Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Reincarnation of Ephemeral Existence. ❯ Chapter Two ( Chapter 2 )

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The boy standing in front of him looked shocked as all hell. Which was interesting because Yugi probably echoed to surprise.

"You're… you're… really alive, aren't you!?!?! Did you wake up for me?" The black haired child asked in a high pitched, little more than a scream, voice. He reached up and practically attached himself to Yugi's chest.

"I knew you would wake for me! And we can be together, and everything will be awesome! Oniisan won't be able to hurt us!" he declared in his squeal.

Yugi winced as his ears ached. What the hell was going on? Who was this kid? What was he talking about, brothers, being together, and waking up?

"Child, child, please stop yelling, I don't know where we are, but I'm going to have to get out of here pretty quickly and I would like to leave without everyone knowing. Are you human? What's happened to the world?" Yugi asked calmly, pushing the kid back down and away.

Had this kid been one of the people looking at him? What kind of pervert would let their child look at another naked man?

Yugi blinked his violet eyes; from the look of utter adoration in this kid's face he would say he'd become some kind of… fantasy? The teacher suppressed a shudder. This kid wasn't even in high school yet… if he was human…

Doey eyes blinked. "Umm, oh okay… I guess I can tell you, since you've been inside the preservation pod for as long as I've known. I'm human, my name is Mokuba. And the world is fine. What would you think would have happened to it? When did you get put in there? Why?" He chirped enthusiastically.

Yugi cracked his neck, well, 'fine' would be all well and good, but if half the world was missing, and it was 'normal' then he would have problems.

"Hmm, you look harmless, and since you don't know me I guess I'm safe from the vamps finding out…" Yugi murmured to himself.

It wouldn't hurt to be nice and find out what was going on.

"I don't know when I got put in; I've been asleep for the last 730 years, if the newspaper over there had the correct date. I thought maybe there would be mutations, or no world, or only half a world. I suppose I was put in the… preservation pod, did you call it? Mm, I suppose to keep me alive… but why wake up now? Does he want something from me? What?" Yugi trailed off, not realizing he'd voiced his thoughts aloud.

"Ohh, well no, the grid outside of the planet took care of the meteorites and stuff like that. Who put you in there? What's your name, do you have one?" Mokuba answered and asked back.

Yugi's head was starting to hurt.

The teacher shook his head as if to clear the bugs. "Okay, okay. Let's get this stuff sorted out. The world is fine, you're human and your name is Mokuba. I don't know where I am, though I'm assuming Tokyo because you speak Japanese… which means I haven't left the country. So! First things first, escape! Next, get some proper clothing and… food… Kami-sama I'm starving…" Yugi's stomach growled loudly as the full impact of his hunger nearly made his knees weaken. Obviously some kind of delay from being in the pod thing.

The teacher began to crumple to the floor as his body, already still weak from only just getting his nerves back, pretty much gave out.

Mokuba alarmed as the teacher suddenly collapsed forward, the black haired boy caught the lithe form before Yugi hit the floor and gently lowered him.

"Hey, are you alright? What's wrong with you?"

Yugi's eyes were fluttering. "…can't handle… too much… stress…" He whimpered out. His muscles all but turned to immoveable mush.

The world went dark.

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The most wonderful smell tantalized his mouth to water and his nose to twitch as the fumes floated over him.

The smell promised warmth, melt you at the knees taste and comfort food for the confused-we're-in-a-future-we-shouldn't-be alive-for people.

It was the smell of cooked meat, a dash of mild curry and noodles, vegetables in the mix and the sweet scent of onion.

Someone was humming what sounded like very twisted Christmas rhymes and the voice was very, very, very familiar…

"Jingle bell, Jingle bell, Jingle bell rock/ Santa's got a hicky on the end of his cock/ Mrs. Claus is pregnant/The elves are all gay! / just imagine what they're doing in the back of the slay/ Jingle bell, Jingle bell, Jingle bell rock/ Santa's got a hicky on the end of his cock/ Mrs. Claus is pregnant/The elves are all gay!/Rudolph is humping the back of the slay!/Hey!"

Cupboards slammed and feet trod on the carpet, Yugi wasn't sure where he was, but his muscles were beginning to ache enough for him to know he was alive.

"Yugi-kun, you can't fool me. 'This smell would bring me back from the dead, just so I could eat it'. C'mon. I KNOW you're awake. You've stopped snoring for one, and you're frowning for another." The voice said.

Yugi frowned more in his delirious haze and shivered softly, he was under some very warm things but he was still a little cold, like his skin had chills embedded.

The sight that greeted him when he opened his eyes was confusing as all hell.

It was Jounouchi sitting in front of him with a tray of ramen, well, not just any ramen, Yugi's favourite ramen, and the ramen that only Jounouchi could make just right.

Jounouchi was wearing a blue long sleeved shirt, jeans and yellow socks. He was sitting on a green couch and looking at Yugi with a mixture of amazement and friendly hello.

The teacher was under a pile of blankets, spread across a two seater lounge.

Yugi groaned in pain as his stomach made another sound. "…Jou-kun?" He mumbled.

"Yes, Yugi-kun?" Jou mumbled back.

"What're you doing here?"

"Well, I bought this apartment and currently I am feeding you. Now eat!"

Yugi blinked and managed to fumble his muscles until he was sitting and ready to eat his ramen.

Jou handed him the bowl and watched as Yugi inhaled briefly before practically melding with the bowl.

Yugi shoveled the thick, scalding, crunching and occasionally wet ramen down his throat at the speed it took him to chew a few times and swallow. The food was so deliscious that Yugi didn't look up until he'd finished five bowls and felt slightly queasy.

"Uhnnn." Yugi groaned, holding his stomach as it tried to process the mass amount of food not even fully chewed.

Jou was laughing. "Wow, 730 years and five bowls of ramen later. It's been a while, Yugi-kun. I was surprised when Mokuba showed up here with you. that student of mine… Kaiba is going to hang him by his ankles for this…" Jou laughed as if that were a joke, Yugi alarmed.

"That nice boy is going to be punished? What for?" the human asked, sitting up and looking for weapons.

Jou blinked before clueing in on Yugi's unknowning. "Oh! Calm down, Yugi-kun. I forgot, it only feels like a few days for you, doesn't it? For me… every year…" He looked out the dark windows briefly, mind wandering a little.

"Kaiba wouldn't hurt Mokuba for real, I was joking, he'll just chew him out."

Yugi blinked. "Nani? Jou-kun, what's up with the vampires, and the world? Please, fill me in? How do you know the boy that I ran into in… wherever I was?"

Jounouchi sighed and sat back. "It could take a while, we have 730 years of history to get through, and… other things that you'll want to know." Jou said softly.

"I don't care. Just start talking, Jou-kun."

Jou smiled, one of those 'same old, old, old, old, old, old Yugi-kun' smiles.

"Right, well, if you remember back, well, not as far for you as it is for me, but still, a long while ago when I went to save you after you rang me on the phone… jee, for you it must be like you keep falling asleep or unconscious everywhere…" Jou shook his head.

"Anyway, Marik, one of the vampire's that was there, he's a very strong magician and he was the one who put you pretty much in suspended animation, which he wasn't supposed to do, because only you would be able to get out of it if people thought or needed you badly enough. He's not dead, but he was punished for around one hundred years because of it-"

Yugi's memory nodded and the little voice in the back of his head yawned, but the detail would be important to Yugi finding out what was going on. "That reminds me!" The tricoloured haired teacher interrupted.

Jou paused. "Hmm?"

"What WAS Kaiba doing to you?" Yugi asked, memory flashing of being very frustrated that he couldn't check on the elf being okay.

But obviously it hadn't been bad, since Jounouchi was alive and looked well and…

Jou blushed a shade of such vibrant red that Yugi's perverted little voice in the back of his head filled in ALLLL the gaps for 'what happened' easily.

"Oh… Kami…" Yugi turned as red as his friend. "You didn't?"

"Mmmmmmmmm…." Jou gnawed on his bottom lip, blushing and looking away and he grunted noncommittally.

"YOU DID?" Yugi all but exploded.

"How could you!??!?! He's a vampire!"

Jounouchi winced. "Mmmmm….. I'mreallysorryYugi-kunIdidn'thavemuchchoicehejustsortofstarteditandIwasinab ittoomuchpainfromhavingabrokenarmtostophimanditwasn'texactlyhorribleeither! " the elf squeezed out quickly.

"DIDN'T have a- oh, wait, you didn't did you?" Yugi stopped, cocking his head to one side as he stopped. "Well, at least you only let him touch you once, I mean, it must have been horrible."

Jou coughed and sipped his tea quietly; looking anywhere other than Yugi's face.

Yugi didn't want to know, the little voice in the back of his head did, but he didn't, so he wouldn't ask, he would pretend that Jou was truly a hermaphrodite like most good little elves and NOT imagine Kaiba taking advantage of his waist-height friend.

"…I don't want those visuals…" he muttered, closing his eyes and breathing deeply.

Jou coughed again. "ANYWAY! They realized you would die of old age if something wasn't done to preserve you and so you got shipped off somewhere to get incased in these 'new' model preservation pods, but some idiot screwed up on the address for the return of you and you wound up in some museum somewhere. I think you changed museums a few times over the past few hundred years, until of course you came to rest in the back of the Tokyo museum and last year you got found by Mokuba when he was on a school excursion. But believe me, you've been unlocatable for so long, its amazing anyone found you." Jou went on hastily.

Yugi felt like crying. "You mean quite a lot of people have seen me naked?" He whispered, mortified.

Jou blinked. "You were naked?"

Yugi nodded. "When I woke up, yeah, and the thing I was in… Kami, I HOPE it was tinted."

Jou closed his eyes. "My god… at least most of them are dead…"

Yugi swallowed. Yes, everyone who saw his body against his will seemed to die… the only one left would be Yami…

Jou watched the dark look slide across Yugi's face and suppressed a shiver. Same old, not quite sane, Yugi.

"The world hasn't changed much, but space travel is better, we have two colonies on different planets, but supplies everywhere are running low, you can't buy candles or wood anymore and every forest is under protection and we have hover cars. Actually, when the hover cars first came out, the noise was HORRIBLE! But they finally got good mufflers. You should see my baby, sleek blue with green jets and she can do 3,000 miles per hour! Ohh, she's a sweeeeet ride. And there are a few different foods on the market. Oh and lasers do just about everything now." He bit his lip, thinking before continuing.

"Ummm, three hundred years ago they perfected the computers, there's no need for keyboards anymore, mainly because they're outdated, and you an access your computer from anywhere, although people still keep CD's for private stuff. But other than a few meaningless things not much has developed, there have been…"

He counted on his fingers. "Six wars. And we now have more animals than we did before, cloning Scientifics have managed to clone people, but it's illegal, for obvious reasons, and oh! You can get things from across the world instantly; I keep forgetting what it's called but its fun, once I had an elephant delievered to the top floor of Tokyo tower."

He laughed. "You should have heard the commotion!"

Yugi snickered quietly. "Oh, what about… Ryo and Bakura?" He knew that the shifters would be dead, shifters didn't live that long… but still, they had been his favourite pupils.

Jou stopped smiling and sighed sadly. "… yeah, I don't think you knowing this stuff will be easy…" He stood.

"They left something for you…" He continued as he went off into a separate room.

Yugi sat up and stretched out his muscles while he waited and listened to Jou rummage around. There were still so many questions, but he understood that things had to be filled in detail by detail.

Jou came back and Yugi let his hands fall back down to his lap from the overhead stretch he had been in.

The elf had a box around 17 inches by 17 inches. He handed it to the tricoloured haired boy, looking at it softly.

"Bakura gave that to me on his death bed… I never opened it…it was from Ryo originally, but the panda died first… Bakura made it to Clanne head, you would have been so proud, they did such amazing things, Ryo wrote three books, you mention his name somewhere, and kids and adults will talk about him like Tolkien. I've always been so proud of them! You just would not have believed what Ryo wrote about, one of his books was a romance novel, ha, it was about you, Yugi-kun, although he changed names and such, but I cried when I read it, Ryo was fourty, and he still wrote something for his English teacher. It was really touching…"

Tears were sprouting in Jounouchi's eyes and Yugi touched his friend's arm gently.

"It must be so hard for you, Jou-kun, you will live forever, but most of the people you love will die…" Yugi clutched the package to his chest.

"What else did he write about?"

"Oh, one was a detailed look into the working of the Clanne, he got a bit of shit for that one, a lot of the shifters thought he was selling them out, but Bakura made them think otherwise of harming his brother. The third book…" Jou chuckled softly, leaning into Yugi's hand for comfort.

"It was based on your speech that you never delivered because you were in a deep sleep somewhere. He hacked into your hard drive to see what was on there and got this speech…"

Yugi wondered what speech it could have been but was silent as Jou continued.

"He started this book with 'my English teacher would understand, but all you can do is read and smile and nod. Yes that's bad grammar in action.'"

"What was it called, this book?" Yugi asked, maybe that would explain the speech.

"The Exfoliation of Perennial beings." Jou answered.

Yugi shook his head. "I don't remember any papers tha- OH WOW! I don't BELIEVE IT!! What a perfect title! It fits! Kami-sama! It's perfect!!!!! Where and how did he come up with it? I don't believe it!!!! I'm so proud! I spent hours, hours and hours trying to find a title…" Yugi touched the parcel in his hands, as if it were his chest and his heart was ready to burst.

"That's… so wonderful." He whispered softly, more subdued.

Jou laughed softly. "Yeah, do you wanna open the parcel now, Yugi-kun? I've had 670 years of suspense building up over this thing."

Yugi sat back down, he was joined by Jou and they leaned in closer as the human took off the box lid and unwrapped the brown paper carefully. The paper looked ready to decay and Yugi hoped whatever was in the parcel hadn't turned to dust over the years.

He pulled the last of the wrapping away and stared at the object inside.

"What's that?" Jounouchi asked, not having a clue.

Yugi could only stare, memories flashing back at him from leaning over Ryo's desk and looking at a book.

"…" Yugi opened his mouth but only managed to exhale.

"What is it?" Jou poked him.

The object was a gold triangle, in the shape of an upside down pyramid and it held the insignia of the Eye of Ra on it. It was attached to a thick shiny silver chain.

"It's not a duck thing is it?" Jou snickered softly, still not comprehending Yugi's silent reaction.

Yugi blinked very, very slowly. "No… Jou-kun… it's not a duck thing… I would never have thought this thing existed… but…"

He closed his eyes, touching the cool metal with his finger prints.

Jou stiffed and magic flowed to life in the room. "What the hell is that, Yugi-kun?" the elf asked more urgently. The magic in the air was dangerous. And powerful, very, very, very powerful.

"It's a wish, Jou-kun. The person that wears this can make one true hearted wish… this thing has the power to destroy the world, to make alternate universes, this thing… it came from my motorcycle…"

Jounouchi blinked. "Jeez, and here I thought your grandpa just made lots of rattling bikes."

Yugi swallowed. "Yeah, although… if Ryo wasn't already dead, I'd kill him for taking apart the Millennium Puzzle."

They both stared at the shiny gold necklace; Yugi reached forward again and put it on. The magic in the room didn't disappear, but it seemed to become comfortable, as if recognizing the human.

Jou swallowed thickly. "Can you tune down the magic, I think I'd sense it over the other side of the city, it's so thick."

Yugi shrugged and looked down. "Well, I can try talking to it. The Millennium Puzzle always enjoyed me talking to it…"

"Yugi-kun, the Millennium Puzzle was a motorbike… it didn't have feelings." Jou said, hand to head. Being an elf and unable to ride machines that were usually twice his height he had never really gotten into Yugi's treasured bike.

"It did too!" Yugi argued with a small smile. "Sometimes it got cranky if I didn't ride it for a while, and it wouldn't start if I didn't tell it goodnight… ahh, I'm gonna miss that bike…" He sighed again.

Jou swallowed hard again, Yugi couldn't feel the whole extent of the magic, but it was pretty intense even for the null.

"Okay, enough about the bike, just try to send the magic into sleeping mode, or we're gonna have a whole lot of trouble…" the elf warned.

Yugi wondered what kind of trouble having strong magic around you could generate but shrugged and concentrated. "Listen, baby doll, can you tone it down, this isn't a wish, I just sort of need you to be quiet for a while, I know you've been silent for so long, and it's cruel of me to ask, but I would really-"

The magic died away softly, contentedly, if magic could be contented. Yugi stroked the pyramid gently, reassuringly.

Jounouchi gagged. "Oh, Kami-sama! That was sooooo sappy!"

Yugi punched his friend playfully. "Sure, sure. Now, you were telling me about the present day. What's up with this Mokuba kid?"

Jounouchi snapped his fingers. "Ahh, yes, well, since I'm not in any jobs at the moment, Kaiba suggested I tutor his little brother, that's how I know him, and why he probably thought it good to bring his 'jewel boy' here because he knows I can keep a secret." Jou smiled fondly.

"He's really smitten with you Yugi-kun, I had to make something up about Kaiba wanting him home before five to get him away. Luckily he's a smart one, told me what you'd been saying before you passed out. I guess you just needed some ramen stat."

Yugi blushed, he felt as if he'd been fainting a lot as of late, but something impossible nagged at him.

"How can Kaiba have a brother? The kid would be ancient and not human, and he said he was human… but then vampires lie, but then was it daylight when he was there?"

Jou laughed. "Mokuba is Kaiba's adopted brother, he's a bundle of energy and life, although Kaiba is planning on turning the kid at a good age, he doesn't want to see Mokuba die of old age. Mokuba tells no lies, Yugi-kun."

Yugi shook his head. "I can't believe you're in cohorts with undead…"

Jou rolled his eyes. "I know, I know, but it's sort of fun, to be with someone who won't age either. It's always so depressing when they die in your arms…" he shrugged, but it was obvious that the elf had, had that happen too much in the ancient past to want it happening to this vampire that he was obviously… attached too.

Yugi swallowed down bile at the idea of being with a vampire for 730 years and concentrated again. "Now, the government… is there still protectors out there?"

Jou frowned. "You're not going to like what I have to say about the government it has to do with Yami…"

Five minutes later…

"HE WHAT?!?!?!??!!" Yugi exploded.

"I knew you wouldn't like it…" Jou murmured.

"HOW COULD YOU LET AN ANCIENT BLOODSUCKER TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY?????? WHY DIDN'T YOU TRY TO KILL HIM?????" The tricoloured haired boy screamed at the elf.

Jou's ears were starting to hurt. "I know! Kami! Don't you think I tried? I was in jail for twenty years for trying! I only got out because Seto pulled strings! I'm still not allowed within sixty feet of the bloody building! And I have so much trouble getting hold of weapons! I almost got arrested again for having holy water on me at midnight in a park!" The elf argued back.

Yugi calmed slightly, at least Jounouchi had tried. "Oh… at least you tried… wow, the social security guys mustn't be slacking as much as they should…" the boy muttered.

Jounouchi shook his head. "Actually it was the vamp body guards that nabbed me. He must have had like forty all in the walls… shit, it was painful, they broke eight bones all through one side of my body. I was in hospital for almost two whole years, just healing up the bones, Nevermind the blood loss. Although a few of them exploded after they tried to drink the blood. The social's pretty much saved my life…"

Yugi's mind backtracked. "Exploded? Did you drink coffee before you tried or something?"

Jou scoffed. "No! There was this illegal drug on the market, you drink it and it's like lead pouring down anyone who tries to drink your blood's throat. I would have been laughing if I wasn't in incredible amounts of pain. I laughed after of course."

Yugi smiled. "Mmm, exploding vampires…" he licked his lips. "That would have been cool. Gross, but cool. Do you have any cookies?"

Jou nodded and stood, moving to his kitchen to get the sweets. "Only choc chip. Is that okay?" the elf called out.

Yugi shrugged as he leaned back, the Millennium Puzzle shifting against his neck with the movement. "I suppose." He called back.

He thought about the gaps in his knowledge and one presented itself.

Yugi waited until Jou had come back in with the plate of cookies and munched on one as he asked.

"What did you say about getting in trouble if people found out there were strong magic here? Does it have something to do with you being on 'probation' as it were?"

Jou shook his head. "No, it's got to do with the vampires. By now Mokuba has probably told Seto that you're awake and you know about vampire freaky powers and telepathy? So I'd say they're looking for you anywhere. Although Mokuba would keep this place a secret, major amounts of magic coming from here would draw attention. Which is why I want to get you back onto the streets with weapons as soon as you're ready."

Yugi nodded softly, Jou was right, if he stayed in one place too long, he would be vulnerable, but moving, he could take the vamps out one at a time. "I'm ready now, Jou-kun. Give me weapons and some decent clothes and I'll be out of here."

Jou nodded. "Let's have a look for some clothes to order in then."

"Where?"

"You remember what I said about instant delivery?"

Yugi grinned; it would be like online shopping! "Ohhh yeah."

~

Half an hour later Yugi was examining himself in Jou's full length mirror and he was smiling.

The human looked good for someone 763 years of age. Noted, 730 of those years he'd been unconscious… that was a lot of birthday presents stacked up somewhere.

He was wearing a long sleeved white cuffed silk dress shirt; Jou informed him that despite indoor heating, it was winter outside. The shirt was tucked into a pair of moleskin black pants. His feet bore a pair of black leather boots that rolled up and down. He'd gotten a small chocker necklace and attached it to his neck, slipping the Millennium Puzzle onto the chocker too. He couldn't remember the name of the legendary jewelry, and he didn't think it mattered.

Under the shirt he had a pair of knives strapped to each arm and in his pants he had twin Glocks. Jou had given him a few clips of exploding ammo and now, while he checked his appearance over and got ready to embark on what was best described as a suicide mission to kill Yami, Jou was making him a fake I.D and security pass. The theory was, if Yugi succeeded then Jou would help the tricoloured haired human kill as many old vampires as possible.

They hadn't touched on the subject of Seto Kaiba. But Yugi was confident that Jou would choose his friend over a vampire.

But then again, love is dangerous, Yugi-kun, the little voice in the back of Yugi's head said.

Yugi nodded to the voice. "Jou doesn't fall in love with the undead though." Yugi told it aloud.

The voice chuckled cruelly, 'and what about you? When it comes down to it… do you really want to kill Yami?'

"This isn't about wants. If it were I would go flying into someone's arms and live my life happily and peacefully to the end of my days. But I have to kill them all, they all have to die." He said coldly. He looked himself in the eye, but he didn't know if he was telling himself the truth.

You really dislike me don't you? the little voice asked in a pained voice.

Yugi nodded. "I've hated you since you first showed up. You're annoying and they all should pay for you."

"Yugi-kun, it's quite freaky watching you talk to yourself like that." Jou interrupted him.

Yugi startled. "Ack! Gomen, it was- the voice-" He looked away. "Sorry, I just…"

Jounouchi shrugged. "I know, I know. Sanity isn't something you've had since you were so young. You're so fucked up in the head, kid."

He laughed softly.

"Being around you, Yugi-kun, it sometimes makes me doubt my own sanity, and other times it reminds me that I'm lucky I don't feel a need to commit genocide."

Yugi looked away, he hated it when he was caught talking to the little voice in his head. Primarily because there was no actual little voice, and it was just the lack of humanity he had, had robbed from him.

"Hey, you know it's cool. Although you should sometimes listen to the voices in your head. Sometimes I think they're less blood thirsty than you."

Yugi smiled softly. "You're right; they're mainly horny all the time. You should have heard my head during puberty. It was so jumbled, you could hardly tell where fantasy ended and reality began." He shook his head. "You know how embarrassing it is, Jou-kun…"

Jou patted him on the head softly. "I used to think you were really bonkers when you were 22 and would drag me along to the vampire nests to just bathe in their blood. But then it hit me that you're all there in the head… you just have extra guests that make you say smart ass remarks every now and then."

Yugi laughed. "Mm, I remember some of those times. Then I stopped having time to kill because of study and stuff."

They smiled together before the mood was broken by one of Jou's ears twitching. "Hmm, eight people are marching down the hall…" he said softly.

Yugi swallowed. "Vampires?"

"I'd say so- shit. Get out of here quickly!"

"Why?"

"Marik is with them!"

Yugi shuddered at the idea of sleeping any more than the 730 years he already had and turned, looking for a window. Jou shoved the fake I.D into his hands and directed him to the bathroom.

"There's a window in there, you can walk along the edge of the building, be careful; we're 20 stories up!"

Yugi nodded and closed the door behind him; he could hear knocking on the front door.

The human swallowed and stood on the edge of the bathtub to get the window open. It would be a tight squeeze, and if he were any bigger he wouldn't make it through.

Yugi swallowed again, breathing softly as he began to pull himself through the tight opening.

The wind whistling outside blocked all sound he could have heard from the apartment and he felt along the ledge for something to help him out the window with. There was an indent that felt suspiciously like a hand hold which he grabbed a hold of and used to help his hips and body through. He pushed the window closed as best he could as he leaned against the ledge.

The world was grey and simply looking around the smog clouded area, all he saw were buildings and cars flying past. He was reminded of a movie strangely… what had it been called? 'The fifth element'.

Ahh, yes, but we're not red heads or female, the little voice in the back of his head commented.

Yugi nodded wordlessly and moved along the ledge. His heartbeat was in his throat and terror clawed at his gut as he shuffled along the ledge. It was a REALLY long way down.

The human edged along slowly, breathing quickly, fingers and arms shaking as he moved. He could see an edge ahead of him, but weather it lead to a railing and then a place to walk along and to an elevator was uncertain.

Something behind him sounded like yelling over the whistling air and Yugi turned.

A blur was moving quickly toward him and the human swallowed.

This was not good!

~ To be continued…

Sweet notes: *deliriously finishes and falls asleep at computer* tired…. So tired… review and make Sweetdeily a happy-worked author?

Oh, for anyone who's confused about the time line:

Yugi is in his thirties when he got put into the sleep, which was in 2010, he wakes up 2740, he's been asleep for 730 years, Altogether he is 763 years old.

It makes sense, I think. *is too tired, kept making typos* oh, and sorry if it is typo ridden… I've just changed schools and I've got a lot of RL stress on me, which doesn't help my ability to stay awake on a Saturday night.

Now review and make my hard work worth it!