Chapter 2, edited, uploaded and fixed.

Oh, as I deleted all my previous author notes along with the poop chapters, I would just like to triple thank every single one of my readers for their support, and I hope you all enjoy this version of my fic much more than the last. Believe me, It's better...

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Hey…where am I? Everything is all black and weird. I can't feel anything. I can't move! What's going on? I feel like a piece of stiff cardboard….Kinda like one of Kaiba's over-starched trench coats…yeah…

Wow, this is really freaking me out, even more so than an angry Kaiba. I wonder what happened to me. Am I Asleep? In a coma? I hope I'm still alive. Maybe I'm having one of those near death experiences. You know, like those ones where people having operations see themselves lying on an operating table, the pingy and beepy machines stuck on the same long note, then wake up the next minute as good as new.

Yeah…but I can't see myself lying on the Science lab floor. I can't see anything but nothingness…

Wait! I see…I see…a light?

How cliché…

I'm moving! At last! But I'm going straight at that little yellow light. Is that a good thing? I guess so…I might be waking up or something. Yup. I hope so. I bet I'm still lying on that floor, all burnt up with that guy passed out next to me and Anzu screeching her head off about us both being dead. I hope she's passed out too, now I think about it. I don't want to wake up to hear her screech of a voice in my ear. I hope Yugi is okay. He probably dodged the fire, or at least only got charred a little by it. I'm pretty sure I'll be in a messed up way. My face might be burnt off or something…urgh…that thought makes me shiver. And I dread to think what sort of insults Kaiba will come up with when he sees me! I better be okay…

Hey! I'm nearly there! I'm closer…closer…closer…I'm in!

"YEEEOOOOW!" I screamed (Hey! I can scream! Yay!). This is really hurting me right now…But look! I can see something again and I can hear voices. My friend's voices! Look! They are all standing there together, even Kaiba and Mokuba. There is Mai, My sis, Yugi, Anzu (damn…), Ryou, Honda, Duke and…is that Yugi's Grandpa? I can't really tell. He looks weird in a black suit. They all do, actually. Suits Mai (Hoo Har…couldn't resist the pun) though…wait a minute, why are they all dressed up? Doesn't matter, I'll ask later…

"What's up, guys?" I said, floating (huh? I can float? Nah…I must be hallucinating things…but with my sense of feelings…weird, huh?) over to them. They didn't reply, "Hello? Hellooooo? It's me, Katsuya!" I said, standing right in front of them. Still no reply, just a small sniff from Mai. I stood and watched them all. Yugi looked worse out of everyone, and he had a lot less hair than when I had last seen him. The blonde bangs at the front still seemed intact, but the rest of his hair was tied back in a tiny ponytail. Hey, hair is easily flammable, especially if you use as much hairspray and hair dye as Yugi.

I walked (floated) round the back of the group. Kaiba was a few meters behind everyone else and had his back turned. He looked as stuck up as usual, his face totally blank and emotionless. But something about the way he was standing or the unusual wetness of his eyes told me something: he was upset. Kaiba! Upset! It was amazing. First time I have seen any other emotion but smugness or anger from the guy. Hats off to the one that did it to him…

I wandered around the rest of my friends, poking and prodding them. They didn't notice. I even pulled a face at Honda and messed with his hair, but he didn't respond with his normal "DON'T MESS WITH THE HAIR!" and punch in the face or stomach that followed. I frowned. Why were they ignoring me? Had I done something wrong? They did all look pretty upset, especially Kaiba. Yeah…that's a good explanation. I must have really cheesed them off…But wouldn't they be angry?

I walked off from the group. If they were going to ignore me, I would do the same to them. Make them more upset, hopefully…

By now, I was starting to wonder about other things: Why was I floating? Why are they dressed up? And why do they look so sad? Maybe it was because they were in a graveyard…I mean; I only just noticed that but…hey! We are in a graveyard! You know, the places were they put people when they…well, you know. This place is majorly creepy, even if it does look modern. There are lots of shiny black marble gravestones, lots of green-grey mossy gravestones, and there is a very nice one with a statue of some kind of animal on it over where my friends are standing.

I went and had a closer look. It was made of a golden-yellow stone with pink and white flecks, polished so I could see my friend's reflections, but, strangely, not my own.

"Lucky sap…This dead guy must have been a billionaire…"

I bent down onto one knee and took a look at the text on the gravestone. It read:

A great Friend

A great Brother

A great Puppy

KatsuyaJonouchi

Stop. No. That's not right. Let me read that again…

A great Friend

A great Brother

A great Puppy

Katsuya Jonouchi

No. Still can't be right. Let me just check that…

KatsuyaJonouchi

"I'm dead…" I whispered, "I, Katsuya Jonouchi, am dead…"


By the way, I do not own Yugioh, however I do happen to be in the possession of a sewing machine, which I used to make myself a rather nice Kaiba cosplay with...