Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ To Complete My Soul ❯ From the Darkness to the Light ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: Don't own the show or characters, never have, never will, never want to, I prefer fanfiction thank you very much.

Authors Notes: My throat hurts, my head hurts a little, I feel like Yugi in chapter two of my Reflections story...only I doubt I'll pass out in my room, cause I'm sitting down, and listening to "Castles in the sky" by Ian Van Dahl.

Here, is the (strangely) asked for sequal to "To complete my soul". Yami's POV. I've done him before, but I'm still getting used to his complex thought pattern (I'm actually quite thankful for my ability in writing to adapt to the thoughts of characters...) so bare with me. (actually I think that's a pyschological..quirk. getting inside people's heads...heee)

To those of you reviewers here at mediaminer, I'm very thankful that you contradict my rather, low opinion of my writing (not that I'd ever actually agree that it's good mind,) you made my day!

And to Legolasofthewoods (why is it I see Legolas and laugh? oh, Harry Potter inside joke there..)

I understand what you were saying. It does seem like I should have said Gomen, but I was actually looking for "Please" I just don't feel right saying "Kudasai" I hated that word when I was in Japanese II last year. Gah! Call it torture, but I've learned I like "Onegai" and she was rather...hoping that he'd forgive her. (What is this, i'm trying to tell you want Anzu thinks? good grief, like I care what she really thinks!) If I could speak in full Japanese I know I'd have to just go Gomen Nasai kudasai (Onegai shimasu) but for split second things, like writing at 2:30 in the morning when "Please, I'm so sorry" actually sounds right..I think it fit. But I do really see where you're coming from. "Please..." then "I'm so so sorry." just, does sound odd, and it would sound worse in Japanese. *cringes* Lol. Good catch though! Kudos!

Oh, and a special "here's to you" to Yami's girl710. How could I pass up THAT offer! *grins evilly* here's the next part!

Now, onto the bit. I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to do this. I've got two other stories in the works (chapter three of one, and chapter 3 of another, well that's just peachy..*blinks*) and another one that I'm starting as well. That's why I'm sitting down now (at 4:30) and am going to write this fully in one sitting. Otherwise it won't get done. Thank god for Friday's!

Anyways, my first real "no talkie" yami piece, excuse any "I've, Don't, Won't, Can't Shouldn't" things, I know Yami's more of a "Will not, Shall not, Can not" guy, but I've heard him, on many accounts, say "Can't" so...yah. And Enjoy!

Tell me what you think though!
(I've been playing "Forbidden Memories" too much, wicked game, improving my duelling skills vastly..addictive, but it gives you strange ideas...)

I wonder how you explain waking up after 5,000 years not knowing a thing about your past...as a spirit, in the puzzle? This has to be original...I've never heard theory's about it. So hey!

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Perpetual Hell.

I believe that is what I consider the place I am in now. Astoundingly vast, yet all the same curiously claustraphobic; strikingly dark, yet open as well.

A place where you could walk as far as you wish in any given direction, yet never once come in contact with any kind of object, innatimate or otherwise, let alone see where you are at the time of contact.

The last thing I remember is being told to sleep, and that there is indeed somebody destined to complete the puzzle. This was some time ago, I dare not guess what time I am in.

Rather irritating actually, I was told I would awaken when the puzzle was solved, so why in the name of Amun-Ra am I still stuck in this, prison? More over, why was I awakened at this particular moment, and not at the solving. Fates ill-humor, or perhaps there is a specific reason in mind for causing me to sit and wait for the happening. Sit, or stand, or walk...or lay down. Does it matter? I could be laying down now, if not for the fact that I know I am pacing.

(A/N: I feel the need to apologize already. This is almost a bit too much like what I would do being stuck in the puzzle, but what else would he do? Does he seem a bit, talkative? But let me ask you, wouldn't you be after 5 millenia in a place like that?)

Closing my eyes I am suddenly aware of a faint flash of energy that pulses through my body momentarily, leaving me surprisingly empty afterwards. Almost as if, something was added to me, then ripped away almost immediately after. Rather unsettling, to say the least.

For the next few minutes...or hours...or days...it happened a few times, at odd intervals, each time leaving me twice as confused, and vexxed as I previously was. Hard to say, but I think this is what it feels like to be a jigsaw puzzle. Wait, what is a jigsaw puzzle?

Blinking I close my eyes and sift through memories, and notice that something is out of place, not only do I have none of mine, but there are some here that do not belong to me.

Reaching out mentally and physically I blink as a rush of emotion sweeps through my senses, almost knocking me down. A new sensation, this is...

Blinking I open my eyes and then close them again. But where am I?

This is not like anything I ever remember...not, that I have anything to remember that is.

An odd sight, everything seems so surreal, the world around me is happening, but it is not, all at the same time. The sun is bright, yet it does not irritate my eyes. What world could this be?

Looking around I see a group of people in odd clothing, articles I am quite sure I'm not accustomed to, though I lack the ability to actually judge. There is a large building in the backdrop, as well as various shrubbery in the vacinity (ok, so I suck at discribing the back of schools!) the adolescents were seperated into groups, varying from 2, to about 8 or so, different height, hair color...skin color.

Looking up again I see the mystifying sun is almost exactly above me, mid afternoon if I'm correct. But, this is not the time for such trivialities. Casting a glance around the area for the reason I am here, my eyes fall on a boy leaning against a tree, in the shade, a notebook on his lap, and a box at his side.

Tilting my head to the side I narrow my eyes slightly and move forward, an odd feeling considering I'm not really moving at all. Like that accursed puzzle atmosphere.

I feel oddly compelled to be near him, but in getting closer to him my eyes widen and I let out a rather colorful curse. He looks identical to me! This is not possible!

He was shorter, this I could tell, looking no older than 8 years old, his eyes were a deep amethyst, which, even through the maturity bore an innocence I thought could never exist in the mortal realm. His hair, like mine, naturally defied gravity and was deep obsidian with the natural crimson high-lights, and blond bangs framed his face, merely helping to reinforce the seraphic grace he carried. I raised my eyebrows at this obsurdity.

Watching him look over to his side, I followed his gaze to a group of people standing around near the tall building. They were whispering to each other, smiling at secrets nobody else knew, then looking over at the young boy next to me.

What surprised me was the openly pained expression that graced his features at this action as he looked away and at the ground, which had now, apparently grown considerably more interesting than it had previously been.

Suddenly I myself heard, though muffled as they were, voices, different voices, softer, louder...higher or lower. Scathing or gentle. It was startling. I could hear laughter, and hear taunting, the beginning of rumors...but what startled me, was they seemed to be coming from the boy sitting in front of me, knees now pulled to his chest. An odd behavior and mentality for someone such as himself to carry.

When he looked up I noticed his eyes shone with an unatural brightness, glassing over slightly, as unshed tears built, but dare not fall.

His gaze once again trailed away from the ground, this time to another group, these people looking to be enjoying themselves, a wave of melancholy washed over me, but I realized, again, this emotion was not mine. Eyes widening slightly the realization hit me, these feelings and emotions were not foreign to him. So if this was self-centrific of him, then this surreal world, must be...a memory...his memory.

Curious, that a child such as himself should have sullen memories such as these.

With that thought he looks up and over to the group again and this time they are joined by a blonde, who talks to them for a moment and they disperse. Shrugging he walks away, and for some reason I feel he chasted the group for something.

Confusion runs through the boy's body and he blinks as something sounds in the distance and closes his eyes, shrugs and heads towards the building, the scene dissolving before I can even blink.

In opening my eyes next I am again engulfed in pure aggrivating darkness. Agitation growing slightly I growl low in my throat then glare, with full knowledge that it would do nothing to relieve the new found annoyance.

Accepting the fact that nothing I do will vent the frustration I feel at the moment I sit down on the spot and close my eyes (though to tell the truth, you really can't tell in pure dark..can you?) and begin an attempt at meditation, hoping to at least sort through the new memories violating my mind.

Opening my eyes after an unknown amount of time I stand up suddenly and look around. The seemingly veil of pure darkness seems to have been pierced by a small tendral of light, causing a small path along the ground in front of me.

Unsure of whether my mind playing tricks on me I decide to follow and see where it leads me. (Anything to get away from the monotony ne?)

Unfortunately as I step forward and touch the light a new memory invades my mind, and no longer am I aware of my surroundings.

Shaking my head I curse all fates and anything I possibly can at the moment. But looking up once again I am in the surreal world I once was only this time, the surroundings are different.

Curious, I tip my head to the side and look around, I can feel a great excitement run through my mind, fully aware these feelings are not my own, and locate the source immediately, the vertically challenged boy I saw once before was bounding down the stairs from the building, a huge grin on his face, and a...very familiar box in hand.

Looking around he stopped, and I started when laughter rang clearly through the air.

"Anzu Hayaku kudasai! Let's get going, the movie starts in half an hour!" I hear and notice a look pass the boys face when he too heard this. Curiously I look around and see a brunnette girl stop in her tracks and look around at the mention of her name, she nods then looks around again, her eyes apparently landing on the boy near me, a pulse of hope hits me and I sigh.

"Chotto minna!" she called and I blinked, odd as the language was I could understand it easily, again, due in some part, to the boy standing next to me. She ran over to the boy and a nervous expression graced her otherwise innocent enough features.

"Ah, hi Yugi." she said nervously.

Yugi...

"Hey Anzu..." he replied shifting from one foot to another, a smile on his face betraying the pain in his heart.

"O-onegai..Yugi...I'm so sorry, the guys invited me to see this new movie that's coming out today, I was so caught up in the excitement that I completely..forgot about inviting you over, you understand don't you? I mean we can meet up later on right? Like tomorrow or something. Right?" she asked her sapphire eyes glittering slightly.

A wistful smile etched itself on Yugi's face and I frowned slightly as he nodded. "Kitto, go on and have fun Anzu."

"Honto?" she asked shocked.

"Hai! Kitto, go on...eat some popcorn for me would you?" I heard him joke and she looked startled at first but then smiled greatfully and nodded.

"You got it kid." she said and turned to her friends who were looking our way impatiently, casting one more glance at him she tilted her head to the side and nodded. "Ja ne Yugi!"

"Matta ne Anzu." he replied oddly and shook his head as she bounded over to her friends and they burst into excited chatter, walking away.

"Shigata ga nai..." he muttered to himself and turned in the other direction and looked down at the golden box in his hands blinking furiously, barely managing to quell the tide of tears threatening to fall, so caught up in his reverie he managed to not notice the warmth eminating from the golden case. But I did, the glow it let off was airily familiar, I also felt a jolt in my heart and cringed as a part of his soul shattered that day.

Opening my eyes again I was startled to see that the darkness was broken by even more astounding bright light. Now, more than tendrals bright waves of light bathed the once eternally dark room in an eery glow and I stared momentarily.

Indeed it was vast, seemingly never ending...but, no longer in the dark I realized it wasn't all one level, it looked much like a labyrinth, of stairwells and doorways, an escher room. (Anybody else just love the Labyrinth?) So how could I, in my exploration, not have noticed it? Yet another mystery for yet another time.

Again the light grew brighter, and I winced in pain as a bright flash caught my eyes. Growling in frustration I shook my head made my way towards a door that had just appeared. Curiously I opened the door and my eyebrows creased in confusion.

It was a corridor, very long, rather narrow, and dark. A sense of foreboding flashed through me and I drew a breath and stepped forward out of the once perminent prison that had entrapped me for 5 million years and my eyes widened, another door!

It was a bluish white and opened slightly, only a crack but I could see pure white light peeking from the opening. Curiosity peaking I moved to open the door but was stopped by an invisible force and I moaned in frustration, but it was short lived, because the force let go and with that the gentle hum of energy I had felt for the past, unknown time-span suddenly elevated greatly sending a chill of emotion and power down my body.

The doorway in front of me started to open, but before I could get a good view I was blinded by the light and suddenly pulled backwards.

Suddenly, once the effects of the terribly blinding light wore off I found myself in an unfamiliar room, next to a bed, in odd clothing. Where am I?

Can it be? I thought to myself in shock and realized something, I was no longer within the confines of the puzzle...

Bringing I my hands up to view I blinked and my eyebrows raised, I was indeed translucent, pale, and wearing an odd uniform, so different from the robes I had been donning only moments earlier.

Muttering in the only language I knew I tried to make all of this click in my mind, but it refused to. Too many emotions, memories, new sights and sounds, it was all bombarding me at once, and giving me a terrible headache.

In my curious reguard of my own form I had noticed somebody moving in front of me, but had disreguarded it for the moment. Looking up my eyes widened, the boy from before! "By Ra!" I exclaimed and then felt a wave of confusion course through me. "Where...am I?" The pressing matter at hand..

"You're in my room, in Domino City, Japan." he said in uncertainty, his voice an octave higher than mine, and his eyes wide in curiousity.

"Japan?" I quieried, not expecting an answer as I tried to take in everything at once, this...child, bore the same resemblence to me, he was the one from the memories. He was short, to say the least, a good head at that, and his hair was the same obsidian tipped red, with blond bangs framing his pale face.

"Who are you?" I asked and I saw him shift nervously under my stare, so I averted my gaze out of respect. (which is more than he can say he gets from anything..)

"Mutou, Yugi.." he muttered slowly, an odd expression on his face as he looked up at me.

"Yugi.." I echoed thoughtfully, and couldn't help a smile that made its way to my face, tilting my head to the side slightly I examined the room his was in vaguely, and found it to be much like that of a childs, games spilled everywhere, his bed left virtually unmade, curiously I brought my full attention back to him.

"Who are you?" his voice startled me back to reality and I found myself blinking.

That is a very good question..."Yami..." I said, the first thing that came to mind when I thought of my name.."I believe so." I added, only fuelling my uncertain attitude.

"You believe so?" he asked a disbelieving tone to his voice as he raised a skeptical eyebrow.

"I do not quite know who I am..." I started but waved that issue aside for a later date. "You however.." I murmured my eyes fell to the object he clutched in his hands, and the marking on his forehead, eyes widening slightly.

"You solved the Puzzle!" I couldn't help the excitement that forced it's way into my voice, truly this was a dream? "You are the one then!"

"What?" he replied shock evident in his voice.

Someone as young as him, solving a puzzle that complicated...moving forward I knelt down to his height and looked into his bright eyes, now filled with uncertain confusion and found myself captivated.

He flinched slightly at the sudden closeness but his gaze softened and he returned the gaze, amethyst meeting ruby and something clicked in my mind, a subtle realization. Bringing my hand up I touched his forehead where the Eye of Ra was glowing brightly and muttered softly, mostly to myself, "You completed the puzzle..set me free." never breaking the contact we had.

"I-I-did?" he stuttered softly and I noticed a suddenly realization cross his mind. His eyes held every emotion he felt, and projected them openly, something that intrigued me more than I care to admit.

Bringing my hand from his forehead I found the puzzle easily, drawn to the energy it radiated and muttered, "so pure" under my breath, startling him from a reverie he had apparently fallen in, as I covered his hands with my own, the puzzle now almost humming with energy.

For a moment there was silence as, if possible, his eyes widened more, and I thought for a moment, I am of the shadows, but a spirit...bound to the puzzle in his hands...and he is the purity of light, so truly...

"Motomeru itsuhada no...kouyuu..." he said his voice barely a whisper, eyes intently staring into my own, before a flash of light caused us to break contact.

"That's all.." he added mostly to himself and he seemed to drift away again, into his own mind. Curiously I watched him, concern growing when a saddened expression filled his features. Suddenly what he said hit me (and not just the fact that he could understand it..)

"You wish for friendship." I said realization dawning on me immediately.

"That's all." he repeated and looked at me again, but a crash of thunder startled him and he flinched again, my eyes narrowed slightly, a defense raising in my mind. "You needn't worry, it is only a storm." I said softly and he faltered then blinked.

"I-I know, I'm just not too fond of them." he muttered in embaressment and a streak of crimson found its way to his face at this admittance.

Nodding slightly I stood up, letting go of the puzzle almost regretfully and shook my head. But as soon as I was apart from the young one in front of me, my counterpart, I felt oddly empty, and it was not a feeling I much enjoyed.

"Yami?" his querie stopped when I turned around at his voice, again I found myself staring intently into his eyes, "yes hikari?"

He stopped and looked confused for a moment. "Hikari?"

Smiling momentarily I looked for an answer, before finally understanding it myself, things were clicking into place, finally. "We are one, you and I." I started.

"One?" he asked in curious confusion.

"Light and dark. Hikari and Yami." I explained then thought for a moment. "Apart we are nothing, merely exsisting beings, but together, we complete the puzzle of our soul. No longer alone, Yugi, my little hikari." I finished, my voice gentle and surprising me greatly.

"No longer alone.." he echoed, a thoughtful expression gracing his face.

"I am the dark spirit, bound to the millenium item, but also, to you and your soul. We are one little light." I explained softly.

"We are one." he repeated and, I assume, ran the idea through his head, before smiling, an action that lit up his features, bringing a certain beauty with it. (yup, he said beauty..*nods silently* ^.^;;)

In the short time I had been out of the puzzle, I had not yet noticed how tiresome it was, not being surrounded by the energy that the cursed object possessed, yet kept me alive. I sighed softly and looked at him, allowing my mind to drift back to the confines of the puzzle. "I will always protect you, your light, your innocence." I promised sincerely and began to fade.

"I have a friend?" he questioned, at first it caught me off-guard that he'd ask such a question, but in a way, it was assuring.

"Always little light." I replied and completely faded from sight. With the connection to the puzzle I looked around and sighed, almost in content, I could feel him again, his soul and mine were truly connected, even if we were not physically near.

I took a quick glance at the door that had barred me from entering earlier, and, upon closer inspection noticed that, much like his room, there were games, and toys scattered on the floor, and books lining the wall. A room of purity, my light.

I have a friend...echoed in my mind and I smiled thoughtfully leaning against his doorframe, half inside his room.

//And I will never leave you little one// I replied and he was silent for a moment.

/You're talking to me? Through my mind?/ his confusion was evident and I shook my head in amusement and laughed, then stepped further into his room, kneeling down and picking up a plush toy, resembling the dark magician.

//Yes little one, through telepathy, through our bond.// I explained and ran my hand over the doll, a warmth radiating from it I leaned against the wall just next to the door.

There was silence from his end, but I noticed that after a moment, I felt closer to him, physically. Gently adding my senses to his own I saw that he had put the puzzle on a rope and it was now hanging around his neck.

/Now we'll never be apart/ he explained and I pulled back my senses smiling fully now.

//So long as I draw breath never.// I said and with my senses reached out, through touching the Dark Magician, and embraced him and smiled at the confused relief that spread through his mind at the contact.

"Thank you Yami, for helping me finish the puzzle." he said aloud and I quirked my eyebrows in curiousity.

"I completed the puzzle, but you, Yami..." he aloud, and I felt a shy pause as he smiled, the feeling very contagious. "You completed my soul."

You completed my soul... echoed in my mind as I held the plush doll in my hand tightly, and exited his soul room.

And you little one, you completed mine... I thought to myself re-entering my own room, a certain satisfaction setting in my mind.

We are one.

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Does anybody wonder how long it took me to write this?
The day I got those reviews, was the day I started it, and I promised myself I'd finish it that day..
But I was wrong.

So I slaved over it, listlessly, till now.

And, amazingly, it's longer than the last one, by about a page...amazing!

Well not too amazing, cause I think the ending sucked.
Lol.

I went from chatty, to complex, to sappy (Fluffy?) in the course of ten pages, not something I'm used to doing in one story.

Whattid you all think.
Thank you for the kind comments again by the way.

They were much appreciated and raised my spirits greatly!

Take care everybody, and I hope you enjoyed the "Sequal" to "To complete my soul"!