I'm feeling a bit harried. I actually don't have any internet whatsoever so I haven't been watching any episodes. It's a little upsetting since it's interfering with the progress made on any of the stories I stated I want to make. I have no comprehensible writing schedule and with a bad computer and no internet, it shifts from bad to worse very quickly. Luckily, I can still do a good chunk of Season 0 chapters and make small drabble-like one-shots based off of Season 1 and the first half of Season 2. They'll just take a little longer than I would like.

I haven't felt a YGO kick in a while, but I'm working on another part currently.

| Completion: (1st episode; Season 0)

While it was true that Yuugi was indeed the person he was waiting for, that didn't mean he was ready to take on the power of the shadows off the bat. He didn't want to overwhelm the teenager with power that not even he knew what precisely it could do. That's why he patiently waited for the day the young man's soul was in complete tune with his. He felt no need to rush it, seeing as his days were filled with contentment now with Yuugi found.

Even still, he had felt anger for Yuugi at being mocked by two young men that went by the names of Katsuya Jounouchi and Hiroto Honda. He could not see any educational value in the way they insisted Yuugi would 'become a man'. The one time he was taken to the school Yuugi attended and it was starting to go downhill very quickly. The young lady, Anzu Mazaki, almost immediately won his gratitude when she made them run off.

The two teenagers engaged in a conversation that didn't hold his interest until Yuugi mentioned about the puzzle granting a wish to those who solved. He could only wonder what had made Yuugi come to such a strange conclusion. Last time he checked, the shadows didn't grant wishes. They brought death and obliteration to those who didn't know how to use them.

Perhaps that was how he had come to be in this puzzle? He taunted the idea for a little while for it did have some weight. After a few moments, he shrugged it off. He would file the idea away until Yuugi had fallen asleep for the night for he would need something to do during those long hours. He wished to spend as much time watching the world Yuugi lived in.

Though… part of him couldn't help but wonder, what was Yuugi's wish?

Unforgivable.

That young man, Ushio, was supposed to protect the students under the rules of the school. Instead, he used it as an opportunity to gain a quick buck as well as some sick pleasure from physically harming others. To think that such a boy would actually believe Yuugi would want Jounouchi and Honda to be hurt. It came to no surprise, but rather his great distress, that Yuugi offered himself up rather than taking a turn at hurting the two boys further. What did surprise him was that Yuugi actually believed them to be his friends – strange and unforeseeable, indeed.

The horrid behavior reached its climax when Ushio threatened Yuugi's well being with a wicked smile and knife if he didn't pay an outrageous 'bodyguard fees'.

Such behavior was inconsolable without the proper measures taken.

His lips quirked in an almost crooked way as Yuugi continued to figure the puzzle. Their energies were in tune with one another and when the Millennium Puzzle was finished, he will surely bring retribution against Ushio.

The very thought of it made his smile turn wicked.

"What!? The last piece of the puzzle?! It's not there!"

"Now I can't get my wish!"

He could feel his heart stop in his chest - how in the world did a puzzle piece go missing?

Has he truly been so focused on Yuugi that he didn't realize that a piece had gone missing? Then again, it wasn't like he'd notice right away. While the puzzle housed his spirit and helped him channel his powers, it did little else but appear as a pretty piece of jewelry (even though he knew it housed a greater power, he does not know what it is). It would've taken him using his powers for him to notice a small strain from all of the pieces not being in close vicinity.

All of his patience and feelings of contentment were replaced with feelings of frustration and hollowness. He was so close, so close to finally be rid of this prison. He was so close to seeing what the world has become - to finally realize his true purpose, whatever it may be... He was so close to meeting Yuugi. But now those 'so close's have become, 'nevers'.

Lost in his pessimism, he didn't notice that Sugoroku had entered the room until the man made a loud announcement of it, thus drawing both himself and Yuugi's attention. The two men bantered a little with Yuugi revealing that he couldn't solve the puzzle. Yuugi's voice sounded quite forlorn about it. He scowled, knowing full and well why it did.

Neither he nor Yuugi were prepared for the old man to hand the missing puzzle piece over. Sugoroku gave an explanation about a young man that came by a little while ago with the piece in his possession. Sugoroku had been quite alarmed for the young man seemed to be soaked to the bone. He had offered the man a towel but the man had just declined and said that he'll be fine as long as Yuugi got the puzzle piece. With that, the old man left chuckling and muttering kind-naturedly about the 'youth of today'.

Yuugi didn't pay any attention to that; he had barely given goodnight to his grandfather. He was entirely captivated by the missing piece; the wadjat eye piece. He couldn't blame him for he was so exhilarated by the appearance of the missing piece that he had stopped breathing (not that he really needed to).

The puzzle piece was being slid into place just as a door started appearing in a wall out of nothing. He knew that this door was the pathway out of his mind and out of his puzzle. With a few steps, he was at the door just as it was starting to become tangent. His eyes watched as the hieroglyphics of a language he could recognize but the translations were lost in his head in favor of the whirling thoughts of how, if he went past this door, he would finally be free.