Nightshipping (Yami Bakura x Kisara)

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He felt her, for just a moment. The brief taste of power had been exhilarating. So much power, so much strength from such a tiny, mortal being. He had felt it once before in his previous life, and part of him longed to taste it again. But modern times were different, and the way she had sealed her soul away meant that she would never again resurrect how she had been before. And her precious boyfriend kept what was left of her carefully guarded and out of his reach at all times, even if he himself did not know what he was carrying.

So in the end, he only got the tiniest glimpse of what it would have been like if he had managed to get a hold of one of her cards. Just one, brief moment atop Kaiba Corporation, when he managed to lure the CEO to the top of the building, managed to bait him into using the majestic Blue Eyes White Dragon to attack his precious Diabound, so that he might steal away a sliver of the mighty beast's power.

For just a moment, she was there, in his grasp, so very deliciously close. He could almost feel the silk of her hair just barely slipping away from his fingers.

He could feel her staring at him through the dragon's eyes with a rage that she had probably never shown in front of her boyfriend. He liked to think that he knew her better than her precious lover ever did. She had only ever been kind and soft and gentle around him.

He got to see who she really was—a majestic, beautiful, glorious bearer of destruction and power and rage. He wanted to own that majesty. Even a tiny shard of it would be enough, although to have all of her would have been ideal.

He managed to take a piece of her in the end, stowed away in the heart of his Diabound to be used later, for the game.

But he could never get all of her. And that, more than anything, continued to irk he who thought himself a thief…

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A/N: this was enjoyable to write~ Next is Ninjashipping (Mai x Magnum)