Tuesday, May 24, 2005

As of now, my story is still untitled. Enjoy.

Chapter One The bell rang, but Yugi made no move to get up. He was staring out the window, but his amethyst eyes were focused on something immaterial rather than the busy city outside. “Earth to Yugi! You copy, Yugi?” “Huh? What?” Yugi jumped, and refocused on Joey’s hand, flailing around in his face. The blonde grinned. “Man, you really spaced out there. Where were you?” “Oh, I was just thinking about someone.” He stood up and stretched. “Who?” Téa asked, her blue eyes sparkling mischievously. Yugi shook his head, his millennium puzzle swinging on its chain. “You wouldn’t know her.” “Her?” Téa’s pencil-thin eyebrows arched. Yugi blushed shyly. “Well, I don’t know about you guys, but I want to get to lunch before it disappears. Anyone with me?” Tristan asked. “I am!” Joey agreed enthusiastically. “Well, then, let’s go.” Tristan gave them a push to herd them along to the lunch room. “So, who’s this mysterious girl, Yugi?” Téa asked once they’d gotten their lunches and sat down. “She’s just an old friend,” Yugi answered between bites of his lunch. Hamburgers were his favorite. “I haven’t seen her in a long time.” “How’s old is she?” Tristan wanted to know. “Uh, about my age.” Joey and Tristan couldn’t help themselves. “Is she hot?” they asked in unison. Téa fixed the guys with a long, hard stare before rolling her eyes and muttering something about men. Yugi blushed again. “I don’t know.” Joey and Tristan stared incredulously. “You don’t know?!” Téa waved off their question with her hand. “But seriously, what’s she really like?” “Well, uh, she’s…” Yugi screwed up his face trying to think of an accurate way to describe her. “well, different. It’s kinda hard to explain.” He stared off at an invisible person as he tried to explain it. “She’s quiet…not really shy, just…oh, I don’t know. Like everything was new to her.” “Eh…you’re not making much sense, Yug,” Joey said. “I know. She was my only friend before you guys came along, and she’s very special to me.” “How you meet?” Téa asked, munching on a fry. “Well, I found her actually. She was curled up in a door well and it was raining pretty hard. She looked like she was lost. I offered her a walk home, but then I realized she didn’t have a home. So I asked her if she wanted to stay at my house. That’s what I mean by the ‘everything was new to her’ part. She acted like she’d never been in a real home before, or even had a family. She never told me where she was before; I don’t think she wanted to remember.” “Wow,” said Tristan, whistling appreciatively. “That’s really something. But then where’s she now?” “I don’t know. One day she told me she needed to go somewhere and do something. She wouldn’t tell me what, except that she’d been gone for a long time. And there was something else she said that shocked and scared me.” Yugi paused, unsure if whether he should really continue. “What?” Téa prompted. Yugi said the next part quietly, making sure no one else but his friends could hear. “She made a vow…never to kill a human being again. She told me never to let her forget that. And then she was gone.” They sat in silence, eating their lunches and slowly digesting those last few sentences. “One last question,” Joey finally said as they were picking up their empty trays. “What was her name?” “Nanashi,” Yugi said quietly. “Without name.”

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