Two years later...

Standing in some off hall, Ishizu and Marik are about to join the Royal Court to pick Yuugi, Yami and company.

Seto who was bringing up the rear saw the two in the hall and paused. Hiding himself near enough to hear, but not to be seen.

"You feel it to don't you Ishizu… Sister?" Marik looked at his sister with a weary expression. "What is you see?"

Ishizu sighed as she nodded in the direction of her brother. "It is very clouded, but I cannot predict a good out come."

"They've shared a rough road together. Should the last of it be any different?" Marik leaned against the wall.

Ishizu crossed her arms. "It is deeper than that…"

Seto approached the two with his shoulders square, with his normal icy glare. "Is the dust in the tomb clouding your judgment Ishizu?"

Ishizu faced Seto. Both her and Marik a little startled by the sudden appearance. "Why are you not with the others?" Marik stood straight, squaring his own shoulders, and returning the icy glare.

Seto shot a look towards Marik, but decided best not to give an answer, not that he found he needed one. "Ishizu I know the beginning of the problem, and you know the ending(s). I'll swap stories with you if Marik can promise to shut his fucking mouth through it."

Ishizu studied Seto. Then she looked to Marik, who only nodded his head. "Tell me what it is that you see, that I don't." She took a deep breath bracing for the worst.

Both Seto and Marik were easing up around each other, his eyes on Ishizu. "You wouldn't see it because you aren't around Yuugi and Yami enough. Those two are deeply in love, they share something that I don't expect an ordinary couple could." Seto paused, and crossed his arms. Marik was a bit wide eyed, but said nothing. "If Yuugi's body permits it Yuugi will stay with Yami in his mind room for hours. What they do in there, I'll leave that to yours and his imagination." Seto smirked.

Ishizu remained without expression, although, her eyes gave way to shock. "Then it is as I felt." She paused, but having made a promise she had to keep her end. It was barely above a whisper. "Yami nor Yuugi have a soul that is their own."

"Since when is it a crime for two lovers to twine themselves together?" Seto paused, hating himself for his voice showing sympathy. "It is done everyday."

Ishizu shook her head. "If they are so entwined as you put it, then there is no soul to separate." She paused. "They can separate, but." She gasped as if every piece was being put together in front of her. "If Yuugi wins, Yami's soul will carry both of them to his final resting place. If Yami wins, I don't know what would happen since their souls would have bodies..."

Marik was just as in shock as Seto. Even Ishizu's shock was showing. "They've got to continue through with it. It wouldn't be fare to one or the other." Marik sighed.

"Perhaps, I should warn Yuugi who can relay to Yami. I am sure that together they can make their own mind up."

Ishizu was still processing what she had just said, and what Marik and Seto had said. No it wasn't fare to either, and a warning would be nice. "How could this have happened?" It was all she managed to say.

"Let's put you in a room with another person for three years… You are either going to hate them, or love them in the end." Seto turned to walk away.

Ishizu thought he had a good point, and it was never in the rules. Had it been someone else, they could have separated. But two souls sharing one body and such a thing happening was this perhaps Destiny. She let out a heavy sigh. "You should warn him Seto. Let's go Marik, and not a word of this to any one else." She took her brothers hand, and walked off.