Hey guys, I have been reading a lot and I mean A LOT of aus were two characters switch roles...why stop at two? So that's what I'm doing, Yuugi and Yami will switch roles, Anzu and Mana will switch and so forth.

This is an Ancient Egypt AU

will probably be puzzleshipping.

welp I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, let's begin.

Fate has a funny way of working, that much I know. For most of the time I never knew my name, I know I have one, but I just don't know what it is. My current charge knows of my existance, he has ever since the puzzle was handed to him. His father before him, I have also watched, help guide through the ages of being a pharoah.

I may not remember my name, my home land, hell even my title, but I know one thing the muscles never forget once they learn an action and ruling has been drilled into me.

I am a mentor to those that weild my puzzle, I am a friend, and if things go differently I am a father to some. Right now I find myself smiling fondly at the sceen unfolding in front of me.

"I don't know if I can do this. What if she says no? What if she says yes and I make a fool of myself? What if-?"

"What if you keep asking 'what if's' the spirit of the puzzle hits you with this pillow?" I said, glowing with amusement.

The young pharaoh of age 20 froze as my words. finally settled into his mind. "Oh."

I couldn't hold my amusement anymore and started laughing as ruby eyes glared at me.

"Akhu," yup that is the name I was bestown upon me by the pharaoh's grandfather. The name just stuck after that. "Do you really believe I can do this? I mean she's so... and I'm so...ugh."

"Aknamkanon, you keep doubting yourself, Amara loves you, there is no reason she couldn't possibly refuse you. Now go!"

Aknamkanon started smiling before running off to see his beloved. I rolled my eyes as the millenium puzzle hit his hip as a form of encouragement. I don't understand why he puts the puzzle around his hips instead of around his neck.

My eyes followed the twist and turns of the palace halls that I had known for years before I saw an arcway to the palace gardens where Amara was talking to a 12 year old Isis, a girl training to be a healer and priestess to inherit the millenium necklace.

A smile broke out in Amara's face, hazel eyes shining with love for the young pharaoh. "Aknamkanon! Over here!"

These are the moments that make me happy to be a guiding spirit, to help this family become the best they can be, sure sometimes I am ignored but there are a few, like Aknamkanon, that feel relief to be guided by a friend to be better.

I snapped out of my thoughts as I heard a female scream of joy. "Yes! Of course I'll marry you Aknamkanon!"

I saw Amara jump into Aknamkanon's surprised embrace before he saw that I gave him an amused smile, making him glare softly at me but I could see the joy in his crimson eyes. Isis was smiling as well at the now engaged couple, before waving at me seeing as she could see my floating form.

I am the guardian of the Sennen royal family, I am the teacher of many great Sennen pharaohs, I am a friend to many, who has seen them grow and mature before doing what I can not, move on. I am many things but I know I have yet to meet the one that will release me from my chains.

I am Akhu and the only thing I remember is the name "Yugioh"

King of Games

I stared at the slow rising and falling of Aknamkanon's chest, the puzzle held tightly in his fist.

"Your time is ending my friend, I can feel your life starting to be dragged by Anubis."

Aknamkanon turned his gaze to me. Crimson eyes holding wisdom and grief. "My son, Akhu, I beg of you, protect my son."

I closed my eyes to try and stop the tears in my eyes from falling. I hate this, I have to watch as each of my companions, some who I view as my children die before my very eyes.

"I swear Aknamkanon, I will be his guide just like I was yours, but you know the rules, he has to solve my puzzle. That is the way the high priests will actually acknowledge Atemu as pharaoh."

Aknamkanon's gaze soften as he remembered his struggle at solving the puzzle but after a year of working on both the kingdom and the puzzle he gained my guidence and my friendship.

I smiled down on his fragile form. This man has grown from the cowering boy I met when he solved my puzzle, he gained allies, love and a family. Now it was Atemu's turn to start his legacy. "At least you will finally see Amara again, Aknam."

The last thing I saw before returning into the puzzle was Aknamkanon smiling at the old nickname and the chance to see his late wife, and Atemu running to his fathers side to get his final words. And with that I felt the puzzle. . . my final link Akanmkanon, break. It will soon be a link for Atemu and I.

~Line Break~

All my life I have seen father talk to thin air. At first I thought it was a coping with my mother's death when I was the age of four. But as the years kept going I saw that I was wrong, apperently father has been talking to air a year since he inherit the thrown when he was eighteen.

Why would my father be so blind to see that talking to air was a sign of maddness? Even with the knowledge of my father's condition I still loved him. He cared for me, taught me many things and it tore my heart when I heard the news of my father's illness.

Khemet is already saying that I will be crowned pharaoh, already believing my father would die. Ra, please, if you can hear me, please don't let Anubis to take my father to Osairis.

I kept looking at the scroll in my hands. "Atemu? Are you alright?" I lifted my gaze to meet Isis'. "Perfectly fine, why do you ask?"

Isis looked at me in worry. "Because you have been staring at that scroll for the past twenty minutes with a look of distress, my prince."

A sigh escaped me before one of the guards came running towards us. "Prince Atemu, it's your father-" before he even finished I was on my feet and running to father's chaimber.

I passed by Mana and Mahad who looked to already know that I would reseive news about my father soon. As I entered the room my father laid in with Isis, Mahad, Mana and the guards in tow I saw him smiling down at the puzzle.

"Father!"

His gaze that held joy and grief met mine. "Atemu, I can already feel my time is coming."

"No, please, I still need you."

Father started smiling at me with the same gaze he used to give me when he was saying he was proud of me.

"Atemu, I cannot change the gods' will, I may be the Horus on Earth but now it will be your turn."

No, I don't want to be seen as a living god if my family is gone. He is all I have left, please, let him stay with me.

His hands went to craddle the millenium pendent, with shaking hands, he handed me the jewel that has been in our family for generations.

"Atemu is time you honor tradition and inherit the millenium pendent. . . no, the millenium puzzle. The people may see you as pharaoh when you are crowned but the council will not view you as such till you finish tradition. They will follow your commands but you will never be a true ruler in their eyes if you don't complete the task."

I stared at father with confusion and surprise through my tears. He was dying and he was talking about traditions NOW? Why would he do this. Father raised the pendent over his head and with his final strenght threw it to the ground beside me.

"Father don't!" with that I saw the pendent shatter into puzzle pieces of its former self. I stared at both father and the puzzle in horror. No, the final present from my father was broken and he smiled whispering my mother's name before taking his final breath and whispering a name I never heard from him: Akhu.

"Father. . . father, please. Please wake up. Wake up, please!" at this point I didn't care that part of the council and guards were watching. At that moment, I had become pharaoh. . .and I despised it.

I stared at the ground and gathered the pieces of the Sennen family heirloom. If this is what my father wanted me to fix, I will do it for his final wish not for tradition.

With that in mind I signaled the guards to take my father's body in order to be mummified. Even if I wanted to or not I walked out of father's room a pharaoh.

Well chapter on sure is lively.

Short chapter but it's a start. The Millenium Items were created before so Kul Elna never was massacred so Akefia is a friend!

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