A/N: This happens some time long past any of the YGO series. Actually, since I have only watched a few episodes I will not be including much of anything from the series. I do know the outline of what happened to Bakura in his home village. Not that I can remember the name of the village off the top of my head and since there are so many different ways to say/spell it.
Anyways, the jest of it is that Yami Bakura and Yami Yugi, known in this story as Bakura and Yami, were sent back to the past where their memories of the future were sort of 'muffled' in a sense. They knew that they had gone to the future, but easily slid back into their ways of life. Bakura and Yami sort of hit upon a truce, in which Yami found out what had happened to cause Bakura to lead the sort of life he did and Bakura found out that neither Yami nor Yami's father knew about the true heritage of the Sennen Items.
Just so no one's confused: When Bakura was eight, or so, the Pharaoh's right hand high priest (past Seto's father) conducted an attack that took the lives of ninety nine thieves – an entire village – and did not know that Bakura survived. He watched as his family and village were thrown into a giant pot and melted down with plenty of gold to form the Sennen Items.
That's what I understand anyways and if I got this wrong, please correct me. It won't be changed most likely and isn't all that important to the storyline in my opinion.
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01 Silly Me: Forgot My Ring
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In a temple in the ruins of Keru Elruna lay a thief. No other thieves dared to visit the bloody remains of the village besides the one. The one who had survived the massacre. Thief King, they called him, or King of Thieves – whichever you prefer. A near legend that had killed one of the Pharaoh's High Priests and gained access to the Shadow Realm. Not that the Shadow Realm part ever stayed accurate in story telling. He vanished mysteriously when the Pharaoh did and no one had seen him since, not even after the Pharaoh had returned. To say that the Pharaoh returning was a shock would be a vast understatement.
Bakura, as he was named though few knew it, was tired. Tired of his life of a thief, tired of being alone, tired of the harsh desert, tired of being tired, tired of the past. He visited Yami a couple times. More often right after they had returned, but he hadn't been there for quite a long time.
'Wonder if Seto's challenged Yami for the throne again.' He thought. Blinking he replayed what he had thought and sighed. 'Seth, not Seto. At least Yami chose to ignore his real name for the one his light called him so that I don't have to correct that.' Bakura did not wish to call his rival Atemu. Yami was more fitting for what he knew.
Thoughts of Yami stirred him from his thoughts and limp position on the floor. 'Haven't talked to him 'bout Yugi or Ryou or the others for a while.' While Bakura didn't like the others much, it was still refreshing to know that there was someone else who knew the future with him.
Heading out to the Capital, Bakura packed up only a few supplies that would be needed for the journey. Having traveled the route from his home to the Capital several times, he traipsed up to the palace where he slipped into his thieving mode and past the guards. It was still too simple and Yami had decided that he didn't need the extra security because Bakura was the only one who could get past anyways.
"Halt!" A voice commanded and Bakura spun misstep. 'A high priest, aw crap!' He reached up to where he normally wore the ring and froze. He couldn't have...
Yes, he had... He had forgotten the Ring.
Frantically, he tried to call upon his Shadow Powers anyways and found himself blasted backwards. Cursing in Egyptian, Japanese, and English, he scrambled to his feet and dodged the next blast.
"Surrender peacefully and we may show you some mercy." Bakura raised an eyebrow. Was it a new policy that Yami had installed? Installed... hah, another slip up from the future. Sounded like a computer program or something.
Despite being from five thousand years in the past, he had found it relatively easy to get a grasp on the basics of computers. (1)
Bakura settled for running for his life, this one liked to throw his power around. He stepped wrong and found himself hit with a particularly nasty blast of Shadow Magic. He had no time to do or say anything as he found himself in familiar darkness.
And then... it bled into a soft white.
(1) How else did he get into the Kaiba mansion?
NOTE! This is a repost from the account of TheOtherDerangedLie. We are the same people. The story hasn't changed at all from the other posting of it. Rewriting it will come after I'm done the story. Thank you.