Seeing the past, living the future

by Yuna Yami Mouto

It all started when the Mouto twins moved in with their grandpa in Domino City. Seto was living in hell until the "Demon child" came into his life and changed it for the better. They did not know one another, but a girl who was brave enough to stand up to him and his stepfather was enough to catch his interest. But there's something wrong with the girl, but what? Female Yami

22. Chapter 22 Battle City,the complications

A/N: Just some notes if someone was confused over the last few chapters.

DM-Duel Monsters

DK-Duelist Kingdom

DDM-Dungeon Dice Monsters

Yugi's POV

I couldn't believe how calm Yuna could be in this kind of situation! The Dark Magician that she trusted with her life(points) the most was now saying that she is unworthy of him and his power, and yet she could just chuckle into his face as he stares her down!

She looks up at him with a deadly look in her usually ruby red eyes now the same color as a painite, like there was something like electricity running in their depths and their color seems to have darkened. I have never seen her like this! It was something between her rage and the visions! That's right! She has been dreaming of the Dark Magician ever since we were little and when we met Mahad she said that he looked exactly like the one from her visions/dreams! She said that the boy she always saw was like Mahad's lookalike and that he was awfully loyal to only the Nameless Pharaoh, something that Mahad is also with his reincarnation, that is Yuna.

Could it be that it has something to do with that?

''It'll take more than this cheap street trick to scare me away, so why don't you come out and face me, you coward?!'' Yuna speaks up, startling me in the process.''Or are you that big of a coward?'' We hear an evil chuckle coming from somewhere behind the computer as a man dressed in some strange red suit, a matching magician's hat and a rather stupid looking mask covering his face. He had an activated duel disk where the red Dark Magician was put in play and two more in his other hand.

''Now, now! No need to be soo rude!'' He said in a creepy happy-sounding voice that was really fake unlike Pegasus', with a big even creepier grin on his face as he advanced a few steps before stopping just behind his spellcaster.''Let me introduce myself, my Queen.'' The title that the world has been using for Yuna ever since DK was spit out like it was poison.''My name is Arkana, known as Pandora the Conjurer! And I was sent by master Marik and master Malik to destroy you!'' And with that he started laughing maniacally as Yuna and I stared.

What have we gotten into?

Bakura's POV

It's been quite a while since Ryou and I have been in Domino and when we return we learn that not only is there a tournament going on, but the reincarnated Pharaoh and High Priest are both in it!

And that's not all! The damn tablet was in Domino as well! Just what the bloody hell is going on around here!?

And I am sure that there is a new Millennium Item in Domino, in that room where the tablet is being held, but whoever has it was able to sense me because by the time I was down there, there was no one there. And that is quite worrisome, since no one has ever been able to say when I was sneaking around!

Whatever was going on here, I had to interfere or else everything might go straight to hell!

Something was out of control and the balance that was formed could get disturbed if I don't stop it!

Well, I or anyone else for that matter.

Most preferably the Nameless Pharaoh's reincarnation.

Ryou's POV

I don't know what to do! Bakura never seemed soo stressed as he is now!

Ever since we got back to Japan he has been more jumpy, but I thought that that was because we were alone this time. Dad had to go to Germany for some time, but then he'll be going beck to England then to Egypt, so we won't be able to see him for quite some time. And, since Bakura was overprotective ever since we were little I just pushed it aside for some time as him worrying about how well the kids in our new school, the Domino middle school, would accept us and how we will cope until dad comes. Now I see that I should have known it was something bigger than that.

Bakura, after all, only got this worked up when the Millennium Items are involved.

I know about the legend and the stories about them; how whoever collects all seven of them and puts them back into their birth and final resting place will get one wish, whatever it is, granted for all times to last! Either that or get immense power! But, most people don't even know of this legend, and even more of those that do know it don't believe in it.

But it shouldn't be dismissed lie a fairytale, because the Items themselves are a myth yet they exist! And the Pharaoh! He existed as well! Hell! He was even reincarnated! Yuna is the living proof of that! And even the High Priest had followed him in the form of Seto Kaiba!

Bakura is one of the ''collectors'', so to say, but his wish is that we don't lose anyone anymore from our family and that the world becomes less cruel to us. They had all died before their times, and Bakura and I were always treated badly by other people because of the way we look. The first person ever to stand up for us was Yuna Yami Mouto and we both respect her for that. For a while I even thought that we were both crushing on her, but I know that I only like her as a friend. Bakura, on the other hand, is still very confused about it all, but I do know that he wants to protect her and help her in any way that he can.

I wonder if this stress has got anything to do with her?

Seto's POV

It took me only half a minute to process what I was just told and even less than a second to give directions of how to find my rival. I could feel my blood freezing in my veins even as Roland told me that they were close to finding the place she was being hidden. From the sounds of it, some moronic idiot thought it would be fun to hold a private duel, meaning that the signal the duel disks were constantly sending to our satellite was completely cut off and so we couldn't find Yuna. That easily, that is. After all, KC has the best equipment in the world, so it actually took us just a few minutes before we found her.

Mokuba and I took off in the directions that Roland and our team was supplying with and it took us some ten minutes to reach it.

Luckily we were close by.

Just as we were about to enter the building, Roland told us that the signal was completely off, meaning that the duel was over and that Yuna is no longer in the building but by that small river that goes through the downtown of Domino City, a good mile and a half from here.

I growled, demanding an answer hoe she got there soo fast, and my answer was that the signal seems to have been manipulated and transfered to the abandoned building.

I swore in a growling voice as I started stalking in that direction, Mokuba having to almost run so he could keep up with me. He shot me a worried look, and I explained to him what I was told.

He looked thoughtful for a moment, before commenting ''It seems that the Rare Hunters are a more dangerous enemy than we thought. Tougher too.''

''Don't you worry yourself over it, Mokuba. Yuna's a strong girl. She'll be just fine until we get there. It seems that even Yugi is there with her.'' Although, I'm not sure who I was trying to reassure. Mokuba or myself.

Yugi's POV

The duel had been really scary, seeing as Yuna could have ended up with her legs being chopped off! I wouldn't have been able to help her even if I wanted to! I was trapped in one of those stupid magic boxes! A ll I could do was watch as my dear older sister was put in a situation that could ruin her life! Or even take it away!

Prior to becoming a Rare Hunter, Arkana was a professional stage considered suicide twice: once when his mother died, the second when he lost his lover when a magic show went was once a world-famous professional stage magician and illusionist, "the greatest illusionist and magician since Harry Houdini himself", as he says, originated from France, who had everything: money, fame, and was in love with his lovely assistant,Catherine, who was also his fiancé. His life went downhill after a routine escape trick that he'd done a million times went wrong as Catherine looked on, with the box exploding prematurely and scarring his once-handsome visage, which led him to wear the mask that he was wearing. With his reputation and face ruined, Arkana fell into despair and selfishly focused on his own dilemma while rejecting Catherine's love, which caused her to leave , Arkana came to realize that Catherine's love was too important to him to lose, but that it was already too late, as she was gone. Losing both his love and career, a ruined and depressed Arkana stumbled from day to day with the verge of giving up hope when he met Marik Ishtar, who promised to help him regain the love of his fiancée if he became a Rare Hunter and killed Yuna Yami Muto.

Arkana's losses seemed to have a negative impact on his psyche, as he became sadistic and insane during his duel with Yuna, believing that, as the master of the Dark Magician, he has the right to sacrifice his monsters' souls to win.

That had pushed Yuna past any line of reason, and she had utterly destroyed him with her newest magician, the Dark Magician Girl who looked like a pale, blond version of Mana. She had escaped her trap and even helped Arkana escape his. But right after that, a strange sound was heard and he had been screaming in pain, begging for forgiveness of not just Yuna, but also some Marik and Malik. A minute or so later, he fell to the ground. I had rushed to him to help him out, but Yuna stopped me.

Just then, he stood up, his eyes blank, as if he were sleepwalking.

That's when I first met Marik and Malik, even if it wasn't in person, and all I could fell as they explained why they wanted from Yuna was fear. But, even as I stood there shaking in fear, Yuna stood strong and declared that she will take on whatever they throw her way, which earned her an evil, maniacal laughter that made me shudder.

Now, we were standing by the river that was flowing through Domino, Yuna explaining everything to me.

Yes, she had won, and yes, she now has three locator cards, but she could have died!

And all because of a misunderstanding!

We were standing like that, looking at our blurry reflections in the river when some weir bald guy with pointed ears and his perpetually wide eyes are surrounded by heavy black circles and have very small blue pupils. He has many piercings all over his head: three near his right eye, one on each ear, three near his lip, one nose ring, and one lip piercing. He wears a black shirt and red pants with yellow suspenders. He wears a green bag across his chest, which is used to hold his Duel Disk, it seams as he almost immeadiatly took it out and challenged my sister to a duel, saying that this was now Malik in control of the body! Yuna had accepted and now...

Well, now she was facing of the biggest Duel Monster that I have ever seen!

It was one of the God cards Yuna has just told me about, Slifer the Sky Dragon!

Yuna looks desperate as she kneels down before the dragon, at least it looks that way.

It seems that she was actually in pain as she grabs he head.

Could it be a vision?

But why was it triggered by Slifer?

Just then, I heard him.

''Get on your feet, Yuna!''

I looked behind me, up on the small hill is where he was.

Seto Kaiba.

And he did not look happy!

Yuna's POV

The presence of Slifer had been the trigger.

But this was not what I had been expecting when I was forced down to my knees because the vision was soo forceful.

Egypt was almost in ruins! The once magnificent city of Memphis was almost completely destroyed! Most of the houses were nothing but rubble, there were dead bodies everywhere and those who weren't dead were running for their lives! Except one.

There, right in front of me, under the darkened skies, stood my, supposedly, original incarnate, The Nameless Pharaoh. He was bruised, his clothes were torn and dirtied beyond repair. People stopped running as the blue clad priest, The High Priest Seth yelled out for the Pharaoh to stop, but the monarch never paid heed to what he was being told and just raised his hand. He raised the Millennium Puzzle. A giant light enveloped the skies, lighting them up, and every person present. All their attention was on him.

I watched on in wonder as the giant creature that seems to have been destroying Egypt was suddenly restrained by the three Egyptian God Monsters and thrown away, then the light overtook them and there was only a single being left as it attacked the offender of the Pharaoh, capturing him in an immense light that forced everyone but the Pharaoh to close their eyes.

When the light died down, there was no longer any creature other then the people of the town and their animals. The Pharaoh had won.

They all broke into cheers, praying for the wonderful Pharaoh who had saved them, not noticing that something was wrong. No one noticed when the Pharaoh swayed.

That is, no one other than Seth who caught him before he hit the ground. As soon as he started yelling for the Pharaoh to stay with them, everyone quieted down.

But the Pharaoh only said:"'Let's meet again, dear cousin, and that time we will touch the stars together... Both as rivals ... and ... as ...'' He whispered something only Seth could hear, causing tears to run down his face, as his cousin lifted his hand to caress his face, before going limp as the Millennium Puzzle broke into a real Puzzle... the one that I have solved ...

Seth released a cry of anguish as the Pharaoh's body disappeared into thin air, sobbing above the broken Puzzle.

A mumbled ''Pharaoh... pleas wait for me!... We shall meet again, I swear that I shall find you!'' was heard by only me and Seth, as a similar, distant, familiar voice called out to me.

''Get on your feet, Yuna!''

Seto...

And just like that I was brought back to the present and saw my Card Prince looking quite angry.

''Kaiba!'' I thought that I have saw Seto flinch, but it must be my imagination. I'm not sure what is the reason for the way he has been treating me ever since I came back. Even when we had hugged he was soo tense, not like usual when he relaxes, and I really don't know what to think anymore.

''Get up, Yuna! Since when do you bow down to your rivals?!'' 'Rivals'? What the fuck!? He's my only rival! DID HE HIT HIS HEAD OR SOMETHING? Yugi and even Mokuba were looking at him as though he's crazy, and with good reason!

Just then, the guy I was dueling, more like Marik and Malik, spoke up.''Ah, so you're the High Priest as well as the one that holds Obelisk the Tormentor. How nice of you to hold onto the card for us!'' Everything clicked into place now!

Seto has Obelisk!

No wonder that he has been acting the way he is even now! The God Monsters only followed the Pharaoh! Anyone else was as enemy. So, whoever tried to control one of them, let alone all three, would be A) driven mad; B) haunted by nightmares until their heart stops from fright; or ...the wort, ...or C) be overtaken by their own darkness until their soul is no more!

Seto has been unfortunate enough that Gozaboro has touched his heart, and even though that he had pushed it away before, he couldn't extinguish it completely. Now it returned to haunt him, to swallow him whole. To destroy the beautiful soul that he possesses.

Kaiba downright ignored my opponent, focusing on me instead, making him mad. He looked briefly at the field, scanning all the cards and the so called ''undefeatable combo'' before looking back at me. He knew the answer and if he thought even for a second that I didn't know it as well, he's gonna get his ass kicked.

He raised an eyebrow, and I remembered that I have yet to answer his, obviously, serious question.''Never!''

''Then get up and stop embarrassing yourself, so you could defeat this nobody and relieve him of his Egyptian God card! And do it now!'' I look down. Just the thought of destroying Slifer is enough to cause me pain. Not to mention that the visions were still trying to surface! But I could also feel Slife's pain every time he attacks me, which is worst, seeing as his anguished cries resound within me. Seto must have thought that I am having doubts, which is quite impossible with him here, and just aimed for my sour spot, attacking my pride.''Don't let this punk win! You can defeat Slifer the Sky Dragon! Just find out his weakness! Unless, of course, you've lost your touch!''

That did it!

Yugi's POV

I couldn't believe how much murderous intent shone in Yuna's eyes that were almost like they were earlier today as she looked at Kaiba, because that boy wasn't Seto anymore. And it was proven so when he actually took a step back from her glare! Yuan told me as much as she could about the God Monsters that Pegasus made into cards, and if that is correct Seto's dark past has overtaken his heart and now he is practically blind.

That glare should help as a wake-up call.

Yuna hadn't been in a pickle, but she seems to not have wanted to destroy Slifer. It was proven as such when she used a different approach to the situation and instead of killing it, she destroyed her opponents deck. As her opponent crumbled to the ground, Yuna stood there as a true queen. No, that's not right.

As a true Pharaoh!

I run up to her and congratulate her on an awesome duel and even cooler victory as Kaiba's little brother runs over to the freak to take his locator card and Slifer. Just as I''m hugging her, he comes up to us and hands them over, of course with a warning that his nii-sama is going to take it soon. Just as I was about to scuff at the thought that anyone, even someone with a God card, could defeat my sister, the maim suddenly stands up and declares that it's not over and how they are already reaching Domino. And how, worst of all, they are going to harm Joey and his friends! I had ran into him during the tournament and we sort of became friends, so as soon as I heard that I begged Yuna to go and check on them as Kaiba demanded a duel.

Yuna just looked between us and then turned to go, telling me over her shoulder that we should hurry up and to Kaiba that they will duel as soon as she makes sure that my friends are alright.

I could tell that he was fuming.

Seto's POV

I was boiling with rage as I stalked after the spiky-haired twins, Mokuba trying to keep up with me until I told him to find a good place to catch Wheeler's signal and call me as soon as he does, then head to the KC HQ for his own safety. When I caught up with them, it seems that Yugi took a different street and now Yuna was stuck in front of two mumbling, rock-paper-scissors playing idiots. It turned out that they were trying to decide who should get the pleasure of dueling her first.

Like HELL are these two going to get that honor before me!

So I suggested that the two of us duel against the two of them and I took them out on my second turn by summoning Obelisk right there, but Yuna seemed unfazed by his presence and appearance. In fact, I could have swore that she looked at it with nostalgic eyes and if my eyes are not deceiving me, Obelisk had leaned closer to her before disappearing!

WHAT. THE. FUCK?!

I just shook it off as my mind playing tricks on me because I have not slept since the night I met with Ishizu, and took their locator cards, giving one to Yuna and once again issuing my challenge. It's actually against the rules to decline a challenge, but I didn't want Yuna to leave before I get the chance to duel her into submission. Yuan repeated that our duel will only take place after we find Yugi and his new friends.

And so we walked for about an hour or so through the town together. It was nice, although Yuna has completely closed me off, she was still here. And that lifted a part of the darkness away from my heart, warming my soul.

However, whoever was up there didn't like me today and so the same two Rare Hunters that we just defeated came after us with Yugi and Mokuba dangling from ropes of a helicopter. My blood froze in my veins and I felt the darkness suffocating me once again, and I could see that Yuna was no different. No. That's not right. Yuna's eyes may have darkened but their fire was even stronger, lighting them right back up, making her eyes seem as the battlefield of Darkness and Light!

Soon we were dueling a deadly duel on top of some building. At first, we couldn't work together, but soon Yuna became what she is. The Light of Hope. My Light of Hope and she banished some of the darkness. We started working together and won by once again summoning Obelisk to the field, although I hate to admit that it would not have been possible if Yuna had not been there to clear my mind. I t had been clouded by thoughts of revenge on those two idiots for destroying my precious BEWD, forgetting that something even more precious is still in danger. I had forgotten that it had probably hurt Yuna as much as it has hurt me, since we both have a BEWD. That's how we're connected.

Like every time I have seen to this point, Marik or Malik 'took control of' their minions and informed us that our loved ones are in their hands, but unfortunately for them, Mokuba and Yugi just arrived in my helicopter, saying that they escaped thanks to Gardner.

I just growl under my breath, knowing that this will delay Yuna's and mine duel, but also that I have to help the cheerleader because she saved Mokuba.

But things just got more complicated by the minute as Yuna told me, rather Mokuba, why those idiots are after her. The story was almost completely the same as the one that Ishizu told me! I scuffed to her story and downright rejected the possibilities that came with it.

I was going to regret it in the latter future, but now I didn't care.

Soon I had bigger things to worry about.