I don't know how much longer I can stand to wander the same dark, cold stone hall ways. I've grown tired, bored even, with memorizing what lies behind every trap door. I inhabit the body of a young boy and yet all I manage to do is play these silly cards games that dare to mock what great powers Egypt once held in its fist.

I came close to drawing a map of this place since it's only Yugi and I that get the chance to explore inside it. But I quickly thought against it when I recalled all of the odd enemies we seem to make around nearly every corner. If someone had managed to get inside the puzzle, having a map would defeat the whole purpose of having the trapped doors in the first place. Yugi will figure the place out on his own.

Enough. I can't sit around anymore waiting for him to grace me with his presence.

Yugi. There's something I'd like to discuss with you.

"Sure, Pharaoh. I was about to go to bed anyway." Replied the soft, childish voice that is, in fact, Yugi Moto of the tenth grade. Once I heard he was soon to go to sleep I took a non-physical form and sat at the end of his bed. When I took this form, he'd always stop talking to me in his head and he'd just speak out loud. I've always wondered what would happen if someone had overheard him. "What did you want to talk about?" He asked with that simple smile of his.

"I'd like to do a bit of walking around. Get some fresh air and clear my thoughts."

"Well, I suppose that's fair. But wouldn't I have to spend the night in the puzzle?" He looked concerned with those wide eyes of his.

"You've got your own room in there." I frowned.

"That doesn't make it any less creepy of a place..."

"You look like a smaller version of me, anything in there won't dare bother you." For some reason, looking like the Pharaoh of Egypt didn't have him jumping up and down with joy... "Yugi, I'm asking you as a friend to do this for me just once." He looked down at his hands for a while to make up his mind. Shortly after he looked up at me with his boyish smile and gave me a reassuring nod.

"Alright, Pharaoh. This night is yours." Graciously, I sunk back into the Millennium Puzzle only to switch places with the boy moments after.

That switch always takes up so much energy... I took some time to catch my head and reel it back in while I thought of an escape route. With Yugi's grandfather and mother in the house, I doubt I could just leave through the front door. I pulled the chained Millennium Puzzle off over my head and set it down on Yugi's bed.

"I'm sorry, Yugi, but I can't have you in my head tonight." I glanced out the bedroom window. No, it was far too high for me to jump. And there didn't appear to be anything I could use as a make shift ladder.

As I threw my jacket on over my shoulders and walked out the front door, shutting it carefully behind me, I almost brought myself to a laugh for thinking it was so difficult to get out. Yugi's mother's bedroom is right next to her father's. And her father snores louder than a Harpy Lady's screech and their only hint of a security system is a small bell over the top of the door to announce when there's a customer.

It doesn't take long to get to a park from the game shop that doubles as Yugi's house. The short walk was all I really needed, all I really wanted. I found myself sitting on a bench along side a trail for bikers and dog walkers, but of course no one was out this late at night. With a sigh I looked up at the black sky for just one moment and I'm not sure how... But I felt like I could relate to it.

"Yugi." That wasn't my name, I knew it wasn't. So why must I respond? I looked up from the bench to see someone I never thought I'd ever see without a duel disk strapped to his arm. There didn't appear to be a deck of any sort on his presence. He wasn't even wearing his usual flashy coats that seemed to have an eight foot radius. I didn't respond to him, but I guess something was written on my face. "Yugi, what the hell are you doing here like this?"

"I could ask you the same thing, Kaiba. I haven't got my deck on me, so why don't you go find some other opponent." Just because I didn't see his deck didn't mean he didn't have one.

"I'm not here to duel, Yugi. I've got better things to do with my time this late at night." He always carried the same snarky tone in his voice, it may be odd but I think I've actually missed hearing him. But all of his beating around the bush was starting to irritate me. I was in no mood for his games.

"Then what could you possibly want with me?" I scowled at him. Even in the dark he looked surprised... I almost felt bad. But then he sat beside me on the park bench, it made a small creaking noise as he sat on it.

"What brings you here, Yugi, has that old grandpa of yours finally kicked the bucket?" I felt my eyes narrow, which in turn made him grin. "Lighten up, I'm kidding. There's no need to be so tense all the time, Yugi." I let out a sigh.

"Kaiba, that isn't funny.."

"Not to you, maybe. You've yet to answer me, Yugi." Part of me is sick of being called that name.. It took a bit of self control not to correct him.

"I'm just out clearing my head. What about you?"

"I needed to get away from Mokuba. So I left him with some trusted men of mine."

"Yeah, that seemed to work out swell last time.."

"Mokuba can contact me via Kaiba Corp. watch-mic if someone tries to kidnap him again."

"So we should be ending this conversation any minute now." His brilliantly blue eyes glared at me, piercing through the darkness.

"That isn't funny, Yugi."

"Not to you maybe." For some reason we both smiled after that. We even began to laugh with each other, who knew Kaiba could be so.. Human?

"I see you aren't wearing your puzzle today. Don't tell me you went and lost it."

"No, I just.. Couldn't have it weighing me down right now." A small ding came from Kaiba's wrist and out came a rusty little voice.

"Seto! I need you to come back ASAP!" Kaiba sighed at his little brother's announcement.

"Maybe I should just lock him up at night..." I laughed, though after I felt I shouldn't have. Kaiba stood up, leaving me alone on the bench once more. "Be careful around here at night, Yugi, it can be pretty dangerous." I nodded and he left without looking back even once. I don't know what compelled me to say what I said next. No one was around to hear it and no one was there to respond. So, there was no one around to learn.

"My name is Atem.."