The Not to distant future

The shadow realm is sealed, Yami's spirit is free, Bakura and Marik have been sealed in the shadow realm for good. The natural balance of things can return to normal. So then, why after two years are things in the other realm still shifting? What are these shadows that the three hikari's keep seeing? And how will they deal with it without their yami's?

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Tavi: ^-^ Yeah. Yugi didn’t have very good parents. Well, his mother was good. But she had a few…mental problems. And I have decided to write a fic about it. Go a little more in depth~

Dragonlady222: Nope~ shadows taking over the lights. Definitely not good~ ^-^

Right_Read_Time: Hi ya! ^-^ hehehe

The not to distant future
By Yami Kitsune
Now being BetaRead by: Tavi
Chapter fifteen: Overshadowed


Marik had managed, with the help of Bakura, to hotwire a car. Since Marik was the only one with even the slightest bit of knowledge on how to drive he had been elected to get them across town to where they at least knew Malik was.

"Can't you go any faster?" Bakura growled from the back seat, but yelped, falling over when Marik took a unnecessary sharp turn.


"Quit being a back seat driver!" Marik snapped, doing his best to stay on the road, and not hit any of the other cars. "I can't go any faster without killing us. And the last thing we need is for the damn police to try and stop us." He said, not that he was really WORRIED about the police. But they were just to much trouble then they were worth.

Yami sat quietly in the passenger seat, more worried about their Hikaris then Marik's bad driving. At the moment he was concentrating on trying to contact Yugi through their broken link. He knew it wasn't going to be possible if Yugi wasn't warring the puzzle. But it didn't stop the former pharaoh from trying.
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Honda sat watching the three monitors. His eyes currently on the one that showed Yugi. After Anzu's little visit to his room the boy had not moved from his corner. Curled up tightly as if trying to protect himself. Honda had given the millennium items to the shadows, because he himself had no use for them. He could tap into the shadow realms magic just fine and didn't need some fancy gold item.

Honda glanced up when the door burst open and Anzu stormed in looking upset. "When is he going to GET here!?" She asked sounding frustrated.

"Perhaps he cares less for little Yugi then we originally thought." Honda suggested and just smirked at the glare she gave him. "Calm down. He'll be here.' Honda said turning his attention back to the monitors.

"Honda, are you sure we should trust the shadows to take care of things? What if they mess things up?" Anzu asked also turning her attention to the thee boys the monitors showed.

"At this point in the game, I couldn't care less what the shadows do. They want their own bodies, and while they are doing that it moves us further along to our goal."

"I don't trust them." Anzu said crossing her arms.

Honda just waved his hand. "No one is asking you to trust them. Now why don't you go find something to do and make yourself useful."

Anzu glared at him again before turning and storming out of the room slamming the door behind her. Honda sighed, shaking his head. He had regretted it from day one teaming up with her. The only thing she wanted was Yami.

"She'll never have him." Honda told himself. For that was the final part of his plan. He knew how much Yami cared for Yugi, and he also knew that the pharaoh would never abandon him for Anzu. The end result would be that Yami would die along side his precious hikari. Honda could only hope that Yami took Anzu's life in the process.

Honda stood up and went over to his basin, looking into the water at the three yamis. He smiled and flipped an hourglass upside down watching the sand start to fall. "The sands of time are falling Yami. And there's nothing you can do to stop them."
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Yugi staid curled up in his corner. All his shields were dropped as he tried to find the link he had with Yami. /Yami.../ He cried mentally. He didn't care if he didn't have the puzzle. He and Yami were always connected, and it should only be a matter of finding the link and forcing it back open.

Yugi looked up when the door opened again and frowned when the shadow stepped in. His eyes widened when he saw that the millennium puzzle was hanging around the shadows neck.

"GIVE THAT BACK!" Yugi yelled. The shadow was more then a little surprised when Yugi jumped to his feet and charged, trying to grab the puzzle. Moving out of the way easily the shadow let Yugi fall back to the floor.

"My...that was pathetic." The shadow said smiling when he saw Yugi tense. "You really can't do anything with out Yami around can you?"

"Shut up!" Yugi whimpered. "...I've been just fine without Yami!" Yugi said looking back at the shadow.

"Oh, so you don't mind then if I lock him back in the puzzle?" The shadow asked. Yugi's eyes widened when he saw the puzzle starting to glow brightly. Before Yugi could say anything he heard a loud scream inside his mind then all was silent.
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Marik had just made another sharp turn down into an ally speeding up. Despite him being 'careful' the cops had still taken notice and were now trying to catch them. Marik didn't care, the only thing he wanted to do was get to wherever they where holding Malik, hope they had the other two boys there, and kill the shadows.

Yami suddenly screamed beside him. Looking over, Marik's eyes widened when he saw Yami vanish out of the passenger seat. "HOLY RA!" Bakura yelped from the back seat. "What the HELL just happened!?"

"You're asking me like I know!" Marik snapped turning out of the alley. He would have stopped . But he could still hear the cop cars, and they didn't have time to figure out what just happened. Bakura suddenly screamed from the back seat and he too vanished.

"RA damnit!" Marik snapped. "I'll fucking kill those shadows!" He screamed. It was the only explanation he could think of for the sudden disappearance of his two companions. The next thing Marik knew there was a white hot pain running through his whole body. He screamed, vanishing just as the car crashed right into a flower shop.
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The shadow chuckled. He hadn't really thought the yamis were close enough to call them back to their items. So he was pleasantly surprised when his little summons had worked. He turned his attention back to Yugi who was staring at the puzzle with wide eyes.

"Your little pharaoh friend has come to visit." The shadow said, holding up the puzzle.

"...yami..." Yugi said softly.

"Now the real fun can begin." Yugi looked up and yelped when he saw the shadow was standing right in front of him now. Yugi backed away quickly as the shadow held up his hand reaching out towards Yugi.

"Leave me alone!" Yugi yelled. The shadow laughed at how badly Yugi's voice was shaking. The boy was terrified, and it tasted delicious. Cornering Yugi, the shadow put his hand on the smaller boy's head. Yugi struggled, whimpering in fear. Spots burst in front of Yugi's vision as he felt as if someone was taking a knife and splitting his head in half. He let out a high pitched scream that was muffled by the walls in the room. The shadows laughter mixed with Yugi's screams.

Yugi couldn't take the pain so he did the only thing he could, he retreated to his soul room. Normally he would not have been able to do this if he were not wearing the puzzle, but it was close enough to him that he was able to make it there. When Yugi arrived in his soul room however. It looked as if a powerful earthquake had hit it. The walls were cracked, the paper falling down. There were no longer any toys in his room, and Yugi guessed that they must have fallen into the hole in the floor.

"Yugi?" Yugi jumped at the sound of his name. Spinning around quickly he saw Yami standing by his door. But Yami was unable to enter the room, because instead of a normal door, there were bars blocking Yami from getting in, and Yugi from getting out. /The shadow wanted me to come here.../ Yugi thought to himself as he continued to star at Yami.

"Yugi. What is happening?" Yami asked. Yugi didn't know what to say, he didn't know what was going on himself.

"Yami...the shadow..." Yugi started, but was interrupted as the walls of his soul room seemed to be falling apart more. Yugi whimpered, backing away as the rest of his soul room fell apart before his very eyes. But it was what was behind the walls of his room that made him back away further.

"Aibou?" Yami asked, reaching through the bars of Yugi's soul room taking Yugi's hand. He could feel Yugi shaking as he looked around the new room. "What is this place?" Yami asked.

"...it's..."
"Yugi?" A female voice called and Yugi looked up, eyes wide. "Yugi?" The voice said again as a woman appeared. Yami watched Yugi as he pressed back further into the bars and closer to Yami. He had gone deathly pale and was shaking even worse at the sudden appearance of this strange woman.

"Yugi." She smiled sweetly. "There you are. I've been so worried about you." She said stepping forward her arms open and welcoming. "Don't be afraid. It's alright."

"Yugi who...?" Yami didn't get to finish what he was going to ask as Yugi slowly pulled away from him walking towards the woman.

"...mom..." Yugi asked softly disbelief in his voice.

The woman nodded. "Yes Yugi." She stepped forward wrapping her arms around him holding him close. Yugi felt tears falling down his face as he slowly leaned into the hug, but did not return it. "It's okay Yugi, mommy's here."

"...I'm so sorry mom...never...I didn't mean..."

"Shhh, it's okay Yugi. It's okay." She said soothingly, running her fingers through his hair. "Everything will be alright now. I promise." She said.

Yami watched with narrowed eyes looking around trying to find some way to get into that room. He had a bad feeling about this woman.

"Mom...can you...can you forgive me?" Yugi asked.

"Oh Yugi. You're my son." She said, smiling when Yugi relaxed a little. The smile faded quickly as she looked down at Yugi. A look of pain crossed her face tightening her arms around him. "You are my son...and proper punishment should be given." Yami watched with wide eyes as a knife suddenly appeared in the woman's hand.

"YUGI!" Yami screamed and started pulling at the bars to his Hikari's soul room. Yugi blinked looking back at Yami.

"Ya-" Yugi's eyes widened when he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. He slowly turned back to his mother who was holding a bloodied knife above her head ready to strike again.

"You must die." She hissed. Yugi stumbled back holding his shoulder shaking from head to toe.

"Mom...!"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" She screamed and dove at Yugi again. Yugi screamed as he turned and ran. Yami watched as the soul room shifted again, seeming to stretch so he was further away from Yugi. Looking down he could see Yugi at the bottom of the stairs running to get to the top.

"Yugi!" Yami called holding his hand out to him.

Yugi looked up to the top of the stairs, seeing Yami. He knew if he could just reach him he'd be safe. He felt another sharp pain bite into his leg and he stumbled, falling on the stairs. He looked back seeing his mother draw the knife out of his leg.

"You've been a bad boy Yugi." She hissed.

"P..please.I-I didn't...I didn't mean too..." Yugi whimpered, standing and moving up the stairs as quickly as he could. His leg was bleeding badly and it hurt too much to step on it. But he had to get to Yami. He fell again, screaming when the knife cut deep into his other leg. He looked up tears streaming down his face, he was only half way up the stairs.

"The pain will stop, when you die." His mother said, advancing on him again. Yugi forced himself to stand, doing his best to ignore the pain in both his legs. He stumbled up the stairs.

"Almost...there..." he said reaching out to Yami who was trying to reach him as well.

"Yugi! Behind you!" Yami screamed. Yugi stopped and turned, looking at his mother right before she stabbed a final time sending the knife deep into the side of his stomach. Yugi screamed, falling back holding his side. He looked up at his mother who had tears streaming down her own face.

"I have to make the pain stop." She said bringing the knife down one more time.

Yugi screamed kicking out, he immediately regretted it when he felt his feet connect with his mother stomach. She screamed, falling backwards down the stairs. Yugi lay on the stairs, feet away from Yami. Everything in his soul room had gone deathly quiet. And he couldn't bring himself to look down to the bottom of the stairs.

"...I did it again..." he said softly.

"Aibou?" Yami asked kneeling on the floor watching Yugi closely. Wanting nothing more then to go to his side.

"My mom...I did it again...I killed her again." Yami stared at Yugi unsure of what to say to him. He felt the bars dissolve away and he slowly moved to Yugi's side. Lifting him gently, he held the bleeding boy on his lap. Yugi buried his face in Yami's chest and cried. Yami held him close, feeling his own pain at not being able to help his hikari.

"That is why, you closed your mind to me?" Yami asked. He closed his eyes as he felt Yugi nod his head against his chest. It made sense now. Someone, with a mind and heart like Yugi's was never meant to deal with that kind of pain.

"Yugi." Yami said looking down at him. "Yugi look at me." Slowly Yugi lifted his head, his eyes blank but tears still falling from them. "It wasn't your fault." Yami said putting his hand under Yugi's chin keeping him from looking away. "What happened was not your fault. It was an accident A terrible accident."

"...I never meant to..."

"I know hikari." Yami said, leaning down and kissing Yugi's cheek. "I know. But remember this, I do not think any differently of you for what you have done. You are my hikari, and always will be. My precious little hikari." Yami said smiling softly at him, leaning down once again he lightly pressed his lips to Yugi's.

Yugi's eyes went wide for a second before slowly sliding closed. As they did his soul room faded back to the way it used to be.
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The shadow watched Yugi carefully, smiling. He had gotten a wonderful meal from that little adventure, and with the power of the millennium puzzle he now had a true body of his own. Slowly taking the puzzle off he set it down next to Yugi placing the small boy's hand on it.

"I'm sorry I had to put you through that." He said softly. "Yami will protect you now." He said and stood back up looking at the door. "Now to go see how Akeifa is doing." He said to himself leaving the room. Stopping only to look up at the camera and smirk knowing full well that Honda was watching. He wished he could see the look on that idiot's face right about now when he realized what he had let happen. The shadow now had a true body of his own. Unlike before where he had just been a solid darkness.

Stepping out of the room he smirked when he saw Akeifa leaning against the opposite wall the millennium ring hanging around his neck. "I see you havn't gone to feed yet." He said, noting Akeifa's still solid shadow form.

"No, I wanted to see if it would actually work." He said looking his shadow friend over. "You look good like that, Atemu."

"Come, let's go get you a body before that idiot decides to do something stupid to stop us." Atemu said. Akeifa nodded.

TBC>>>
The name of the shadow has finally been revealed!!! ^-^ hehe. Now! Incase people are a little confused here is what happened. The shadow was actually born from Yami, when he had to fight Bakura for the first time in Egypt, and had to watch his friends and people suffer because of him. That was enough to create the shadow, but before it was fully formed Yami sealed his own soul away in the millennium puzzle. Thus sending his own shadow to the shadow realm. Then when it got free from the shadow realm it basically attached it's self to yugi thus becoming Yugi and Yami's shadow.
Alright! Thank you for reading! Next chapter. What will become of Ryou and Malik~?