Rewindshipping (Priest Set x Yami no Yugi)
The mind needed a rewind button. If only that were possible, then Yami no Yugi could search his clean slate of a memory for the truth.
It was so frustrating! To see things, place, people, everything so familiar, like a constant sense of deja vu without ever breaking through the wall of time. Every time that feeling of remembering would grow in the back of his mind, he would stop whatever he was doing, and try to follow that thread.
But the mere act of acknowledging the thought made it vanish, and he was left with nothing once again.
"Yugi. Yugi! Are you even paying attention? It's your move!"
The harsh, angry eyes of Seto Kaiba glared at him from across the sidewalk. Yami no Yugi snapped out of his thoughts. People were starting to stare at the holograms crowding the sidewalk, and Yami no Yugi tried to remember how he had come to agree to having a duel right in the middle of Domino.
"Right, right," he said. "Patience, Kaiba."
Kaiba scowled at him.
And there, right then, he remembered.
It was only for a moment, really just a split second. But he had seen that scowl before, so many times. A tan-skinned face, framed in a tall blue hat; a tall, slender figure clad in long white and blue robes.
"Pharaoh, must you be so reckless?" a familiar voice snapped.
Yami no Yugi froze up. That – the memory. Kaiba had sparked it...Kaiba? Who had that been? If only he could remember!
"Yugi, come on, I don't have all day!"
Yami no Yugi shook his head. Blue eyes flashed in his mind. For a moment, he could feel something in him starting to break. This was hopeless...he would never remember this way.
So he looked up, met Kaiba's eyes, and pretended that they were the blue eyes of the memory. Just for now, he would pretend. Pretend that Kaiba was the boy in his mind, from long ago, and that this moment, right now, was one of his memories.
And the longer he pretended, the more he started to see him. Clad all in his robes and his permanent scowl, except when he managed to do something really funny...and then he would laugh in spite of himself...
"Right," Yami no Yugi whispered. "Set..."
A/N: Not quite as potent as Servantshipping, but whatever. My fingers are starting to hurt from so much typing...next is (eeeeeeeeeee) Revolutionshipping (Anzu x Yami no Yugi).
