Full Summary: Yugi and Ryou are the last of a clan of creatures that enver surrendered to the darkness. Hikaris. They are innocent, pure, gentle, and have enough power to destroy the world. Anything and everything are after them, but what happens when they find themselves alone and defenseless against their biggest threat of all? Love of the Darkness.

Chapter 1

Tears streamed down his face. All around lay death and destruction. The sky cried with him, and the rain put out the last of the fires.

This town, the one where he grew up, where he was born, where he was supposed to die , was nothing more than rubble.

He stood alone in the middle of the main street through town and watched as another house collapsed. His own was long gone.

Unable to stand any longer, the figure fell to his knees. Hands were in front to brace himself up though his slender arms shook like a yearling tree in a storm. His entire body shook. He was all alone. The force of the words hit him like a stinging slap.

He was the only one who survived. Who had done this? Why had they done it?

His clan was peaceful, they never hurt anyone. The barely talked to anyone. Everyone who lived there was born there and they stayed there. It wasn't paradise, but it was home. His home. His friends. His family. His life.

His nothing.

Why?

Why was he the one to survive? What had he done to deserve live, but no one else?

Why did he have to be alone?

Almost as if a higher being heard his questions, a sudden sound reached his ears.

Crying.

Not his own crying either. Someone else was crying.

Hardly daring to hope, the boy crawled towards the source of the sound. A small ball of person was curled up against one of the last remaining houses. One of the last that was still standing.

The figure quickly scrambled towards the crying person and hugged him like a life line.

The small boy felt sudden warmth and looked towards the only other survivor. "R-r-you?"

Ryou nodded. The rain suddenly stopped. His white haired was still plastered to his face, but he was already feeling better. He wasn't alone.

"Why Ryou? Why?" Tears began again on the small boy's face as he cried into the new found warmth.

"I don't know Yugi." The pale boy kept his voice steady. He had to be the strong one now.

The two boys curled against the wall, and cried themselves to sleep. No words were really needed. Each other's very presence was all it took; the knowledge that they weren't alone.

Ryou awoke the next morning with a crick in his neck. 'no wonder either' he though as he looked at the wall he had been leaning on. He felt something shift next to him, and looked down to find Yugi just waking up. 'What's Yugi doing here? And why am I sleeping against a wall?'

The reason hit him like a ton of bricks. He felt tears welling up in his eyes. A few fell. A small hand suddenly reached up and wiped the escaped tears away.

"Don't cry Ryou" Yugi tried to smile bravely. "We will find some way to get through this."

The white haired boy nodded unsurely a few times. A look of determination swept suddenly across his features. "We need to leave."

"What?"

"We need to leave" He repeated. "I can't stay here any longer."

"b-but I have never left the Clan's territory before."

"Neither have I, but we can't stay here."

"Where will we go?"

"It doesn't matter. Maybe we will find those who did this and destroy them."

"D-d-destroy them?"

"Think of it as an adventure." Ryou's tear stained eyes gleamed with new feelings, ignoring the pain. "We can look around here for a moment for anything that might help us. We need to leave as soon as possible."

"Ryou, I can't leave. This is all I have ever known." Yugi whispered sadly.

"This is what you have known? Look around you! Nothing is left! We are the only ones!" Ryou softened his voice and hugged his best and last friend close. "We have to leave Yugi. How can we stay?" He broke the hug with a final squeeze. "Let's loot around for a moment, and see if we can find anything."

The tri-colored hair teen nodded, and the two walked away from the wall and out to face the destruction.

Immediately the stench hit them. Dead, decaying, and burning bodies.

Without too much hassle they found a bit of food, water, and a few traveling necessities. Ryou packed everything neatly in a backpack he had found. Throughout the whole ordeal each boy had tears running down his face, and had trouble entering the houses in fear of finding the owner's dead bodies.

When the sun was directly overhead, the two stepped out of their town forever. Neither could bare to look back.

Once out of the town, a sense that a burden had disappeared stopped the final tears.

Walking farther away, there was a brief patch of farm land where the villagers had grown food, before lush green forest appeared. They were deep into the forest when the sun began setting. So far on their journey, neither boy had said anything.

Both were in shock.

Yugi started a small fire, and Ryou cooked dinner. With full bellies they lay up against a tree, side by side, with a couple blankets covering them. The forest floor was fairly soft, and they were soon both asleep.

The next morning was a quick breakfast, and the two were walking again.

"Ryou?" This was the first thing said on the trip.

"Yes?"

"Do you know where we are going?"

"No, but maybe we will eventually know when to stop, or we will find someone to help us."

Conversation steadily grew as the two remembered the things they did back home, and the people they were missing.

So far in the massive never ending forest, the two boys had yet to met or see any humans. They saw plenty of animals however, and assumed the forest was uninhabited.

It was about the third day in the forest nearing evening that they were proven wrong. They heard with their ears first. Then saw the smoke from a fire.

Ryou instantly felt cautious. He had never met people outside of the village before.

Yugi was excited however, and wanted to run and meet new people.

The younger boy suddenly took off with a burst of unnatural speed towards what he expected to be friends. Living the sheltered life as he had, Yugi never knew that men could be evil.

Ryou had heard stories, though he never believed them until he saw the next few minutes.

Yugi ran into the middle of the camp, causing its occupants to panic and attack him. Yugi also began to panic, and managed to dodge several attacks, but was suddenly snatched by a large man. He broke free and dashed towards Ryou, the men gave chase, spotting Ryou in the midst.

"YUGI RUN!"

In the midst of running away from the evil men Ryou had lost track of Yugi.

Risking getting caught he retraced his steps through the forest.

Yugi was no where to be found, and Ryou assumed it would be pretty easy to find him.

Then it hit him, if it would be easy for him to find Yugi because of the boy's hair, then it would be easy for the hunters to find Yugi as well.

Fear flooded through his veins. He took off running towards the hunters camping site.

He hid behind a tree and peered into the gathering men, not further than a few yards off.

Sure enough there was Yugi, unconscious. A rope tied both his feet together as well as his small hands.

Ryou nearly fainted with shock.

"What we gonna do wit 'em?" One of the slugs gurgled out.

"Sell him!"

"Keep him!"

"He'd bring a lot of money!"

"He'd make a nice trophy too!"

"He'd make a nice bedslave as well." Another man cut in, looking over the young boy with lusty eyes.

Fear was suddenly replaced by anger as Ryou saw red. He would kill those pathetic mongrels for ever touching Yugi. He moved out from behind the tree to destroy the men.

They would regret messing with Yugi. Suddenly Ryou felt a sharp pain on the back of his head, then he blacked out.

TBC

This is something I wrote a while ago, and I thought I should post it and see if it interested enough people to continue. It actually has a long, and thought-out plot which I really love. Tell me what you think please! Thanks for reading!