Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction / Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Playing Games ❯ Chapter Five ( Chapter 5 )

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Darn fricking computer!!! Some little baka decided to crash my OS so it wouldn't fricking boot up. Then the graphics card crashed and the Internet connection failed. THEN I lost my work because the saved file had corrupted when the operating system crashed and I had to re-type everything.

*sob* Talk about your bad days!

P.s. Someone mentioned that Treize seemed a little OOC. Dunno 'bout that, I just tried to write him as I see him. It's also a bit hard balancing the impressions you get when you mix the Japanese versions of Treize's character with the English ones.

Kinda like how Yami is a lot harsher and ruthless in the Japanese version of Yu-Gi-Oh! and a bit tamer, more, I don't know, softer somehow. Not in a bad way, more like he's a bit more balanced with Yugi. My Yami is a balance of both. Soft when he needs to be, and ruthless when has has to be. But definitely yummy either way.

Hope this part of the story isn't too boring. I dunno what happened to the small fluffy fic I started to write, but this sorta grew out of my control. I bet even my PWP's are gonna mutiny next. Ee gads!

Angst aplenty in this section. Gomen!

Okay, ramble finished. Here's the next part of the fic.

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Chapter Five : Explanations and Revelations

"It was while we were battling Pegasus." Yugi began. "When he overwhelmed my mind by destroying my Feral Imp. After I collapsed, my spirit, soul, whatever you want to call it seemed to separate from my body. I could see you cradle me, then take over and fight Pegasus. Everything seemed to move so slowly. It was pretty scary."

Yugi paused to pour out three glasses of the red wine.

He took a sip. "I felt myself being pulled along the Shadow Realm, like It was becoming a part of me." Yugi shrugged. "I freaked." He gave Yami a pained look. "It felt like I was dissolving, disintegrating, becoming nothing and everything at once. I tried to call to you, but my mouth wouldn't work."

"Yugi..." Yami looked horrified.

"It's okay Yami." He gave his other half a small smile. "It's all in the past now."

Yugi drew in a deep breath. Treize and Yami watching him carefully.

"I never said anything after because I didn't want you to worry, Yami. You would have found a way to blame yourself even though there was nothing you could have done."

Yami bowed his head. He knew exactly what Yugi meant.

"It's strange," Yugi mused, "but all the souls which got shredded over the ages don't completely disappear. Partial memories, sensations, experiences linger in all the blackness. Maybe that's why the Shadow Realm has so many shades of darkness."

He took another sip of wine. A small frown marring his brows.

"When the shadows started to envelop me I got bombarded with all of them. Thousands of fragments of peoples lives." Yugi shot Yami a quick look, debating how to phrase his next revelations.

"A lot of the people you sent to the Shadow Realm when you were Pharaoh were good at heart. Overcome with a lust for power, but essentially good souls. But there were also a fair few evil entities there as well. And I don't say that lightly."

Yugi looked sick for a moment. "Some were beyond evil."

Yami closed his eyes, ashamed of who he'd been back then.

"You've changed Yami. Don't forget that. You're not the same person as you were. Koibito."

The dark spirit opened sad eyes. "I've done so much, Yugi. Now you've had to pay the price."

"Everyone has done things of which they are ashamed of, Yami." Treize said. He frowned into his glass of wine before taking a sip. "Part of being human is learning from them. I highly doubt that Yugi would love you if you had not changed."

"Treize is right Yami." Yugi reassured him. "And that was five thousand Years ago. The rules were different then."

Treize blinked. "F-five thousand years? That's impossible."

Yugi rolled his eyes. He shook his head in amusement. "You come from a completely different dimension, and the future, with giant robots, and you can't believe that's there's a way for Yami to be five thousand years old?" Yugi snorted lightly. "Really Treize."

"Mecha, Yugi, not robots." Treize corrected the boy absently, still trying to find a logical explanation for Yami's age.

Yugi took pity on him. "Yami was a Pharaoh in ancient Egypt in this world. I know that our histories run parallel up until the equivalent of this current year."

He shrugged. "No major differences. Although I did notice that your world's history has no mention of the Duel Monster cartouches and slabs. So I guess things are slightly different."

Treize nodded. "I had never even heard of such things before you...er, appeared."

A small snort echoed.

"Anyway, back then the Shadow Realm was a lot more accessible than it is now. Lots of bad things happened, people died and Yami sealed away the power. That was when he was sealed into the Sennen Puzzle."

"Sennen Puzzle?"

Yami sighed.

Putting his hands in front of his chest, level with his lower diaphragm, palms facing each other, Yugi started to hum a little chant. The air between his palms shimmered and rippled before a smallish golden upside-down pyramid appeared from the disturbance. It was connected by a metal chain strung around Yugi's neck.

"What is that?" Treize turned to Yami. Yugi still had his eyes closed.

He blinked.

He looked again.

On Yami's chest an identical pyramid had appeared.

"Now that was unexpected." Treize said dryly.

Yugi gave him a cheeky grin. "A friend of mine taught me how to do that. His yami taught him. Ryou is pretty cool. Bakura was pretty nasty for a while, but Ryou has been a good influence on him. He's not quite as, er..."

"Psychotic?" Yami suggested, a twinkle in his crimson eyes.

"Yeah, psychotic as he used to be."

"You have some strange friends." Treize remarked.

Yugi rolled his eyes. "Oh you have no idea."

"Anyway, one day my jiichan gave me a small golden box. It had all the pieces of this puzzle inside it. He kinda dared me to solve it. It took me years, but I did it. That's when I freed Yami. We bonded. You could say we're two halves of the same soul."

"So you're not really real?" Treize asked, a faint hint of bemusement on his face. "You certainly seem real enough."

"Oh I'm real alright. At first we shared the same body, Yugi's body, but over time I managed to appear as a ghost type apparition which only Yugi could see, or if I was in control than Yugi appeared as a ghost. But eventually we figured out how I could become a physical entity on my own." Yami gave a hentai smirk at Yugi. "That's when things got interesting."

Yugi snickered.

"Very interesting." Yugi said with a grin.

"There are actually seven Sennen items. I have two, the Puzzle and the Tauk, which I'll explain later. There is also a Ring, not one for your finger, it's about the same size, maybe slightly bigger than the Puzzle, an Anhk, Scales, Rod and Eye." Yami continued.

"Bakura and Ryou have the Ring and Eye, Malik and Marik have the Rod and Shadi has the Scales and Anhk." Yugi told him. "It gets a bit confusing, doesn't it?"

"Extremely." Treize sighed.

Yami took pity on the man. He turned to Yugi. "You were explaining about how Treize and Zechs are from a different world...?"

Yugi nodded, the smile fading slightly from his face. "Yeah."

"Okay, anyway....where was I?"

"Uh, you were in the Shadow Realm." Yami supplied.

"Hm. Yeah." Yugi took in a deep breath, leaning back against his chair. "Right, well, I absorbed a lot of the memories that flew by, got pulled around a bit, felt sick, got confused and eventually found a sort of weak spot in the magic of the Shadow Realm." Yugi summarized quickly, his face rigid.

"I'm not going to go into details, but when I got back after the duel I wasn't quite the same person. I was, confused. Time seems to go a lot faster in the Shadow Realm. Much faster."

He flicked a glance to his yami. "I think that you couldn't feel me because I left the Shadow Realm completely. I pulled myself through that weak spot and ended up in Zech's and Treize's world. I wasn't quite normal when I got there though...the Shadow Realm had done too good a job of fusing with me."

"I was Dark, hardly sane."

"I found myself on a battlefield, there were soldiers all around me. The thing is, they didn't seem to be able to see me. But I wasn't thinking. I threw out a coil of power, pure blackness, it exploded whenever it touched something. The giant robots...uh, Mecha, I couldn't understand what they were, but I saw a threat and I lashed out. "

"I killed people, Yami. I killed them."

Yami stood and pulled Yugi off his chair and into Yami's arms.

"I fucking killed them." He cried. His eyes filled, huge great sobs echoed through the room.

"Shh koi, it's okay." Yami crooned, Rocking the smaller boy on the floor.

When Yugi's sobs had subsided slightly he continued.

"That's when I met Zechs. After the battle there was no-one left standing. I passed out. When I came to I saw people collecting the dead and the mobile suits. But they still couldn't see me. I think that all the energy I expended might have helped jolt my mind back together slightly. I followed the workers back inside the complex. It was huge Yami, enormous."

"There were people in uniform everywhere. They walked right through me, past me. They never even noticed I was there. I wandered around for ages, Everywhere looked the same to me. Somehow I ended up in a large room with the softest looking bed you've ever seen. There were roses everywhere and they smelt so heavenly, so much different from that battlefield. I climbed on the bed and fell asleep, I figured that no-one would see me anyway, and I had no idea where I was or what I was doing. I was so tired."

"When I woke up I saw Zechs and Treize staring at me."

Yugi frowned.

"Actually, I was staring at their guns."

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Tbc...

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Evil me, ne? No promises on when the next part gets done, but it should be soon. I'm having a hard time with my other fics.

All ideas are welcomed.