A/N: Okay, I thought about it, and decided I'd test-run my idea for a book I had by making it into a fanfiction and making them a little OOC for story and action purposes.

So... Tell me if you like it, okay?

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Depleted

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Daddy asked for the hundredth time.

Not that Yugi was complaining. He didn't want to go. He wanted to stay with Mommy and Daddy and Atem forever.

"Yes." Mommy said, an edge to her voice.

Yugi knew that edge- she was worried.

Why was Mommy worried? Had Nobodies crossed through the barrier again?

But they could stop them.

They could.

They always did.

"I understand that you worry, Auknemnkanan, but we must keep our boys safe."

Daddy sighed.

"I do, but to deplete him?"

Yugi felt his back go ridged.

They... They were going to deplete him?

Atem's hand clenched his twin brothers from their hiding spot, and they looked at each other- red into amethyst.

His determined gaze told his brother that he would not let this happen.

"It is necessary." Mommy said, turning the two boy's attention back to their parents, "If we deplete him, his powers will be lowered, making the Nobodies believe he is not worth killing. And if he can't remember... He won't come looking."

How could they do this?

He may have only been 5, and only able to count to 7, but he knew that parents were not supposed to deplete their sons!

Atem's hand had begun to clench his brother's so hard that it was beginning to hurt, but Yugi didn't mind. He would always remember his brother.

Always and forever.

"I just don't think it's right to do that to a child." Daddy said again, his dark red eyes- that he shared with Atem- sad, and lonely, like a puppy that got lost.

Yugi hated to see Daddy like this.

Usually he was happy and lovely, laughing and playing with his children, and taking care of the Land with all the happiness he did with Yugi and Atem.

He wouldn't let Mommy deplete him.

He wouldn't.

Mommy sighed, the way she did when Atem and Yugi "bothered" her when she was working, and looked at Daddy.

"You know that it's for the best. And if you wish for your sons to live, you will keep them apart. Apart, even without depletion, they'd die anyways. But with depletion... Yugi will be safe. They both will. If they're together, that much power could attract enough Nobodies to break through our barriers. You know that's true, and we will go through with this. Besides, the Motos will take good care of him."

She didn't ask it. If she was asking, it would be questioning.

She knew that Daddy loved them, and that he wanted to keep them safe.

"We love you, too, Daddy..." Yugi whispered.

Mommy and Daddy didn't seem to notice his whisper. They were completely out of this world, not paying attention to anything else.

But not Mommy.

Mommy really was out of this world.

She was reaching into the Shadow Realm, to call upon the one who would be in charge of Yugi's depletion.

The execution of Prince Yugi. The birth of Yugi Moto.

And the end of his memories.

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Sorry if you're confused, it'll be explained later.

But I really like this idea, so some feedback would help.

:3