SOMETHING DARKER

I have been playing with this idea for a little (mind you LITTLE) while and have decided to write it. Don't ask. Don't ask at all.

Yami had his many secrets. From himself and from Yugi. There were some things he just couldn't risk telling him. Some things that were far too shameful. True, they were the best of friends, true, they were partners trying to save the world together. And true, they were probably closer than anyone else in the world.

But some things, yami had to keep to himself.

"See ya tommorow!" yugi called, leaving the millennium puzzle.

"Yes, good bye." yami waved. Part of him was sad to see yugi going, it was dark in here... and lonely. And cold. And yami couldn't help but want to be somewhere else. Yami wandered around the puzzle, as he usually did when he wasn't talking to yugi. He really didn't like it in here. They was always the feeling that something else was in here with him, dark and forbidding. And evil.

Coming to a place he had never explored before, yami stopped. What was that in the distance? It looked like a small light and as it came closer yami saw that it resembled the millennium eye. Yami frowned. What was it that he was looking at?

And as yami wondered this something erupted from the darkness. It was a man. The most unexpected man yami would ever see.

It was himself. Though his eyes held insanity and cruelty and evil and everything yami could never and would never be. He was dressed in robes, ancient egyptian robes and he was covered in gold and was beautifully tanned

"So. It was you freed me? Interesting." the man said, lifting yami's chin with a thin finger. He examined him, then removed his finger. "And you're pretty too. As expected"

"Wh–who are you?" yami's feet were stuck to the stone of his mind.

The man raised an elegant eyebrow. "I'm what you're supposed to be. I'm the real you. Atem actually."

Yami wanted to back away. He didn't like the look in this 'atem's' eyes. Insanity. "Real me? I am who I am."

"No. You're what happened when that brat came into the picture. Technically speaking, you are my hikari. Surely you can feel the darkness that is coming off of me?"

Yami didn't answer, as he was being pushed back against a wall.

"Long ago. I had multiple personalities, you being the nicer of the two. I was evil, very evil. You are the hikari. But somehow when that brat found us I got suppressed and you were released. If I had been released as well we would have had our memories." Atem placed his arms on either side of yami's head, leaning in. Yami turned his face away. "What happened hikari? We used to be so close."

"I don't know who you are. You're most likely just a figment of my imagination. I'm under far too much stress lately. You're not real, you're not real, you're no–" before yami could finish his thought atem took yami's lips with his. Yami's eyes widened, and he tried to push Atem away.

"We're much closer than that. You may not remember me but your body will." atem said quietly, moving away from yami.

"Way too much stress, way too much." yami was left muttering. He turned quickly, as if thinking if he couldn't see atem he would disappear.

"Believe what you want. But you'll see."

i said it before. don't ask, don't ask at all. i'll se what you think. RXR ONEGAI. i'll take it down if ya don't like it. peace and love till then.