Urgh. My grandmother (who had been babysitting my sister and I for the
week) is gone, and my parents are back. (Frustrated groan). Now I'm always
scared they're going to run in on me! I swear, if my dad knew... *.* The
stress is taking away all my inspiration, and I'm writing crap. I'll try to
get as much done when they're gone, and I'll try to keep up regular
updates, but that might be harder now.
Oh, and you guys remember about the Heero-guy? Well, now my friends are saying that they're either going to introduce him to me or by some minor mishap I might end up getting pushed into him... (I'm so afraid now! I'll need to run away whenever I see him.) I mean, I've gone beyond the point of no return... I've been a dumbass whenever I see him for the past 5 months! Really, it's only funny if he's a complete stranger. (LOL) I'm in over my head... I ought to write a fic with this as a plot. That's how funny I find it. ^.^
Anyways, the chapters keep getting longer, don't they? Well, consider this a gift for making you all wait! ^.^
BTW, Intervigilum means sleep. I got that from Final Fantasy VIII. Pretty cool, ne? I love Latin! I really need to learn it one day.
^.^; My rants keep getting longer too don't they?
Chapter 4 - Intervigilum
Yami had looked at Yugi's identification cards and had found an address. After a few hours of wandering around, he finally found Yugi's home.
He had also broken into the address indicated on the ID. And to his surprise and luck, there was no one home. The house was silent, and nothing hindered him from entering the house and bringing Yugi upstairs.
Yami carefully placed Yugi on his bed. Or at least, Yami assumed that this was his bed and his room, since the room was filled with toys, and all sorts of odd contraptions he had never seen before.
Yami was about to leave the room when suddenly he saw a flash of burning white light.
He gasped and felt like he was burning, like there was a hot bright spark eating him whole. The feeling invaded and overwhelmed him, almost bringing him to his knees.
His neck. There was something in his neck, and it was burning him from the inside out. He muffled a cry and clawed at his neck in some feral attempt to get rid of the pain.
Yugi was awake, but Yami didn't care. The pain was unbearable! What was this? Was it a wire that short-circuited?
Yugi stared at Yami in surprise. There was what looked like an angry red light flashing under his skin where his collarbone was.
"Y-your neck!" Yugi cried out, pointing at the small red light.
Yami whirled around and looked in the mirror, his eyes widening in horror as he saw the flashing light underneath his skin.
"It's a tracking device!" He cried out, crumbling to the ground. He continued to claw at it in vain. "Please! Get it out!"
Yugi shot out of his bed and fell to the floor next to Yami. "What do I do?"
Yami groaned in pain. "S-something sharp! Get me something sharp! A knife!"
Without a second thought, Yugi ran out of the room and downstairs to the kitchen. He grabbed a knife from a drawer, and hurried back upstairs, handing it to Yami.
Yami took the knife and quickly cut his collarbone where the tracking device was located.
Yugi looked at him in horror as he threw away the knife and ripped out the transmitter, the small device still flashing red.
But there was no blood.
"Where's your washroom?" Yami cried out, and Yugi stumbled to his feet, rushing to show him the way.
Yami threw the transmitter in the toilet and flushed it. The little red light still flashed as the water descended.
He allowed himself a small smirk. "Lets see you follow me to the sewage plant Kaiba."
Yugi wasn't paying attention to what he was saying though. He was starring at Yami's bloodless neck. There were wires under the skin, but the skin was slowly blocking his view of the intricate machinery... it was mending itself.
Yami looked at Yugi's dumbstruck expression and sighed.
"I suppose I owe you an explanation."
Yugi looked up at him with confusion evident in his eyes. "What was that?"
Yami looked down and led the small boy back to his room. Yugi sat down on the bed and Yami wandered to and fro, trying to formulate what to say.
"That was a transmitter... I wasn't even aware that Kaiba had planted one in me. I don't know why it reacted like that. Maybe it was faulty or maybe it was burning itself out trying to send the signal." Yami breathed deeply. "I'm Yami, the one you were supposed to meet."
Yugi smiled brightly and nodded. "I had a feeling that I knew you."
Yami looked pained, and the fear that Yugi would reject him gripped at his heart.
"I'm not human."
Yugi's smile reassured the nervous pharaoh. "I know."
"Doesn't that bother you?"
"I don't mind. We're friends, aren't we?"
Yami looked at him oddly but continued his explanation. "The tomb raider caused that explosion, and I managed to get us out of H.E.L.L."
Yugi nodded. "I was waiting to go meet you, but then there was an explosion. I went to go see... and then, all I can remember is that someone grabbed me and wouldn't let me breathe."
Yami walked over to Yugi and gently stroked his hair. "Did he hit you? Or hurt you in any way?"
Yugi blushed and the tenderness the unhuman boy was displaying, and shook his head.
"No, I don't think so. I guess we don't have to worry about a concussion then," he said with a small laugh.
Yami nodded and sat down next to Yugi. Yugi leaned over and gave the taller boy a reassuring hug, trying to soothe his obvious doubts.
"I'm sorry. I wish there was more I could tell you... I know very little." Yami said, his cold expression returning at the mere memory of H.E.L.L.
"How could anyone create people though?" Yugi asked shyly. "We don't have that kind of technology yet, right? Just a few years ago they were only able to clone sheep."
"The government doesn't know about H.E.L.L., and H.E.L.L. is ahead of whatever the general public knows about the present technology by at least 20 years. They have managed to get this far mostly thanks to the funding of Kaiba Corp. and also for the simple reason that they don't allow moral issues to hinder their advancement. I'm the 852501st experiment, so I'm assuming that they have been doing this for quite some time now."
"How can they do that though? You're obviously not just a clone." Yugi murmured.
"No... I don't know. For some reason the 'clones' need to be mechanized in order to function properly. Maybe its because they have been playing with mummified corpses. That's what I'm cloned from, the mummy of an Egyptian pharaoh, and the tomb raider...the one who grabbed you, he was also created from an ancient Egyptian corpse, but that of a tomb raider as his name would suggest."
"Why use people that have been dead for so long?" Yugi asked.
Yami shrugged helplessly. "I truly don't know."
Yami then looked at Yugi and hugged him. It was more to reassure himself that the small boy was still there then to provide comfort.
"Had I known that the tomb raider would cause all that trouble tonight, I would have never asked you to come back."
Yugi smiled and leaned into the embrace. "I would have come back. I wanted to see you."
Yami was overwhelmed by a foreign emotion. He looked in the lavender eyes and nearly drowned at the greatness of the trust he found there.
Yugi trusted him.
"I wanted to see you too." He admitted.
Yugi yawned. He crawled into his bed, dragging Yami with him. He placed the covers over both of them and insisted that Yami lie down.
"We'll talk more some other time, alright? I have school tomorrow, so I need to go to sleep... Will you be there when I wake up?"
Yami looked at Yugi's drooping eyelids and smiled. "Yes. I'll stay as long as you want me to."
'And I'll protect you no matter what.' was the unspoken addition to his statement.
Yugi smiled and nodded, soon falling asleep.
Yami looked around the room. He should be feeling lost. He should be feeling out of place... a machine among children's playthings.
But he didn't. He felt more at peace then he ever did.
Yugi trusted him. And Yugi didn't seem to care what he was.
Yugi didn't care that he was a mechanical copy of a long dead pharaoh.
Yami laid his head on the soft pillow and willed himself to sleep.
'I want to stay by your side. Allow me to be your shadow.'
* * * *
(Thought I forgot about them? Nuh un! ^.^)
"Ring?" Ryou asked, taking a step back.
"Yes fool, my RING!" The tomb raider growled. "WHERE IS IT?!"
Ryou stumbled backwards. He reached to his chest, where the ring felt painfully heavy.
The telltale gesture didn't go unnoticed by the tomb raider.
He reached forward with his mechanical right arm and grabbed Ryou's neck. "So the weak fool has my ring, does he?"
Ryou tensed as the surprisingly soft hand reached under his shirt and pulled out the ring his father had given him.
A spark lit up in the android's dead eyes as he saw the golden ring he had longed to have for so long.
"Finally... my ring!" The tomb raider laughed sadistically and pulled the ring off Ryou's neck roughly. He then flung the boy back easily, as if he had been a rag doll.
Ryou crawled up against the wall and whimpered at the tomb raider's incredible strength.
"Finally... after so long. I have it. I've won this little game Kaiba has been playing!" The tomb raider laughed. "He couldn't hide what is rightfully mine forever!"
He didn't care that the boy was watching him in horror-struck fascination as he unhooked one of the connections in his artificial arm and plugged it into the center of the golden ring. He could watch if he wanted. He would die after anyways.
An electrical pulse ran though the ring and spread through his body. At first, it felt warm, but then, unlike any normal connection, it became searing hot.
His eyes flashed golden and the wires protruding from his left cheek turned blue as current flowed through them.
The ring was what he had always wanted, and what Kaiba hid from him maliciously.
Or, at least that's the way he thought it was.
Wasn't that it? Wasn't Kaiba hiding this ring to keep its secrets away from him?
The ring glowed eerily and swallowed him in its blinding light.
And he remembered.
He remembered everything. Even his own death.
* * * *
Yami had been awake for a while now.
After all, he would always get up with the sun. It was one of those habits that he almost believed was programmed into him.
Yugi's alarm clock started to ring and Yugi groggily hit the snooze button. He turned over to find himself staring into Yami's blood red eyes.
"Did I wake you?" Yugi asked apologetically.
"No." Yami said simply.
Yugi got out of bed and opened his closet.
"I'm going to go take a shower... you can look though my closet for a change of clothes, but I don't know if I have anything that fits you."
Yami smiled gratefully and Yugi left the room with some clothes.
He sifted through the closet a few times until he found a uniform that fit him. He then changed and sat on the bed, waiting for Yugi to return.
Yugi returned dressed in his school uniform, the same one that Yami had always seen him wearing. His hair was still damp.
"Are you hungry?" Yugi smiled when Yami nodded. "Alright. I need to eat breakfast quickly because I need to head to school, but you can help yourself to whatever you want."
"I'm coming with you." was the simple reply.
Yugi looked at him quizzically. "You can't come to class with me though."
"I know. I'll be waiting for you."
Yugi smiled at the protectiveness in Yami's voice. They had barely known each other for a few hours, but already it seemed like they had always been together.
After having breakfast, they headed towards school at a leisurely pace. Each took pleasure in the other's presence and they would occasionally exchange a few words. It was mostly Yami asking Yugi questions about the things he had never seen before, and Yugi answering him with a smile.
Yami then left Yugi at the gate, promising to be there when school ended.
Anzu greeted Yugi with a smile when he entered the classroom.
"Good morning Yugi!"
"Good morning Anzu." Yugi said shyly. After all, he had harboured a crush for her for a while now.
"I saw you from the window. Who was that with you?"
Yugi felt his heart tighten at the hopefulness in Anzu's question. 'Does she like him?' Yugi thought. 'It shouldn't matter, Yami doesn't even know her... and she doesn't know him.'
"It was um- ... my cousin, Yami." Yugi answered quietly.
"Your cousin? No wonder you two look so alike!" Anzu laughed, her face slightly flushed.
Yugi smiled back almost sadly. She probably liked him. "Yeah, I guess."
The teacher entered the class and everyone sat down at their seat. Only two people were missing.
One of the aforementioned people came strolling into the classroom leisurely, and sat down in his seat, ignoring the teacher's stare.
"Jounouchi Katsuya. I will not warn you again! If you do not arrive on time, you will not be permitted to attend my class!"
Jounouchi waved him off. The old man had been saying the same thing every morning since the year began and still hadn't managed to go through with the threat.
He shared a chuckle with Honda at the teacher's miffed expression behind his back.
Yugi knitted his brows together. There was only one person missing now.
Bakura Ryou.
* * * *
Ok, I lied. They don't exactly talk to each other. Hey! Writing all this was hard, ok? I'm sorry! (cries)
So, what do you guys think? I really need your opinion right now though... how should I portray Jou? Urgh. I don't know... I think I'll go along with the way he is in the manga... cause there's no way I'm doing that damn accent! ^.^ No, I'm just being mean. I like the accent, its funny.
No, I haven't seen Malik yet... I haven't watched the show in a while actually... I really should try though. I'm glad they kept his name close enough to his original. But that whole 'Terrance' thing was horrible! I disapprove of dubs that change the names to make it more 'accessible' to American television. I'll cry if they get rid of 'Shuffle' too. ;___________; I'm serious. The reason I fell in love with Yu Gi Oh is because of 'Shuffle'!
I'm listening to 'Still Waiting' by Sum 41... I love that song! You know, angry music is good for the creative soul. ^.^ Reviews are too.
REVIEW!
Oh, and you guys remember about the Heero-guy? Well, now my friends are saying that they're either going to introduce him to me or by some minor mishap I might end up getting pushed into him... (I'm so afraid now! I'll need to run away whenever I see him.) I mean, I've gone beyond the point of no return... I've been a dumbass whenever I see him for the past 5 months! Really, it's only funny if he's a complete stranger. (LOL) I'm in over my head... I ought to write a fic with this as a plot. That's how funny I find it. ^.^
Anyways, the chapters keep getting longer, don't they? Well, consider this a gift for making you all wait! ^.^
BTW, Intervigilum means sleep. I got that from Final Fantasy VIII. Pretty cool, ne? I love Latin! I really need to learn it one day.
^.^; My rants keep getting longer too don't they?
Chapter 4 - Intervigilum
Yami had looked at Yugi's identification cards and had found an address. After a few hours of wandering around, he finally found Yugi's home.
He had also broken into the address indicated on the ID. And to his surprise and luck, there was no one home. The house was silent, and nothing hindered him from entering the house and bringing Yugi upstairs.
Yami carefully placed Yugi on his bed. Or at least, Yami assumed that this was his bed and his room, since the room was filled with toys, and all sorts of odd contraptions he had never seen before.
Yami was about to leave the room when suddenly he saw a flash of burning white light.
He gasped and felt like he was burning, like there was a hot bright spark eating him whole. The feeling invaded and overwhelmed him, almost bringing him to his knees.
His neck. There was something in his neck, and it was burning him from the inside out. He muffled a cry and clawed at his neck in some feral attempt to get rid of the pain.
Yugi was awake, but Yami didn't care. The pain was unbearable! What was this? Was it a wire that short-circuited?
Yugi stared at Yami in surprise. There was what looked like an angry red light flashing under his skin where his collarbone was.
"Y-your neck!" Yugi cried out, pointing at the small red light.
Yami whirled around and looked in the mirror, his eyes widening in horror as he saw the flashing light underneath his skin.
"It's a tracking device!" He cried out, crumbling to the ground. He continued to claw at it in vain. "Please! Get it out!"
Yugi shot out of his bed and fell to the floor next to Yami. "What do I do?"
Yami groaned in pain. "S-something sharp! Get me something sharp! A knife!"
Without a second thought, Yugi ran out of the room and downstairs to the kitchen. He grabbed a knife from a drawer, and hurried back upstairs, handing it to Yami.
Yami took the knife and quickly cut his collarbone where the tracking device was located.
Yugi looked at him in horror as he threw away the knife and ripped out the transmitter, the small device still flashing red.
But there was no blood.
"Where's your washroom?" Yami cried out, and Yugi stumbled to his feet, rushing to show him the way.
Yami threw the transmitter in the toilet and flushed it. The little red light still flashed as the water descended.
He allowed himself a small smirk. "Lets see you follow me to the sewage plant Kaiba."
Yugi wasn't paying attention to what he was saying though. He was starring at Yami's bloodless neck. There were wires under the skin, but the skin was slowly blocking his view of the intricate machinery... it was mending itself.
Yami looked at Yugi's dumbstruck expression and sighed.
"I suppose I owe you an explanation."
Yugi looked up at him with confusion evident in his eyes. "What was that?"
Yami looked down and led the small boy back to his room. Yugi sat down on the bed and Yami wandered to and fro, trying to formulate what to say.
"That was a transmitter... I wasn't even aware that Kaiba had planted one in me. I don't know why it reacted like that. Maybe it was faulty or maybe it was burning itself out trying to send the signal." Yami breathed deeply. "I'm Yami, the one you were supposed to meet."
Yugi smiled brightly and nodded. "I had a feeling that I knew you."
Yami looked pained, and the fear that Yugi would reject him gripped at his heart.
"I'm not human."
Yugi's smile reassured the nervous pharaoh. "I know."
"Doesn't that bother you?"
"I don't mind. We're friends, aren't we?"
Yami looked at him oddly but continued his explanation. "The tomb raider caused that explosion, and I managed to get us out of H.E.L.L."
Yugi nodded. "I was waiting to go meet you, but then there was an explosion. I went to go see... and then, all I can remember is that someone grabbed me and wouldn't let me breathe."
Yami walked over to Yugi and gently stroked his hair. "Did he hit you? Or hurt you in any way?"
Yugi blushed and the tenderness the unhuman boy was displaying, and shook his head.
"No, I don't think so. I guess we don't have to worry about a concussion then," he said with a small laugh.
Yami nodded and sat down next to Yugi. Yugi leaned over and gave the taller boy a reassuring hug, trying to soothe his obvious doubts.
"I'm sorry. I wish there was more I could tell you... I know very little." Yami said, his cold expression returning at the mere memory of H.E.L.L.
"How could anyone create people though?" Yugi asked shyly. "We don't have that kind of technology yet, right? Just a few years ago they were only able to clone sheep."
"The government doesn't know about H.E.L.L., and H.E.L.L. is ahead of whatever the general public knows about the present technology by at least 20 years. They have managed to get this far mostly thanks to the funding of Kaiba Corp. and also for the simple reason that they don't allow moral issues to hinder their advancement. I'm the 852501st experiment, so I'm assuming that they have been doing this for quite some time now."
"How can they do that though? You're obviously not just a clone." Yugi murmured.
"No... I don't know. For some reason the 'clones' need to be mechanized in order to function properly. Maybe its because they have been playing with mummified corpses. That's what I'm cloned from, the mummy of an Egyptian pharaoh, and the tomb raider...the one who grabbed you, he was also created from an ancient Egyptian corpse, but that of a tomb raider as his name would suggest."
"Why use people that have been dead for so long?" Yugi asked.
Yami shrugged helplessly. "I truly don't know."
Yami then looked at Yugi and hugged him. It was more to reassure himself that the small boy was still there then to provide comfort.
"Had I known that the tomb raider would cause all that trouble tonight, I would have never asked you to come back."
Yugi smiled and leaned into the embrace. "I would have come back. I wanted to see you."
Yami was overwhelmed by a foreign emotion. He looked in the lavender eyes and nearly drowned at the greatness of the trust he found there.
Yugi trusted him.
"I wanted to see you too." He admitted.
Yugi yawned. He crawled into his bed, dragging Yami with him. He placed the covers over both of them and insisted that Yami lie down.
"We'll talk more some other time, alright? I have school tomorrow, so I need to go to sleep... Will you be there when I wake up?"
Yami looked at Yugi's drooping eyelids and smiled. "Yes. I'll stay as long as you want me to."
'And I'll protect you no matter what.' was the unspoken addition to his statement.
Yugi smiled and nodded, soon falling asleep.
Yami looked around the room. He should be feeling lost. He should be feeling out of place... a machine among children's playthings.
But he didn't. He felt more at peace then he ever did.
Yugi trusted him. And Yugi didn't seem to care what he was.
Yugi didn't care that he was a mechanical copy of a long dead pharaoh.
Yami laid his head on the soft pillow and willed himself to sleep.
'I want to stay by your side. Allow me to be your shadow.'
* * * *
(Thought I forgot about them? Nuh un! ^.^)
"Ring?" Ryou asked, taking a step back.
"Yes fool, my RING!" The tomb raider growled. "WHERE IS IT?!"
Ryou stumbled backwards. He reached to his chest, where the ring felt painfully heavy.
The telltale gesture didn't go unnoticed by the tomb raider.
He reached forward with his mechanical right arm and grabbed Ryou's neck. "So the weak fool has my ring, does he?"
Ryou tensed as the surprisingly soft hand reached under his shirt and pulled out the ring his father had given him.
A spark lit up in the android's dead eyes as he saw the golden ring he had longed to have for so long.
"Finally... my ring!" The tomb raider laughed sadistically and pulled the ring off Ryou's neck roughly. He then flung the boy back easily, as if he had been a rag doll.
Ryou crawled up against the wall and whimpered at the tomb raider's incredible strength.
"Finally... after so long. I have it. I've won this little game Kaiba has been playing!" The tomb raider laughed. "He couldn't hide what is rightfully mine forever!"
He didn't care that the boy was watching him in horror-struck fascination as he unhooked one of the connections in his artificial arm and plugged it into the center of the golden ring. He could watch if he wanted. He would die after anyways.
An electrical pulse ran though the ring and spread through his body. At first, it felt warm, but then, unlike any normal connection, it became searing hot.
His eyes flashed golden and the wires protruding from his left cheek turned blue as current flowed through them.
The ring was what he had always wanted, and what Kaiba hid from him maliciously.
Or, at least that's the way he thought it was.
Wasn't that it? Wasn't Kaiba hiding this ring to keep its secrets away from him?
The ring glowed eerily and swallowed him in its blinding light.
And he remembered.
He remembered everything. Even his own death.
* * * *
Yami had been awake for a while now.
After all, he would always get up with the sun. It was one of those habits that he almost believed was programmed into him.
Yugi's alarm clock started to ring and Yugi groggily hit the snooze button. He turned over to find himself staring into Yami's blood red eyes.
"Did I wake you?" Yugi asked apologetically.
"No." Yami said simply.
Yugi got out of bed and opened his closet.
"I'm going to go take a shower... you can look though my closet for a change of clothes, but I don't know if I have anything that fits you."
Yami smiled gratefully and Yugi left the room with some clothes.
He sifted through the closet a few times until he found a uniform that fit him. He then changed and sat on the bed, waiting for Yugi to return.
Yugi returned dressed in his school uniform, the same one that Yami had always seen him wearing. His hair was still damp.
"Are you hungry?" Yugi smiled when Yami nodded. "Alright. I need to eat breakfast quickly because I need to head to school, but you can help yourself to whatever you want."
"I'm coming with you." was the simple reply.
Yugi looked at him quizzically. "You can't come to class with me though."
"I know. I'll be waiting for you."
Yugi smiled at the protectiveness in Yami's voice. They had barely known each other for a few hours, but already it seemed like they had always been together.
After having breakfast, they headed towards school at a leisurely pace. Each took pleasure in the other's presence and they would occasionally exchange a few words. It was mostly Yami asking Yugi questions about the things he had never seen before, and Yugi answering him with a smile.
Yami then left Yugi at the gate, promising to be there when school ended.
Anzu greeted Yugi with a smile when he entered the classroom.
"Good morning Yugi!"
"Good morning Anzu." Yugi said shyly. After all, he had harboured a crush for her for a while now.
"I saw you from the window. Who was that with you?"
Yugi felt his heart tighten at the hopefulness in Anzu's question. 'Does she like him?' Yugi thought. 'It shouldn't matter, Yami doesn't even know her... and she doesn't know him.'
"It was um- ... my cousin, Yami." Yugi answered quietly.
"Your cousin? No wonder you two look so alike!" Anzu laughed, her face slightly flushed.
Yugi smiled back almost sadly. She probably liked him. "Yeah, I guess."
The teacher entered the class and everyone sat down at their seat. Only two people were missing.
One of the aforementioned people came strolling into the classroom leisurely, and sat down in his seat, ignoring the teacher's stare.
"Jounouchi Katsuya. I will not warn you again! If you do not arrive on time, you will not be permitted to attend my class!"
Jounouchi waved him off. The old man had been saying the same thing every morning since the year began and still hadn't managed to go through with the threat.
He shared a chuckle with Honda at the teacher's miffed expression behind his back.
Yugi knitted his brows together. There was only one person missing now.
Bakura Ryou.
* * * *
Ok, I lied. They don't exactly talk to each other. Hey! Writing all this was hard, ok? I'm sorry! (cries)
So, what do you guys think? I really need your opinion right now though... how should I portray Jou? Urgh. I don't know... I think I'll go along with the way he is in the manga... cause there's no way I'm doing that damn accent! ^.^ No, I'm just being mean. I like the accent, its funny.
No, I haven't seen Malik yet... I haven't watched the show in a while actually... I really should try though. I'm glad they kept his name close enough to his original. But that whole 'Terrance' thing was horrible! I disapprove of dubs that change the names to make it more 'accessible' to American television. I'll cry if they get rid of 'Shuffle' too. ;___________; I'm serious. The reason I fell in love with Yu Gi Oh is because of 'Shuffle'!
I'm listening to 'Still Waiting' by Sum 41... I love that song! You know, angry music is good for the creative soul. ^.^ Reviews are too.
REVIEW!