I believe that this is what counts as an apology from me. I hadn't been working on anything for a bit and just developed brain enough for a new chapter. For my Yami who gives me too many ideas.

Yami isn't in the room when Yugi opens the door. He isn't even in the closet when Yugi opens it for a fresh set of clothes. When Yugi gets dressed him mind is a blur of contradicting thoughts. 'Yami is mad at me' battles with 'yes, but he noticed' while 'what if's throw sucker punches at 'but this is what happened'.

He doesn't think about what clothes he is putting on just dresses on otto pilot ending up in his high school uniform even though it's a Sunday. Yugi moves through ideas and arguments and solutions the way Anzu moved through outfits, with the regard for others opinions that went into each combination that she wore.

At the door, dressed, ready to leave, Yugi has only one idea, only one solution. To apologize.

With his hand on the door knob he readies himself to leave his sanctuary. An apology. Anger boils in Yugi's heart and a burning truth springs to his lips and out into the empty air. "I shouldn't apologize. I shouldn't have to resort to almost dying to get their attention. There shouldn't be the need" he sighs heavily and runs the hand that was on the doorknob through his spiky hair before letting it drop to his side. Yugi's anger fades the way it came, quickly without warning, leaving an empty space where it had been and, inside that emptiness, guilt that he had said something so unloyal.

With a new sense of why he needs to apologize Yugi turns the knob and opens the door and starts to walk forward only to run into Yami standing on the other side of the door.

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