Natoya: Hi all and welcome to my newest fic.

Yugi: This one is sad.

Yami: /grumbles/

Natoya: Yes, this fic is sad. This fic will make you cry. This fic has violence, blood, mentions of rape, torture, and other stuff not suitable for little eyes. So if you don't like that stuff, please don't read this fic.

Yugi: Alright, onto the fic!

Yami: Natoya doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh, or the movie The Crow.

Natoya: Enjoy the fic everyone!

Special note: This story is dedicated to Larka. Larka, I know you've been looking forward to this one, so here it is. /smiles/ I hope you like it!

People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it, and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back, to put the wrong things right.

Officer Joey Wheeler arrived on the scene after most of the cops and paramedics had already arrived. He got out of his car, slamming the door behind him and made his way to the front door of the little shop. Joey noted with displeasure the blood on the floor in front of him, trailing up into the apartment. He walked up the stairs, knowing that whatever waited for him up there wasn't going to be good. One more gore infested scene for Joey to have to deal with. Damn, he hated Halloween. This was when all the bad guys struck.

Joey reached the landing and looked around. Cops and paramedics swarmed the place that had been thoroughly destroyed. Pictures were knocked off the walls, glass littered the floor, and still more blood. The couch was ripped in many places, looking like someone had taken a knife to it and just tore the thing to pieces, the end result looking like cheap vandalism. Joey's eyes raked over the some of the pictures still half-hanging from the wall. Through the glass that was spider-webbed across the picture, Joey could make out a pair, two men smiling at whoever was taking the picture. Bright smiles and twinkling eyes, no clue whatsoever that tragedy was around the corner.

Joey continued on his way, past all the people to the second set of stairs. He followed those up to the next story, noting that there was even more blood on this level. He gulped and continued. So this was where all the bad stuff had happened...

Joey walked into a bedroom to see a couple cops standing over a body on the floor lying in a pool of blood. Across the room the paramedics were working desperately on a smaller male who was breathing harshly, his wheezing and strangled breaths making Joey feel a little anxious about his possibility of survival. Joey stepped carefully past the cops and the one lone female forensics specialist working over the body on the floor. Joey shivered as he caught sight of crimson eyes staring blankly at the ceiling.

Next to the paramedics working on the battered and bleeding boy was a cop ahead of Joey in rank. Seto Kaiba was his name and he took his job seriously. His blue eyes were trained on the boy, and he only glanced up when Joey lightly bumped him to get his attention. Kaiba nodded once in greeting, turning his attention back down to the floor. Joey watched the paramedic work an oxygen mask onto the boy's face. His face was a mess of bruises and his clothes were torn and covered in blood. Joey gulped down the bile that rose in his throat. God, how could people do this to each other? From the looks of this boy in the pictures Joey saw, he seemed too happy and carefree, not one to harm anyone or deserve to be harmed.

"What are you thinking, Wheeler?" Kaiba asked.

"That whoever did this deserves to rot in hell. This is just sick. One dead and another near death. What kind of sick asshole breaks into people's homes and does this to someone?" Joey asked, a look of disgust crossing his face.

"There are a lot of sick bastards in this town who get pleasure out of this sort of thing. It's not our job though to sit here and gripe about the unfairness of it all. Our job is to track them down and nail their asses." Kaiba replied.

"Who are the victims?" Joey asked.

"Yugi Motou and Atemu Sennen. From the looks of it, Yugi was beaten and raped, but he survived. The other one wasn't so lucky. Shot twice and stabbed once. We found a knife on the floor beside him; he probably managed to pull the thing out before he was shot. Motou's not looking so good though; the paramedics aren't sure he's going to survive much longer." Kaiba explained, glancing at the still body lying by the bed.

"Damn. This night just gets better and better." Joey said sarcastically. Something on the desk caught his eye and he pulled a glove out of his pocket and put it on so he wouldn't get prints on whatever it was. He picked it up and read it. Joey's eyes softened and he cursed again, holding it out to Kaiba, who took it with his own gloved hand.

"Well, I'll be. Our victims were together." Kaiba commented. The thing in his hand was a wedding invitation with the names of the victims on it. It was addressed to someone named Anzu Mazaki.

"They were going to be married. The wedding was in two days, according to that invite." Joey said.

"That's a real shame. And the day after Halloween, no less. I guess no one really gets married near Halloween, huh, Wheeler?" Kaiba said, handing Joey back the invite, ignoring the seething glare the blond sent him for his comment. One of the paramedics rose to his feet then, walking up to Kaiba.

"We have to move him. If we don't get him to the hospital now, his chances of survival will drop further." The paramedic said, his voice strained and tired.

"Go. We're about done here anyway." Kaiba replied. The paramedic nodded gratefully and they began to load the boy onto a gurney. The body of the other man was also being loaded onto a gurney for its own journey to an ambulance, where after the ride he would be taken to the morgue. Joey followed the gurney with the pale skinned boy on it downstairs. As they made it to the front door, Joey heard a shout. He turned, his eyes widening when he beheld a little blonde haired girl with pigtails running towards him, a teddy bear held fast to her chest.

"Yugi! Yugi!" She cried, tears now brimming in her vividly green eyes as she reached the gurney and saw who it was lying on it. Joey reached out a hand to her, not knowing if he was trying to comfort her or push her away, but she shoved the hand away to take the bloody pale one of the boy on the gurney.

"Atemu..." Joey barely heard the word that Yugi suddenly croaked out. He leaned down over him, his honey eyes now searching dulled amethyst. "Atemu..." Yugi tried again, and this time Joey heard the word.

"Yeah?" Joey asked.

"Where's Atemu...? Is he okay...?" Yugi asked softly, his voice strained. Joey felt his heart sink. Did Yugi not know Atemu was dead?

"Uh... Don't worry about him, okay? Just relax." Joey said, choosing not to tell him of his lover's demise. That might have killed him right there.

"Tell Atemu... Tell Atemu to take care...of Rebecca... Please..." Yugi said, his words dying off to a harsh whisper. The little girl beside him burst into tears, her sobs racking her entire body. Joey laid a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"I'll tell him." Joey promised. Joey felt tears burn his eyes when Yugi gave him the best grateful smile he could, his eyes flickering to the little girl's eyes. Then the paramedics finished loading him into the ambulance and the doors shut. The ambulance was off in a second, its sirens wailing into the night. Joey looked down at the little girl. She clutched her teddy bear and looked up at him. Joey tried not to notice that a small patch of blood now stained the bear's fur from where she had held it when she let go of Yugi's hand to grab her bear again.

"You're Rebecca, aren't you?" Joey asked. The girl nodded.

"Yugi and Atemu... They watch after me since my mom is never home. Or they did." Her eyes held Joey's and he could feel the sadness pouring off of her. "You lied to Yugi about Atemu, didn't you? Atemu's dead." Rebecca said. Joey gulped.

"Yeah." He replied. Rebecca looked down at her bear.

"And Yugi's going to die too, isn't he?" Rebecca asked, her voice breaking.

"Now we don't know that. Yugi will be fine." Joey told her, trying to comfort her. Rebecca looked up at him again, and Joey could swear those eyes looked older then the little girl to whom they belonged, as if she had seen things a girl her age shouldn't have seen, even before this night.

"If Yugi thought he was going to make it, he wouldn't have asked you to ask Atemu to look after me. Only people who know they're going to die ask people to make those kinds of promises." Rebecca told him. Joey didn't know what to say. Instead he pulled her to him, wrapping her small body in a warm hug as the sky opened up and freezing cold rain began pouring down on them.

Natoya: And so ends chapter one.

Yugi: So, what's going to happen to me?

Natoya: You have to wait to find out, though if any of you have seen the movie, then you know.

Yami: What the crap!? You killed me!?

Natoya: Uh... Yeah. I did. /smiles sweetly/

Yami: Why you-!

Yugi: /grabs Yami/ Don't hurt her! You'll find out more next chapter!

Natoya: Yes indeedy you will!

Yugi: Now please review!

Natoya: See you guys next chapter! /waves/