Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Left Behind ❯ Every Story Has a Beginning... ( Prologue )

This is my first, AU fic! YAY! ^^ It should be fun to create, though confusing at first. I want to make one thing perfectly clear before you continue with the story, and that is that I will not be putting in ANY YAOI! NONE! NO YAOI!

When Yami tells Yugi he loves him, he means LIKE A BROTHER! COME ON YOU PEOPLES! Now that I've gotten that out of my system....

I will be changing a few of the rules to fit the story better. That means I'm going to give Isis back her necklace, Pegasus back his eye, everyone back their everything, kay?

Caitlin: Oh that's nice, and then you're going to go and kill them all off?

Retaw: *big sweat drop* Well..I...uh...

Caitlin: Pathetic...

Retaw: Hey! You aren't in this story so shoo!

Caitlin: *poofs*

Retaw: Now that she's gone, we're onto the story at hand. Hope you enjoy it! Ja ne!

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"Well, Yami," Yugi Mouto whispered through their mind link, "I guess this is it."

Yami said nothing. He hadn't said anything for the past hour Yugi had been laying on his deathbed in the hospital. Yugi wished he would say something to him. He wanted to hear his deep, caring voice again, and possibly, for the last time. Yugi shuddered as he pulled his hand to lay it on the puzzle. It glowed, and supplied warmth onto his body, but his heart still felt cold and empty. No one but nurses and doctors were there with him, and they had left to take care of someone else while he 'rested'. He was the last of his friends, they had all gone before he had, and the last of his family. He felt deep grief as he looked around the empty room.

'I guess I have nothing to complain about.' Yugi reassured himself, 'I've been through so much in the past ninety years, but I've experienced so little of normal life. I didn't start to become normal until I turned fifty, and by that time, it was almost to late.'

He looked out the window at the night sky and smiled. He had nothing to be sad about. He had made many friends over his lifetime, and patched up almost all of the sour relationships he had with his enemies. He had married his long time crush, Tea Gardener, once she realized that his Yami had no intent in being her boyfriend.

'The last things she told me before we got married where that she always loved me, and that she just didn't realize it until she looked at me instead of through me to my darker half.'

They didn't have the luck of being blessed with a child, in the end. But their house was always filled with children thanks to the luck of their friends. Almost everyone had fulfilled their dreams, or found one they liked better, and even Joey gave up his crazy bachelor-hood for none other then Mai Valentine. Tristen had met back up with an old friend of his, Miho, and it didn't take long for them to hit it off again and get hitched. With Tristen out of the way, Duke was successful with winning Serenity's heart, and Joey lightened up and let bygones be bygones when he asked for permission to marry her. Seeing as the father had already been killed in a drunk driving car accident, and the Mrs. Wheeler had died of cancer in the lungs, Joey was the last to go through.

'Even though I still don't think Joey forgives him for dressing him up as a dog on national television.' Yugi thought with a small, almost forced, laugh.

Ryou Bakura had vanished out of thin air many, many years ago and no one had ever been able to find him again. He had finally gotten his Yami after control and then left with Malik for Egypt to become an archeologist like his father. No one had seen either of them since they left.

'It's a shame.' Yugi said, 'They probably would have been alive with me when Tea and the others had not. We could have died together.'

Yugi shivered. That was a very depressing thought.

The puzzle was the only thing still keeping him alive. Yami had told him that the extra doses of Egyptian magic found in the puzzle was stretching his life out and making him live longer. Marik and Ryou might have alive as well; they could have talked while they died. Yugi smiled at the thought, and looked at the clock.

"It's 11:32 Yami." He said, "The night is alive and well."

"Mr. Motou?" The nurse said.

Yugi jumped as little as the small nurse stepped into the room with her clipboard. He relaxed as she rubbed his arm and gave him a warm smile.

"How are you holding up, sir?" She asked.

He only nodded in response, voice starting to go horse and unable to talk. She shed a reassuring smile for the second time, and him alone again in the room.

"Yami..." Yugi tried again through the link, "Are you still there?"

No response.

"Please Yami, speak to me." Yugi pleaded, "I really need a friend right now."

Still no answer.

"Yami!" He tried again, "I am dying, I'm not going to have any time to talk to anyone soon, the least you can do is give me some inspiring words to remember you by! This it the time I need you most! After all we've been through, after all we've had to grin and bear, I need you Yami."

Nothing.

He had to fight back the sudden tears blurring up his vision. Yugi had only now realized the Yami didn't want to talk to him. Was he mad?

"...Yami...Please."

At first, there was no response. And then, a sigh.

"Yugi." Yami answered, "You know I am always there for you. Through thick and thin, at every point in your life, even...at your...death."

"Yami." Yugi told him, "I know you are taking this really hard, but I've got to die sometime. Otherwise, we'd get sick of each other."

There was another bright glow and wash of warmth on Yugi's body as the puzzle squirmed a bit. Then, out emerged Yami. He hadn't changed a bit over the past ninety years, and not a hair on his head had been lost in the process of spirit aging. Even his outfit was the same, he had grown quite attached to the leather and buckles and refused to change. Not to mention his unchanging voice, and his personality. He looked around the hospital room for a while, and then his gaze rested mournfully on his light.

"Yugi..." He said, "I'm sorry for the way I have acted."

"I know you are." Yugi said with a small nod, "And I'm going to miss you too, Yami, but you have to move on with your future. This puzzle is going to pass hands to someone else sometime soon. It's not just going to disintegrate, and you have to be ready to open the new holder with open arms and an open heart. You have to give them the happiness and support you've given me my entire life."

Yami sat down in the chair near Yugi's bed and rested his hand on the hand of his young friend. "No one will be quite like you, though, Yugi. You and I have become closer then even brothers could become, and I... I don't know if I could learn to love someone else like the way I love you."

"I know, Yami, and I'm going to miss you too. But I'm sure the next person that gets the puzzle will need you, and you'll learn to like them like you did me. Please, Yami, do it for me. You have to go on with life, and I'll never be able to get on with mine until I know that you're going to keep going. Please?"

He hesitated before closing his eyes and sighing again. "If it is your wish, Yugi, I will do it. But that does not mean I will like it."

"Just try, Yami. I promise that you will not regret it."

"If you say so hikari. I promise."

"Thank you Yami." Yugi said with a last grin.

Yami faded away and his spirit body was pulled back into the ring. Yugi took a last gasp of breath as his heart started to give out. In spite of his condition, Yugi couldn't have been happier.

'Good luck, Yami, and thank you.' Yugi said to himself, 'I'm sure you'll make someone in the future very happy.'

Yugi's eyes closed gently as he drifted into a dreamless sleep. Air escaped him and his hand fell limply against the hard wooden chair arm. The puzzle gave a slight glow as the power was completely cut off from the yami to the hikari and it was left powerless again.

Hearing the heart measurer go off, the doctor rushed into the room a little too late and let his shoulders sag at the sight of the patient. His eyes narrowed in confusion as his gaze caught the abnormal sized pendent around his neck, and he picked it up to get a look at it.

"Doctor?" Spoke the nurse, "...We lost him then...?"

The Doctor sighed and nodded to the nurse. She looked at her feet and then asked, "Should we tell his family?"

He shook his head, "No. It's the strangest thing. He doesn't have any family at all, and none of his friends are living. Sad, really. He outlived everyone who knew him."

She cocked a brow, and then said softly, "Yes, it is sad."

"Mm hm. Just send in the report and find out what he wanted to happen to his possessions and body, got it?"

"Yes doctor, I'll get right on it."

The nurse left quickly, and the doctor ran his finger up and down the golden pendant in his hands.

"Huh? What's this?" He asked to no one in particular.

His fingernail was caught under a piece of the pendant that was pushed a little farther out then the others. Could it be....a puzzle?

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Retaw: Yeah, I know, short so far.

Caitlin: Yes, very short. What happened to you're infamous long chapters?

Retaw: *glare* What happened to you being gone?

Caitlin: You can't get rid of me, I'm you're creation. ^___^ Now, what's the excuse for the short chapter? It's the first one for goshness sake!

Retaw: I saw something on FF.N that pushed me to just put this up. I have a ton of ideas for fics, and it shocked me when I found MY EXACT IDEA had already been made into a fic! It was awful! And so, I'm claiming this story plot idea for myself before it's too late.

Caitlin: *grumble* Selfish.

Retaw: Yeah, I know. ^^ But at least no one will take it now! Although its going to be a while before I update. Kay? Like, a long time. I'm going to finish my other fic first.

Caitlin: *sighs and shakes head*

JA NE!

AND R&R, SHOULD I BOTHER CONTINUEING?