Author's note: whoo! Another chapter underway. I would like to thank those who are reading the story and actually reviewing.

Disclaimer: Nope, not even close to owning it

Blood Legacy:

Memento

June 9, 1990

The blond colored wolf, jumped down from the balcony sliding in the grass, he took off down the road. Reaching the outskirts of the city, he ran up a fire escape beginning to jump from rooftop to rooftop. Until he saw his destination of the small Kame game store on the corner of Main and Dragoon. Looking down in to the small bedroom through the glass skylight, seeing the small boy sleeping soundly. Grabbing the handle with his mouth, Joey lifted the window and jumped down. Stretching to fit under the bed he grabbed a medium size box out. Popping the lid off he smiled as he saw the denim jeans and green shirt. Thanking Yami that he hadn't moved it. Transforming back he slipped the new clothes on and headed down stairs. Joey could hear two rhythmic beats coming from the house, Yugi's slow paced one, and a more energetic one. Clinging to the wall of the staircase he could hear the voices of Lillian and Sugoroku talking from the living room.

"Goodnight."

"Goodnight Lillian, I'll see you in the morning."

Joey snuck out of the stairwell while she had he backed turned to him. He could hear her footsteps on the top floor going towards her room. "Hi Jonouchi." Joey rubbed the back of his head and laughed slightly. "Hey." Sugoroku shook his head as he stood up from the couch. "Have you eaten?" Joey sighed. "Not at all, it was a rough trip." Sugoroku nodded and opened the door to the game store.

Flipping on the light switch.

"Wow, this place hasn't changed." Jonouchi stepped in and looked around seeing the glass display case and racks set up around the room. Sugoroku went behind the case, opening a drawer in the bottom pulled out a bottle of wine. "A lot easier than hunting all night, don't you think?" Jonouchi smiled and grabbed a shot glass off the glass chess board. "Its about the only good thing modern times have brought." Joey took a drink of the finely aged wine out of the shot glass. "What happened to Yami?"

"How was your trip? You said it was rough." Jonouchi glared at him. "What happened?"

"Ho, ho is it that time already? Are you sure you don't want to talk about this tomorrow?"

"Gramps. Give me an answer." He shook his head. "You won't like it."

"I don't care."

The man shifted the bottle of wine. "We were in the Valley of the Kings. I had heard of a tomb that held a game room."

"Of course you have, you built it!"

"Yes, but I forgot where I put it."

Jonouchi fell over. "Anyway!"

"I couldn't let Hawking know about that so we went on a side trip first before I went there. We were excavating an ancient room when the roof collapsed on us. I called out for Yami, but he was stuck on another section, but all I could hear was him speaking a curse or spell of some kind, very hard to make out through the echoes…"

"Alright. With ya so far."

"When had a way out hours later, Hawking went up first as I went through the collapsed wall to find Yami. Only when I got there…" Sugoroku had fell silent and stopped. "And then?"

He slid a golden, Egyptian carved box in front of him. "What is this?" The older man nodded and took a drink of his wine. Jonouchi opened the box, seeing golden pieces of a puzzle. "Yami wrote that letter you got while he was on the plane. It was his last resort."

"Gramps, are you saying?"

"The light sparkled off those pieces, the reminisce of the millennium puzzle, his soul is in those pieces, I just hope I got them all."

"Can it be put back together?"

"I'm sure it can, just not by me. If the puzzle gets back together, Yami will return, but if you think you're having clan troubles now…just wait till they find out about the box."

Jonouchi looked up, then let his head fall on the case. "You smudge it, you're cleaning it."

"So glad that's all your worried about."

September 5, 1992

Six year old Yugi walked back in to the Kame Game store, with his backpack still wrapped over his shoulder. "Grandpa I'm home." His grandfather smiled at him, glade that the school was only two blocks away and knew Jonouchi was somewhere watching him safely. "How was school today?" Yugi dropped the backpack next to the glass case. "It was fun…"

"That's good, take you're things up to your room, I have something you can help me with."

"Alright." Yugi picked up the bag back up by the handle and opened the door the house. Kicking off his shoes he walked a crossed the hard wood floor, turning the corner to the staircase. "Stupid kids." Yugi opened his door and threw his backpack on the bed. "I'm not small and not worthless, otherwise grandpa wouldn't let me help him the way he does." He shut the door to his room and walked back to the game store, taking one last deep breath before walking in. "Grandpa?"

"Oof."

Yugi turned his head towards the back room, seeing his grandfather on the floor. "Grandpa! Are you okay?"

"Ho ho just took a little trip." Yugi shook his head and helped him back up to his feet. "Grandpa what were you doing?"

"There's a box on the third shelf. "Do you think you can reach it?" Yugi looked up. "No."

"What if I helped you?" Yugi tilted his head. "Maybe." His grandfather picked up the boy and held him up to the shelf. "Which one?"

"It's a white box." Yugi grabbed the box and saw a dusty chest box behind it. "Wow! What's this?"

"What's what?" Yugi grabbed the golden box and showed it to him. "This. What is it?"

His grandpa lowered him as Yugi still had the box in his hands. "This my boy, is an ancient puzzle."

"A puzzle? It looks completed to me…"

Sugoroku laughed. "Silly, its inside the box." He pulled the top of revealing the beautifully, persevered golden pieces. "This puzzle was found in a tomb of a pharaoh, no one's ever been able to figure it out… not even me." Yugi blinked, "really, you're the best at everything?"

"Something special is supposed to happen to the one who puts it together?"

"How old is it?" His grandpa coughed slightly. "Uh… three thousand years…give or take?" Yugi's eyes brightened as he looked at the pieces. "I'm gonna put it together! I don't care if it takes me till dinner!" His grandpa laughed. "It might take you longer than that."

"Christmas?"

"That's a little better."

Yugi started to run out of the room, then stopped. "Did you need anything else?"

"Yeah, start your homework before you get to involved." Yugi moaned as he closed the door.

Yugi set the box down on his desk, then took out his homework for the day. "Maybe just one piece…no, I told grandpa I'd do my homework first. He didn't say I couldn't do it while I did my homework." Yugi grabbed a piece and rotated it in his fingers, while opening the book to his reading page. Falling bored with the story by the second paragraph. "Something special is supposed to happen to the one who puts it together." "Something special… so are you like a dragon ball? If it's true… I wish for a friend." He grabbed another piece to try and make it fit together. Before he knew it, he had tried every piece in the box before finding the right one.

"Yugi dinner's ready."

Yugi looked back to see his grandpa in the doorway. "Alright?"

Yugi followed his grandpa down the stairs and sat at the table, with the plate already made for him. Yugi starred in to meal before him shifting the pasta with his fork.

"Yugi are you feeling alright?" Yugi perked up slightly. "Yeah, when's mom getting back from Tokyo?"

"She'll be here Friday. You miss her don't you?"

"I never get to see her."

"Its only temporary."

Yugi sat back in his chair. "Why doesn't she get a job in the city, so I can see her."

"Kaiba Corp, thought your mom was out of touch in her field and sent her oh… back to school."

"Then she could go to school with me."

Sugoroku hugged Yugi, "I'm sorry Yugi, it's just a little more complicated than that."

Yugi slipped away and went back upstairs to his room, to really finish his homework and work on the puzzle some more.

The man sighed and took Yugi's and his plate back to the kitchen, seeing Jonouchi in his wolf form sitting on the floor wagging his tail. Sugoroku laughed and set the plate down in front of him. "Yes! Free food, free food."

"You're a walking disposal you know that?" Jonouchi picked up the plate and handed it to him when he was done. "What's eating my grandson?"

"From what I saw… he's the weaker one of his class, he's a bit of a loner."

"That's what I was afraid of. Jonouchi I have a job for you."

"Man, not another one…"

"Stop your whining you slacker. Stay in your form and sleep in Yugi's room." Jonouchi snickered slightly. "Do you realize what you're asking me? All night with a half mortal on an empty stomach."

"You're going to eat me out of house and home aren't you?" Jonouchi laughed as he walked out the room. "Have to do something since I haven't been paid for this in three years."

"Take that with Yami when he gets back."

Jonouchi stalked his way through Yugi's room, jumping up on the foot of the bed. Yugi turned on the light above him seeing the animal on his feet, "uh…hello. Where did you come from?" Yugi stuck out his hand laughing as Jonouchi licked his hand. Yugi started scratching him behind his ears, Jonouchi slinked further up the bed. Yugi looked in to his honey colored eyes. "You remind me of Joey. I wish he was here… night puppy." Yugi shut the light off and continued to pet him. Jonouchi rested his head and watched Yugi fall asleep.

Jonouchi woke with Yugi on his back still sleeping as the alarm clock went off. Getting up Yugi slowly slipped off and woke up, pressing the button on the alarm making it stop. Jonouchi jumped down and left the room as Yugi got ready for his day. Grabbing his backpack he patted Jonouchi in the hall as he walked passed him and they headed down the stairs. Sugoroku already had his breakfast on the table. "Morning Yugi. Sleep well?" He looked down seeing Jonouchi trotting behind him looking happily rested. "Sure did."

Yugi was eating his eggs, sneaking the pieces of toast to Jonouchi, now sitting under the table out of sight. "Well, I'm done, I better go before I'm late."

His grandpa hugged him good-bye. "Be careful Yugi." Yugi got up and put his backpack over his shoulder. "I will. I have a guard dog now." His grandpa smiled and shook his head, thinking of the meaning and how true it is.

Jonouchi waited behind the bushes in front of the building as school was about let out. The bell rang and the doors exploded open with kids laughing. Yugi as small as he was, was difficult for Jonouchi to spot, but even when he opened his senses was no where to be found. Running around to the back of the building spotted three kids standing around Yugi.

"Sakari, I'm not going to fight you." The red-haired girl laughed. "God Mouto you're such a wimp." Yugi set his bag down. "I am not!"

"Then fight me."

"If I don't?"

"This is hill has your name on it." Sakari laughed as she pushed him backwards down the hill. Jonouchi slide behind the kids growling at them. Sakari was the first to turn around to see the wolf snarling at them. "Uh… nice doggie…run!" Jonouchi barked at them as the took off running. Grabbing the bag in his mouth he took down the hill.

Seeing the boy sobbing at the bottom, with his face and arms cut up. Jonouchi comforted him and stood him back up walking back home with him.

Yugi walked through the front door of the game store. His grandfather looked at him then took him inside to the house patching him up with the first aid kit.

"Yugi what happened?" Yugi was sitting on the kitchen counter watching his grandpa put the medicine on the bandage. "I fell. That's all."

His grandpa heard Yugi's heart beat skipping with each word. "I thought I told you to be careful?"

"I was, I just fell over." Yugi hopped down from the counter and went up to his room. Jonouchi stuck his head through the door this time in his human form.

"What really happened?" Jonouchi stepped in to the kitchen. "Some girl pushed him down the hill, I took care of them though…"

"You didn't stop it?"

"I didn't get there in time to stop it. You would have been proud of him he was a gentleman about it."

"A girl?"

"Say what you will, but I know girls that kick more ass than some guys I know."

"Name one."

"Anzu."

Everyday after school, all that month was Yugi's ritual of sailing down that hill, since then Yugi got the hint and started throwing himself down it. Jonouchi looked in to Yugi's room seeing him try and continue the puzzle. Sugoroku stood beside him. "Kid's gonna wind up in the hospital if it doesn't end soon." Jonouchi whispered back so Yugi couldn't hear them. "I'm working on it, my backup is on a mission, she'll be there tomorrow."

November 17, 1992

Anzu met Jonouchi outside the school. "What's wrong Jonouchi, third graders picking on you again?" Jonouchi shot her a look. "No, the kid needs help. Think you can teach a couple girls a lesson for him?" Anzu laughed. "You always were to kind hearted for your own good at times."

"Anzu."

"Fine, don't get all mushy on me…" Anzu transformed in to the size of a normal first grader. The bell rang letting the students go home. "Ew, those outfits are hideous." She moaned as she changed her clothes. She saw Yugi standing there alone. "I don't get it why doesn't he just go another way?" Jonouchi sighed and pointed in both directions seeing kids on both sides. "He tries it, they'll beat him up for being a coward then throw him over." Anzu sighed. "And you can't take them?"

"Not in wolf form I can't."

Anzu sighed and walked out there, Yugi was about to through himself over. "Yugi don't do it." He stopped seeing a small brunet girl walk towards him. "I've been watching you Yugi. She's not worth landing in a hospital over."

"Stay out this new girl."

Anzu laughed. "You know red, if I saw that face coming towards me everyday, I'd jump to." Yugi stood there confused watching the new girl talk to Sakari like she was. Sakari swung her fist. Anzu redirected it with ease and punched her in the ribs, watching the girl go down to the ground. Three more took her place. Yugi's jaw dropped as she took all three of the bigger kids out within the minute. "Mess with him again and I swear your mom's will cry after she's sees what I've done to ya!" The four took off running, Anzu looked back at Yugi. "You okay?" Yugi started blushing. Just nodding from the loss of his voice all of a sudden and bowed to her in thanks. "How did you do that?" Anzu swung her arm around him. "It's easy when your dad's in the Yakuza." Yugi blinked as the girl skipped happily away. Yugi ran after, "wait. What's your name?"

The girl smiled at him. "You can call me Téa." Yugi looked away. "Thanks Téa."

February 12, 1997

Yugi walked towards the road. Seeing a car fly around the corner much faster than the legal speed limit falling on to the cement backwards.

Jonouchi stood outside on the middle school roof, seeing Yugi fall backwards in a panic, but seeing nothing to be alarmed about.

Téa was carrying her books in front of her as the wind took off with her top sheet of paper carrying it in to the road.

"Téa!"

She continued to go and retrieve it. Jonouchi saw a car speeding towards her. Yugi saw the same and drove in front of the car to save her. Téa shook her head as she still sat in the street. Seeing Yugi looking lifeless, crawling towards him calling his name getting nothing of a reply in return. "Yugi! Wake up!" The driver got out of his car and bent down to check the boy. "Oh god." Jonouchi got his cell phone out he called for an ambulance to pick him up.

The cops arrived at the scene getting an interview with the driver, as the emergency team put the boy on the stretcher and put him in the back of the ambulance. "I don't know, the kid just dove in front of my car."

"He was trying to save me you bastard!" The cops tried restraining Téa from ripping the driver to shreds. "Hold her!" They pulled her back and sat her down in their car, watching Yugi leaving to the hospital. "Don't listen to him, he was speeding. I wasn't paying attention…Yugi dove in front of the car to save me." The cops wrote her statement down and asked where she lived and the phone number.

They did the alcohol tests and arrested the driver for being a 1.5 over the legal limit.

Téa and Jonouchi looked through the glass of the hospital room seeing Yugi barely hanging in their. "Doc, what's wrong?" The doctor sighed and looked back at the blond. "He's suffered a mild concussion and server bruising to his ribs. He'll be in here for a couple days." The doctor left to tend his other patients. Anzu put her hand to the glass seeing Sugoroku Mouto sit next to Yugi rubbing his hand. "You know if it did hit me, I'd be healed by now." Jonouchi glared at her wondering if his actions meant anything to her. Anzu picked up what he was thinking. "He saved me Jonouchi. I can't remember the last time someone did that for me."

"You bipolar assamite."

Téa smiled. "The ultimate cover… cheerleader in the day, feared assassin by night."

February 14, 1992

Yugi sat up right in his hospital bed, fideling with the half completed puzzle. "Still working on it?" Yugi added another piece to it. "Oddly enough yes. I want to through this stupid thing against a wall, but then I'd have to start over." His grandfather laughed. "I might get it done by the time I graduate high school." He sighed and sat in the chair next to his bed. "You'll get it done before that, I have faith in you. How are you feeling?" Yugi looked at him, "Like I got ran over by a truck."

"It was a car actually."

"That doesn't help."

"This might, your tests proved positive you can actually sleep in your own bed tonight."

"Yes!" Yugi shot his arms in the air in excietment. "Ow!"

"That doesn't mean you can injure yourself any further."

Yugi moanfully sighed thinking he should have known better than to do something like that.

Yugi opened the door to his room. Everything remined the same as he remembered it. The desk top cluttered with his incopleted homework now stacked up higher since Téa's been dropping it off to him, the bed covers still a mess from the other morning, clothes scattered slightly on the floor, and the blond pup alseep in his bed. Yugi set his bag down were he stood and realized the animal had the best idea of all. Even though he was hungry, the idea of a better night's sleep was way above eating.

His grandfather went upstairs to check on him, to find him and Jonouchi curled up sharring warmth. He left the two and went back downstairs comming back with a meal under a serving top, to help keep it warm. Smiling he readjusted the blankets on him and left.

Yugi moaned as he rolled over to smack the alarm clock, "five more minutes." Yugi rolled back over and was about to fall alseep again when it sounded off its annoying beeb. Rolling over he found himself on the floor, with the pup next to him still on the bed. "Its going to be a fun day I can tell already."

Pushing himself off the hardwood floor, Jonouchi licked him as he raised his head up. "Thanks, but that doesn't help." Yugi blinked and shook his head as he thought the animal had smiled at him.

Jonouchi turned away and rested his head on the pillow as Yugi got ready for school, dressing in the navy blue suit. grabbing his backpack, he headed down the stairs.

Yugi spotted breakfast on the table waiting for him. Eggs, toast, sliced cantalope on the side, and orange juice. Yugi sat down in the chair as Jonouchi took his normal postion beside him. "Morning Grandpa." His grandfather was sitting on the end of the square table reading the daily newspsper. "Morning Yugi." Yugi added the salt to his eggs and fuit. "How come I never see you eat breakfast?" His grandfather cleared his throat buying him some time to answer. "I'm up earlier than you, so my breakfast is at five or so." Yugi looked back down at his breakfast. He heard the paper lower. "Fine, I'll start my day a little later and join you tommorrow." Yugi smiled at him then continued to nibble on the fruit. As usual Jonouchi got his share of the breakfast as his grandfather went back to reading the paper.

Clearing the table Yugi set his dishes in the sink, grabbing his jacket, he slipped on his shoes and headed out the door, with Jonouchi close behind.

Passing the usual shops, crossing the street passing a nice looking apartment complex, Yugi looked down at Jonouchi as the back of his fur stood up slightly on the back of his neck. Yugi looked around, "its ok boy, its nothing. Probably a cat or something." Jonouchi settled down, but still stayed on his guard.

"Morning!"

Yugi and Jonouchi both jumped from the sudden cheerfulness of Téa. "Morning Téa, do you have to do that?"

"Yes, because its fun and for the all the times you've done that to me."

The bell rang and Téa grabbed his hand dragging him inside before they both wound up late again.

Jonouchi snuck behing a shaddy spot transforming back in to his human form. "Damn that girl..."

Author's note: I know its short, but at least there's some time gaps in there. Yugi is now in the eighth grade, so that means, next year... dun, dun, dun. Freshman year and the introduction of all mass chaos and destruction. See ya next time.