Authors note: Thanks to my reviewers you help me get motivated to update quicker =] so here is Yami's point of view as promised.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! No matter how much I wish I did =[
I had never been a people's person, even before my time as pharaoh there were only so many people I liked and even fewer that I loved, according to my memories that is. For five thousand years I was locked in that puzzle waiting patiently for my chosen partner to put it together to release me, to set me free.
Of course I was never really free, sharing the body of my partner Yugi, giving him the confidence he needed to win his battles and then in return he helped me, well sent me away you could say. Yugi was everything I had never known; kindness, gentility, softness, the light to my dark. I loved that boy with everything I was. Protecting him, guiding him to become the man I knew he would be.
It broke my heart in that ceremonial duel though, all the way through Yugi duelled with such a passion that I had never seen before in him I remember thinking 'he must really want to get rid of me' he knew what would of happened if he won and he didn't seem to care, blindly hitting me with everything he had until at last my life points hit zero. Then of course the tears came, but I couldn't decide if they were tears of relief; that I was going. Happiness; that he had won and proved himself to be the real king of games. Or sadness; that it had hit home what he had done, where he was sending me.
I didn't' know what to do with myself, should I congratulate him, thank him, and wish him luck in the future. I had never been an emotional person but with my Aibou everything was different I was stumped. I ended up giving him some random friendship speech worthy of one of Anzu's. But how I wish I had acted differently at least embraced him, told him how I felt about him. He was my world my heart. And then he banished me to the immortal world.
Don't get me wrong part of me was curious to see what was on the other side, turns out it's just a blank canvas. A white world, full of my memories and the people that I loved, it gave off an air of tranquillity and peace. But it wasn't that for me, far from it. My memories of my past, although I recovered them, were still pretty hazy I never felt like it was me who lived those days. The only memories I feel as though I lived are the ones of the past four years, of me and Yugi side by side saving the world. It wasn't those times I loved most though, the memories that will forever be with me are the times we spent together at night just talking like real friends, like brothers or the times Yugi would go out with his friends and he would include me in the conversations, conversing with me through our mind link.
I miss that mind link, someone to talk to, a never ending presence of comfort. I suppose there were times when It got on my nerves and I wished for privacy, like those odd moments when I felt my feelings for Yugi change, my heart would flutter and just looking at him gave me a tingle all over my body. It was those times when I locked myself in my puzzle and tried to calm myself.
I watch over him now through the white haze of my immortal self I watch his progress he's not the boy I knew anymore, he's even quieter than before, he's losing contact with his friends and when he cries himself to sleep at night I feel my heart breaking all over again. It hurt me inside to know that my Aibou was lonely and miserable and I wasn't there to comfort him. But I also reminded myself that it was him that sent me away, It was him that didn't want me with him anymore. No I can't think spitefully I'm sure Yugi had perfectly good reasons for doing what he did.
But I would give anything to be with him again to try and win him back, to be his partner one more time, I would trade anything to be with the boy I loved and still love.
'Anything?' I heard a voice suddenly said. I started and looked around. Was I imagining things? It was then I saw him the Egyptian god Ra in all his magnificent glory standing proudly looking at me through his golden beady eyes.
'Yes' I replied my sanity slipping as I didn't know if my mind was making this up 'I would give anything to be with Yugi again.'
'What about your immortality, your place in the spirit world?' I looked at him confused I didn't know what he was talking about 'You never really lived Atem' I cringed at that name it didn't feel like mine rather the great king that had saved Egypt that life I only experienced for a few days but still it didn't feel as though I actually lived it.
'You did so much for Egypt and your place here doesn't feel like an appropriate reward' I stared at him wishing he'd get to the point 'so were willing to give you another chance at life, but I warn you it will come with consequences, once you leave that world and your body ceases to exist, your place here will no longer be waiting for you.'
Was I willing to give up my immortality for Yugi, in order to be with him one more time? The answer to that question was a simple one.
'I'll do it' I told him confidently 'please, send me back to him.'
Instead of replying to me Ra seemed to fade to disappear I stared after him confused. Had I dreamed it all? Had I been hallucinating in my misery? But as soon as these questions started to arise they went. I felt myself slipping, falling. I was going back. Back to him. The whiteness of this spirit world was fading and the far green world that was earth was coming back. I would be with him again, and this time I would never leave him. I was back.
Thank you for reading. I really enjoyed writing this chapter. I know the whole Ra god thing was a bit weird but it was the only way I could think of getting Yami back to earth. Hope you liked it, please review! Next chapter will be Yugi back at school having to answer to some very angry friends =] Review!
