IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!! - This is the Yu-Gi-Oh! Yaoi portion of the Shipping List in order. Be forewarned. Some "pairings" will not be fluffy and cute. But they will all, hopefully, be believable. Rating's will vary.
Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh! is the intellectual property of Kazuki Takahashi
Author's Note: ... short
Rating: K / G
Yu-Gi-Oh! Shipping List #9
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Anruishipping (Shaadi x Yuugi) - "Anrui" is Japanese for "silent tears".
- "Devotion" -
On the day that Shaadi had met Yugi, the host of the nameless pharaoh of legend, on whom his existence was hinged, he had been tired, exhausted from an obscenely prolonged existence and the continuous spectacle of the degradation of his homeland paraded before his eyes year after year. The bodies of the great mortal gods were on display for infidels to gawk at as if they were some side-show exhibition, their offerings sold to foreign countries for landfill, indeed, everything of which he was proud was gone.
He had stood before another pharaoh's body, a pharaoh who had come after his time on the earth, and he had cried for the soul of that mistreated and forsaken god. And then Yugi had appeared and Yugi had been the first in generations to see him, ghost that he was. Yugi had witnessed his silent tears, and Yugi had cared.
Suspicion born of years of being witness to mankind's sins had surfaced unbidden. He could not believe without proof and when he sought, proof was given, and he was made to see what those years had done to him. The pharaoh had held up that mirror within which he had seen a tainted soul who had forgotten what it felt like to be embraced with warm and open arms, as Yugi had embraced him. The purity of Yugi's soul had renewed his lost faith and Shaadi had ached with the awareness of his own strayed path following so fearfully close to that of humanity's which he had so righteously criticized. Shaadi had been humbled that day, and reminded that he existed for this soul, so much purer than his own.
From that moment on, everything Shaadi did, he did with that in mind - he did for Yugi. His devotion was absolute and his love pure, surfacing as unbidden as his suspicion once had and filling him with feelings he had only felt while alive, when he had accepted the task of serving the pharaoh in the afterlife.
Yugi was the type of soul that drew in others around him. No one who knew Yugi could help but to love him. For this reason, Shaadi recognized that his own feelings were not unique, but all the more natural. Yugi's heart lay open and welcoming, warming any who ventured near enough and Shaadi knew he was blessed to have been only one of the many.
To Yugi, Shaadi would always be a silent aide in the darkness, a loyal and content servant whom he called friend and whom he appreciated and respected, but to Shaadi, Yugi was the pure light itself and the hope of all humanity; proof that men could not be judged as he had done for so long, by their sins alone. Mankind, Shaadi now recognized, was worth saving for holding even a spark of the kindness Yugi spread among them just by existing.
And it was this knowledge that would one day allow him to finally rest in peace at the end of his long journey, leaving the world and the legacy of pharaohs behind in the most deserving of hands.
Post whatevers: I'm satisfied. Yes. It's as good as it can be. One of the shorter ones, though. Next up is Bakura x Seto. As always, if you liked, please review. Ja!
