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YuGiOh: Eye of Fire

Chapter 3: Sapphire-Glinted Gold

Yami glared at the boy in front of him. He kind of reminded him of Joey, actually. The boy was long and lanky, a bit taller than Yami, his messy golden hair falling to his shoulders, his sapphire-blue eyes wide with shock and pleading, but burning with an intense flame at the same time.

The boy jumped out of Yugi's bed and stammered, "Yami, you don't understand-!"

"I don't want to hear your excuses!" Yami shouted. "Just tell me where he is, or I swear to Ra I'll send you to the Shadow Realm!" The boy froze, and something shone in his eyes...pain? Yami unintentionally took a step back.

"I guess you don't understand," The boy muttered. The pleading in his eyes vanished and he pushed his face right into Yami's, until their faces were inly centimeters apart, each looking at each other right in the eye. "I should've known. You would never understand, but of course I thought you would. I trusted you with my life, but now, when I need you most, you let me down. Typical Citians." The boy's face pulled away from Yami's and he jumped outside Yugi's open window. Yami rushed to the window, expecting to see a broken, bloody figure on the ground, but saw nothing. The boy had disappeared.

"So that's how it went down?" Tristan asked. Yami nodded.

"It was really strange, but while I was yelling at him, it didn't feel right. And I don't remember a golden-haired boy trusting me with his life."

"Wait, golden-haired boy?" Tristan and Yami turned to see Joey staring at them. "What did he look like?"

"Well, he had messy gold hair, he was thin and a bit taller than me, and his eyes were a burning sapphire-blue..."

"Did...was dere something on his wrist?"

Yami hesitated before answering. "Ye...yeah. A great orange bird." In a flash, Joey had Yami pinned to the wall.

"WHERE IS HE?" He shouted.

"Joey, what are you doing?" Tristan exclaimed, trying to pull the blonde away from Yami. The trihaired teen struggled and gasped under the other's grip. Yami noticed a wild, desperate hope shining in Joey's eyes.

"I-I don't know!" Yami cried. Joey let go and turned away. Yami gently rubbed his neck, and asked. "Joey, do you know this boy?"

"I've been looking for 'im all my life," Joey turned to face his friends, and they were shocked to see his brown eyes were glassy with emotion. Unshed tears brimmed at the corners of his eyes. "I'm sorry Yami, but I really need to find 'im."

"He must've captured Yugi!" Tristan said, thining aloud. "We have to find him so that we can rescue Yugi!"

"NO!" Joey shouted. "Dat boy wouldn't 'urt anyone unless it he had to! If ya hunt 'im down, I'll hunt you down," And with that, Joey turned and ran.

Joey ran through the forest outside of Domino. This was the forest where he and the gang had met Sapphire, but it was more important to Joey than he had ever let anyone else know. This was the forest where his old life began and ended, and his new life had begun. He came every now and then, in remembrance of his dead mother, but it was also a safe haven from his father, and it gave him a sense of peace.

The blonde leaned against a tree and closed his eyes, images of a golden-haired toddler with burning blue eyes. All of a sudden, something fell on his head, and he flinched with a small yelp. When his eyes opened, they saw a dusty black composition notebook. Joey picked it up, swiping his hand across the cover to remove the dust, and read the first page.

Monday, August 16th, 2004

To anyone reading this: If you have no idea what Irena is, I suggest you stop reading.

My name is Gold, and I'm four years old. My village, Irena, was burned down two days ago, on the 14th. Earlier today, my friend saved me from the arsonists, a group of slavers, by distracting them. Luckily, I overheard the brutes blaming each other for my and anothers' escape. I could immediatly tell it was my friend. No one else was with me.

But my parents died in the fire, and I have no idea where my friend is now.

But I need to put that behind me for now. I need to make sure I'm unrecognizable.

It turns out, my hair sticks up when I'm sweating a lot. Don't know why, it just does. So when I looked in the mirror, my hair is pointing upwards, and it reminds me of a star. I found hair dyes and dyed my hair violet and black. Now my hair looks like a black star with violet edges, and I've even managed to keep my golden hair, in the form of golden bangs. I found violet contacts and slipped them on, and now my eyes match my violet edgings on my hair. My grandpa even found me a new name. It's really different from the names back at home, but it sounds good, I guess.

My new name is Yugi Moto.

Joey almpst dropped the notebook.

"Gold...Yugi...wha?" He murmured. Yugi Moto, the kid he first used as a source of entertainment, then his best friend, was his old friend Gold? How was it possible?

But it was, and the notebook proved it to Joey.

And he knew of one place to find Gold: the Lake.

Gold reached out to his reflection on the water, and it vanished in ripples with one touch. He had all the time in the world to think about what just happened with Yami.

He hated thinking about it. Being cast away from someone whom he had shared a body with. Two souls in one vessal. It felt like someone had gone and ripped half his heart out.

"Gold!" Someone called. Gold didn't bother to try to recognize the voice.

"Go ahead and take me!" He shouted. "I have nothing left to live for anyways..." Yami had always been the most understanding to Yugi. If Yami didn't understand, it was clear no one else would.

"I doubt dat," Gold's eyes widened as Joey revealed himself from the thick undergrowth and stood on the shore beside him. "I've missed ya, buddy."

"How do you know about me?" Gold asked. "It's not like you're..." His eyes widened with realization.

"Yep. It's about time we realized who we were," Joey said with a smile. Gold launched himself off the ground and threw himself onto Joey.

"I've missed you so much, Sand!" He cried.

"So 'ave I, Gold. So waddaya say we return to Domino? We 'ave a lot to tell the others...and Gold?"

"Yeah, Sand?"

"I didn't know ya were only twelve!"

Solomon's eyes widened. "The boy sleeping on Yugi's bed had golden hair and blue eyes?"

Yami nodded. Tristan said, "Yeah, when Yami montioned it to Joey and I, Joey went ballistic. He attacked Yami and everything."

"Wow, sounds intense," Tea noted.

"Yes, I wonder where Joey is now. He ran off after he apoligized," Yami wondered aloud.

"I'm right 'ere." The gang turned to see Joey standing next to the golden-haired boy Yami saw earlier. His eyes narrowed in a glare at the boy.

"Are you the boy from earlier?" Tea asked.

"Yeah, but I'm not just from earlier," He said.

"Yeah, dis 'ere is my old friend Gold. I met 'im long ago, back when I was just seven. And he's Yugi."

"WHAT?" Everyone stared at the two in shock, except for Solomon. Yami suddenly felt horrible. I chased Yugi out of his own home? He thought.

"And I was Sapphire too..." Yugi...er...Gold added.

"I suggest you sit down," Solomon said, gesturing to the dining table. "We have a long story to tell you."

And no, you're not going to hear the whole story of Sand and Gold and the Irenians all over again. Next chapter will start at the end of the discussion. So it isn't really a cliffhanger, is it? IS IT?

Kay, on another note entirely, IT'S MY BIRFDAY TOMORROW! YAY FOR APRIL 12TH!