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(Yami/Yugi/Bakura/Ryou/Malik/Marik.Yami KITG/everyone else stand holding flaming torches)
Yugi: What are you doing?
Yami Seirei: You'll see…
Yami: If you let my aibou get hurt I will hurt you.
Yami Seirei: Okay Okay! Don't worry I'll sort it all out. Like I would hurt Yugi he's too kawaii to hurt!
Yami: I'm kawaii and you hurt me…..
Yami Seirei: You're not kawaii you're a sex-god
Yami: Yeah well there is that
Yami KITG (approaching with very large frying pan) GET ON WITH IT! I need to know what happens to Yugi!
Yami Seirei: Yup I'm on it!
Chapter 8 – wow 8 chapters!
Yugi closed his eyes and the tears fell from them as his mother advanced laughing and pointing the Millennium Rod at him. The Sennen eye on the Rod glowed and she shouted.
"Now you will be my mind slave Yugi and you will grant me everything!"
Yugi waited for the Rod to work on him, waited for the pull on his mind but instead he felt an incredible surge of power well up inside of him and suddenly he knew he could put a stop to this.
Nephiris was looking at Yugi in sudden fear as his body began to glow and emit power. He looked up at her and she shrieked and sprang back as on his forehead was the Sennen eye which glowed brightly but that was not all, his eyes were glowing too.
Yugi stood up and stared right at Nephiris. She shrank back in fear as he raised his hand and held it open. The Rod in Nephiris' hand began to quiver and struggle against the closed fingers. Then it glowed white-hot and she let go with a cry if pain. The rod flew directly to Yugi's hand where he caught it and pointed it at the monsters who vanished back into the Shadow Realm screaming as Yugi's power surge forced them away.
Then he pointed the Rod at Nephiris.
"Now you will tell me mother, WHERE is my brother's soul?"
Unbeknown to Yugi, Nephiris had slipped a potion from within her belt and was holding it behind her back.
"You think I'm going to tell you? You may have beaten me for now and gained possession of the rod but you will never find out where he is or how to return his soul to his body. One day I will find a way to extract your power from you Yugi and when that day comes you will end up in the same place as your brother and the throne will be mine as I will destroy any who stand in my way!"
"Tell me where he is!" Demanded Yugi pointing the Rod at Nephiris and the Sennen eye began to glow.
"I will just make you tell me where he is."
"I think not my son, you see you will be unable to find me to make me tell you."
Yugi began to advance on her with the Rod but she smashed the potion on the floor that created a large cloud of smoke and when it cleared, Nephiris was gone.
'Kuso.' Yugi muttered to himself thinking that was such a cheap trick and he should have seen it coming.
Now he would have to find her again before he could get Yami's soul back and the monsters who were trapped in this other dimension. There had to be a way back for them.
"I'll find a way." He vowed out loud. He went over to Yami's body and felt it. It was so cold.
"I can't leave you here, I'll have to bring you back to the palace and find somewhere to keep you until I can figure this whole thing out. Nephiris' magic means I still look like you so I can continue this charade until I find a way and I will find a way."
He gathered Yami's body to himself and wondered how he was going to get him all the way back to Yami's rooms without anyone noticing. Maybe if he covered Yami's face with the sheet too he could carry him back. As the 'pharaoh' no one would question him. He knew he had to find Ishizu and fast as he was going to need all the help he could get.
Yugi left the underground room and made his way back up to the palace. It was late in the day and a lot of people had retired for the evening presuming the pharaoh to be in bed and those he did meet merely bowed respectfully to him and didn't ask questions as to why the 'pharaoh' was carrying a body shaped bundle.
Yugi actually smiled to himself as he reached his brother's rooms and went in. Being pharaoh was handy sometimes as no one questioned what you were doing!
Ishizu was pacing in the room when he went in. Spotting him she rushes over.
"Is that?" she indicated the body shaped bundle and Yugi nodded.
"The pharaoh, yes. Help me to make him comfortable and then we need to look at making a plan of some sort. Nephiris vanished after I threatened her with the Millennium Rod. She wanted to control me with it but I was able to take it off her."
"That's good." Said Ishizu. "But we must be careful, she could come back at any moment."
"Well I still have the Rod so we should be okay for a while."
"Hai."
Together they laid Yami on his bed and made him as comfortable as they could before covering him up with the silken sheets and observing him for a few moments. Yugi still couldn't quite believe that the pharaoh was his brother and still he thought Nephiris could have lied just to get him on the throne. But what would have been the point in lying? She could have just used the Rod and controlled him anyway to do as she asked.
He decided it must be true and he was glad but still they had to get Yami's soul back, free the monsters and destroy Nephiris. Not easy but if they managed to get the monsters back that would definitely help.
They retreated from the bed to one of the couches and sat for a while both thinking about what could be done.
"If I can now call on the help of the Millennium items I wonder if I could use the key to gain access to Yami's soul?"
"Well his soul is absent from his body and so that wouldn't work because you would just enter his soul room which would be empty and devoid of everything that is essentially him."
"Oh that's no good then, I wonder what we can do? It would be better if I could get Yami back first because he knows about the Shadow Realm more than me and might know how we can get our friends back."
"Yes, there must be a way to find his soul. We can't go to Nephiris' place in the dessert as she could very well be waiting for us there, no there must be another way."
"Wait a minute," Yugi suddenly said "what about the Millennium Puzzle? It is connected to Yami and I may be able to locate his soul using its power."
"Yes that could work, your soul will need to merge with the Puzzle and ask it to show you where the pharaoh's soul is. I am sure you as his brother will be able to do this. Plus your new power will aid you."
Yugi looked down at the Puzzle, which was round his neck. Since he was posing as pharaoh, the Puzzle needed to be there.
"I hope this works Ishizu, for all our sakes."
Yugi put both hands on the Puzzle and closed his eyes.
"Millennium Puzzle please accept my soul." He asked and the Eye on the front of the puzzle glowed. Yugi felt a pull as his soul was pulled from him and when he opened his eyes, he found himself inside the puzzle and confronted by a huge maze.
"Wow." Was all he could manage as he looked round at the endless staircases and doors that made up this immense place.
"I'll never find him like this." Yugi said to himself and looked upwards.
"Millennium Puzzle please allow me to find the soul of the true pharaoh." He closed his eyes and concentrated, gathering power to himself and surrounding his spirit in it. He began to release it to the puzzle so it could merge it's power with his own and hopefully find Yami's soul.
He opened his eyes and saw a beam of light stretching away to his right and onto a door. The light was coming from the puzzle and from himself as the two powers worked together to reveal the way to the pharaoh's lost soul.
Yugi took a deep breath and began to follow the beam of light to the door, which he opened to reveal a long passageway. The light beam stretched as far as he could see but he was sure it would lead him to Yami so he stepped through the door.
He followed the beam for a very long way until he saw up ahead a dead end. 'Have I come all this way just for a dead end?' he carried on until he reached the end. When he got there, he noticed that there was a corner and another seemingly dead end.
'Ah, I wonder if I have come to the maze? I hope so then it means I shall find Yami soon.'
He carried on following the beam of light knowing that it was leading him to where the pharaoh was having placed his complete trust in the Puzzle and his own power. Eventually, he could hear a voice sounding small and lost.
"Hello? Is anyone there? Seth? Where are you? Where is everyone? I don't want to be here anymore."
Yugi's heart went out to the owner of the voice as it was undoubtedly Yami's and he sounded so lost and alone like a child. Yugi knew very well what it was like to feel lost and alone like that and he quickened his steps towards the place where Yami was wondering.
"Pharaoh!" He called "I'm coming to take you out of this place, don't move, stay where you are and I will find you."
The small, lost voice came again,
"Find me? No one will find me, even Seth cannot find me and he has been trying for the longest time."
"Pharaoh, listen to me. You have been trapped here by an evil sorceress, I have come to take you back but you have to trust me and ignore what I look like."
"Save me? Take me back? Where?"
"Please you have to just trust me."
"Okay."
Yugi hurried through the maze following the band of light until he turned a corner and finally saw the pharaoh's soul up ahead. He breathed a sigh of relief and ran towards him happily.
"Pharaoh! I have found you thank Ra."
"Who are you?"
"Please just come with me, I will explain everything when we have returned."
Yami was looking very confused as he was faced with this seemingly mirror image of himself telling him that he was taking him back, back where? He had been here forever hadn't he? Still this duplicate seemed honest enough and anyplace had to be better than here so he allowed the stranger to pull him along.
Yugi propelled Yami through the maze and back the way he had come. Soon they were in the long passage and they jogged all the way along it, Yugi reassuring the pharaoh all the time that everything was fine and that they needed to hurry. Yami followed obediently and eventually they went back through the door and into the puzzle.
The beam of light vanished as they stepped through and the door slammed shut behind them before disappearing completely.
The spell that Nephiris had cast in Yami was broken then and he blinked.
"What's going on? Who are you and how did you get into my Puzzle?"
"My pharaoh, it is a very long story and you should be restored to your body as I should to mine before the story is told." Yugi bowed before Yami who looked at him suspiciously.
"You had better not try anything funny stranger or it will be the worse for you." He warned and Yugi nodded.
"I know and I apologise for invading your Puzzle but it was the only way to retrieve your soul from its prison."
"Very well, you leave first then."
Yugi closed his eyes and Yami watched as the spirit vanished out of the puzzle. Then he too did the same.
Yugi opened his eyes and Ishizu gasped.
"Were you successful?"
Yugi smiled and nodded towards the bed.
"He should be waking up any minute now." He said and sure enough the pharaoh began to stir and then opened his eyes.
Yugi got up and went over to the bed. Upon seeing him dressed in his own clothes with the puzzle round his neck, the pharaoh's eyes flashed in anger.
"Who are you? And why are you dressed in my clothes and wearing MY PUZZLE?" he demanded and Yugi shrank back a little in sudden fear. He was rescued by Ishizu who rushed to Yugi's side.
"My pharaoh, this is Yugi and he just rescued your soul from an eternal prison. He is the boy whose life you saved remember?"
The pharaoh did remember but he still frowned.
"But why are you dressed like me and wearing my Puzzle and looking exactly like me? The boy I saved looked very similar to me but was smaller and his hair was slightly different to mine."
"Please my pharaoh let me explain." Ishizu said wondering how on earth she was going to explain everything to Yami. The story had got so complicated but she had to try.
She began with just after Yami's soul had been stolen and Yugi carried on the parts Ishizu couldn't. They finished their story and Yami stared at them both open-mouthed.
"You're my brother?"
Yugi nodded.
"Yes according to Nephiris we are brothers."
"I have a brother?" Yami said again and then his face broke into a huge smile. He got up from the bed and threw his arms round Yugi's neck hugging him close to him. Yugi giggled, glad that Yami accepted him. 'It could have been a lot worse' Yugi thought, 'he could have not believed me and had me executed for treason or something' he thought hugging a very happy Yami back.
They finally broke the hug and grinned at each other. Yami spoke first.
"Well since you are my brother, you are dressed correctly apart from," he paused indicating the crown and the Puzzle, which Yugi happily handed him back.
"I knew right away you spoke the truth." Yami continued, "the Puzzle would not have accepted the soul of one who was not connected to me in such a way as a brother is. I am glad we have discovered each other Yugi." He smiled again but then his expression darkened.
"Now we must rescue our friends and the other souls whom are lost due to Nephiris' magic."
"Hai we must. With our combined power we should be able to succeed."
Yami nodded and reaching over, he pulled a cord. A short while later some servants appeared and bowed in the presence of the brothers.
"Bring us some food." Yami ordered and looked with amusement at the obvious shock on the slave's faces as they were faced with two pharaoh's.
They bowed their way out of the room and Yami giggled.
"If it wasn't for the fact Nephiris needs to be seen to and our Shadow Creature friends to be rescued, we could have some real fun you and I." He grinned and Yugi giggled.
"Yes the looks on their faces was priceless." and he did a very good impression of the look on one of the slave's faces making Yami and Ishizu laugh.
"Well my brother, we shall eat and plan what we are to do next." Yami said and sat down on one of the couches motioning for Yugi to sit next to him. Yugi sat and Ishizu seated herself nearby.
When the food arrived they all ate heartily laughing again over the looks on the slave's faces.
When they were done, Yami yawned.
"Ah I'm tired, I think we should sleep now and discuss things tomorrow – or later on today." He said noting the thin line of light in the east, which signalled that Ra would rise soon.
Yugi also yawned and made to lay on the couch while Ishizu happy for the two of them, excused herself and went to her own rooms.
Yami went over to his bed and flopped on it not bothering to change into sleeping attire and looked over at Yugi who was trying to get comfortable on the couch.
Yami looked at his bed, it was big enough so why not?
"Yugi come here, this bed is large enough for you too." Yami said and Yugi looking relieved, came over to join him.
"You sure?"
"Of course, you are my brother and deserve to share the comforts I have. I will get the carpenters to make you your own bed but for now you can share mine. Is that okay?"
Yugi grinned.
"Yes of course." He said happily and snuggled down under the covers next to his brother. Yami smiled and closed his eyes thanking Ra as he went to sleep for sending Yugi to him.
this is NOT turning into an incest fic okay? Yami is just wanting his brother to be comfy
Hope y'all liked it
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