Gaming Lovers – Chapter 1: The Fateful Meeting.

A/N: This story is based off the online game "Perfect World".

I got the idea after meeting a friend's (whom I know in real life) character in the game.

Also, I am using the original Japanese names here.

It has been a year since the ceremonial duel, a year since Yami left him, a year spent in grief. The teen sat on the bed in his room, looking up to his ceiling. Ever since the farewell he was trying to forget everything about his Yami and move on. He was going out with friends more often, played Duel Monsters only when a tournament occurred, just to keep his title of the Duelist King.

But that wasn't enough and so he decided to go to a university abroad, probably in America, to finally forget about the pharaoh. He would attend a business school and take over the game shop which his grandfather wanted him to do, maybe team up with Kaiba and even expand the shop. But to achieve that, he had to learn English and he couldn't get himself to just sit down and read books.

So he decided to ask Jounocchi, who was fairly good at English despite being too lazy for studying. Sure, he was afraid that his blonde friend would suggest watching porn in English or something like that. Maybe he just knew his friend too well already. He sighed and undressed, crawling under his blanket and hiding under it like in some kind of a cave. He felt safe like that, that was a technique he always used as a child when he was having nightmares.

The next morning, the teen opened his amethyst eyes and looked at the clock. It was 10 am already.

"I'M LATE!", Yugi screamed, jumping up and putting his clothes on before dashing downstairs. His grandfather was in the kitchen, making some coffee.

"Good morning, Yugi. What's with the rush? It's only 10 am.", the old man asked calmly, while his grandson continued the rush.

"I'm late for-", Yugi was about to say, but then face-palmed. "It's Sunday, right?"

"Good guess.", Sugoroku said with a small laugh. "Now, come here and have your breakfast, alright?"

The teen had told his grandfather about the plans to go to America to study, at which the old man smiled and nodded, suggesting to go to the university of his friend, Arthur Hawkins. It was a great idea, indeed. This way he would still have someone to support him if needed. But the overly-attached Rebecca could be a problem. Oh well. Maybe it was time for him to move on with his life and start dating a girl? With these thoughts he cleaned up the breakfast dishes, going upstairs and changing into his casual clothes. Then he pulled his cellphone out of the pocket and dialed Jounocchi's number.

"Hello? Yug'?", a familiar voice asked sleepily.

"Oh, did I wake you up? I am sorry. Well, I needed to ask you how you learn English...besides the movies."

"Online games. Try that. I'm going back to sleep, Yug'", the blonde gave the advice and yawned.

"Alright, thank you, sleep well.", the short teen said, ending the call and turning his computer on.

He searched various online games, sticking to RPGs that contained wizards and finally choosing a free to play game called "Perfect World international". He downloaded the client, signed up and updated the client, finally starting the game. The graphics looked pretty nice and the music was amazing and soon Yugi has also settled for the class he wanted to play: Cleric. It was a powerful healer class that was most suitable for aiding others. The clerics could resurrect, heal and buff other players, but also had a great magic attack if played properly. Despite being male, Yugi settled for a female character, finding the movements of male characters not graceful enough.

Now it was time for a nickname. Yugi tried the name "King-Of-Games", which was already taken. After that, he tried "Yugi", "Yugi-Ou" and "Heba", but all were already taken. He decided to go for something more complicated. Choosing his (second)favorite Egyptian king, he tried "Akhenaten" and it worked. Only after confirming the character name he noticed that he typed "Akhenatemu" and sighed. It was too late to fix that now and he didn't want to create a second character just to correct the typo. He started the game and quickly went through the quests and reached level 30 in just a day. That was when he saw a message in the world chat.

King-Of-Games: Need a cleric to res me in the Frostcovered grounds. Any res lvl is fine."

So that was the guy who had the name he wanted to have. Quickly, Yugi clicked on the nickname, sending a PM, which in perfect world was called "whisper".

To King-Of-Games you say: Hey, invite me to the party, I'll res you.

The teen had to wait a bit and already had thought that the player was resurrected by someone else, when an exclamation mark blinked on his screen, indicating an important notice. Upon clicking on that, the Japanese boy smiled. It was the squad invitation. He eagerly accepted, flying over to the dungeon.

King-Of-Games whispers: Thank you.

To King-Of-Games you say: No problem. I will be there as soon as possible.

Then there was a silence between the two until the mysterious player said broke it by asking a rather interesting question.

King-Of-Games whispers: Akhenatemu? So, you are devoted to Atemu? Because that is what the nickname means.

So, this is the end of the chapter. I hope you like it!

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