Snake Charmer

Anthy: Weeeeee!!

Anshi: I feel some teen angst coming on.

Anthy: Shut up.

Anshi: *rolls eyes*

Anthy: I don't own Yugioh.

Anshi: Trust me, if she did, Anzu, Mai, and Isis would all have been shot a long time ago.

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Snake Charmer

Depression

Somewhere deep inside these bones

An emptiness began to grow

There's something out there

Far from my home

A longing that I've never known

Yugi stared at the gray clouds in the autumn sky from his desk at school. Yami occasionally glanced over at him, a faint shade of fear and concern in his red eyes. Yugi never talked anymore unless he had to. For some unknown reason, had built walls around his heart and locks on the door to his soul room and gradually drifted away from everyone, including Yami.

Yugi had been keeping a diary to himself for about five months, but the world would never know about it. It was always up to date with his thoughts and feelings and dead hopes and thriving depression. No one knew about the scars, no one knew about the tattoo, an inverted pentagram with an Ankh through the center. It was in the center of his back, between his shoulder blades.

No one had to know.

(Am I longing for someone? Can someone save me?)

Yugi continued to stare at the clouds, which had now partially opened up and let sunlight glare down like eyes of heaven.

(Why is the sunlight the only thing that is warm?)

Alone, Yugi sat against the building at lunch, looking around for people he knew. But there were none. They had all left. He glanced at the scars on his wrist.

No one needed to know.

He saw people massing on one side of the school, shouting and laughing and cheering. Yugi got up and slowly walked over to them. There was a fight...

A big one...

(A/N: At the middle school I went to, if there was a fight, people would move like a wave over towards it and then there was a wall of them.)

Yugi pushed his way through the horde of people to the center and gasped in fear and humility.

There was a girl, as tall and as thin as Seto and wearing a guy's uniform. The jacket was torn open and practically ripped to shreds, and her white tank top underneath was stained with blood. Her jeans had blood on them, and it took three guys to hold her back. Yami was the one dealing the blows.

But the girl was not going to take this for too long. Her legs, armed with her heavy goth boots, lashed out at Yami, both of them catching him in the stomach. He flew back, into the wall of people. Yami wiped the blood from his mouth and jumped at her again.

Yugi couldn't watch anymore.

He saw the girl again as he was walking home.

She had a bandage over one of her eyes, and her right arm was all bandaged up. It wasn't in a cast, but it was covered in bandages. And to top it all off, there was a band-aide over a cut on her cheek. Her white hair with blue tips was pulled back in a ponytail and her one visible glaring amber eye took no notice of him and she walked on by.

(She seems so...sad...)

Yugi came home and found his counterpart sitting at the table. He seemed to be no better off than the girl he was fighting. His right arm was in a cast and there was a band-aide over his nose.

"What happened to you?" Yugi asked innocently.

"It got into a fight with some whore."

There was a spark of anger inside Yugi, and he wouldn't hold it back.

"You had three guys hold her down while you too cheap shots. She lashed back. You try to play innocent when you know nothing of the sort." Yugi said quietly.

"Yugi...is something wrong?"

Yugi didn't answer. He just dropped his books and ran outside.

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