Summary: Yami bursts into Yugi's soul room one day and convinces him to help him make and put up signs to label the hundreds (or thousands) of doors in his labyrinth of a soul room. You'd think that with so many doors, making signs for all of them would be a hassle, right? But the real trouble arises when the signs they put up start mysteriously and constantly being removed, switched, or ruined. But...why?

Characters: Yami Yugi & Yugi Muto

Genre: Humor & Mystery

Rating: K+, but might change if necessary.


HELLOOOOOOOOO!

Here's something new that I don't usually do...you ready for this...?

IT'S NOT ABRIDGED
IT'S NOT THEIFSHIPPING
IT WILL NOT BE ABOUT A BAKURA OR A MARIK!

Yup. Sorry if you were expecting one of those things from me. This will not be abridged, have theifshipping, or be about one of the Bakuras or the Mariks. That's a rarity for me because I LOVE writing about those four, especially abridged. I personally prefer to write about Yami and Yugi NOT abridged.

I don't remember when or why I got this idea. I know that the last time I edited this (from my iPod) was back in March, and I know that I had actually written it at least a month before. I didn't edit it much in terms of how it was written because I want to preserve the original writing style and quality of it. (This means that the next chapter, unwritten at this time, will have a significantly different writing style because my style has changed a lot in the past few months.) This was site-edited all in one day, and in under 3 hours. I have it all planned out and there will be an epic plot twist. I won't explain much else, and I'll just let the story tell itself.

Oh, and did I mention that there may or may not be subtle, implied, faked, forced, and/or feigned puzzleshipping in this?

I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, or any of the characters/trademarks in those.

R&R

ENJOY~!


Yugi heard a knocking at the door.

"Co-"

Yami burst into Yugi's soul room before Yugi even finished the word. "Yugi I need your help!"

Alarmed, Yugi quickly stood up from the jigsaw puzzle he was doing on the floor. "Why? What's wrong!"

Yami held on to the door frame with both hands. "This is very important!" His face was all serious and then...

His face became calm and casual. "Are you using those empty puzzle boxes in that box labeled 'NOT USING'?" He pointed at a box labeled "NOT USING" that was filled with the empty boxes of the jigsaw puzzles Yugi had either grown out of or lost too many pieces to.

Yugi blinked at the request. "What? Um... No. Why?"

"Good. I need them." Yami entered the room and walked over to the box. He picked up the box and turned to Yugi. "Mind if I dump them all right here? I need space. And this place is already a mess so it won't really be noticeable."

"Um... No. But why do you-?"

Again, Yami didn't give his partner a chance to finish, and turned the box upside-down in the middle of the room. About one hundred boxes fell out of the giant box that looked like it only held twenty five normal-sized jigsaw puzzle boxes.

"Why are you doing this?" Yugi tried to ask once more.

Yami took out a pair of scissors he had tucked into his belt and held them out to Yugi. Yugi walked over and took them. Then Yami took out another pair and held them up. "I need to make signs."

"Signs? With these?"

"Yes. By the way do you have any tape or nails or screwdrivers or-"

"If you haven't noticed the theme of this room, it's a child's room. Why would child at the age of having a room like this in real life have a tool box and tools in his room?"

"How old are you anyway?"

"Sixteen!"

"Really! Compared to me you're like a newborn!"

"I'm not young. You're just old."

"Watch it, Yugi. Don't forget who has a pair of scissors in his hand." Yami waved the scissors at Yugi threateningly.

"Oh look!" Yugi held up his scissors. "It looks like I have a pair, too! Wow! Interesting."

They both lowered their hands. "Alright, no need to get violent!" Yami said. "Anyway, do you have any of that stuff?"

"I have some tape."

"Perfect! Now help me start cutting these up, will you?"

Yami sat down next to the pile of empty boxes. He took a the lid of a box and started cutting it along the edges. He put the cardboard rectangles/squares next to him in a pile when he was done.

Yugi shrugged, sat down, and began to help him.

They talked as they cut. "So why are you doing this again?" Yugi asked.

"Because I decided to start making signs for the doors in my soul room."

"...Seems legit. What for?"

"Are you serious, Yugi? Do you really need to even ask that?! There are like five bajillion rooms and about eight bajillion doors in there! And I only ever use about one bajillion of them! This is very necessary."

"Yeah but don't you know your way around? It's your soul room after all. Shouldn't you have it memorized by now?"

"Oh let me see! It's my soul room, so I should know exactly where everything is, right?" He gasped dramatically and sarcastically. "Yugi, do you know where that black teddy bear that you showed me the other day is?"

"Pfft! Of course I do! It's um..." Yugi looked around wildly, obviously having no idea where it is. "It's uh... Um... It's..."

Yami narrowed his eyes and pointed next to him with the hand that held the scissors. "Yugi, it's right over here. It was next to me the whole time I've been here."

Yugi looked. "Oh... Um... There you are Leah!"

"Leah?" Yami repeated. "You named it?! What are you, ten?"

"I'm SIXTEEN!"

"Really!" Compared to me you're like a newborn!"

Yugi rolled his eyes. "Shut up. So what was the point of that?"

"The point was, you don't know where everything is in your room, and I don't know where everything is in mine."

"Oh..."

"And you have no idea how torturous it is trying to remember where the bathroom is when I really have to go!"

"Whoa whoa whoa wait..." Yugi suddenly said. "You have a BATHROOM in there?!"

"Yeah. What of it?"

"When were you going to tell me about it?"

"What? I didn't know you wanted to know."

"Why wouldn't I?! Do you see a bathroom in my soul room?"

"No."

"Exactly! You don't know how many times I've suffered in here, needing to go, while you're in control of my body playing a card game! It was torture! And all this time you had one in your soul room! Why did you not tell me about this?!"

Yami shrugged innocently. "Didn't know you needed it."

Yugi instantly facepalmed without thinking.

"Yugi..."

"What?" Yugi said, his hand still on his face.

"Your hand."

"Huh?" He looked at his hands. One of them held a box. The other one had dropped the scissors. "Holy crap I almost cut my face off!1!1!11!11!1!"

"Good thing you didn't!" Yami said. He went back to cutting. "Your face is too adorable to be maimed by a pair of scissors."

"I know right..." Yugi trailed off. He noticed Yami looking up at him, smirking, with his eyebrows raised.

Yugi knew that look. "Go back to cutting."

"Say it..."

"No."

"Say it..."

Yugi sighed and rolled his eyes. "Fine. Go back to cutting, partner."

"That's right!" Yami shouted, pointing dramatically at Yugi with the hand that held the scissors (the other hand held a box). "And don't you forget it!"

"I won't."

They both went back to cutting.

"So anyway, as I was saying, I'm going to start labeling all of the doors and rooms I use, and some of the doors I know what's behind. So I need about ten hundred pieces of cardboard."

"Why do you need cardboard from me? Why puzzle boxes?"

"Because my soul is bound to the Millenium Puzzle, so it's only appropriate to use signs made from puzzle boxes. Makes sense, right?"

"I suppose..."

"And where else am I supposed to get this from?"

"Point taken."

They had about fifty more boxes to go. Which meant that they had about one hundred more box lids/bottoms to cut up.

At one point, Yugi put the scissors down and stood up. "I'm going to look for a marker and tape."

He took two steps away, then he took two steps back and took the scissors with him.

Yami looked offended. "I was only kidding about the scissors, you know!"

"Just to be safe..."

"Hmph..."

Yugi spent about five minutes looking, until he found both items. He set the marker and tape down next to the pile of cardboard rectangles and squares. He picked up the scissors again. "I found a Sharpie and duct tape."

"Duck tape?" Yami looked at the tape curiously. "Why is it not quacking?"

"No no no. Not DUCK tape, DUCT tape. With a T, not a K. It has nothing to do with ducks."

"What?" Yami cried, clearly astonished. "Seriously?"

"Yup. Seriously."

Yami suddenly looked embarrassed. He put down the box and scissors he was holding and stood up slowly. He walked over to the shelf of puzzles and took out a box that he knew Yugi never touched, then opened it and walked back with it.

"What's that?"

"Um... This." He took something out of the box and showed it to Yugi. "Um... Yeah."

Yugi's eyes widened. "So that's where my rubber ducky went! Why do you have it in there?"

Yami turned the duck around. Stuck to its side was a square piece of duct tape.

"Why the hell did you put duct tape on my duck?"

"It was in the first month of you solving the Millenium Puzzle. I was confused! I didn't understand this world yet! Stop judging me!"

Yugi just facepalmed, again without thinking.

"Yugi..."

"What?"

"Your hand. Again."

Yugi looked at his hands once more and he saw that the hand he had facepalmed with was the same that had held the scissors just moments ago. Again, he had almost stabbed himself. "Not again!" He looked at the other hand. "I really need to start facepalming with my left hand."

Yami looked at the yellow rubber duck. "Why do you have a rubber duck in here anyway?"

"I just do."

"What are you, five?"

"SIX FREAKING TEEN!"

"Really! Wow! Compared to-"

"Don't."

"Fine."

"Thank you."

"...You're small."

"Yes I am. Now get back to cutting."

Yami put the ducky and the box back on the shelf.

They resumed their task.

About two hours (in soul room time) after they had started, they were finally done!

"Wow!" Yugi exclaimed. "About two hours (in soul room time) after we had started, we are finally done!"

"That took longer than expected. Now to gather them up!"

"We can put them in the box that we took them out of!"

"The bottomless one?"

"Yeah. That one."

They went over to the "NOT USING" box. Yami uncapped the Sharpie and crossed out the word "NOT". He closed the marker and started helping Yugi put the blank "signs" in the box.

Yami brought one up to his face and examined the edges before putting it in the box. "Wow. For a nine year old you sure do cut well!"

Yugi didn't even bother to correct him.

Three minutes (in soul room time) later, they were done.

"Now to carry this box to my soul room! Let's go, Yugi."

"Why do I have to carry it? You do it!"

"But that's like...heavy!"

"It has the same amount of cardboard in it now as it did when you first picked it up to dump the boxes on the floor. And it's bottomless anyway. It only weighs as much as how much would fit in there if it wasn't bottomless."

"If that's the case, then there were only 25 boxes in there before, and now there is 100 boxes worth of cardboard in there. Your logic is invalid."

"Frack!"

"Now pick up that box and follow me!" Yami turned away and headed across the hall to his soul room.

Yugi pouted at him, but did what he asked and picked up the box, then followed him out. Yami backtracked because he forgot the marker and tape. When he retrieved them, he followed Yugi across the hall.


Hope you enjoyed! Next chapter, they will be putting up the signs.

Most chapters will be this long. One or two might be a little bit longer, one or two might be a little bit shorter. It depends.

I have the whole plot and stuff planned out (except for the part after the climax), but I don't have the actual chapters themselves planned out. I will, in due time. I won't work on this story as much as I will on some of my others that I work on regularly. However, I won't neglect this story as much as I have for some of my others that I've neglected. I have no idea when the next update will be.

See you next chapter!

BYEEEEEEEEEE~!