Okay...this is number...drum roll.. 9! I can't believe how far I got on this thing. I thought no one would read it, and that no one would care if I wrote anymore, and that I was to be kicked off for bad writing! So many have proved me wrong! Thanks to you, I can write my fics and know that people actually read it. Thank you. I'm not going to bore you much about things, just going to warn you, this chapter is very angst in nature and that it marks someone's death...and it's not Yugi's...Yami speaking this time...I hope you guys like it...and thanks again for reading! RR...flames allowed but not really wanted.

And thanks to all that have added me onto their favorite author, story, or author watch list. You don't know how much that means to me. OH! One last note, this story moves into 3rd person towards the end. I just wanted to see if I could make a smooth transition but if it doesn't work, just let me know, kay? Thanks! And Yugi talks after the whole 3rd person thing, but hopefully you could tell by the way he talks: crosses fingers:

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Sailor-M00n - I'm glad you could catch up. If I wasn't so busy, I'd be on chapter 13 by now...thank you for lying to me..wink wink..I don't think they're any good, but I write to write, regardless of the quality of the story.

Shobu - thanks man! I'll keep a lookout for your stuff...don't worry!

Sami - I will use him, thanks! I wasn't sure anyone would give a name out, but someone did, and that someone was you! Thanks again for that. The name Ganji is really good too...I might use that one as well. I know the feeling when it comes to weird names. I once made a character and called him Teeves...after the Television...I like the name and that's the way the cookie crumbles...and that's the way I like it...uh-huh, uh-uh.

Psychotic Yami - Hey! A new one! Thanks for reading. I hope you come back soon! You won't be disappointed, promise! And yes, master, I shall write. Thanks again.

Ytak - Don't worry...I have plans for Cody too...I have many plans...and many plots...and many evil...things...insert evil laughter here And thanks again. I don't consider myself as a beautiful writer, but hey, if that's how you feel I write, then go right ahead buddy! ...

Here goes...wish me luck...

Whispers falling on my face

the end is near

I don't have you

by my side

torn away like a nail

bleeding away

but nothing is there

no scars

no marks

no sign of being left behind

my yugi

you are free

gone away from the pain

as I travel alone

without you

without your love

your kisses on my lips

my arms around your waist

your skin against my own

nothing it there just emptiness

"Poor, poor, Pharaoh, so alone

missing the slut of yours."

Mariku

I glare at you

the pain you have caused

the pain you made

tearing us apart

take claim to your madness

he laughs at me

I see no need for laughter!

Take it back

and give me freedom!

"Freedom? I do not have freedom

and I know the Shadow Realm like the back

of my scepter."

he growled at me and before the chains bound at my feet could allow me to move

the demon lunged at me

forcing his way inside of my soul

a large pain goes in me

the sensation is burning

and then darkness

Mariku laughed at his newest plan. It was fool proof. Fool the Pharaoh and then posses his body. It was far more solid than his own, because the damned fool was still connected to the real world. But he didn't have much time. If he was to get Ganji back for what he did, then there was no time to waste.

Mariku picked up his dropped scepter and walked over to the mirror. He saw an image of Ganji in class, trading poems with another student. English was dumb. The yami had no need for it. He smiled devilishly, and spoke. "Don't worry my sweet. I shall taste your blood again soon enough. Till then I have to wait, as do you."

Quickly he realized that the boy Ganji was speaking to was none other than the Pharaoh's pet, Yugi. "Intersting indeed."

Mariku looked more deeply into the mirror and saw that Yami's spirit was fighting him, leaving him with half him and half Yami appearance. He still had his long spiky blonde hair, but his skin was as white as the Pharaoh's, making him look like fresh snow. Two shades of purple for eyes, his left more of a maroon colour and the right, a light lavender. And best of all, the eyes of Ra was gone. He put the millium rod in his back pants pocket and merged into the mirror. "Soon my little one, soon."

The female teacher stood in the front of the class, her eyes staring blankly into space. Her throat cleared, making a hacking sound that belonged to a cat trying to throw up. Her thick black rimmed glasses fell off of her face, pushing it back up with her middle finger. Leaning back onto her desk she spoke.

"Yugi, will you please say the poem your trade partner wrote. Do NOT say their name. You may proceed."

He smiled and then spoke, his voice soft and gentle, not trying to sound like a moron.

"dreaming is only a facade

nothing here to hold me back

singing into a jar

blood it flows into space

falling gently into place

phone rings echoing

hallways filled with laughter

endless chatter

hurting with nothing

cutting with words

pain escapes my lips

killing with these words

telling of no life

in empty words

darkness overwhelms you

fear me for I am death

an angel of darkness

yami no yami

loveless

unloved

unlovable

pain

empty songs"

I am alone in this world

but my friends have crawled into my own

helping me along the way

this new transfer student

Ganji

he is nice

and he doesn't know

but that boy

that HAI

he

he seems to be angry at me

sad at me

alone without me

I don't know what to do anymore

but this boy, Ganji

he seems so sad

he write in pain

but it is pure beauty

I don't understand how that works

but that doesn't matter

it's almost lunch

time to go into the bathroom

and be alone again

joey is out sick and tea is in america visiting family

and tristian doesn't have this classs

I am alone

"Um, Yugi, do you think you could show me the way

to the lunch room? I don't want to get lost."

Not fair at all

no time

no space

no peace at all

"Sure this way"

I guide him there

but thing don't go so well

we get cornered and then the worst happens