Soul Battle
Prologue
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Yu-Gi-Oh, and I'm not making any money from this fic
Summary: A young girl called Kyla moves to where Yugi and the rest of the gang live. Eventually, she becomes Ryou's girlfriend, but is really cold and cruel towards him. However, when her best friend is kidnapped, Kyla finds herself thrust into a battle of wits against a foe she could never imagine. And what is the real reason behind Kyla's heart of ice?
Author's Note: This series is the prequel to 'I'm Sorry'. Enjoy!
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The little girl cowered back into the corner of her room, shaking violently, trying to escape her foster father's wrath. She could smell the stench of alcohol on his breath, and it terrified her.
The man struck her again, the sound echoing through the room, and the little girl whimpered and tried to curl up into as small a ball as possible. Maybe if she tried hard enough, she really would disappear. Just like in the stories she had read.
The man kicked the girl in the side of her head. "You're a useless, pathetic little wimp!" he spat. The quiet sniffling coming from the girl only served to goad him on:
"Oh, that's right. Cry. No one's coming to help you, brat!" And he kicked and hit the limp form a few more times, and then stalked out of the room, leaving the girl curled up on the ground.
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Kyla walked into the kindergarten playground, her small arms wrapped protectively around herself.
Kyla glanced round at the other children playing, but made no attempt to join in any of their games. She assumed that they'd just reject her if she tried. And, even if they didn't, she wasn't sure she was ready to make friends.
Half turning round, Kyla found herself confronted with a cute blonde sucking on her thumb and watching Kyla with huge, fascinated blue eyes.
Slowly, the blonde lifted her free hand to point at Kyla's black, wavy hair. "Yami," she lisped around her thumb. Then, she touched her own golden hair. "Hikari." She giggled. "I Nia. I'm four." She said that proudly.
"Me Kyla," Kyla replied. "I four too. I new here."
"Wanna come play?" Without waiting for an answer, Nia grabbed Kyla's hand, and dragged her over to two boys – one with tri-coloured spiky hair, and the other with longish white-blond hair. "This Kyla," she announced proudly. "She new."
"My name's Yugi," the tri-coloured haired boy said.
"And I'm Ryou," the white-haired boy added.
"We playing house," Nia explained with her thumb still in her mouth and a sweet smile on her lips. "Me and Yugi are the mummy and daddy."
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