Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction / Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Darkness Arising ❯ Darkness and Light ( Chapter 7 )

az: Hmm... I always thought Gonzaburo had an 'n' on his name... but actually... it was a 'u'!! It's Gouzaburo by rights!! Damn all those translators!! I was confused... until I read again the guide book... "sigh" Aa... it was the same as in shunkan instead of shoukan...

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh or Cardcaptor Sakura in either the anime or the manga. If I OWNED Yugioh, or the aforesaid anime... I won't be doing fics... I'll be PUBLISHING this!!! Muahahahahahaha!!! Characters and original excerpts from the fic are copyrights of Kazuki Takahashi and CLAMP.

Darkness and Light / Yami to Hikari

Written by Azzie/Az .. Alienna Azuani .. Yami Azzie

Atemu sighed tiredly as the four of them dropped to the floor, having exhausted all of their energies having to practise using their powers. Yugi frowned as something from the past came back to his mind. He sighed as he rose and walked towards the balcony. A little worried, Kaiba and Atemu followed and stood side by side with Yugi standing between them. Seth rose but felt reluctant to stand closer.

'What is it-?', said Seto as Yugi stared blankly towards the stars afar. 'I had just remembered about a time, long ago... when Shadi and I met at the museum. Until now, I was surprised that I had forgotten as he is about our first encounter, before the Duellist Kingdom. And I wondered about that thing that he had once told me...'

Atemu was taken aback on hearing this. 'What do you mean? What about the thing he said?', he gasped as Yugi took out his necklace; the sennen puzzle locket that he had worn for quite some time now. 'When we've met for the second time for the day... he had been surprised that I was able to put together the pieces of the puzzle. He entered our soul rooms... you remember?', said Yugi as Atemu nodded. Yugi sighed again. 'And do you remembered about the thing that he had told you-?'

Atemu looked as his aibou suspiciously before casting him and Kaiba a wry look. 'Yes, he was puzzled about it. Said that that kind of power was only existing among his tribesmen. You know, to be able to piece the puzzle back without being hurt from the Puzzle's protective seal on it. I mean, one must have special ability to protect oneself against its protective curse...', said the ex-pharaoh as Yugi nodded his head. Seto frowned as he saw his friend's distraught looks and started patting his shoulders. Yugi smiled at him, welcoming the comforting gesture.

'Yup... a lot of people were surprised. Since almost everyone who tried to get it, died before they could do so. Well, except grandfather. He told me when I was little, when I had told him that I wanted the puzzle blocks to piece it together; that all of those people who had been excavating that site... every last of them, died with mysterious cause-'

Yugi chuckled halfheartedly as he recollected the fond memories. 'Mama had almost lost her head when jii-chan had agreed to let me have it. Said something about endangering the life of his only grandson!! Haha... but nothing evil had happened to me, as with jii-chan, but that was not to be surprised about. Jii-chan IS the present self of Shimon... Unlike Mahado and Shadi, he became my grandfather in this life. As if fates had deemed it that everyone who had been involved with the events of 3000 years ago to be brought back in this life and in the case of grandfather; to guide me to the Sennen Puzzle. Though, it took me eight years to put it together at the first time... it was as if... as if, I knew that I can put together the puzzle pieces!! When I first got a look at the pieces, I understood it. I could somehow know which of the pieces to start putting the blocks together first, an amazing feat for six-year-old kid like me when adults like jii-chan cannot do it after even in twenty years!! I think that was why he had kept it untouched for a long time in his private closet at the shop...'

'So, you wondered if the powers that had been awaken in ourselves was the same one that helped you solve the Sennen Puzzle blocks?', said Kaiba as Yugi shrugged. 'Probably... but I think at the time, that powers were still too weak... compared to the dark power coming from the sennen puzzle. Then, that will be a reason as for none of us knew about the existence of this power! And to tell you the truth, right now when I think back on those times... I would have thought that you might have been possessed by Seth's dark presence that time when the two of us had started fighting with each other--'

Kaiba leered at Yugi and Atemu, who had been snickering. And he saw Seth smirking from the tail of his eyes as he started snorting at the comment. 'Oh pleease... nothing of that sort.. I was like that because of Gouzaburo's evil brainwashing!! All that mental torture and whipping... all that harsh trainings... those sleepless nights... his evil taunting. Yugi, Gouzaburo's a DEMON! Anyone could become evil under his care... and I'm grateful that Mokuba only suffered a little. He only acted like he had before because of me... of that evil me that Gouzaburo had fed into my heart--'

'Sorry... I had made you to relive that painful memories...', whispered Yugi as Kaiba waved it away. 'It's okay...', he said as Seth stood beside him. 'It seems... neither of us had been able to have a normal father... is it? In my time.... or even yours-', said Seth as Atemu looked at him with concern. 'Seth, you can't actually... You know, if the sennen items were never made, Akunadin wouldn't have been-'

'Never mind, Atemu!! It doesn't matter... all of that was over for a long time. And he's got his wish... I've become the pharaoh, though at the cost of having to lose two of the dearest people in my heart. If not because of the faith of the remaining comrades supporting me, I wouldn't be able to rebuild the perished kingdom...'

Atemu looked at his cousin's sorrowful face as he walked towards him. Seth jumped as he felt Atemu's arm, encircling his waist. Sorry... I've made you so sad at that time..., thought the shorter of the two Egyptian lads. Yes, he knew who were the two people that Seth had meant. It was himself and Kisara, the white-haired girl that Seth had grown to care for after their unexpected encounter and the discovery of her white dragon ka. Seth smiled at him as Atemu stood beside him.

'Well, Gouzaburo wasn't actually my real father. Though, at one time... I thought, that guy had once considered me as his son... probably I reminded him of Noa. And the way he showed it was weird... well, that had been the reason that I had been calling him my dad, oh well... that was before he had tried to sell my virtual system for military purpose! That ended that father-son campaign... and he was NOTHING compared to my real father. I can't quite remember his face anymore, or even my mum's... but at least I had felt the feeling of being loved by a father. Pity Mokuba had not been able to spend a lot of time with him before he died. So, Seth!! Even though your own father loved you in a different way... at least you know that he loves you, isn't it?', said Kaiba as Seth smiled at him.

Yugi grinned to himself. 'Haa... speaking of fathers, our fathers had done a lot for us, wasn't it? Be it adopted or real... they did do things on their own for the sakes of us... even riddiculous and rash things because they thought that it was the best for us. Wonder if Gouzaburo did all those things to you because he wanted you to be strong... after all those wicked things your relatives had done to you and Mokuba? That could make some sense... though perhaps that plan crashed with his own diabolical schemes. How about it... Seto?'

Seto glared at Yugi at the thought of his statement. 'No... Yugi, don't say such things again!! That would make me think that Gouzabura had a nice side... and that thought spooked me...', he said as he shivered at the image of a kind version of Gouzaburo. Heeee.... scary!!

'Haha... but it's true at some point. wasn't it? Like I never knew the reason on why my father had been persistent on learning and finding out more about Pharaoh Akunumkanon. And then, he told me that he did it to learn more about the origins of the items... to protect me. I just couldn't believe it that he would sacrificed and dedicated himself to the research, unending; just for the my sake. He told me last year that he wanted to find out if I really had some powers in me that enabled me to be able to solve the block puzzle. And whether or not that and the dark powers would hurt me or will I forever be cursed with this ability...'

Seto sighed as he noticed Atemu's concerns when that lad heard Yugi talking. 'Well... it's not like we'd be immortals. We're still humans... and we could still die like a normal humans. The only different thing about us was the fact that we had some powers in ourselves. No need to think further from that. But Yugi, when you said sorry to me... it reminded me that I too needed to apologise to you for something that happened in the past...'

Yugi looked up towards him in wonder. 'What do you mean? You hadn't done wrong to me... except those times when you were bent on wanting to beat me in DM after Atemu challenged you in the DM Yami no GAME... But really, I had already forgiven you for that. Since then, I had always wanted to play and be friends again with you. Having you as a friend is a nice change of atmosphere after I had befriended Jyounouchi, Anzu and Honda. And not mentioning Miho-chan and Ryou-kun...'

'Oh... thanks!! I never thought you'd- well, I didn't mean about that. I already put that away. No, this I've realized when I had entered your soul room to find you. I had stumbled into one of your memories... the one when we were dualling in front of the gates during the Duelist Kingdom's-'

'Don't say anything more!!', cried Yugi suddenly as the other three jumped in surprise. Atemu frowned as he stared at his aibou. Yes, he remembered that incident. He knew what state of mind that Yugi was left with after that. And he had realized his own faults when he had confronted his darkness during the Doma incident.

'I'm sorry... I--'

'I know... but you don't need to mention it again. That was the most horrible memory that I do not want to remember anymore!! You were SCARING me at that time... so much, that I had almost believed that I had the power to take someone else's life! Promise me one thing, Seto-kun... that you would NEVER EVER do such things again--'

Kaiba smiled as he folded his hand at his side. 'I promise... scout's honor!!', he said as Yugi lifted his eyebrow.

'What--?!! Wanna me to say priest's honor?!', teased Kaiba as the four of them burst into heaps of laughter. 'No... but that was more convincing!!', said Yugi, giggling as Seth turned away to find a very familiar woman walking towards them. 'All was fine?', queried Seth as the woman nodded politely. 'Yes it is. The assault had been broken... and no one was hurt. But let us talk tomorrow, the four of you had exhausted yourselves...', said the woman as Atemu walked up towards them.

'Don't worry... we had stopped practising hours ago. The four of us had been talking about umm... something...', he said as he scratched his head. The woman smiled as she guessed that that something must have been important for them. Since she had noticed that Seth and Atemu had began getting along with each other, in a way... not as a pharaoh to the priest but as cousins. It cheered her heart to see this change...

'We will take our rest...', said Kaiba politely as he dragged Yugi along with him. 'See you again!! Bye...', chirped Yugi, giddily as Kaiba lifted him up on his shoulders as Atemu led the way to their chambers.

Seth grinned as he watched them leave. 'Don't you mind them... Kisara. Those two were just silly...', he said as Kisara linked her arm with the other. 'I know... they were the reflections of someone else that I knew...', she said as the pair walked away...'

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Day 8

Shizuka sat beside Mokuba as the lad was busying himself by rearranging the cards in Seto's briefcase neatly. Yugi's golden box was nearby and thankfully, he hadn't noticed that two of Yugi's cards was missing from the deck. Or else, who knows what will happen...

'Your brother will be fine! Yugi-san too... you don't have to worry for them.. I went to the hospital just now, the doctors said that their injuries had almost healed. The only thing that puzzled them is that Seto-chan and Yugi-san were like being in a deep sleep. But they don't detect anything wrong, so probably Seto-chan and Yugi were just tired. It's been busy year for them before... so them being in a deep sleep right now, might have been a good thing! And everything will be fine for us...'

Mokuba smiled as he pulled out the Blue Eyes card from the briefcase. 'Arigato, Shizuka-ne-san!! Nii-sama was lucky to have you. You were like this card... As long as nii-sama have this, he can overcome anything!!'

Shizuka looked at him fondly as she beamed. 'Yes... there's nothing that your brother can't defeat... Seto-chan will be fine!!' , she said as Mokuba grinned. 'Yup, and Yugi will too!!', he chirped as a maid came by to tell them that lunch was ready...

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A thought popped into Atemu's head as he paused from exiting the chambers. 'What?!', cried Yugi as he noticed Atemu pausing. Atemu turned around as he stared at Yugi. 'Aibou, you know... I just realized. When jii-chan gave us his deck cards, most of the cards that represented the priest's ka was in it. I mean... he's got Mahado's Black Magician, Mana's Black Magician Girl, Karim's Curse of Dragon...'

'Yeah... and your father's Exodia, I know!!', grinned Yugi as Atemu looked at him with surprise. 'How-', he gasped as Yugi winked at him. 'I got a good instinct... wha-t?! Anyway, I've got back the complete Exodia pieces...', said Yugi grinning as he saw Atemu's surprised expression. Yugi grinned. 'Oto-sama gave me the rest of the three cards that was the same as the ones I had lost, so that I would be able to play that card again. It's okay... it just so happens that oto-sama those three cards in his keeping. He told me that he had once have the complete set, before he gave two to grandpa. What a nice coincidence, huh? The cards that Jyounouchi had managed to save for me were the exact two cards that my father gave to jii-chan...'

Atemu nodded with amused feeling. 'Yeah... well, sleep tight... aibou.'

Yugi grinned as he winked back at him. 'You too... mou hitori no boku...'

[TBC]

az: "grinned" I should have named this the father's day chapter.. lol. Anyway, when was it? Hehe... a spoiler or a hint? In this aka my DM world, the monsters existed in their true forms... and for the spellcasters, yeah, that include their costumes. But then, what came of Black Paladin or Ultimate Dragon? Or Magician of Black Chaos and Black Luster Soldier ect...? Well... let's assume those as Blue Eyes and Black Magician's power up modes... or in Mahado's case, he had a lot of costumes to wear!!! Hohohohohoho... so, what was the hint? Read between the lines... - and guess...