Author's Note: Oops...once again an enormous sorry for being so late on updating! I've not had internet for the past few days due to a rather ill-timed thunderstorm ; So as a way to say sorry I've given you a chapter that is a bit longer than normal! Hopefully that'll be ok! Now, onto the chapter you've all been waiting for! I won't keep you any longer! Lets call it...56/57 reviews huh?

Chapter 7

-:Talisman of Trap Sealing:-

As long as this card remains face-up on the field, Trap Cards cannot be activated and the effects of face-up Trap Cards on the field are negated.

The alley behind Burger World was not a pleasant place. Not only was it dark and claustrophobic, but it smelt too, probably something to do with the overflowing bins that lined one side of it. It was there that Yami decided to show Yugi his 'rare card', partially because it was quiet and partially because it was the nearest place. As the pair rounded the fast food restaurant Yami's pulse picked up. What was wrong with Yugi? Had he simply suffered selective memory loss and a radical mood swing? Why was he so interested in their deck all of a sudden? Yugi had duelled with it before, so why had he been studying it as if he had never laid eyes on it before? It was as if he didn't remember any of their strategies as well…how could Yugi forget something so close to his heart so suddenly? Then of course there was the unexplained change in eye colour that the hikari had suffered, the hand moving of its own accord that time at lunch, the sudden forgetfulness, the lust for power that he had seen gleaming in Yugi's eyes, the flashes of emotion, one minute all smiles and then the next murderous anger or fiery hatred. Yami's mind was in turmoil over the whole thing. If a person didn't act like Yugi, didn't think like Yugi and didn't actually look exactly like Yugi what conclusion could he draw? Though he found it difficult to believe, in Yami's mind there was only one answer. That perhaps this wasn't even Yugi at all.

The Pharaoh stopped walking and Yugi stopped next to him, his eyes bright with the ugly emotion and an excited smile plastered all over his face.

"Can I see it now Yami?" He begged, "I'm dying to know what you managed to get hold of!" Yami turned his back to the smaller boy and struggled with indecision. If this wasn't Yugi then he had to help the real one and find out what had happened to him. But if this was Yugi then…'then he can forgive me later.' The Pharaoh reasoned with himself. "Yami?" The boy asked, "Can I see it? Can I see the rare card?" Yami spun fast on his heel and before Yugi even knew what was happening he was pressed up against the wall, the Pharaoh glaring angrily at him.

"Who are you?" He demanded sternly, his red eyes ablaze. Yugi looked confused and afraid for a moment, his eyes widening.

"W…what do you m…mean, w…who a….am I?" Yugi wriggled a little in the Pharaoh's hold but couldn't escape the tight grip on his arms. "Y…Yami! Please! Y…you're hurting me!" However the Pharaoh's determination did not waver, if this wasn't Yugi he was going to find out.

"Tell me who you are!" He demanded, tightening his grip slightly.

"I'm Yugi!" The smaller boy squeaked, "Yugi Moto! I live at the Kame game shop with you and my Grandpa!" Yami began to doubt his presumption, this did seem a lot like Yugi, but why all of the unexplained irregularities? He wouldn't be tricked easily, especially if Yugi really was in trouble.

"Alright, if you can answer this question I'll let you go." Yugi nodded fearfully. "Think carefully before you answer. Now, when we first met I was duelling against Kaiba at Duellist Kingdom. Kaiba was loosing since I had fused my mammoth graveyard to his blue eyes ultimate dragon, causing it to decay. I also had a defence up that was unsurpassable. However Kaiba was not about to loose since his brother's soul was at stake. He climbed onto the wall, saying that if I attacked him, the shockwaves could send him falling to his death." Yugi nodded and Yami frowned a little, "I was willing to take that chance, but you were not. Now here is the question. Which monster did you have to call off in order to save Kaiba's life?" Yami's heartbeat picked up. What would he do even if this wasn't Yugi? And if it was would Yugi ever forgive him for this?

Somewhere in the deep recesses of Yugi's mind something was panicking. A creature was searching for something, a memory. In his soul room Yugi dropped the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle into place. He had been trapped in there for a whole day now, and it was awful. He felt so powerless, a prisoner inside of his own head. Someone, or something, was running around in his body doing whatever they wanted and there was little to nothing that he could do about it. He had tried escaping from his room, but it was no use. Somehow the door was locked from the outside and Yugi was trapped. He had cried, he had yelled and screamed but no one could hear him, so there was little to be done for now, except play with the toys in his room half-heartedly. He couldn't be kept here forever…could he?

The creature barged into Yugi's soul room, its angry green eyes blazing. Yugi immediately knew it was furious, he could feel the aura of darkness around it fluctuating and riling. Had it been discovered? The thing, in Yugi's form, made it's way over to the spirit of its host and gripped him by the collar, heaving him up so that his feet dangled above the ground. He then very purposely placed a finger on Yugi's neck. Immediately shockwaves of pain coursed through the small boy's soul and he twitched in the grasp of the creature.

"He wants to know what card you called off to save Kaiba in duellist kingdom!" The creature roared. It sounded like Yugi's voice, but multiplied, as if many Yugis were yelling at him at once. "Tell me!" The thing removed its finger from Yugi's neck and Yugi fell limp in his grasp, panting heavily. "I won't ask again!" The creature roared, but the hikari would not speak. Yugi knew who the 'he' who wanted to know about duellist kingdom, was and he wanted that person to know about the creature inhabiting his body. That way he could save him. Yami never failed him in anything and Yugi trusted him implicitly. "Tell me!" The creature roared again, but Yugi stayed silent, ignoring the rage that he could feel radiating from the spirit. With his host saying nothing, the creature dropped Yugi in a heap on the floor and kicked him hard in the stomach. Of course the attack served two purposes, the pain caused by the actual physical assault and the pain caused by his aura, which he knew was excruciatingly painful for the hikari. He would have stayed longer to punish the runt but time was running out and Yami was getting suspicious. With a last kick to the face the spirit stormed out, locking the door behind it. "Fine." It hissed, "I'll just have to put my plan into action sooner than I expected."

Yami's grip tightened on Yugi's arms. That would definitely cause bruising by tomorrow. But Yami was a little beyond caring. Yugi was taking way too long to answer. Something was seriously wrong. Yami was about to demand a response when Yugi, or whoever it was, beat him to it.

"Hello Pharaoh" Yugi smiled, but the smile was cold and harsh, a foreign look on the normally innocent and cheerful boy's face. "Well done on figuring me out. I'm surprised it took you so long. I thought the changing of eye colour would be a dead give away." Yami's eyes widened, this couldn't mean that…? "Yes Pharaoh, this isn't Yugi. Yugi's been gone for the last twenty-four hours." The thing in Yugi's body shook his head and tutted a little, "Such a shame you couldn't save him. What an unobservant friend my host had the misfortune of selecting." Yami suddenly saw red. How dare this person mock him and how dare this person take over Yugi without asking. With a force to cause bruises for a month and a cry to strike fear into even the bravest of hearts the Pharaoh swung the boy to the other side of the alley and into the opposite wall, switching his grip from the person's arms to his collar.

"Where is he? What have you done with Yugi?" Yami roared with all of the anger he felt at the loss of his friend. The impostor's calm tone only deepened the hatred that was boiling up inside of him.

"Now, now Pharaoh, calm down. Yugi is right here. I'll even let you speak to him if you like." Yugi's eyes closed for a moment and then purple ones flickered open.

"Y…Yami?" A quiet voice asked, "What are you doing?" Yami's heart tightened in his chest, his grip on Yugi's collar relaxing in shock. It couldn't be, but it was…there was another spirit in Yugi. Another soul had taken his place. Yami let his friend slip gently from his grip, careful not to jar the bruises he had caused.

"Yugi? Are you alright?" He asked, his voice less confident than he would have liked it to be. It was a stupid question, of course Yugi was not alright. Yami could imagine what had been going on. As a spirit himself he knew what a dominant personage could do to their host if they wanted to. Yami had always been careful to listen to Yugi's wishes and ask permission before taking over his body, but that was only courtesy. He had no doubt that this impostor did not go to the trouble.

"Y…yes I'm fine." Yugi replied in a not particularly convincing manner and Yami felt anger begin to burn at his insides. What had this spirit done to him? How could anyone mistreat someone as innocent as Yugi? However the Pharaoh's thoughts were cut off when Yugi spoke again. "How…how did I get here?" Yugi looked weak and confused. The last thing that he could remember was the dream he had had. Being in his soul room meant that he had no sense of time, and suddenly being thrown out into the world like he just had been caught Yugi seriously off balance.

Yami wanted nothing more than to hold his aibou tight and tell him it would all be fine at that point. The look on Yugi's face was enough to break his heart clean in to. But he had to resist becoming too sentimental. For the first time in his life it was imperative that he did not trust Yugi. He couldn't forget that even though the person stood in front of him looked like his best friend, he wasn't entirely himself anymore.

"There is another spirit inside of you." Yami explained, "He has been pretending to be you." Yugi nodded slowly,

"I know that." The smaller boy replied, "He told me when he locked me in my soul room yesterday." Yami paled, so Yugi really was at this spirit's mercy, he had been afraid of that. "Oh and Yami! Yami he also told me that he's going t…" Pain flashed in Yugi's eyes as they closed and in a split second Yami's hands were on his hikari's shoulders for comfort.

"Yugi? Yugi are you alright!" Slowly the eyes opened. They were green.

"Have a nice chat?" The other Yugi smiled maliciously.

Yami leapt forward and seized the boy in front of him by the collar, anger burning through his veins with every passing breath. There was no need to put Yugi through pain during a transition. Yami knew that as well as any spirit would. So why would this person needlessly hurt his host? If there was one thing he couldn't stand it was people who hurt others for laughs.

"Let him go!" Yami fumed, tightening his grip on the boy's collar so that the airflow to Yugi's lungs was limited.

"Now Pharaoh…you know how this works." The spirit smirked, seemingly unaffected by the pressure being asserted on his windpipe. "If you kill me, you'll kill Yugi. So I'd be careful if I were you." Yami let go, letting the possessed Yugi slip to the floor. It was true. There was nothing he could do to save his hikari right now. The best he could do was try and get a better grasp of the problem then work out a foolproof solution.

"You never told me who you were." Yami said coldly. The thing inside Yugi smiled,

"Oh, how rude of me. My name is Ieb." Yami raised an eyebrow,

"Not very creative." He replied frostily.

"Well, no, not really. I'm a soul, my name is soul, but in the shadow realm there isn't much use for names now is there." He shrugged and Yami's blood pressure raised itself slightly at the man's cockiness. He had to make an actual effort to stop himself from knocking Ieb back to where he came from, but he did, for Yugi's sake. "I happen to know you don't remember anything of your past Pharaoh." The spirit smiled wickedly, "But know this. In your time it was not only the Pharaoh who had control over the shadow realm. When you betrayed me you made a powerful enemy. You ruined my life with a simple decision and you were too high and mighty to consider the effects of your choice. I've waited for you. I have waited a long time. I separated my soul from my body to see you face up to what you did. I let my body die and rot away to see you suffer. And 5,000 years later here I am and I'm ready to punish you for your past transgressions." Ieb smiled again with a predatory edge. "Are you ready for justice Pharaoh? Are you ready to have the most precious thing you have ripped away from you? Are you ready to watch me take your life apart, just like you did to me all that time ago? Because I'm here now and it is time you paid for what you did! Justice demands it!"

"This isn't justice, this is revenge!" Yami spat, "I don't even know what, if anything, I did to you!" the ex-Pharaoh snarled out. He wasn't about to openly admit it, after all that would be exposing a weakness, but secretly he was worried. How could he stop someone wreaking revenge on him if he didn't know what he was guilty of? And what was most precious to him that Ieb could take away?

"I'll tell you at your trial." Ieb grinned coldly and answered the Pharaoh's inner questions as if he had read the thoughts himself. "You are lucky I'm even giving you that Pharaoh." The spirit spat. "How about, tomorrow, noon? Meet me at the edge of the woods by Domino Park."

"And why would I do that?" Yami asked with a sneer.

"Because I shall be taking a hostage to make sure you do." Ieb laughed but it was a horrible sound, one that contained nothing that a laugh should. "I shall be taking…oh yes, I remember!" He leaned in close to Yami, so that his breath tickled the ear of the taller boy and Yami couldn't help but flinch at the close proximity of the spirit. "Yugi." With that Ieb turned and ran from the alleyway. Yami followed in hot pursuit, he couldn't let Ieb get away with Yugi. If he could keep him locked up there was always a chance that Ishizu would be able to help them. But with no Yugi there was no solution in sight. Urging himself to go faster Yami bolted out of the alleyway and into the main street. He looked around frantically for a moment but Ieb had disappeared from sight. And more importantly, so had Yugi.

Reviewer's Section:

gowb: Lol it isn't Yami's fault that he's slow XD ! Poor guy, replaced by a spirit bent on revenge. Some people just never get a break huh?

Yami Yuugi: Sorry the update was slow! (Check out the author's note for the entire explanation!) Hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'm glad you liked the chapter title! I've actually never even held a Yu-Gi-Oh card (living in the UK means that it is impossible to get hold of anything Yu-Gi-Oh ; ). So you used to duel as a kid huh? Any good?

marie the fallen: Glad you like it! And thanks for reviewing! Means a lot to me, keep on reading and hopefully enjoying!

Pyscho Kage Suma: Yup! Yami is onto him now, but it looks like it was too little too late...

Yimi Makuya: Lol, another 'Crazy Yugi' fan hmm? Well you'll like the next few chapters then! Poor Yugi, such a shame that he can't control his actions. He's seriously going to guilt trip himself when he finds out what he gets up to...

frogger666: Yes, tension! Glad you're still reading! And since you wondered, I hope you liked what happened next!

Coco Gash Niccals: Looks oddly at Yugi but decides not commenting is probably best Glad you liked the chapter! And keep up the eternal hunt for cookies! A truly noble cause!

Cactus Bob: I don't watch Buffy but I have done a little research (Ra bless wikipedia!) and I see where you're coming from with Illyria. As for hamburgers...are you kidding! I wouldn't like one, I would LOVE one! And if you are waiting for Ieb/green-eyed-Yugi to cause trouble you just wait lol

Yami Val: I hate long drives...sooo boooring...I hope it wasn't too bad! Don't worry about not reviewing for a while, as long as you carry on reading it's all good for me! (Drop in when you can though! I enjoy talking with ya! )

Masami Mistress of Fire: Pokes Masami who is floating face down in the sea of tears Er...Yugi is going to be ok you know...turns to Damion You are sure about the ressurection thing right...silence right! Lol, either way glad you liked the chapter and you deserve any compliments you get, I love that story! coughupdatesooncough

cheekyeyes: Hi again! Glad you are still with me! Too bad about being grounded through...yuck. Now...about Lafayette strokes plot bunny I'm glad you like him! I hope to grow him into a fully fledged rabbit once I'm done with this story! So watch this space! (I've already planned it out and I'm excited!) Don't worry about long reviews! After all it just means a longer reply doesn't it!

Thanks for reviewing again everyone! And again sorry about the slow response...sweatdrop I'll be quicker with the next one!

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