"Wouldn't you be my doppelgänger?" Yami looked up from where he sat. "What is a doppelgänger?" he asked curiously. From where he sat in front of his laptop, Yugi read aloud, "An apparition or double of a living person." Yami frowned, silent for a moment, before pointing out, "We do not look exactly the same." Yugi sighed. "Right," he agreed. "But…"
The boy gestured between them. "We look pretty similar, you know? Plus, I am living… and you're an apparition. An almost-double." Yami smiled benignly. "Then, I am your doppelgänger," he said soothingly. Yugi was silent, turning back to his laptop. However, Yami felt confusion and… fear?… emanating from the boy through their mind link.
"Yugi? What's wrong?" he asked. The connection was abruptly blocked as Yugi looked up, smiling. "Ah, sorry - I just thought it was cool, was all. I'm a bit disappointed," the boy replied. "It is cool," Yami replied uncertainly. He watched Yugi worriedly - after all, that still didn't explain the fear. Yugi nodded absently, returning his gaze to the laptop screen.
Then he closed it, before walking out without a word. The spirit tried to follow, before discovering Yugi left the puzzle behind. Yami wondered whether Yugi was that upset, but dismissed the idea. Instead he watched from the window as Yugi walked down the street, out of sight. The spirit waited for a few hours before Yugi finally returned. "Where were you?" Yami asked.
He had to ask, because Yugi was still blocking their mind link. The boy looked up at him, seeming tired. "Nowhere," he replied, lying down on his bed. Yami stared at him for a short while. What did he mean, 'nowhere'? Was he… the spirit was loathe to even think it, but was Yugi lying to him? He could understand maybe keeping a few secrets, but Yami was worried.
Yami possessed Yugi, slipping on the puzzle before turning on the laptop. The window was free of tabs, but Yami scrolled through the history, clicking on one that had "a+ghost+that+looks+like+me" in the web address. He had a bad feeling as he then clicked on the first result - it was purple, indicating Yugi had done the same thing. Yami scrolled down the page
The spirit scanned the words with growing horror, phrases such as "sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection," "a sinister form of bilocation and are regarded by some to be harbingers of bad luck," and "seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death" caught his eye.
He shakily deleted the history of him being on the computer before closing the laptop, leaning back against the chair. This was a whole other religion… one different from Egypt, where the Millennium Items originated from. But an omen of death? No wonder Yugi had been afraid. It broke Yami's heart that the boy could think that way of him.
He gently laid Yugi on the bed before leaving his body. The next morning, both of them pretended nothing was wrong. Yugi re-opened the mind link, betraying no hint of unease whatsoever. Neither of them brought it up, neither of them forced the issue. Still, Yami was afraid. Was he really… going to cause Yugi's death? Unease stirred in his own heart, hidden from Yugi.
