Chapter 1

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Thought

Letter

-Telephone-

"Dialogue"

"Egyptian Language"

Emphasis

Dangerous tone

The Door

A boy with star shaped hair that had three colors as black at the base which turned amethyst at the tips and blond bangs sighed in relief when he stretched himself, the last class for the day had finally ended and his body was stiff after sitting for so long. After he was done with his stretching, he picked up his bag and walked out of the class room.

"Yugi!" A voice called out to him and he looked behind him to see a blond haired guy with honey brown eyes walking to him.

"Yes, Jounouchi-san?" Yugi asked politely, he was the youngest in his class since he skipped grade to the High School, with him being 13 and the rest being 15 or 16, he would always speak politely to basically everyone in school. "Can I help you?".

Jounouchi smiled, "I was wondering if you would have time to duel with me today?" He asked in friendly way, obviously he wanted to be friends with Yugi.

"A duel?" Yugi asked with blinking eyes.

"Yes." Jounouchi nodded with a wider smile, "We only had a duel in Duelist Kingdom before, and that was also a serious duel to fight the right to duel Pegasus, we never have a duel just for the fun of it. So, would you like to have a duel with me?".

Yugi opened his mouth to answer but a voice beat him to it, "You know that he is the King of Games, he is busy and doesn't have time to duel against a loser like you, Mutt".

Yugi turned to looked at who was talking from behind him and saw a tall guy with neatly cut brown hair and a pair of piercing blue eyes, he was staring coldly at Jounouchi with a crossed arms. "Seto-nii." He called out the guy's name with blinking eyes.

"Shut your damn mouth, Kaiba!" Jounouchi growled angrily, "I'm not a Mutt and I'm not a loser either! I got the freaking Third Place in Duelist Kingdom, damn it!" His body tensed and his hand raised in a balled fist, as if he was refraining himself from beating the brunette right there and then, and he probably would if it's not because he didn't want to get sued by the CEO of Kaiba Corporation.

"Whatever." Seto answered calmly and looked at Yugi, "Yugi, get moving, we need to get to the meeting with Pegasus soon." He then turned around without saying anything else.

Yugi looked at Jounouchi and smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry about what he said, and I'm sorry that I couldn't duel you." He said before running off to follow after his Cousin.

XXXXX

"Can you believe it, Mokie?" Yugi asked after he finished telling a raven haired boy with dark grey eyes about what had happened to him that day, "Not only Seto-nii had said something so insulting like that to Jounouchi-san, which would definitely destroyed any possibility of me being friends with Jounouchi-san, he also didn't give me a minute time to eat something before we took off to Kaiba Corp! Man, I was starving and nearly couldn't concentrate on the meeting".

Kaiba Mokuba, who was nicknamed as Mokie by Yugi, laughed in response, "I can, definitely can!" He answered cheerfully, "Seto-nii was just a bit sore that he lose a duel against you . . . again." He raised an eyebrow at Yugi, "So, Yuu, have you and Seto succeed in convincing Pegasus to give us the permission we need?".

Kaiba Corp had planned to make a Fighting Game just like in the arcade but using a few of Duel Monster's Monsters as the Fighters, and in order for them to do it, they need a permission from Pegasus as the creator of Duel Monsters.

Yugi grinned in answer, "Yes, I and Seto-nii managed to convinced him that our new game wouldn't make Duel Monsters forgotten or something like that since the characters we would use are only 12 Monsters, not to mention the game would be placed in the arcade, people couldn't bought the game to their home, so Duel Monsters would still be played by the people. There's also the fact that Duel Monsters Tournaments would still be held every once in a while, Pegasus didn't have a reason to not give us the permission." He explained proudly to the boy with a victory sign, "With all these logic, there's no way Pegasus could think of a loop hole to refused our proposal, and he would also get a bit of our profit every time we sold out game, so he could only sigh and agreed to let us make the game".

Mokuba laughed cheerfully, "No one can win in verbal war against you, Yuu." He said as he swung an arm around Yugi's shoulder, they were both 13, so they were closer with each other than with Seto, "You are my unbeatable Cousin, Yu Gi Oh".

Yugi blushed at the words, "Just because I think quicker than anyone else, doesn't mean they can't win against me, they just didn't have the time to match my thinking speed." He argued, "I'm sure that there's people out there in the world who could beat me".

"Impossible." Mokuba said right away with deadpanned expression, "According to the record you hold, you are the only one in this world who have the IQ more than 400 point, even if there's any out there who could beat you, they might just have a better luck than you".

Yugi pouted, "You make it as if I'm the smartest people in the world." He mumbled unhappily, "I'm sure there's someone out there who could outsmart me, it's just they don't show themselves up".

"Because there's none." Mokuba said with a big grin.

Yugi whined and wanted to make a retort when his phone rang, he sighed and answered it, "Yes, with Kaiba Yugi, is there something I can help you with?" He asked as the form of hello.

-Yo, Yugi! It's me!- An excited voice answered from the other end of the call, -I want to ask you when your Summer Break is-.

Yugi raised an eyebrow, "It's a week away, Malik." He answered slowly, he heard Malik told someone that information and frowned, "What's with it? Do you want to visit me?" He asked curiously to his best friend.

-Nope.- Malik answered with a chuckle, -I'm gonna make you visit me.- He said with finality.

"Eh, but Malik . . . I have job in here." Yugi reasoned, "How in the world I would be able to visit you? You are in Egypt, it's so far from here".

-So?- Malik asked, -Ishizu managed to convinced Kaiba that he need to let you go visit us during the Summer Break, it's not like Mokuba couldn't take over your job for the time being-.

"Ishizu pulled the string?" Yugi asked in surprise, "How in the world you convinced Ishizu to help you out?".

Malik laughed over the phone, -I challenge her into a duel of Duel Monsters, saying that if I could win against her, she would help me convincing Kaiba to let you go and stay with us during Summer Break.- He explained, -I won obviously, I had been perfecting my combos after I lost against you in Battle City, and beating my Sister mean that I had improved a lot, considering she managed to win against me during Duelist Kingdom. Anyway, we have a surprise waiting for you when you arrived here, so prepare your stuff, you will take off at 11 AM, Sunday then-.

"You even bought me a ticket already?" Yugi asked in disbelief.

-Nope, I only booked the ticket just now, so Kaiba would only need to pay for it later.- Malik answered, -Anyway, I need to help Sister with her job in the Museum, see ya!-.

"See you." Yugi answered just before the line went dead, he stared at his phone in a daze, still disbelieved that he could finally take a break from everything and visit Egypt like how he had dreamed about since his childhood.

His Grandpa was an archaeologist in the past, he was the one who found the Millennium Items, which were in the Egypt Museum now except for the Millennium Puzzle that he gave Yugi when he was 5 years old, just a year before his Grandpa passed away. After his Grandpa passed away, he, Seto and Mokuba then forced to go to the orphanage, since they had no relative left, before they were adopted by Kaiba Gozaburou about 6 years ago.

Yugi had inherited his Grandpa's interest of studying Ancient Egypt, and with him could speaking in English, Mandarin, Germany and French aside from Japanese, he had gone to many place in the world that would have a possibility of him learning Ancient Egyptian since his Grandpa wasn't around anymore to teach him how to read the Hieroglyphs. That's when he met with the Ishtar family during his visit to America, the Ishtar were visiting Professor Hawkins and his Granddaughter. He had learn how to speak Egyptian language from them, but he still couldn't read the Hieroglyphs yet, he didn't have the time before he had to go back to Japan and inherit the Vice President position after Gozaburou passed away 3 years ago.

Yugi didn't understand Egyptian before he met the Ishtar, so he didn't visit Egypt yet, and he couldn't get the chance to go to Egypt since he was so busy. Now, his best friend's Sister managed to pull the string to make Seto let him go to Egypt for him, even though she did it because she lost against her Brother, he just couldn't believe it.

"What's wrong, Yuu?" Mokuba's voice snapped him out of his daydreaming and he grinned widely to his Cousin.

"I can finally go to Egypt!" He said cheerfully and he hugged Mokuba tightly, "Finally, finally! Malik forced Ishizu to convinced Seto-nii to let me go to Egypt during Summer Break! I can finally see the Valley of The Kings with my own eyes!".

Mokuba quickly pulled away and held Yugi at arm length, "Serious?" He asked with gaping mouth, "Ishizu really managed to make Seto let go of you during the Summer Break?".

"You talked as if I really wouldn't let Yugi to take a break." Seto's voice rang from the doorway of their Living Room, causing them to jumped and looked at the CEO, "I'm not a slave driver you know? I just think that you can take over Yugi's job at last, so I could finally let him take a break every once in a while." He crossed his arms and smirked at his two Younger Brothers, "The reason why I didn't let you to go to Egypt before this, Yuu, it's because I still in need of you. No one can match your skill in business world, but since Mokuba could finally do his job right, he could take over your job for a short amount of time. From now on, you can go to Egypt every Summer Break if you want".

"Really?!" Yugi asked enthusiastically, "I really can go to Egypt every Summer Break?!".

Seto nodded, "Yeah." He confirmed with a smile, the smile that he would show to his Brothers only, "You can, you deserve it after waiting this long, not to mention you always do your job perfectly".

Yugi run to Seto and hugged him tightly, "Thank you very much, Seto-nii!" He exclaimed happily, "Thank you very, very, very much!".

Seto chuckled and ruffled Yugi's hair, "You're welcome." He answered, "Now, go and do your homework, finished it before you go, because I know you wouldn't even touch your homework once you arrived in Egypt".

"Right away!" Yugi answered and run off to his room upstairs, abandoning the game he played with Mokuba before Malik called him.

Seto shook his head and chuckled, "He could be so high spirited sometimes." He commented as he walked to his Little Brother, he picked up the game controller that Yugi left behind and resumed the game so it was him against Mokuba now, "So, since Yugi would be away, are you ready to be the Vice President in his place, Mokie?".

"You bet." Mokuba answered with a smirk, "I wouldn't back down from a challenge".

"That's the spirit." Seto answered with a smirk as well.

XXXXX

Yugi couldn't stay still, as soon as his plane arrived in Egypt and he could get out of the plane, he had run off right away. He couldn't help it, he barely manage to refrain himself from buying another ticket so he could fly to Egypt sooner, and now that he was in Egypt at last, he couldn't stay still and wait for his the people to be out of his way. The airport was crowded and he wanted to set out to the Museum immediately, so he could see all the artifacts in there.

Yugi saw an opening among the so many people and darted out immediately with a big grin on his face, never mind about the fact that he might getting some curses from the people he accidentally crashed into along the way. "YUGI!" Someone called out to him as soon as he emerged from the entrance, "In here!" He looked around and saw Malik standing there while leaning on a black colored car and waving his hand at Yugi.

"Malik!" Yugi called out to his friend and ran to him immediately, he tackled his friend into a hug that causing the both of them to fell, "I missed you!" He immediately cuddling to his 13 years old best friend.

His friendship with Malik was a really close one, nearly got them mistaken as a couple, but they were just friends who like to cuddle with each others. Indeed, they had been a couple for a month during the time Yugi met Malik in America, but they felt that they were not mean for each other and decided to become best friends instead.

"Get off me!" Malik yelled with a chuckle, "You are heavy!" He pushed Yugi away immediately, and the stood up while brushing the dirt of his clothes, "Geez, Yugi. Did you really have to tackle hug me in public?".

Yugi laughed cheerfully as he stood up and brushing the dirt off his clothes as well, "Well, I couldn't help it. How long has it been since we last meet each other?" He grinned at Malik, "I really miss you, you know?".

Malik sighed and pat Yugi's shoulder, "I miss you as well my friend." He answered with a warm smile before breaking into a big grin as well, "Why don't you come in? Rishid will take us to our home so you could change into a more suitable clothes to be in Egypt".

Yugi nodded vigorously, he didn't brought a single clothes with him since he didn't have any clothes suitable for Egypt's heat, so there's no need for him to bring a luggage with him and only brought his Messenger Bag with him. There's only a Laptop, a Mobile Phone, a Camera, his Duel Disk, his deck, notes and pencil case inside his Messenger Bags, he wasn't the type to brought so many stuff around. Unless he need to stay in another Countries for more than a week, he would bring some clothes with him then.

He looked into the car when a tall Egyptian man with a tattoo on his face came out of the car, "Welcome, Yugi-kun." The man said with a smile, "I'm glad that you finally can come here".

"Me too." Yugi answered with a big grin as he walked into the man, he also hugged the man, but not as tightly as he hug Malik, "Long time no see, Rishid-san".

"Long time no see." Rishid answered before Yugi pulled away.

"Alright, Ishizu is waiting for us at home." Malik said as he opened the door to the passenger seat, "Let's go, Yugi, Rishid. We don't want to make Ishizu wait for too long, do we?".

Yugi nodded and entered the car with Malik following him and Rishid re-entered the Driver seat, they chatted along the way until they arrived at Malik's home, a medium sized but comfy looking house. They got out of the car and Malik pulled Yugi to the door immediately, "Sis! Yugi's here!" Malik announced before he pulled- no, dragged Yugi to the Kitchen area of the house, with Ishizu already waiting there and a smell of cooking gretted him.

"Hello, Yugi-kun." Ishizu greeted him with a smile on her face, "I hope Malik and Rishid didn't come late to fetch you up".

"No, they were there already when I was out of the airport." Yugi answered with a smile as he run and hugged Ishizu as well, the Ishtar had already like his second family, so he didn't hesitate to hug them when he see them, "Long time no see, Ishizu".

"Long time no see as well, Yugi-kun." Ishizu answered with a smile while patting his back, "How is your school?".

Yugi pulled back and pouted at her, "I just came here and you asked about my school? What about me?" He demanded with a cute glare on his face.

Ishizu laughed, "You are so cute, Yugi." She grinned at him, "With you being so energetic, I'm sure that you are well, but I guess I should still ask that. How are you, Yugi?".

Yugi grinned at her, "I'm fine." He answered cheerfully, "Just couldn't wait to get to the Museum so that I could see the artifacts!" He walked backwards a few steps as he said that and raised both of his arms, only the Ishtars managed to pulled the childish side out of him.

The Ishtars laughed at his enthusiasm, Malik then pulled Yugi away from Ishizu, "Well, while we wait for Ishizu to finish cooking, why don't I show you my room?" He asked to Yugi, before he licked his lips, " . . . and have a bit of private time together, Dear".

Yugi blushed and smacked Malik's head with his palm, "Pervert." He said but with a fond smile formed by his lips, "We should wait until night time if we want to have a private time".

Malik chuckled, "Now, who is the pervert one?" He teased with a smirk and wiggled his eyebrows.

Ishizu and Rishid laughed at the exchange, it's not a secret that even though they had decided to be best friends after they broke up in the past, the two boys still like to just cuddle with each other and have a few kisses every now and then. The two boys were still innocent and would do anything too intimate like sex, so the two adults didn't mind it that much.

"Dear, just let's go to your room." Yugi answered and he let Malik dragged him again to one of the bedrooms in the house, immediately, a thud and a soft moan could be heard.

Ishizu sighed, "I'm afraid that they would become friends with benefits in the future." She said with a shake of her head.

"I agreed." Rishid answered with a sigh as well, "I just hope that their Lovers in the future wouldn't mind it if they, indeed, become friends with benefits".

"Let's hope so." Ishizu nodded before went back to her cooking.

After a bit of private time, Ishizu called out for the two boys, saying that the dinner had done. They chatted for a bit more during dinner time, such as Yugi's and Malik's school life and what happened to them the past year they didn't see each others. Yugi's jet lag finally kicked in and he went to sleep in Malik's room right after dinner while Malik would help Ishizu watering the plants in their backyards before went to sleep himself.

The next morning, Malik took Yugi to the town after Breakfast while Ishizu and Rishid head out to the Museum.

"Yugi, look! A pair of Daggers!" Malik said excitedly as he dragged Yugi to the stand. Malik, Ishizu and Rishid would use Japanese when they talked to Yugi, they want to make Yugi felt at home while the boy in their place. Malik looked at Yugi with a sparkling eyes, "Let's buy them, Yugi, one for you and one for me".

Yugi chuckled at Malik and nodded, he was well aware of Malik's love with a weapon called Daggers. Every time Malik saw a pair of Daggers, the ones made to match each other, he would but them and then give the other one for Yugi, and if there's only one, he would but them for himself.

After Malik bought the Daggers and handed one of them to Yugi, which then being slipped to the boy's sashes, he showed Yugi around the town before the ended their trip in the Museum.

"Woah . . ." Yugi said in awe as he looked at all the artifact being displayed in the Museum, he knew that some of the so called artifacts were a fake ones.

The Ishtars were the family of Tomb Keepers, they refused to unearthed the real artifacts if they deemed them to be very important and needed to be remained in the Tombs. The most likely fake ones would be the Canopic Jars and the Mummies, the Ishtar would make their replica to be put on display while while the real ones would be left in the Tombs, so that the soul of the Pharaohs of Egypt would still rest in peace and undisturbed.

"Hod do you like it, Yugi?" Ishizu asked as she walked to him and Malik, "These are the ones we found in the early years, the new ones are in the deeper part of the Museum".

Yugi looked at Ishizu with a grin that would split his face in half if it's possible, "I love it!" He answered excitedly before his eyes sparkling with hope, "Ishizu, can I go to the one where Jii-chan found my Millennium Puzzle?".

Ishizu smiled and nodded, "It's a coincident that Professor Hawkins is there as well, I will call him to show you the way around." She said and pulled out her phone before calling the said Professor.

"What is Professor Hawkins doing in there? I thought he would be in the newest Tomb." Malik commented after Ishizu finished making the call.

"He said that he found an entrance to another part of the Tomb that's overlooked the first time he came there with Sugoroku-san." Ishizu explained as she gestured for them to talk while walking, "He decided to explore this new part to see if he would find the Mummy, we still didn't know whose Tomb is it".

"I heard that the Tomb had so many traps." Yugi commented, "Is it alright if he go there alone?".

"It's alright, he remembered all the old traps, he only need to be careful about the traps in this new part." Ishizu explained before they head out to the Valley of The Kings with rented Horses.

When they arrived at the site, they saw a tall man wearing a cream colored Shirt, brown colored Pants and Boots, and a soft brown Hat waiting nearby. He saw them and approached them, "Long time no see, Ishizu, Malik and Yugi." He said with a warm smile.

"Long time no see, Professor Hawkins!" Yugi and Malik greeted him excitedly while Ishizu nodded at him. "Where's the entrance?!".

Professor Hawkins laughed at the first question being asked of him by the two boys, "This way, boys." He said as he gestured for the big hole.

Yugi and Malik nodded before they run off with a short 'We are off' to Ishizu, Ishizu smiled fondly as she saw the retreating backs of the two boys, "They are so enthusiast, I wonder if they would ended up becoming an Archaeologist in the future." She said to no one in particular.

"If they are, I bet the would become a great ones." Professor Hawkins answered as he also looked at the entrance where the boys run off to, "I just hope that they would be more careful in the future, they like to rush thing so much".

"Agreed." Ishizu answered before they also went in after the two boys.

Yugi and Malik were awe struck when they saw the inside of the Tomb, pictured and Hieroglyphs decorating the walls, and they also saw many Ruby decorated Jars. "I wonder if the Pharaoh of this Tomb liked Ruby in the past, there's so many of Ruby decorating this place." Yugi commented as he looked around.

"Either that or the people think that the Ruby suited him." Professor Hawkins said from behind them.

"Don't run around like that." Ishizu scolded them sternly, "We don't know if there's still traps in here or not".

"We are sorry." Yugi and Malik said together as they scratched the back of their head.

"Where is this new entrance, Professor?" Yugi asked curiously and excitedly.

Professor Hawkins smiled, "This way." He said and lead the way to the new entrance he found, "I haven't entered yet, so be extra careful".

After they passed the so many traps installed in the Tomb, they arrived at the entrance and Professor Hawkins entered first to see if there's any traps. Yugi stood at the entrance with the rest and looked around, he saw many Hieroglyphs engraved to the wall and wished he could read them, "All clear." Professor Hawkins said and they walked in to where the Professor had stopped, "Well, it's too bad, but it seems there's nothing in here".

"It's too bad." Ishizu agreed as she looked around with the rest, "We still haven't found out whose Tomb this is".

Something in the distance caught Yugi's attention and he walked to it, "Yugi, don't walk off by yourself." Professor Hawkins said as he saw Yugi had walked away, he sighed when the boy didn't stop and they decided to just followed after the star haired boy.

The thing that caught Yugi's attention was a strange looking door, it looked like a door, but when he pushed it, the door didn't move a single inch. He looked up when he felt a hand on his shoulder and saw Malik smiled at Yugi, "Too bad that it isn't a door." He said and they both looked at the door looking wall, "We better get out of here then, it's not good to stay here too long and disturbed the resting Pharaoh".

Yugi nodded and wanted to turned around and left when something else caught his attention, "Wait." He said out loud and pointed at the upside down Pyramid looking space at the front of the door, "Look at that".

Malik and the rest stopped walking and looked at where Yugi pointed at, "It's like your Millennium Puzzle, Yugi." He commented.

Yugi nodded and looked at his Millennium Puzzle, the Golden upside down Pyramid that he had solved a year after he received it, which he wore around his neck since then. "I wonder if this Puzzle is the Key to open the door?" He asked himself before looking at Ishizu and Professor Hawkins, "What do you think? Should I try it?".

Ishizu and Professor Hawkins looked at each other before they nodded at the same time, "We are already here, might as well try it." Ishizu answered.

Yugi nodded and pulled off his Puzzle before placing it on the space available on the door, a click was sounded before a bright light erupted from his Millennium Puzzle and the door, Yugi closed his eyes in reflex.

"What the hell?!" Malik cursed as he and the rest closed their eyes, "Yugi, are you alright?!" He didn't hear a response and frowned in worry, "Yugi?" he asked as he opened his eyes once the bright light disappeared, "Yu . . . gi?" His mouth went dry when he couldn't see his best friend.

"Yugi, where are you?!" Ishizu called out once she didn't see the star haired boy anywhere, "Where could he be?".

Professor Hawkins looked around as well before he noticed something, "Look!" He alerted the rest and they saw the door and the Millennium Puzzle merged together and become solid gold.

"What the hell?" Malik asked with wide eyes, "Yugi disappeared and the door become a solid Gold?".

To be continued . . .

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