sleep over that
until I realized that sanity becomes pointless
to a world that praises you as a hero
because of a card game.
I put them down to stare at the rest of my deck
Without the Blue-eyes, it has still served me well
However I'm not just staring at my current deck
I am staring at the deck I have used for 5 years running
Surprised? Don't be
Only when a card is worn and damaged do I replace it
the ones I have replaced are in a glass case in my office
The only exception to that rule was not at my choice
God Solider, Obelisk the Tormenter,
whose fate I do not know
nor do I care
I wish it the same fate as the man I pushed out of Kaiba Tower...
May it be found dead and all but buried, if ever found at all.
The newest cards in that case would surprise people
the Five Pieces of Exodia,
water-logged and all,
that Yugi used against me such a short time ago
I had them fished out of the sea after Duelist Kingdom
They are too damaged to use anymore
However, they now serve as a reminder
a reminder of defeat and a promise to myself
to let cracks show in my facade
to hold back
to stand for the weak when I can
to stand for hope when I must
but to do so only from the shadows
because I am too much of a monster myself
Faith
that is the thing that Yugi terms "the heart of the cards" really is
faith that the next draw is the one you need
faith that your deck will pull through
faith that the monsters chosen as your champions will win the day
I have always had faith
it was different from Yugi's but it was always there
mine was the faith of a commander in his troops
mine was the faith in my own power
a power that could protect me when my parents couldn't
a power that could DESTROY MY ENEMIES!!!
a power, I finally realized, that swallowed me whole
but now I have some new things to have faith in
some new people
that Tea's innocence and compassion will keep them together
that Tristan can prevail against what won't be outwitted
that Joey will always get in trouble, but will find a way out
that they will stand side by side when things are at their darkest
and last but certainly not least,
that Yugi will ALWAYS do the right thing
They always have had faith in each other
and while they will never know it
and while I wiil dog them every step of the way...
now
in the places that I will never admit to going anymore...
in the heart that the world deems dead...
so
do
I
-fin-
Seto Kaiba
By Soul_Shard_Wielder
Yu-gi-oh! is owned by Kuzuki Takahashi,
My soul is owned by some really not-nice people
Please don't mess with either one
Yugi Mutoh, the one that tore away all my precious illusions.
Will he ever know what he has done to me?
He defeated me.
He showed me death.
He showed me life.
He showed me what I had become
And a way to gain back some of what I had lost years prior
On the surface, I am the same as before
Arrogant
Possessive
Ruthless
I always will be
I have to, I'm a businessman, it's my life
But that is not all of who I am anymore.
I know the important things now.
Mokuba
The heart I felt again after so long numb
The fate of those who reached out to me
And the Defeat of those who would bring them harm
I'm learning,
I'm learning to be human again
I'm still crawling but soon I will be able to stand
As I shuffle through my deck,
I look at the creature that has always been mine.
Blue-eyes White Dragon
Power
Solitude
Common but Unique in its own way
I look for the other two and find them
I have to hand it to Pegasus, their Portraits are beautiful.
like the real thing
I've seen them in the dreams which come almost every night now
my friends
my allies
my freedom in imprisonment
my soul on wings of silver
it's funny
I have always denied the connection
between myself and what Yugi terms "The Shadow Games"
the darker and more magical half of Duel Monsters.
Yet I have always known of it
it scared me, I think.
That the cards
made by what the business world knew was a madman
and myself
with only a tedious grip on sanity at the time
were connected.
I lost many a night's sleep over that
until I realized that sanity becomes pointless
to a world that praises you as a hero
because of a card game.
I put them down to stare at the rest of my deck
Without the Blue-eyes, it has still served me well
However I'm not just staring at my current deck
I am staring at the deck I have used for 5 years running
Surprised? Don't be
Only when a card is worn and damaged do I replace it
the ones I have replaced are in a glass case in my office
The only exception to that rule was not at my choice
God Solider, Obelisk the Tormenter,
whose fate I do not know
nor do I care
I wish it the same fate as the man I pushed out of Kaiba Tower...
May it be found dead and all but buried, if ever found at all.
The newest cards in that case would surprise people
the Five Pieces of Exodia,
water-logged and all,
that Yugi used against me such a short time ago
I had them fished out of the sea after Duelist Kingdom
They are too damaged to use anymore
However, they now serve as a reminder
a reminder of defeat and a promise to myself
to let cracks show in my facade
to hold back
to stand for the weak when I can
to stand for hope when I must
but to do so only from the shadows
because I am too much of a monster myself
Faith
that is the thing that Yugi terms "the heart of the cards" really is
faith that the next draw is the one you need
faith that your deck will pull through
faith that the monsters chosen as your champions will win the day
I have always had faith
it was different from Yugi's but it was always there
mine was the faith of a commander in his troops
mine was the faith in my own power
a power that could protect me when my parents couldn't
a power that could DESTROY MY ENEMIES!!!
a power, I finally realized, that swallowed me whole
but now I have some new things to have faith in
some new people
that Tea's innocence and compassion will keep them together
that Tristan can prevail against what won't be outwitted
that Joey will always get in trouble, but will find a way out
that they will stand side by side when things are at their darkest
and last but certainly not least,
that Yugi will ALWAYS do the right thing
They always have had faith in each other
and while they will never know it
and while I wiil dog them every step of the way...
now
in the places that I will never admit to going anymore...
in the heart that the world deems dead...
so
do
I
-fin-