No Yugi-oh owning… 

Chapter one: Dark Visions

The sky darkened overhead.  Black clouds conquered all the light and soon the world itself was cast into total darkness.  The Earth was in complete discord and no one knew what was happening.  Lightning pierced the sky and crashed into the ground electrifying buildings and humans alike.  Thunder roared in the distance and soon the sounds of yelling and screaming where muffled by the constant banging of the dark clouds.  People got trampled as citizens raced from their buildings to the street.  The lightning was relentless and soon countless buildings took to flame making the people's panic worse.  The ground shook causing the populace to stumble or fall and sometimes those people didn't get back up again.  The whole world was in discord.  

Yugi Moto's eyes flashed open.  His body was covered in sweat.  His heart was pounding and his body felt unusually warm, too warm.  It took the young boy a couple minutes to slow his breathing, to breath at a normal pace again.  Slowly he went downstairs and shakily poured himself a glass of water.  His hand was trembling and Yugi spilled more than he drank.  Once calmed the youth somewhat steadily journeyed back up the stairs.  Although his room was on the right Yugi turned left.  He slowly opened the bedroom door and peered in.  His grandfather was in bed sleeping soundly.  Relieved Yugi attempted to close the door but his grandfather's voice stopped him.  Apparently he wasn't sleeping after all.  "You okay Yugi, why are you up so early?"  "Oh nothing, I just had a bad dream that's all."  Yugi silently closed the door.  Yeah a bad dream, more like a nightmare that has been plaguing my sleep for three nights now. 

Yugi returned to his room and plopped down on his bed.  He buried his head in his pillow for comfort but paused as he did so.  Groaning he flipped the stinky sweaty pillow over before once more burying his head.  He stayed that way for twenty minutes and after realizing he was not going to sleep again he sighed and sat up.  Looking at his alarm Yugi discovered it was only 5:45 in the morning.  Groaning he went to his closet and picked out his school uniform and a fresh pair of underwear then headed into the bathroom where he started a bath.  Usually he'd have a shower but since he had so much time to spare a soothing warm bath might be best. 

After dressing Yugi went downstairs and made his breakfast.  He was now officially hungry.  Cleaning up his plate from the eggs the youth scoured the cupboards for something good to add to his lunch.  Finding suitable snacks and food Yugi tossed his lunch into his bag.  He was about to leave when he smacked himself on the head.  His duelling deck!  He promised to duel Joey today.  Racing upstairs Yugi snatched his deck off his desk and pocketed it with care.  Picking up his backpack Yugi yelled to his grandpa, "I'm going now, bye Grandpa!"  Then locked the door behind him. 

Yugi was the first to make it to class, no surprise there.  Not that he's usually the first in class, but he had left a half hour early.  Reaching the door he found it was locked.  Just great, he's here before even the teacher was!  Shrugging Yugi shifted his backpack and headed towards the school library, which he was hoping would be open.  Luckily it was. 

The librarian was in the back- eating.  Obviously she hadn't had breakfast yet.  Yugi walked to one of the tables and dropped his backpack on the floor.  He sat down and soon his head was resting on his arm, his thoughts had once again turned to his recent nightmare.  The screams- the screams still rang in his head, it was horrible.  Suddenly Yugi's arm lost its balance from the table and his head came smashing down, waking him from the memories of his nightmare.  "Ow."  Yugi said raising his head.  As he did so he came face to face with someone who had brown eyes.  That someone quickly pulled away and Yugi got a better look at him.  Besides the brown eyes the boy's hair was the colour of freshly fallen snow and his skin reflected those same tendencies.  The boy's hands had been trying to pull some papers that Yugi had unknowingly leaned on, however when Yugi had 'wakened' the boy had pulled away startled.  "…Sorry."  The boy's voice was very soft and Yugi had to strain to hear him. 

Somewhat embarrassed himself Yugi gave off a smile and handed the boy his papers.  "Don't be.  I shouldn't have leaned on your work…err…..." Yugi stopped realizing he didn't know the boy's name.  Catching on to his dilemma the white haired boy smiled back.  Holding out his hand the boy spoke, a little bit louder this time so Yugi could here him perfectly.  "My names Ryou Bakura."  Yugi shook hands.  "I'm Yugi Motou."  Ryou looked a little doubtful.  "I know… we are in the same class together Yugi."  This startled Yugi.  Were they?  How come he had never noticed Ryou before, surely the unnatural colouring of his hair would have made him stand out.  Not saying that his own red, yellow and black hair wasn't odd itself. 

Out of nothing better to do Yugi scratched his head.  What do you say when someone tells you that they know who you are on account of your in the same class and you haven't even noticed them.  He was about to open his mouth and just say anything- that probably would've turned out really badly but luckily Ryou spoke breaking the silence.  "We should get to class, it's starts in ten minutes anyway.  Uh, Yugi…. I'm sorry about making you bang your head."  Yugi, thankful that Ryou spoke up simply responded with, "ah, that's okay, it's not good to think too much on some things."  As he said that Ryou looked like he was in a daze, like he himself was dreaming before nodding and picking up his books. 

The two walked down the now busy hallway making them dodge as people raced from their lockers to class.  This made Yugi feel like he was in that dream again, like he was there and the panicked people were running for their lives.  Ryou must have picked up on Yugi's dread because he gently tapped Yugi on the shoulder.  "Yugi, are you feeling okay?"  Nodding his head Yugi turned to Ryou.  "I'm just… thinking too much lately."  Ryou nodded in understanding.

The two boys reached their class a good two minutes before the bell rang.  Although they both entered at the same time they didn't spend the two minutes together.  Ryou walked straight to his desk and sat down.  Yugi walked towards a tall blond boy called Joey.  Joey was sitting on top of his desk talking to another tall guy with brown hair that spiked at the front; he was known as Tristen.  "Hey Yug, what kept ya."  The extremely short teenager looked out of place besides the two tall guys but he didn't seem to notice.  "Kept me.  Joey, I bet you two dollars I was here before you."  "You're on.  I was 'ere quarter past eight."  Joey puffed himself up at his accomplishment.    Yugi smiled, "Well I was here quarter to eight, I guess I win." 

Joey wasn't about to lose two dollars.  After all, he was here before Yugi because Yugi had just gotten here.  "Wait a second, wait a second.  If you were 'ere so early then how come you just got in now."  Joey friendly poked Yugi in the chest accusingly.  "Well… I was in the library…"  Yugi responded carefully.   

Both Joey and Tristen were obviously trying to control their laughter.  "Doing what Yugi, reading."  Yugi glared at Tristen.  Then smiled again as he realized he had proof.  "Guess what Joe, I've got a witness."  "You wha!"  "That's right.  So it looks like your gonna have to pay up."  Joey looked around frantically.  "Oh yeah, who."  "Ryou."  Both Joey and Tristen's face took on a look of clueless-ness.  "Who?"  They said in unison.  "Ryou."  Noticing his friends still had no idea Yugi feigned an exasperated sigh.  "Ryou Bakura."  They shook their heads.  "He's in our class."  Heads were still shaking.  "Over there… with the white hair."  Both teenaged boys mouthed an 'Oh'.  Yugi rolled his eyes.  He was about to call to Ryou when the bell rang.  Ryou closed a binder and stuffed it in his bag then pulled out another binder along with a textbook.  His attention was already on the teacher.

The period went by very quickly.  And by the time the bell rang the two-dollar bet was forgotten… along with Ryou. Yugi handed in his paper as he was leaving when he saw white from the corner of his eyes.  Turning he headed over to Ryou's desk.  The white haired boy was simply sitting there staring blankly ahead.  His eyes almost looked as though they were glazed over. 

A little unnerved by the teen's action Yugi decided Ryou was simply daydreaming and needed to be woken up.  "…. Uh, Ryou?"  No answer.  Yugi waved his hand in front of Ryou's face but his seeming-less sightless eyes didn't pick up on the movement.  A little freaked out Yugi took a step backwards.  He accidentally backed up into another desk and was so surprised that he lost his balance causing the desk to fall along with him.  As a last ditch effort to catch himself Yugi grabbed onto Ryou's desk, which in the end ended up on top of him.  So far this is a really bad day, Yugi told himself after a couple heads turned to see what all the commotion was about.

"Mr. Moto, what in God's name do you think you are doing."  The teacher was standing with her arms crossed about her chest.  "Help Ryou collect his things then please leave my class, I have had enough already for one day and the day has just started."

With a groan Yugi pushed Ryou's desk off of him, causing the binder that Ryou had put in his bag this morning to fall and it's contents spurred out.  Ryou had jumped to his feet scared out of his wits when the bash of the desks 'woke' him.  "Yugi?"  Ryou seemed confused but he quickly masked his surprise and bent down to help Yugi up.  "Let me help you."  Ryou picked his desk up and Yugi righted the other one he had tripped over before bending down to pick up the spilt binder.  Ryou, who up until now hadn't noticed the binder quickly fell to the ground and started to rapidly grab all the papers.  In his small voice Ryou muttered, "It's okay, I've got it." 

 Yugi nodded his head and stood up.  One of the papers in his hand.  He looked at it and was shocked.  The papers were drawings, Ryou's drawings!  The one in his hand appeared to be a self-portrait of Ryou; only… it didn't really look like him.  Something was off but Yugi couldn't place it.  In the drawing 'Ryou' was hurt very badly.  He looked frightful.  Suddenly the picture was snatched from the small teens hands.  Ryou was glaring at him as he uncharacteristically shoved the paper into his binder.  Looking back at Yugi Ryou's eyes softened a tiny bit before turning and leaving the classroom.

To say Yugi was unnerved would be a major understatement.  He warily watched as Ryou left.  Standing in the class speechless until the teacher asked him to leave.  Yugi swung his backpack over his shoulder and left.

At lunch Yugi sat with Joey and Tristen.  "Hey Yug, you doin' okay.  Ya look a little spaced out pal."  Yugi shook his head.  "Do I?  Sorry, I had a bad night's sleep and I'm somewhat sleepy right now."  "Hey, that's okay pal.  It's not your fault.  Maybe you should get some shuteye in Miss. Holland's class.  I always find it to be the perfect class to catch up my Z's on."  Tristen knocked Joey on the head.  "Idiot.  Yugi likes History, why would he fall asleep in that class."  Joey shrugged.  "I don' know.  Ask him, he's sleeping in it."  "Uh Joey, you're the one that sleeps in that class.  Remember, I always have to wake you."  Joey was taken aback at Yugi's statement, "Err, right… I forgot."  Both Yugi and Tristen fell to the floor wordless.  

As Yugi was getting up he once again saw the white of Ryou's hair out of the corner of his eye.  Out of lack of better judgement Yugi turned so his eyes rested solely on Ryou.  Ryou was sitting alone at a table in the back.  His long white hair obscuring his eyes.  Pencil in hand, obviously drawing.  Shuddering at the horribleness of the picture Yugi had seen he decided it would be best to simply forget about Ryou for now. 

Fourth period rolled around and Yugi could barely keep his eyes open.  Not meaning to Yugi fell asleep on his desk…

He was standing in the middle of the road.  The thunder roared around him making him wish he were deaf.  The screams were barely audible but they rang in Yugi's ear as if each shriek was screamed directly into his head.  The world around him became fuzzy and Yugi frantically reached out in hopes of grabbing something to hold him up.  He managed to catch a person~ his Grandpa but Yugi still fell to the road with a thud.  His sight cleared and his Grandfather reached a hand out for Yugi to take but before Yugi could grab the offered hand one of the lightning bolts crashed down to earth and his Grandfather was no more.  Yugi started to cry and Joey was there, holding out a hand, "Don't cry bud.  It's oka-" Joey suffered the same fate as Yugi's grandfather.  

Yugi broke down to sobs.  Looking around the thunder rolled from the skies and crashed to the Earth with such speed no one was left standing.  Yugi was alone.  Utterly and terribly alone.  The thunder crashed to the Earth a few feet from Yugi but this time it didn't disappear, it started to move straight towards him.  He sat there, terrified.  No matter how much he struggled to stand up he couldn't.  It felt like someone was holding him down.  His violet eyes grew wide as the thunder inched closer until it was a millimetre away from him and closing-

Yugi screamed.  His eyes burst wide open.  He had jumped out of his chair when he woke.  His panicked eyes shifted frequently left to right. The small teen's chest was moving up and down frantically.  The whole class was staring at him, startled no doubt from his outburst.  "I need- I need to go to- go to the-"

The teacher held a hand up to silence him.  "Are you okay, Yugi?  Yes, please, go for a walk or better yet the nurses office."

Slowly nodding his head Yugi inched towards the door.  He managed to slow his breathing to half the pace it was previously.  The nightmare was attacking him in the day too.  Not only did he relive it constantly but now he had to fear the nightmare coming not only at night but in the day as well.  Dread filled him and he slumped against the nearest wall, well, locker.  Yugi buried his hands in his face.

'Why can't this nightmare leave me alone!'  Broken sobs took hold of Yugi until he eventually quieted down.  Slowly, his mind started to pick up the sounds around him.  The squeak of the janitor turning a corridor, laughter of students who were outside for Phys Ed.  The whistle signalling it was time to head in.  Time to head in!  Yugi glanced at his watch.  The period wasn't over for another twenty minutes, why were the kids returning inside.  Before Yugi even looked outside he could hear the rain, it was almost like it came from nowhere.  Nowhere, the dark clouds!  Yugi looked out the window.  The rain was pouring already and the clouds were very dark.  No, not dark enough as the clouds in his dream but dark enough to cast the world into shadow.

Terror rose inside the small tri-haired teen. 

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Draggy:  Hello all!  This was what I was working on… it could use some better finishing touches but, uh… that's okay.  It took me TWO days to write and I kept on sidetracking, grrrr.  By the end of the chapter Yugi was suppose to have already been in the uh, let's just say 'doomed world' for at least a week.  But as I said *sigh* sidetracked.  So the story's not interesting yet, just wait it'll pick up.  This was a kind of 'before the storm' chapter.  You know, life as it was before it turned bad, so uh, bear with me.

So, as readers it's your job to do the following… *snicker*

1) Read the above story

2) Review the above story

3) Try to find Yami… I know, it's impossible…

4) Tell me which option (or your own idea) I should write!