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/Blah/= Yugi to Yami

Blah= Yami to Yugi

"Blah"= Talking

'blah'= Thinking

Back 2 the Future

Chapter 14: Breaking the Barrier Part 2

And so here they were. Line up, like two sides of a battle field. Because that's what it was, it was war. Yami stood with his friends as they watched Kuroo standing in front of them. The dust that had once filled the air had all but pasted now. Who would make the first move?

"Do you feel powerful Pharaoh?" Kuroo broke the silence as he held everyone's attention. "Standing there in your line. Is that the best army you can find to work for you now 'n days?

"Hey! I'll have you know that I have never and will never work for the pharaoh!" Bakura yelled.

"No Kuroo," Yami replied in a strangely calm manner. "These are my friends."

"I'm not that either." the white haired tomb robber grumbled, which received glares from everyone else.

"These are Yugi's friends too Kuroo." the former pharaoh said.

"I know you can't hear us Yug, so sit tight man were here ta help ya." Joey shouted

"That's right!" Tea backed her blonde friend up.

Yami nodded towards Tea and Joey as he turned back to Kuroo and flashed an all knowing smirk. "You see Kuroo, you've made a grave mistake."

"Oh have I? Then please, in form me of this mistake."

"When you tried to take over Yugi's body and push his soul out, you were for the must part successful, but at the same time you failed horribly. You see, the must unique thing about Yugi is that his soul is so incredibly strong. So when you were pushing him out, he was able to hold on to the strongest part of his body and soul. His heart." Yami paused as he watched Kuroo's expression change from worry free to surprised. "You know what I speak of Kuroo, because you can feel it. You can feel the heart of Yugi's soul beating inside your own chest. How do I know? Because I can also feel it."

Kuroo growled as held a clenched fist to his heart. 'How dare he?! But he's right, this is Yugi's heart.' Kuroo looked at Yami with hatred pouring from his eyes. "So what! Soon that piece of his soul will be dead, besides, knowing that a piece of Yugi is still alive doesn't help you any..."

"But your wrong. Now that we now Yugi's heart is still with us, there's nothing that can stop us from breaking through to him. So watch out Kuroo. You've made your last mistake. We're breaking through the barrier and getting Yugi back."

"Grr... Shut up!" Kuroo yelled as he shot an orb of dark energy towards them. Kuroo panted from all the energy lose. Wait! Why had he lost so much energy now and not a few minutes ago when he had previously attacked them. Was something holding him back? Or was it someone? He looked back up at his energy ball and noticed the group was not moving out of it's way. 'Ha, fine by me if they don't move. This way they'll die quicker.' The black orb drew near and hit it's target dead on, or so he thought. Kuroo watched as the sparks of energy cleared. He wanted to see that he had destroyed them.

When the grounds were clear he saw something he didn't expect too. A Magician clad in purple stood in front of the group with his staff drawn out. Apparently the Magician had blocked the attack. Kuroo stared into the eyes of the Magician and suddenly felt a jolt of pain erupt from his chest. He clutched his hand over his heart and stumbled to one knee. 'Dang, I can feel his soul growing stronger.'

Yami moved to the side of his Dark Magician. "This is Yugi's favorite duel monster Kuroo. I see that he remembers it."

"Alright Yami, ya gettin' thought ta him." Joey cheered

Kuroo growled. 'No one's going to ruin my plans!' He stretched out his hand a little ways and attempted to make another energy ball, but found that something was telling him to stop.

'No... I can't, it's wrong. Wait a second! What am I thinking? They have to be destroyed.'

He decide to try again, but still nothing.

Yami watch on in interest trying to read what was going on. He could tell by the look on Kuroo's face that whatever was going on, wasn't to his liking. But if he was going to get Yugi back he was going to need someone else to help him remember. "Joey."

"Huh?"

"Do you have your deck with you?"

The blonde dug around in his pocket and then pulled out his deck. "Yeah, why?"

"Get your Time Wizard out and summon it."

"But how can I summon it? I don't have any shadow magic."

"Trust me Joey, it will work here." The ex-pharaoh reassured him.

"Alright." Joey slipped the card out of his deck and held it between his fingers. Thrusting it up into the air he announced, "Time Wizard! Come on out!"

Joey had to admit, he was a little skeptical about summoning his monster, after all, he had no magic... not any that he knew of anyways. So it came as a bit of a surprise when his card started to glow.

"Ahhh!" Joey yelled and jumped back dropping the card as the real Time Wizard appeared right before his very eyes. He blinked at the giant clock creature for a second before smiling a smile of pure praise for himself. "Would ya look at dah! I really did it!" Joey began to laugh at his achievement.

Joey's behavior seemed to be catchy and soon had everyone smiling, well, almost everybody. Bakura seemed to not be amused by Joey's stupidity, and looked away, but to his surprise, he found something stranger. He notice that Yugi seemed to be quiet amused with the display of stupidity, because the corner of his mouth was slightly turned up and his eyes didn't look so cloudy anymore. Was he really... smiling?

"Humph, you find this amusing hobbit?" Bakura asked Yugi which received everyone's attention.

Kuroo quickly regained control and wiped the smile off of his face. Controlling Yugi's body was beginning to be so tough now. He could feel Yugi starting to fight back. Every part of Kuroo's soul began to hurt from the strain of maintaining the body. 'No, this can't be happening! How can his soul be competing with mine.'

"Hey Yugi!"

Kuroo was jolted out of his thoughts by the blonde boy who was calling out to his body's old soul. He would have given him a good glare had it not been that he needed all the energy he could get just to kneel on one knee.

"You remember this Yug?" Joey asked pointing towards the monestrous clock in front of him, "I know I'll never forget it. You gave me this card the day we left for duelist Kingdom. Yeah, I wasn't much of a duelist back then."

"Wasn't?" Bakura sarcastically interjected. Yet again he only received glares.

"Yeah, wasn't!" Joey shot back before going back to Yugi. "And I have you to thank for dat pal."

Kuroo continued to stare at the blonde until his other leg gave away and he was forced down on both knees. 'How could this be happening? There only kids, only stupid punky kids.'

Joey noticed this and took it as a sign to continue. "Yeah, you never gave up on me Yug', not even when it seemed like things were only going down hill for me. You were always there. And for that, well, thanks man."

It was at that point, when something inside Kuroo, snapped. The immense pain that was pounding in his heart finally shot there his head like a bullet. He tilted his head front as his hands held the sides of it. His body began to shake slightly as he withdraw one of his hands and looked at it. His hand had a thick black aura around it, but to be more precise, his whole body was also surround in the aura as well.

"Look," Shadi instructed, "the dark spirit that inhabits Yugi's body is starting to leave."

Tea opened her mouth in a wide smile as she turned to Shadi, "So does this mean we won, does this mean Yugi is free."

"No," Yami answered for Shadi, "Yugi can not handle this spirit on his own, that is why will have to attack him."

"What?!" Tea and Joey yelled in unison.

Bakura smirked and leaned against the nearest wall while folding his arms over his chest. "And here I thought this was going to be boring. I guess having to listen to all that friendship crap was worth it if I get to see 'his highness' blast way his own hikari."

"That enough out of you tomb robber." Yami barked, "Your snide comments are not helping."

"Do not fuss at me because you are incapable of saving one life." Bakura shot back.

"I am going to save Yugi, but attacking him is the only way to do so."

"But Yami, if we attack Yugi, won't it kill him?" Joey interjected.

"No, I don't think so Joey. I'm hoping that it will force the rest of the dark spirit out and destroy him once and for all."

"Think?" Tea asked, "as in you don't know for sure?"

"This will work Tea," the ex-pharaoh assured her as they all turned back to Yugi who was currently still struggling with the black aura around him. "Joey... I going to need your help with this."

"Right." Joey said as he and Yami stepped up behind there monsters.

"And here we go. Dark Magician!"

"Attack!" Joey finished as both of there monsters held out there staffs and a blend of purple and black magic twisting right towards Yugi.

Yugi opened his eyes to see the dark soul of Kuroo surrounding his body threatening to get back in. 'You have not won yet little Yugi! I can still re-enter your body.' Yugi ignored the spirit's threat for the time being and looked passed them to see the blast of magic coming directly at them. He then concentrated back on the black aura. 'Your wrong Kuroo, this ends here.'

At that moment the two blasts of intertwined magic hitting it's target. Everyone covered their faces as the magic ripped through the black aura and sent the wind a blaze and cause shatters of rocks to go flying into the tunnel of wind that the magic had created around Yugi. Pieces of rocks flow around making small cuts on Yugi's face and arms. Finally one rock connected with the arm in which the Shadow Disk was implanted in making a long deep gust as it flow by. Then, the shinny round Shadow Disk came flying out, taking the black spirit, Kuroo, with it.

The scene grow quiet for a moment as Yami and the rest watched and waited for the cloud of dust to die off. As it did so they could just make out the small figure of there friend stumble to his feet. He was hunched over slightly and his bangs shadowed his eyes from view. His arms lay limp at his side as the blood from the gash flowed freely.

Yami took a few cautious steps towards Yugi before stopping. "Yugi...?"

Yugi, ever so slowly, raised his head revealing his trademark large amethyst eyes that all of his friends hadn't seen in so long. Yugi smile and softly spoke, "You guys came..."

Yami, Joey, and Tea all smiled at each other and Bakura pouted over in the corner for the lack of violence. But there smiles soon faded as Yugi fainted forward and Yami barely caught him before he hit the floor. Soon everyone was around Yami who was now holding an unconscious Yugi in a standing position.

"Aww, Yugi," Tea cried.

"He gonna be okay?" Joey asked in concern.

Yami nodded in response to Joey's question as he watched the steady rise and fall of Yugi's chest telling him that he would be fine now. "Yes, he'll be fine, but unfortunately we still have other problems outside of our minds."

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that." Joey said scratching the back of his head.

"How can someone possible forget about a black cape wearing physico?" Bakura sneered at Joey.

"The exact same way I forget about you." Joey replied out the side of his mouth. Bakura only growled in return.

"We should return now," Shadi said.

"Yes,"Yami agreed as he began to walk to the door with Yugi in tow, "you four go on ahead and I'll be right behind you."

"Where are you going?" Joey asked.

"To put Yugi in his soul room," He called back.

"Come on, grab onto my cloak," Shadi said.

Tea and Joey stepped close to Shadi and each took a hand full of Shadi's cloak in there hand, but Bakura refused to touch Shadi. So instead he stepped over to Shadi with his arms crossed over his chest and stepped on the end of Shadi's robe. And with a flash of gold, they were gone.

Yami had his hand on the doorknob ready to leave when he caught a flicker of gold out the corner of his eye. When he turned around to look, he saw that once again his chambers were silent and his guest were gone, All of them. Yami turned back to Yugi and smiled at his sleeping face. "It's good to have to back aibou." With that, Yami turned the knob and left the room.

=====Back to the Real World=====

Bakura, Shadi, Joey, and Tea landed in a heap outside on the hard stone floor. Unfortunately, they all landed in that order, leaving a very angry and flattened Bakura on the bottom of the pile.

"Get off of me you pathetic mortals!!" Bakura yelled as the three other 'morals' quickly moved off of the very POed tomb robber.

"Hey guys, it's about time! Did it work?" Tristan called to them as he pointed to an unconscious Yugi lying on the ground with a large re-opened gash on his arm.

"What happened to his arm?" Tea asked

Tristan was about to answer but instead Yugi's mother spoke up first. "You five were all just standing still, as if you were paralyzed, and then, all of a sudden, Yugi fell backwards and a round piece of metal came shooting out of his arm and left that gash."

Joey was about to ask Katherine another question when Yugi suddenly rolled over and stood up. But it wasn't Yugi at all, it was Yami.

"Yugi!" Peter called as he walked over to his son, "Are you okay son?"

"Yes," Yami nodded, "but I'm not your son, only the spirit that lives inside of him and is bound to protect him... his friend."

"Yes, the Pharaoh's spirit," Peter confirmed, "I have heard of you and the legend of the Millennium Items. I appreciate you protecting my son in my absents."

Yami nodded to say that he had excepted what he was saying and then added, "And after this is all over, let's hope that you will be able to reassume your fatherly duties."

"That's is something I have been wanting to do for the last eight years."

Yami smiled and then winced at the pain that shot through the gash in his arm. He blinked at the fresh cut and then looked around. "Where is the Shadow Disk?"

"Right here."

Everyone turned around to see Toton holding the Shadow Disk in one hand and a gun in the other. Toton's grip on the gun was shaky and the grin on his face was of one that had just gone off the deep end and forgot to wear a life jacket. Tristan took a step toward Toton.

"Don't come any closer!" Toton yelled and pointed the gun at Tristan for a minute and then pointed it back to Yami.

"You, Pharaoh, have been more trouble to me than help, so now, I'm going to put any end to your trouble making right, now!" Toton eyes flared up in rage as he pulled the trigger. Everyone gasped at the sound of the shot.

Then... bullet pierced flesh and crimson blood followed after.
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A/N: Eww, that was probably the worse cliffhanger yet. Anybody agree? Anyways, I'm sorry for making you guys wait, but I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Please R&R!

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