Author's note: Alrighty, another chapter up and running. Well, no reason to keep you enjoy.

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Blood Legacy:
Ooo, shiny

February 15, 1992

Yugi walked in to his class and sat down in his regular chair next to the window. Téa sat down in the desk right in front of him. "Yugi, you seem distant this morning."

"Sorry, still tired, I wanted to sleep for another three days." Téa smiled and turned back around when the professor walked in and stood at the head of the class setting his briefcase down on the wooden desk.

"Morning everyone."

The class rang back in unison. "Good morning, Mr. Harbison."

"Today class were going back in time, a time when Kings were outranked by the Catholic church, wars rang out for a hundred years, and trade from the East went West. The Holy Crusades."

Yugi thought he had heared Téa sigh. "Not again."
Yugi caught up with him, as he drew the trade maps on the board, and demonstrated the uses for the weapons out. Yugi's head dirfted slowly downward closing his eyes starting to fall alseep.

"Mouto."
Yugi snapped his head back up. "Sir?"
"You can sleep on your own time. Try and keep up you're behind as it is."
Yugi sighed knowing he was right. "Yes, sir."

Yugi payed a little more attention hearing about the church sending the children off to war in hopes that it would help prevail them. Something caught his eye outside, seeing a tall blond standing with a brunet, both of them walking off.
"Mouto perhaps you'd like to step outside and come back when you're ready to finish the lesson?"
Yugi looked back at him. "Sorry sir, I was trying to figure out how a church organization could send kids off to war when they had already realized there opponets were ruthless. It just seems wrong to me."

Mr. Harbison seemed irrated with him at first then believed Yugi. "Indeed it was wrong, the kids were no older than you and younger. There was a small band of soldiers who had thought the same thing and went of the kids in older to help save their lives. Only they had distracted them and their efforts were distroyed. Half of the army attacked them while the other half killed the kids. It wasn't war, but a mascare."

Yugi looked up, "what happened to the others?"

Mr. Harbison looked away. "No one knows, after returning to the scene of the children dead, people had thought they had left in disgust never to fight another day and live in isolation."

Téa smirked to herself. "So this wasn't the first time..."

The bell rang and Mr. Haribson told them their homework for the evening. "I'm letting you off easy, just read the first ten pages of chapter 29 in your books to recape the lesson."
Yugi grabbed his books, Téa stood up and looked at him. "Not a bad line of b.s. Yugi."
Yugi smiled, "Lucky guess really."
Téa smiled. "That figures."
Yugi grabbed his sneakers from his locker and put them on.

"You know just because you were gone doesn't mean you can slack off."
Yugi looked up to see the brunet that he had saw earlier. "I'm sorry."
"You should be." Téa pushed the brunet in to the locker, "Cram it Tristan, you're the biggest slacker in the school."
Tristan smirked at Yugi, before walking away.
"Somehow I don't think you made it better for me."
"You're lucky I stepped in, he has habbits of beating in the smaller ones to make himself feel better."

Jonouchi stood beside the far wall of the building. "What do you think? The brunet looked away. "Like I wanna smack Anzu around."
"You couldn't touch her and you know it Honda."
"That reminds me, Its aparrently Tristan now around the kid."
Jonouchi smiled, "Tristan... isn't that a girls name?"
"Shut up." Honda looked back at the direction he came. "He's identical to him, just smaller, a bit of a wuss... what'd you do?"
Jonouchi sighed. "I didn't get to finish his training." Honda smiled, "We may have to change that." Jonouchi knodded, "We'll start tommorow." Jonouchi turned back in to his wolf form and headed around the school to walk with Yugi back home.

Jonouchi layed in the bed while Yugi ate dinner, reading the book were Yugi had left off. Snickering at the things the historians guessed what was going on in the crussades. Jonouchi yawned and jumped down off the bed. Stretching his back and limbs as he made his way over to the desk were Yugi kept the puzzle. Jonouchi sighed as he tipped the lid back. Three corners were in tact while the rest reamined scattered in the bottom of the box. "Yami, I hope you learned your lesson from this." He felt the demonic aura raise up from inside. Jonouchi put the lid back on it, "I take that as a yes."

Getting off the chair, he saw Yugi walk back in to the room. "Hey boy, you didn't join us. Something wrong?" Yugi was eye level with him, his amethyst eyes shinned brightly at him. Jonouchi licked his cheek and jumped back on the bed and curled up. Yugi layed beside him reading the required pages. "I wounder how much they changed to make the story sound good?" Yugi shut the book and placed it back in his backpack, grabbing the puzzle off the desk.

After two hours of fideling with it, he had only managed to secure one new piece on to it before giving up for the night. Setting the box on the floor he fell alseep soundly. Jounouchi waited until he jumped down and changed back to his human form, changing his clothes he escaped through the skylight above the desk.

Jounouchi crossed over three different clan territories to get back to the Brujah side of town on the East side. Half way through the front doors a massive looking Brujah stopped him, grabbing him by the arm. "Where do you think your going wolf?" Jonouchi wanted to say. "Let go or I'll rip it off." Only to back down and tell him, "Mike, Honda wishes to see me, and if I have to kill you to do that, I will."Mike let go of him and let Jonouchi through the front door.

Making his way through the crowds of the dance floor, and up the stairs next to the bar. "I will never understand why you have mortals in here. You're risking us all I hope you know that." Honda laughed as he looked out the window. "If you notice the only ones I let in here have control over their powers."
"What did you want to tell me that couldn't have been said earlier?"
"Ghouls."
"What about them?"
"Bakura's back in town. He knows about the kid." Jonouchi just about fell over. "How? I was careful!"
"That doesn't matter. The kid's in danger."
"He's only a half. Why is he after him now?" Honda turned around. "Jonouchi think about what he has in his possession. Bakura was there when Yami did his diasappearing act, he's going to kill him before its to late."
"Anzu...dammit! I lead her right to him!"
"If Bakura was goig to use her, he would have been dead the moment she saw him."
"There's no point in saving him anymore."
"What?" Jonouchi wasn't sure what he was hearing. "Take the puzzle and leave the kid, there's no point in protecting him."
"No." Honda looked over his shoulder. "Your loyalties to that clan amazes me at times, the only thing your hanging on to is a thread of a promise made from a piece of paper."
"Yami is the true prince, when did you turn in to a toreador?" Jonouchi walked out of the room slamming the door behind him.

Upset he didn't care were he was going. Bumping a guy in the arm, sitting at the bar, causing him to spill his drink, the mortal stood up. "Hey dumbass!" Jonouchi stopped and turned back around. The mortal slammed the beer bottle down on the counter walking towards him with the shards pointed out towards Jonouchi's neck. "Sorry that really doesn't scare me." Starting to roll up the one sleeve of his right arm, Jonouchi sighed and grabbed the bottle off the counter, breaking the bottle the same way. Smirking he took the shards to his own arm breaking the skin, letting the crimson blood run down his arm. The mortal stepped back dropping the bottle in surrender. Jounouchi kicked him, spinning him around forcing him to crash in to the table behind him.

Smiling he turned around.

Starting to walk out a cop stopped him for questioning. "Yeah this night can't get anyworse..." The slender cop wrote Jonouchi's statememt down how the guy threatened him and he finished it. "Sir, we will need you to go to the hospital though."
"For what?"
"We have witness that say they say you slice your own wrist." Jonouchi rolled up his sleeves. "Were they drunk? I may be blond, but I'm not that stupid." The cop inspected his arms on both sides seeing no sign of his self mutilation. "I thought it seemed odd."

"Jonouchi!" Honda stepped in front of him while Jonouchi sat in the chair with the cop next to him. Jonouchi pulled out his wallet and slapped money in to his hand. "I think that should cover everything right?"

Honda looked at the blond knowing the night he must be having right now. "Keep it, as long as you stop ranking me with Kaiba."
"Deal."
"Let him go, no damage was really done."

Jonouchi left the club and crossed back over the city. Crawling back in to the room through the skylight, Jonouchi sat on the side of the bed, noticing the twilight was well underway. "Yugi, I'll protect you till you finish it, but that's it. After that you're on your own."

April 27, 1998

Yugi woke up before the alarm clock went off, seeing the animal still asleep next to him, silenghtly he got dressed, grabbing his bag and the puzzle. Headed downstairs, he skipped breakfast got his shoes on and dashed out the door.

Jonouchi awoke with the alarm clock to find Yugi already gone, with the rest of his stuff. Transforming he got dressed and dashed out of the room.
"Jonouchi?"
"Yugi! Trouble! What?"
"I was going to ask you the same thing."
"Gramps come on, I have a promise that's in danger."
Sugoroku pulled a set of car keys out, I've already heard from Honda, "You're going back to school."

"How much do you know?"
"Enough to know he's in trouble." Sugoroku stopped the car and Jonouchi opened his senses as he stepped out of the car. "He's here, I just hope I'm not to late."

Jonochi and Sugoroku stepped in to the registration office. "Good morning, I'd like to register my nephew, he's a transpher student from Okatan."
"You worked on this haven't you?"
"Maybe."

Yugi was inside the classroom during lunch working on the puzzle.

"Hey Yugi. What are you doing?"

Yugi looked up to see a nice pair of long legs in front of him. Téa moved her hand upward to get him to look higher. "Oh, hey Téa. Just working on a puzzle. Its a momento from my grandpa."
"You're grandpa's dead?" Téa leaned over the desk. "What? No, sorry. Its a puzzle my grandpa gave to me to remember him by." Yugi showed her the box and the pieces. "Its beautiful how old is it?"
"Three to five thousand years, he studdered on it so I really don't know."

"Hey love birds, what's going on in here?" Téa stood up. "Tristan back off or I'm kicking your ass." Tristan made a slight noise behind. "Oo, firecracker. Sure you can handle her Mouto?" Yugi opened his mouth to retaliate, but Téa got there first."Oh and I suppose you can?"
"Give me time... hey, what's in the box?" Yugi stood up. "Tristan give it back!"
"Eh...no. Catch Jonouchi." Yugi looked over to see the blond catch the box. Yugi's eyes went wide as he muttered, "...Joey?"
Tristan just about started laughing. "Man, only a girl would get worked up about something like that." Téa smiled, "yeah we don't play fair either." She turned around and kicked him. Laughing as he went down to the ground cussing at her in a higher pitch.
Jonouchi gave the box back to Yugi, winking at him as he picked Tristan off the floor. Tristan was still yelling at her in a soprano voice."This isn't over demon bitch!"
Yugi waited till they left the room, he shook his head, "couldn't be."

Joey was still carrying Tristan listening to him whine.

"Where do you think you're going?" The deep voice of Ushio echoed in their bodies. Jonouchi stopped and cussed at himself for not sensing the presence. Tristan cussed at himself as well, "why are we in D hall?"
"When did you become a wuss?" Jonouchi whispered to him.
"Since I got my ass kicked by a girl. Do us a favor, don't turn around. RUN!"

"Téa you really should stop trying to stick up for me.""Fine, Yugi, but you have to remember, even if you don't pick a fight with them hit them in their ego, knock down a peg or two."
"Mouto." Yugi turned around and found himself in the shadow of Ushio. "Those two dweebs picking on you?"
"Uh... no. Not really."
"Listen, the weaker ones tend to stick up for the bullies, in order to save themselves, I'll make sure you never have to worry about them again."
"... ok..." Yugi swallowed the lump that trapped its self in his throat.
"Yugi, what did you just do?"
"Not a clue. Téa go home."
"What? Yugi!" She stopped the ground as Yugi was already far ahead of her.

Jonouchi and Tristan slide around a corner. "Did...we...lose...him?" Tristan let his body go limp as he fell to the ground down the wall. "Not sure. What was that?"
"That... was Bakura's... ghoul I was... telling you about..."
"He shouldn't be powerful enough to come out here. Yugi!"
"He's with Anzu, she'll handle it."
Both of them regained their normal breathing patterns and stood up to walk back inside.

"Hey guys."

Tristan stood up, knowing it was either him or them. "Can we take him?" Jonouchi smirked. "Hell yeah we can take him." They both took their fighting stances. Ushio was a foot taller and twice there body weights in muscle. They both attacked in full speed and power, only to get swatted away and thrown like rag dolls. One pounding after another. Three rounds of them attacking right after the other he wasn't going down. Jonouchi and Tristan layed by each other with only the wall holding them up.

"Stop it!"

Jonouchi looked up to see Yugi standing in front of them trying to block them.
"Yugi..." Tristan hushed him. "Jonouchi, stay down."

"Leave my friends alone!" Yugi yelled not backing down.

Ushio closed the gap between them in one step, kicking Yugi backwards. Rolling backwards Yugi got back up, shaking it off, he retook a stance. Ushio punched with his left, Yugi blocked it with his right, only not expecting Ushio's speed to recounter with the other hand.

Tristan looked away from the beating that Yugi was taking for them. Jonouchi cussed at himself that he didn't move to help him despite the fact he had nothing left to fight with. "Stop you're going to kill him!"

Yugi fell to the ground the final time, Ushio smiled back at the fallen Yugi, "do that again and I really will kill you."

Anzu rushed to their sides, checking on the broken Yugi before her. Looking back seeing the two bruised and bleeding as well. "Jonouchi you ok?" Jonouchi said nothing and just kept looking at the frail body still on the ground. "I failed him..." Honda was the first to get up and extend his hand to Jonouchi, "No you didn't, he did it to save us." Jonouchi bent down to him, "Yugi...?" Yugi barely found his voice, but he did answer him. "Tristan and Téa are going to take you home."
"Ok..." Tristan picked him up, even for him being dead weight he was as light as could be. "What are you going to do?"
"I have something I need to take care of."
"Becareful Jonouchi."

Sugoroku was finishing up a sale when the three entered the store. "Yugi!" Téa spoke up first. "He's alright. He just had to play hero for some stupid reason against a ghoul." His grandfather lead them in to the house. "And he survived?"Tristan looked down at him. "He's braver than I ever gave him credit for." Tristan took him up to Yugi's room and put him in his bed. Quietly exiting the room shutting the door behind him. "He just needs rest, he'll be fine in the morning."
"Were's Jonouchi?"
"Rematch I think."

They went back downstairs Sugoroku offered them drinks, but the greatfully declined and excused themselves.

Jonouchi jumped in to the pool and retrieved a piece of the puzzle that he threw out the window. Gasping for air as he came back up, he pulled himself out of the water.

"God I'm an idiot."

"No arguments there."

Jonouchi just about fell backwards. "Kaiba what the hell are you doing here?""Just seeing how long you think you can protect this mortal against every clan known to us."
"As long as I'm still alive."
"From what I saw that's not going to take very long. He put up a better fight than you did. That's not saying a whole lot."
Jonouchi sneered at him as he walked casually away from him. Jonouchi clenched the piece in his hand. "Enjoy your reign Kaiba its going to end quicker than you know."

Yugi sat up at his desk working on the puzzle the entire night, not carring about the homework he had left to do yet. Each piece fell gently and gracefully in to place. "Last piece..." Yugi stuck his hand inside the box feeling nothing left. "No! Where is it?" Yugi darted out his chair and shifted everything in his room. "Eight years of work, and gone in an instant!"

"Uh, hmm."

Yugi looked back at his doorway seeing his grandfather standing there. "Interesting thing about people. They always seem to amaze you even when you think there's nothing left to know." He handed Yugi a piece of paper. Yugi took it and opened it up.

Sorry Yugi,
I couldn't tell you,
Joey.

Yugi turned around and his grandfather backed away from the door. Setting the paper down he picked up the puzzle and placed the last piece in. A bright light escaped the seems of the puzzle pieces, Yugi felt another perscence enter the room, grabbing him in a hug. Closing his eyes he embrassed the feeling.

Author's note: Whoo! the puzzle's done! Now on to the fun stuff! Yugi's transformation! Yeah! Don't forget to review guys. I want to thank those that have... my only three!