Yami Kaiba-Sry for not updating, really busy these days. Tired and grumpy and a load of crap for hw. Enjoy and I don't own YUGIOH or the poem "Hope is the thing with feathers"
Kaiba's POV
When I was going to use Obelisk the Tormentor, her voice the voice of Hope or Siren kept on telling me to use my blue eyes. Then I remembered that I've heard that voice every time that I duel. It helped me win all my duels, and that voice helped me win this duel as well .I listened to her and used my blue eyes to defeat Isis.
A smiling Isis walked into Siren's room and said, "That was a mean prank cousin."
Akikko laughed and answered, "It was not my fault that it happened, Fate decided it. Go blame her."
Isis laughed and went out of the room.
Outside an anxious Kaiba stood with a rose in hand, when he saw Isis walk out, he walked in and said:
Hope Is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words---
And never stops—at all—
And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—
And sore must be in the storm—
That could abash the little Bird—
That kept so many warm—
I've heard it in the chillest land—
And on the strangest Sea—
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb—of Me.
Akikko smiled and said to Kaiba, "Emily Dickinson was a brilliant poet, did you know that I took up the form of a bird to inspire her? She wrote this poem when I was perching on her window sill."
Kaiba handed her the rose and said to her, "So the form that you're in now might not be what you look like?"
Akikko replied, "I have no definite form anymore. I don't remember what I look like, for I take up the form that people want to see. I can look like someone's big brother or their pet or even themselves. People talk about their psyche, but they don't realize that it is I, Hope who talks to them. I have no identity anymore, the gods took that away when they took away my glory."
Kaiba looked surprised and asked, "Do you not like your job?"
Akikko smiled and said, "It can be frustrating sometimes. I feel like I don't have a life of my own, I'm always living others' lives for them. Many would consider this a gift from the gods, but it is a curse. I am immortal, and yet all my closest friends are mortal—it pains me to see them die one after another. When the gods took me away, I was no longer myself, I had become everyone else. If I looked in a mirror with my own identity, I would no longer recognize it."
Kaiba whispered, "You are a paradox—you are hope to everyone else and yet you do not have any hope yourself."
Akikko smiled and said, "When you look at me, what do you see?"
Kaiba replied, "I see a beautiful happy and determined girl."
Akikko thought out loud, "It is always that answer, do you know what I see? I see nothing, I am nothing but want others want me to be. How I wish I could be someone…how I want to see something worthwhile in the mirror. You must think that I'm foolish."
Kaiba stood there looking at the girl and thought, 'How can it be…everyone takes their hope for granted and yet they never realize that they've made a prisoner out of hope. And how about me, I've always needed her presence. She who is so cheerful is bleeding in the inside. The gods have truly cursed her.' Then he said to Akikko, "No you're not foolish." Then suddenly Kaiba wished to see what Akikko looked like in her own true form. Right before his eyes the dark Egyptian hair turned into soft wavy raven-colored hair and the tanned face transformed into a pale face with two bright brown eyes and a soft pink lips. He said to Akikko, "Look in the mirror, what do you see now?"
Her eyes were filled with determination as she tried to remember where she had seen this face before. Kaiba said to her softly, "It's you, I wished to see the true Akikko."
Her hand touched the face in the mirror and she traced the outline of her face. She looked at her pale fingers and turned to Kaiba, "I used to play music for my parents. They wanted me to be happy. The day that the gods took my away, they begged for them to let me stay. Do you know what I see?"
Kaiba answered, "Confusion, sadness and innocence. You're lost, you don't know what to do and you're frightened, but there is a fire within that cannot be exhausted."
Akikko lightly touched his face and asked, "Did you know that the High Priest Seth said those words to me five thousand years ago, when he tried to capture me?"
Kaiba took her hand into his and said, "And after he saw you in your true form, did he want to abandon his plan?"
Akikko looked up and said, "He never wished to see who I really am. He didn't care; all he wanted was to be pharaoh. Do you regret ever wanting to capture me?"
Kaiba looked into her eyes and said, "Yes."
Akikko asked him, "Did you know that you're the first person who ever regretted using me and the first to actually cared for my happiness?"
Kaiba replied, "Yes, because I am the only one that loves you for who you are and embraces the light that you've shed on me. And likewise, I am your hope."
Suddenly Shadi appeared and said to Akikko, "Hope, you are here to help the pharaoh. You must not fall in love. If you do, then the world will fall into darkness because order has been broken."
She looked at Shadi and said, "I understand." Then she turned to Kaiba and said, "Thank you for showing me who I am, I must go now." The figure of hope dissipated like water molecules and soon there was nothing in front of Kaiba but the air.
Akikko's POV
Why does the gods torture me so? I stared into his azure eyes as I disappeared, he is my hope and yet the gods had forbidden me to love. They want hope to be an apathetic person, but I can't do that. I feel the pains and joys of the people and yet the only one who understands my pain is someone that I cannot be with. How I wish I could be a normal girl…….
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