Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Of Those Who Never Leave ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

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Of Those Who Never Leave

Chapter 1

As he wandered the town, Seto felt himself fall into his usual routine, he stopped at what had been locker, before going to homeroom. There, he saw Yugi sitting up in his seat next to Seto's old one as usual, and Seto was late to class, but what did it matter? He was dead. As he came in he noticed he felt more than just the usual class there, as he looked where Yugi was sitting, he saw another Yugi standing, only different. The other Yugi looked right at him, his eyes widened, and he bent to Yugi's ear, glancing at Seto. "You..... You can see me?", Seto asked.

The other Yugi quickly disappeared inside Yugi's body, before Yugi turned, and it was the other Yugi who turned, and looked him directly in the eyes, Seto looked back, so close that they were almost nose to nose. This Yugi nodded, before the other Yugi came back, he went up to the teacher, and got a pass. The second Yugi reappeared, and gestured for Seto to follow them into the hall and then, the bathroom. "You can see me, can't you? Answer me now!", Seto yelled, grabbing hold of Yami's collar.

"Don't! You'll hurt Yugi, you jerk!", the other yelled back at him.

Seto still gave him a good, hard punch on the cheek. The real Yugi fell to the ground, a small trickle of blood appeared out of the corner of his mouth, and the cheek started to bruise. "You ass, I told you not to hit me!", the spirit Yugi yelled at him.

"Yami! Tell him not to hit so hard if he wants to hit you!", the live Yugi yelled up at them.

"He can hear perfectly fine, I did warn him though, he didn't break anything I hope, I closed our link as tight as I could before it happened.", Yami yelled down at Yugi.

"Link?", Seto asked.

"That's right, link, that's why he was hurt when I was punched, we both feel what each other does, though, I'm not really ever hurt by it.", he shrugged, "Cause I've been dead for thousands of years.",

"Yami what do we do?", Yugi asked.

"Well, looks to me that he died early, if we act fast we can save Seto here from becoming just a mindless repeat of his daily events.", Yami told him.

"Mindless repeat?", Seto asked.

"A spirit that was so depressed it just fell into a routine, after that, it lost its will, and personality.", Yami shuddered, "If it wasn't for the puzzle I could have been like that.",

"The puzzle? You mean, you live inside that?", Seto asked.

"Pretty much, I can save you from becoming what is known as a wanderer.", Yami told him, "Which is what you will become if you do not accept this offer.",

"Why? Don't all ghosts wander?", Seto asked.

"Oh, no, not all ghosts, or spirits do, I am an affixed ghost. I am linked to something in the physical world, and am fully aware, and able to react to things around me.", Yami explained, "Poltergeist, on the other hand, they are able to understand, and react to the world, just most do it in anger, others, are just helpful, but very few.",

"So, what are you going to do to save me?", Seto asked.

"It's easy, as long as Yugi accepts you, then you will become affixed, like me.", Yami said, "It's not easy, but, it can be done."

"What do I do?", Seto asked.

"When I say, make a b- line for the puzzle.", Yami told him, "You'll hit what feels like a brick wall, but don't back off, keep pushing, once you break through, you'll black out.",

"And that's normal?", Seto asked.

"Yes, that is normal.", Yami answered, "I'll be there when you wake up.",

So, Seto stood ready, as Yami stared at Yugi with knowing eyes, "NOW!", Yami yelled.

Seto raced for the puzzle, the wall hit him with incredible force, it felt like it would shatter his being, but he pressed, and the wall slowly gave in. Seto pushed harder, and broke through, then all went black.

As he woke, Seto found himself floating in white nothingness. Yami floating upside- down in the same place. "Where am I?", Seto groaned.

"This, is your new home.", Yami explained, "A soul room, Yugi now has three total inside himself.",

"Three?", Seto asked, "Yugi? But, aren't you?....", Seto muttered.

"Nope, I am Yami Yugi.", Yami smiled, "I am the jerk that kept beating your ass.",

"What? What are you talking about?", Seto asked, "Wait, Bakura's brother has the same name, and a that ring....",

"Oh, no, those two aren't brothers, two halves, you have Ryou Bakura, and Yami Bakura, the spirit in the ring. Like I'm the spirit of the puzzle.", Yami told him, "Why is that how you died?",

Seto suddenly felt the memories of pain come flashing back, and everything faded except those images, and Seto started to feel the heat that he had felt the day before. His eyes widened, and he screamed.

.....

Yami watched, in horror as Seto's eyes glazed over, and he started to jerk like he was having a seizure, only he knew what this was for sure. It was what had become known as memory of death, and it was very dangerous even to a spirit. Seto's forehead broke into a sweat as he jerked harder. "It's a good thing he has nothing in here yet.", Yami told himself, trying to hold Seto still.

Seto jerked more, very hard, and Yami had to use all his strength to hold Seto still. "Seto, Seto, can you hear me?", Yami asked, "Seto, Seto... Listen to my voice if you can hear it, this is just a memory, it's not real, okay, Seto, it's not real. Come back to me, follow my voice, come on, follow me.",

He shook Seto's limp, jerking soul, "Come on! Follow my voice! Seto, come back to me! Now, Seto!",

.....

Seto looked up at the sky, which had grown a burning red. A voice boomed through it, "Come back, it isn't real, Seto, come back, come back!", it rang, repeating, "Follow my voice, come back!",

Seto felt himself rising from the burning, and he aimed to find that voice, that deep, wise voice. "I am, I'm coming! It's hard to hear you, where are you?!", Seto yelled.

"Follow my voice, Seto, my voice!", it repeated.

Seto rose to the sky, then remembered who it was, and where he had really been. "Yami, I'm coming, but it's hard.", Seto called back, "I'm numbed with burning pain, I hurt! Oh, I hurt!", Seto started to fall, but, just as he thought he was giving up, he sat up.

Tears filled his eyes as he felt the pain cutting deep inside himself, memory of the smell of his burning flesh and blinding pain. "Seto, I know, I know....", Yami said, hugging him close.

Yami smelled of damp, rich earth, of an ancient world before wars, before any other civilization ever known. "I know, I had it too when I first died, it hurts.... I know, it's painful.", Yami whispered.

Seto felt Yami's tears on his face, and found it surprising that Yami would be crying from something like what Seto had experienced. "You must fight it.", Yami told him, "Fight it, and soon it'll leave, not soon enough, though.",

Seto nodded, wearily, before Yami let him go, "You rest here, whatever you want this place to be, it will become, for this is your soul room, your territory, I will not invade it without your consent again after I leave here. And rest here, it will re- energize you.",

"When will I speak with you again, I have so much I must know about.....", Seto began, only to find Yami's finger on his lips.

"In the morning, if you wish, Yugi doesn't have school tomorrow, so we can all discuss it while the body still sleeps, okay?", Yami asked.

"All right, but, you better not be tricking me.", Seto told him.

"I won't.", Yami chuckled, and disappeared.

Seto then set to work, he wanted a door, nice, sturdy wood, and a normal handle, the walls should be deep red, four of them, with books lining it on one long wall, a fireplace at one end, a four- poster bed at the end, with heavy curtains of red satin, with gold trim, a desk with a laptop on it, with internet hook up, Word processing, and a few mind challenging games, which will never bore him. As Seto finished with big, down pillows of white silk, and blankets of the same, and one large sofa in front of the fireplace. He lay, exhausted on the bed, just as his door opened, the other Yugi came in, clad in pajamas. "Hi, Seto!", he said happily, "I can see you now.",

Seto noticed the gauze on his one cheek. "Is it all right?", Seto asked, pointing to the cheek.

"Oh, just a little swollen, but, it'll heal.", Yugi smiled, "Yami told me he stopped by to introduce himself, I came to warn you not to ever enter his room without him with you. It's got traps everywhere.",

"Really?", Seto asked, "What do you think of mine?",

"It suits you, dark, official, precise, never messy, and with a hidden warmth to it.", Yugi said, "I like it!",

"I'm glad, since this is, well, your mind, and all.", Seto said.

"Well, it's a little more complicated than that.", Yugi told him, "But, this is now your mind too, not just mine.",

"Yeah, well, I'm beat, so, goodnight.", Seto said.

"Goodnight, oh, just want to be in P.J's and you will be."Yugi told him.

"Okay, bye.", Seto watched as Yugi left, then fell fast asleep, without even a hint of dreaming.

End Chapter: Next chapter, Seto gets to see what it's like to be short!