She was listening to Creed.
It was half relief, half trauma, when I found the Millenium Puzzle's box on the hiking trail. part buried under dirt and leaves. I had been feeling nauseatingly empty without my darker half (though I don't think you can become too light) and life had grown a tad dull. But after I'd gotten over the initial shock (and picked it up) I began to expect that maybe, just maybe, it was an empty vessel, much like myself.
I was very, very wrong.
The puzzle was in fragments again, so I decided, what the heck, I'd try and put it together, just for old time's sake.
But I couldn't figure it out past half-finished, so I put it away in my camp stuff to take home later.
After camp, I was beginning to feel insignificant. Without Yami by my side, I was nothing but another growing teen. my eighteenth birthday coming up and no direction in life. It was nauseating. I had graduated high school and had no future in sight.
So I made another wish on the puzzle, I wished for a future, and then I tried to put it together again. This time, I succeeded.
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The glow filled the entire room. The dark of Yugi felt intoxicated. Nauseated. And overall, not too good. But he shook his head clear (or at least clearer) and stood. He examined the completed puzzle, and smiled. Taking a rope which was very conveniently placed, he made a necklace of the pendant and put it on. Then he blinked visibly. "Dé ja vu," he muttered.
He walked over, sat on Yugi's bed, and looked around the room. "Yugi?" he whispered. But there was no response.