Anruishipping (Mutou Yugi/Shadi)
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"It has been a long time."
"Yeah. It has."
He plays with the chain of his necklace, with the small triangle there. It's not the same—not heavy enough. But he has to have something. He doesn't lift his arms from the railing, doesn't look back from the harbor, from the sun setting the ocean aflame ahead of him. A salty sea breeze ruffles his hair and makes his bangs flutter over his eyes, and somewhere behind him, he can hear the fluttering of a robe, snapping softly like a flag in the wind.
"You don't sound angry to see me."
"I'm really not."
"The others all were."
"Yeah. I heard you've been visiting everyone."
Neither of them speak for some time. There is only the sound of the wind flapping through canvas cloth.
"Are you going to ask me why?"
"I kind of think that I've already figured it out."
Yugi sighs, and turns, then, leaning his elbows behind him on the railing once more, and lifts his eyes to the man that stands only a few feet in front of him, right at the very edge of the sidewalk. He has not changed an inch from the first time that Yugi saw him, crying in front of a museum display and claiming that the tears were not his. He is still the same placid, dark faced man with the unreadable eyes, a little too large and a little too deep in their pale teal shade. The only thing that is different is that he is no longer wearing the ankh around his neck, and his usually everpresent scales are nowhere to be seen. That makes sense, though. After all, Yugi does not have the weight around his neck any longer, either.
"You're just checking in. Making sure that for all your planning, none of us ended up with a complex that will threaten the world again."
Shadi blinks at him once, but his expression does not change. It doesn't have to. Yugi knows the truth—he has only met this man a handful of times, but he feels he knows how to read him.
"You just want to make sure that you didn't fuck up," he said. "You made all those plans to make sure the pharaoh finished his mission, saved the world, and got to the other side. But even after that, the world got stirred up again because of Aigami and the Plana."
Yugi tilts his head, letting his bangs begin to wash back and forth past his face.
"You want to just make sure," he said. "That it doesn't happen again. So that you can be satisfied, and move on."
This time, the man's lips tighten only the tiniest fraction. Yugi finds a wry smile growing over his own face.
"I'm spot on, aren't I?"
Shadi blinks once more.
"You have always been a perceptive child," he said.
Yugi feels his eyes soften, and continues to play with the little necklace between his fingers.
"Not a child anymore," he says softly. "And I don't remember when it happened."
Shadi actually looks down at the ground.
"No," he says, and for a moment, Yugi hears actual pain fluttering through his voice. "We never do."
He inclines his head slightly, hooding his eyes from sight.
And before he lifts his head again, he is gone. Vanished with the breeze of the dusk ocean.
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A/N: I actually really like this one...? Also I found out that the ship name comes from a Japanese word meaning 'silent tears', and as Yugi first met Shadi in the manga at the museum and Shadi was just crying silently at the mummy, I think that actually makes a heck of a lot of sense, good on you ship namers for actually making one on this list that makes some goddamn sense lol. Next is Annoyshipping (Seto x Jonouchi x Noa).
