Be not Nobody
By: Unica Michu
**Warning/Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh or the characters. Or you would see 'Unica Michu' on the copyright!
I also I do not own AOL, McDonalds, Golden Sun, Honeycomb, Dexter's Laboratory, Nintendo, CLOVER, A Thousand Miles, Vanessa Carlton's stuff, Matchbox20, or Fiction House! (-.-) -I'm a ball BOUNCE BOUNCE! (GET YOUR MIND OUTTA THE GUTTER!)
****Contains shonen-ai (shonen=boy ai=love. Shonen-ai= boy/boy love!)**** Don't like it, don't read! Flames against this will be deleted and ignored.
You've been warned.
For everyone else: Enjoy! ~_^
Chapters are named after tracks on the "Be not Nobody" CD by Vanessa Carlton CD that have to do with the chapter. So listen to the music and find out why the chapters are named what they are!
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Track Two: A Thousand Miles
I
I arrive at school just when the bell rings. I find that works best so you don't stand around alone looking like a dork because you're not with anyone. I swarm into the building with the rest of the students. They break off every hallway or two. My class is at the end of the hallway. I pass the library, the common's area, and finally get to my locker. I put in my combo and hang my backpack up. I grab out my books from the shelf and from my backpack and rush to homeroom.
I open the door and go to my seat. I get some stares and whispers. It's either about my nose, or that I look like Yami. Well, I always get beat up, so it's probably about Yami. Great. I see something being thrown at me. It lands on my desk. I've never gotten a note before. Nor have I really wanted one either. I open it. It reads:
"Hey, did you watch Yu-Gi-Oh. You look surprisingly the same as Yami! Except more the dorky side of him."
I crumble it up...they did notice. I hate it when I'm right. I feel my eyes sting with tears that want to be realsed. But I don't cry, it would just another thing for them to make fun of.
The rest of the day, people whisper about me or tease me saying: "Yami wanna be!" or they snort about me thinking I'm Yami's light that he's searching for. Everyone seems to know about it. It must be pretty popular and over just one replay of the first episode! Just my luck, this must be just like the Pokemon craze! They must have thought I knew about Yu-Gi-Oh beforehand and did my hair like this because I wanna be like him! Sure I wish I was as hot or have such a great life. But this is how I've always been! I didn't adjust my look to look like him! I would never do that.
Isn't it just a little too weird? What are the chances of someone looking like me? I mean I have spiky black and red hair and blonde pieces of hair falling against my face. I wear leather and a neck buckle. Tell me how many people you've met that are like that? Yeah, kind of weird that a guy on an Anime show looks like me,. He's basically the opposite of me though, tall, musclar frame, tan skin, gorgeous red eyes, rich velvet voice, brave, hot... I'm small, skinny, boring violet eyes, stupid, cowardly, unattractive, pale complexioned, and...imperfect in everyway! How can people think that I want to be his hikari? I would like it yes, even if he just liked me as a friend, I'd be thrilled. But I would bring disgust to his face and he would disappear, like in my dreams too. I sniffle and head for my class. But what I would do to be his hikari. His light, to be by him. But stuff like that only happens in fairy tales. Last time I checked I have no fairy-godmother! How did I end up with suck a fucked up life?
II
I walk down the street, faces passing blurring the delicate features. I'm taking a different route home today in fear of them finding me again. I see a pawn shop up ahead I take a glance in the window seeing a strange wooden box. I don't what it was or what it's use was but I, I felt oddly drawn to it. It sparked some sort of interest in me.
"You will suffer!" the demonic voice whispers as it fades into the sound of passing cars and incorent words spoken by passerbys. I turn my head, no one but the people walking on the sidewalk. Freaky. I look back at the box. But what could it be? Never hurt to look. With people still passing by I enter the store and I hear a jingling sound as I press the door open. I look around, it's filled with everything from strange objects to toys you could get at McDonalds. Charts are across the walls on palms, a map of Antartica, and insides of a newt.
"Come in, young one." a femine voice says, it sounds like one of those gypsy fortune-teller that you always see in movies. Obeying the voice I step into the dimmly lit store. I see a woman with heavy black eye-liner applied with heavy purple eyeshadow and blood red lips on a tan face. She has a strong chin with a hooked nose and curly black hair thrown in a ponytail that cascades acros her back and frames her face and large hoop earrings. I look around and see no others customers in the store. How odd, a store on a main street with no customers. "What is it you seek of, Yugi?"
"How did you-"
"Not important. What important is why you are here." She smiles behind the wooden counter. I'm now able to realize what behind her. It looks like spices in bottles or weird dried plants. "Well?"
"I..."
"Something catch your eye?" I see a twinkle in her eye as she smiles at me.
"Well yes...I saw a strange looking box in the window and wondered if I-"
She once again interupts my speech, "Could see it? Yes, you can. You will find it very, interesting." She stand ups and as she glides across the floor to the window where she reaches around the backboard and takes out the wooden box. She stares at the box as she holds it at her waist, "Yes, I've had this for long time. But not as long as it has been around" She once again moves back behind the counter. It barely seems like she moves, more like the world aroung her moves while stays standing. She sits down and blows the dust off the box. I stare at it in curiousity. "Come closer. You want to see don't you?"
I nod and step up to the counter. I slowly bring my finger to run it against the wood, but it lingers in the air, almost as I am afraid to touch it. I bring my finger slowly down to the box. I feel something warm spark within me as I touch the deep oak colored box. A warm fuzzy feeling arises in my chest, it's like butterflies catching on fire while attempting to break free of my stomach. "W-what is this?"
The lady smiles and dark eyes cast upon mine, "This, my dear, is very special item. From long ago." she whispers in my ear, "This conatins power to grant most desired wish your heart utlimitly wants."
I stare at her, she's just pulling my leg, thre's no way that can be possible, "Like a genie in a lamp?"
She stares at me is disbelief, "No, Yugi. Nothing like that at all. This is much more... important then a cursed soul trapped in a lamp. Although, it has it's similarities. Here, I'll show you what's inside." Her fingers come to the top as she gently lifts it. "Look." she says.
I peek up over the counter to peer inside the box. What I see astonds me, "Wow. Is this real gold?" I see small gold pieces of what appears to be three dimensional puzzle pieces. They shimmer in the dimmly lited room, the contrast only making them seem more beautiful. "What is this?"
"You're fond of puzzles?" The woman askes smiling.
"Why yes." How does she keep guessing everything about me and remaining correct each time. Is she even guessing? "I do like puzzles."
"Then I think you'll find this very interesting, Yugi. Very interesting. For you, Yugi, I'll charge just $20. That's a steal comparing to what you'll discover."
I feel a voice inside me telling me, "This is just a rip-off, forget it." But I look at the box with the golden pieces, the feeling arises once again. Even if it isn't anything special, it sure looks like it's worth a lot and I do like puzzles. "Alright, I'll take it."
I step out the leave the store shutting the door behind me with chimes rattling as the door shuts. I feel a cold gust. Once outside I look in the shop I see nothing but an old store. I peek in through the window to see if I can spot the lady but there's nothing there. Just a dusty old shop. I walk home quickly holding the box tightly against my chest incase it might disappear too.
III
I turn on the TV. Damn! YuGiOh's already started! My look alike and Kaiba are in the middle of a duel. I didn't miss much. I take out the wooden box with the strange markings and place it on the table. I begin to piece together the puzzle while watching TV. So far I've got what looks to be a side of it done. I seriously doubt this thing could grant ANY of my wishs. It'll probably just save me from boredom. Yami just beat Kaiba, it's rather funny to see his face after he lost. It's all inverted too. YuGiOh ends and the credits starts rolling. I sigh and continue to fiddle with the pieces, I would say I have about one sixth of it done. So far it looks like a 60 degree angle thing. That's the only word for it right now. A thing. I change to channel and watch some sitcoms on some random channel. I now have about one fourth done, it's not that hard, you just have to fiddle around with it. What extremely weird and odd is that as soon as they click into place it doesn't seem to want to come out of place, especially if it's correct, then it fits so tightly against one another, it almost seems like a single surface.
By dinner time I have a half of it done and it's in a weird triangle shape. I quickly warm up some ravioli and gobble it down just as fast. I finish my dinner with a guzzle of milk, I then rush back to the living room where I pick up my puzzle pieces and the half finished puzzle. I then run upstairs and continue working on my bed. I flip on the radio and Matchbox20 is singing "Unwell". I continue the process of clicking and reattaching peices to continually growing end product. Soon another song begins to play and another, and another, and another, and another till I glance at the clock and realize it's past 10:00 PM. I start working quicker as more songs continue to play, one after another till, the last piece. The puzzle is shaped in a triangle shape, it looks just like the Millennium Puzzle! I hold up the final peice. It's the eye of Horus.
"This contains power to grant one wish. The most desired wish your heart utlimitly wants."
The lady from the weird shop comes back in mind repeating those words. Feeling silly, but never the less, "I wish, I could be happy." I place the piece in the puzzle. I look at it and smile asmy reflection smiles back, it is very pretty. I look around my room, nothing has changed, I look inside myself, I still feel alone. I sigh and place the puzzle beside my bed. I grab the remote and switch on the small TV in my room. It's YuGiOh AGAIN? that show must be really popular. I yawn and fall under the covers even with my bedstand light still on I still feel myself falling asleep.
"I wish to be happy" the small boy mumbles in his sleep. The tri- haired teen on the TV smiles and the electronics all turn off leaving the room silent except for the breathing of the boy. The puzzle begins to glow dimly along with the sleeping one creating a blue glow in the dark room. They slowly start fading till no one lay on the bed or any golden puzzle glimmers on the bedstand to catch the moon's cascading light through the shut window.
By: Unica Michu
**Warning/Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh or the characters. Or you would see 'Unica Michu' on the copyright!
I also I do not own AOL, McDonalds, Golden Sun, Honeycomb, Dexter's Laboratory, Nintendo, CLOVER, A Thousand Miles, Vanessa Carlton's stuff, Matchbox20, or Fiction House! (-.-) -I'm a ball BOUNCE BOUNCE! (GET YOUR MIND OUTTA THE GUTTER!)
****Contains shonen-ai (shonen=boy ai=love. Shonen-ai= boy/boy love!)**** Don't like it, don't read! Flames against this will be deleted and ignored.
You've been warned.
For everyone else: Enjoy! ~_^
Chapters are named after tracks on the "Be not Nobody" CD by Vanessa Carlton CD that have to do with the chapter. So listen to the music and find out why the chapters are named what they are!
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Track Two: A Thousand Miles
I
I arrive at school just when the bell rings. I find that works best so you don't stand around alone looking like a dork because you're not with anyone. I swarm into the building with the rest of the students. They break off every hallway or two. My class is at the end of the hallway. I pass the library, the common's area, and finally get to my locker. I put in my combo and hang my backpack up. I grab out my books from the shelf and from my backpack and rush to homeroom.
I open the door and go to my seat. I get some stares and whispers. It's either about my nose, or that I look like Yami. Well, I always get beat up, so it's probably about Yami. Great. I see something being thrown at me. It lands on my desk. I've never gotten a note before. Nor have I really wanted one either. I open it. It reads:
"Hey, did you watch Yu-Gi-Oh. You look surprisingly the same as Yami! Except more the dorky side of him."
I crumble it up...they did notice. I hate it when I'm right. I feel my eyes sting with tears that want to be realsed. But I don't cry, it would just another thing for them to make fun of.
The rest of the day, people whisper about me or tease me saying: "Yami wanna be!" or they snort about me thinking I'm Yami's light that he's searching for. Everyone seems to know about it. It must be pretty popular and over just one replay of the first episode! Just my luck, this must be just like the Pokemon craze! They must have thought I knew about Yu-Gi-Oh beforehand and did my hair like this because I wanna be like him! Sure I wish I was as hot or have such a great life. But this is how I've always been! I didn't adjust my look to look like him! I would never do that.
Isn't it just a little too weird? What are the chances of someone looking like me? I mean I have spiky black and red hair and blonde pieces of hair falling against my face. I wear leather and a neck buckle. Tell me how many people you've met that are like that? Yeah, kind of weird that a guy on an Anime show looks like me,. He's basically the opposite of me though, tall, musclar frame, tan skin, gorgeous red eyes, rich velvet voice, brave, hot... I'm small, skinny, boring violet eyes, stupid, cowardly, unattractive, pale complexioned, and...imperfect in everyway! How can people think that I want to be his hikari? I would like it yes, even if he just liked me as a friend, I'd be thrilled. But I would bring disgust to his face and he would disappear, like in my dreams too. I sniffle and head for my class. But what I would do to be his hikari. His light, to be by him. But stuff like that only happens in fairy tales. Last time I checked I have no fairy-godmother! How did I end up with suck a fucked up life?
II
I walk down the street, faces passing blurring the delicate features. I'm taking a different route home today in fear of them finding me again. I see a pawn shop up ahead I take a glance in the window seeing a strange wooden box. I don't what it was or what it's use was but I, I felt oddly drawn to it. It sparked some sort of interest in me.
"You will suffer!" the demonic voice whispers as it fades into the sound of passing cars and incorent words spoken by passerbys. I turn my head, no one but the people walking on the sidewalk. Freaky. I look back at the box. But what could it be? Never hurt to look. With people still passing by I enter the store and I hear a jingling sound as I press the door open. I look around, it's filled with everything from strange objects to toys you could get at McDonalds. Charts are across the walls on palms, a map of Antartica, and insides of a newt.
"Come in, young one." a femine voice says, it sounds like one of those gypsy fortune-teller that you always see in movies. Obeying the voice I step into the dimmly lit store. I see a woman with heavy black eye-liner applied with heavy purple eyeshadow and blood red lips on a tan face. She has a strong chin with a hooked nose and curly black hair thrown in a ponytail that cascades acros her back and frames her face and large hoop earrings. I look around and see no others customers in the store. How odd, a store on a main street with no customers. "What is it you seek of, Yugi?"
"How did you-"
"Not important. What important is why you are here." She smiles behind the wooden counter. I'm now able to realize what behind her. It looks like spices in bottles or weird dried plants. "Well?"
"I..."
"Something catch your eye?" I see a twinkle in her eye as she smiles at me.
"Well yes...I saw a strange looking box in the window and wondered if I-"
She once again interupts my speech, "Could see it? Yes, you can. You will find it very, interesting." She stand ups and as she glides across the floor to the window where she reaches around the backboard and takes out the wooden box. She stares at the box as she holds it at her waist, "Yes, I've had this for long time. But not as long as it has been around" She once again moves back behind the counter. It barely seems like she moves, more like the world aroung her moves while stays standing. She sits down and blows the dust off the box. I stare at it in curiousity. "Come closer. You want to see don't you?"
I nod and step up to the counter. I slowly bring my finger to run it against the wood, but it lingers in the air, almost as I am afraid to touch it. I bring my finger slowly down to the box. I feel something warm spark within me as I touch the deep oak colored box. A warm fuzzy feeling arises in my chest, it's like butterflies catching on fire while attempting to break free of my stomach. "W-what is this?"
The lady smiles and dark eyes cast upon mine, "This, my dear, is very special item. From long ago." she whispers in my ear, "This conatins power to grant most desired wish your heart utlimitly wants."
I stare at her, she's just pulling my leg, thre's no way that can be possible, "Like a genie in a lamp?"
She stares at me is disbelief, "No, Yugi. Nothing like that at all. This is much more... important then a cursed soul trapped in a lamp. Although, it has it's similarities. Here, I'll show you what's inside." Her fingers come to the top as she gently lifts it. "Look." she says.
I peek up over the counter to peer inside the box. What I see astonds me, "Wow. Is this real gold?" I see small gold pieces of what appears to be three dimensional puzzle pieces. They shimmer in the dimmly lited room, the contrast only making them seem more beautiful. "What is this?"
"You're fond of puzzles?" The woman askes smiling.
"Why yes." How does she keep guessing everything about me and remaining correct each time. Is she even guessing? "I do like puzzles."
"Then I think you'll find this very interesting, Yugi. Very interesting. For you, Yugi, I'll charge just $20. That's a steal comparing to what you'll discover."
I feel a voice inside me telling me, "This is just a rip-off, forget it." But I look at the box with the golden pieces, the feeling arises once again. Even if it isn't anything special, it sure looks like it's worth a lot and I do like puzzles. "Alright, I'll take it."
I step out the leave the store shutting the door behind me with chimes rattling as the door shuts. I feel a cold gust. Once outside I look in the shop I see nothing but an old store. I peek in through the window to see if I can spot the lady but there's nothing there. Just a dusty old shop. I walk home quickly holding the box tightly against my chest incase it might disappear too.
III
I turn on the TV. Damn! YuGiOh's already started! My look alike and Kaiba are in the middle of a duel. I didn't miss much. I take out the wooden box with the strange markings and place it on the table. I begin to piece together the puzzle while watching TV. So far I've got what looks to be a side of it done. I seriously doubt this thing could grant ANY of my wishs. It'll probably just save me from boredom. Yami just beat Kaiba, it's rather funny to see his face after he lost. It's all inverted too. YuGiOh ends and the credits starts rolling. I sigh and continue to fiddle with the pieces, I would say I have about one sixth of it done. So far it looks like a 60 degree angle thing. That's the only word for it right now. A thing. I change to channel and watch some sitcoms on some random channel. I now have about one fourth done, it's not that hard, you just have to fiddle around with it. What extremely weird and odd is that as soon as they click into place it doesn't seem to want to come out of place, especially if it's correct, then it fits so tightly against one another, it almost seems like a single surface.
By dinner time I have a half of it done and it's in a weird triangle shape. I quickly warm up some ravioli and gobble it down just as fast. I finish my dinner with a guzzle of milk, I then rush back to the living room where I pick up my puzzle pieces and the half finished puzzle. I then run upstairs and continue working on my bed. I flip on the radio and Matchbox20 is singing "Unwell". I continue the process of clicking and reattaching peices to continually growing end product. Soon another song begins to play and another, and another, and another, and another till I glance at the clock and realize it's past 10:00 PM. I start working quicker as more songs continue to play, one after another till, the last piece. The puzzle is shaped in a triangle shape, it looks just like the Millennium Puzzle! I hold up the final peice. It's the eye of Horus.
"This contains power to grant one wish. The most desired wish your heart utlimitly wants."
The lady from the weird shop comes back in mind repeating those words. Feeling silly, but never the less, "I wish, I could be happy." I place the piece in the puzzle. I look at it and smile asmy reflection smiles back, it is very pretty. I look around my room, nothing has changed, I look inside myself, I still feel alone. I sigh and place the puzzle beside my bed. I grab the remote and switch on the small TV in my room. It's YuGiOh AGAIN? that show must be really popular. I yawn and fall under the covers even with my bedstand light still on I still feel myself falling asleep.
"I wish to be happy" the small boy mumbles in his sleep. The tri- haired teen on the TV smiles and the electronics all turn off leaving the room silent except for the breathing of the boy. The puzzle begins to glow dimly along with the sleeping one creating a blue glow in the dark room. They slowly start fading till no one lay on the bed or any golden puzzle glimmers on the bedstand to catch the moon's cascading light through the shut window.