Empty Light

It has now been two years. Two whole years since his Yami left. Well, he was the one who moved out, but he did that so he didn't have to see Yami every day. He had a good reason. His Yami, his other half hated him. He was ignored and belittled by all his friends, or ex-friends. Each day after the first six months he felt it. He felt his body growing weaker. First it was every week, then every day, every twelve hours, every six hours, every hour, and now every minute. Every minute he was alone he physically felt the link with his Yami grow weaker. His Yami was meant to protect him, not hurt him.

He started missing school; he was getting too weak for the walk to school. He missed his friends, their laughter, their smiles, and every small detail about them. Nobody really came by to see him. They were all too busy to notice his absence. He was lonely.

Yugi was lonely.

Yugi knew he was sick. It wasn't normal for a person to be sick for weeks on end. Some weeks he was well enough that he could go to school. Others he just couldn't. On those weeks Yugi barely ate and if he did he became nauseous and usually threw anything right back up. On the weeks he was feeling better he went to school. Yugi sat in the back row in all his classes and was mostly ignored. Nobody talked to him and he just daydreamed.

He missed Yami though. Yami used to comfort him, but when he got a body of his own, he left. Yami had left him to fend for himself. Yugi missed the late night chats or games they had played. Now when he got home he ate a small meal then curled up on his bed in the lonely apartment he had. He slept, ate, although barely, and went to school. That was all his life had become. Avoiding bullies and his friends was his specialty.

There was only one person who seemed to ever notice Yugi's absence. Ryou was the only one who had noticed Yugi drifting from everyone. His self-proclaimed best friends had been more into Yami when he got his own body. Yugi felt alone and lost.