Shadowsreached: Hello! I'm going to need a lot of help with this story, so if anyone wants to help or is good at plots then I'd be glad to talk to you on my E-mail - And yes, don't worry; your name will be credited at the bottom of each chapter if you help me. The more the merrier! Please read & review…This will be promises of many more chapters to come. As you must know I've had other ummm, ahem failing stories in the past but I hope that this one come out better than them. .

Warnings: Nothing…yet

Pairings: …you'll be surprised…

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or its characters…But Casie is mine! So back off the pretty Kitty! …slowly…slower…a little slower…that should be fine.

Chapter one: 'Casie'

Joey stopped the door behind Yugi and looked down upon him before speaking.

"So this is my house puppy, if you need—"

RIIIING! RIIIING!

Yugi yelped and jumped from his place on the floor shrinking behind Joey's legs for comfort.

Joey looked down and flashed the worried Yugi a warm smile "It's only the phone pu—wait...why am I even talking to you…" Patting Yugi on his head he walked off into the other room to answer the phone.

Yugi huffed in complaint. 'I knew it was the phone…it just startled me; that's all!' He considered following Joey and finding out what the phone call was all about but then decided against it after the nifty thought of touring the house sounded in his head. He peered around. He was in the main entrance.

He noted that the house itself was lit brilliantly and the white stones below his paws were smooth with a nice glossy finish. He wondered briefly if he would skid on them if he were to start running.

Turning his head to the left his eyes lit up as he saw another room not too far away from were he stood. Stepping closer, he saw that this room had blue carpeting, white wooden walls but was also considerably small.

There was a long wooden desk in the upper left corner of the room supplied with a flat screened computer, a chair, speakers, many CD's and a black notebook.

A black floor lamp that ran up half the wall stood erect, spilling light onto the desk.

Next to the lamp a comfy looking couch was seated, covering the rest of the perimeter of the wall. On the other side of the room two large bookcases stood next to each other holding countless books and comics. 'This has to be the den…' Yugi thought.

Padding over to one of the bookcases Yugi looked up and observed a Bible that was placed on the second shelf up. 'So that makes two of us...'

Yugi looked away from the shelf when he heard his so-called name being called.

"Hey puppy…listen, I'm going out so you need to stay here. Ok? Don't do anything bad." Joey said, bending down to pat his head one last time.

'Hey,' Yugi thought bending his head up towards Joey's hand, a smile gracing his lips. 'that feels kinda nice...' but the feeling was soon replaced with cold air as Joey stood back up, got his coat off a nearby rack, and strolled towards the closed door. A tickling sensation prodded at the back of Yugi's neck as Joey opened the door.

Yugi yelped in distress. Thoughts clouded his mind. 'What? We're you going?' Yugi ran as fast as he could towards the door as it began to shut. 'You shouldn't leave me here alone!' Jumping up on his hind legs so he could reach the door knob he began to wine and scratch, but his pleas were quickly cut off by locking of the door. Joey was gone. 'Hey…what do I do if I need to go to the bathroom?' Sitting down slowly he allowed his eyes to look up at the door as he whimpered

"Why are you crying?" Startled Yugi yelped, leaped up and faced the voice behind him. A small white cat sat there, looking up at him with unblinking blue eyes.

"I'm not crying!" Yugi snapped at the confused cat. The cat slowly made its way over to Yugi and looked him up and down. Suddenly it meowed happily and began to ask fast questions.

"Joey got a new pet? What type of dog are you? How old are you? Do you have a name? Do you have fleas? I hate fleas! Do you hate them? You must, considering dogs are the one's that live with them. You never see any flea colors on us cats do you? Well? Do you?"

The cat (who Yugi figured by the voice was a she) was excited by the new guest and her white fur had fluffed out in all different directions as she bounded around Yugi in circles.

"I'm NOT Joey's pet first of all! I'm a friend of his; I got turned into a dog you see…I don't think he knows that I'm here with him though…I also don't know what type of dog I am. I'm 16 in human years; and yes I hate fleas….but I don't think I have any."

The cat stopped its circling and stared at Yugi with wide eyes.

"How can you not know what type of dog you are!"

Yugi shrugged.

"I guess I'm a mix or something…need to look in a mirror."

The cat smiled sweetly, walking over to the stairs that led up to the next level.

"Well then, come with me. There's a mirror in the bathroom that you can look at."

However, as the cat led him upstairs he noted that she continued to mutter under her breath about how stupid mutts were.

'Is that what I am?' Yugi thought frightened as the cat got up the final step and started leading him left, down a carpeted hallway.

'A mutt?' For as long as he could remember he had hated mutts. Well, not hated but had very much disliked. He never thought they looked very nice and there attitudes were boring.

The ashen cat stopped suddenly at a large wooden door. Kneeling down she jumped high in the air trying to fix her paws around the shiny knob of the door. Latching one paw around the knob she scratched furiously at the door but soon slipped and landed on her tail with a high pitched squeal.

"Here, let me help." Yugi said, walking over to the distraught cat. Yugi was small, but not as small as the cat. He easily jumped up and latched a paw around the knob. His body off the ground, he twisted the knob until he heard a satisfying 'click' and the door swung open making him fall ungracefully to the floor. 'Ow'

"Thanks." The cat replied as she passed Yugi and strode into the bathroom looking around thoughtfully.

"Now, if you want my advice you should first go to the toilet, jump up on it and then jump from that to the white shiny thing across from it. But be careful, you might slip. Once you get there; if you get there; you can look at yourself from the mirror on the wall." Throughout the lecture the cat pointed with her front paw to the areas that Yugi needed to go.

"When you say 'that white shiny thing,' do you mean the sink?"

The cat placed her paw back on the tiles and looked at him with questioning eyes.

"Sink? Is that what that thing is called? I thought that's what happens when you drown…"

"It is; except, 'the white shiny thing'…" Yugi pointed his paw at the sink "…is also called a sink."

"Why would they name two absolutely different things with the exact same name?"

Yugi thought for awhile trying to figure out a way to answer the cat's question. "Ummm…that's just how it goes these days." Yugi knew that he now sounded stupid, looking at the cat with unexplainable eyes.

Strong silence filled the air. With the cat looking at Yugi and Yugi looking at the cat the atmosphere felt tight. Suddenly the cat snarled in frustration. Yugi backed up half expected her to attack him.

"Are you going or not!"

"Ummm, sure…?"

Her blue eyes narrowed in anger.

"SURE? Can't dogs these days just say yes or no!"

"Yes!"

"YES? Yes you can, or yes I'm going now?"

"Both..."

"THEN GO!"

Yugi yelped and ran into the bathroom towards the toilet. He scrambled up on it as the cat watched him with narrowed eyes. Seconds later he turned around on the smooth seat and balanced himself, getting ready to jump for the counter.

"Hurry up! We don't have all day!"

'Man, this cat has anger management problems…'

"WHAT! I just did that in like--what five seconds? Why are you so mad at me?"

"Stop with the questions, and get onto that so-called 'sink'! NOW!"

Afraid of the cats harsh screaming he jumped shakily from the seat towards the counter. His front paws landed on the smooth finishing but his back paws were ahead of them as they crashed into the wall causing Yugi to slip half way off the sink.

"Get back on!" screeched the cat eyes wide. If Yugi fell he wouldn't be injured; she just didn't want to see him fail in this simple task.

Breathless, he weakly scratched his back paws against the side of the sink trying to find something to support him up on the sink, but all his paws felt was the firm wood. He used all the force he could muster to get the rest of his body up onto the sink. He did; but not before he fell head first into the basin. The cat giggled enthusiastically and jumped from her spot outside the bathroom and headed towards Yugi. Looking up, she called his name.

"Puppy! Hey! Get over here!"

Yugi quickly got out of the basin and headed towards the side of the counter looking down upon the cat. He looked pretty flushed.

"Hi…"

"Well? What are you?"

Yugi looked back up and twisted towards the mirror seeing his reflection for the first time. He was shocked to see that he was undersized; with small paws and little black nails. He had large violet eyes and a small black nose. He was sheltered in long black and white fur that was a mess at the time. His furry ears stuck up high. He smiled goofily at the mirror. He loved those ears! He looked back down at the cat.

"I'm a Papillon…umm, what's your name?"

"I'm Casie."

Yugi bounced off the counter 'Getting off the counter was so much easer than getting on it' he thought as he looked at Casie.

"Well, why did you get so mad at me?"

Casie looked down at her paws and muttered so low that Yugi had to strain his large ears to hear her.

"I'm sorry about that, but suspense kills me and I usually take my anger out on what's causing it. But hey…at least it got you going!"

"Ya—ummm, that's a bit strange don't you think?"

"No."

'Ok…wrong thing to say Yugi'

"Sorry…I didn't mean to—"The cats eyes lit up again and she cut him off before he could finish.

"OH! No, it's ok. It's my own problem."

Seeing that the Casie was happy again Yugi smiled strangely at her before blinking it off. She looked beyond him and frowned. Yugi looked around and saw what she was frowning at. His eyes clouded over with grief. On the side of the counter that he had tried so hard to get onto were long but thin scratch marks from were his claws had been trying to dig into the wood. And there weren't just five or seven—there were hundreds.

'What am I going to do about this! What will Joey think? Oh god! He'll probably kick me out for being so destructive! What will I do out on the streets? How will I live? More important--Will I live? I bet I'll be picked up by strange people and be carried away in a little box 'just-my-size' straight to my death!'

Casie saw his worried expression and slowly padded over to him nudging her head under his chin mewing contently. However, Yugi shrugged it off. He just wanted to think of the new life he would have to live; and that was it. He continued his draining thoughts not seeing Casie's hurt eyes.

'And besides that--what will he say when he figures out that I'm really Yugi? Oh man, I can hear him now…"Yugi! I can't believe you! I let you into my home and the first thing you do as a dog is scratch up the furniture!" "But Joey— No! He won't let me call him Joey anymore! I'll have to call him…him…master! No he wouldn't make me do that! But I wouldn't be his friend anymore…But man; it's just one piece of furniture! I shouldn't get blamed for this! Not this!'

"You know…I don't think you should take this so bad uhhhh, what's your name again?"

"Yu-Yugi. And this is the first time I told you."

'Oh God! He couldn't even say his name straight! What was becoming of him?'

"Ok Yugi, if you're thinking that he'll kick you out as soon as he gets here then your wrong. Besides, I've done many bad things in the past and he never kicked me out. He got angry; but he never kicked me out. Sooo…brighten up; and let's do something else…like explore a bit more! How's that sound?"

"Sure, but I don't think that how it's going to be with me..."

Whipping around fiercely, her pupils blazed blue flames as she locked her eyes with his and advanced on him. The she-cat stuck her muzzle up to his and spat sternly in his face.

"Listen up pup! You shouldn't be the one to talk! He's not the type who just throws little dogs, or cats out onto the street! Besides, I should know…he picked me up from the street—literally; when I was just a shrimp of a kit and gave me this home for free!"

Her fur had fluffed up at this point and her claws had come out making Yugi more than a little worried for his safety. Shrinking back from her face Yugi fell to the floor, showing his submission to her as she continued her rant.

"My mother had abandoned me the minute I had stopped nursing and my father was some "city cat" that my mother never talked of….so, I don't know my mom, I don't know my dad, I don't know my heritage and I certainly don't know what your issues are!"

Standing back up, Yugi slowly padded over to Casie and put his head on her shoulder; his big ears drooping a bit with sadness.

"I'm-I'm sorry Casie…I didn't know."

Casie blinked back tears of; not sadness, but anger that no one seemed to understand her.

"It's fine; just promise me that when you return to your regular self; Yugi…that you'll always remember me?"

"Of course."

Sighing her frustration away, Casie turned her back to him and walked back towards the stairs.

"WAIT!" Yugi yelped, running after her "I've already been left once, please don't go! Besides you promised me an adventure…"

Smiling, Casie's eyes beamed and she purred heavily.

"Of course! I just thought that you wanted me to leave. I've shouted at you a lot today, and I don't like seeing you like that."

"I don't want you to go Casie; you're a fine cat and maybe even a friend; if that's what you want I mean…"

Casie's eyes lit up in great sparkles and Yugi thought her purring couldn't get any heaver.

"I'd love to be your friend Yugi! You're so sweet and understanding! But...you're going to have to get used to these fits if you want me as your friend."

"Everyone has anger Casie and yours are no different." Yugi pointed out still beside her by the top of the stairs. "I think I can get used to them…" 'But I'll also always make sure I understand why your mad' Yugithought to himself privately.

"Great Yugi! Then let's go and do something…adventurous!"

'GREAT! Maybe I can see the rest of the house with her.'

Yugi considered as he watched Casie plummet eagerly down the stairs and head left towards the small room that Yugi had been in earlier.

'Wow, she can really have fast mood swings…' Yugi sighed before diving down the stairs after her.