Author's Note: A big thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter! I'm glad you enjoyed it! At the bottom of this chapter I will endeavour to answer some questions and reply to some comments! (Even if you didn't review it might be worth reading the comments, you never know I might have accidently dropped some clues there...)

This chapter is a bit slower than the last one (and a bit shorter XD), but don't worry, things'll pick up again pretty soon. I would really like to make it up to 12 reviews (in total) after this chapter. So perhaps if you contribute a review the next chapter will go up faster hmm? ;) Either way, I hope you like it and if you reviewed last chapter check out your name at the bottom of this one!

Chapter 2

-:Trap Master:-

'Destroys 1 Trap Card on the field. If this card's target is facedown, flip it face-up. If the card is a Trap Card, it is destroyed. If not, it is returned to its facedown position. The flipped card is not activated.'

Yami woke up slowly. Somewhere to the left of him sunlight was peeking through the curtains and filtering down onto his face, warming him pleasantly and waking him with gentle courtesy. The pharaoh's eyes flickered open to take in his surroundings and he was pleasantly surprised. He was in a bedroom, a neatly kept one at that. Somewhere in the back of his sleep-fogged brain he recognised it, but since had just woken he was unable to figure out from where. Sitting up he pushed the bedcovers away and swung his legs over the side of the bed, his feet touching the soft carpet on the floor. That was the sensation that sent it all crashing down on him. What on earth was going on! He had just woken up! He never woke up! Mainly because he never slept, he was a spirit! Things in his mind started to fall into place. This was Yugi's bedroom and he was sat on Yugi's bed…but…

"Yugi!" The pharaoh asked the room with mounting concern. Quickly he looked inside himself and inside the puzzle. Unfortunately it gave him no cause for celebration. There was no sign of his hikari at all. What had happened? Yami quickly wracked his brains and tried to summon the memories that he had of last night. Sporadically they came back to him. There was running and fear, Yugi's fear, complete and utter terror. Then there had been the pain and confusion, the wave emotions. The pair of them had had an argument, but what had been said? Yami shook himself and tried to remember the rest. It was all oddly hazy, and that bothered him.

With Yugi seemingly gone the pharaoh decided that the first obvious move would be to find his hikari or at least find out what had happened to him. Why wasn't he in their body? Had his soul been separated? Slowly, with mixed feelings of dread and concern Yami pushed open the bedroom door and walked out onto the landing. Downstairs he could hear Grandpa talking to someone on the phone and the TV playing something that sounded like cartoons. Yami's heart lifted a little in hope as he practically threw himself down the stairs, who else would listen to cartoons but Yugi? However, on arriving in the living room Yami experienced two emotions rather than the one that he had been hoping for. First there was relief then there was the confusion.

Yugi was sat on the sofa in his pyjamas with a cup of hot chocolate and a smile on his face. That was the relief, nothing had happened to Yugi and he seemed perfectly happy. Then the confusion set in. How was Yugi even sitting there at all? How was Yugi all right? Last night he had been verging on being totally insane! Why couldn't he sense his aibou anymore? He had hardly had time to even start thinking up theories before Yugi noticed him there. The smile on Yugi's face dropped suddenly and he mirrored the pharaoh's own look of confusion.

"How are you…?" He asked, setting his hot chocolate down on the side table next to the sofa.

"And how are you not…?" Yami asked back, for once a little strapped for words. A moment passed where they simply stared at each other then Yami spoke again, addressing his first and most important question.

"Are you ok?" He asked, sitting next to Yugi on the sofa. "You didn't seem to great last night…" Yugi flinched a little then blushed.

"I…don't know why I was how I was last night." He shrugged, "I feel ok now but last night it felt like there was something following me around that I couldn't escape. It was driving me crazy!" Yami neglected to add 'literally' to the end of Yugi sentence. He was more sensitive than that.

"Didn't you notice I was gone?" Yami asked quietly. Yugi flinched a little once again. It was a loaded question. In truth he hadn't noticed his separation from the Pharaoh, but he couldn't put his finger on why. He couldn't very well say that though, it would hurt his other half's feelings after all.

"I thought you might just be blocking our link…" Yugi replied with an apologetic shrug. Luckily Yami took that to be a viable answer.

"Well. Now what?" Came Yami's impossible question.

"I…I don't know." Yugi replied. "Are we supposed to be separated? Perhaps that was what this is all about."

"Perhaps." Yami nodded. "But something about this doesn't feel right. Why would we be granted separate bodies if our destiny is supposedly intertwined?" Yugi frowned at that. The Pharaoh had a point there. With separate bodies they could simply walk away from each other and never see the other again. Plus the last time that they had been separated they had come together again.

"How did we get home?" Yami asked quietly breaking through Yugi's thoughts, a frown furrowing his brow. "The last I remember we were in that alley way." For a moment Yugi tried to sort through his memories. He could remember the fear and the pain, the running and talking to Yami. He could remember Yami trying to take control and then he remembered passing out. 'Did I wake up again?' Yugi asked himself, but there was no answer. After passing out there was no memory except waking up on the sofa the next morning.

"Well, we can work that out later." Yami broke into Yugi's thoughts. "I think getting dressed would be a good start." He stood up and ran a hand through his hair.

"And then…?" Yugi asked, looking up to his taller half.

"And then we'll see." Yami finished, making his way up the stairs to the shower. Normally Yami was so sure of his actions but this whole experience had caught him completely off guard and just looking at the separated Yugi on the sofa was giving him a headache. He wasn't supposed to have his own body, he was a 5,000 year old spirit, he shared Yugi's body rather than looking after his own. Slowly he shook his head and then walked into the bathroom to see if he could remember how to use the shower.

Yugi, in the meantime, frowned. This whole situation felt horrible. Not because the pair were separated from each other, but because there seemed to be no consequences to the action of separation. It almost made Yugi feel worthless. If Yami never needed a host in the first place then why had he been paired up with Yugi at all? Plus the hikari couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. Nothing ever came without a catch, but here was separation on a silver platter so to speak. Slowly putting a hand to his temple, Yugi sighed and decided to address his next problem, the one that he had neglected to tell the Pharaoh about. He hadn't wanted to worry Yami, who was probably confused and worried enough already, but something in his head didn't quite feel…right. Although he felt considerably more like he had his feet on the ground than he had yesterday, there was still something wrong in his head, out of place.

Yugi closed his eyes and looked inside himself, focussing. His soul room seemed in tact and his memories were all where they should be. He knew his name and all of his friend's birthdays; he could conjure up images of all of his favourite duel monster cards in action. So what felt so wrong? As Yugi continued to search through his mind the answer finally hit him. The light's bright violet eyes flew open and he gasped, suddenly short of breath and a little afraid.

"If the pharaoh is out there, and I am in here then who is that?"

Reviewers Section:

DarknessLady Hopefully you enjoyed this chapter, and a special thanks to you for being my first reviewer! I have no doubt that this has now raised more questions in your mind! Has Yugi lost it? Maybe...What is going on with Yugi? Well, using my psychic powers predict that we shall see a little more of Yugi's plight in the next chapter...

Yami Val Thanks for the comment, I'm glad you like the story! As to your questions, don't you think the best question to ask first would be what is Ieb? ;) And don't worry about Yami and Yugi, they'll be sort of alright-ish...for now...

crystalice614 Here is the update you awaited! I hope that you like it and stick around for the next one!

Coco Gash Niccals I have no intention of stopping! I hope you liked this chapter, and I'm still waiting for that pizza...

Galance Well done on figuring out that Ieb is Egyptian! To a quick mind goes the spoils, so you've earned yourself a hint! Here it is: each chapter is named after a duel monsters card, and each card relates to the happenings of that chapter. The name of the next chapter is: Fake Trap. Perhaps you'll be able to figure out a little of what might happen...? ;)

frogger666 Sorry this chapter wasn't as whacked out as the last one, but things'll pick up again shortly. In the meantime I hope you enjoy Yugi's slow deteriation...oops...did I just type that...?

gowb Yay! Enthusiasm! That's what we like to see! Thank you for reviewing and I hope that you enjoyed this chapter! If you like the creept stuff there will more of that laced through the next couple of chapters!

Thanks again to everyone who reviewed! And don't be afraid to do so again!

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