Tainted Innocence

Summary: Yet another vamp AU: Vampires took over the streets of Domino over a century ago. These demons are the nightmares of the Human Slaves that are left. They live in fear of them, hoping for a way of escape. Will they ever be freed? Will someone defy the Vampires? And how long can people stay safe here? Yami/Yuugi

Prologue

Rotting corpses lay on the outskirts of Domino, a once quant city in Japan. The houses were old and falling to pieces with the occasional blood stain. The streets looked like a war had broken out. Smashed cars lay everywhere, with pieces of broken glass covering the street, crashed into sign posts and buildings. Building doors where covered up with planks as a feeble effort to keep something in. On the front crosses were engraved into the wooden planks. The crosses gave the true reason why the planks where there. They were there to keep the demons out.

The smell of rotting flesh and dried blood literally radiated from the area. Blood stains were on the walls as if there had been a struggle to escape. Old shops lay abandoned and items lay randomly in the street. The items showed the people that they had once lived here in harmony. Dolls littered the street to show the struggle of young girls. Written on the wall of one once humble Blacksmith was the word 'Help'. It was written in a deep crimson. The message was obviously something someone did last before they died.

If you continued to walk down the dusty and abandoned streets of Domino to just before the Kame Game shop, you could see human's living in the area, away from the packed centre, in fear of the demons that ruled there town. Humans were kept as slaves, made to breed for them until they were picked off. Vans arrived once every fortnight and grabbed the wanted. About a hundred left each time, never to return again. The humans lived in fear that they would be taken so kept doing everything that would please the King of the demons.

The King of these creatures was meant to be vicious and the darkest of them all. He lived in his castle with his select group of helpers. Once you reached that castle you would never return, unless you were in a body bag and the King was the reason of that. Every couple of decades the King would become bored of his food and would look for something more interesting. The people had heard rumours that the king just sat in his castle all day, in the pitch black, just thinking. Rumours said that the king was antisocial and preferred to stay alone. Once, a stupid rumour called him shy, but that was something he definitely wasn't.

The people of Domino lived in old wooden shacks or buildings with dusty floors and no furniture. Their bed was a simple pile of straw and their lives were simple like that. They worked just as slaves to the vampires. Some worked as farmers to keep the food for the demons alive. Of course the demon's food was humans but that was not necessary information. Any human that worked, and was needed to keep the humans alive, lived until they were needed no more. On the odd occasion some people worked into their fifties but usually they were dead and drained by then.

Some shacks had been burned or broken into when the demons discovered that they had broken their laws somehow. If you broke their laws or were rude about the demons, you were executed in your own shack. But to make it more of a punishment, you first watched your family be slaughtered. Babies, children, grand-parents or even pets died right in front of you to add to the torture.

Women kept producing children, which the Demon King had a particular liking for. Men helped build vampire fortresses and of course assisted the women with the children. If you were not married by the age of twenty you were taken for your blood. If you had not had children by the age of thirty, then you were taken with your partner. If you could not produce children, then you were taken from childhood. But recently the children of Domino had begun to disappear more in those black vans.

The black vans were the very fear of the people that lived there. Usually if a black van was sighted coming to the city, then everyone would cower away into their shacks. Humans controlled by the demons would come out and collect the wanted. The captured would be crossed off the list. No one disliked the humans that drove the vans at all. If they didn't do it then the demons would wipe out their entire family. In fear the workers worked and not because they enjoyed it. The people of Domino understood them with a compassion so helped them when down. Some of them committed suicide, ashamed of what they had done to help the monsters. The people lived in the darkness in fear.

Daylight was shorter than usual. About two hours were given to the humans to soak up the sun due to the large gothic castle on the hill behind them. Dark Powers, as the humans called it, radiated from that castle. The powers formed a dome around the area that was Domino. If you dared to try and escape you would be blocked off by a wall of Shadow.

Shadow was all it was called. Some called it voodoo tricks while other believed it to be a weird Sci-Fi thing. The only fact known was once you got into Domino, you would leave as a rotting corpse. No one had ever escaped successfully. Only failures had occurred, scarily as well, and they were tortured to death. That was one of the seven rules of Domino. Running away was strictly forbidden. And if you ever broke the rules, you wouldn't live to tell the tale.

In this once quant town lived the Mutou family. They were one of the few families with an actual house. Most of the villagers here came from the city centre so were forced to move into the shacks. Old occupants of the suburbs, who were still alive of course, lived in their houses. Over generations the houses were passed down. The Mutou house was once their game shop but no one really cared about that any more. Old games lay on the shelves of the old shop. Out the back there was stairs that led upstairs to the house.

Seven year old Yuugi sat on the floor in the middle of his room looking miserable. His best friend Ryou had just lost his father to the demons. Due to back problems, Ryou's father couldn't work, so the demons just took him away. It was dark out now and it had been for at least an hour. Yuugi got up and lay on his ancient bed. A silhouette of the Demon King lay on the back of his wall to show him who his leader was. If you ever saw the King's face you were never seen again. His appearence remained a secret. Yuugi lay there sighing deeply. He had had enough of life now, he also knew that Ryou had too, and he just wanted to escape it all.

He heard a knocking on the door and got up. He knew his mum and grandfather would be working hard to avoid death. He walked down the electric lighted corridors, which were there due to the darkness. He passed the long mirror before the door and briefly looked at his reflection. His amethyst eyes reflected back with his mad hair spiking up. His black, crimson tipped spikes drooped slightly with the greasiness of his hair. His once shining blonde bangs were now only a dirty colour.

The last time he had had a bath was about a month ago, and that reflected in his look. His face was pale from the lack of sunlight. His hair was greasy with no shine to it at all. He sighed and continued to the door. He answered it without a second thought and began to turn around with a simple: 'Come in'. Before the boy could walk away he heard a low growl behind him. Yuugi breathed in deeply in horror. He began to slowly look around. A gust of wind suddenly pushed its way through the Mutou's front door.

By the time Yuugi had turned around the corridor was pitch-black. He attempted to look towards the doorway. Glaring right towards him were a pair of red eyes. Yuugi could have run away and possible would have made it but he was frozen in fear. The crimson, blood-like eyes looked straight into his soul. They eyed Yuugi up, interested in him almost, while slight impressed sounds were made.

"Now, Little One, would you tell me where Sugoroku Mutou is?" a deep baritone asked. Yuugi guessed that the eyes had asked.

"I don't know, sir. But why have the lights gone out? I don't like the dark." Yuugi whimpered back. He guessed by the radiance of the eyes that it was a demon. Yuugi worked his way down to the floor and cupped his legs up to his chest. The demon scared him and he didn't want to die.

"Do not be afraid, Little One. I will not hurt you. The eyes came closer and a single torch near those gleaming eyes sparked into life. The light immediately shot through the room, adding a slight light into the dark corridor, "I would like to ask you how you style your hair and what your name is?" The baritone asked.

Yuugi squinted in the sudden bright light until his eyes refocused. He looked up to the person the voice belonged to, who was standing directly above him. Yuugi jumped back in fear and stood up quickly. The man in front of him had hard shaped eyes, with a deep crimson in shade, which looked worn and old. He had hair almost like Yuugi's but it gleamed more. The dark spikes were tipped with crimson like Yuugi's, but the bangs were different. Blonde, almost lightning shaped bangs crept up the black spikes. His skin was as pale as Yuugi's and he was wearing a simple frown in expression.

Clothes-wise he was wearing a black leather shirt with black belt tightly fastened around his neck. He had a waist length black cape on with an inside of the crimson like his eyes. He was also wearing tight black leather leggings with a black belt attached onto them. He was taller than Yuugi by quite a bit so looked down on him.

Yuugi gulped slightly when he noticed that this man looked a lot like him. "Sir, I don't know how I style it. I just wake up with it each morning. And my name is Yuugi Mutou," He replied shakily. He didn't know what the demon was playing at. He should be dead and drained by now, "But sir, what is your name,"

"My dear Yuugi, my name is Yami, I am known as nothing else. Where is your family? They have broken the rule of the Vampire God by insulting him," Yami asked while toying with his hair. Yuugi gulped slightly before answering.

"But shouldn't I be dead by now too, then? Not that I'm complaining or anything, sir? I don't know where my family is," He replied shakier than before.

"But my dear little Yuugi, that would be a waste. Kaiba, Bakura, go search for the family while I deal with this little one," Yami replied smirking. Yuugi heard footsteps lead away from his house, "I do not want to hurt you. You seem more interesting than all the rest. Come with me, to my castle, Little One. And if you dare to refuse I shall just drag you anyways. So what do you say?" Yami replied smirking evilly towards Yuugi.

"But I can't leave my family! They are all I have other than Ryou..." Yuugi immediately stopped there not wanting his friend to be captured too.

"But my dear Little One, you have no choice. I have already marked you as mine. And once you are mine, you will never escape. And this Ryou shall come with you," Yami replied, trying to act friendly to Yuugi.

Yuugi began to reply, wanting to stay there, but it was no use. Yami grabbed a corner of his cape and wrapped Yuugi in it. Yuugi attempted to struggle with no avail. He was stuck there, in an almost hug, next to a demon. He winced and closed his eyes in fear. He kept muttering it was only a dream with no use. He heard the back door crash down and the screams of his dear mother. Tears formed in Yuugi's eyes as he heard his grandfather cry out for help.

He let the tears fall freely without a sound as he heard the sounds stop. He knew now that there was no noise, the struggle was over. His family was obviously dead and he was just alone. Yami looked down to Yuugi and saw his tears. He wiped them away with his free hand before hitting Yuugi swiftly on the back of the neck. The impact caused the young seven year old to black out immediately. Yami grinned eagerly as he left the house with the child on his shoulder. He had so many plans for this Yuugi. Some things that Yuugi would never dare to even think about.

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A/N: First YGO story prologue done and it's quite lengthy for a prologue. I hope you like it. I thank Moondalian for editing, and Well that's it,
Ja Ne,
Inno-chan