This story is a 'what if' tale, based upon the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga canon.

The therapist's jaw was agape.

"Yugi Motou murdered Seto Kaiba!"

"Yes. Moments after we heard the sickening thud of Kaiba's body below, the Yugi we knew and loved dropped to his knees in despair.

I think he was in a state of shock. We all were! At the time we consoled Yugi, or tried to anyway. But he couldn't seem to accept what had happened. He didn't say anything for a long while. None of us blamed Yugi. He was trying to save his Grandfather and given our history with Kaiba, none of us thought he'd go through with it. We never realized how much he truly cared about his little brother.

It took some time but we managed to get Yugi to function well enough to enter Pegasus' castle. Jonouchi helped him to prepare for his duel against Mai Kujaku. Jonouchi liked Mai a lot, but first and foremost Yugi was his best friend. Mai was understanding of it, even encouraging, since she wanted to duel Yugi at his best.

Poor Mai. Poor, poor Mai." Honda shook his head sadly.

"Yugi started off badly, I remember thinking it was all over for him. But then, his other, darker side reared its head again. In anger and desperation he used his dark powers to crush her mind, and sent her into a coma, just like he had to Kaiba what seemed like a lifetime ago.

Jonouchi was furious. Friends he and Yugi might've been, but what he'd done went too far. It was at that moment we all realized Yugi might be lost to us.

Yugi and Jonouchi had agreed at the start of the tournament to not duel each other if they both made it to the finals. But now neither one much cared about old promises. Jonouchi tried his best and almost won but Yugi practically taught him everything he knew. Thankfully Yugi didn't hurt Jonouchi. Anzu thought it might've been because there still some of our friend in there somewhere. But it became clear that Yugi just didn't see Jonouchi as worth his time, out duelling him was enough. Especially since by losing Jonouchi had lost his chance to save his sister.

"What do you mean?"

"See Jonouchi's sister needed an expensive operation to save her eyesight. Jonouchi entered the tournament to win the prize money to pay for it. But he failed and Yugi was far from charitable at that point.

He wanted to leave the island right then and there. But Anzu insisted we see the tournament through to the end. So begrudgingly we all watched Yugi duel Pegasus.

Pegasus used the magic of his own Millennium item, the Millennium Eye, to dominate Yugi. I didn't know who to root for. If Pegasus won two innocent souls would be lost forever. But if Yugi won who knew who he'd go on to hurt. For Yugi, our Yugi I should say, no matter what he wouldn't let his grandfather down. He and his darker half formed a tenuous alliance and switched their minds back and forth to confuse Pegasus. Using this technique they won and the dark Yugi insisted Pegasus release the captive souls right then and there. Pegasus was so crushed by his defeat and even intimidated by Yugi's dark half, he agreed. But Yugi gave him a taste of his own medicine. As soon as Pegasus released the souls of Yugi's grandfather and Mokuba Yugi crushed his mind too. Unlike Kaiba he came on even stronger and Pegasus had no hope of recovery.

At this point we thought things couldn't get worse. The damage had been done but at least now it was over. How naive we were." Honda paused. After wiping the tears from his eyes he continued.

"As we left the castle we passed by Yugi from a distance. It was then that Jonouchi noticed Bakura was missing. I think Yugi must've overheard this and re-entered the castle. When we got back inside and found Bakura it was already too late.

Pegasus' eye was bleeding. His Millennium item had been ripped right out of his socket and was gleaming in Bakura's hand. See our friend Bakura had his own dark side too, along with his own Millennium item, the Millennium Ring. We'd all figured he'd gotten past that though. But like so many things, we'd been wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong.

His Millennium Ring shone bright as ever, almost as bright as Yugi's Puzzle. They were duelling, not a card game, but a battle of minds and magic. Little did we know that however bad Bakura might have been, Yugi was now far worse. Yugi won, Bakura was knocked out, the darkness within him seemingly destroyed. But we'd all thought that before and on that day Bakura had proved us wrong. Now Yugi wasn't taking any more chances. It was one game he didn't want to play anymore. He knew from his own situation that to truly bury the dark spirit within Bakura he had to destroy its vessel forever.

Yugi killed Bakura. He just took the strap of his Millennium Ring and strangled the life out of him.

For me this was the end. Up until then I'd had enough faith in our friendship to truly believe Yugi would never go this far. Yugi had been to save his Grandfather. Bakura never needed to die. He could've saved him somehow, I know for sure. But now he was beyond our help.

I told him straight. Bakura could've gotten better with our help, just like Mokuba had. Killing him was not necessary.

Yugi didn't even respond, he just walked away. We were all too scared to stop him. Too scared to stop the new so called 'King of Games'.