Title: Come on Home
Theme: 10 – Home
Summary: It had been four years; Yugi was now an Egyptology student, two inches taller, and still the reigning world champion. Still the Yugi Mutou he left behind.
Rating: K
Genre: General
Ishizu hadn't been very specific in her instructions. He had been crafted a new body, his spirit risen from the depths of the Afterlife, and the only words he received from her were, "Your plane leaves two days from now on December 22, Yami Mutou," with the faintest hint of a smile.
Marik and Odion had filled him on the grittier details. It had been four years since he'd died; Yugi was now in a university, but was currently spending his winter vacation back in Domino with his friends and aging grandfather. He was an Egyptology student, had grown two inches since his senior year in high school, and still competed in various Duel Monsters tournaments that he was invited to. Still the reigning world champion. Still the Yugi Mutou he left behind.
The pharaoh didn't enjoy airplane trips, and was more than happy to switch seats with the young woman to give up the view next to the window. He spent the entire flight sleeping, or pretending to, wondering how much had changed and how much hadn't in his time away.
Perhaps Yugi wouldn't even want to see him again. He had his own life now, after all. He might not have room for the pharaoh in it. He might have forgotten him, or their time together, or aspects about him…
His hand clenched the envelope: a letter from Ishizu to Yugi and enough money to pay for a cab to get him to the game shop.
No, but they were partners. Yugi would remember him, of course he would; just like he himself had remembered Yugi. If the Afterlife was filled with anything, it was filled with memories, and the people to whom they belonged. But he didn't want to deal with his old memories – the pharaoh wanted to make new ones with the only one who had been willing to sacrifice his own to assure him good company for as long as he was welcome. He had been the only one that offered.
Newly-christened Yami Mutou stepped out of the Domino airport terminal and started heading home.
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