Hey everyone! I am sorry about not updating in a while, but I have been busy updating my other fics, Domino City Karaoke Contest, Thoughts from a Lost Soul and When YuGiOh Characters Go Mad. I have decided that I am only updating this once a week, okay? Read on!
Disclaimer: If I owned YuGiOh, I would be far too busy to write this.
Ryou was walking to his house after the auditions had finished. Sami had gotten the part of the female singer, which he was happy about. He reached his house and saw a strange car there. Ryou walked inside curiously and glanced around inside his mansion. (Yes, he is rich and has a mansion, it's because of his grandmother; she's a billionaire.) There was laughing and talking coming from the lounge room.
He investigated and saw his parents and grandparents there with some man…and Sami Ishtar! "What are you doing here?" he asked her. "That's Marik, my father, you know, your grandmothers best friend?" she said, pointing to the man with blonde hair like hers and the same lavender eyes. "Hello Ryou," exclaimed Marik. "It's really great to meet you, Sami (he glanced at Ryou's grandmother) and Sami (he glanced at Sami Ishtar) have both told me a lot about you!" Ryou had a chat with Marik for a while, before he left, going up to his room for a while.
When he entered his room, he got a piercing headache, and fell to the floor. A vision passed before his eyes.
VISION:
There was a stench in the air like death. He didn't know what death smelled like, but if he had to guess, he would describe the smell now invading his senses. He glanced at the scene before him; five corpses lined up, all strewn together. He looked at himself in the mirror across from the hallway, and smirked viciously in the mirror, his silver hair messed around his face a gaunt halo, outlining his maniacal eyes…they were not the eyes of a sane person, or indeed, not the eyes of a person at all.
He saw that two were still moving; there had only been three corpses then, he knew. He moved silently across to where the two that still lived were trying to move, their attempts futile as they were so weak from loss of blood that they could barely budge. He saw the face of the nearest one. It was Yugi's face, he realized, and he gasped, but this was only inside of him. He was not controlling this body. It was a shadow; a demon. He drew a knife from his side, and slowly drew it across the soft skin on Yugi's neck. Yugi whimpered, and began to look pale; deathly pale. Ryou watched slowly as one of his friends died. But he knew that this Yugi was not his friend, that this was a different Yugi, another one from another time.
He grinned maniacally, making his way over to the next one alive. Joey! Ryou began to panic. This was surely a dream. But he knew he was not dreaming as he strode over to Joey, who looked at him with hate in his eyes. He knew that this wasn't Joey either, or that was what he told himself as he brought the knife down over Joeys head. He tried to tell himself that as he made his way over to the bathroom and began to wash up, licking the blood of where he could get it. It hadn't been him that had done that, but he still felt like a murderer, dirty, unclean, bloody and evil. What he had done was wrong.
The vision then changed to another time, but still on the same night as the killings.
He was holding a shadow above the water by the old bridge, the one that had closed down forty one years ago because there were complaints of stability; part of the bridge had been broken and three people had nearly died. He glanced at the shadow, glaring angrily at him. He felt himself falling, falling into the water, and he sensed a strange aura around him, like magic or a spell. He hit the water, and it hurt like a thousand knives would hurt. He gasped for breath, but swallowed only water. Who ever was drowning was very calm and actually happy about it, but Ryou was gasping and trying to get to the surface; however he was not in control of the body, so he sunk down into the water, being consumed by white. Then black distorted all else, and he was gone.
Ryou screamed as he awoke. Sami Ishtar burst into the room, looking really worried. "Ryou are you okay? They sent me to tell you dinner was ready but I heard you scream!" she glanced at his white face, his hands shaking. Ryou told her about the dream, and she looked shocked. "Oh Ryou, are you okay? You looked so scared and I was so worried." She put her hand on Ryou's shoulder. "I'm fine," Ryou managed to get out, nearly collapsing on the bed. They went down to dinner thirty seconds later as though Ryou had never had the vision, and then Sami left. That was when the shadow decided to have some fun with the boy.
Okay, this is kind of like a cliff hanger, only you know what's going to happen. I will try to keep next chapter as PG13 rated as I can, for my reviewers who cannot read R rated stuff. Anyway, I have to respond to your reviews, don't I?
Thanks:
Computerfreak101 –Yes, if I killed him off every two chapters, it would be very boring indeed! Maybe he won't die every time, there may be other things. But the shadow is never going to stop invading Ryou's mind…did I make up for the angst? I hope so! Thanks for reviewing!
InsaneShadowFan –No, he doesn't repeat his life, he is merely reborn sometime in the future, and that is all. Thanks for telling me what an AU is; I had no idea at all! Where do the people of fanfics get the terms AU and one-shot and all that? They had to come from somewhere! Thanks for reviewing!
Destiny's Dragon –It's wicked? Cool! I'm glad you think so! Sorry I didn't update all that soon, but I am a busy authoress. Thanks for reviewing!
Stormrose Dewleaf –Tell Aurora that Kaiba belongs to my Yami, Sami Yamashima, okay? Good? On with the response! Thirty five degrees, meh, once I had to do sport in forty degree heat! I'm glad you like it, but what did Ror think of it? Thanks for reviewing!
ttSerenity –I used a vocab word? Um, can someone please fill me in on what you meant by that? Yep, you are strange, you go around throwing confetti randomly, you like words like discombobulated and you named yourself after Joey's sister, but we love you anyway! LOL, thanks for reviewing!
Thanks to everyone for reviewing, look out for the next chapter of Exorcism of Shadows, coming around next Saturday or the Sunday after that maybe!
Love Sami, Ryou's Hikari.
