Notes – Done for ygodrabble. Set post-canon, but not really specific.
Leaving your friends was hard to do.
It wasn't as if they'd been friends for a long time or anything, but something about them just seemed to fit. Anzu was her not-so-girly friend, and if it wasn't for her then Miho wouldn't be able to imagine herself hanging around with a bunch of boys. Though for a boy Yuugi was very timid and polite, he was easy to get along with. On the other hand Jounouchi was a typical boy, but where you found Yuugi and Honda you also found Jounouchi.
Honda…
It wasn't as if she was completely oblivious to his feelings for her, but as harsh as it was she wasn't that interested in him. Miho had big dreams of a celebrity husband, rich and glamorous, something that Honda sadly didn't fit into. But all those days he'd spent chasing after her hadn't meant nothing, he was a sweet guy.
Leaving those friends felt like betraying them.
But Miho couldn't stay there. She had dreams and those dreams would just be held back by such an insignificant little city like Domino. Surely Anzu would understand, she had her own dreams of becoming a dancer in New York one day. Not today however.
Today was Miho's day. If she waited longer then it'd just pass from one day to the next and she'd never leave. She had to go while she was still young and pretty.
So, without a word to any of them, she left.
It plagued her mind for years afterwards, but she figured that she'd never need to see them again. Right up until the first time Yuugi and Jounouchi appeared on TV. Somehow they seemed to have becoming famous, that Duel Monsters game had really taken off and they were among the best players of it. Even those Kaiba brothers were well known now.
And the more she watched, the more people she noticed along the sidelines – Anzu, Honda, Bakura and a whole host of other people she didn't know.
It seemed as if without her they had stayed the closest of friends, and they had been the ones to find their places in the world.
Not Miho.
Miho had found no fame or celebrity boyfriend; for all that she had tried.
And she had abandoned them to try…
They didn't need her now; they had each other and all of those other people they had met since she had gone. All she had to remember them by was a photo of Honda with a dorky smile, he'd tried to look dashing, and a number scrawled on the back in the hope that she might call him one day.
She'd stared at that number wondering many times. It was probably not worth it. He'd no doubt have a new phone by now anyway, and why would he even want to talk to some girl who had ignored him and left?
If there was even that slightest possibility, however…
One day she took the risk and dialled that number.
It rang so many times, but she refused to put it down.
And then…
"M-miho…? Is that you?"
So much to say, so many risks to take. But it was time to start taking them.