...why am I making another story? I have enough stories as it is that aren't even close to being done! D:
Legal Stuff: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! If I owned Yu-Gi-Oh!, I be rich and not be making Fanfics...why does that sound scary to me? ._.
WARNINGS!: Child Abuse, Horrible, horrible nightmares, lots of death, mentions of Sex, and Male Relationships.
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Prologue
The Faint Wish
~Domino, Japan-Ryou's Apartment: 10:30 P.M.~
Thunder could be heard outside the apartment of Ryou Bakura. He sighed inwardly, just sitting in his room, looking out the window. When the thunder boomed again, and the wind seemed to pick up, he didn't flinch.
'The sky is just sad and upset' he thought solemnly to himself, 'That's what Kura use to say...'
Ryou sighed again, and got up from the window. He needed to stop thinking about his Yami. It just brought back the hard reality that he was never gonna get his Yami back. His Bakura.
'It's not his fault he was bad' Ryo thought, while sitting in front of the TV, flipping through channels, 'Who wouldn't want revenge after everything he went through as a child?' He finally stopped on a infomercial on a set of wonderfully crafted knifes. Sitting back, and watching the man drone on and on of how priceless they were, Ryou just kept thinking to himself.
'I'm sure...if any of his counterparts were given another chance...they change or turn out different...' he thought sadly, 'Even I can see that he was just made evil...not actually born it.'
Sighing softly again, he just kept watching the TV about the knifes.
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~Realm of The Egyptian Gods: 10:50 P.M.~
All of the Gods were looking within there Rḑ Tjm(1), watching Ryou closely, and hearing all of his thoughts.
"Why does this mortal wish for the Thief King to get a second chance?" Seth asked his fellow gods, "If anything, he should be glade he will never see him again!"
"Seth, Seth, Seth" Ra said, while smiling and shaking his head, "You forget that dear little Ryou here is a Hikari. He's always quite forgiving."
"And that's why the Thief scum was able to manipulate him!" Seth seethed.
"The King of Thieves was twisted, I'll admit" Osiris said.
"See?" Seth interupted, "Even Osiris thinks so!"
"But" she said, while giving Seth a glare, "Ryou is right about a few things. He was turned evil and twisted after the events of Kul Elna. I'm sure that if he's given the chance, he would turn out differently..."
"I guess it wouldn't hurt..." Ma'at said, "But we should send each of his personalities over, one at a time."
"You want to give all THREE of them a chance?" Seth asked shocked.
"Like Ryou said, he believes that given the chance, he would of turned out differently and changed his way." Ra stated while smiling, "We have to send his child self, his Thief King self, and his Yami self back to Ryou to see if he's right. Well, mostly for the last two. I completely agree about his child self."
"I second that!" Thoth said, raising his hand up a bit.
"Fine. Do what you want! Your all making a mistake!" Seth said.
"Sure, Seth. Whatever you say" replied Ra.
Seth just blew raspberries at him.
"Mature, anyway, I think I'll go pick up our little child from the past..." Ra said.
"Don't forget to split his soul in half, so events can still play out..." Isis warned.
"Of course" he said with a simple smile, and he was off.
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~Ancient Egypt, The Ruins of Kul Elna: 11:05 P.M. (Modern Time)~
Hidden away, in one of the many ruined houses of the thief town once known as Kul-Elna, a small boy of only maybe 5 summers was hiding in the secret spot of the house where no one could find him. He was softly weeping into the ragged tunic he was wearing, just witnessing the murder of his entire village.
"Why?" he sniffed, looking at nothing in particular in the room, "Why did the pharoah do all this? Why did our village have to be killed?"
The events played again in his mind, and he started to softly cry again. Ra, hidden for now, was watching with sorrow.
"Ryou was right about you, young one" he said softly, "You will defiantly turn out better if only given the chance..."
With that said, he slowly revealed himself to the child, (not wanting to frighten him by just appearing), and knelt down to him. The young boy, feeling a presence all of a sudden, looked up fearfully at the god.
"R-R-R-Ra?" the boy squeeked, backing up against the wall of the secret spot.'Is...is he here to kill me too?' the boy thought sadly, and terrified.
"No, little one" Ra said to him softly, "I'm here to offer you something"
The boy looked up at the man, confused, "Offer me something? Aren't I suppose to offer something to the gods?"
"This is a special case, little one" he said, while smiling at him, "I can offer you a new life from here."
"Really?" the boy asked amazed, "I...I get a new life?"
"Of course, if you want it" Ra started.
"YES!" the boy cried standing up rather quickly, "I...I do! All the other spirits tell me to kill people, but...but my parents spirits are telling me not too! I don't want to kill anyone!"
"Of course you don't have to" Ra said, "It's your life, so it should be your choice."
Picking the child up gently into his arms, he walked outside of the house with him, and spoke, "Before we go to your new home, I need to split your soul in two, so that destiny can still play it's part out."
"Um...it won't hurt will it?" the small boy asked, scared.
"No little one" Ra said, reassuring the child, "It will not hurt. You will just a bit tired."
The boy nodded in understanding, and Ra began to chant a spell in Egyptian, glowing like the sun, for that was were his power is from.
"al-Ārwāḩ Wālqwá Mn ash-Shms ، Wsmāʻ Şlātk. ʼQrāḑy Wsʻkm Mn Fwq. Ytm Tbdyl Hdhh ar-Rwḩ Sblyt al-Bshr Fy Nşf Mşyr Khāştk Dhlk ʼBdā ، Wālsmāḩ Lh Frşh Thānyh!" (2)
When Ra stopped chanting, the small boy began to glow softly, and a small orb of light lavender(3), appeared from his chest, and floating back into the house they came from, and turned into another version of the boy currently in Ra's arms, weeping softly as if the last few events has never happened.
"There, now events will still be played out, and nothing should be altered" Ra said, while walking out of the ruined village.
"What would happen if we didn't do that?" the child asked innocently, not quite understanding the big science-magic of time travel and years.
"Monkeys would rule the future..." Ra said. (4)
"Sounds scary" the boy replied, not completely sure what a monkey was.
"Trust me. It is" Ra siad, and they dissapered in a flash of light like the sun, towards the future in which the child would stay.
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~Domino, Japan-Ryou's Apartment: 11:55 P.M. ~
Ra and the young boy appeared outside the door of Ryou's apartment, the thunder going away, and bring in cold air making the young 5 year old shiver. Ra held him closer for a bit to warm him up. When the boy stopped shivering, he set him down near the door, speaking to him.
"Now, I'm going to knock on the door,okay?" Ra said to the boy who nodded, "And when I do, I'll turn invisible, so the person who lives here sees you, and you give him the note I gave you, explaining everything."
Said note was clucthed in the boy's had, with a grip that clearly stated that he wasn't letting go anytime soon.
"Will...will he love me? Like momma?" the boy asked, getting a bit nervous. Ra smiled down at the boy softly, and answered truthfully, "Yes, he most certainly will"
Hearing this, the boy perked up a bit and followed Ra towards the door. Ra reached out, and knocked loudly 3 times, so he was sure that Ryou heard him. When he heard Ryou shout a loud, 'Kitaru!(5),he quickly hugged the boy good luck, and disappeared from sight.
"Wow..." the boy said, amazed at Ra's power. He jumped a little, when light flooded from the apartment door to outside on which he stood, he looked up to see the startled look on Ryou's face. Ryou, on the other hand, was shocked to see a child standing outside his home. Especially since he was not properly dressed, and had white hair just like his own. Only shorter, messier, and defiantly dirty from dirt and sand.
Ryou spoke to the child, "E~tsu to... Anata wa ushinawa remasu?" (Um...are you lost?) (6)
The small boy looked at Ryou in confusion, "Mādhā؟" (What?)
Ryou gave the young boy the same confused look, "Watashi wa anata no yurushi o kou?" (I beg your pardon?)
"Whoops! Almost forgot!" Ra said, not being seen, nor heard by the two white-haired boys, "I should let them be able to understand each other!" Softly glowing, (though not seen by the two still), Ra uttered a spell in Egyptian.
"Yā ʼLh al-Ḩkmh ، Tḩwt ، ʼQrāḑy ʻLmk. Āsmḩwā Āthnyn Mn al-Bshr Mn Mkhtlf al-Lsān Nfhm Bʻḑnā al-Bʻḑ Wāḩdh!" (7)
The words were actually there to show off this time, but he figured he do this by the book, and ask anyway. So with his power, ( and Thoth's power), the confusion was finally gone from both boys faces when the young one spoke again.
"Um...I don't understand what your saying..." he spoke in fluent Japanese, without realizing it.
"Wait, I understood that!" Ryou said, "What's going on here?"
"Um...OH!" the young one said, remembering something important, "I'm...I'm suppose to give you this!"
He held out the letter meant for Ryou, he took it gently out of the little ones hands. Opening it, he was relieved that it was in Japanese, and started reading quietly and quickly.
Dear Hikari Ryou,
This little one is the Thief King at the young age of 5. Me, and the rest of the gods have heard your faint wish, and have given the child a second chance at living an actual childhood.
We hope that you will give him that chance, and love him above all else.
The Sun God, Ra
"Wow..." Ryou breathed, "I...I can't believe this is actually happening..."
The young one look at Ryou, "You...you don't love me?" he said, sounding sad.
"Ah, that's not it!" Ryou said fast, "I do want you to live here. I won't send you back all alone."
"Really?" the boy asked, excited and happy all over again.
"Yeah" Ryo said gently, while grasping the boy's hand, "Now, how about you come out of the cold, and get ready for bed. It's pretty late..."
Yawning to confirm Ryou's statement, the young one rub his eyes tiredly, "Okay"
"By the way, my name is Ryou" he said, while bringing the child inside, and shutting and locking the door, "What's yours?"
The boy shuffled his sandal clad feet, looking nervous, "My..my name is Akefia" (8)
Ryou smiled at the boy, and lead him up to his room to sleep with him tonight, "Alright Akefia. I hope you like it here."
The boy simply smiled at him, following him upstairs.
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Phew. That was a long prologue! Alright, time to answer the footnotes!
(1) Rḑ Tjm- Viewing Pool
(2) This the English translation from Arabic: Spirits and powers of the sun, hear thy prayer. Lend me your power from above. Split this mortals soul in half so thy destiny is never altered, and allow him a second chance!
(3) The whole "Eyes are a window to the soul" thing. So basically, our souls are our eye color. :)
(4) Ra is a science geek apparently.
(5) Kitaru-Coming
(6) Yes. I am randomly gonna add Arabic and Japanese words once in a while! So, get use to it!
(7) This the English translation from Arabic: O God of Wisdom, Thoth, lend me your knowledge. Let two mortals of different tongue understand each other as one!
(8) Yes. Little Thief King will be called Akefia. Get use to it!
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed, and R&R if you like. Or if you have anything to say, for that matter. I accept Constructive Criticism.