Characters: Atem, Yuugi Mutou

Keyword: beginnings

Other: A not very shippy, AU thing where Yuugi the little kid gets transported into Ancient Egypt. If I continued on with this, Yuugi would be a scribeMany thanks to My Misguided Fairytale for spotting a few errors! I've fixed them now. Many thanks to My Misguided Fairytale for spotting out a few errors!

He's not sure what to do with this pale scrap of foreigner they found in the dessert, dying of thirst and the desert heat. The only reason they had taken him in was because it had bore a startling resemblance to their Pharaoh.

He sees the resemblance. It's mostly in the hair, because only one of his Father's line could have produced this.

It doesn't explain the pale skin.

"Who are you?" he asks, having dismissed his servants for the day.

The child blinks at him. A jumble of words from some foreign language tumbles out from his mouth. It's endearing, but it doesn't help. He keeps repeating a word though - "yuuugiii yuuugiii" - and Atem sighs. He doesn't really want to deal with this, he misses his father.

He will apprentice this boy to one of the palace scribes, he thinks. It would far too harsh to throw him out to the dessert, and Atem, no matter how unprepared he feels, will follow in his Father's steps as a kind and compassionate ruler.