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E-mail: tomoe_miho@hotmail.com :) YC: Yahoo! People, we meet once again. *whistles* Anyways, I’m _still_ having my exams – and yet again, I’m typing in the middle of the night. :P Argh – Science is tomorrow – have to type fast…OK, summary…well, last episode, Yami’s friends and family were all captured by Kamira – no, it should be Yami Kamira, with the exception of Ryou Bakura. She has left an invitation card to invite Yami and Ryou to Egypt…for a Yami no Game competition!!! Don’t worry, this fic won’t end that fast…Ooh, today was Teacher’s Day. Fantastic!! ^_^ Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh or any of its characters – except Kamira. Makiira belongs to *blinkblink*, remember? ^_^ So don’t sue me, blah, blah, blah…All rights of Yugi and co (except Kamira and Makiira – again) belong to Takahashi-sensei. Got me? Ryou looked at Yami in disbelief. “Do you mean that Kamirah has escaped from her soul room!?” “Yes,” Yami answered silently. He stood silent for a while, his golden bangs covering his face. It was then Yami noticed a piece of paper fluttering down to his feet. He picked it up: ‘ Yami-san – You want your friends and family back? Come and challenge me. It’s a Yami no Game. And, I want you to pay for what you did to me in my past, you imbecile. I won’t forgive you. You will reach Egypt, the venue, by using your Millennium Puzzle. Makiira will be safe if you come – if not, I will proceed to do the same as I have done before. Kamira’s soul has been sealed in the Millennium Orb for eternity. Tell Bakura that if he doesn’t come as well, I will kill her. Kamirah, ex-princess’ Yami gritted his teeth. “Kamirah!! You…” he just cursed, flinging his fist against the wall, his tears falling to the ground. As a droplet of water fell, the Millennium Puzzle glowed and Yugi appeared beside him, looking worried. /Aibou!!/ Yami looked up at his other self. Yugi cringed to see his aibou looking like that. He had never seen Yami like this…Yami looked so sad, and so despairing. He looked…almost helpless. Yugi let an unexpected tear fall. “Anzu…” Ryou looked at the both of them in sadness. “I have to go. I will come with you to Egypt…for Kamira.” He clutched his ring, and the sweet face of Kamira crossed his mind. ‘Kamira…’ Ryou left, and all that was left of his shadow remained in Yugi’s eyes as his aibou went to lie on the bed. //Aibou. Go to sleep.// /Are you OK, Yami?/ //Yes.// /Sure?/ //Yes, Goddammit!! I’m all right!! Go to sleep.// Yugi was in shock. Yami had never snapped at him like that before. Today’s incident had affected him… //Just – just go to sleep.// Yugi did not see the silent drop of water that glistened off Yami’s face. “Damn you, you little…” “Ah!!!” A female voice. *Cra-a-ack* “I’ll kill you, you-you…you damned witch!!!!” “Ke…aah!!!” Face…body…hair…_eyes_…looked so familiar… Light brown hair, light, fair skin…a body draped with white and gold garments… Deep blue eyes. Lifeless. Motionless. Yami awoke, screaming, tears streaming down his face. He closed his scarlet eyes in sadness, while the unwanted droplets of water falling down on the blankets mingled with his drops of sweat. He put his hands to his face in agony. *Anzu…* /Aibou…?/ Yami was startled. He quickly wiped away his tears, and tried to appear calm. He was the Game King…he wasn’t weak…he would not be weak. Never. He would not. His younger self was crying too. Nevertheless, Yugi wiped away his aibou’s falling tears, and tried to comfort his other. /Aibou…/ Yami put his arms around his aibou, and hugged him comfortingly. The warm feeling made Yugi feel safe…and it made Yami feel safe. It made them feel safe to know that whatever happened, they still had each other. Yami soothed his other softly. //It’s – I’m all right, aibou. You don’t need to worry.// As he said this, another glistening drop of water fell onto his arm without his realizing it. Yugi shook his head. /I know you’re not all right. You don’t sound all right. You don’t look all right. Aibou, you don’t _feel_ all right. I know that you’re sad…/ He brushed another tear off his other’s cheek…/But aibou, you should realize this – Game King or not, we have times when we are sad…when we are scared…when we are frightened…and times where we need to be comforted./ Yami looked at his younger in wonder. ‘I’m the one who usually does the comforting…and here is Yugi, comforting me.’ He ruffled his aibou’s hair, and looked eye to eye with him. //I failed to save her…// /Eh? Aibou?/ //I failed to save Makiira in my past life. Now, its happening again…// /Aibou?/ //Now I failed to save Anzu. And my friends. My family. I don’t deserve…// Another tear dropped off his cheek, and it glistened in the moonlight. Yugi looked at his other in surprise… //I don’t deserve to be here. It would have been better if the damn Puzzle just left me alone and took somebody else’s spirit, not the Pharaoh’s. Mine. It would have been better if I had just died at that time…there and then…// /Aibou, don’t think like that./ Yami looked tearfully at his younger. Those big scarlet eyes were peering up worriedly at him. Yami felt sorry for snapping at the little boy earlier. He didn’t deserve it as much as he did… Yugi was so innocent, so pure. So serene… So different from him. //Just go back to sleep, aibou. You – you need your sleep. We will go tomorrow.// /H-hai. Goodnight…/ //Goodnight.// “Your majesty?” Yami awoke to the sounds of voices. He looked up, but what he could manage were a blur of colours. He felt he was on something soft – a bed, he presumed. He squinted harder, and he made out Sakhore – and of all people, Kamirah. She was smiling – a very evil smile, if you might add. And a very untrusting one. Yami sighed mentally, and tried to heave himself up. When he did so, he looked around, and saw that beside Kamirah was a person that looked strangely familiar – oh yeah, her assistant, Kino. But somehow, Kino looked familiar. Those round earrings on his ears…and that smirk seemed so…knowing. And the eyes…wait a minute. The eyes…the eyes didn’t seem to focus…they looked like…no, it couldn’t be… Kino looked like he was – controlled. He looked like… A Mind Doll. Yami shook the ridiculous thought out of his head. Kino couldn’t be a Mind Doll… Could he? “Your majesty?” Sakhore looked cautiously at the young Pharaoh. Yami jerked out of his thoughts. “What?” he asked blurrily. He wasn’t in a good mood – well, not in a mood to be fooled around with. Sakhore took one look at the murderous Pharaoh, and winced. Scary. “Yami, are you all right?” Kamirah asked, with a slight hint of mockery in her voice. Her eyes carried the lightest hint of amusement – and those eyes glinted upon Yami, who was rubbing his temples in dizziness. “Yes, thank _you_ for being so concerned,” Yami snapped. Kamirah was taken aback. “What the….” “If you mind, I would like it if I was left alone.” Yami said tiredly at the both of them. Sakhore obediently retreated, but Kamirah just stood there. Her face mirrored a certain hate – a hate so deep you could almost feel it. Those sharp turquoise eyes lingered on the Pharaoh for a moment or two, then she struggled to fake a smile. “Well, I’ll be seeing you, Yami.” She took to her heels, and left, her white skirt swaying gently behind her as she took long, striding steps. Her steps echoed along the corridor. Yami sighed. ‘She’s just so damn stubborn, that woman.’ He proceeded to roll over to the other side of the soft bed, but yelped as he hit something hard. He cursed aloud. “What the hell was that!?” He reached for the sharp thing angrily, fuming and cursing as he did so. When he took it up, he saw it. ‘Ah yes, the box.’ Yami looked at it carefully. The box he had confiscated from Sharum, the worthless fool. It was made from pure gold…and the sacred Eye of Ra was engraved upon it. The hieroglyphics carved on the golden box emitted the words: Will gain the power of darkness, Shall get the intelligence of the shadows, Awaken the dark strength from the Shadow Realm… And thou wish shall be granted.’ Yami looked strangely at the box. ‘What the heck does it mean?’ He chanted the words over again. “Thou who solves the puzzle, will gain the power of darkness…” he sighed. It didn’t make sense at all. “What does it mean?” As he said this, the box somehow glowed an unearthly light, as though as it understood his mind. Its light shone through the shadows of the night… Yami glared at the golden ornament. “Oh, Ra…” He opened it reluctantly, but gasped as he saw what lay in it: a golden puzzle, with the Ancient Eye of Ra upon it, lay shimmering in the depths of the box. Yami took up the box in wonder. He fingered the triangular puzzle gently, as though he was caressing a little child. He had the feeling that he was somehow…connected to the puzzle. He just…knew. He just knew that. He somehow realized that he had a bond with the triangular artifact… “Exploring the depths of the box, Yami?” Yami started at the sound of the all too-familiar mocking voice of Kamirah. She was standing outside his room, and she seemed to have been watching him all the while now; he just knew it. He didn’t know why, but he couldn’t trust the damned witch, no matter what. Since she murdered Makiira… Yami gritted his teeth in anger, and restrained himself from cursing the girl. Instead, “What the _hell_ are you doing here, Kamirah?” he asked rather calmly, calmer than he felt anyway. “Oh, nothing…” She stepped in, uninvited. She looked sneeringly at his puzzle. Kamirah snatched up the golden puzzle, and examined it like it was naught but a chip of the wall. Yami looked at her angrily, but couldn’t say anything. She was just so damn irritating and so damn annoying. And she was damn good at hiding what she had done. He had to admit it. “Tsk, tsk,” Kamirah said quietly, all the while never taking her icy blue eyes off the puzzle. “You know, Yami, I _am_ engaged to you since childhood, so why don’t you give this to me as a present?” she asked sweetly – a fake tone was detected in that dreaded voice of hers. She wrapped her fair white arms around Yami, and Yami recoiled. “ ‘Was’, not ‘am’.” Yami shoved her arms off him roughly, and stood up, looking particularly furious. “That was what my late father said anyway. Since I am now the Pharaoh of Egypt, I have rights to decide whether I should let you be my wife in future – or not.” He grasped the puzzle tightly. It somehow gave him a certain power – one that he couldn’t explain. Kamirah looked hurt – and mocking. “Oh, so I don’t have rights to decide, do I?” She unsnapped something behind her back, to reveal a gleaming knife. “Well, we will see.” Yami looked at her in shock. “Kamirah, NO!!!” He could only gasp in pain as she plunged the knife into his side. Yugi woke up, clutching his shoulder. He winced. The dream seemed so real… Yami was lying beside him, sleeping under the covers. Yugi looked at his aibou tiredly. “Aibou…” But he fell silent, when he heard Yami moaning softly in pain. He glanced at his other anxiously. “Aibou!” And he almost screamed out loud when he saw blood on the covers. Yugi pulled back the covers, only to find an unconscious Yami clutching his shoulder in pain. He was sweating, and as Yugi put a hand to his forehead, slightly feverish. “Hot…really hot…” Yami whispered half-consciously, a tinge of red appearing across his cheeks. Yugi looked at him in alarm. The Millennium Puzzle was glowing and fading…glowing and fading…? Yugi shook his aibou’s shoulders quietly – resulting in Yami yelping in pain. Yugi dropped his arms, and gently opened his elder’s leather coat, revealing a deep cut on his shoulder. Yami’s shoulder was bleeding. Yugi yelled, and quickly took some bandages and wrapped up Yami’s arm. His other was regaining consciousness. Yami slowly opened his eyes, and found himself staring at the rather blurred face of his aibou. His vision was slightly blurred…he couldn’t see… //Aibou?// Yami asked quietly, unsure whether the concerned face above him belonged to Yugi. /Hai. Aibou! You’re awake!!/ It was definitely Yugi all right. //I…// Yami looked up. /You need to rest, aibou – I wake up, and I find you’re bleeding. There’s nothing worse than that./ Yugi said sarcastically, but concerned all the same. //Yes…I…// Silence. /Aibou?/ Yugi looked expectantly at his aibou, but Yami had fainted. The Puzzle’s light had faded altogether. /Aibou!!!/ YC: Woohoo!! So, people, how was it? Cliffhanger? ^_^ Today we had Science. Fairly easy – I finished 75 questions in half an hour!! Not bad, huh? We did quite well in the Essays too – we _are_ fanfic writers, anyways. Heh, heh. C: Yeah, I loved the Science. Everyone was like _staring_ at us when we suddenly got up and passed up our paper about 1 hour earlier than the others!! That taught ‘em!! YC: Oh well. We still have the damned History and Geography paper to sit for – we can’t be happy first. Sigh. Life as a student - a 13-year-old with her rep to defend!!! – is hard. And here I am, an innocent little girl in my class, and about half the form come up to me and say if I don’t beat the first girl hands down, they’re gonna have my head. Aah, I’m doomed… C: So true. We must study!! Ja!! E-mail: tomoe_miho@hotmail.com YC: Hey, people!! FEEDBACK!!! We need comments!!! Thank you!!! ^_^ C: Really, aibou, you should mind your manners. Not all people have time to feedback – YC: Ah, shut up. Wait a minute, have you memorized the maths formula for the integers? C: AAH!!! I forgot!!!!!! Ja!!! YC: (thinks) That got rid of her. Send feedback, kay? ~ Spoilers ~ Ooh, what’s gonna happen to Yami? He finds himself in the Shadow Realm, where he is transported to Egypt. Bakura then comes and Yugi and Ryou are transported to Egypt too!! Kamirah is waiting for them there, preparing to duel… Thanks, and FEEDBACK!!! No, not tomatoes!!! Chapter Eight - Unforgivable Sins |
