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Bakura: eeew! You got the computer screen all slobbery!

-_- well at least I don't run around and try to sleep with my hikari, pinky boy!

Bakura: O.O HEY! It's not pink! And that's other people's stories! I can't help what they write! AND you don't even have a hikari!

So? You know you like it!

Bakura: -_-

I love being the authoress! All characters must obey ME! Haha! ^___^

Bakura: Your head's inflating again….

(smacks him with a math book)

Bakura: X_X

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/../ or //…// is mind chat

'..' thinking

".." talking

Chapter 9

As his hand closed around the golden box, Yugi felt a strange warmth spread up into his arm.

'Good luck, little one,' a voice whispered inside his head.

Yugi felt his body drop back into reality accompanied by identical sharp pains shooting through each knee. He looked into his hands, knowing what he would see and yet wondering how it had gotten there. The small golden box was clasped it his hands, the sun's dim rays dancing off it and shooting darting sunbursts across the walls. He glanced up, and saw Yami, similarly stunned, holding between his tanned hands, a golden prism seeming to be a mirror image of the one Yugi clutched in his own palms. Yugi straightened up, and stowed the box under his shirt. Only then did he become aware of the colossal amount of noise bouncing off and around the walls of the chamber.

All those present in the hall had gotten to their feet, and had been staring with a curious anxiety at the pharaoh and the small boy at his feet. Neither one had moved since the magicians had clashed, and when the smaller of the two had risen up, it was a reason for great relief, but also for many questions to arise. Why had the two stood motionless for so long? Why had they seemed within a trance? How had the smaller boy survived the pharaoh's attack? All the questions zoomed throughout the room, but no one had any answers.

Yami looked down at the boy standing before him. He couldn't seem to remember anymore, Yugi the one he was furious with, but what exactly had happened?

Yugi felt a strange sense of confusion and bewilderment inside his mind, but it was not his own. /Yami?/

The pharaoh jumped internally, although he gave no visible sign that he had hear anything. But he knew that he had heard distinctly within the twisting chambers of his mind, the voice of the amethyst-eyed boy in front of him.

//How did you do that?//

Yugi winced. Yami's voice sounded harsh inside his head. /Gomen[1],/ Yugi apologized humbly. /I just had this strange feeling that told me I could speak with you…without words./

//Well I don't want to listen!// Yami replied, and abruptly shut off his end of the link.

/YAMI!/ Yugi cried, his own thoughts pounding on the massive portal to Yami's mind, trying and failing to breach the broad door blocking him from the pharaoh's mind. /I have to make you understand…!/

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Yugi huddled in the warmest corner of the dank room. No light entered the tight chamber, no breeze purified its stale air. The palace prisons were not exactly what you call accommodating. Yugi drew his knees up to his chest for warmth. Yami had not spoken to him since his attempt to speak with him through their newly developed mind link. In fact, he had swept out of the hall almost immediately, leaving the priest Seto to make the command for Yugi to be taken to the dungeon.

Trying to take his mind off the state of hopelessness that was threatening to devour him, Yugi pulled from within his tunic the golden box. Curiously, he opened the lid, and let out a gasp of amazement as he beheld its contents. Piled inside almost halfway to the top were small pieces of thick gold, all cut into strange shaped and patterns. Yugi pulled out one of the pieces, and it's soft shining light seemed to make the whole cell much less despicable than it had only a moment before. The small boy slowly picked up another piece and set it against the first.

*click*

Yugi felt a gleeful smile spread across his downcast face. 'Well,' he thought to himself, 'that's one piece down, a lot to go, and even more time to spare.'

Yami stood in front of the door leading to the chamber where he had left Keturah. He listened attentively but could hear not a single sound issuing from within. 'I can't put this off forever,' he told himself and reached out to open the door.

"Pharaoh!"

Yami looked to his left in the direction from where the familiar voice had sounded. The Dark Magician stood at his elbow, several inches above the ground, staff held ready.

"Be cautious when you enter," the magician warned.

Yami nodded, and pulled the door open. Several things happened at once. From inside the room a small figure with golden hair leapt out, holding a colorful wand at Yami's throat, while pounding him with her other free hand. No sooner had this occurred than the Dark Magician had his own staff out, protecting his master with a determined expression set on his pale face, but laughter glinting in his eyes as he fended off his female partner.

Yami's eyes however, were watching not the two monsters, but the figure standing straight backed and proud in the doorway, eyes brimming with fury. "It makes me sick even to look at you," Keturah spat.

Yami was not worried, she had been like this when they had met. "The boy is alive," he said, his voice low, ringing with puzzlement.

Keturah clapped a hand to her mouth, eyes wide with relief, as her ka did likewise, relinquishing to the power of her male counterpart. "Thank the gods," she whispered, her face clearing as though a great burden had been lifted from her shoulders. "It still doesn't excuse that you tried to kill him," she said coldly, her back straight again. "I doubt he would be among the living now if it had been your choice."

"What you say is true," Yami said softly. "There is a great strength hidden within him, a power not easily glimpsed through his shroud of innocence. I could not destroy him, though my will was great."

Keturah brushed past him, flicking the end of her hair into his eyes as she went past. Yami did not stay to watch her go. Instead he marched into the room and lay the little box he held onto the bed, denting the flawless coverlet. He lifted the lid gently and saw beneath it many golden pieces. They looked as though they could have once been whole, and then whatever the object had been was smashed, breaking it into the strange shapes in the box. He placed every piece out in front of him and slowly began fitting the sections together. The golden glow growing steadier with every piece fitted together.

^-^ sorry that took me so long to put up, at least by my recent standards. Hope you're all still interested in the fic!!! Now really, I need you guys to tell me if you want Joey or Tea or anyone to show up and who you want the guy in the shadows to be. PLEASE tell me!! I'm lost in that aspect!! R&R! Thx! ^____^

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