Sorry about this being late, my muse just leaves me when trying to write these, which I hate since Yami and Yugi's chapter just flowed out of me and these two are giving me the worst trouble, but here it is! Alrighty, time for our favorite pair of sandy blonde Egyptians!

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

Yamis and Hikaris are already a special case. They shouldn't exist in the first place, but as we know foolish men cast foolish spells, and they come into being. However, do not be fooled yourself, yamis and hikaris are not always formed because of a spell. Sometimes dire circumstances force one to split their own soul in half to save themselves.

Marik Ishtar happened to be forced into a case such as this. As you already know a certain Pharaoh sealed himself away to save the world. Again this sounded all well and good in theory, but in real life there were many more consequences. Not only did he split his own soul, he did not think about how there would have to be someone to guard him and his power until his return.

One of his royal court was tasked in doing this after the deed had been done. She and her family had to guard his tomb for generations waiting for their Pharaoh's return. Each boy that was to become the next leader of the tomb keepers, as they were called, was to have the Pharaoh's secret carved into their back.

For many generations this was accepted as an honor by the sons, but after five thousand years one was bond to rebel. That's where Marik comes in. He grew up with a very controlling and abusive father. He broke the boy down and made sure he would follow in the same footsteps as him.

At least so he thought, Marik was far too curious of a boy to just fall into step. He wanted to know what the sun felt like and what the outside was like. He wanted to know what was beyond the walls of the tomb, but as we all know this was made forbidden, so for his curiosity the boy was punished. This did not stop him though, he did eventually make it outside one day and loved the outside world, proving all the more reason why it was forbidden to go outside. The poor boy did not want to return to the darkness, but he had no choice, and when he got back he was punished like never before.

This started the build up of Marik's hate and rage. He began to blame his life on the Pharaoh and wanted revenge for being made to suffer for so long, but that wasn't the trigger for his separation. His brother Rishid was able to help him to control his anger and not fall into this deep pit of hate that he was digging for himself, but Rishid couldn't protect him from everything, Marik's past was going to catch up to him at some point.

So the day came when Marik had to accept his fate and get the Pharaoh's secret engraved into his back. No matter how much Marik protested he was not able to stop it from happening and Rishid was forced to sit and watch. The poor boy couldn't accept that Rishid was not going to stop it from happening and snapped, that day was his trigger. All of his hate and rage manifested as a defense mechanism. One child doomed to the darkness of a tomb just wanted somebody to protect him from it and get him out. So when he stole the millennium rod he gained the magic to give him that. His already partially split soul was completely ripped apart.

Flash forward a few years and we a have a mess to say the least. Souls are meant to be whole, it was already wrong enough when the Pharaoh and the thief did it accidently, but to do it to yourself was completely insane to say the least. This is especially true when the only thing that keeps the dark half going is hate and anger.

Unlike the dark halves of the thief and the Pharaoh, anger and hate were the only two emotions the dark half of the tomb keeper had. At least the thief and Pharaoh had sadness and egos and those other kinds of darkness that made them a little more human, but the tombkeeper was just broken. The dark of the tombkeeper was an insane mess with only one goal in mind: destroy the Pharaoh. The light went along with the dark because he honestly thought it was the right thing to do. The dark had been convincing the light of this since he came into being.

Like the thief though, this was the only contact that the dark had with its light. The dark didn't want much to do with its light, it only wanted to accomplish its goal. It didn't care about the light, nor did it care about anything else. His one and only purpose was to take revenge on the Pharaoh.

The light was relatively the same towards its dark. The light did not see it fit to really communicate with the dark, especially since Rishid convinced him to not listen to it. This forced their relationship to be strained and downright nonexistent. What the two didn't realize was that this was going to destroy them if they didn't learn to work together or come to terms with each other.

Malik, what the light was called to distinguish him from his dark, flip flopped too much to go on, on his own like this. One day he would have the same goal as his dark and the next he would miss his family. He was being pulled between two extremes and he couldn't choose.

Marik, what the dark called himself because he thought of himself as the dominant side of the two, was just plain obsessive, after he accomplished his goal, he would have no purpose. He would have no reason to go on. He was also carried one other emotion in him: jealously. He was jealous of his light having the body and wanted to get rid of him so that he could control the body, but the dark didn't understand the consequences of doing this. He didn't understand that he couldn't just get rid of the rest of his soul and expect to survive.

Even the light wanted to be rid of the dark at one point. Neither understood the fragile relationship they had created on accident. They didn't realize that they couldn't just get rid of what made them whole in the first place. They didn't understand that they couldn't go on without the other.

So let us hope that nothing separates the two even more than they already are. Let us hope that they learn to work together. Let us hope that no reason on this planet will force them to lose contact with each other because it will not be a pretty sight to see. Watching them fall apart will be a horrific thing to witness. They already have enough pain to deal with, the least we can do is allow them to have each other, even if they don't think they want the other there.

Ding ding, next stop last chapter! See you then and I hope you liked this! R&R plz! :)