Everything

By: ChocolateEclar

Disclaimer: Obviously I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! or anything that has to do with the anime/manga.

Claimer: I fully own Ichidou Yachitose and her family, Mrs. Suteki Iyashii, Suteki's deceased father and mother, Ryougi, Karei, Sumizome, and Miss Jishi. Please don't use them in any form without my permission.

Duel Two: An Encounter With a Pharaoh

"Let me get this straight," Ichidou muttered as she sat across from Seto Kaiba in the living room. "Twenty-some years ago this Yugi Mutou guy predicted you would give some puzzle-thingamajig to me today… How is that even possible? I wasn't even born then!"

"There is a way," said Kaiba in a voice so annoyingly calm it was grating on Ichidou's nerves.

"What do ya mean?" she shouted.

"I mean, Miss Yachitose, that I don't have time today to answer you're petty inquiries," replied Kaiba, as cool as ever. He brushed a hand through his white hair and frowned. "It is time for me to give you the Millennium Puzzle and be off," he said after awhile.

He took the bulky briefcase he had laid beside him and entered the code into the little lock by its latches. The lid snapped open and Ichidou had her first glimpse of the Puzzle. It was large and golden, a triangular work of Egyptian dexterity. Ichidou let out a tiny expletive between an oath and a gasp.

Kaiba gently took the Millennium Puzzle from its spot resting on its Styrofoam bed and handed it to Ichidou – who peered at each marking engraved in its shining surface carefully. Kaiba stood slowly and said, "You must protect it now."

"Hai," mumbled Ichidou, mesmerized by the artifact in her hands. She looked up at the retreating back of the old man and queried, "Should I tell the truth if someone asks me where I got this?"

Kaiba stopped and turned his head towards Ichidou. "Tell anyone who asks you received it from me for whatever reason you'd like except the truth," he answered.

"Yoroshii," replied Ichidou. She followed him back to the front door and watched as he stepped up to the limousine. Someone opened the door for him, and he ducked inside as gracefully as if he were far younger than he actually was. Then, the dark automobile drove away leaving the ti-n'e-ja leaning against the doorjamb, puzzledly studying the Millennium Puzzle in her hands.


Seto Kaiba sighed as the limousine drove down the little street Ichidou lived on. He ignored the insignificant lad who made a rude gesture at the car and thought instead of the peculiar girl he had just met. She seemed normal on the outside. She gave the impression of just an average schoolgirl adorned in jeans and a tank top with straight, shoulder-length tresses. But the uncharacteristic way she had gazed at the Puzzle left him wondering if she was so normal. Her eyes had been shining with gold on emerald, that he was sure. Whether the light was from the Puzzle or an inner light Kaiba was uncertain.

His thoughts turned to the Millennium Necklace's prediction. He recalled quite clearly the time Yugi had had the premonition. Yugi had been sure that, unlike Isis Ishtar's prophecy of Seto's defeat at her hands in Battle City, his would occur no matter what. 'And so it has,' Seto admitted. 'The girl now has the Puzzle.'

He glanced out the tinted windows and saw the huge Kaiba Corporation building come into view. Outside the structure, tapping one sandaled foot crossly on the concrete sidewalk, was Anzu Mutou.

The car stopped and the limousine door opened. Kaiba leisurely got out of the car; he was well aware of why Yugi's widow was so angry.

Anzu didn't disappoint him. "You just had to tell Suteki I knew where the other Millennium Items were, didn't you?" she shrieked, her gray hair framing her face in an angry wreath. "Suteki wouldn't stop pestering me until I threw her out of my house!"

Seto smirked; it was very much like the sneer he had once used on Yugi and his friends but kinder to a certain degree. He had no doubt Suteki Iyashii would harass her obaasan to such lengths.


Ichidou sat down on her bed and came to the decision that she should try the Puzzle on. She slipped the chain over her head so that the Puzzle rested on her chest and gazed down at it. It was then that the eye engraved on the front of the Puzzle began to glow, and Ichidou was engulfed in darkness.


Within his soul room, gradually, almost lazily, the Pharaoh opened his eyes and set their purple depths on the chamber he was in. He was leaning against a stone wall while shadows filtered across the edges of the hall. Images played in his mind.

Yugi. Anzu. Jou. Honda. Mai. Bakura. Seto. Mokuba. Malik. Isis. Shadi.

Some were dead. That was something he recalled clearly. His aibou was one of the deceased he remembered sadly. Since he was awake, did that mean he had a new host? The thought caused him to stand up quickly and close his eyes. He "searched" through his own soul chamber with his mind for anyone and, when he found no one, he investigated the corridor outside his soul room. Instead of Yugi's familiar room, across the hallway was someone far different's.

He vanished from his own room and reappeared outside of the new area. Inside was a pale blue room with a sea of stars painted on its ceiling and a few books on the floor. There was a desk with a computer and a navy stuffed cat on top. He stepped inside and whipped his whole body towards the left when he heard a small noise.

There was a teenage girl leaning down and flipping through the pages of one of the books on the floor. She straightened up abruptly when she heard Yami's footsteps and gasped in surprise. "Who-Who are you?" she queried, peering at him curiously with emerald eyes.

Yami smiled slightly at the short ti-n'e-ja. She was taller than Yugi had been in his teenage years but still not of an average height. "You may call me Yami. Tell me your name."

"I'm Ichidou," replied the girl, smiling faintly.


Eventually the darkness abated and Ichidou found herself in a cerulean room filled with books, a computer, and a stuffed animal. She started to take a look at a book when she heard him. She looked up startledly and set her eyes on the Pharaoh. He had enigmatic amethyst eyes and strange spiky hair that was a mix of red, yellow, and black streaks.

"Who-Who are you?" Ichidou asked, feeling a bit awed.

"You may call me Yami. Tell me your name," replied the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle.

Ichidou answered his question pleasantly. She couldn't help but smile as she stared at the Pharaoh. "Where am I?" she inquired.

"You are in your soul room," Yami replied, his arms crossed under where the Millennium Puzzle dangled from his neck. Ichidou looked down and realized she was still wearing the Puzzle. "H-How – " she began.

"We are now connected by means of the Millennium Puzzle, aibou," Yami stated.

Ichidou gave him a confused look so Yami added, "You will soon understand what I mean, Ichidou."

Ichidou nodded slowly, taking in what he had said. "So you live in the Millennium Puzzle?" she queried.

"Live may not be the correct word, but yes, I suppose you're right," replied Yami.

Ichidou made a half-smile at his words before asking, "How is that possible?" 'I seem to be asking that question again today,' she realized.

"Five thousand years ago, I was a Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt," Yami explained. "I was sealed within the Millennium Puzzle and several years passed. I was awakened by a boy named Yugi Mutou."

Ichidou believed in a lot of things. She believed that in the morning her okaasan was the most frightening human in the world. She believed her mathematics teacher was secretly a vampire. She believed Ryougi was a slimy sewer rat in disguise. One thing her mind, however open it was, couldn't comprehend easily was the idea of mythological scenarios in real life. 'Its just an oxymoron,' she told herself.

Sure, she had been one of those tots wishing for magic powers and writing Christmas lists for Santa, but that was in the past. Now she was practical, right?

"I-I-That can't be true!" she stammered. "I mean next thing you're gonna tell me Duel Monsters are real!"

Tranquilly, as if he had expected as much, Yami whispered, "Duel Monsters do existent." He said it as if it was the most natural fact and, for a Pharaoh who had grown up at a time in which Duel Monsters were very common, it probably was fairly natural.

"You gotta be joking!" Ichidou accused. She was visibly shaken now, her eyes wide and a mixture of brilliant green and aureate.

"Believe whatever you wish, but I know you will comprehend soon enough," said Yami, turning away.

"Wait!" called Ichidou to no avail. In the next instant, Yami had disappeared, and she was surrounded in shadows once more before finding herself back in her bedroom. She blinked confusedly before realizing what had occurred. She looked down at the Puzzle around her neck and frowned. It had more mysteries than she had first suspected.


A/N: Hello again. (laughs) Here are the few translations for the chapter (only two, which is a very small amount compared to the last chapter, no?): Yoroshii=OK, good, all right, fine, very well

Aibou=partner, companion

A/N 2: REVIEWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!! Please?

Seto: You're reduced to begging. Pathetic. You're no better than that dog, Jounouchi.

Choccy (ChocolateEclar): (sticks out her tongue)

Ichidou: (laughing) Real mature, Choc.

Choccy: I know. (winks) Bye! See ya next chapter!