Chapter 3: Unexpected Appearances
Normal POV
Shadow walked up to the roof of the school where Yugi's pathetic friends had lunch. He knew that Yugi had begun to draw away from his friends, but Shadow needed to get close to them again so that he could destroy them. The more pain that he caused, the stronger he became.
"Hey guys," Shadow said and internally winced as he used Yugi's shy, yet kind voice. It was so sickenly sweet and made him want to throw up.
The group of friends looked up in surprise and then froze when they saw their friend. Yugi was dressed in black jeans, black muscle shirt, and had hair so black you never would have known it had been any other color.
"Does it look bad?" Shadow asked in faked uncertainty.
"No," Tristian quickly told him, "just a bit different is all."
"Ya Yug," Joey said reasuringly, "you can't just suddenly show up with black hair and not expect us to react without having told us anything."
"Joey's right," Tea said, "it's pretty shocking, but it does look good."
The three friends went up to Yugi to get a closer look, but Ryou and Malik hung back a little looking at Yugi in concern. They both understood the pain of loosing their other half and were still not over it. But they also knew of the darkness that had seemed to be waiting when their other halves were gone. They had gradually conquered their darkness, but they had seen the difficulties Yugi was having with his own. They had hoped that Yugi could become stronger than his darkness, but when Yugi had drawn away from his friends, Ryou and Malik had feared that Yugi wasn't going to make it. Now, except for looking thinner and a bit paler, Yugi looked stronger than ever. They didn't know what to make of it.
"Maybe something happened overnight and he got better," Ryou said to Malik optimistically.
Malik was about to agree when Yugi turned to look at them and any thought Ryou and Malik had of Yugi being ok, vanished the moment they saw his eyes. Yugi's - no, this dark thing that had taken Yugi's place - had eyes with the coldest look in them. Not even Ryou had seen such cold eyes and his other half had been Bakura, the tomb raider. Ryou and Malik saw when the thing figured out that they knew he wasn't Yugi and he wasn't happy about it. For a split second, the Yugi-copy's eyes turned pitch black before he turned away from Ryou and Malik and that's when they knew that Yugi was no longer there and they had to find some way to get him back.
Shadow's POV
When Shadow turned to Ryou and Malik he saw that they knew he wasn't Yugi. He wanted to snarl in annoyance and frustration, because this could cause a problem with his plan. Shadow was about to go over there and see if he could find some way to convince them that he was Yugi, when he saw something unexpected. For a brief second Shadow saw Bakura and Marik standing behind Ryou and Malik, glaring at him. It was at that moment that Shadow's eyes turned black and he knew he was going to have problems.
Great, he thought, Is there anyone else that wants to ruin my plans? It was then that everyone's eyes widened and he felt arms wrap around his chest. There was a feeling akin to panic building in his mind that made him realize that Yugi could still see, hear, and feel everything that Shadow did.
"Did you miss me, Mou Hitori No Boku?" Came the question from the person who was holding him.
Guess that anwers my question. Shadow growled in his head just as the panic exploded into pain and he passed out.
Yugi's POV
It wasn't til the next day that I realized that I could still feel, hear, and see everything that Shadow did. For a split second I was happy, until I realized that I still couldn't do anything except watch. So I watched. I watched as Shadow went throughout the day pretending to be me. I watched as Joey, Tea, and Tristian trusted the thing that wasn't me. I watched with slight happiness as Ryou and Malik saw that Shadow was not me. I watched in saddness as an image of Bakura and Marik appeared and reminded me of Yami. It wasn't until I felt those so familar arms wrap around Shadow that I begun to panic. When I heard Yami call Shadow what he only calls me, my panic turned into overwhelming pain. Pain at the fact that Yami would think that Shadow was me and that I still couldn't do anything but watch it happen. That was the last thought I had when Shadow passed out, overwhelmed by the pain I was sure he could feel coming from me. When all I could see again were the shadows swirling above me I began to cry. I cried for the fact that if I had just waited one more day, then I could have been with Yami again. But I didn't, I gave up, and now I would do anything to change that fact.