Summary:

Ever wonder why Atem, Yugi, and Timaeus look so much a like? Why Atem and Timaeus like exactly a like? What if they each had a twin brother? And what if they all had ancient powers given to them as a birth-right?

Chapter Summary:

The night before the final rounds, the order of the finals are decided, Pegasus provides entertainment, and the gang meets a new friend.

Notes:

This chapter is based off episode 28 of Yu-Gi-Oh!

Born Destiny

The Night Before

Everyone, meaning Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Anzu, Mai, Ryou, and Bandit Keith all sat at the dining table feasting on an enormous spread of delicious foods. Well, for two of them, saying they pigged out would be more appropriate.

Tristan and Joey stuffed food down their throat like they hadn't eaten in years.

"Damn, this is so good!" Joey cried in delight.

Croquet walked up to the head of the table. "The tournament will not begin until tomorrow morning, so you may relax until then." Joey was the only one who didn't stop eating when he spoke. "Please, enjoy your meal. And now, everyone, there is an announcement."

That made Joey stop.

"Each duelist's aims . . . will de dependent on one of these two cards that were given in advance." He held up two cards, one blank and the other with gold treasure on the front. "You may either select the Glory of the King's Right Hand or the Glory of the King's Left Hand."

"Those cards?" Yugi murmured.

"If you do not have the Glory of the King's Right Hand card, you cannot win the prize money. If you do not have the Glory of the King's Left Hand card, you cannot duel Mr. Pegasus."

Joey nearly flinched. 'I don't have either of those cards!'

Keith was thinking the same. 'This is bad. Since I wasn't invited to this tournament, I don't have those fucking cards. What should I do?'

"And one more thing," Croquet continued. "Please take a look at your soup."

Just as everyone's head turned to their bowl of soup, golden eyeballs floated to the top of bobbled there in four of the bowls.

"What's that?!" Anzu cried as she saw the eyeball in Yugi's soup, but not her own.

Tristan moved in spoon through his broccoli soup. "There isn't one in mine."

Joey overreacted a tiny bit. He slammed his hand on the table, making the plates rattled, and yelled, "Damn you! Ya can't expect us ta eat something like this!"

Croquet, a master of keeping a straight face, ignored him and said, "Please open the eyeballs."

With confused expressions, Joey, Mai, Yugi, and Keith grabbed their eyeballs on pulled on them, finding that they split down the middle. Each eyeball had a small piece of paper inside.

With a hum, a promethean board slid down behind Croquet as he spoke. "This decides who shall duel who in the finals."

With a worried expression on her face, Anzu asked aloud to no one in particular, "Who's going to be dueling who?"

'Whoever it is, I'll win!' Mai thought firmly.

Joey was straight-up panicking. 'Anyone but Yugi! Please! Anyone but Yugi!'

Keith just smirked.

The screen finally pulled up, with A vs. B and C vs. D as the first rounds.

"Alright, who's C?" Joey questioned, since he was D.

Keith cockily replied. "That's me you moron."

"You!" Joey yelled, inwardly leaping for joy. "You're no match for me! Time for payback for what ya did in that cave!"

"Are you willing to bet your life on that?"

Joey just glared at him, barely managing to keep his mouth shut.

Meanwhile, Yugi and Mai were discussing their duel calmly.

"Looks like I'll be dueling you, Mai."

"Yugi, let's go all out."

"Of course," Yugi replied with a smile. "I'm going to fight with everything I've got!"

"The matches have now been decided," Croquet starting to say. "The first match will be between Yugi Muto and Mai Valentine. The second will be Bandit Keith and Joey Wheeler." Croquet bowed at the waist and raised his right arm across his chest. "And now, enjoy the rest of your meal."

He straightened and spoke one more time. "Before I leave you, Mr. Pegasus would like me to inform you that he has prepared some entertainment for you all in the Entertainment Room. After you finish eating go down this hall, take a right, and it is the third door and the left. Good night."

And with that, he elegantly turned and walked out of the room.

Yugi, Joey, Anzu, Tristan, Mai, Ryou, and, surprisingly, Bandit Keith all followed Croquet's instructions to the Entertainment Room.

As they entered, there was a medium sized stage with a single chair and a guitar case sitting next to a microphone. In front of the stage, there were about twenty fancy looking chairs; however, the most impressive looking chair was the only one that was occupied.

Pegasus stood from his throne like chair and clapped lightly. "Greetings all. How wonderful. You all shall positively adore the entertainment I have booked for tonight. Come, take a seat!" He waved his arms toward the remaining chairs and, slowly, they choose where to sit.

Of course, Keith sat in the very back as far away as he could get from everyone else. The others, excluding Pegasus slid chairs so that they all sat near the stage, but not too close. Pegasus remained to the side as he sat back down, a smirk on his face.

Pegasus waited a few minutes for everyone to settle down before he cleared his throat. "All right, time for the show! Yuuki-boy, are you ready?"

"Yes, sir!" a deep voice yelled from behind the closed curtains of the stage. "Would you like me to start now!"

"Please, Yuki-boy."

Yugi looked at Pegasus curiously. Pegasus had spoken normally, as though this Yuki person were standing right next to him, but Yuki had needed to yell in order for Pegasus, and them, to hear.

'How did he hear Pegasus from way back there?' she thought.

He didn't think about that again, as a young man walked out from behind the curtain and Yugi was to bust staring at him.

He was beautiful, which was strange for her to think because he looked almost identical to her.

He just a few inches shorter than Yugi herself, but he had a more muscled build. He wore black jeans with a black button up shirt and black tennis shoes. His hair was tricolored, like Yugi's, but where she had one gold bang on her forehead, he had several gold bangs that shot up in his hair. His face was pointed and he had sharp amethyst eyes. The face, more than anything else, shocked and scared Yugi more than any other part of him, because his face alone, made him look just like the spirit. (1)

And when this Yuki opened his mouth and spoke, he sounded just like the spirit as well.

Well, sort of.

"H-H-He-llo. M-My na-na-name is Yu-ki a-and—"

"Don't have an anxiety attack, Yuki-boy," Pegasus interrupted him. "Relax. I told you this wasn't a formal occasion."

"Hey, don't make fun of the guy!" Joey yelled as he glared at Pegasus.

"He-He's not," Yuki said hastily. Joey turned back to him. "I suffer from-from anxiety attacks. If I get too, um, nervous I, uh, pass out."

Joey stared for a moment before laughing, making Yuki flinch. "Well, go on. Don't be nervous. Nobody here is going o make fun of ya!" His eyes flashed to Keith, however, and he quickly looked back to Yuki.

Yuki's lips twitched in a smile as he realized that Joey wasn't laughing to make fun of him. "Okay. I, uh, I sing."

"Okay," Joey said to get the poor boy to say more. It seemed to work.

"Mr. Pegasus hired me to sing for you."

"Alright," Joey said as he readjusted himself in his seat, his tone clearly showing a challenge. "Show us what you can do."

Yuki blushed faintly, but his eyes glowed in opposition to Joey's challenge. He walked forward, his strides, long and perfect, looked too graceful for such a nervous person. He stopped at the chair, his chair, and picked up the black guitar that sat inside the open guitar case. He lifted his left foot so it sat on the seat of the chair and sat the guitar on his raised knee.

He must have been left-handed, for he held a pick in his left hand and held the neck of the guitar with his right. He raised his head to the microphone and sang in a voice that no pop star or any professional singer could ever hope to copy.

Well I'll never forget the first time that I heard

That pretty mouth say that dirty word

Yuki glanced at everyone, as if he were afraid they would attack him before he could really get started. No one moved though, and he seemed to cheer up slightly.

And I can't even remember now

What she backed my truck into

Joey was now staring wide mouthed, not that he was the only one. The boy could sing!

But she covered her mouth

And her face got red

And she just looked so darn cute

That I couldn't even act like I was mad

Yeah I live for

Little moments like that

Well that's just like this last year on my birthday

She lost all track of time and burnt the cake

Yuki seemed to smile at the last part.

And every smoke detector

In the house was goin' off

And she was just about to cry

Until I took her in my arms

And I tried not to

Let her see me laugh

Yeah I live for

Little moments like that

Yuki took a deep breathe before stepping it up slightly.

I know she's not perfect

But she tries so hard for me

And I thank god that she isn't

'Cause how boring would that be

It's the little imperfections

It's the sudden change in plans

When she misreads the directions

And we're lost but holdin' hands

Yeah I live for

Little moments like that

In his instrument solo, Yuki closed his eyes and seemed to really focus on something as though he was concentrating.

When she's layin' on my shoulder

On the sofa in the dark

And about the time she falls asleep

So does my right arm

And I want so bad to move it

'Cause it's tinglin' and it's numb

But she looks so much like an angel

That I don't wanna wake her up

Yeah I live for

Little moments

When she steals my heart again

And doesn't even know it

Yeah I live for

Little moments like that

After the last syllables, there was several seconds of silence, long enough for Yuki to glance around the room nervously.

He jumped as six of the eight people in the room burst into applause. Pegasus clapped slowly, while Keith grumbled in the back.

"That was awesome, man!" Tristan said.

"Yeah, ya had me doubtin' ya at first," Joey added. "But that was awesome!"

"That was brilliant," Ryou said softly.

"I've never heard someone sing like you!" Anzu agreed with a big smile.

"Me either," Yugi said loud enough that Yuki could heard.

It was Yugi's comment, though, that made Yuki blush, and Yugi blinked at him when she noticed.

"S-So, you want to hear anything else?" His tone made it sound like he thought the answer would be no, but he didn't look surprised at all when cries of "Yes!" erupted.

They stayed in there and listened to Yuki sing for hours. However, they finally had to go to bed.

Joey yawned as he stretched. "I'm beat. Time to hit the sack."

"Yeah," Yugi agreed as she yawned halfway through the word.

"How do we get to our rooms?" Anzu asked suddenly.

Tristan turned to Pegasus's chair, but found said person missing. "Well, I was going to say that Pegasus can tell us, but he's gone. When did he duck out?"

"About an hour and a half ago," Ryou answered. "Then Keith left half an hour after him."

"Perfect, absolutely perfect," Mai mumbled as she rest her hands on her hips. "How does Pegasus expect us to find our rooms in this place?"

"I know how to get there," a deep voice said behind them. They all turned and saw Yuki there with his guitar case strap slung over his shoulder. "I'm stayed in the same area you all are, or so Mr. Pegasus told me. You can come with me."

"Thank you," Yugi said sincerely, and Yuki blushed again. "It would be so kind of you."

"Y-Your welcome," he said hastily, nervously. "Follow me, please." He didn't look to see if they followed him as he left the room.

Nobody talked as they followed Yuki back to their rooms. Everyone just looked around, checking out the paintings and decorations along the hallways.

Yugi, however, watched Yuki. She still couldn't believe how much they looked like each other, they could have been twins, but she was an only child, so that wasn't possible.

'Maybe he's related to me. Mom never talks to any of her family on her mom's side, maybe he's a distant cousins or something.'

One thing made that idea impossible though. The Muto hair was from her grandfather's side of the family, not her grandmother's.

Yuki broke her from her thoughts as he said, "Here we are."

Yugi looked up to see about a dozen doors on the hallway in front of her.

"This is where guests sleep," Yuki continued. "I'm in the fourth on the left if you need anything, good night."

Quickly, he walked into his room, and quietly closed the door behind him.

"Good night," Yugi said, although Yuki had already closed the door.

Everyone else thought she was saying good night to all them.

"Good night, Yug'," Joey said as he entered his room.

"Sleep tight, kiddo," Mai said to Yugi. "I want to duel you at your best."

Yugi smiled at her. "Will do, Mai."

"Good night, everyone," Ryou said as she went to her room.

"Good night, guys," Tristan said.

"Good night, Yugi," Anzu said as she looked at Yugi.

"Good night, Anzu." Yugi watched as Anzu entered her room, leaving her alone in the hallway. She looked back to the door to Yuki's room.

She wanted to barge in and ask him who he was, but that would be rude and very weird. She sighed before going into her own room.

Yuki panted as he leaned back against the wall beside the door to his room. He had heard them all talking in the hallway and had fought off the urge to touch Yugi.

'Yugi . . . ' he though and flinched. He could still feel it, like a rope pulling him toward Yugi. He could feel her worry toward him and her want to come see him. Thankfully, she hadn't.

"She," he chocked on the whisper, "she doesn't remember me. How can she not know who I am? How . . . how can she be a girl?"

'If our ancestors knew their descendent was a girl, I don't know what they would do.'

Yuki finally sighed, he had to sleep. So, he got up shakily and crawled into bed and willed himself to sleep.

Disclaimer:

I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! It belongs to Kazuki Takahashi.

Notes:

(1) I just wanted to point out, since I skipped that chapter, that after the duel with Kaiba on the rooftop, Yugi is now aware of Yami. She saw him, so she knows what he looks like, and she heard his voice, so she knows what he sounds like.

Song(s):

Little Moments by Brad Paisley