Lol yeah. I uploaded this pretty quick eh? Again, I just typed this up and posted this immediately. Haha wtf.

Yugi might be a little OC, but I don't care. He's a teenager. :D

I don't own diddly squat of Yu-Gi-Oh! If I did, I'd have a bunch of yaoi/shounen-ai stuff of Yami/Atem(u) and Yugi and even some episodes! Lulz.

Oh here's another note.

I love doing First POV. So Beware there will be fragments.After all, people's thoughts are not in complete sentences. :D Just give some kind pointers and feedback if you really need to express something that I should fix. I don't mind. Give me advice with a bad attitude and I'll ruin you. =D

Anyway, let's begin this fic. Sorry if this seemed a little fast… or hella fast. LOL FTW.

I may have made Set too nice, but he's nice to family, and not so nice to intruders… that's how he'll work.

Please review!:D

Oh God, what time is it?

I just woke up and I see a ray of light hitting me in the face. I've been "just waking up" since I got here. Where am I now? I look around and I started to move. Ahhhhhhhhh….. right…. "Ow ow ow…" I must've fallen asleep in the barrel. I really need to get out of here. I shift my weight slowly and I just feel more pangs in my back and my legs. "Ohhhhhhh…" this really sucks.

I look through my little peep hole and I see a lot of people walking back and forth through the flea market stalls. It's so lively here! I can tell that a woman is haggling over some nuts, a man haggling for some fish with another man. Kids playing in the streets. Amazing!

"WHOA!" I just got tipped over and it hurt… yeesh. Uh-oh. A defying gravity moment! I was being picked up and set into place and my cover was blown. More light was let in as the bright sun rays invaded my dark cramped hideaway. A bronzed skinned, big, brown eyes woman was meeting my panicky amethyst eyes.

She yelled and she dug her hand onto the collar of my shirt and pulled me out with no effort. Strong woman! She was yelling something at me and I closed my eyes and prepared for another beating.

Nothing happened. I also noticed that things were quieting down too... eerie…

First I let one eye open and looked around. Then the other one. The woman looked at me as if she saw a ghost. I looked around while I was in the air and everyone… and I mean EVERYONE that could see me are seeing me as if they saw a ghost too!

Did I miss something?

The woman gently placed me standing on the ground. I winced a bit because I was still sore, but I held my ground. I was slouching and the big woman fixed my collar and patted my clothes clean as much as she could.

And then she backed away and bowed to the floor… and everyone followed suit. I was really confused. I thought people bowed down to the pharaoh? The… pharaoh…

I LOOK LIKE THE PHARAOH!

Shoot! Sonova-Jeeze! "No no no no! Get up! Get up! Please get up! You all have to get up right now! I'm not your pharaoh!" I ran over to the woman and tried to stand her up by her arms, but she isn't budging. I tried to do it some elderly and some young kids, but they all backed away from me in their bowing position. There were people behind me, in front of me. "You all have to get up! Please! I'm not the Pharaoh!" Nobody understands me! This is so frustrating! "I am not Atem!"

I hear gasps. Lots of gasps. I also see of wide eyed people. There is a first for everything.

Then I hear to what seems like a very angry, authoritative man. I turn to the voice and it's a buff guy wearing a flimsy turban thing, like a towel but fashionable, and he's wearing fancy leather loins. And he has a SPEAR! I hear some of these civilians say something and most of them point to me.

"Thanks guys! I know when I've been ratted out!" No time!

I have seen enough scary movies to know what this means. I gotta bail. Don't ask questions and don't investigate! Just run!

I start running towards the other direction dodging all the people who were on their knees, but watching me run away. "Move! Move!" They're in my way! I feel like I'm poorly training for and American football league! I'm spinning, leaping, and I might as well go 'hut hut'! Shoot! The guy that I'm assuming is a guard is catching up fast! I can hear his footsteps! This is effing nuts!

I look back to see how far he really is and then I bump into something. "Sorry!" Why apologize… people don't understand me here! I quickly get my bearings and I was about to bolt away again until another pair of hands, strong this time grabs me by the collar of my jacket. Oh, he's ugly. And he looks pissed!

And he's yelling at me. I'm so sick of this! I don't know what he's saying! "I don't know what any of you are saying! I'm not even Egyptian!" I turn my head with a sigh and I see the other guard come my way too. "Damn!" I start to wiggle and I realize this guy is only grabbing me by jacket's collar… "Hey! I would love to stay and 'chat' with you all, but I gotta get going. You don't have to go home, but I can't stay here!" I wiggled out of my jacket and I fell to the ground and I landed with grace. Perfect 10! My adrenaline is back on the rise, and I bolt!

Again, I'm running, and burly men are chasing me again! Hey, Ra, give me a break will ya?

I run through the streets of this town and people are looking at me in shock, and some are fast for me to see them bow to the ground. "I'm not the pharaoh! Go about your business!" I feel like I should use colorful language. "So long… suckas!" Okay… so not what you expected. Me neither since no here understands me!

This is really pissing me off. I don't get this at all. But keep running. Go around the corner… and I found an empty box! Luckily for my height, I'll take a wooden box next to this market stall, get under it, and there! I see their giant, brown, sandled feet running by through the cracks of the box. Looks like I'll be sticking around another cramped space. I can stay here for a while.

Then my stomach growled… great… It's not even the evening!

I must've waited for a good long ten minutes. I looked around and slowly raised the box over me. No one to my left. No one to my right. Good!

First thing I really have to do is do something about my looks.

I look around the stall that I was hiding next to and decided "to borrow" a few things. I took an old looking dirty blanket, had a few holes, and wrapped it around me. Since I don't have my awesome jacket anymore, this will have to do with covering me, plus the rest of my attire. Then I see a small watering hole next to a stone house. I rush to it and dunk my head in it. I also took many gulps of water before I took my hair out. Yes! Clean water never tasted so good!

I squeeze out a lot of water out of my hair and it's flat as heck, but once it dries, back to my spiky goodness. For now, let's stay on the down low, ne? I grab a thick piece of rope, looked about a foot long, and wrapped it around my hair and put it into a low pony tail. After that, I put the dirty blanket around me and gave myself a hood. There.

Now no one can recognize me I bet… because I'm an Egyptian bum… definitely not on my list of Halloween costumes…

Next on the list… "Forgetfully eat some unpaid food service"… I'm gonna feel so guilty. If history hasn't taught me anything, that if you're caught, you can lose a hand… or worse.

First goal- thievery for survival…

Second goal- sleep in an alleyway tonight…

Third goal- Think of ninja ways to try to see the most handsome pharaoh of all time.

I never thought I would "go gay" and be a bum in Ancient Egypt… if I was still in the present, I probably would have graduated, close to the top of my class, gone to a pretty good university, and maybe would have followed in my grandpa's footsteps in becoming an archeologist.

Ask me if I would still go through that rift again. My answer?

In a heartbeat. Faster than I was before. I wish I had the courage sooner so that I could've grabbed his hand and he could've taken me with him.

Now… onto business…

Am I ever going to see him?

I awoke in my chambers. I look around. I'm in a bed with purple satin coverings. Everywhere in this room is in the gods image of Osiris, Obelisk, and Ra's. The furniture was stone and not typical plaster or wood that I was used to. I slowly sit up from my soft cotton feel bed and run a hand through my starred hair. I feel cold from the inside out for some reason.

I took a good look at my hand and then my arm and brought out the other. Tan. I'm tanned again. I whip the covers off me and I look at myself. I'm wearing my traditional sleepwear, a long white tunic. My legs are also tanned. I rush over to where I already knew where my private baths are and zipped over to the mirror.

I'm me again. I truly am me! I slowly touch my face and give a small pinch to my cheeks. I felt the sensation. This is no dream. I notice in the mirror that I am wearing the Millennium Puzzle. I grab it with both hands and start examining it. I thought this was lost after my duel with Yugi.

Yugi…

I hold onto my chest at a sudden feeling of pain. Pain? I feel as if I just left him somewhere to rot while I move on. I know I didn't, but… I miss him already… being together with him and sharing everything for so long, for a few years, never being alone, and the next I wake, I'm back to my old self, alone.

"My Pharaoh? Are you around?" My thoughts were interrupted. I know that voice. Very familiar. I look outside and see it is night. I only know of one night owl in my palace.

"High Priest Seth." I greeted him as I stepped into my main room again. "Hello." I smiled at him.

"It's good to see you again, My Pharaoh. You look well, not a day aged, just as the Millennium Necklace predicted. Your destiny is complete." He had a very satisfied look on his face. He bowed in my congratulations. He was also dressed in his traditional sleepwear tunic in a darker shade of purple with a tassel tied around his waist.

"Destiny complete? High Priest, explain yourself." I was absolutely confused. He noticed my expression and was back to an erect posture. "Sire, we expected you to be confused. If you think you are dead, you are not."

"How can that be! I was in that Ra forsaken puzzle for five thousand years! I'm older than most other pharaohs before me! How can I not be dead?" I was already raising my temper. How can this be that I'm not dead? I sealed my soul to protect my people, and I leave Yu- everyone thinking I was going to the afterlife.

My high priest chuckled under his breath as if he expected my outburst. He looked around the hallway and then closed the door. "Now Cousin, calm down and let me explain. Yes, you did sacrifice your soul to defeat Zorc. We are blessed that you have. Now remember, it was your soul that was sealed, but your body was still left behind. While you went as far as into the future as you have to complete your destiny, we studied non-stop for over two days and using certain cooling magic to preserve your body."

I raised an eyebrow. No wonder when I came too, I was feeling cold.

"Cousin, keep listening now. After that 'Ceremonial Duel' with your host, your 'afterlife' was actually the 'life after' you destiny in this case." He raised his eyebrows, "My goodness! Five thousand years! I have just realized that awesome number. You must have seen many things during your time of the future. The battle with defeating Zorc must've been horrendous to those people!"

All this information started to sink in. "Yes, it was." I started to realize how long I was 'asleep'. "Seth, was my body really only asleep for only two days?"

"Yes Atem. It really was. And Thank Ra, he has graced you back to us very quickly. Almost as if to give you a chance to be with us all again. It was as if you were in a very deep sleep while your body didn't have your soul. The necklace predicted you'd be back soon, but I didn't think in such short amount of time. I heard your voice, and I had to rush in here to see if my ears heard true. The kingdom will be very happy having their pharaoh back."

This is certainly new to me. I had to take a seat on my bed.

"This is not what I expected at all. This whole time it was a misinterpretation of the word 'afterlife'. This whole time I was expected to meet… the dead, but… I'm alive." I raised my eyebrows and then I was finally reaching the feelings of being alive! I look at my hands and open and close them slowly. I close my eyes and took a deep breath. My own movements and breath… I turn to my only family that is left.

"Seth... I'm ALIVE!" I stood and we embraced each other and I was shedding a few tears and we let go. "You don't understand this feeling. Five thousand years I have waited, while for you it was less than a week!"

"Come, while the night is young. While we can still be just ourselves, let us catch up, and tell me the world of the future that you have seen." Seth seemed thirsty for knowledge as he sat on my bed. "We will announce your awakening when the morning star rises to the sky."

"Alright. I can use one more day off of being a pharaoh. Now about the future…I don't know if I should tell you…" I smirked.

"Atem, please." Seth gave a look as if he was going to bring up. "Alright, alright! I'll tell you all about it." I sat back down on my bed and I saw my cousin take a satin seat next me and he crossed his legs.

"Oh and one more thing, Pharaoh, before we start anything" He turned to me.

"Hm? And what is that?" I was almost expecting a smart answer from him

"Welcome home, Atem." This is why we have family.

"I'm home." I smiled and I took a deep breath and began from the beginning from when I first reached for Solomon's hand.