//Play with the Shadows, Play with me//

[puzzleshounen]

Who: Dark Yuugi, open to all!
Location: His favorite Haunt, AKA wandering the halls late at night.
Week: 58
Time: The night Yuugi returns.
What: Dark Yuugi...being himself, and dealing with the aftermaths of yet another switch that is beyond his control.
Rating: Shouldn't go higher than PG.
Format: Prose to start, and then whatev after.

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[sakeofthescoop]

It was nearing after hours and Kazumi was making her way back to the Ravenclaw dorms. She wasn't too worried about encountering teachers, she may not have been a Slytherin but she could be just as sneaky as them sometimes. Kazumi kept to the less used passageways and shortcuts, her ears alert to sounds. It was an old castle though, so it was hard to go quickly when every small creak made her pause to listen.

Plus, the worse case scenario was she'd be caught and she could fib that she was out catching a first year who was out of bed. Being a prefect had it's perks.

Kazumi almost passed the boy in the window without noticing him. However, she did and since she wasn't expecting someone to be seated at the window at this time of night she nearly jumped out of her skin. Managing, at least, not to shout.

[puzzleshounen]

The sounds of footsteps knocked the Darkness out of his reverie, turning his head slightly and cocking his eyebrow at the stranger, not knowing in truth how to speak to her. She seemed taller than his Host, but she was obviously startled to see him.

...He did recall something his Host had mentally mentioned about a curfew, though the Darkness himself rarely regarded it. This was the time he was often forced out, and in a state of wanderlust would wander the halls, staring out the windows.

He blinked at her once, crimson eyes simply...watching, curiously.

[sakeofthescoop]

Kazumi recovered quickly. A mysterious figure in the hallway at night. A chance encounter. Is this figure friend or foe? Kazumi ran the title in her head. Generally if she was shocked or surprised by something she would immediately fall into reporter mode. Concocting stories and headlines that could be made out of what she was dealing with. Call it a personality quirk, but it is probably what led to her next action.

"Yo. What brings you out tonight? Planning on breaking some rules or just sneaking around for the hell of it?" She was tempted to pull out a camera and get some blackmail material, but figured she could wait to see what his reasons were...and to make sure he wasn't suspecting something.

[puzzleshounen]

Hm. She was asking questions--and again, there was that 'rules' thing. So apparently there was a curfew in this place...and even then, it would be obvious that he might have looked a little suspicious. Even though he looked like his host, he still had a much older feel...and Ren was able to easily deduce that they were different people...

Hm. Come to think of it, this was how he met Ren, too. Meeting by chance in a hallway.

He gave her a neutral stare, before glancing away.

"I just wished for some quiet." He said in his usual deep baritone. "The students in the dorm sleep quite loudly."

[sakeofthescoop]

Suspicious was an understatement for this guy. It was hard to miss that hair, for starters, and Kazumi was pretty sure there was only one student with that sort of ridiculous hair style. Of course, that particular student wasn't exactly known to break rules...at least as far as Kazumi was aware.

Which made her wonder quite a few things about this guy. Evil twin? Relative with a close resemblance? Possession?

Well, at least he was willing to talk to her. "I wasn't aware. You in a dorm room with a lot of snorers or are you just a light sleeper? Oh! Or maybe you're some kind of mind reader. I'm sure we have to have some among the student body."

[puzzleshounen]

Mind reader? Perish the thought. No, he was just a disembodied spirit from a puzzle stuck in someone's body. Who didn't know who he even was. And had ended up being forced to come to the surface more than once, as though the magical energies from the school itself forced him to the front. This whole place was bizarre.

...Not to mention the students here were most certainly inquisitive. And chatty.

"I'm not a mind reader, no." He turned to her again, red eyes watching her with a more curious stare. "Snorers, mostly, I'm afraid."

[sakeofthescoop]

Sometimes Kazumi wished she was a mind reader. It would make getting all the juicy secrets out of every one that much easier. Right now she was still trying to figure out just who the heck this student was. It was almost embarrassing and she didn't want to be obvious about it by pulling out her various little black books for photos.

Oh well, it'd come to her eventually.

"Not a mind reader, huh. Noted. Yeah, the snoring is probably more disturbing than some of the stuff you might pick up in people's heads," she replied with a grin, not at all bothered by his stare. "I could be wrong though, I'm not a mind reader either."