Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!
Special thanks: A special thanks to Jehbel for helping me with this story. It has been a long process, but we made it!
If you have waited for this sequel, I do appologise for the long wait. Feel free to comment, every point you make is an opportunity for me to be a better writer.
All Good Fun
Summary: The deceased Atem Muto works in the library of Toth while waiting for his little brother, Yugi, to join him for their last journey to the Land of the Dead. But when Toth gives him some time off as a reward for hard work, Atem gets bored. It's not any easier for his new best friend, Death. She's been temporarily suspended from work. When two strong, proud and utterly bored Duel Monsters Duellists hang out in the Shadow Realm, anything can happen.
Part One: Boredom
Death's POV
Some people think that Mondays are the worst. Personally, I have always liked Mondays as they give us a new day and a new week to look forward to. However, my case is a bit different. I don't count days. I can't tell you if it's Monday or Saturday. I can't even tell you if it's the Mexican Dia de los Muertos or if it's Christmas Eve in Norway. Why? Because time works differently in Limbo than on Earth.
All right, that's quite the understatement.
There is no time in Limbo – there is only now. Which makes it very hard to calculate your working hours and even harder to know whether you are entitled to a vacation or not. This is also the reason that I can't tell you for how long I had been suspended.
They do that sometimes, the Gods.
I break their completely insane rules for…. Reasons, and then I am suspended. I stopped worrying about suspension for what feels like eons ago. No wait, it can't be eons since I'm only 18.
Or am I 25?
My head hurts!
To focus on what's important here, folks: I was suspended and had literally nothing to do besides reading. There isn't much you can do in Limbo when you are half-mortal and bored out of your wits. You can either read or find someone to talk to. This is why I found myself in the far end of Toth's library, reading old scriptures about Gods know what, when I heard the distinct sound of careful and almost weightless footsteps crossing the floor in my direction. I smirked.
As I looked over the top of my glasses, my gaze met that of a young spirit with eclectic hair and a white shirt. I closed my book.
"Let me guess, D. You are bored, aren't you?" my friend inquired.
"And you are very perceptive, Atem. Am I in your way?"
I pulled out my backpack from under the table in an attempt to make way. The spirit just gestured for me to stop and took a seat in front of me. With his arms and legs crossed, he leaned back nonchalantly. No, I wasn't in his way. He told me, very matter-of-factly, that Toth had ordered him to take some time off.
This may seem strange at first; a God telling you to relax, but this was my homie, Atem. The guy couldn't stop working his pants off if the World Championship in Duel Monsters depended on it. The reason for this is that if Atem stops working, his mind will automatically wander back to his younger brother, Yugi, and his grandfather, Solomon, in the Land of the Living.
Then he'll think of that time I used my Shadow Magic to allow him to say goodbye to his brother.
… and then he'll ask me this question:
Are you sure that you did the right thing, Death?
"OK. I'm suspended. You are off duty. Are you just as bored as I am, Atem?"
"Oh Gods, yes!"
"D'you wanna play Duel Monsters?"
"Sure, but where?"
"The staff room in Admin?"
"Sounds good to me."
He lend a hand in gathering my stuff before we went out of the library together. Nothing beats boredom like a good old-fashioned game of Duel Monsters with your best bud.
